Sleepy Little Sailor
(S. Ungerleider/B.Donovan)

All dressed in woolen bloomers you were
a sleepy little sailor
fighting for his dreams
out in crashing sea.

She’ll put you in a corner for your
boyish little nature
and send you off to be
with your bottom red.

Under cover
you wanna love her
but you won’t behave.
She’ll make you wait for
what you crave.

Now on the sea you’ll search forever
lovers that you squandered.
For her you’d always leave
and leave their hearts to bleed.

You hear her calling,
red skies a warning,
your ship has gone ashore.
That siren’s lock is
on your door.

Now in your room you’ll yearn for all her
white and yellow roses
that you’ve only seen
in your wildest dreams.

Your suffering can’t pay for all the
gifts she’ll never offer.
You’d think she’d never heard
three magic little words.

River Blue
(S. Ungerleider)

I keep this picture close to me
to remind me how things used to be
when we were just two happy little kids

I wish that we could go back home
back to a time before it all went wrong
before the day I ran away and hid.

Little sister I don’t blame you
for thinking I sold you
down that river blue.
I always wanted to protect you
but I was too scared to
and I was just a kid too.

No matter how fast you run
you end up where you started from
to face the secret you were forced to keep

Believe me when I say my friend
I love you more than anything
through the truth our lives will be released.

I keep this picture close to me
to remind me how things used to be
when we were just two happy little kids.

Kings Road
(S. Ungerleider/C.Cripps)

Sun shone all day
when you came to play
walked into a picture show
and dreamed our lives away.

Ran up the hill
crazy jack and jill
close your eyes and count to ten
and I’ll be back again.

Bus stop blues
raining in my shoes
sucking on a cigarette
so johnny rotten cool.

But did you know?
I’d still be waiting?
I’d still be waiting
for the rest of my days?
Where did you go?
Now I’m still waiting
I keep hoping and a praying
for the rest of my days.

Meet me at noon
at the gag and spoon
drugstore instant photographs
a teenage honeymoon

Eyes lined with goo
hair spiked with glue
sing me a song that’s three chords long
inhale until we’re blue

But did you know?
I’d still be waiting?
I’d still be waiting
for the rest of my days.
Where did you go?
Now I’m still waiting
I keep hopin’ and a praying
for the rest of my days.

All That Remains
(S. Ungerleider)

Walk through the sand
scarred open land
hopin’ to sell
my soul to the man.
Called out his name
but he never came
No hope in hell
is all that remains.

In a ship on the sea
my mama bore me
not yet a slave
but no longer free.
She gave me her name
that they covered in shame
now a whisper of her
is all that remains.

I remember the day
they took her from me.
“Lord,” she screamed,
“have mercy on me.”
but the darkness was vast
and her cries they grew thin
until all that was left
was the moan of the wind.

Now the limbs of a tree
beckon to me
‘come, my child,
hang from me.’
but i turn from that sin
for that voice it was him
to succumb to that death
means he’ll always win.

There’s no place high above
there’s no place down below
there’s no place but this earth
forever to roam
So I walk this whole world
through pity and pain
for this wicked old world
is all that remains.

Now you can’t be no saint
no sinner, no lamb
when the devil himself
says you ain’t worth a damn
but you can live without fear
of damnation’s reign
and fight till what’s right
is all that remains.

Beauty Boy
(S. Ungerleider)

I crawled for you
hands and knees turn blue
but your cruelty soon told me
nothing would do
Punishment,
clothes and rags I rent
but nothing would stop my
heart’s lament.

Why do you break me,
force me, forsake me?
when you love me not hate me
my beauty boy.

A treasure chest
under waves of wet
part to reveal
my sweet secret
Take my flesh,
steal away my breath
still a foolish hope follows
wise regret.

When will you love me?
in a thousand years only
but you never will own me
my beauty boy.

Sacrifice
(S. Ungerleider)

Driving slow through the cool night
wanna see you in the bright lights.
You step into the spotlight
with your red dress and your face white.

And I wait for you to turn and see
But you don’t catch your eye on me.

I remember when you were first mine
when our eyes met for the first time.
We made love then watched the sunrise
then we kissed and said our goodbyes.

And I know you never wanted to leave
but now you don’t catch your eye on me.
No you don’t catch your eye on me.

I saw it all in your face
just before you walked away.
I saw it all in your face,
Do you know what you betray?

You stand alone on the platform
crowd around you keeping you warm.
I watch your face till the train comes
for the trace I knew for too long.

