Paint the Earth

One Revolution Original CD Lyrics

Track 1	Up Against the Rail	McGovern
Track 2	Now	McGovern
Track 3	High Side	Moyer
Track 4	Life	McGovern
Track 5	My Possibilities	Wilhite
Track 6	Time and Time Again	Wilhite
Track 7	Meltdown	Wilhite
Track 8	On the Way	McGovern
Track 9	Allenby Bridge	Moyer
Track 10	Smile	McGovern

Up Against the Rail [McGovern] 2:50

the humbled and the peasant man casual and in demand to be quite honest i can't see any possibility of getting what i wanted when what i wanted was more all those empty chairs and wasted funds confusion at the podiums resentment and jealousy have once again struck me down having once been so high now i'm up against the rail up against the rail you know you've got me up against the rail up against the rail you know you've got me all your ghosts and all your saints i'm unable to assimilate your stimulating concepts and tedious complaints were you more aware you realize by now having once been so high now i am so low having once been so high now i'm up against the rail up against the rail you know you've got me up against the rail up against the rail you know you've got me down

Now [McGovern] 4:02

sitting in my office having a beer when the bartender asked me if i wanted to hear some words of advice and i said all right he said: act and keep on acting go the extra mile boy get out your shine box and work for a while busy as the devil is he won't get you if you are in motion if you stay on the move a ball and a yard and a friend on the way more hugging people less hazy days i used to be a rooster but now he's dead i've got God and three pennies sitting on my head you know i've got devotion and i've got friends i've got a happy sauteed family staring straight at the lens open up my mouth but nothings coming out i haven't done a thing all day i can breath it in and i can blow it out but i still don't have a thing to say an open car window and a wide-open space a kiss in the shower and the sun on your face i dig it now i'm living now i dig it now i'm living now i dig it now we will always be here i'd love to see the sky but the trees block the view and all the leaves are wet with colors shiney and new the bug that just flew by was kind of fluorescent blue i've got some sticky substance on the heel of my shoe too much time spent on these things too much of anything too much time spent on these things too much of anything

High Side [Moyer] 2:48

i watch your eyes as they sit spinning in your head you look alive but i'm wondering if you're really dead spit your words just like a stone thrown from an angry hand never caring never care where they may land do you feel so high do you feel so high do you feel so high do you feel so high ruins of love ruins of friends you've burn it all so watch it end walk alone and wonder where it all went where did it all go a heart that's closed will never flow with love but who am i to say i'm afraid i am just like you i watch the world with my eyes spinning in my head i look alive but i'm wondering if i'm really dead spit my words just like a stone thrown from an angry head never caring never care where they may land

Life [McGovern] 4:00

baby what happened to you was a long time ago and the pain that's still in your heart you've got to let it go because you are the only one who can save you and you are too beautiful to lose life you've got to listen to me you've done nothing wrong and you have to tell yourself that those days are gone when all is said and done you know the truth and if you just give in he'll win and you'll lose close your eyes feel your breathing that gives you life stay awhile stay alive baby what happens to you now will decide are you going to stand up strong up strong or lay down and die you are the only one who can save you and you are too beautiful to lose life

My Possibilities [Wilhite] 3:06

i took some time to look around and i don't like what i found though you think you're so unique with your personality throwing punch lines at the bar taking every joke too far finding true love everywhere but i'm quite sure you don't care take some time to show me please all my possibilities could i be as great as you i'm sure i could do it too in this game that people play they're all living for today no they don't give a damn cause tomorrow's just a plan and if you look at him just right then there's going to be a fight don't invade his space or he'll punch you in the face i've got a plan to make me a man all i need is you to get me through yes this time it will come true

Time and Time Again [Wilhite] 4:50

i've been thinking lately if it's my fault then maybe i could turn it all around but this time it's different and there's this feeling i get you've got a place to call your own i'm drinking to my sorrow broke another window losing track of all that's mine another change of season it's just another reason to remember good times days gone by time and time again i needed to be your friend but you would not open your heart after all we've been through i thought i'd be with you but this time i think i'm alone trouble seems to follow everywhere that i go sometimes i think i just get by still i get this feeling so strong and so deceiving there's got to be a way to make you mine and i know you think i'm crazy to want to be with you again and i'll tell you sometimes baby i feel i'm at the end i thought i knew you but i guess i was wrong

Meltdown [Wilhite] 3:30

tripping on the edge of the storm bleeding into the sea raging on the brink of the end release hostility breaking tension keep me out of the flow one brief moment can't take this overload sensing a meltdown racing the countdown is this the end of it all there's no escaping the path that we're taking you might as well go for the fall breaking off the past of our lives see them for what they are won't be with you again move on they won't go far breaking tension hanging over your soul one brief moment racing out of control they don't give a shit about how you should feel they all read your mind and rape your life appeal if you don't like this thing we call life stay inside is the answer fear is a great place to hide our direction is lost who knows what we might find give it one more try maybe you can get it right this time breaking tension spinning close to the edge one brief moment losing track of knowledge sensing a meltdown racing the countdown is this the end of it all there's no escaping the wrath we're creating you might as well go for it all

On The Way [McGovern] 4:43

Allenby Bridge [Moyer] 4:50

welcome friend would you happen to have a cigarette around here we've all the same i bet you must be tired come and sit and tell me of your trip the sky is blue still you don't smile i've never been this far away i've never had this much to say i've never missed you quite this way the desert sun wind and sand covers everything there's nothing familiar and i'm not quite sure where i am my mind is reeling feeling numb disconnection from all this as i lie here and float staring up at the sky i am barely submerged as the tears fill my eyes and i laugh to myself cause i will not be drowning i will not be drowning to day the only shadows fall from minnerette the only shadows fall from minnerette the only shadows fall from minnerette as i will never see you again

Smile [McGovern] 5:30

more than a story more than a song more than anything i want you to be strong more than a friend more than just a man please don't cry remember me with a smile i still feel in my soul and i know i'm not alone life carries on life carries on all my dreams stretch towards the sky as tears and prayers fill your eyes love carries on love carries on all we have is everything but that's still not enough all we want is anything all we need is love i still feel in my soul and i know i'm not alone life carries on life carries on all my dreams stretch towards the sky as tears and prayers fill your eyes i will live on i will live on more than a story more that a song more than anything i want you to be strong more than a brother more than a son please don't cry please don't cry please don't cry remember me with a smile cleanse and begin again you could do anything at all
-----------Smile is dedicated to the memory of our dear friend and fellow musician John Rudebeck