The John Butler Trio Album

All you want is
What you can't have and if ya'
Just look around man
You'll see you got magic

So just, sit back and relax
Enjoy it while you still have it
Don't, look back on life man
And only see tragic because

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You can be better than that
Don't let it get the better of you
What could be better than that
Life's not about what's better than

You can be better than that
Don't let it get the better of you
What could be better than that
Life's not about what's better

All the time while ya' lookin' away
There are, things you can do man
There's things you can say
Unto the, the ones your with
With whom you're spending the day
Get your, gaze off tomorrow
And come on and maybe, because

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Oh, I know, sometimes
Things can be hard
But you should know, by now
They come and they go so why
Oh why do I
Look to the other side, 'cause I know
The grass is greener
But, just as hard to grow
Life's not about what's better than

All you want is
What you can't have
And if ya' just look around man
You'll see you got magic

So just, sit back and relax
Enjoy it while you still have it
Don't, look back on life man
And only see tragedy because

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You light me up little girl, like the 4th of July
I love you more than every single star man in the sky
You are the best damn thing that ever happened to me
Want to take you home start making family
You are a damn fine lady like no other
Want to introduce you to my father and my mother
I'm so damn happy you want to be my lover
Can't wait to get you home and get you under the covers

Daniella be my cinderella
Won't you come around and be my baby
Daniella, don't you remember won't you come
Daniella
Daniella
Daniella

I remember the day I asked
Your parents for your hand
Nearly knocked them off their feet
They could not hardly stand
The same day I asked you be my wife to be
I said m-m-m-m-m-m-m-m marry me
I said I promise to love you and treat you right
Give you the proper respect you deserve
Every day and night
Give you good good lovin' 'til the morning light
And I promise we will never, ever
Ever fight, yeah right yeah

Now i dont want to argue i dont want to fight

and if theres something wrong yes you know im gonna try to make it right

i love you you love me we be one family tonight

so get right over here and lets get down get funky to night

'Cause you are my queen and there aint no doubt about it

and if you want ill tell the world yes you know ill shout it

the way you walk talk move yeah girl get me high as a kite

so get right ove here and lets get down get funky tonight
tonight

whats your name
lets go back to when we first met back in 1999, Appreciate
before you knew i was yours and you mine

ooooooowooooooo
ooooooowooooooo

and now i turn the lights down low 'n put the steario on
put on our favourite record by Aerosmith and Louie Armstron

take you to our living room dance floor and hold you tight
i guarentee you and me gonnaa get down funky tonight
i guarentee you and me gonna get down funky tonight
i guarentee you and me gonna get down funky tonight

whats your name
lets go back to when we first met back in 1999 Appreciate
before you knew i was yours and you knew you were mine

whats your name
lets go back to when we first met back in 1999 Appreciate
before you knew i was yours and you mine

Got your eyes open, but you cannot see
Got what you want, do you got what you need?
Till one day you see something you cannot bear
Telling you girl, yes you better beware
Her papa loved her so much you could see
Loved her too much if you know what I mean
So, she left home young,
Yeah she moved town to town
Looking for love that she never found

She played it hard and yes she played it rough
Made her feel safe and it made her feel tough
And rock by rock she built those walls everyday
Built herself a tower so far away
And from up high in that castle
She knew no one could get too close to touch
And if life and death were such a game
Why did they all make such a fuss?
And if birds could fly high over their troubles
She gonna find some of her own wings and fly
And no one could convince or pay her double
Or tell her she was too young to die

Oh Caroline, Caroline
Oh Caroline, Caroline
Oh Caroline, Caroline
Caroline, Caroline
Caroline, Caroline

All around I see raining
Things don't seem to go my way
Got a dark cloud that's hanging
And it seems to follow me

Oh won't you just wake up
feel the humming
This cruel world is killing you
better start running
Catch up with your life, catch on up
Before the whole thing is through

Have you once? Have you twice?
Have you even considered
it be really good for you
To go out and go on
take another better look around

You are just another white boy
Thinking you're so hardcore
Take step outside see what's shaking in the real world


Go take a step outside see what's shaking in the real world


But you don't know
how my heart laments
I really got a good excuse
to complain
My parents got divorced
Can't heal the pain

And now there is only cheap regrets
I guess that's just the way it be
Is it the world or how I see me

Boy now you are really, really bugging
Yes you are bugging me,
can't you just shut right up
Your cup is overflowing, overflowing
And you think it is indeed

You don't even know what side
you are fighting for
Boy won't you turn your game boy off
Start pretending
it's you against the world
I am sick and I am tried of hearing
you always say

I really got a good excuse to complain
My parents got divorced
Can't heal the pain