And I know you never wanna believe
’cause you won’t sacrifice for me,
no you won’t sacrifice for me
no you won’t sacrifice for me.

Forever At Your Feet
(S. Ungerleider/B.Donovan)

A locket on a chain
a bow that’s made from rain
a briar grows entwined with rose
I’ve come to be
forever at your feet.

A blossom pages pressed
a knocking at my chest
Oh winding road please take me home
I long to be
forever at your feet.

And I hope that you won’t mind, my dear
when you see my eyes are lined, my dear
It’s because I’ve waited all these years
for your kisses sweeter than milk
and your touch that’s softer than silk
for your treasures I will be
forever at your feet.

Ted’s So Wasted
(S. Ungerleider)

Well when I see you,
I see a mind so tainted
I see time so wasted
it can barely stand

When I see you,
I see a heart so broken
it can’t hold nothin’
and it don’t give a damn.

Why did I hope for the better
when everything kept getting worse?
We walked down the aisle together
while our love took a ride in a hearse.

Now the moment has come
for me to leave this situation
for the scars on my heart
need time to heal.

For my chest was so open
and my eyes so believin’
that I mistook your story
for a love that was real.

Well when I see you
I see time so wasted.

St.Patrick’s Day
(S. Ungerleider)

Alone in my room
the morning that you loved me
a sweet salt perfume
gently swept around me
my bed became a sailing ship
the floor became a sea
and you became an ocean bird
and flew away from me.

I lie in my room
belly kicked and broken
a dark echo loomed
of pretty words you’d spoken
listing in my sailing ship
upon the wine-dark sea
sheets soaked wet with brine and sweat
and no one at the wheel.

Over the waves now
I call to you to come and rescue me
But you’re far away now
so forever I’ll go drifting out to sea.

I locked up my room
and everything you’d opened
sewed up my wound
to prove that you’re forgotten
but I’ll feast for you each year in spring
when birds begin to sing
when everything, yes everything
oh everything is green.

Over the waves now
I call to you to come and comfort me
but you’re far away now
so your pretty face nevermore I’ll see
no your pretty face nevermore I’ll see.

Ride On
(S. Ungerleider)

You wake to rain one early morn’
you’ve waited for since you were born.
Little boy blue come blow your horn
that westbound train, it leaves at dawn.
And you kiss your mama’s cheek goodbye,
She’s got all her days to wonder why
you were her one and only son to ride on.
You wandered west and joined a crew
to do the work you were born to do.
But the golden plains were ruled by a feud,
guns were drawn and the bullets flew.
When you found his broken body dead
There were just two words inside your head,
“Grab that gun, cause the war is on and ride on.”

Ten thousand wild horses ridin’ down on you,
ridin’ down on you.
Ten thousand wild horses ridin’ down on you,
ridin’ down on you.
No sacred cow could save you now, so ride on.

You lost your love, your only friend
won to the gun of a hired hand.
Spilled his blood and took his land
make a lump of meat out of a man.
Now a blackbird sings a lullabye,
“Goodnight, goodnight, it’s time to fly,”
You stand alone, no love no home and ride on.

Soon you were parched no sign of rain,
Joshua took you underwing.
His outstretched arm a beckoning
led you to a place of green.
In a hospital of slot machines
the drugs too thick for you to dream.
Go lay your bread on lucky seven red and ride on.

Ten thousand white shooting stars shining
down on you, shining down on you
Ten thousand white shooting stars falling
down on you, falling down on you
say goodbye to the unlucky ones and ride on.

Too tired to run, too scared to stop
You learned to love or so she thought.
But you left her bleeding heart to rot,
with her crown of thorns and forget-me-nots.
Now she sees you in the wayward smile
and the wandering eye of your unknown child,
Soon he’ll have to walk that crooked mile and ride on.

Ten thousand white shooting stars falling
down on you, falling down on you
Ten thousand white shooting stars falling
down on you, falling down on you
say goodbye to the unlucky ones and ride on.

We make the trade the day we’re born:
a mouthful for a bit of soul.
But you took that much too hard you know
and runnin’ for your life made you grow old.
And that morning rain turned dust to mud,
You gained an open road for your flesh and blood,
Now there’s no one left for you to love, so ride on.

When angels fall it looks like snow,
Their wings are torn from where they grow.
You laid yours in a leather case,
a souvenir of your disgrace.
When you think from all the things you’ve run,
you wonder whether you’ve lost or won,
why you were her one and only son to ride on.