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LAST TO BE FREE
I tried to be your shield, but I was run through
and I nearly buried myself, trying to unearth you

Got to the poor house, trying to make you rich
Invested all of my time, you didn't return a stitch

and I got inside your walls, trying to find a weak point
You climbed out over me, now I'm stuck in this joint

When I think of everything I did to protect and save you
How I enslaved and lost myself with all the things I gave you

There're two different roads ahead one on which I don't belong
I take one, you take the other, don't know which of them is wrong

and just a few more days now, they come and set us both free
oh! if only it was that easy to get me out of you and you out of me
Manuel Rosa 01-22-2000

Don't Let Me Be Me

I have no sense of purpose nor direction
I live my life with no human connection
I would take the reigns if only I knew
Where I want to go, who I want to be, what I want to do

I've got this selfish streak in my soul
I want not to be controlled and control
I got many anti-social skills I need to hone
to be left behind, be left in peace, be left alone

SO DON'T LET ME BE ME
DON'T LET ME BE ME

I can't find my place in this society
It should be easy with all this variety
No matter what I try I can't fit in
Tell me where to go, what to seek, where to begin

Am I doomed to wonder aimlessly
to flaunt my solitude so shamelessly
don't want to live my life as a hermit
Show me how to feel, how to face it, how to fit

SO DON'T LET ME BE ME
DON'T LET ME BE ME

FOUR DAZE
All alone in the streets of danger
a girl should beware any stranger
there are those you can never trust
cause they only know greed and lust

You’ve heard over and over again
if going out at night always bring a friend
you need eyes in the back of your head
before you realize you could end up dead

FOUR DAYS GONE BY
WHERE WERE YOU? and WHY? WHY? WHY?

You find yourself just barely alive
but there are those who never survive
Glamour isn’t what it’s made up to be
A good time doesn’t always end in glee

You think we all should know better
world’s sick, who knows what’s the matter?
gotta learn to stick with family and friends
they’re the ones to be by you in the end

FOUR DAYS GONE BY
WHERE WERE YOU? and WHY? WHY? WHY?

Typical Man

I should know this story so very well
I have lived it inside my personal hell
Dreams don't come from coins in a wishing well

Every time that things start to look right
I have to remember to turn on the light
for everything is different in black and white

Every time I see that faint flicker of hope
I must remember love is a slippery slope
you can fall in without knowing how to cope

I need to just keep standing my ground
there must be a spot where my love is bound
and sooner or later it's sure to come around

The dreams are so strong, so driven by the past
sometimes you fall too easy, you fall too fast
that falling seems to be the only thing to last

A voice, a look, a connection and a friend
nothing more and nothing less in the end
friends are ok too, but for you I can't pretend

you think I'd sell my dreams to just anyone?
you think I'd fall just because they were fun?
don't you think you make my heart and blood run?

Maybe as you say I am just your typical man
falling for a pretty face like anyone can
but there's nothing typical to the fun we had then!

Let Me Be Good To You

I know the loneliness that you feel
when the whole world seems unreal
and there's no one in which you believe
only now I know the pain inside of you
all the things you're going through
those were things I failed to perceive

I KNOW! YOU THINK YOU KNOW WHO I AM
YOU THINK YOU KNOW MY WHOLE SCAM
YOU THINK I AM ONLY OUT TO HURT YOU
BUT I ONLY WANT TO HELP YOU

I know how tough things can get
how your life gets haunted by regret
How love never ends the way it starts
How the past never leaves you alone
How the lessons not etched in stone
can still be etched deep in our hearts

I KNOW! YOU THINK YOU KNOW WHO I AM
YOU THINK YOU KNOW MY WHOLE SCAM
YOU THINK I AM ONLY OUT TO HURT YOU
BUT I ONLY WANT TO HELP YOU

I have tried so hard not to see
the good angels in front of me
cause I have already been through hell
I know mistakes can be made
I know I've rained on your parade
just allow me, I'll make it well.

