NUMBERS HAVE THEIR WAY
by R.M. Isaiah
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Master And Margarita
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An Invisible Hand
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Before I Die
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War And Peace
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Friends Like Mine
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Siren Song
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Phantoms In The Rain
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Your Vacant Eyes
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You Always Prayed
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A Man Is Not A Drum
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Typhoid Mary
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The First And The Last
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Upon My Soul
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2010 High Witness Recording Co.
San Francisco, CA
San Francisco, CA
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released 15 June 2010
All songs by R.M. Isaiah.
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- Track Name: All Alone
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Darling don’t be scared
Come lie down by the fire
You got nothing to fear
We’re all alone out here
You know you’re safe with me
Chorus
I won’t let no one do you harm
I’ll never take my eyes off you
I will keep you safe and sound
You’ll be just fine as long as I’m around
So have another drink
Try to close your eyes
You’re gonna need your strength
We’re leaving in the morning
Babe you’re safe with me
Chorus
I won’t let no one do you harm
I’ll never take my eyes off you
I will keep you safe and sound
You’ll be just fine as long as I’m around
Babe you’re safe with me
Babe you’re safe with me
Darling don’t be scared
Come lie down by the fire
You got nothing to fear
We’re all alone out here - Track Name: The Fourth Estate
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Don’t dismiss the fourth estate
Numbers have their way
Call me Manichean
God loves me just the same
They say the end is near
The end is here
No man can tell you when the world will end
Man don’t have no master plan
Best watch who you believe in
Understand the upper hand’s been
Known to be deceiving
They say the end is near
The end is here
No man can tell you when the world will end
I don’t care what you believe
Inside we’re all the same
Ain’t no getting even
In the end we’re all to blame
They say the end is here, the end is here
They say the end is near, the end is here
No man can tell you when the world will end
No man can tell you when the world will end
Since the day man learned to speak
It’s endless times been said
The end is here, the end is near
How many thousand years?
The end is near, the end is here
How many thousand years?
No man can tell you when the world will end
No man can tell you when the world will end
No man can tell you when the world will end
No one knows when it’ll end - Track Name: Master And Margarita
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Hope I can drink myself to sleep
Before the sun it gets to rising
I beg the Lord my soul to keep
Every time I close my eyes
Nobody I know is a wise man
I’m pawning my collection of friends
Ain’t no use in saying what we believe in
Cause nowadays the war never ends (2x)
Chorus
I’m your master you’re my margarita
You know I got the heart of a dog
I laugh at every other disaster
That man and god they send my way
Whatever man and god may send my way
The one thing you can always depend on
Trouble waits around the bend
The more defenseless that they can descend on
Is the less time that they have to spend
Somebody wake me up if I am still sleeping
Go on and call me terrible names
They’ll shear the sheep and use ‘em for kindling
Cause it’s hard to start a fire in the rain (2x)
Chorus
You ask me about my trip to the labyrinths
An I can’t think of nothing to say
Like you , I think They’re magically tragic
In their own Mephistophelian way (2x)
Chorus (2x) - Track Name: An Invisible Hand
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I am that I am
Forget where I’m from
Been changing my name
For hundreds of years
I come and I go
I do as I please
An I can bring kings and queens
To their knees
Chorus
I got a skeleton key
And an invisible hand
And you got the supply
That I demand
I am the disease
An I got your cure
I’m behind both sides
Of the war
Some say I’m to blame
But I got no shame
And I will defend
My means to the end
Chorus/solo/Chorus
I knew who you were
Before you were born
I know where you go
I know what you do
I’m here and I’m gone
Whatever I please
An I can bring kings and queens
To their knees
Chorus - Track Name: Before I Die
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You know it’s true
You are right, I am wrong
What are you gonna do?
