Ben Harper Quotes

The lifetime we've left behind with strangers
Promises and lies both have their dangers.
I just can't be wrong enough and I can't hide for long enough
So far away, but I still feel your pain.

Take my hand when you are worried
Take my hand when you're alone
Take my hand and let me guide you
Take my hand to lead you home.

A candle throws its light into the darkness
In a nasty world, so shines the good deed
Make sure the fortune, that you seek
Is the fortune you need.

Could've sworn I heard you say amen this morning, showing some kind of sign that you believe
Did it fall from your tongue without warning or just another trick to fall from your sleeve?
Did I hear you say that you believe in angels? I guess I bring the devil out in you.
But we can both remove our halos 'cause even an angel needs love too.
Even angels need love too.

Where did you learn to do that so well?
Where did you learn to do that so well?
I guess that would be like kiss and tell.
If it's a secret, why did you show me?

Fools will be fools,
And wise will be wise.
But I will look this world
Straight in the eyes.<p>What good is a man
Who won't take a stand?
What good is a cynic
With no better plan?

Now I've been hangin' 'round you for days,
Bt when I lean in you just turn your head away.
Oh no, you didn't mean that.
She said I love the way you think, but I hate the way you act.

Children come running to the truth
But you've got to peel the skin to get the fruit
And while one's living high another's grieving
But what's sweet by morning is bitter by the evening
Oh - What's sweet by morning is bitter by the evening.

Listen stranger, passerby,
And those I never knew.
There's not one day that you are living
Has been promised to you.

My band is the best band in the world, period. So, I insist on every song being better then it is on the record. So by the end of the tour, we have to be playing the song better then how it’s recorded.

Excuse me Mr.
But isn't that your oil in the sea?
And the pollution in the air Mr.
Whose could that be?<p>So excuse me Mr.
But I'm a mister too
And you're givin' Mr. a bad name,
Mr. like you.

Some things
You have to let be lost
Some battles, some battles
You have to leave unfought.<p>Then the truth just wastes away
In all we dare not say.
And in all we can't explain
But I faithfully remain.

Real life has let you down.
Real life has let you down.
Someone stripped the jewel from your crown.
Everybody owes somebody something.

Sometimes I feel I know strangers
Better than I know my friends
Why must a beginning
Be the means to an end?<p>The stones from my enemies
These wounds will mend
But I cannot survive
The roses from my friends.

You can run away from home
But you can't run away from your pain
I sit here alone
There's always someone else to blame.