Both Sides Of The Gun (2006)

• Morning Yearning
• Waiting For You
• Picture In A Frame
• Never Leave Lonely Alone
• Reason To Mourn
• More Than Sorry
• Cryin' Won't Help You Now
• Happy Everafter In Your Eyes
• Better Way
• Both Sides Of The Gun
• Engraved Invitation
• Black Rain
• Gather 'Round The Stone
• Please Don't Talk About Murder While I'm Eating
• Get It Like You Like It
• The Way You Found Me
• Serve Your Soul 

Morning Yearning lyrics - Ben Harper

A finger's touch upon my lips

It's a morning yearning

Pull the curtains shut, try to keep it dark

But the sun is burning

The world awakens on the run

And will soon be earning

With hopes of better days to come

It's a morning yearning

Another day, another chance to get it right

Must I still be learning

Baby crying kept us up all night

With her morning yearning

Like a summer rose, I'm a victim of the fall

But I'm soon returning

Your love' s the warmest place the sun ever shines

My morning yearning

Waiting For You lyrics - Ben Harper

I' ve been waiting for you

I' ve been waiting for you

Never found enything else to do

But waiting for you

I' ve been calling your name

I' ve been calling your name

Never found anything else to say

Nothing to say

You can kill a lot of time if you really want put your mind do it

Leave it all behind if you never wanna go through it

I keep hearing your name

I keep hearing your name

Nothing else sounds the same

As hearing your name

You can kill a lot of time if you really put your mind to it

Or leave it all behind and never ever go through it

I' ve been hoping for you

Keep hoping for you

What else can I do

But keep hoping for you?

You can kill a lot of time if you really put your mind to it

Or leave it all behind and never ever go through it

We can kill a lot and never really have to go through it

What else can I do

But keep hoping for you?

Picture In A Frame lyrics - Ben Harper

Now you can sell your soul

But you can't buy it back

I've spent my whole life

Working to give you everything you like

Now I wish you were here

So we could walk and talk

In the soft rain, in the soft rain

Now all that left of us

Is a picture sitting in a frame

I would gladly trade

All of my sympathy for sorrow

If I could have you, If I could have you here with me to my own

I wish you were here

So we could walk and talk

In the soft rain, in the soft rain

Now all that's left of us

Is a picture sitting in a frame

Everything i wish for

Is everything i see

I remember when your kisses were for me

So many wasted days

The past is so hard to get out from under

So many words that i wish i could say

The future rattles my bones weak like thunder

I wish you were here

So we could walk and talk

In the soft rain, soft rain, soft rain

Now all that's left of us

Is a picture sitting in a frame

Everything i wish for

Is everything i see

I remember when your kisses were for me

Everything i wish for

Is everything i see

I remember when your kisses were for me

Never Leave Lonely Alone lyrics - Ben Harper

Like an old man

Sitting alone at a lunch counter

Never leave lonely alone...

Like a small town girl

A big city devours

Never leave lonely alone...

Some of us laugh

Even in our darkest hour

Never leave lonely alone...

Unspoken rules of solitude

Wound without a trace

A lifetime of dreams roll down your face

All that we can't say

Is all we need to hear

When you close your eyes

Does the world disappear

There's something in everyone

Only they know

Never leave lonely alone...

It moves in the hidden ways

Of joy and sorrow

Never leave lonely alone

Never leave lonely alone...

Reason To Mourn lyrics - Ben Harper

I can't know the hell you love

But I know you've had enough

Some baptize in water, some in flames

Oh, in flames

Oh, in flames

Don't you give me a reason to mourn

Oh, don't you give me a reason to mourn

Look into my eyes with all your hate and scorn

But don't you give me a reason to mourn

What has life done to you?

