Our Turn to Shine I’m the last of my kind an incandescent life from another time Slow to turn on I won’t last long sort of like this old song I’ll be replaced by an LED 820 lumens like a new TV Find ‘em at a Lowes Home Improvement part of the next youth movement Energy efficient for decades to come by the time it goes dark, I’ll be gone I’m a dinosaur made of glass and tin take me out screw a new one in CHORUS But for now, I’ll light the way Brighten up your every day If only for a short time…it’s still my turn to shine I can chase away the night I’m the perfect reading light Whether it’s an old newspaper or an Elmore Leonard caper When I’m done reuse my glass and those tiny little wires of brass Can’t do much with a broken filament when it’s no longer radiant CHORUS But for now, I’ll light the way Brighten up your every day If only for a short time…it’s still my turn to shine BREAK: I’ve been flickering for a little while I’m on my last mile Let me illuminate your smile before I go out of style In the days before lamps we’d sit around the camps Looked to the fire for all we desired Maybe that day will return when all we will burn Is ourselves in the sun CHORUS: We’ll let it light our way Brighten up our every day Woahhh-oo …for the rest of time it’s our turn to shine REPEAT LAST CHORUS

How Sweet Your Dreams How sweet your dreams dear, how sweet your dreams Even though everything is coming apart at the seams How sweet your dreams how sound your sleep I pray the lord your soul to keep How sweet your breaths, dear, slow, soft and warm Calm and unaware of…the oncoming storm How sweet your kisses, how bright your smile I will watch over you now and all the while CHORUS Lying next to me as darkness nears And the weight of the world disappears don’t what I did before you came along I just know you’re the right to this world’s every wrong How sweet your tears dear rolling down your cheek Tell me why you cry …what makes you weep? How strong your hold dear, your hold on my heart I’ll chase the nightmares hiding in the dark ---WHISTLE INTERLUDE--- REPEAT CHORUS REPEAT FIRST VERSE

Why Can’t That be Enough I could use a little color, can’t always stand up straight In my dilapidated charm rusted latches on my gate I am where the pavement ends On the coldest lake in Michigan I am where I’ve always been where I always wait Up here, you’re off the grid. A little off the rails Off to the dock with one of those India pale ales No shaving and no showers Staring at the stars for hours I am the times of your life. Every breath you exhale CHORUS I am here for you, waiting patiently Though my fire has gone out and my edges rough to touch. I’m a part of you and you of me Why can’t that be enough? Why can’t that be enough? Once you fell into the marsh in your Sunday best Later wandered in the woods alone scared me half to death And the time you almost burned me down Leaving embers lying on the ground I am your silence and your secrets always to be kept As hard headed as the hardwood floors and never wipe your shoes A backwoods and bare-foot life is the one you often choose To say that it’s roughing it Well, that does’t quite cover it I’m a test of your survival watching your every move REPEAT CHORUS BREAK:You think you’re building character While my walls are falling down You drive up every weekend Then you turn right back around It leaves me feeling empty and it leaves me feeling old Don’t forget to blow my pipes out before it gets too cold Well, I hear you plan to knock me down put a new one in my place With all the comforts of your life so you don’t feel so far away You’ll work so hard to get that prize If only you would realize You really don’t need all that much at the end of the day REPEAT CHORUS

Content Caught a cold when I wasn’t even chasin’ it Saw the light when i wasn’t even facin’ it Found myself when I wasn’t even lost Built a bridge that I still have never crossed Tried to escape without really ever leavin’ I was telling the truth while make-believin’ The harder I look at things seems the less I see Went searching for a forest all I found was a tree CHORUS It’s a simple life in a complex world I want what’s mine and you want what’s yours But when you’re all by yourself and the money’s all spent Are you gonna leave this world completely content Used to sit in a cube trying to think out of the box If I only knew more about bonds and stocks I’m on the fence between the future and the past Watching time pass slowly but I think it’s gaining fast Sometimes I wish that I had smoked more dope Read more books and maybe used less soap Gone to sleep later, planted more trees Learned a language to say fromage instead of cheese REPEAT CHORUS Whether it’s a paradox or a paradigm A pair of twos or a pair of nines a full house beats three kings every single time and close only counts in shuffle board and land mines Is it possible to hate the very thing you love? Possible to be full yet never, never get enough? Am i at the bottom while I’m climbing to the top I’m about to get going but I think its time to stop REPEAT CHORUS

In The Light At times we all burn out like a torch or an old oil lamp Our flame extinguished, our potential left untapped Maybe it’s the stress of living or the weight of work How do we measure up when we don’t feel our worth We search and search for answers, even the slightest trace Something that can help us find our way out of this dark place Without light what do we do? Without light we all have fear Without light our eyes –our eyes are blind When we cry no one sees our tears Naked in our own truth all our selves exposed We try and try to make our way out of the deep shadows In the stark contrast between the day and night Every second is a battle, every minute is a fight Without light what do we do? Without light we all have fear Without light our eyes –our eyes are blind When we cry no one sees our tears Do we really understand the secrets each of us keep Even when those closest to us sink down so deep Will a smile or a kind word touch a heart that’s achin’? Is this how we can provide some illumination? In the light we all can see In the light we all can shine In the light there is a ray—a ray of hope That can heal us all in time

