
MUSIC
LIT (2021)
Won’t You Come My Way
I saw you hanging by the corner store
Blew right past me out the exit door
Picked my jaw up off the kitchen floor
Left me wantin’ hurtin’ for some more
The moment left an imprint on my mind
Not the average ordinary kind
Instead, the type to go home and rewind
Won’t you come my way
Chase my blues away
Change my rainy day
Today
Won’t you come my way
Hold the clouds at bay
Be my lone sunray
Today
Next morning awoke feelin’ so intrigued
Roused from a state of comatose fatigue
Friends say watch out she’s way out of your league
Catwalkin’ like the model Cheryl Tiegs
You took a match & struck a dormant wick
Lit a lighted dynamite stick
Habit I don’t really wanna kick
They say that I won’t get a fleeting glance
Fall flat upon my face an awkward dance
Million to one odds for true romance
But that just means I’ve got a fighting chance
Caught you cueing in the checkout lane
I got in line hoping to sustain
That my luck’s not discounted in vain
Venturing in uncharted terrain
Soaring on a feeling mile high
Fueled and fully stocked with all supplies
Hope that I can fly the friendly skies
She says that she loves me
Says that she needs me
As I knew she would
Like I knew I could
Says that she’s happy
Says that she wants me
Feelin’ oh so good
As I know I should
Says that she loves me
Says that she needs me
As I knew she would
Like I knew I could
Says that she’s happy
Says that she wants me
Feelin’ oh so good
As I know I should right now
El Camino
Let’s hop in & take the El Camino
Drive it down to the Pink Flamingo
Two blocks southwest of Mendocino
Just three miles past El Capatino
I think I’m starting to fall
Believe I’m liking it all
I’m feeling 10 feet tall
In for the long haul
Girlfriend’s name is Miss Angelino
She hotwires fires my libido
Keeps things warm just like the El Nino
She’s my lovely sexy valentino
Feels like it could be time
Bells are starting their chime
Feels like the rhythm rhymes
Like I could stop on a dime
What I’m feeling
Left me reeling
You’ve been stealing
Got me kneeling
When you said we were thru & that there wasn’t no more
knocked me right on the floor
I was grieving
Late this evening
Not perceiving
Disbelieving
When you said that it was done and that there wasn’t no more
walked out right thru the door
Think I need double cappuccino
After that catch some Tarantino
Perhaps a little Al Pacino
Can’t go wrong with Bobby DeNiro
Did you know now what she threatened to do
Said she was done and that we were through
Let her know what she heard wasn’t true
Must explain it didn’t play out & go down that way
I Reminisce You
Caught a brief second-handed account
Then thought to check out the news
Did a double-take and then gave pause to thought
Cause what I read it smelt like a ruse
I really need you
Don’t want to bleed you
I dearly miss you
I wanna kiss you
Don’t wanna diss you
Or go dismiss you
I reminisce you
I wanna kiss you
Hey now what do you mean
As you torment and haunt
Hey now my how you steam
Right now what do you want
Hey now what do you say
As you spin and cavort
Hey now please press replay
Right now let me retort
Caught a voice adrift in the wind
& what I heard was hard to believe
What it said went against & all that I know
So I guess there’s a trick up your sleeve
Urged it to come provide me a full view
But it stretched its wings in the wind
Flashed a stern look warning me to take heed
The end is where you should begin
Don’t know if it all was for naught
Our best intentions target & shot
Don’t know quite what got overseen
Picture perfect blown to smithereens
Solar Flare
Cutting a deep groove
Rolling back to you
Obstacles removed
Got nothing to prove
Lightning on the move
Rocking like a meteor &
Charging like a minotaur
Jetting like the French concord &
Cresting on a wood surfboard
Ride a solar flare
Wind in my hair
Truth or double dare
Without a care
Levitate to you
Beneath a full moon
Sun-spotted bejewelled
Glycerin fuel
Shooting star skimming right across the vacant desert sky
Travelling light speed to be back your waiting & warming side
Arcing a broad streak above the saluting stoic cacti
Ziplining a sling trajectory hanging yet holding high
You penned a poignant piece seeking my prompt release
Quickly spun around inquired what do you mean
Deserted in a canyon for a fortnight times two
With a gunny sack and head full of thoughts about you
& I retreat back into my cave
Where I toil yeah and am enslaved
If one could see my meagre plight
By my side, they would stand and fight
Launch a flare to your heart
Etch and sketch on the chart
& can’t you see with your eyes
Across the stars how it plies
As I plummet down from the mountaintop
Full velocity cannot hit full stop
Barreling headfirst as the brakes are shot
Spigot yields not a solitary drop
Edging back within the thin atmosphere
Predestined fate quickly approaching near
Unrelenting progress no room to veer
Autopilot locked now abandon steer
Click
Kept on waiting by your side
Feet stuck in the murky tide
Sober truth I slow imbibe
Contemplating where to hide
Said you don’t even know me
Brushing by oh so boldly
Skid marks tattoo where you scold me
Wry cackle coughing so coldly
Left there drifting in your wake
As the surf began to break
Nimble limbs tremble and shake
Sanded shores shook to a quake
Then you go blow right by me
Turn and wink back so slyly
Your motions cunning and wily
Wit of your words speak so dryly
All the things you said to me
Such talk I could not believe
Your position bobs and weaves
Revealing what’s up your sleeve
As the clock winds down its tick
Wax candle devours the wick
