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The Guiding Light

THE GUIDING LIGHT - Written by Carroll Bryant

I've been sitting here for so long

Singing the same old song

Until you found me here

I've been going out of my head

no one to share my love and my bed

Until you found me here

Down on my luck and all washed up

That's how I felt without the love

That I needed

But now I found you and it's all right

Hold me tight all through the night

Baby you are to me the guiding light

A dream that finally came true

For me that means you

All because you found me here

A shadow in the dark

I won't be anymore

All because you found me here

My last chance and all was gone

That's how I felt without the love

That I wanted

But now you're here and it's all right

Hold me tight all through the night

Baby you are to me the guiding light

Down on my luck and all washed up

That's how I felt without the love

That I needed

But now I found you and it's all right

Hold me tight all through the night

Baby you are to me the guiding light

My last chance and all was gone

That's how I felt without the love

That I wanted

But now you're here and it's all right

Hold me tight all through the night

Baby you are to me the guiding light

Baby you are to me the guiding light

The Tie That Binds

THE TIE THAT BINDS - Written by Carroll Bryant

I sat up late last night because

I couldn't sleep

I thought about you all night girl

I just had to think

Girl I just can not see myself

Living without you

I thought a lot about us and 

I thought it through and I found

Love is the tie that binds us

Love is what finally found us

Now we will always be together

Two hearts that once were lonely

Have found their one and only

The past is left behind us

For us - love is the tie that binds

So I decided to go back and 

Try and sleep again

But these sweet thoughts of you, well

They kept flooding in

Girl I just can't imagine

You not by my side

All of these wonderful feelings

That I feel inside, make me believe

Love is the tie that binds us

Love is what finally found us

Now we will always be together

Two hearts that once were lonely

Have found their one and only

The past is left behind us

For us - love is the tie that binds

Nobody can take this from me

My heart to you will always be true

You're the one that keeps me from being lonely

You and only you 

You make my dreams come true

Love is the tie that binds us

Love is what finally found us

Now we will always be together

Two hearts that once were lonely

Have found their one and only

The past is left behind us

For us - love is the tie that binds

Where To Begin?

WHERE TO BEGIN - Written by Carroll Bryant

It was just life after death

You were just there and it took my breath

First I saw you and now I can die

With or without my sins

But where to begin?

Wishes are stars in the sky

Love is a dream that shines in your eyes

My time is the time to believe

To lose what I can not win

But where to begin?

Flames that burn forever

As they light the Northern darkness

Turns angels into ashes until they

Fall back down to earth again

I cry a river that still leads into an ocean

With nothing else left but the touch of your skin

But where to begin?

Hearts that beat together

And they search for something more than magic

Love that conquers mountains

Any less than that and we shall not win

I shed the tear that still penetrates molten lava

With nothing else left but remnants of sin

But where to begin?

It was just life after death

You were just there and it took my breath

Now and forever to know that it's true

With or without an end

But where to begin?

And he crys

And he crys

And he crys forever

Waiting for the touch of your skin

To be together

Where on this earth to begin?

Pay no attention to the pain that he feels

There's no redemption for a soul that is lost

And a broken, lonely heart just won't heal

And then 

But where to begin?

The Dead Next Door

THE DEAD NEXT DOOR - Written by Carroll Bryant

Well, who the hell am I?

And what am I doing here?

When it's you that's on my mind

And it's time that I do fear

Well, I know that you are out there

And with your life and having fun

When it's true and you don't care

And I know all hope is gone

It seems to me that maybe

I don't care no more

Spend my days going crazy

Spend my nights with ... the dead next door

Well, who the hell am I?

And what did I just say?

When it's you to realize

The fool to turn the other way

Well, I know I can believe

And with my life I die

When you are all that I can't be

And I know no compromise

It seems to me that maybe

I don't try anymore

Trade my wishes for your candy

Trade my dreams ... with the dead next door

This is the afterglow where rain turns into snow

Everything that matters doesn't matter anymore

Doesn't matter that much to me

Well, who the hell am I?

And what am I doing here?

When it's you on my mind

And it's time that i do fear

Well, I know that you are out there

And with your life and having fun

When it's true that you really don't care

And I know that all hope is gone

It seems to me that maybe

I don't cry anymore

Spending my days going crazy

Spending my nights alone ... with the dead next door

Sharing my life with no one ... but the dead next door

The Coming Of The End Of The World

THE COMING OF THE END OF THE WORLD - Written by Carroll Bryant

I was watching the news last night

Just a couple of countries wanting to fight

Deep down I know it's not right

But what can I do?

