ROOTS & GROOVES lyrics

OUTSIDE by Rick Scott

Sometimes late at night I’m wondering why
All this living just gonna die
Must be something there up around the bend
When my motor stops and my colours all blend

Must be something simple A-B-C
Could be understood by a fool like me
Up front just like writing on the wall
Stick your neck our when you hear the call

And go outside, the night is young and all them old cliché’s
Outside, son of a gun, blow all then dusty things away

Same old people, same old job
Same old door, same old door knob
Everybody gets together at the same time for tea
Ain’t nothing new in your company

You got to get something, you wanna get it right
Find yourself a space in the middle of the night
All of a sudden the telephone will ring
Say to yourself I wonder what this could bring

And go outside, straight ahead, all around the curve
Outside, don’t need a thin, ‘cept your good luck charm and some nerve, outside

You ever have to look from the inside out
People doing time know what I’m talking about
Only thing, what can it be, well that’s the time when you’re finally free
So if you want to find out a bonafide truth
Get back down to the days of your youth
Grab your coat and head out the door, you’re outside you don’t need nothing more

Go outside, look straight up, underneath the stars
Outside, you never guess what, you might just find out who you really are, outside

Grand PooBah Music 1984

MIDDLE OF NOWHERE by Rick Scott

Ride that train, only way I think of give you little room, you can be alone
Slap that hand, reaches in my pockets try to find a dime, call you on the telephone
Ooh, but don’t you think there’s an easier way
Put down that gun come out here and play

Way out in the middle of nowhere, wonder what you’re doing
You know I think about you

Maybe I should see, get myself a session with the medical profession
They tell me what I’m doing wrong
But it seems to me, I’m the kind of fella if I’m gonna tell her
I have to do it in my song
So don’t you know that I sing for you
Why look at me like you see right through

Way out in the middle of nowhere, wonder what you’re doing
You know I think about you

Maybe I’ve been thinking ‘bout you too much, really nothing I can do
Don’t trust what comes from my mouth, believe the way the heavens move
I should take this feeling I got and show it to the back door
Tell it I don’t want to see it, no I don’t want to see it anymore

Maybe time will tell, one way or another, who’ll be up or down
Tell me who’ll be right or wrong
But I swear I’d sell the better part of my soul, somebody get hold
Maybe move along
Yeah, so just this once can’t we break the rules holding us down here like all the fools

Way out in the middle of nowhere, wonder what you’re doing
You know I think about you

LOST SOUL MAN by Rick Scott

I like my action low and easy, makes it easy to play the blues
I like my action low and easy, oh honey, just like I like you
Seems like lately you been getting a little hard to strum
Seems you just don’t want to play
Gonna have to wrap you up and send you back where you come from
You know it just has to be that way
Sometime late at night when I’m all alone like a lost wolf you can hear me moan
I’m a lost soul man, yes I am

I believe it’s time to take vacation, go and ride that old freight train
Just sit back there on the flat car, mama, yeah and watch my passing pain
But pretty soon that train is going to stop, be my time to get off
Now you could say I was a fool’s fool for you, I just don’t know when I’ve had enough
Sometime late at night when I’m all alone like a lost wolf you can hear me moan
I’m a lost soul man, yes I am

Well I guess I should be going, won’t you show me to the door
You see my eye just ain’t what it used to, I can’t see so good no more
But don’t you worry about me, I got myself a seeing eye dog
I bought myself a brand new white cane, I just tap my life along
But sometime late at night when I’m all alone like a lost wolf you can hear me moan
I’m a lost soul man, yes I am

LET’S MAKE IT RIGHT by Rick Scott

Well the curtain is coming downAnd it’s telling me
that that’s the end
To the only show in town
And I know it must be right

But what is the matter with this heart
Trying so hard to get back to the start
Of the long and the lonely, lonely night
Come on, darlin’, let’s make it right

