HAIL MARY

What really lies

At the heart of a memory
The power of one
Moment in time
When I had your love
It felt like winning
But I’ve paid the price with my peace of mind

CHORUS:
Don’t you find it strange
I still wonder why
After all this time
Not a day goes by
That my heart doesn’t wonder if it’s still worth a try
Worth one more Hail Mary
But you don’t really know about such things, now do you
Does the sound of my voice still carry
Any kind of message still important to you
Or should I just let it die baby, Should I just let it die baby
Why can’t I just let it lie baby

I think of a time
When it came easy
Lost in exchange
For the wisdom of tears
Saddest of fools clutching to vapor
Reaching for something
That’s no longer here
CHORUS: 2x
Don’t you think it strange
I still wonder why
After all this time
Not a day goes by
That my heart doesn’t wonder if it’s still worth a try
One more Hail Mary
But you don’t really know about such things, now do you
Does the sound of my voice still carry
Any kind of memory that’s still precious to you

Oh, baby one more Hail Mary

Maybe you don’t care about such things,now do you
Does the sound of my voice still carry
Any kind of message important to you
Should I just let it die baby, Should I just let it die baby
Why can’t I just let it lie baby

Words and Music by: Michael McDonald

Genevieve Music ASCAP, Adm by Wixen Music Publishing

JUST STRONG ENOUGH

Used to think I wore myself out on you
Trying to measure up
Now I know I just grew tired of forgiving you, baby
For not loving me enough

Now I realize it’s in my nature

To want to hold on to what I thought it was
Just as long as I’m still just strong enough

I never had the sense to surrender

Or the grace to walk away
Always hoping against all hope
You’d have a change of heart someday

Oh, but ain’t it only human nature

To want to love and be loved
Just as long as I’m still just strong enough

Though you’re my greatest weakness

I keep carrying that weight
I keep looking for completeness, baby
I tell myself it’s not too late
Not as long as I’m still just strong enough

With a heart that still remembers

And a love that won’t give up
No, not as long as I’m still just strong enough

Though you’re my strongest weakness

I keep carrying that weight
I keep looking for completeness, baby
I tell myself it’s not too late
Oh no, not as long as I’m still strong enough

Words and Music by:

Michael McDonald / Gary Nicholson
Genevieve Music ASCAP, Adm by Wixen Music Publishing
Sony/ATV Cross Keys Publishing / Gary Nicholson Music ASCAP, Adm by Sony/ATV



FIND IT IN YOUR HEART
When desire moves from head to heart
You may lose the luxury
To have your fun and play it smart
Take your pleasure and still be free
Oh, the loneliness at the end of every dream
Don’t you know that there’s more to this
Let go of all your reasons
And find something to believe

CHORUS:
You gotta find it in your heart
You’ll only find it in your heart
Love’s the truth that sets us free
You’ll only find it in your heart

Now you found someone who cares

You got your life all figured out
But the truth is you’re not really there
‘Till you give in beyond a doubt

Let go of your fantasies

And start looking for something real
Your best thinking is what got you here
Illusion will be shattered by the truth that love reveals

CHORUS:
You better find it in your heart
You’ll only find it in your heart
Love’s the key that sets us free
Oh girl, get out of your head

Let go of your fantasies

And start looking for something real
Your best thinking is what got you here
Illusion will be shattered by the truth that love reveals

You better find it in your heart

You gotta find it in your heart
Love will never be the same
Oh girl, get out of your head
BRIDGE:
You may think it’s a matter of choice
But there’s only one answer, only one voice

REPEAT CHORUS 3x (alt. lines)

Words and Music by: Michael McDonald /John Goodwin

Genevieve Music ASCAP, Adm by Wixen Music Publishing /Queen’s Knight Music BMI, Adm by BMG Rights
Management US, LLC

HALF TRUTH

Never promised me forever

It’s left to me to wonder why
Never said you were leaving either
Never even said goodbye

So why should I lie awake

Like it’s my own damn fault
I try to find one good reason
To feel like a victim at all

CHORUS:
It’s just one of those times
When a half truth
Becomes a whole lie

Whether you lied to me

Or I’m just lying to myself
I just can't keep drinkin’ that poison
Hopin’ to kill somebody else

Whether it’s you or me baby

I see it all turns out the same
No matter who’s at fault
It don’t matter who you blame

REPEAT CHORUS

So why should I lie awake

Like it’s my own damn fault
Just trying to blame somebody
Or feel like a victim at all

REPEAT CHORUS
Words and Music by:
Michael McDonald / Grady Walker / Dylan McDonald
Genevieve Music ASCAP / McWalker Music ASCAP / Hibernian Metropolis Music BMI,
Adm by Wixen Music Publishing
AIN’T NO GOOD
Just as the stars we gaze upon died long ago
The echo of this love still lingers on
You can’t hide from something that your heart already knows
When the love that kept you honest is long gone

You’re on your knees and you got no prayer

Cause when you cry out, but there’s no one there

CHORUS:
Cause it ain’t no good
No, it ain’t no good

Lost between the battle and the white flags of truce

Haunted by the memories you’re not willing to cut loose
You call it love, but baby I got my doubts
I ain’t looking for the key to heaven
Just open the gates to hell enough to let me out

REPEAT CHORUS:

Anything worth keeping has long been destroyed

It ain’t even better than nothing at this point.

