Geronimo

+ The Worst Part of A Broken Heart

(Shannon McNally)

He proposed on a Wednesday they were married by Friday

She tossed her bouquet down the court house steps

Little girl caught it, caught it as it fell

She looked up at her sister and said I don't hear the bells

Aren't they supposed to ring?

Aren't they supposed to sound?

Don't we have a party now

Hasn't something just been found?

And we'll make it through

The first part of a broken heart

Yes we'll make it through

The worst part of a broken heart

What's this notion of forever for

If not to save you from one more slamming door?

So she called her best friend just to bitch for a while

Some how she always turns her tears into smiles

She said honey don't cry

He don't deserve you anyway

If it was that easy for him

To just walk away

And you'll make it through

The first part of a broken heart

Yes you'll make it through

The worst part of a broken heart

She lit a candle for her heart, a joint for her head

She poured herself a drink and she got back in bed

And she dreamed herself away, dreamed herself back

Dreamed herself in circles didn't have no heart attack

And when she woke up in the morning

She went right back to school

She didn't feel like some loser

She wasn't anybody's fool

And she made it through

The worst part of a broken heart

Yes she made it through

The worst part of a broken heart

+ Miracle Mile

(Shannon McNally / John Ginty / Anthony Krizan)

Gonna sing it like a song, sing it mountain high

Gonna sing it river flow

I've been thinking 'bout it in my thoughts alone

When I hear that voice it's like soup to the hungry

Wanna be the teacher, gonna be the kid

I'm gonna get inside

Find out where it's hid

'Cause, baby this is it babe

We're on the miracle mile

Trying to give it up and do it with a smile

'Cause, I'm not alone and I'm not giving in

Till I find out where this miracle begins

Some days I get so mad, still I get out of bed

Put my shoes on and push on ahead

L look for something good to say

Gone are the days that I'm surprised or bewildered

By what they're calling quality

Most of it sounds like bullshit to me

Someday is here and tomorrow never comes

'Cause, this is it baby

We're on the miracle mile

Trying to give it up and do it with a smile

'Cause, I'm not alone and I'm not giving in

Till I find out where this miracle begins

Throw your old skin to the curb

Go and get a match

It's time to light it up and let it burn, oh yeah now

Bet you got a woman to keep you warm

Don't mind me, I'm over here trying not to do anything wrong

My enthusiasm tends to come on too strong

Everybody's shakin' it for the camera

Yeah, you're beautiful but isn't there anything else to say uh

Like how does it feel now?

'Cause, this is it baby

We're on the miracle mile

Trying to give it up and do it with a smile

'Cause, I'm not alone and I'm not giving in

Till I find out where this miracle begins

Oh, we're on the miracle

We're on the miracle mile

We're on the miracle

We're on the miracle mile

We're on the miracle

We're on the miracle mile

+ Sweet Forgiveness

(Shannon McNally)

The news blows cold in my veins

Everyday I wake to more of the same

The garden don't grow

'Cause greed never gets old

And my weapon of choice

Has got a lonely voice

It's lost in the brambles and buried in the noise

But I hear it still, faint, but steady calling

So forgive my love, forgive my broken heart

Forgive my love, was anything ever so hard

I'm angry to the bone

Feeling all alone, sweet forgiveness, yeah

Forgiving my love doesn't make them right

For taking what was ours and wounding the light

But it all comes back around in many unseen ways

They get theirs, they get theirs, they get theirs

May we never seek revenge

Bill never be paid

If this ache in our hearts is ever to go away

We only feed their greed by carrying that rage

So forgive my love, forgive my broken heart

Forgive my love, was anything ever so hard

I'm angry to the bone

Feeling all alone, sweet forgiveness, yeah

Sweet forgiveness, sweet forgiveness

May this melody reveal

And help me to heal with forgiveness, yeah, alright

'Cause I don't want a life that's soft and high

If it means that others must suffer and die for my comfort

'Cause I just don't know how to shut my eyes

Shut my eyes, shut my eyes

So forgive my love, forgive my broken heart

Forgive my love, was anything ever so hard

I'm angry to the bone

Feeling all alone, sweet forgiveness, yeah

Sweet forgiveness, sweet forgiveness

May this melody reveal

And help me to heal with forgiveness

Yeah, alright, alright, baby

+ Geronimo

(Greg Leisz / Shannon McNally)

