Tracks
1. I’ve Still Got Music
2. Jump In My Face
3. You Are Revolution
4. Rock Bottom Blues
5. Source Of Strength
6. Diamonds In The Rough
7. Swan Song
8. Feeling Good, Feeling Free
9. Black Madonna
10. Compassion And Cruelty
11. Sand Grains In Eternity
Credits
Written and performed by Sunwheel Psychedelic
Produced by G.W. Miner
“Black Madonna” contains excerpts from “The Holy Fire of St. Michael” by Richard Michael Willoughby
Mastered by Dan Stout at Colossal Mastering
Photography by Paul Elledge — www.paulelledge.com
Paul Elledge is a photographer and filmmaker whose clients include major advertising agencies, record companies and corporations. He has been honored with numerous national and international awards for work that is both individual and uncompromising.
Paul has photographed such celebrities as AC/DC, Billy Corgan, Jennifer Hudson, Ministry, Willie Nelson, Trent Reznor, Luciano Pavarotti and Oprah Winfrey, to name a few.
His work has appeared worldwide in galleries and museums, and has been published in such publications as Audubon, Fast Company, Life, Men’s Health, People, Rolling Stone, Time, and Wired, among others.
Design and layout by Lowercase, Inc.
Special thanks to the great staff at Make n’ Music, Transamerica Audio Group, and Professional Audio Design
Lyrics reprinted with permission. All rights reserved
Lyrics
1. I’ve Still Got Music
I was living the good life
I was wild, I had it all
Got a little drunk one night
Woke up and it was gone
But I’ve still got music
And that’s all I need
I had a woman
And I was happy as I could be
Now she’s gone but I’m not alone
As long as there’s a guitar at home
I’ve still got music
And that’s all I really need
Now one and two and three and four
You say you’ve heard that song before
No I don’t really give a damn
So leave your attitude at the door
I’ve still got music
And that’s all I really need
2. Jump In My Face
You’ve been making moves behind my back
And now the time has come for me to attack
I’m gonna break you
Gonna cut you down to size
My will is stronger than yours
And I’ve got revenge on my mind
Now I’ve been called every name in the book
By men I wouldn’t even give a second look
Idlers with an axe to grind
And nothing more to do
Here me loud and clear now
I’ve got no time for you
No time for you
You
No time for you
You got something to say?
You got something to say?
If you’ve got something to say
You better jump in my face
Rest on your laurels like a king on the throne
I’ve still got something to prove
Living my life on the run
You’ll never see me for the man I am now
Too busy living in the past, but anyhow
I won’t be denied
I won’t be defined by your point of view
I’m gonna roll right over you
I’ve got no time for you
No time for you
You
No time for you
You got something to say?
You got something to say?
If you’ve got something to say
You better jump in my face
3. You Are Revolution
You are emancipation
You are transformation
You are a supernova blowing
You are liberation
You are rejuvenation
You are elevation
You are a river overflowing
You are revelation
You are revolution
You are revolution
You are the one who holds the key
You are the only solution
You are the winds of change blowing on
Revolution
You are the cause of confusion
You are the source of delusion
So don’t lay the blame on me
You are the one solution
To the grand illusion
And I choose to be free
4. Rock Bottom Blues
I’ve been running around
All over town
Where the light it never shines
I’ve been moving around
Never slowing down
Feeling empty all the time
I’ve been rolling the dice
Never thinking twice
About whether I live or die
Death, she appeared to me in a dream
My life, what does it mean?
