Song 98

Mary Anne (Click to Listen)

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Song 97

She Won't Want Me This Way (Click to listen)

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Song 96

How'd We Get Here?

It’s not a bitter song

Another lonely heart for you to walk upon

It’s not a bitter song

Took all my strength to say that I am gone

It’s not a bitter song

How’d we get here?

Feeling so low my dear

Drifting further apart

It’s the breaking of my heart

There’s no right or wrong

Scream all the night up until dawn

There’s no right or wrong

Darling how the hell are you so withdrawn

There’s no right nor wrong

How’d we get here?

Feeling so low my dear

Drifting further apart

It’s the breaking of my heart

Guess we don’t belong

Year after year and now what have we got?

Guess we don’t belong

A broken man and a woman distraught

Guess we don’t belong

Hell let’s give it a shot!

How’d we get here?

Feeling so low my dear

Drifting further apart

It’s the breaking of my heart

Song 95

Faded Good Luck Charm (Click to listen)

Your words hung in the air

Like a sermon

In a silent steeple

With this bourbon

On my breath

Will you hear what I must confess?

My words were hanging around

Like a dog

Barking cause he couldn’t be found

With your song

In my head

I’ve got no choice but to sing it again

I’m glad I have my memories

This faded good luck charm

I’m glad I have my memories

Now that you’re gone

It’s colder in my bed

Feeling ancient in my head

It’s not getting better like you said

It would get

Ain’t nothing time won’t mend

Your words just kept coming back

Like a coyotes

Lonesome cry to the moon

In my own

Words I hope to see you soon

There’s just no room  for two

Song 94

If That's Not Love (94 of 365) (Click on title to hear song)

I was taken aback by the love that you lack

All of your life you

You’ve been treated so bad

It nearly took all that I had

To hold me back

It was a horrific sound

Break the skin to let it out

Is it under control now?

I was drinking coffee when I found the pill bottle empty

You locked yourself away and started to sing

La da da la da dee what do you think of me?

La da da la da die oh me oh my

It was a horrific sound

Hospital tried to pump it out

Is it under control now?

If this is love I have my doubts

You’ve tried so many times without success

Please take it as a sign that the cross around your neck

Is a God here too protect

Only wants your very best

Lay your fears down to rest

If that’s not love I don’t know what is

Song 93

Do You Hear That Train (Click on title to hear)

I'm a western man
On an eastbound track
Traded in my guns
for to be a business man
I'm a western man
you could say I've given up
traded in my guitar
now I sing for no one.

Gone is the way it was
gone is the way it will be
gone is the way I feel
God are you here with me?

Do you hear that train?
Coming clickety clack?
Do you hear that train
rolling swift smoke stack

I'm a western man that's the way it be
I traded in my name for to be free
I'm a western man that's just the way it is
When you're a western man you do what you can to live

Song 92

How Could I Have Known Listen Here

Song 91

Take Me Back Listen Here

Song 90

Dramamine Spins

Oh how it seemed like a good idea

It was a good song to be sung

Cocaine teeth and Dramamine spins

It was a good melody to hum

Sunset in the meadow breeze blowin cold

How am I not myself? How am I not myself?

Tree stripped of leaves, they said everything is me

How am I not myself? How am I not myself?

Gone with the wind, back then gone again

We’re just spinnin around

Didn’t want to make a sound or be found

Just hang around this town and be left to myself

Didn’t want to write it down be singled out

Say it out loud this town is better left to itself

Song 89

Any Other Fool

We could sit here and drink

we could sit here and fight

Or we could pour another drink

Then call it a night

When I wake up and the sun just won’t shine

Something happens to this little heart of mine

You could say it stones me to my soul

You could say it makes me feel at home

You could say it makes me want to go

Just pack up and hit the road

But the truth is

I just want to go back to bed

But the truth is

I just want to feel you lying next

To me

I know you know I’m not just any other fool

But there’s no telling what a man like me might do

I’m not terrified by your beauty

But I’m scared as hell of what you see in me

When I wake up and the sun it burns my skin

Something changes about the way I’m living

You could say it makes me want to run

You could say it makes me want to love

You could say it makes me want to buy a gun

Put it to his head and say “this is how it’s done”

But the truth is

I just want to go back to bed

But the truth is

I just want to feel you lying next

To me

I know you know I’m not just any other fool

But there’s no telling what a man like me might do

I’m not terrified by your beauty

But I’m scared as hell of what you see in me

Update

So here's some good and bad news. The good news is I am going to continue writing songs and posting them on my blog. The bad news is I am no longer going to do it daily. After taking on this project my joy in music has been diminishing. It's felt too forced and it's just not fun any more.  I'll keep posting new songs a few times a week until I write 365 songs. 

