Music
Kevin Thomas Band – A New Heart
The Big Picture
Show me
Where concrete jungles meet the ocean
I'll sail away
But gold streets
Surround you with new gifts to open
And keep you safe
I'm headstrong
Picking up the puzzle pieces
To build a home
But your song
Is laced with sacred rhymes and reasons
The building tones
You got to see the big picture
While weeding through the lies
The big picture
Across this checkered sunset sky
Open up the gates on the bridge that waits
Where the hungry heartbeats hide
And see the big picture
Like a child
Big tolls
My hands are blistered; brain is bruising
I'm caught in a spin
But blindfolds
Cover eyes that shy from choosing
To sail within
(repeat chorus)
(guitar solo)
(You got to see the big picture)
While bouncing through the lost arcade (See the big picture)
Learn to play it like a game (See the big picture)
Turning lemons to lemon aid
(You got to see the big picture)
As grand as grandma’s recipe (See the big picture)
Whipping up the biggest feast
While planting next years summer seeds (See the big picture)
Whistling like a parakeet
So when you’ve fallen from the boat (See the big picture)
And you’re floating like a ghost
Trust your inner telescope (See the big picture)
And find that riddle to decode
The answer's burning in your veins (See the big picture)
Hear it calling out your name
Building magic tidal waves (See the big picture)
That can crack the holy safe
A wheel with long forgotten spokes (See the big picture)
Spinning just beyond the smoke
Leads to a rich and sunny coast (See the big picture)
So finger Paint your life with hope
(repeat chorus 2x)
©2017 Kevin Thomas
Show me
Where concrete jungles meet the ocean
I'll sail away
But gold streets
Surround you with new gifts to open
And keep you safe
I'm headstrong
Picking up the puzzle pieces
To build a home
But your song
Is laced with sacred rhymes and reasons
The building tones
You got to see the big picture
While weeding through the lies
The big picture
Across this checkered sunset sky
Open up the gates on the bridge that waits
Where the hungry heartbeats hide
And see the big picture
Like a child
Big tolls
My hands are blistered; brain is bruising
I'm caught in a spin
But blindfolds
Cover eyes that shy from choosing
To sail within
(repeat chorus)
(guitar solo)
(You got to see the big picture)
While bouncing through the lost arcade (See the big picture)
Learn to play it like a game (See the big picture)
Turning lemons to lemon aid
(You got to see the big picture)
As grand as grandma’s recipe (See the big picture)
Whipping up the biggest feast
While planting next years summer seeds (See the big picture)
Whistling like a parakeet
So when you’ve fallen from the boat (See the big picture)
And you’re floating like a ghost
Trust your inner telescope (See the big picture)
And find that riddle to decode
The answer's burning in your veins (See the big picture)
Hear it calling out your name
Building magic tidal waves (See the big picture)
That can crack the holy safe
A wheel with long forgotten spokes (See the big picture)
Spinning just beyond the smoke
Leads to a rich and sunny coast (See the big picture)
So finger Paint your life with hope
(repeat chorus 2x)
©2017 Kevin Thomas
Comfort Zone
Smell the green grass
Melt the clouds
Stretch your arms across the field and sing out loud
Shaping castles
And tales so rare
Grow wings and steer that summer breeze through your wild hair
They strapped down your childhood imagination
Now you’re not risking real world aviation
Kicking back on your throne
Get out of your comfort zone
Feel the power; make the change
Hear yourself gripe and moan
Get out of your comfort zone
Let the blood rush through your veins
Staring at a silent phone
Get out of your comfort zone
Spray paint the blue sky with your name
Wondering where the ball was thrown
Get out of your comfort zone
Be the winner in the game
Dry the drops of rain
And fire up the flame
Raise a new sail
Grab a star
Ride the waves that crave electric guitars
Bending heartstrings
Sweet and strong
Seeds for stories scored to ripen into your song
A blank stare is a broken chain reaction
When dreams are mocked like fantasy attractions
(repeat chorus)
(guitar solo)
Sunrise, take a look at your reflection
That map of freckles needs a course correction
Heartbeats are like a compass towards affection
They Point directions to the big connections
(repeat chorus)
Get up, get out of your comfort zone
Get up, get out of your comfort zone
Get up, get out of your comfort zone
Get up, get out of your comfort zone
Fire up the flame
©2017 Kevin Thomas
Smell the green grass
Melt the clouds
Stretch your arms across the field and sing out loud
Shaping castles
And tales so rare
Grow wings and steer that summer breeze through your wild hair
They strapped down your childhood imagination
Now you’re not risking real world aviation
Kicking back on your throne
Get out of your comfort zone
Feel the power; make the change
Hear yourself gripe and moan
Get out of your comfort zone
Let the blood rush through your veins
Staring at a silent phone
Get out of your comfort zone
Spray paint the blue sky with your name
Wondering where the ball was thrown
Get out of your comfort zone
Be the winner in the game
Dry the drops of rain
And fire up the flame
Raise a new sail
Grab a star
Ride the waves that crave electric guitars
Bending heartstrings
Sweet and strong
Seeds for stories scored to ripen into your song
A blank stare is a broken chain reaction
When dreams are mocked like fantasy attractions
(repeat chorus)
(guitar solo)
Sunrise, take a look at your reflection
That map of freckles needs a course correction
Heartbeats are like a compass towards affection
They Point directions to the big connections
(repeat chorus)
Get up, get out of your comfort zone
Get up, get out of your comfort zone
Get up, get out of your comfort zone
Get up, get out of your comfort zone
Fire up the flame
©2017 Kevin Thomas
Time
The days flip by like tarot cards
They fall like leaves across the yard
It's my deck of dreams and I’m dealing hard
But ghosts rack them away
The poet’s pen now paints a clock
It hangs above the door that’s locked
And curses me with ticks and tocks
While swallowing its prey
The black and blue blanket of the sky
Smothers stars that never shine
Time - Where did you go where will you take me
Time - How could you be so cruel?
Time - The memories that you steal could break me
Time - I feel like I’ve been used
The boy who dreamed of outer space
Now duels the mirror's wrinkled face
For secrets in the aftertaste
As he gulps another day
But the twilight jester courts the queen
As castle puppets mime and gleam
The knight rides off into his dream
And a brighter curtain fades
The black and blue blanket of the sky
Smothers stars that need to shine
(repeat chorus)
I’ll follow mantras deep in to the void
Play solitaire out on an asteroid
Into a crater deep beneath the storm
And be reborn
Now every day I churn the mill
As grains of laughter softly spill
These disappearing fleeting thrills
Lead me through the maze
Beneath the blue blanket of the sky
Hidden stars begin to shine
(repeat chorus)
Time - I feel like I’ve been, feel like I’ve been used,
Oh, but I’m not gonna’ lose
Time - I feel like I’ve been, feel like I’ve been used,
But it's up to me to choose
©2017 Kevin Thomas
The days flip by like tarot cards
They fall like leaves across the yard
It's my deck of dreams and I’m dealing hard
But ghosts rack them away
The poet’s pen now paints a clock
It hangs above the door that’s locked
And curses me with ticks and tocks
While swallowing its prey
The black and blue blanket of the sky
Smothers stars that never shine
Time - Where did you go where will you take me
Time - How could you be so cruel?
