KINGS OF THE HIGHWAY Established October 2003 by Joe Derise: guitar, bass & voice
Joe was born Joseph Anthony Derise Jr. on December 4th 1969 in New York City. Surrounded by music all his life, he's played bass and guitar for many south Florida bands, touring nationally and sharing bills with many top acts.
The project got it's name from a Chris Isaak song off his 1989 album "Heart Shaped World".
All original music & lyrics by Joe Derise Copyright 2003-2010 2 MINUTE RULE We know there's people upstairs watching everything we do They don't control what I do I just do what I'm told ~ Take me by my hand now Take me to your promised land I know there is one out there I know she is there
11:11 Take my hand and close your eyes as we fly to the sea There we will touch the bright sky and leave this world behind and leave this world behind
AMERICA NOW 1994-1997 There was a time I called you mine You said to me Go ahead be free ~ So I wondered far away now I know what it's like to be free ~ Here it comes again without repentance Like a shattered dream Waking up to late to see ~ So I wondered far away now I know what it's like to be free ~ There he goes again Playing cops again Is it up to me? To tell you how it's gonna be ~ So I wondered far away now I know what it's like to be free
BECAUSE I can talk with you all day long and never get tired of you song I can love you all night long and never feel alone ~ Do you, do you feel like I do? Do you feel free? I feel you all around me even when your gone ~ It's all because of you It's all because of you ~ Would you would ya come to see me from the great beyond? Would you would ya mind if I care? I'd want you to want me ~ It's all because of you It's all because of you
DOWNTOWN (Parts 1 & 2) {Part 1} The sun shown through upon your face Then from out of nowhere ~ Dirt fell all around you Couldn't see your name Flowers bloom the perfume Lingers everywhere ~ The sun broke through Revealed your pain Just as bad luck would have it ~ Dirt fell all around you Couldn't clear your name Flowers bloom the perfume (We were only) Children playing games {Part 2} She wants him To go back down To bury all the clowns Fight those tears away and burn this little town back to nothing She wants him Downtown ~ Who will hurt me now? Who can hurt me now? No one ~ She wants him To go back down To bury all the clowns Fight those tears away and burn this little town back to nothing She wants him Downtown ~ Who will hurt me now? Who can hurt me now? No one Because I'm dead --already
FACE Whenever I see you I loose hatred for this earth And I forget the ugly faces All the ugly faces ~ My mind is freed when I see your face My eyes can not see past you Just to see your face would make my spirit climb higher then the sky Whenever I see your face Whenever I see you ~ I would not fill my head with dreams For they'd become real Whenever I see your face Whenever I see you You make me feel real
GLIMPSE Of all the excuses that I've been sold there's none better then "I getting old" What more intensive do you need to live your life comfortably numb And remember freedom isn't free ~ They got real jobs and families They get no help at all They got real jobs and families This makes no sense at all Real jobs and families Real jobs and families This makes no sense at all ~ There was a time after the great fall when all was perfect Just and whole And then it happened It was foretold It couldn't happen more perfectly And all would never be the same ~ They got real jobs and families They get no help at all They got real jobs and families This makes no sense at all Real jobs and families Real jobs and families This makes no sense at all
GONE WITH THE WIND (uncensored version) Gone with the wind you were never to see you again One day your here the next you gone Give em' the finger you said They all deserve it my friend You just won't take things for what there worth ~ I told you so (You f****n' dumb a**) I told you so You never listen ~ Don't even worry There's more fish in the sea You'll find one washed up on the shore She'll maybe love you She might hate you right back You'll never find your way back home ~ I told you so (You f****n' dumb a**) I told you so You never listen
IF If you were here I'd cry then I would ask the God why Cause' if you'd stayed at home that day then you'd still be alive ~ Don't you prey tonight cause' you don't know who's listening ~ If you were here I'd try to understand their reasons why Will they take our freedom away? I don't think that's so ~ Don't you prey tonight cause' you don't know who's Don't you prey tonight cause' you don't have too
