MICHELLE MALONE: Beneath the Devil Moon

Beneath the Devil Moon

Grace
In the Weeds
My Green Thumb
Blue Suede
The Edge
All My Lifetime
Medicated Magdaline
Speaking of Fueled...
Green
Devil Moon
Dimming Soul

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Beneath the Devil Moon

I was up all night
dreaming of you
Pretty valentine
Bleeding again from the sole of her shoes
Cause she's got to carry the weight of the truth

Would you take it easy on me
Would you take it easy on me
Would you like to see me crawling
Would it do any good
Good would do if it could

I was up all night drinking of you
We got into a fight
Love always drains the life out of me
But I can't complain
I'm in the deep freeze

Would you take it easy on me
Would you make it easy on me
Would you like to see me crawling
Would it do any good
Good would do if it could
Through the grace of your heart

I'd be alright through the grace of your heart
Sleep through the night through the grace of your heart
Keep me in line through the grace of your heart
Keep me alive through the grace of your heart

I got up alright
Breakfast for two
Pieces of hate all over the room
Your love is a light that leads to my soul
That's melting the wall,
That's drowning me, so

Would you take it easy on me
Could you make it easy on me
Would you like to see me crawling
Would it do any good
Good would do if it could
Through the grace of your heart
The grace of your heart

I'd be alright through the grace of your heart
Sleep through the night through the grace of your heart
Swallow my pride through the grace of your heart
Buried alive through the grace of your heart
Love has no pride
Love has no pride
Grace

I been deep in the weeds for so long now
That it's starting to look like up to me
I got fireflies sending signals out
but it looks like it's all up to me
Life, she caught me slumbering
the wake up call came much too late
I went to dial your number friend
But the numbers didn't add up straight
I had nothing to show you but I had somewhere to go
So I walked outside, on down the line
And I lay my body down, can't get my feet back on the ground
walk my head around, walk my head around

If I can stay alive, If I can stay alive, If I can stay alive
I could be somebody tomorrow

I'm not saying keep sharp objects away
but I cut this shirtsleeve from my heart
and if red is the color of life and love
I want to wear your love like heaven, yea
My desire to survive is second only to my desire to be loved by you
Let me take you
to the waters edge, show you how beautiful you are in the reflection of these tears
in the reflection of these years

If I can stay alive, if I can stay alive, If I can stay alive
I could be somebody tomorrow

You say you'd love me anyway, and if I were the hotel maid I think you'd love me more
But I feel like a loser, like a shaker not a mover, like a worn out lonely whore

I been deep in the weeds for so long now
Machete swing don't cut me down
One more day and I just might
Turn this darkness into light

If I can stay alive, if I can stay alive, if I can stay alive
I could be somebody tomorrow
him, run for

You hand me life to hold on to
Now I've got a lock without a clue
I've got a guitar but I haven't got any blues
You drove your car into the rail
Hey, little star, your engine failed
You lack the luster, dull and pale
But I cannot shine for you

Talk to me - that's what you came to do
But you just stand there without a clue
I've got a guitar but I have no diagnosis for you
Space invader, little quasar
Oh, how I wonder what you are
You can't get where you're going to
Still I cannot take you

I've got a spot out back where I've taken my shovel
I've got a spot out back that's taking all of my time
I've got a plot out back if I should run into trouble

So don't give me anything to hold
You keep your diary in bold
I never said I wanted to
But you just assumed...

