The Scorpion and the Dove
1. WHAT YOU STOLE
Not much for appearance let the chips fall where they may
Go ahead and let them fear us we’re probably better off that way
Your fear turns to hate and all your time is running out
It’s far too late when all the evidence is found
Things in this life are worth a fight to death
But you take all you can get till there’s just nothing left
Say time can right your wrongs and the hole in your heart can be filled
A thousand days under a thousand suns couldn’t dry all the blood you’ve spilled
You can’t borrow what you owe
You can’t put back what you stole
For every lie you’ll pay the price
You can’t buy back your soul when it’s already been sold
There’s no explanation when they ask what are we fighting for
God know there’s no such thing as a holy war
Send children off to fight with God on their side
Just another mother left to weep for her fallen child
You can’t borrow what you owe
You can’t put back what you stole
For every lie you’ll pay the price
You can’t buy back your soul when it’s already been sold
Inch by inch and day by day we lose one more thing that can’t be replaced
The debt grows and grows till it just can’t be repaid
You justify your sacrificing all these lives
Take an eye for an eye till we all go blind
Things in this life are worth a fight to death
But you take all you can get till there’s just nothing left
Say time can write your wrongs and the hole in your heart can be filled
A thousand days under a thousand suns couldn’t dry all the blood you’ve spilled
You can’t borrow what you owe
You can’t put back what you stole
For every lie you’ll pay the price
You can’t buy back your soul when it’s already been sold
2. LET IT RIDE
Chalk it up to stupid luck
With all she had she couldn’t get enough
Of the love she never knew she deserved
Seems she’s got another broken heart
Doing all her best to pick up the parts
She said well I guess I’ll never learn
Can’t seem to catch a break
It’s too much too early too little too late
It’s brand new and now it starts to fade
Nobody ever wins this game of casting stones and placing blame
You know the more things change the more they stay the same
Let it ride
Let your freedom be your guide
I know it might take a little while
Let it ride
From the darkness must come light
Sometimes you gotta burn to shine
Let it ride
I know it might hurt your pride
To strive and strive and still not arrive
At the place you feel you really need to be
You can’t go by what you’re told
The only way to know is on your own
And way up close is the only way to see
Let it ride
Let your freedom be your guide
I know it might take a little while
Let it ride
From the darkness must come light
Sometimes you gotta burn to shine
Let it ride
Your tiny heart is devastated
It wasn’t safe in the box you placed it
Now it seems you need a little room
Nobody ever learns to lose
They tell us time can heal all our wounds
But they never heal that soon
Let it ride
Let your freedom be your guide
I know it might take a little while
Let it ride
From the darkness must come light
Sometimes you gotta burn to shine
Let it ride
3. THREE YELLOW ROSES
Three yellow roses intertwined at the stems
No matter how long the story we’re defined by where we begin
And all the late chapters that never unfold
Who’s the villain, who’s the hero depends on where it’s told
You can give all you’ve got
Give until it’s gone
We’ve been pretending for far too long
Loving can leave you just as fast as it came
But all the gold in the world can’t buy back your day
You were always on my mind like a picture that I tried to hold on to
But even memory fades and
I can’t delay the day when I would have to turn you loose
I remember what it felt like I kept all your old letters
And all the promises you could write honey now I know better
You can give all you’ve got
Give until it’s gone
We’ve been pretending for far too long
Loving can leave you just as fast as it came
But all the gold in the world can’t buy back your day
4. THE SCORPION AND THE DOVE
Roll up our sleeves we push right back against the dawn
We mourn the light of another day gone
Howl at the moon we curse the sun
Left to set over another job undone
It just had to be we had no other choice
Things got bad before they got worse
Push others down just to give yourself a lift
It’s a delicate balance, and it’s bound to shift
How long do we have to wait
Is there anything left can it be saved?
I believe that it’s not too late, and
No defeat is in vain
Metaphors were never meant to be laws
When you rule with fear, the wisdom’s lost
Faith is blind when it comes without a doubt
Can you still be humble when your answer’s found?
We all pray for peace keep our loved ones safe and sound
Does it matter what you say when your head is bowed?
The pressure is so great just to know how to be saved
When you can’t bend you’re bound to break
How long do we have to wait
Is there anything left can it be saved?
I believe that it’s not too late, and
No defeat is in vain
Fulfill every prophecy bring about impending doom
If the end is coming might as well come soon
Prophets never said it had to be this way
What if they were only warning what becomes of hate
We’ve all missed the point may God bless us all
With the grace to fly and the shame to crawl
It’s a story as old as hate as old as love
The scorpion and the dove
How long do we have to wait
Is there anything left can it be saved?
