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PARADE DAY LYRICS

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Hollow Log (Rob Lutes)

I set out walking like a beast into a fog
Talk talk talking like a chain talking to a dog
With a heavy mind and a heart like a hollow log
 
I carried everything I found all along the way
Thinking you never know what you’ll need from day to day
My load got heavy but I held on anyway
 
Always worried what was coming up around the bend
Every turn could’ve been my final end
When you ride on the river, change is your only friend
 
Tried to find some escape on the drugstore shelf
To feed the ghosts and relieve my mental health
But you run long enough you’re gonna run into yourself
 
I never could make it sweetly through the night
My mind has a wheel turning left and turning right
It never stops ’til the crack of the morning light



Truth and Lies (Rob Lutes)
We all get our clothes stolen, baby we’re all naked on this lake
We get a little rage swollen, then we feel it break
When everything’s a wave rolling, everyone’s a wake
 
But it’s only really heavy when you hold it in your mind
Everything weighs nothing when you leave it far behind
Watch how every step gets lighter right on down the line
 
Oh the storms in the skies
Tell you truth, tell you lies
The mistakes will make you wise.
Surprise, surprise.
That’s the only little prize
 
You flew far above the hills and when you breathed the open air
The bounty gave you chills when you took the simple dare
To let your mind be still until you found yourself aware
 
We all get our clothes stolen baby we’re all naked on this lake
We get a little rage swollen, then we feel it break
When everything’s a wave rolling, everyone’s a wake
 
Oh the storms in the skies
Tell you truth, tell you lies
The mistakes will make you wise.
Surprise, surprise.
That’s the only little prize
 


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Little Baby (Rob Lutes)
Oh little baby won’t you take me home
I’m lost and I can’t find my way
The sun has gone down and the trail has gone cold
And I need some help today 
Oh little baby, I’ve wandered so long 
And I’m not sure where to turn 
To find the way to where I belong
Have all the bridges been burned?   
 
Oh I’m gonna come to you soon my love
I know your feelings of fear
The truth is we are walking the same old road
The truth is I am always near
 
Oh little baby I hear your voice
It’s coming from deep within
It says when I am cornered and I don’t see a choice 
That’s when the journey begins 
 
Oh I will be there so soon my love
  I’d never leave you to waste
Until I get there, you’ll have enough 
I’ve seen it there in your face  
 
Oh little baby you won’t believe
I was only turned around in the dark
I knew you’d come, I could hold your sleeve 
That was the seed of the spark
That pulled me out of the dark

Superman’s Escape (Lyric: Michael Emenau/Rob Lutes)
What does it take for a man to fall down?
What does it take to put him on the ground?
Going around the bend for another ride
And he’s teetering a little like he’s lost his mind
 
Transform is what we do, to make sure our needs are met
There’s a superman inside us, who always does his best
He’ll be flying pretty soon, but first he’ll need some rest 
 
What’s it gonna take just to get him home?
Where’s he gonna find a little room to roam?
He’s getting up his courage, he’ll be leaving soon
It takes a lot of power to get around the moon
 
Transform is what we do, to make sure our needs are met
There’s a superman inside us who works without a net
He’s gonna leave here soon, but he ain’t quite ready yet
 
See him pumping pumping pumping
Now he’s jumping jumping jumping
 
The flight is coming up, now he’s all prepared
To see the blissful world from the empty air 
From the launching pad straight to the stars 
A supersonic flight on the road to mars
 
Transform is what we do, make sure our needs are met
The superman inside us, never breaks a sweat
The flight is underway, and he hasn’t come down yet
 
Now he’s flying, flying, flying
He’s gliding, gliding, gliding


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Dayton, Ohio – 1903  (Randy Newman)

Sing a song of long ago
When things were green and movin' slow
And people stopped to say hello
Or they'd say hi to you
 
Would you like to come over for tea
With the missus and me?
It's a real nice way to spend the day in Dayton, Ohio
On a lazy Sunday afternoon in 1903
 
Sing a song of long ago when things could grow
And days flowed quietly
The air was clean and you could see
And folks were nice to you
 
Would you like to come over for tea
With the missus and me?
It's a real nice way to spend the day in Dayton, Ohio
On a lazy Sunday afternoon in 1903

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Eagle on the Moon  (Lyrics: Lutes/Riedel/Emenau)
Most of it you let go
But you could still use a little less
Your heart’s still trying to shake off
All the pains inside your chest 
 
You tell yourself you’re just a dusting
Of fine snow on a rail
You’re gonna come and go like shadows
On a branch beside the trail
 
But then midnight comes a stumbling
Like an eagle on the moon
With a memory like a steel trap
For a famous fiddler’s tune
 
You climbed over the mountains
You couldn’t really do your best
But you hunted for your daily bread
And you kept yourself well-dressed
 
