Reliance Lyrics

SIMPLIFY
(Bill Deasy, Steve Diamond)

Thirty seven kinds of coffee
Thirty seconds to decide
As the line backs up behind me
Say, "I'll take number nine."

Things have gotten complicated
There's confusion in your eyes
So I called this conversation
'cause now I realize

We got to simplify this life we're living
Count the gifts that we've been given
Hold me close beneath the changing sky
We got to simplify

Let's spend the day out in the country
Like we used to do before
Before the rat race sent us running
When our hearts were young and pure

We got to simplify...

We can get there again
We can leave this whole world behind
All the love we knew then
Is still there for us to find

We got to simplify...

Denise, Scott, Dave and Bill: background vocals

ALCATRAZ
(Bill Deasy)

Steven and I hitch-hiking
Our day off to Hanover
Beat up car with young girl driving
Slow down and pull over

In the rear view mirror
Like co-conspirators we did smile
I did not know that I was running
I saw the sunlight streaming

Down on the landscape
Of my Alcatraz escape
From the sadness 'twas born in my soul

Three years passed, still I was suffering
Spent that March in Charlottesville
Saw the ghost of Thomas Jefferson
Sitting on my window sill

With his thin powdered hair
And his concubine there he did smile
I did not know that I was running
I saw the twilight gleaming

Down on the landscape
Of my Alcatraz escape
From the sadness 'twas born in my soul
I went down through the labyrinth
Of my falsified regret
Deep in flight from the light in my soul

Oh what a complicated tapestry I sewed
All that energy I wasted on my fear
All those years spent stumbling down that lonesome road

It's not very clear
How far or how near I have come
I did not know that I was running
I see the sunlight streaming

Down on the landscape....

Denise and Clark: background vocals
Eric D. and Matt: saxophones
Junkman: B3

I'D BELIEVE IN GOD FOR YOU
(Bill Deasy, Jane Wiedlin, Hawk Wolinski)

I walked the world alone so long
Lost on my own trip
I had to see it, touch it, taste it
Or it did not exist

I was a faithless man
Empty heart and hand
A tired traveler in a barren land

But I have seen the light
It looks a lot like you
So baby if you ask me to
I'll believe in God for you

The stars are shining down on us
I see it all so clear
I can't remember what it was
I ran from all those years

Now I'm alive again
You are my oxygen
I got more faith than a thousand men

And I have seen the light; it looks a lot like you
And it's your love that pulls me through
Now I realize that all you said was true
So baby when you ask me to
I'll believe in God for you

Beautiful
Miracle

And I have seen the light...

Becca: chorus harmony, electric piano
Junkman: B3

ALWAYS A REASON
(Bill Deasy)

I been down
I been around
I been lost
And I been found

I been dumb
I been numb
I been blind
But the miracles still come

There's always a reason
Sometimes invisible
Always a reason, but sometimes
You can't see them

She was gone
By the dawn
With her went
The ground that I stood on

And the pain
Fell like rain
But it passed
And I opened up again

There's always a reason...

Just before the quiet time
When black of night becomes the sunrise
You are sure that it will never shine
I see it shining

There's always a reason...

Becca and the Junkman: B3

COMPLICATED ME
(Bill Deasy, Jamie Houston)

Out in the deep end
I'm alive, not that you would know
Wasted the week-end
Drivin' by places where you go
I know that you like 'em dangerous
And I ain't dangerous enough

I want to be complicated, celebrated
Mysterious, yeah loved and hated
All my life I waited for someone to notice me
Hello world, it's complicated me

Every diamond
Starts its life as a piece of coal
I ain't a diamond
Just some guy standing in the cold
I'm an obvious victim of circumstance
And I know I ain't got a chance

I want to be complicated...

I know I could walk right up to you
But I'm afraid you'd see right through
You’d see right through
What's the use?

I want to be complicated...
I want to be complicated, emulated
Mysterious, loved and hated
All my life I waited to be taken seriously
Hello world, it's complicated me

Scott: chorus harmony
Scott, Dave and Bill: background vocals
Junkman: B3

MY SERENITY
(Bill Deasy, Dave Bassett, Kris McKay)

I want to get close to you
But I don't know where you are
I had a dream, it woke me up
But now I can't remember what I saw

Am I alone again?
The room still looks the same
But there's this buzzing in the atmosphere
Your energy is everywhere
It almost speaks your name

I try but I fail
I run but I fall
And falling I find I still can crawl
I'm down on my knees
I'm reaching for you
Are you reaching for me?
My serenity

See these prison bars
Some of my best laid plans
I tunneled through the mountainside
Disregarded warning signs
Made with my own hands

I try but I fail...