I KNOW! YOU THINK YOU KNOW WHO I AM
YOU THINK YOU KNOW MY WHOLE SCAM
YOU THINK I AM ONLY OUT TO HURT YOU
BUT I ONLY WANT TO HELP YOU

A DIFFERENT LIGHT

A different light
shines down on you
right in my sight
I see someone new
The way you are
the way you used to be
they're not so far
and that I can see
A LITTLE FLICKER -- A LITTLE FLAME
A LITTLE QUICKER -- ON THE AIM
A LITTLE BLUE -- A LITTLE BRIGHT
A LITTLE OF YOU -- IN A DIFFERENT LIGHT

A new perception
of things being clearer
a new reflection
on an old mirror
a dose of voodoo
and then suddenly
I'm new to you
you're new to me
A LITTLE FLICKER -- A LITTLE FLAME
A LITTLE QUICKER -- ON THE AIM
A LITTLE BLUE -- A LITTLE BRIGHT
A LITTLE OF YOU -- IN A DIFFERENT LIGHT

Devil In Me

No I don't blame you, I don't hate you for hating me
I have hated myself for time and time again
You are so right and I just have to agree
I must hate my life so, that I try to do others in

But it wasn't always this way if you must know
I had a heart and I even used to have a soul
But I sat and watched the evil around me grow
I felt dark and powerful as I gave over my control

I swore no one else would ever break my heart
I promised no one would ever get the better of me
and I felt so sure that I was really that smart
That the next time I would have a written Guarantee

It certainly wasn't you that deserved the wrath
of the evil thoughts that I had grown accustomed to
It just happened that you came across my path
As the buttons were pushed and the hellfire flew

I know I don't deserve forgiveness or kindness
I deserve exactly what you are giving me today
I know only too well how the anger leads to blindness
I did to you what was done to me exactly the same way

Maybe it's the only way I know to get the pain out
or maybe just a way to feel like I had control again
and I deserve my dry lonely bed, no doubt
but you deserve so much more than loneliness and pain

And I see you in Our room lonely night after night
in an endless search just like the walking dead
you walk in with your sunshine your "BlondeInSouthern" light
you won't believe a thing I say, yet you believe all that I Said

I don't wonder why I feel this need to make you understand
to make you see the goodness behind the bad disguise
It is exactly because I am not the way that you contend
That I must prove it to you or lose myself otherwise

Oh, I am not proud of the way that I made you feel
I wish there was a way to make it up to you somehow
for I know what was made up and what is real
and this here is as real as it gets right now

So you name your price, name your cost
feel free to decide the time and the place
for it's very clear to me that evil has lost
goodness has won and I need to bask in that grace

Dead End Avenue
You Said
You loved him to death
Now we all believe it

Your choice
To silence your voice
But now we all grieve it
JUST ONE MORE BREATH -- AND YOU WOULD SEE
JUST HOW YOUR DEATH -- IS KILLING ME

Silent tears
So young in years
What do you leave behind

A mom a dad
Good friends you had
That you will never find
JUST ONE MORE BREATH -- AND YOU WOULD SEE
JUST HOW YOUR DEATH -- IS KILLING ME

I was here
To help with the fear
I would have stood by you

Till you hit ground
You can always turn around
Suicide is a dead end avenue
JUST ONE MORE BREATH -- AND YOU WOULD SEE
JUST HOW YOUR DEATH -- IS KILLING ME

IMAGINE
I imagine your skin soft as a the petals of a flower
my fingers caress it top to bottom all in between
I smell your sweetness, your passion and your power
and I want to dive into your river and wash myself clean

beads of sweat that quiver as your breasts gently sway
your hot breath begging in my ear to be quenched
there are mountains that move whenever you and I lay
making waterfalls rise up leaving us both drenched

our lips touch like butterfly wings beat the air
our hearts beat in a rhythm that leaves no doubt
and our dreams connect into a reality so rare
I feel so deep into you, that I could never get out
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WAITING

What I want does not matter, what you want does
if what you wanted was love that would be good enough for us

