taken from 06.16.2008
One maybe two three, five years ago
Sat on the black rock, ready to go
I met an old man, he got a beard growing down to his knees
Wisdom he smoked, and knowledge he breathed
He got a rhythm oh, to his own the way he walked the way he talked, the way he stalk, he got that song
He got to telling me about my life, he said boy one day gonna find it right
And when you do, let me know who got you where you gone and what you gonna do
And I said old man, if that day come
I'll look back with you and smile
And then this man told me everything I need to know
I shut my mouth, opened up my ears and go
I asked him what is your name?
He said I'm old man time
Yeah my son, well I've been waiting for you so long
I can see you're in pain, and I know that there's something wrong
I know that you've been angry, I know that you've seen hate
But you gotta dig deep to the heavens above
And sit down learn to create
You gotta lose all your anger, lose all your hate
It ain't gonna work no more
I wish the world was run by love, and absolutely nothing more
Lay down all my pain, I got rid of my hate
And now I'm just chilling on the big black rock
For the rest of my life, this is where I'll stay
We all have a black rock, it's in our mind
And I go there all the time
To the black rock
taken from 04.24.2007
Call me crazy, call me what you will,
I had a beautiful house on the top of a hill,
I used to break out my window, go walk through the night, down route 28 and I’m doing it right.
I ended up on a Black Rock thinking too much
Late nights, used to spend them alone,
but through the evening, the fog got thick, I started to think just a little too much on my own,
Now I had a smoke maybe two, maybe 3,
it was just me sitting between all of these, trees, I chop them down, burn them up, let them all know that my mind is ready to go
Now I didn’t understand a damn thing at all, I was just 18
So I had shut my mouth and opened up my eyes, I had to see a few things
And through the mist came an old man, beard grown down to his knees, wisdom he spoke, and knowledge he breathe,
he let me know how I’m livin and I’m livin it wrong, I gotta get my life together and I’m not for long, and he said, if I’m gonna write these songs I gotta write them real nice, gotta tell the truth and tell it all twice
you see for me, black rock is a state of mind, and I’m takin every state that in behind
but I’m not getting in too quick, I got a lot on my mind these days, and its thick.
I keep my black rock in the back of my head like a memory will never go
Ooo, I didn’t understand with this old man, help me with his son,
He said life, my son, is about being blind
Blind to the color, man blind to the money, man blind to the politic at all,
you must be blind to the money man, blind to the color, and blind to them all.
And once you can see with your eyes closed, things start to change, for us all.
And that old man that talked to me, disappeared and never came back from in between the tree, so I remember it good, it the last thing that I seen… He said I’m Old Man Time!
and my son , I’ve been waiting for you so long, I can see hat your in pain, And I know that there’s something wrong, I know that you’ve been angry, I know that you’ve seen hate, i know that you’ve been angry, And I Know I am angry, And this blood (blood) blood (blood)
Pouring all over me
Is this blood (blood) blood (blood)
Filling my mind and I cannot sleep
In the blood (blood) blood (blood)
Pumping in my veins
Take all that blood, and turn it into love
On the black rock
taken from 01.19.2007
And my son, well i've been waiting for you for so long
I can see that you're in pain,
And i know that there's something wrong
i know that you've been angry,
I know that you’ve seen hate,
I know that you’ve been angry,
I know that you’ve seen hate
I know that you’ve been angry,
I know that you’ve been angry
I know that you’ve been angry
I know I am angry
And this blood (blood) blood (blood)
Pourin all over me
Is this blood (blood) blood (blood)
Fillin my mind and I cannot sleep
In the blood (blood) blood (blood)
Pumpin in my veins
Take all that blood, and turn it into love
On the black rock
taken from 10.22.2006
I remember it well as if it were last night I used to break down my window and go walking all night,
I remember it good as if it was yesterday used to bust out my front door go marching all day
But back then I had a clearer mind at least I thought I thought I could see everything front and behind
I never heard footsteps I saw them coming had eyes in the back of my head
at least I thought that I did I went crusin through the black night on my way down route 28
took a left busted hard down by that crick one day
and this old man stood and burned out down by the bottom of the bridge
and me and my friend got to talking late one night we thought that life wasn’t much more than this
well could it be this is all that I have could it be this is the air I will breath till I die
well I’m not really sure at this point started asking questions about what when where and why
and through the mist came an old man holding a cain he had a book in his hand and a knife in his brain he had a smoke or 2 with me and my boys we just sat down chilled back relaxed and absorbed
