Chris Juhlin
Music and What's NewLyrics (Last Train to Joy Album)
Miles and Miles
I’ve been waiting around for something
Darling I’ve been waiting around
Waiting for it to come out the sky, fall in my hand
Come out of nowhere, just like that yah, yah
Just wait for it to come around the bend again
Wait for it to come around
Come around I reach out my hand, maybe catch me some wind
Maybe some rain, going to wash away your pain bang, bang
I’ve been seeing for miles and miles
Just staring at the sky
Lying on the back
Watch the clouds go by
Miles and miles
I’ve been buying and selling out my time again
Buy and then I sell then I buy
Selling it for me and you, all that we do
In between the public and the private scene
You ask me where I’m going
I tell you, I tell you where I’m from
You ask me what is real
I tell you what I think is ideal yah
Between the Lines
I’m rising with the dusk
In a dreamland that I can trust
Where the actors know their lines
And there’s no such thing as time
But I don’t know whether it is blue or black
I’m walking the line with hesitation breathing down my back
And now I sit here writing the lines
The less I think my mind starts to unwind
And now I want the bookmark to rest on you
But there’s still many pages left to read
I know that it’s time and it’s of the essence indeed
I know, I know
We’re just dancing right in front of the guns
I know, I know
There’s got to be a million ways that this all can be done
She’s well acquainted with the rush
And the whisper’s that make her blush
When the waitress takes her tips
And plans these elaborate trips
But she don’t know whether it is good or bad
She thinking of haves rather than what she hasn’t had
Now she sits there, between the lines
The less she thinks her mind starts to unwind
Now she wants the bookmark to rest on you
But there’s still many pages left to read
I know that it’s time and it’s of the essence indeed
I know, I know
We’re just dancing in front of the guns
I know, I know
There’s got to be a million ways that this all can be done
This is one
Jazz you Speak
She never went away
She only slowed the pace down
Let in and out your breath
Watch things settle down
She’ll call you if she wants to but then she knows the way home
Something that you said has got her dreaming, dreaming
The spark the muse, the naked truth, something comes alive
Now you can take it
Twisted dreams, narcotic schemes, they lie asleep in bed
You can wake them
All this time you seem to have, somehow now you’ve let it flow by
Questions asked inside your cell, you let them go but you don’t know why
She likes to take her time
Taiga like a tightened drum
In the waiting room
You read it from the back to front
She’ll call you if she needs to but then she knows the way home
Something that she said has got you thinking
Around Every Corner
So far away
So close at hand
We seem to waste
The best and thought out laid down plan
No time to reminisce now it’s a fast and flowing game
Let’s lay the money down and burn the perpetual flame
I see people going places
And by the way they’re stealing faces too
The competition’s off the cuff
But at the top there’s such a view
Well the ceiling is glass
And the music is blue
Sometimes a brilliant mind
It rarely comes into view
No time to ponder this now it’s a fast and flowing game
Let’s lay the dogma down and walk through the swinging gate
I see people judging faces
And by the way they’re sealing races fates
The competition’s off the cuff
But by the end it’s a little too late
Around every corner
Around every bend
There’s a silver lining in the end
It don’t really matter where you go
There’s more room up above than below
Forbidden Sky
I saw you late the other day
And you were looking far away
Out on the edge of town
You said there’s something you could do
To make this world look new
And you’re doing it right this way
You said you’re gonna leave this town
And that you won’t be hangin’ around
To watch the sun go down
You say you’ll be out on the range
And no longer in a cage
And free to fly so high
There’s lots of good around here
That I know
And leaving’s gonna be really tough
But you can’t stay here
I know that much
You’ve got to see some forbidden sky
You draw your wings, rock n’ roll, and blow this town
Go on and fly
And when you’re way out on the road
Where you gonna turn and go
When things get kind of low
Tell me will you think of me
And all the things that couldn’t be
Are you doing it right this way
There’s lots of good out there
That I know
And staying’s gonna be really tough
But I can’t go there
I know that much
I’ve gotta see some familiar sky
So draw your wings, rock n’ roll, and blow this town
Go on and fly
Real Kind of Love
You could be the wall or you could be the picture that hangs on it’s side
There’s a bit of luck involved and a strong chance that you’ve got to use your mind
I don’t know why people like to stand on the sideline
Oh but I’m doing it to and I’m watching you all the way home
Because she’s got a real kind of love
She’s got a real kind of love
You could be the crowd or you could be the person blinded by the light
I tend to be the latter but the crowd is a good place to hide
And know I’m torn between the brutal truth and the little white lie
Oh but I’m following that daisy chain and it’s leading back to you
