1. Bring Money
2. James Brown DNA
3. Grow
4. Ideas Robados
5. Close To The Sun
6. Make Tomorrow
7. Scenes From A Jazz Club
8. Mona Lisa
9. Musica
10. Didgeri-dude
11. Walkabout
12. Hooked
13. I Won't Forget

BRING MONEY        Back to Top

The visions of the night, they like to roam around in stereo
And the big illusion is what they buy
Can you stop the night from coming?
And all the people go "follow"
Under the surface, so hollow

Reflection doesn't lie, sometimes it tells you what you need to know
Take another look and then decide
Can you stop the train from running?
And all the people go "follow"
Under the surface, so hollow

There was a time when they did it for fun
Not for money or notice, but just because
Look at what's left of it now
Realizing it used to be fun
When the memory's over, we've just begun
To question authority

So walk for miles to stand in line, bring your wallet
To pay the price to roll your eyes, bring your wallet
The picture might only look good for a while
Your wallet might not be as big as your smile

The future does decide, just got to choose your fights and off you go
And the revolution's right on time
Time to break the walls and run in
And all the people go "follow"
Under the surface so hollow

JAMES BROWN DNA        Back to Top

I like James Brown, had lots to say
Soul brother one leading the way
Don't give a fuck what you think is right
Soul brother one is leading the fight
It wasn't easy what he was bringing
In 1964, the hardest working man
Brought the love to want more
It made you get on the floor and get involved
You get involved
"I like it when you get up" he said

I told my girl "James brings the prize,
See this my way, open your eyes"
She looked down on me like she don't know
She was my girl, she had to go liking the hustle
But not the player
Don't know the salsa
Acts like a stranger
But then she knocks on my door
Then we get up off the floor and bring it up
We bring it up
"I like it when you get up" she said

Take me to the bridge

James Brown D, the Junkie style
Gonna run with this a while
When the funky drummer play
We got the James Brown DNA
Work it on out, scream like you shout
Work it on out

You know, James Brown, he was the one
Bringing the funk under the sun
Without the man, might there not be
The chosen ones, the history
Sly and the Family, Larry and Bootsy
The Funkadelica, the Red Hot Chili
You know, what made you want more
It made you get on the floor and get involved
You get involved
"I like it when you get up" he said

I told my woman she was missing
No respecting, just dismissing the soul innovator
Funk affiliator
Motherload, Jungle Groove, Give It Up Or Turn It Loose
The James Brown groove
She looked down on me and walked away
She was my woman, I did not stay
Then we get up off the floor and bring it up
We bring it up
"I like it when you get up" she said

Take me to the bridge

James Brown D the Junkie way
Tuned down in the key of A
When the funky drummer go
Junkie got the James Brown flow

GROW        Back to Top

I wander alive but no words could describe
The way that I'm feeling this morning
'Cause morning is mean when you don't get no sleep
Lie awake all night just thinking
Make your point and then they do
Make their point and look at you

I look and I try but it's hard to be quiet
When everyone is whispering
Say what's on your mind, the next day you might find
That it's your fault for everything
Raise your voice and then they do
Make your choice and look at you

The sooner you come to is when they don't want you
To get on with your life
The sooner you wake up, the sooner you make up
For your lost time
Grow, own your mind

I beg and I plead for someone to tell me
Is my road gonna get any better?
They turn and reply with that look in their eye
"It'll beat you right down if you let her"
Tell the truth and then they do
Tell a lie and it comes true

CLOSE TO THE SUN        Back to Top

Don't you think it's about time
You stopped talking and started walking the higher ground
But the other way
Don't you think it's about time
You right the wrongs you've been holding onto
Clinging to every single day
I just feel so haunted like you wanted
I just want to know the truth

Don't you think it's about time
You started paying back what you owe
And believe me, oh there is hell to pay
Don't you think it's about time
You stopped defending the never-ending
Close your eyes, let it slip away
I just feel so haunted like you wanted
I just want to know the truth

Did you think you could fly?
Or disappear up through a hole in the sky when you want to?
Or lay your wisdom down with no reply?

Got too close to the sun and it burned you
Too close and it made you believe
Too close to the sun and it learned you
Shot down in the land of the free
Never come this way again

Don't you know you're not a god
But a shooting star that came from far
And burned out quick in the light of day
Don't you think you might not want to
Roam around like you own the town when
All your friends took off yesterday
I just feel so haunted like you wanted
I just want to know the truth

Did you think you could fly?
Or disappear up through a hole in the sky when you want to?
So learn your lesson well and say goodbye

MAKE TOMORROW        Back to Top

My little darling, I keep calling but you never get up
I reach for you
I bring the love, I bring the fire, but it's never enough
You're broke in two
A brighter day lives up in your memory, so you say
Contemplating what used to be
Say that you'll never believe in anyone out there

Some say you learn along the way
It's OK, someday make tomorrow with it
i know the memories they grow
But you go, someday you make tomorrow with it

I used to think i was the fire that would never go out
Someday I will
I used to think that there was someone I could not live without
I was wrong still
But on I go, yes on I go and I'm growing every day
And now I see, see that the one that was me
Is somebody else now

Some say you learn along the way
It' ok, someday make tomorrow with it
i know the memories they grow
But you go, someday you make tomorrow with it

'Cause we all get high, get down low
Have to think about it
Try to arrive
What you know, don't forget about it
'Cause we all get high, get down low
Have to live around it
Try to survive
What you know, make tomorrow with it

Can you laugh about it?

