soon after

soon after. soon after you came outta your mother babe. i saw your name but have you changed? have you really changed? are you the same shit rearranged?

so many times i've fallen against my pretty face, i rise above. my will remains.

open your eyes if you don't like what you see. it was great but now it's gone and i hope you write whenever you get drunk but just don't tell me you don't like what you see. don't tell me this is not how it's supposed to be.

cause so many times i've fallen against my pretty face, i rise above, my will remains.

another sunrise

if i fall for you. if i fall for you it would be the death of me, cause you're the closest thing to heaven i have ever seen. but i haven't learned to fall gracefully yet. no i haven't learned to fall gracefully at your feet yet.

though your canopy saves you from all that may fall, you are missing out on the rain.

just to bring to mind the color of your eyes, i have slept through another sunrise.

no i haven't learned to fall

nothing doll

it's in what you hide, you will design to find. in what you only hope to know, you will know nothing. you will know nothing doll, you will know nothing. you will know nothing doll, you will know nothing at all.

only in yourself can you find, a light that is so blind, it can't see it's own beauty baby, can't see it's own light. can't see it's own beauty, can't see it's own light.

i know because i've seen it there in you. oh nothing. nothing at all.

don't try

don't try to bury all your demons down into the ground. they will only seed, they will only grow, they will only captivate every eye of your soul. don't go. don't go crazy on me now.

don't try to build a house upon nothing at all. it's already been done, done better than you and i could ever try so don't, don't, don't waste our time.

keep on dancing yeah. keep on dancing, we may never stop.

they built the house upon the ground but who built the ground upon the ground, we're all spinning around the sun on this particular globe.

new beginning

don't waste your time on that sort of thing, it won't bring you money not in this world or any other ending. won't bring you the happiness you will one day truly deserve, cause shit like that you just have to earn.

when you have time to burn. when you have time to burn.

go on and put away all your sorrows, where you're going there are no tomorrows, and the life that you thought you were fighting for, it was already yours, already ending, and yes you will get there eventually that is the point.

it's a new beginning. it's a new beginning, every time you turn, it's a new beginning.

go on now take with you what you have learned,
go on now into the sun.

hope you write

open your eyes if you don't like what you see. it was great but now it's gone and i hope you write whenever you get drunk but just don't tell me you don't like what you see. don't tell me this is not how it's supposed to be. it was great but baby now all of that's gone and i hope you write but you can never get drunk enough to dance, you can never even go out after your heart.

as your physical body fades, may your inner beauty only grow, let your self out of the cage, you're the only one who's keeping you in there.

and if you keep on diggin you'll probably make it to china. you keep on diggn you'll probably make it all the way i don't know where. to whatever you wanted to find. whatever you wanted to find when you left it will find you there.

when you're down on your luck, biding your time, just trying to get by. you got all your friends, all your love all your money throw it all on the line, was it all you ever thought you could find?

falling back

moving on ain't easy as falling back. and if you can't find peace in the world around, you're on your own. on your own, you came in on your own.

everybody knows, nobody can say. everybody knows, everybody singing.

call me when you're ready, call me when you're back. call me when you're ready, call me when you're back. falling back.

the game of love, it never ends, you're already in, already over your head.

simple beauty

simple beauty you're so hard to see. and when i've fallen, you're the easiest place to be, like you don't even know, like you don't even know, this obviously ain't no love song. obviously ain't no love song. obviously ain't no love song, obviously ain't no lost love song.

you can't turn your back on the past, you can't stand still and rock and roll. it will never be the same as when we were growing up, too many things need change.

i wish you the wisdom of ages, the spirit of a child. i wish you the wisdom of ages, the spirit of a child of a child of a child, of a child, of a child of a child of a child of a child of a child...

Songs & lyrics copyright 2001-2010
ari charbonneau
all rights reserved

photo by
sabina padilla

The Great Beyond

Somebody once told me I was wasting life and I disbelieved. So i set out upon my journey to the great beyond and Im still free.
Theres no love like ours. Theres no love like ours.
I never got to tell you what I was feeling inside. This tidal wave of love has brought my spirit to the breaking point of life. I feel as fast as I can think I feel the thought has slipped away Im back at work, no one knows me anyway, i set my sight to the great beyond, to the great beyond and thats where Ill land, because
there is no love like ours. theres no love like ours, beneath the fireworks and the stars, beneath your tattoos and your scars, there is no love like ours.
And when the drag queens fought the cops, filled their purses up with rocks. Thats when the spark became the flame at Stonewall in 1969. No love like ours.

Mexico

When I first left for the war I was a young man. Tattooed from the head down to the toe. Left a lot of maidens on the main land. A diamond down in Mexico. The pill that makes it go away. Gone away to stay. The pill that makes it go away. Gone away to stay. I'd seen his face before, a face you can't forget. Blood brothers long ago. Out in the desert where the silence swallows you whole. Liberation of your soul. The pill that makes it go. My daddy played the trumpet in a blues band. On a steam boat out on the Mississippi line. Never cheated on my mama down in Dixieland. You know that man was born to play. The pill that makes it go away. Gonna make you high. Gone away to stay.