VEDDER, Eddie

Black

Sheets of empty canvas, untouched sheets of clay
Were laid spread out before me as her body once did.
All five horizons revolved around her soul as the earth to the sun
Now the air I tasted and breathed has taken a turn

Oh, and all I taught her was everything
Oh, I know she gave me all that she wore

And now my bitter hands chafe beneath the clouds of what was everything.
Oh, the pictures have all been washed in black, tattooed everything...

I take a walk outside, I'm surrounded by some kids at play
I can feel their laughter, so why do I sear?
Oh, and twisted thoughts that spin round my head, I'm spinning, oh,
I'm spinning, how quick the sun can drop away

And now my bitter hands cradle broken glass of what was everything
All the pictures have all been washed in black, tattooed everything...

All the love gone bad turned my world to black
Tattooed all I see, all that I am, all I'll be... yeah...

I know someday you'll have a beautiful life,
I know you'll be a star in somebody else's sky,
But why, why, why can't it be, can't it be mine?


Guaranteed

On bended knee is no way to be free

Lifting up an empty cup I ask silently

That all my destinations will accept the one that's me

So I can breathe

Circles they grow and they swallow people whole

Half their lives they say goodnight to wives they'll never know

Got a mind full of questions and a teacher in my soul

And so it goes

Don't come closer or I'll have to go

Owning me like gravity are places that pull

If ever there was someone to keep me at home

It would be you

Everyone I come across in cages they bought

They think of me and my wandering but I'm never what they thought

Got my indignation but I'm pure in all my thoughts

I'm alive

Wind in my hair I feel part of everywhere

Underneath my being is a road that disappeared

Late at night I hear the trees they're singing with the dead

Overhead

Leave it to me as I find a way to be

Consider me a satellite forever orbiting

I knew all the rules but the rules did not know me

Guaranteed


No Ceiling

Comes the morning

When I can feel

That there's nothing left to be concealed

Moving on a scene surreal

Know my heart will never

Will never be far from here

Sure as I am breathing

Sure as I'm sad

I'll keep this wisdom in my flesh

I leave here believing more than I had

And there's a reason I'll be

A reason I'll be back

As I walk the hemisphere

I've got my wish to up and disappear

I've been wounded

I've been healed

Now for landing I've been, landing I've been cleared

Sure as I'm breathing

Sure as I'm sad

I'll keep this wisdom in my flesh

I leave here believing more than I had

This Love has got

No ceiling