Time - The memories that you steal could break me
Time - I feel like I’ve been used
The boy who dreamed of outer space
Now duels the mirror's wrinkled face
For secrets in the aftertaste
As he gulps another day
But the twilight jester courts the queen
As castle puppets mime and gleam
The knight rides off into his dream
And a brighter curtain fades
The black and blue blanket of the sky
Smothers stars that need to shine
(repeat chorus)
I’ll follow mantras deep in to the void
Play solitaire out on an asteroid
Into a crater deep beneath the storm
And be reborn
Now every day I churn the mill
As grains of laughter softly spill
These disappearing fleeting thrills
Lead me through the maze
Beneath the blue blanket of the sky
Hidden stars begin to shine
(repeat chorus)
Time - I feel like I’ve been, feel like I’ve been used,
Oh, but I’m not gonna’ lose
Time - I feel like I’ve been, feel like I’ve been used,
But it's up to me to choose
©2017 Kevin Thomas
Money Tree
Bills are sprouting from my mailbox
Like a dumpster full of hard knocks
But weeds watered by tears
will smear that black and white to grey
The tricky math is like a bird trap
All my feathers have been hijacked
But when the storm cloud breaks
I'll shake bright colors from the rain
A thought ripe with change
Will burst like a seed
And bloom a new game
I’ll grow a money tree
Pluck off dollar bills for free
Silver coins will fall across the lawn
Grow a money tree
Rake up all the golden seeds
Knowing that my debts will soon be gone
I’ll sing my money song
Do do, do do, do doot doot do do do do
Do do, do do, do doot doot do do do do
My brain was burning and a bruising
The sweaty calculator loosing
But pennies piled up high
could buy sweet freedom for a slave
Diving down for the ripe jewel
I swam from the money whirlpool
Now I'm planting my crop
that tops off with fortune and fame
I’m staking my claim
Collecting the cash
Under the shade
(repeat chorus)
Do do, do do, do doot doot do do do do
Do do, do do, do doot doot do do do do
I’ll grow a money tree (give me money, give me give me give me money)
Grow a money tree (give me money, give me give me give me money)
Grow a money tree (give me money, give me give me give me money)
Grow a money tree (give me money, give me give me give me money)
(repeat chorus 2x new key)
Do do, do do, do doot doot do do do do
Do do, do do, do doot doot do do do do
Do do, do do, do doot doot do do do do
Do do, do do, do doot doot do do do do
©2017 Kevin Thomas
Bills are sprouting from my mailbox
Like a dumpster full of hard knocks
But weeds watered by tears
will smear that black and white to grey
The tricky math is like a bird trap
All my feathers have been hijacked
But when the storm cloud breaks
I'll shake bright colors from the rain
A thought ripe with change
Will burst like a seed
And bloom a new game
I’ll grow a money tree
Pluck off dollar bills for free
Silver coins will fall across the lawn
Grow a money tree
Rake up all the golden seeds
Knowing that my debts will soon be gone
I’ll sing my money song
Do do, do do, do doot doot do do do do
Do do, do do, do doot doot do do do do
My brain was burning and a bruising
The sweaty calculator loosing
But pennies piled up high
could buy sweet freedom for a slave
Diving down for the ripe jewel
I swam from the money whirlpool
Now I'm planting my crop
that tops off with fortune and fame
I’m staking my claim
Collecting the cash
Under the shade
(repeat chorus)
Do do, do do, do doot doot do do do do
Do do, do do, do doot doot do do do do
I’ll grow a money tree (give me money, give me give me give me money)
Grow a money tree (give me money, give me give me give me money)
Grow a money tree (give me money, give me give me give me money)
Grow a money tree (give me money, give me give me give me money)
(repeat chorus 2x new key)
Do do, do do, do doot doot do do do do
Do do, do do, do doot doot do do do do
Do do, do do, do doot doot do do do do
Do do, do do, do doot doot do do do do
©2017 Kevin Thomas
Let Your Arrow Fly
A plastic prize
An hourglass
A wilted heart
Smelling the greener grass
You had a star
to wish upon
But let it melt on the
wings of wayward swans
A wish
will persist for one reason
you can make it exist
don't let it die
with the turning seasons
Let your arrow fly
just draw back the bow
'till it touches your heart
and snaps from your toes
Let your arrow fly
when the feathers are dipped
where your deepest dreams
are sweetly sipped
Let your arrow fly
Parades have passed
The kings were crowned
You're on the curbside
Watching the sun go down
The bells were tolled
To cheering crowds
Your scribbled plans still
echo through dreamless towns
(repeat prechorus and chorus)
(guitar solo)
Flying far away
Headed towards your target
Sailing high today
Adjust your aim
you'll hit your mark yet
(repeat chorus 2x)
Let your arrow fly
Let your arrow fly
Let your arrow fly
©2017 Kevin Thomas
A plastic prize
An hourglass
A wilted heart
Smelling the greener grass
You had a star
to wish upon
But let it melt on the
wings of wayward swans
A wish
will persist for one reason
you can make it exist
don't let it die
with the turning seasons
Let your arrow fly
just draw back the bow
'till it touches your heart
and snaps from your toes
Let your arrow fly
when the feathers are dipped
where your deepest dreams
are sweetly sipped
Let your arrow fly
Parades have passed
The kings were crowned
You're on the curbside
Watching the sun go down
The bells were tolled
To cheering crowds
Your scribbled plans still
echo through dreamless towns
(repeat prechorus and chorus)
(guitar solo)
Flying far away
Headed towards your target
Sailing high today
Adjust your aim
you'll hit your mark yet
(repeat chorus 2x)
Let your arrow fly
Let your arrow fly
Let your arrow fly
©2017 Kevin Thomas
Reinvent Yourself
The grin of the cold clock, the face of your regrets
Like a ticking time bomb as your palms begin to sweat
Rip open the curtains, the life that looked so strange
Now blooms with passageways of colors rearranged
A festival of change
Reinvent yourself, reinvent yourself
Spinning round rhymes as choices chime like a wizard's spell
Reinvent yourself, reinvent yourself
Writing new songs with passion drawn from the shaman's well
Take your dusty dreams off the shelf
And reinvent yourself
Remember the playground when laughter filled the sky
And your smiling future was all spicy apple pies
The squeak of tall swings, the rust that held such fire
Strong chains could hold the hopes of every child flyer
Soaring like a choir
(repeat chorus)
It's a race you run inside to climb the jagged hills
Of hidden power, intoxicating chills
Deep in your mind set free
Plan and build
Strength of will
(guitar solo)
Gaze at the new sky, a canvas for the brave
Time to paint with colors sprung from streams beneath the caves
Until you ride the biggest wave
(repeat chorus)
Reinvent yourself, reinvent yourself, reinvent yourself
Reinvent yourself, reinvent yourself, reinvent yourself
Take your dusty dreams off the shelf
And reinvent yourself
©2017 Kevin Thomas
The grin of the cold clock, the face of your regrets
Like a ticking time bomb as your palms begin to sweat
Rip open the curtains, the life that looked so strange
Now blooms with passageways of colors rearranged
A festival of change
Reinvent yourself, reinvent yourself
Spinning round rhymes as choices chime like a wizard's spell
Reinvent yourself, reinvent yourself
Writing new songs with passion drawn from the shaman's well
Take your dusty dreams off the shelf
And reinvent yourself
Remember the playground when laughter filled the sky
And your smiling future was all spicy apple pies
The squeak of tall swings, the rust that held such fire
Strong chains could hold the hopes of every child flyer
Soaring like a choir
(repeat chorus)
It's a race you run inside to climb the jagged hills
Of hidden power, intoxicating chills
Deep in your mind set free
Plan and build
Strength of will
(guitar solo)
Gaze at the new sky, a canvas for the brave
Time to paint with colors sprung from streams beneath the caves
Until you ride the biggest wave
(repeat chorus)
Reinvent yourself, reinvent yourself, reinvent yourself
Reinvent yourself, reinvent yourself, reinvent yourself
Take your dusty dreams off the shelf
And reinvent yourself
©2017 Kevin Thomas
Mirror, Mirror
If I take this step
Will my footprints trace a muddy sin?
When I taste your skin
Will it scar and mark forbidden breaths?
They chocked our love like smoldered sage
Our lusty vines grew like a noose
The darkest wine has come of age
A hungry light grows stronger
Whispering an inner truth
Mirror, Mirror, on the wall
Down this rabbit hole I'm gonna fall
Mirror, Mirror, of my soul
I’m falling down, down, down
This rabbit hole
If they judge our crimes
Will they mock my daddy's family name?
As we burn like flames
Will they banish us from sacred shrines?
Our serenades in secret caves
Could call to lost strays in the crowd
Lure them from these marching slaves
With hearts as wide as oceans
Our tribe so open, growing proud
Mirror, Mirror, on the wall
Down this rabbit hole I'm gonna fall
Mirror, Mirror, of my soul
I’m falling down, down, down
This rabbit hole
(piano solo)
If I choose this path
Will I stumble down a rabbit hole
Where I lose my soul
Will I trap myself behind the glass
Mirror, Mirror, on the wall
Down this rabbit hole I'm gonna fall
Mirror, Mirror, of my soul
I’m falling down, down, down, down
Mirror, Mirror, on the wall
Down this rabbit hole I'm gonna fall
Mirror, Mirror, of my soul
I’m falling down, down, down this rabbit hole
Falling down this rabbit hole
(repeat chorus new key)
©2017 Kevin Thomas
If I take this step
Will my footprints trace a muddy sin?
When I taste your skin
Will it scar and mark forbidden breaths?
They chocked our love like smoldered sage
Our lusty vines grew like a noose
The darkest wine has come of age
A hungry light grows stronger
Whispering an inner truth
Mirror, Mirror, on the wall
Down this rabbit hole I'm gonna fall
Mirror, Mirror, of my soul
I’m falling down, down, down
This rabbit hole
If they judge our crimes
Will they mock my daddy's family name?
As we burn like flames
Will they banish us from sacred shrines?