IN REAL TIME I was all I feared Knew no control What she owned of me she couldn't see ~ And she said To hear your insides rotting out it's all a good time No longer fear consciousness In real time ~ She had no fear I had no doubt Drank a lot of beer and long passed out ~ When she said To hear your insides rotting out it's all a good time No longer fear consciousness In real time
LOVE TRIANGLE ASTRONAUT My friend Willie comes round about 4 By about twenty after laid out on the floor We hang out together and laugh at the world My friend Willie will settle any score ~ Love triangle astronaut Come and take me far away ~ My friend Will he come back from the war? My friend Willie should be president My friend Willie he went back on another tour of duty ~ Love triangle astronaut Come and take me far away Star spangled flavored oxygen Come and take my far away from home I long to be far from home I long to be ~ Love triangle astronaut Come and take me far away ~ My friend Willie was not really sure if he was really a girl or a boy My friend Willie ain't round no more ~ Love triangle astronaut Come and take me far away Star spangled flavored oxygen Come and take my far away from home I long to be far from home I long to be
MISS-X (Parts 1 & 2) {Part 1} No one taught me how to treat an angel Sent to me from heaven from God Not a day so lonely then one without you So hope you got a lot of presents under your tree on Christmas Eve {Part 2} The sun was up The sky was blue The day seemed to have no end Still I waited for you to walk through my door You never showed You never showed ~ Still waiting for you Still waiting for you ~ I waited all night just to be with you to put out this fire You always would on any holiday it never mattered to you Girl (God) I wanna be with you ~ Still waiting for you Still waiting for you Still waiting for you Still waiting for you ~ [I used to speak to you in dreams You would answer me but now when I speak there is nobody there no one answers anymore] ~ I needed someone just to dance with me someone I can pretend is you They can pretend to I'm someone else I would even mess with you If I only could again ~ Still waiting for you Still waiting for you Still waiting for you Still waiting for you
MONEY MACHINE Today's the day I saw the world was turning into something that sucks As for me I don't want to live in a world full of stupid people ~ I am the money machine I am the money machine I am the money machine Yeah ~ Today's the day I saw the world was learning who was right and who's wrong As for me I don't want to live in a world without supermodels ~ I am the money machine I am the money machine I am the money machine Yeah ~ I am tellin' you from the inside out You can't let the outside in There's to much pesticides I'm tellin' you Try to breath you own air it's hard to do... ~ I am the money machine I am the money machine I am the money machine Yeah
NO ONE KNOWS I don't know what day it was but she came into my room and took her clothes off She gave it away now --all away She gave it all to me and I lost it ~ No one cares for you No one cares for you No one cares No one cares for you for you for you for you ~ No one knows what I feel for you Ya gave it all to me and it's in a car heading straight for the sun the sun the sun ~ No one cares for you No one cares for you No one cares No one cares for you for you for you for you Like me
OF THE SAME NAME When you tell a story of how far you've come By lying to no one I don't believe you ~ But you and lie are one in the same Yeah you and lie are one in the same ~ Walking past the cemetery where she blew the dream Had it all in one hand Heard the silent Scream What cha gonna do now That summers gone In the middle of winter the leaves have gone ~ You and lie are one in the same Yeah you and lie are one in the same You and lie are one in the same You and lie are (of the same name)
ONCE UPON A TIME Once upon a time in a place There lived a boy who had dreamt 'bout the future And how it would be to be king of his own castle made of sand ~ Who knew? You can never run away ~ Then there was this girl from nowhere that became his queen for a day It would seem to feel like a whole lifetime but before he knew the time would come to pass ~ Who knew? You can never run away from your dreams from your dream ~ You might hear the truth in my song You can have what you want in a dream Just don't wake me up not from this dream You would not like what I've seen In this dream ~ Who knew? You can never run away from your dreams from your dream
