Ace Troubleshooter - The Madness of Crowds

Here I go against the grain
It's time to yet again complain
And make some noise
Make some noise
We've got all our sciences
Making our appliances
To dull the pain
It's Novacaine for the soul

Hollywood, pop culture's best
You do no good, you vultures' nest
And I want out
I want out
It's gambling now, the more you wait
And think that you can have your Kate
And Edith, too
And so to lose your own soul

I'll call your bluff, I've had enough
Oh-no, Ho-Jo

So is it fantasy or is it reality t.v.?
So here's your world condoned
You get the chisel
I'l get the stone

Know that with each path we take
We become the choices that we make
It's true, and so do you
Forbear to keep obstinate will
And to choose to wait until
The dream dissolves
And we're absolved from our guilt

I'll call your bluff, I've had enough
Oh-no, Ho-Jo

So is it fantasy or is it reality t.v.?
So here's your world condoned
You get the chisel
I'l get the stone
So numbed, to fate resigned
And in your grave you'll lie

Ace Troubleshooter - Out to Sea

Fourteen hours a day
Fourteen days in two weeks
A fortnight out to sea
I'm far from home, alright by me
Off the coast of Milan
Then the Ivory Keys
I put my back into
My distancing the distant seas

I'll sail away, I'll sail away
Forever and forever
Hoist the jig, skip the rope
Do whatever you do
To get me into the blue
Alright by me

Hey Mamasita
Ain't it good
Ain't it wonderful?
Hey Mamasita
Ain't it great
When you're worlds away?

Getting further away
Putting distance between
Myself and all the shelves
Of smarmy, charmy human creeps
Interruptions are gone
Lost in a reverie
Nothing but wind, waves, and inspiration
For my peeps

I'll sail away, I'll sail away
Forever and forever
Hoist the jig, skip the rope
Do whatever you do
To get me into the blue
Alright by me

Hey Mamasita
Ain't it good
Ain't it wonderful?
Hey Mamasita
Ain't it great
When you're worlds away?

Now I am guided by the stars
And by the red sun
I go where I want
For good or ill
Please winds blow whither you will
Whither you will
Whither you will

Hey Mamasita
Ain't it good
Ain't it wonderful?
Hey Mamasita
Ain't it great
When you're worlds away?

When you're worlds away
And things are great
When you're worlds away
And things are great

Ace Troubleshooter - Numinous

At daybreak I wait for You
Crush softly, come
With the brilliance and weight of Jupiter
You weaken me as with wounds

It's always enough
To sound the deeps Numinous
By falling under
It's always enough
To run Your way Numinous
And I will follow

At sundown I wait for You
Speak softly, come
Dying now with the way
That Your voice and music
Are the same to me

It's always enough
To sound the deeps Numinous
By falling under
It's always enough
To run Your way Numinous
And I will follow

One day's enough
To know all fullness
I'll run Your way
You will enlarge my heart
Though You slay me
I will hope in You through all
Forgive the best of what we do and are
Just God, forgive

It's always enough
To sound the deeps Numinous
By falling under
It's always enough
To run Your way Numinous
And I will follow

Ace Troubleshooter - Have It All

Counting down, expecting
Latest, greatest
Newest model maybe, hope
Wishing, hoping, praying
To outdo the Joneses

Squalor, impulse, crowding
Tis the season
Do the days turn just for these?
Savior born in manger
Please forgive us born in the inn

Heaven tomorrow
Heaven, my chance to have it all

See all my glimmering weakness
Here's my world, come on
Will You come in?
Brought to my knees
Child I'll play for You

Child enters in this world
It's broken
Angels sing and men sleep the night
Though it's brazen and defiant
Please be born in my heart

Heaven tomorrow
Heaven, skies open
Pour out hope

See all my glimmering weakness
Here's my world, come on
Will You come in?
Brought to my knees
Child I'll play for You

Ace Troubleshooter - Estella

Estella steps in silence
Her every movement caught
Encased in gilded memory
Here it comes again
Anticipation racing through me
Thrilling with emotion
You still me

Estella, Estella you
You're missing all you see
I'm missing you
Estella, Estella you dream
You're missing all you see
I'm missing you

Estella moves in shadows
Her every whisper caught
Exhale and draw it in again
When everything gets lost
In the twilight, I'll be waiting
You keep me guessing
You enigma, you dream