She offered me no reply
I see no today
I see no tomorrow
I feel nothing at all
But my heart is filled with sorrow
Down for so long
Don’t know where I’ve been
Black sun rising over my head
My friends are no good
And my woman is gone
I’ve got nothing to lose
You’re always telling me
Telling me I’m no good
While you’re chasing that diamond ring
It’s always the same
Got no time for the game
I never promised you a thing
I’m not buying those tears you cry
Just look at how quick they dry
Ain’t no trick in the book you haven’t tried
Our time has come
The feeling is gone
The love has passed us by
I see no today
I see no tomorrow
I feel nothing at all
But my heart is filled with sorrow
Down for so long
Don’t know where I’ve been
Blood moon rising over my head
My friends are no good
And my dream is dead
I’ve got nothing to lose
I’ve got the rock bottom blues
5. Source Of Strength
I’ve seen the end of the road now
Seen the inside of the cage
I’ve seen the bottom of the bottle
Seen the ending of an age
But there is spirit inside a man
Won by trials
Forged in fire
Gives him the strength to go higher
Higher and Higher
You’ll never take me
You’ll never break me
You’ll never bring me down to my knees
You’ll never take me
Never break me
I’ve found a source of strength and the will to believe
There is no rest up ahead
Miles and miles without an end
In vain we strive for release
But always wind up where we begin
I’ve come to know an inner strength
Without beginning, without end
Strength to climb the mountain again
Again and again
You’ll never take me
You’ll never break me
You’ll never bring me down to my knees
You’ll never take me
Never break me
I’ve found a source of strength and the will to believe
And the will to believe
6. Diamonds In The Rough
Well I’d been around and I thought I knew
About a thing or two
I’d been around
But I was still a fool
There is no love inside a woman’s heart
There is no light inside her soul
There is no forgiveness in a woman’s eyes
And in her mind
I don’t even know
There is no tenderness in a woman’s arms
Healing and killing all the same
So don’t you go looking for salvation there
You’ll only be searching in vain
And that’s why I say
Don’t look for diamonds in the rough
Scaling the heavens with strength and bliss
Striving for glory, wealth and fame
Where others fail, we needn’t worry
Fortune has smiled upon our names
We went to war and shed a river of blood
Created the wonders of an age
We built cities for the women we loved
While they were laying our soul to waste
And that’s why I say
Don’t look for diamonds in the rough
7. Swan Song
This is the song to remember
When I’m no longer here
The one defining moment
An ode to the fate that draws near
When Yes becomes impossible
When the war cannot be won
When the opening of scars or new wounds
Won’t get you far
The flame is gone
I want you to feel
Feel like I feel
I’m thrashing like a tiger in the death throes of life
And there’s only time for one more song
So let me be the best
The best that I can be
When your day is through
Taking leave is never easy
It’s never good to stay too long
To be content with what you have
With what you have achieved
I really think this is my swan song
I want you to feel
Feel like I feel
I’m thrashing like a tiger in the death throes of life
And there’s only time for one more song
So let me be the best
The best that I can be
We don’t play for money
And we don’t play for fame
We don’t really care what you say
We don’t take no bullshit
And we don’t play the game
8. Feeling Good, Feeling Free
I love the morning sun
I love the wind and rain
I love the wild and restless heart
I love the leaves at dusk
I love night’s pavilion
I love the wild and restless heart
I love a mean guitar
Really love a mean guitar
Gleaming under the lights like a shining star
I love those summer nights
Driving in my car
Take my fill of love under the stars
You can’t take nothing from me
‘Cuz I’m where I wanna be
Feeling good, feeling free
I love the dream of youth
And though it ends too soon
I’ve saved a little for the ride
There is no bitterness
No feelings of regret
I feel alright, I feel alive
I love a mean guitar
Really love a mean guitar
Gleaming under the lights like a shining star
I’d love to see the world
Travel near and far
Take my fill of love under the stars
You can’t take nothing from me
‘Cuz I’m where I wanna be
Feeling good, feeling free
9. Black Madonna
The season of leaving has come
The severing of ties
Heart strings torn like ribbons-run-with-blood
Born to a house divided
Ravaged by time
Reaching for Paradise
But washed away with the flood
When I’m feeling down
She comes to me
Takes me by the hand
And comforts me
I give you all my love
Black Madonna
Take me to the heavens above
Black Madonna
I give you all my love
Sing me a song of the world that’s to come
A night in your arms
I give you all my love
I feel the winds of betrayal in the air
Chained and defamed
Led by the whip to the square
Exiled to lands remote and insane
Stripped of my name
By the ones who should’ve cared
When I’m feeling down
She comes to me
Takes me by the hand
And comforts me
I give you all my love
Black Madonna
Take me to the heavens above
Black Madonna
I give you all my love
Sing me a song of the world that’s to come
A night in your arms
I give you all my love
“Oh child-bride, Mother of Night
Giving suck and splendor ‘neath the veil of shame
Warm me in your burning braids
Living but for pain of daylight
So lovely the strain, I dreamt an age away.”
When I’m feeling down
She comes to me
Takes me by the hand
And comforts me
I give you all my love
Black Madonna
“I lay forsaken
Empty as the Void
Feeling nothing by a numbness in my depths
This aching for my lady
Loveless until at last she comes again.”
10. Compassion And Cruelty
I hold the power of life and death
With a baby asleep in my hands
Do you understand?
Torn between the love for man
And the anger in my heart
This war inside me
Torn between the love for man
And the anger in my heart
Compassion and cruelty
With every lie we say
We take a drop of blood
And with every kiss
We give a little of our souls
Knowing even this
We tumble headlong into love
Running over minefields in the snow
Knowing well one’s gonna blow
Torn between the love for man
And the anger in my heart
This war inside me
Torn between the love for man
And the anger in my heart
Compassion and cruelty
Love will not save you from your fate
Or take the chill of loneliness away
Broken hearts will mend with time
Or will they burst
Like purple plums of dynamite?
Broken hearts will mend
Or will they burst?
I hold the power of life and death
With a baby asleep in my hands
Asleep in my hands