My dreams and desires
burn them down
all my hard work
burn it down
to ashes and rubble
from sorrow to happiness
let my life be reborn
so just burn all my belongings down
start over in this life
as we know it as hell
so burn it down burn
my dreams and desires
burn them down
(Still working on this)
The musician songster I so admire
will perform for us what they love for hire
while the music I make all for free
I am the only one who know of me
The dancer accomplish the stage above
a living they make doing what they love
although dancing alone my room at night
I am the only one who know I might
The respect and wonder I have for all
of whom talent on show does so enthrall
when alone I perform my act for none
the applause I receive from only one
Verse 1
When there was no light
And I could not see
I closed my eyes
And prayed to thy all mighty
Chorus 1
I was a blinded fool
I was a blinded fool
For I didn’t give my love over to You
When I could not see
When I could not see
I surrendered my soul to The God all mighty
Verse 2
You wanted me to be in the light
You wanted me to see the World You made for me
I only have myself to blame
For shutting Your love out of my heart
Chorus 2
I was a scared fool
I was a scared fool
For I didn’t give my everything to You
When I could not see
When I could not see
I got on my knees and prayed for You to forgive me
Bridge
I didn’t make you mad
I only made you sad
You wished for my love
All you wanted was for me to stand by You
For me to stand with You
For me to stand in the light
You don’t hate me
You only love me
Forever and Always you're my King
What is mine is Yours
What is mine is Yours
Chorus 3
I was a tired fool
I was a tired fool
For I didn’t know how to give my love over to you
When I could not see
When I could not see
I forgot all of my misery once I walked through your light
walk me through old memories
days when true love came to be
take me down an old backroad
on a two lane highway fantasy
and paint the picture of sunset
parked in a field where we met
as fireflies wait on night to fall
until we're close as we can get
we'll dance beneath the stars
by headlights of a parked car
country music from the radio
Dixie moon shines
near and far
so:
walk me through old memories
before gray twilight came to be
just one last time for yesterday
until morning sun
awakens
me
It was one stop on the highway
along a long desert road.
Billy said, “wake up”.
I thought it was some kind of code.
I stumbled out
into the sun's glare;
if there was an answer
I didn't see it out there.
I shucked down my trousers
and pissed in the sink
all the while thinkin'
I could sure use a drink.
A lizard was climbing
the wall to my right
and I almost remembered
a scene from last night...
but then Billy knocked
on that cheap paneled door
and that sweet memory
wasn't there any more.
I walked back outside...
collapsed in my seat...
Joe pushed the pedal
and I fell back to sleep.
Link to recorded song https://bit.ly/3eByjIV
Verse 1:
I have this idea, but no one will listen.
I'm having thoughts of a world that could be.
We could end war and focus on loving.
But nobody ever listens to me.
Verse 2:
I have this idea, let's stop living for money,
let's live for people, help them be all they are.
We could raise children to care about others.
Why did the room go suddenly dark?
Chorus:
Who built the frame for this Overton Window?
When I crack it open it falls with a thud.
I'm tryin' to see out of this Overton Window,
but it's all covered up with brown smears of mud.
Verse 3:
Nothing is certain till the moment it happens.
And if we work for it all... it just might come true.
So I want to work to make the world better,
to open the window and take in the view.
Repeat Chorus:
--- Link to recorded song https://bit.ly/37Mymim
Verse 1:
It hasn't been an easy life,
I've been through the mill,
ground to a fine grey powder
blown from a sill.
Verse 2:
But my spirit keeps on growin'
Though my flesh is dust;
the gold keeps right on glowin'
while the iron turns to rust.
Verse 3:
And if there’s a lesson
To learn from the things I've done,
some kind of distillation,
this would be the one...
Chorus:
If you don't integrate
what you say with what you do
the Quicksand you create
is gonna swallow you
Quicksand gonna swallow you
Quicksand gonna swallow you
Quicksand gonna swallow you
Quicksand gonna swallow you
Chorus 1 extension:
Quicksand
Don’t be makin’ no quicksand
Don’t be makin’ no quicksand,
Don’t be makin’ no quicksand
No, no, no
Bridge:
But the truth has many faces
We’ve not see them all;
we've gotta make our choices
maybe take a fall.
What might be right for you
may not be right for me
but somewhere down the line
I think that we will both agree...
(Chorus)
*** I wrote this after the Sante Fe High School shooting in Texas on May 18, 2018. The rampage continues. I feel hopeless.***
Here's the link to the recorded song: https://bit.ly/3eob3hq
Verse 1:
Another man has snapped
watching children play
with a weapon in his hand;
those children died today.
Chorus:
I'm tired of all this pain.
When will these murders end?
It's been going on for years.
Today it came again.
I'm running out of tears.
I'm running out of tears.
I'm running out of tears.
I'm running out of tears.
Verse 2:
And pointless words are said
but nothing will be done;
we're still at the mercy
of a madman with a gun.
Bridge:
I don't know the answers.
I don't know what to do,
but we've got to think of something...
that's the one thing I know is true. Cause I'm...
Chorus:
tired of all this pain.
When will these murders end?
It's been going on for years.
Today it came again.
I'm running out of tears.
I'm running out of tears.
I'm running out of tears.
I'm running out of tears.
Every day, when a new sun rises,
you have the chance to begin again,
doesn't matter how heavy your burden...
if you're alive you can still make a plan.
Are you going to be a savior?
Or are you only going to be waiting for one?
The revelation of your real behavior
will be seen by the next setting sun.
Are you here? In this moment?
Can you hear what I'm trying to say?
Do you think the whole world needs changing?
If you think so... you've only got this moment...
right now... right here...today.
Are you going to be a savior?