Midnightville Walking round in midnightville The roads don’t lead nowhere The houses have all gone dark Crumblin’ into thin air Walking on the cracked concrete the lights barely flicker above Wandering the red brick streets searching for some kind of love I ain’t looking for a touch or even a kiss Maybe just a little push to get me outta this Walking round in midnightville the trains they rumble along Car by car and stop by stop the same old troubled song Walking round among these once proud hourlies Line after line of all the closed down factories I ain’t asking for someone to have my back Maybe just a little ambition it’s what some say I lack BREAK: Hate has joined us here and a fear rules the day A hollow shell now where we dwell lies in decay Oppressed, distressed, regressed all while we’re wakin up hints and glints and tints on the side of a shakin’ cup Hands that shake and take the stake out of the ground Hearts that break yet embrace what’s going down Walking round in this old town faded walls and faded lives Wish I could just keep walkin’ and kiss this place goodbye I ain’t asking for tears no sympathy Maybe just a little hope for what’s left inside of me I ain’t looking for a touch or even a kiss Maybe just a little push to get me outta this I ain’t asking for someone to have my back Maybe just a little ambition it’s what some say I lack I ain’t asking for tears no sympathy Maybe just a little hope for what’s left inside of me oh oh oh

PIONEERS Where would we be without pioneers? Standing in one place for thousands of years All those before us in all walks of life Who took on the challenge well aware of the price CHORUS: The spirit of the dreamers The visionary schemers For those who looked out and never looked away You’re what we wish we could be We’d like to see what you see And you’re what we wish ...we could be She was a teacher and she taught us all To look beyond our own four walls She was a teacher and so much more With the dream of a lifetime but a lifetime so short REPEAT CHORUS BREAK: To answer the call, to risk it all… leaps of faith …some times staring death in the face The questioning and the uncertainty. Seeing only …possibility We look to the future now with tear soaked eyes And a pain so great it could paralyze Just when we think we can’t go on anymore The spirit inside us blows open the door REPEAT CHORUS:

A LITTLE FARTHER DOWN THE ROAD A little farther down the road I’m on A little farther down the way I wish that I could see The path in front of me A little farther down the r-o-a--d Youth is certainly wasted on the young Kind of like a song that’s waiting to be sung Growin’ up too damn fast Trying to out run the past With all the answers on the tip of our tongue A little farther down the road I’m on A little farther down the way Weigh the wrong and right The darkness and the light A little farther down the r-o-a-d I try to do good things because I’ve done some bad Left some tears behind along this broken path I have no bucket list And no longer a clenched fist Looking forward to no longer looking back Down the road a piece, down the road a while One foot in front of the other ,mile after mile Down the road we move or down the road we go With a lifetime’s worth of baggage behind us still in tow When all the flowers have been dried and pressed And this world has not heard my last breath I’ll look back on it all Wishin’ winter could turn back into fall Just once more before I lay me down for my final rest A little farther down the road I’m on A little farther down the way I cannot clearly see The place where I will be A little farther down the r-o-a-d A little farther down the r-o-a-d A little farther down the road

THE LINE BETWEEN US Let’s give it a rest tonight… All the yelling and screamin’…I got no appetite I don’t want to give in To this feeling I have that’ll start it all over again Well, I’m tired of hearing it go round and round I’m about to put my heel and toe back on the ground It’s been a long time coming but now it’s true That the line gets wider, it just gets wider…between me and you… between me and you. Oh, Thinkin’ back to when we started out When the job and mortgages were all it was about I couldn’t hold my tongue… I could hold a drink even though our love was on the brink Well we tried to find shelter in each others’ arms We did but we also did each other so much harm Our days just run from black to blue and the line gets wider …it just gets wider … between me and you…between me and you. BREAK: Maybe it’s the lines on the highway the lines on your face where you sign your name the line that leaves no trace Long lines you wait in, line items that you deduct Then you finally realize ....that you fucked it up What do we do now today With all the broken pieces of our lives that have chipped away What doesn’t kill you…just hurts instead ..makes you want to take back everything you said Well they say it’s this that makes you strong I been through it and I say that’s dead wrong Our words hurt worse than any punch we threw And the line gets wider …it just gets wider …between me and you … between me and you REPEAT FIRST TWO LINES

No Way to Live I sleep on the sidewalk the cracks in my back All my possessions in clear plastic sack I got holes in my pockets and my shoes are untied The cold’s moving in and there’s no place to hide I don’t ask for much I’m just lookin’ for change Years of living this life have clouded my brain But I’m reading my book as I sit by the curb Most people figure I’m somewhat disturbed CHORUS Why can’t turn your life around, they ask Why can’t you turn life around? It’s a question I hear every day of the year Why can’t you turn life around? Don’t judge me or think I’m just down on my luck It’s like a Catch22 that’s where I’m stuck No training to speak of-- job prospects are dim I could eat on my wages but could not pay rent My skin’s turned to leather my eyes have gone dark Can you look past it all and see deep in my heart I used to have goals I used to make plans Now I sit here hoping someone gives me hand CHORUS Why can’t turn your life around, they ask Why can’t you turn life around? It’s no way to live and there’s nothing to give Why can’t you turn life around? I am somebody’s daughter I am somebody’s son Someone who played on your street carefree in the sun I might’ve been through a war or run away from it all Watched over your kids as they’re learning to crawl My story is told on a handwritten sign it’s the only thing left I can truly call mine To protect me from rain I sleep under a bridge I have no idea how far I am from the edge CHORUS Why can’t turn your life around, they ask Why can’t you turn life around? When you’re always on guard, eye contact is hard Why can’t you turn life around? Maybe I got a will and I still have a voice do you really think I am out here by choice I pray to god and I hope he can hear That I ain’t in this place this time next year. CHORUS Why can’t turn your life around, they ask Why can’t you turn life around It’s no way to live and there’s nothing to give Why can’t you turn life around