The first album

MotherLoad.

Plan 2 Dance
Only Jah Knows
Watchin From Mcdonalds
I M a Hero
Happy Man's Pillow
Got Nobody Blues
Thin Tin Roof
Nicole's Song #2
Folsom Prison Blues
How
U R the 1
Get Stoned and Play Guitar


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Plan 2 Dance

I was minding my business on the street the other day
when a man with pointy boots come and tell me I got to go away
I said I'm sorry I can't help you I'm just waiting on a friend
bothering no one she'll be back soon
and if you have nothing left to say than please please get out of my way
he was a big man blocking my sun

don't try killing my buzz or spoiling my fun
cause when it looks like I've had enough I still might not be done
what is the point to livin if I cannot enjoy myself
I only do what makes me feel good and I can't speak for anyone else

don't be thinking I have something on my mind when I don't
I know what I can do and what I won't
above all I live to rock and roll and plan 2 dance my life away
one step ahead of the law to live to roll and rock another day

for me there just ain't no other way
I got to dance my life away
there ain't no other way
ain't no other way
one step ahead of the law to live to roll and rock another day



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Only Jah Knows

Jah Rastafari, king of kings, Jah Jah
They say the true measure of a man is what he done with his life
They say the true measure of a man is what he done with his life
Sit in judgment they say what I do is wrong
Sit in judgment they say what I do is wrong
Only Jah knows
Only Jah knows
I had one choice and I chose to live
But sometimes I want to know
Why there is not enough to give
And I try and I try to understand
But some things only Jah knows
Only Jah knows
Some things Only Jah knows
Your love like flowing water over jagged rocks
Makes me shine
I leave the hate behind
I leave the hate behind
Just as every mountain falls to the sea
It is meant to be
Never again will I let kings, queens and empires
come between you and me
Because I can be free
I and I can be free
I and I can be free
I and I can be free



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Watchin from Mcdonalds

Livin on pop tarts, out of a shoe box
Every other pebble on the sidewalk looks like a crack rock
And there is Mary, swingin her body
You can't blame a woman for doing what she's got to
Here comes Charlie spare changin from his chair
I know he didn't have this in mind when he left his legs in Vietnam
They are just a few of the people in my neighborhood
They might not be pretty, but I know their hearts are good
There is Christine, late for a date with a bottle
There's my friend tweaker Dan, again goin full throttle
There's so few people on the block today, everybody's hurtin
There ain't no shortage of entertainment that's the only thing for certain
I never know what day it is but today must be Christmas
Because that stranger lady just kicked twenty to junkie Liz
She should buy some food for that hungry babe at home
But she has bigger problems, she looks really sick, I'll bet she'll call Jerome
This might not look like fun as you watch from Mcdonalds
eating your big macs, making a fatter cat out of Ronald
I want to go home but I lost my family
After the accident, the bank took everything, ain't nothin left for me
We all do what we can, survival is the game
There ain't no time for small talk and even less for shame
Your pity fills my pockets, your sympathy feeds my monkey
Remember ole blind Joe, he was pretending, he can really see
We play cat and mouse with cops because being homeless is illegal
Sometimes I'm so hungry I want to eat a sea-gull
It's just another day in this life I created
The bad news today, it was so cold last night Jack wound up dead
That's how my day's goin, how is yours honey
By the way have you heard the feds took down Sonny
There's gonna be a shortage of weed till some fills his shoes
Any dog whose lost his luck, in need of a quick buck, they will do
There's someone new everyday so loneliness is never my problem
I got so many others, and no help to solve them
When I sold my food stamps I had fifty cents on the dollar
Today all I got is this ticket cause my dog lost his collar
Yea, this might not look like fun as you watch from Mcdonalds
Eating your big mac, making a fatter cat out of Ronald
Unlike the others, I wanted to rock and roll and be a drunken bum when I grew up
If you think I'm lyin, you can shut up
Yeah this might not look like fun as you watch from Mcdonalds
Pumpin your fat ass with big macs makin a fatter cat out of Ronald
I got nothin else to do nothin else to say
You know I'll do just fine you have one too
I got to go cause I'm missin all the fun



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I M a Hero

smile she said it can't be that bad as she walked the streets with me
she doesn't know how wrong she is if she did she would agree
because I spend my days runnin endless circles looking for my man
it's way past time I'm going down and I need my medicine

I'm just a hero without his heroine
chasing twenty here I go again
caught in a world between pleasure and pain that's all I get
and this ride don't ever end

well it took too long to crawl and struggle out of bed
I was achin hurtin bad and my pants are full of sand
it's another day it's true I'll say I don't know what I'll do
I got to find something fast somethin to get me thru

