"Smoke And Mirrors" (2013)

• Sweet Persuasion lyrics - Brett Dennen
• Wild Child lyrics - Brett Dennen
• You Make It Easy lyrics - Brett Dennen
• Only Want You lyrics - Brett Dennen
• When We Were Young lyrics - Brett Dennen
• Smoke And Mirrors lyrics - Brett Dennen
• Don't Mess With Karma lyrics - Brett Dennen
• Out Of My Head lyrics - Brett Dennen

Sweet Persuasion lyrics - Brett Dennen

I know you got my number

And I know your spell I'm under

I won't break this

I got something on you

You know me

And my weakness

And you know my little secret

Still I think that I got something on you

Sweet persuasion

Do you know my reputation?

Sweet, eet, eet persuasion

I've got a hard reputation

All I want?

Your affection

I can offer you protection

Come on baby, what you got to loose?

Sweet persuasion

do you know my reputation?

Sweet, eet, eet persuasion

I've got a hard reputation

Give me love

Show me what you're made of

Give me love

Give me love

love love love

Sweet persuasion

do you know my reputation?

Sweet, eet, eet persuasion

I've got a hard reputation

Wild Child lyrics - Brett Dennen

I am a wild child, yes I am

I love the country and I

I wanna run free and I

Don't wanna live up to anyone's plan

I wanna feel the good vibes and I

Wanna feel the sunshine with you,

By my side

I am, I am, I am, I am

I am a wild child, momma

You can, you can, you can, you can

You can hold me tight if you wanna

If you wanna hold me tonight

Take me where the music's playin'

Get me on the dancefloor

Pull me a little closer

I am a wild child, yes I am

I wanna feel the good vibes and I

Wanna feel the sunshine with you,

By my side

I am, I am, I am, I am

I am a wild child, momma

You can, you can, you can, you can

You can hold me tight if you wanna

If you wanna hold me tonight

I am, I am, I am, I am

I am a wild child, momma

You can, you can, you can, you can

You can hold me tight if you wanna

If you wanna hold me tonight

Oh, I, oh, I

Wild child, momma

Oh, I, oh, I

Hold me tight if you wanna

If you wanna hold me tonight

You Make It Easy lyrics - Brett Dennen

I've been down on love for so long

My bad luck seems to be gone

Yeah something it happens

Every time you come around

You make me feel like dancing

So please stay around

Hey baby come close to me

Lovin' you comes so naturally

Stay baby stay here with me 

'Cause you make it easy

Come see me Cinco De Mayo

Stay with me fourth of Ju Li Oh!

We'll pick out adelias

You can wear them in your hair

We'll drink margaritas

And go dancing in the square

Hey baby come close to me

Lovin' you comes so naturally

Stay baby stay here with me 

'Cause you make it easy

Yeah something happens

Every time I see you smile

You make me feel like dancing

So please stay a while

Hey baby come close to me

Lovin' you comes so naturally

Stay baby stay here with me 

'Cause you make it easy

Yeah you make it easy

Yeah you make it easy

Only Want You lyrics - Brett Dennen

Listen to the river

Does it make you wonder

How anything could ever stand still?

First lightning then thunder, thunder.

A kiss in the rain, love

Feel the thrill.

[Сhorus:]

I only want you

I only want you

I want what we had.

I only want you

I only want you

It's as simple as that.

Run to the forest

You'll find some shelter.

Remember how we fell in love so sweet?

You said watch your step

Walk softer softer

'Cause dreams are growing beneath our feet.

[Сhorus:]

I only want you

I only want you

I want what we had.

I only want you

I only want you

Can we get it back?

I only want you

I only want you

I want what we had.

I only want you

I only want you

It's as simple as that.

Yours is the best love,

It's the best love.

So pure and so true.

Our love will lift us

Our love will lift us.

Only love, my darling.

Only you.

When I do not feel inspired

I can only speak my heart.

I'm sitting in the middle of a fire, fire

And I can't even catch a spark.

[Сhorus:]

I only want you

I only want you

I want what we had.

I only want you

I only want you

Can we get it back?

I only want you

I only want you

I want what we had.

I only want you

I only want you

It's as simple as that.

When We Were Young lyrics - Brett Dennen

Remember when we were young

We felt like the luckiest ones

Nothing to worry about

The whole world was a hand-me-down

It's hard to be different

It's even harder when you wanna fit in

High school was a catastrophe

It was a failure factory

Turn it up, turn it up

Turn up your radio loud

Don't forget where you come from

It's too soon to be proud

Remember when

We... were... young

Remember when

We... were... young

Remember when we were broke

Money would come and go

The whole world is a hand-me-down

So you gotta where it proud

Whenever I reminisce

I know that the greatest risk

Is giving up the fun for pay

I don't want to live that way

Oh tear it up, tear it up

Tear up that page

I don't wanna grow up

I don't wanna act my age

Remember when, we were young

Turn it up, turn it up

Turn up your radio loud

Don't forget where you come from

It's too soon to be proud

Remember when, we were young

Remember when, we were young

Ohhhhhh

Ohhhhh oh oh ohhhhh-oh

Oh oh oh oh oooohhh

Oh oh oh oh oh

Oh oh oh oh ohhhhh

Ohhhhhh

Ohhhhh oh oh ohhhhh-oh

Oh oh oh oh oooohhh

Oh oh oh oh oh

Oh oh oh oh ohhhhh

How will I know if I don't ask why

I won't let it pass me by

I see my life in a faded sky

Slippin away, ayyyy ayyyyyy

Tear it up, tear it up

Tear out that page

I don't wanna grow up

Don't wanna act my age

Remember when, we were young

Turn it up, turn it up

Turn up your radio loud

Don't forget where you come from

It's too soon to be proud

Remember when, we were young

Remember when, we were young

Smoke And Mirrors lyrics - Brett Dennen

I know what you're thinking,

You're thinking about leaving, yeah, 

you're thinking about leaving..