I've got a garden where I - am growing patients
And my green thumb has become...has come undone
I've got a garden where I'm - growing impatient
Oh, my green thumb has become... has come undone
I've got a garden where I - am growing patients
Oh, my green thumb has become... has come undone
I've got a garden where I'm - growing impatient
Oh, my green thumb has become

Once in my life
a little girl learning goodbye
Daddy's all gone
She's left standing in the drive
Dreams come to rescue me
Dream me away
Dreams they rescue me
Gone away

I'm staring out the window
a million miles away
Blue Suede
No fires for the widow
No flowers did she lay
Blue suede

Once in my life
Had a brother who had me
He may have gone
But he will never leave
Dreams they to rescue me
Dream away
Dreams they rescue me
Gone away

Now I'm staring out the window
a million miles away
Blue Suede
No fires for the widow
No flowers did she lay
Blue Suede

From down there
Was nothing I could do
Lie down there or
Crawl back in the womb
There was no room

I should try to speak
but all this fighting left me weak
If I could defend
but the ink runs from my pen

I'd beg you not to go away
We should be here together
Though we are somewhere near the edge
I'm begging you don't go away
We should be getting better
Though we are somewhere near the edge

And if I could erase
I'd leave the past without a trace
and with picture-perfect valentine
Replace the words disguised as mine

And beg you not to go away
We should be here together
Though we are somewhere near the edge
I'm begging you don't go away
We should be getting better
Though we are somewhere near the edge

Life is not living without you
Love is not loving without you

This is something that I feel
the tight squeeze and the cracking cold steel
and I can't stop it - my heart
must be breaking

I'm begging you don't go away
We should be here together
Though we are somewhere near the edge
I'm begging you don't go away
We should be getting better
Though we are somewhere near the edge
Why are we somewhere near the edge

All My Lifetime (Michelle Malone & Kristen Hall, Ludakris Music/ASCAP)

When you walked away
You had nothing left to say
Now you've come to change your mind
It's too late this time
I've got no tears to cry
It's time to say goodbye
I can't cry for what you lost
and I can't live with what it cost
and everyday that passes by
All My Lifetime
Everyday - All My Lifetime
Everyday - All My Lifetime
It's too late- All My Lifetime
It's so hard to be someone
In the company of none
If I could only close my eyes
Don't look back inside
But I've got no tears to cry
This time I'll say goodbye
'Cause I can't cry for what you've lost
And I can't live with what it cost
And everyday that passes by
All My Lifetime
Everyday - All My Lifetime
Everyday - All My Lifetime
It's too late - All My Lifetime
I've got no tears to cry
It's time to say goodbye
Goodbye
All My Lifetime
Goodbye

I'm so fucking lonely. I ain't even high.
Nobody knows me. God knows they try.
Some people talk it. Some people lie.
I'm sick of people talking and I've heard every line.
I see your eyes sparkle when they look into mine. Yea.
Some people talk and you can hear a bell ring.
Some people talk and you don't hear a thing.

Oh no, here we go again. .
Medicated Magdalene
Sing me that song, my friend
And medicate me Magdalene
Until I come down again

We don't come together. We don't come alone.
How is the weather? Dry as a bone.
Some people talk it, then go home alone.
I've seen your eyes rise like a couple of planets.
We wouldn't be together even if we'd planned it. Yea.
I'm sick of people talking when they don't understand.
Just to keep from falling, you held onto my hand.

And I'm feeling so shot down on the street today
I want you to love me then I want to run away

I'm so fucking lonely. But I'm feeling fine.
Nobody Knows me. Anonymities kind.
Some people talk it. Some people lie
I'm sick of people talking and I've heard every line
I see your eyes sparkle when they look into mine
Some people come together, you can hear a bell ring
Some people come together and you don't hear a thing

Don't you get in my way
I'm coming through like a freight train
Don't you get in my way
I'm coming through like a freight train

Time for reflection
Did not see it the first time
Where have you been all these years
Running in circles
Listening to strangers
Too many voices to hear

I'm dreaming again
I'm scheming

Don't you get in my way
I'm coming through like a freight train
Don't you get in my way
I'm coming through like a freight train

Too distant, for certain,
Now I think I'm hurtin'
How do you feel everything
Back up from the sewer
and staring at stars
Alice, why did you leave me for so long

I'm dreaming again
I'm scheming

Don't you get in my way
I'm coming through like a freight train
Don't you get in my way
I'm coming through like freight train

(spoken)
From the bottom of the looking glass
Though the cream may always rise
Somehow I made it ...scarred but ...smarter
and I'm never/ going back/ again, no sir
(Not on purpose anyway)

I cried last night for that
girl beneath the black cloud
I did not know her personally but
I do remember seeing her from across the pale charade
Heaven in hell, man, what a parade
She could fly for hours on her magic carpet
Encircle the heart and stab it and stop it
(and there was enough fuel for that bonfire
to last more than a few lifetimes-
I'm convinced that she had already
been hording it for several incarnations)
How long? How long?