I'm just a hero without his heroine
chasing twenty here I go again
caught in a world between pleasure and pain that's all I get
and this ride don't ever end

I got a sickness my creation only one thing can cure
I'll do anything to get it darling rest assured
without thinking I won't have guilt I'll lie cheat and I'll steal
you would too I know it true if you felt the way I feel

I'm just a hero without his heroine
chasing twenty here I go again
caught in a world between pleasure and pain that's all I get
and this ride don't ever end

I used to chase the dragon now it chases me
It's got me in it's jaws crushing me hard
and will never let me free



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Happy Man's Pillow

Picked up a rider in Topeka
Took her to St. lou
The sun was setting and the rain was fallin down
I don't know how I made it, made it to this town
Set out for California with stars in my eyes
Got to L. A., found it to be a lie
The streets crawl with gamblers, an eye for an eye
Maybe I'll head to Chicago, to live with my uncle
Or maybe up to Frisco, for a cup on the mission
Whichever way i go I'll have my heart and guitar
I may play for empty bottles, or I may just go real far
Cause a poet lives with the sun, it's not just another star
Cause a happy man's pillow
This happy man's pillow is this piece of mine

Picked up my mail from my brother's flat in Memphis
I forgot to leave the letter, now it's too late to send it
It was a claim to a gold mine, one I'd stumbled upon
While I was sunbathin high up in the Yukon
But the shaft closed so quick, before i retreived the mother lode
Of all the rocks and rubble, I built myself an abode
To keep me from the wind, which blows so fierce an strong
But I forgot to include a window, and the light's been gone too long
Well you know I have no key to any safe deposit box
I have no interest in the passing of those locks
Cause a poet lives with the sun, It's not just another star
Cause a happy man's pillow
This happy man's pillow is this piece of mine

The sled dog, he saved me, from the fire that ravaged my space
All my photographs of history were burned up in the place
It may have been an arsons hand, but this is not the case
Cause before that dog had come to me, he had just won the race
A thousand silver dollars was the mighty prize
And the load of what the sled dog pull put a strain in his eyes
Now I ask you please, before you tell more lies
Think of the load that the sled dog pulled. that led to his demise
Cause no weight of any fortune is worth one broken back
Just let me grow my own and I swear I'll live in a shack
Cause a poet lives with the sun, It's not just another star
Cause a happy man's pillow
This happy man's pillow is this piece of mine


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Got Nobody Blues

Well there ain't nothing worse than these I got nobody blues
I used to have everything now all I have is nothing less to lose
and with this weight that I carry you would not want be in my shoes

another rainy sunday morning with nothing to do but wonder why my baby went away
I wish I could have known what to do that would have wanted to make her stay
then the devil took me in and one day will my time to pay

ain't no hope for a cryin man when no one's on his side
there's nothing but heavan for a dyin man whose felt broken all his life
there is no happiness left to take so darlin don't waste your time tryin

Well there ain't nothing worse than these I got nobody blues
I used to have everthing now I all I have is nothing less to lose
and with every step that I've taken you would not want be in my shoes




Thin Tin Roof

Got a thin tin roof
Lets the rain right thru
Got a broken down door frame
Nothin's stoppin you
My eyes get misty
When I think about her
Knew she'd leave here
Too good to be true
It's my favorite fairy tale
Over a little to quick
This time

But whatever she's got to give is enough
To make me feel so fine

Got a ragged old coat
Lets the cold right thru
Can't wear your jacket
I see it's wearin you
Some say they know me
I feel sorry just for them

You'd think they got better things to do
Than to figure me out like I figure them