ONE DAY Spent my time lookin' up from the bottom of the garbage can Spent my time livin' life at the bottom of the garbage can Seems the girl with the belly tattoo is gonna change it all So I won't have to die in the garbage can ..alone ~ Top of the heap bottom of the barrel Top of the heap with two barrels ~ One day someone's gonna come and empty the garbage can
PINE VIEW COTTAGE I wanna be you for just one day I'd fly like a bullet to you or you I wanna be you for just one day I'd die for my country Would you? ~ I wanna be you for just one day I'd sleep in the fire for you or you I wanna be you for just one day I'd die for my sisters Would you? Probably not ~ People look at me strangely What do they know about their own heads
POP VS. CLASSIC All protected under one God Father Sky He said so Sister Moon She flies by Halo made of starz With the truth you will be set free and all forgiven You can't spell slaughter without laughter ~ Someone has to win Might as well be me Someone has to win ~ Pop vs. classic is the new war and the new war is with the one who hides his face beneath' prayer Because your soul is filled with holes this doesn't make you a holy man Who will save you when you turn blue ~ Someone has to win Might as well be me Someone has to win
R N R They showed that scene again on TV I think it should never go away ~ And when it all began at 13 A way to never feel again To fall again without a funeral would be a win for the devil ~ Round and Round and Round Round and Round and Round ~ It feels so good just for a while Ride it so long - Feel in charge It's up to you when it comes down Will you stand up or just stay down-down-down ~ Round and Round and Round Round and Round and Round Round and Round and Round Round and Round and Round Round it goes where it starts -no one knows Round and round when it stops -no one knows Round and Round and Round ~ In the middle of some big mess You may feel weak and powerless Let the spirit take control Then close your eyes and except your nothingness ~ Round and Round and Round Round and Round and Round Round and Round and Round Round and Round and Round
SO. B. I took a car ride down to South Beach When I saw her standing there I could not speak Then I whispered to myself May never see her again and I never seen her again ~ I can not tell you what I found You've got to see her for yourself ~ I wanted to hold her hand forever and ever Never end ~ I just got the lead in "My Own World Party" So now I can feel like number one It doesn't matter if you don't come It doesn't mean it's over ~ I can't remember her name I think she put up her body for sale ~ I wanted to hold her hand forever and ever Never end Oh well
SUMMER RAIN Another soldier from the war is going home One fallen soldier - a fallen soldier with no name T.V. calls it like a game, keeping score He should be walking in the rain Neverending talking in the rain ~ 100 people in 24 -have all moved on I'll just ignore that news report A tear fallz from the left behind, tears of fire They should be walking Never ending talking in the rain ~ It's been so long since you've been here with me dear Though you just walked out the door It will be some time till we meet up in here They should be walking Never ending talking in the rain ~ It's been so long since you've been here with me dear Though you just walked out the door ~ Another soldier from the war is going home One fallen soldier - a fallen soldier with no name A tear fallz from the left behind -tears of fire They should be walking They will be walking in the rain ~ It's been so long since you've been here with me dear Though you just walked out the door It will be some time till we meet up in here They should be walking They will be walking in the (summer) rain
THANK YOU GIRL I can't wait to see you again with the colors in you hair My tired hands will hold you there ~ In your arms that's where I want to be In your place called love ~ When I see your face music fills the air You'd opened gates led me back to this place ~ In your arms that's where I want to be In your place called love I thank you girl for all you've given me In this place called love
THAT'S 2 BAD There is a war between here and heaven Without it there wouldn't be that crack in the air Then blood flowed as free as the rivers from the mountains ~ Ya can't trust any one of them to see through any one of these crimes ~ No one will cry when you die That's 2 bad Goodbye ~ Take this one Don't be afraid to spill it There's more where that came from It's cool they'll make more ~ No one will cry when you die That's 2 bad Goodbye ~ Here is heaven Here is heaven Here is heaven
