The Jon Young Band

1. Let our loving Grow 

Be careful what you say,
cause angry words are often sharper than a blade
and it feels just like they cut me to the bone.
Do you recall the day we met? 
It was a smokey bar that smelled of beer and cigarettes 
But we kissed just like, we'd never kissed before.
I held you tight, you left me wanting more and more and more

Chorus:
And it's hard to see the forest, while you're standing amongst the trees.
And it's hard to love a rain storm when you're drowning in the sea.
Take stock of what you've got, before you claim defeat
Cause I love you more today than I did that night so many years ago.
Oh darling let's not fight, let's let our loving grow and grow and grow.

Verse 2
Tell me what you're going to need, 
to make you realize and take a look and see
That I'm not that guy you've got painted in your head
Let's take it back a couple of steps
to that old smokey bar, the day that we first met
and love just like the kids we were back then
I love you now,
but god how I thought I loved you then

Chorus: 
And it's hard to see the forest, while you're standing amongst the trees. 
And it's hard to love a rain storm when you're drowning in the sea. 
Take stock of what you've got, before you claim defeat 
Cause I love you more today than I did that night so many years ago. 
Oh darling let's not fight, let's let our loving grow and grow and grow.


2. Bittersweet Goodbye

Man embraces woman like a kid on a boat,
with an unexpected leak and a motor that's broke
In the middle of the water,
yeah he's gonna sink until he chokes or floats.
I loved her like no other, I was her man
She was my cherry blossom lover,
The queen of my land
until the day she went and left me for a fling with a one night stand.  
Oh man

Chorus:
So I drive down the road, destination still unknown
Painted lines, guide me home
the rain will come, the rain will go
It's just a little bittersweet goodbye
Bye, bye, bye

Verse 2
And after thirty something years it seems I'm no better off
than the day that I was born unto my sweet loving mom
Been a rambling just a gambling
since the minute I could walk that line
And be fine.
And through the many highs and lows,
Through all the things that I've lost,
It's getting hard for me to find some gain
that ever outweighs the cost
of a semi-real tomorrow,
broken dreams
and all but worn out lies,
Oh my...

Chorus: 
So I drive down the road, destination still unknown 
Painted lines, guide me home 
the rain will come, the rain will go 
It's just a little bittersweet goodbye 
Bye, bye, bye


3. Kim’s Song

She's a lady and she knows it,
a steady breeze in the summer time.
Like a rose in all her glory 
she smiles for me.
And at first glance you won't notice,
but there's a fire in her eyes.
Brightly burning for the way we both could be.

Chorus:
Come my dear and lay beside me
let your body touch my soul and set me free
from the fears of new horizons
distant hearts learning to free,
distant hearts yearning to believe

Verse 2
And the more I get to know her
sometimes the less it feels I've learned,
but like a burning light she helps to guide my way
and the stars at night are beautiful
but lord they cant compare to her
simply softly she illuminates my days.

Chorus: 
Come my dear and lay beside me 
let your body touch my soul and set me free 
from the fears of new horizons 
distant hearts learning to free, 
distant hearts yearning to believe

Bridge:
Would you marry me my sweet little moon child?
Would you stay with me for the rest of my days?
Would you stand with me through the good days and the bad ones?
Just hold me close, never push me away.


4. Please don’t 

Easy come, Easy go 
He'd heard this story told before
you've settled down to find yourself
amongst a life you barely know
For a little piece of mind

Up and down the same old road
she's drove a thousand times before
She's working days to scrimp and save
to keep a house they'll never own
For a little piece of mind

Sometimes the road that leads us home
can twist and turn until
You're old and jaded
Oh just remember 
me and you've got things to do
So lets find our heart again

Chorus:
Please don't 
Please don't
Please don't give up on me

Verse 2:
Every start has an end
but every end must still begin
so navigate yourself towards
the center of those narrow lines
for a little piece of mind

This old life can bring you down,
but look around you'll find
I'm always waiting
Oh girl remember me and you 
have things to do so let's find our heart again..

