TAKE ME (A PRAYER)

Still too often weakness rules my life
and I turn away all the gifts He gives
If I live my  life by my own will
Then I will never truly live

I can feel Him above me as I pray
He would fill me up if I called His name
I know the Spirit breathes inside of me
If I let it grow I can be free

	Please won't you ...come take me ...away from me
	Take away the Self that makes me wrong
	I promise...I will try...to believe
	Just take away the Self that is too strong

I just want to live as pure as you 
be as happy as the me I was meant to be
but the world offers its substitutes
And thats when I need more of You

Please take me... Lord take me... God take me... away


























HAPPY ONES

Beautiful girl with a pierced nose,
Crazy old man on a motorbike,
We dug a hole and put up a gateway on a lazy afternoon in the sunlight
I don't know how I got there,
But I know that I want to go back,
To lay in the grass with a beautiful girl, and try to make her laugh
Kneeling in the garden, 
Pulling up weeds and talking to the worms,
I can't understand why it felt so good, but I intend to learn

Won't you come back to me, remembered golden afternoon?
I want to lay on my back in the sun
I want to go back, to the garden soon
I want to be with the Happy Ones

Beautiful beach and the smell of salt
Building sandcastles and a kite in the sky
Glitter of the water is the shining in my soul
I can see the glitter in a girl's eye
Maybe she can see right through to me
Maybe I am not alone
Maybe I belong beside the sea
Maybe I have found my way home

Circling in a truck 'round the park
Talking to a friend and chasing after deer
I'm so happy just watching the world
I'm so happy just being here
I found a friend in the back of the woods,
And we shared the stories of our lives
We shared all that's simple and easy and good
I wanna be with my friends when I die

©2000 Dan Davenport




























MR. STAREFACE
written April 1999

Walking down the hall
Mr. Stareface, staring through me
As if I'm not there at all
If I'm not there then I'm not walking
Walking through the walls
Mr. Wallface laughing at me
As if I'm going to fall, fall into you

You can make me fall forever
Stretch the fall a lifetime long
But you'll make me remember never
Never Never what I did wrong

Bouncing off the floor
Mr. Noface, he knows nothing
He promised so much more
But knowing isn't everything
Acting like a fool
Mr. Apeface, imitates me
He pretends to fall for you
And you are all I see

Eating off the ground
Señor Groundface, eats what he can yeah
But you're not around
So whats the point in eating at all
Mr. Cryface drawing his heart
Reminiscent of myself I know
Mr. Cryface tells the truth
When I never let my feelings show

©1999  Davenport/BuFu Nation 




























DEARBORN

Sun goes high in that emerald sky
Music is screamin', but I start dreamin'
Time gets lost in the purple exhaust

Fight the waking struggle, always trapped in a bubble
Starin' at the red, I tilt back my head
Cheecks sting of pain, but the struggle still remains

I think I'd like to go home now,
I think I'd like to go home...

Dearborn, you're too far away
Oh, Dearborn, you're too far away

Think about the day when I'm gettin' paid
Hangin' upside down with my posse of clowns
Coffee's stittin' there, but I don't even care

Fight the vital battle, my mind slower than cattle
The radio that I turn, from 101 to Howard Stern
Becomes my only friend, stays with me 'till the end

Pale as the moon, the clock says it's noon
I head for the door, as I had once before
To talk to that man, yeah that mumblin' man

Blizzard's always there, I'm stuck to my chair
On the clear sand, I press hard my hand
It's blazin' outside, gotta rest my eyes

© 1998 Steve Swisher 





























SIMPSON'S LOVE SONG
written December 1999

I was watching The Simpsons the other night
and you called me, you called me
If you really knew me then you would've called back
instead you told me that you loved me, you loved me

and you wanted to talk
even though the Simpsons were on
so I hung up
cause I knew it couldn't last that long
if you wanted to talk
even though the Simpsons were on, the Simpsons were on

