Jersey to O.C. (Shaber)
So go out west young man - this is your big adventure
Shake everybody's hand, let their stories quench your thirst
Grab the great unknown, lean into every breeze
Unturn every stone, from Jersey to O.C.

Blow out your back window
Have yourself a time
Roll down that highway
But keep my scent in mind
Cause when the air turns cold
And it gets old
Just come on home to me

I don't need to go - I've already been
Which is why I know you'll be back again
Cause everywhere you go mornings fade to eves
Sunsets make rainbows from Jersey to O.C.

Blow out your back window
Have yourself a time
Roll down that highway
But keep my scent in mind
Cause when the air turns cold
And it gets old
Just come back home to me

No I don't think I know everything
So much more living to do
But I know from all of my traveling
I want you

From Jersey to O.C., unturn every stone
Shake everybody's hand, then come on home to me

Japanese Tea Garden (Shaber)

Meet me in a Japanese tea garden
I'll be wearing white
I'll be there with orchids in my hair
I'll be there to be your wife
Be your wife

Everything's born from something torn that gives it new life
And every new rain takes more of the pain
And everyday I said I'd never again give this one more try
But you came in and everything changed

We've both stumbled on volcanoes burning
We've both got the scars
But we came through and became me and you
Stronger wiser here we are
Here we are

Everything's born from something torn that gives it new life
And every new rain takes more of the pain
And everyday I said I'd never again give this one more try
But you came in and everything changed

From dead ends in a garden maze we've been turned around
And made it to this perfect place to break new ground

Everything's born from something torn that gives it new life
And every new rain takes more of the pain
And everyday I said I'd never again give this one more try
But you came in and everything changed

Meet me in a Japanese tea garden
And I will be your wife

If You Wonder When I Go (Shaber)

This town's like every other
Dots connected in a line
Drawing out the distance
Slowing down time

And if you wonder when I go
Far away from you
If you wonder, now you know
That everywhere, every day, every second I'm away
I miss you

It used to be a conquest
Every mountain had to climb
But I just want to come home now
Your love to find

And if you wonder when I go
Far away from you
If you wonder, now you know
That everywhere, every day, every second I'm away
I miss you

And every motel room is cold
Every bed is too wide
And I dream of growing old
Gently by your side

And if you wonder when I go
Far away from you
If you wonder, now you know
That everywhere, every day, every second I'm away
I miss you

Paula's Porch (Shaber)

Drank himself inside every beautiful drop
Now he's lying in the bed where the morphine doesn't stop
Every beautiful light burning out of his eyes
The end is in there sitting by his side

So tonight we're here on Paula's porch
Singing songs and carrying a torch
For a man who's leaving us behind

Battled his whole life the chemical war
Needing what would only leave him needing more
All our loving arms from sea to shining to sea
Couldn't set our beautiful man free

So tonight we're here on Paula's porch
Singing songs and carrying a torch
For a man who's leaving us behind

As he lies in bed bathed in the TV band
(he is leaving now)
As the gold sun sets over November sand
(he is leaving now)
As we say his name and softly take his hand
(he is leaving now)
He is leaving now, lifting from the land

So tonight we're here on Paula's porch
Singing songs til our voices grow hoarse
Play the flute and I'll bang my guitar
For a man who's heading to the stars
So he will always know where we are

Pedestal (Shaber)

I want you to put me on a pedestal tonight
'Cause I need to be supernatural divine

I need to feel how I felt before I fell

So just tell me what I want to hear
Try your best, take it back two years
I'm starving now for how we started
I'm starving now
I'm starving now

It used to be Shakespeare, all beauty and sooth
So tell me what's left here, but don't tell me the truth

I need to fly like I flew before I fell

So just tell me what I want to hear
Try your best, take it back two years
I'm starving now for how we started
I'm starving now
I'm starving now

Remember when I was your universe
Your horizon line far beyond all words
Remember when I was your private genius
Remember when there was less between us

So I'll be your idol on a pedestal tonight
Just don't see me normal, worship me with lies
'Cause lately I'm crumbling, out from the inside
Please take my pieces,bring them back to life

So just tell me what I want to hear
Try your best, take it back two years
I'm starving now for how we started
How we started
How we started
How we started

I need to feel how I felt before I fell

Cryin' Shame (Shaber)

When Ah see you talking, your eyes tell me through my t.v.
That we were meant to meet
Ah've also seen you sleeping, so lovely in that movie
Ah wish you'd do that next to me

It's a cryin' shame that you don't even know my name
An' Ah swear sometimes it smarts to feel you breathing down my heart

