West 4th and Charles Lyrics

My Valentine.

Music & Lyrics by Philip Foxman

She lives across from central park, neon stars shoots through the dark.
Pictures and forget me knots surround her bed with pocadots.
Someday soon she will die from a virus that eats her alive
but laughter is the only cure to kill the pain she endures.

Cut to a little blonde girl in pink summer dress playing hide and seek at Brighton beach.
Her father holds her in his arms she wakes up in a feeling calm.
Her life was full of avenues a chance to make her dreams turn true.
To the beat of the drum she lived her life to the beat of her blood she lived her life.
When the light leaves her eyes she'll become a star in the sky.

Chorus
My valentine my dying valentine you'll always be here with me
My valentine my dying Valentine I'll be with till your teardrops dissolve.

She belonged to the generation that could have it all without rejection.
We made love in a pool of passion, poetry, erotic fashion.
Voices penetrate her walls as human needs like sirens call.
I kiss her lips and taste her fears memories we all revere.
With a smile in her eyes she asks, “Do we return or do we just disappear”.

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My valentine my dying valentine you'll always be here with me
My valentine my dying Valentine I'll be with till your teardrops dissolve.

On a endless night she took her life with a bottle of pills and a plastic bag.
Sinatra sang a summer wind, Ophellia you'll live again.
The message on her answer machine said "live your life to extreme”
You never know what life can bring so taste it all awake and sing"
As the rain dances on her face spirits raise to higher place.
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My valentine my dying valentine you'll always be here with me
My valentine my dying Valentine I'll be with till your teardrops dissolve.


HEY LITTLE BROTHER

Hey little brother I see your coming into criminal years
I know you think you know it all like I did but believe me all the heroes are gonna fall
I wish I had a crystal to shine a little light and make you wanna stand and fight
Your living in the belly of the beast and he'll never stop
til your lying underneath his feet
I wish I could take back the years
The needle stole and left me crippled and confused

Chorus
Hey little brother what you trying to prove
They gonna put another nail into you
Hey little brother don't be nobody's fool
Let me help you get through

Verse 2
It's summer in the city and the pretty Puerto Rican girls go dancing by
Their mothers and there fathers are sitting on the stoops waiting for the heat to subside
When the night falls all the streets are covered with the evil eye.
The last sound you hear is a gun shot in your back before you before you die.
Don't make the same mistake they made. don't let the gutter become your grave.

Chorus
Hey little brother what you trying to prove
They gonna put another nail into you
Hey little brother don't be nobody's fool
Let me help you get through

Bridge
Don't do what I did.
Hey do what I say.
Don't throw your precious life away.
Take the needle and gun and throw then in the river
You gotta be strong you gotta be brave.

Verse 3
I'm standing by my window
watching the ambulance carry you far away
Then I whisper to myself another life has gone astray.

Hey little brother what you trying to prove
They gonna put another nail into you
Hey little brother don't be nobody's fool
Let me help you get through


Buddha in the Bathroom

Music & Lyrics by Philip Foxman

I can't believe what I see people praying to the trees
Hear them moan hear them groan I don't think anybodies home
Heads are covered eyes are closed bed of nails piercing bones
There running scared from themselves why take it out on anyone else


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The Buddha's in the bathroom laughing up a storm
If you think he's gonna save ya let me tell you your wrong
You gotta have something more these days to survive
While the buddha's in the bathroom laughing up a storm

Holy water, blood red wine feed them poison so devine
Another life after this will be your heavenly bliss, calculated risk.
Driving straight into the crowd screaming devils must be proud
Metal tears in the desert sun is this your way of having fun, with your only son.

The Buddha's in the bathroom laughing up a storm
If you think he's gonna save ya let me tell you your wrong
You gotta have something more these days to survive
While the Buddha's in the bathroom laughing up a storm


What ever happen to the call
All for one and one for all
If there's a god he must be sad
they took his words and all his lands
changed the meaning and the man into ashes filled with sand

I look at you you look at me I see flesh and blood and fears
If I've got what it is want blow me away and make it fast
Don't call it anything but greed leave the sun the moon and trees
If hates the only god you know why should I worship at your throne.

YOU'RE EVERYTHING
Music & Lyrics by Philip Foxman

I wore the clothes shared the dream kissed the smiles across the screen
I was confused by design
Shooting stars into my eyes blinded by all the lies
I was naked and cold I sold off my soul
I turned to g-d felt his hand lead me to a distant land
all the angels collide
I tried the needle and the spoon locked away inside my room
the words never came I gave in to my pain

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Baby your everything
Baby you everything
I need, I need

She held me down to my knees
beat the child inside of me all lullabies lost
I couldn't take another day this emptiness won't go away
I was driven to tears the end seemed so clear

Chorus
Baby your everything
Baby you everything
I need, I need

Bridge
He who seeks shall find
All the answers in his own time
Never play into doubt
It grows like a fire consumes your desire
Don't make me, don't make me wait for it now

I tried to run I tried to hide the only way I could survive
through these dark desperate times, you where right by my side
Baby your everything
Baby you everything
I need I need