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When the father of lies you despise leads you to compromise how you live each and every day
And the news you can’t choose really gives you the blues you can’t lose and your freedom is slipping away
When your trouble is feeling like it’s double and you think you’re ready to explode
Remember, remember the fifth of November, all their treasons and their plot;
I know of no reasons why that treason now should ever be forgot!
Remember, remember the fifth of November, with a fire that’s burning hot
I know of no reasons why that treason now should ever be forgot!
Where you’ve seen it all stall, cry out justice for all, but they’re cracking the whip upon your back
When you see people die ain’t no lie can no longer deny that this train going right off the track
When you’re spinning wheels, and the struggle’s real and you wanna explode
Remember, remember the fifth of November, with their treasons and their plot;
I know of no reasons why that treason now should ever be forgot!
Remember, remember the fifth of November, with a fire that’s burning hot
I know of no reasons why that treason now should ever be forgot!
What are you going to do? What are you going to say?
When will you make your move? Can we let it all slip away?
Remember, remember the fifth of November, with their treasons and their plot;
I know of no reasons why that treason now should ever be forgot!
Remember, remember the fifth of November, with a fire that’s burning hot
I know of no reasons why that treason now should ever be forgot!
Remember, remember the fifth of November, with their treasons and their plot;
I know of no reasons why that treason now should ever be forgot!
Words and Music by Mike Lawson
Psychotronic Music – BMI
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Girl you make it easy, yeah you make it great
Now I’m gonna show before it gets too late
I went down to jeweler got a big diamond ring
Brought to it home to you so ya be my everything
Oh don’t you know its true, there ain’t nobody but you
Taking good care of you baby, love you ’til the end of days
Girl you making everything better, better just in every way
Anything you want you bet it, Everything you need I’ll get it
Making sure you don’t regret it
Every day we are in love
Spring, and Summer, Fall and Winter, morning, noon, and day and night
Girl you got me really moving everything is out of sight
Every time Is see you I get weak down in my knees
Everything about you girl you know I want to please
Taking good care of you baby, love you ’til the end of days
Girl you making everything better, better just in every way
Anything you want you bet it, Everything you need I’ll get it
Making sure you don’t regret it
Every day we are in love
Every day I’m working, bringing home the money, paying on the notes and bills
Coming home to find you sitting waiting for me, girl you got a look that kills
Oh don’t you know its true, now there ain’t nobody but you
Taking good care of you baby, love you ’til the end of days
Girl you making everything better, better just in every way
Anything you want you bet it, Everything you need I’ll get it
Making sure you don’t regret it
Every day we are in love
Anything you want you bet it, anything you need I’ll get it
Love the way you love, you said it
Making sure you don’t regret it
Everyday we are in love
Everyday we are in love
Everyday we are in love
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Play the Paris Blues
05:52
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I’m in Paris on the left bank, solitary with a few francs
This old nightlife is my forte, it’s a fun time and a full day
I paid my dues so if I choose I got a right to sing the Paris Blues
I paid my dues so if I choose I got a right to sing the Paris Blues
I climbed the Eiffel Tower, stood in sudden April showers
I smelled the smoke in every café, I even toasted every Beaujolais
And I paid my dues so if I choose I got a right to sing the Paris Blues
Paid my dues so if I choose I got a right to sing the Paris Blues
I climbed the Eiffel Tower, stood in sudden April Showers
I smelled the smoke in every café. I even toasted every Beaujolais
And I paid my dues so if I choose I got a right to sing the Paris Blues
Paid my dues so if I choose I got a right to sing the Paris Blues
Paid my dues so if I choose I got a right to sing the Paris Blues
Paid my dues so if I choose I got a right to sing the Paris Blues
Paid my dues so if I choose I got a right to sing the Paris Blues
Paid my dues so if I choose I got a right to sing the Paris Blues
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It's Just Me
05:03
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Working every day, bringing home the bacon.
Paying off the bills that you and I been making
Worked so hard to make a wonderful way of life.
Working so hard for my children and my wife
But you were never really honest from the start.
I always worried ‘bout your cold & foolish heart
Now I realize it never was to be.
Time to put an end to all my misery
it's just me: I’m so tired of the way
it's just me: You treat me every single day
it's just me: And the way that you pretend
it's just me: Always drinking with your friend
Me: Feeling sad and all alone
Me: : You never answering the phone
Me: Staying home alone again
Me: Tired of asking where you been
Me: Tired of asking where you been
Now Its time for you to get away from me
Time for me to end the pain and misery
Finally opened up my eyes so I can see
Now I know that it ain’t you its just me
So I’m telling you you’re never coming back.
Some one else is going to pick up all your slack
All your cheating and your wicked little ways.