And now you are smiling, brilliantly in a magazine
But no one's lens knows more than me
And now you are laughing, playfully in a window display
An' Ah cannie get inside to be

It's a cryin' shame that you don't even know my name
An' Ah swear sometimes it smarts to feel you breathing down my heart

An' Ah cannie stand the waiting for the day when our lives meet
An' Ah'd be so fascinating, you'll see

An' now you are laughing, playfully in a window display
An' I am climbing in to say

It's a cryin' shame that you don't even know my name
An' Ah swear sometimes it smarts to feel you breathing down, breathing down
Yes it's a cryin' shame that you don't even know my name
An' Ah swear sometimes it smarts to feel you breathing down my heart
But Ah dunnie ken how to begin when you're so far
From reality and me, from reality and me
From reality, reality, reality and me

In My Bones (Shaber)

If I was alone on a desert island I wouldn't be alone
I'd take a stone to the sandy island and write this down

I'm never alone
Cause you're in my bones

If I was alone on a crowded Monday subway rushing down the track
I'd hold my own and softly I'd say this little fact

I'm never alone
Cause you're in my bones

And I travel far enough to feel my freedom
But gone for so long is tough - month after month - and then some

Now I'm alone high above Seattle beneath the clouds
No one no phone just the city's rattle singing out loud
But out beyond the bay I see sunlight reaching down
I see sunlight on the way

And I'm never alone
No I'm never alone
No I'm never alone
Cause you're in my bones

Maybe (Make Up Your Mind) (Shaber)

There is no way I will get you unless you ring my bell
There is no way I will know you unless you show and tell
Lay it out, all you got, and let's get on with it

Just make up your mind, this is so unkind
This big maybe
Why can't you find
What you're looking for
Stop wasting my time on this dotted line
This big maybe you will find
What you're looking for in me

When you kissed me at the station I felt it close the deal
When you kissed me a sensation I felt was burning real
Weren't you there, I'm not nuts, so let's get on with it

Just make up your mind, this is so unkind
This big maybe
Why can't you find
What you're looking for
Stop wasting my time on this dotted line
This big maybe you will find
What you're looking for in me

It's so simple, I've been caught
So just reel me in
Don't leave me torn and scarred
In the holding bin
It's so simple

Just make up your mind, this is so unkind
This big maybe
Why can't you find
What you're looking for
Stop wasting my time on this dotted line
This big maybe you will find
What you're looking for in me

Patron Saint of Tuesday (Shaber)

Everything's cool if you don't commit
If you don't invest your heart in it
So you run the show half-assed with eyes half-closed
Everyone loves when you do your thing
So you throw the same punches in the same old ring
You're driving around in neutral cause it's chill to coast

Like the day that doesn't care
You're the Patron Saint of Tuesday
Cause you're neither here nor there
You're the Patron Saint of Tuesday
Cause life heats up and you say
Better take a break, go easy
So you never get nowhere

Yeah

Shut the door, you'll get to it soon
Treat yourself for an afternoon
So you passed the last ten years of your life
Cause everyone loves when you do your thing
So you throw the same punches in the same old ring
Nothing ever changes as they pass you by

Like the day that doesn't care
You're the Patron Saint of Tuesday
Cause you're neither here nor there
You're the Patron Saint of Tuesday
Cause life heats up and you say
Better take a break, go easy
So you never get nowhere

"Later on" is the constant call
From your mouth
But later on no one's left at all
To help you out

Yeah

Like the day that doesn't care
You're the Patron Saint of Tuesday
Cause you're neither here nor there
You're the Patron Saint of Tuesday
Cause life heats up and you say
Better take a break, go easy
So you never get nowhere

Solitaire (Shaber)

If I had to choose
I would think of you
And how the end came rushing in so smooth
Maybe I'd want that too

Driving Second Avenue past eighty numbered streets
And every round of solitaire as I try to sleep
Empty kindling case at your fireplace
Where the ashes rest in peace

Now I have your shoes
And every half-written page
And songs from fiddlers' rooves
For daughters who have come of age

And driving Second Avenue past eighty numbered streets
And every round of solitaire as I try to sleep

But I can't stop dreaming
Of when they brought you in
And how I felt like screaming
At your whitening skin

Driving Second Avenue past eighty numbered streets
And every round of solitaire as I try to sleep
Empty kindling case at your fireplace
Where the ashes rest in peace
Driving Second Avenue past eighty numbered streets
And every round of solitaire as I try to sleep
You'll never give me away,
I'll walk that aisle alone
And every night and every day
I'll miss all that I have known

These are all that's left for me to keep
These are all that's left for me to keep