Ain't got much time to hang around
You got nothin on the love I found


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Nicole's Song #2

It's another cold December morning, I see a tough day ahead
I'm waking up alone still thinkin of what she said
If I had my gun I'd end it all cause I hate this feelin I'm heading for a fall
My bank accounts overdrawn more than any time before
And now I have to decide what it is I'm gonna pawn
It's 4 a.m. way to early for me to run the streets
I can't do a goddamn thing right now and it makes me want to scream
But I got to keep my cool I cannot panic
cuz I got no time for jail and I really hate the loony bin
I'm so tired I'm gonna ask my doctor for valium
but because of anti-drug hysteria I already know he won't let me have them
anyway that fix is temporary I need something long-term
I just can't rise from my pit for some reason I can't learn
how to sell my records or to get a decent gig
and when I try to score the junkman always wants to see my rig
Hey I like heroin if you tried it you just might agree
but I'm not even a good junkie because I can't push a needle in me
someone open a window oh I really need some air
I'm smoking too many cigarettes because my nicorette's in the mail
and I finally decided of them all that I really love Nicole
Susie don't give no love and the Freakshow's been bought and sold
when I finally sell my record it'll go worldwide platinum
but I'm still here my thumb you know where and I'm tired of waiting
but anyway what can I say when it sells I'll find her
it's a silly idea because she didn't get away she flat out turned me down
looking back I don't blame her back then even I wouldn't want me around
but I know she really liked me bacause I could see it in her eyes
and even if that woman wanted she couldn't because her eyes would never lie
so i'll check in and see how she feels when I make my million dollars
I bet then I'll get in her pants do a horizontal dance I know it'll feel good
hey I'm a man I'll proudly say I want her to have my children
Oh if you saw her too i know you would want to
and now that I've bored you with another song that don't ever end
I'm going to stop fantasizing and in my dreams my love I'll send
to the woman I know is the one for me
I wish there was something I could do to make her see that I'm the one for her
anyway it's time now I'll finish this song later
the pawnshop is open and I still need some beer
and I need it how oh I need it how


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Folsom Prison Blues

This song was written by Johnny Cash

I hear a train a comin
rollin round the bend
I ain't seen the sunshine since I don't know when
and that train keeps a movin
right down to San Antone

when I was just a baby my mama told me son
always be a good boy
don't you ever play with guns
but I shot a man in Reno just to watch him die
now when I hear that train a rollin
I hang my head and I cry

I bet there's rich folks eatin in a fancy dining cars
probably drinkin coffee and smokin big cigars
I know I got it comin I know I'll never be free
But those people keep a movin
thats what tortures me

if they free me from this prison
If that railroad train was mine
I'd move it over a little farther down the line
far from folsom prison
that's where I'm gonna stay
And I'd let that lonesome whistle blow
all my blues away


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How

Oh I been waiting, been much too long
Oh I'm alive again, feeling dead no more
Everything takes so long to grow
How could I not see your love, your love show
How, could I not know
How, could I not know

My mama cryin, when she see what we done
And she's tryin, not to lay it to ruin
I want to hear you, What do you have to say
I need to see your face again
I need to see your face again
Everything takes so long to grow
How could I not see your love, your love show
How, could I not know
How, could I not know

What will you say, when I am dead and gone
I am here now, just like I've always been
But I may be gone
My mama cryin, when she see what we done
Everything takes so long to grow
How could I not see your love, your love show
How, could I not know
How, could I not know
Know Oh


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U R the 1
I wake up every morning, to swing someone elses hammer
All day long, thinkin of the love at home
Sometimes got to wake up, before the rooster's first call
Not gettin back, till the room's no longer warm
I can be your brightest star, put me in your sky
Your brightest sun, watch me shine
The love I feel that you give to me
Is the truest of your's
In return you'll get the truest of mine

I wake every morning
I bend to her slumbering eye
I think of the peace, tranquility inspired
Thru it all my heart opens wide
With love , honor, nothing less
We'll share our time

These things I'll tell you before we may have to go
Sometimes they'll slip a lover's mind
Though left unsaid the feeling's never less
True it is we'll meet again
But till then
It's a memory
And the love you leave that sees us thru

I wake every morning
I bend to her slumbering eye
I think of the peace, tranquility inspired
Thru it all my heart opens wide
With love , honor, nothing less
We'll share our time

Its now is so easy to tell you what I feel
There is no possibilty of losing eachother
You are the one
I would never leave
Never hurt
And may words do
What I feel justice
You are the one
I'll always love


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Get Stoned and Play Guitar

get stoned and play guitar it's better than sex in a fancy car
I don't do it for money or to be a star
I just like how I feel when I get stoned and play guitar

I never did much else in my life this guitar is just like a wife
but it doesn't nag or tell me to wash my feet
and it never complains if I don't put down the toilet seat

I could've been a lawyer or engineer that don't sound like fun my only fear
I grow pot so I would have enough
cause when I'm not stoned my guitar playing really sucks

I had a woman give me a child but she got jealous after a while
she said Joe either it or me
It was such a hard decision I was sad to see her go don't you see

I went back to school because I needed money all the other kids think I'm kinda funny
I'm a 40 year old freshman with a plan
if they got stoned and played guitar I'm sure they would understand

get stoned and play guitar the world would be a better place
I dream of a guitar playing human race i'm sure you would like how it feels
to get stoned and play guitar

if we all got stoned and played guitar I'm sure it could end all war
when I'm stoned there's nothing worth fighting for
that my friend is why I get stoned and play guitar

I'll play this guitar till I die this is not just another lie
so roll a joint and have a shot of rye
I can't do anything else the good lord knows I've tried
I can't do anything else the good lord knows I've tried

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