From the KSPS PBS studios...it's Inland Sessions.

KSPS PBS welcomes Spokane singer songwriter Andy Rumsey, and his creative musical harmonies.

Would you ever testify in my defense?

Help me find some recompense?

Give me strength beyond the normal sense and then some Thought you could have been the one to marry me But, now you're more likely to bury me Left nothing but the memory of your heavy hand I've been searching after something I've been tracking down a feeling And when I thought I finally found it I got kicked out of the garden Well, he was Mother Nature's own original hater The first of the Greater than thous that we know And she had been held hostage by conditional concepts Traditional nonsense, ooh, and it tied her up in knots and knots and knots She was searching after something She was tracking down a feeling And when she thought she finally found it She got kicked out of the garden Ooh, do come in, but wipe your feet You're far more than welcome Come heaven or hell come Lord, you know you've been good to me But you don't want to be like that, or see the things that I see As long as you got your memory, won't you lay yourself back down and get some sleep I was searching after something I've been tracking down a feeling And when I thought I finally found it I got kicked out of the garden I've been searching after something I've been tracking down a feeling And when I thought I finally found it Yah, I was searching after something I was tracking down a feeling And when I thought I finally found it I got kicked out of the Garden.

I got kicked out of the Garden.

♪ ♪ We might as well keep on doing what Romans have done So satisfied with the spirit of our new age And I don't know anybody- no, no, not a one Who doesn't live with a beast they cannot tame I'm getting tired of people but can't get enough Oooh, that hunger in younger hearts, like my own To occupy both the temple and the throne And to concurrently quell and fuel the desire To keep the peace, end the war, but fan the fire And the pursuit of the truth is wasted on youth?

We crucified better angels for heaven's sake and kept the priest and the senator on the take No matter whether you pay a tax or a tithe You go to work through a canyon of sex and writhe My heart is bloated by all this holy water weight Which lie is better for you?

the church or the state?

Tired of unrest and protest?

Oh, just you wait My heart is bloated by all this holy water weight ♪ Give me, gimme that good news Give me some fresh air Gimme that sweet temptation- don't you stop me now I am on fire, I am aware now and I couldn't get much higher And I know it only gets harder the more that you suffer So why are you hesitating?

When the work is done Follow me forever as we're chasing the sun I can feel the glow It's the warmth of everyone that I'll ever know Like a sinking stone And the deeper that you go the less you're alone Oh, what's that ya say?

"Are you gonna come my way?"

Oh, what's that ya say?

"Are you gonna come my way?"

All you'll ever know Is what you reap from what you sew inside of your soul When you find yourself You're gonna shake hands with the devil and you'll hug him as well How I know you well You chase the fame of others while your life goes to hell But is that really who you want to be?

Trapped behind a cage of glass from all that you see?

Oh, what's that ya say?

"Are you gonna come my way?"

Oh, what's that ya say?

"Are you gonna come my way?"

Hey, alright Oh, what's that ya say?

"Are you gonna come my way?"

♪ Did I see you in the garden?

Queen of hearts that quickly harden Painting roses while the mood was broken Peering through the looking glass And questions known, but not yet asked What I thought a gem was just a token But if you only knew How I saw you before I knew the truth And the ball I had planned for you But if you only knew I climbed your hair up to the roof to try on your brand new shoes Too many, too many wolves were creeping with such big lips to kiss you with Looking back I should have left you sleeping Now too many, too many wolves were creeping with such big lips to kiss you with Looking back I should have left you sleeping But if you only knew How I saw you before I knew the truth And the ball I had planned for you But if you only knew I climbed your hair up to the roof to try on your brand new shoes ♪ But if you only knew How I saw you before I knew the truth And the ball I had planned for you But if you only knew I climbed your hair up to the roof to try on your brand new shoes ♪ Forgive this moment as I gather my rage And take my cue from you and lock it in a cage The inconvenience of another brown face Must I wait until Sunday to hear murmurs of grace?

I wonder when the hell we all lost our minds When did it become a burden to be kind?

The piercing tyranny of doing your part You lost your minds to chants, but now it's your heart Is it the best we can do being casually cruel?

What's wrong with you?

If it's the best we can do being casually cruel what's wrong with me, then??

If this be justice it be only in word We rape with silence every mouth unheard This new idolatry, bereft of the brave made an obedient, expedient slave Is it the best we can do being casually cruel?

What's wrong with you?

If it's the best we can do being casually cruel what's wrong with me, then??

What's wrong with you?

What's wrong with me?

What's wrong with you?

the best we can do being casually cruel the best we can do being casually cruel the best we can do being casually cruel the best we can do being casually cruel Is it the best we can do being casually cruel?

What's wrong with you?

If it's the best we can do being casually cruel what's wrong with me, then??

♪ How is it that I became another nameless face?

And in another moment close behind, a number on a line?

One, two, three FALL DOWN One and two Three, four, five FALL DOWN One and two Three, four, five FALL DOWN Six now, on you Guns, we need a lot more guns Can't have enough of them But if I bleed, I'll pour it onto you So you know that my love was true One, two, three FALL DOWN One and two Three, four, five FALL DOWN One and two Three, four, five FALL DOWN Six now, on you Say we're gonna get what's due, because we won't behave I can see it in a lot of you, you look as if we were chamber-made One, two, three FALL DOWN One and two Three, four, five FALL DOWN One and two Three, four, five FALL DOWN Six now, on you One, two, three FALL DOWN One and two Three, four, five FALL DOWN One and two Three, four, five FALL DOWN Six now, on you ♪ People upstairs, they know all too well what people can bare They get a laugh by watching you run around Putting your neighbors' bodies into the ground Something's wrong when everybody you know Works their fingers off, down to the bone Like my father and now everyday I think about it in a casual way No need reminding me Supply and demand Whatever happened to "United we Stand"?

We lost a little bit just everyday and got divided by the prices we pay But really, what'd you expect?

The trickle down is a placebo effect When the power's in the hands that want greed demanding answers on the colors you bleed But it can be better so... Take it or leave it Tell me all about it Do you believe it?

Take it or leave it Tell me all about it Do you believe it?

I don't believe it, no.

Take it or leave it Tell me all about it- I don't believe it Take it or leave it Tell me all about it- I don't believe it I can't believe it