charlie west
“the psychedelic folkster”
From the CD " I Must Be In The Wrong Place"
Tell Me
Looking back
I was wrong
You were right, you were right
Right to feel the pain
In the past
Blurred the line
You were wrong, you were wrong
Wrong in wondering why
Tell me something
Tell me anything
Is there something on your mind
Tell me nothing
I can't hear anything
There is nothing on my mind
Long ago
Found us out
We were young, we were young
Young enough to know
Just in time
Here we are
Now we're gone, now we're gone
Gone away for good
Heads
How many times can a man jump a train and survive it
What does it mean when your number's up
You didn't buy it
You never to feel
You never to feel
Wasted time sitting here
What can it be when the day is done
You didn't see it
How can the fearing of everyone
Be a meaning
Wasting time sitting here
Looking over at me
With your hands on lap
Waiting for it to snap
Wasting time watching me
Looking over at you
And if you please you can take my head
I won't miss it
I'll just fall like the ones before
You didn't mind it
Occupation
Look at you pulling all your faces
I don't know I'm too complacent
Here we are staring in two spaces
I don't know don't have to face it
Chorus:
Don't you want to be a part of all the confrontation
Don't you want to play a role in everyone's creation
Don't you want to be a man and join the occupation
Look at you wonder where you're going
I don't know I've got my own needs
Here we are trying not to get through
I don't know why should I care
Chorus
Look at you tied up in the wonder
I don't know what we're under
Here we are dealing with the damage
I don't know I can't imagine
Chorus
Place in this Town
Everything is looking up
Every man has a place in this town
Policy is getting tough
Running out empty spaces around
They saw you hiding and crying
They saw you trying to leave
People packing everything
All they need to get by it again
Ditching all the little things
Throwing out unused portions of time
Stop to feel the rain falling down on your hands just for you
Don't know the way that your eyes
Play a part in this age
Trouble in the latest steps
Dancing by passing spaces in time
Playing to an empty house
Working hard not to make any sound
What You'll Find
What are you escaping
What are you running from
Is it me you're seeking
Or just another form
Do you need to feel me
Or just want to leave your world
Can I be your burden
Cause you can not be my girl
You'll find me in your nightmares
Insight within your dreams
Bringing out your wisdom
Taking him home your screams
Chide me in the daylight
Smile - say we don't exist
Feel forever hovering
Breathe life within my lips
Seal the everlasting
Guide your way to your self
Love will bind desire
Anxious to the end
What are you escaping
Find it inside your mind
Because in existence
Surprised what you find
Creation
I don't want to be your friend
You don't need to be my hero
When it comes down in the end
We don't need that motivation - no, no, no
Found me in the morning
Waiting for the next day past us
Waking from a sleepy warning
No one wants that stimulation - no, no, no
Chorus:
See me friend
Believe me all to be what is not
Not in your eyes
We are our own disguise
See me friend
Can you see
We are our desire
Open up awake your sense
See me restless cheap and proud
Hide away my brave visage
Don't you see my aggravation - no, no, no
You've come to wipe away my words
Along the path of sighs I tend to run
Fill me up leave me dry
It's my own creation
Two Point Three
Hey Annie why don't you stay
Leave them all just for a day
The 2.3 kid-pet-car garage
You don't see it as a mirage
Hey Susie why don't you stay
Hey Johnny what do you say
Tell her who do you lay
Honesty is not what you tell
Treasure chest that's what they sell
Hey Davy show me the way
Shake your head when the sun comes up
Shake your fist when your son grows up
Show the world this is what you want
Show yourself this is what you want
They tell me how do I play
It makes me king for a day
Sorry can't make my way out there
I'm amazed at how I got here
Hey Charlie that's too cliche
Shake your head when the sun comes up
Shake your fist when your son grows up
Show the world this is what you want
Show yourself this is what you want
Why look to me for
What you want ?
Hey don't you hear what I say
Life is fading falling away
The 2.3 kid-pet-car garage
Finds you treading far from the tide
Hey Annie
Hey Susie
Hey Johnny
Hey day
Hey
Jennifer Monday
Jennifer Monday
Wasn't what we wanted now
It to be today
Jennifer Monday
Was more than what we hoped for
It to be anyway
Is it ugly
To be everything
You are to me
You are pretty
You are nothing
It seems to me
Love it's ugly
Pretty ugly
Isn't it ?