There's this buzzing in the atmosphere
Your energy is everywhere
It almost speaks your name

I try but I fail
I run but I fall
Falling I find I still can crawl
I'm living to learn
I'm dying to find
That place in my heart
That peace of mind
I'm down on my knees
I'm reaching for you, are you reaching for me?
Keep reaching for me
My serenity

Becca: harmony vocal
Dave: electric piano

WHEN I PUT THE RECORD ON
(Bill Deasy)

It started on a lonely Friday
The world was gray and overcast again
I couldn't find no one to be my friend

Locked the bedroom door as always
Saw my brother's records laying there
And so began a life-long love affair

I put the record on the stereo
And though I wasn't quite a Romeo
The loneliness was gone
When I put the record on
And with the spinning of the turn table
I felt a burden lifted from my soul
I saw a new day dawn
When I put the record on

Years went by and still I struggled
Lovers lost to what I could not say
Running from the sober light of day

But as the world around me crumbled
I heard the sweet and lyrical refrain
Heroes walking homeward through the rain

I put the record on the stereo...

And it said:
Shalalalala Shalalalalala
You ain't alone in your sorrow
Shalalalala Shalalalalala
You ain't alone in your pain
Shalalalala Shalalalalala
You'll feel better tomorrow

I put the record on the stereo...

Todd: chorus harmony
Clark, Dave and Denise: sha la las
Becca: piano

PROMISES
(Bill Deasy, Marty Frederickson)

In the dark heart of my journey
On the dark night of my soul
I felt an old familiar yearning
For what I did not know
You see I had to have my freedom
So I hit the open road
What I thought I needed
I don't know

Wait for me to come
I hope it won't be long
Made you those promises of love

Now the life that left me empty
Is a faded paradise
And the sun goes down so swiftly
But it takes so long to rise
I seen one too many sunsets
Without you by my side

Wait for me to come
I hope it won't be long
Made you those promises of love
You thought that I was strong
I guess that you were wrong
Breaking those promises of love

Joanna: background vocals
Becca: electric piano
Dave: B3

RIGHT WHERE YOU WANT ME
(Bill Deasy)

I'm a fool
You're a liar
I'm a dry stick of wood
You are a fire

I thought it through
Baby I thought it over
Only thing I got to do now
Is tell you it's over

But you reach out your hand
And you pull on my heart
And my well designed plan
Crumbles apart
When I look in your eyes
I don't like what I see
Got me right where you want me

You slide like a snake
And you purr with your pleasure
With your trigger eye open you're taking
My desperate measure

And I mean to go slow
And I meant to go somewhere
'bout the only place I got to go now
Is further down under

Then you reach out your hand...

Now I'm lying alone
And I'm wondering why
You don't call on the phone
You don't ever stop by
When I look in my eyes
I don't like what I see
Got me right where you want me

Eric D.: saxophones, intro solo, outro solo right
Matt: saxophones, outro solo left
Max: piano

ANOTHER MAN
(Bill Deasy, Dave Bassett, Walter Salas-Humara)

There is an ocean in the sky
The road is a river
The shoulder I'm following is crumbling

Started as only half a lie
Indian summer
It was my fortune I was gambling
Oh I was gambling

My life turned off the road ahead
But now I know what I woulda said
If I was twice as old and knew of a better plan
If I was only -- Another Man

There is a road sign I pass by
There is a pay phone
There is a secret that I'm harboring

Idle the car and dim the lights
Ain't it familiar
All of these things that keep reminding me
I was gambling

My life turned off the road ahead...

Light up a smoke and close my eyes
Drop in the coins and dial
To hear your voice one more time
Drop the phone and drive
Drive

My life turned off the road ahead
But now I know what I woulda said
If I was twice as old and strong enough to stand
If I was only, if I was only
If I was only -- Another Man

Clark: chorus harmony
Max: piano

BEAUTIFUL LAND
(Bill Deasy)

Strip away the bar and gun shop
Strip away the lonesome telephone lines
Strip away the faded black top
Strip away these things,
I'll tell you what you'll find

Beautiful land
With the hills all around
Where the mountaintops reach
For the billowing clouds
Touch of God's hand
Is a whispering sound
Of the wind through the trees
In the dawn's misty shroud
Beautiful land

My coat still holds her perfume
My car seat a few strands of her hair
I see my red eyes in the rear view
I been driving through the high, country air
Through the....

Beautiful land....

I don't ever want to get that way again
I turned my back on who I was
I turned my back on all my friends
I don't ever want to get that way

In the stillness of the morning
In the absence of a practical plan
In the wake of my transforming
From a loved one to a stranger again
Lies the ....

Beautiful land....

Liz: harmonies
Max: piano

THE HEART OF EVERYTHING
(Bill Deasy, Kevin Bowe)

In the dark before the day
You're still drunk from yesterday
When there ain't nothing left to say
Maybe then you'll find a way
To the heart of everything

When you've fallen from the path
Frozen in the aftermath
When the good times all go bad
Maybe then you'll make it back
To the heart of everything

When it all comes down
And you're hanging from a string
Then you'll come around
To the heart of everything

Well I'm not trying to pretend
That I know how your story ends
But I have been right where you are
And I know it's not that far
To the heart of everything

When it all falls down...

I have been right where you are
And I know it's not that far
To the heart of everything
To the heart of everything
To the heart of everything

Becca and the Junkman: B3
Clark and Bill: background vocals