Yeah to you,	Its just a cartoon
But to me its a way of life

Cause I can be happy, Just like Homer
Even though I never get it right

But you wanted to talk
Even though the Simpsons were on
So you're not my Marge
and we're never gonna get it on
Cause you wanted to talk
even though the Simpsons were on, the Simpsons were on

Baby if you can't see why its funny
then "thats it...I'm outta here"
Cause you can't be the one for me
You've made that all to clear
You think its lame to have a Simpsons theme on my computer
You can't see why its funny that	     They Ate Uter
Then baby as great as you are
You can never be as special as Marge
And I'm afraid you're not my kind
You might as well be looking for that jerk Frank Grimes

© 2000 Dan Davenport 





























SATELLITE
written February 2, 2000

Its watching me right now
But I'm not afraid
It's looking inside from out
In outer space

Its wrapped up in space age tin foil
Just like Hershey Kisses
And when it targets your brain
You know it never misses

	Its a Satellite
	And its in my mind
	It makes me do things yeah
	That betray my own kind

Its moving me right now
To play this song
It doesn't want you to know its out there
But it wants you to sing along

But I'm not afraid
That it can turn my insides out
You might as well accept it its not that bad
Its gonna get us all in the end no doubt

That means you innocent on a Friday night
I'm gonna knock you down I'm gonna pick a fight
So don't be surprised when it happens
Its the Satellite's decision, it'll be up there laughing at you

© 2000 Dan Davenport 





























ROCKET MOUNTAIN TAPESTRY
written February 1998

Rocketship won't you come and take me?
I'm not ready for this anyway
Outside I'm always fakin'
Didn't mean for it to go this way
How long did you know about this?
How long did you hide the truth?
I called my friends on the radio today
Rocketship gonna take me away from you

Royal blue sky and golden mountains
Red, red flowers and its always summertime
Four eyeless beasts stare from the mountains 
Trapped forever in a fabric frozen time

If I ever visit that land
I will meet the carpet man
I will take from him all his flowers
And to Him I will offer my hand

Then we will climb the golden mountain 
and see if what they say is true...
That if you climb the golden mountain, 
You can reach the royal blue

But something tells me there is more to this tapestry
If I am woven in I am not free
He would take my eyes and make me watch the world 
And I would yearn forever for my tapestry girl

© 2000 Dan Davenport 




























ALASKA
written March 1998

Isn't it a shame all the time
I've been pining away for you
I don't know your name yet
But 1000 times in my head I've met you

When I said "hello" you smiled at me and took my hand
and said "I'm glad to know you"
We walked that night underneath the stars
then I remembered and my dream fell through

Because I didn't know you yet
Why are you in my head?
I didn't ask you here
I want you out I want you near

Oh won't you come to me and say
"I'm glad to meet you at last"?
Please won't you at least say to me
Take it now this chance is your last?

Then I will say "hello" and smile and take your hand
I'll look up and say "I'm glad that God made the stars"
You'll say "I'm glad that you took the chance"

So I said "hello" you smiled at me and took my hand
and said "I'm glad to know you"
We walk together underneath the stars
and I see that my dream has come true
	
That's just how it went
And now you are my friend

© 2000 Dan Davenport 





























MARTY'S SONG
written April 21, 1998

Marty Marty Marty won't you party down with us?
we'll hit up every party in this town
Marty Marty Marty won't you party down with us?
You can get yourself drunk and we'll get down

came to school grew your hair out long
stumbled through some classes and grew yourself a beard
your mom, you said, she thinks that you're all wrong
your mom, you said, she's afraid that you'll look weird
well what the hell does she know?
she cares but she just sells pianos
Marty my brother we all got problems with our mothers
it began in the days of Oedipus
so Marty my friend try to forget all that stuff and come out and party down with us

Now everybody wants to party down with Marty
Cuz he is every man's friend
I'm glad it was you too and you can count on me brother
I'll always back you up in the end
Marty said "man would it be all right if I just sleep here for awhile?"
Yeah my friend you know you're always welcome here
Cuz you're the only friend I have who guarantees a smile

© 2000 Dan Davenport 




























DOPE FIEND
written December 1999-June 2000

Box of flattened smoky treats, sitting in the top drawer
I know I shouldn't, but I think I'll have just one more
When did this start? It seems so long ago
I was innocent then, but now I know that...

