1. |
Haunted
04:43
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Haunted by Ed Englerth
There’s a voice
It’s small and quiet
There’s a vision
I can’t forget
It’s a cry
In the winds of time
So often (so often)
I want to hide
I’m being haunted
I’m being tracked down
I feel the breeze so I know
I’ve been found
There’s a tune
That I can’t carry
I try so hard
I get so weary
Even when
I’m at home
You won’t
Leave me alone
I’m being haunted
I’m being tracked down
I feel the breeze so I know
I’ve been found
Is it the story that carries my thoughts to you
Or hope for meaning beyond the things I do
I’m being haunted
I’m being tracked down
I feel the breeze so I know
I’ve been found
//: I’m being haunted
Oooh oooh oooh ://
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2. |
Within My Skin
02:11
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With In My Skin by Ed E
I find myself inside a cage
With an orangutan half my age
He wants to arm wrestle for my soul
What comes next – is the strangest thing
He crawls – inside my skin
& he fights for the controls
//: the enemy within my skin ://
He has more strength than I
N’ he bids me, ‘say goodbye’
Out of fear start to shake
I open my eyes – it was a dream
Then I hear the orangutan scream
Even though I’m wide awake
//: the enemy within my skin ://
If I attack – he backs away
I turn around he grabs my neck
If he ever wears me down
He’ll grind my bones to make his bread
If I say stop – he’ll pretend to rest
There’s deception in his very breath
//: the enemy within my skin ://
//: within my skin ://
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3. |
How Do I Love
03:51
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How Do I Love by Ed E
How do I love the preacher
How do I love the politician
How do I love the billionaire
How do I love without conditions
How do I love the homeless
How do I love the drunks
How do I love the fearful
How do I love instead of run
//: how do I love ://
G A Em Bm
How do I love my family
How do I love those that live next door
G A Em Em
How do I love the environmentalist
How do I love without keeping score
//: how do I love ://
How do I love the vegan
How do I love the Hunter
How do I love the traffic cop
How do I love the banker
How do I love the jaded
How do I love the innocent young
How do I love the intellectual
How do I love the ones I'd rather shun
//: how do I love ://
How do I love myself
How do I love the light
That reveals my Wicked Ways
And all of my denials
//: how do I love ://. Hey hey
//: how do I love ://
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4. |
Try
04:45
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Try by Ed Englerth
Just because I’m depressed
Doesn’t mean that things aren’t broken
It may not mean, just take my pills
Or give meaningless a positive spin
When life falls like burning leaves
w/ limbs twisted as if lighting stuck
rebuild, repair, maybe reverse engineer
even if everything turns to dust
(Chorus)
If we don’t try it’ll never get done
If we don’t ask the answer’s no
This life is not a waste
Love is the debt we owe
Paul said, “Don't grow weary of doing good"
That’s the way the race is run
We will see visions – we will dream dreams
We have yet to see what we will become
If we don’t try it’ll never get done
If we don’t ask the answer’s no
This life is not a waste
Love is the debt we owe
(bridge)
Awe of God – The beginning of wisdom
Don’t hide the light – we are all travelers
If we don’t try it’ll never get done
If we don’t ask the answer’s no
This life is not a waist
Love is the debt we owe
//: try, ask, live, love ://
If we don’t try it’ll never get done
If we don’t ask the answer’s no
This life is not a waist
Love is the debt we owe
E E E E
//: shoe be doop :// Bop bop
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5. |
Chalk It Up
03:19
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Chalk It Up by Ed Englerth
Chalk it up to high expectations
Chalk it up shortsightedness of greed
Chalk it up to anything you want
You know that chalk's still going to bleed
Chalk it up to providence
Chalk it up to whoever's in the White House now
Chalk it up to our ancestors
Chalk it up to what the law now allows
Chalk it up to too much repetition
Chalk it up to rarely saying a word
Chalk it up to the educational system
Chalk it up to the absurd
Chalk it up (Chalk it up) To experience
Chalk it up (Chalk it up) To foolishness
Chalk it up (Chalk it up) Yea chalk it up my friend
To a world without end
Chalk it up to a belief in the Holy One
Chalk it up to a belief in energy or matter plus time plus chance
Chalk it up to our infinite wisdom
Chalk it up to our arrogance
Chalk it up to our selfish ambition
Chalk it up to giving it all away
Chalk it up to prudence
Or whatever her name is today
//: Chalk it up (Chalk it up)
To experience
Chalk it up (Chalk it up)
To foolishness
Chalk it up (Chalk it up)
Yea chalk it up my friend
To a world without end :// (2X)
To a world without end
Chalk it up my friends
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6. |
Trouble
04:37
