You
I remember you
You're the distant child that I once knew oh I knew
you
I saw you grow
The outer man grew muscle but inside emotion lay frozen
Everybody knows the real you only your mind knows
See the loud mouth boy
He's as brash as cancer but he longs for you
To see his compassion
See the little shy girl
She's polite as Grandma but she wants
To break from her prison cell
Everybody knows the real you only you know
Everybody know the real you only your mind knows
I see you breaking' free now
Running through the green grass over the fields yeah
Hunting season's finally over sleep little child sleep
Though you tried you knew
The tools that would break the ice escaped you
Words & Music Paul Colman
Spinning
She's a mystery though I know her every name
She's the one that I can't see though I see her every
day
She's got me running blind she's the thief s he's time
Empties my pockets every day
And I can't go on dreaming of life
Stuck on the outside baby
I can't go on
Spinning the wheel
I can't believe it happened I lead her all along
I would claim religion then I'd play her like a song
She's a monument of my ambivalence I needed to be strong
And I can't on not any more life got so serious baby
I can't go on
Spinning the wheel
She's the air I'm breathing she's the breath inside
of me
Time used to be a friend now time's a bitter enemy
There used to be a hero a child could look into those
eyes
Now if you don't know just what you wanna be
Baby you'll be left behind
I can't go on not any more life got so serious baby
I can't go on
Spinning the wheel
It's no secret I'm obsessed with time
Without a grip on the past your future's blind
Show me a person without sense of history
I'll show you a person with no ears or eyes
She's the life I'm breathing she's the breath inside
of me
Time used to be a friend now times a bitter enemy
So many choices about what you wanna be
Gotta make 'em now baby or you'll be left behind
Words & Music Paul Colman
In This Garden
Monday morning opens once again
Will the day that greets me be my friend?
Stayed up too late last night once again
Trying to suck the marrow out of life
Again again again
The truth is terminated before it's time
Like the silence of an unwanted child
Inspiration inspiration inspiration
Come to me like a melody
'Cause I'm ready now yes I'm ready now
In this garden I'm waiting
In this garden I'm waiting
Father tells me now the worlds so bad
"Never used to be this way when I was your age!"
But we get pictures from a satellite
Finding evil that was always there but out of sight
I'm ready now
Salvation where are you and where do you hide?
I think I'd rather father live today
Influenza it won't take me to my grave
In my bedroom with my TV on
The world can entertain me
No viking ship will take me
I'll sue you if you rape me
Conscription is evaded
A black man liberated
I'll make love to my baby
Words & Music Paul Colman
Fill My Cup
Come on you lately come on and rescue me
Been at you lately but I've been more at me
Love is a lesson I never learned at school
Sick in bed that day and so I play your fool
Sick of this sea-saw of going up and sown
Promised consistency to you in my wedding vow
Call me up whisper in my ear
Fell like a calendar from another year
Fill my cup to the top with running water
Call me out and show me how
Talk to me without manipulation
Shoot from the hip you'll shock the congregation
Wake me up whenever supper's ready
Break bread and wine but still I'm feeling empty
You gotta show me how show me how
I feel light I could float up to you weights and all
I feel like a bridge on the water connecting your shore
Start me up and let me fly with you
This barren ground these bones are dry and empty
Words & Music Paul Colman
Breaking
Point
You pushed 'till the breaking point until the hammer
fell
Even took away the choice but you were free to go
Silence and reason all on the floor
And now you're standing at your post
Though your mind says go
Cold arm of change brought you low no alimony
He said you were free but you got nowhere to go
Nowhere to run or hide your painful story
Seems so similar similar to mine
You're spinning in a hoola-hoop waiting waiting
Free to stay free to stay
I'm free to stay but I just can't go!
You pushed till the breaking point until the hammer
fell
Even took away the choice
But you were free to go
Words & Music Paul Colman
Candlelight
Girl
She's a candlelight girl you can set her aflame
With a word from your tongue offering praise
And she's close to me her love I put on
Like a chain on my neck
She's close to Mary Jesus is there
But they don't talk about Him till the end of the
prayer
And she comes to me to question my faith
But I just tell her.............
And I love to love her and get in her mind
And though she doesn't know it she challenges mine
And men often take her and promise her love
But where are the now?
