SL1 = Serenity Lane Part 1 Selfless Delicacy recorded with engineer Daniel Shanks

RH1 = Selfless Delicacy Rocks for Honduras live, last years Honduras benefit concert

SL2 = Serenity Lane Part 2 Jahn Sood solo, not yet released

Fairytale Ballet

Jahn Sood

They move with grace in their ballet

The people who have only names

They like to play and they like to say

That the world is theirs to take

She left her slippers on the stairs

He searched to find her everywhere

When they heard that love had sung

For this unworthy humble one

Their plaster grace and pretty face

Broke to show the true outrage

I dont know all the answers

But I can find my way

I cant step like the dancers

But I walk in rhythm every day.

Yesterday I heard her say

that the past had blown away

But today the hurricane

Blows me winds it hurts to face

A princess never sheds her crown

This beggar watches from the ground

What if Cinderella loved

A rich man not here but above

But she chose the crown instead

Of love and hard ship in the end

I dont know all the answers

But I can find my way

I cant step like the dancers

But I walk in rhythm every day.

Dim the Stagelights

Jahn Sood

Ive been under these lights

For endless time

With tempo flying

With sweat glands crying

With soul shining

But do they show the color of tonight?

Ive been under these lights

Illuminated

Speculated

Contemplated

and Segregated

But do they show the color of tonight?

Do you see clearly?

I know Im blind

The distant glare

Fills my tired eyes

But I do know the color of tonight.

Close your eyes

Then you can see

Feel the light

Inside of me

The light that shows the color of tonight

The light that shows the color of tonight

Outlaw

Jahn Sood

The wheels are the singer

The highway his song

Light is a temptress,

The night is the throng.

Today hes an out law cast to the road

All dreams are alive but he comfort of home.

Can I help you you dont understand

Can I teach you you are less of a man

He said, Thank you as he took to a stand

I dont want advice if you cant lend a hand

The wheels are the singer

The highway his song

Light is a temptress,

The night is the throng.

He sings in a coffee shop and he sings in a bar

Flees from the castle and rides by the stars

With that he took one step and ran out the door

Searching for solitude his soul implored

The wheels are the singer

The highway his song

Light is a temptress,

The night is the throng.

This car is a dove transcending the earth

Hot gasoline love exhaust is its birth.

Turn around, turn around,

Outlaw is caught

They said that he ran away,

But he knew he was lost.

The wheels are the singer

The highway his song

Light is a temptress,

The night is the throng.

Where Am I Going?

Jahn Sood

I question my existence

While I swell and fall for distances

I run away what is this

Its the mystical delinquency

that has grown

Where am I going?

Im drowned in thoughtless paradise

Nowhere to go, times in a vice

Ive had it all Ill pay the price

Nothing around can melt the ice

On the road

Where am I going?

Chorus:

Dont know where I came from

I dont know where Im goin to

I know what Im lookin at

But I cant see through

Nowhere I go evades this hate

The blatant crimes, lives saved too late

Playful words, more thoughts irate

(We)  never talk but we debate

(Im) on my own.

Where am I going?

Solo 

Chorus:

Dont know where I came from

I dont know where Im goin to

I know what Im lookin at

But I cant see through

I cant see through you

I cant see through to you

But I can see though you

I can see right through you.

Maybe I can

Three Weeks Tomarrow

Jahn Sood

June 16, 2002

Im sitting in my bedroom

reading Rolling Stone

Kurt Cobain is on the cover

at least Im not alone

His eyes are colored blue but

hes black and white

Your eyes are green

I knew on the first night

All I really know is the

color of your eyes

I always want to talk to you

but you dont have the time

Do you ever wonder

what Im really like

Youve never seen that side of me

when Im happy and bright

1 night was all the start, already having second thoughts,

3 weeks tomorrow.

4 days and Ill be gone, First week was all I got,

5 days to love you.

Last night I dropped a call, sixth day call me back or not,

seventh days to rest

And Ill be here, Ill be here

I hope that we get through this

cuz I like you very much

But I couldnt make you smile

couldnt even make you blush

You had a lot of things to do

at work today

I understand youre stressed, hope I dont

make you feel that way

Sometimes you seem uncomfortable

and I wonder if its me

I can tell when youre not happy

Is this where you want to be?

1 night was all the start, already having second thoughts,

3 weeks tomorrow.

4 days and Ill be gone, First week was all I got,

5 days to love you.

Last night I dropped a call, sixth day call me back or not,

seventh days to rest

And Ill be here, Ill be here

Sometimes when I kiss you

you stop kissing back

I wish that you would tell me why

while I am still intact

If you want to end it now

I would understand

But when you leave I will forever

want to hold your hand

Now Ive said what I need to say

I let my thoughts pour out

And Im still sitting in my bedroom

with a semi-awkward doubt

1 night was all the start, already having second thoughts,

3 weeks tomorrow.

