HAIL MARY

What really lies At the heart of a memory The power of one Moment in time When I had your love It felt like winning But I’ve paid the price with my peace of mind

CHORUS: Don’t you find it strange I still wonder why After all this time Not a day goes by That my heart doesn’t wonder if it’s still worth a try Worth one more Hail Mary But you don’t really know about such things, now do you Does the sound of my voice still carry Any kind of message still important to you Or should I just let it die baby, Should I just let it die baby Why can’t I just let it lie baby

I think of a time When it came easy Lost in exchange For the wisdom of tears Saddest of fools clutching to vapor Reaching for something That’s no longer here

CHORUS: 2x Don’t you think it strange I still wonder why After all this time Not a day goes by That my heart doesn’t wonder if it’s still worth a try One more Hail Mary But you don’t really know about such things, now do you Does the sound of my voice still carry Any kind of memory that’s still precious to you

Oh, baby one more Hail Mary Maybe you don’t care about such things,now do you Does the sound of my voice still carry Any kind of message important to you Should I just let it die baby, Should I just let it die baby Why can’t I just let it lie baby

Words and Music by: Michael McDonald Genevieve Music ASCAP, Adm by Wixen Music Publishing

JUST STRONG ENOUGH Used to think I wore myself out on you Trying to measure up Now I know I just grew tired of forgiving you, baby For not loving me enough

Now I realize it’s in my nature To want to hold on to what I thought it was Just as long as I’m still just strong enough

I never had the sense to surrender Or the grace to walk away Always hoping against all hope You’d have a change of heart someday

Oh, but ain’t it only human nature To want to love and be loved Just as long as I’m still just strong enough

Though you’re my greatest weakness I keep carrying that weight I keep looking for completeness, baby I tell myself it’s not too late Not as long as I’m still just strong enough

With a heart that still remembers And a love that won’t give up No, not as long as I’m still just strong enough

Though you’re my strongest weakness I keep carrying that weight

I keep looking for completeness, baby I tell myself it’s not too late Oh no, not as long as I’m still strong enough

Words and Music by: Michael McDonald / Gary Nicholson Genevieve Music ASCAP, Adm by Wixen Music Publishing Sony/ATV Cross Keys Publishing / Gary Nicholson Music ASCAP, Adm by Sony/ATV

FIND IT IN YOUR HEART

When desire moves from head to heart You may lose the luxury To have your fun and play it smart Take your pleasure and still be free Oh, the loneliness at the end of every dream Don’t you know that there’s more to this Let go of all your reasons And find something to believe

CHORUS: You gotta find it in your heart You’ll only find it in your heart Love’s the truth that sets us free You’ll only find it in your heart

Now you found someone who cares You got your life all figured out But the truth is you’re not really there ‘Till you give in beyond a doubt

Let go of your fantasies And start looking for something real Your best thinking is what got you here Illusion will be shattered by the truth that love reveals

CHORUS: You better find it in your heart You’ll only find it in your heart Love’s the key that sets us free Oh girl, get out of your head

Let go of your fantasies And start looking for something real Your best thinking is what got you here Illusion will be shattered by the truth that love reveals

You better find it in your heart You gotta find it in your heart Love will never be the same Oh girl, get out of your head

BRIDGE: You may think it’s a matter of choice But there’s only one answer, only one voice

REPEAT CHORUS 3x (alt. lines)

Words and Music by: Michael McDonald /John Goodwin Genevieve Music ASCAP, Adm by Wixen Music Publishing /Queen’s Knight Music BMI, Adm by BMG Rights Management US, LLC

HALF TRUTH

Never promised me forever It’s left to me to wonder why Never said you were leaving either Never even said goodbye

So why should I lie awake Like it’s my own damn fault I try to find one good reason To feel like a victim at all

CHORUS: It’s just one of those times When a half truth Becomes a whole lie

Whether you lied to me Or I’m just lying to myself I just can't keep drinkin’ that poison Hopin’ to kill somebody else

Whether it’s you or me baby I see it all turns out the same No matter who’s at fault It don’t matter who you blame

REPEAT CHORUS

So why should I lie awake Like it’s my own damn fault Just trying to blame somebody Or feel like a victim at all

REPEAT CHORUS

Words and Music by: Michael McDonald / Grady Walker / Dylan McDonald Genevieve Music ASCAP / McWalker Music ASCAP / Hibernian Metropolis Music BMI, Adm by Wixen Music Publishing

AIN’T NO GOOD Just as the stars we gaze upon died long ago The echo of this love still lingers on You can’t hide from something that your heart already knows When the love that kept you honest is long gone

You’re on your knees and you got no prayer Cause when you cry out, but there’s no one there

CHORUS: Cause it ain’t no good No, it ain’t no good

Lost between the battle and the white flags of truce Haunted by the memories you’re not willing to cut loose You call it love, but baby I got my doubts I ain’t looking for the key to heaven Just open the gates to hell enough to let me out

REPEAT CHORUS:

Anything worth keeping has long been destroyed It ain’t even better than nothing at this point.