Estella, Estella you
You're missing all you see
I'm missing you
Estella, Estella you dream
You're missing all you see
I'm missing you, my sweet

Wide-eyed, weak-kneed
Stare me through my soul
You pierce me
I know we need
Nothing short of holding nothing back
Come down to me
And I'll show you
You mean worlds to me
You do

Fare thee well, my love
The last time in a whisper
She whispered back
Fare thee well, my love
Believe me when I say
I love you madly, deeply, always

Estella, Estella you
You're missing all you see
I'm missing you
Estella, Estella you dream
You're missing all you see
I'm missing you

Ace Troubleshooter - But for Grace

Fire burns in the grate
The guilt burns in the breast
Of every prisoner
The guilty, the condemned
Death is red on their hands
The galling chains reminding
Every minute
The Law that was broken

Silent as the grave
Covering deeds, covering man
Eyes that pierce and blaze
Wounded hands, stretching out
To save

Moonlit nights on their knees
Stifling screams ready
To break from conscience
The voice of the innocent
So the time marches on
The future melts into the past
At last, the bitter reprieve

Silent as the grave
Covering deeds, covering man
Eyes that pierce and blaze
Wounded hands, stretching out
To save

Ace Troubleshooter - Amanda

Amanda talks about herself
Forever and a day
She'll get her way
Amanda talks about nothing
But she'll make you think it's poetry
It's too bad she's only seventeen years old

Seventeen years old
She's too young, yeah
She's too young

Amanda talks about herself
But when she sings it's gold
And it's too bad she's only
Seventeen years old

Amanda thinks about herself
Forever and a day
She'll have her way
Amanda thinks about nothing
But she'll make you think it's poetry
And it's too bad she's only seventeen years old

Seventeen years old
She's too young, yeah
She's too young

Amanda talks about herself
But when she sings it's gold
And it's too bad she's only
Seventeen years old

Old enough to know
That she's too young
To just come knocking on my door
Can't take the girl no more

Amanda talks about herself
But when she sings it's gold
And it's too bad she's only
Seventeen years old

Ace Troubleshooter - Age of Gold

Remember when
Remember you and me
In fields of blue and white
And I would never take it back
The stand-offs and the make-ups
On the bench
Our scene for hours and hours
And I would never take it back
And I would never take it back
For all the gold in the world

On and on and on
She leads me
On and on, forever
Time will run back
On and on and on
She leads me
On and on, forever
And time will run back
And fetch the age of gold

All that I have
To hold your hand in mine
And lose all sense of time
And I would never take it back
So close your eyes, I'll kiss you
And I'll hold you tightly until dawn
And I would never take it back
And I would never take it back
For all the gold in the world

On and on and on
She leads me
On and on, forever
Time will run back
On and on and on
She leads me
On and on, forever
And time will run back
And fetch the age of gold

Rmember when
Remember you and me in time

On and on and on
She leads me
On and on, forever
Time will run back
On and on and on
She leads me
On and on, forever
And time will run back
And fetch the age of gold

Ace Troubleshooter - 2:00 Your Time

It's two 'o clock your time, midnight mine
And I could die to have you here

Call you up, I'm far away
Wake you up, but it's ok
You don't mind
I'm not scared to say it now
It's not fair and yet somehow
We're doing fine

It's two 'o clock your time, midnight mine
And I could die to have you here

Watch the changing leaves again
But I don't remember when
We saw them fall
When the snowflake covers blue
I will come back home to you
And watch them all

It's two 'o clock your time, midnight mine
And I could die to have you here

Every time you're on my mind
It just seems to unwind

It's two 'o clock your time, midnight mine
And I could die to have you here

Ace Troubleshooter - Tempest

Don’t touch this
Just look and feel your way through
Can’t tough this tempest just yet

The hopes and fears in the sirens sounding
Beating hearts, tears as the rain starts pounding

Comfort in stereo sirens warning
Still fighting, white lightning blinding, storming

It’s not in me, but I’ll recover it
It’s not in me

Go run and hide as the storm comes in
It’s never enough
I’ll be alright and I won’t let it in

Standing ground, standing with sirens waking
Firmly rooted, ever bending, never breaking

It’s not in me, but I’ll recover it
It’s not in me

Go run and hide as the storm comes in
It’s never enough
I’ll be alright and I won’t let it in