I believe that it’s not too late, and
No defeat is in vain
5. GOOD TO GO
There’s a feeling building deep down in their hearts
Making plans for the big payback all out there in the dark
And all the gunmen are dueling in the park
And all this fire is just fuel waiting for a spark
It’s good to go it’s about to blow
Say goodbye to everything you know
You can feel it in the air in the way the moon glows red
The way it makes the hair stand up on the back of your neck
We won’t follow we wont swallow all the lies we’re fed
There’s gonna come a time and it’s coming soon
You’re gonna eat all the words you’ve said
It’s good to go it’s about to blow
Say goodbye to everything you know
They tell you do what you’re told it starts when you’re young
Lie with a smile right though their teeth speaking with a forked tongue
You better stop and think about what you know
About what it means to take control it seems even gravity is losing its hold
It’s good to go it’s about to blow
Say goodbye to everything you know
Say goodbye to what you know
We won’t follow we won’t follow
Stop and think about what you know
About what it means to take control
Say goodbye to what you know
6. SAD AND PROUD
You learn to leave a little space for the knife in your heart
You swear that when we get face to face you’ll pull it out
Make a brand new start
You lock it up you store away your pain
Like your burdens are your own
You find out you can’t carry all that weight by yourself
Sad and proud
Remember that no matter where you are
You’re not alone
We just can’t explain
All the secrets that we keep
And my confessions they don’t even make a sound
No one can hear you when you don’t weep
You lock it up you store away your pain
Like your burdens are your own
You find out you can’t carry all that weight by yourself
Sad and proud
Remember that no matter where you are
You’re not alone
We’re made to believe
There ain’t nothing meant to last
We collect the failed attempts of our past
In mounds of mud and broken glass
You lock it up you store away your pain
Like your burdens are your own
You find out you can’t carry all that weight by yourself
Sad and proud
Remember that no matter where you are
You’re not alone
7. RECOVERY
Heartache for sale no time to be afraid
I’m just looking for a fair trade
For all it’s been through it’s still in pretty good shape
Busted broken battered bruised but in repair
Living moments running on borrowed time
Sitting waiting wishing for a sign
All these plans I’ve made all these dues left unpaid
I got something I can call my own
Ain’t that the way I see it lately
Build it up just to tear it down
Sometimes you gotta get lost to be found
Hidden away deep down in a cave
In the dark when I found you
Pit of despair you just didn’t care
You said the light was hurting your eyes too
If we could get away from all those hateful things they say
Maybe we could find peace of mind
Two steps closer with a chance to start over
Brand new in each other’s eyes
Ain’t that the way I see it lately
Build it up just to tear it down
Sometimes you gotta get lost to be found
Nobody’s made of stone we all fall victim to love and lust
Everybody burns bright like the sun we all turn to ashes and dust
We are more than flesh and bone we are one we are one
Days never end they just start over again
When you can’t sleep you just close your eyes
Visions of your past ever last when you can’t put it down
You can’t shut it out
We are forgiven everyone Hallelujah
Give me a song give me your loving arms
Wrap me in something I can’t lose
Ain’t that the way I see it lately
Build it up just to tear it down
Sometimes you gotta get lost to be found
8. BELOVED ONE
In all my living days in all of my years
I know where I’ve been don’t know how I got here
In your arms oh my darling in yours arms
In all my weariness with you I’ve found my rest
The good lord has smiled upon me with you I have been blessed
I’ve been blessed my sweet lord I’ve been blessed
I’m not waiting for my luck to run out
I know enough to know what I’ve found
May we always feel the way we do now
My darling my beloved one
We don’t have to speak I know what’s on your mind
I can see the light shining in your eyes
Let it shine my darling let it shine
Sometimes mountains crumble even diamonds fade
But the love you give is the life you save
The love that you give is the life you save
I’m not waiting for my luck to run out
I know enough to know what I’ve found
May we always feel the way we do now
My darling my beloved one
When our day is through and all our work is done
When I come back home every song been sung
You’re the one my darling my darling you’re my beloved one
9. LET ME KNOW
All tangled up in your hesitation
Ever losing my ever-loving patience
Already told you the way I feel inside
You say you feel the same
But you keep taking your sweet time
What’s it gonna be? Darling let me know
You can grab a hold or darling let me go
I’ve been waiting all this time
I can’t read between the lines
Tired of playing games
Where the rules all change
What’s it gonna be?