MONA LISA        Back to Top

She was the Mona Lisa, another perfect creature
An object of humanity
I was a poor musician, I had her in my vision
And now the rest is history
She traveled far and wider, I travelled far inside her
And we decided we were one
And upon her arrival, and upon my denial
That's when the end had just begun

A brother full of schism, a human cataclysm
A sister of the higher mind
I said she was the winner, she said I was the sinner
And that salvation I should find
She took me from the fire, she took me from desire
Made me the best that she could make
One big unhappy ender, another police sender
She grab me by the throat and shake

Back in the day. a life ago, so far away
After the fall, answer the call and disappear

She said "Come with me down by the ocean, down by the sea"
I said "Yeah OK, where you will go is all right with me"
I went so far to find my consolation, my peace of mind
But then the Mona Lisa, she paints another picture
One the cause of my despair
I should have listened when my friends said "Get the fuck out of there!"

And then the Mona Lisa had the tenacity to
Tell her entire family
That I was gonna break her, a lonely widow make her
And now they're coming after me
Across the great horizon, all day and night we're driving
About as far as we could go
Down in the Argentina, she left me for a preacher
And now I'm back in Mexico

"Come with me down by the ocean, down by the sea"
I said "Yeah OK, where you will go is all right with me"
I went so far to find my consolation, my peace of mind
I went so far to know easy they come and easy they go
I want to roll away, to stay gone forever might be OK
I want to roll away, down by the water, down by the waves
I want to roll away, come Mona Lisa what do you say?

MUSICA        Back to Top

The music I hear ain't got no color
But still when you listen, it shows you the light
Dark like the night, blue like the pain of so many that did not deserve it
And words, words that you read come with the best of intention
Or crueler direction, but when they come together
You decide whether you are solution or part of a problem

Trusting myself is all I can do, I do
I'll light the way if you're coming too
Make it go, sister, brother!

We are, we are those people
The real, real but all equal
Not far away is something better
We roll and say "Here we go again"

The music's the junk and I'm bringing it up again
Bring it up
Musica

The rhythm in me, just feel your heartbeat and know that
You've got the same thing, but a different drummer
And a voice that will tell you the right thing to do in this world

WALKABOUT        Back to Top

Living like it's dark outside 24 to 7
Knowing there's a bastard flashlight right around the corner
But the calls and the brawls and the barking of the animals
I ain't getting no more sleep tonight
A rainy day would be OK without a hurricane
Mother Nature's gonna make me lose my mind
If the rain washed away yesterday, I won't forget it
Just want to get on with this life of mine, I'm way behind

And the longer I wait, the less I give the more I take
I just don't want to be swinging from the hanging tree

So I'm giving up the rope, I never use it
Just don't let no one tie me down, bring me down, keep me down
A better way to go, if you choose it
Might be the long way around
Look around, figure out
Figure out, walk about

People live like animals in this very world
It's easy to forget something you've never even seen
But the ones with the guns got this game they call "play along"
Now I've got to find some truth so truth can set me free

'Cause I walk about
Finding my way, figure it out
I walkabout, finding a way

HOOKED        Back to Top

She wants to know that if I go
Would I still be coming round from time to time?
It could be sublime
I wonder too that if I do
Would I still be feeling like another fish on her line?
And then her daddy don't like me
But you see, he never saw her with my eyes
Saw her big surprise
And her momma, she's all right
But I don't really want to bother her with another crime

Hooked on you, I've had bigger problems
But they never followed me and watched me from across the street
Hooked on you, it could be better but it's not bad
It's not bad

Why do you step it up when I am stepping down
Why do you build me up and then you tear me down
Why do you run me off and then you come around
Why do we do it the hard way again
Because we do it hard

She wants to play, I'm gonna pay
Should I say I'm getting closer to the end
Farther from a friend
I say all right and then good night
Never knowing that I just sold my soul so far away
And in the morning I come too
Wondering what she's gonna do with me again
Bring it now and then
The circumstances and the third and second chances are gonna
Offer me up an early grave

Hooked on you, I've had bigger problems
But they never tied me to the bed and left me for the weekend
Hooked on you, it could be better but it's not bad
It's not bad

Hooked on you, I've had bigger problems
But they didn't hunt me down and keep me locked down with a shotgun
Hooked on you, it could be better but it's not bad
It's not bad

I WON'T FORGET        Back to Top

Fell asleep and started dreaming, saw the earth from up above
A pale blue dot spinning
Fell and started moving closer, wound up on the beach in Melbourne
Sun she was shining
Suddenly I saw a woman, wind in hair and sun on her skin
Walking towards me
After what seemed like a mile, I was her face and saw her smile
My darling C

And so we roll away the years, slowly but surely we endeavor
And as the days go by, sometimes with tears
I know that I won't ever forget about you
Forget about you, my friend

Memories of beachside friends, happy times
And dancing to that reggae music
Hustler and NSD, when I think about you
I can't help but smile

And so we roll away the years, slowly but surely we endeavor
And as the days go by, sometimes with tears
I know that I won't ever forget about you
Forget about you, my friend

So I hear that there's a baby soon to be coming your way
So happy it's true
'Cause if anyone deserves to be happy, then it's my girl C
Oh how I love you