You wonder what you're missing.

You don't see me, yeah you're looking right through me. 

And please, be wise, it's easy to be fooled by your own eyes baby, your eyes..

Don't let smoke and mirrors make it crowded,

The truth you cannot see is hard to find. 

If you think you're better off without me...

Remember what we have before you leave it all behind.

Love is blind when it's new-your eyes play tricks on you, 

yeah, your heart plays tricks on you.

Soon, your dream gets played out.

Baby it's real now, yeah it's real now, the pain we show, 

think about how much it makes me hurt baby, be sure.

Don't let smoke and mirrors make it crowded,

The truth you cannot see is hard to find. 

If you think you're better off without me... 

remember what we have before you leave it all behind.

Don't Mess With Karma lyrics - Brett Dennen

Didn't anybody tell ya?

Don't go messing with karma

It'll come around

Didn't anybody tell ya?

Don't go messing with karma

It'll come around

Old man picking flowers for a funeral

Street choir's singing hallelujah

They'll smile through the pain

There ain't no wrong way to pray

Another sad eye looking for a laughter

Another kid growing up a little faster

You want someone to trust you, well you've got to be true

Didn't anybody tell ya?

Don't forget that love is all you came here for

Not anything less, need I say more?

Need I say more?

Don't forget that love is all you came here for

Not anything less, need I say more?

Need I say more?

Didn't anybody tell ya?

Don't go messing with karma (it'll come around)

True love is the right of every human

Who are we to take away the union?

You want something for yourself

Give it to someone else

Go around using God as a reason

What if all that you believed in

And what you thought was right turned out to be just a lie?

Didn't anybody tell ya?

Don't forget that love is all you came here for

Not anything less, need I say more?

Need I say more?

Love is all you came here for

Not anything less, need I say more?

Need I say more?

Don't forget that love is all you came here for

Not anything less, need I say more?

Need I say more?

Love is all you came here for

Not anything less, need I say more?

Need I say more?

Love is all you came here for

Not anything less, need I say more?

Need I say more?

Out Of My Head lyrics - Brett Dennen

Get outta my head, outta my head, outta my head now.

Get outta my head, get into my heart.

Get outta my head, outta my head, outta my now.

Get outta my head, get into my heart.

Without you I do believe I'm homeless and without,

And without you, it's true. I'm out of focus.

Got go now, I know now if I can can't live with you I will

Without me you'll be stuck in a pattern and without me, you'll see

It doesn't matter who you're made at

I've had that happen and I won't have that happen anymore.

Why don't it go boom boom boom

Give me love, give me love, give me love now.

Boom Boom Boom

Any you get it back and you get it back

Get outta my head, outta my head, outta my head, head now.

Get outta my head, outta my head, outta my no, get into my heart.

Get outta my head, outta my head, outta my head, head now.

Get outta of my head, outta my head, outta my no, get into my heart.

Get into my heart

Thought I'd changed inside,

so I went up into the mountains and climbed.

I got away from all the static and the sadness.

I won't be caught up in that anymore

Why don't it go, boom boom boom

Give me love, give me love, give me love now.

Boom boom boom.

And you get it back, and you get it.

Boom boom boom

Give me love, give me love, give me love now.

Boom Boom Boom

And you get it back, and you get it.

Get outta my head, outta my head, outta my head now.

Get outta my head, get into my heart.

Get outta my head, outta my head, outta my now.

Get outta my head, get into my heart.

Outta my head, outta my head

Out of my head, no

Get outta my head, outta my head, outta my head, head

Get outta of my head, no.

Get outta my head, no.

Get outta my head, outta my head, outta my head now.

Get outta my head, get into my heart.

Get outta my head, outta my head, outta my now.

Get outta my head, get into my heart.

"Loverboy" (2011)

• "Surprise, Surprise Lyrics – Brett Dennen
• Dancing At A Funeral Lyrics – Brett Dennen
• Comeback Kid (That's My Dog) Lyrics – Brett Dennen
• Sydney (I'll Come Running) Lyrics – Brett Dennen
• Make You Fall In Love With Me Lyrics – Brett Dennen
• Only Rain Lyrics – Brett Dennen
• Can't Stop Thinking Lyrics – Brett Dennen
• Must Be Losing My Mind Lyrics – Brett Dennen
• Song For Leaving Lyrics – Brett Dennen
• Queen Of The Westside Lyrics – Brett Dennen
• Little Cosmic Girl Lyrics – Brett Dennen
• Walk Away, Watch Me Burn Lyrics – Brett Dennen

"Surprise, Surprise Lyrics – Brett Dennen

Dark clouds gather in the afternoon
Come together just to cry
Seagulls struggling against the wind
Falling out of the sky
Grandma's gathering aluminum cans in a rusty shopping cart
Born-againers getting their lives together while my whole world's falling apart
Open up your eyes
It's happening all around you
If it hasn't found you
Well You know it's just a matter of time
Surprise surprise
What do you think the world owes you
It's not the way it's supposed to go
Well you know It's just a matter of time
Songbird sitting in a tree house with a trumpet to her lips
I'm laying on my back in the tall green grass staring up at the eclipse
Whispers lurking in the alley behind where the children where no shoes
Call girls and corner kids hustling saying what do you got to lose
Open up your eyes
It's happening all around you
If it hasn't found you
Well You know it's just a matter of time
Surprise surprise
What do you think the world owes you
It's not the way it's supposed to go
Well you know It's just a matter of time
And there's nowhere you can run to because the eyes are upon you
Some of the coming up hard and hungry
Stepping up to take your turn
Some of them throwing their money in the fire
Just to watch it burn
Open up your eyes
It's happening all around you
If it hasn't found you
Well You know it's just a matter of time
Surprise surprise
What do you think the world owes you
It's not the way it's supposed to go
Well you know It's just a matter of time