It's Your Show (Shaber)

Instead of suffering to the top
You built the mountain all around yourself
Instead of Go you chose to Stop
Now you're something else

It's your show, you are the big MC
It's your show, is this all you dreamed
It's your show, take a bow
It's all you've got now

And gathered in this Monday room
Your loyal subjects jester and sing
But I think soon they'll see right through
The robes of the king

It's your show, you are the big MC
It's your show, is this all you dreamed
It's your show, take a bow
It's your show now

You can't always be the best
Somtimes I am that crumpled poster underneath my desk
But if we stoke that bitter fire the glare will leave us blind
And if we let our beast take over we will get left behind

You see, I'd rather learn from my mistakes
Than latch on and never change
So while you rule inside your gates
I'll brave the range
I'll brave the range

Cause it's my show, I'll be the big MC
It's my show, I will be all I dreamed
It's my show, so take a bow
It's my show now, yeah
It's my show now, yeah
It's my show

Everything's Fine (Shaber)

Young heartbeat on the block, bumming cigarettes
Strong vision of the top, just isn't climbing yet
Third doorway from St Marks, hey do you have a dollar
To score some in the park, to feel ten feet taller

Soon as I get up, I'm a-fly all the way up
And you'll have to cup your hands to give a shout out loud enough for me

Much smarter than the pack, too good for bottom rung
Three skateboard pavement cracks for each thing he hasn't done
Can't work and still be free, too good for that he'll say
I'll own my own company, maybe be President someday

Soon as I get up, I'm a-fly all the way up
And you'll have to cup your hands to give a shout out loud enough for me

And everything's fine yeah
Pass the wine yeah
I've got lots of time yeah
And everything's fine yeah

Yeah I got my own plan, no Starbucks slave to be
I'll be my only man, answering just to me
Hey can I get a dollar to score some in the park
To feel ten feet taller, to get a fresh start

Soon as I get up, I'm a-fly all the way up
And you'll have to cup your hands to give a shout out loud enough for me
Soon as I get up, I'm a-fly all the way up
And you'll have to cup your hands to give a shout out loud enough for me

And everything's fine yeah
Everything's fine yeah
Everything's fine yeah

Best Part of the Movie (Shaber)

Kings Cross Station, eating chocolate, waiting on the Great North Eastern Rail
5 hours on your shoulder
Foreign coins in our pockets, two world explorers on the trail
As strangers look us over
And grumbling we huddle close, weary from this overdose of wanderlust

But the best part of the movie comes after the credits leave the screen
And the lights come up on you and me
And the best part of the dream is when I wake up and you're holding my hand
Oh man, forever's looking sweet

Back at home and wide awake, the orange night throws patterns on the ceiling
And I am spinning memories
Nothing will get sleep to take, so I'm lying listening to your breathing
It sounds like peace, peace, peace
And who knew this restless girl would ever find her scattered world so complete?

And the best part of the movie comes after the credits leave the screen
And the lights come up on you and me
And the best part of the dream is when I wake up and you're holding my hand
Oh man, forever's looking sweet

And then that day on 75 through endless heartland countryside
When suddenly my heartbeat was off and running wildly
Cause I was absolutely sure like never I had been before, forever is what we're for

So here we are white dress and kilt like all those magazines we've been collecting
Our famillies together
Just like in those feature films, the ones with all the sunset happy endings
But this is even better
And with these rings we'll never fail, two world explorers on the trail,
for all eternity

And the best part of the movie comes after the credits leave the screen
And the lights come up on you and me
And the best part of the dream is when I wake up and you're holding my hand
Oh man, I wake up and you're holding my hand
Oh man, forever's looking sweet

What Would You Attempt to Do (Shaber)

What would you attempt to do if you knew you could not fail
If confidence stood up and in comparison fear was pale
If nothing could make you fall
If nothing was preventing you from anything at all
What would you attempt to do

You could rise up from your nine to five to burn all your ties
Then ride up to the top to just jump off it and fly for miles and miles
Recovered from fluorescent lights
And breathing new the clean perfume of open sky
This you could attempt to do

But fear always enters in
Keeping us from keeping up with all our dreams
What would you attempt to do
What would you attempt to do
What would you attempt to do if you knew you could not fail

Mostly I would host a party thrown for the foes of peace
Pour them drinks and make them think and sing in drunk harmonies
And just before they left for the night
I'd shake them hands and sign them truces for all time
This I would attempt to do

But fear always enters in
Keeping us from keeping up with all our dreams
What would you attempt to do
What would you attempt to do
What would you attempt to do if nothing was exempt to you
If you knew you could not fail?