RAGING FIRE
1. THESE TEETH ARE SHARP
Don’t do as I do, do as I say do
You think you’ve found the answers
So you’ll do what you want to
Laugh it off but - the clowns aren’t real
A Romeo’s knife bled crimes of passion
More bad romances than you’ve had at all
Just crawl it off but - the damage is done
The teeth in this mouth are covered in gold
Bite where they want -have a mind of their own
Snatched away just in time to be too late. . .
These Teeth are Sharp
Maybe there’s only one way out
One way out of this life of pain
One more flash –and the pain is gone
Words by Les
Music by Raging Fire
2. A NARROW SKY
Do you know the feeling
when the air closes in
as quiet as the grave?
Well it's a narrow sky
here in Tennessee babe
It takes much tolerance
Rumors, they grow
like the headache
you fell out of
bed with this morning
Faces known and unknown
save their changes for you
in momentary sins
They’ve got indecent webs
of words to pierce your ears
and numb your direction
Rumors, they grow
like the headache
you fell out of
bed with this morning
Faces known and unknown
save their changes for you
in momentary sins
Well it's a narrow sky
here in Tennessee babe
It takes much tolerance
Rumors, they grow
like the headache
you fell out of
bed with this morning
Rumors, they grow
like the headache
you fell out of
bed with this morning
Rumors, they grow
like the headache
you fell out of
bed with this morning
Words by Melora
Music by Raging Fire
3. WALKING THE DOG
Words and Music by Rufus Thomas
Mary’s stacked
Dressed in black
Silver buttons up and down her back
Gartered hose and tippy toes
She broke her needle but she can’t sew
Walking the dog
I'm just a walking your dog
Man if you don't know how to do it
I'll show you how to walk the dog
Asked her mother for fifteen cents
To see the elephant jump the fence
It jumped so high –it touched the sky.
Didn't get back till the fourth of July
Walking the dog
I'm just a walking your dog
Man if you don't know how to do it
I'll show you how to walk the dog
Mary, Mary, quite contrary
How does your garden grow-woah
With scenes of hell trimmed in puka shells
On those pretty maids all in a row
Walking the dog
Yeah I’m a walking your dog
Man if you don't know how to do it
I'll show you how to walk the dog
And if you still just can’t see to it
I'll show you how to walk the dog
Man, if you don’t know how to do it
I’ll show you how to WALK THE DOG. . .
4. AFTER LOVING ONE MAN
IN EAST TEXAS
She sat back in her easy chair
Pin curls were pulling at her hair
No more diets for Louise
Oh she has found a life that’s just fine
And no more backseats for Louise,
Oh She is just a simple girl . . .
Rocking with the wind caressing her
No more eyes undressing her
Lying on her bed at night
The loneliness gives her a fright
Oh pretty, oh pretty Louise
Oh pretty, oh pretty Louise
With the tears and all of the years
at her window
she cut her wrist with emotion
She tore her heart out
and drown in the ocean
Then God lost her in the sand
but it was only one man . . .
Rocking with the wind caressing her
No more eyes undressing her
Lying on her bed at night
The loneliness gives her a fright
Oh pretty, oh pretty Louise
Oh pretty, oh pretty Louise
Words by Melora
Music by Raging Fire
5. FREE TO BE
Such a beautiful day
I’m so unafraid
blue skies above
I’m full of love
But sometimes so heavy
is the strife of life
everybody has to share and bare
But I’m free
I’m free to be
in control of my own destiny
you see
that’s the way it has to be
for you and me
hand in hand
a path to share
on such a beautiful day
Such mysterious ways
in this life of bright days
yesterday’s gone away
present moment’s okay
Cause tomorrow’s not here
it’s just a thought in your head
Gotta be here now, somehow
But I’m free
I’m free to be
in control of my own destiny
you see
that’s the way it has to be
for you and me
hand in hand
a path to share
on such a beautiful day
命運掌握在手中 Mìngyùn zhǎngwò zài shǒuzhōng
你看 Nǐ kàn
生活試煉不斷 Shēnghuó shìliàn bú duàn
這美好一天 Zhè měihǎo yì tiān
我無所畏懼 Wǒ wú suǒ wèijù
天畫上湛藍 Tiān huàshàng zhànlán
愛寫下充滿 ài xiěxià chōngmǎn
But I’m free
I’m free to be
in control of my own destiny
you see
that’s the way it has to be
for you and me hand in
hand a path to share
在這美好一天 Zài zhè měihǎo yì tiān
(In this beautiful day...)
