what is what and what will be what will become of you and me will is what has kept us free yet we're still in captivity so, wait until I can find and answer to the question never made don't ask, don't run, don't think about what's not what you think it is what's right is wrong, no take or give conceive our heroes in our mind we're martyrs of all humankind so, stay for a cup of mass confusion fueled by our arrogance don't fight your right for ignorance what is all you know is right what's wrong with interracial plight we beg to be as dumb as we were poor mother earth, that fault's all hers so, fight, we're not getting any younger and the undead never die sometimes what's what just seems to pass us by

I'm tired and sick again, loneliness must contend Idle wild in my brain, a thousand grams for the pain Paid half my dues of yet, all gambles unsafe bet I've now just started the fire, nine years before I retire I'll be here in the end Green or red in my hand I don't mean to confuse But soon you'll all understand Can't seem to wish for things accessible in my years Although I can admit I'm not as good as my peers Time heals all wounds and scars, but sometimes time also marrs My soul I thought I could save, live on and don't misbehave I'll be here in the end Green or red in my hand I don't mean to confuse But soon you'll all understand I lie awake at night, what I know isn't right The years are all that I see, what's gone, what is, what might be Millions will worship me or just one will set me free Adored for what is portrayed, alone released from dismay I'll be here in the end Green or red in my hand I don't mean to confuse But soon you'll all understand Can't wait until the end I know my only friend Will sow the fields of success Or reap the failed and progress ©2006 David Fagan, True Fish Music/ASCAP

made from scraps of burlap and a sentimental skin cannot tough the soul so beautiful and miles away from me impossible to ever forget things we said, and how you never know what others think, cause you're so pitiful how diligent you walk, and hold your head so low beneath your brow that no one else could recognize the visage you endow created from what seems to be a broken pattern corduroy girl when will you realize what i see in your eyes and if you don't see what I see for us, will you let us be forever the days grow darker as I lie a thousand miles from you but if I lay right there next to you, how close would I be to you let me in, I will not lie to you, you are more than what you see mirror on the wall, you are the world to me corduroy girl why can't you believe in me or better yet believe the truth of your existence see what I see inside you, why won't you open up to me and I pray the sun will open up your eyes and the moon will lay your weary head to sleep what can a boy say to this girl that he holds so true you're made of things that live inside our dreams before another takes you away, I want to know you the way I hold you, so lovingly I will surrender to you, if you'd just please believe me why can't you see what I see, a future we'll conceive corduroy girl, please don't wander down the long often traveled into the vast obscurity that is your pain and I'll lock you in my soul cage, and tie you down with my heart strings no one here can harm you, but me you'll be mine forever more, be mine forever more my daughter, lover, woman child, object of my desire meet me in the graveyard right beside the fields I'll be your everything no one could ever turn your head, and look away from me no one could ever do for you but me ©2006 David Fagan, True Fish Music/ASCAP

as time stands still I surely will on the run to be someone wish that I could close these naive eyes throw my life away for a shrouded guise many years have come and many go they say it will get better, but I don't know move along without her and without me I just can't forget her, but I'll let her be I know nothing's ever set in stone everyone must be alone I know if I give my life today then tomorrow I will pay rise above to face a new day dawning, oh oh I fell for love, and on a sunday morning, I... the end is near the chains that keep me are no more one more night like the one I don't deserve all I want is one more chance to see the light and wish away this lazy shame I know that I'm right but everything I know is wrong I can't escape the grim reality of hope I'll never lose ,my faith in her I know nothing's ever set in stone everyone must be alone I know if I give my life today then tomorrow I will pay thank them all for one more day it's getting that I cannot stay wore my welcome over time when I say that I am true I'm also saying I love you but I don't want to waste your time all I want to do is thank you for the way that you treated me when I could die you've saved a piece of me I walk alone but that's okay I travel each and every day cold and gray beneath the sky it's much better to be here rather than above the fear of confused frightened souls we are rain is simply made of drops nothing more it cannot stop because I've shed my frozen side I walk along to find the truth and someday I will be with you deep in heart, deep in heart and soul deep in heart, and soul, and mind ©2006 David Fagan, True Fish Music/ASCAP

Everybody wants to be conceited Everybody knows what's best for you Everybody thinks on track in abstracts That is, everyone but me Everybody thinks it's safe to look now Nobody would ever want to fill my shoes Sooner or later everyone will meet their maker Because everybody's earned their blacks and blues Everybody wants to be like Michael With will and mindset to devour anything Everybody wants to be like Elvis Because everybody wants to be the king And everybody came here for one reason tonight Everybody wants to hear me sing, and so I will And so I will Everybody wants it to be Christmas Everyone believes this to be true And everybody's tired of their existence... ©2006 David Fagan, True Fish Music/ASCAP

everybody wants to be like you they want to be loved and talk on the phone and wish they all knew but I know they can't cause you're only you and I'm not that much I'll take it from here I guess I know fear and what's it to me I know that you'll be you'll always be there to listen to me and know that you'll be the only one in my everyday schemes you know I'd like to be by you but I'm not allowed and I don't know how but someday I will no more sitting still I'll jump in my car and hope that you are still willing to be a companion to me I promise you now don't really know how but I'll come around and I won't make a sound so if you're asleep I slowly will creep I'll stay on the shelf until you wake yourself I'll never return for years I have learned the city is grim it's buried me in but I haven't died and nor have I lied I promise to dance if you give me a chance so give me some time to drop you a line and maybe come up and run away with you run away with you ©2006 David Fagan, True Fish Music/ASCAP

