Chuck Lee Bramlet Pooks Road

JUSTIFIED

Like a runaway truck Screaming down I-5

You couldn't give a fuck who will be left alive

You're gonna get your way no matter what it costs

Cause at the end of the day I've gotta take the loss

Take me home, take me hostage

All I have should really be enough

I'm your ATM, I'm your relapse

I'm too busy locking up my stuff

Are you Justified?

Every sweet little lie

Isolation, crucify

No idea, hadn't noticed

That I was always steeping on your toes

Lonely now, hadn't noticed

I'm too busy throwing out my clothes

Are you Justified?

Every sweet little lie

Isolation, crucify

Thank you Trader Joes, Thanks Ikea

I'm so happy living in LA

Maybe most of all, thank you Starbucks

Cause there's one more another block away

Are you Justified?

MIDNIGHT SUN

She dreams of the midnight sun

That burns underwater where parrotfish play

She lives in a town full of condos

Downwind from a papermill, foggy all day

And she's feeling like she aint seen the sun forever

And she's feeling like she aint felt the sun forever

She listens to Gatemouth Brown

He gave her a picture once in a club where he played

She cheats at darts and billiards

Then she gets angry when people don't play

And she's feeling like she aint seen the sun forever

And she's feeling like she aint felt the sun forever

She keeps a close watch on her heart

She wont ever give it away

She'd rather be indiscreet

In cold wet forests on dark rainy days

And she's feeling like she aint seen the sun forever

And she's feeling like she aint felt the sun forever

She dreams of the midnight sun

DARK TRAIN

I've tried on pride like a hat, but baby it doesn't fit me

I've had servants for friends, knowing they would quit me

Just like a big house of cards, or a ton of bricks just hit me

There's a road on the hillside

Takes you up to the far and wide

You and I gonna walk it someday

Well the skyline is bright, a thousand points of nothin

And it's a wonderful life if you've got a big chunk of somethin

Behind a big old gate with guard dogs snarlin and jumpin

There's a road on the hillside

Takes you up to the far and wide

You and I gonna walk it someday

Locomotive comes in the night

Go easy, or put up a fight

Gonna ride the dark train someday

Birth to death, death to birth

Mighty wheel singin to the railroad earth

Here for now yeah you're here for now

Then you're gone, gone, gone

There's a road on the hillside

Takes you up to the far and wide

You and I gonna walk it someday

Locomotive comes in the night

Go easy, or put up a fight

Gonna ride the dark train someday

NOT MY BROTHER

He is not my brother, just a stranger to me

She is not my sister, it's an impossibility

That anyone from such a different place

A different past, such a different face

Could ever be a brother or a sister to me

I can not be bothered, I've got problems of my own

I can not be bothered with seeds I have not sown

They're much too needy, they're much too weak

And you know the earth will inherit the meek

I can not be bothered, just a stranger to me

So tell me, How long

Can we keep this lie complete

and tell me, How long

Can people lie

Dying at our feet

She aint got religion, leastways not like me

He aint got religion, not as far as I can see

And when the end is near and no one's saved

And we're side by side in a common grave

Say he was not my brother, just a stranger to me

He was not my brother, just a stranger to me

LITTLE LIGHT

Sometimes the truth just hurts

It'll always set you free

Thank God it's not all in my lap

Thank God It's not all up to me

Sick of being sick, been running out of empty

In your thriftstore dress, you shine

All the surly clowns that laugh at your misfortune

Couldn't feel but down, you'll be fine

You're my little light, shine on

You can take all night, shine on

Wandered up that road and searched in every shadow

In the deepest shade you shine

Everybody knows what every one can't mention

From the distant clouds in your eyes

Coyotes in the canyon

They're possessed of fire and tearing, surrounding

You're my little light, shine on

You can take all night, shine on

Hold the lantern high

Peer in the darkness

And search for an honest man

You're my little light

Fuck all the darkness

Cause I'm gonna let it shine

PATHOLOGIC

I can fake sincerity as long as the day is long

My grasp of reality has never been too strong

If we talk talk talk about it, believe that the moon was blue

Cause we can walk walk walk around it

Never show myself to you

My Lie never gets away from me

My lie will never leave

My lie's taken on a life of it's own

As long as I believe

If we talk talk talk about it

The answer never comes

Cause we can walk walk walk around it