Jennifer Monday
Wasn't what we asked for
It to end today
Jennifer Monday
More than we both deserved
Us to fade away
Is it ugly
To be everything
You are to me
You are pretty
You are nothing
It seems to me
Love it's ugly
Pretty ugly
Isn't it ?
Simple
Simple thoughts
Simple words
Simple things I can't tell you now
Simple deeds
Simple acts
Simple ways there are to be with you
And you know
Simple looks
Simple eyes
Simple passion shared between us now
Simple me
Simple you
Simple us and we know its not good
And you know
And we feel
And we are far beyond control
Blame
Does anybody here know my name
In a silly year I'm the same
I've been down, I've been down for so very long
Get everybody here who's to blame
It's very rarely clear my voice
But if you really hear it's noise
I've been lying, I've been lying to all of you
Get everybody here who's to blame
I been talking no one is listening
I been walking no one is reaching
I been practicing no one is living
No one is living here
Does anybody care if I am
In a scary stare there I am
I'm so tired, I'm so tired of all of you
Get everybody here who's to blame
I been talking no one is listening
I been walking no one is reaching
I been practicing no one is living
No one is living here
Trouble
Now the trouble is over
Your scent on my pillow
I brought you inside me
And swallowed you whole
You made me feel greater
You filled up my being
You got into my skin
You entered me whole
I grinned where my place was
Touched by your presence
Emotional laughter
Surrendered my soul
I thought me unworthy
Falling in your trap
Gave up my being
Left without soul
It was gone in the evening
The light faded, wasting
Beyond my desire
Close your eyes to my wisdom
Erase thoughts of my burden
Beyond my desire
Kings And Heroes
If I knew you would be here now
Smiles would turn up
Smiles would turn down
Putting my head down into the floor
Making me clean up all your what for
Putting your curse out into the world
Making our life a burden on all
Tried and true blue
Kings and heroes
Lives are turned out
Lives are torn down
Putting my head down into the floor
Making me clean up all your what for
Putting your curse out into the world
Making our life a burden on all
If I were you
I would be here now
Smiles would turn up
Lives are torn down
Rows
Rows and rows of stone
Miles and miles of grass
But I can't see you now
Buried is your past
Worlds and worlds apart
Closer now than ever
I can hear you now
Your voice is forever
Fields and streams of dreams
Only you could tell
What you thought of it
Living was it hell
Breaths and signs of hope
Carried us to you
Seeming holding on
Leave us lonely few
Living A Lie
Don't hide behind your convictions
If you think it's the truth
For you it's just an addiction
That began in your youth
You didn't question someone
Didn't think to try
So giving into the big one
Finds you living a lie
Daily life makes you joyful
Living dead finds you peaceful
Dealing living you are hopeful
Peaceful dying you are there
I stand and wait for your question
Never comes to mind
Life and all of it's answers
Finds us living a lie
Give Me This
Sorry for my ugliness
Ugliness in passion
Passionate deemed wastefulness
Wasteful time in passing
Reality has no meaning
Emotionless you seem
Love with all its suffering
Tying up a dream
You gotta give me this
Waking to a lifetime
Walking toward the edge
Taking up all my time
Talking shouts of when
You gotta give me this
What's the difference in survival
Retribution's bitter fight
Wavering hope for tomorrow
No better off, no better off tonight
Sorry for my spitefulness
Guilty for your lies
Falling fearing faithfulness
Challenging goodbyes
Never Gonna Miss It
There's a light shinning though you
And it's getting hot
Brightness all for one now
Burning holes in me
There's a wall between us
And I can't get through
Darkness in my eyes
How can you do this
Bring back burn it down
And you're never gonna miss it again
Bring back burn it all
And you're never gonna miss it again
And we're sweeping up ashes
Where we used to be
Is this all there was
I can never be sure
Bring back burn it down
And you're never gonna miss it again
Bring back burn it all
And you're never gonna miss it again
Ladies of the road
Cover up your children
You don't want to know
What's ahead of you
Ladies of the night
Throw away your smiles
You don't want to know
What's in front of you
