Daniel Bryant

Crazy Game

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© 2009 Daniel Bryant SOCAN/ASCAP

Crazy Game

Come around, little baby

I’m afraid of what I feel tonight

I need you here, little baby

I know the things I did weren’t right

Please come around, little baby

I hear the voice and I can’t hide

It’s all gone wrong and I can’t fight

Anymore

All the pain that I caused you, baby

It haunts my days and rapes my nights

There’s a dream that taunts me lately

Though I tried to hide, I see you by his side

Someone up there must really hate me

When I plead for dark I’m bathed in light

This is one wrong that I’ll just make right

Please, won’t you let me back inside

Please, don’t make me cross this line

When I think about it all, baby

You loved me more than I loved myself

I know this game we played seemed crazy

Sometimes we lose when our luck runs out

Now take my hand, please don’t shout

Please, won’t you let me back inside

Please, don’t make me cross this line

Please, understand the reason why

Please, just promise me you’ll try

(Please)

With shaking hands

And swollen eyes

I steal the air

Choke out the light

As we dance

You slowly crawl

The rage subsides

As the thunder calls

From deep inside

The voice screams loud

Let me out

Let me out

Let me out

Let me out

Please!

Can't Face The Night

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Can't Face The Night                                                                                                        

City streets a war zone

Battle lines are drawn in blood

Sixteen years of nightmares

Silenced on that short walk home

City streets breed an anger

It feeds on the weak and young

Too proud to point a finger

Too scared to run away

I just can’t face the night

Baby, don’t make me face it alone

Livin’ ‘tween these four walls I don’t call home

I can’t face the night

City nights hide the innocence

Strength behind cold steel

One split second changes

Try, but you can’t go back

City nights hide the faces

All colours bleed into one

One shot into the darkness

You become the very thing you hate

I just can’t face the night

Baby, don’t make me face it alone

Livin’ ‘tween these four walls I don’t call home

I can’t face the night

Mama’s little angel

Stares back with the blackest eyes

Asleep in his wooden cradle

Another urban sacrifice

City days, morn the choir

Lord save us from ourselves

When brother turns on brother

There’s no place left to hide

I just can’t face the night

Baby, don’t make me face it alone

Livin’ ‘tween these four walls I don’t call home

I can’t face the night

Look At Me

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Look At Me                                                                                  

I pick this scab and I watch it bleed

Does that freak you out – is it comforting?

A red river runs down my arm

With each drop it washes away

I tell myself – that’s enough

Turn it off – push yourself away

Turn it off – so you can’t see

You think it’s bad – just look at me

Is it hard to look at me?

I said, is it hard to look at me?

Run away – it’s a bad dream

Look away – if you’re gonna scream

Turn away- don’t look at me

Lay your head down

Close your eyes

See a black crow on the side of the road

Pickin’ the carcass of a fallen foe

Think I’ll lie down and close my eyes

And let that crow pick away at me

I tell myself – that’s enough

Turn it off – push yourself away

Turn it off – so you can’t see

You think it’s bad – just look at me

Is it hard to look at me?

I said, is it hard to look at me?

Run away – it’s a bad dream

Look away – if you’re gonna scream

Turn away- don’t look at me

Lay your head down

Close your eyes and sleep

See my face in the water

Skin a bluey-grey

Slip my hand beneath the surface

And the ripples wash me away

When all the world is hiding

And there’s no one left to find

Wanna slip beneath the surface

Drown the thoughts – cleans your mind

When everything you wanted

Is more that what you have

Are you feeling empty?

Feels so great to feel so bad

In all the things you find

There’s nothing that you want

Try to look inside

It’s a trap and you get lost

Don’t read into this

Besides, the words, they are too blurred

Pages wet with tears

From too many missed chances

I’ll take all these hits

For as long as I can stand

But when my legs are weak

Just let me fall

I’ll take all these hits

For as long as I can stand

But when my legs are weak

Just let me fall

She Was Gone

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She Was Gone                                                                                 

I left her standing on the porch

I remember I didn’t look back

Heard her calling as I drove away

I knew that was that

Her eyes on that Sunday morning

They told another tale

And as I lay beside her

I knew she was gone

Friends saw what I couldn’t see

Maybe I didn’t want to believe

Is it easy to ignore the truth

Or harder to live a lie

I won’t blame myself

Cause I gave all I had

Still, you turned away

So live with yourself

Take these memories

I don’t want you to stay

Her calls still remain unanswered

I see her number and I look away

There is nothing that can change the past

At this point, I don’t care

I Can Feel Your Heart Beating

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I Can Feel Your Heart Beating                                                                      

Never said our goodbyes

I know that you would want it that way

So few words to say

Through laughter and tears

I had to face another day

Standing alone

As time rolls along – memories live on

What would you say

If you saw me carry on this way?

It’s strange, I can feel your heart beating

Even though I know you’re so far away

You’re here – I can feel your heart beating

Would you leave if I begged you to stay?

There’s a place that I hide

I keep it all locked away

It’s easy that way

You unlocked the door

And everything inside of me

Spilled onto the floor

Safe times are gone – memories live on

One more sleepless night

I try to find a new hiding place

Questions unanswered

No ones gonna tell me the way I should feel

Who knows the answers?

It wasn’t time!

There is no plan!

A better place?

It’s in God’s hands?

