Some Folks Old…Some Folks Blue
Lost Angels
In The End...
Flowers in the Aire
Waiting...
Fools Blues
It's Alright
As If You Didn't Care
Amnesia
Don't Let Them Fool You
(By & By Your Soul Will) Never Die
Lost Angels
Lately
I've Been Thinking
As the World Carries On.
Blinking
And the day goes by
Insomnia 'till it's dawn.
Chained by money's delusions.
And vain commercial confusion.
I can't help wondering, but is there no one around
Who'll stop thinking of themselves all the time…
Innocent victims crushed by those who are hell bound
I hope that someone gets to be found.
Lately
I've been dreaming
Of the world we're living in.
Lacking
Of the love we need
As time goes on by.
Why can't we express emotions?
Instead people think of promotions.
I'm really worried now, but is there no one to be found
Who can't stop thinking about what is cool in this town.
Everyone's making love to themselves all around
While so many good people getting pushed down…
Can you believe me?
'Cause I can't believe you.
The emptiness and greediness
Creating this hypocrisy
Is growing on so endlessly.
Lately
I've been thinking
As this city carries on.
Some are greedy
With one evil eye
Others treated like a pawn.
Sickened by their corruption.
Causing cancered volcanic eruptions.
I can't help wondering, but are they all in disguise
Who can't be brainwashed by all this garbage and lies?
(While too many) Turn on their TV sets,
Turn their minds on standby
I'm sick and tired of viewing their lives.
Music by Gary Kahn (circ. Late 1970's)
Words by Gary Kahn (1991)
©2006 Gary Kahn
Flowers in the Aire
She sings her song from love.
She fills her lungs what is wrong?
Any time you see the window on the pail,
Someone's found their wings a rainbow.
What is wrong?
Consolation.
I will come right here right now.
But tomorrow,
Who will pay the price?
Will I be here today?
She lives alone in a lonely room
Fifteen miles from time.
She spends her weekends worrying 'fore it's time to go
In a college for the lonely kind.
But tomorrow
Will she be the light?
Will she go on hoping that her life's right?
But tomorrow
Will she be all right?
Will I be here today?
Will the things I know surround me be remembered
In the gravity of who we really are?
When the love that's deep inside her heart
Blossoms like a flower to the air?
All the time wasted
Could have been played on a long, long while.
Every night sad songs arrive from everywhere
Singing love found in who
She does not want to care
But tomorrow
Will it come all right?
She waits and waits 'till the morning's right
Oh tomorrow
Will she be all right?
Will I be here today?
Will the sun still light upon her every sorrow?
Will the leaves still fall around her every year?
Will the love that's still within her heart
Blossom like a flower to the air?
Music by Gary Kahn (1979)
Words by Gary Kahn & Jeff Winter (1979)
©2006 Gary Kahn
Fools Blues (a True Story)
Well I spent twenty nine thousand years
Earn my money with blood and tears
'Til a man comes down and takes it away for driving without my ears
Well all right.
He has to buy himself some beers.
So when he comes home late at night,
He can bust his doors
And beat his wife to tears.
Working all night and day
Never seems to pay
But a peace officer wants to start a new war
But he doesn't want to knock on my door.
Well O.K.
Yeah he wants much more.
Well there was nothing else to do today
So he towed every car on my block away.
Well all right
Well I've got thirty two thousand neighbors
Living all next door
Raising rats, mice roaches and chicken fat
And smearing it on my door matt
Well O.K.
And you can see them on TV
Turn on your very own stupid box
And see the father giving advice to Linda Ellerbee.
And we got a woman being shot on 42nd street
A man being raped on 33rd street
A child being dumped in a garbage can
And a drunk killing six with his Econoline Van
Well O.K.
It's happening every night and dayyyyy
But the foolish man, he don't give a damn
He'll take the law in his hand until Judgement Day
And all those foolish men they don't give a damn
They'll take the law in their hand until Judgement Day
Woe
Yikes
Uh oh
Words and Music by Gary Kahn
©2006 Gary Kahn
As If You Didn't Care
Please don't blame your son
He tries his best like everyone.
He's only looking for someone
To see
What he's seeing.
And now the time has come
To uncover everyone
To stand before the rising son
And look
Without lying.
And if you knew I'd tell you
What I don't need to tell you
And if you saw
I'd see you
Standing there long before I came to see you here
And when I look at you
And tell you I don't know what to do
You tell me that my life is through
My sleep
And my dreaming.
But don't desert the ones
Who've traveled far to put you here
Who've overcome their hope and fear
Of death
And living
And if you cried, I'd run to you
To overcome and comfort you
To dry your eyes and look into
The life you're denying with your sacred heart.
What is it that your living for?
Open up and shut that door.
It's all that I am trying to do
To see me through
I need you
I need you
To show me what I'm going throughÉ
And if you could believe
All that I have up my sleeve
Everything that I don't need is hidden
In your dark eyes.
It's something that I know
Something that I was born to know
A side of me that never shows
And it's vacant
And it's empty
And If I tried to tell you
What I don't need to tell you
Then you'd hate me for believing
What you do not know
As if you didn't care.
Music by Gary Kahn, words by Jeff Winter (1985)
©2006 Gary Kahn
Don't Let Them Fool You
Words by Gary Kahn (1991)
Don't let them fool you into believing what they say
Or else they will control you every day.
Don't let them change you
Into being one of them
Their mass production thinking will be your end.
You got to find out who you are
Because the losers never start.
You got to find out what you're doing
Before you lose your heart
Don't let them see you
Being who you are.