I'm a dope fiend, just give me anything
To make the world just go away 
Is it pain that I'm killing
Or is it just me that's fading away

I'm old enough, to make my decisions
It's so easy.    Why was I scared?
You just open the bottle and drink it all down
It's just like living only I don't have to be there

I wanna stop, if only to prove that I can
I never thought, I'd be saying that I  need help
When I started I laughed at the thought of a problem
Now here I am, trapped in my own hell

© 2000 Matt Berg (lyrics by Dan Davenport)





























SHE SAID
written June 1998

You know it wasn't too long ago I met this girl 
with lovely hair with lovely curls
I thought I'd like to get to know her

A party seemed just like the perfect place 
to talk to her face to face
It was her house, but I wasn't scared at all 
I shoulda been when
        
        She said, it's time to go 
        She said, it's time to leave
        I don't wanna go
        I thought I could change her mind

I ask her friends why she does not see 
that she's the one that was made just for me 
but they couldn't tell me anything at all 
no no

I watched her walk & talk, all night long 
my love for her made me write this stupid song 
she was alone so I made my move but

You know it wasn't too long ago I met this girl 
with lovely hair with lovely curls 
but I lost hope and lost her number too

But, then one day, she shows up at my house 
trying to talk, but quiet as a mouse 
then she told that she loved me too 

        She said, it's time to go
        She said, it's time to leave
        together now forever and ever more
        forever and ever more 
        forever and ever more 
        forever and ever more


© 1998 Matt Berg 





























QUILTING '87
written May 1998

I, was all alone, was all alone, but
I, was not afraid, was not afraid, for
I, could see in you, could see in your, eyes
I could see that you, could tell that you lied

"Be with me" is what you said
"I will leave you" is what you meant
I have seen your type before
It's still unclear but of one thing I'm sure
You lied to me, you lied to me, you lied to me, 
and I want you back

I, I found myself, I found myself wrong
And, it took me so, it took me so long
to, to see that you, to know that you're gone
and, and now I am, I truly am alone

Now, I'm all alone, alone and can't see
Why, I am alone, and why you left me
and now, I'm asking you, if you can see that
I, will never leave, because I want you back

© 2000 Dan Davenport 





























IT'S OK 2 B MIKEY
written July 13, 1998

He's got red hair and he dates a Canadian
His stereo system is probably cooler than me
He wears crazy pants and he's got his own dance
He's the teenage rebel we all wanted to be
	
Its OK 2 B Mikey

(M-I-K-E-Y) He's hardcore he'll never die
(P-H-A-T) That is what he'll always be
(M-O-N-E-Y) He aint got none but he's superfly
(F-R-I-E-N) add a 'D' and he's my friend
If you want to know, who I think its cool to be
ask me and I'll probably say,  

It's OK 2 B Mikey

Yeah you know that you are my brother man
If you ever need my help I'll be there fast as superman
Yeah you know that you can count on me
after all you're the only one who always thinks I'm funny

It's OK 2 B Mikey

©2000 Dan Davenport 





























UNION
written April-May, 2000

If you sit your soul quiet, soon you will find God
You'll see they've always been there, its just that you forgot
I feel that we are all alone, I'm alone when I'm with you
But if you find us and let Him in your heart
You will break through to me

If you cast away yourself
You'll no longer live with shame
Selfishness is in our nature
Until you call His name
I don't trust myself to love forever
That's what I heard you mean to me
But you don't need to trust your love to just one
You can trust the whole you used to be with me

