Rest Yourself Lyrics

Love this Game

I walk the city streets alone at night sometimes
God knows I’m glad somebody’s awake somewhere
Keeping them city lights goin’ but with you on my mind
I’m not so afraid of the darkness

But I still get scared and I still get lonely
But when shadows come knockin’ like they already own me
I turn to the love in the life we share
And the whole thing becomes a game

Chorus
Love this Game we play
Love this Game we play

There’s a rock’n’roll song on the radio these days
It never made the charts and I never hear who plays it
But each time I do I just wish you were here
I could dance to this song worth you all night long

Times when I’m out walkin’ and I’m lookin’ around me
Thinkin’ ‘bout how in this crazy world you found me
And I wish that I knew back in the lonely years
That you were out there somewhere looking for me too

I’d a been turning the corners half expecting to see ya
But it’s only a cop or a bum with a beer
And I’m laughing out loud they’re all thinkin’ I’m weird
And the traffic is dancing in the afternoon rain

Repeat Chorus

How many times in my life have I made up my mind
‘Bout one thing or the other to wake up and find
It was only a dream staying long enough to say
“You’re crazy to feel so sure about anything”
‘Coz the feelings may come and the convictions may go
I could fall apart in their ebb and their flow
As I’m tumbling down there’s just one thing I know
I carry you with me wherever I go

Repeat Chorus


Common Ground

I wanna walk down that highway where the signs face the right way
And if you ain’t going my way, mister that’s OK
I wanna float down that river where the water gets clearer
And the sky gets nearer as trouble slips away

Chorus
I wanna lay me down on the top of a mountain
Just outside of town
I wanna feast my eyes on who you are and lay my pistol down
On common ground

I wanna find some words between my world and yours
Those high-flying songbirds calling down the rains
I wanna make some time to taste your winter wine
Until your tears and mine soak these dusty plains

Repeat Chorus

Middle 8
Coz I don’t know what to say anymore
Words have lost their sway
But sometimes when the light’s just right
I see all the way to your ocean

Repeat Chorus

Back to top

Back to you

I’m a working man
Life leaves its mark
Sometimes I need to be alone
To find a deeper part
But don’t you ever worry
That I’m losing sight of you
“Coz wherever I go
When I need to renew
I go there to get back to you

There’s so many things
That I’ve never learned to share
And I can see the hurt in your eyes
Thinking I don’t care
But times when I go quiet
I’m searching for what’s true
And as soon as I find it
And I always do
A better man gets back to you

There’s a apart of me that I’ve got to find all on my own
But when I touch the feelings that make me who I am
They take me right back to your arms

Come a little closer
Don’t turn away
And if I seem lost inside myself
Please don’t be afraid
‘Coz my love for you is deeper
That changes I go through
And if you ever find me
On the wrong side of blue
Won’t you hold me for a minute or two
Till I get back to you

Back to top

Falling Heroes

From that first tiny transistor radio speaker
They all came bursting through
With their blue suede shoe and their high hell sneekers
Singing Bama-Lama-Bama-Loo
Till I just knew a change was gonna come

Chorus
All my heroes came falling like falling heroes
Like falling heroes rain
And I laid me down beneath those falling heroes
Like grass upon the plain
Falling heroes rain

Now the light in your song ain’t no fading flower
That bloomed some other spring
You shone that light on my darkest hour
And the first time I heard you sing
It was a river I could skate away on

Repeat Chorus

Middle 8
So cry me a river tell me I’m the only one
Hold back the night song save my life
Show me that I’m not alone

Won’t you sing me that song now the song of the morning
Though evening’s drawing near
Coz I’m still the child you once answered your call
And when evening’s empire is here
We will stay forever young

Chorus
All my heroes are falling like falling heroes
Like falling heroes rain
And I still lay me down beneath those falling heroes
Get soaking wet again
Falling heroes rain
Coz in my hall of fame
Falling heroes reign

Back to top

Rest Yourself

I know you work so hard week by week
Makin’ this life that we got so fine
Come home in the evening feeling tired and beat
Fallin asleep when it really ain’t the time
Well I know you’ve been thinkin’ that you ain’t got the strength
To keep my attention anymore

Chorus
But you can rest yourself in my love for you
Rest your body and your tired mind too
I’m just happy to know that my man loves me so
Rest yourself


Sometimes a man is a fool with a plan
And a woman is a beacon in the night
But don’t you know that this fool understands
How much this world steals the fire from your eyes
And I want you to know when you walk through that door
That you don’t have to try anymore

Repeat chorus

Middle 8
No matter what you go through I’ll be there just for you
Baby you outa know that by now
Nobody else alive I’d rather have by my side
Believe me babe I’ve had a real good look around

Repeat chorus

Back to top

If it pleases you

If it pleases you let this cup pass
If it pleases you Lord won’t you let this cup pass
But I’ll gladly drain this bitter brew
If it’s plain that it was brewed by you
I’ll swallow every drop
But won’t you sing that cup
If it pleases you

I can’t stop this train from burning down the track
It’s a runaway train Lord the driver’s dressed in black
But if it’s your hand that’s shoveling coal
Then this train’s gotta have some soul
Help me climb aboard
Pass the shovel lord
If it please you

Middle 8
Trouble every where
You know I’ve had my share
And I’ve been running all my life
Specially from you
Help me to do my time
Or run from what ain’t mine
And Lord ….
Help me find the line between the two

Only a fool would walk this rocky road
Only a fool would carry
This big old heavy load
But if it’s your hand that’s loading me up
That makes this rock road so rough
Then I’ll walk all night
With shoes too tight
If it pleases you

Repeat first verse.