C-A-N-D-L-E-L-I-G-H-T (she sits by)
She's as frail as a promise and harder than pride
Though strong is her answer her fear she can't hide
She's as faithful as anger and sweeter than beer
But she won't let me near
C-A-N-D-L-E-L-I-G-H-T (she sits by)
She's a candlelight girl you can set her aflame
Words & Music Paul Colman
Dark
Dark is the colour of condemnation
The colour of Jesus' skin
The moment of indiscretion
Dark is the mood it puts you in
Dark is the colour of my thoughts within
When I say they're white
The colour of my lies
Dark describes my heart
Whoah.....................
Dark is the colour of unforgiven
The breath behind a sin
The moment of your corruption
as darkness pulls you in
Dark is the absence of love and friendship
The place to hide your eyes
The place to hide in ambush
In the darkness scream surprise
Whoah.....................
No Dark No Light
Do you know the dark? Do you know the light?
Dark is the colour of all religion
That has no root in love
Dark is the colour of criticism
Dark the blood it cuts from the heart
The feeling of unforgiven
The moment of criticism
The colour of man's religion
Dark
Words & Music Paul Colman/David Carr
Slow
Down
When everything runs at a hectic pace and you wonder
if you'll ever pay your debts
And you wonder if you'll ever be the kind of person
you always wanted to be
And you wonder why red lights make you so angry?
And you say when I finally get a grip on this axe
of mine
I'm gonna chop down all the bad fruit that's hanging
on this vine
I'm gonna see the sun not hide in this well of depression,
hate and self absorption
But there I go singing about myself again
I'm sick of talking about myself why don't you talk
about me?
Please lick my wounds treasure my hurts.
Then try to fill this black hole I think is a cross
shape
When I try to sleep at night I feel like a traffic
cop try'na hold
Back all the traffic of thought that sits like a peak
hour madness in
My soul and I spin like some sick kind of ferris wheel
tipped
On the ground and spinning around
Slow down why don't you slow down
You will find your way if you slow down
Words & Music Paul Colman
The
Reunion
I got an invitation mama poked it under my door
This castle's my fortress these four walls
Seems we been invited
To justify the things we've done
Been invited to my high school reunion
And I walked through the door there's Sarah
She still wears her smile like a party invitation
She's just older and sadder
She carries suitcases under her eyes
I'm standing empty handed
Have grown or did I slide?
Childhood's such a great time
Shame to waste it on a child
And I stare at the door Mr Baker he died
The man I cursed he was my history teacher
Right now I'd like to ask him his middle name
And the names of his children
Mr Baker I'm a history teacher
I stand face to face with you
You're my enemy my maitre de
You buried in my head
And coloured all the things I've said
But its time to take your head
And never settle down to running around
Rejection, rejection
I bind your name I bind your name
So I took my invitation
And the freedom that I'd won
And I headed from high school reunion
La la la la la la la la ......
Words & Music Paul Colman
Come on
Well you know I'm not ready but baby come on
I'm never gonna be the kind who'll
Always hold the ship steady
I'm strong when I'm around weaker people
But you know I'm glad just to be part
Just to be here on this journey with you
And you know I'm not ready but baby come on
Come on baby come on
Ready a word I've never carried a concept not familiar
My dreams are spread around around
Steady a description that's defied me but I long it
would describe me
My paper's scattered all around around around
Hungry but I cannot reach the table I'd move if I was
able
I'm a punch drunk and lonely clown
See the moon it's full as I wish I was it travels such
a distance
With purpose and persistence like I want to be unto
you
Like I want to be to you
Like I want to be unto you
Like I want to crown you with my love
Like I want to crown you with a love that's real
Well you know I'm not ready but baby come on
Words & Music Paul Colman
Old Man
Goodbye old man won't see you again
I'm free to fly my wrists and ankles you tied
You lied that voice of reason became my pride
Now I see you behind bars your prison is no longer
mine
So goodbye old man take a last look at my back
Goodbye disease
You're not on my body where people can see
I sinned against you my friend
Tried to lead you to somewhere that I've never been
I am what you say anger found it's home in this house
of pain
It's time to swim salvation's waters 'cause you're
still not wet
So goodbye disease take your last shot at my veins
Words & Music Paul Colman
The original CDs had a Bonus EP - Life
Is Where U R
1 I'm Gonna See My Baby Tonight
2. 4 Love
3. Life is where U R
4. Trust In You, Trust In Me
5. Good Soil
6 West
7. I'm gonna see my baby
tonight
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