"Cry Little Sister" Gerard McMahon & Michael Mainieri

Last fire will rise
Behind those eyes
Black house will rock
Blind boys don't lie
Immortal fear
That voice so clear
Through broken walls
That scream I hear

Cry little sister (thou shall not fall)
Come come to your brother (thou shall not die)
Unchain me sister (thou shall not feel)
Love is with your brother (thou shall not kill)

Blue mascarade
Strangers look on
When will they learn this loneliness?
Temptation heat
Beats like a drum
Deep in your veins

I'll live nine lives little sister (thou shall not fall)
Come come to your brother (thou shall not die)
Unchain me sister (thou shall not feel)
Love is with your brother (thou shall not kill)

My shangrila
I cant forget
Why you were mine
I need you now

Cry little sister (thou shall not fall)
Come come to your brother (thou shall not fall)
Unchain me sister (thou shall not fear)
Love is with your brother (thou shall not kill)

Cryyyyy little sister (thou shall not fall)
Come come to your brother (thou shall not fall)
Unchain me sister (thou shall not feel)
Love is with your brother (thou shall not kill)
Crycryyyyyyy sister (thou shall not fall)
(thou shall not lie)
(thou shall not feel)
(thou shall not fall)

 

“All The Rage” – Gerard McMann

You used to be so underground now
You’re way all over town look at what you swore you’d never become.
Where’s that independent girl in the paparazzi world come on
Remember where you come from – yeah yeah

Now someone gets you out of bed
Try to remember what they said as they want you to be dark yet young
As you question what it is & there’s every bodies kiss
That tells you darling you are number one.

Where are your blind boy lovers &
All the others that party on & on & on
Don’t you get too pop & forget me not
Cos it’s all a whirl & tainted world.

When you’re all the rage
Little underground queen you got just the thing
Making it on the front page
Go on die before your time be immortalized.

You used to be so underground now
You’re way all over town look at what you swore you’d never become.
Where’s that independent girl in the paparazzi world
Come on remember where you come from – hey hey

Aint it crazy now that you’re a star
In the right place on your wild chase

Now you’re on all the covers &
Goth pose  lovers that party on & on & on
Don’t you get too pop & forget me not
Cos it’s all insane & you’re the game.

When you’re all the rage
Little underground queen you got just the thing
Making it on the front page
Go on die before your time be immortalized.

Cos you’re all the rage
Little underground queen you got just the thing
Making it on the front page
Go on die before your time be immortalized.

Remember where you come from
Remember where you come from

All the rage yeah yeah
Making it on the front page
Go on die before your time be immortalized.

Cos you’re all the rage
Little underground queen you got just the thing.

 

“Secrets Of Oz” - Gerard McMann & Anthony Silver
I don’t get the feeling that some little pill makes everything all right,
Keeps me in line
I want to believe that there is something more that falls out of the sky,
Washes my eyes
I can’t find my innocence the way it was, how did it all go wrong
Where has it gone?

Down the yellow road, will I ever know
All the answers in the question why

I’ve been running like a fool Mr. Tin
I’ve been living like a scarecrow within
Always looking for a wizard to say everything is okay

In a hard blowing wind
Gotta be a better state that I’m in
Will I ever find the wizard that was & the Secret of Oz?

You don’t have to save me from myself this time
Don’t have to worry no more nothings for sure
Take a real good look & see just who I was
Maybe then you’ll know, why I have to go

Down the yellow road, I may never know
All the courage & the reason why

I’ve been running like a fool Mr. Tin
I’ve been living like a scarecrow within
Always looking for a wizard to say everything is okay

In a hard blowing wind, gotta be a better state that I’m in
Will I ever find the wizard that was & the Secret of Oz?
In a hard blowing wind, gotta be a better state that I’m in
I keep looking for the wizard that was & the Secret of Oz?