4 days and Ill be gone, First week was all I got,

5 days to love you.

Last night I dropped a call, sixth day call me back or not,

seventh days to rest

And Ill be here, Ill be here

Step Away

Jahn Sood

July 1998

Time is a never-ending story

But the pages go by too quick

Time goes on and on forever

But we never have enough of it

Time is and always will be endless

Though it always running out

Time is rushed but it takes too long

Things last longer than they should be there for

We're all the same but we're different

all very different but the same

when the clock ticks

when your heart beats

when your heart doesnt beat any longer.

Chorus:

With every walking step I look back

At the things that have happened before.

I wish that I could undo

some of those things that I can't change.

I have mended my broken heart

Have you wiped away your tears

It's time for everyone to move on

Step away from your fears

It's time for everyone to move on

Step away from your fears

Time will go on without an end

Your time will end but time will not

It lives and dies with all.

Comes before and follows you.

And for eternity, time is treacherous

It changes feeling and reason.

Then begins a new time

Time for something different

Time changes even if you try to stay the same

If you don't time is gone

Sinkin In

Jahn Sood

April 2001

The snow falls down

Beneath the clouds

My heart spins round

I hit the ground

I don't know how

To tell you

I hear you speak

You don't seem weak

I know you are falling away

Don't go too far

out of my reach

Chorus:

Reach out and grab my hand

I'll pull you back with all my might

I'm tired of watching you

Watching you cry

I don't want to see the suffering in your eyes

Reach out and grab my hand

I'll pull you back into a stand.

I'm tired of seein you

seein you hurt sinkin in

sinkin in

I try to talk

but I can't stop you from your loss

you don't care what I say

you just keep gettin further away

I keep talkin to your tear stroked eyes of blue

What else is new

Chorus

Sections

Jahn Sood

April 3,2001

There are so many line we have drawn

So many boundaries not yet crossed

It's been too long that we've been here

Thoughts secluded and far away

Why do we seem so different

Why's every person not their own

Paint a stroke on a new canvas

dare to forget about the frame

It would be so easy to leave behind

The cage the bars that hold us down

take a step in a new direction

leave behind the groups that make us who we are

Who needs sections

Why don't you dare to be who you are inside

Dare to be different

Show the world who you really are

It's so much easier to be comforted

So much easier to be known

Remember being comforted

remember being alone

take a step across the boundaries

you know I'm on the other side

See your self in a picture

Are you the same when you close your

eyes

Who needs sections

Leave behind the groups that make us who we are

Who needs sections

Why don't you dare to be who you are inside

Dare to be different

Show the world who you really are

On the side of the road

Jahn Sood

February 2001

On the side of the road

he lives in a mess of mud and wood

And other debris that has sheltered him,

Him and his family of eight through the season of rain.

I have a closet full of clothes,

so I can have a different out fit everyday,

While he has only the shirt on his back

That was unwanted by a stranger far away.

He trudges down the road barefooted,

carrying his only possession, A machete, the key to survival.

I feel the sturdy boots on my feet, and I drive around the bend in a truck,

Hearing my companions groan for the bumpy roads, bumpy roads.

Bumpy like his home once destroyed

By the winds of a hurricane.

Like the winds of a hurricane, we turn past Him

A cloud of dust surrounds him I look back

We couldn't stop the truck to apologize

Or slow down, for we have a destination to reach

That seems far more important than to apologize to an old man

on the road who has 4 miles more to walk to work

To the tobacco farm where he'll be out until dark,

Just so he can feed his kids

When he returns he will find them smiling.

While he has nothing by our standards,

He has everything by his own

The man happy with as little as he got

Simply because he's not alone.

While he has very little he needs not a lot

He is happily surrounded by smiles

Though we have everything, how often

Do you look around at the people you love and smile, and smile.

(second verse will be added later)

My Lai

Jahn Sood

October 2002

We put our guns to their heads

Do you think theyd rather be dead?

Than be stuck with what they cant fight?

We said

Its our place to be strong

They cant tell what is wrong

And we must show our power

We said

It doesnt matter the fight

Its our God-given right

That we should conquer the world

Its wrong

Would He really think were the best?

Its with His peace that they rest

We will rest when He lets us

Chorus:

What we told our own people

Is that they are free

Were digging our own ditch deeper

cause thats not what they see

We dropped our bombs on their head

We counted millions were dead

And we said its for their own good

We kicked them out of their homes

We broke their hearts snapped their bones

But we did them a favor.

Chorus

(Bryan Mercer interlude will be added later)

Ketchup

By Jahn Sood

Fall 2001

I woke up way too early today, I came to the door

Now I dont know which way to

Walk on down the street

Look back its sideways and in front of me its

Yellow , red brown leaves.

Theyre fallen.

Hey wind do me a favor, raise up your hands

make me a path.

Whats in my way.

