Barry McArdle
Finbar's Lost and Found
All Lyrics by Barry McArdle from "Finbar's Lost and Found"Copyright 2016
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Everything
Possession is a word that we use to simply describe
Fleeting things in our life that clearly ain’t worth our time
If it all blew away you’d be the same person deep down inside
Don’t measure your worth with the things that only money can buy
Because everything that you own turns to nothing when you die
The love that you give will be the only thing that will survive
Redemption calls us out with its truth in so many ways
But the lies all around us grow bigger with each passing day
When we’re blind to the greed of the world to ourselves we betray
Hold onto your soul don’t let the lie come take you away
Because everything that you own turns to nothing when you die
The love that you give will be the only thing that will survive
So hold onto your soul and let go of the lie
The love that you give only on that you can rely
We’re part of a whole we’re connected and tied
The love that you give follows you through your life
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Nervous Passenger
We drive off into the night
I’ve got my guitar and I’ve got some clothes
Leaving won’t make it right
But I’ll keep her smile wherever I go
I’m a nervous passenger
It’s been coming for quite some time
I’m loose in my shoes and I’m burning what’s past
The troubles been weighing my mind
Got to open the door and be where I’m at
I’m a nervous passenger
Letting go of the wheel and taking a ride
My heads on her cloud where I’m resting my mind
But I’m a nervous passenger
Holds my hand while she drives
No place to go but a story to write
We’ll know it when we arrive
But it’s more than just a drive throught the night
Travel out into the light
Nothing but time and stories to tell
The sun from her eyes burns bright
Can light up the dark down deep in a mine
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Into Your Heart
Into your heart I will find a way
Inside you love there’s a brand new day
If you can’t find a reason to live
A reason to smile to you I will give
A reason to love to you I will give
I’m going to find a way straight out of this place
And right into your heart I will find a way
Inside your love there’s a brand new day
Just talk don’t go just let your feelings show
Don’t walk don’t know why into your arms I’m thrown
Don’t talk don’t go just let your feeling flow
Don’t walk don’t know why into your arms I am thrown
Into your heart I will find a way
Under the sky of your love there’s a brand new day
If I can’t find a reason to live
A reason to smile to you I will give
A reason to love to you I will give
I’m going to find a way straight out of this place
And right into your heart I will find a way
Under the stars of your love there’s a brand new day
Let’s talk don’t go just let your feeling show
Don’t walk don’t know whay into your arms I’m thrown
Don’t talk Don’t go just let your feeling flow
Don’t walk don’t know why into your arms I am thrown
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Stockholm Syndrome
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It’s only for your life anyone can see what I could be for you and you could be for me
It’s only for your life everyone can see I should be with you you should be with me
If only you could see the me that’s at your feet
I am sent to you to make your life complete
It’s only all of your time for you I’ll on care
I’ll keep you in a box for no one else to share
It’s only for your life anyone can see I should be with you you should bewith me
When you’re down l’ll lift you up
When you’re losing I’ll bring you luck
When it’s dark I’ll be the light
It’s only for your life
It’s only for your life 4x
Its only for your life I want to keep
A string around your heart to follow you in your dreams
It’s only for your life I hope that you can see
There’s so little time before we both will sleep
It’s only for your life anyone can see I belong to you you belong to me
When you fall I’ll pick you up
When you thirst I’ll be the cup
When it cuts I’ll be the knife
It’s only for your life
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Lost my Soul
I lost my soul somewhere along this road
Do you see it? Can you tell me where to go
Should I ask a Shaman or should I call the local ghost
And go back to the fold come in out of the cold
Can you see inside who I am or where that I should be
I’m lost somewhere deep inside myself and time has slipped away from me
If all roads lead back to where I am there’s a chance I’ll find a way
With all things lost I’ve only to gain I just need a place to stay
Somewhere along this road I lost my soul
Do you see it? Can you tell me where to go
Is it the road less traveled or have I fallen from the old road
I’m simply lost and I have no place to go
Can you see inside who I am or where that I should be
I’m lost somewhere deep inside myself andtime has slipped away from me
If all roads lead back to where I am there’s a chance I’ll find a way
With all things lost I’ve only to gain I just need a place to stay
Cause the stars are coming down
Night is falling around me without a sound
I’m just a lowly one perhaps I’m hellbound
Where once I was lost I hope to be found
Somewhere along this road I lost my soul
Do you see it? Can you tell me where to go
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Insuperable Wall
No matter how blue the sky darkness falls on my head
Azure breathes behind the swaying trees but I can’t get out of this bed
It seeps into my very soul there’s nothing I can do
No peace behind the wall of sleep the darkness follows me through
With everything that summer is spring never touches the fall
It’s no stranger that comes to town to build this insuperable wall
No matter how green my grass it’s the other side I always seek
And all the fields I have to run on none may I plant my feet
For darkness grows inside the mine of gold death and precious stone
I’m trying Hard to stay in line but it’s hard when you feel so alone
No matter how far I look I can’t see the tree for the wood
Cause when blue skies make you want to cry you can’t tell the bad from the good
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Peace From The Beach
Peace from the beach with no troubles in mind
No fear or hatred just some flip flops and wine
Some nameless place of in the sand far enough out of reach
Two fingers raised up in my hand just saying peace from the beach
Bought a ticket to the promisedland
St. Something or Another
Where people worship the sun and the sand
We’re all sisters and brothers
It’s not a place here for people that hate
Christ would never approve
No need to hurry you will never be late
No hate no hang ups no shoes
Taking a ride on that old peace train
To a place in the sun
I Love this life I could never complain
What’s uptight comes undone
So if you’re coming leave your troubles behind
For a new point of view
People here are never unkind
It’s all waiting for you
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Tell Me
Tell me what you want to say
Don’t sell me what you stole for free
Show me what you have for show
Don’t owe me what you stole from me
You slip in the back door and hide in the dark
You open up your mouth and shot all six in my heart
Your love is like a car that is always in park
Your dog doesn’t like me he’s all bite and no bark
Is there something you’re trying to say to me?