Will come back on your ‘fore you end your living days
Its time for you to finally get away from me
Time for me to end the pain and misery
Finally opened up my eyes so I can see
Now I know that it ain’t you its just me
it's just me: I’m so tired of the way
it's just me: You treat me every single day
it's just me: And the way that you pretend
it's just me: Always drinking with your friend
Me: Feeling sad and all alone
Me: : You never answering the phone
Me: Staying home alone again
Me: Tired of asking where you been
Me: Tired of asking where you been
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It was a teenage wedding, and the old folks wished them well
You could see that Pierre did truly love the mademoiselle
And now the young monsieur and madame have rung the chapel bell
"C'est la vie", say the old folks, it goes to show you never can tell
They furnished off an apartment with a two room Roebuck sale
The coolerator was crammed with TV dinners and ginger ale
But when Pierre found work, the little money comin' worked out well
"C'est la vie", say the old folks, it goes to show you never can tell
They had a hi-fi phono, boy, did they let it blast
Seven hundred little records, all rock, rhythm and jazz
But when the sun went down, the rapid tempo of the music fell
"C'est la vie", say the old folks, it goes to show you never can tell
They bought a souped-up jitney, 'twas a cherry red '53
They drove it down to Orleans to celebrate the anniversary
It was there that Pierre was married to the lovely mademoiselle
"C'est la vie", say the old folks, it goes to show you never can tell
Words and Music by Chuck Berry
© BMG Rights Management, Songtrust Ave
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Thinking What to Say
04:12
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A whole other level when ya boogie with the devil now ya fearing it
Call a new song in the middle wrong are ya hearing it
Crying out loud in the center of a crowd how ya scaring it
Little black dress, and your hair still a mess how ya wearing it
He been there all alone when you finally got home
Waiting around all day thinking what to say
Throw your desire in the fire when you set it
Or you gonna regret it
Thinking what to say
What you gonna bring when you try to turn a fling to forever more
Ain’t a little bitty thing when you tarnish the ring that you never wore
Come home crying try to start a fight lying what it ever for?
Turning your back and ya hit the road jack even slam a door
And he been there alone when you finally got home
Waiting around all day
Thinking what to say
Ever think through what would happen to you when he let ya know
Ya say he to blame when he say it’s a shame had to let ya go
And he can’t go back ain’t cutting you slack and your man say ,”Whoa!”
I got a new gal run back to your pal that ya left me for.
What your man gonna say when you got home… and he been all alone
Throw your desire in the fire when you set it — or ya regret it
Thinking what to say
How you gonna sell him how ya try to tell him when ya said it
Think it alright he ain’t sleeping at night when he read it
There’a a price you pay for walking away when ya led it
Ya ripped his heart really tore it apart and you bled it
And he been there alone when you finally got home
Waiting around all day
Thinking what to say
Throw your desire in the fire when you set it — Or ya gonna regret it
Thinking what to say
Whole other level when ya boogie with the devil now ya fearing it
Call a new song in the middle wrong are ya hearing it
Crying out loud in the center of a crowd how ya scaring it
Little black dress, and your hair still a mess how ya wearing it
He been there alone when you finally got home
Waiting around all day
Thinking what to say
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I said to the doctor is my fever to high
I gotta make money, man, I ain’t gonna die
He said its contagious, I don’t know what to say
I think its outrageous that I can’t get no pay
He told me to stay home but its causing me strife
Time to make a decision for my money or your life
I went to the grocery to get me a supply
They was out of everything, and I won’t tell no lie
The place had been raided by the neighbors door
And the one next to them who don’t even live there no more
I’m low on provisions, for my children and wife
Time to make a decision, for my money or your life
I saw men protesting wearing guns on their chest
They said its conspiracy, the guns say it the best
Screaming and spitting, at the nurses, and cops
Flying flags of treason, I don’t know how this stops
Called themselves patriots, marching drums with a fife
Only thing that’s for certain its their money or your life
All the stores have been shut down, and the cafe and bar
But I’m still getting offers to go buy a new car
But the shelves are all empty, got no job out of luck
If I can’t buy no paper, I don’t need a new truck
Now I don’t care who is hurting, when the sickness is rife
Ain’t but one thing for certain, its my money or your life
I ain’t bowing to no one, wearing masks I’ll refrain
This ain’t even about you, now it causes me pain
One hundred thousand, even more may still die
I don’t care to believe it, its a media lie
Don’t you know I will cut you, carve you up with a knife
If you stand in between all my money or your life
Tried to look to our leaders, all the presidents men
Ain’t got trust in no science, they donated to him
They said time to reopen, time to go back to work
Be a warrior for freedom, saw him say with a smirk
And I’m sorry to tell you, that I think it funny
If I cause you your death, it’s your life or my money
Words/Music by Mike Lawson
Copyright 2020 Psychotronic Music BMI
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Growing old I’m free I can see eternity and me
have a date with destiny where time and space will be
Every day must go this is something we all come to know
As we face the curtain call when we end our show
We ain’t built to last and the days go flying fast
Slower when we’re young and life has just begun
Now I clearly see, the years are falling over me
So now I want to slow it down and put some stars in my crown
Right now I wanna show love can win, and each new day I am gonna begin
With no care what they say, anyway, it’s my happy today
I go high when they’re low I can go
To a place they don’t know and they will never find me
Each new day I can make it OK
With no care what say its my happy today
Lovers come and go, and we see the little children grow
Suddenly the world all around us is getting smaller
Every day I wake is another chance that I must take
To show more love be kind, leave this world with a satisfied mind
I can’t risk tomorrow and I don’t wanna to die in sorrow
Now I’m setting the bar to return to the dust that we are
Will you come along? Help to make a right from wrong?
