Bryan Clark: Lyrics

Predictions of you
By: Bryan Clark



I took my chances
In a dimmed starlight rain
Drove back to Austin
Your hand yet unclaimed
The wind behind me
Heart in front if my brain
The stars are shifting and I’m running out of time

I feel you sleeping
From a thousand miles away
Your silkened breathing
Sends ripples through the sky
I see you stumble through
The poplar trees and yards of shattered dreams
Your thought are beaming like a movie on the moon tonight

And Freedom has a price you know
There’s no redemption for letting you go
Our future is what I see
When predictions of you show up in the tealeaves

I’m going to burn down these old ballrooms of pain
Stop invitations to guilty hearts and shame
I’ll be building up a mansion on promises I’ve paid
Make restorations ‘cause I’m running out of time

And hey my heart is on the line
And racing through these midnight miles to tell you that I love you
I said it but all of it inside – but I’m not afraid to say it now

SOLO:

And Freedom has a price you know
There’s no redemption for letting you go
Our future is what I see
When predictions of you show up in the tea leaves

RAVEN KING
Bryan Clark

Verse:
in a marbled sky
this raven glides
though shadows cast
by a million lovers
Watching the fireworks
of their fists in flight
I hear the teardrops falling
in Cupid's wasteland

Now its time, your time has come
when he laughs at your defects after love has cast
its deepest spell
and i circle pass
with a midnight eye
summoned by an angel
in the dead of night

Chorus:
I'll bring him greetings
from the wrong side of town
and by the fence post
the scarecrow has fallen down
crows in the fields now
and all of them sing
hail hail comes the raven king

Bridge:
the say that love conquers all
but i'm conjured from the darkness when it falls
so the archer child of Venus can keep his fame
they call my work by another name

Chorus:
I bring him greetings
from the wrong side of town
and by the fence post
the scarecrow has fallen down
crows i the fields now
and all of them mine
There will be no more tears tonight
I'll wrap you in the velvet night
i'll protect your heart in flight
welcome to the crazy side of devine

DON'T BLAME ME
Bryan Clark


VERSE:
put on your french perfume
just a little touch-and-go
glide that lipstick on
let those pearls hang low

wear long leather boots
and that dress [skirt] that drives me wild
slam the door honey
walk out in style

CHORUS:
don't blame me
for how this is ending
don't blame me cause
your salvation is pending [casuse we can't be mended]
you know secret little sinners can't live loud in paradise


VERSE2:
think of me a million times
how i showed up when i did
did i plan a sweet surprise
or was i somehow clued in?

read his note in your purse
the one i found on our[the] floor
where he describes entire nights
in broken metaphors
and on your cab ride read to the city
read mine too baby
"don't come back no more"

CHORUS:
and don't blame me
for how this is ending
don't blame me
cause this can't be mended
you know secret little sinners can't live loud in ....to bridge....paradise

BRIDGE:
in paradise
you and i
were something more
we were "hi-fi"
than the snake, and the apple, and your loin cloth on the floor
made the the garden of eden
the garden of cheatin'

SOLO: "don't blame me"
scat solo

CHORUS:
don't blame me
for how this is ending
don't blame me
cause this can't be mended
you know secret little sinners can't live loud in ....to bridge....paradise

You Follow Me
(J. Rush/B. Clark)

Verse:
12 miles south of Austin
Just before the rain
Breathin’ in the dust of a rundown truck stop
I saw you again

In the simple smile of a wide-eyed girl
Hangin’ on her daddy’s knee
It took me back to the early days
When you looked that way at me

Pre:
From here to anywhere
As the map of life unfolds
You always seem to turn up
Everywhere I go

Chorus:
You follow me like my shadow on the ground
Like sun-up hot on the heels of sundown
You follow me through laughter and the pain
Like winter after autumn and summer after spring
You follow me.

