Song Lyrics
This page is dedicated to songs written mostly by my favorite performers, Rockapella. Also included are lyrics by Sean Altman, who, though no longer a member of Rockapella, still has an amazing talent for the written word.
So the bad's bearin' down. Bring it on, the answer I've found.
Got my own secret weapon, snatching the righteous from the wrong.
Sunny days come and go. Monday waits to try my soul.
There you'll be, knocking down the dominos of woe I know.
When my faith cries at night, only you summon the light.
Sending the sunrise through my nightmare, simple answers in your smile.
With the world closin' in, I just close my eyes and grin.
There you'll be, rising like a phoenix 'bove the fray you fly. Scott Leonard, "Smile in My Heart"
Now that you're near, life is so delicious.
With luck in a year, you'll be obstetricious.
With you in my arms, there's no doubt at all. Elliott Kerman, "No Doubt at All"
Far beneath I feel a firestorm betrays performed indifference from your lips.
Performance intriguing, between yawns.
Honey jalapeno chocolate flows behind the pose, lovely the posing may be.
But honey, don't waste it, your love;
The honey I'm tasting, yum, yum. Scott Leonard, "Millenial Lady"
You got the love. I got the finger. Scott Leonard, "Sunset Chase" (From the Flying Faders' Blue Speel)
I'll kiss away the carefree of my solo nights.
I'll kiss away the quiet of alone.
Overthrown, I'm surrenderin',
Givin' my independence.
Freedom could never beat you lyin' next to me.
Lay down in your arms and feel this feeling. Scott Leonard, "Off My Mind"
Tell me what kind of magic.
You're a jinx and I'm damned, just a shill for your scam. (Presto Change-O)
Tell me what kind of side-show illusion.
You done sawed me in half, all your fans clap and laugh. Sean Altman, "Presto Change-O"
Polly's nails are long and curved and black.
I got a set of matching scars
raked permanent deep in my back. Sean Altman, "Polly Gets"
There was a time when all the moons were pink with Apricotton Skies. Scott Leonard, "Blah, Blah, Blah"
And Polly's boys keep diggin' her ditch.
She ain't a dog. She's just a bitch. Sean Altman, "Polly Wants"
You're mine. You're screaming like your scheme has been betrayed.
You're mine. Just spout your mama's words and walk away. Sean Altman, "You're Mine"
The butler snuck out, came back dressed as the maid. Sean Altman, "Person"
I'm on a budget of nothin'. My life is a lemon.
I'm suckin' the rind and it's spittin' time... Sean Altman, "Indiana"
I really can't believe it's been a year. It took a little time without you here. I'm guessing you survived alone somehow. It's good that I can joke about it now. Scott Leonard, "People Change"
Your arms are tree limbs bending with the weight of the snow.. Sean Altman, "You're My Christmas"
Your boosters will ignite. Elliott Kerman, "Holiday Groove"
Beauty lies, and beauty terrifies me.
For how can anyone so beautiful not say goodbye? Sean Altman, "Hazel Eyes"
And when I care, I'll care for you. Just lay your head down, I'm your shield. Whenever icy winds blow off the river, lay your hand in mine,
I'll keep you warm... Scott Leonard, "NYC Winter"
I'd love her only because... Elliott Kerman/Billy Strauss, "Rock River"... Vocal: Scott Leonard
Maybe I'm alive beneath the snow. Maybe you're too petrified to know. I can't believe that you would tell me lies. How could I have missed that in those eyes? Maybe if I only heard your voice, I would understand you had no choice. Though I'm glad it's clear for you to see, I wish that you would make it make sense to me. Scott Leonard, "People Change"
I guess your mystery became my maniac. I guess the milk ain't worth the cow. I guess that misery's an aphrodisiac. I never wanted you as much as now. I guess you're dreaming with your cuddly valentine, while I'm a bed sweater begging for dawn. But when I think of old times, I think I find, I guess I'm happy that Julie's gone.