Our serenades in secret caves
Could call to lost strays in the crowd
Lure them from these marching slaves
With hearts as wide as oceans
Our tribe so open, growing proud
Mirror, Mirror, on the wall
Down this rabbit hole I'm gonna fall
Mirror, Mirror, of my soul
I’m falling down, down, down
This rabbit hole
(piano solo)
If I choose this path
Will I stumble down a rabbit hole
Where I lose my soul
Will I trap myself behind the glass
Mirror, Mirror, on the wall
Down this rabbit hole I'm gonna fall
Mirror, Mirror, of my soul
I’m falling down, down, down, down
Mirror, Mirror, on the wall
Down this rabbit hole I'm gonna fall
Mirror, Mirror, of my soul
I’m falling down, down, down this rabbit hole
Falling down this rabbit hole
(repeat chorus new key)
©2017 Kevin Thomas
High on Chocolate
He drove a sixties bug with ripped out seats
Spray painted it black and grey
And he hauled his drums through Miami streets
Down to the local liquor stage
Pit stop at the candy shop
For his fix along the way
Then roadmap eyes led a buck shot smile
Drum sticks spinning 'round he'd play
High on Chocolate
Baby do you wanna get high
High on Chocolate
Taste me and get ready to fly
High on Chocolate
Baby do you wanna get high
High on Chocolate
Taste me and get ready to fly
Stage-lights shot through a wall of smoke
His heart burst in a blaze
The monkey choir on his back like ghosts
Were all caffeine sugar crazed
Fans clapped in the liquor shack
But the downward chocolate maze
Steered luck like a garbage truck
Into a twisted candy wrapper grave
(repeat chorus)
We all wanna get high on something sweet
But when mushroom cloudy eyes start spinning
Fill our hearts with dreams worth winning
(guitar solo)
Daylight shinned on an ice cream beach
His light skin caught her eye
She said: “I could quench your taste for sweets”
“My name is Chocolate, let me try”
“I'm a sure cure for the candy store”
“Let me take you for a ride”
“Like wildcats in the back unwrapped”
“Squeezing the fruit that satisfies”
(repeat chorus)
Taste me and get ready to fly
Taste me and get ready to fly
Taste me and get ready to fly
Taste me and get ready to fly
©2017 Kevin Thomas
He drove a sixties bug with ripped out seats
Spray painted it black and grey
And he hauled his drums through Miami streets
Down to the local liquor stage
Pit stop at the candy shop
For his fix along the way
Then roadmap eyes led a buck shot smile
Drum sticks spinning 'round he'd play
High on Chocolate
Baby do you wanna get high
High on Chocolate
Taste me and get ready to fly
High on Chocolate
Baby do you wanna get high
High on Chocolate
Taste me and get ready to fly
Stage-lights shot through a wall of smoke
His heart burst in a blaze
The monkey choir on his back like ghosts
Were all caffeine sugar crazed
Fans clapped in the liquor shack
But the downward chocolate maze
Steered luck like a garbage truck
Into a twisted candy wrapper grave
(repeat chorus)
We all wanna get high on something sweet
But when mushroom cloudy eyes start spinning
Fill our hearts with dreams worth winning
(guitar solo)
Daylight shinned on an ice cream beach
His light skin caught her eye
She said: “I could quench your taste for sweets”
“My name is Chocolate, let me try”
“I'm a sure cure for the candy store”
“Let me take you for a ride”
“Like wildcats in the back unwrapped”
“Squeezing the fruit that satisfies”
(repeat chorus)
Taste me and get ready to fly
Taste me and get ready to fly
Taste me and get ready to fly
Taste me and get ready to fly
©2017 Kevin Thomas
On My Way Out
When I’m on my way out I’ll dance
Dance around
When I’m on my way out I’ll sing
Wave, smile, and bow
The haze of this world has left stains on the art
We search for our dreams on the floor
The mind numbing echoes from tin-plated hearts
Are scribbled on broken church doors
Our love has been braided with famine and flesh
We chew on the knots as we climb
My cup has been filled by the lost and possessed
I’ll drink to the circus and sneak out the tent with the mimes
When I’m on my way out
I’ll burn down my house
Watch spiraling black ashes soar
When I’m on my way out
I’ll dance like a clown
And whistle farewells through the thorns
And I’ll paint fresh smiles on faces that had cold chiseled frowns
When I’m on my way out
There’s light in the corner of every dark room
It shines on an unbalanced scale
We weigh sinking years against justice and truth
And read the results all in braille
Artists paint visions on crooked staircases
They wind down to gambling brawls
I’ve won my last hand there with blood on the aces
I’ll smoke my cigar while dancing my victory waltz
(repeat chorus)
(Instrumental Interlude)
The friends that I’ve made have shared poems and pain
I’ve traded them poppies for prayers
We’ve laughed to lost tears at the comical game
I’ll salute to your moss covered statues and sing of our dares
(repeat chorus 2x)
When I’m on my way out (I’ll dance, dance around)
When I’m on my way out (I’ll sing, wave, smile, and bow)
When I’m on my way out (I’ll dance, dance around)
When I’m on my way out (I’ll sing, wave, smile, and bow)
When I’m on my way out
©2017 Kevin Thomas
When I’m on my way out I’ll dance
Dance around
When I’m on my way out I’ll sing
Wave, smile, and bow
The haze of this world has left stains on the art
We search for our dreams on the floor
The mind numbing echoes from tin-plated hearts
Are scribbled on broken church doors
Our love has been braided with famine and flesh
We chew on the knots as we climb
My cup has been filled by the lost and possessed
I’ll drink to the circus and sneak out the tent with the mimes
When I’m on my way out
I’ll burn down my house
Watch spiraling black ashes soar
When I’m on my way out
I’ll dance like a clown
And whistle farewells through the thorns
And I’ll paint fresh smiles on faces that had cold chiseled frowns
When I’m on my way out
There’s light in the corner of every dark room
It shines on an unbalanced scale
We weigh sinking years against justice and truth
And read the results all in braille
Artists paint visions on crooked staircases
They wind down to gambling brawls
I’ve won my last hand there with blood on the aces
I’ll smoke my cigar while dancing my victory waltz
(repeat chorus)
(Instrumental Interlude)
The friends that I’ve made have shared poems and pain
I’ve traded them poppies for prayers
We’ve laughed to lost tears at the comical game
I’ll salute to your moss covered statues and sing of our dares
(repeat chorus 2x)
When I’m on my way out (I’ll dance, dance around)
When I’m on my way out (I’ll sing, wave, smile, and bow)
When I’m on my way out (I’ll dance, dance around)
When I’m on my way out (I’ll sing, wave, smile, and bow)
When I’m on my way out
©2017 Kevin Thomas
The Best Luck Around
The ceiling's caving in as thunderclouds are crashing down
You're dodging chunks of blue sky that are smashing on the ground
But miracles surround you whispering wise angelic sounds
You've got the best luck around
You've been jousting like a knight to fight the banter in this town
Fleeing like a captive on the scent of barking hounds
But rusty armor molds into your ruby studded crown
You got the best luck around
The tiny diamonds
Just appear
Rolling home from glory years
Like notes in bottles
Floating back
Leaving clues to the lucky track
You've been flipping like a burger on a bun that's upside-down
Sweating like a hostage while both arms and legs are bound
If you're wondering if your pistol even has another round
You've got the best luck around
(Piano solo)
Chewing on your wallet seared a salty leather frown
While choking surly bankers for the funds they haven't found
But passion fills more tin cups when you weigh it pound for pound
You've got the best luck around
Stumbling with the curve ball on the lonely pitcher's mound
Thoughts knot up like yarn that cats and dogs can't get unwound
But life has deeper purpose, you don't need no ultrasound
You've got the best luck around
Your smile can sparkle
Like the sky
Stars and planets in emerald eyes
The world will listen
When you sing
Spreading luck across rain drenched wings
You're painted like a Pontiac your grandma would impound
But lovers smile beside you swaying in their sparkling gowns
And you engrave your sculpture on the world and spin it 'round
You've got the best luck around
(Guitar solo)
You got the best luck
The best luck around
Your luck is certainly heaven bound
You got the best luck
The best luck around
You've got the best luck around
You got the best luck,
the very best luck,
You got the best luck around
©2017 Kevin Thomas
The ceiling's caving in as thunderclouds are crashing down
You're dodging chunks of blue sky that are smashing on the ground
But miracles surround you whispering wise angelic sounds
You've got the best luck around
You've been jousting like a knight to fight the banter in this town
Fleeing like a captive on the scent of barking hounds
But rusty armor molds into your ruby studded crown
You got the best luck around
The tiny diamonds
Just appear
Rolling home from glory years
Like notes in bottles
Floating back
Leaving clues to the lucky track
You've been flipping like a burger on a bun that's upside-down
Sweating like a hostage while both arms and legs are bound
If you're wondering if your pistol even has another round
You've got the best luck around
(Piano solo)
Chewing on your wallet seared a salty leather frown
While choking surly bankers for the funds they haven't found
But passion fills more tin cups when you weigh it pound for pound
You've got the best luck around
Stumbling with the curve ball on the lonely pitcher's mound
Thoughts knot up like yarn that cats and dogs can't get unwound
But life has deeper purpose, you don't need no ultrasound
You've got the best luck around
Your smile can sparkle
Like the sky
Stars and planets in emerald eyes
The world will listen
When you sing
Spreading luck across rain drenched wings
You're painted like a Pontiac your grandma would impound
But lovers smile beside you swaying in their sparkling gowns
And you engrave your sculpture on the world and spin it 'round
You've got the best luck around
(Guitar solo)
You got the best luck
The best luck around
Your luck is certainly heaven bound
You got the best luck
The best luck around
You've got the best luck around
You got the best luck,
the very best luck,
You got the best luck around
©2017 Kevin Thomas
Hey, Hey, It’s Saint Patrick’s Day
Hey, Hey, It's Saint Patrick's Day
Hey, hey, it's Saint Patrick's Day
What you gonna do, what you gonna say?