we observed everything that he done he ran me through my life and then some
and it all came together at once I need to live this black rock living for once
I gotta take my memories and take them well
remember what I can and the rest gone to hell
and until then ill do my best but this black rock livin is all about time
understand me that its short and it moves
don’t wait relax for a few time has a mind of its own and so do you
you gotta have a name man you know so much about me you must have a name where did you come from and how do you know all my games you read between my lines I tried to lie but he took it real hard
taken from 11.25.2005
I'm not aware of too many things,
you know what i know if you know what i mean,
what i am is what i am and what you are o are,
what i am is what i am and what you are is what you are,
i remember it good like it was last night,
use to break out my window and walk,
meet up with my best friend down that road that time that we talked,
we head down 28 route,
headed back home,
gotta take that left same block where i'm known,
gotta get back jack to the forest where i'm grown,
and i split the trees and off on my own,
gotta leave em all behind and let em know i'm there,
gotta get somewhere soooo,
im gettin older every day that passes,
but younger in my mind cause i remember classes,
where i sit down and relax and talk
i got too many things on my mind to walk,
i gotta stop my feet and sit back down,
on that black rock chillin with my old friend clown,
and old man time come talk to me,
he told me "son ya many things ya gonna see"
"you'll see life is all right in front your eyes but you gotta wake up and be older
sometimes."
so i grew up i grew up i grew up faster than able,
i grew up i grew up im gonna beat him down like cane,
you see i grew up i grew up fast and able,
i asked him "whats your name cause you know so much about me?
i never even met you how you know so much about me?"
he looked me up and down with these old eyes, cane, beard down to his knees, wisdom
he spoke and knowledge he breathed and the old man said to me
"my name is, my name was and my name will forever be Old Man Time..."
taken from 06.11.2005
one maybe two
several years ago i sat down and tried to write me a song
i like to look into what was right in my days and what i assumed was wrong
but i was 18
didnt know a damn thing
but im willing to try
sometimes you gotta shutup your mouth and open your ears open your eyes
and look uptop
my elders talked to me
they said son you got alot to learn in these days
lesson 1 dont judge anyone
and lesson 2 dont you dare let anybody judge you
and i learned that lesson and i live my days strong
sure id like to be 6foot tall but thats just not me
i live my life in this song
and im a roll on im a roll on
but i remember that rock i used to sit down in talk it over just a little bit more before we stop
i saw an old man sittin down he got an old beard and old eyes and old skin he got a cane beard down to his knees
wisdom he smoked and knowledge he breathed
one day i got the courage i said what is your name
you talk all this
what is your name
he said im old man time
taken from 12.29.2004
I've had some long days
Riding down that road
And my memory
Is all we have
Memories, is all we have
And those long nights
Are tearing at my soul
And I'm missing
I miss my home
Its the only place I know of
taken from 11.22.2004
Its been a long day
Tearing at my head
And my memory
Is all I have
Of these long nights
Tearing at my soul
Well I'm singing
Away from you
Cause your all I know
All this time
taken from 02.05.2004
turn 25, lose it all
gain a little more and i'm back where i started
it's been 7 damn years since i wrote this song
and so much has changed
and i'm not gonna say that it stayed the same
because i feel my days got longer, my nights just shriveled up and died
i haven't really dreampt that much in a long, long time
you see if you think about it, time slips away
but it's, it's the point of my day
just to pick it up and walk, pick it up and walk away
i'd like to start my dreamin again
i wish that i could buy imagination again
i wish that i could find what i once had
but i can't, and i move on
it's been 7 damn years since i wrote this song
so much might change
and i'm not gonna claim that it stays the same because it doesn't
friends come and go, people that you know
will turn their back and they'll stab your crap
and don't have nothin more for you
and when you're done you're done
and when the people stop coming around and you can find you're the only one
and then maybe that you will see yourself like you are, the day you're born
you're just one man, one man alone
and that's one man, one man on the run
i said one man and i am one man alone
and i'm dreamin and i've been dreamin so long
i've been dreamin, of a land with love
lost in color and that's what's above
a time that we can all be together as one
but i'm not gonna sit here and hate
i got a little piece of pie on my plate
it's called piece that i'd love to sing for you tonight
i'd love to bring y'all together and do what's right
i gotta feelin, i gotta feelin that y'all see the love
do you feel love in the room tonight?
when it's quiet, i'll go
i asked him what's your name...