I'm not afraid of wrath and fire so save your judgment
I just don't wanna be alone any more
That's why I let it in, I'm sick of separation
That's why I'm not ashamed, I let Him open the door to me

I will love you as myself
Because you're all a part of me

©2000 Dan Davenport  





























BEEN HERE BEFORE
written July 6, 1998

And I've been here before
In the depths of your eyes
Swimming in clear blue
Summer sun-filled skies

In the middle I'll find you
In a whirlpool so slow
And I need no reminder
That your promise is hope

And I've been here before

And I can't wait to find you 
Waiting there for me
And I'll open inside you
And you'll open to me

It won't happen to me
Nor will it happen again
I'll never take the chance
You'll never let me in

You're the one I adore
I've known love before
I've been here before

©2000 Dan Davenport





























YOU ARE TO ME
written December 25, 1998

I want to be more
Than I can be so
I can be more next to you
My soul is sick from 
Insecurity
I always need the whole world to love me
But next to you I 
Feel a pulling
A pulling towards you
You next to me

Perfect harmony
Perfect person be
The word describes the feeling
The girl creates in me
The perfect stranger
Made perfect friend
The perfect feeling
Never ends
But perfect isn't fair
Fair to ask of you
I try to be perfect
I try to hide the truth

I'm not the perfect person, that I try so hard to be
But I know what is perfect, I know what is perfect, You are to me

Perfect, Beautiful, Impossible, You are to me
Perfect, Natural, Feeling, Is harmony

©2000 Dan Davenport 





























STARSHIP HUANG
written December 28, 1998

The Captain's ready to go
	He sold my luggage
The Captain's ready to smoke
	You know what that is
The ship is ready to leave
	Then leave without me
Don't think the Captain is blind
	Don't think the Captain can see

On the deck of Starship Huang
Shouldering the burden of the window's pain
The window is the window of the universal mind
Shouldering the burden of the godless dirty eye

I...I'm falling...I'm falling in...into you
Can't you hear the Captain calling, calling me to come back down
In your arms is where I want to be, but the ship can't take me there
You, are all I wanted, but the Captain doesn't care

The ship is falling now
	I saw it coming
You should leave if you can
	There's no more running
You promised her you'd return
	I promised much more than that
Don't think the Captain 's to blame
	Don't think he wants to go back

The ship is falling now 

©2000 Dan Davenport 





























BUFU NATION / GRADUATION SONG
written July 6, 1999

It's graduation day
Time to get a life if you can
It's graduation time
Time, time to be a man

It's graduation day
It's time to move on and everything
It's graduation time
Time to prove you can be anything anything

graduation graduation graduation graduation day 
(in beautiful 3-part harmony)

BuFu Nation Song
It's BuFu Nation time
Time to rok out as hard as you can

©2000 BuFu Nation






























GLOW STICK GIRL
written Septmber 3-6, 1999

Time, spent alone, is the slowest time I know
and time, spent with you, is so beautiful to me

So take, take from me, take my time, take it slowly from me
cause I, I want to be, be with you

When I saw you, I saw light, light in your smile
yeah you were glowing
and I, knew what I wanted, it was you
and all of your time

I, just wish you'd call, I'm waiting here
wasting all of my time alone
Yeah I met you, but what does that do I, can't bear
that you're not by my side

©2000 Dan Davenport 






























THE ME SONG
written December 1999

I live in want of something quite like purity
Oh, did I say purity ? Because we both know that that's not me
and this world does not provide anything
quite like the simple life
all they give you to live on is faith in a word called me

love yourself and no one else
attach all importance to whomever is me

as long as I get mine, and I get yours
let's just ignore being free

Our ideals are like wheels
that keep turning in the mud on fire
Does the fire exist? Hard to say
because its always changing shape
They spin and burn trying to learn
from a tired desperate
need to move on, Oh I need to move on
but we keep idolizing, those willing to sing the loudest song

Shut up Shut up                                  
but ya gotta get your butt up                    
if ya wanna be a cut above the rest              
word up word up                                  
but ya gotta keep your chin up                   
if ya wanna pass the mister muster test          
Bigger than thou, Bigger than thou
Where ya gonna walk so fat now brown cow?
Didn't I say then been better than now?
Where ya gonna go when the fire rains down?