Because she’s got a real kind of love
She’s got a real kind of love
So she says I won’t let you down
I won’t let you down
Permanent Distraction
All this time
You’ve been reading my mind
You’ve been reading my mind
You were speaking softly to me
Yet I couldn’t even hear
I couldn’t quite see
Oceans apart by day
But the pieces come together by night
Oh how your pendulum swings
Just like that clock above your bed
It’s getting into your head
It’s getting into your head
But there’s no need to worry, no need to hurry
I’ve got your back now
We could make a new situation, a mental vacation
A permanent distraction
That’s what I can be to you
You ask me will the feeling stay
Through the every day
Will it manifest the same old way
Because sometimes the memory slips
It falls right down the steps
Leaves me weaving through the wooden ships
But there’s no need to worry, no need to hurry
You’ve got my back now
We could make a new situation, a mental vacation
A permanent distraction
That’s what you can be to me
Everyone Gets Down
I’ve been thinking about
Subtleties in your mood
It takes some time to work it out
But it seems you want the same thing too
Well time keeps ticking and it won’t stop
We’re all just waiting for a bomb to drop
Fear comes around like a late night junkie
Waiting outside at the end of the party now,
Somehow,
The good feeling,
It comes back around
You’ve got a way with words
Takes the conversation high above the birds
And I can’t tell if we’re flying or if we freefall
I guess we’ll let the dust settle down awhile
See what comes down from the sky
I’ve been thinking about
What is going wrong with me
It takes sometime to work things out
When you’re stuck in your own psyche
People keep building and they won’t stop
We’ll build it up high until it has to drop
We fall down like some local martyrs
Makes the work seem even harder now
Somehow,
The good feeling,
It comes back around
Celebrate when the sun goes down
We light the candles and everyone gets down
And we don’t care if we’re flying or if we freefall
I guess we’ll let the dust settle down awhile
See what comes up from the ground
New Situation
There’s a way out of this and it’s with an iron fist
Going to start a new situation
Going to leave that fire behind, going to find the warmth on the front line
Going to start a new situation now
Going to start it right now
I’m well ahead now but I’m looking back
There’s plenty of diamonds in my littered past
But I’m on my way
Getting closer everyday
That’s why I’m going to get up and take that ride
See to the other side
Listening while in stride
Oh yah
Oh wide river
You just go flowing on by
Oh wide river
Don’t you go passing us by
Leave us high and dry
That’s why we’ve got to get up and take that ride
See to the other side
Listening while in stride
Oh yah
Walking the edge of beauty’s forgotten face
Rain
Oh the silence is like gold
Nothing talking in your ear
But the air is filled with sense of song
Oh how you long for the sound
You long for the sound
The sound
Feet close to the ground
But society looks insane
Just standing in the rain
When you see the clouds ahead
It’s going to come raining on down
Raining on down
I heard you listen to Murdoch and the Stones
A little from every side
You see the beast’s in the burden of your needs
When you’re hiding amongst the weeds
You’ve been hanging out on the side
So many places to go
To hide
But society looks insane
Just standing in the rain
When you see the clouds ahead
It’s going to come raining on down
Raining on down
While you Dream
I’ve been picking and prodding at the puzzle that leads me staring out this open window
The last trip I took has left me on the floor and seeing double
She said that live is life and death is what happens while you dream
And it looks like desire is capable of taking me on that road again
I could see her giving away roadmaps for the soul
I could see her temporarily getting out of control
I could see her on the edge trying to make up her mind
I could see her standing the test, standing the test of time
He’s been tailoring his time for the television and all of the talk that it brings
Sitting there on call and waiting for that bell to ring
And when it does his days will dance with a lonely speed and grace
And next to a picture of freedom
You’re going to see his face
I could see him giving it away for not very much at all
I could see him next to people kneeling and him standing tall
Ain’t it funny how things can change so fast
One second you’re on the brakes, the next you’re on the gas
Last Train to Joy
I see you walking out of line
Drinking and thinking, yah, lubricating your mind
You see it in the writer’s eye, painter’s dreams, and the mad hatter’s brilliant schemes
So you roll from town to town
All the neon city signs
So far from home
In a crowd but all alone
Some dreams they’re up in the sky
Yah, to get to them you sometimes got to get high
But meanwhile down below, the fear is spreading and it’s quickly getting out of control
So we move from country sides
To the suburbs where people hide
Behind wooden and brick walls
And fences that stand so tall, so high
If you wait long enough you’re bound to see some change
Yah joy sounds logical but sometimes it’s so far away
It’s only a train away my good friend
