Terri Hendrix

The Ring- Lyrics

1. Goodbye Charlie Brown
2. Spinning Off
3. I Found The Lions
4. Truth Is Strange
5. From Another Planet
6. Long Time Coming
7. Consider Me
8. Nightwolves
9. The Fact Is
10. The Ring
11. Prayer For My Friends

Goodbye Charlie Brown

Terri Hendrix
Lloyd Maines

Goodbye Charlie Brown
Hello new century
Open up your schoolbooks to the new page in history
Where did the time go?
When was the change?
How can something familiar suddenly look so strange?
Goodbye knowing
All that you thought you knew
It’s time to guess and place a bet
On what this world is coming to
Say that you’re with me
Say that you’ll stay
Goodbye Charlie Brown
Things are coming around my way
Reality is what you see when you want to know
You can close your eyes and let it all go
Or turn on the TV and turn up the show
And hold on hold on hold on hold on
Goodbye Charlie Brown
You kick that ball and you hit the sky
Damn the soul that shoots you down
Because they don’t have the guts to try
No, they don’t have the guts to try
It’s tomorrow in Australia
Oh, this world is gonna stick around
Nothing’s coming to an end today
Goodbye Charlie Brown

Spinning Off

Terri Hendrix
Lloyd Maines

It’s hard to play the role when you’re feeling bizarre
Hard to stay grounded when you’re seeing stars
I’m spinning off and I don’t know how to land
I held my temper until it burned my hands
I flew off the handle now nothing stands
I’m spinning off and I don’t know how to land
Take me
Take me down
Take me down or lift up the ground
I’m spinning off and I don’t know how to land
I went outside and gave the world a toss
I shook out my change and I counted the loss
Did you take it or did I give you a hand?
The hard way is how I’ve learned
I have little to show for what I’ve earned
I’m spinning off and I don’t know how to land
I’m spinning off high above the flames
I’ve lowered myself to the level of the games
Nothing turned out like I planned
I’ve been putting out fires all over town
What took me years to build is all coming down
I’m spinning off and I don’t know how to land
Take it easy
I’ve taken all I can
I’m spinning off and I don’t know how to land

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I Found The Lions

Terri Hendrix
Lloyd Maines

I found the lions
I escaped their jaws
I kept a few of their teeth
But I let them keep their claws
I found the lions or maybe they found me
Could have been bad luck
Or it could have been my destiny
I played dead
But my pulse was too loud
The hyenas giggled as the lions formed a crowd
I played dead
The buzzards in the tree
Waited for the lions to make a meal out of me
Don’t mess with the mighty mighty jungle
Swim through the ocean
Eat the fish in the sea
Don’t mess with the mighty mighty jungle
Because where you find the lions
You will find me
I found the lions
I fell into their lair
No one was there to help me
No one was there to care
I found the lions or maybe they found me
When you stumble in the jungle
It is all a mystery
I played dead
They tossed me around
I kept one eye on the buzzards
And the other on the ground
I played dead
My blood turned thin
The hyenas giggled as the lions closed in
Out of me out of me
You’ll get a little grub
A little bit of skin
And a bone for the cub
No monkey no beast
No dinner no feast
No flood of blood to say the least
Out of me out of me
You’ll come to find
I’m the king of your state of mind
Out of me out of me out of me you’ll get
All that you will come to regret

Truth Is Strange

Terri Hendrix

Here comes my history
I see it all in front of me
Why I lied is a mystery
It never brought me piece of mind
If I could tell it like it is
There would be no times like this
The facts are hit and miss
And won’t leave me behind
Truth is strange
I wish I could change
Everything I’ve said and everything I’ve done
There is no compromise
In the room of lies
In the room of lies
The truth shall come
I want to keep it straight
I want to rest at night
I want to be the one true thing
You count on to be right
I want my history to be something we outlast
So when we see it face to face
We know it’s in our past
Trust is gone
With the first lie told
Trust is gone
With the truth you withhold
Truth is strange

From Another Planet

Terri Hendrix
Lloyd Maines

Janet from another planet
Says Johnny can
Make a big comeback from Johnny land
When the rabbit ears work on the TV set
They settle for the only channel they can get
Rosanne from another land says Dan’s fridge
Has photos of his folks and his two kids
She gave him a glossy 5 X 7
He stuck a magnet on her face and put her photo on the oven
This whole world is round like a ball
You either roll with it or don’t roll at all
90 miles an hour just to get home
I go 90 miles an hour
Just to sleep alone
June from the moon was FFA
She put on her blue coat every day
She’d take it off for a roll in the hay
Now she’s OA and single at the PTA
Bobby-Joe from San Angelo
Owns a chicken fry diner in the Stop-n-Go
It’s the last stop on this galaxy
And the only thing the truckers want is the coffee free
From another planet from another planet
We want a taste of what ain’t ready yet
Under the lid steaming in a pot
It will burn your tongue when it’s young and hot
From another planet off Sycamore Street
We drink wine in paper cups and stare at our feet
We’ve been the flat
We’ve been the spare
And the fifth wheel on a ride we call solitaire
I sleep alone because my heart has turned to granite
I sleep alone because I’m from another planet

