More Miserable Than You'll Ever Be

By Mike Roe and 7&7is
Miserable
(Mike Roe)

Of all the friends I've had
You never let me down
But nowadays I see your face
It's frozen in a frown
You've got everything and more
Than anybody needs to win
More than a waste and more than a shame
It's a sin It's a sin
It's a dirty sin

I wanna build you up
You wanna tear you down
You're floating up for the third time, baby
Looks like you've already drowned
I say I love you I love you a million times
It don't ring true
It's more than my love that you need
You need a God bigger than you

You're so miserable
It's hard to look at you when
You're so miserable
I don't know what to do with you
You're so miserable
Can I get through to you?
You're so miserable
You're so miserable

You're so miserable
I try to talk to you but
You're so miserable
You run away, I can't walk out
You're so miserable
I'll be your friend to the better end
You're so miserable
Miserable

You're so miserable
Can you reach out to me?
Are you so miserable
Can't see the forest or the trees
You're so miserable
Let go, be free, hold on to me
You're so miserable...


U U U U
(Mike Roe)

I feel lonely, isolated
Cut off from you
I feel uptight & frustrated
What else is new
I'd feel a whole lot better
If I could only talk to you

I'd give anything to hear you
Calling out my name
Telling me that you love me
And you feel the same
Come crash my guilty party
I'm the one to blame

I need U U U U
I need U U U U
I need U U U U
I need U U U U
I need all of you
And every little thing you do

Save me Save me Save me
From randomnity
Save me Save me
From my self-sufficiency
But most of all please save me
From my selfish greed

I'm gonna wake up every morning
Fall down on my knees
Praying to the lord above
To keep you in my squeeze
This world is cold
And if you leave
I'm gonna freeze

I need U U U U
I need U U U U
I need U U U U
I need U U U U
I need all of you
And every little thing you do


The Treasure in You
(Mike Roe)

Devil and the deep blue sea ran dry
The first time I saw your face I thought I'd die
I found a treasure deep in you
And loving you forever is all I want to do

I never want to lose it
I never want to lose it
I never want to lose it
I never want to lose
The treasure in you

From a womb of love I saw you fly
Straight into my arms, we both broke down and cried
Two lives, two faces intertwined
Something so down to earth and so divine
Is mine
And I...

I never want to lose it
I never want to lose it
I never want to lose it
I never want to lose
The treasure in you

And though one day, baby, I'll have to set you free
I'll still have all the love you left deep inside of me
And I...
I never want...
I never want to lose...

I could search forever, never find
Treasure to compare with what's
Already mine
And I...

I never want to lose it
I never want to lose it
I never want to lose it
I never want...
I never want to lose...


Come & Gone
(Mike Roe)

All I wanted wasn't meant to be
All I wanted didn't happen to me
Won't be a hero or a champion
I'll score a zero 'cuz my game has done
Come and gone
Come and gone

The wrong places at all the wrong times
Too far ahead, too many years behind
Make-up my face to hide another line
But it's a waste when all your precious prime's

Come and gone
Come and gone
Baby, come on

And now you're coming to me every day
You're telling me it's gonna be O.K.
And though my story isn't much to read
If I've got you, the rest is history

Come and gone
Come and gone
Baby, come on
Come and gone
Come and gone
Baby, come on


Jesus (live)
(Lou Reed)

Jesus
Help me find my proper place
Jesus
Help me find my proper place
Help me in my weakness
'Cuz I've fallen out of grace

Jesus, Jesus


I Can't Get Over It
(Mike Roe)

You say you're sorry
I can't get over it
I said I forgive you
I can't get over it
You say you'll learn from this mistake
I can't get over it
I should be giving you a break
But I can't...

We've put it behind us now
I can't get over it
Nothing left to remind us now
I can't get over it
They say that time heals every wound
I can't get over it
You thought the worst was over soon
I can't get over it

You need somebody
Who can get over it
You need somebody
Who can get over it

We know you're wiser now
I can't get over it
I don't want to despise you now
I can't get over it
I try and force myself to forget
But it's hanging right over my head

I've done so much worse so many times myself
I can't get over it
I've got no right to indict somebody else
I can't get over it
You hurt us both, I'm hurting us more
Not getting over it
Could I say I ever really loved you
If I don't get over it

We need somebody
Who can get over it
We need somebody
Who can get over it
We need somebody
to take the pain of it
We need somebody
Who has bought and paid for you
And it!
And it!
End it!
End it!

Who's gonna help me
Who's gonna help me
Get past this thing
Get past this thing
To a real place
To a real place
Give you some space
Give you some space
Where I can face it
Where I can face it
We can erase it
We can erase it
Oh erase it!
Oh erase it!
Erase!
Erase!
Erase!

Erase!
Erase!
Erase!
Erase!