Words by Michael, Melora, and Mark
Chinese Lyrics by Nina Chang
Music by Raging Fire
6. ANGEL BLUE
You’re late again
The fan purrs into other meanings
She walks the steps all too familiar
So the time has come, we must decide
I could give and, it will be as it was
I could take the time to reconsider
Take the time to answer
Her face turns
The curtains blow open again
I count the flowers on her dress
So this is it now, we’ve come this far
I wish she would leave, to think about this
I wish she understood the problem
Understand reluctance
Her answer never changes
Just waivers in between
To be this angel
A blue whisper discreet
Late again
The fan purrs into other meanings
She walks the steps all too familiar
So the time has come, we must decide
I could give and, it will be as it was
I could take the time to reconsider
Take the time to answer
Her answer never changes
Just waivers in between
To be this angel
a blue whisper discreet
Women without men
sound like birds
Women who have men
are the same
Listen
They sing
Her answer never changes
Just waivers in between
To be this angel
a blue whisper discreet
Words by Melora
Music by Raging Fire
7. HOPEFUL WHILE IN BED
Somewhere back in time
people met in places
where you could see their eyes
and love slept by the fire
Curse this house
Curse this home
Dream about
living alone
Just
curse your house
and curse your home
Dream about
living alone
it was as real as
the dirt beneath my feet
washed away with rain
and kiss you to death
Curse this house
Curse this home
Dream about
living alone
Just
curse your house
you curse your home
and dream about
living alone
Caught in our hometown
children read about
war in your time life books
and god slept on the porch
Words by Melora
Music by Raging Fire
8. RAINDANCES
He mentioned her with breath that spins
A weather vane in a hurricane
He is in the same place spinning powerless here
and bored to tears
How lean is the neck that stretches towards the sky
for the kiss of death’s last rainfall?
He is clinging like ivy to a tree all green
–wet behind the ears
He has a dream he files above his ignorance
–a thunderclap dance
How lean is the neck that stretches towards the sky
for the kiss of death’s last rainfall?
Just a slip from the hip
Can you give it up?
And wasn’t it love?
that was on the tip of her tongue?
And tell me
How long have you been whipped?
How long now –just you watch him slip
He’s a weather vane in a hurricane
He’s in the space place spinning powerless here
and bored to tears!
Words by Melora
Music by Raging Fire
9. DREAMS
Dreams From Under the Love Seat
Dreams -from under the love seat
Dreams -with that William Burroughs beat
Dreams –trying on the ruby shoes
And strollin’ through the technicolor hue
And rowing your boat through the beautiful south
Old Charter slumber down under the couch
Man it was smooth –like rusty old screen door
Rowing your boat through the brave new south
Old man river all down at the mouth
Countin’ flowers on the wall and diamonds on the floor
Dreams -from under the love seat
Dreams –what strange people you will meet
Dreams –give Old Scratch a gentle shove
On a tour bus tour around the Book of Love
Dreams, Dreams, Dreams
Oh, Dreams, Dreams, Dreams
Dreams you might forget in week
Who can we ask and who might know
If dreams stay in your head then where do they go?
A trillion miles of space from out of your tree
Moonshine burn by a star lit sea
Pouring it up from a dirty clay flower pot
A trillion miles of space right outta your tree
The Stranger offers up an Existential iced tea
So sweeten it up sugar it’s the dream you got
Oh Dreams from under the love seat
Dreams, dreams, dreams -visionary trick or treat!
Dreams let us thank the one above
For a different look at life and. . .
Dreams from under the love seat
Dreams with that Williams Burroughs beat
Dreams trying on the ruby shoes
While free fallin’ through the eternal blue. . .
Words by Mark
Music by Raging Fire
All songs copyright Pristine Music, BMI
except 'Walking the Dog' copyright Almo Music, ASCAP. Used by permission.