Don't our leaders even care?

Are they deaf to the cries of despair?

Dead bodies lying everywhere

But what can I do?

The coming of the end of the world

It's coming, that's for sure

The coming of the end of the world

We better do something

And we better do it now!

Why can't the governments understand

We're destroying the planet and destroying man

What kind of secrets hide behind their master plan?

Doesn't anybody know?

They talk of peace but chances they decline

Talking seems to be a waste of time

When will they stop with all the bulllshit lies?

Doesn't anybody know?

The coming of the end of the world

It's coming, that's for sure

The coming of the end of the world

We better do something

And we better do it now!

Somehow we have to find a way

This isn't a Disney cartoon

We need to all stand up and say

Enough is enough

We have to be tough

Maybe if the people could just come together

We could find the answer

Brother to brother we could

Yes, we could find the answer together

Don't you want to find the answer?

The coming of the end of the world

It's coming, that's for sure

The coming of the end of the world

We better do something

And we better do it now!

Less Than Zero

LESS THAN ZERO - Written by Carroll Bryant

It isn't hard to figure 

The place in your life where I stand

On a scale of one to ten

I'm less than zero

It isn't hard to imagine

In your eyes just what I am

If nothing else just say it

I'm less than zero

And I could say anything

Do everything

And it wouldn't make a difference to you

And I could be anyone

With everyone

And the truth would still be coming through

It isn't easy to say this

Even harder to understand

On the measure of feet and inches

I'm less than zero

It isn't for the blind to see it

In your mind the face of a man

If nothing else you show it

I'm less than zero

And I could say anything

Do everything

And it wouldn't make a difference to you

And I could be anyone

With everyone

And the truth would still be coming through

It isn't hard to figure

The place in your life where I stand

On a scale of one to ten

I'm less than zero

It isn't hard to imagine

In your eyes just what I am

If nothing else just say it

I'm less than zero

Less than zero

From you to me

I know it

I'm less than zero

Bored Beyond Belief

BORED BEYOND BELIEF - Written by Carroll Bryant

At a hundred miles an hour

You would think that I could find some wind

Imagine all that power

And you still don't know where to begin

But everyday is just the same

And it holds you deep inside of a wish

And you can't escape it in any way

And you know in your heart it won't get better than this

Standing on the edge of the world

Screaming for some kind of relief

Standing on the edge of the world

Bored beyond belief

Somewhere in a restless mind

Reason falls from visual sight

The clock is running straight out of time

And the fire from your fear is your only light

And everyday is still the same

And it keeps you forever alone

And you can't escape it in any way

Knowing the truth that your heart is your home

Standing on the edge of the world

Screaming for some kind of relief

Standing on the edge of the world

Bored beyond belief

Standing on the edge of the world

Screaming for some kind of relief

Standing on the edge of the world

Bored beyond belief

At a hundred miles an hoour

You would think that I could catch some wind

Imagine all that power

And still you can't find one single friend

And everyday is still just the same

And it's lonely when no love is in view

And you can't escape the fate of your name

Knowing the truth that the fate is in you

Standing on the edge of the world

Screaming for some kind of relief

Standing on the edge of the world

Bored beyond belief

Standing on the edge of the world

Screaming for some kind of relief

Standing on the edge of the world

Bored beyond belief

Mysteries And Questions

MYSTERIES AND QUESTIONS - Written by Carroll Bryant

I took a walk late last night around suppertime

Something much heavier than that 

Was weighing on my mind

It was dark and the cold wind blew across my face

Freezing my thoughts so still

And they dangled in one place

Making suggestions I don't understand

Mysteries and questions I can't answer

Answer them for me, somebody please

Answer them them for me, somebody

Please, somebody, answer them for me

Somebody please, answer them for me

I stand on trial in their court 

A witness to my own 

As they prosecute me for crimes I haven't done

And if a verdicts what they want 

Then where is all this common ground

That they claim forgives and loves? 