Dancing At A Funeral Lyrics – Brett Dennen

Now's not the time to be so sad and mournful
We are going to the funeral and we'll be dancing the night away
So, so, so don't be so shy, we are living and we're dying
We are laughing and we're crying every single day

Strange we're not surprising, [?]
How we tasted death like this to bring us together
You know you'll always be my flesh and blood
I could never do you wrong
And the one who was gone for so long is coming home

Alright now's not the time to be so sad and mournful
We are going to the funeral and we'll be dancing the night away
So, so, so don't be so shy, we are living and we're dying
We are laughing and we're crying every single day

We are getting older at the blink of an eye
So don't let the moment pass you by
I don't believe there is a greater love, one [?] and pain
And the love between a momma and her children

And the procession down to the light house
We hear the crashing of the waves and the mistakes we made
You know that we are not the only ones so we can have some fun
Have some, have some, have some, have some fun

Now's not the time to be so sad and mournful
We are going to the funeral and we'll be dancing the night away
So, so, so don't be so shy, we are living and we're dying
We are laughing and we're crying every single day, every single day

It's not the time to be so, to be so sad
We are going to the funeral and we'll be dancing the night away
So, so, so don't be so shy, we are living and we're dying
We are laughing and we're crying every single day, every single day

Comeback Kid (That's My Dog) Lyrics – Brett Dennen

Well, maybe it's the common curse
Maybe things get bad before they get worse
I don't wanna become someone
Who can't live up to what already done

Don't keep it just to figure it out
When it rains and pours, and then it runs out
I was crying on the bathroom floor
And just when I thought I could take no more

Well, here comes a comeback
The kid is back, is back on track
And there goes my hero
He's an underdog, he's coming out on top
And come on, come on back, that's my dog

It was a park of the trailer park
She went whistling through the big yard
She came to raise the dead
And I was a stain on her unmade bed

I found a lover and then I lost myself
And now I'm nowhere, she's somewhere else
And the boys with the brown, skinny legs
Said you're on and on, she sees but I say

Hey, here comes a comeback
The kid is back, is back on track
And there goes my hero, he's an underdog
He's coming out on top

And everybody loves a comeback
So come on back, now, comeback, comeback
Everybody loves the underdog
Singing that's my dog, that's my dog

Na, na, na, na, na, na, na, na
That's my dog
Na, na, na, na, na, na, na, na
That's my dog

Na, na, na, na, na, na, na, na
That's my dog
Na, na, na, na, na, na, na, na, na
Hey

I've never been laid so low
Never been laid so low, low, low, low
Why was I the last to know?
Why was I the last to know?

Hear the words, I've never been laid so low
Never been laid so low, low, low, low
Don't let me be the last to know
Don't let me be the last to know

Here comes a comeback
The kid is back, is back on track

And everybody loves a comeback
So come on back, now, comeback, comeback
Everybody loves the underdog
Singing that's my dog, that's my dog

Na, na, na, na, na, na, na, na
That's my dog
Na, na, na, na, na, na, na, na
That's my dog

Na, na, na, na, na, na, na, na
That's my dog
Na, na, na, na, that's my dog
That's my, that's my dog

Na, na, na, na, na, na, na, na
That's my dog
Na, na, na, na, na, na, na, na
That's my dog

Na, na, na, na, na, na, na, na
That's my dog
Na, na, na, na, na, na, na, na
That's my dog

Sydney (I'll Come Running) Lyrics – Brett Dennen

Sydney, whenever you feel unhappy
All you have to do is call me
I can make you laugh
Sydney, I know that you were wrongly accused
I hope you don't lose your sense of humor
Allegations made in the school yard
Soccer moms gossip in the dog park
Their bark is worse then their bite
They're only a couple of crazy cougars
They're bored and spreading their desperate rumors

You know that I was never that cool
But I won't be taken for a fool
If they wanna talk trash
They can talk, talk, talk
But they better come (collect)
And if you ever need me, call me
I'll come runnin' straight to you

Straight from the airport
(I'll come runnin')
Cut through the customs line
(I'll come runnin')
Bust down the courthouse doors
(I'll come runnin')
Sydney, I will testify
(I'll come runnin')
Sydney, I will testify to ya

We were in the basement
Just giving our blood on stage and
Pretending that we were famous
While you were getting framed
I went back to my room in Surrey Hills, yes I did
I didn't know you were in trouble until you came in
Just as skinny as a twig in my kitchen
And told me I was looking at a dead man
I said, "Sydney, you're wrong."

There's a lot of good people living in LA, yes there are and
We won't let nobody take you away, no we won't

You know I was never that cool
But I won't be taken for a fool
If the wanna talk trash they can talk, talk, talk
But they better come (collect)
And if you ever need me you just call me
I'll come runnin' to you

Straight from the airport
(I'll come runnin')
Cut through the customs line
(I'll come runnin')
Bust down the courthouse doors
(I'll come runnin')
Sydney I will testify
(I'll come runnin')
Sydney I will testify
(I'll come runnin')
I will testify
(I'll come running')
I will testify
(I'll come runnin')
to ya, to ya, to ya

Sydney whenever you think you need me
Call me up and I'll come runnin' straight to you

I was never that cool
But I won't be taken for a fool
If the wanna talk trash they can talk, talk, talk
But they better come (collect)
And if you ever need me you just call me
I come runnin' to ya

Straight from the airport
(I'll come runnin')
Cut through the customs line
(I'll come runnin')
Bust down the courthouse doors
(I'll come runnin')
Sydney I will testify
(I'll come runnin')
Sydney I will testify
(I'll come runnin')
I will testify
(I'll come running')
I will testify
(I'll come runnin')
to ya, to ya, to ya
I will testify

Make You Fall In Love With Me Lyrics – Brett Dennen

[Verse:]
I saw you dance and sing on stage
With your bare feet and your hair in braids
You pressed your lips against your horn
If I could only be the notes you mourn