Chorus:

Ive been watchin you walk by for so long, too long

Ive been wondering why for so long too long

Ive always known that I will do you no wrong

Its time to see what will come of me if I catch up

To you

(I) jump the rail face first

I never know what will know what will be there to catch me

(I) hit the floor with a splash

the tear puddles that are falling from behind.

Way too fast.

Not all are fallen.

The strongest of them stay to last.

Are you the strongest

Chorus.

Im reaching up as usual,

but Ive never had the guts to climb

Just as I look away.

Her great branch swings above my head

Just out of reach.

Thats the last time I saw your face.

What will our ending be

What will it be.

Chorus

Instrumental Bridge

Chorus

Holding On

Jahn Sood

June 19, 2001

I came to meet you here

Before the sun was up and

I see that you're all alone

Through my tired eyes and

I see you cryin' there

Though you don't show your tears

To leave you smilin' there

I want to hold you near

Chorus:

To fall asleep to the sound of tears

You're speaking words I don't wanna hear

(To) act like I care but I don't

Say I'll be there but I won't

Wanting to hurt but feeling no pain

Holding on, lost for words to the rain

Lost to the rain

If I'd spoke up

Before the sun was down

Maybe you'd have woke' up

Made a smile from that frown

When you say it's all okay

I just want to cry

You seem so lonely

Hide from what you deny

Chorus

To be misunderstood

Smeared, lost, glistening

To be asked but not heard

Knowing 's not listening

To fall asleep crying

Hear words that I can't speak

You used to be so strong

What's made you so weak

(Chorus)

Faraway

Jahn Sood

November 2002

Its nice to think my life has come to senses.

Sometimes that feeling seems so far away

One time I laughed and said its all okay

Tomorrow brings another day

Chorus:

Thats all I know for now, but Im growing up

You always taught me how

I didnt know enough

Finally I can set my own stride.

Tonight I would love to see you, I cant

500 miles can start to feel so far away

One time you made me think its all okay

Tomorrow, brings another day.

Chorus

When I was young, all my loves were right before me

Im six foot one, my girlfriend says that she adores me, but

My lifes not done, theres so much more I have to see

It will go on, I hope that some day our lives will meet.

Chorus

Checkmate

Jahn Sood

Spring 2002

Her royal majesty sits on her throne

In the east wing of her castle of stone

She stands strong

Her king is blind as he sits alone

Hed struck like lightning and it wont be condoned

He doesnt know how to care

She hides to cry in an empty chamber

But hard like a rock she wont let it maim her

She stands strong

The king wont admit that hes lost his throne

But hes broken her heart with trespasses unknown

He doesnt know how to care

What would you do if the world was changing for good

Where would you be if you always did what you should

Just wait the end of this ever-long fight will come

Then well be happy again

Shes slain the dragon with a two-headed saber

The beautiful monster who hurt and betrayed her

She stands strong

He spit his fire while she drew the blade

Then he left, standing still is forbade

He doesnt know how to care

The worst is over and she still wonders

If shed waited longer would she have gone under

She stands strong

He never cried for her until she was gone

Not even then did he know what was done

He never knew how to care

What would you do if the world was changing for good

Where would you be if you always did what you should

Just wait the end of this ever-long fight will come

Then well be happy again

Canoe Song

Jack Davidson and Jahn Sood

And I hope that the world

Will fall apart just for me

And I pray that your eye

Will fall lonely to the see

What to see

Looking miles ahead

Searching miles behind

Not a single person

Anywhere I can find

Joy of solitude

Joy of the purpose

Working hard I could

I could find no less

Paddle to the water

Hand close to the blade

No one there at all

To occupy the shade

At the top of my lungs

I just have to sing

If I owned this place

I wouldnt change a thing

And I hope that the sky

Will fall down to the earth

And I pray that your eye

Will realize the true worth

What to see

Climb the mountain high

Burst above the top

I cannot decide whether

To go back or not

I feel the droop of salt

Roll into my eyes

The sting, the sweat, the sun

But I know Ill be fine

Cause Ive been here before

And I know Ill be back

The neverending heaven thing Top page on the stack

Of life king of the mountain

King of the sea

Invincibility beholden to me

And I hope that the world

Will fall apart just for me

And I pray that your eye

Will fall lonely to the see

What to see

Behind Locked Doors

Jahn Sood

May 12, 2002

Today Im sorry

that I led you on

thats not what I wanted to do

never wanted to do you any harm.

What I really wanted was,

was that other girl

But I let you take me away

Cuz I felt alone in this world.

Now I feel Like Ive used you

and all I can do is cry

Because I know its cruel to

abruptly open your eyes.

Outside its raining

In my head it pours

I want to run away

Put me behind locked doors.

I dont know what to do know

Should I move on with my life?

Or should I stay beside you

To keep me from strife?

It would not be fair to you

cuz I cant give you the same

youve got a heart inside you

that I have painfully strained.

Outside its raining

In my head it pours

I want to run away

Put me behind locked doors.