And I do it again and again

I listen for visions and missions in the wind

I won the vote but shunned the soft parade

And now I'm picking garbage, a true sage's trade

I won every battle and lost the war

You dared me to reach for it, you dared me to know

So I drove that car just as slow as it would go

Listening for the sound of my last hope hit the ground, baby

Won every battle but lost the war

You managed to take more than I had

With your greedy treaties and your rubber badge

You may have won every battle but you lost the war

Well, I only did what I knew

Simple math, nothing more nothing less

If you hadn't of told me I never would have guessed

How hungry was your hate, how sealed was my fate

And I won every battle but lost the war

I managed to take more than I had

With your greedy treaties and your rubber badge

You may have won every battle but you lost the war

You may have won every battle but lost the war

+ Pale Moon

(Shannon McNally)

Oh I'd like to find myself

Trapped in some desert town with you

Just me and you

My long black hair waving in the drive-in

Me waving at you, my lover

From some ancient balcony

But like a

First division i see you

And your gone

Way out could id run to

Come back

Come back

Come back

But you're

Gone california

And it's just my fate

Making me blue

Why else would i see you

Today

But im not in some desert town

And you're not there with me

Im underground in NYC

The city of perpetual motion

The city that never sleeps

Thats alright, i wasn't tired anyways

I was so close getting clear

Thought i had nothing to fear

You'd be on a plane

And you'd be gone

And it would be done

But there are

18 million people in this town

Who spend the day

Bummin' around

Just to bump into you

On third avenue…

+ The Hard Way

(Shannon McNally)

Here I stand judged and bothered by a man

With a feather around his neck

I traded his misspent youth for my better sense

I got a thank you very much

Then he split and left me with the check

Why do I feel so bad, feel so sad

You know he told me that I would

I never learn nothing but the hard way

Cause at the time it felt so good

A young mother with a nursing child sat plainly on the ground

She rocked and rocked that child to sleep sweet, on her bossom brown

Our eye's met for a moment then she looked away

The child cried out in hunger there was nothing else to say

Why do I feel so bad, feel so sad

You know he told me that I would

I never learn nothing but the hard way

Cause at the time it felt so good

I dreampt I saw a bandit he was pointing with his gun

I don't think he meant me well no it seemed my luck was done

The channel surfers raged on as he shot the children down

There ain't nothing makes me sadder than to watch my mother frown

Why do I feel so bad, feel so sad

You know he told me that I would

I never learn nothing but the hard way

Cause at the time it felt so good

I know this guy he keeps asking to see my inner self

He's lookin, lookin, lookin and the book's right on the shelf

So I point out diagram forty two line seventeen

It's a graph of intent baby is this what you need?

Why do I feel so bad, feel so sad

You know he told me that I would

I never learn nothing but the hard way

Cause at the time it felt so good

Bored ficticious characters inhabiting the earth

Misplacing value and finding girth

Longing for silence they build jack hammer fences

To tie, tear and castigate their long tortured senses

Why do I feel so bad, feel so sad

You know he told me that I would

I never learn nothing but the hard way

Cause at the time it felt so good

I headed down to New Orleans to see what do I know

It turns out not very much oh the river told me so

No surprise oh no surprise this I already knew

You can run but you can never hide when the river comes for you

Why do I feel so bad, feel so sad

You know he told me that I would

I never learn nothing but the hard way

Cause at the time it felt so good

+ Beautiful and Strange

When they say a heart's too young to truly fall in love

And these are the words of liars or just fools

Who's to say when that feeling will creep

Down an anonymous street and break every sensible rule

It's beautiful and strange, common and plain

And the only thing for certain is all the uncertainty

You feel you're numb, revealed and sometimes hidden

From the truth that you know all too well inside

And these are only a few of the many contradictions of love

Love's a pirate, a thief, who'll make you believe

That one day he'll fly a flag of truce

Though he lies through his smiles, still he makes

You believe, you know, you could be wrong

It's beautiful and strange, common and plain

And the only thing for certain is all the uncertainty

You feel you're numb, revealed and sometimes hidden

From the truth that you know all too well inside

And these are only a few of the many contradictions of love

What's a little confusion, a little despair

If it's the price to be recognized by love?

Oh, yes, it's beautiful and strange

Yes, it's beautiful and strange

And it's beautiful

+ Teennessee Blues

(Bobby Charles)

If I had my way I'd leave here today

I'd move in a hurry

I'd find me a place where I could stay

And not have to worry

A place I feel loose

Some place I could lose

These Tennessee blues

I'd find me a spot on some mountain top

With no one around me

With valleys and streams and birds in the trees

And lakes that surround me

A place I feel loose

Some place I could lose

These Tennessee blues

A place to forget all my regrets

Keep just the good times

Some place I could sleep in nothing but peace

And feel free at all times

A place I feel loose

Some place I could lose

These Tennessee blues

+ Weathervane

(Shannon McNally)

As I walked through the valley

Of the shadow of death, come across a man

His feet were planted in the ground

His hat in his hand

He said, "Hey, lovely lady

Won't you linger long and tell me a tale

Of love songs so sweet

And evil that's failed?"