Tell me what you want to say
Don’t sell me what you stole from me
Show me what you have for show
Don’t owe me what you stole from me
I’m always on defense when you walk through the door
I try to say my piece you put your foot through the floor
You hit me with a broom until I’m beaten and sore
Is this your subtle way of saying you don’t want me no more?
Is there something you’re trying to say to me?
Come on and Tell me what you want to say
Don’t sell me what you stole from me
Show me what you have for show
Don’t owe me what you stole from me
The great white hunter you’re on the attack
If this love were a train it would fall off the track
You’re talking to your friends I feel the knife in my back
Don’t tell me this is love because it’s nothing but
Oh won’t you tell me what you’re trying to say
The Flood
I’m sorry true one for the lack of democracy
Apologies through rhapsodies and all my hypocrisy
I’m bound by the sum of equal inequities
The Floods gonna rise up again to drown the truth in all of my sin
The floods gonna crest at our heads drown the life from all that is dead
I’m sorry my son for the bills paid in the end
A debtors collection from hell and then back again
I’m bound to a world of phonies and freaks and friends
The Floods gonna rise up again to drown the truth in all of our sin
The floods gonna crest at our heads drown the life from all of our dead
I’m sorry true one for my lack of true sympathy
No blood from the lamb will bring an epiphany
I’m bound by the truth that no one here is saving me
I’m sorry true one for the lack of all honesty
Integrity escaping me and a heart full of vacancy
I’m bound to a lie and all its false liberties
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All Lyrics by Barry McArdle from "Finbar's Lost and Found"Copyright 2016
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No Pepper
All Lyrics by Barry McArdle "No Pepper" copyright 1998
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Gypsies in the Night
Sleep no more we’ll be late for the night
The stars are waking up from the moonlight
Come on girl we’ve got many miles to drive
Pack up your things and put on your coat
Don’t waste time or I’m leaving alone
The clear night air makes me realize I’m alive
We’ve got to roll on like gypsies in the night
Roll on until the morning brings us light
Roll on like the devil is close behind
A long stretch of road and just you and I
Forget about the world there’s no time for goodbyes
We’re gonna run away beneath the midnight sky
Wasted lives we live I know we can give them up
One life to live why don’t we just live it up
Come on girl we’ll run like gypsies in the night
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Fire
The town is on fire stop your complaining
The man’s on overtime and wishes it was raining Fire
Embrace them with open arms all who are burning
A conflagration of the world
All the while turning burning fire
The ashes of ages will never let you know
How it feels to burn alive
And the ashes of ages will never tell the tale
What it’s like on the other side
The world is on fire stop your complaining
The burning flesh invades my breathe
My face the heat the flame of fire
Kiss your child and say a prayer that a cool calm like this
Will never coldly take your world in a dreamy flaming kiss of fire
The world is on fire stop your complaining
All the time you’ve spent stone cold
Now left to only blaming fire
I’ve Got a Gun
Trying to find my way home I don’t know if I can
I’ll be coming down it’s just a matter of how or when
Lord I think they’re after me because of what I’ve done
My mother is a bible and my father is a gun
Everybody Look out Everybody run I’ve got a gun
Sister sky guide me because where I stand I stand alone
Brother earth don’t bury me cause I’ve got to make it home
Calling me a legend Putting stars in my eyes
I want to live through it all and grow old before I die
Everybody Look out everybody run I’ve got a gun
Running I keep the sun to my back
Living on a tightrope it’s so hard not to fall on my back
Keeping what I keep what I need what I can and travel light
Sleeping with one eye open I lose the day and travel at night
Trying to find my way home I count the days by the ten
Stay for a little but then I have to leave again
Sister sky goodbye brother earth can keep the sun
I read my mother the bible and I’ll shoot my father the gun
The Hippie Love Song
You and me laying in flowers in park
And we kiss and we hug and we touch and we love
The sky is so still it looks like a canvas
Of artists who painted together and loved
Our eyes are so close I can see my reflection
With my soul and you soul together in love
Look at that cloud it looks like an anvil
The blacksmith is pounding his metal with love
Love we Love we Love we everyone is in love
You and me hiding behind all the bushes
An old man is reading his paper with love
He’s sitting alone and looking so sad
So you sneak up and kiss and surprise him with love
Letting Go
She’s letting go of me making me beg so shamelessly
She tells me that she doesn’t know why she’s letting go