I was so certain, it was so strong
But now it seems it’s just a dream
And I can’t hold on
Well I held on until my fingers were turning white

What is the matter with this heart
Trying so hard to get back to the start
Of the long and the lonely, lonely night
Come on, darlin’, let’s make it right

We talk about it, but what do we say?
The more we speak it seems the dream
Just fades away
And the words just want to fight

What is the matter with this heart
Trying so hard to get back to the start
Of the long and the lonely, lonely night
Come on, darlin’, let’s make it right

IT’S ONLY WORDS by Rick Scott

Thinking catastrophes all things come down
The scraping and chatter and doing it over again
I wait for my saving sound
It’s bound to allow us to leave
It’s only words
No thing will ever be heard

You try and define it now
It seems to have a need for a point
And get out the old TV
they play on the six o’clock blues
And saying what is said to do
And knowing that everything’s been done
It’s only words
No bodies really get hurt

And with you I’m ready now
As soon as I shed this old tear
And I lay beside you
And I’ll silence 300 years
So take me in a circle now
And do like the children chant

HURT SO LONG by Rick Scott

I’ve been hurt for so long cant tell the right from the wrong
Please don’t tell me about no brand new day
There is nothing here to win just more starting again
Picking up the pieces one by one and try to make it whole

But time has a way to give rhythm and turn the night into day
So if you really want to know just let go
And come on sugaree, I’m talking to you and I’m talking to everyone
Hey hey 1-2-3. we gonna let this one run

I said come on sugaree, I’m talkin to you and I’m talking to this one
Hey hey 1-2-3. we gonna let this one run
Just one promise you got to make
to get what you need you give it all you can take

I get a feeling so cold just from the story you told
Even when I close down my eyes it just won’t go away
There’s just so much one can take when there’s so much at stake
So tired of trying to make it look like I know what I’m Doing
Suddenly the river gets wide and lets in a sliver of light
And it’s shining so true and you know what to do

So come on, sugaree
I’m talking to you and I’m talking to to everyone
Hey hey 1-2-3. we gonna let this one run

I say come on on, sugaree
I’m talking to you and Im talking to this one
Hey hey 1-2-3. we gonna let this one run

I say come on, sugaree
Im talking to you and Im talking to every mother’s son
Hey hey 2+3. we gonna let this one run
You’re just skin and bone ‘til you’re dust to dust
To get what you need you have to do what you must

FUNKANATOMY by Rick Scott

Woke up this morning the side of the bed was wrong
I got excuses they run a mile long
Sooner or later got to call it for what it is
Call is a sin and then get back again

Look to messiah, trust in the stars
Go get your hair done to match your brand new car
Any way you go if it’s deep like a well
Before you get light you got to look at yourself

I can’t explain it, can’t contain it
My poor old mind just goes weak in the knees
I got no X-ray, no, no therapy
Just all alone in this funkanatomy

I’ll be your crown prince of laughter
I put a smile where there once was a frown
But some how some way and it’s so hard to say
When you laugh at me you shoot the clown down – but wait!

Everybody’s got to live with the sorrow
And gritty sand becomes beautiful pearl
Could take the whole life of the body that you borrowed
But joy will come, it’s a miracle world, joy will come, it’s a miracle

I can’t explain it, can’t contain it
My poor old mind just goes weak in the knees
I got no X-ray, no, no therapy
Just all alone in this funkanatomy

Come Home by Rick Scott

Cut out them things that cut your life
Don’t wait around for no doctor’s knife
He cut you deep, cut you long and wide
You wake up you got nothing inside
Second opinion turn the wheel around
Don’t be afraid when you’re in the dark
Just let that light shine in your heart
Every move is a brand new start
Come home

I’m gonna take a little trip downtown
Got some money I want to throw around
Mean motor scooter got the wind in my face
Where am I goin’, Lord, all over the place
Pedal on the metal, foot nailed to the floor
Ain’t no shame in the things your choose
There’s just no way that you’re gonna lose
Everybody’s got to pay their dues
Come home