I'm riding through the heat, one hundred sixty five degrees Throat is dry, face is burned Regret the lessons that I learned Right now I think the tumbleweeds are better off than me Shot a man in Tucson, he dared sing one more song Of my demise while I just drank a beer My future's certain, many my end is near I won't be home for dinner anymore Don't wait up cause I'm not coming home The posse's one half mile behind, and I've got hell to pay I know, I know that I should never play with fire But life's too short for me to work away And all these years I've lived I've lived beneath the muck and mire Time has come for me to earn my pay I'm running through the streets My horse is dead, I'm on my feet legs are racing, heart is too My head is filled with thoughts of you If I could redo what I've done I'd still be here and on the run Never going back to work, I won't die at the mill Where I've slaved with broken life and limb I've lived a life of loss and fear, to Mexico I go to lay to rest Sometimes we all just act upon instinct And to that balladeer I send my prayers I've gone from man to murderer, the hunted I've become To those in Hell, see you when I get there Sometimes we all just take the long way down Numbness in my legs, I've been on the run for days Sheriff's closing, posse's too And here I am to die the fool But I won't die on the hangman's noose, however many lives I stole Never hold you in the arms, you're on your own back on the farm On te ground die where I lie Beneath a violet sky My life of torture now is said and done And ends beneath the July sun Goodbye cruel world, I bid my last farewell I know, I know that I should never play with fire And to that balladeer I send my prayers I've gone from man to murderer, the hunted I've become To those in Hell, see you when I get there Sometimes we all just take the long way down ©2006, 2013 David Fagan, True Fish Music/ASCAP

remember when you drew your first breath and you first thought of death and the rains came down, down when you first saw mama frown when your daddy left town with your aunt elizabeth remember son, you're only just a man trying to do what you can until the time has come and gone has come and gone again and while we played our yard was so large and our youth was in charge until the day you found her to be more than just a friend and that was the end and after all of that perfect strangers where we sat you with the cool kids, and I alone oh just lamenting the days of our youth gone by when we didn't have to try we just did and laughed and played and so to that I say goodbye goodbye remember me at the side of your bed and the last words I said about the stupid things we did those many, many years ago and the days when the rains poured down hard and flooded our yard but yet we still played on inside our youthful fire never died and when your daddy left town threw your heart to the ground but yet you never lost sight until the day growing up stole you away now our grandchildren know all the life we've been through and what happened to you, and me and them but in the end if I could I'd do it all again ©2006 David Fagan, True Fish Music/ASCAP

He often wondered as he walked on down the hall A lost romantic painting passion on the wall You are the best thing that I wish I ever had A sullen laughter floods the calm throughout his head I want to notice me She often fumbled broken hearts and sad divine The quick and simple life as she played its concubine I'd never take you for my own, you'd drift away And drown in sorrow and the memory of me Boy, wait til tomorrow No one wants you to go All I want you to see Is that you could melt away with me And be sheltered from the outside Make me cry He liked the stories of the dreams they lived to have And as they laid, they would listen as they laughed And when you leave me I will wilt away and die A kiss good night, and he cries himself to sleep Now soon forever more I don't want you to see No one will ever know As it seethes someday, to burn up and fade away To my eternal rest I take my feelings to my grave I want you to notice Poor boy, wait until tomorrow And be sheltered from the outside Now soon forever more, now soon forever more As it burns in indigo ©2006, ©2013 David Fagan, True Fish Music/ASCAP

Last chance reflections and memories of losing streaks Contempt for contention, a long lonely dead end street Take my hand, we'll find the long way home To zero road, we're all alone On zero road, we're all alone We'll take the long way home You'll be my eyes, I'll be the stone in your shoe Finding my way home Impatient tendencies, they breed destructive reasoning The springtime snow will find the summer weather way back home And why I'm here, why am I here To live with sullen misery The misanthropes they've misinformed I'll find my way to zero road On zero road, we're all alone We'll take the long way home You'll be my eyes, I'll be the stone in your shoe Finding my way home Retrospect, return to sender And I'll take my leave of me The bleeding hearts, the august sky Goodbye, good luck, on zero road On zero road, we're all alone We'll take the long way home You'll be my eyes, I'll be the stone in your shoe Finding my way To zero road, we won't be going home The road is paved with empty skulls Angel horns and devils wings And songs that we have yet to sing On zero road, our pretty homes Will cage the fire in our bones So keep in touch, and drop a line My solitude will warm me over time On zero road, we're all alone We'll take the long way home You'll be my eyes, I'll be the stone in your shoe Finding my way home ©2006, ©2013 David Fagan, True Fish Music/ASCAP