Myth America, CD by Walter Egan Available February 11, 2014
All songs copyright (c) 2013 by Walter Lindsay Egan Music.
CAN’T CRY NO MORE
By Walter Egan
(Copyright 2013 Walter Lindsay Egan Music)
Don’t you tell me ‘bout your sorrows
Don’t you tell me of your pain
I’ve been hoping that tomorrow maybe I can smile again
And my heart is torn and tender
Crazy from so many fears
I hear a song and I remember
Then I have to hide my tears
And I don’t know how to stop this hurting
Since the day you walked out my door
And I guess I shed a million teardrops
But I can’t cry no more
So I face another dawning
With a hope that rises with the sun
Will I leave behind my mourning
Or go down again as I’ve done
Chorus
Can’t cry no more, Can’t cry no more
I can’t cry no more
Chorus
DYIN’ FOR LOVE
By Walter Egan
(Copyright 2013 Walter Lindsay Egan Music)
Once upon a time a girl was taught to hold
Her precious gift more precious than gold
Hold her sweet lovin’ her body her life
All for the man who would call her his wife
Boys and girls just dyin for love
Lovers who think they are above
Comin’ down with what they’ve heard of
Boys and girls just dyin for love
Oh times change and before very long
Good girls are giving what used to be wrong
Sex revolution and kids on the pill
I do in this case means only I will
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Fear is in fashion and passion betrayed
Now is the new age of lover’s dismay
Sex as a weapon and love goes unmade
Nobody yet who can come to our aid
Chorus
Then…dyin dyin dyin for love
Dyin dyin dyin for love
Dyin dyin dyin for love
FAITH COMES CRASHING DOWN
By Walter Egan
(Copyright 2013 Walter Lindsay Egan Music)
Big time, big lies, big trouble ahead
Holy, alibis, can’t believe what they said
They hide, behind, their crosses of gold
The preacher’s, sad secrets, the price of their soul
So all alone
The master’s throne
So all alone
Faith comes crashing down
On the holy ground
Trust betrayed
Sinful ways
Faith comes crashing down
Young souls, controlled, made prey as they pray
So evil, believers, all led astray
So all alone
The master’s throne
So all alone
Faith comes crashing down
On the holy ground
Trust betrayed
Sinful ways
Faith comes crashing down
WHAT LURKS?
By Walter Egan
(Copyright 2013 Walter Lindsay Egan Music)
Say, now who can say
For sure
What voices guide our souls
And heaven knows, the ways
That move our days
Is it science or art?
Who knows what lurks inside a heart?
Time, no friend of mine
It takes
All that that makes us whole
And heaven knows , what plan
Moves our hand
Is it science or art?
Who knows what lurks inside a heart?
Mistakes can cause breaks to start
Misunderstandings break a heart
Can cause a man
To take life in his hand
Life, the joy and strife
So brief
But underneath the skin
There deep within
There dwells
Demons from hell
Is it science or art?
Who knows what lurks inside a heart?
YEAH!
By Walter Egan
(Copyright 2013 Walter Lindsay Egan Music)
Here’s my answer since you’re asking
To the question posed
Do I want to? Do I need you?
What do you suppose?
I say yeah! I say yeah!
Yeah yeah yeah
Are your eyes the most amazing
Eyes I’ve ever seen?