And in the moment of my sleep

(Peace and dreams)

They dare to ask me how I plead

Innocent or guilty? ... I can't answer

Answer them for me, somebody please

Answer them them for me, somebody

Please, somebody, answer them for me

Somebody please, answer them for me

I slip some air beneath my wings

Pretend that I can fly

I sit in judgement from my peers

And family

They cast their stones at me so hard

It breaks my heart and bones

It breaks me

Mysteries and questions

I can't answer them

Mysteries and questions

I can't believe in it - in them

(No one)

I throw caution to the earth 

All just to find a view

I make them think that I don't care

When deep inside I do

Running from the pain and memories

Running from myself

Running from my life

Mysteries and questions

I can't answer them

Mysteries and questions

Someone believe in me

Mysteries and questions

I can't answer

Answer them for me, somebody please

Answer them them for me, somebody

Please, somebody, answer them for me

Somebody please, answer them for me

Answer them for me, somebody please

Answer them them for me, somebody

Please, somebody, answer them for me

Somebody please, answer them for me

 

I took another walk again

Poetic Design

POETIC DESIGN - Written by Carroll Bryant

Here … I am
On the eve of my conception
In the web of your deception

Deceased? … I am
With bewildered eyes I find
I am the product of your … poetic design

And I’ve fallen into the same old “How do you do?”
With nothing more to say except I’ve fallen for you
And I close my eyes and then picture your skin
On the tip of my tongue and it’s love

There … you are
In a world of constellations
In the heat of your frustrations

Confused? … I’m sure
With entrapment close behind
You are the product of my … poetic design

And you’ve fallen into the same old “How do you do?”
With nothing more to say except I’ve fallen for you too
And you close your eyes again and become your only friend
On the edge of a touch and it’s love

With a dream to underline
We are the product of love’s … poetic design

And we’ve fallen into the same old “What do we do?”
With nothing more to say and even less for us to prove
And the mountains we move and the way that we groove
Is the song in our hearts and it’s love

With a portal into time
We are the product of life’s … poetic design

And the legend left behind
Is the heartbeat of loves … poetic design 

Aikido

AIKIDO - Written by Carroll Bryant

Like the stillness of the wind

When suddenly, the thunder comes

Chaos contained and mastered

The quickness is a friend

When reaction is instinctive

Prediction is the enemy within

Reaction is the action

Energy comes from it

Self defense

It's a motion with intelligence

It's intelligence with the hands

It's a light in the dark

When carefully the moment comes

Breathe through the heart

Everything slows down

The movement is a friend

When the body is an art form

And the mind, the eyes, watch from within

Reaction is the action

Energy derives from it

It's motion with intelligence

It's intelligence with the hands

Everything is vivid

Victory comes from it

Victory is not to win

Victory is not to lose

Intelligence with the hands

"Watching your opponent with the eyes of the mind, and patience. Allow their anger to be your focus. Their defeat will be your victory, not the infliction of pain. Victory does not appear from out of violence, but your safety. It is only evil that should be fought, and by its own hands, a strike force."


 

Red Tape

RED TAPE - Written by Carroll Bryant

“In the beginning of time, there was no end. In the face of death, there was a man. Taken from the dust of another purpose greater than the meaning of an existence that was just greater than …..”

Heaven is the good things
Hell is all the bad things
Earth is where both are planted seeds
Heaven is the right ways
Hell is all the wrong ways
Earth is just the way they both should be

Earth is just for sure the place for me

Fifteen trillion miles through the universe I traveled
All to that just to witness all I see
To the years I wondered and all the time I borrowed
Earth is just the perfect place for me

And so I have concluded
Nothing is excluded
All will perish for so I do believe

On the tongue I’ve tasted
Intelligence is wasted
Greed that fills the need and to all – poverty

Heaven is the sweet things
Hell is all the sour things
Earth is like some kind of dirty treat
Heaven is the clean days
Hell is all the mean days
Earth is everything and everyday

Earth is just for sure the place to be

Fifteen trillion dreams through the sleepless nights I’ve haunted
All to that to know you’ve lost the key
In the dark I wandered and all the hope I squandered
Earth is there where nothing else can be

And so I have envisioned
To making this decision
All might perish for all eternity

Of the love I’ve tasted
The kisses that were wasted
Bleeding for a need and to all – prosperity

Heaven is the cool things
Hell is all the fool things
Earth has way too many Earthlings
Heaven is the Sundays
Hell is all the Mondays
Earth is where everyday can be

Earth is just the perfect place for me

“Dogs that fight in the shadows of the street. The alleys and the same where strange two lovers meet. And knowing that the breath to breathe is escape, and cease. Learning life’s politics and cut through all of God’s red tape. There is no God …..”