Song 88

All Right Now

You gotta get all right now

You gonna get all right right now 

You gonna get all right right now

You gonna get all right right now

You gonna get all right now

All right right now

Who’s to say?

Who’s to blame?

Who’s better then?

Honestly

Did you really think

You’d be better then?

Who’s to say

Who’s my friend?

Who will be better then?

Honestly

Do you really believe

You’d be better then?

You gotta get all right now

You goona get all right right now 

Look at my house, Look at my dog

Look at my chair, Listen for the phone

Loot at my eyes, Look at my hands

Look at my hair, Listen for the phone

Stretch my arms, stretch my legs

Stretch my voice listen for the phone

Get me clean, get new clothes on

Song 87

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La Jardinera De La Esperana

There’s a place underwater

Where you can breathe

There’s a place underwater

Where you can see And I guess I read the signs

One read peace one read don’t get too close

One read I’m gone I thought that's better than most.

There’s a statue of a little girl reaching up

Towards heaven or to something she thought was love

Esperanza

What are you growing these days

In that garden of hope you’ve made

The dream collector stands deep in thought

Dog at his feet

All our dreams in bottles and books on his shelf

We’re all dogs dreaming of anyone else

Where is it this place I’ve been dreaming of

Are you the one reaching up trying to feel love

Song 86

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Nothing In Return

All the love that I offer

Wasted looking backward

Just wanted to say hello I love you

And I have now for quite sometime

Just wanted to say hello I need you

You’ve always been in my mind

Oh my love how I’ve prayed for

An open window or a door (adore)

Just wanted to hello I adore you

And I have now nearly all my life

Just wanted to say hello I long for you

I hope someday you will be mine

Do you think me a monster?

Going where you go

You scream so loud be gone sir

I am not your home

I’ve only been waiting for forever

I’ll probably wait forever more

I find the best love letter

Is one that asks for nothing in return

I ask for nothing in return

Song 85

Complete and Happy

If we knew our lines we could get this scene right, but we’ll cause this story to fail

It’s simply not as simple as we thought it would be, complicated reality

If we could spend our time on a compromise instead of fighting tooth and nail

Then we could be together like I hoped we could be complete and happy

Out drinking and coming home

My stuff piled high on the front lawn

Won’t you please hear me out

I need you now

“Ya I’ve been drinking but I know when to stop”

She said, “You might want to leave, because I’ve called the cops”

Won’t you please stop this insanity,

I’m just a man in love with many things

If we knew our lines we could get this scene right, but we’ll cause this story to fail

It’s simply not as simple as we thought it would be, complicated reality

If we could spend our time on a compromise instead of fighting tooth and nail

Then we could be together like I hoped we could be complete and happy

Ok I get the point you can stop this now

Come on babe you know you still love me somehow

Don’t make me beg I want you back

Will I stay true? Don’t ask me that.

I didn’t expect to leave with handcuffs on

How could you become so withdrawn?

They said they found a gun on me

I came with just one bullet to set you free

Song 84

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Dice

You can call it love

A sign from above

Girl don’t pretend

You know how this is going to end

You said it’s alright

If it’s only for the night

If it’s only for the moment

I can truly feel alive

You said I know these are my dice

And I’ll roll see what transpires

You said I know this is my life

And I’ll leave if I so desire

You ain’t getting too much sleep in

You’re seein funny things again

In this story tell me who’s the heroin?

Is it the drug, or the lack of reason?

You said it’s alright

If it’s only for the night

If it’s only for this moment

I can truly feel alive

What the hell do I know?

What the hell do I know?

I know what I’ve been told and that’s pretty much all

I know you felt love and now it’s gone.

Song 83

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Alpine, CO

If you’re a lost soul you can head down to Alpine

It is there you’ll find the light

Just an old ghost town where folks used to mine

In alpine there’s a light if you can find the time

You can stay here forever or you can try to make it right

In alpine there’s a spirit that will guide

Time spent running around

Had a brief moment in heaven

But landed here in hell

I didn’t know it then but I know now

In Alpine there’s hope a way out

So I’ll take my chances on a dream

See what it means

Devil playing tricks, or an angel’s antic

Song 82

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Broken Branches

The broken branches of a woman

Sprawled across the ground

The fire starts with a spark

The wind up it picks then spreads

Will it consume her now?

