Travelers

I can tell from the look in your eyes

you're lost like me, you're scared but you're free

You may think you've found the perfect disguise

But you know we can tell our own kind

You're missing, you don't want to be found

I see it in your face, you're out of place

you can vanish without making a sound

it's like you were never there

But I know that you're tired, like me

I know that your wired, like me

Rid of your ties, so wild and free

I know that your scared, like me . . .

I can tell from the look in your eyes

you're lost like me, you're scared but you're free

You may think you've found the perfect disguise

but you know we can tell our own kind

I know that you're scared, like me . . .

words and music by J Franklin Evans

Okay

I know one day I'm gonna burn

but not today. Not today

I know one day I'm gonna learn

but not today. No, not today.

I know one day it'll all end

until then I'll stay your friend

I know I'm gonna burn, but not today

I know one day I'm gonna forget

but not today. Not today.

I know one day but no, not yet.

Not today. Yes, not today.

I heard you call my name

I abandoned you just the same

I know I'll forget, but not today.

You think I'd know for sure by now

not matter what I say, or how I disavow

I do the same thing I get the same story

You think I'd know for sure by now

I know it's gonna get better than this

but not today. No not today.

There's a you and me but no us.

Not today. No, not today.

I don't regret what I have done

It ended badly but I had fun

It's gonna get better but not today.

words and music by J Franklin Evans

Everybody Needs To Understand My Rock and Roll

People always tell me what I need to do

what to think and what to say

Maybe I should just play along

who would care anyway?

But I can't stay quiet no matter what I do

that's just not how I roll

Everybody needs to understand my rock and roll

Conformity will take its toll

I can't stay quiet to save my soul

Cause everybody needs to understand my rock and roll

There was a time I was like you

I did what you'd expect me to do

Predictable and the same as everyone I knew

Soul-less eyes just ain't for me

I've never been much for doing what I’m told

I prefer to go my own way

Doing the expected gets terribly old

I'd rather come out and play

Am I crazy? Maybe so, I don't know

It just beats selling my soul

Everybody needs to understand my rock and roll

Conformity will take its toll

Take your happiness, take your soul

Everybody needs to understand my rock and roll

words and music by J Franklin Evans and Talyan Wright

No Survivors

I see your scars so close to my own

put us together what would we spell?

We both got hard places in our heart

a longing as deep and dark as a well

It's fated that we should find each other

(you've got to give me something)

Written in stone that we should be here

(you've got to give me something)

neither of us would ever settle for less

(you've got to give me something)

a perfect understanding of who we are

(you've got to give me something)

We could go to town, we could burn it down

we could leave no survivors

I know exactly where you hurt, I see it in your eyes

where you're red and raw and bleeding

I cover your wounds I'll be your bandage

All I ask is you do the same for me

It's fated that we should find each other

(you've got to give me something)

Written in stone that we should be here

(you've got to give me something)

neither of us would ever settle for less

(you've got to give me something)

a perfect understanding of who we are

(you've got to give me something)

We could go to town, we could burn it down

we could leave no survivors

let's go on the road before we get old

who can say what we'll discover?

words and music by J Franklin Evans

numb

numb


What if I could take a pill that would make it all go away?

Ignorance and arrogance

accidents and happenstance?

What if I could drop a tab and suddenly no more cliché

no more holes in my dreams or my life?


Maybe if the highs were higher

maybe if they existed at all

maybe if the fucking Universe would get off my back

maybe if I could see the ending it wouldn't matter anymore.


What if I could take some juice that would cause me to feel nothing?

No joy or elation but no pain or aggravation?

What if I could wash it all down with a swallow or two of something?

Would I make it go away or would I let it stay?


Maybe if I knew there was a chance

maybe if I knew we would survive

maybe if I saw some hope for the future

I'd chose to feel nothing instead of what I feel now.


