Lyrics

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

    C

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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