Hey, hey, it's Saint Patrick's day
What you gonna do today?
I'm gonna travel to the greenest land
A book of limericks, guitar in my hand
Gonna whistle me a tune and start a folk band
That's what I'm gonna do
Find a pub with some Irish stew
Wash it down with a mug of cold brew
Watch pretty women dance in their shamrock shoes
That'a what I'm gonna do
(repeat chorus)
Chase a rainbow to a pot of gold
Snatch a coin that a leprechaun holds
Get three big wishes if I catch him I'm told
That's what I'm gonna do
Then I'll dance me an Irish Jig
Grab a Guinness and take a big swig
Got the luck of the Irish and it's so damn big
That's what I'm gonna do
(repeat chorus)
(solo)
I'm gonna kiss on the Blarney Stone
Get my gab smooth and baritone
Grab a red haired lass and I'll ask her home
Her shillelagh might knock me to the cobblestones
But that's what I'm gonna do
Now here's what I'm gonna say
May the road rise up to meet you with fame
Like fighting Irish winning every game
I say “Top of the morning to ya Notre Dame”
That's what I'm gonna say
Saint Patrick drove the snakes away
I'm gonna dive into Galway bay
Shouting “Hey, Have a happy Saint Patrick's day”
That's what I'm gonna say
(repeat chorus)
What ya gonna do today 3x
Hey, hey, it's Saint Patrick's Day,
What you gonna do today?
©2017 Kevin Thomas
Hey, hey, it's Saint Patrick's Day
What you gonna do, what you gonna say?
Hey, hey, it's Saint Patrick's day
What you gonna do today?
I'm gonna travel to the greenest land
A book of limericks, guitar in my hand
Gonna whistle me a tune and start a folk band
That's what I'm gonna do
Find a pub with some Irish stew
Wash it down with a mug of cold brew
Watch pretty women dance in their shamrock shoes
That'a what I'm gonna do
(repeat chorus)
Chase a rainbow to a pot of gold
Snatch a coin that a leprechaun holds
Get three big wishes if I catch him I'm told
That's what I'm gonna do
Then I'll dance me an Irish Jig
Grab a Guinness and take a big swig
Got the luck of the Irish and it's so damn big
That's what I'm gonna do
(repeat chorus)
(solo)
I'm gonna kiss on the Blarney Stone
Get my gab smooth and baritone
Grab a red haired lass and I'll ask her home
Her shillelagh might knock me to the cobblestones
But that's what I'm gonna do
Now here's what I'm gonna say
May the road rise up to meet you with fame
Like fighting Irish winning every game
I say “Top of the morning to ya Notre Dame”
That's what I'm gonna say
Saint Patrick drove the snakes away
I'm gonna dive into Galway bay
Shouting “Hey, Have a happy Saint Patrick's day”
That's what I'm gonna say
(repeat chorus)
What ya gonna do today 3x
Hey, hey, it's Saint Patrick's Day,
What you gonna do today?
©2017 Kevin Thomas
Stratosphere – Breaking Out
Kill the Pain
I run to the Mirror for the Caterpillar’s pipe
(are you smoking)
When seven years of bad luck shatter my high
(you must be joking)
So I finger paint wishes with my toxic blood
(to wake from dreaming)
I then I trace fallen angels in the fresh laid mud
(they fly away screaming)
I need a little something to kill the pain
I need a little something to kill the pain
I need a little something to kill the pain
I need a little something to kill the pain
I search for the bottles that you threw on the lawn
(what are you thinking)
One is half full and the other half gone
(you must be drinking)
Now your perfume is fading with your distant laughs
(you smelled so pretty)
Under a sober moon the gods would have given us a chance
(It’s such a pity)
It’s a wasteland
The serpent’s sting helps us to survive
Caught in the quicksand
Reaching towards the sky
Warm tears surround us
As lonely angels cry
On the side of the door where opportunity knocks
I’ve got my headphones on and my deadbolt locked
But my body is shacking from the sleet and the rain
Gonna run like a smuggler to the miracle train
I need a little something to kill the pain
I need a little something to kill the pain
I need a little something to kill the pain
I need a little something to kill the pain
I need a little something to kill the pain
I need a little something to kill the pain
I need a little something to kill the pain
I need a little something to kill the pain
©2006 Kevin Thomas Music Publishing
I run to the Mirror for the Caterpillar’s pipe
(are you smoking)
When seven years of bad luck shatter my high
(you must be joking)
So I finger paint wishes with my toxic blood
(to wake from dreaming)
I then I trace fallen angels in the fresh laid mud
(they fly away screaming)
I need a little something to kill the pain
I need a little something to kill the pain
I need a little something to kill the pain
I need a little something to kill the pain
I search for the bottles that you threw on the lawn
(what are you thinking)
One is half full and the other half gone
(you must be drinking)
Now your perfume is fading with your distant laughs
(you smelled so pretty)
Under a sober moon the gods would have given us a chance
(It’s such a pity)
It’s a wasteland
The serpent’s sting helps us to survive
Caught in the quicksand
Reaching towards the sky
Warm tears surround us
As lonely angels cry
On the side of the door where opportunity knocks
I’ve got my headphones on and my deadbolt locked
But my body is shacking from the sleet and the rain
Gonna run like a smuggler to the miracle train
I need a little something to kill the pain
I need a little something to kill the pain
I need a little something to kill the pain
I need a little something to kill the pain
I need a little something to kill the pain
I need a little something to kill the pain
I need a little something to kill the pain
I need a little something to kill the pain
©2006 Kevin Thomas Music Publishing
Wake Up
You say you can’t do nothing right
Feeling a little bit uptight
But deep down you really know you’re strong
You’re just singing the same song a little bit to long
You were bright as the summer sky
Light as a cloud and so high
But then it rained and you hit the ground
So what you gonna’ do now
You gotta
Wake up snap out of it Hey, hey, gotta get a grip
Wake up snap out of it Yo, Yo, read my lips
Wake up snap out of it Hey, hey, gotta get a grip
Wake up snap out of it
All you really need is a good swift kick
You say life took an tricky turn
Playing with fire you got burned
But all wounds are gonna’ heal in time
A little love and a rhyme and pretty soon you’ll be so fine
You say they see you through a different light
Pale as the moon on a dark night
But you can hit them like a hurricane
It’s time to get back in the game
(repeat chorus)
(solo)
You see it’s all how you play the cards
Winning will only get you so far
‘Cause pretty soon your gonna loose a hand
You start cursing the plan and then it’s got you like quicksand
Giving up is no way to live
You gotta’ steer your ship through the head trip
It could be greater than you ever dreamed
Baby you know what I mean
(repeat chorus)
©2002 Kevin Thomas Music Publishing
You say you can’t do nothing right
Feeling a little bit uptight
But deep down you really know you’re strong
You’re just singing the same song a little bit to long
You were bright as the summer sky
Light as a cloud and so high
But then it rained and you hit the ground
So what you gonna’ do now
You gotta
Wake up snap out of it Hey, hey, gotta get a grip
Wake up snap out of it Yo, Yo, read my lips
Wake up snap out of it Hey, hey, gotta get a grip
Wake up snap out of it
All you really need is a good swift kick
You say life took an tricky turn
Playing with fire you got burned
But all wounds are gonna’ heal in time
A little love and a rhyme and pretty soon you’ll be so fine
You say they see you through a different light
Pale as the moon on a dark night
But you can hit them like a hurricane
It’s time to get back in the game
(repeat chorus)
(solo)
You see it’s all how you play the cards
Winning will only get you so far
‘Cause pretty soon your gonna loose a hand
You start cursing the plan and then it’s got you like quicksand
Giving up is no way to live
You gotta’ steer your ship through the head trip
It could be greater than you ever dreamed
Baby you know what I mean
(repeat chorus)
©2002 Kevin Thomas Music Publishing
My Shell
I’m bustin’ out of my shell, I can’t wait
Gonna’ kick out the walls and bust down the gate
Gonna’ run like a cheetah through the woods
Gonna’ find me the girl to get me the goods
And dance with the virgins in the spring
I’ll be diving in the waterfall and living like a king
Then I’ll stare into the water and I’ll see
A crazy kind of mad man looking back at me yea
Inside, My shell
I’ve been so alone, can you hear me yell?