What Was In That Letter
(Mark Tootle, Mike Roe)

It's amazing
What words can do
Give your eyes a sparkle
Turn you inside out
You washed in those words
You sewed them in the lining of your heart
They slowly seeped into your blood
And ran the course of your body

Faster than any drug
Faster than lightning
They ran to your feet
Your steps were solid
And they ran on to your hands
Your fingers weren't afraid to touch
And they ran to your lips
And they spoke so soft
Ever so softly to me

What was in that letter
That calls to me, to me, to me
What was in that letter
Straight to the very heart of me
What was in that letter
That haunts me from this distance
What was in that letter
So sure
So persistent

Why don't you open it
Read it again
Read it over again to you and me
Why don't you let every last line
Sink into our little minds
Read it again
Tear the curtain down
Pull the altar to the ground

What was in that letter
That calls to the soul of me
What was in that letter
Tenderly, sweetly
What was in that letter
That haunts me from this distance

What was in that letter?


Do It For Love
(Mark Tootle)

Take back
All those things you said
When you were tired of living
Hold on
To the dreams we shared
They were so easy to believe in
Turn back
From the way you're goin'
It's a rocky road for sure
Lift up your heart to heaven
Dream this dream with me once more

Do it for love
Do it for love

Tell me how to love you
Let me know what I've been missing
Don't walk out of this life again
You've got me, You've got this love
This world in your hand

Do it for love
Do it for love

And I can see a time
when we will dare to laugh
At all these ghosts that haunt us
Hey, that day we'll say we did it
Did it for love


Don't Say Goodbye
(Gene Mascoli, Mike Roe)

Who is that calling you home
Someone you don't even know
Who is that calling you, calling you
Find out before you go

You say you're leaving
Where are you going, baby
No guarantee
Destination unknown
You say you're at the point
Where every single place
And every look on every face
Makes you want to cry
And everything you see
When you walk in a room
Is straight out of a bad dream
But the dream came true
And now you wanna die
Oh no baby-o

Oh
Don't say goodbye
Oh
Don't say goodbye

I beg your pardon, but
Who promised you a garden
(East of Eden)
You're arrogant to presuppose there's bliss
(Somewhere over the abyss)
You bet your life and hope to find a different place
A different world at a different pace
Don't make a brand new start
'Cuz who you are
And what you've been
Is what you'll bring
To every place and every thing
Without a change of heart
More of the same thing, baby-o

Oh
Don't say goodbye
Oh
Don't say goodbye

You never hear birds singing
(Someone hears you crying)
Your mind's in winter
(Your frozen heart is dying)
But you're the very best thing
That ever happened to me
Don't go
'Cuz baby I love you so

Oh
Don't say goodbye
Oh
Don't say goodbye


Tattoo
(Larry Tagg)

(Lyrics inspired by "Marks," a monologue from the book TALKING WITH by Jane Martin)

You're the one with the perfect skin
Unscarred by any passion
I'm the man who's wondering
If I'm just this year's fashion
If you say I'm written on your life
And your eyes are wide open
If you say I'm written on your soul
Then write me on your skin

Tattoo
Tattoo me on you
Tattoo
Tattoo me on you

Don't make me no promises
Don't wear a ring for me
'Cuz you'll take it off your finger
When you think no one can see
And I don't care if we're not
Together in the end
But if you say I'm written on your soul
Then write me on your skin

Tattoo
Tattoo me on you
Tattoo
Tattoo me on you

It doesn't have to be my name
It doesn't have to by my silhouette
You'll think of something
Use your own alphabet
People are gonna ask questions
They're gonna want a story
What are you gonna tell them
Tell them about me
Tell them about me

I don't think that the perfect life
Is coming through without a scratch
If your inside is worth knowing
Then your outside reads like a map
Now this might hurt a little
New lives begin with little pains
But if I'm written on your soul
Then write me on your skin

Tattoo
Tattoo me on you
Tattoo
Tattoo me on you


Miserable (cover version)
(Mike Roe)

Of all the friends I've had
You never let me down
But nowadays I see your face
It's frozen in a frown
You've got everything and more
Than anybody needs to win
More than a waste and more than a shame
It's a sin It's a sin
It's a dirty sin

I wanna build you up
You wanna tear you down
You're floating up for the third time, baby
Looks like you've already drowned
I say I love you I love you a million times
It don't ring true
It's more than my love that you need
You need a God bigger than you

You're so miserable
It's hard to look at you when
You're so miserable
I don't know what to do with you
You're so miserable
Can I get through to you?
You're so miserable
You're so miserable

You're so miserable
I try to talk to you but
You're so miserable
You run away, I can't walk out
You're so miserable
I'll be your friend to the better end
You're so miserable
Miserable

You're so miserable
Can you reach out to me?
Are you so miserable
Can't see the forest or the trees
You're so miserable
Let go, be free, hold on to me
You're so miserable...