You call it love, but baby I got my doubts I ain’t looking for heaven Just open the gates of hell enough to let me out

REPEAT CHORUS 4x

Words and Music by: Michael McDonald /John Goodwin Genevieve Music ASCAP, Adm by Wixen Music Publishing / Queen’s Knight Music BMI, Adm by BMG Rights Management US, LLC

HONEST EMOTION

I know that there is more to life Than this little piece that I've broken off and keep suspended Safe behind these four walls

But have I just blocked out the sky That fills that old river with pure water Of love stronger than pride

CHORUS: Honest emotion

So hard to come by Once it hurts you enough to last a lifetime With honest emotion Would honest emotion even know me if I walk through this door

I'm a skater on the lake of love Always gliding on the surface of deeper feelings But never falling through

On my blades of flash and steel Between the sky and deep blue clear crystal Waters of pure love

REPEAT CHORUS

I have wings on my shoulders I never thought to use them And these shadows in my heart I never thought I'd lose them

REPEAT CHORUS

Words & Music by: Michael McDonald / John Goodwin / Charles Frichtel Genevieve Music ASCAP, Adm by Wixen Music Publishing / Queen Knight’s Music BMI, Adm by BMG Rights Management US, LLC/ Chazmanian Music/SESAC

BLESSING IN DISGUISE

It’s times like this Staring out my window Only left to wonder What’s the use in it If reality can change With every peak and valley There’s no use regretting Some road I didn't take

All I know…. I’ve got to find the good in this All I want…...is what I need to learn

The heart is like a circle Always reaching out Hoping to return With a faith held fast The thrill or fear of a moment That can burn me today Like a shard of sunlight piercing The shadows of my past

All I know….. I’ve got to find the good in this All I want…... is right before my eyes I know I’ll find…. somewhere in this perfect mess Time will show… a blessing in disguise

Someday I’ll look back on these moments All the times I walked through my fears Only by the truth was I delivered

All I know…..I’ve got to find the good in this All I want….. is right before my eyes The highs and lows can only point to in between But time will show a blessing in disguise

Words and Music by: Michael McDonald/John Peppard/ Beth Nielsen Chapman/Bernie Chiaravalle Genevieve Music ASCAP, Adm by Wixen Music Publishing / Jolipep Music BMI, Adm by Rio Bravo Management, Inc BMI / Songs of Prismlight Music (PRS – Worldwide ex. USA and Canada, SESAC – USA and Canada), c/oKaren Schauben Publishing / Bernoit Music ASCAP, Adm by Wixen Music Publishing

DARK SIDE

On this question of love and trust I used to think us much too serious That was long before I lay drowning in the thought of you Heart to the flame is an easy throw So much more than first we know Since you have to lose all you have to give to learn the truth

CHORUS: Some things we learn come easy Then there’s the things that don’t We’re bound to learn the hard way Love has no pride We all know love is blind And we see what we want We find out all too soon Love has a dark side

You learn to give up to let go A heart can always find it’s way back home But now you’re different Cause you’ve been there And now you know

CHORUS: 2X

Some things we learn come easy Then there’s the things that don’t How we love to learn the hard way Love has no pride We all know love is blind And we see what we want We find out all too soon Love has a dark side

Sometimes we see it coming Sometimes we don’t If there’s time to walk away We just let it ride We finally reach the point of no turning back You bet you’re silver lining Love has a dark side

BRIDGE: Just beyond Eden’s gate Lies the dark and frozen waste Somehow we‘re bound to cross the range of feel It takes one to make the other seem real No, No, Baby

CHORUS: 2x Some things we learn come easy Then there’s the things that don’t We love to learn the hard way Love has no pride We all know love is blind We only see what we want You’re bound to learn somehow Love has a dark side

Sometimes we see it coming Sometimes we don’t While there’s time to walk away We just let it ride We finally reach the point of no turning back You’re bound to walk the line Love has a dark side

Words and Music by: Michael McDonald Genevieve Music ASCAP, Adm by Wixen Music Publishing

IF YOU WANTED TO HURT ME

I’ve been waiting for you all my life Only to hear you tell me that you couldn’t be mine How we both lose and we pay the price You make it sound to me that you’re crucified Now my fleeting joy Grows so dim As you turn away and run to him