And every witch that I’ve known,
Tells me I’m not alone in my demons & stones

I’ve been running like a fool Mr. Tin
I’ve been living like a scarecrow within
Always looking for a wizard to say everything is okay

In a hard blowing wind, got to be a better place than I’ve been
Will I ever find the wizard that was & the Secret of Oz?
And the Secret of Oz in Secret of Oz

 

“The Conversation” - Gerard McMann
Somewhere in the conversation
Someone got high & turned down the lights
You read me what my palm was saying
Look at those lines I must’ve been blind

Are you so confident that you could turn my world around
Why would you want to put the lock on now
You know you’re beautiful when you just laugh at yourself

You tell me it’s a shame I’m jaded
How lucky I am to be who I am
I tell you I’m a worn out angel
Living my life on borrowed time

I want to feel I got a purpose when I wake up now
I’m not as tragic as I look am I
Come on & make me laugh a little more before I fly

Give me time that used to be so kind
Give me time don’t let the ghost in my eyes

Somewhere in the conversation
you told me you lost your sister & ma
I tell you there’s no explanation
no comfort to call but look what you are

You know you really are so beautiful when you laugh it off
You make me feel like there’s a cure for the curse
Come on I’ll make you laugh a little more before I fly

Give me time that used to be so kind
Give me time don’t let the ghost in my eyes
Yeah time comes on like it’s all right
Then it’s time that puts the ghost in your eyes

I’ve seen the world go mad, I’ve made peace with myself, I’ve even loved someone
For all my big bad faults I’m not about to change this face

Give me time that used to be so kind
Give me time don’t let the ghost in my eyes
All this time comes on like it’s all right
Then it’s time that puts the ghost in your eyes
Somewhere in the conversation someone got high

 

“Under Your Skin” - Gerard McMann

Who is that face in the distorted mirror?
Got to be someone you’ll never remember
Something got lost on the way to your happiness
& nothings enough when you’re first on the guest list

I’ll never judge you for living your life of sin
Look hard enough candy I’m right there under your skin.

Whose are those eyes when I wanna believe ya
& who will I see  if I go a little deeper

It doesn’t matter what lie that you’re caught up in
What matter is we know I’m under your skin
Consider me your intrigued soul
Who you found in your little black hole

For all your evil highs & your pissed off ways
I’ve always been under your skin
It’s not the way you cry when you feel no pain
I’m always in under your skin

Play your whole life like a bound Cleopatra
Make a wise man fall apart & shatter
Where is that face that you lost in the mirror
Where is that girl between the shadows & tears

I’ll never judge you for living your life of sin
Look hard enough candy I’m right here under your skin.
Consider me an intrigued soul
Who you found in your little black hole

For all your evil highs & your bi-sex claims
I’ve always been under your skin
It’s not the way you cry when you feel no pain
I’m always in under your skin

For all your evil highs & your pissed off ways
I’ve always in under your skin
It’s not the way you cry when you feel no pain
I’m so deep in under your skin
Under your skin, under your skin

 

“You Are” - Gerard McMann

You are the song that never played
A lyric unafraid to be who you are
You are the sight to what is blind
The hardest truth to find that’s what you are

There are crimes that leave us empty when you love
Times when life’s redemption’s not enough
As if there was somebody watching over me
As faithless as I am it’s clear to see

You’re made of light & brave as Joan Of Ark
Chase away my dreaming in the dark
Tell me I will find the child I was
In what you are

You are the wave that comes along
The one after the storm that’s what you are
You are the one without fear
As you dry my falling tears you know who you are

In this scared & cutoff world can we belong
As I question what is pure & where it’s gone
In my final hour of loosing everything
As haunted as I am I find meaning

Made of light & brave as Joan Of Ark
Chase away my unforgiving heart
Tell me I will find the child I was
As you go waking up the eyes that sleep alone
Breaking down a soul made out of stone
If only I deserved to have all of what you are

You  are the hardest truth defined that’s what you are

 

“Box Of Fantasy" - Gerard McMann  & Anthony Silver

Come along & be with me in my Box Of Fantasy

For everything you fear, for every tear in beer
There is a big small box that you should know about
Well there’s a place I go only you can know
That’s if you want to get out of your demon head

Come along & be with me in my Box Of Fantasy
Oh what’ll it be?
Come along & chase with me
The wild lighting to the carousel on the sea
Come aboard