Smile And Wait
Got up at ten I knew I'd reach you by nine
Nothing stands in my way
When you're standing that way, and your
Powers of observation couldn't be higher
When you're standing that way
Nothing stands in my way
Such a smile you wait
For a smile to say, hey hey hey
Drinking again I really can't hear a thing
But you're talking my way
Now you're walking my way, now you're
Resting your head it's lying safe on my heart
It's been coming my way
Is he coming our way
Such a smile you wait
For a smile to say, hey hey hey
Think he's all just a playtime baby yea
(and I can't say just what he's looking for)
Think he's all just a fake out baby yea
(and I can't say just what he needs)
Think he's not gonna make it baby yea
(and I can't say just what she's looking for )
I could give you a reason to sat here
(and I can't say just what she needs)
Left you again I still had something to say
And you stand in my way
When you're standing that way, and you
Lend out a hand I'll never forget the face
If you're looking that way
You can stand in my way
Such a smile you wait
For a smile to say, hey hey hey
Feel Not
Doing the thing that you love
With your feelings
Trying to shield me
That's when you look around
And you see that
We were needy
Take a look at my hand and you'll see not
Take a hold if you can and you'll feel not
Pushing and pulling me down
In the wee hours
I was living
That's when you stick out your head
And you know that
You are drowning
Take a look at my hand and you'll see not
Take a hold if you can and you'll feel not
Brushing away all the smiles with a feather
You are deceiving
Pick up your head from your heart
And you'll see that
I am saving
Take a look at my hand and you'll see not
Take a hold if you can and you'll feel not
Where Was I
I was looking like a joke
I was hanging from a rope
And you say to me
Where was I
And the sidewalk underneath
Is swinging silently
And you say to me
Where was I
Trying to be satisfied
Can a camera speak words
Take a picture of my birth
And you say to me
Where was I
Trying to be satisfied
Don't try to provoke me
(you know I'll come back)
Even if you don't want me
(you know I'll come back)
It's you and me baby we're stuck here forever
It was looking like the end
The end of my only friend
And you say to me
Where was I
When the living is absurd
The dead begin to be heard
Your Place
And there you are sleeping quiet
I can just see your face
Lying still dreaming something
That you'll never ever miss
And how can I be important
In a world full of you
There you are driving onward
I can just be your chance
You got your whole life to prove
you're nothing
You got a lot of time to waste
You got a hundred roads to take
you nowhere
And nowhere might be your place
And where you are is nothing short of
Falling free through the air
And look at you moving no one
I'm not sure if you care
You got your whole life to prove
you're nothing
You got a lot of time to waste
You got a hundred roads to take
you nowhere
And nowhere might be your place
For you to rise
Look inside and feel you're all I like
For you to rise
Look at me and feel you're what you have
And so you lie stirring softly
Offering up your eyes
Waking now reaching for me
Was that your only try
Over done
Could you try to be happy
For me sometime
It's a crazy way to be
It's about time that you looked on inside
In no time you will be smiling wide
Do you hear, do you hear me in the background
Can you say that I did something wrong?
It's about time that you paid the price now
In no time you will be smiling wide
Drop me into your heart
With a golden sun
Drop me into your part
And it's over done
Can you feel, can you feel that I've abandoned
Any dreams, any dreams of a life
It's about time that you believed in me
I am no one that I seem to be
Drop me into your heart
With a golden sun
Drop me into your part
And it's over done
Is it over, is it over in the morning
Can you say, can you say goodnight
It's about time that I will hear you say
That I am not done yet
Drop me into your heart
With a golden sun
Drop me into your part
And it's over done
Little Flames
Tasty I love it
Growing in me
Slipping and showing
Chocolate dripping
I can see the keeper of your little flames
He's got you on the run
Cooking up your future with his little games
Why do you go on
Stuck in your back now
Carry's me on
Swallow it all down
You can be gone