All these rhymes that you speak – I don’t understand!

So what happens now?

Everything is all packed away

Turn off the light

Do I just carry on

Pretending things are just the same?

I Can Feel Your Heart Beating                                                                                        

They say life goes on – memories live on

Take it day by day

Hoping one day I will breathe again

It’s strange, I can feel your heart beating

Even though I know you’re so far away

You’re here – I can feel your heart beating

Would you leave if I begged you to stay?

I'll Call You

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I'll Call You                                                                                                

Hey, it’s good to see you brother!

Man, how long has it been?

I’d love to stay and talk but you caught me at a bad time.

I’ll give you a call, we’ll get together

In a week or two

Seems we’re always sayin’ that we’re gonna make time

You call me

Or I’ll call you

We’ll hook it up soon

I’ll call you

Or you call me

Man, it’s good to see you too.

They’ve got me runnin’ ‘round in circles again

This place is goin’ insane

Still remember the times that we planned to run away.

Sneakin’a quick cold beer in the summer time

While we were at work

Those late night puffs, another coffee run in your mama’s car

You call me…

We’re too wrapped up in ourselves, I guess

These thoughts catch up and steal my breath

Just one last ride on a Saturday night

Before you pack it away

Dinner’s in the oven, truck’s in the drive, he’ll be back soon.

I was working Sunday morning, just the same ol’ thing

Got called to the phone

Seems that something happened and you weren’t coming home from your last ride.

When everything changes in the blink of an eye

It leaves you filled with regret

So many things left unsaid cause you didn’t make time

Now I wish I could see you, brother

Just one more time

Hear one more story, share one more laugh, just for old times

You call me

Or I’ll call you

We’ll hook it up soon.

I’ll call you

Or you can call me…

Mother Mary

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Mother Mary                                                                    

Mother Mary

Lift me in your arms

Help me today

Cause I’ve learned my prayers don’t take me far

I’ve tried to run away

But something holds tight to me

No ballast to stop this sway

I need you to guide my way

Mother Mary

Whisper in my ear

Tell me the truth

Cause so much of what they preach is fear

Please tell me this can’t be true

Should I believe these lies

For those who look up to you

Tell us what we should do

Mother Mary

Look into my eyes

Cause my voice is too hoarse to shout

Before the night takes hold of me

Find the demons and cast them out

Their voices are growing loud

Dark Parade

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Dark Parade                                                                                      

They say time can heal all wounds

Well, that time can’t arrive too soon

Shadows floating by with faces blurred

Tank on empty – numb to the world

So many voices with nothing to say

No words can take this pain away

Passing by, this dark parade

And I can’t escape

I walked till my legs were sore

Turned a corner, then walked some more

Down empty streets – through vacant lots

Head is spinning – stomach tied in knots

Just keep trying to make sense of this

None of the pieces I have seem to fit

Sun is shining but the sky looks grey

I walk but it’s all in vein

All these faces look the same

With one voice they sing your name

Though the answers elude my mind

It begs to ask the question why

Standing silent with vacant eyes

They wave approaches – can’t slow the tide

The serpent winds around the silent halls

Arms outstretched – inch-by-inch it crawls

I’ve seen you around but I can’t place your face

Just another prop that sits here on this stage

Applaud in whispers and foolish rhymes

The actor has no lines

Can’t believe anything I see

There’s no reflection looking back at me

Leave me here locked behind this door

Even Jesus doesn’t call anymore

Trapped In Your Mind

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Trapped In Your Mind                                                                

When the mind wanders too far

It’s easy to forget who you are

Do you recognize me

Cause I think I know you

Do you like what you see

This lie could be true

I’m sure I know you

There are times when you just can’t control

That urge buried deep in your soul

Cause it calls you, it begs, it demands

In the darkness, you become what you can’t stand

Is it love that you seek

When you’re down on your knees

You beg and you plead

Please save me from me

You keep a safe distance

Stay just out of reach

In the cover of darkness

You taunt and you tease

You hid all your secrets

Kept me drunk on you wine

You left me here wasted

Trapped in my mind

You fear the night

Cause you know what it means

Die a little more each time

Still you seek

Another faceless love

Cause your trapped in this life

Cover your bruises

Love has no use here tonight

The heart never chooses

You give up - it’s useless to fight

At the end of the night

How do you feel inside

Do you lie there and cry

Trapped in your mind

There’s no place to hide

When you’re trapped in your mind

No one can hear your cries

When you’re trapped in your mind

Peace Be With You

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Peace Be With You                                                                                  

I used to dream at night

In search of the type of saint or sinner I would be

In absence of light

The mind wanders aimlessly, desire chased away

Do I fit the mold

Can I play the part you seek

Has the actor learned his lines

Or will he run, run away

Fight through the shadows and bring about the light

Peace be with you

Peace be with me

Take what you want

Take all I have, you see, they’re all just foolish things

Believe in ideals

That in the end just steal your heart and steal your soul

Death pardons the weak

And leaves behind the guilt that suffocates the loved

Just a pawn in a game

Where truth becomes the lies that feed your conscience

Peace be with you

Peace be with me

Days undefined

Flashes of light

I see your eyes

Day turns to night

Why does time fly

This face that you see

So worn down by time, it bleeds and the features fade away

Now the mask that you wear

Has cast the shame in stone

Just how long can it hide