Back to top

Fingers of Steel

There’s a fist round my heart
When I lose sight of you
And it grips me like steel
Till nothing is true
And I lose the sweet feeling
And love slips away
And doors once wide open
Now slam in my face

And it holds me till I just can’t take any more
Till I’m down on my knees with my head on the floor
And I cry like a babe in the night till you come
And open those fingers of steel one by one

I’m lost and I’m found
I’m wounded and I’ healed
When I go to the aching
That you taught me to feel
And a finger of light
Comes alive in the dark
And it fills the whole world
And opens my heart

And it holds me till I’m not afraid anymore
Till I’m down on my knees but I’m not on the floor
And I cry like a babe in the night coz you’ve come
To open those fingers of steel one by one

Back to top

Walkin’ in Moonlight

There’s crescent moon over the sea tonight
There’s a purple shimmer to the soft half light
And I wish that you weren’t always right
Still I’m easy as walkin’ in moonlight

All the white sand crackles underneath my feet
There’s a night-bird running where the tide pools meet
And I wish love weren’t so bitter sweet
Still I’m easy as walkin’ in moonlight

Middle 8
The dunes of grass and sand stand tall against the wind
But every now and then the wind will win
But that’s OK with me

Coz every road I’ve travelled every page I’ve turned
Every tear I’ve cried and every bridge I’ve burned
They’re coming on home like lessons learned
Easy as walkin’ in moonlight

Middle 8
The dunes of grass and sand stand tall against the wind
But every now and then the wind will win
But in my memory

When my mid was captured in a stormy sky
And the long night shadows wouldn’t pass me by
You stood there grinning, a glint in your eye
And the promise of morning around you

Middle 8
The dunes of grass and sand may lose against the wind
But it’s the same wind blows them back together again
And that’s OK with me

So I’ll head on home and I’ll chop some wood
I’ll light the fire and you’ll cook some food
And we’ll head out cross the neighborhood
Easy… easy… easy

Repeat first verse

Back to top

Butterfly

I knew it was over by the look in her eyes
So I turned to watch her daughter who was chasing butterflies
She really wants to catch one but you know how that goes
You push the things you love away tryna get to close

Then I heard myself say something I still barely understand
“Trust in mother nature, baby, and hold out your hand.”
She too k my words to heart, held her little hand up high
And I heard her whisper something I’ll remember all my life

Chorus
Butterfly please don’t fly away I just wanna play
I won’t take away your freedom
Butterfly this I promise you I won’t capture you
So come back and be my friend
Till it’s time to fly away again

They’re flying all around her as she waits on the beach
How can something come so close to stay so out of reach
I saw a teardrop gather in the corner of her eye
I told her baby, “Don’t give up, give it one more try”

She closed her eyes tightly and squeezed out that tear
And filled the air around her with a feeling so sincere
The magic of her innocence reached up above the sands
Till one of those gorgeous creatures landed in her hand

Repeat Chorus


Now the years have come and gone she’s a woman now
And there remains the pain of things that fall apart
But I pray within this song I can let her know somehow
That her butterfly is landing in my heart always landing

Repeat Chorus

Back to top

The Heartache Rose

I’m blessed beyond repair
And every single time I’ve cursed that dagger
That cuts me deeper with each truth it brings

But now I got a prayer
Burns inside me in an endless yearning
Takes me home in every song I sing

And who doesn’t run from that sacred assassin
Who strikes when you’re sleepin’ or your back is turned
But there ain’t no way around it

Chorus
The deeper the well
The sweeter the water
The colder the night
The warmer the fire
And the harder it snows
The stronger she grows
Every lover knows
The Heartache Rose

Every work of art
Every ocean wave and every sunset
Is telling me that only love is real

Candles in the dark
Shine your light on all that’s lost and broken
Show me everything I need to feel

Used to run like a fool get away from that pain
Like a dry river running from the pouring rain
Now I let it roll all over

Repeat chorus

Pray your garden grows
A Heartache Rose

Back to top

That story can’t be told

If I knew when I was seventeen what I have learned since then
I would be a younger man today
But you gotta lose your innocence to find it back again
That’s what I’ve heard somebody say
Maybe God hides wisdom from the young, memory from the old
So that story can’t be told

Chorus
So I go down to the river and I lay on the ground
Stick my feet in the water and I wait for the sound of
Nowhere to go to carry me over

Someone took the laws of average and threw them all at me
So I became your average kind of guy
Then they spoke to me of wonders in lands beyond the sea
So I got down on my knees and prayed to fly
Maybe God gives the sky for me to dream and the earth for me to hold
So that story can’t be told

Repeat Chorus

Middle 8
If I go down every Sunday to the chapel on the hill
Monday might be easier to face
But if the Sunday morning feeling is mine to feel at will
Shouldn’t Mondays disappear without a trace


If I offered no resistance to the rivers of my life
I would float downstream like children’s dreams
But you gotta leave your mark boy you gotta stand and fight
And sometimes ain’t that the way it seems
Maybe God is a savior when I’m weary and a warrior when I’m bold
So that story can’t be told

Back to top

I’ll get you home

When life laughs you down like a sad broken clown
In a washed up circus On the rough side of town
And they kick you out in the storm I’ll get you home

When dead men can tell you ain’t singing so well
On that drunken piano at the heartbreak hotel
And they trash your microphone I’ll get you home

Chorus
When your garden’s overgrown I’ll come and mow your lawn
And when that old grim reaper comes I’ll be your clone

When you’ve done her wrong and your baby has gone
With your car and your money your shoes and your phone
And you smell like cheap cologne I’ll get you home

Repeat chorus

When you’ve staked your claim on the dark side of fame
A tired old outlaw on a horse with no name
And he falls and breaks your bones and the wind begins to moan
And the sky is filled with drones I’ll get you home 

Back to top