taken from 11.02.2002
one, three, maybe five years ago til today
surrounded by many, but at night i sleep all alone
and i know it sounds like complaining, you can trust me i feel this shit all the time
see this silly old man roaming my town, gunning thm down
and it worries my mind
why do they do this thing
why do they let evil ring
i don't really understand, but i'm trying so hard some times
well i used to go down to this big place
black rock road and it led me where i needed to go
to release, to restrain myself from doing all these things that are out of my control
and i, i need my answers, so i'm heading down to that good old riverside
see an old man, he's sitting on a big black rock
he got the beard down to his knees, wisdom he spoke and knowledge he breathes
i don't know who this man is
so i got the courage and asked him what's your name
he said i'm old man time
well my son, i've been waiting for you for so long
i can see that you're in pain, and i know that there's something wrong
i know that you've been angry, i know that you've seen hate
but you gotta dig deep to heaven above, you sit down, learn, and create
you gotta lose all that anger, lose all that hate
it ain't gonna work no more
i wish the world was run by love, and absolutely nothing more
i laid down all my pain, i'm getting rid of my hate
well now i'm just sitting on a big black rock for the rest of my life
well that's where i'll stay
we all have a black rock in our mind
and i go there all the time
it's the black rock
taken from 05.18.2002
well one, let's see two, three, four, five five years ago
til today surrounded by many but at night i'm all alone
i know that it sounds like complaining
i do it all the time
you'll never understand just what it's like to sleep alone every night
in my mind i could be surrounded by faces
never gonna just what's going on
that's ok, that's life and i will deal with these problems
no substance can take that away
so i've learned and i'm moving on day to day
and i need my answers so i go down to that good old riverside
i see an old man sitting on a big black rock
beard down to his knees, cane in his hands
wisdom he speaks, truth he tells
i asked him what's your name
he said i'm old man time
well my son, well i've been waiting for you so long
well i can see that you're in pain
well then i know that there's something wrong
i know that you've been angry
i know that you were hurt
but i'm looking right up to the heaven above
i'm sitting, learn and create
i gottta lose all that anger, lose all the hate
it ain't gonna work no more
i wish the world was run by love and absolutely nothing more
i laid down all my hate
i got rid of my pain
and now i'm just sitting on a big black rock
for the rest of my life that's where i'll stay
we all have a black rock in our mind
and i go there all the time
it's the black rock
taken from 05.10.2002
i say now one, let me see two, maybe three, four, five years ago
til today i'm surrounded by many but at nights i'm all alone
i know it sounds like complaining
i hear that shit all the time
life's no good, life's too hard to sit there and whine
but you notice breathing is the best thing that you can do
and no matter how bad them things come down
there's lots more things we can do
well i can learn and i love
and that keeps me smiling through
but times we're down
well then i needed some answers so i went down to that riverside
i saw an old man just sitting on a big black rock
beard down to his knees
knowlege he spoke
i listened good
i asked him what's your name
he said i'm old man time
well my son, well i've been waiting for you so long
well i can see that you're in pain
well then i know that there's something wrong
i know that you've been angry
i know that you've got hate
you got to look to the heaven above, sit, learn and create
you got to lose all that anger, lose all the hate
it ain't gonna work no more
i wish the world was run by love and absolutely nothing more
and so i laid down all my pain
i got rid of my hate
and now i'm just sitting on a big black rock with love
and that's where i'll stay
we all have a black rock in our minds
and i go there all the time
it's the black rock
taken from 02.18.2002
One, maybe two, three four five years ago
still to this day i'm surrounded by many but i'm all alone
and i know that i'm having trouble falling to sleep
i shouldnt wake up in a cold sweat worrying about what i did last night, last night, last night
but its still the last night that you have. every single day goes by, i'm not gonna lose a minute anymore
so i went down to that riverside to catch myself a piece of mind that i could call my own
i saw an old man chilling on a big black rock with a beard down to his knees looking old
said whats your name
he said i'm old man time
and my son, well i've been waiting for you for so long
i can feel that you're in pain, and i can seethat there's something wrong
i know that you've been angry, i know that you've got pain
but you gotta look up to that sky and learn to create
you gotta lose all that anger, lose all that hate
it ain't gonna work no more
i said the world was run by love, and absolutely nothing more
i laid down all my hate, i'm got rid of my pain
well now i'm just sitting on a big black rock for the rest of my life
well that's where i'll stay
we all have a black rock in our mind
and i go there all the time
it's the black rock
taken from 01.21.2002
it might've been just one, but i have a feeling it was many more years ago
that i found myself quite alone