They'll try to hurt you and say you've gone too far.
Don't let them hurt you
For not thinking like they do.
Their hatred jealousy lashes all but a few.
You got to find out who you are
Instead of thinking that you're so smart
You got to find out what you're doing
Before you're lost from that poisoned dart.
But don't follow
No, don't follow
And don't follow me
And I can't follow you
And the rivers and the oceans all flow to a crazy fire
And this madness that we're under is
Boiling all over.
I've seen some running
Running through my mind
Lost in fear
The blind leading the blind.
I've seen some falling
Falling down so low
Worshipping themselves and drunk on their own egos.
You got to find out who you are
And pick yourself off of that floor
You got to find out what you're doing
Before that shit gets kicked through your door.
Music by Gary Kahn (1979)
©2006 Gary Kahn
In The End...
I can't believe
What I know is you.
You could not see me if you wanted to.
You say you know
Who you think I am.
But do you think that I'm so low that I'm so damned?
Because I'm seeing it all once more
And you are like you were before.
You could have been the same one through a different door.
And I wrote this song for you,
But you will never know what for
And in the end, in the end
In the end
Abuse those you trust
Befriend enemies.
You're saying that you must
While on your hands and knees.
If you can see
Why can't you understand?
The answer so far away
Rests in the palm of your hand
Because I'm seeing it all once more
And you are like you were before
You could have been the same one through a different door.
And I wrote this song for you
But you will never know what for
And in the end, in the end
In the end
I can't believe that you throw away key
And then you have to ask me
To tell you what
What you want to hear
Because the truth is what you fear
Look in the mirror
Can't you think clear?
I can't believe
What I know is you
You could not see me if you wanted to
You say you know
Who you think I am
You perch there like a crow and think I'm so damned
Because I'm seeing it all once more
And you are like you were before
You could have been the same one through a different door.
And I wrote this song for you
But you will never know what for
And in the end, in the end
In the end
(and "your enemy is ruling your country
the danger is clear")
Music by Gary Kahn (1977)
Words by Gary Kahn (1991)
©2006 Gary Kahn
Waiting for You
In his hands...
Curled up in his hands...
Lies a chance
Or maybe just his hands..
(you) Burn all my dreams to make up yours
Wasting my time waiting for you
Please don't be late....
And as I go wondering all night long
I know I won't be passing through again
Thoughts are stale
As he rises up the trail
Climbed the knoll...
Freaked out, but in control......
Thinking that he is now up here...
Finds out that he toppled down there....
Back here again...
.
And as I go wandering all night long
You know I won't be passing here again
(solo)
Making a life is a strange thing
The play that he's staged keeps rearranging
Where has he been?
And as I go wandering all night long
You know we won't be passing here again
waiting for you...waiting for me...
Lyrics-1999, early AM 6/10/01 & 8/16/01
Music-sometime early 1980 (yikes)
©2006 Gary Kahn
It's Alright
Out from the middle
Into the side
Off from the center
I've got nothing to hide.
Seasons keep changing,
Trends rearrange.
Strange souls who ruin
With nothing inside.
Over the rainbow
Under the blue moon,
I watch my feelings
Sing silent tunes.
Some people who meet me
Don't hear a thing.
Their shouting stone hearts
Make my ears ring.
So if I seem to be unkind
Cold as the void you leave behind,
Remember I'm still living
Can't handle your not giving.
But it's alright.
You follow the leader,
But leaders must follow
The coarse of the future
Based on the past.
And here we stand sitting,
Our backs to the sun.
Confined to computers
Nothing gets done.
So if I seem to be unkind
Cold as the void you leave behind.
Remember I'm still living
Can't handle your not giving.
But it's alright.
Music by Gary Kahn, words by Gary Kahn & Jeff Winter (1989)
©2006 Gary Kahn
(Seems Like) Amnesia
Train running down my track,
I'm getting run over by a Big Mac(tm).
People going where their going,
Always talking, but never knowing.
You've got amnesia
For no apparent reason...
Do you remember?
Do you remember?
Do you remember?
I'm always working, on the run,
Use to have time, but now I've none.
Three white horses coming after me,
When I open my eyes, only darkness finds me.
(CHORUS)
You've got amnesia,
& I can't see the reason...
Don't you remember......
You know what's making me kinda blue?
Nobody seems to have a clue .
Scavengers eating up the last of the light,
While everyone's happy in their self made night.
(CHORUS)
Lost in amnesia,
& there seems to be no reason....
Can't you remember.....
END-bye
(words written mid-late 1980's (?); & 1998
(music written 3/20/95 ) by Gary Kahn
©2006 Gary Kahn
(By & By Your Soul Will) Never Die
When your restless heart is weary
And you're wondering where you are
When the wicked travel by you and try to hurt you,
Just remember you are only
The one of who you are
And by and by, your soul will never die.
When your loneliness arises
And the sadness breaks your heart
When it seems where love flowed through is now dry.
Don't forget time is an ocean
That gives as well as takes
And by and by, your soul will never die
Never die
Never die
By and by, your soul will never die.
When all possessions lose their glory
And are dispersed by other hands
And the memories all do fade into blackened night,
Just remember that the story may change from plain sight
And by and by, your soul will never die.
Never die
Never die
By and by, your soul will never die.
By and by, your soul will never die.
If all the forests all do wither
And the lands becomes parched and dry
If the sun does fade and the colors leave you eyes.
Just remember that it's temporary part of eternity
And by and by, your soul will never die.
Never die
Never die
By and by, your soul will never die.
By and by, your soul will never die.
By and by, your soul will never die.