What's important? - Only me
Sing along now - with your TV
Let it feed you - your morality

©2000 Dan Davenport 





























BODIES
written July 28, 1998

Women care too much about their bodies
Men care too much about their bodies too
Maybe my body wants your body
But baby I just want you

I guess we care cause we all want a body
other than our own to call our own 
We were raised to love what's inside bodies
But the outside of the bodies is all we show

Bodies		 		women care too much about their bodies
Beautiful bodies 		men care too much about their bodies too
Ugly bodies			women care too much about their bodies
Skin and bone	 		men care too much about their bodies too
That's all they show 
So lets just forget about our bodies
and lets just forget what bodies do
I never cared that much about your body
all I ever wanted was to be with you

I don't give a damn about your body
My body wants your body
but all I want is you
I said I don't care about your body baby
don't you listen to nobody
all I want is you

so I'll love being me, and you can love being you
Together we'll love being each other
forever, and ever, and ever, and ever

©2000 Dan Davenport & BuFu Nation 


























SALAD DAYS

I wish salad days were here again
if only I knew then what I know now      but
Salad days are gone my friend
if only the past could be changed somehow

I would     kiss you
hug you
Take you in my arms and say that I love you
and I'd do it all at exactly the right time

No more
stumblin'
bumblin'
Embarrassing scenes in public
I promise that I'd get it all right this time

What we do here dear is supposed to make us feel whole
but touching you just makes me feel more alone
These hands, this mouth, they're so damned inadequate
when I want you to know my soul

I want to    kiss you
hug you
But it doesn't do what it's supposed to
I'm nowhere nearer to you

I want to   break you
take you
But what the hell will that do
it won't let you inside of me

I want to know you
I want to love you
I want to touch you
I want to
© 2000 Dan Davenport




























SPARROW

I was livin' the life
partying every day
Then I met this girl
and I thought I'd change my evil ways
I thought I'd clean up my life
and walk the straight and narrow
Then the girl she left me
I should've listened to the sparrow

She's sittin' on your shoulder when she should fly
Don't waste the sparrow's time getting high (by)

I was livin' the life
livin' like an animal
I'd stop to smell the roses
I'd end up losing all control
A rose just isn't a rose
by any other thorn
A rose can turn to a posie
and you'll sleep and die before you're born

You've got to listen to the bird sittin' on your shoulder
God loves the sparrow and to you said she should fly
So take the bird's advice, you're only getting older
don't let this time pass you by

© 2000 Dan Davenport




























SITTING
written July 24, 1997
I'm sitting in the basement
playin with the kitty
I think I feel just as warm and fuzzy
You come downstairs
find me lyin there
nothing I could think, could make me want to move
you ask me who it is I want
so I say "man...I hate Bono" but you know me well enough
to not argue that easily
you understand that I either don't know
or can't remember so
you let the question go
and we talk about nothing instead
and deep    down inside
the back of my head
their plays a song all about you and it says:

Lah dah de dai dah dah de dai dai...

I'm sittin in my bedroom
playing my guitar
feeling just about as strung and pulled apart
the phone rings down the hall
I let my mom pick it up
she calls me from downstairs and guess what?
its you on the other end, saying "hey dan lets do like friends and...
go out for a bite to eat"
I agree and when we meet
we talk about absolutely nothing
and eat the whole day long
and in my head a familiar tune I guess its your song

I'm sitting all alone
In the blankness of my mind
The words "all alone"
explain the sadness that I find
so if this big bad world
comes to a whole-sale end
then you should know that I'll buy you first 
from the shelf of closest friends
I'm pretty sick of sitting now, I'll be dancing before long
and when its time to dance, I'll be dancing to your song

