Demos
Douglas Pohl
High Road
There’s pressure building up inside the man you walk by on the street
He’s someone’s family, yet to others just the dirt beneath their feet
In a world he once believed
Could cure his secret disease
Oh how it burns
Desperation clouds the judgement of a once quite stable man
To the point he has no choice but end his life by his own hand
In a world that’s so diseased
It would bring him to his knees
Where do you turn?
The high road is filled with pain
The world will never be the same
You can try to fight it but deep inside you know
Take the high road
Now every minute of every hour is a reminder of the past
And second guesses haunt the memory of the night he breathed his last
In a world that’s so diseased
It would torture families
Where do you turn?
Ain't It Somethin'
Ain’t it somethin’, when all your thoughts are paralyzed
Suspended motion, cuz she’s all your dreams realized
And you wake up next to her and think,”My God, I must have died”
After all the dark days I been through I finally got it right
It’s enough to make you cry
With your eyes open wide
And you breathe a sigh
You don’t even know why
It makes you cry
With your eyes open wide
Ain’t it somethin?
Ain’t it somethin’, how a prayer can change a man
And it all fits in like somebody had a plan
And one fine day you meet the girl who all along was meant for you
All the tired cliches of love creep in and you realize they’re all true
Ain’t it somethin’, the feeling in her kiss
When you been waitin’ your entire life for this
And you make a pledge to stand beside her, be it thick or thin
And it’s the best decision you’ve ever made, Ain’t it somethin’?
Fallen Brothers
Well I can remember the times gone by
Caught up in the moment, sayin’ “live and let die”
Then one day we lost a good one
The Lord took him away
But I still think he’s with us to this day, hear him say
Well, times like these, damn, he shoulda been here
Sure as hell don’t seem like fifteen years
Gone but not forgotten
Heaven ain’t so far away
And if he’s listenin’ to us now he’ll hear us say
Here’s to fallen brothers
The ones who left us way before their time
Here’s to fallen brothers
Raise your glass and drink to yours, I’ll drink to mine
Whatever happened to the carefree days
Livin’ up life in a reckless haze
Seems like we took for granted
You’d be there all along
But in the memories of your loved ones, you live on
You’ve got your memories
Hey I’ve got mine
But we still have to take it
One day at a time
Well some days
Are better than others
But we never forget
Our Fallen Brothers
Well I can remember the times that we had
They games that we played and the blood that we shed
And I’d give anything to bring you back from the grave
And pay one more visit to the good ol’ days
Not a one day goes by when I don’t sit down
And think about how it should be now
Not a one day goes by when I don’t hope to
Be with you soon, we still remember you
Spiralin' Down
I’m feelin’ down and out ,got a head full of doubt and an achin’ to shout
Comes and goes with the wind
Oscillatin’ on chemical grounds, I’m up and down, gettin’ kicked around
Here we go again
Got a head full o’ nothin’
My thoughts are gettin’ crowded out
Head full o’ nothin’
All that remains is my doubt
And I know I’ll never make it out alive
I’m spiralin’ down
I’m starin’ at the phone, feelin’ all alone, sad to the bone
Why don’t you — ring?
I’m losin’ touch with hope, can you throw me a rope? I’m fallin’ down the slope
I’m losin’ everything
Nothin' Better
Daylight breaks, the waves crash in
I hear them as I wake up in your arms
And I study your face
I’m in so deep, you lie so still
I wonder if we always will be here
Don’t ever wanna leave this place
Oh there’s nothin’ better than this
The sun sets as I kiss your lips
We dance so slow, hip to hip and I know
I’ve never been so close to you
You look so fine in scarlet shades
I hold you close as twilight fades and you know
There’s nothin’ else I’d rather do
There’s nothin’ better than this
I’ll savor every kiss
Old Times' Sake
Been thinkin’ ’bout you lately and the times we used to share
There’s a vacant lot where you once stood, now cold and dry and bare
I stare into the empty well that once overflowed with trust
I reel up the old bucket and drink half an inch of dust
I like awake in my bed replaying all the good ol’ times
It seems I’m stuck on fast-forward when I wish I could rewind
I’d edit out the stupid things I did along the way
And overdub the brilliant words I always meant to say
But I’d probably go and make the same mistakes
For old time’s sake
And here’s to all the laughs we had
And all the memories, good or bad
Here’s to everything we thought we knew
Here’s to all the Friday nights
The parking lots under the lights
Here’s to being young, and here’s to you
Been thinkin’ ’bout you lately and the times we used to share
Our paths have seldom crossed since then, our future’s in the air
I wonder how it turned out, well I guess it turned out fine
But I wonder how it’d turned out if we’d walked a different line
There’s not a chance on earth I wouldn’t take
For old time’s sake
Sorry Man
I can’t put my finger on what’s missin’ here
The voice of reason is one I can’t hear
So where do you go when all your being is lost?
You sell out your everything, you spare no cost
I can’t feel nothin’, I’m a million miles away
I can’t feel nothin’, I’m a sorry man today
I can’t feel nothin’, I’m the wretched castaway
I can’t feel nothin’, I’m a sorry man, a sorry man
Empty sorrows sap my vitality
Dampened hopes warp my reality
So where do you go when you can’t find your soul?
You stumble on sideways, spinnin’ out of control
Everything known becomes unkown
When everything unseen is seen
And the strongest bond is made the most fragile
And the most fragile are all that now provide a connection to reality
Because the reality is
That nothing is an illusion anymore
Why can’t I feel anything?
Why can’t I feel anything?
What is wrong with me?
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Finding shapes in plaster patterns on the ceiling
Like finding Jesus’ face in the clouds
Yearning for answers, I roll back the stone
But all that remains is the shroud
Carried along by fate in this life
Like a layer of whirling snow on the road
We twist and we turn and sometimes we look back
But we always find something to hold
Without dreams what can we live for?
Without hope, there is no life
Just years and years and misguided fears
And wasted time gone by