The Price You Pay

Rubies sapphire diamonds and gold

Had that money, all the money my hands could hold.

Had a nice place, such a fine life, flood stole it away.

Ain't nothing mine now, ain't nothing left, but hell to pay.

Baby cried, sweet mama screamed when the black water came.

"Oh Lord," I prayed, wash me clean, just don't wash them away.

It's hard to live, so hard to give, even harder to breathe,

When you've lost all you love, everything you need.

All dem riches that shine today

Sure ain't worth the price you pay.

Your brightest dream is sure to fade

The more you hold on the more it slip away.

Now she's gone, it's so hard to start over again.

I don't know why mean old blues claims to be my friend.

I got a song deep in my heart, I still need to sing.

It’s all that stops the flood of tears when memories come again.

It's all changed all brand new now I'm back to stay.

All I owned, it owned me, just wasted my day.

Them that got, they still got, they got everything.

Us without, all we got is what the morning bring.

All dem riches that shine today

Sure ain't worth the price you pay.

Your brightest dream is sure to fade

The more you hold on the more it slip away.

Rubies sapphire diamonds and gold

Take that money, it's just money, you'll never take my soul.

Next time I build, I'll build my house of heart and stone.

I'll make my home /atop the hill, rest my tired bones.

All dem riches that shine today

Sure ain't worth the price you pay.

Your brightest dream is sure to fade

The more you hold on the more it slip away.

Milk the Moon

The way we go is cold and long.


It’s far too far to right the wrong.


The curves are steep, but the shoulder’s strong,


You’ll never catch us …………..without a song.






The dreams we bleed have slipped from sane.


The hearts we hold are full of pain.


Still no reason for a sad refrain,


We can melt the stars………free our brain.






The last one left to write is screaming,


the demons there to fight.


When liquid light is a streaming,


Just reach into the sky…and milk the moon.






All will be there all too soon,


Our heads spun open, cracked with dawn,


Our bodies all disarmed,


Swinging true to form ……….we punch the sun.






We’ll run this road until we’re gone.


Y’know feeling good can’t be wrong.


Our tears are warm and hearts are strong,


You’ll never catch us …………..without a song.






The last one left to write is screaming,


the demons there to fight.


When liquid light is a streaming,


Just reach into the sky…and milk the moon.

The Mojo Queen

I was walking down the street, who you think I see?


All the people move away, as she walk up to me.


She the Mojo Queen, the Mojo Queen, the Mojo Queen, the Mojo Queen.






With each step the ground it shook.


Everybody talk 'bout the money she took.


She look you in the eye, and shake her monkey paw.


She stick her daddy with a pin just to see him fall.


She the Mojo Queen, the Mojo Queen, the Mojo Queen, the Mojo Queen.






She keep two eunuchs to keep her clean.


It take two words to get her mean.


She eats crude oil, drink gasoline.


She'll saw off your arm to steal your ring.


She the Mojo Queen, the Mojo Queen, the Mojo Queen, the Mojo Queen.






She makes her blend of eyes and tails.


If that don't do it, she's got her pills.


She makes young women cry and old men scream,


When she talks with ghosts and reads your dreams.


She the Mojo Queen, the Mojo Queen, the Mojo Queen, the Mojo Queen.






She seduced me with her rooster wine,


wiggled her lip and made my hoodoo shine,


then she sprouted warts inside my hand,


and turned my woman into a man.


She a Mojo Queen, the Mojo Queen, the Mojo Queen, the Mojo Queen






She the Mojo Queen, the Mojo Queen, the Mojo Queen, the Mojo Queen


She the Mojo Queen, the Mojo Queen, the Mojo Queen, the Mojo Queen


She the Mojo Queen, the Mojo Queen, the Mojo Queen, the Mojo Queen.