The apathy builds

The smoke fills

Her lungs so she can’t scream out

She gets deathly chills

Wait until

She’s gone to rummage through her things

The heavy burdens of a man

Weigh me down

The flood starts with a drop

The levee up it fills then breaks

Guess I’ll surely drown

The apathy builds

The water fills

My lungs so I can’t scream out

I get deathly chills

Wait until

I’m gone to rummage through my things 

Song 81

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The Salt From Another One

You’ve got moon eyes

But you’re running out of time to make this right

Pray for blue skies

But every day is the darkest of nights

Please don’t tell lies

I can see through those numb tears that you cry

Was it a lack of love?

Was it a lack of trust?

Are you still mourning the morning I left?

Was it a sweet sigh

Of relief I

Am now gone and you can try to forget?

You’ve got sutures

They keep getting ripped, when you let love in

What of futures?

When your heart is tarnished, no more shine in your chest

Of course you sound bitter

Want something sweet on your tongue

But you’re choking on the salt from another one

Song 80

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How You've Grown

Oh mighty river run wide

I will meet you on the other side

Oh poison filled veins how you run so deep

I get my stuff from the well when I drink

Looking for a ghost one of a man

Trying to find a town I can stand

Looking for a truth one called the light

Trying to find the right way to lie

2x

Oh my garden how you’ve grown so tall

Do you wait for the rain?

Oh my dear you love all of my faults

Did you hate the pain?

Looking for a ghost one of a man

Trying to find a town I can stand

Looking for a truth one called the light

Trying to find the right way to lie

Oh my God, are you here tonight?

I drank from the well but my lips still dry

Oh my God, how can you walk away?

Our hearts they ache, we call your name

Song 79

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It's A Haze

They didn’t even try to make sense

When they came around flapping their mouths in the past tense

I said go ahead try to bring me down

It didn’t get any better than I hoped it would get

Some corporate man taught to think big

Said, my father built this place from the ground

It’s a haze it’s a haze

It’s a golden age

An empire built to fall

It don’t take a crystal ball

To know we’ll all

Be laid off

Soon enough

Of course we all need something to work on

Let’s build a wall build a God build a steeple

Let’s build a house for the poor

On second thought let’s build more weapons for war

They didn’t even try to make sense

When they came around flapping their mouths in the past tense

Screaming God’s on our side

That’s good reason for me to fight and die

Song 78

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Old Man's Wake

There are a few folks in my family tree

Sometimes I wish weren’t a part of me

It’s all well and fine just some cheap DNA

Where the leaves fall the wind dictates

I watched a fire dance through the hills

I thought I’d take a chance on cheap thrills

I drank so much I could hardly stand

Now I spend my time in search of dry land

Even when I thought there was nothing more to say

Words were flying out my mouth in every single way

It was the icing on the cake

The old man’s wake

A funeral for a better day

My dreams last night were filled with snakes

Everywhere I went they followed me

I gave a mouse a sword said, “do your best”

He said I’ll kill but you must lead me to their nest.

What do you suppose that means

Perhaps darkness inside of me

I’m just trying to get rid

Maybe it’s nothing

Even when I thought there was nothing more to say

Words were flying out my mouth in every single way

It was the icing on the cake

The old man’s wake

A funeral for a better day

Just when I thought my words would finally stop

Some more flew out in a hiccup or a cough

It was all that I thought

I watched the old man rot

We put a prayer into God

Even when the world it’s turning cold

And the blood that pumps has all but froze

Take an icicle inside to thaw

In awe you stand with numb hands

Oh how I prayed for you

Song 77

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Lazy Shady Day.........ya

Song 76

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Keep My Mind

I try to keep my mind, on the peaceful side

Then you nearly died, on that floor all night

You think you slipped and fell, it’s cold as hell

Pray they find you, pray they find you

Eleanor you’re getting old

Don’t you think it’d be more peaceful?

If you’d just go to a different place

Get on out go on its ok

In a hospital room with wires coming from you

When will you get to go home? You say they won’t let you know

In a hospital room nurses check in on you

Are you feeling alright, is your throat getting dry do you need these strangers to leave?

I try to keep my words close to me

Afraid of what I’d say if I spoke freely

If you see my pa up there, let him know that I’m fine

If you see god tell him I’m trying to get it right

Song 75

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Trouble In The Arms

Work hard for a living

Scrape by on every dime

The hell this is fine

Say I love but I don’t know why

I wanted to be rid of apathy

But you came along and took my pride

Wasted all weekend

Put a call in to an old friend

When asking how he’s been

Said I’m in trouble trouble again

Found trouble in the arms of a woman

Found trouble behind my door

Found trouble in the kind words of a friend

Don’t want to find trouble no more

Been listening to raindrops

It’s said to soothe the mind

Been drinking on that ole hilltop

Whiskey works better and in half the time

Found trouble in the arms of a woman

Found trouble behind my door

Found trouble in the kind words of a friend

Don’t want to find trouble no more