You know that I, I’ll go along with you
As long as you want me to
For as long as you want me, too
Chorus:
I know I gave you a rocky ride
But even if we fail, I’m glad (at least) we tried
If I ever see you with another,
I’ll try an treat him like a brother
And wait to walk away before I die
I’ll wait to walk away before I die
We were so young
We had the good, we had the bad
After everything we’ve been through,
Your mind and mine will always be entwined
Don’t wanna be the one to drag you down
I don’t wanna be the one who drug you down
Chorus/Solo
I was a fool
To think my hollow heart could do enough for you
You could’ve done much better than me
Your family and all your friends agree
But you’re the only one I’ve ever loved
You’re the only one I will ever love
Chorus (2x - Track Name: War And Peace
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War and peace by any name
All this killing is a crying shame
Makes me sick to see all these casualties
We live our lives from day to day
We all pray evil never comes our way
No one wants to die before their time
Chorus
Now war is peace and peace is war
It’s like we’re stuck in 1984
Rich and poor, the great divide
If wishes were horses
Every beggar would ride
Rich man and the poor, they all need more
Chorus
Now war is peace and peace is war
It’s like we’re stuck in 1984
Liberty is in demand
Got the poppy fields all bloomin’
In the promised land
Send soldiers to defend their heroin
The pirate’s land,their flag is flown
Half the presidential candidates
Are skull and bones
Anyone we choose, we’re bound to lose
Chorus
Now war is peace and peace is war
It’s like we’re stuck in 1984 (2x)
Bilderbergs, they build a wall
Revelation says that Babylon, is bound to fall
All you say and do
It comes back to you
And every right they take away
Is a battle that our children
Have to fight someday
When they ask you why, what will you say?
Chorus
Now war is peace and peace is war
It’s like we’re stuck in 1984 (2x) - Track Name: Friends Like Mine
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It’s time to shine my devices
Before I put on my Sunday best
Cause every moment is priceless
And every movement is planned beforehand
Chorus
Ain’t no need for any enemies
If you got friends like mine
Friends like mine
Somebody’s out to get me
I think I’ll hide or even run
Somebody’s coming to get me
And I don’t know who it is or what I’ve done
I can feel ‘em creeping up from behind me
They’re never gonna stop till’ they find me
Chorus
Ain’t no need for any enemies
If you got friends like mine
Friends like mine
Solo/Chorus
I can feel ‘em creeping up from behind me
They’re never gonna stop till’ they find me
Chorus
Ain’t no need for any enemies
If you got friends like mine
Friend like mine
It’s time to update the shitlist
Put a big X next to every name
I got a never forget list
I call the adversary hall of fame
Some of my enemy’s enemies
Are my enemies too
In my memories some of my enemies
Were once friends like you
Friends like you - Track Name: Siren Song
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Dark clouds all around
Cannot hear the siren song
My sweet Lorelei
She’s singing from the shore
Chorus
We got lost at sea
Some say we been out here
For several years
Seems like a lifetime
You killed your albatross
And now we’ll all have to pay the cost
With this curse of thirst
I think I hear a siren song
I think I hear a siren song
Solo
Dead souls all around
Cannot hear the siren song
Chorus
We got lost at sea
They say we disappeared
For several years
Felt like a lifetime
Now I hear the siren song
Now I hear the siren song
Chorus
We got lost at sea
Some say we disappeared
For several years
Felt like a lifetime
Felt like a lifetime
Felt like a lifetime
Felt like a lifetime - Track Name: Phantoms In The Rain
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You don’t seem the same
Ever since you saw
What you still hesitate to say
Seven days you’ve had no sleep
I all seems like a dream
Apparitions, haunted visions,
Sounds you cannot explain
Flashing lights on foggy nights
And phantoms in the rain
Phantoms in the rain
Phantoms in the rain
Phantoms in the rain
Phantoms in the rain
You’re not the only one
Many more have seen their share
And fear can fan the flame
Everything is everywhere
They’re called by many names
Apparitions, haunted visions,
Sounds you cannot explain
Flashing lights on foggy nights
And phantoms in the rain
Phantoms in the rain
Phantoms in the rain
Phantoms in the rain
Phantoms in the rain - Track Name: Your Vacant Eyes
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Life takes its course
And time takes its toll
I found myself
In the depths of a hole
Half the size of your two vacant eyes
I remember you now
Before I got lost
When you were half the size of your two distant eyes
Chorus
There’s always angels all around
That we don’t see
Most folks they don’t know till they hit the ground
What to believe
We all make mistakes
And learn from the cost
The chances we take
The coins that we toss
Well they were half the size of your two hollow eyes
Half the size of your two hollow eyes
Chorus/Solo
I got to the top
The top of the pile
I can count on the stars
To see where we are