Where have you been?
What have you done?
And why do you fearfully from yourself run?
Did you rape? Did you murder?
As a king or a servant
A frustrated nun, a frigid high priestess
A molester of children
A hunter of helpless beasts
Whatever the breach
Brought you to this near and distant place with me
Say goodbye
Say goodbye
To a world where you cannot breathe
To hiding behind unfamiliar skin
To singing songs, never knowing what they mean
Knowledge is power - I never knew me... 'TIL NOW, 'til now

It's time to open up that goddamn door
It's time to find out just what you're here for
Said it's time to open up that goddamn door
It's time to find out just what you're here for

I'm dreaming again
I'm screaming

Don't you get in my way
I'm coming through like a freight train
Don't you get in my way
I'm coming through like a freight train
Don't you get in my way
I'm coming through like a freight train

I feel green, as green as the leaves of last summer
I feel blue, as blue as a bird on fire
and I've got to let it happen now
I feel stupid like anything I got to say's not worth it
I feel lonely and mute, but I'm not blind and I'm not perfect
and I've got to let it happen
I've got to let it happen
I've got to let it happen now
Let it out
Let it out
Get it out
but I feel naked and it's feeling kind of good like I've found freedom
and I feel green, as green as the leaves of my heaven
Come on and let it happen
Come on and let it happen
Come on and let it happen now
Let it out
Let it out
come out
come out
and show yourself to me

When I was 17, I called the road my own
So many sights to see, I turned every stone
I burned the midnight oil. I burned the candle wax
With fire in my veins and no one on my back

One night found myself around New Orleans way
I picked up a rider, whose name he did not say
He clicked his long clean nails upon the window dash
I got a funny feeling when he flashed his leather skin of ash

Now that Devil Moon won't light my way
Now that Devil Moon won't light my way
Now that Devil Moon won't light my way
And I can't find no one to show the way

He traveled with no bags, just an old fedora and an ivory cane.
He looked me in the eye and said, "Friend, you will never be the same."
I laughed to his face and put him right back on the road.
Then I realized I had nowhere to run. Then I realized I had no where to go.

And I've been driving hard
Through the wind and rain
Looking for a friend,
but nobody knows my name (solo)

Driving in the dark. Ended up at my father's home.
With no answer at the door, thought I was all alone.
Then I heard a scratching sound and through the windowpane
He looked me in the eye and said, "Friend, you'll never be the same."

I don't want to talk to anyone I see today
Nothing's gonna change - nothing they can do or say
The word is on the wind - planted are the seeds we've sown
I don't want to talk, 'cause talking walks these feelings home

Then you say that everything is gonna be alright now
Then you say the words I long to hear
Then I say that everything is gonna be alright now
When you say the words that heal my dimming soul

Then I taste it, I feel it, I kiss you, I want you, mmm
Yea, I taste it, I feel it, I miss you, I want you, mmm
Believe it - experience of lightning bolt presence, mmm
I've come alive, I've come alive - take of me you beautiful you

Then you say that everything is gonna be alright now
Then you say the words I long to hear
Then I say, "What did I do to ever deserve you, now?"
When you say the words that heal my dimming soul

When I can't find my way to the end of the day
Won't you wrap me up in your sky
I'm afraid that I could be
Fading away, away

Then you say that everything is gonna be alright now
Then you say the words I long to hear
Then I say, "What did I do to ever deserve you, now?"
When you say the words that heal my dimming soul.