LYRICS TO THE SONGS OF SCRIMSHAW

Words & Music by Marlin Collins

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73. LIES

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Hear the lies they come

Hear the lies, oh they sound so funny.

Hear the lies they come

Hear the lies, oh they scare me honey.

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What's the price you'll pay

What's the price, to follow your own way?

What's the price you'll pay

Is it nice, to disguise what you say?

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Heaven sakes alive

Hear the word, and learn how to survive.

Heaven sakes alive

Hear the word, and with it you must strive.

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Giving up the ghost

Giving up, the things that you need most.

With your drink you toast

The spirit that, your body will now host.

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So

Much time

Is spent

In trying to get someone to believe

Just what

You meant

While knowing you've got something up your sleeve.

When

The truth

Has come

We seem to feel better and you know

That lies

Are from

A place where you would never want to go.

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74. THE PLAN

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The price, that we could not pay, not nice, I'm ashamed to say

All the ways I thought I'd feel this

Day I was gonna

Forget all my debts

And pay all my bills

But what do you bet I get nailed

By the same old business man and

Jailed for the crime

Of inventing a reason

That could lead to trouble

If it becomes treason to say

All the things you could have got

Away with if you'd have been

On a planet where

No one will do you in

And no one wants you to fail

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I trust, an eternal plan, you just, imagine if you can, please

All the things that bring us to our

Knees when there's trouble

And no one's forgiven

The taxes go double

But some people living believe

There's a place where all of us can

Bathe in the water

That flows on forever

With our Holy Father

We'll all come together and sing

Through the universe our praise will

Ring out a song

Of joy peace and gladness

Say it won't be long

Till there's no more sadness or pain

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Grow old, do the best you can, behold, the eternal plan

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75. LOOKING UP

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Let's sing, for the Spirit in you.

Let's sing for the Spirit in you, It's true.

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There's time, oh to bellow those blues.

There's time oh to bellow those blues, bad news.

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Feel right, in whatever you do.

Feel right in whatever you do, be you.

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Have faith, in the things that you know.

Have faith in the things that you know, it is so.

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And say, all the things that you mean.

And say all the things that you mean, keep it clean.

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Don't fight, all those feelings in you.

Don't fight all those feelings in you, see em through.

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The light, in your spirit runs deep.

The light in your spirit runs deep, yours to keep.

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So let's sing, for the Spirit in you.

Let's sing for the Spirit in you,

It's true, baby it's true, my honey it's true,

Well now baby it's true, baby it's true, oh ho my honey it's true,

Well now, now mamma it's true,

Baby it's true.

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76. COUNT THE COST

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Count the cost, when you think you're going down.

All's not lost, He can turn your world around.

And the faces all the same

Just a difference in name

Not to be just what we claim.

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Count the cost, if the penalty is death.

All's not lost, till you breathed in your last breath.

His mercy cannot hide

But justice will abide

They balance on each side.

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Count the cost, when you think you're going down.

All's not lost, He can turn your world around.

And the faces all the same

Just a difference in name

Not to be just what we claim.

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All that we've got

Give to the Lord.

To live without Him

We can't afford.

For that which we give

Is His anyway.

The price of a soul

His blood does pay.

To see what we cost, just look to the cross, and-

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Count the cost ( 2 times )

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Count the cost.

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77. THE LIGHT OF TRUTH

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Oh, in the evening,

I'm not feeling all right like I can't believe in what I see.

But oh, in the daylight,

I'm quite all right cause there's nothing that can frighten me.

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Oh, and the sunlight seems to come right inside of me.

And our love, is the only thing that I can see.

Far above, anything I'll ever be.

Well it's alright, cause there's someone who can set me free.

I said someone who can set me free.

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Oh, don't take me,

Don't take me away from all that each day can bring.

I said please, don't wake me,

Don't wake me till the day is already in full swing.

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Oh, and the sunlight seems to come right inside of me.

And our love, is the only thing that I can see.

Far above, anything I'll ever be.