Long Time Coming

Marcus Hummon
Marti Seidel Maguire

Tell me you need me
And I will understand
Because I’ve seen the desert drinking
From the rain’s open hand
Tell me you want me
And I will lay me down
We can melt like snow in the summer
And flow underground
Just don’t tell me that you love me
Because I’ll believe it like an answer to my prayers
And I’ve been waiting for these words
On the thinnest of air
It’s been a long time coming
It’s been a long time coming
I tell you I’m frightened
A crash of lightning in the air
Now you’re changing like the weather
And I’m caught unprepared
You see I’ve been angry
I’ve been all dammed up inside
And when the walls come down
I’m gonna drown with the tide
Nothing can save me this time
Then you tell me that you love me
And I believe it like an answer to my prayers
Because I’ve been waiting for these words
On the thinnest of air
I’ve been dreaming of this moment so long
I almost don’t care

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Consider Me

Terri Hendrix
Lloyd Maines

Do I kiss you like you need to be kissed?
Miss you like you need to be missed?
If I do I need you to consider me
If it’s all about you baby let me go
You’ve been around me long enough to know
I need you to
Consider me
I hold you like I need you to hold me
I know what that’s worth
For the tide shall take back those not grounded
Faithfully to this earth
I call you like I need you to call me
I do what I say
I show up on time
You back out on me every day
Every single day
We go around and around again
We return where we begin
If the opposite of what you say is true
What am I to you?

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Night Wolves

Terri Hendrix
Glenn Fukunaga

Where do you go to get your kicks
When the sun sets low across the sticks?
What do you take to get your fix
And leave it in the rear view?
It’s in the rear view
Left behind
You don’t look back for peace of mind
You uncurl just as I wind
Up with the night wolves
They come to me with yellow eyes
As the moon touches the sky
What do you do to ignore their cries
And leave it in the rear view?
It’s in the rear view
Kicking up dust
You let it go and you adjust
As for me
I’ll be
Up with the night wolves
I spend every day half asleep
Every night I’m up counting sheep
The flock is mine and mine to keep
I’m up with the night wolves
The tick of the clock the pains and the aches
The unpaid bills and the past mistakes
The cold of the night is coming through
I can’t leave it in the rear view
The images won’t let me be
What you don’t notice I can see
As you rest you’ll find me
Up with the night wolves

The Fact Is

Terri Hendrix

The fact is
I can’t get up off my ass
I had a head-on with a thought
I want to catch what can’t be caught
So give it a rest
And I’ll do what’s best
Right or wrong
Don’t rush me
I’m coming along
The fact is
Life is expensive
I’ve paid dues from here to Mars
Each leap of faith has left its scars
I’ve been who I am
I’ve been who I’m not
Both have led me to this place
To catch what can’t be caught
I did what they said
I did what you said too
Both have led me to find
My own point of view
Right or wrong
The fact is
I’m comin’ along
The fact is
We go head to head
And heart to heart
And I’m holding it together
While I’m falling apart
So let’s give it a rest
I’ll do what’s best
Right or wrong
Don’t rush me
I’m coming along
The fact is
I’m coming along

The Ring

Terri Hendrix

When we were kids
We’d lay awake at night
And listen to my mom and dad talk about money
When times were tight
My mom would raise her voice
My dad wouldn’t say a thing
He’d walk outside
Turn on his workshop light
And he’d work on a ring
My dad earned the Soldier’s Medal
And the Purple Heart in Vietnam
He learned how to make jewelry
To ease his mind on the ship back home
The war left him changed
He never said a thing
Every time he thought about it
He’d work on the ring
For my mother
He made a ring
For my mother
He’d do most anything
A quiet man
With words unspoken
Proved his love could not be broken
Out of a half dollar
My father
Made my mom a ring
We watched him through the window
As he worked one afternoon
He held the silver half dollar in his hand
As he tapped the edges with a spoon
When I asked my dad if he was mad
He never said a thing
It seemed to ease his troubled mind
As he worked on the ring
For my mother
He made a ring
For my mother
He’d do most anything
A quiet man
With words unspoken
Proved his love could not be broken
Out of a half dollar
My father
Made my mom a ring
Every holiday
We gather round the table
As my dad prays
And when we close our eyes
Sometimes I think my dad cries
And those words left unspoken
I’ve come to understand
What’s kept our family together
Is worn on my mother’s hand
For my mother
He made a ring
For my mother
He’d do most anything
A quiet man
With words unspoken
Proved his love could not be broken
Out of a half dollar
My father
Made my mom a ring
Out of a half dollar
My father
Made my mom a ring