Silver Lining

Written at the Breslin Hotel

Appears on the album The First 20 Minutes
©1997 There's Been A Publishing, ASCAP

You are the silver lining;
You are the one.
We'll all fall away and you'll be
Shining like the sun.
Coz you are the silver lining.
You are my good luck charm.
You stand so Super Human
At every false alarm.
You are the silver lining.

Everyone has their cross roads
At every curve.
You may not get the recog-
nition you deserve.
But you are the silver lining
You are my lucky piece.
You stand so Super Human
As enemies increase.
Where is the safety pin that holds you in
I abandon my pursuit of silver linings.
I
I believe
I believe in you

I'll never forget when you had
been here for a day.
Your heart was broken and you
thought you'd lost your way.
But you are the silver lining;
Even when no one cares.
When stormy skies are threatning,
I know you'll still be there.
But one day you may attempt to be exempt
And abandon your pursuit of silver linings.

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Way Home

Appears on the album The First 20 Minutes
©1994 Joe Matzzie
©1997 There's Been A Publishing, ASCAP

Got to find my way home.
Got to find my way back home.
Got to find my way home.
Such a long time since I've gone away.
The trees were green but the city scene
Pulled me in and now I've lost my way.

Highway pass beneath my feet now.
Day light stretches on and on.
In my dreams the future is the past now.

I'm on a quest for the very best
Of what this town could never offer me.
For I have felt the turning of the earth

Beneath my feet and lord, it frightens me.
Sun set radiating in the distance.
Night falls but I will not fear.
Star dust; we shoot across the sky and disappear.
I have seen her standing at the crossroads.
Talking to a passer-by.
Wrestling with a flame that never seems to die.

The other night I had a dream
That you had died and left me here alone.
And when I woke the traffic spoke
And I realized it was high time I be headed home.