Verse:
Right outside Flagstaff
At an all night café
He was Smoking last cigarette
When I overheard her say

What’s it going to take for me to get your attention
Do I have to walk right our that door for you to feel that somethin’s missing
not so long ago
I was in his shoes
to stubborn to know
what I stood to lose

Chorus:

From Baton Rouge, Aberdeen, Little Rock, to Bowling Green
Bakersfield, San Antone, everywhere I go…you follow me

Chorus:

Nights like these
(Bryan Clark)

Verse 1:
on nights like these
i could dream forever,
but I wake up on a dime
since you've gone
i'm going through the motions
sleepless nights and lonely drives

Pre-chorus:
it's a mystery to me
what I'm going through
but I know that its all over you

Chorus:
on nights like these
I can hear your laughter
like when we were entwined
on nights like these
i try to sleep forever
and dream that you're still mine
on nights like these.....

Verse2:

has it been a year
since you took that job you wanted
in the california sun?
I'm not the kind of man
to keep you bound forever
so I let us come undone

Pre-chorus:
I know I shouldn't have let you go
and now I'm here all alone

Chorus:

Verse3:
And one day
I'll drive a 1000 miles westward
just to see what you've become
but when I think of you
with a ring around your finger
i go completely numb

Pre-chorus:
I shake my head and wonder where it all went
I don't know but I'm dying to relive it

Chorus:

The way it was:
Bryan Clark

VERSE:
In my home town it was all about
Being first or last
They predict your future
By your family’s past
My daddy punched that factory clock
Till it broke his back
That’s the way it was
And the way it is

I learned guitar in my uncle’s bar
I was under age
Played with alcoholic pickers
On a chicken wire stage
When I told them I was leaving
They said “big shot you’ve changed”
That’s the way it was
And the way it is

CHORUS:
‘Cause I’m all about where I’m going
Not about where I’ve been
Don’t want all my tomorrows
To be yesterdays again
Counting down the day to dying
Ain’t no way to live
That’s the way it was
But it no longer is

VERSE:
From coffee shops and truck stops
I got an asphalt education
Earned steel-belt diplomas
From every state in this nation
The road I ain’t never been down yet
That’s the one I’m takin
That’s the way it was
And the way it is

CHORUS:

BRIDGE:
I’m gonna do it like nobody’s done it
Make it look just the way I want it
It’s my race, I’m gonna run it

CHORUS:

Yes it is amen
(bryan clark)

It’s how you ignite my emotions
From the depths of my soul
Like shooting starts across the desert
Raining embers on the canyons below

Yes it is

It’s how you smile when you see me
That cools me inside
Like swimming naked in the moonlight
I become purified

Yes it is

And no one else can understand me
And I know you like it that way
We have our own secret language
Interlaced and faraway

Yes it is, Amen

When the world gets too damn heavy
and brings me to my knees
I see you beside me you lift me up
And put me right back on my feet…Amen

Its how faith is your captain
And hope always your friend
When I shut myself into a coffin
You reach in a pull me out again
And again…Amen

When the world gets too damn heavy
and brings me to my knees
I see you beside me you lift me up
And put me right back on my feet…Amen

Verse:
all trash no trailor sticker
on the van in front of me
with a window mounted ac unit
no thats red-neck inginuity
and he's staring down on a black sedan
with pin-up blond and a balding man
i wonder how long she'll ride in his car.


Chorus:
wells its 5:17 same old freeway scene
around me is every race, creed, and color
and though we're rolling at a painful pace
a smile creeps across my face
'cause for 50 minutes
we're in the same place
stuck bumper to bumper

verse:
chain smokin' rasta-fari-an
head bobbin in my rear view
no doubt he's jammin to some
old bob marley tune
chuch bus of nuns look down
on that foggy car
they all pullout their rosaries and pray up to the stars

Chorus:
it's 6:23 same old freeway scene
around me is every race, creed, and color
and though we're rolling at a painful pace
a smile creeps across my face
'cause for 50 minutes
we're in the same place
stuck bumper to bumper

Bridge:
we'll i'm closer than i've even been to
strangers who are now my friend
ain't nothing like a little gridlock
to open up you mind.