I would take you to heaven nightly
and keep you there for days
I would take your soul and hold it tightly
our souls would be one in many ways

all the gifts that I bring so sweet
of love, kisses and a gentle caress
from the tips of your hair to the soles of your feet
you would be adored as no other princess

and the love that we both make as one
stronger, better, hotter than any other
our passions that burn like the sun
our souls would burn for each other

our dreams would emerge as a bigger dream
that could surpass any yet known to man
and our love would flow as a burning stream
like only love in these dreams can

and when we take, we give ourselves completely
with love we make the skin of our bodies sweat
and our souls touch each other so deeply
every time would be like the first time we met

emotions of love, passion and all those things
that we both say our souls need
they come and go as if they had wings
rarely allowing our souls to feed

and our souls that hunger for action
can only find it in a lost fantasy
the love, lust and complete satisfaction
is a dream so far from our reality

sometimes it all seems lost
and hope seems to have gone away
if I had the chance, whatever the cost
to have TRUE LOVE I would gladly pay

to have that one that fills your soul
with all the joy of love and happiness
to find that heart to have and to hold
and to live a life of passion and gladness

and no mortal could come between us
and no angel could keep heaven away
what I want does not matter, what you want does
the heavens would sing whenever you and I lay

Manuel Rosa 12-15-98

For Brandi (Slick Chick) of the band "Hell's Angels" Seattle, WA.

SENT YOU MY LOVE

We've been miles and miles apart
as the months and months go by
But you're always in my heart
my love for you will never die

we have tried to get together
for time and time again
It seems even the weather
is against us in the end

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AND I SENT YOU ALL MY LOVE, ON VALENTINE'S DAY
IF IT'S MEANT TO BE, IT'LL ALWAYS FIND A WAY

I look up in the skies
and I see the sun shine
oh I can almost see your eyes
clear across the stateline

we have been on our own
far away and way too long
I'm alone and you're alone
but we know where we belong

_________________________________CHORUS
AND I SENT YOU ALL MY LOVE ON VALENTINE'S DAY
IF IT'S MEANT TO BE, IT'LL ALWAYS FIND A WAY

Villains and Heroes

Things can't always be judged
by what you think you can see
for the truth can't be budged
and so neither can reality

I came thinking I knew you
Just to find out I was mistaken
cause I did not have a clue
of the wrong I had undertaken

while I justified my actions
by things you did not understand
I can not condemn your reactions
and I've lost a potential friend

I have lived inside your shoes
and my heart is in such turmoil
for I know you did not choose
to be threading down this soil

I brought you step by step
like a hero brings a villain
into a well planned trap
ready for the final killing

and I feel ever so sad
and my heart hurts for you
for I was the one who was bad
and there's nothing I can undo

maybe I have already gone mad
by all the wrongs done to me
that I can hurt and feel glad
and play a villain with glee

but you? an innocent bystander
an angel in the cyber halls of hell
you were not even a pretender
just a rare honest southern belle

why was that hard for me to believe
had I given up on souls like you existing?
that I was able to my own self deceive
and not feel the knife in my heart twisting

maybe I had just given up hope
of anyone like you ever being real
or maybe I've become such a dope
not to recognize what I crave and feel

or maybe it's just as you say
and I am a big fool in denial
for I have acted in such a way
that I may be going senile

you were a villain, I was sure
so I could not see otherwise
and I was the hero with the cure
safely hiding behind my disguise

I would rape, kill and plunder
cause I only had one goal
I did my best to drag you under
and leave nothing of your soul

But you were not one of them
and I was too blind to tell
in a mountain of coal you were a gem
in the halls where I wish to dwell

so I have to pull off my masks
and never try to play hero again
I've learned there are some tasks
that no one should have to begin

let the chips fall where they fall
cause my fighting is all done
it never was one for all
nor has it been all for one

Have I become so terror struck
to believe everyone has a sinister plan
world's got too many heroes amuck
and I just want to be a man

don't judge a book by it's cover
nor a hero by the mask he wears
judge only after you look things over
if you wish to be honest and fair

I know its too late for redemption
I am a villain in your eyes
you were the one true exemption
that I could not recognize

we all know about hindsight
we all have bridges we've burned
but thanks for setting me right
and for these things I have learned

so that is my lesson for the day
hopefully the one God had for me
cause I can only hope and pray
that I am what he wants me to be

cause the excuses I have are zero
what I did was not justified at all
I was trying so hard to be a hero
that I couldn't see the villain fall

but you with your heart of gold
have managed to pull me through
and helped me see the truth unfold
I was the villain, the hero was you!

