Peter Kingsbery

Things aren’t quite as they seem inside my domain
You can’t know about everything, only pleasure and pain
You wonder why I come here with head to my hands
Where else can I be cured and the king of your mansion
A thorn in your side, a child to protect
That claims he’s free

Just around the corner, half a mile to heaven
Strong enough to hold you, starved for some affection
Darling come quickly, come ease my mind
For my prayers have not been answered in a long time

I’ve already made my bed, like it or not
As long as there’s no regrets
I’ll be here when the ride stops
These comforts to me and these crosses to bear
With which we live

Just around the corner, half a mile to heaven
Strong enough to hold you, starved for some affection
Baby, I can’t drag you into this mess

I’m the thorn in your side and the child to protect
And I’m just around the comer, half a mile to heaven
Strong enough to hold you, starved for some affection
Darling come quickly, come ease my worried mind
For my prayers have not been answered in a long time

©1987 Nurk Twins Music/Edwin Ellis Music
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My excuse is only human
Like any animal that breathes
Just to find a scent that’s soothing
I give you power over me

I’m more weak than strong
And not a stranger to a fall
But I won’t leave you
Till I turn to find you gone
I’m the biggest fool of all

There’s no path of least resistance
It’s a fable that you’ve heard
Any love that lacks conviction
Is gonna grovel in the dirt
God this road is long
And surrounded by a wall
But I won’t leave you
Till I turn to find you gone
I’m the biggest fool of all

Foolish as the prisoner
That listens for the jangling keys
And smart enough to know
That it’s crazy I should run
When you’ve got no claim on me

So before your panic taunts you
To make relations disappear
You could help to ease my conscience
If just for once by standing here
I’m more weak than strong
And surrounded by a wall
But I won’t leave you
Till I turn to find you gone
I’m the biggest fool of all

©1985 Nurk Twins Music/Edwin Ellis Music
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It’s a million miles
A giant place
Like a work of art
Amazing, amazing

Fast cars that cannot move
Die for a parking space
Stuck on a carousel
Crazy, it’s crazy

When you laugh
Till you cry
When you laugh

(Chorus)
All’s well here in El Norte
Who’d have thought it could be like this
Big money for a job well done
I swear to you
I got a ride from a coyote
Who sells high on the black market

So your loved one can be home soon
So your loved one can be home soon

Fine women with dress-up clothes
Say and do anything
Wake up to work the day
Tousled and tangled

Rub shoulders with the downtown gang
Where the Virgin lives
Just like a movie star
Hopeful and graceful

When she smiles
Till you laugh
Till you cry

(Repeat Chorus)

Maybe I don’t understand it
Maybe I won’t try
But nobody seems too satisfied

(Repeat Chorus)

©1987 Nurk Twins Music/Edwin Ellis Music
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You want my love
Tell me what have you to give?
What can be done
When I’ve my own life to live?
All that you want
Is very hard to come by
No one knows more than I

(Chorus)
Who’s got the time and the place
And the shoulder to cry on?
For all the trouble we face
Just someone to rely on
Show me the love of a friend
And a dream to get high on
And I’ll send them your way

Only if I could
It’s not that my heart does not bleed
But where shall I look
To find all these things that you need?
If you were but one
That somehow had come to me first
I could not quench your thirst

(Repeat Chorus)

Bring to me all that you’ve lost
And looked forward to
All that you’ve found
To be just out of reach
And I’ll send them your way

©1984 Nurk Twins Music/Edwin Ellis Music
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Don’t know where I’ve been
For I thought I’d listened well
All your warnings,
I’ve had plenty
You sure had me going
Down to the ringing of a bell
Once again you get the best of me
Once again

(Chorus)
But how could I know
When I believed that there were angels
Calling my name
As though they’re watching over me
Nobody’s home
So I go looking out for trouble
And another story that I can believe
Just another story that I can believe

Don’t be frightened babe
You’re not guilty for my pain
It’s just that I had thought you knew me better
For better or for worse
It seems it always ends the same
Some people never ever learn
Some people

(Repeat Chorus)

I believe you baby
Bring me shades and colors of the truth
Or bring to me someone
I can be free to turn to
And another story that I can believe
Just another story that I can believe

©1986 Nurk Twins Music/Edwin Ellis Music
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Who can count on help out of danger’s way
When we all turn a blind eye?
How can I watch you go
With no one watching over?
Why do I fear for you more than my own seif
When it comes down to both our lives?
Because I love you so, because I love you so
Some people have no one

And some kinds of damage can’t be undone

(Chorus)
Carry this for your own protection
With a tight throat and a white face
Take this coward’s courage, that nothing can stop
Take this coward’s courage, nothing can stop

Always the unexpected that you can’t see
That will come at you from behind
When you are not afraid, going along your way
It’s a common thing to retrace your steps
When it’s too late to change your mind
I can’t believe it’s safe
Gambling on someone’s hate

(Repeat Chorus)

No harm to you must come
And no one can be two places at once
So carry this

©1986 Nurk Twins Music/Edwin Ellis Music
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Angry answers are easy for me
Once you’ve hurt my pride
Loving you is the joy I receive
Of which I’ve been denied
There’s no crossing the lines you have drawn
It’s harmful to one’s health
You might try listening to yourself

(Chorus)
Are you ready for that?
Where shall we begin
It just don’t figure that
Every moment seems like the hardest to win
Every moment seems like the hardest to win

I’m not accepting charity
In any shape or form
But if your fancy should fit to my need
Wear me till I’m worn
Don’t ask me for what in return
That’s the deal I make
I will not give unless you take
I’ve got nothing on you
No future, no end
And after all I do
Every moment seems like the hardest to win

When the touch of forgiveness gets lost
lt’s so unfair
But I still believe you’re here somewhere

(Repeat Chorus)

©1985 Nurk Twins Music/Edwin Ellis Music
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Any more and I might learn to leave things as they stand
People do what they like, that much is sobering
But nothing less than a miracle could answer to all my pleas
Hope for my wish, the waves of a parting sea
I could use a little thunder
And lightning from the sky
So should I leave these precious dreams
Will not die

How to live by the rules when I’ve read this book before
There’s no courage to prove, just your reasoning
Faces of forgotten men much too afraid to ask
Like cogs in a wheel, we long to keep turning back
I’ve got to keep from going under
While running for my life
So should I leave these precious dreams
Will not die

After years of uncertainty I wait for the final round
Losing my place, you call me to calm you down
I could use a little thunder
And in someone to confide
So should I leave these precious dreams
Will not die
A little thunder and lightning
So when I leave these precious dreams
Will not die

©1986 Nurk Twins Music/Edwin Ellis Music
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Thought my days here were given up for forgotten
Can’t burn cedar, it must come out by the roots
I’m not driving, but I’m taking bets
Six full hours and we ain’t crossed it yet
One more stop after here through Midland I know
One more stop after here through Midland I know
Till I come to rest…

Turn back now and I might as well read my fortune
And lose this vengeance long since been overdue
Half-awake there is not much left
Walk my dollar across to Juarez
One more stop after here through Midland I know
One more stop after here through Midland I know
Till I come to rest

I left some worn-out dreams hanging on a wire
The city that’s my passage to the west
Is just over the rise

©1986 Nurk Twins Music/Edwin Ellis Music
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