Parables for Wooden Ears lyrics

Baby I've got you on my mind

Honey you won't ever know

How much i need ya by my side,

Promise you I'll never go
I won't take no from you this time

'Cos baby I've got you on my mind

And honey I gotta show just what i can do

Cos I think I know what you're going through

I Hope you feel it the way I feel it

Hope you feel it the way i feel it too

I feel it too

tell me where i'm supposed to begin

an unhappy life working some kind of dead end job

everything you thought you had

has gone from worse to bad

so lean to the side
whisper it quiet

the end is in sight

working all night around the clock

everything you thought you had

has gone from worse to bad

but it's not my kinda scene oh yeah

footprints on the other side

Baby I got you on my mind

Honey, you wont ever know

How much I need you by my side

Promise you won't ever go

I won't take no from you this time
'cause baby I got you on my mind

Honey I got to show

Just what I can do

Because I think I know

What you're going through

I hope you feel it the way I feel it

I hope you feel it the way I feel it too

Yeah, I feel it too

Spoon fed from a dirty plate
A diet designed only to agitate
A veil of pride and gospel truth
To cover the hidden fist that he used

And I won’t say a word
You’ve sewn me in my skin
Hypocrite walking stick man
Silent grave

And the sunken heel kinda slows me down

Dogs and children lift their legs
To tattoo a teenage mothers breasts
Widows of precocious days

I’ll take the lead you follow me
Come and relieve the friends that I keep
They’re sick of me
Small minded creed blisters and weeps
Swallow the shit that jealousy feeds
And choke on it

And I may have a point to prove
I might just have a few enemies that I might just like to lose

I’ll take the lead you follow me
Come and relieve the friends that I keep

She has a hand of reasons to loose him
He liberates her often hidden smile
She buried trust faded away
He swallowed any promises they made

Darkness to weave it’s silent track
Stars decorate a shroud of black
Night closed the door on a fertile mind
And captured the light that the day worked so hard to provide

Vibrant golden hues
Melt into morning’s hurried bloom

Born into peace

Born into ignorance

My family gave me strength

Bonding my brothers

And the war was her enemy

Shed her mother's tears

Broke her mother's heart

Broke their feeble bond

And I'm stripped from my love

Could you find me a cure

Stone by stone I build

For my fathers'

Born into peace

Grown to respect the other

My religion gave me strength

Strip me down
Wash me white
Leave the spots in my eyes
Novelty
Wearing thin
Overload of truth and advice

Narrow minds
Move hollow mouths
To taste the foot that they bite
To make you vague but polite

And I see you don’t lose so well
Viscous (I’ve never seen)
Blood (flowing and free)
Savage (I’ll bridle you)

Save you from yourself

And I see you don’t lose so well

Patron pushed vows aside
Parents blest shine with pride
Lay child down force inside

I play on my position of trust
Leave the child to self destruct

Child ashamed silent oath
Fallen heard shows no growth
Shows no growth chose no growth

I play on my position of trust
Leave the child to self destruct

It sure is quiet around here
The phone never rings anymore
So I’ll wallow in silence
And nail my soul to the floor
’cause I’m angry and jealous
And sick and tired of untruth
And I’m lonely my pride is bruised

My wheels sink low
Loves candle burns slow

If I spread my wings
Will I ever leave the ground
All of these painful scenes
That drag me down

My wheels turn slow

Somebody screaming that the end is nigh
Never seen nobody with hopes so high
Uneasy feeling creeping up on me
Justify a weary trinity

And I can hardly contain my joy
Let me hear just a little bit more
Will it’s release ever set me free

Creepy feeling easing up on me
And I’m covered in a shroud of mediocrity
No entry to the place where answers lie

There’s every sign
That every mind must bear a little frustration
When souls collide
We’re all bound to meet sometime

If you were my only problem
Then I couldn’t confuse you with the solution

So pretty
Soul pity

I think I better ease back
And let the demons slide
There’s a season ahead
A celebration of life

There’s a season ahead
Of celebration and rhyme

It’s a early rise
His teeth are furred
And cleanse with hands to hunt and hold
The sun divides
Imagined leaves
A shelter while I sleep

There are many years
To cloud my mind
But no burden
It’s heavy like a tipping load

Early day
On a bloodied patch
Only noise and brick surround
Tradition sinks
In the soil here
As a rock is swallowed in the mud

The polluted skin
Of my brittle earth

(Instrumental)

Is it obvious that you have had it wrong?
You’re attitude and angst seem to have gone
Is there no way you can be what you have said?
Another self-serving sermon

You can stand and beat your breast
While they feed on the fruit of their sweat
You’ve got it rough
Haven’t you got it rough
So you shoot shoot shoot
From the lip

While you emulate the man that touched your heart

If all the people that you ever knew
Pooled all their money and gave it to you
Do you think you could raise enough to save your skin?

Save your skin
Save
Save

If all the people that you ever knew
Pooled all their money and gave it to you
Do you think you could raise enough to save your skin?
I don’t know

I don’t mind how high you climb
No I don’t mind that climb is mine