Inside, My shell
I’m carving out a door I can kick down and raise hell
I’m bustin’ out of my shell, I’m so hot
Can’t think anymore my eyes are bloodshot
I need a drink, I want a gallon of the juice
Then I’ll hunt down the girl I’m gonna seduce
And love ‘till she’s fitting like a glove
And we’re soaking up the heat and we’re rollin’ in the mud
Then I’ll sing another song to make her sweat
Then we’ll do it all again and then we’ll smoke a cigarette yea
(repeat chorus)
Kick it down now
I’ve been so alone inside my shell
I’ve been so alone inside my shell
I see a crack (it’s gonna break) (repeat 8x)
I’m bustin’ out of my shell, I can’t stop
Gonna’ crank up the rock up on the rooftop
With an amp turned up to thirteen
Gonna’ black out the town and make a new scene
And scream at my neighbor ‘cross the way
I said hey neighbor, hey, hey, hey
(repeat chorus)
I’m bustin'’ out of my shell 4x
©2005 Kevin Thomas Music Publishing
I’m bustin’ out of my shell, I can’t wait
Gonna’ kick out the walls and bust down the gate
Gonna’ run like a cheetah through the woods
Gonna’ find me the girl to get me the goods
And dance with the virgins in the spring
I’ll be diving in the waterfall and living like a king
Then I’ll stare into the water and I’ll see
A crazy kind of mad man looking back at me yea
Inside, My shell
I’ve been so alone, can you hear me yell?
Inside, My shell
I’m carving out a door I can kick down and raise hell
I’m bustin’ out of my shell, I’m so hot
Can’t think anymore my eyes are bloodshot
I need a drink, I want a gallon of the juice
Then I’ll hunt down the girl I’m gonna seduce
And love ‘till she’s fitting like a glove
And we’re soaking up the heat and we’re rollin’ in the mud
Then I’ll sing another song to make her sweat
Then we’ll do it all again and then we’ll smoke a cigarette yea
(repeat chorus)
Kick it down now
I’ve been so alone inside my shell
I’ve been so alone inside my shell
I see a crack (it’s gonna break) (repeat 8x)
I’m bustin’ out of my shell, I can’t stop
Gonna’ crank up the rock up on the rooftop
With an amp turned up to thirteen
Gonna’ black out the town and make a new scene
And scream at my neighbor ‘cross the way
I said hey neighbor, hey, hey, hey
(repeat chorus)
I’m bustin'’ out of my shell 4x
©2005 Kevin Thomas Music Publishing
A Butterfly’s Dream
I see a back door deep in my head
Behind all the shadows and dreams, a bright golden thread
As I creek the door open the dust clears away
and familiar faces ask if I’ve come home to stay
And what does it all mean
The echoes inside
The pictures I see
And who am I today
I dreamed I’m a butterfly
But am I a butterfly dreaming I’m me
The morning light splinters my life into two
As I wake to a family of strangers the veil comes unglued
But the doorway is fading and I’m forgetting the names
of the people who loved me, how did I get trapped in this game
(repeat chorus)
Why am I here?
Why am I here?
Why am I here?
Why am I here?
Why am I here?
Why am I here?
Why am I here?
(I dreamed I’m a butterfly––I’m the butterfly’s dream)
Why am I here?
(I dreamed I’m a butterfly––I’m the butterfly’s dream)
Why am I here?
(I dreamed I’m a butterfly––I’m the butterfly’s dream)
Why am I here?
(I dreamed I’m a butterfly)
Oh
©2006 Kevin Thomas Music Publishing
I see a back door deep in my head
Behind all the shadows and dreams, a bright golden thread
As I creek the door open the dust clears away
and familiar faces ask if I’ve come home to stay
And what does it all mean
The echoes inside
The pictures I see
And who am I today
I dreamed I’m a butterfly
But am I a butterfly dreaming I’m me
The morning light splinters my life into two
As I wake to a family of strangers the veil comes unglued
But the doorway is fading and I’m forgetting the names
of the people who loved me, how did I get trapped in this game
(repeat chorus)
Why am I here?
Why am I here?
Why am I here?
Why am I here?
Why am I here?
Why am I here?
Why am I here?
(I dreamed I’m a butterfly––I’m the butterfly’s dream)
Why am I here?
(I dreamed I’m a butterfly––I’m the butterfly’s dream)
Why am I here?
(I dreamed I’m a butterfly––I’m the butterfly’s dream)
Why am I here?
(I dreamed I’m a butterfly)
Oh
©2006 Kevin Thomas Music Publishing
Anxiety Attack
I’m feeling really nervous
The air is growing stale
I try to calm myself in the mirror as I’m turning pale
A bead of sweat is falling
Like fire from my skin
It smacks the ground like a crash of thunder, starts my head to spin
Anxiety Attack
Can’t find the door
The room is turning black
My mind is at war
Anxiety Attack
It’s so hard to breath
I’ve got to break free from this anxiety
Anxiety Attack
The walls are bending closer
To listen for my sins
I’m like a troll trapped beneath a bridge that’s collapsing in
I hear the faintest echo
A little voice inside
It’s got a hand gripped around my neck, it says I’m gonna die
(repeat chorus)
Smell the air; it’s so fresh outside
Touch the grass, it’s real
Start to stroll but then I run for my life
I can’t feel who I am tonight
(solo on chorus)
(repeat chorus 2x)
Anxiety Attack 4x
©2001 Kevin Thomas Music Publishing
I’m feeling really nervous
The air is growing stale
I try to calm myself in the mirror as I’m turning pale
A bead of sweat is falling
Like fire from my skin
It smacks the ground like a crash of thunder, starts my head to spin
Anxiety Attack
Can’t find the door
The room is turning black
My mind is at war
Anxiety Attack
It’s so hard to breath
I’ve got to break free from this anxiety
Anxiety Attack
The walls are bending closer
To listen for my sins
I’m like a troll trapped beneath a bridge that’s collapsing in
I hear the faintest echo
A little voice inside
It’s got a hand gripped around my neck, it says I’m gonna die
(repeat chorus)
Smell the air; it’s so fresh outside
Touch the grass, it’s real
Start to stroll but then I run for my life
I can’t feel who I am tonight
(solo on chorus)
(repeat chorus 2x)
Anxiety Attack 4x
©2001 Kevin Thomas Music Publishing
Slaves
Do you want to be my slave?
Is that what you really crave?
Do you want to be my slave?
I’ll teach you to how to behave
(Instrumental Bridge)
Do you remember before you were born
the cold astral shackles, the guards at the door?
Confused and addicted, the contracts you made
“I surrender my powers, I just want to be a slave”
No reverence, no shame
We are lost, and we all want to be slaves
It’s our game
We are lost, and we all want to be
(repeat Intro)
(repeat Instrumental Bridge)
They come from the heavens, from far beyond time
To polish our karma and teach us to shine
But it’s breaking their hearts that we’re hooked on the pain
“I’m miserably happy, I just want to be a slave”
(repeat chorus)
...slaves,
Yea we all want to be slaves
(Instrumental bridge)
No reverence, no shame
We are lost, and we all want to be slaves
It’s our game
We are lost, and we all want to be slaves
We won’t change
We are lost, and we all want to be slaves
It’s our game
We are lost, and we all want to be slaves
Yea we all want to be
Do you want to be my slave?
©2006 Kevin Thomas Music Publishing
Do you want to be my slave?
Is that what you really crave?
Do you want to be my slave?
I’ll teach you to how to behave
(Instrumental Bridge)
Do you remember before you were born
the cold astral shackles, the guards at the door?
Confused and addicted, the contracts you made
“I surrender my powers, I just want to be a slave”
No reverence, no shame
We are lost, and we all want to be slaves
It’s our game
We are lost, and we all want to be
(repeat Intro)
(repeat Instrumental Bridge)
They come from the heavens, from far beyond time
To polish our karma and teach us to shine
But it’s breaking their hearts that we’re hooked on the pain
“I’m miserably happy, I just want to be a slave”
(repeat chorus)
...slaves,
Yea we all want to be slaves
(Instrumental bridge)
No reverence, no shame
We are lost, and we all want to be slaves
It’s our game
We are lost, and we all want to be slaves
We won’t change
We are lost, and we all want to be slaves
It’s our game
We are lost, and we all want to be slaves
Yea we all want to be
Do you want to be my slave?
