music

Heaven Help Us All

Heaven Help Us All

Victor Uriz

Intro

Walking on a rainbow, calling to the thunder

With the eyes of a child, wide open with wonder

There’s magic all around us, like a vision from a dream

We’ve fallen from the sky; we’re angels who’ve lost our wings 

Verse

Love is an echo, love is a stone

Love’s a mirage, that we’ve all been shown

This life is a dream, life’s a fantasy

Life’s a dying star, over you and me

Bridge

The more things change the more they stay the same

Each generation passing on the blame

You’d think we’d learn, you’d think we’d evolve

Take a look at the news; it ain’t the case at all

Rap

Buddhist, Christian, Muslim, Jew

A thousand roads leading back to you

Listen to your words tell me what they say

Is it for yourself, or others you pray

Cities are on fire, the children are lost

Blind faith nailed, to a plastic cross

Holy wars, freedom, democracy

Deep fried grease and hypocrisy

Show a little love, drop the hate

Forgiveness is the key to heaven’s gate

Chorus

Heaven, heaven help us all

Heaven, won’t you catch me if I fall

Verse II

Hates in the mirror, hates everywhere

It’s in your bible, if you’re looking for it there

Truth is an ocean; it’s burning in the sun

It’s there in your Shadow, that you can’t out run

Bridge

The more things change, the more they stay the same

Each generation passing off the shame

You’d think we’d grow, you’d think we’d evolve

Learn to love one another, that ain’t the case at all

Rap

Chorus

Drip, Drip, Drip

Danced with the devil

Stepped on his tail

Got drunk in a tavern

I found Jesus in jail

Drank enough beer

To piss me an ocean

It’s hard to get lost 

If you don’t care where you’re going

Bummed me a smoke

Fired up a light

Now I’m stuck in this tree

Like a tattered old kite

Chased a few rainbows

Searching for a pot of gold

When I was young

I never thought I’d grow old

Times a wad of gum

Stuck on your shoe

You can try to out run it

But it’ll catch up with you

Fates a leaky faucet

It goes Drip Drip Drip

What you deserve

Is usually what you get

One night stands

Well I had me a few

When it comes to love

I bit off more than I could chew

Made some mistakes

but I paid my dues 

Smashed my TV

Tired of the same old bad news

You might same I’m crazy

Nutty as a fruitcake

If the fish ain’t bitting

It’s time to change your bait 

Chased a few rainbows

Searching for a pot of gold

When I was young

I never thought I’d grow old

Fates a wad of gum

Stuck on your shoe

You can try to out run it

But it’ll catch up with you

Times a leaky faucet

It goes Drip Drip Drip

The good times I’ll remember

Bad ones I’ll forget  

All That Ever Is

All That Ever Is

By Victor Uriz

The freeway sounds like the ocean, city lights look like stars

The ole moon singing down at me, to sound of a Spanish guitar

Trash dancing in the wind, my words cold clouds of steam

If I told you how I felt, would you say you still know what I mean

Streets dark and damp, puddles where the rain it fell

If I looked you in the eye, would you say you still know me well

Old friend have they gotten to you yet

Compromise yourself

Mayas what you get

What we become, these things we pretend

Careful what you value 

These things become you in the end

All that ever is, ever will be or was, from original sin, to unconditional love

Beneath a crooked smile, I hear a tenor sax sad and low

The nights so lonely, I feel it in the notes he blows

Play it sweet, make it true, Lay it down real sad, brother won’t you make it blue

We can change this world, if we change our minds

Put it down in poem, for the deaf the dumb and for the blind

Old friend, have they gotten to you yet 

Sacrifice yourself, Dharma’s what you get 

What we become, these things we pretend

Careful what you value 

These things become you in the end

All that ever is, ever will be or was, from original sin to unconditional love

Love, the more you give, the more you get

She likes rain at midnight

The sound of wind through the tree’s

A train whistle in the distance

She likes lying in the be next to me

She loves the smell of the ocean

And the sound of breaking waves

We watch the sun go down together

On such a beautiful day

It doesn’t get any better than that

You got my heart baby, I’ve got your back

From sunrise, to sunset

Love, the more you give the more you get

The more you give the more you get

She likes when the leaves change their colors

As the seasons come and go

She picks wildflowers in the spring time

I build her a fire when it snows

Through the years we made a home

All those memories I recall

Through the good times and the bad

Together, we made it through them after all

It doesn’t get any better than that

I got your heart baby, you’ve got your back

From sunrise, to sunset

Love, the more you give the more you get

The more you give the more you get

Grow Up!

I was hoping you’d still remember

End of summer, chill of September

Waking up next to you in the morning

Autumn came early gave us now warning

Lost my job, no money in my pockets

You pawned your ring, five bucks is all it got us

Singing on the streets for tips and change

Playing Free Bird on only five strings

Top Ramen breakfast, lunch and dinner

Decided to go south for the winter

Called home to borrow some cash

Sent it on all cheap wine and a little bit of grass

We needed nothing to believe in

All we owned was our freedom

All we had was one another

Should’ve followed that summer sun for forever

I can still see you standing by the ocean

Smell of the sea and suntan lotion

We watched the sun fall into the sea

Sky turned golden over you and me

Everyday felt like a weekend

We had no plans so we’d always sleep in

Friends said grow up before it’s to late

Get yourself a mortgage and a job you hate

Went surfing, drank ourselves some beer

Caught dinner off the end of the pier

We cooked it up on a big bonfire

Sang Beatle songs and got a little higher

We needed nothing to believe in

All we owned was our freedom

All we had was one another

Should’ve followed that summer sun for forever

You Can’t Kill A Man, When He’s Already Dead

Penueta’s a village in a Mexican Valley

Across the river from the Fedrales

Where the rain does not fall and that land it is dry

 And the crops do not grow and the farmers they cry

The Gringos they come with their money and cars

and bargain with peasants while they smoke their cigars

Acedro says someday I’ll swim that big river

And send back the money to my mother and sisters

His father he died when he was still small

The smell of Tequila is all he recalls

When he asked his mother all she said

Is you can’t kill a man when he’s already dead

AAAAAA HHHHH EEEEEEEE

Well, all he took was the shirt on his back

The river was swift and the night it was black

The search lights they turned the land to a stage

Where the actors are strong and the performance is brave

Acedro was caught and put behind bars

The nights they pass slow when you can’t see the stars

Something it broke, deep down inside

The shame he felt he could not hide

When the news found his mother all she said

Is you can’t kill a man when he’s already dead

AAAAAA HHHHH EEEEE

Your Memories I Borrowed—A Freak Like Me

I was always hanging and trying to fit it. Trying to belong to something or be pert of something. I was awkward and weird and a lonely outsider…….. Kinda like today, if ya know what I mean.