Let me know or let me go
Talk is cheap and it’s cheaper by the dozen
The dozenth time you said it, you still haven’t done it
There’s only one thing worse than a love unrequited
That’s to be loved and keep on misguiding
What’s it gonna be? Darling let me know
You can grab a hold or darling let me go
I’ve been waiting all this time
I can’t read between the lines
Tired of playing games
Where the rules all change
What’s it gonna be
Let me know or let me go
10. TAKE IT SLOW
Day break seven o’clock turn over turn it off
You whisper in my ear so quiet and so soft
Good morning darling its time to get up
It’s clear we’re both here I don’t see what’s the rush
It ain’t right I think you’ll find
There ain’t never gonna be enough time
Come here, babe, the world can wait
Let’s take it slow
I know you got things to do you got places you need to be
The clocks always ticking you’ve got deadlines you need to meet
All we have are these moments let’s spend them before they’re gone
I just want to be with you in this perfect early morning dawn
It ain’t right I think you’ll find
There ain’t never gonna be enough time
Come here, babe, the world can wait
Let’s take it slow
It ain’t right I think you’ll find
There ain’t never gonna be enough time
Come here, babe, the world can wait
Let’s take it slow
And act like we ain’t got no place to go
They won’t mind if you don’t show up to work on time again
Come here babe the world can wait
11. WORRY STONES
Do all we can just to keep it straight
Tip toe across the edge of a razor blade
Its gonna cut right to the bone
To be left here all alone
We can make every minute count
We’ll make every moment ours
Worry stones worn flat and round
No matter where we go
We will always be at home
In the love we share always and now
Darling lets break this stone
We’ll use the pieces to pave our road
No we won’t get far
With this aching in our hearts
We can make every minute count
We’ll make every moment ours
Worry stones worn flat and round
No matter where we go
We will always be at home
In the love we share always and now
12. QUICK TO STRIKE
Fever sets in it won’t let you go
Burning burning under control
Lightning rolls from the tip of your tongue
Quick to strike slow to be undone
Water creeps slow across the floor
In through windows beneath the door
Fire rains down fury and love
Quick to strike slow to be undone
Quick to strike slow to be undone
Not much for appearance let the chips fall where they may
Go ahead and let them fear us we’re probably better off that way
Your fear turns to hate and all your time is running out
It’s far too late when all the evidence is found
Things in this life are worth a fight to death
But you take all you can get till there’s just nothing left
Say time can right your wrongs and the hole in your heart can be filled
A thousand days under a thousand suns couldn’t dry all the blood you’ve spilled
You can’t borrow what you owe
You can’t put back what you stole
For every lie you’ll pay the price
You can’t buy back your soul when it’s already been sold
There’s no explanation when they ask what are we fighting for
God know there’s no such thing as a holy war
Send children off to fight with God on their side
Just another mother left to weep for her fallen child
You can’t borrow what you owe
You can’t put back what you stole
For every lie you’ll pay the price
You can’t buy back your soul when it’s already been sold
Inch by inch and day by day we lose one more thing that can’t be replaced
The debt grows and grows till it just can’t be repaid
You justify your sacrificing all these lives
Take an eye for an eye till we all go blind
Things in this life are worth a fight to death
But you take all you can get till there’s just nothing left
Say time can write your wrongs and the hole in your heart can be filled
A thousand days under a thousand suns couldn’t dry all the blood you’ve spilled
You can’t borrow what you owe
You can’t put back what you stole
For every lie you’ll pay the price
You can’t buy back your soul when it’s already been sold
2. LET IT RIDE
Chalk it up to stupid luck
With all she had she couldn’t get enough
Of the love she never knew she deserved
Seems she’s got another broken heart
Doing all her best to pick up the parts
She said well I guess I’ll never learn
Can’t seem to catch a break
It’s too much too early too little too late
It’s brand new and now it starts to fade
Nobody ever wins this game of casting stones and placing blame
You know the more things change the more they stay the same
Let it ride
Let your freedom be your guide
I know it might take a little while
Let it ride
From the darkness must come light
Sometimes you gotta burn to shine
Let it ride
I know it might hurt your pride
To strive and strive and still not arrive
At the place you feel you really need to be
You can’t go by what you’re told
The only way to know is on your own
And way up close is the only way to see
Let it ride
Let your freedom be your guide
I know it might take a little while
Let it ride
From the darkness must come light
Sometimes you gotta burn to shine
