LYRICS FOR "THE OUTSIDER"

GET THE PICTURE words and music by Ray Pierle

You may have and you may want
The simple pleasures
When a lot is not enough
Better weigh your measures

Going for the pleasures and treasures

So the wheels keep rolling on
This road we’re rolling down
Broken lines that seem to whisper
How the distance is growing loud

I’m thinking we can work it out, without a doubt

Getting mean and thinking thicker
In the thickness we ride
And the days so fast they flicker
And the nights they ride so high

But I think I get the picture, just riding by

ABIGAILS BLUE MOON words and music by Ray Pierle

On a porch a lady grey
Was rocking back and forth all day
Had a vision calling me
Happened once it a blue moon you see

Though I didn’t know her name
I felt I knew her just the same
I heard her say it’s just as well
They called her Abigail

She makes the most of everything
Sometimes to no avail
And talks about the Savior
And her guardian angel
And I can see the dark stars around Abigails blue moon
I’m expecting her soon

In a voice so low and rough
She said getting here’s reward enough
What we thought would never come
In a dream had come and gone

She makes the most of everything
Sometimes to no avail
And talks about the Savior
And her guardian angel
And I can see the dark stars around Abigails blue moon
I’m expecting her soon

BLUES URGE music by Ray Pierle

BURNING EMOTION words and music by Ray Pierle

You've got some specialty
To cover you to cover me
Burning emotion

You fill the morning light
You fill the heat of night
Burning emotion

Burning emotion
Burning emotion

Take it easy, make it rough
Just can't get enough
Burning emotion

Satisfaction guaranteed
I know what you need
Burning emotion

Burning emotion
Burning emotion

Girl you've got it, yeah you flaunt
I know what you want
Burning emotion

You've got some specialty
To cover you, to cover me
Burning emotion

THE INEVITABLE words and music by Ray Pierle

May skies of blue follow you

With a stone in your hand
We are sharing this land
Nothing’s said of a master plan

Was it your second thought
Playing ready or not
As we stood in the sun so hot

The inevitable changes come and go

You and I sharing life
Ride your wave, it’s your lucky day

You were standing alone
Calling no one at home
The earth shook you were only stoned

Looking over the edge
It’s a trip to the fridge
And the water brings down the bridge

The inevitable changes come and go

When you twist and you shout
And the rock rolls about
For the benefit of the doubt
Down the stairs to the street
Open arms we may meet
And forever will always be

The inevitable changes come and go

THE OUTSIDER words and music by Ray Pierle

Right out of sleep
On this familiar street
Fighting the dream
Waking you see

The outsider

Promises the liar never believes
There is the outsider taking his leave

Do I begin
At some others end
Back to the streets
Where all loose ends meet

The outsider

The only thing sorry here is the story
The outsider waits outside his own life

Stories that I told were mostly unreal
Knowing the outsider never reviels

I testified
I had to lie

Something the outsider never could bear
Is publicly defend his private affairs

The outsider waits outside
Outside his own life

MORE THAN YOU KNOW words and music by Ray Pierle

You say I keep too much within
The secret’s spilling out to clue you in

You can believe me
Darling you please me
More than you know

Wondering how you are
Playing this guitar

I can’t leave now must speak my mind
I’m all out of tune and a little off time

So much I miss you
When I’m not with you
I guess I want you
And I must love you
More than you know

THE MORE THINGS CHANGE words and music by Ray Pierle

You know the more things change
The more they stay the same
Try to move out of your element
Things are looking pretty strange

The kid in you is still playing out in the rain
And you wear out that old saying

The more things change
The more they stay the same

We’ll be working hard at the sessions mom
Gonna jam the night away
Sit in front of that computer mom
And pretend we’re in a band these days

History keeps saying it’s time for a change
And part of you keeps saying

The more things change
The more they stay the same

We’ve all heard the stories
How you walked to school both ways
One more time through that detector son
Think you’ve got it tough these days

Can you tell us how you’ve come here
To have made such a name
You can read it in the front page here

The more things change
The more they stay the same

CARLOTTA words and music by Ray Pierle

I saw a picture show
And a story did unfold
How Carlotta was so hard to find

A rich man spoke
Of a dead man’s written note
And a handsome price for you if you can find

So tell me can you see
Behind the mystery of Carlotta
And somewhere in this world
Searching for the girl named Carlotta

It seemed she disappeared
Or she was never there
Just another name without a listing

It’s just like me
Could be barking up the wrong tree
And getting lost into the movie

Maybe raise the stakes
Could we make a mistake about Carlotta
Is anybody here
That wouldn’t kill for Carlotta

At the end we clear the air
That it wasn’t who but where
As we come to find there is a distant land

We’re going to Carlotta
That’s the story of Carlotta

FREEDOM RIDE words and music by Ray Pierle

So you turn a lonely eye and smile so high
There observing and then fleeing the light

And the strangest thing is a dark star shining
Any way your world is turning
As we all continue on this freedom ride