1. Gone 2. A Conspiracy 3. High Head Blues 4. Cursed Diamond 5. Nonfiction 6. She Gave Good Sunflower 7. P. 25 London 8. Ballad In Urgency 9. Wiser Time 10. Downtown Money Waster 11. Descending The Black Crowes: Amorica
1. Gone Save me From this season's dead air Take me Blind naked scared Want you to burn me, burn me baby Cover your eyes with my ashes C'mon why don't you pray for me Sit back and watch my divine spark flash Gone Good riddance I'm gone Gone in a wasted way Wasted my way I'm gone Push and pull on me baby With your fingernails full of fur I want you to stab me Do it, do it, 'cause you know it don't hurt Gone Good riddance I'm gone Gone in a wasted way Wasted my way I'm gone Jinx me, jinx me baby Beautiful like a fool C'mon and remove me Dilated and burned Gone Good riddance I'm gone Gone in a wasted way Wasted my way I'm gone
2. A Conspiracy Did you ever hear The one about last year It was all a lie Ain't it funny how the time flies What we gonna do baby What is left for us to prove I've never stolen nothing, not a thing Tried to stay away from this year's Big thing Ain't as easy as it seems To find a mutual dream Can you tell me wrong from right Do you know when to freeze or take flight Can you tell me more or less I got to know - confess Don't neglect me Come be my conspiracy Don't neglect me Come be my conspiracy Now you got a question about your answer Say try your adam's apple You talk it try it bite it right So now you want to fight? OK Let's step outside I got tradition in addition My definition it don't hold me back Well what you think about that What you don't understand This is a very old land Can you tell me wrong from right Do you know when to freeze or take flight Can you tell me more or less I got to know - confess Don't neglect me Come be my conspiracy Don't neglect me Come be my conspiracy
3. High Head Blues Sometimes I have a ghetto in my mind Other times sunshine high head fine In between I get cold, old mean Intertwined with country pride open and kind This draws a line Sorry to coin a phrase On either side is wisdom and rage So keeping track of time Racing with my age Sleeping with the snakes Forget that you showed up late It ain't worth it baby A charmed life it is At least they tell you so I got a good idea It ain't like they say is so And if it is then let me go Let me go Any day there might be hell to pay But in other ways It makes it seem OK I'll tell you what I mean It's not a plot nor a scheme It's just peace in my mind Again can I use the word kind I ain't sorry about it baby A charmed life it is At least they tell you so I got a good idea It ain't like they say is so And if it is then let me go Let me go
4. Cursed Diamond I lose myself I forget myself Sometimes I fault myself I might fight myself But then I make amends I freeze myself Rain on myself OK, so I stone myself And I might even find myself But then again what happens if I do So unzip my pride Open me up wide So I can show this to you I want to shine for you I want to sparkle too Just like a diamond cursed Well you know it don't get worse You know that I'll save you time Your trouble now is mine Hold me baby Hold me girl And I will laugh with you If you want me to Roll me in your splendor I'll envy your surrender And show you victory I hate myself Doesn't everybody hate themselves I scare myself Then I tell myself it's in my mind So I let the poison go 'Cause I always know It will be there for me I want to shine for you I want to sparkle too Just like a diamond cursed Well you know it don't get worse 5. Nonfiction I don't know my telephone number But you kiss good and I'd like to See you tomorrow And I don't beg, I pay, I don't barter And if we had a child I'd like a son Not a daughter 'Cause she'd be like you You know that would not do I'm no builder, I'm no gardener I sing some songs, have a friend Who's a photographer There ain't no other language I know how to speak Some like their water shallow And I like mine deep Tied to the bottom With a noose around my feet The clouds conspire Above my head I overheard them Say I wish I was dead Today the sunset Burned my eyes And in the next room I hear someone cry I like to dress up like the jury To eat like a king, to poke fun at clergy To talk like dirt To love you like tar But never fall in too fast With my north star While you pull your hair out I buy the drinks at the bar The clouds conspire Above my head I overheard them Say I wish I was dead Today the sunset Burned my eyes And in the next room I hear someone cry
6. She Gave Good Sunflower I've been lost in the headlights All night long Said I've felt taller, yes I heard The dealer's song Say babe don't mark me absent I only missed out by a fraction Be the sun that bursts through my clouds It's hard enough just living on this ground Say don't pretend to me I beg and I plead, your sunflower I need Thought nothing would surprise me I was wrong now I see Come on baby and just do me if you please This made me reminiscing About the honey we made I feel warm in your blizzard And your flood I crave I won't abuse my anger I promise you no lecture Come be the sun bursting through my clouds It's hard enough just living on the ground Say don't pretend to me I beg and I plead, your sunflower I need Thought nothing would surprise me I was wrong now I see Come on baby and just do me if you please
7. P. 25 London I am a cobweb In the corner of the room I tell you I built a boat baby So c'mon and cry me a monsoon Get busy on it And make it deep Imagine how surprised all the kids will be Empty bottles, saviors they crawl That has always been and always will be There's a hornet's nest in my head, Come and save me If I don't say nothing You say now tell us what to do So I tell ya'll this is just how I live Someone else calls it the news But that's yesterday Yesterday's news Imagine how surprised all the kids will be Empty bottles, saviors they crawl That has always been and always will be There's a hornet's nest in my head, Come and save me
8. Ballad In Urgency Here with me And this price you pay Just a wishful dream could be blown away Ask yourself for better or worse Because what's the use if it's just good luck A black cat has crossed my path Tell me what's good luck about that Hate and greed Swollen and treat Let's start this misery If that's where you want to be Fear and love Free down or from up above Come to me Come to me I beg you please Come set me free Excuse me please For my definition But deeper still are my convictions Urgently I wait to hear an answer While I misconduct A sad last anthem An anthem like you have never heard Have you heard something so absurd Hate and greed Swollen and treat Let's start this misery If that's where you want to be Fear and love Free down or from up above Come to me Come to me I beg you please Come set me free
9. Wiser Time No time left now for shame Horizon behind me, no more pain Windswept stars blink and smile Another song, another mile You read the line every time Ask me about crime in my mind Ask me why another road song Funny but I bet you never left home On a good day, it's not every day We can part the sea And on a bad day, it's not every day Glory beyond our reach Seconds until sunrise Tired but wiser for the time Lightning 30 miles away Three thousand more in two days On a good day, it's not every day We can part the sea And on a bad day, it's not every day Glory beyond our reach
10. Downtown Money Waster To my low down downtown Money waster Your only saving grace Is that I liked to taste ya But your flower is spoiled Too easy to make ya You got a .38 and your book of revalations I got a .44 and a load of temptation I am a rounder, like to round around Two for one at the store on the corner Little girl like to drink and Sniffin' powders Like the bars that stay open after hours Like the boys that go 24 - 7 Too many late nights and you don't go to heaven I am a rounder, like to round around
11. Descending Have mercy baby I'm descending again Open your eyes This time it's sink or swim No sermons on ascending No verdict on deceit No selfish memorandom No confusion for me Curses Curses and clues A feast for fools Have mercy baby And hands me downs It was just a few years ago You'd hand me ups and map Right out of town But I would let it slide Like mercury Silver and quick Poisonous and deadly So deadly