Ace Troubleshooter - So Long

So long, farewell
Goodbye you crazy Southerner, goodbye
Don’t cry, turn away
Don’t change, I’ll write
And all the other stuff we kinda mean
Don’t cry, turn away

I’ll remember you, so long
With your super-thumping radio
I’ll remember you, so long
Hey-oh

It’s been too long
Since games and running totals filled our minds
Boxed up, put away
Hach and Brian have gone now
You went your way, I went mine
It’s all ok

I’ll remember you, so long
With your super-thumping radio
I’ll remember you, so long
Hey-oh
Don’t sit in that gum
As you’re lounging in the sun
I’ll remember you, so long
Hey-oh

So long, farewell
Au revoir, goodbye
I hate to see you go
Don’t cry, turn away

Goodbye, my friend, I’ll miss you so
Across the states you had to go
Goodbye, my friend, I’ll miss you so
For all the way across the states you had to go

Goodbye

Ace Troubleshooter - Seaside

Walking on the seaside
With a sunset over blue
Hand in hand with you

Listen to the waves break
On a blanket spread for two
Hand in hand with you

If I had a million sand dollars
I’d spend them all on you
And build a sandcastle
Just big enough for two

So look me in the eyes, dear
And know my love is true
Hand in hand with you

Ace Troubleshooter - My Defense

Don’t put all Your hopes in this flesh
This flesh, this mess I am
Empty promises my steady diet
Won’t be quiet till I
Spread so thin devotion
Thus far my notions rant
Don’t put all Your hopes
Don’t put all Your trust in me
You must not see I can’t

Set the sights on failing
Target no control
Grips relax and lose hold

I lose my defense at Your answers
And I come all undone with Your gaze

Sunless skies this progress
Thicker skin can’t stretch the length
Wearying with face set against the elements
Is how I spent my strength

Set the sights on failing
Target no control
Grips relax and lose hold

I lose my defense at Your answers
And I come all undone with Your gaze
I lose my defense at Your answers
And my resolve at Your counter ways

I can’t run forever
With the lions loose on me
Show us no escape
Lest we forget we’re dying
Fill my mind with Your thoughts
My lungs with Your breath
My mouth with Your words
My soul with Your death

I lose my defense at Your answers
And I come all undone with Your gaze
I lose my defense at Your answers
And my resolve at Your counter ways

Ace Troubleshooter - Your Reach

Cold as the sun on a winter's morning
Your resolve still lies shivering
A heap of ill-sighted plans
So you think, so it shall be
Dwelling on all that's happened now
Since that day you were lucid
And saw things all too clear
It was easy, now it's grown dark

But even though the wood surrounds you
It doesn't mean your heart should fail you
Now when the end
Is just within your reach

Pushing you up against the wall
You feel there's no one
To cushion you from the fall
You stumble
Spending all your strength in vain
Holding onto the cherished notion
That things were different back then
You lapse into the old you
With all you see before your eyes

But even though the wood surrounds you
It doesn't mean your heart should fail you
Now when the end
Is just within your reach

Take it easy, chill, chill, chill
You've got a penchant for
Pulling through these things
It's alright, it's ok
Take it easy, chill, chill, chill
You've got a penchant for
Pulling through these things
It's alright, it's ok
It's ok, it's alright

But even though the wood surrounds you
It doesn't mean your heart should fail you
Now when the end
Is just within your reach

It's alright

Ace Troubleshooter - Jasmine

It has been way too long since back when
Jasmine I’ve been wrong
I’ve been wrong about nothing

You’re still the same, I wish you changed
It’s still your game by your rules
And I will never learn nothing
And nothing ever changes

You’re asking me to go to an ordinary, satisfactory
Almost paradise

Staying round you
Hanging round you Jasmine
With the sound of our straws
Sipping down Yoohoo

You tantalize, I fantasize
And in your eyes is the world
When all else fades into nothing
I’m the proof you’re beautiful
When you’re aloof I get dumb
And I can’t think about nothing else
And nothing ever changes

You’re asking me to go to an ordinary, satisfactory
Almost paradise

Staying round you
Hanging round you Jasmine
With the sound of our straws
Sipping down Yoohoo