All you ever wanted was someone to run to you

There's more to life then what makes you cry

What makes you cry

I won't say goodbye

Don't you give me a reason to mourn

Oh, don't you give me a reason to mourn

I'll remove the crown of sorrow

Which you have been adorned

But don't you give me a reason to mourn

Don't you give me a reason to mourn

Don't you give me a reason to mourn

Look into my eyes with all your hate and scorn

But don't you give me a reason to mourn

No, don't you give me a reason to mourn

Oh, don't you give me a reason to mourn

More Than Sorry lyrics - Ben Harper

Goodbye

Hasn't been so good to me

Stepped out into the night

Back against the moon

I saw ten thousand hands with candlelight

We all think that we're right

It's hard to tell

If the night is full of hope or doom

My eyes

Burn with unshed tears

My body is weak

From so many silent years

Too many people say goodbye

Before they say hello

Step into the morning

And disappear

What more than sorry can i say

What more than sorry can i be

Before our love fades away

What more than sorry

Do you want from me

Cryin' Won't Help You Now lyrics - Ben Harper

You sit there and call me a liar and a cheat

I just wish you'd pin a rose on me

Now you won't even come out and take a bow

Crying won't help you now

Crying won't help you now

So now your poets

Have all put down their pens

The only songs to sing

Are those sung again

Lonely just doesn't look good on you somehow

Crying won't help you now

Crying won't help you now

Now I jsut keep on starring

Into the black eyes of the truth

We'll have to learn to live up on our own somehow

Crying won't help you now

Crying won't help you now

Crying won't help you now

Crying won't help you now

Happy Everafter In Your Eyes lyrics - Ben Harper

The morning sunrise spread her wings

While the moon hung in the sky

Held the sea in your hands

And happy everafter in your eyes

Couldn't leave you to go to heaven

I carry you in my smile

For the first time my true reflection i see

Happy everafter in your eyes

Every star in the night

Promises the dawn

I will be there if you fall

To ever so heavily rest upon

All that i can give you

Is forever yours to keep

Wake up every day with a dream

And happyever after in your eyes

Happy everafter is in your eyes

Better Way lyrics - Ben Harper

I'm a living sunset

Lightning in my bones

Push me to the edge

But my will is stone

Fools will be fools

And wise will be wise

But i will look this world

Straight in the eyes

What good is a man

Who won't take a stand

What good is a cynic

With no better plan

Reality is sharp

It cuts at me like a knife

Everyone i know

Is in the fight of their life

Take your face out of your hands

And clear your eyes

You have a right to your dreams

And don't be denied

I believe in a better way

Both Sides Of The Gun lyrics - Ben Harper

Living these days is making me nervous

Archaic doctrine no longer serve us

Now we're left as silent witnesses

We don't know quite what this is

Other than a war that can't be won

I feel like i'm crowded, i can't get out

World keeps on filling me up with doubt

When you're trapped you got no voice

Where you're born you got no choice

Other than to go and take you some

One dimensional fool

In a three dimensional world

Politics, it's a drag

They put one foot in the grave

And the other on the flag

Systems rotten to the core

Young and old deserve much more

Than struggling every day until you're done

Tension

Too much to mention

Living on both sides of the gun

Engraved Invitation lyrics - Ben Harper

I wish i was a thought

I'd run all through your mind

And come out being everything

You ever tried to find

Life's the longest picture

You're ever gonna take

Love's the longest promise

That you're ever gonna break

I wish i could yell sorry

Louder than i screamed

All of those other things

I said but didn't mean

Some days i'm the lord's servant

Some days i'm satan's pawn

Some days i just wish

The voices in my head were gone

The sun's a moon that warms you

The moon's a sun with no heat

The sky above is to remind you

What's under your feet

This life's not big enough

To fit our love inside

'cause i remember you from heaven

The last time i died

It's an engraved invitation

To leave all this time we've been wasting

Black Rain lyrics - Ben Harper

You left them swimming for their lives

Down in new orleans

Can't afford a gallon of gasoline

With your useless degrees and contrary statistics

This government business is straight up sadistic

Now you don't fight for us

But expect us to die for you

You have no sympathy for us

But still i cry for you

Now you may kill the revolutionary

But the revolution you can never bury

Don't speak to us like we work for you

Selling false hope like some new dope we're addicted to

I'm not a desperate man but these are desperate times at hand

This generation is beyond your command

And it won't be long

'til the people flood the streets

To take you down

One and all

A black rain is gonna fall

Gather 'Round The Stone lyrics - Ben Harper

You're too young to know

That you're too young to go

There's no freedom to be found

Lying face up in the ground

Ashes from an unfinished life

Are all that's left

In a tear-drop-shaped locket

Hanging from his mother's chest

You whip the back of freedom

'till it bleeds an oil stream

Then you sail down upon it

In your killing machine

Old men who send children

Off to die in vain

They will hear death's constant whisper

Call remember my name

Gather 'round the stone

Please Don't Talk About Murder While I'm Eating lyrics - Ben Harper

You're the first one to get there

And always the last one to leave

You're the first one to chuckle

But the last one to grieve

I know all too well the world takes a daily beating

Please don't talk about murder while i'm eating

You walk into the temple

And call it a church

I try to keep things simple

But you always need the works

Your life is marked by numbers and symbols

Excessive drinking from out of golden thimbles

Just a moment of silence i'm needing

So let's not talk about murder while i'm eating

You get all hot and bothered

At the strangest times and places

But don't notice the looks on all the other faces

You're dressed for summer in the middle of december

What you've all but forgotten

I painfully remember

I don't care in the least what you're reading

Please don't talk about murder while i'm eating

Get It Like You Like It lyrics - Ben Harper

Throw your hands up to the sky

And scream out loud i'm free

'cause wrong is the new right

So we can cut loose tonight

It costs a lot to look this cheap

Fire makes it burn and water makes it turn

We must still be here living on earth

They keep telling me jesus walked on water

He shoulda surfed

In 1918 the great bambino

Kicked a piano into willis pond

But johnny damon swung a bat

Grand slam that was that

An 86 year curse is gone

Throw your hands up to the sky

And scream i'm not alone

Is it irony or fate

Don't become what you hate

We've all got stardust in our bones

The Way You Found Me lyrics - Ben Harper

The more i smoke, the more i drink

The more i talk, the less i think

The less i think, the more i feel

Folks don't change

They just reveal

My mind is broke, my last nerve is shot

What you want from me, i ain't got

Two plus two will never be twenty-two

So please don't tell me twice what i need to do

There's no rules to lust

Only passion, and it can be so unjust

If we don't speak, we'll get along just fine

Don't ask me how i'm doing

'cause i don't feel like lying

Take me as i am

Or leave me the way you found me

Serve Your Soul lyrics - Ben Harper

Battles over which direction to kneel

People reaching out to touch

But forgetting to feel

Daily breath shouldn't be a daily penance

Is that what you believe

Or just a life sentence

I look into the mirror

And i see someone there i used to know

They all want you to serve them

But the only one you got to serve

Is your soul

So much time

And at such a cost

We spend looking for what we've lost

Now that you know

You can't find it from him

You're gonna have to find it within

I look into the mirror

And i see that life has taken its toll

They'll all want you to serve them

But the only one you got to serve

Is your soul

Listen to the wind it won't lie to you

If you love it let it go

And watch it fly to you

Every setting sun gently weeps

You can always hear it

'cause trust never sleeps