Voltaire And I Lyrics

Phillip Andrew Friedman

Voltaire And I Lyrics

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Not Scared (to be alone)

Take another little step

Just take another little step

And walk out, just walk away

I will take another little breath

I just take another little breath

It' s all right; all is safe (tame)

I feel it, the emptiness inside

Breaking me down, killing my pride

I'm not scared, I'm not scared

I'm not scared to be alone

And these are the loneliest days of my life

And I'm not scared

Rain

Splish, splash we know it well

Come ye gods and make it hail

Asphalt rivers, concrete canals

Children's paradise installed

Gray clouds make the potion

Rivers rise to oceans

Swimming pools lack the adventure

Of what a storm can capture...

Captured in waves in the hearts of the youthful

Remembering the excitement of a thunderstorm

The way we would run through every puddle

Although our parents told us no

Even though our parents told us no

Splash, splish our rubber boots

To galoshes and tennis shoes

All to see the biggest splash

But we all had a big laugh...

Laughing all the way up to the front door

Where mother would prognose we catch a cold

Changing our close and impatiently waiting

To get back out and to get soaked

To get soaked to the bone

When the rain falls down

When the rain splashes my face

When the rain pours down

I'll be thinking of you

Splash, splash how we have grown

Don't ask where the years go

All the trips we've made through the rain

Somehow, now, are not the same...

Same memories keep filling my mind

Stormy nights on darkened roads you held my hand

Lightening filled the sky as well as our hearts

And the world was our aquarium

The world is our aquarium

But who could stop the rain?

And who would stop the rain?

Who would stop the rain?

I wouldn't stop the rain

If I could stop the rain!

July 27th

First you close your eyes, then you open wide

Next you fantasies...we came as one

There's no one to blame and no need for shame

Though we'll never be the same...since we came as one

But you turned your back on where we were at

Was it all so bad...to be as one

When you looked ahead, did you find regret

Or seem to forget...that we came as one?

On this holiday, that you now have made

You have vowed to stay together as one?

And this is my day of closure

First you close your eyes, then you open wide

Next you realize...we came as one

Just don't ask why, nor how you and I

Took two separate lives and made them one

We came as one, we came as one

But now you are the sea and I am the sun.

Full

Sing a song for me, just a hum for me

Is it wrong for me to ask you to sing one...

Little song for me, just a line for me

Is it too much for me to want to hear your voice?

Lift your voice for me, just a note for me

Why can't you see how much it would mean to me?

Would you try for me, just a line for me?

I know it's not easy, but I know you're not empty.

I can hear you sing inside of me

But I know that it's only a dream

When I awake, I arise to the mystery..

What's the sound of one hand clapping?

Sing a song for me, just a hum for me

Is it wrong for me to ask you to sing one...

Little song for me, just a line for me

Is it too much for me to want to hear your voice?

I can hear you sing inside of me

But I know that it's only a dream

When I awake, I arise to the mystery..

What's the sound of one hand clapping?

Lift your voice for me, just a note for me

Why can't you see how much it would mean to me?

Would you try for me, just a line for me?

I know it's not easy, but I know you're not empty.

You're not empty!!!

Another Time

I sit and wait for someone to come in

The girls, they're doing their own show

And I'm sure there's a place I could've been

If the night wasn't so slow

In walks a girl of sin, she looks too young to be

So old, so spent

She gives to me a devilish grin, and then...

I guess I'm sold

And so I stick around

'Cause now I feel I'm wanted

I guess the feelings that I feel don't always feel the same

And I think of what I found

And then I realize

In another time, another place I might have learned her name.

I think of times that have come, I spent alone

I could never live this way

Another drink and I'll probably wind up stoned

And then I'll have something to say

I pulled the waitress up so close and I shout

If she could bring another shot?

But then my girl of sin walked out

And a buzz is all I got

But, oh, I stick around

'Cause now I feel I'm wanted

I guess the feelings that I feel don't always feel the same

And I think of what I found

And then I realize

In another time, another place I might have learned her name.

I'll stick around

Another time, another place I might have learned her name

And I think of what I found, oh, no, no

After all, I shouldn't care

It's just a stupid game.

Peter and Paul

I am an atheist and I don't believe

That there's a greater being than me

I have no future, only that of my life

I have no visions, only that of my sight

And I am Peter

And I am Paul

I'm the one, the only

And I am all

I have no reason to repent for a sin

For no one above is watching in

I have no book that controls my life

And no commandment can tell me what's right

I am Joseph

And I am John

I'm your devil, baby

And I am God.

Storm In Me

Tumbling, tumbling

Liquidated sky came pouring down

And a scream of thunder

Silenced all the wind

Trees were dancing, the wind was laughing

And the sky had turned to coal

And finally, I was taken in

I have never felt closer to my soul

I felt so warm and realized

I'd passed the storm in me

Tumbling, tumbling

Suddenly the sky had turned to red

And my vision faded as

The trees waved to me

Leaves were flying and

Birds were crying and

The world, it turned and turned

And Suddenly I found

That I had life again.

I have never felt closer to my soul

I felt so warm and realized

I'd passed the storm in me

Preston's Homicide

He puts down the paper,

Picks up his guitar

He twiddles, then later

He gives her a call

Her other line keeps clicking

Who's calling her now?

Is the other, again

Or some other new "pal"?