You call it love, but baby I got my doubts

I ain’t looking for heaven
Just open the gates of hell enough to let me out

REPEAT CHORUS 4x

Words and Music by:

Michael McDonald /John Goodwin
Genevieve Music ASCAP, Adm by Wixen Music Publishing / Queen’s Knight Music BMI, Adm by BMG Rights
Management US, LLC

HONEST EMOTION
I know that there is more to life
Than this little piece that I've broken off and keep suspended
Safe behind these four walls

But have I just blocked out the sky

That fills that old river with pure water
Of love stronger than pride

CHORUS:
Honest emotion
So hard to come by
Once it hurts you enough to last a lifetime
With honest emotion
Would honest emotion even know me if I walk through this door

I'm a skater on the lake of love

Always gliding on the surface of deeper feelings
But never falling through

On my blades of flash and steel

Between the sky and deep blue clear crystal
Waters of pure love

REPEAT CHORUS

I have wings on my shoulders

I never thought to use them
And these shadows in my heart
I never thought I'd lose them

REPEAT CHORUS

Words & Music by:

Michael McDonald / John Goodwin / Charles Frichtel
Genevieve Music ASCAP, Adm by Wixen Music Publishing / Queen Knight’s Music BMI, Adm by BMG Rights
Management US, LLC/ Chazmanian Music/SESAC

BLESSING IN DISGUISE

It’s times like this

Staring out my window
Only left to wonder
What’s the use in it
If reality can change
With every peak and valley
There’s no use regretting
Some road I didn't take

All I know…. I’ve got to find the good in this

All I want…...is what I need to learn

The heart is like a circle

Always reaching out
Hoping to return
With a faith held fast
The thrill or fear of a moment
That can burn me today
Like a shard of sunlight piercing
The shadows of my past
All I know….. I’ve got to find the good in this
All I want…... is right before my eyes
I know I’ll find…. somewhere in this perfect mess
Time will show… a blessing in disguise

Someday I’ll look back on these moments

All the times I walked through my fears
Only by the truth was I delivered

All I know…..I’ve got to find the good in this

All I want….. is right before my eyes
The highs and lows can only point to in between
But time will show a blessing in disguise

Words and Music by:

Michael McDonald/John Peppard/ Beth Nielsen Chapman/Bernie Chiaravalle
Genevieve Music ASCAP, Adm by Wixen Music Publishing / Jolipep Music BMI, Adm by Rio Bravo Management,
Inc BMI / Songs of Prismlight Music (PRS – Worldwide ex. USA and Canada, SESAC – USA and Canada), c/
oKaren Schauben Publishing / Bernoit Music ASCAP, Adm by Wixen Music Publishing

DARK SIDE

On this question of love and trust

I used to think us much too serious
That was long before
I lay drowning in the thought of you
Heart to the flame is an easy throw
So much more than first we know
Since you have to lose all you have to give to learn the truth

CHORUS:
Some things we learn come easy
Then there’s the things that don’t
We’re bound to learn the hard way
Love has no pride
We all know love is blind
And we see what we want
We find out all too soon
Love has a dark side

You learn to give up to let go

A heart can always find it’s way back home
But now you’re different
Cause you’ve been there
And now you know

CHORUS: 2X
Some things we learn come easy
Then there’s the things that don’t
How we love to learn the hard way
Love has no pride
We all know love is blind
And we see what we want
We find out all too soon
Love has a dark side

Sometimes we see it coming

Sometimes we don’t
If there’s time to walk away
We just let it ride
We finally reach the point of no turning back
You bet you’re silver lining
Love has a dark side

BRIDGE:
Just beyond Eden’s gate
Lies the dark and frozen waste
Somehow we‘re bound to cross the range of feel
It takes one to make the other seem real
No, No, Baby

CHORUS: 2x
Some things we learn come easy
Then there’s the things that don’t
We love to learn the hard way
Love has no pride
We all know love is blind
We only see what we want
You’re bound to learn somehow
Love has a dark side

Sometimes we see it coming

Sometimes we don’t
While there’s time to walk away
We just let it ride
We finally reach the point of no turning back
You’re bound to walk the line
Love has a dark side

Words and Music by: Michael McDonald

Genevieve Music ASCAP, Adm by Wixen Music Publishing
IF YOU WANTED TO HURT ME

I’ve been waiting for you all my life

Only to hear you tell me that you couldn’t be mine
How we both lose and we pay the price
You make it sound to me that you’re crucified
Now my fleeting joy
Grows so dim
As you turn away and run to him

