HEROICS
1.
The Good Things
2.
Sweet Mary
3.
House Of Ash
4.
Orion
5.
Live In The Now
6.
Bye Civilization
7.
The Last Bank Robber
8.
Lazy Jane
9.
Back Country Cottage
10.
Marlboro
11.
Most Of My Time
The Good Things
1995
Jack Riedel/Aaron
Martin
Just for now
Let’s pretend
that the stakes are higher
And every
little move we make
Will determine
how the ashes fall
Stop, think
twice, listen to the wind blow
Every night I got
to speak with
the old man
down the highway
And every time
he lets me know
There’s good
things comin my way
Stop, think
twice, listen to the wind blow
So even when your
dreams are dark
and your road
runs up the mountain
sugar sugar
let things be
and row
merrily down the stream
Stop, think
twice, listen to the wind blow
Sweet Mary
1995
Aaron Martin/Jack
Brian Riedel
Oh my sweet Mary
Where have you
gone
Off to the see
the devil
and sleep in
his arms
The days are
getting longer
The nights are
getting short
Won’t you
bring your ship in
And dock it at
the port
Saluting Captain
Benbow
Whose sailing
through the night
Tripping
through your wires
like lucy in
the sky
Here’s to Captain
Redbeard
Whose taking
up two lanes
Stick a needle
in your arm and
He’s filling
up his veins
Cheers to Captain
Morgan
Sailing
through the night
If you see his
wooden ship you know
That
everything’s all right
House of Ash
1995
Jack Brian
Riedel/Aaron Martin
I thin I remember
a circle of
hands a circle of friends
pictures in a
gallery
and the open
road
the road goes
on forever
the party
never ends
too bad you
used that drug
to find the
open road
I think I remember
pillars in the grass
Written in
stone the second I crashed
Lookin so cold
all the yes in the cars that passed
House of ash
between the blue and the gray
Dark clouds cover
your skies
A troubled
wind you can’t deny
Where is the
love to be found
This is dedicated
to the folks out on the plain
A snapshot of
the American Dream
You know some
things they never change
The middle of
the world ain’t as bad as it seems
Orion
1991
Brian Riedel
I saw Orion in the
sky tonight
As I held her
hand
I’m five days
late to recognize the circles
Here in the
sand
The day she
found the clown alone in sorrow
Yeah he made her
cry
Another soul
will bleed into tomorrow
Am I makin
sense at all
There’ll be better
days than this one my friend
There’ll be
better days than this one
But up until
the end
I’m caught in the
middle just like the way you’ve always been
Caught in the
middle I’m helpless again
Live In The Now
1994
Jack Brian
Riedel/Aaron Martin
Trade her in for
some warm sunshine
it’s all right
she doesn’t mind
took a pull
from the travel pack in the canyon
on the horses
back
I lost my girl to
a movie star
Diamond rings,
bells and ribbons
Well that’s
all right cause I know he likes guys too
Please please live
in the now…
Pretty Mary
Sunlight
Diamond rings,
bells and ribbons
50 miles to
the next self serve
on a dark
desert highway
I heard a song
on the radio
As we talked
about the weekend
But here I am
in the a coffee shop
Always say
Please please
live in the now…
Bye
Civilization (instrumental)
1994
Jack Riedel
The Last Bank
Robber
1995
Jack Brian
Riedel/Aaron Martin
She wore a little
red hat and high heel shoes
She was the
first real women I knew
But she gave
her love to another man
That wasn’t
exactly what I planned
Well I look down
to the dirty streets below me
The Mardi Gras
is glorious it always will be
I walk across
the porch in my sombrero
Cigarette
smoke and ash in my montero
Now I think
my horse might need some water
My brother
just ran off with the Padre’s daughter
We might have
to take one down in the cantina
Met a lovely
Spanish dancer by the name of Tina
I said “Puedo
ofricerles una babida?”
She said “Aba
tiempes mucho tiempe.”
Met my hombre off
just off Main Street
I think we
might be rich when all this is complete
At high noon
all this shit is going down
But there
might be a few pictures of you and me in this town
He said all you
people put your hands in the air
We’re taking
the money and we’re riding like we just don’t care
We’ll camp out
we’llbuild a fire next to this cactus
We’ll have to
bring guitars so we can practice
Oh but then I
smelled the torch and I heard the lawmen
With a second
left to live I knew I was a has been
When I died
there were bullets and gun smoke
So let this be
a lesson to all the young folk
Lazy Jane
1995
Jack Brian
Riedel/Aaron Martin
Glory days right
here
In my
institution girl
You need some
time to get away
Some time to
think
About your
obligations girl
Hell, all your
obligations girl
Somewhere over
the rainbow
The faces are
so damn cold
They ask me
where did Jane go
I guess she
couldn’t take this shit no more
Lazy Jane oh yeah
She waits for
it to rain
So she don’t
have to drink from the fountain
Oh no I never
knew love that strange
Oh no I never
knew love that strange
Somewhere over
the rainbow
The faces are
so damn slow
They ask me
where did Jane go
I guess she
couldn’t take this shit no more
Glory days right
here
In my
institution girl
You need some
time to get away
Some time to
think
About your
obligations girl
Hell, all your
obligations girl
Somewhere over
the rainbow
The faces are
so damn cold
They ask me
where did Jane go
I guess she
couldn’t take this shit no more
Back Country
Cottage
1995
Jack Brian
Riedel/Aaron Martin
Judy through the
looking glass
Come on put
your sweet dress on
Yes, my cash
is steady flowin
Taste that
with your cocaine tongue
Well I know a
place down down the Onion Road
And I think
it’s time that this dirty old season closed
Outside the fog
came rollin
Clear the
scrub and harvest your weed
Wel, Jackie
had a beanstalk
He traded
bread for magic seeds
But I know this
place down down the Onion Road
And I think
it’s time that this dirty old season closed
Marlboro
1995
Jack Brian Riedel
She’s on the run
takes a look around
Song tumblin’
down from the north bound lady
Marlboro is the
only name in town
Cause every
road that takes you takes you down
She’s on the run
‘neath the maddening moon
Tunneling in
they use a wooden spoon
Marlboro is the
only name in town
Cause every
road that takes you takes you down
The wooden tree by
the back fence
Raise the axe
pledge my allegiance
Marlboro is the
only name in town
Cause every
road that takes you takes you down
Most of My Time
1995
Jack Brian
Riedel/Aaron Martin
Spend most of her
time leaning on a hotel bar
Spends most of
her dimes playing the same old jukebox stars
Don’t need to
look too far to find a shooting star
Maybe too much
concern is coming from my door
Maybe a lesson
to learn on those peanut covered floors
Don’t need to
reach the shore to find what you’re looking for
There’s a story
behind most of the sad eyes that you find
Cause even the
blind can tell when the sun shined, that ain’t a lie
So I spend most of
my time standing where she once stood
Most of my
dimes playing the songs she thought were good
But in this
neighborhood that girl’s so misunderstood
In this
neighborhood that girl’s so misunderstood
There’s a story
behind most of the sad eyes that you find
Cause even the
blind can tell when the sun shined, that ain’t a lie