words and music by J Franklin Evans

It Hurts lyrics

Here we stand again my friend


each of us bearing new scars

standing here with nothing

in this place among the stars



I wish sometimes I could make you see

I could explain the unexplainable

I wish you would stop wasting your love

on those who don't know who you are



It hurts sometimes to be your friend

though I believe I understand

I'll help you pick up the pieces again

as many times as you need me to



There's so much I'd like to say to you

but the words just don't exist

I wish I could just come out and say it

Circumstance always makes me resist



It hurts sometimes to be your friend

though I know I understand

I'll help you pick up the pieces again

as often as you need me to



words and music by J Franklin Evans

Someone to Love

I thought you could be someone to love


You were my friend I thought I knew you

But I couldn't give you what you need

You had a habit I cannot feed

Someone to love, someone to love



You thought I could be someone to love

I'm sorry that turned out not to be true

I'm not the man you hoped I was

And I left like everyone does

Someone to love, someone to love



It doesn't seem to be asking so much

Something everyone can give but still in short supply

A hasty kiss a glance a touch

A simple moment of joy before we die



We both wanted someone to love

We thought we could fit each other's bill

Too bad we both were wrong

we both have to move along

Someone to love, someone to love



words and music by J Franklin Evans

The Crawl lyrics

I spent the night looking for you

I started north and worked my way south

I can spot you from a thousand miles, I looked for you up and down

but you were nowhere to be found.

Then I found you, on the street chasing your pain

looking for your score to get you through your night

That's when I knew I was wrong about you

You're not the one that I thought you were

I'm not going to crawl for you

as much as I might want to

It's the only thing left for me to do.

So, goodbye to you my dear, my pain

I really don't want to see you again

Give yourself over to your addiction

And know that you are no longer mine

I'm not going to crawl for you

as much as I might want to

It's the only thing left for me to do.

words and music by J Franklin Evans

Cold Iron lyrics

My baby died


should have buried her at the crossroads

Well, my baby died

should have buried her at the crossroads

Cause she comes to see me every night

makes me reap what I have sewed.



I went to see the preacherman

didn't know what else to do

Yeah, I went to see the preacherman

didn't know what else to do

cause that woman she won't leave me alone

I'm payin' the price for bein' untrue



Preacherman told me,

keep some cold iron by the bed

preacherman, he done told me

keep some cold iron by my bed

cause that's what you gotta do

when you're haunted by the livin' dead



So I got me some cold iron

and some dimes to pay my toll

Yeah I got me some cold iron

and some dimes to pay my toll

I'm gonna send that woman back where she belongs

I hope it don't cost me my soul



words and music by J Franklin Evans

Walks Like a Man lyrics

Walks Like a Man



She was out late one night in a different part of town

She'd done a good line or two and was looking to party down

she found herself in a new club, a new vibe, a whole new crowd

and the music it was smokin'. The music it was loud.



He was a tiger. He'd seen her a million times before she'd seen him once.



She could feel the moment, when he singled her out

dancing on the crowded floor the entire world shut out

he gave her time to feel at home, time to find her groove

let her have a drink or two before he made his move



Oblivious to the danger, she smiled at the stranger, the man with dark, dark eyes



He walks like a man

He talks like a man

He feels like a man

But he's not a man . . .



He awakened demons inside her, she didn't know she had

a prisoner of his gaze, this tall and strange nomad

Her friends would have warned her but none of them were around

she was taken without making a sound



She never watched the news, she was a stranger to this town



He walks like a man

He talks like a man

He smells like a man

but he is not a man . . .



He needs her eyes to see

he needs her lungs to breathe

he doesn't exist unless he's in her mind



He needs her heart to feel

he needs her tongue to taste

she didn't know this about his kind



He knew everything about her, plucked it from her eyes

he saw through her pretense and stripped away her disguise

He worked his way in now she's conquered from within

and he walks around in her skin



Now he walks like a man

He talks like a man

He looks like a man

but he's not a man . . .



words and music by J Franklin Evans

Ashes and Bone lyrics

It's no secret everyone says that I am kinda sleazy

but what you asked me to do when you died left me kinda queasy

You were worried after you were gone that you'd leave me all alone

With your last breath you whispered in my ear and then you were gone

Now I've got you in an urn that sits up on a shelf

Day and night with no-one around I use it to amuse myself

Every day at four o'clock you and I make tea

All this time I was inside you now you're getting inside of me

Ashes and bone

Hard as a stone

Every night about the usual time we head off to bed

We don't need to change our routine just because you are dead

I have to admit, I like it, almost as much as before

Though some of you gets into the sheets, and some of you on the floor

In the morning I find traces of you smeared across my face

on the counters, in the air, scattered all over the place

On the lampshade, on the clock, even on the stair

Other places I won't mention I'll let you figure out where

Ashes and bone

hard as a stone

leave me alone

with my ashes and bone

Ashes and bone

I'm not alone

not on my own

with my ashes and bone.

words and music by J Franklin Evans