Well it's alright, cause there's someone who can set me free.

I said someone who can set me free.

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Oh, I'm giving,

I'm giving all my time and talents to the afternoon.

But oh, what I'm living,

I'm living in the dark of night without the stars or moon.

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Oh, and the sunlight seems to come right inside of me.

And our love, is the only thing that I can see.

Far above, anything I'll ever be.

Well it's alright, cause there's someone who can set me free.

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I said someone who can set me free. (7 times )

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78. UNIVERSAL ANTIDOTE

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In time, I hope that you will find,

Good news, what have you got to loose.

With your problems you can cope, the universal antidote,

Is give our creator all of your love.

A friend, whose rope's at the very end,

Survived, and headed on into life,

With renewed strength and hope, the universal antidote,

Is give our creator all of your love.

Believing that a soul

Is naturally immortal

Treasuring up your gold

All of which you stole

Your soul in dire peril

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Absurd, to live without the Word.

Cold heat, He knelt down to wash their feet.

A lump appears within the throat, the universal antidote,

Is give our creator all of your love.

Uncouth, to step on the toes of truth.

Good grace, He went to prepare a place.

It's up to us to sink or float, the universal antidote,

Is give our creator all of your love.

Coveting a dream

Sweet maiden fame and fortune

Seeking self esteem

An image to adore

Deception is the master

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Give our creator all of your love. (repeat in background )

The stone shall turn, the bone shall burn.

The open mouth, cannot learn.

With precious fuel, the fire is fed.

Let's rise above, let's rise above,

And give our creator all of your love.

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79. POVERTY'S GATE

Music by T. Giles, Words by Marlin Collins

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As the morning, begins the day

All our feelings get in the way.

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The sensations, just seem to go

Within our station, is all that we know.

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Live your time, with an outward sign, of a life sublime.

You must keep in mind,

That the way you pay, is to fill the day, with the game you play,

And the things you say.

All the days we waste, as we live in haste, chewing what we taste,

While we're in our face.

On the ground we stand, is our only plan. We do what we can.

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Two old blankets, make up his home

A fitting shelter for skin and bone.

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Circumstances, and chances of fate

Are making choices at poverty's gate.

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Live your time, with an outward sign, of a life sublime.

You must keep in mind,

That the way you pay, is to fill the day, with the game you play,

And the things you say.

All the days we waste, as we live in haste, chewing what we taste,

While we're in our face.

On the ground we stand, is our only plan. We do what we can.

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Bridges

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Live your time, with an outward sign, of a life sublime.

You must keep in mind,

That the way you pay, is to fill the day, with the game you play,

And the things you say.

All the days we waste, as we live in haste, chewing what we taste,

While we're in our face.

On the ground we stand, is our only plan. We do what we can.

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80. READER

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All life means to me is live and breathe and drink my tea, now.

I've been living from the heart.

Without any breeze I tread the wind upon my knees, now.

I've been trying to do my part.

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Without any please, I'll climb the trees that I believe in.

It's up to me to push my cart.

I'll give it a try to live and die without disease now

But it's tough for me to start.

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I'm the only child of all these things that I've defiled, now.

It has taken way too long.

With a circumstance that could be called a second chance, now.

It would make me right or wrong.

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Without any please I'll climb the trees that I believe in

It's up to me to push my cart.

I'll give it a try to live and die without disease now

But it's tough for me to start.

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Being off the wall is hollow pride that's bound to fall, now.

I could just say what I mean.

What I meant to say is anything to get my way, now.

Ain't my selfishness obscene?

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Oh reader, there you sit with nothing left to steal.

Readers I know.

Oh reader, put into the envelope and seal.

Readers must go.

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Oh, in degrees now, done with ease now, as I please now.

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Solo

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Oh reader, there you sit with nothing left to steal.

Readers I know.

Oh reader, put into the envelope and seal.

Readers must go.

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81. A BREATHING STONE

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Run the stoplight, after midnight, he's a breathing stone.