©2006 Kevin Thomas Music Publishing
Infected
I can think again
Now that you’re gone
You seared like smoke
From a clogged up bong
You burned through my brain like a virus from mars
Cut open my heart and left a big scar
So willing, wild and wet
Such a regret
That when I touched your sweat it poisoned me
I was infected, neglected, I did everything you expected
And you never learned to say please
I was infected, rejected, and totally disrespected
But you really didn’t have to leave
You were my favorite disease
I can believe again
In style and class
You spit on my gifts
Threw my heart in the trash
You twisted my nerves always demanding the stage
Then you left me alone like a pet in a cage
You took me on a flight
It felt so right
Then coiled back to strike now I can’t breath
(repeat chorus)
And I still feel you in my sleep
I can smell you on my skin
like a ghost beneath my sheets
You’re in my veins I need a cure
I’m sick from love I want you more and more
(solo)
(repeat chorus)
(repeat chorus in new key)
You were my favorite disease
©2005 Kevin Thomas Music Publishing
I can think again
Now that you’re gone
You seared like smoke
From a clogged up bong
You burned through my brain like a virus from mars
Cut open my heart and left a big scar
So willing, wild and wet
Such a regret
That when I touched your sweat it poisoned me
I was infected, neglected, I did everything you expected
And you never learned to say please
I was infected, rejected, and totally disrespected
But you really didn’t have to leave
You were my favorite disease
I can believe again
In style and class
You spit on my gifts
Threw my heart in the trash
You twisted my nerves always demanding the stage
Then you left me alone like a pet in a cage
You took me on a flight
It felt so right
Then coiled back to strike now I can’t breath
(repeat chorus)
And I still feel you in my sleep
I can smell you on my skin
like a ghost beneath my sheets
You’re in my veins I need a cure
I’m sick from love I want you more and more
(solo)
(repeat chorus)
(repeat chorus in new key)
You were my favorite disease
©2005 Kevin Thomas Music Publishing
Coming and Going
Pay me here, pay me now
Money makes the world go round
in the wrong direction
But the more they take the more they starve
All bottled up in icy hearts
Sealed for your protection
It’s all they’re living for
And all they want is more, more, more
They get you coming
They get you going
They get you coming
They get you going
They get you coming and going
When corporation scandals fade
They’ll create another world of slaves
With subliminal brainwashing
And the government takes shady bribes
from the underworld of suits and ties
To get you out there shopping
They live a life of greed
And only think about me, me, me
(repeat chorus)
(solo)
When everything is said and done
There’ll be a poor man with a gun
Whose brain spring started snapping
He’ll follow you he won’t know why
You’ll just seem like the perfect guy
To rob and put a cap in
Create a world of slaves
Who can’t afford to pay
And one will put you in your grave
(repeat chorus 2x)
©2006 Kevin Thomas Music Publishing
Pay me here, pay me now
Money makes the world go round
in the wrong direction
But the more they take the more they starve
All bottled up in icy hearts
Sealed for your protection
It’s all they’re living for
And all they want is more, more, more
They get you coming
They get you going
They get you coming
They get you going
They get you coming and going
When corporation scandals fade
They’ll create another world of slaves
With subliminal brainwashing
And the government takes shady bribes
from the underworld of suits and ties
To get you out there shopping
They live a life of greed
And only think about me, me, me
(repeat chorus)
(solo)
When everything is said and done
There’ll be a poor man with a gun
Whose brain spring started snapping
He’ll follow you he won’t know why
You’ll just seem like the perfect guy
To rob and put a cap in
Create a world of slaves
Who can’t afford to pay
And one will put you in your grave
(repeat chorus 2x)
©2006 Kevin Thomas Music Publishing
Don’t
Shouting fights
Like monkeys in the zoo
The children cry
And crawl into cocoons
Your house of cards is shaking from the screams
Like a factory creating broken dreams
But I don’t feel anything
I don’t feel anything
I don’t feel anything
Don’t touch me
Don’t touch me
The icy streets
Are safer than my home
I’ll march with freaks
So I won’t feel alone
On a building’s edge a thousand miles high
I could jump tonight or I could turn and touch the sky
(repeat chorus)
There must be something better
There must be something more
There must be something better
Take me to the candy store
There must be something better
There must be something more
There must be something better
Take me to the candy store
I’ve built a jail
And no one’s getting in
A bed of nails
To control adrenaline
You’re pretty smile says come and take me home
But in my heart there’s a wall of broken bones
(repeat chorus 2x)
Don’t touch me
©2005 Kevin Thomas Music Publishing
Shouting fights
Like monkeys in the zoo
The children cry
And crawl into cocoons
Your house of cards is shaking from the screams
Like a factory creating broken dreams
But I don’t feel anything
I don’t feel anything
I don’t feel anything
Don’t touch me
Don’t touch me
The icy streets
Are safer than my home
I’ll march with freaks
So I won’t feel alone
On a building’s edge a thousand miles high
I could jump tonight or I could turn and touch the sky
(repeat chorus)
There must be something better
There must be something more
There must be something better
Take me to the candy store
There must be something better
There must be something more
There must be something better
Take me to the candy store
I’ve built a jail
And no one’s getting in
A bed of nails
To control adrenaline
You’re pretty smile says come and take me home
But in my heart there’s a wall of broken bones
(repeat chorus 2x)
Don’t touch me
©2005 Kevin Thomas Music Publishing
Fire with Fire
Hey, what you call me?
And what are you looking at?
I’ll wait like a gangster
Put a knife in your back
You started it and that makes me right
But I can feel every tear
Sting me in my bed
The blackest pain will leave a stain so red
Like a target on your head
Cause you can’t fight fire with fire
You’ll just build a bigger blaze
Fire with fire
Or hate with hate
You can’t fight fire with fire
You’ll just build a bigger blaze
You need water for fire and you need
Love for hate yea
Your gonna bomb us
So we’re gonna bomb you
We’ll send tanks and machine guns
To your barbecue
And when we kill you all we’ll drink to our pride
(repeat prechorus and chorus)
Love, heals, It’s a much better vibe
I feel, So much more alive 4x
It’s easy if you try
‘Cause all the pain leaves a stain so deep
It’ll never let you sleep
(repeat chorus 2x)
You can’t fight fire with fire 4x
©2002 Kevin Thomas Music Publishing
Hey, what you call me?
And what are you looking at?
I’ll wait like a gangster
Put a knife in your back
You started it and that makes me right
But I can feel every tear
Sting me in my bed
The blackest pain will leave a stain so red
Like a target on your head
Cause you can’t fight fire with fire
You’ll just build a bigger blaze
Fire with fire
Or hate with hate
You can’t fight fire with fire
You’ll just build a bigger blaze
You need water for fire and you need
Love for hate yea
Your gonna bomb us
So we’re gonna bomb you
We’ll send tanks and machine guns
To your barbecue
And when we kill you all we’ll drink to our pride
(repeat prechorus and chorus)
Love, heals, It’s a much better vibe
I feel, So much more alive 4x
It’s easy if you try
‘Cause all the pain leaves a stain so deep
It’ll never let you sleep
(repeat chorus 2x)
You can’t fight fire with fire 4x
©2002 Kevin Thomas Music Publishing
Stratosphere – Stratosphere
Staring Into Space
Hands are tied and my mind is stuck
My broken dreams all depend on luck
Busting my knuckles and racking my brains
And I can’t even win at a loosing game
Desperate and hungry searching for signs
That don’t say stop it’s the end of the line
Hope is heavy as a rock on my sinking ship
Stormy seas, Set me free
Send me on a trip
Staring Into space
A perfect day to waste
Lost without a trace
I’m just staring into space
Nothing I do ever seems to work
I bring love to the world but people get hurt
At the edge of the puzzle life isn’t fair
But the pieces gotta fit or they wouldn’t be there
And the cracking of the clock won’t get out of my head
The hands spinning me around it’s a race to the death
At every turn another wall knocks me into a daze
Static eyes, See the other side
There’s only one escape
On the far side of failure
Past the black eyes that blocked your way
There’s a light house that guides us all out
Looking back you might just be amazed
Staring Into space
A perfect day to waste
Staring Into space
Lost without a trace
Staring Into space
Poised in perfect grace
A shadow across my face
I’m just staring into space
©2001 Kevin Thomas Music Publishing
Hands are tied and my mind is stuck
My broken dreams all depend on luck
Busting my knuckles and racking my brains
And I can’t even win at a loosing game
Desperate and hungry searching for signs
That don’t say stop it’s the end of the line
Hope is heavy as a rock on my sinking ship
Stormy seas, Set me free
Send me on a trip
Staring Into space
A perfect day to waste
Lost without a trace
I’m just staring into space
Nothing I do ever seems to work
I bring love to the world but people get hurt
At the edge of the puzzle life isn’t fair
But the pieces gotta fit or they wouldn’t be there
And the cracking of the clock won’t get out of my head
The hands spinning me around it’s a race to the death
At every turn another wall knocks me into a daze
Static eyes, See the other side
There’s only one escape
On the far side of failure
Past the black eyes that blocked your way
There’s a light house that guides us all out
Looking back you might just be amazed
Staring Into space
A perfect day to waste
Staring Into space
Lost without a trace
Staring Into space
Poised in perfect grace
A shadow across my face
I’m just staring into space
©2001 Kevin Thomas Music Publishing
Lotus
Another dream, another bad dream
It’s the same one every time
You’ve got the moves on the big stage
But everyone's forgotten their lines
They’re like mimes, they don’t know you
Though your the leading role
In every scene another zombie
Graffitis off a piece of your soul
Daydreams, nightmares, surrealistic rhymes
As you spin around the broken wheel of time
Lotus blooming in the mud
Fill this empty world with love
Lotus shinning like the sun
In our shadow land your a lotus in the field of mud
A streak of light comes through the doorway
Forgotten in the back of your mind