For I've stood here so long

Weathervane of song

Holding down the spike

Waiting for lightening to strike

My eyes fell so low, they hit the ground

I mumbled my name

He said, "Girl, raise your eyes

Look at me, don't be afraid

It's all in your mind

It's only my skin that they took

I lived this life of loss for you

You've got to at least read the book"

Oh, I've stood here so long

Weathervane of song

Holding down the spike

Waiting for lightening to strike

He said, "Hey, lovely lady, what was it

Brought you through my valley floor?

All mornings come and gone

You never been here before

Said, "I ain't nobody made a road map

Lead you here

There are sign posts everywhere

But they ain't very clear"

Well, I followed myself

Through the wind, through the rain

Beyond all that stuff

Other side of the grave

I walked and I walked

Till I felt no pain

Till I felt no shame

Till I figured the game

Now I'm gonna stand here so long

Weathervane of song

Holding down the spike

Waiting for lightening to strike

+ Leave Your Bags By the Door

(Shannon McNally)

Well I can see by your eyes that you come from far away

You've been traveling all night and you'd like a place to stay

Well that's alright, baby leave your bags by the door

That's alright, honey you can even ask for more

I won't ask you where you're from

Where you're going or why you've come

For a lot of answers to all the questions on my tongue

No that's alright, baby leave your bags by the door

That's alright, honey you can even ask for more

Well who are we two as we stand here tonight?

Are you a prince in paupe's rags come down from the heights

See the way your subjects live when you've turned your back

Taste the fruits of the common man and the purpose that you lack?

Or are you just a Tom wonderin' the night

Looking for a diamond mine and banking on it's might

Standing in the footprints of the wanders before you

Looking for fulfillment and hoping that there's more

Yes, my name is Jill Ryder and I'm a seamstress for the fleet

I stand five foot seven in my cold bare feet

And I've raised two daughters one from each of the loves of my life

I'm a widow two times, my girls are still alive

+ In the Name of Us, Honey

Well, hi, hello

It's good to meet you

Though I am sure

That we've met before

I can't place your name

And your face is unfamiliar

But somethin' in your handshake or smile is similar

To that of my true companion

So don't tell my you're sorry

Don't tell me you tried

Don't confess to me your sins

Or reveal to me your lies

You never could hide nothin'

Though often you tried

I saw you comin'

When I saw you smile

And I already forgive you

For the crimes you will commit

In the name of love, in the name of money

In the name of song

In the name of you honey

And the big bad wolf

Is in the back seat

When you look at him

He's surprisingly slim and neat

He'll tell you, how he ate grandma

Why, he wears her hat

How the exit works

And where it's at

So if you're gonna go

You better go…

+ Lovin' In My Baby's Eyes

(Taj Mahal)

Look up baby now you know I can

Be the one to be your woman

Baby now you know you know I'd do

Anything in the world for you

To have the lovin' in my baby's eyes

Yeah, the lovin' in my baby's eyes

Yeah, the lovin' in my baby's eyes

The lovin' in my baby's eyes

Look up baby now you know damn well

Love you better than another girl will

Love you baby now you know I'd do

Anything in the world for you

To have the lovin' in my baby's eyes

Yeah, the lovin' in my baby's eyes

Yeah, the lovin' in my baby's eyes

Yeah, the lovin' in my baby's eyes

Late at night when I take my rest

Oh, I hold your pictures to my breast

Love you baby now you know I'd do

Anything in the world for you

To have the lovin' in my baby's eyes

Yeah' the lovin' in my baby's eyes

See the lovin' in my baby's eyes

Oh, lovin' in my baby's eyes

Love you baby, I love you baby

Baby now you know I do

Love you baby, love you baby

Do anything for you, yeah

Late at night when I take my rest

Oh, I hold your pictures to my breast

Love you baby now you know I'd do

Anything in the world for you

To have the lovin' in my baby's eyes

Yeah, the lovin' in my baby's eyes

See the lovin' in my baby's eyes

Yeah, the lovin' in my baby's eyes

See the magic in my baby's eyes

See the lovin' in my baby's eyes

Oh, I give anything, anything, anything

To see the lovin' in my baby's eyes