Heaven is the light things
Hell is all the darker things
Earth is where these things can all be seen
Heaven is the shortest day
Hell is but the longest way
Earth is right there somewhere we can say

Earth is just for sure the place to stay

“And to the glimmer in the sky that catches all the watchful eyes, but can not see who’s in disguise watching your Earth’s demise. Knowing that it is too late to save it from its own red tape and suddenly …. it’s goodbye.”

Heaven is the right way
Hell is just the wrong thing
Earth is just the perfect way to be

Earth is just for sure the place for me

Middle Of Nowhere

MIDDLE OF NOWHERE - Written by Carroll Bryant

Here I stand in the middle of the sun

Burning up

Trying to find someone

Nothing to do and nowhere to go

Outside the flow

Trying to find some love

Standing on the outskirts of all of my thoughts

Believing I'm lost

A train whistles right in the center of my brain

I'm caught in the rain

Freaking out again like I'm scared 

In the middle of nowhere

This is crazy

Here I stand on top of the moon

Searching for truth

Trying to find someone

Nothing to say and no one but you

You feel it too?

Trying to find some love

Stirring up emotions hanging from our hair

We don't care

The wind starts to blow in the center of our soul

Too dumb to know

Freaking out again like a grizzly bear

In the middle of nowhere

This is crazy

Don't look now but we're standing up

Don't look down when our hearts start to touch

I feel it true like a distant sin

I can feel your love begin

I can feel this lonely night kicking in

Here I stand with my open arms

Lucky charms

Trying to find someone

Trying to find some love

Standing on the outskirts of all of my thoughts

Believing I'm lost

A train whistles right in the center of my brain

I'm caught in the rain

Freaking out again like I'm scared 

In the middle of nowhere

Here I am

And here I stand

Looking for love

Looking for you

Here I am

And here I stand

Looking for someone

On the moon

Here I stand

In the middle of nowhere

A Little More Time

A LITTLE MORE TIME - Written by Carroll Bryant

I can see the end 

It's coming oh so near

The prophets of the world are talking

Not everybody hears

They speak their words of wisdom

Putting truth into our minds

Tongue twisted inside our fear

Maybe all we need is a little more time

But time is running out 

For you and for me

Our world is slowly dying 

So why can't we believe?

The worst part of it all

Is that no one cares to listen

The words slip from our minds

We need a little more time

With a little more time

Maybe we could achieve

The answers we yet cannot find

Is hiding behind a little more time

So easy to forget our past

Our king

Speaking the holy name

To help ourselves is to help him

In a life we play as a game

With a little more time

Maybe we could succeed

The answers aren't hard to find

But we need a little more time

A little more time

We could use a little more time

Save this world, our souls and our minds

If only we had .... just a little more time

I can see the end 

It's coming oh so - near

Piercing Look (Smoking Gun)

PIERCING LOOK (SMOKING GUN) - Written by Carroll Bryant


I broke your heart
That's just the way that it is
It's the way that it goes
When love isn't in the kiss

You cried your tears
Down your face is how they flowed
It's the way that it goes
After the story is told

I once believed in happy ever-after
Two lovers and the laughter
But now that is just a thing

I must confess I lost that feeling
And nothing is appealing
About you to me

This is how it has to be

Go take a walk
Go write your book
Go straight to hell
You have got a piercing look

Go straight to bed
Go kiss the crook
Go tell the tale
You have got a piercing look

No smoking gun can stand before the alter
Run before you falter
No wedding bells in the land of Gibraltar
Fathers hide your daughters
Love in exchange for dollars

Traffic jam on the highway of hate
Hell freezes over
Heaven can't wait

It's a bloody mess
And the blood is on the virgins dress
It's all in your head

The feeling is already dead

All that you have earned
All that you have learned
All that you have took
You have got a piercing look

And in America, is like the rest of the world
Boy meets the girl
And there is pain
Communism and the rain
It's all disguised and gone to shame

Love is like sweet cocaine and cheap champagne

No smoking gun can linger forever
Never saying never
Victims of the scene

Nowhere to run but to your clever endeavors
Put it in your letter
Feeling better with the most obscene

Go take a walk
Go write your book
Go straight to hell
You have got a piercing look

Go straight to bed
Go kiss the crook
Go tell the tale
You have got a piercing look

No smoking gun can be your ammunition
If not for your ambition
Your soul would sell your soul
 

And one by one
The brain becomes your spasm
The heart is your orgasm

Your soul will take your soul

By Chance

BY CHANCE - Written by Carroll Bryant

I can't believe

That you are going out with him

What can you see

In a man with eyes of stone?

