Meet Your Maker © 1999 Belkora & Chávez…I'm not from here, I'm from a small town / But I've traveled all around / People everywhere are feeling lost / Let me tell you what I've found / The maker is me, the maker is you / the maker's the sun in a sky so blue / the maker is space, the maker is sound / the maker's around to be found when you're down / Chorus: Every single hour, every single day / Be prepared to meet your maker / People ask me what's the point? / of waking up every morning / Life is short and then we die / Rage, rage into the light / You die in your dreams, you die up on stage / You die in the arms of the one that you love / You die when you're old, you die when you're young / You die on the day that your first child is born / Chorus / I live in fear but I roll the dice / I will not be paralyzed / There's a certain thrill in facing death / invite yourself or be the guest / Are we born to fight, are we born to lose? / are we born to run or can we choose? / Are we born to live, are we born to die? / are we born to prepare ourselves for the afterlife? / Chorus
If (Hold On) © 2000 Belkora (arrangement of Kipling) & Chávez…If you can keep your head when all about you / Are losing theirs and blaming it on you / If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you, / But make allowance for their doubting too; / If you can wait and not be tired by waiting, / Or, being lied about, don't deal in lies, / Or, being hated, don't give way to hating, / And yet don't look too good, nor talk too wise; / If you can dream – and not make dreams your master; / If you can think – and not make thoughts your aim; / If you can meet with triumph and disaster / And treat those two imposters just the same; / Chorus: / If I could still see you (Hold on!) / If I could still hear you (Hold hold on) / If I could still touch you (Hold on) / If I could still reach you (Hold hold on) / If you can make one heap of all your winnings / And risk it on one turn of pitch-and-toss, / And lose, and start again at your beginnings / and never breathe a word about your loss; / If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew / To serve your turn long after they are gone, / and so hold on when there is nothing in you / Except the Will which says to them: “Hold on"; / If you can fill the unforgiving minute / With sixty seconds' worth of distance run – / Yours is the Earth and everything that's in it, / And – which is more – you'll be a Man, my son! /
Star Light, Star Bright © 1999 Belkora & Chavez…Objectification / deminimization / I lick and stick a stamp in quick intimidation / with a lovesick pain / you try first to ignore me / rain trickles in your brain it's wet even with your clothes on / times they are a changing and me I'm just a bygone / For me each and every day / is over at the midnight hour / the sky is clear when the lights go out / at the stroke of 12 I lie awake / In the space between day and sleep / I explore many other worlds / I try to find one that I can keep / one where I could just be normal / (Ref) / Look in the mirror / at my new shape / I wish I may / I wish I might / Have the wish I / wish tonight / What if I was square / more or less exactly average / right at the median / of bell-shaped curve dimensions? / Then would I be happy / with my glass half full at last? / Or would it feel empty / knowing I had no way out to flow? / (Ref) / Bridge: / Average weight, average height / Average cheeks, average thighs / Normal nose, normal chest / Normal feet, normal hair / Perfectly Normal / Ideally Formal / Star Light, Star Bright
I Know © 1999 Belkora & Chávez…You said you wanted something light and free / But when I tried "to be or not to be" / The way I read my lines was out of touch / With your direction cast from high above…Go back, regroup, move on, be true / Try again I just can't get it right / Let's quit, let's shoot, take one, take two / It's not your fault I'm just not on tonight…Chorus: / I know you tried to love me ever since we met / I know you long to leave me even though you can't / I know your heart is beating for another start / I know cause I can feel it racing in the dark…So when a farmer has to shoot his horse / Does he put it off out of remorse? / Or does he walk up in the plain daylight / And pull the trigger when the eyes go white?…Face me, hold still, don't fight, be real / Stop pretending we can work it out / Moving target so hard to hit / I believe we can do more than this…And when I'm in the ring and sound the bell / you throw in the towel and break the spell / To your surprise you like me better then / If you don't fight perhaps we both shall win. Rap: how high can you fly / you flew it / how low can you blow / you blew it / hope is / over / rated / now / crawl back to the gutter and I'll flush you downtown / how much can you tease / well I think you just got tossed / how long was your leash / well I think you just got lost / hope is / over / rated / now / take a rain check and get off of my cloud.
Scared of love © 1999 Belkora & Chavez…I will not talk / no matter what you do / Why don't you write / What you want me to say / You write, I'll sign / Are you happy ? / Words don’t / Change much / when you're lying…Chain my legs / Cuff my hands / You don’t scare me / Scared of love…Shave my head / Strap me down / You don’t scare me / Scared of love…You know I don't trust you / Got to hide my core / When I'm exposed / Someone drills a hole / What’s a core / Full of holes? / Riddled…I know / This trick / You like to play / Open your arms / Say you’ll set me free / Good cop / Bad cop / I see through you / Your act / Won't play / From this angle…Am I the one / You will burn? / You don’t scare me / Scared of love…Once again / Silence wins / You don’t scare me / Scared of love
Love Shows the Way © 1999 Belkora & Chávez…I never noticed the wood before / At this table where our lives get poured / Into glasses raised up and down / Every time I'm back in town…But now I'm hearing that she quit on you / You were the couple that could, this just can't be true / I look down at the knots and notches buffed to shine / I see your lonely eyes looking back at mine…I think I'm falling real hard now / It's plain I'm slipping by the hour / I don't know why I like this rollercoaster ride / Love goes / but love shows the way…I am still reeling from the blows / Cut me out but I won't let go / Of the roots that you two laid down / Out of sight and underground…I don't know how you can live without her love / But like a tree you drink from below and get light from above / I'm so grateful that you can bend and not break / I stand in awe of your love and amazed by your grace..Love goes / But love shows the way…The dark pine / A mix of blood and lines / Seen through a glass of wine / Another time
Round © 1999 Chávez…When I was young, I used to pray / Seeking grace somehow I knew I’d never find / There’s such a thing as grace you see / But I don’t think I’d know a saint if he were here with me / And so I just carry on / It’s all I can do… When all my life is just a gray memory / A blur of faded plans and reckless nights / It’s then I know I don’t belong / My God, I’m not so strong / But somehow / Something there inside me / It’s all around it makes the world go round… I fight it off this looming grayness / Always there this pain I can’t identify / My faith of old eludes me now / Maybe I’m a fool but I refuse to see how / to kneel and believe again / In something so confused… If you are able / Refute me now / I’m made from the same clay as you / If God speaks and I can’t hear him call / Will I still be forgiven?