With a chance to take all the cake

This could be his big break

But you throw it all away

He wants to ask her

To accompany him

To a show or to dinner

Or maybe both of them

He shies behind fear,

Again in pain

Then the anger sets in

Just like lazy Cain

And the words he longs to say

Trip from his tongue only when he prays

And you throw it all away

The night grows older

And his chances grow dim

And the world on his shoulders

Gets the best of him

And it feels like murder

This pain inside

And he is the culprit

For letting it die

And "Death makes a better man"

But not when the kill is him

'Cause you throw it all away

Tally Ho

When life has its way

And brings you down

You better turn that frown

Of yours upside down

And realize there'll be

Better days

And until they come

You might get by

If you just learn to say-

Tally Ho

When life comes around

To take its toll

You have to learn

To hold up your head

And not give up control

And learn to plant your feet

Firm on the ground

And never give up your world

And you'll never be knocked down

Tally Ho

Whenever you find

Yourself down low

You've got to free your mind

Of all your blahs and

All your woes

And fill your head with

Happy thoughts and dreams

And remember they can

All come true if you

Just learn to believe-

Tally ho

Marked Sold

Stand back, no contact

I would like to state this fact

I'm alone.

I see a face before me from a

Mirror dream that I had dreamt before

But no more.

I've got guilty hands

I've got guilty eyes

I've got a guilty smile

I live a guilty life

I'm a fool, just ask

They'll tell you so

'Cause love has marked me sold

And I'm so cold

Stand tall, then fall

My heads against the wall

I'm unknown.

I hear a voice inside me that is

In repeat, but I choose to ignore

Say no more.

I have broken dreams

I have a broken smile

I use broken words

I'm a broken child

Who knows why?

Just Voltaire and I.

'Cause love has marked me sold

And I'm so cold.

Stand back, no contact

I would like to state this fact

I'm alone.

I've been the face before me in my

Mirror dream that I will dream once more

But what for?

I've got filthy hands

I've got a filthy mind

I've got filthy thoughts

I lead a filthy life

I'm a fool, and

What's a fool to do?

When love has marked me sold

And I'm so cold.

Ode to Jack Daniels

Enter daylight,

His eyelids slowly peel

And the bottle at his side

Confirms that he is real

And if I ask him,

He will not answer

And if I give in,

He still will not care

And if I console him,

He will not be there

At least not his state of mind

Drowning away with his worries

I wonder if he'll remember to stop

"When I reach the bottom and am

Still on top," was his only true reply.

I feel I've lost my faith in truth

I have no more that I can do

I feel I've lost my faith in truth

Enter moonbeams,

His eyes already closed

Another bottle holds him

If suffocation is a hold

And if I follow,

Where will it get me?

And if I holler,

No one will hear me

And if I let go,

It will consume me

Like father, like son.

Tearing away at my insides

I feel the numbness chilling my veins

Like the dark and cold of a winter's storm

But I am still alive.

I feel I've lost my faith in truth

I have no more that I can do

I feel I've lost my faith in truth

And I awake on golden waves

Breaking on a broken seashore.

And in the words of wise men

"The blind will lead the blind."

So is true of humankind

Though there's nothing kind about us.

I fear I've lost my faith in truth

I have no more that I can do

I feel I've lost my faith in

I fear I've lost my faith in

I know I've lost my faith in you.

Man of the Hour

I am a man of no relations

I am no man of expectations

I have no story, I have no vow

Take what I can, no matter when nor how.

And I am a man

Who will make you shout

I am the one who'll

Turn you upside down

Yes, I'm the man your mother

Warned you about

Yes, I'm the man

The man of the hour.

I am a man of many wonders

I am no man of many standards

I have no worries, I have no rules

Break what I can after I steal the tools

And I am a man

Who will make you shout

I am the one who'll

Turn you upside down

Yes, I'm the man your mother

Warned you about

Yes, I'm the man

The man of the hour.

State of Mind

As the snow begins to fall

I see a shadow

Extending on the wall

But you're not here to

Fill the emptiness

In its half formed new space

It feeds the restlessness

That my heart expresses on my face.

And all of its my lie

To disguise my truth, for I

Felt like I could die

But with a bottle I was soothed

And it spills out on the table

To all my half-eared friends

My drunkenness enables me

To tell the bitter end

Without a tear.

As the clouds form their quilt

The emptiness embraces me

And fuels all my guilt

With a tank as big as Erie

And the pain chills my veins

And my thoughts are drowning

And still it all remains

Through my sobering

And my heart pounds like a drum

And the hours laugh their way by

With a tremble, I'm overcome

With a twisting in my side

And my head is throbbing

Like a finger in a door

While my stomach's turning over

With a mighty lion's roar

And I have no hope.

I want to tell you how I feel

Yet the pressures so unreal

And I seem to tear in two

It's so complicated without you

And I feel, as it's calling,

The emptiness inside

But I know, as I smile,

It's all a state of mind.

Sometimes You

Every time this silence speaks

I want to tell you everything

Everything that has nothing

To do with you, at all

Broken hearted mysteries

Of lovers who have failed to

Believe in the ever lasting

Crock the poets sold

But sometimes..

Sometimes you.

Sacrilegious sacraments,

The vows of the ignorant

Leave an emptiness inside

That eats a person whole.

I find my mind consumed

By these, and these thoughts

Are my everything

Everything that has nothing

To do with you, at all.

But sometimes..

Sometimes you

Every time this silence speaks

I want to hold my head and scream

And scream, and scream until

I'm finally understood

And maybe then you would

Agree that these thoughts

Are my everything

And my everything has nothing

To do with you, at all

But sometimes

I'm in love with you

And I can't keep from falling

But when I get back up

I run to someone else.

1997 Window Sill Music

1997 PAFriedman

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