Chorus:
Please don't
Please don't
Please don't give up on me


5. Bleed me    

My apathy has got the best of me
and I don't know what it's worth,
but I've seen the dreams of a many a young man
smashed like bottles in the dirt

Well I've heard em say that the streets are paved
with the blood of honest work
but the work is running dry and the rich are getting by
while the little guy is loosing his shirt

Hallelujah, hallelujah screams a homeless man to his lord,
Oh god deliver us from this evil 
before this evil consumes the world.

Chorus:
I'm just so sick and tired of your world and all it's lies
Cause all they ever want to do is Bleed me
Stand up, Won't you stand for something?
Cause there is a battle to be won
The day is always darkest
just before the dawn

Verse 2:
Well we lost the farm in december 
and now it's june we're on our feet again
but the roles have changed and it's still a little strange
cashing checks from the government

Hallelujah, hallelujah
the aint no justice here anymore
not when those with all the money
own our politics and all our courts

Chorus:
I'm getting sick and tired
of all your suits and all your lies
Cause all you ever want to do is bleed me.
Stand up, wont you stand for something
Cause theres a battle to be won
The day is always darkest 
Just before the dawn.


6. Here we are    

She walked in rather slowly, put her loving arms around me
She said "I'm glad I didn't know you when I was young
Cause I wasn't very good you see at looking right in front of me
I'd have probably have broke your heart and run....
Oh but I was young.

Chorus:
And here we are
Take a look around
Two lovers souls on solid ground.
The best made plans don't all work out
but here we are, 
Look at us now

Verse 2
Well I turned to her with the biggest grin
"I know exactly where you've been 
you know I used to do some stupid things for sure
and like a moth attracted to a flame
my self destructive side did reign 
and in pursuit of love
I lost myself along the way
but in pursuit of love
I found you and these better days
Lord I was a fool
But look at me now

Chorus:
And here we are
Take a look around
two lovers souls on solid ground
the best made plans don't all work out
but here we are
look at us now
look at us now


7. Dixie road   

When the whispering wind blows round the bend
and the needles of the pine begin to fall
I'll be looking towards the south across fields of smoke and doubt
Just wondering if I'll ever make it home

I was just a boy of 17 from Virginia
the day I left the farm to fight in Lincoln's war
And after 4 long years,
a hundred thousand empty tears
I can't recall what we're even fighting for

Chorus:
Take me home, dixie road
Take me home, lay me low

Verse 2:
And I think today I'll write to my fair Julia
Though in my heart, I know she's found somebody new
in this Civil day and age, it's just become the price we pay.
We sacrifice so that others make it through.

I awoke today to the sound and to the fury
of a hundred cannons just beyond the hill.
And I thought to myself then,
"Oh what a hell we're living in,
If I have the chance to leave, 
I think I will"

Chorus: 
Take me home, dixie road 
Take me home, Lay me low


8. Talk to me   

Girl it is true, I've fallen for you
like the rain on the window, your head on my pillow
and I must confess, my life's been a mess
I was always searching for sunshine in the depths of a dark night
Let's see it through, I'm Talking to you
Talk to me

Chorus:
So let go of yourself
Let my eyes tell the tale
of a love that is true
girl the spotlight's on you
Just give me a chance,
please me love take my hand
and I'll show you how real
our true love could feel
Just talk to me

Verse 2:
And now that we're through with our slow dance for two,
All the worlds moving slower, rest your head on my shoulder
Cause I can't believe that you're here now with me
God you're all I ever wanted
In my dreams you've haunting
Let's see it through, I'm talking to you
Talk to me

Chorus: 
So let go of yourself 
Let my eyes tell the tale 
of a love that is true 
girl the spotlight's on you 
Just give me a chance, 
please me love take my hand 
and I'll show you how real 
our true love could feel 
Just talk to me


9. Once flown  

Hardcore tripping on a twelve step nightmare
I'm finding it hard to breathe
Cause after all it was just another Saturday
Except for the smell of cheap wine and gasoline

She push and push until there's nothing left to push against
Stretched to a break, Our souls swept under the rug
Cause in her eyes we all were just a pack of animals
Psychotic versions of a world that never wanted us

Chorus:
Burn it Down!!!!!!!