Am I falling? Thanks for asking
Hear me as I scream
Chorus
TIME THE MASTER
By Walter Egan
(Copyright 2013 Walter Lindsay Egan Music)
Running in circles day after day
Spinning my life away
Looking for reasons looking for truth
Searching for what to say
Days go long but all too soon they’re gone
Time, the Master, on and on and on
Running in circles night after night
Dreamin’ my dreams away
Running in circles day after day
Running my days away
Chorus
In dreams I can fly away
To places I wish I could stay
Can my dreams become real someday
Someday
Chorus
Chorus repeat last line
Time the master on and on and on and on and on
STOP BEING YOU
By Walter Egan
(Copyright 2013 Walter Lindsay Egan Music)
You are an effect
Lookin’ for a cause
Hoping for respect
Or maybe just applause
You’re a refugee
Washed up on foreign soil
Who’re you gonna be
A peasant or a royal
You can hold your breath
‘til your face turns blue
but you can’t escape what’s true
you can fool some eyes
in your new disguise
but you’ll never stop being you
Life is just a trip
Be careful not to fall
With a simple slip
You may lose it all
You can try new clothes
Or try on those new shoes
But don’t you suppose
You’ll ever shed these blues
Chorus
No you just can’t quit
Or get out of it
And no matter what you do
You can never stop being you
chorus
NOTHIN’ CAN SAVE US NOW
By Walter Egan
(Copyright 2013 Walter Lindsay Egan Music)
What makes a man a man anyway
Does he stand for a fight or just run away
No one can show you how
We were once eye to eye in every way
Now it’s just head to head every day
Nothin’ can save us now
Where has my friend gone
What’s right when love’s gone wrong
Just like a dream become a nightmare
How can I begin to repair
Nothin’ can save it now
You’re right on your side and I’m right on mine
What’s left between us gets harder to find
Nothin’ can save us now
What can I say be or do
Without respect from you
Tag Solo verse (with “nothin’ can save us now”)
Break
Out on riff 4x
MAKES ME NEW
By Walter Egan
(Copyright 2013 Walter Lindsay Egan Music)
God help me
but I feel bad
worst feelin’
that I ever had
I’m dancin’ with despair
God knows how
Just how hard I’ve tried
Over and over
Till I’m sick and tired
Dreams vanish in thin air
When I’m stuck in blue
Her smile can pull me through
Kind words spoken true
Her smile makes me new
Old doubts
Won’t go away
They haunt me
Both night and day
No safe place to hide
Forsaken
And forlorn
I’m shaken
Feels so wrong
So sad and unsatisfied
When I’m stuck in blue
Her smile can pull me through
Kind words spoken true
Her smile makes me new
Makes me know at a glance
That there’s reason and a chance
And it makes my day
( makes the old bitter me
a new refugree
ah the powers that be
(in the land of the free)
COOL CRAZY
By Walter Egan
(Copyright 2013 Walter Lindsay Egan Music)
Sweet summer, what we waited for
The long winter long
Came upon us like a metaphor for a love song
We were young then and it was so nice
The world was our toy
Our Eden, it was paradise
Like the first girl and boy
Cool crazy, running through the night
Cool crazy and it felt so right
Call it crazy but I’m still in love with you
Blue midnight and the watching stars
Me begging for a kiss
You were willing out among the cars
Nothing crazier than this
Chorus
San Vicente median
Such a funny place to sin
But we were crazy
We were crazy back then
Chorus
GONE AWAY
By Walter Egan
(Copyright 2013 Walter Lindsay Egan Music)
When the best of days are all yesterdays
And the rest of days leave you cold
Then don’t freeze away but just seize the day
Until your story’s told
‘til your story’s told
gone away that summer day all we thought was here to stay
Gone away away away oh
Do we gather time like a fine old wine
To intoxicate and confuse?
As our memories become assemblies
Of the path that we choose
Of the past that we lose
Chorus
Away from our time
Away down the line
Away from Piscataway
When onlyness turns to loneliness
And loneliness ain’t no friend
And your confidence fights your common sense
For the chance to contend
For the chance to pretend
Chorus
LI’LI’LOVIN’
By Walter Egan
(Copyright 2013 Walter Lindsay Egan Music)
Little darlin’ can’t you hear me call your name
Little darlin’ how I hope you feel the same
I’ve been dreamin’ about about someone to share my life
I’ve been thinkin’ you could be my dream tonight
A little little lovin’ and a little bit more
It’s just what life’s worth living for
Little darlin’ bring yourself right here to me
Little darlin’ you know the way it ought to be
Don’t deny it I see desire in your eyes
Better try it ain’t no need to apologize
Chorus
And now that life’s worth livin’
Time’s come that I start giving
This is just what we’ve waited for
Little darlin’ I think I hear you call my name
Little darlin’ you know I hope you feel the same
I’ve been dreamin’ about a love to share my life
I’m thinkin’ you should be my love tonight
Chorus
Little darlin’…
LIKE A NAIL
By Walter Egan
(Copyright 2013 Walter Lindsay Egan Music)
Useless and spent, like a nail when it’s bent
Just about put to bed
Like a book that’s been read
Uncertain and vexed don’t know what’s coming next
I’m a leaf in the wind
Don’t know where I’ll land
I can’t excuse it
I feel so corrupt
Even my music
Just can’t get me up
I can’t figure out what it’s all been about
Useless and spent, like a nail when it’s bent
Maybe I’m wrong, maybe life’s like a song
Though the record’s been played
The melody stayed
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