She wants to taste fruit from the tree want to trip on reality
And discover things she doesn’t know so she’s letting go
Didn’t mean to part like this
Turn away with one last kiss
wants to show me how she can
Resist the love of any man
And never let her bleeding heart show
While she’s letting go
She spins a web of mystery her love a spell growing in me
She takes her time and kills me slow
While she’s letting go
Didn’t mean to part like this
Turn away with one last kiss
She wants to show me how she can embrace the loss of any man
And never let her bleeding heart show
She’s letting go
She’s killing me slow
Something Dark
There’s something dark inside my head
There’s something lonely sleeping there
There something dark inside my head
Something I don’t want to share
There’s something crawling in my ear
Whispering a cheerful tune
There’s something crawling in my ear
The darkness leaves so little room
If I could only find a way to make the things I say not seem weird
I could clear my clouded mind and turn the hands of time back my way
There’s some creeping on my skin
Something I’m afraid to touch
If someone would just let me in
I promise not to talk too much
If I could only find a way to make the things I say not seem weird
I could clear my clouded mind and turn the hands of time back my way
If I could only find a way to make it through this day
It’s then that I might stay yet all that I can say is
There’s something dark inside my head
Something ugly growing there
There’s something dark inside my head
It’s something I don’t want to share
Hacksaw
I met her on an awful hot day in June
She was as pretty as the flowers full in bloom
She was a sweet as honey from a bee
I came around a few times then I asked her to marry me
That’s how I found true love
It wasn’t long before she got around
With every single guy in town
I didn’t know if I should come home
I didn’t know if she would be alone
That’s how I found true love
That’s how I lost true love
So I’m gonna take a hacksaw to her
Gonna take a chainsaw to her
Gonna give my life up for her
I’m gonna show her my love
She broke my heart she’s gonna see
She ain’t making no fool of me
She stole my heart and took my love
Now I’m going to show her what I’m made of
So I’m gonna take a hacksaw to her
Gonna take a chainsaw to her
Gonna wash my hands off of her
I’m gonna show her my love
She broke my heart and made me cry
Made me feel so bad inside
She broke my arms and broke my legs
You know I won’t hear her when she starts to beg
So I’m gonna take a hacksaw to her
Gonna take a chainsaw to her
Gonna run her down with my truck
I’m going to cut her up
He Can’t Love You
He… He can’t love you like I could
If I had you in my arms again
He… He can’t do for you the things I did
When I was your only friend
You’re leaving what you
Used to call the air you breathe
The love that I once knew
Is like a knife without it’s sheath
And it cuts me deep the same as it will cut you
And everything that I could have been
Will be a dream that never came true
You’re going to fall
And bleed as for you I bled
Four walls without a door
No escape from being mislead
And then it will hurt you because you’ll know that I
Would have been just what you wanted
And would have never made you cry
This love is forever and forever I will be
Waiting for you to fall
Waiting for you to run to me
Satisfy This Love
If I were to show and interest in you
Would that be alright?
I’ll tell the truth I can’t make all of your dreams come true
But would you still talk with me all night
I’m not just another winded drag
I’ll give you all I got
I won’t take what’s inside and leave the bag
You’ll get my best shot
Cause this thing is like a whirlwind this thing is like the rain
It pours on you and lifts you up and sets you back down again
Please don’t think I’m unjust don’t want to victimize by touch
I just need you need you near to warm me up and satisfy this love
If I were to bring a flower to you
Would that be alright?
Don’t want to give it to you say hello good bye and we’re through
I want to talk with you all night
I don’t want to lock you up or fence you in girl I just need you near
It may seem like I’m a little uptight but I’m wise to all that sin
I just need you here
Fools Parade
Sometimes we are born to a light
Sometimes we are born to walk in shadows
Some of are here to shine like stars
Most of us are here to gather scars
And day to day we walk the fool’s parade
And never really find out who we are
Some of us will grow to know a truth
Some of us concede to live with lies
Some of us can face an empty chair
Some never get the strength to say good bye
And day to day we walk the fool’s parade
And never really love or even try
We want to fit in though we really want to be ourselves
We want to stand out though we really want to fit in
And day to day we walk the fool’s parade
And never really find out who we are
And day to day we walk the fool’s parade
And never really love or even try
Sometimes we are born to be a light
Most of us just fade like morning stars
All Lyrics by Barry McArdle "No Pepper" copyright 1998
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