I can see the keeper of your little flames
He's got you on the run
Cooking up your future with his little games
Why do you go on
He' nothing but trouble
Nothing but pain
Nothing but hell on earth
Plastered inside me
Sticky and warm
Blanket surrounding
Doing me harm
I can see the keeper of your little flames
He's got you on the run
Cooking up your future with his little games
Why do you go on
Without
I began thinking of the sea
I came upon a man without a leg
There was water all around
Crashing waves salty rushing
Where was his leg
I began thinking of the snow
I cam upon a woman without a breast
There was coldness all around
Chilling vast whiteness
Where was her breast
I began thinking of the sun
I came upon a boy without an eye
There was fire all around
Burning blazing roaring heat
Where was his eye
I began thinking of the air
I came upon a girl without a face
There was wind all around
Whirling spinning lifting me up
Where was her face
I began thinking of the moon
I came upon nothing at all
There was emptiness all around
Endless existence
Where was I
Wonderland
Your land is drifting
Your people are praying
I can truly see a song appear beneath your stare
Your ship is sailing
Your ship is sinking
The engines are flooded
You can't even glimpse a simple outline of the shore
Your hope is fading
Echoes of the past join hands now
Pulling up our pants peacefully
Voices in the choir let me hear you sing now
Sing of wonderland
It's time to go home now
Chooses sides and turn around
We can surly break the chains that tie us to the end
Pick up and say it
Echoes of the past join hands now
Pulling up our pants peacefully
Voices in the choir let me hear you sing now
Sing of wonderland
Forever Changed
I have been forever changed
My existence rearranged
Never will I look to hope
Godless people trying to cope
Their illusions waver fast
Killing lifetimes to last
Stand together alone you die
Strength in ignorance and lies
Fight for justice tomorrow
Means of separation and sorrow
Joyous hearts in deaths of men
For almighty told you when
Fear death your faith
Fear death your fate
The mystery of evils finds
All these questions in my mind
If it takes one war declared
For love to make us all aware
We will be forever changed
Life of hope and peace remains
Fear death your faith
Fear death your fate
All Awhile/ Glorified
This is the state of mind of me
Shining and glowing all awhile
The earth spinning decaying around me
I saw you in my dreams this morning
Smiling and laughing all awhile
You pass me by without a sound
All awhile I fight to find
Fight to find
All awhile I seek to shine
Seek to shine
Here is the trouble I am in
Singing and shouting all awhile
Your ears deafened by the hour
This is the life which I choose
Loving and caring all awhile
You abuse me with your indifference
All awhile I fight to find
Fight to find
All awhile I seek to shine
Seek to shine
This is the end that I desire
Bright and glorious all awhile
I decay in the dark cold ground
Without a sound
Take off your rosy shades
And look me in the eye
Don't hide behind your obscure guise
I found you sitting there
Waiting for yourself
Nowhere but in your head
You put me on your shelf
I was glorified in shining hope
You were making me
Alone in great dispute
Your bed is without me
You want me there but never try
Others know your way to be
Trophies of former worlds
I carry truly
Your hold remains but fading
Ugliness a passion cruelly
I was glorified in shining hope
You were making me
At Home
It's been a nice week
I like ones like this
It's been a nice day
Really don't want to go at all
You've been a good friend
Don't let it end like this
You've been a good friend
Leaving me here like this
At home, at home
Sleeping our days away in forgotten fields
I've been alone like this before
Lying around with my feet stuck in the sand
Brings it all back home
It's been a great day
Come bring me more like this
It's been a good hour
Come bring me peace like this
At home, At home
Sleeping our days away in forgotten fields
I've been alone like this before
Lying around with my feet stuck in the sand
Brings it all back home
From the CD "Temporary A.M. Band"
Try To
I can be my own best friend
I will see you in the morning
I will be my own best friend
I can be with me this evening
Can I fall into my arms
Can I whisper into my ear
All the words I know you've heard
I believe them when you're so near.
