“By the Way”
Music/Lyrics: Velardo Dala, Dave Carlock
© 2004 Museo Music (ASCAP), 27 Scends (ASCAP)
Come to think about
All the things we ever said
And you were always the one
To put things to bed
By the way
There’s something I never told you
You should know
I bleed too
And all the soldiers have gone
To their grassy, shady graves
And all contentment settled in
But still there’s one thing left to say
By the way
There’s something I never told you
You should know
I bleed too
Though you’d swear that it was true
You know it’s not only you
I bleed too
By the way
There’s something I never told you
You should know
I bleed too
“Julie’s Song”
Music/Lyrics: Velardo Dala
© 2004 Museo Music (ASCAP)
Julie’s always late to rise
But never one to ever realize
Julie open up your eyes!
And leave those foolish dreams behind
But when she loves yeah she loves
When she loves yeah she loves
Yeah she loves
Julie opens up her window
Her thoughts in black and white come crashing down
Julie do as you are told!
And shed those dreams that bind you to the ground
But when she hurts then she’ll know
And when she knows then she’ll know
That when she dreams nothing grows
Her empty dreams turn to sorrow
Yeah she’ll know
Julie’s always late to rise
But just in time for her to realize
Julie’s opened up her eyes
To find her dreams are what keep her alive
But when she hurts then she’ll grow
And when she grows then she’ll know
That when she dreams then she’ll show
A smile that only dreamers know
Julie knows
“Anything You Want”
Music/Lyrics: Velardo Dala
© 2004 Museo Music (ASCAP)
She goes to him with open arms
With the blind faith of a child
The clock a tool that serves to bind
He knows it’s only for a while
She wears a gown of innocence
Something she’ll soon outgrow
Anything you want she says
Anything at all
Anything you want she says
Anything at all
She lets the candles burn all night
The silence keeps him wide awake
Her hair lays strewn across the sheets
His mind’s a million miles away
The candle screams for one last breath
In time for her to go
Anything you want she says
Anything at all
Anything you want she says
Anything at all
“Wrapping Up the Day”
Music/Lyrics: Velardo Dala
© 2004 Museo Music (ASCAP)
Everyone has a way
When all is said and done
To wrapping up the day
She’ll try to tell herself
Tomorrow’s pregnant with possibility
She lives for the night
She’s running away
Drowned in her illusions
Denies she’s lost her way
She’s wrapping up the day
She’s wrapping up the day
She’s wrapping up the day
She’s wrapping up the day
Everyone has a way
When all is said and done
To wrapping up the day
She’ll try to give herself
To fill the emptiness
That darkens every day
She lives for the night
She’s running away
Drowned in her illusions
She’ll try to find her faith
She’s wrapping up the day
She’s wrapping up the day
She’s wrapping up the day
She’s wrapping up the day
“Siren”
Music/Lyrics: Velardo Dala
© 2004 Museo Music (ASCAP)
There were songs
She would sing to me
But now Time
Has gone and deceived me
The wisest words exist
In books so seldom read
Piercing thoughts are felt
In words so seldom said
Deepest waters house
Treasures never seen
The sweetest sin
Is in her melody
When she stands
Shadows tell her name
With her hands
She reveals her face
But now she’s coming ’round
To pull me in again
When she’s singing out
Her voice will pull me in
Sirens calling out
In tones that bind my will
The sweetest sin is masked
In time to kill
And she’s calling
And she’s calling out to me
And she’s pulling
And she’s pulling me out to sea
But now she’s coming ’round
To pull me in again
When she’s singing out
Her voice will pull me in
Sirens calling out
In tones that bind my will
The sweetest sin is masked
In time to kill
“Provincial Pride”
Music/Lyrics: Velardo Dala / Dave Carlock
© 2004 Museo Music (ASCAP) / 27 Scends (ASCAP)
Seventeen
He ran away
Didn’t know where where was gonna go
But he knew he couldn’t stay
The old man
Just laughed it all away
What a waste of time
When all it means
Is he’ll be back again
Twenty-five
He’d left a world behind
But his heart betrayed him
When he tried to give the old man time
Praise, son
Belongs to Jesus Christ
Everything he had to say
Was poisoned by that fucking pride
Find somewhere to hide
From your provincial pride
Find somewhere to wash it all away
The answers are inside
Between the heart and mind
And not inside that old provincial pride
Thirty-five
His drive has made a life
And when they ask
The old man tells them that he’s doing fine
The young child
Just barely turning nine
Asks him once again to tell her
How the old man died
Find somewhere to hide
From your provincial pride
Find somewhere to wash it all away
The answers are inside
Between the heart and mind
And not inside that old provincial pride
Find somewhere to hide
From your provincial pride
Lose it on the train
At Astor Place
Drop it in the bin
At Hollywood and Vine
Wash away that old provincial pride