And nothing will get done

YOU WERE GONE

Guess your serpent was made to crawl

You couldn't cage him after all

Always hidden from your shame

Now I don't even know your name

Darlin' I wish you well

Looks like you been through hell

But I've gotta let you go

Dreamed of a crowded street

You turned the corner

Called out but you were gone

I knew a man who tried to drown

Four foot deep long island sound

Tried to keep his dream from harm

Now he wears his heart out on his arm

Buddy I wish you well

Looks like you been through hell

But I've gotta let you go

Dreamed of a crowded street

You turned the corner

Called out but you were gone

ONLY ONE

Always late for work, you were wakened from a crazy dream

Putting film in the rack, putting poison in the big machine

I can see you now

Lovely as the morning sun

True love comes and goes

But you were my only one

Wandering the halls, in the elevator up and down

Laughing in my rented tux, you were barefoot in your wedding gown

I can see you now

Lovely as the morning sun

True love comes and goes

But you were my only one

Packing up my car, sealing life into a cardboard box

Time to say goodbye, return the key and change the locks

I can see you now

Lovely as the morning sun

True love comes and goes

But you were my only one, only one

MY POSSESSION

What is your trip, what are your circumstances

Am I just a blip, sonar radar furtive glances

Why are you in my dream, let me see your invitation

Who directs this scene, who's script, who's creation

Sweet dreams fall behind

They world falls away and I don't mind

Take whatever comes to make a confession

What it takes to see you through

You dreamed the world and I dreamed you

You could be the one to end this obsession

To be caught again in my possession

Something you might have said

The way the light was cast upon you

It only lives in my head

But it's changed everything

Sweet dreams fall behind

They world falls away and I don't mind

Take whatever comes to make a confession

What it takes to see you through

You dreamed the world and I dreamed you

You could be the one to end this obsession

To be caught again in my possession

DENIAL

Look away to the ground, make no sound, shut your eyes, shut your eyes

Shut your mouth, keep it down, make no sound to yourself, to yourself

Everybody's got to meditate (Lying to yourself)

Everybody's got to medicate (Crying to yourself)

How many of those did you take today (Dying to yourself everyday)

When you wake, greet the day, words you say to yourself to yourself

Everyone wants to run, wants a gun to their head to their head

Everybody's got to meditate (Lying to yourself)

Everybody's got to medicate (Crying to yourself)

How many of those did you take today (Dying to yourself everyday)

Holding back, keep it in, truth is sin you deny you deny

Everybody's got to meditate (Lying to yourself)

Everybody's got to medicate (Crying to yourself)

How many of those did you take today (Dying to yourself everyday)

What's your poison today

OVERLOADED

My life is a shambles, my future is dim

My whole fate is hanging on a dictator's whim

My world is a jungle my house is a mess

How will I keep up is anyone's guess

But I'm not depressed, I'm just overloaded

I'm out in the graveyard, I'm digging a hole

Aint gained the whole world but I've sure lost my soul

I'm under the weather, I'm under duress

I'm under the pressure of imminent success

But I'm not depressed, I'm just overloaded

I'm just a train wreck victim and I'm crawling around

Train whistle's blowing and I don't hear the sound

Signal is flashing and I'm flat on my back

But I drag myself back up on the track

Sisyphus pushed that old rock up a hill

It tumbled back down but he's pushing it still

I've been to the east, I've been to the west

I can't be persuaded to give it a rest

But I'm not depressed, I'm just overloaded

PRISONER

Im a prisoner

But I shall be released

Any day now

I will find the final piece

Im a liar

And I need to find the truth

Im afire

To come up with the proof

Tearing through the lives of everyone I know

No one will be crying at my grave

No one will remember once the mess is clean

All was spent and not a penny saved

Blaming you for what I did was freedom

Got me off the hook and let me sleep

Medicating so I wouldn't face the facts

Anything to sink into the deep

Here's my angel

Come to set me free

Can I ever come to be redeemed

Can I atone for what I've done

Wish in one hand shit in the other

Got to take some action or I'm gone

Im a prisoner

But I shall be released

Any day now

I will find the final piece

Im a liar

And I need to find the truth

Im afire

To come up with the proof

To come up with the proof

To come up with the proof

I'm a prisoner