DELIVERANCE

Here is the second incarnation of the group playing two HOSS songs:

Evan Hause - Guitar and Vocals
John Maloney - Drums
Jesus Contreras - Bass

Recorded live-in-studio at the High House: High Street, Ann Arbor, March, 1996

Easy

Who said loving you ain't got its little perks?
I didn't need no frills but with you I've got the works
I didn't want nobody, ya know, I tried to turn my head
Now I'm shining up my shoes so I can walk with you instead

You don't ask for nothing but you give me everything
You're a queen bee, baby, and your love is like a sting
You give me things I did not know that I would ever need
Now I can't go back to those lonely days--I'm yours, yes indeed

"What can I do for you today?" you say
"Just sit back and let me make your troubles go away."
Loving you's the easiest thing someone could ever do
I could do it in the dark--easy as turning a screw

You make the day a game that I can never lose
You make the night all choices and I never have to choose
You make the Spring a story where I'm in the Pleasure Dome
You make the Fall a journey that always leads back home

I thought that there'd be trouble holding on to someone like you
I thought that there'd be hoops-a-plenty for me to jump through
You make loving easy as falling off a log
Your directions are simple as the day is long

Honor Among Thieves

I'll never leave you in the dark
We've tripped up too many carts
I'll never fire across your bow
But I will always take a head start

You have to trust me when you can't trust yourself
You have to assume that I'm at my best
And when I'm trashing rooms with words
You have to sit and smile like the rest

And when we reach the conclusion
About our place in the food chain
We'll follow the illusion
Color the numbers that make us strange

I'm like you, you're like me
Sometimes there's no one to believe
The truth is in the lies we lead
There is honor among thieves

I'm like you, you're like me
No one cares 'cause no one sees
The truth is in the lies we lead
There is honor among thieves

All songs and lyrics ©Evan Hause, BMI

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