Chorus: I will try to I will try to
Be my one and only
I will try to I will try to
So I won't be lonely
It's so hard to write to me
When I'm hearing ACDC
All alone in side my head
With my handshake forced upon me
Chorus
I can be my own best friend
I will confide into myself
I will be my own best friend
I will drop dead into myself
Darker Now
How much would you pay for your life
Do you care do you care
Holding back all the sounds and the sights
Unaware unaware
Darker now than you've ever been
Bringing back all the boys for a turn
In the light in the light
Heads are up in the sky and they'll burn
Very bright very bright
Darker now than they've ever been
Turn your back on the world for a day
Going deeper and deeper
Time will follow you down all the way
It'll keep it'll keep you
Darker now than you've ever been
How much would you pay for a chance
To be in to be in
Picking up all the bones and your cast
Do you win do you win
Darker now than you've ever been
Only Move
I recall there was darkness
Not a sound, not a sight
Just a space, small surrounding
Just a second from light
Chorus: I have before me
A little room
I have before me
My only move
I was held up inside you
I was nailed to your wall
And the air all around you
Emptied into us all
Chorus:
There was nothing I could do
I was taken away
To a world full of wonder
For a wonderful day
Think
I want you
To be in love and talk about it
I want you to want me
And no one else
Think about it
You and I need
Feel about it
You and I need
Work about it
You and I need
To think about it
I want you
To be in love and talk about it
I want you for myself
Nobody else
Think about it
You and I need
Feel about it
You and I need
Work about it
You and I need
To think about it
Stop Sign
Never have I desired to know myself
Never have I walked in the shoes of any human being
Never have I aspired to achieve greatness
Nor attempted mediocrity
I have not loved nor hated or felt emotion of any kind
Each day a practice in control
Until the day all was complete
I did not think to exist
From the view of, view of a stop sign
Father
I don't want to be your father
And look at you
I don't want to be a mirror
And stare at you
I don't want to be the one
Who says to you
All that we are is a reflection of one
I don't want to be a feeling
You have for me
I don't want to be a savior
You take from me
I don't want to be the one
Who says to you
All that we are is a reflection of one
To Go Home
Life's been good to me, so I'm told
Healthy and happy not that old
She's been good to me, never cold
Everything is free, I am sold
Chorus: But didn't you jump, didn't you try to go home
Didn't you jump, didn't you try to go home
Nothing's been the same, always change
Driving me insane, such a shame
Still I am amazed by the game
Everything is made, I am saved
Chorus:
Stand on a ledge, I am looking down
Torn by a chance I won't make a sound
Torn by a hope that I won't be found
Torn by a, torn by… I'll turn right around
If this is to be, I am done
Funny but it seems I am drawn
To a bitter past I am home
Everything's been paid I am sold
Chorus:
Keep The Morning
I dreamt last night I was someone
I had never known
I saw myself and I told myself
To say hello, hey hello
I was so happy to meet me
To shake my shallow hand
I felt around and I reached inside
And held it down, held it down
Chorus: And you can keep the morning
I will take the everlasting night
You can have the sunshine
I will stay up with the changing night
And as I started to ask me
To question who I am
I fit so perfect inside myself
I tried again and tried again
To lay down right beside me
And fold up all my limbs
I tried to tuck them in so tight
That I am in where I began
Chorus:
I dreamt last night I was no one
That I could ever conceive
I saw myself just waste away
I watched it leave, watch it leave
Chorus:
Brilliant
Drinking so I'll write
Drinking `til I die
I am the man of dreams
I am the man you see
Drinking `til I die
I do not want to meet myself
I do not want to meet myself
Brilliant are my words
Naked and absurd
I am the man you need
Ugly and obscene
Brilliant so I've heard
I do not want to meet myself
I do not want to meet myself
Another Evening
Stop me now if you heard about
The time I spent a week without
Nothing but an empty head
And things I thought were right
I don't mean to bother you
But would you give a listen to
I am just like everyone tonight
Mix me up another batch
I do not think this one will last
I'll have nothing left except myself
I don't mean to stare at you
Your body takes up all the space
I don't think that we should be in here
Chorus: Can I spend another evening lying to you all
Can I spend another evening coming apart at the seams
You look at me with eyes of mine
I do not think I recognize
You are always here
And here you'll stay
I don't mean to punish you
But would you give a listen to
Everything that I forgot to say
Chorus:
Stop me now if you've heard enough
An I will go without a fuss
I am just like everyone tonight
I don't mean to leave you there
Without a clue without your share
You are just like everyone tonight
You are just like everyone tonight
Blues Song
I can see you wear your words
I can't hear you through the noise
You are lifeless with a feel
For the fame of "come see me"
This is my blue song for you
This is my blue song now
This is my blue song for your
This is my blue song now
They come to see you from miles around
Play your music without a sound
Sing them something change their lives
Sing them nothing, nothing is fine
If you like it, well that's okay
But if you want to make it pay
Step on down now off the stage
Sing along with me today
Pieces
Tell me can you see it coming
Am I such a blinded target
This is something that I've never been told
A kind of madness that I've never been shown
Send me softly your answer sing it
Shining falling on all sides to bring it
Tell me something so I know that I'm home
There's a sadness to the way that we're sown
Pieces into pieces form the edge of nothing stand alone
Driving me into a standard
Silent shadows are empty and static
Show me a picture so I'll feel that I'm whole
There's a method to the way that we go
Pieces into pieces form the edge of nothing stand alone
Give me something I know I can hold
There's a pattern to the way that we go
Pieces into pieces form the edge of nothing stand alone