Let it ride
Your tiny heart is devastated
It wasn’t safe in the box you placed it
Now it seems you need a little room
Nobody ever learns to lose
They tell us time can heal all our wounds
But they never heal that soon
Let it ride
Let your freedom be your guide
I know it might take a little while
Let it ride
From the darkness must come light
Sometimes you gotta burn to shine
Let it ride
3. THREE YELLOW ROSES
Three yellow roses intertwined at the stems
No matter how long the story we’re defined by where we begin
And all the late chapters that never unfold
Who’s the villain, who’s the hero depends on where it’s told
You can give all you’ve got
Give until it’s gone
We’ve been pretending for far too long
Loving can leave you just as fast as it came
But all the gold in the world can’t buy back your day
You were always on my mind like a picture that I tried to hold on to
But even memory fades and
I can’t delay the day when I would have to turn you loose
I remember what it felt like I kept all your old letters
And all the promises you could write honey now I know better
You can give all you’ve got
Give until it’s gone
We’ve been pretending for far too long
Loving can leave you just as fast as it came
But all the gold in the world can’t buy back your day
4. THE SCORPION AND THE DOVE
Roll up our sleeves we push right back against the dawn
We mourn the light of another day gone
Howl at the moon we curse the sun
Left to set over another job undone
It just had to be we had no other choice
Things got bad before they got worse
Push others down just to give yourself a lift
It’s a delicate balance, and it’s bound to shift
How long do we have to wait
Is there anything left can it be saved?
I believe that it’s not too late, and
No defeat is in vain
Metaphors were never meant to be laws
When you rule with fear, the wisdom’s lost
Faith is blind when it comes without a doubt
Can you still be humble when your answer’s found?
We all pray for peace keep our loved ones safe and sound
Does it matter what you say when your head is bowed?
The pressure is so great just to know how to be saved
When you can’t bend you’re bound to break
How long do we have to wait
Is there anything left can it be saved?
I believe that it’s not too late, and
No defeat is in vain
Fulfill every prophecy bring about impending doom
If the end is coming might as well come soon
Prophets never said it had to be this way
What if they were only warning what becomes of hate
We’ve all missed the point may God bless us all
With the grace to fly and the shame to crawl
It’s a story as old as hate as old as love
The scorpion and the dove
How long do we have to wait
Is there anything left can it be saved?
I believe that it’s not too late, and
No defeat is in vain
5. GOOD TO GO
There’s a feeling building deep down in their hearts
Making plans for the big payback all out there in the dark
And all the gunmen are dueling in the park
And all this fire is just fuel waiting for a spark
It’s good to go it’s about to blow
Say goodbye to everything you know
You can feel it in the air in the way the moon glows red
The way it makes the hair stand up on the back of your neck
We won’t follow we wont swallow all the lies we’re fed
There’s gonna come a time and it’s coming soon
You’re gonna eat all the words you’ve said
It’s good to go it’s about to blow
Say goodbye to everything you know
They tell you do what you’re told it starts when you’re young
Lie with a smile right though their teeth speaking with a forked tongue
You better stop and think about what you know
About what it means to take control it seems even gravity is losing its hold
It’s good to go it’s about to blow
Say goodbye to everything you know
Say goodbye to what you know
We won’t follow we won’t follow
Stop and think about what you know
About what it means to take control
Say goodbye to what you know
6. SAD AND PROUD
You learn to leave a little space for the knife in your heart
You swear that when we get face to face you’ll pull it out
Make a brand new start
You lock it up you store away your pain
Like your burdens are your own
You find out you can’t carry all that weight by yourself
Sad and proud
Remember that no matter where you are
You’re not alone
We just can’t explain
All the secrets that we keep
And my confessions they don’t even make a sound
No one can hear you when you don’t weep
You lock it up you store away your pain
Like your burdens are your own
You find out you can’t carry all that weight by yourself
Sad and proud
Remember that no matter where you are
You’re not alone
We’re made to believe
There ain’t nothing meant to last
We collect the failed attempts of our past
In mounds of mud and broken glass
You lock it up you store away your pain
Like your burdens are your own
You find out you can’t carry all that weight by yourself
Sad and proud
Remember that no matter where you are
You’re not alone
7. RECOVERY
Heartache for sale no time to be afraid
I’m just looking for a fair trade
For all it’s been through it’s still in pretty good shape
Busted broken battered bruised but in repair