[Pre-Chorus:]
Ever since I heard my first love song
I've been looking for you all along
I know I can't be wrong

[Chorus:]
I know you don't feel it now
But I'm gonna make you fall in love with me
Someday baby somehow
I'm gonna make you fall in love with me
Oooooo
Oooooo

[Verse:]
I wanna strum upon your strings
And make you cry love cry a loving
Dance drunk into your heart's beat
And kiss you in the moonlight in the middle of the street

[Pre-Chorus:]
I know that we've both been here before
In another lifetime maybe more
It's karma I'm sure

[Chorus:]
I know you don't feel it now
But I'm gonna make you fall in love with me
Someday baby somehow
I'm gonna make you fall in love with me
Oooooo
Oooooo

[Bridge:]
I took you driving down to Big Sur
Down the coast of California
You held your head out of the window
And you stared out at the ocean
You never heard the albums Graceland or Blue
I played them both for you
The songs of my youth

[Chorus:]
I know you don't feel it now
But I'm gonna make you fall in love with me
Someday baby somehow
I'm gonna make you fall in love with me
Oooooo
Oooooo

Only Rain Lyrics – Brett Dennen

You haven't said it but I hear it so loud
And there's a cloud around your head, yes it is
I stick around, I could be a stranger in your town
Or I could fly half way around the world just to be turned down

Don't hold back your tears from falling
Don't pretend they're for me, darling
You can tell me I'm not the one
I know the sun is shining somewhere
Oh, on someone it's only rain

Doesn't mean the day's over
It don't change the way I feel, it doesn't change a thing
Only rain, it's only rain, it's only rain, it's only rain, yes, it is

You gone on magazines and the silver screen
They hear the gold that's in your heart
I'll be fine, oh, I can stay with an old friend of mine
I can find myself some California wine

Don't hold back your tears from falling
Don't pretend they're for me, darling
You can tell me I'm not the one
I know the sun is shining somewhere
On someone it's only rain

Doesn't mean the day's over
It don't change the way I feel, it doesn't change a thing
It's only rain, it's only rain, it's only rain, it's only rain
Yes, it is, alright, yeah, it's only rain, oh yeah

Ooh, ooh, oh yeah, it's only rain, doesn't mean the day is over
It don't change the way I feel, no way, it doesn't change a thing
No, it doesn't change a thing, doesn't change a thing
Doesn't change a thing, no, it's only rain, it's only rain, yes, it is

Ooh, it's only rain, it's only

Can't Stop Thinking Lyrics – Brett Dennen

I was numb, I couldn't sleep
Gently strung out on caffeine
Did I fall in love or was I just delirious?

I was dumb, found you
My dirty mind was wanderin'
I was wishin' that I could be kissin' your skin

And now you're in my head
You're always in my head
And now you're in my head

And I can't stop thinkin' about you
All day long, it's all I do
From the moment that I wake up
No, I can't stop thinkin' about you

And it makes me sad
Because I know that you don't want me
And all these thoughts in my head
They tease me and they taunt me, oh, yeah

All the broken hearts in London town
Strewn about the tube in the underground
All the voices burning in my brain
And making me insane

And now you're in my head
You're always in my head
And now you're in my head

And I, I can't stop thinkin' about you
All day long, it's all I do
From the moment that I wake up
You know I can't stop thinkin' about you

And it makes me sad
Because I know that you don't want me
All these thoughts up in my head
They tease me and they taunt me, taunt me, alright, yeah

No, no, no, no, no, no, no
I can't stop thinkin' about you
All day long, it's all I do
From the moment that I wake up
You know I can't stop thinkin' about you

I can't stop thinkin' about you
All day long, it's all I do
From the moment, from the moment that I wake up
I can't stop thinkin' about you
I said I can't, I can't stop thinkin'
No, I can't, I can't stop thinking about you
No, no, no, I can't stop

I can't stop thinking about you, about you, baby
From the moment, from the moment that I wake up
I can't, I can't, I can't, I can't, I can't, I can't stop thinking about you

Must Be Losing My Mind Lyrics – Brett Dennen

Burned out in the lawn in Tuscon, Arizona
With the scavengers on 4th Avenue
Feeling old, boredom of the second hand stores
Hoping maybe I could find something new

Now, now, now, now, now
Here it comes
Here it comes again

Behind the theater, in the alley by the dumpsters
Far away from the glow of the marquee
There alone in the darkness, below the Hotel Congress
I was [?] for a second but I then I fell asleep

Now here it comes
Here it comes again, ah
Yeah, here comes that feeling, yeah

I must be losing my mind
(I'm losing, I'm losing my mind)
I must be losing my mind

Oh, my God, there's ghosts in my hotel room
Why do they bother me here?
Oh, my heart, hey, where is my lover?
She, she built a way to the southern hemisphere

I hear them laughing at me, the nuns are laughing at me
The homes are laughing at me too
They think I'm lying in there, they think I'm foolish but that
But that don't make me a fool, no, no, no, no, no, no

I must be losing my mind
(I'm losing, I'm losing my mind)
I must be losing my mind
(I'm losing, I'm losing, I'm losing my mind)
But it sure feels fine, you know it sure feels fine

Who am I talking to and what am I saying
Why doubt these words I don't believe?
There's no one stopping you so why are you staying?
Are you as crazy as me?

