Ben Harper Quotes

Now I love to feel that warm southern rain,
Just to hear it fall is the sweetest sounding thing.
And to see it fall on your simple country dress
It's like heaven to me I must confess.

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.

You see mama don't watch your damn football
And your beer drinkin' just won't do
You're just stayin' out late
And you're preachin' the hate
And you never have been true<p>You see mama she want her somebody
Who will let her be herself
So she's leavin' you
And your stinky damn ways
Cause she's found somebody else

I believe in a few things:
God the devil and love.
'Cause I've looked up from the bottom
And I've stared down from above.<p>I have faith in a few things:
Divinity and grace.
But even when I'm on my knees
I know the devil prays.<p>And you're working your way
From the ground on down.

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.

Every time feels like my first time. And I just find that the process of it feeds into one's own self-obsession.

The world awakens on the run
And will soon be earning
With hopes of better days to come
It's a morning yearning.

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.

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.

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.

It will make a weak man mighty;
It will make a mighty man fall.
It will fill your heart and hands;
Or leave you with nothing at all.
It's the eyes for the blind
And legs for the lame.
It is love for hate,
And pride for shame.<p>That's the power of the gospel.
That's the power of the gospel.
That's the power of the mighty power.
That's the power of the gospel.

When your whole world is shaken from all the risks we have taken,
Dance with me, dance with me into the colors of the dusk.

The very thing that drives you, can drive you insane
Got a head full of thought crimes and a number with no name
Got an eleventh hour Jesus and a mouth full of blame
A casket lined with silver dollars and a number with no name.

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?