We’re all drunk with amnesia
It’s such a bigger room outside
And as you bloom like a flower
Bursting through the dirt
You bring the light to this illusion
Where everything works in reverse
(repeat prechorus and chorus)
(solo)
(repeat chorus)
A thousand peddles rising up
(repeat chorus)
©2002 Kevin Thomas Music Publishing
Another dream, another bad dream
It’s the same one every time
You’ve got the moves on the big stage
But everyone's forgotten their lines
They’re like mimes, they don’t know you
Though your the leading role
In every scene another zombie
Graffitis off a piece of your soul
Daydreams, nightmares, surrealistic rhymes
As you spin around the broken wheel of time
Lotus blooming in the mud
Fill this empty world with love
Lotus shinning like the sun
In our shadow land your a lotus in the field of mud
A streak of light comes through the doorway
Forgotten in the back of your mind
We’re all drunk with amnesia
It’s such a bigger room outside
And as you bloom like a flower
Bursting through the dirt
You bring the light to this illusion
Where everything works in reverse
(repeat prechorus and chorus)
(solo)
(repeat chorus)
A thousand peddles rising up
(repeat chorus)
©2002 Kevin Thomas Music Publishing
Picture Perfect
Diamonds are so beautiful
Crushed right out of coal
Sometimes when the angle’s right
I can truly see your soul
That sparkle in your eye will get you
gossip from a friend
You’ll use to prove they’ll never fit
in your world in the end, in your
(Picture perfect) Your picture perfect world
(Picture perfect) You’re a picture perfect girl
(Picture perfect) It’s picture perfect
So high above where you sit and judge the world
My picture perfect girl
The checkers from my past to you
are stepping stones to cross
You climb up to your picture window
and spit down at my loss
The finest wine won’t quench the desert
that lies beneath your chest
‘Cause love is just a card you play
to win the next contest
(repeat chorus)
I wanna tell you everything I feel
I wanna show you there’s so much you could heal
But through your smirks and pretty words that sting
You don’t hear a thing, you’re a phone that doesn’t ring
You’ve lost your wings
(solo)
Corporate clowns and picket fences
guard you like a queen
So high above the dirty world
but still you can’t get clean
(Picture perfect) Your picture perfect world
(Picture perfect) You’re a picture perfect girl
(Picture perfect) Your picture perfect world
(Picture perfect) You’re so picture perfect
Your picture perfect world
You’re a picture perfect girl
Your picture perfect world
You’re a picture perfect
a picture perfect girl
©2001 Kevin Thomas Music Publishing
Diamonds are so beautiful
Crushed right out of coal
Sometimes when the angle’s right
I can truly see your soul
That sparkle in your eye will get you
gossip from a friend
You’ll use to prove they’ll never fit
in your world in the end, in your
(Picture perfect) Your picture perfect world
(Picture perfect) You’re a picture perfect girl
(Picture perfect) It’s picture perfect
So high above where you sit and judge the world
My picture perfect girl
The checkers from my past to you
are stepping stones to cross
You climb up to your picture window
and spit down at my loss
The finest wine won’t quench the desert
that lies beneath your chest
‘Cause love is just a card you play
to win the next contest
(repeat chorus)
I wanna tell you everything I feel
I wanna show you there’s so much you could heal
But through your smirks and pretty words that sting
You don’t hear a thing, you’re a phone that doesn’t ring
You’ve lost your wings
(solo)
Corporate clowns and picket fences
guard you like a queen
So high above the dirty world
but still you can’t get clean
(Picture perfect) Your picture perfect world
(Picture perfect) You’re a picture perfect girl
(Picture perfect) Your picture perfect world
(Picture perfect) You’re so picture perfect
Your picture perfect world
You’re a picture perfect girl
Your picture perfect world
You’re a picture perfect
a picture perfect girl
©2001 Kevin Thomas Music Publishing
Pieces
Give me air to breathe somewhere by the sea
I'll float out miles away and rise out of the haze
You see the skies all cracked and breaking to bits
I'm crawling through the maze in a furious fit
Like a mouse staring down at the spring on a trap
My mind is gonna snap
'Cause I can see my dreams falling through the seams
Should I laugh or should I scream
Everything is breaking into pieces
Everything is crumbling apart
Everything is breaking into pieces
Everything is crumbling apart
Talk with me my friend, help me laugh again
Pour me something cold, to reach my frozen soul
'Cause the hands of the world have been pulling my leash
The wise men died or have fallen asleep
My friends who spit in the river of love
Are drowning in the mud
(repeat prechorus and chorus)
(Instrumental Bridge)
No one needs more than a stab in the back
They sneer at each other as they fall in the cracks
Turn on the snake, slide into the pit
I won't be part of it
(repeat prechorus and chorus 2x)
©2000 Kevin Thomas Music Publishing
Give me air to breathe somewhere by the sea
I'll float out miles away and rise out of the haze
You see the skies all cracked and breaking to bits
I'm crawling through the maze in a furious fit
Like a mouse staring down at the spring on a trap
My mind is gonna snap
'Cause I can see my dreams falling through the seams
Should I laugh or should I scream
Everything is breaking into pieces
Everything is crumbling apart
Everything is breaking into pieces
Everything is crumbling apart
Talk with me my friend, help me laugh again
Pour me something cold, to reach my frozen soul
'Cause the hands of the world have been pulling my leash
The wise men died or have fallen asleep
My friends who spit in the river of love
Are drowning in the mud
(repeat prechorus and chorus)
(Instrumental Bridge)
No one needs more than a stab in the back
They sneer at each other as they fall in the cracks
Turn on the snake, slide into the pit
I won't be part of it
(repeat prechorus and chorus 2x)
©2000 Kevin Thomas Music Publishing
Just Me
I don’t know, maybe it’s just me
Does this world seem a little bit strange?
Hate and anger become a new fashion
Instead of fine clothes find a head to bash in
Fear spreads like oil ‘cross the shores
Someone lights a match and it turns into a war
Raise a flag for love and kill the enemy
I don’t know, maybe it’s just me
But we could die tomorrow, why
are we wasting all this precious time?
We could die tomorrow, Why?
We can’t change it from the other side
Do you feel the way I’m feeling?
How could it be just me
I don’t know, maybe it’s just me
Does this world seem a little insane?
Kill and die for your religion
Spiritual war is a contradiction
Jihad, opium fiction
Sharpen up the nails for the second crucifixion
What’s the punch line in this comedy?
I don’t know, maybe it’s just me
(repeat chorus)
I don’t know, maybe it’s just me
Is this world spinning ‘round the wrong way?
Civilization is cooperation
But the kids got guns and they got no patience
Tribal rage with super big brains
Babies who control the technological age
So wall us in with laws and tell us that we’re free
I don’t know maybe it’s just me
(repeat chorus 2x)
©2002 Kevin Thomas Music Publishing
I don’t know, maybe it’s just me
Does this world seem a little bit strange?
Hate and anger become a new fashion
Instead of fine clothes find a head to bash in
Fear spreads like oil ‘cross the shores
Someone lights a match and it turns into a war
Raise a flag for love and kill the enemy
I don’t know, maybe it’s just me
But we could die tomorrow, why
are we wasting all this precious time?
We could die tomorrow, Why?
We can’t change it from the other side
Do you feel the way I’m feeling?
How could it be just me
I don’t know, maybe it’s just me
Does this world seem a little insane?
Kill and die for your religion
Spiritual war is a contradiction
Jihad, opium fiction
Sharpen up the nails for the second crucifixion
What’s the punch line in this comedy?
I don’t know, maybe it’s just me
(repeat chorus)
I don’t know, maybe it’s just me
Is this world spinning ‘round the wrong way?
Civilization is cooperation
But the kids got guns and they got no patience
Tribal rage with super big brains
Babies who control the technological age
So wall us in with laws and tell us that we’re free
I don’t know maybe it’s just me
(repeat chorus 2x)
©2002 Kevin Thomas Music Publishing
Half A Deck
Another half a drink, you’ll have half a plan
You could get out if you were half a man
With sinner’s eyes and a preacher’s heart
You could hit the road and be half a star
Your minds like a train wreck
You’re dealing with half a deck
Stuck in the bottle neck
Dealing with half a deck
Broken down intellect
Dealing with half a deck
Feeling kind of low tech
Dealing with half a deck
See a friend catching half a smoke
You ask him for a hit, you’re feeling like a ghost
He says with half an eye on half the girls
You could make it here and have half the world
(repeat chorus)
(solo)
So you grab a napkin, write a half a song
about the girl you loved back in Babylon
She wore winter hemlock in her summer hair
And maybe she could save you if you kissed her there
(repeat chorus)
Dealing with half a deck 4x
Half a deck
©2003 Kevin Thomas Music Publishing
Another half a drink, you’ll have half a plan
You could get out if you were half a man
With sinner’s eyes and a preacher’s heart
You could hit the road and be half a star
Your minds like a train wreck
You’re dealing with half a deck
Stuck in the bottle neck
Dealing with half a deck
Broken down intellect
Dealing with half a deck
Feeling kind of low tech
Dealing with half a deck
See a friend catching half a smoke
You ask him for a hit, you’re feeling like a ghost
He says with half an eye on half the girls
You could make it here and have half the world
(repeat chorus)
(solo)
So you grab a napkin, write a half a song
about the girl you loved back in Babylon
She wore winter hemlock in her summer hair
And maybe she could save you if you kissed her there
(repeat chorus)
Dealing with half a deck 4x
Half a deck
©2003 Kevin Thomas Music Publishing
Stuck
That neon sign a little hazy
This crowded room is feeling wavy
Jojo says you must be crazy in your head
This place is really shady, you hang with the dead
Well I'm stuck in a bottle again
and I won't come out but I hope you'll come in
I'm stuck in a bottle again
Siting on the moon, in our liquid tomb
We'll have the perfect view to watch the world spin
Her liquid walk is really sleazy
And through my glass I watch her tease me
A hungry grin, such a needy violin
I'll tune you up so dreamy, we'll drown in our sins
(repeat chorus)
Let's find a bar that’s dark and smoky
So I can hold you close and cozy.