Verse 2:
Tick tock the clock it ticks
and we are merely cogs in it
precision lies, our captors tighten the Spring
Cause day to day it seems we fight so fewer battles 
That, This forced complacency
has sewn the seeds of Anarchy 

Chorus:
BURN IT DOWN!!!!!


10. All that’s good    

All that's good someday will die
Beauty will fade to dust before your eyes
Great cities will fall and even the sun will cease to shine, Oh shine
cause all that's good in this life from the start is born to die

Chorus:
And It's cold outside,
Some days it will be
And I've been trying to hide
from who it is I should be
But through all of this commotion, 
we're just ripples in an ocean
of all that will ever be.
I came here with my love,
I'll leave with nothing more...

Verse 2
All that's good, someday will die
Troubled hearts go to sleep with troubled minds
But don't fear the end cause it's only a mater of your time
It's your time
Cause all that's good in this life from the start was born to die.

Chorus: 
And It's cold outside, 
Some days it will be 
And I've been trying to hide 
From who it is I should be 
But through all of this commotion,  
we're just ripples in an ocean 
of all that will ever be. 
I came here with my love, 
And nothing more...


11. Rise Again  

Set Em up low,
I'm locked and I'm loaded
I'm ready to go
To a sleepy little town with no one around
Won't you come with me lord?
Cause I've been walking alone down this one lane road
and I'm wondering just where it ends
Just a biding my time with a tune and a rhyme
and a bottle of Jim

And so it goes
Life rolls on
Fast then slow
Like a setting sun
To rise again

Somebody said that I was out of my head
Like you wouldn't believe 
for just a spinning my tires for the wants and desires
of the same old lame country scene

But time only knows who's a friend or a foe,
but I thought that he knew what was best
So I packed up my bag, lit a smoke, took a drag 
and I headed out west 

And so it goes 
Life rolls on 
Fast then slow 
Like a setting sun 

To rise again first we must fall
From the east to the west we stumble and crawl
To find our own way, we all have to walk
Face first into the wind
Keep steady, stay strong
Walk on
And rise again


12. Slipping away 

We're Slipping away, a little more every day  
and theres nothing I can do to hold you tightly 
to love you nightly, to make your dreams come true
The more I push the less it feels
that you were ever mine, that we were ever real
Another day and time,
I'd gladly kiss your lips goodbye.
But not tonight
There's worry in your eyes

Chorus:
Cause you don't know the way that it makes me feel
To sleep alone when I'm laying beside you
Underneath the sheets of another lie
You'll find no space beside me
This is just the end you've been searching for
Just another chance for you to walk on out that door
Just please be kind and mind my heart
While you're running from yourself
through the dark
Just be kind and mind my heart

Verse 2:
There's nothing to say, that I haven't said every day
and there's nothing I can do to love you madly 
when things go badly, I know you're feeling it too
the more I run the less it feels 
that you were ever mine, that we could ever steal
another day in time I'd gladly kiss your lips goodbye
But not tonight, There's worry in your eyes

Chorus: 
Cause you don't know the way that it makes me feel 
To sleep alone when I'm laying beside you 
Underneath the sheets of another lie 
You'll find no space beside me 
This is just the end you've been searching for 
Just another chance for you to walk on out that door 
Just please be kind and mind my heart 
While you're running from yourself 
through the dark 
Just be kind and mind my heart

Bridge:
And stay a little longer for me..
Won't you stay, for me?
My worlds gone crazy, 
this isn't easy,
so please just won't you stay


13. To those Lost (Until we meet again) 

Hold me close,
don't let me slip
I'm faltering 

It's hard to know 
Which way to go
through this uncertainty 

Chorus:
Cause here we stand once again
head in our hands, god our hands are trembling 
Fare the well my love
Until we meet again

Verse 2:
Take my hand,
Help me understand
What's going down

And I'm sure
that there's a plan
But what it is
just isn't clear to me

Chorus: 
Cause here we stand once again 
head in our hands, god our hands are trembling  
Fare the well my love 
Until we meet again


All Songs Written by Jon Young