And it breaks my heart

To know that I would

Give to you the world

By chance to be with you

My beautiful girl

I can't believe

That you would touch and kiss him

What can you see

In a man with skin so cold?

And it breaks my heart

To know that you

Belong with me in my world

By chance to spend my life with you

My beautiful girl

I have run to you many a night

And held you close to me

Spent a million lifetimes

With you inside my dreams

 Never to deny you the sky

Love floats like clouds

Always to escape with you

Inside eternal bliss

I have kissed your lips

Before the presence of the moon

Spent a million wishes

Wishing for the love of you

Never to believe 

That this is not what we're to do

Always to escape outside

The heart that beats so true

In you

Only in you

And it breaks my heart

To always feel alone

Without you inside my world

By chance to dance with eternity with you

My beautiful girl

And all I want to be

Is you right here with me

With you inside my world

My beautiful girl

Philosophy Of Philosophy

PHILOSOPHY OF PHILOSOPHY - Written by Carroll Bryant

Of all the great minds

Who spent their life throughout the times

Doing nothing more than to ponder their thoughts

Where do you think they are now?

If not buried underground?

Words survive while their meaning gets lost

But every year that goes by

Is another year that falls like a landslide

Is another year we're expected to try

Another year that comes and goes

Is another year we always miss the most

Is another year we will never know

Nobody knows

This is my philosophy of philosophy

Why can't we let it be?

We should

Of all the great inventions

 Those who share creative vision

Doing nothing more than to fill up some time

Where do you think they did go?

What kind of truth do they show?

And when do you think they lost their mind?

But every year we dig it deeper

Is another year of another sleeper

Is another year Father Time couldn't keep her

Another year that slips away

Is another year we slowly pay

Is another year to throw it all away

Nobody wins

And what is the philosophy of philosophy?

Confucius say to let it be 

We should

And this is my philosophy of philosophy 

We should just let it be

We should

Our time is running out

And so we run amuck

To the meaning of what we are about

Is nothing but the dumbest of luck

We're lucky

Where do you think we're heading now?

How far to dig out from out of bounds?

Why do we lose what we found?

Where do you think it all will lead?

How long to live with blinding need?

Why do we like ourselves to bleed?

While we breed in our greed

Another this to philosophy of philosophy

The Beatles say to let it be

We should

This is my philosophy of philosophy

We should let it be

We should

The Final Battle

THE FINAL BATTLE - Written by Carroll Bryant

Why does it have to be like this?

I wish we didn't have to kill

But we fight for what is right to us

I know we always will

Raise the sword to battle your brother

Would you strike it against your mother?

For all its worth we all can agree

The final battle will end foolishly

Surviving soldiers walk away with bloodstained skin

 Wounded, and smelling the stench of the dead

The memory that each of them will share

Is embedded inside of their heads

The cries

The pain

The misery

The scent of lost lives 

Confused

The battle ground of the final battle

Will never again be used

Your Crazy, Crazy Love

YOUR CRAZY, CRAZY LOVE - Written by Carroll Bryant

I catch my breath to the sight
You pretty stranger
I fall to death in the light
That's where you're living
I crawl in line to the place
I know the dangers
A fog tonight and your face
I'm still believing

No shadow gets me down
I run all around this town
Never giving up
Just to find your crazy, crazy love
No time to wonder
I can feel my heart go under
You're mean with the good stuff
Your crazy, crazy love

No worry gets me down
I'm a European summer clown
Your eyes they blow me up
Just thinking bout your crazy, crazy love
No wonder everything keeps spinning round
I can't hear a sound
I like it rough
Your crazy, crazy love

When you touched my hand
I exploded in my mind
The way you walked away
Man, I nearly died

I cry for help
Emergency
I lose this fight
The way you felt
When I climbed so deep inside (of you)

No feeling is forever
Just being close together
My thoughts are not enough
Just thinking bout your crazy, crazy love
The thunder keeps pounding in my heart
I'm trapped inside the dark
It's so tough
Your crazy, crazy love

No shadow gets me down
I run all around this town
Never giving up
Just to find your crazy, crazy love
No time to wonder
I can feel my heart go under
You're mean with the good stuff
Your crazy, crazy love

No shadow gets me down
I run all around this town
Never giving up
Just to find your crazy, crazy love

I feel like a criminal
Just to be with you ... and your crazy, crazy love