Go take a step outside see what's shaking in the real world

I used to get high for a living
Believing everything that i saw on my tv
I used to get high for a living
Eating all the bullshit food that they sold me
I used to get high for a living
Thinking that my destiny was out of my control
I used to get high for a living
There's lots of different reasons and i'll tell you so

Super size, large fries, big mac, coca cola
Go on man, pick your poison
Speed, weed, ecstacy, LSD
Man, it don't bother me cos we're all on something
Caffeine, cigarettes, alcohol
You know i'm clawing at the walls trying to get my fix
Prozac, ADD tablets, coke, smack
Now you know i am turning tricks cos

I used to get high for a living
Believing everything that i saw on my tv
I used to get high for a living
Eating all the bullshit food that they sold me
Yeah, that they sold me

Escape, can't wait all trying to get away
From this place man that we're feeling
Can't deal, can't feel what's real
Lyrics
All trying to conceal all this time we're stealing
No doubt, the route you're on
Can't find the clout that you've been needing
'Til then my friend you must contend
With the monster that you're feeding

I used to get high for a living
Believing everything that i saw on my tv
I used to get high for a living
Eating all the bullshit food that they sold me
I used to get high for a living
Thinking that my destiny was out of my control
I used to get high for a living
There's lots of different reasons and i'll tell you so

Got links of the cheney
Getting crazy, getting lazy with their foreign relations
Starting wars, closing doors
Trying to bring about one quicker, man, revelations
Economic rational calling fouls with the workers
Just trying to make it pay
Cost cutting, head butting
Big business do what they like and you do what they say
What's wrong get along, just prolong all the thoughts
You got going on, on the inside
Appease, stand at ease, just try to please
All the apathy that you're trying to hide
How now brown cow
Did we get from this standing place......
And now we're kneeling
'Til then my friend you must contend with the monster that you're feeding

I used to get high for a living
Believing everything that i saw on my tv
I used to get high for a living
Eating all the bullshit food that they sold me
I used to get high for a living
Thinking that my destiny was out of my control
I used to get high for a living
There's lots of different reasons and i'll tell you so

Way on down where they've been forgotten
City just sinking with the whole world watching
Wading waist deep in water, living on my roof in the land of forgotten
Hey, to the deaf giant with the big muscles why ya moving so slow
Con, conquer and dividing, hole in the bucket got nothing to show

G be Indiana Jones-ing
Diggin up the east stealing dinosaur bones-ing
Hey, he dont dream of stopping
Chasing his tail trying to find Bin Laden
Hell, what is he living
It's not what you get, it's about what what ya giving
Hey and I know you wont admit it
Ya stepped in the puddle and you know what was in it

Another storm coming
You better cover head
Shit gonna hit the fan, Gov did nothin'
Oh my god, the Gov did nothn'

Now I dont wish to offend
No I dont wish to start a fight
But do you really think that the gov would do nothin
If all those people were white?
Hey, don't tell me the answer
Stranger than fiction and it dont need romancin'
Hey and he think they're sinners
He cought up in the race and he think he the winner

Forgotten for way too long

Another storm coming
You better cover head
Shit gonna hit the fan, Gov did nothin'
Oh my god, the Gov did nothn'

Beautiful woman, so sexy
Come shake that bottom over, over to me
Feel that one drop, feel that skank
Brother B playing that Hip Hop
It better than a, money in the bank
Lights are low, moon is high
I want you to know
That you're the brightest star in my sky and

I'm groovin' slowly
With my woman
Groovin' slowly
With my wo-man

DJ play that music
All night long
Play that funky kingston
You know it's our, our favourite song
Feel that back beat
Feel that groove
Got my baby on the dancefloor
She doin all her, her favourite moves

I want you to know girl
I want you to feel
I want to show you
That my love is real
I want you to see girl
You're the brightest star that shines
Even though there is no forever
I'm gonna love you 'til the end of time

'Cos I'm, I'm groovin' slowly

a sun does rise in distance lands
tears run and fires burning
he finds first place, dirty hand
he graduates man with out learning
a gender set so long ago
the sons a puppet with a master
the hands stand still right by his side
with a finger on the button of disaster

and most of us we stand and watch
like old lady getting handbag stolen
it's time to chase, chase them criminals
I see the devil and the devil is running

that business ties turn out sour
back stab man nothing forgotten
and wind and none forgotten now
seeds fall from an apple rotten

now hate and fear head the wrong way
and though this scum is the other distraction
black blood will need to be lanced
and when its found you just blame the guilty faction

And now its time not just to watch
like old lady getting handbag stolen
it's time to chase, chase them criminals
I see the devil and the devil is running

And now its time not to just watch
like old lady getting handbag stolen
it's time to chase, chase them criminals
I see the devil and the devil is running

Evil Man
Evil Man
Evil Man

And now its time not to just watch
like old lady gettting handbag stolen
it's time to chase, chase them criminals
I see the devil and the devil is running

And now its time not to just watch
like old lady gettting handbag stolen
it's time to chase, chase them criminals
I see the devil and the devil is running

There are things in this life I,
Would rather not sacrifice.
You girl I could not live without,
And you know there's no doubt that
All I mind's, losing you.