CHORUS:
Makes me wonder what you mean when you say, you’d stay
If you only could
That you must break my heart
For my own good
Makes me wonder how you’d treat me, baby
If you wanted to hurt me

No matter how I try I may never find

A single ray of hope in all your lies
So I live in fear, my share of doubt
You’re just another heartache and there’s no way out

Now my hope grows so dim

As you turn away and run to him

CHORUS: 2X
So once more tell me
How you must be cruel to be kind
For all your good intentions
With me in mind
Makes me wonder how you’d treat me, baby
If you really wanted to hurt me

So you say you’d stay if you could

But you must break my heart
For my own good
Makes me wonder how you’d treat me, baby
If you wanted to hurt me

If you really wanted to hurt me, baby

You’re doing just fine
For all your good intentions
With me in mind
You make me wonder
How you’d treat me baby
If you wanted to hurt me

Words and Music by:

Michael McDonald / Peter Leinheiser
Genevieve Music ASCAP, Adm by Wixen Music Publishing
Meheiser Music ASCAP, Adm by Wixen Music Publishing

BEAUTIFUL CHILD
You learn soon enough
If you don’t know by now
When you’re talking to my face
I’m not really here
I’m already down the road with my expectations
Wrestling with regret
Somewhere back there
Yes, I am baby

When you cross that line

And you lose yourself
There may be no turning back
Cause illusion fades
And what you’re looking for
May be no more than that

CHORUS:
Beautiful child
Someday you’ll give anything
To live in a moment
Live with what you’ve got
You can search this world over
And still be a prisoner in a cage
Once you’ve forgotten what it feels like
You’ll find it on the inside

Not so much by virtue

That we come to know the truth
Still we must be careful not to let it slip away
Feel free to take what you need from me
Learn from my mistakes

From the things

We stand to lose
Once we turn our backs
Of the truth
Don’t be afraid cause it ain’t no more than that

REPEAT CHORUS 2x

(Grateful for what you’ve got) last chorus

Words and Music by:

Michael McDonald / Chuck Sabatino / Bernie Chiaravalle
Genevieve Music ASCAP, Adm by Wixen Music Publishing / Chasba Publishing ASCAP, c/o Karen Schauben
Publishing / Bernoit Music ASCAP, Adm by Wixen Music Publishing

TOO SHORT
I met a girl that lived in Blue Hill
She said her name was Beverly
She had a smile that’d make a man’s heart melt
One gold tooth she could not hide from me
(I said girl) It breaks my heart to wonder
Why every night you walk these streets alone
Why you sell your body in the shadows
One thing I just need to know
Where do you keep your heart and soul

(She told me)

This Life is too short to give up (Repeat 3x)

Away at school he reads her letters

How he’s his momma’s pride and joy
But like the fate of many others
The virus takes his mother
And a father’s drunken silence
Leaves a lost and wayward boy
Souls that for all the best intentions
Are just another sad tale this cruel world will tell
Where the best intentions are good for nothing more
Than to pave a road to hell
Save for a quiet voice
Like a faint and distant bell

(Saying)
This Life is too short to give up
(She told him)
This Life is too short to give up

Tattooed arms
Clutching a weathered bible
From a prison cell they put him on the street
To bring his message of revival
To every lost and lonely soul
Every broken heart he meets
On every crowded street corner
In the gutters of defeat

(He tells them)

This Life is too short to give up
There is a light that shines for us…and one everlasting love (that lifts us up) (and so)
This Life is too short to give up

Words and Music by:

Michael McDonald / Russ Bono
Genevieve Music ASCAP, Adm by Wixen Music Publishing
Russ Bono Music ASCAP, Adm by Russ Bono

FREE A MAN
Say what you want about the gays
The one thing that they are not, is afraid
You thought you had ’em down
You thought you had ‘em beat
Then there’s thirty thousand righteous dudes
Marching down the street
We may not all agree on sex
But we all agree on love

CHORUS:
Free A Man
And love will follow
Free A Man
And love will follow
Free A Man
And love will follow

For the sake of perspective we look back

What it’s meant in this country to be black
You thought you had ‘em beat
You thought you’d keep ‘em down
But you only fanned the flames
That burned your castle to the ground

When you employ the tactics of hate

You’ve already lost the war on principle

(You’ve got to) REPEAT CHORUS

There’s a newly sung song going down

Religion has not failed man
No, it’s the other way around

When your purse is empty but your heart is full

There’s a different direction that your heart is pulled
No more fool or money’s clown
When history makes the man
Not the other way around

The soul takes its hearty form

From the inner storm
No doubt in attempt to quell
Self-will unbounded
Let the soul imagine the man
Not the other way around

Say what you want about the kids

But ain’t they only doing what we did
You clamp ‘em when they’re young
Or freeze ‘em when they’re teens

Teach ‘em commerce and religion are the reason, rhyme, and means
But when the same fears bring ‘em to the brink
They’ll be looking for a different way to think
REPEAT CHORUS

Words & Music by: Richard Stekol BMI

Lifer Publishing BMI