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With the insight, of a dog bite, he's a breathing stone.

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When it's alright, to pick a fight, he's a breathing stone.

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Left is not right, blind is not sight, he's a breathing stone.

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For Heaven's sake, the bad dogs mistake,

Is gonna wake at the moment that history will vindicate.

When the fate of those who are late ain't gonna do.

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What to make of all that is great

Is gonna break at the moment that history initiates.

When the state of all those who hate ain't gonna do. (Chorus)

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Stealing a dime, is a small crime, she's a broken bone.

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Feeling sublime, takes too much time, she's a broken bone.

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Towing the line, helps her to shine, she's a broken bone.

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Ties that should bind, are left behind, she's a broken bone.

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For Heaven's sake, the bad dogs mistake,

Is gonna wake at the moment that history will vindicate.

When the fate of those who are late ain't gonna do.

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What to make of all that is great

Is gonna break at the moment that history initiates.

When the state of all those who hate ain't gonna do. (Chorus)

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Run the stoplight, after midnight, he's a breathing stone.

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With the insight, of a dog bite, he's a breathing stone.

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When it's alright, to pick a fight, he's a breathing stone.

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Left is not right, blind is not sight, he's a breathing stone.

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(Chorus)

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82. SORRY

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When the kingdom come, and His will's not done, gonna be so sorry.

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Like your whole life through, is looking back at you, gonna be real sorry.

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And I want to, live my life through, you'll never guess who's sorry.

And a showdown, with a sad clown, who only could frown, sorry. (CH.)

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Though my soul is dry, there are tears to cry, gonna shed them sorry.

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And the reason why, is I tend to lie, gonna tell them sorry.

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And I want to, live my life through, you'll never guess who's sorry.

And a showdown, with a sad clown, who only could frown, sorry. (CH.)

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Never meant to be.

Sorry, hoped no one would see.

Sorry, the only fool is me.

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(CH.) no vocals

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Sorry, never meant to be.

Sorry, hoped no one would see.

Sorry, the only fool is me.

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Solo

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Though my soul is dry, there are tears to cry, gonna shed them sorry.

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And the reason why, is I tend to lie, gonna tell them sorry.

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And I want to, live my life through, you'll never guess who's sorry.

And a showdown, with a sad clown, who only could frown, sorry. (CH.)

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Never meant to be.

Sorry, hoped no one would see.

Sorry, the only fool is me.

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83. MANDOLIN ONE

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Lips

So full and red

My favorite part

Of all the beauty

In your head.

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Ears

For goodness sake

Will hear my heart

With all the love that

You can take.

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Hair

The shoulders grace

The life I live

I live but for your loving

Sweet embrace.

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Eyes

Cut through my mind

And make me care

About what I might really

Leave behind.

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I/can't believe in/what/I am seeing/how/dare my heart you steal.

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I/can't imagine/worse/than an empty/purse/how can this be real.

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I/can't resist your/charms/wrapped within your/arms/all my wounds will heal.

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I/love a creature/fair/world I cannot/share/love is mine to feel.

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(repeat to beginning)

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84. DREAM BABY

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I think that maybe you have got it wrong.

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I'm livin' in a cage while you are free.

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There may be something to all those words that I bother to take time to listen to.

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If only those gorgeous eyes could see.

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Dream baby, don't you think that your heart's gonna bother with me?

Dream baby, don't you believe in what you see.

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Dance with your fantasies

On the chance that you will wake up tomorrow,

And find that you're in love with me.

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I think that maybe you have got it wrong.

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I'm livin' in a cage while you are free.

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There may be something to all those words that I bother to take time to listen to.

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If only those gorgeous eyes could see.

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Dream baby, don't you think that your heart's gonna bother with me?

Dream baby, don't you believe in what you see.

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Dance with your fantasies

On the chance that you will wake up tomorrow,

And find that you're in love with me.

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Find that you're in love with me.

Find that you're in love with me.

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I think that maybe you have got it wrong.

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