Huh, I'm in these shadows dying, lying in this street
Nobody's set their soul, anything at all
Nobody notices, no one goes in there
And it scares me, don't know where, nowhere at all

I must be losing my mind
(I'm losing, I'm losing my mind)
I must be losing my mind
(I'm losing, I'm losing, I'm losing my mind)
Yeah, you know but it sure feels fine
You know it sure feels right
Yeah, it does, yes, it does

Ah, here it comes again
Uh, yeah, it's coming on strong again
You know, I'm dancing with my thoughts again
Yeah, my words they don't make any sense and no, no, no

And no, no, no, no, here it comes again, yeah
Ah, these feelings I don't understand
Ah, I'm dancing with my thoughts again
My, my words they don't make any sense

No, no, no, no
They just don't make any sense

Song For Leaving Lyrics – Brett Dennen

Like a southbound train
Here's a song for leaving
Don't you know the pain
It's a part of the healing

Moon with a halo
Like a pearl in a peasant's hand
Religion on the radio
Advertising a promised land

Everything that attaches
Someday falls apart
When the plan collapses
It can break your heart

Like a southbound train
This is a song for leaving
Don't you know the pain
It's a part of the healing
Like a southbound train
Here is a song for leaving
Don't you know the pain
It's a part of the healing

To the airport in the rain
Sadness seeping through
Leaving faith on a jet plane
Hurling through the blue

Love is the tear
That taught me to fall
Whispered in my ear
Soothing me to my soul

Like a southbound train
Here's a song for leaving
Don't you know the pain
It's a part of the healing

Quiet constellations
I don't walk through the night
Silent salutations
Under a southwestern sky

Battlegrounds behind me
Smoke in the trees
Memories to remind me
Puts my soul to ease

Like a southbound train
Here's a song for leaving
Don't you know the pain
It's a part of the healing
Like a southbound train
This is a song for leaving
Don't you know the pain
It's a part of the healing
This is a train
Get on the train
Get on the train...

Queen Of The Westside Lyrics – Brett Dennen

Where is my shit?
oh
you know it

She's making love for breakfast
in Venice
In the little white house with rent control
She's got
Turquoise tiles on the counter in the kitchen
she cooks she listens to Nina Simone

and all the hipsters on the east side
they think they're too cool for school
but they don't know
She's the queen of the west side
and she rocks me to my soul
she rocks me to my soul

She's sunbathing in her bare skin
I'm jealous of the light shining on her back
"Where is my shit?"
Well, I'm walking down Montana and I'm singing I'm in heaven
Hoping that she asks me to come back

All the know it alls on the Northside
They think they know
They dont know
What I know

She's the Queen of the Westside
yes she is
she rocks me to my soul
she rocks me to my soul
she rocks me to my soul

Little Cosmic Girl Lyrics – Brett Dennen

When you're sleeping, safe from harm
What you do dream about when you're in my arms?
All through the night the world was spinning
At the speed of light
Wars were fought, while I held you tight

You fell deep into an untamed sleep
When the moon begin to creep
And the comets keep their promises
While the constellations weep

[Chorus:]
Little cosmic girl, isn't it a big world?
Say, don't you worry about the little things
Don't let the daylight rob your dreams
Little cosmic girl, isn't it a wild world?
There is love and there is sadness
And there are miracles and madness
And we may never understand
No we may never understand

We are traveling in a minstrel's circus
In that caravan across the universe
All at once our bitter grudges
Were put to rest
Deaths were mourned, while births were blessed
Are we an accident in time
Or part of a grand design
Press your body close to mine

[Chorus x2]

Tell me do you believe, my little cosmic girl, in what you cannot see

Do you believe [3x] in what you cannot see, my little cosmic girl
[Repeats to fade out]

Walk Away, Watch Me Burn Lyrics – Brett Dennen

Woke up early this mornin'
To a thunder and rainstorm
Last night I forgot to close
My windows

My home's been broken
And my heart has been blown wide open
I don't wanna feel angry
I don't wanna feel empty
I don't want no sympathy

Who am I to blame?
What can I say? I'll never learn
Going down in flames
Walk away, watch me burn
Walk away, watch me burn

I was thinking 'bout my place in the universe
Looking at the Earth's curve
How much my little heart can hurt
Some people got a lot of nerve

I'm not afraid
No, I never been afraid of failure
I'm not afraid of global warmin'
Or the market crashin'
Or the terrorists attackin'

Who am I to blame?
What can I say? I will never learn
I'm goin' down in flames
Walk away, watch me burn
Walk away, watch me burn

I swam in the ocean in the night
Under the stars it's so clear
My pale body bouncin' in the waves
I felt I could disappear, I'm still here, yes, I am

Who am I to blame?
What can I say? I will never learn
I'm goin' down in flames
Walk away, watch me burn
Walk away, watch me burn
Walk away, watch me burn

"Hope For The Hopeless" (2008)

• San Francisco Lyrics – Brett Dennen
• Make You Crazy Lyrics – Brett Dennen (feat. Femi Kuti)
• Heaven Lyrics – Brett Dennen
• Closer To You Lyrics – Brett Dennen
• Wrong About Me Lyrics – Brett Dennen
• So Far From Me Lyrics – Brett Dennen
• When She's Gone Lyrics – Brett Dennen
• World Keeps Turning Lyrics – Brett Dennen
• Who Do You Think You Are? Lyrics – Brett Dennen
• Follow Your Heart Lyrics – Brett Dennen
• Ain't Gonna Lose You Lyrics – Brett Dennen

San Francisco Lyrics – Brett Dennen

Go if you want to go
But I won't follow
Just so you know
Leave if you want to leave
But I won't be here
When you come home

I'm gonna to move to San Francisco
Look up some old friends
I'm gonna get me a navy pea coat
And an old Mercedes Benz

This old town it keeps shrinking
There's too many people in my junk
I'm gonna do a lot of drinking
Cause it don't hurt when I'm drunk

[Chorus]

I'm gonna rent me an old Victorian
Down in the Lower Haight
I'm gonna get me an old accordion
Play for the tourists on the golden gate
I'm gonna plant a little garden
Paint my bathroom blue
I'm gonna try real hard
To get over you

Here in the city life doesn't move so slow
There's plenty of good people I know
Up in north beach they drink spicy Italian liqueur
Down on market there's a lot of hobos and hustlers

Down in Hayes Valley, there's a lot of good restaurants
Deep in the tenderloin you can have anything you want
Over in the mission it's always a sunny day
It's a real good baseball town but my team is across the bay

[Chorus]

When you come home

Make You Crazy Lyrics – Brett Dennen (feat. Femi Kuti)

You Know, It's hard to be Yourself,
Free Yourself, To see Yourself,
When all around You there are Lies just to get You,
Spies just to get You, To Buy so they can get You?