Now you rest in the evening
With your eyes up on a shelf
You’re staring at the shadows
On the pictures of yourself
 
And then midnight comes a stumbling
Like an eagle on the moon
There’s a barn burning on the skyline
And it’s looking like high noon
 
BRIDGE
And you stand there at the gate
You see it’s not too late
What you have carved into your mind
Isn’t all there really is for you to find
 
Most of it you’ve let go
But you could still use a little less
Your mind is slowly learning 
To put out the fires in your chest
 
The fuel that gets them started
Is less than what it seems
But all those old infernos
Still haunt your restless dreams
 
And then midnight comes a stumbling
Like an eagle on the moon
A life in lower gravity
The freedom makes you swoon

Ginger (Lyrics: Rob Lutes/Monique Riedel)
 
Let’s open our hearts and write our fable
Eat this feast that’s on our table
Fill our heads with loving words in rhyme
 
Baby life’s so short let’s never worry
We’ve got time if we don’t hurry
Let’s not rush right to the finish line
 
Oh we all take some tumbles it’s not fun
Sometimes we need to lean on someone
When we’re gonna flip and fly and fall right through the air
I’ll be there when it gets dark
Singing to your heart
 
Darling you’re a pearl
My most precious find
You bring wonder to my world
With your perfect mind
 
Let’s take a walk, let nothing guide us
Let the wild unfurl inside us  
Pluck each perfect moment off the vine
 
Just like the birds in silent motion
Let the wind blow every notion
Out to sea with these romantic lines
 
Darling you’re a pearl
Oh the deepest rarest kind
And this weird and weary world
Is sometimes blind
 
Baby let’s let love reign down its thunder
Across the world of seven wonders
One for every way I love you dear
 
Head and heart and soul and smile
Walking talking down the aisle
Lips to whisper these words in your ear
 
Darling you’re a pearl
I can’t quite believe you’re mine
You bring wisdom to my world
With your perfect mind
 
Darling you’re a pearl
The deepest rarest kind
You bring wonder to my world
With your perfect mind

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Listen to the Wind (Lyrics: Rob Lutes)
I listened to the wind, I touched the ice
I said love’ll be my shadow if I treat it nice
 
I followed every shiver that made me swoon
A little indecision was a lead balloon
 
I wandered and I worshipped and I scratched it down
I chased it like an echo from the underground
 
But the only time I get it is when I let it get away
Heart in hand without a plan for how to make it pay
Far out on an ocean that never hits the shore
Once I know there’s nothing else, I don’t need nothing more
 
I said, oh baby, don’t be rude
Don’t believe in every little thing you do
 
Because everything goes up and down
Its gonna take you somewhere but you’re gonna want to turn around
 
But the only time you get it is when you let it get away
Heart in hand without a plan for how to make it pay
Far out on an ocean that never hits the shore
Once you know there’s nothing else, you won’t need nothing more
 
I carried on a while like a drunkard’s son
I said it wouldn’t be a good game if everybody won 
 
Then I coated up my heart in stainless steel
So I could rescue everybody on the battlefield
 
But the only time I get it is when I let it get away
Heart in hand without a plan for how to make it pay
Far out on an ocean that never hits the shore
Once I know there’s nothing else, I don’t need nothing more






Sparkle Blues (Lyrics: Michael Emenau)

I’m thinking about moving back home
Roaming, roaming, roaming no more
It would really be so nice,
I should take my own advice
I should pack up and head there today
 
I’m thinking about moving back home
Sliding, riding, gliding, biding my time no more
It would really be so nice
I should take my own advice
I’m gonna pack up and head there today
 
The sparkle in your eyes
It drew me there before
That sparkle from deep inside
made me, made me want you more
 
Oh but I won’t
I wish I could but I won’t
For I have left and gone away


Up on the Wall (Lyrics: Rob Lutes)

I will drink like a demon so I’ll bounce like a ball
I want to get up on the wall
I will scale shaky ladders, I will bleed and I will brawl
I want to get up on the wall
 
Just to see how the view is out across those hills 
Where the shadows roll under the clouds
There’s a vast new horizon that I aim to fill
Once I get free from the crowd
 
So i cling to the mortar in a slow desperate crawl
I want to be up on the wall
I would steal the wings of angels and I’d take the devil’s call
I want to get up on the wall
 
If my head could be quiet I could leave this parade
But I can’t quite step out of the line
There’s a deep voice that’s calling me out of the shade
Like a heartbeat under the whine
 
Well you build it and you climb it and you climb it ’til you fall
I want to get up on the wall
Do you even remember, do you even recall
Why you want to get up on the wall
 
Just to see how the view is out across those hills 
Pull your mind out of the clouds
There’s a vast new horizon that you aim to fill
If you can just get yourself out of the crowd

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