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Ben Harper - Black Rain - lyrics

You Left Them Swimming For Their Lives
Down In New Orleans
Can't Afford A Gallon Of Gasoline
With Your Useless Degrees And Contrary Statistics
This Government Business Is Straight Up Sadistic
Now You Don't Fight For Us
But Expect Us To Die For You
You Have No Sympathy For Us
But Still I Cry For You
Now You May Kill The Revolutionary
But The Revolution You Can Never Bury
Don't Speak To Us Like We Work For You
Selling False Hope Like Some New Dope We're Addicted To
I'm Not A Desperate Man But These Are Desperate Times At Hand
This Generation Is Beyond Your Command
And It Won't Be Long
'til The People Flood The Streets
To Take You Down
One And All
A Black Rain Is Gonna Fall

Ben Harper - Both Sides Of The Gun - lyrics

Living These Days Is Making Me Nervous
Archaic Doctrine No Longer Serve Us
Now We're Left As Silent Witnesses
We Don't Know Quite What This Is
Other Than A War That Can't Be Won
I Feel Like I'm Crowded, I Can't Get Out
World Keeps On Filling Me Up With Doubt
When You're Trapped You Got No Voice
Where You're Born You Got No Choice
Other Than To Go And Take You Some
One Dimensional Fool
In A Three Dimensional World
Politics, It's A Drag
They Put One Foot In The Grave
And The Other On The Flag
Systems Rotten To The Core
Young And Old Deserve Much More
Than Struggling Every Day Until You're Done
Tension
Too Much To Mention
Living On Both Sides Of The Gun

Ben Harper - Blessed To Be A Witness - lyrics

Corcovado parted the sky
And through the darkness
On us he shined
Crucified in stone
Still his blood is my own
Glory behold all my eyes have seen
I am blessed to be a witness
Some have flown away
And cant be with us here today
Like the hills of my home
Some have crumbled and now are gone
Gather around for today wont come again
I am blessed to be a witness
So much sorrow and pain
Still I will not live in vain
Like good questions never asked
Is wisdom wasted on the past
Only by the grace of God go i
I am blessed to be a witness

Ben Harper - Blood Side Out - lyrics

Got a wine soaked heart
And whisky soaked lips
Don't know how to get to you
But I know how to get my kicks
Out in the cold and damp
Out on the streets just like a tramp
There's a siren in the distance
And its screaming my name
Blood side out
I can't win
I'm down again
Something illegal is on my mind
But it ain't murder
Took all I can take I ain't broke I might break
Don't go no further
These streets they're littered with faces the same
And all these strangers have no names
Blood side out
I'm going in
I'm down again
Got a wine soaked heart
And whisky soaked lips
The country may be in your bones
But the city's in your hips
There's a siren in the distance
Screaming my name
Blood side out
Will it ever end
I'm down again

Ben Harper - Another Lonely Day - lyrics

Yes indeed Im alone again
And here comes emptiness crashing in
Its either love or hate
I cant find in between
Cause Ive been with witches
And I have been with a queen
It wouldnt have worked out any way
So now its just another lonely day
Further along we just may
But for now its just another lonely day
Wish there was something
I could say or do
I can resist anything
But temptation from you
But Id rather walk alone
Than chase you around
Id rather fall myself
Than let you drag me down
It wouldnt have worked out any way
And now its just another lonely day
Further along we just may
But for now its just another lonely day
Yesterday seems like a life ago
Cause the one I love
Today I hardly know
You I held so close in my heart oh dear
Grow further from me
With every fallen tear
It wouldnt have worked out any way
So now its just another lonely day
Further along we just may
But for now its just another lonely day

Ben Harper - Alone - lyrics

This empty room it fills my mind
Freedom it leaves me so confined
Every single bone has cracked
What in this life, you cant turn back
I dont want to live
I dont want to live here alone, alone
As these words part with my tounge
I question why they even sung
I promise but I lie
I dont even know myself inside
I dont wanna be
I dont wanna be here alone, alone
Today and tommorow have become one
Every single thing has become undone
Human nature is a beast
What Ive done the most, to show I have the least
Please dont leave me here
Please dont leave me here
Dont you leave me alone, alone

Ben Harper - Amen Omen - lyrics

What started as a whisper
Slowly turned into a scream
Searching for an answer
Where the question is unseen
I dont know where you came from
And I dont know where youve gone
Old friends become old strangers
Between the darkness and the dawn
Amen omen
Will I see your face again
Amen omen
Can I find the place within
To live my life without you
I still hear you saying
All of life is a chance
And is sweetest
When at a glance
But I live a hundred
Lifetimes in a day
But I die a little
In every breath that I take
Amen omen
Will I see your face again
Amen omen
Can I find the place within
To live my life without you
I listen to a whisper
Slowly drift away
Silence is the loudest
Parting word you never say
I put your world
Into my veins
Now a voiceless sympathy
Is all that remains
Amen omen
Will I see your face again
Amen omen
Can I find the place within
To live my life without you

Ben Harper - Better Way - lyrics

I'm A Living Sunset
Lightning In My Bones
Push Me To The Edge
But My Will Is Stone
Fools Will Be Fools
And Wise Will Be Wise
But I Will Look This World
Straight In The Eyes
What Good Is A Man
Who Won't Take A Stand
What Good Is A Cynic
With No Better Plan
Reality Is Sharp
It Cuts At Me Like A Knife
Everyone I Know
Is In The Fight Of Their Life
Take Your Face Out Of Your Hands
And Clear Your Eyes
You Have A Right To Your Dreams
And Don't Be Denied
I Believe In A Better Way

Ben Harper - Ashes - lyrics

Ashes to ashes
And dust to dust
Thats what has become
Of our love and trust
Love has no direction
Cause love has no aim
Love can leave you
As fast as she came
Meeting is such sweet sorrow
Cause someday we may have to part
Hush dont you make a sound
Youre gonna let me down
Good things come
To those who wait
But good things are gone
From those who are late
All that I am
Is all I can give
But with or without you
My life I must live
Meeting is such sweet sorrow
Cause someday we may have to part
Hush dont you make a sound
Youre gonna let me down
Living aint easy
Since youve been gone
No one else can please me
Or make me feel home
Forgetting aint easy
You stay on my mind
Thoughts of us haunt me
Cant leave them behind

Ben Harper - All Along The Watchtower - lyrics

"There must be some way out of here"
Said the joker to the thief
"There's too much confusion,
I can't get no relief
Businessmen, they drink my wine
Plowmen dig my earth
None of them along the line know what any of it is worth."
"No reason to get excited"
The thief, he kindly spoke
"There are many here among us
Who feel that life is but a joke.
But you and I, we've been through that,
And this is not our fate.
So let us not talk falsely now
The hour is getting late."
All along the watchtower, princes kept the view
While all the women came and went, barefoot servants, too.
Outside in the distance a wildcat did growl,
Two riders were approaching, the wind began to howl.

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