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Trouble by Ed E
He hadn’t been looking for trouble
It was the last thing he thought he’d need
He didn’t understand the motivation
Was planted much like a seed
He went right to her side
Like a long lost friend
Although they’d never met
Anyone could guess the end
* It was trouble,
trouble from the very start
It was trouble,
trouble with an empty heart
He thought he understood
Why he lost at love
He always believed he’d stop
But he never got enough
He’d end up hurting
Each and every time
But just let a girl walk past
And she’d stay right on his mind *
This kind of life is wearing thin
There’s only one place
that he needs to begin
And it’s not with trouble * *
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7. |
Don't Give Up
03:02
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Don’t Give Up by Ed Englerth
You don’t have to do a lot
Sometimes just a whisper
Just a single word
Breathing atmosphere
Don’t - Give Up On Me
Your touch on my shoulder
Is changing history
Redirection, anticipation
Unfolding this mystery
Don’t - Give Up On Me
That attitude in your eyes
Needs no explanation
Detailed attention
Stirs up expectations
Don’t - Give Up On Me
If you leave It’s empty
If you leave There’s nothing
It may look like There’s a man standing here
But you know - he’s only bluffing
//: Don’t - Give Up On Me :// 2x
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8. |
Declare
03:46
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I Declare by Ed Englerth
It seems a little insane to me
To share such a thing out loud
If I was out of step before
I’m beyond the left-field bleachers now
(chorus)
I declare love is not a dream
There’s harmony there’s symmetry
Love is strong – we are weak
I declare love is what we need
They say that’s nice but it won’t last
They say in the end, all we have is pain
Long dark shadows passing over us
The mist of distrust leaves us drained
(chorus)
(bridge)
They try to shut us down
& say that’s not allowed
Next thing we know
They’re trying to throw us out
Hey -
(Chorus)
//: I declare love is what we need ://
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9. |
Where We Were
04:11
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Where We Were by Ed E
I'm trying not to wreck
These pictures I'm looking at
So much depth in each one
Holds a river that comes flowing back
Paper and color are held together
By a moment in time
Each one's a life now revealed
A hope, a dream, a sigh
* The voices and the laughter
We thought we'd get what we were after
Now these pictures are all that's left
Of where we were
I'm reminded of what was back then
And what will never be again
These people have all moved on
Few things work out as planned. *
Now my eyes are blurry
Half from weariness - half from tears
I've got to put these pictures away
As I fall asleep I can still hear. *
//: Where we were ://
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10. |
I Do I Don't
03:06
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I Do I Don’t (LayOut In The Sun) by Ed Englerth
I don’t want to go to school
I don’t want to go to work
I don’t want to change my oil
I don’t want to change my shirt
I want to be inspired
I want to see visions
I want money to buy the future
I want to lay out in the sun
I don’t want to be destructible
I don’t want to be lied to
I don’t want war (who does?)
I don’t want to be food
(Chorus)
I don’t want to run in circles
I don’t want to be pushed ‘round
I don’t want to be cutoff on the freeway
I don’t want to be told, “It’s too loud!”
(Chorus)
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11. |
You'd Think By Now
03:06
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You'd Think By Now by Ed E
You’d think by now that I’d know
But I don’t know love at all
I thought saw love across the street
When I walked over she told me I was wrong
You’d think by know I’d know enough
To hide all of this away
But I want to know, I want to know
I can’t just sit here and wait
* Whatever you believe
Love can or cannot do
You’d think by now, you’d think by now
We’d know more about love
Well, well, well. Maybe not so well
No matter how many times I lose
I keep on going, I’m so far in debt
I can’t quit, no, I refuse
*
Am I looking for clarity?
Am I looking for my way?
I am going to keep on moving,
keep on trying & I’ll stand when
I can no longer walk *
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12. |
Wish You Were Here
03:37
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Wish You Were Here by Ed E
Just across town
From the job I work each day
I’ve got an apartment
And a red Chevrolet
I’ve got a DVR
to catch my videos
So it won’t seem so empty
When I get home
* I so often
wish that you were here
To touch my fevered brow
And calm my worst fears
The same familiar scenes
Moment to moment
The money comes n’ goes
For bills and rent
Makes my outside hard
Turns my outside in
I close my eyes
And try to breathe again
*
Won’t you love me?
Past emotional poverty
Won’t you love me?
And help these eyes to see
Won’t you love me?
Isolation takes time to heal
Won’t you love me?