Living moments running on borrowed time
Sitting waiting wishing for a sign
All these plans I’ve made all these dues left unpaid
I got something I can call my own
Ain’t that the way I see it lately
Build it up just to tear it down
Sometimes you gotta get lost to be found
Hidden away deep down in a cave
In the dark when I found you
Pit of despair you just didn’t care
You said the light was hurting your eyes too
If we could get away from all those hateful things they say
Maybe we could find peace of mind
Two steps closer with a chance to start over
Brand new in each other’s eyes
Ain’t that the way I see it lately
Build it up just to tear it down
Sometimes you gotta get lost to be found
Nobody’s made of stone we all fall victim to love and lust
Everybody burns bright like the sun we all turn to ashes and dust
We are more than flesh and bone we are one we are one
Days never end they just start over again
When you can’t sleep you just close your eyes
Visions of your past ever last when you can’t put it down
You can’t shut it out
We are forgiven everyone Hallelujah
Give me a song give me your loving arms
Wrap me in something I can’t lose
Ain’t that the way I see it lately
Build it up just to tear it down
Sometimes you gotta get lost to be found
8. BELOVED ONE
In all my living days in all of my years
I know where I’ve been don’t know how I got here
In your arms oh my darling in yours arms
In all my weariness with you I’ve found my rest
The good lord has smiled upon me with you I have been blessed
I’ve been blessed my sweet lord I’ve been blessed
I’m not waiting for my luck to run out
I know enough to know what I’ve found
May we always feel the way we do now
My darling my beloved one
We don’t have to speak I know what’s on your mind
I can see the light shining in your eyes
Let it shine my darling let it shine
Sometimes mountains crumble even diamonds fade
But the love you give is the life you save
The love that you give is the life you save
I’m not waiting for my luck to run out
I know enough to know what I’ve found
May we always feel the way we do now
My darling my beloved one
When our day is through and all our work is done
When I come back home every song been sung
You’re the one my darling my darling you’re my beloved one
9. LET ME KNOW
All tangled up in your hesitation
Ever losing my ever-loving patience
Already told you the way I feel inside
You say you feel the same
But you keep taking your sweet time
What’s it gonna be? Darling let me know
You can grab a hold or darling let me go
I’ve been waiting all this time
I can’t read between the lines
Tired of playing games
Where the rules all change
What’s it gonna be?
Let me know or let me go
Talk is cheap and it’s cheaper by the dozen
The dozenth time you said it, you still haven’t done it
There’s only one thing worse than a love unrequited
That’s to be loved and keep on misguiding
What’s it gonna be? Darling let me know
You can grab a hold or darling let me go
I’ve been waiting all this time
I can’t read between the lines
Tired of playing games
Where the rules all change
What’s it gonna be
Let me know or let me go
10. TAKE IT SLOW
Day break seven o’clock turn over turn it off
You whisper in my ear so quiet and so soft
Good morning darling its time to get up
It’s clear we’re both here I don’t see what’s the rush
It ain’t right I think you’ll find
There ain’t never gonna be enough time
Come here, babe, the world can wait
Let’s take it slow
I know you got things to do you got places you need to be
The clocks always ticking you’ve got deadlines you need to meet
All we have are these moments let’s spend them before they’re gone
I just want to be with you in this perfect early morning dawn
It ain’t right I think you’ll find
There ain’t never gonna be enough time
Come here, babe, the world can wait
Let’s take it slow
It ain’t right I think you’ll find
There ain’t never gonna be enough time
Come here, babe, the world can wait
Let’s take it slow
And act like we ain’t got no place to go
They won’t mind if you don’t show up to work on time again
Come here babe the world can wait
11. WORRY STONES
Do all we can just to keep it straight
Tip toe across the edge of a razor blade
Its gonna cut right to the bone
To be left here all alone
We can make every minute count
We’ll make every moment ours
Worry stones worn flat and round
No matter where we go
We will always be at home
In the love we share always and now
Darling lets break this stone
We’ll use the pieces to pave our road
No we won’t get far
With this aching in our hearts
We can make every minute count
We’ll make every moment ours
Worry stones worn flat and round
No matter where we go
We will always be at home
In the love we share always and now
12. QUICK TO STRIKE
Fever sets in it won’t let you go
Burning burning under control
Lightning rolls from the tip of your tongue
Quick to strike slow to be undone
Water creeps slow across the floor
In through windows beneath the door
Fire rains down fury and love
Quick to strike slow to be undone
Quick to strike slow to be undone