 © 1997 Dan Davenport  




























YOU AND I
I left this girl, no wait she left me
That's why this song, is sung so sadly
She was losing interest, whatever that mean
And what we had together, was like a hill of beans

Hill of beans, hill of beans
Hill of beans, hill of beans

You and I, will be like friends
You and I, until the end
You and I, it's just as I had feared
You and I, hanging out's too weird
You and I, so friends we'll be
You and I, just don't call me
You and I, hope I find someone new
You and I, whoop dee do

We should work on this
Before long, we'll fade away
Friends no more, oh boo hoo
I think we're better this way

Now you know my story, it's only partly true

©2001 Steve Swisher




























TEACHER
written February 24-March 1, 2001

I've no respect for authority
I don't expect the kids to understand
Least of all when it's comin' from me
I hate my food when it comes from the man

I never meant to live this life
I never meant to play this role
I don't want to sell them out
I want to give them rock n' roll

They blindly follow
Where we blindly lead
I just want to show them truth and light
I just want them to love me

I've no respect for the useless
Least of all my life
I'm prepared not to use it
No, now that's a lie

I wasn't born to waste it
Every breath is a gift
Even when I'm used up and wasted
I still want to live

Been in this college town for too many years, 
(I'm too tired, I'm cynical)
Take me away from here

































NOW IT'S TIME
written June 2001 - January 2002

Every time I see you I wish I could be there
When you’re walking, with the confidence in your hand
but I feel like you’re the one for me             
 Then you ask me if I think you should go out with him
“Sounds fine to me” I say. I hate to lie, but it’s what you want to hear, 
so I tell you anyway…

Now it’s time to go away, but I’d rather stay, rather stay with you...

Playing cards ‘till three in the morning. 
We’re both hiding from the things we don’t want to see. 
They’re just right down the hall. (fill)
Then you tell me ‘bout people that change, friendships that change. 
But I got this funny feeling that you’re just not, 
just not talking ‘bout me.

Now it’s time to go away, but I’d rather stay, rather stay with you, you...

Now it’s time to stay

When we’re talking, you laugh at the things I say.
It must mean you like me too.
Hell, we both like the same kind of beer. 
Driving home now, the sun’s coming up. 
you say that you’re happy, now I know you’re not happy. 
You just gotta learn that sometimes it hurts to live, alive 

Now it’s time to go away, but I’d rather stay, rather stay with you, you, you, you...

©2002 Matthew Berg



























BREAK ME
written April 14 - May 17, 2002

Unfortunate fool
I know how you're feeling
Everything is blue
When you're bumping the ceiling

Girl don't need me
Job just feed me
Got much desire
Got tiny Fire
Break me

Unfortunate songs
I know what you're saying
Got little faith
But I'm kneeling and praying

Unfortunate band
No original feelings
I know how you're playing
Worse than rhyming and stealing

Unfortunate girl
Fall in love with my sounds
I'm the heartbreaker
I don't need you around
To break me

I don't need these things to be happy
I just gotta believe that you love me
ShowMeGod ShowMeGod ShowMe
ShowMeGod ShowMeGod ShowMe
Break Me

©2002 Dan Davenport



























SAME OLD LINE
written May 2002

You say that you're here
But I can't see you're here, baby
Sometimes I'm alone these days

But you never seem to understand where I'm coming from, do you?
I wish you'd understand my side of the story
Don't feed the same line of crap to me

I could be drinking beer
Maybe out having a smoke or two...

But you say that there's something better
For me to live for you
I get the feeling that I've been here before
But just in this way

Oh, you won't see me again
No, you can't see me again
Feel my pain and make me feel alive

My bags are packed
Got me lunch in a sack

But you never seem to understand where I'm coming from, do you?
My life is meant for other things, and you showed me the truth
Now it's time to move on and show me all the things I could
HERE WE GO NOW

©2002 Matthew Berg