Help my unbelief * *
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13. |
Empty Pockets
05:46
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Empty Pockets by Ed Englerth
It’s the man with the empty pockets
With the back as strong as steel
He’ll be ready if work comes
But that doesn’t help with the way he feels
His boot leathers getting thinner
His patience is like his shoes
When he thinks about who he is
And yet he’s made to play the fool
He’s got Empty pockets
He’s got the blues
He’s got empty pockets
And nothing to hold on to
He’s been out of work for 2 years
Feels like 23
Unemployment figures keep rising
The bottom is all he sees
He never claimed it was easy
Now he wonders will it be at all
Gone is his security
And his backs up against the wall
He’s got Empty pockets
He’s got the blues
He’s got empty pockets
And nothing to hold on to
He wakes up later each morning
And goes to bed later each night
His world is gone with the sunset
And it won’t be back with the morning light
He’s got Empty pockets
He’s got the blues
He’s got empty pockets
And nothing to hold on to
He’s got Empty pockets
He’s got the blues
He’s got empty pockets
And nothing to hold on to
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14. |
Sad Stories
04:30
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Sad Stories by Ed E
Sometimes I hear sad stories
You’ve heard them too
How folks can’t get along
Well that’s nothing new
N’ I admit I am far from perfect
I don’t always see things
in the clearest light
I’ve made my fair share of mistakes
I’ve even been known to cause
more than one fight
My baby n’ I
haven’t been getting on to well
I don’t always clean the floor
and she is always bored
She wants me to take out the trash
She tells me it smells
and then she leaves for the store
Five hours later
she comes back from shopping
The trash is still sitting
right where she left it
& she’s turning red
& she’s staring at me,
& she says, ‘what part of throw it out
don’t you get baby?’
Well she goes out to the back yard
Takes a swing in the hammock
I go out to the barrel
and throw in the trash
‘It’ll be gone soon’ I say with a smile
As I reach in my pocket
n’ I pull out a match
She says it stinks
so I give a little laugh,
I say ‘I’m sorry it’s burning so slow –
I’ll make it burn fast’
So I get an empty soup can –
And I fill it with fuel
She told me not to do that
then she calls me a fool
I don’t know how it happened –
I almost fell
Half went in the barrel
and half on myself.
N’ I cried, ‘I’m on fire,
please call for help’
She said, ‘I told you not to do it,
call’m yourself’
(aaahhh, that’s cold)
Sometimes I hear sad stories
You’ve heard’m too
How folks can’t get along
Well that’s nothing new
Now I’m lying here in the hospital
With 3rd degree burns
and there’s one lesson I hope you’ve learned
No matter how bad
it gets with your mate
Compared to me and my X
you two are doin’ great
Hhhhhmmmmm, you two are looking great.
Exceptional, Wow, amazing,
mighty fine, looking good
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15. |
What Do I Do
03:38
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What Do I Do by Ed E
//: What do I do
There goes the backup plan ://
What do I do?
I can’t cry, I can’t laugh
//: Where should I go
the bridge is out //:
Where should I go?
I’m sinking down
//: Who do I ask
Do you think it’s too late ://
Yeah who do I ask?
Can you give me a name?
//: Why should I care
Reason is dead on its feet ://
Why should I care?
Can you tell me please?
//: What do I do
Where should I go ://
Why should I care
(and if I did) How will I know?
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16. |
When Words Fail
04:26
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When Words Fail by Ed Englerth
When words fail
To describe the way we feel
To explain
That the pain inside is real
When words fail
The verbal symbols crumble
Down between us
Lay shattered at our feet
When words fail
I can't stop
My heart beats on in love
When words fail
When words fail
And our world disintegrates
We can't define
Why we can't communicate
When words fail
I can't stop
My heart beats on in love
When words fail
(bridge) There's more to love
And life has more meaning
Than the failure of words
That seem so unyielding
When words fail
I can't stop
My heart beats on in love
When words fail
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17. |
A Good Death
04:23
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A Good Death by Ed Englerth
I am not laying my burden down
I will not go quietly
I'm taking on this battle
There's a difference between wants and needs
While “Wants” may cause pressure
While “Needs” juggle life and death
When this struggle's over
There'll only be one thing left
A Good Death
While death tries to distract me
With a fight or flight response
I pray for strength and hope
And rest when this is done
A Good Death - A Good Death
(BRIDGE)
Actions speak louder than theories
Resolve's hard to predict
I'm ready for eternity
But I'm not there yet
A Good Death
I'm falling on my knees
So Exhausted from this grief
And Oh Lord, I see an angel
Help me with this agony
A Good Death - A Good Death
Lord Grant Mercy
Lord Grant Strength
Wrap Your Arms Around Me
I Won't Survive With Less
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Ed Englerth Hastings, Michigan
Ed Englerth has played music with; Ray White(Frank Zappa & Zappa Plays Zappa), Kenny Meeks (Sixpence None The Richer), Joe
English(Paul McCartney & Wings), Robin Robbins (Bob Seger), John Lawry (Petra), Jan Krist, Jim Cole, Aracely, Jim Earp, Scott Roley, Dave Perkins (Chagall Guevara), Donny Hartman (Frost), Harvey Jet (Black Oak Arkansas)
Ed Englerth is a BlueSideDownStudios artist.
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