And they were half the size of your two empty eyes
I remember you now
And I always will
When you were half the size of your forsaken eyes
Chorus (1.5)
Life takes its course
And time takes its toll - Track Name: You Always Prayed
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They’re outside scalping tickets to my funeral
They stand in line to watch me waste away
I come straight from my deathbed to this masquerade
Cause as we know the show it must go on
Chorus
I’ve hidden you a message in my epitaph
To tell you all the things I could not say
Behind your Valentine you’ll find a photograph
The evidence for which you always prayed
The evidence for which you always prayed
Solo
I give levitation lessons on the bright green white house lawn
Every Tuesday morning without fail
They lock me up on every other holiday
To celebrate the days when I’ll be gone
Chorus
I’ve hidden you a message in my epitaph
To tell you all the things I could not say
Behind your Valentine you’ll find a photograph
The evidence for which you always prayed
The evidence for which you always prayed - Track Name: A Man Is Not A Drum
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Skin stretched thin, across my bones
I’ve taken all the sticks and stones
Build me up, break me down
Ride your throne, into the ground
You can hit me until your hands go numb
Still a man is not a drum
Chorus
A man is not a drum
Roll me down your steepest hill
Watch me fall, get your thrill
Send me back where I came from
I’m a man, not a drum
Chorus
A man is not a drum
Solo
March me out in your parade
Talk of all the paths you paved
I don’t like what I’ve become
But I’m a man, not a drum
Chorus
A man is not a drum
A man is not a drum - Track Name: Typhoid Mary
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I was walking down the primrose path
On my way through the lotus land
Selling medicine to passers by
I met a woman with the dead man’s hand
July will die by midnight
I been gone since June
The good Lord casts his shadow
Sunlight hits the moon
Chorus
It’s like choking on broken glass
No use lying to a dying man
Word’s been spreading like contagious disease
Storms are forming in the gentle breeze
Smells like Mary got potatoes on
Thunder’s coming like a marathon
The sky’ll cry by midnight
I been dry since noon
The good Lord casts his shadow
The devil steals the moon
Chorus
It’s like choking on broken glass
No use crying for a dying man
Typhoid Mary she’s my next of kin
Someday we’re gonna get together again
Solo/Chorus - Track Name: The First And The Last
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Nevermind the things that I was dumb enough to tell you
Put aside things that I was drunk enough to say
Put my letters in a pile, and set ‘em all on fire
Say that I had a thruthless tongue, and I lie to everyone
Chorus
You’re the first to second guess me in the morning
The last to disagree with me every night
But hands were made for more than keeping score
I tried to say goodbye so many times
Nevermind the songs that I, I ever wrote about you
Put aside times that I, I ever made you cry
Put my paintings in a pile, and set ‘em all on fire
Say that I had a lazy eye, and every picture tells a lie
Chorus
You’re the first to second guess me in the morning
The last to disagree with me every night
But hands were made for more than slamming doors
I tried to say goodbye so many times
Solo
Nevermind things that I, I never knew to give you
Put aside the doltish shit, I was drunk enough to do
Put my books into a pile, and set ‘em all on fire
Say that I had a shallow mind, and all I did was drink your wine
Chorus (2x)
You’re the first to second guess me in the morning
The last to disagree with me every night
But hands were made for more than keeping score
I tried to say goodbye so many times - Track Name: Upon My Soul
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My old friend said
I’m a dead man
They’ll track me down
Then they’ll hang me high
Yesterday they accused me
Of something that I
Would never think to try
Chorus
So they say
They gonna hang me high
Upon my soul
They’ll never take me alive
So they say
They gonna hang me high
Upon my soul
They’ll never take me alive
Saw my face on the front page
They got a big reward
To tell ‘em where I am
Now everyone’s a vigilante
But me, I got my, got my places to hide
Chorus
Solo
Old friend said
I’m a a dead man
I should’ve known right then
He would turn me in
Chorus (2x) - Track Name: All Alone (Quarksound remix)
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Darling don’t be scared
Come lie down by the fire
You got nothing to fear
We’re all alone out here
You know you’re safe with me
Chorus
I won’t let no one do you harm
I’ll never take my eyes off you
I will keep you safe and sound
You’ll be just fine as long as I’m around
So have another drink
Try to close your eyes
You’re gonna need your strength
We’re leaving in the morning
Babe you’re safe with me
Chorus
I won’t let no one do you harm
I’ll never take my eyes off you
I will keep you safe and sound
You’ll be just fine as long as I’m around
Babe you’re safe with me
Babe you’re safe with me
Darling don’t be scared
Come lie down by the fire
You got nothing to fear
We’re all alone out here