Ooh what a feeling when the show comes down
Golden emotion standing all around
The king is dead, long live the king
The party’s over but you still got to sing
Song in the morning turns to an evening groan
Words can’t touch what’s in the air
That little look turns to a stare
It’s kind of sad but it’s not despair
Come home

Now let me tell you ‘bout my man Miguel
And all the stories his eye could tell
He had a dream to get out of that place
How did he do it, Lord, he fell on his face
And people came to see him ‘cause he truly believed
Shoot for the moon to get over the fence
Don’t let opinion push your common sense
You look so good but a little bit tense
Come home

Don’t be afraid when you’re in the dark
Just let that light shine in your heart
Every move is a brand new start
Come home

©Grand PooBah Music 1985

THE MYSTERY by Max Ochs

IF you forget to breathe
We`ll have to ask you to leave
I don’t care how much you believe in the dollar
As real as I might seem I`m only just a dream
And I`m all made out of colour
Some might think it strange
It goes completely out of range
It`s a mystery

Now remember old dog Blue
He was a good dog too
He died like all dogs do he had to do it
Down on old Blue`s farm the tape machine kept warm
And the country rock rolled on and we rolled to it
So put your red dress on we`re going to do the mess around
It`s a mystery

If I stare at the moon for too long I start to swoon
and before too soon you`ll hear me baying
you think you`re all alone and safe inside your home
you find out, you find out, you find out it`s with you I`m staying
one is going to change and let all the others stay the same
It`s a mystery, I mean it`s strange

BOTTLE PEOPLE by Rick Scott

Here come the bottle people
Seem to be a lot of people
Who need to have bottles
So they can eat

All of them with all their parts
Are travelling in shopping carts
Don’t worry ‘bout their hearts
They’ve all been broken

I believe that they would steal
But how can such a crime be real
You can’t commit a crime
When you live in prison

And I think all the politicians
With all their good ambitions
Should live in the streets
Before they get their mansions

Here’s the church and here’s the steeple
And all of these bottle people
Standing in the line
To get their loaf

Here come the bottle people
Seem to be a lot of people
Who need to have bottles
So they can eat

QUEEN OF DREAMS by Rick Scott

There are so many things in this world that are hungry
And they all want a big bite of you
But you are not of a country
Somehow you’re just passing through

See the queen ascending
So alone and so full of pride
But the closest one forever
Is the jester who walks by her side

And yes, this life is full of pain
It turns you around till you just don’t know
And your grip will slip in the rain
But you’re not the kind to ever let go

See the queen ascending
Some say to take her rightful throne
But no not the jester
To him she’s just coming home

And you who cry illusion
Over simple and only a dream
But will time be kind to us
As we struggle to know what it means

See the jester stumble
Some say his last trick is used
But no, it’s just a tumble
And the queen is highly amused

PEOPLE I LOVE YOU by Rick Scott

I get so excited I can’t help myself
I got to jump, I got to shout, I got to call for help
You know you could help me, you know you really can
‘Cause all we want in this old world is try to understand
But that’s not all

Oh oh oh Im the one
Ooh ooh I’m the one
People I love you

Come on, come on, come on, come on, dDon’t you stand in line
You can do it anywhere cook-a-foot anytime
So won’t you do it, you know it’s only right
And when you do I promise you stop this fuss and fight

I don’t know nothin’ half of the time
You can tell me I’m deaf, dumb, tell me I’ve gone blind
But I can see when you don’t want any more
So when you want your friend to leave show him to the door
But as he walks away

Oh oh oh Im the one
Ooh ooh I’m the one
People I love you

I get so excited I can’t help myself
I got to jump, I got to shout, I got to call for help
God knows you help me every time you clap on your hand
And if you don’t mind I feel so find like we’re all one band
A pretty funky one too

Oh oh oh Im the one
Ooh ooh I’m the one
People I love you