SALT FOR SALT LYRICS (click here for The Devil Dancing lyrics)

Fingers To The Bone (lyrics by David Lamb)

I’ve worked my fingers to the bone

not a pretty little penny have I got to show

I ain’t looking for much

just a little bit of rest by the side of the road

I lift my voice to the forces above

the Lords of labor and the Goddess of love

ain’t I been a good, hard working

faithful servant and son

then the sky turns black

and it cracks with a thundering voice

work is what you are when you’re breathing in and out

til your final breath falls to the floor

so swing down that sledgehammer through the wood

a little test of mind over flesh oughtta do you good

get up off the ground

you can lay down when the day is done

and on the seventh day

you can lay in the morning sun

I want to make my home on a mountain high

just me and my lover and the big old sky

I ain’t asking for much

just a little bit of rest before the day that I die

I lift my voice to the forces above

the Lords of labor and the Goddess of love

ain’t i been a good, hard working

faithful servant and son

then the sky turns black

and it cracks with a thundering voice

work is what you are when you’re breathing in and out

til your final breath falls to the floor

so swing down that sledgehammer through the wood

a little test of mind over flesh oughtta do you good

get up off the ground

you can lay down when the day is done

and on the seventh day

you can lay in the morning sun

Chairkickers (lyrics by David Lamb)

We fight til we fall, us chairkickers all

we cling to these coils and curl in a ball

the harbor is teeming with commerce and crime

I own only what owns me

this place ain’t my home but i’m calling it mine

there are cracks in the minds

of our own humankind

that are leaking out poison and hope

which we choose to imbibe

is our own to decide

be it internal life or the ghost

blazes cane lady lively

a trail through tiny downtown

cane baton twirling wildly

mows the mundane all down

will the admiral answer

when Will and I call?

place your bets on the limits

of a beast’s appetite

and the loser buys all

there are cracks in the minds

of our own humankind

that are leaking out poison and hope

which we choose to imbibe

is our own to decide

be it internal life or the ghost

Bilgewater (lyrics by David Lamb)

It don’t matter if the cold wind blows

I’m gonna wind up working in the thick of it

sunshine through the rain and snow

there’s an oily brine bilge water baptism waiting below

that’s just the waves slamming against the topsides’ sound

don’t let the ever rolling motion go and get you down

don’t let it shake your steady thread cutting hand

keep stealing ribbons from the steel and giving hell

to every halyard you can

in spite of all the wherewithal

to fight it all I will face it all

in spite of all the wherewithal

to fight it all I’ll embrace it all

when everyday’s like a war between the will to go on

and a wish that the world would spiral into the sun

turn your head toward the storm that’s surely coming along

if the sun was always shining and our load always light

we’d be shaking like a leaf with every God given night

and we’d break under the weight of any pressure

that was ever applied

will you be ready when the straw boss calls?

he’s got an ever loving bone to pick with one and all

don’t let his condescension get you down

just have the strength to know you’re wrong

and when you’re right the strength to stand your ground

in spite of all the wherewithal

to fight it all I will face it all

in spite of all the wherewithal

to fight it all I’ll embrace it all

when everyday is like a war

you find no strength from your usual source

there’s no peace, there’s no rest

your fortitude is feeling put to the test

when everyday is like a war between the will to go on

and a wish that the world would spiral into the sun

turn your head toward the storm that’s surely coming along

if the sun was always shining and our load always light

we’d be shaking like a leaf with every God given night

and we’d break under the weight

of any pain that ever came in this life

End Of Days (lyrics by MorganEve Swain)

winter caps the rooftops

and shrouds the earth in silence

skadi howls and mourns

and revels in the whiteness

my world is so small

inside our cozy walls

so warm and so threatened by the end of days

the time will surely come

when all is blown undone

but I will still be with you my love

this deafening quiet

may grasp around my chest

but I will pry it’s bony fingers free

silver lines the windows

cobwebs in the corners

of the homes where once human minds did dwell

the earth is thrown asunder

the god’s deafening thunder

sweeps over and crumbles all we knew

the time will sure come

when all is blown undone

but I will still be with you my love

cold may come surround us

death’s hand try to bind us

but I will pry his bony fingers free

the time will surely come

when all is blown undone

but I will still be with you my love

this deafening quiet

may grasp around my chest

but I will pry it’s bony fingers free

Blood of Angels (lyrics by David Lamb)