There are Cameras in the sky, Lasers in our Living rooms,
There are Wolves watching wearing Sheep's Costumes?

It's Enough to make You go crazy (woah)
It's Enough to make You Mad?
It's Enough to make You go crazy (woah)
And, I'm amazed I Haven't yet?

Isn't It, A Shame The way We cheat Each other,
Treat Each other, Beat Each other??

It's, A Shame The way We use One other, Abuse One another?

And, Screw One another, It's true.

They will Lock You up in Prison,
But They won't call it slavery,
There are stolen Children raised and Trained in Armies?

It's Enough to make You go crazy (woah)
It's Enough to make You Mad?
It's Enough to make You go crazy (woah)
And I'm amazed I haven't yet?

Don't hesitate to speak Your Mind? (speak Your Mind)
Never hesitate to speak Your Heart? (speak Your Heart)
They'll call You crazy, When You speak Your Mind? (When You speak Your Mind)
So never, Never hesitate? (never hesitate)

'cause It's Enough to make You go crazy? (woah)
It's Enough to make You Mad?
It's Enough to make You go crazy (woah)
And, I'm amazed I haven't yet?

Na sol Them go lock You for Prison?
Na sol Them go beat You for Prison?
Them No call it slavery?
It's him That make Me vex?

Na sol Them go lock You for Prison?
Na sol Them go beat You for Prison?
It's him That make Me vex?
It's him That make Me craze?

It's Enough to make You go crazy? (woah)
It's Enough to make You Mad?
It's Enough to make You go crazy? (woah)
And, I'd be crazy Not to Care?

Heaven Lyrics – Brett Dennen

Beyond the rules of religion
The cloth of conviction
Above all the competition
Where fact and fiction meet

There's no color lines cast or classes
There's no fooling the masses
Whatever faith you practice
Whatever you believe

Oh, Heaven, Heaven
What the hell is Heaven?
Is there a home for the homeless?
Is there hope for the hopeless?

Throw away your misconceptions
There's no walls around Heaven
There's no codes you gotta know to get in
No minutemen border patrol

You must lose your earthly possession
Leave behind your weapons
You can't buy your salvation
And there is no pot of gold

Mmm Heaven, Heaven
What the hell is Heaven?
Is there a home for the homeless?
Is there hope for the hopeless?

Heaven ain't got no prisons
No government, no business
No banks or politicians
No armies and no police

Castles and cathedrals crumble
Pyramids and pipelines tumble
The failure keeps you humble
And leads us closer to peace

Oh, Heaven, Heaven
What the hell is Heaven?
Is there a home for the homeless?
Is there hope for the hopeless?

Is there a home for the homeless?
Is there hope for the hopeless?

Closer To You Lyrics – Brett Dennen

Well I tasted love so sweet
Played around but not for keeps
I'd never been knocked off my feet until you came along
In the room surrounding me are angels I cannot see
I know they come to carry me to where I belong

Closer to you, closer to you
I'm singing like a sailor strutting up your avenue
Like a clown in a costume shop wearing nothing but my birthday suit
Getting closer to you

All the knocks upon your door
Footsteps falling on your floor
All the shipwrecks on your shore
Mean nothing to me
All the crooks on Capitol Hill
Criminals on the dollar bills
All the money on Wall Street still
Couldn't keep me from getting

Closer to you. Closer to you
Like a priest on a pulpit preaching to an empty room
Like a drunk in a dive bar in the early afternoon
Closer to you.

Poets could not pronounce your name
Gamblers couldn't play the game
Matchstick statues set to flame
Couldn't hold a candle to you
Swindlers on the Sunset strip
Hypnotists and hypocrites
Ventriloquists and Pickpockets
Wish that they could get

Well I've tasted love so sweet
Played around but not for keeps
I never been knocked off my feet till you came along

I sit through the trickery
The jealousy and vanity
The potency of your prophesy
Because I long to be

Closer to you. Closer to you
Like a hound dog in a junkyard honey
I'm howling at the moon
Like a Pirate in a pawnshop with a pocket full of jewels

Closer to you [x3]

I'll get through
Oh baby I'll get through
Closer to you

Wrong About Me Lyrics – Brett Dennen

From my humble beginning,
To our bitter end,
You were the one who was pretending.
That I was your orphan.
In a brown stone apartment in Brooklyn,
I found a new place to dwell
I tore up my ticket to Tennessee and checked out of the Hollywood hotel
You can call me a turncoat,
Challenge my dignity
But you were wrong about me
Honey you were wrong, all along, about me

Take off your plastic Halo.
But don't shun the monks inside your head
Give it to the gullible grooms who drink their snake oil beside your bed.

In your conjured up court room my integrity is on trial
The prosecution is gathering evidence from denial
You can preach to the choir
Say that I'm guilty

But you were wrong about me!
Honey you were wrong, all along, about me, about me

Go tell all your friends about it
Tell the boys back home about it
Tell all your nurses and nuns about it
Go to all your cats about it
That you were wrong, you were wrong, you were wrong, you were wrong, you were wrong, you were wrong, you were wrong, you were wrong about me, you were wrong, you were wrong about me
Stubborn cowboys click their bootheels,
They are settling their debts
But I'm not making anymore deals
I ain't placing no more bets

Downtown on Wall Street where the millionaires smoke their cigars,
I traded in all my savings for a new suit and an electric guitar.
You can say that I sold out.
but nobody works for free.
And you were wrong about me
Honey you were wrong, all along, about me, about me, about me
Honey you were wrong, all along, about me, wrong about me!