Sean Altman, "Julie Gone"
Oh, you're a flatback girl, livin' large on the springs. Make a man spit pearls, then you choke him with the string.And you're gone when he's come to... Am I too numb? Am I too weak? Am I too dumb? Am I some freak? I would bleed for you if I knew why you weep, Becky. Sean Altman, "Rebecca"
It's been so long that no one even asks. And everybody's walking on the grass. Grass that took awhile to reappear. I'd forgotten green without you here. Scott Leonard, "People Change"
You asked. I caved. We did it and I had a sandwich.Oh dear, you are quite good at this! Bon, shay bon, shay bon bon shay bon... Sean Altman & Scott Leonard, "Miserable Destiny"
Whatever you know, you think you see. Well, you don't know dick about me. However you judge I change my plea. Well, you don't know dick about me. Sean Altman, "Dick About Me"
Within a minute you melt inside, and fill the finger lakes of my heart. Without a sound, secret agent style, tear this silent world apart. Scott Leonard, "That's the Way"
Well then it comes (an uppercut) The coup de grace (straight to the gut) You clean my clock (you kick my butt) You kick my ass... Scott Leonard, "U Beat Me Up"
Why do sleeping eyes make all things live again... Sean Altman, "When You Came"
You're my Christmas, you're my snow. You're my steam at twenty below. Sean Altman, "You're My Christmas"
There's a hole on the 77th floor, where the girl breathes her love no more. Now, I just vegetate with the festering hate In the hole on the 77th floor. There's a grave on the 77th floor. And I pray I find something more. But I drift near the edge, and I ponder the ledge In the grave on the 77th floor. Scott Leonard "77"
And still I'm back each day; perhaps we'll find a way. Maybe we'll see eye to eye. But then I hear the drone of your naggin' monotone. I'd rather go out back and die. Scott Leonard, "Blah, Blah, Blah"
Under my bed a dirty girly mag, a psychobabble paperback. I give my money on a sofa to professionals, they gimme a whack. I wanna binge, I wanna purge and indescriminately breed. I wanna bleed, I wanna smoke up any weed I wanna breathe in every dirty doggy minute of my muddy brown misery. Sean Altman, "Baby Go Bye Bye"
Hey Babe, was that your face in my cup? I don't know, but I know I'd rather believe than give up. Sean Altman, "Pretty Baby"
Come my way, I'm crushing you diamonds from coal. Come my way, I'm turning your tin dreams to gold. Come my way into the garden home and draw your butter. Everything forgiven, every dove is livin' love. Come my way. Sean Altman, "Come My Way"
Don't tell me that you cry in your sleep each night. Don't say you spend each hour wonderin' what wasn't right. Do you stare into the mirror thinking what is it you should change? Do you wake up every morning reaching over to find, you ain't there and you ain't comin' back? You cannot know how this feels...Don't tell me you do. Scott Leonard, "Don't Tell Me You Do"
The morning sun was an eyeball we'd never seen, but there was red in the sclera of love... You were a runner for the mix-up, the fix-up, and gettin' boys' wicks up... Sean Altman, "Fliptop Twister"
I'm no major thinker, but I'm thinkin' I been had and good. I took hook, line and sinker,then you toss me back and half my guts are gone... Sean Altman, "For the Love"
You ain't really livin' when you live life by the text, No, you ain't makin' music when you know what note is next.Have some faith. Scott Leonard, "Have a Little Faith"
Well, I'm a feeble-minded drooling brute with nothin' too much on top. When you smile at me you yank the stick right from my lollipop.Well, I'm not sayin' that the things I'm thinking wouldn't make a virgin blush. I'm saying that I like you...I like you very much Sean Altman, "I Like You Very Much"
I'll hear your voice in every thought that flows through my mind. I'll see your face in every cloud that floats through my skyAnd when the world is too much and the hurt's got me down on my knees to pray. I'll hear your voice, and you won't be so far away. Scott Leonard, "I'll Hear Your Voice"
Sweet water rise, and drown all my sorrows. I know you're never gonna let me fall. Rock River hold me, heal me in your arms. Let the magic of your world wash over me.You lift me up when I'm filled with weakness. You bring a little water to me in the desert heat. In the still of my reflection, ten thousand words without a sound...You turn me around Elliott Kerman/Billy Straus, "Rock River"
I lose you in the bottom of a bottle on a rainy day. But, that's just a temporary remedy, I'm afraid. And my smile lies like a cheap disguise, but I know the truth.That I'm still in love, but more in hate with you. You were mine--I blink, you're gone instantaneously. Now, I'm wishing you here and wishing you dead simultaneously Sean Altman, "More in Hate With You"
You ask me, how am I. Well I'm still standing, ain't I? I should screw her best friend, to ease my pain. Sean Altman, "Unhappy Anniversary"
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