CHORUS: Makes me wonder what you mean when you say, you’d stay If you only could That you must break my heart For my own good Makes me wonder how you’d treat me, baby If you wanted to hurt me

No matter how I try I may never find A single ray of hope in all your lies So I live in fear, my share of doubt You’re just another heartache and there’s no way out

Now my hope grows so dim As you turn away and run to him

CHORUS: 2X So once more tell me How you must be cruel to be kind For all your good intentions With me in mind Makes me wonder how you’d treat me, baby If you really wanted to hurt me

So you say you’d stay if you could But you must break my heart For my own good Makes me wonder how you’d treat me, baby If you wanted to hurt me

If you really wanted to hurt me, baby You’re doing just fine For all your good intentions With me in mind You make me wonder How you’d treat me baby If you wanted to hurt me

Words and Music by: Michael McDonald / Peter Leinheiser Genevieve Music ASCAP, Adm by Wixen Music Publishing Meheiser Music ASCAP, Adm by Wixen Music Publishing

BEAUTIFUL CHILD

You learn soon enough If you don’t know by now When you’re talking to my face I’m not really here I’m already down the road with my expectations Wrestling with regret Somewhere back there Yes, I am baby

When you cross that line And you lose yourself There may be no turning back Cause illusion fades And what you’re looking for May be no more than that

CHORUS: Beautiful child Someday you’ll give anything To live in a moment Live with what you’ve got You can search this world over And still be a prisoner in a cage Once you’ve forgotten what it feels like You’ll find it on the inside

Not so much by virtue That we come to know the truth Still we must be careful not to let it slip away Feel free to take what you need from me Learn from my mistakes

From the things We stand to lose Once we turn our backs Of the truth Don’t be afraid cause it ain’t no more than that

REPEAT CHORUS 2x

(Grateful for what you’ve got) last chorus

Words and Music by: Michael McDonald / Chuck Sabatino / Bernie Chiaravalle Genevieve Music ASCAP, Adm by Wixen Music Publishing / Chasba Publishing ASCAP, c/o Karen Schauben Publishing / Bernoit Music ASCAP, Adm by Wixen Music Publishing

TOO SHORT

I met a girl that lived in Blue Hill

She said her name was Beverly She had a smile that’d make a man’s heart melt One gold tooth she could not hide from me (I said girl) It breaks my heart to wonder Why every night you walk these streets alone Why you sell your body in the shadows One thing I just need to know Where do you keep your heart and soul

(She told me) This Life is too short to give up (Repeat 3x)

Away at school he reads her letters How he’s his momma’s pride and joy But like the fate of many others The virus takes his mother And a father’s drunken silence Leaves a lost and wayward boy Souls that for all the best intentions Are just another sad tale this cruel world will tell Where the best intentions are good for nothing more Than to pave a road to hell Save for a quiet voice Like a faint and distant bell

(Saying) This Life is too short to give up (She told him) This Life is too short to give up

Tattooed arms Clutching a weathered bible From a prison cell they put him on the street To bring his message of revival To every lost and lonely soul Every broken heart he meets On every crowded street corner In the gutters of defeat

(He tells them) This Life is too short to give up There is a light that shines for us…and one everlasting love (that lifts us up) (and so) This Life is too short to give up

Words and Music by: Michael McDonald / Russ Bono Genevieve Music ASCAP, Adm by Wixen Music Publishing Russ Bono Music ASCAP, Adm by Russ Bono

FREE A MAN

Say what you want about the gays

The one thing that they are not, is afraid You thought you had ’em down You thought you had ‘em beat Then there’s thirty thousand righteous dudes Marching down the street We may not all agree on sex But we all agree on love

CHORUS: Free A Man And love will follow Free A Man And love will follow Free A Man And love will follow

For the sake of perspective we look back What it’s meant in this country to be black You thought you had ‘em beat You thought you’d keep ‘em down But you only fanned the flames That burned your castle to the ground

When you employ the tactics of hate You’ve already lost the war on principle

(You’ve got to) REPEAT CHORUS

There’s a newly sung song going down Religion has not failed man No, it’s the other way around

When your purse is empty but your heart is full There’s a different direction that your heart is pulled No more fool or money’s clown When history makes the man Not the other way around

The soul takes its hearty form From the inner storm No doubt in attempt to quell Self-will unbounded Let the soul imagine the man Not the other way around

Say what you want about the kids But ain’t they only doing what we did You clamp ‘em when they’re young Or freeze ‘em when they’re teens

Teach ‘em commerce and religion are the reason, rhyme, and means But when the same fears bring ‘em to the brink They’ll be looking for a different way to think

REPEAT CHORUS

Words & Music by: Richard Stekol BMI Lifer Publishing BMI