oh i tried everything to get me through those nights
you see it did not matter if i drink it or ate it
well i was putting up no fight
because this life, well i decided to make it hard
just as easily i could please just me and keep on rolling on
and so i had so many questions
answers needed fast
so i went down to that river side with old man time
well then my son, well i've been waiting for you so long
you got to lay down all that anger
because i see that there's something wrong
and i can look between your eyes
and i see your mind so deep
and i know that the deeper this water gets
the more dreading you will be
he said you lose all that anger, lose all that hate
it ain't gonna work no more
i said this world is run by love and absolutely nothing more
so i laid down all my anger and i got rid of my pain
and i go there to my little black rock
and that's where i like so sit myself in my brain
we all have a black rock
it's in our mind
and i go there all the time
it's the black rock
taken from 01.18.2002
about one, oh let's see two, i'm telling myself it was five
years ago i felt lost and on my own
i had no one there to tell me my son you've been doing wrong
so i try anything that i could to show me paths on my way
and i've learned in myself i like to do so wrong
but it was about time that i grew up and moved on
so i was searching for an answer
i went down to that river bend
saw a man sitting on a black black
said what's your name
i said i'm old man time
and my son, well i've been waiting for you so long
well i can see that you're in pain
and i can feel that there's something wrong
and i just know that you're not to blame
but i can know all these things done passed
because i'm old man time sitting on my rock
and i see through an iron glass
and my little man you've got to lose
all that anger that's been eating you up
and no hate can touch this world
you got to pick up love from above
you got to lose all that anger, lose all that hate
it ain't gonna work no more
you see this world is run by love and absolutely nothing more
and so i laid down all that hate and i lost all my pain
oh and every single night as i lay my head to bed
i'm off to the black rock and there i lay
we all have a black rock, it's in our minds
and i go there all the time
it's the black rock
taken from 01.16.2002
long years ago, it seems like every day since
i find myself searching for some answers
that i've questioned from the beginning of my time
since i had lost myself well i was willing to do anything
i would take any little thing that could lead me out
of the day that i bring about
my reality does not change
but my state of mind
so i went to this black rock one day
it was down by that riverside
and i saw this old man
long beard to his feet
and i said what's your name my friend
he didn't miss a beat
he said i'm old man time
and my son, well i've been waiting for you so long
well i can see that you're so pained
and i know that there's something wrong
oh that anger's got you deep
and it is growing every day
and so i kept on talking to his little old ear
and this is what he had to say
you got to lose all that anger, lose all that hate
it ain't gonna work no more
i said this world is run by love and absolutely nothing more
and so i lost all my anger, i gave up on my hate
i ended up on my big black rock
and that's where i've got to stay to this day
we all have a black rock, it's in our minds
and i go there every night
it's the black rock
taken from 11.15.2001
about five years ago well i found myself looking to clear my head
been beneath that powder, been beneath them trees
i been caught up in river beds
changed my soul
and i cannot seem to reach out, but i'm out in this world
so i go inside for some peace of mind
and i went down to that river bed to find the answer
and what i saw was a man
i said what's your name, he said i'm old man time
and my son, well i've been waiting for you for long
you see, you're caught up in your mind and you cannot tell what's wrong
you've got to lose all that anger, lose all that hate
it ain't gonna work no more
you see this world is run by love and absolutely nothing more
and so i lost my anger and i gave up on hate
and i just love to love every day of my life and i feel so great
and i have to thank here a place where i like to die
and it's called a place in my mind
and that's where i sit, just chilling on my big black rock
we all have a black rock, it's in our mind
and i go there all the time
taken from 10.20.2001
i feel like i'm walking alone to a bare, barboned place in the valley
cause down there nobody really cares what you look like or where you're from
to them, you're just another body
a long long time ago i did not know what to do
i had built up so much ignorance in my mind
i can't really tell you what i'd thought i'd do
i had all this anger and i had all this hate
and i couldn't go to bed at night with deciding who i should blame
so i went down to the riverside and i saw an old man sitting on a black rock
i said baby what's your name, he said i'm old man time
and i've got something that i'd like to say to you
he said my son, i've been waiting so long
for you to come here to ask how i can live a little better life
and i don't have nothing in my past
because i'm not afraid to walk on and surely not afraid to die
because i feel like i'm strong inside and nobody can change my mind
you must lose all that anger, lose all that hate
you can't live with that no more
and on my black rock i'm living my life this way
and i'm never going back for more