Go and slow life down while you put some stars in your crown?
Right now I wanna show love can win, and each new day I am gonna begin
With no care what they say, anyway, it’s my happy today
The sun shines anyway, and even on a cloudy day, right above the rain, and the pain
And the sorrows you will know, when you grow,
And you burn and you learn what begins this my friends once again is all coming to an end
I will make my happy today in a way that will stay and the children will play, not a care, anywhere
Right now I wanna show love can win, and each new day I am gonna begin
With no care what they say, anyway, it’s my happy today
I go high when they’re low I can go
To a place they don’t know and they will never find me
Each new day I can make it OK
With no care what say its my happy today
Words and Music Mike Lawson
Copyright 2021 Psychotronic Music - BMI
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Standing Too Close
05:11
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Let me tell you ‘bout my old friend Vinnie, loved to play his piano giving joy to so many
He was funny and kind, with a demon or two, when you live with the dead it attracts’em to you
And the rug was pulled out and that world wasn’t kind, it was all too much and it messed with his mind
Still he wanted so badly to return to that life, no, those people didn’t kill him, but they sold him a knife
And I never saw it coming…
No, I never saw it coming…
I was standing too close and I swear that I never saw it coming
Let me tell you about my bass player Stan, he was always smiling, he was called the Glad Man
He could lift up a room, he would light up a stage, but deep-down inside him was a simmering rage
We made beautiful music for three or four years, then he gave it all up, couldn’t conquer his fears
And he put down his bass and became a bread baker, ‘till a 12-gauge barrel introduced him to his maker
And I never saw it coming…
No, I never saw it coming…
I was standing too close and I swear that I never saw it coming
Not one but two friends of mine, then were gone, by the very same hands that made beautiful songs.
It’s a soul crushing feeling when you’re left there behind, picking up the pieces, second guessing your mind.
There was nothing I could do, this is how it would be, but I really wasn’t ready for friend number three…
Let me tell you ‘bout my best friend Bob, he sold millions of records, never had a real job
He was the only damn reason that Stevie met Mac, and when he struck out alone well he couldn’t go back
He had glory, and riches, and it faded away, then his body was hurting, and he called me to say
“I just want you to know that I love ya man” and the next day I saw them haul him off in a van
And I never saw it coming…
No, I never saw it coming…
I was standing too close and I swear that I never saw it coming
You can never understand why they did what they do, so be grateful for that or you’d think it good, too.
Words and Music - Mike Lawson
Copyright 2021 - Psychtronic Music - BMI
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Well don’t have no mercy in this land
Death don’t have no mercy in this land
Come to your house and he won’t stay long
You look in the bed and you’ll find your mother gone
Death don’t have no mercy in this land
He won’t give you time to get ready In this land
He won’t give you time to get ready In this land
Well he come to your house and he won’t stay long
You look in the bed and you’ll find your father gone
He won’t give you time to get ready In this land
Well he’ll leave you standin’ there cryin’ in this land
He’ll leave you standin’ there cryin’ in this land
He’ll come to your house and he won’t stay long
You look in the bed and you’ll find your sister gone
He’ll leave you standin’ there cryin’ in this land
Oh, death never takes a vacation In this land
Death never takes a vacation in this land
Well he comes to your house and he won/t stay long
You look in the bed and you’ll find everybody gone
Death never takes a vacation in this land
Well don’t have no mercy in this land
Death don’t have no mercy in this land
Come to your house and he won’t stay long
You look in the bed and you’ll find your mother gone
Death don’t have no mercy in this land
Rev Gary Davis
Chandos Music Company - Licensed
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Mike Lawson has, over 30 years, recorded and/or performed together with Merl Saunders, Vince Welnick, Vassar Clements, Pete Sears, Gary Talley, John McEuen, Bob Welch, Dennis Robbins, Joe Louis Walker, Jorma Kaukonen, Phil Keaggy, Jack Casady, Scott Guberman, Dianne Davidson, Noah Wall, Tyra Juliette, Bill Vitt, Rob Wasserman, Michael Cleveland, Phil Madeira, and a host of other amazing friends. ... more
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