And I don't mind losing sleep,
Pray the lord my soul to keep.
I'll get plenty of rest when i am dead,
But 'till, 'till then wont you share my bed 'cause
All I mind's, losing you.
All I mind's, losing you.

And I don't mind losing money,
There's nothing this life owes me.
I've been giving more than I can receive,
But for, for you there is no receipt so,
All I mind's, losing you.
All I mind's, losing you...ohh...

And I don't mind growing old,
Losing teeth and going blind.
Not as handsome as I never was but,
You loved me just because.
All I mind's, losing you.
All I mind's, losing you.

There are things in this life I,
Would rather not sacrifice.
You girl I can not live without,
And you know there's no doubt that
All I mind's, losing you.
all I mind's, losing you.
All I mind's, losing you.

I'm in, and I'm out
Alien from somewhere else
Don't know what the hell
I be yelling about
But from here and there
belong nowhere

Seem so many northern man
Now things don't seem to be the same
But they are some how
Cause all my life I lived on the outside
But now I'm in, but in nowhere

Nowhere Man

Strangely enough I'm more
like lawn trees
I love those forests
but the lawn better suits me but
I love to share just like the pollen loves to be free
And flying in through the air
nowhere better suits me

Somewhere down deep inside in me
I guess I always wanted to
be part of that beat?
And now I found that in my family
And now I'm happy just to be

Nowhere Man

Fire in the sky, outta the blue and into the red depths
Time for you and I to try to fall asleep in the bed they've made us
All came crumblin' down tears in her eyes as it rained confusion
The whole world has changed

I don't understand
How one can kill a man
In the name of peace
That's ridiculous

They say eye for an eye so they fire in the sky and they come outta nowhere
Time for you and I to turn on the big screen see what's happenin'
And as those children die pawns in the game of collateral damage
The whole world goes mad

Standing here on quick sand
The more we fight we sink
And vengeance gives us hope
At least that's what we think
At least that's what we think, coz

As we make amends by
Getting our revenge
We sort nothing out
Just add to the doubt
And with God on both sides
Death is justified
Whatever the name
Then we're all to blame

So as the spirits fly
To honour those who've past
We've got to get along
While the time still lasts
Bury the hatchet deep
So we all can weep
And heal all this pain
So, so we can live again
So, so we can live again coz

As we make amends by
Getting our revenge
We sort nothing out
Just add to the doubt
And with God on both sides
Death is justified
Whatever the name
Then we're all to blame
I don't understand
How one can kill a man
In the name of peace
That's ridiculous
But I understand
That I will defend
My family from
Both sides of misery

Smile, your lovely smile
and tell me of tomorrows for awhile
in the hole, my hand
and tell me, tell me, tell me what, understand

i, know your name
and every no one else i trust now
bear this shame
so, so come on open up your hearts
and i will take it back to the beginning
i will

yes i am
gonna take it
gonna take it
gonna take it, right back from the start

gonna take it
gonna take it
gonna take it, right back from the start

yes i am weary, and i am torn
yeah
been fighting a war that started before,
since i was born
and now before it tears my heart
and never far
cause this is my rock nomination,
this is me



and she said, taste the spice
and just hang it up in the corner
where everything looks nice
and the same well used to be same
this is your help man, this is your wealth
and your long time dead

yes i am,
gonna take it
gonna take it
gonna take it, right back from the start

gonna take it
gonna take it
gonna take it, right back from the start

gonna take it
gonna take it
gonna take it, right back from the start

gonna take it
gonna take it
gonna take it, right back from the start.

I've been gone a long time
Here in the walls where sun don't shine
Time waits for no one...

Paid the cost
Paid the fine
They say I'm free now
And my life is mine

But all that's good is gone

oh...
oh...

Mom was drunk
Pop was blind
Did not factor too much of him to the time
But what should be was not

I was lost
Turned to crime
Now the madness
Some guy in and out of line
But what they had was mine

oh...
oh...
oh...
oh...

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i am sorry
for not
being around
ive been
out at sea
been so long since
ive seen the ground
for years i have
sailed the ocean
searching for some
explainable things
you think i have
forgot about you
nothings further
from the ttruth

aint that just the way

work boud
stable ground
trembbles under my feet
words now
and conversation
diferent
banter rhythms of the sea
im not
avoiding you
ive got nothing to say
sorry
that i love you
is all i cannot hope to say

aint that just the way

looking for pot of gold
chaising rainbows
searching for something
i cannot explain

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