Manuel Rosa 9-1-99

TAKE CARE

You can change your location
you can't change your destination
that's why it's called destiny
You can change your perception
and accept less perfection
in what you refuse to see

You can change your work hours
rearrange your pretty flowers
but it all turns out the same
And, as a matter of fact
you can send it all back
it follows you just the same

TAKE CARE OF THE SOUL
THE BODY WILL FOLLOW

You can change your number
change the name you go under
but you're the same in the mirror
You can't hide from you
though sometimes you try to
no one understands you clearer

You can change your hair
change the clothes you wear
and make yourself look smart
You've got lots of love to share
but you better take care
cause you can't change your heart

TAKE CARE OF THE SOUL
THE BODY WILL FOLLOW

One Life To Live

The world is full of addictions
things for the body and mind
it's so full of contradictions
and so many stones to grind

World's full of want and need
of stubborn wills and whims
full of jealousy and greed
spilling over the brims

It's full of hunger and hate
and full of people alone
full of walls with no gate
full of hearts made of stone

Full of love in the moment
that has no chance to last
full of pain and torment
full of lessons of the past

But it's the only one I've got
so I won't bite the hands that give
I am not thankful for a lot
so thanks for a life to live

And thanks for the time to see
these errors of my way
and thanks for staying with me
even when I sent you away

Manuel Rosa, August 1999

Shadow Angel

If you build your dreams around somebody
Make sure that they stand on solid ground
cause if it's a little shaky a little shoddy
sooner or later it will all fall down

and when you plan your fantasy
make sure it's got plenty of truth
and start from a solid reality
if you want it to be any good

when you start working on forever
make sure that you take your time
cause there's always someone clever
ready to commit the perfect crime

when you think the truth's all known
be sure to question it all over again
because even the truth is prone
to change from hand to hand

when you gamble with your fate
it's not a time to take a chance
cause on the floors you now create
later on you have to dance

and when you hand your heart to him
make sure he is just who you think
cause things can sure turn grim
when it all starts to stink

and I can not protect you
it is not my place to do so
I am no angel that is true
but I watch over those I know

so you can sue me for sharing
or you can thank me for trying
but don't condemn me for caring
enough to keep you from crying

Manuel Rosa, August 1999

Baby Blue Butterfly

Baby Blue
Butterfly
I keep you
In the sky

I’m the flower
For your hunger
The power
You fly under

I keep your wings
Safe and sound
I am all things
On the ground

The meadows
Where you feast
The shadows
That give you peace

The sunshine
To warm your wings
The lifeline
For your swings

The moonglow
To your eyes
The rainbow
In your skies

All the space
You transcend
A secure place
For you to land

The destination
You need to find
The equation
For peace of mind

The balance
For your feet
A true chance
You had to meet

I am the dreams
That stay
The seams
That don’t fray

The rope
That won’t untie
The hope
That won’t die

I put the nice
In niceness
I am the spice
In spiciness

The bouquet
Of sweetness
The right way
To completeness

I am a tower
That you scale
The sunflower
You inhale

All the flights
Of fancy
The heights
Of exorbitancy

The compassion
You embrace
The passion
That you chase

The stillness
Of the lake
The fulfillness
For which you ache

The strength
To keep you up
The length
That won’t stop

The voice
Of the songbird
The choice
That’s preferred

As illusive
As we both are
As reclusive
As a star

I am every thing
You’ve never seen
The being
You’ve never been

The romantic kiss
To make you soar
I am all this
And so much more

So far
From where we live
We are
What we give

Manuel Rosa, July 1999

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