So Far From Me Lyrics – Brett Dennen

Crows ravaging a field of wheat
stars jealous of the moon
scarecrows know their own defeat
envy and the heart that it consumes

today i walked without you
like an empty bottle drifting out to sea
i would change it if i knew how to
but it don't come that easily

if my heart wasn't such a jungle
maybe you wouldn't feel so all alone
and if your heart wasn't such an ocean
i wouldn't sink like a stone

if you weren't so far from me
i could you hold you while you're sleepin
and hear ya breathin softly
and be there when you wake
phone calls cannot complete us
letters cannot replace
the miles and miles and miles between us
another time another place

if my heart wasn't such a jungle
maybe you wouldn't feel so all alone
and if your heart wasn't such an ocean
i wouldn't sink like a stone

i have yet to meet another
who burns bright as you
i'm not looking for any other
i only want you.

if my heart wasn't such a jungle
maybe you wouldn't feel so all alone
and if your heart wasn't such an ocean
i wouldn't sink like a stone
i wouldn't sink like a stone
i wouldn't sink like a stone.

When She's Gone Lyrics – Brett Dennen

Your gonna fall apart
It's gonna break your heart
Your gonna know that you were wrong
Down to the boatyard you'll run
Like you did at your graduation
Your gonna miss her when she's gone

Who you trying to fool?

Your gonna miss her when she's
Your gonna miss her when she's
Your gonna miss her when she's gone

You in your second hand suit
That you wore to the portrait shoot
It was just a dream that you once had
Your gonna lose control
It's gonna take it's toll on you
You'd better let it drive you mad

Who you trying to fool?
What are you trying to prove?

Your gonna miss her when she's
Your gonna miss her when she's
Your gonna miss her when she's gone

These are the wounds that heal you
It's the pain that reveals you

Your gonna miss her when she's
Your gonna miss her when she's
Your gonna miss her when she's gone

World Keeps Turning Lyrics – Brett Dennen

This world keeps turning, turning around,
This world keeps turning me upside down,
I can't do nothing to slow it down.
This world keeps turning, turning around.

Everything you have today,
soon, can be gone away.
Yesterday, I had no sorrow but,
Here today, gone tomorrow.
Here today and gone tomorrow.

This world keeps turning,turning around,
This world keeps turning me, upside down
I can't do nothing to slow it down.
This world keeps turning, turning around.

People can be so cruel.
They'll cheat you and they'll treat you like a fool.
They'll drag your dreams through the dust,
till' you don't know who to trust.
I don't know who to trust.

The more I learn, the less I know.
I got so far to go.
I got so far to go.

This world keeps turning, turning around,
This world keeps turning me upside down,
I can't do nothing to slow it down.
This world keeps turning, turning around.
This world keeps turning, turning around
This world keeps turning, turning around

Who Do You Think You Are? Lyrics – Brett Dennen

Where are all my old friends?
It's been a long time gone.
We've been drifting apart for so many years.
I hope they're still marching on.
Some of em' probably happy with families working hard to get ahead.
Some of them are lost, some are wondering, some of them are already dead.

Who do you think you are?
It's the life you made.
Don't be afraid of the hands you play.

There's an old man sleeping in the parking lot
I wonder what he dreams about
Businessmen in suits taking millions over coffee trying to buy each other out
There's an officer, a senator, a digger and a sewer
A beggar and thief.
They all sit at different table but they all drink the same poison as me

Who do you think you are?
It's the life that you made.
Don't be afraid of the hands you play.
Who do you think you are?
It's the life that you made.
Well don't be afraid of the hands you play

The power went out, and the stars came out
and I went out for a walk in the dark
There were fireflies flittin'
and I heard the poet spittin' rhymes out in the park
And I felt myself drift up off the ground and I rose above the trees
And I saw my life in photographs of fading memories

Who do you think you are?
It's the life that you made.
Don't be afraid of the hands you play.
It's the life that you made.
Don't be afraid of the hands you play.

Follow Your Heart Lyrics – Brett Dennen

I am a dreamer
And I'm a lover
I've been let down
And I've loved and lost
I've been alone
I've been far from home

Follow your heart
Follow your heart
Follow your heart
And you won't get lost

I've been a poor man
I've been a rich man
I made a fortune
And I paid the cost
I've had some good friends
They come and go

Follow your heart
Follow your heart
Follow your heart
And you won't get lost

I've been cheated
I've been defeated
I've played the game
And I've been double crossed
Every friend of mine
Has been in hard times

Follow your heart
Follow your heart
Follow your heart
And you won't get lost

Ain't Gonna Lose You Lyrics – Brett Dennen

You can put a stick in my spokes
I can be the butt of your jokes
I can be the laughing stock, I can be the hoax
But I ain't gonna lose you
No I ain't gonna lose

They can come and tear my house down
They can run me out of town
They can tie me up, call me a clown
But I ain't gonna lose you
No I ain't gonna lose you

I can't stand
The thought of another man
No I ain't gonna lose you

They can make me turn my back on my friends
Send me away to san quentin
Put me in the hole, a thousand times again
But I ain't gonna lose you
No I ain't gonna lose you

Throw me in a hurricane
Tell the whole world I've gone insane
Run an electric shock to my brain
But I ain't gonna lose you
No I ain't gonna lose you

I can't stand
The thought of another man
No I ain't gonna lose you
No I ain't gonna lose you
Ain't gonna lose [X4]

I'll sing it from my roof top
I'll sing it from the bus stop
I'll sing it on the street drunk to a cop
But I ain't gonna lose you
No I ain't gonna lose
Ain't gonna lose you
Ain't gonna lose

"So Much More" (2006)

• Ain't No Reason Lyrics – Brett Dennen
• There Is So Much More Lyrics – Brett Dennen
• Darlin' Do Not Fear Lyrics – Brett Dennen
• Because You Are A Woman Lyrics – Brett Dennen
• She's Mine Lyrics – Brett Dennen
• The One Who Loves You The Most Lyrics – Brett Dennen
• I Asked When Lyrics – Brett Dennen
• When You Feel It Lyrics – Brett Dennen
• So Long Sweet Misery Lyrics – Brett Dennen
• Someday Lyrics – Brett Dennen
• Can't Slow Down Lyrics – Brett Dennen

Ain't No Reason Lyrics – Brett Dennen

There ain't no reason things are this way.
It's how they always been and they intend to stay.
I can't explain why we live this way.
We do it every day.

