DEVIL AND ANGEL
Lord where I wander
Don’t nobody know
Devil and angel
Everywhere I go
Who’s walkin beside me
Shadow or ghost
Devil or angel
Or heavenly host
You left me hangin
Twist in the wind
Had to hold my
Till someone cut me down and then
I turned into a heathen
Vanished in the crowd
Had to resist the temptation
To be thinkin out loud
Sun on my shoulder
Burns like memory
Devil and angel
Followin me
Devil and angel
Everywhere I go
©2023 Markus James (LivNat / ASCAP)
SWEET FORGIVENESS
You can look and never find
Only time can tell
Who will be calling
And mercy comes
When the sun goes down
And time is falling
Sweet forgiveness
Lay down by my side
Take this burden
From my dreams
That wait to be satisfied
It’s a long way down
From the mountainside
To the beginning
And nobody knows
Where mercy goes
Til the last chance
Comes in and
Sweet forgiveness
Takes you by the hand
Leads you cross
The river wide
Up onto the golden sand
Sweet forgiveness
Last down by my side
Take this burden
From my dreams
That wait to be satisfied
©2023 Markus James (LivNat / ASCAP)
GHOST OF A RADIO
Ghost of a radio
Stuck on Satisfaction
Step out of a dream and
I don’t wanna go back in
Midnight of a stolen day
Gambler rolls on feet of clay
Sinner all who’s left to pray
For the secret runaway’s salvation
Earthquake world
Starts to buck and crack
Feel like I’m walking down the street
Got a bullseye on my back
Rusted veil that once was new
To the lying eyes nobody knew
Could only speak of what was true
Temptation
Ghost of a radio
Stuck on Satisfaction
Step out of a dream and
Ghost of a radio
See that girl dancin
Like to shake her hips
To the new sound
Of the apocalypse
Oh yeah
Broadcast off a ship of fools
Diamond crimes and golden rules
Philosophers that cast their jewels
Before the Summer’s heated blacktop cools
Supernova turnin
Into a black hole
Check in the overhead and
Don’t forget your soul
Memories of jasmine stones
Buried under frozen bones
Love volcano cinder cones
Seen by no one’s eyes in tones
See that girl dancin
Like to shake her hips
To the new sound
Of the apocalypse
I can’t get no…
(I can’t get no…)
Sound like somebody callin
Somethin bout it so appallin
How the towers are all fallin
How they used to have it all and
Broadcast off a ship of fools
Diamond crimes and golden rules
Philosophers that cast their jewels
Before the Summer’s heated blacktop cools
See that girl dancin
Like to shake her hips
To the new sound
Of the apocalypse
(I can’t get no…)
Broadcast off a ship of fools
Diamond crimes and golden rules
Philosophers that cast their jewels
Before the summer’s heated blacktop cools
Philosophers that cast their jewels
Before the summer’s heated blacktop cools
Ghost of a radio
(I can’t get no…)
©2024 Markus James (LivNat / ASCAP)
PARTNER
Would you ever be
My partner in crime
I got the idea
You got the dime
All the way around
All the way around
All the way around this world
Whose crucifixion
One last dime
A double vision
Of your life in crime
All the way around
All the way around
All the way around this world
All the way around
All the way around
All the way around this world
Wonder would you be
My partner in crime
I got the idea
You got the dime
All the way around
All the way around
All the way around this world
©2023 Markus James (LivNat / ASCAP)
WHERE MY BODY SLEEPS
Your head on
My pillow
And all you try to keep
Fading
As soon as
Superstition weeps
I’m going back
To New Orleans
Where my body sleeps
We live in
The shadows
By the waters deep
And wake in
The moonlight
And pray my soul to keep
Til I get back
To New Orleans
Where my body sleeps
You ready
I’m going back
To New Orleans
Where my body sleeps
©2024 Markus James (LivNat / ASCAP)
DON'T LET IT DRAG YOU DOWN
Dream of heaven
Wake up on earth
Surrounded by dreams
And pillars of salt
When you get up
And look around
When you get way up
And look around
And see
That you lost more than you found
No no no no
Don’t let it drag
No no no no
Don’t let it drag
No don’t let it drag you down
Time’s on fire
Can’t see it burn
Run like a refugee
In streets of gold
When your beatin’ heart
The only sound
When your beatin’ heart
The only sound
No don’t let it drag you down
©2024 Markus James (LivNat / ASCAP)
BUT YOU STILL KNOW
Riding high in a helium soul
Pulling a dream out of a hole
Walking barefoot over a bed of flames
Talking in tongues calling all your names
Ooooh
Talking in tongues calling all your names
Blind magician on a radio
Wind me up and let me go
Cyclone spinnin in your brain
Sunrise in a kingdom of rain
Ooooh
Sunrise in a kingdom of rain
Highway eyes, floatin stone
Climbing a mountain of invisible bones
The invisible you everywhere I go
Wipe out my tracks but you still know
Ooooh
Wipe out my tracks but you still know
Ooooh
Wipe out my tracks but you still know
©2023 Markus James (LivNat / ASCAP)