Love’s a beehive of honey and stings
And I don’t care if I never learn nothing

Staying round you
Hanging round you Jasmine
With the sound of our straws
Sipping down Yoohoo

And I don’t want anyone else
To mesmerize me, Jasmine

Ace Troubleshooter - Hoping

Every time I try to make it happen
I just fake it
I think it’s over
And I blink, it’s over
Every time I screw up
I never let up
And I keep forgetting to think it over
Cuz I blink, it’s over

Every time I close my eyes

I sit there hoping
You go on holding my hand in Yours
So stay, yeah stay forever

Every day it’s getting colder
And I find I’m getting older
Need warmer climes now
Need a land with warming sun
And a heart whose every beat is one
That keeps Your time
Keeps Your time somehow

Every time I close my eyes

I sit there hoping
You go on holding my hand in Yours
So stay, yeah stay forever

Ace Troubleshooter - Helen Burns

Gone away, gone away forever
Not to come back home
I did stay all the night through with you
Without knowing you’d gone

Without time for the world to breathe on
The changing dust it woke
Glimpses of all the life you poured out
Till the vessel broke

Don’t know if I’ll see you
When it’s my turn to come home
Don’t know if I’ll see you
But I hope so, but I hope so

Parting now at our own Grey Havens
The words you left the debris
So be still, knowing that He’ll see you across the Sea

Don’t know if I’ll see you
When it’s my turn to come home
Don’t know if I’ll see you
But I hope so, but I hope so

To be woken from the long sleep
Of this world’s night

Don’t know if I’ll see you
When it’s my turn to come home
Don’t know if I’ll see you
But I hope so, but I hope so

Ace Troubleshooter - Don't Do It Again

*Don't Do It Again is the actual name of the song.
*It's Never Enough is the name of the album


Can you hear yourself?
A saner man would run from the things
Coming out your mouth
Your voice is all barbed wire and it stings

Don’t do it again, girl, no
Don’t get all crazy
And begin, girl, to think it over
Yeah it’s all inside your head

Get your head checked out
Because you’re psycho psycho
So when you’re all worked out
Won’t have to worry about you being loco

Don’t do it again, girl, no
Don’t get all crazy
And begin, girl, to think it over
Yeah it’s all inside your head

As the days go on
And you say, “Don’t worry
Don’t complain, we’re all the same”
But you’re crazy

Don’t do it again, girl, no
Don’t get all crazy
And begin, girl, to think it over
Yeah it’s all inside your head

Ace Troubleshooter - Ball and Chain

I know I told you
But I dole out excuses
I'll get home just as soon as I can
It'll be alright
But I mean it, gotta believe it
You're still my daylight and my evening, girl
And I'll see you tonight
A Sunday drive, girl let's get out tonight

Yeah the tunes on the stereo
Make me wish I was home
I'm feeling like a leg missing its ball & chain
Yeah the tunes on the stereo
Make me wish I was home
And it seems cliché to love you
For hating me being away from you

If I said it would you regret it
Knowing I'll want you more
Every day we're apart?
But we'll be just fine
So I'm jealous of the fellas
Who get close enough
To share the air you breathe
But tonight you're all me
A Sunday drive, girl let's get out tonight

Yeah the tunes on the stereo
Make me wish I was home
I'm feeling like a leg missing its ball & chain
Yeah the tunes on the stereo
Make me wish I was home
And it seems cliché to love you
For hating me being away from you

Girl you don't have to cry
Just bite your lip and sigh
And don't turn out your light

Yeah the tunes on the stereo
Make me wish I was home
I'm feeling like a leg missing its ball & chain
Yeah the tunes on the stereo
Make me wish I was home
And it seems cliché to love you
For hating me being away from you
But I do

Ace Troubleshooter - Anything

Lassitude your demeanor
You go on getting leaner
As they dearly sell you anodynes and death
And you’re restless
Have you knocked at all the doors?
And can you feel at all
It’s all you can do to go on breathing?

And I can’t stand by

I'd do anything, anything at all
To get you, won’t forget you
On the other side
Over here

Here, my friend, take some of mine
It’s freely given
And will cost you everything you have
But drink, my cup runs over
Have you knocked at all the doors?
Have you knocked at all?
It’s all you can do to go on waking

And I can’t stand by

I’d do anything, anything at all
To get you, won’t forget you
On the other side
Over here it’s clearer
As your mirror shows