Preachers on the podium speaking of saints.
Prophets on the sidewalk begging for change.
Old ladies laughing from the fire escape,
Cursing my name.

I gotta a basket full of lemons and they all taste the same,
A window and a pigeon with a broken wing,
You can spend your whole life working for something,
Just to have it taken away.

People walk around pushing back their debts,
Wearing paychecks like necklaces and bracelets,
Talking about nothing, not thinking about death,
Every little heartbeat, every little breath.

People walk a tightrope on a razors edge.
Carrying their hurt and hatred and weapons.
It could be a bomb, or a bullet, or a pen,
Or a thought, or a word, or a sentence.

There ain't no reason things are this way.
Its how they've always been and they intend to stay.
I don't know why I say the things I say,
But I say them anyway.

But love will come set me free.
Love will come set me free, I do believe.
Love will come set me free, I know it will.
Love will come set me free, yes.

Prison walls still standing tall.
Some things never change at all.
Keep on building prisons, gonna fill them all.
Keep on building bombs, gonna drop them all.

Working your fingers bare to the bone.
Breaking' your back, make you sell your soul.
Like a lung, it's filled with coal,
Suffocating slow.

The wind blows wild and I may move.
But politicians lie and I am not fooled.
You don't need no reason or a three piece suit,
To argue the truth.

The air on my skin and the world under my toes
Slavery stitched into the fabric of my clothes
Chaos and commotion wherever I go,
Love I try to follow.

Love will come set me free
Love will come set me free, I do believe
Love will come set me free, I know it will
Love will come set me free, yes

There ain't no reason things are this way.
Its how they've always been and they intend to stay.
I can't explain why we live this way.
We do it every day.

There Is So Much More Lyrics – Brett Dennen

When I heard the news,
my heart fell on the floor.
I was on a plane on my way to Baltimore.
In these troubled times it's hard enough as it is.
My soul has a known a better life than this.

I wonder how so many can be in so much pain,
while others don't seem to feel a thing.
Then I curse my whiteness
and I get so damn depressed.
In a world of suffering,
why should I be so blessed?

I heard about a women who lives in Colorado.
She built a monument of sorts behind the garage door,
where everyday she prays for all whom are born
and all whose souls have passed on.
Sometimes my trouble gets so thick,
I can't see how I'm gonna get through it.
But, then I'd rather be stuck up in a tree
then be tied to it.

There is so much more.

I don't feel comfortable with the way my clothes fit.
I cant get used to my body's limits.
I got some fancy shoes to try and kick away these blues.
They cost a lot of money but they aren't worth a thing.
I wanna free my feet from the broken glass and concrete.
I need to get out of this city.
Lay upon the ground stare a hole in the sky,
wondering where I go when I die.
...When I die.

Darlin' Do Not Fear Lyrics – Brett Dennen

When I arrived in my own set of clothes
I was half a world away from my home
And I was hunted by the wolves and I was heckled by the crows
Darlin' do not fear what you don't really know

Alongside my innocence I laid in bed awake
Conflicted in these chains with the impetus of age
But like a phantom she crept across the floor and out the window
Darlin' do not fear what you don't really know

From this place on the mantle my heart was taken down
Scattered in a thousand little pieces on the ground
And out below the streetlamp like an orphan with a halo
Darlin' do not fear what you don't really know

'Cause it won't last - the worries will pass
All your troubles they don't stand a chance
And sometimes it takes more than a lifetime to know
Darlin' do not fear what you don't really know

The confidence is full with your faith etched in stone
And I let clean comfort you from the wild unknown
So bury your burning hatred like a hatchet in snow
Darlin' do not fear what you don't really know

If you have a broken heart or a battered soul
Find something to hold on to or to let go
To help you through the hard nights like a flask filled with hope
Darlin' do not fear what you don't really know

'Cause it won't last - your worries will pass
All your troubles they don't stand a chance
And it always hurts the worst when it's the ones we love the most
Darlin' do not fear what you don't really know

Sometimes your path is marked in the sky
Sometimes you're forced to fit in between the lines
Sometimes all that you can do is say no
Darlin' do not fear what you don't really know

I said, when I arrived in my own set of clothes
I was half a world away from my home
And I was hunted by the wolves and I was heckled by the crows
Darlin' do not fear what you don't really know
I said, Darlin' do not fear what you don't really know
We said, Darlin' do not fear

Because You Are A Woman Lyrics – Brett Dennen

Only wanted to be closer to you
i thought i had something to prove
instead i fled with my superstition
because you are a woman

now i was told since before i could speak
a mans emotions are what make him weak
i come to you more or less a humble man
because you are a woman

and i find most of the time i'm lost inside my own mind
i look all over, all over to find
it dont keep me satisfied

all the conquests that i construe
fail miserably in front of you
have you ever been loved my such a charasmatic fool?
and i'm a sucker for your love

the self-centered strutted crowd the side walk
parade and pose with phones and paper cups
you walk like truth through a world of fiction
because you are a woman

and i find most of the time it's all inside my mind
i look all over, all over to find
it dont keep me satisfied

and i find most of the time i miss the way your body coils around mine
the slope of your shoulders
the curve of your spine
because you are a woman

i change my strings and pack my suitcase
i'm always leaving for some other place
but i return to you again and again
because you are a woman
because you are a woman