and you can't tell me to stop because i just keep rolling on
and you all have a black rock in your mind
and you can go there all of the time
we all have a black rock, it's in our mind
and i go there all the time
taken from 10.17.2001
as the days grow older i grow with them
i'm like a tree that done grown out of the little bitty itty stem
and i ended up down by the riverside looking for answers
and i saw this old man sitting on a big black rock
and i said what's your name
he said my name my son, is old man time
and i've waiting for you for so damn long
you see because he done noticed
that i built up lots of hate
i couldn't go to sleep at night
because i was afraid that i would not wake
you see i had this shit on shoulder
and i could not gripe it off
and i was full of all this anger
and i had nowhere to take it off
he said you lose all that anger, you must lose all that hate
you can't live in this world no more
you must get with love and fall to the floor
and make that shit grow more
and i done noticed that since that time i felt so much better in my mind
that because i've got a black rock and i go there all the time
it's in my mind
we all have a black rock, it's in our mind
and i go there all the time
taken from 09.20.2001
i was wondering where it all comes from
all these years pass by and i'm lost
well i'm surrounded, but i'm all alone
so i went down by myself to that river side
and i saw an old man sitting on a black rock looking like that he was there to hide
i said he had a long beard growing down to his knees
said my man, what's your name
he said i'm old man time
and i said whatcha doing here
he said my son, i've been waiting for way too long
i've been here for a thousand years
well i can see that you're angry, i see that you hate
i can't stand to look in your eyes
i'm so confused, i don't know what to do
so i'm walking round this world with closed eyes
and i said my man, what can i do
my neighbor seems to hate me and so do you
and you don't understand what i've said
i can't really get this shit out my head
and i teach you how to see
he can teach me how to cry
he can teach me how to live
teach me how to die
and i just want to know where it's coming from
he said it's right in your mind, this black rock done chilled
and you can go there any time of the hill
and if you want to get lost from the move of the day to day hustle
drop, ah drop and move
you're feeling not nice, you don't like it
you cannot feel this shit, you can't fight it
so if you want just get on the black rock
i go there all the time cause it's in my mind
and i go there all the time cause it's in my mind
and we all have a black rock every time
taken from 09.15.2001
there are times, there are times you are lonely
there are so many times
you're so lonely but you're surrounded by thousand of eyes
so these times lead someone walking down by that riverside
saw this old man sitting on a big black rock with nothing to hide
he had a long grey beard hanging down to his toes
he wore a robe, but his eyes were wise
i said old man, what's your name
he said my son, my name is old man time and i've got some things for you
i said but how do you know me
he said i know all and i've been waiting for you for so long
so why don't you listen to what i tell to you
he said you must lose that anger, you lose all the hate
you drop that shit down, baby wipe off the plate
you can't understand how to live if you can't sit back a little and give
you got to give your heart, said you got to give your soul
and if you leave baby come back to go
because you see that this land full of life
they can't take it all and they cut with a knife
through your soul you must know my man
that all you got to give is in your hand
and i said but i've got all this anger
i'm feeling lonely, give me a sranger
he said no way, you must release
up to the black rock and where you're at peace
and you can be there anytime you like
so since then i've been there every single night
and i go to my black rock all the time
and would you like to come with baby, have some life
oh we all have a black rock
taken from 09.14.2001
well i was walking down that riverside not too long ago
well i've been so jaded in my mind
so i had a couple things that i'd love to know
and i saw this old man sitting on this great big giant rock
i said my man, what is your name
he said i am old man time
and i've got some things that i've got to tell you
well i said old man, i've been living your fate
i've got so many things that below me
and i can't really think very straight
and these things just tear me up
because i've got this anger and i got this hate
how can i move on
he said my son i've got one thing that i've got to tell you, and then go on
in your mind, everybody, you all have a black rock
he said my son, in your mind
there's a place you can go where none of that exists no more
well you can lose all that anger, you lose all the hate
you can't live with it no more
because a world of love don't have no room
so please just close the door
so i thought bout this place for a while or two
i said i've got to get there, will you come with me
and he said i would love to go there with you
but i live there every night, can't you see
that you can lose all the anger, lose all that hate
it won't let you live no more
and in the black rock in your mind you can live forever more, forever more
and i go to my black rock all the time
it releases me from that hate that holds me in a mind
and i'm not afraid to live there all my life
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