Chorus:
it's 7:18 same old freeway scene
around me is every race, creed, and color
and though we're rolling at a painful pace
a smile creeps across my face
'cause for 61 minutes
we're in the same place
bumper to bumper

Kiss the Bride
(BRYAN CLARK)

Verse:
He left home in Tennessee
Found her wrapped in ecstasy with another man from the company
Hopped aboard a southbound train
Found his way to Bourbon Street in the pouring rain

Pre-chorus:
Bought the cheapest bottle he could find
And when the whisky and her memory combined

Chorus:
He saw the flames of hell ignite
Heard the devil's voice inside
Do you take this bottle for the rest of your life?
Then step up to the alter
And kiss the bride

Verse:
Got a job down in Thibodaux
Roughneck driller for AMOCO one week a time
He got laid and then got laid off
Held up a bayou truck-stop on highway 9

Pre-chorus:
When the judge asked him what was on his mind
Now that he’s facing 20 years to life

Chorus:
He said the flames of hell ignite
Heard the devil's voice inside
Do you take this bottle for the rest of your life
Then step up to the alter
And kiss the bride

Solo:
Pre-chorus:
20 years and now unchained
He found his way back to Bourbon Street in the pouring rain
20 years since he had her kiss, felt her curves on his finger tips
Or said her name…

Chorus:
And now the flames of hell ignite
He hears that devil’s voice inside
“I now pronounce you man and wife so step up to the alter
And kiss the bride”

Midnight Kisses
Bryan Clark / Justin Weaver

Verse:
Empty Streets
Just the moon and me
In the Indian summer sky
The city is sleeping
The fireflies are blinking
And I wonder where you are tonight

Pre-Chorus:
There’s no way I can sleep
Unless you’re next to me ‘cause

Chorus:
Ain’t nothin’ like your midnight kisses
Girl your body causes serious mischief
Days come and go and all I know is
I can’t get enough
Can’t get enough of your
Midnight kisses

Verse:
I roll down the window
And every time the wind blows
It reminds me of the time
We got lost out of Houston when
We were out cruisin’
The cotton fields in the pale moonlight

Pre-Chorus:
You knew that I was burnin’
And oh, I was learnin’

Chorus:
Ain’t nothin’ like your midnight kisses
Girl your body causes serious mischief
Days come and go and all I know is
I can’t get enough
Can’t get enough of your
Midnight kisses

Solo:

Chorus (out):

Bryan Clark


Verse 1
Because you've got a new pink corvette
You tooling all around sunset
Like a renegade concubine with a
Big blonde bee-hive in overdrive

I can't believe
I can't even conceive
Of a billboard queen
In the driver's seat..
Angelyne

Verse 2
Because you barely fit inside a corset
You’re every sugar daddy's luncheonette
You feed them poses and do a routine like those
Glossy centerfolds in my closet magazines

Oh, come clean, Angelyne
You’re just a another wanna-be porn queen
With those Egyptian eyes
And your air-brushed thighs
Angelyne

Solo:

Verse 3
Never judge a cover by its book
But the pages on the inside can be overlooked
You're like a cartoon but too obscene
You'd make Malibu Barbie blush at the knees

Oh come clean
Angelyne
And let reality intervene
You’re just a billboard queen in the driver's seat
With those Egyptian eyes
And those air-brushed thighs
There you go again
Your name is up in lights...
Angelyne

DOWN IN FLAMES

She’s riding shotgun in a stolen car
Doing a 100 miles an hour in needlepoint rain
He never thought that love could go this far
Her 40 caliber kisses completely blew out his senses, made him deaf, reckless and no way to change

Now there’s sirens on the horizon behind them
2 souls on fire for stealing diamonds and screaming tires
Through 5 state lines, side by side
Hellbent, going down in flames

She was a steamy Cajun stripper on her way to Cheyenne
Outside of Glenwood Springs he put a 30 karat ring on her hand
He never thought that love could go this far
But with countless variations on her bedroom applications
She got him stealing from daybreak to dark

It’s a fact, sow an act, and reap a habit
“keep driving” she said “they’re almost beside us”
Through 5 state lines, side by side
Hellbent, going down in flames

Then just like a slow-motion adolescent dream
She peeled off her clothes and climbed onto the back seat
the cruise control was set
he tied the steering wheel to the gear shift
And climbed behind for one last ride
To go down in flames

Now there’s sirens on either side and behind them
Their engine is humming like a convict choir
2 souls on fire for one last ride
Hellbent, going down in flames