You’ve got to park your heart & be what you’re not
You’ll never do something this fun again on your own
It’s in the chance we take it’s not the things we fake
If only we could be our bad selves everyday – I said

Come along & be with me in my Box Of Fantasy
Oh what’ll it be?
Come along & chase with me
The wild lighting to the carousel on the sea
In my fantasy

I’ll put you back to bed I’ll kiss you on the head
& when you wake up you will believe in yourself

Come along & be with me in my Box Of Fantasy
Oh what’ll it be?
Come along & chase with me
The wild lighting on the sea
My fantasy – come along

 

“Wish You Well” - Gerard McMann

All of that guilt that you lived with so long
So many creeps & all of them wrong
Then there was me trying to save ya from you
All good intentions eventually lose

I come & visit you now & again
Depending on the state that you’re in
It’s not easy when it comes to respect
Damn that’s something you just don’t get

Still I wish you well
Go on & live to tell the story how I made it hell
& you know damn well I adored ya

Yeah just when I thought I really got through
I didn’t know what everybody knew
You had a way with your crazy drama
I bought it even when you went to far

Some say I oughta get even
I believe that my own redemption  

Is to wish you well
Cos I know the hell that you’ve been through so well
What’s the use in yelling at ya

Yeah one day you’ll learn it’s not all about you
That’s when you’ll learn what forgiveness is to
I don’t need I don’t need you all pissed of at me
Still I wish & I wish that you get what you need
Still I wish you well

 

“Gotta Get On With It” - Gerard McMann

You win the prize for being the feather girl
You float like nothing does you harm
You want me to think you’re invincible
& believe that you can do no wrong

You’re all so perfect in a dangerous way
Why do I feel like I’m your gun
For every day I swear you’ll come around
I poison myself & I

Gotta get on with it
Gotta conclude you in my condition
Gotta come down off the ledge you’re on
Gotta get on with it
God I could die from the dose you’re giving
Gotta forget that I’m all you’ve got

You reenact the girl I used to know
As you remind me of what you’re not
How can I blame you for the way you are
When I forgive what you forgot

Maybe those voices that sing in your head
Make you believe you’re not that lost
I know that wind could blow you any day
Doesn’t that tell you that ya

Gotta get on with it
Gotta learn I’m not the one you’re missing
Gotta come down off the ledge you’re on
Gotta get on with it
God I could die from the dose you’re giving
Gotta forget that I’m all you’ve got

Not gonna lie for ya, not gonna cry to ya
Is it a shame to ya, was I the brave to ya
One day you’ll come wide-awake
Like some child you’ll want your way

Gotta get on with it
Gotta conclude you in my condition
Gotta come down off the ledge you’re on
Gotta get on with it
God I could die from the dose you’re giving
Gotta forget that I’m all you’ve got
Gotta get on with it

 

“The Downside” - Gerard McMann 80% - Little Whitey Music (ASCAP) & Rodney Alejandro 20% - Sweetspot Entertainment (ASCAP)

Can’t take it with ya. Can’t take it with ya no
Can’t take it with ya. Can’t take it with ya no

Who can you love when you live with the question that everybody asks everyday
Are you gonna be a wannabe a presidential pimp are you just a ho or queen for a day
Do the right people for lunch be the flavor of the month yeah walk your little ass up to fame
If you really want to be another wannabe you know you got to be somebody
be somebody be somebody heyheyhey

The Downside is ya gotta give up some game – Gotta give up some game
The upside is you’re gonna be a pimp someday – Looking like you wanna be somebody
The Downside is you wake up with you again – again & again
The upside is you can’t take it with you can’t take it with ya

Push the envelope yeah act a little stupid, make ‘em all think you’re gay
Better off without the rehab look at Robert Downey Jr. now
Ya never hear what he’s got to say
Do the right people for lunch be the flavor of the month yeah walk those little tits up to fame
If you really want to be another wannabe you know you got to be somebody
be somebody be somebody heyheyhey

The Downside is ya gotta give up some game – Gotta give up some game
The upside is you’re looking like a pimp today – Looking like you wanna be somebody yeah
The Downside is you wake up with you again – again & again
The upside is you can’t take it with you can’t take it with ya