The perfect cure for two lonely troubadours
The bottles look like trophies, lets win a few more
Well I'm stuck in a bottle again
And I won't come out, but I hope you'll come in
I'm stuck in a bottle again
And I'm all sauced up and smothered in sin
I'm stuck in a bottle again,
Sitting on the moon, in our liquid tomb
Well have a perfect view there to see the world spin
©2000 Kevin Thomas Music Publishing
That neon sign a little hazy
This crowded room is feeling wavy
Jojo says you must be crazy in your head
This place is really shady, you hang with the dead
Well I'm stuck in a bottle again
and I won't come out but I hope you'll come in
I'm stuck in a bottle again
Siting on the moon, in our liquid tomb
We'll have the perfect view to watch the world spin
Her liquid walk is really sleazy
And through my glass I watch her tease me
A hungry grin, such a needy violin
I'll tune you up so dreamy, we'll drown in our sins
(repeat chorus)
Let's find a bar that’s dark and smoky
So I can hold you close and cozy.
The perfect cure for two lonely troubadours
The bottles look like trophies, lets win a few more
Well I'm stuck in a bottle again
And I won't come out, but I hope you'll come in
I'm stuck in a bottle again
And I'm all sauced up and smothered in sin
I'm stuck in a bottle again,
Sitting on the moon, in our liquid tomb
Well have a perfect view there to see the world spin
©2000 Kevin Thomas Music Publishing
Sometimes
Sometimes everything’s alright
Sometimes everything’s so bright
Sometimes everything’s alright
Sometimes everything’s so bright, but
Sometimes everything gets stuck
Sometimes everything just sucks
Sometimes everything gets stuck
Sometimes everything just sucks
So just sing me a song
And I’ll pass the wine
Then all we gotta do baby is
Shine shine shine
Gonna shine, sometimes
Sometimes you can walk the path
Sometimes you can smoke and laugh
Sometimes you can walk the path
Sometimes you can smoke and laugh, but
Sometimes it’s a foggy haze
Sometimes you can loose your way
Sometimes it’s a foggy haze
Sometimes you loose your way
And the sun will go down
but it’s gonna rise
And for a whole ‘nother day it’s gonna
Shine shine shine
Gonna shine, sometimes
So just mix up some drinks
And I’ll squeeze the limes
And if you hold me real close we’re gonna
shine shine shine
Gonna shine, sometimes
And there’s a middle road
Between the steps of time
It’s on the other side of your mind
(Solo)
And the carnival frowns
Are just a disguise
‘Cause everyone here wants to
Shine shine shine
Gonna shine, sometimes
Well there’s good and there’s bad
It’s not my design
But if you look in between you’re gonna
Shine shine shine
Gonna shine, sometimes, sometimes, sometimes
©2003 Kevin Thomas Music Publishing
Sometimes everything’s alright
Sometimes everything’s so bright
Sometimes everything’s alright
Sometimes everything’s so bright, but
Sometimes everything gets stuck
Sometimes everything just sucks
Sometimes everything gets stuck
Sometimes everything just sucks
So just sing me a song
And I’ll pass the wine
Then all we gotta do baby is
Shine shine shine
Gonna shine, sometimes
Sometimes you can walk the path
Sometimes you can smoke and laugh
Sometimes you can walk the path
Sometimes you can smoke and laugh, but
Sometimes it’s a foggy haze
Sometimes you can loose your way
Sometimes it’s a foggy haze
Sometimes you loose your way
And the sun will go down
but it’s gonna rise
And for a whole ‘nother day it’s gonna
Shine shine shine
Gonna shine, sometimes
So just mix up some drinks
And I’ll squeeze the limes
And if you hold me real close we’re gonna
shine shine shine
Gonna shine, sometimes
And there’s a middle road
Between the steps of time
It’s on the other side of your mind
(Solo)
And the carnival frowns
Are just a disguise
‘Cause everyone here wants to
Shine shine shine
Gonna shine, sometimes
Well there’s good and there’s bad
It’s not my design
But if you look in between you’re gonna
Shine shine shine
Gonna shine, sometimes, sometimes, sometimes
©2003 Kevin Thomas Music Publishing
The Devil’s Hands
He laid the trap, and played the clown
Came drooling by my window, caught me when my guard was down
I took him in, the abandoned child
And he ripped my love to pieces with a smile
So here I lie
A slaughtered lamb
Fooled by the disguise
Take me out of the Devils’ Hands
I passed the gates
I heard them slam
I’ve twisted round my fate
Take me out of the Devils’ Hands
He stabbed at wounds¸with hidden knives
Created new disasters each day so I would weep his wicked life
I chased him 'round, with a box of tools
Trying to bandage up his problems like a fool
(repeat chorus and repeat refrain line 2x)
(Instrumental break)
Hands of fire twisting round my mind
with riddles that can’t be solved
I’ll break the curse, I see the lie
The helpless mask that covered up
the hatred in his eyes
The tears of greed and jealousy he cried
(repeat chorus)
(repeat refrain line 4x)
©2000 Kevin Thomas Music Publishing
He laid the trap, and played the clown
Came drooling by my window, caught me when my guard was down
I took him in, the abandoned child
And he ripped my love to pieces with a smile
So here I lie
A slaughtered lamb
Fooled by the disguise
Take me out of the Devils’ Hands
I passed the gates
I heard them slam
I’ve twisted round my fate
Take me out of the Devils’ Hands
He stabbed at wounds¸with hidden knives
Created new disasters each day so I would weep his wicked life
I chased him 'round, with a box of tools
Trying to bandage up his problems like a fool
(repeat chorus and repeat refrain line 2x)
(Instrumental break)
Hands of fire twisting round my mind
with riddles that can’t be solved
I’ll break the curse, I see the lie
The helpless mask that covered up
the hatred in his eyes
The tears of greed and jealousy he cried
(repeat chorus)
(repeat refrain line 4x)
©2000 Kevin Thomas Music Publishing
Final Frustration
Time to go to school
I better get my shot gun
No more bad days
I’m tired of getting picked on
I’m going to blow up the cars
Shoot down those smiles
You can’t laugh at my plans
when you’re all dead in a pile
It’s my final frustration
And I can’t let it go
It’s my final frustration
I never really learned to let it go
I tried to be your friend
Way back in grade school
But now I’ve got a gun
So I don’t need to
Now the show’s gonna end
and I’ll be the star
Gonna smoke you all down
like a Cuban cigar
(repeat chorus)
I feel the hand of death
upon my shoulder
Time to join you all
My body’s getting colder
Now that I’ve had my revenge
I wonder what it was for
As I see the flames rise up
to meet me at the door
It’s my final frustration
And I can’t let it go
It’s my final frustration
I never learned control
It’s my final frustration
And I can’t let it go
It’s my final frustration
I never really learned to let it go,
let it go, let it go
©2000 Kevin Thomas Music Publishing
Time to go to school
I better get my shot gun
No more bad days
I’m tired of getting picked on
I’m going to blow up the cars
Shoot down those smiles
You can’t laugh at my plans
when you’re all dead in a pile
It’s my final frustration
And I can’t let it go
It’s my final frustration
I never really learned to let it go
I tried to be your friend
Way back in grade school
But now I’ve got a gun
So I don’t need to
Now the show’s gonna end
and I’ll be the star
Gonna smoke you all down
like a Cuban cigar
(repeat chorus)
I feel the hand of death
upon my shoulder
Time to join you all
My body’s getting colder
Now that I’ve had my revenge
I wonder what it was for
As I see the flames rise up
to meet me at the door
It’s my final frustration
And I can’t let it go
It’s my final frustration
I never learned control
It’s my final frustration
And I can’t let it go
It’s my final frustration
I never really learned to let it go,
let it go, let it go
©2000 Kevin Thomas Music Publishing