THE '80s The '80s were good The '90s were better Hell bent for leather ~ Stick out your tongue Fire ant tongue Fire ant tongue ~ Reagan's time inside the White House Tore down a wall What a way to spend your night out watchin' A.F.U. ~ Now I just get stoned and watch F.N.N. Seems the news the male man gets is stranger then fiction ~ Fire ant tongue Fire ant tongue Fire ant tongue ~ Bubba's time inside the White House You dug a hole What a way to spend your night out watchin' F.T.B. (Not watchin' MTV)
THE DEAD KINGS PHILOSOPHY If you can't see things their way Then you can't see at all I can't stand to watch you all follow his law Serbian Law ~ Beware of the claw it's icy grip It's cold lonely land was raped ~ It's the dead killing the dead for food that's poisoned Vietnam - Croatia It's all the same Their all the same ~ Beware of the claw it's icy grip It's cold lonely land was raped ~ This one is old This one is new This one I found lookin for you The dead kings philosophy The T.V. reminds me I wish I had that girl from that video She looks like a girl I used to know Her eyes her smile It's there Is it wrong for me to watch T.V. without the sound without the sound
THE PLAYGROUND It's okay you want me dead That's okay I won't go mad I would want the same if I were you To my heart that wouldn't feel cool ~ It's okay I'm goin' away Exactly when I can not say cause' right here I do belong and I know I could never be any of those really big things you wanted me be With your sights set on me All this pain in store for me One last breath now I am free I'll go on my own Who's sorry now? Not me ~ I need to find another bridge to burn Maybe on the playground you could score some grades for me ~ I need to find another girl to play Maybe in that graveyard you could dig on up for me
THE VAMPIRE'S SONG Out of this world into the next I did not want her to do it but I think I made her ~ Lyin' in a crib with someone new to pacify her time She's in heaven now With her friends all around her she's never alone I watched her fly in front of me she blew up herself ~ Out of this world into the next I did not want her to do it but I think I made her ~ Oh love shouldn't hurt Oh love shouldn't hurt
THE TRUTH I'm ready for the great unknown A place set aside for me Where there is no one to hate on me and no one to piss me off ~ I'm sorry for the things that I've done Are you ready to forgive me ~ I don't have the need to Kurt myself It's not my prerogative anymore You don't have to turn blue in the face It's not our place this time to sing the blues ~ I'm sorry for the things that I've done Are you ready to forgive me I'm sorry for the things that I've said Are you ready to forgive me ~ How far we've gone Determines How far we go ~ Are you ready for the great unknown? A place that's set aside for you ..& me Where there is no one to pick on us and your dream can be set free to fly away ~ I'm sorry for the things that I've done Are you ready to forgive me I'm sorry for the things that I say Ever willing to forgive me You were always able to forgive me
UNITED STAND No one wanted another war When 2 broke away (then) 3 appeared The big fat 3rd one The Holy War The battle for your soul has now begun ~ Their numbers are huge Thus the response will be huge Keep it real ~ Pray while you press the big red button Pray Russia will understand This is their day Show them the way A brand new way ~ Thats the way A million strikes a day and then they'll get their little way ~ Its the lead up that ll be scary Thats the sad part of the process We ll see the ones we love go away In many different ways We will all be judged in the same way on the same day by the light that created us Blind them with the light Keep it real
YOU'RE LIKE ME You're like me Can you see? You're like me ~ He is the lie Behind that big fat smile Gaining all the time He is the lie You'll see in time ~ Bless my heart Bless my soul Saved my soul with Rock n Roll Bless my heart Bless my soul Saved my soul with Rock n Roll and left my mind far behind far behind ~ You're like me Can you see? You're not free ~ She is the lie Behind those trusting eyes gettin' laid all the time She's eating love Feeding on love She' eating love ~ Bless my heart Bless my soul Saved my soul with Rock n Roll Bless my heart Bless my soul Sold my soul 2 Rock n Roll and left my mind far behind far behind ~ ..and ya know what else? Tricks and games we've played them all This bulls**t faze will fall