I can’t make my mood match the weather

I can’t make the weather do what I want

so I’ve resigned myself to pry that big old sun out of the sky

and I will live my days in darkness til I die

I tried to be good I was a failure

so I took to taking all the good men down

it wasn’t hard to do

I just huffed and puffed and blew

until all the two-shoes scattered underground

you could be right

they might come for me at night

in angry mobs with torches bright outside my door

for all my spite

I might never win the fight

but I will rage against the light forever more

I drank the blood of angels from a bottle

just to see if I could call the lightning down

it hasn’t struck me yet

and I would wage my soul to bet

that there ain’t no one throwing lightning anyhow

Too many tries at tempting fate to call it over
and you get to thinking fate's got different plans
like maybe i'm not born to die
but to bring darkness to the sky
and pull that goddamn sun down anyway I can

you could be right

they might come for me at night

in angry mobs with torches bright outside my door

for all my spite

I might never win the fight

but I will rage against the light forever more

and oh the hopelessly tender hearted

tend to sing the loudest of love

but my sweet temptations turn their songs into a lie

I fold the grass over all they’ve started

to never see the light of the sun

as they dwell in darkness so shall I

don’t try to come around here

spreading sentiments of cheer

you told your last white lie

everything is not alright

you hope, you pray

you love the light of day

but there’s no one up there listening tonight

you could be right

they might come for me at night

in angry mobs with torches bright outside my door

for all my spite

I might never win the fight

but I will rage against the light forever more

Ebb & Flow (lyrics by David Lamb)

all I’ve seen for forty nights

ebb and flow

ebb and follow

the waves’ reflection of our lights

ebb and flow

ebb and flow

how small I am in this wide world

ebb and flow

ebb and follow

how a mind can come unfurled

ebb and flow

ebb and flow

if I should die out here at sea

ebb and flow

ebb and follow

would anyone be mourning me?

ebb and flow

ebb and flow

or would I leave this world unknown?

ebb and flow

ebb and follow

salt for salt and bone for bone

ebb and flow

ebb and flow

Come My Way (lyrics by David Lamb)

this mask of laughter’s your true self’s disguise

if it fools your God then your God has no eyes

your costume can’t cover what your eyes expose

you’ve left all your wretchedness closed

the more you ignore the more pain that you feel

the air is thick with the thoughts you conceal

the whole world’s undressing in front of your eyes

as you add to your senseless disguise

come my way and hurry along

I’ll take you soaring with the angels and gods

leave your prison chains on the wall

you’ll live forever and you’ll never fall

first you writhe with the worries there under your skin

then you’re paralyzed by the silence within

though your nightmares may drown in your pools of denial

they seep out ‘tween your teeth with each smile

come my way and hurry along

I’ll take you soaring with the angels and gods

leave your prison chains on the wall

you’ll live forever and you’ll never fall

Thunder & Lightning (lyrics by David Lamb)

I heard the thunder and lightning

struck by your tower today

and though the world wasn’t frightened

you sent the whole world away

and now you cower there alone in your tower of tears

every step and every stone filled with millions of fears

your poison blood and brittle bones

start to clutter and crack

beneath your hell of a home

cut down by the cruel and the crass fold

catch hell from the mighty and high

ain’t nowhere left for the good to go

no truth in a world full of lies

our unforgiving fettered foes fumbling stumble around

gather all their greed to go back to their hole in the ground

to wash their hands of all the blood begged borrowed and stole

to keep a good man down

shake the hands of holy ghosts

dance along an ivory coast

share your flesh with passing shadows

on a bed of broken hopes

be sure to breath in deeply every bit of sin

that your lungs can hold

welcome all your bastard actions back home

why do we cry cry our eyes out

in them low lowly graves

mourning all the times

we would’ve could’ve should’ve had our way

we were hard hearted heathens

to their soul saving saints

spilling blood in the same God’s holy name

we were the heathens to their saints

spilling blood in the same God’s holy name

shake the hands of holy ghosts

dance along an ivory coast

share your flesh with passing shadows

on a bed of broken hopes

be sure to breath in deeply every bit of sin

that your lungs can hold

welcome all your bastard actions back home

Nothing Left (lyrics by David Lamb)

there’s nothing left of this day

there’s nothing left of this town

our time has ceased with such sorrow

there’s no one left here to mourn

there’s nothing left of this day

outside there cry wolves in the night

dark with their howls all around

we’ll just lie here clothed in our sheepskin

trying to pretend there’s no harm

it’s a cold twist confined

to the courage of a catalytic heart and mind

over God’s cry and goat’s god’s goodbye

and I am bloodying the garment

of a ghost inside

making damn sure the body doesn’t die

Cast No Shadow (lyrics by David Lamb)

I woke up

despite my head

to see the trail I blazed last night with the words I said

still she laid there in the charred and smoking wake of fears I fed

then she got up

to look around

muttered words I’d never heard a human sound

then from her hair grew forty serpents

from her eyes a fiery shroud

from her mouth came forty voices and I heard them cry aloud...

I tried my best

to calm her down

there wasn’t any of her left but evil now

I cast a spell, a stone, a tranquilizing needle and a prayer

she grabbed me by the bones and shook my flesh and said I swear

the sun won’t cast no shadow anymore

the willows never weep

and the wind will never moan

now she is gone

I don’t know how

not even sure just where it is I am right now

there’s only darkness and the absence of any air that I can breath

I could’ve sworn that I was warned but how could anyone believe

the sun won’t cast no shadow anymore

the willows never weep

and the wind will never moan