Or are you only going to be waiting for one?
The revelation of your real behavior
will be seen by the next setting sun.
Are you going to be a savior?
Or are you only going to be waiting for one?
The revelation of your real behavior
will be seen by the next setting sun.
I thought the way to win
Was to lie and take them in
Show them all a plastic face
Then disappear without a trace
Just a phantom, passing through,
The ones I touched, they never knew,
How I yearned to meet their eyes
Took so long to realize…
I’ve played too many games
Forgot the faces and their names
Saw love die and fall apart
Tried to hide my aching heart…
Like a river
that never found the sea,
like a drifter
who's never broken free.
Too long I wandered,
a shadow in the night;
I need you to see me
as my shadow reaches,
reaches for the light.
I know how it feels to fall
Where you can’t find a friend to call
All I built was built on sand,
God, I need a helping hand
Instrumental
It took years, day after day,
To break through and find my way
Took a step but wasn’t sure
Turned around and there you were.
Till the day you believed in me
I didn’t know what love could be
Now I’ve got so much to give
Fin’lly learned I don’t have to live…
Chorus
Link to the recorded song: https://bit.ly/2YXL0ak
Kat’s Pajamas
Make me smile
Though I’ve been around them
For awhile...
for awhile...
Kat’s Pajamas
Stood the test of time
Seven years
And still I… and still I... I...
I love
Kat’s Pajamas
I love
The way they’re so unique
When I see
Kat’s Pajamas
I find it hard…
I find it very hard
to speak.
Kat’s Pajamas
Make me smile
Though I’ve been around them
For awhile...
for awhile...
What is love?
I for one don’t know.
I reach out
To what I wanna hang on to… hang on to... and...
I love
Kat’s Pajamas
I love
The way they’re so unique
When I see
Kat’s Pajamas
I find it hard…
I find it very hard…
to speak.
‘Cause…
Kat doesn’t wear pajamas.
No, Kat doesn’t wear pajamas.
Kat doesn’t wear pajamas.
No, Kat doesn’t wear pajamas.
No, no, no, no, no, no, no,
No pajamas.
I love
Kat’s Pajamas
I love
The way they’re so unique
When I see
Kat’s Pajamas
I find it hard…
I find it very hard…
to speak.
Link to the recorded song: https://bit.ly/383nOf5
Verse 1:
I was brought up
to think like a soldier,
to guard every emotion
in a tight metal cage
I learned how to shut down
and suck it all in
but no one ever taught me
how to live with my rage
Chorus:
I once thought
I was tougher than nails
and my heart was as hard
as heat hardened steel rails
but now I've been hammered by life
I can see
nails are tougher,
nails are tougher than me.
Verse 2:
It's taken so long
to accept that I'm human;
to feel what I'm feelin',
and not act like a clown.
Back then I was broken
now I'm broken open;
when our daughter came to us
my heart melted down
Bridge:
Indifference isn't a virtue,
choose coldness and it's you who will lose,
I learned this lesson the hard way
now it's yours to use or misuse.
Repeat Chorus:
Link to the recorded song: https://drooble.com/song/1742092
Chorus:
I didn't come here
to build up my ego;
I didn't come here
to simply observe;
I didn't come here
to pick up a paycheck;
I came here to give all I can...
I came here to serve.
First verse:
If you get one drink of water
out of this badly cracked vessel
I will consider my life
to be worth all the time
I've spent trying
to hold that mouthful of water
for a person in need
who I doubted I'd find.
Repeat chorus:
Verse 2:
If my love has sustained you
I hope that you will be thankful
and do unto others
what I've done unto you.
This is my message
and I trust you to impart
all that you've learned
in all that you do.
Bridge:
We live in a world
full of glitter and glory
that panders to ego
but sucks out the soul.
It's only in service
to all those around us
that we find our meaning...
that we are made whole.
Repeat chorus:
Link to recorded song: https://bit.ly/3eALxWi
Verse 1:
I was like some orphan boy (girl) raised up wrong,
didn't know where to go, or what to feel,
roamin' down dark alleys till the break of day
till You Broke The Spokes Of The Devil's Wheel
Chorus:
You Broke The Spokes Of The Devil's Wheel
showed me a world I'd never known
You Broke The Spokes Of The Devil's Wheel
took my hand and you led me home
Verse 2:
I was headed straight in the wrong direction
one more lost soul never to be found
roamin' through those alleys of eternal pain
till you broke the Devil's wagon down
Bridge:
The Devil's wheel is rollin' through this land
but not for me, not for me,
you gave me the grace to understand
I can be free, and now I'm free,
Tag:
You Broke The Spokes Of The Devil's Wheel
You Broke The Spokes Of The Devil's Wheel
Link to the recorded song: https://bit.ly/31hFv9q
There is silence in the still waters
where lost in the shadows our dreams lie asleep
No one dares ask why they don't waken
because the heart knows the wounds are too deep
For lack of a better world
people starve in desert heat.
For lack of a better world
kids buy crack out on the street.
TV slander, corporate lies,
hopeless anger, tortured cries,
a heart falls to defeat
For lack of a better world
For lack of a better world
some are condemned at birth.
For lack of a better world
some think they own the earth.
Crowded prisons, racial hate,
Greenhouse gases, it's too late
cause someone died today
For lack of a better world
What kind of world is this we're creatin'
where the trust of a child is battered and broken?
What kind of life can we expect
when seeds of compassion are fed with neglect?
For lack of a better world
we see foes where there should be friends
For lack of a better world
we're all losers in the end
Look around with open eyes;
it won't take long to realize
it's time to make amends
For lack of a better world
Link to the recorded song: https://bit.ly/2A2EaYH
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