Etch a sketch & gouge a nick
You and I shall never click
Tearin’ My Heart In 2
Lord you got me rockin’
My body senses poppin’
I’m rolling and not stopping
Tonight
You got me believing
These dreams you be a weaving
& I don’t plan on leaving
That’s right
Oh the clock is ticking
& yeah the fever’s sticking
The feeling I’m not kicking
Take flight
Crest that I’m riding
The meaning I’m not hiding
The moment’s not subsiding
Hold tight
Then it starts to turn
The present gets adjourned
Then all comes undone
The ending to the fun
Then boom goes to bust
The shine loses its lust
Then it’s all for naught
The lines connect the dots
Lord you got me talking
The pitch you have me hawking
This flow that I’m not blocking
Ignite
How you got me jumping
My pulse it is a pumping
& heart is thud & thumping
Delight
Lord, my soul’s been raided
The glimmer dimmed & faded
I’m feeling just & jaded
Indict
Joy I am a tasting
The sip I’m not wasting
The savour & not hasting
Alright
Then it starts to spoil
The water mixed with oil
World begins to spin
A loss born of a win
Then it starts to tear
The room sucked out of air
Then all starts to break
Reality turns fake
You’re tearin’ my heart
Tearin’ my heart in two
I’m positive now
I’m sure you see how
We’re through
You’re tearin’ my heart
Tearin’ my heart in two
There’s certainty now
It’s clear to see how
We’re through
You had me campaigning
But now the numbers waning
Support seems to be feigning
Sound bite
How the flock is flying
There can’t be no denying
This con you propose buying
Red light
As I book a ticket
And step out of the thicket
I’m feeling mighty cricket
Stage right
See the neon fading
My outline needs some shading
collapse Collage cascading
Outright
Then the truth is thrust
Diamonds turn to dust
Next, it all unfurls
Gleam leaps off the pearl
Then the lights go out
Shadows lurk in doubt
As the credits run
The tale woven and spun
Fake
Feelin’ kinda rusty
As I head on down the road
Air’s gettin’ plenty dusty
Tires kickin’ gravel stones
You better stop stop
Think before you come ‘round again
You better knock knock
Find yourself a brand new friend
You can file an appeal but there’s simply nothing to contend
Feelin’ kinda groggy
As I take this hairpin turn
Sky’s gettin’ plenty foggy
Leveraging the sun’s slow burn
You better stop stop
Things are not yet on the mend
You better knock knock
Think ‘bout what you did again
Some personal reflection’s solely what I recommend
Not gonna break
Ain’t gonna run
From my mistakes
I’m gonna give
Ain’t gonna take
I want it real
Don’t want no fakes
No
Weary and lambasted
Unfolding down this straightaway
Warning signs are pasted
I should pit and end my day
You better stop stop
Think of what it could portend
You better knock knock
Contemplate it once again
Your credit line is drawn it’s impossible to extend
Sashay
Like it when we are swaying
Our bodies sashaying
Like the games we are playing
Don’t let your eyes be straying
Like your perfect timing
Rhythm you are rhyming
My engine is priming
Apex we are climbing
Make it now
Fake it wow
Stake it how
Break it now
Take it now
Shake it wow
Quake it how
Naked now
You make me kind of crazy
Just driving me Miss Daisy
Head south to Acapulco
You’re making me go loco
Sure had enough of drama
Lacking needed stamina
All done with wild roses
With all their pretty poses
Like it when you move me
Seem to always be free
Why not let things be
Fine as I can see
Savant
Said ring me up but you’re never home
Seems no point in pickin’ up the phone
Crowd about & I feel all alone
Wear me down like a rock on stone
Come on let’s go you delay and stall
Invite me in then build up a wall
Left on the hook waiting in the hall
Leave on my own you begin to trawl
Think I’m wakin’ up from this long endless dream
Rerun of a tired worn out & played movie scene
Tying up loose ends come apart at the seams
Time to switch the picture to a new screen
Think I’m rousin’ up from my stagnant state of mind
Losing the straps which used to firmly hold & bind
Tightly wound clock rapid spins & unwinds
Second-minute hands become intertwined
What do you want
Why do you flaunt
My but you haunt
Call the savant
Hey let’s head out get out on the run
Turn shoot me down not wanting any fun
Introduce my friends but you turn and shun
Pass the ball but you’re one and done
Believe I’m rousing up from my lame nonchalance
Comatose mirage in which I was firmly ensconced
Your voice mail I received was my only response
Felt like a ton of bricks without any nuance
Now that I am stirred from my endless reverie
Horizon up ahead appears uncluttered and free
Open road unfolding is all I can see
Time to jumpstart and commence the journey
Uh oh it’s you
Hope it’s not true
Uh oh it’s you
Please don’t fool
Uh-oh it’s you
Why now so soon
Uh-oh it’s you
Quick change the tune
Passing Fad
When I feel the changing weather
Then you come and pull my tether
We’re apart and then together
Turn around and pluck my feathers
Left for loss & then rebooted
Found a purpose which I’m suited
Feet are grounded firmly rooted
Volume’s turned down yeah but no way hell nah I’m not muted
uh-uh
Lord how I want you
Need you so bad
How you’re flaunting
& tease me so mad
Now it is daunting
It’s no passing fad
How you’re haunting
& lingering sad
When I see the changing season
Arrested booked and charged with treason
Heartbeat cinching breath is seizing
Prosecuted for no reason
Then you came & made it better
Bond is strained yeah but unfettered
To a T and to the letter
Multiply and round it off yeah to the nearest decimal uh-huh
So I’m down now
Count to 11
Don’t throw the towel
Get up at 7
Been restarted
Design rerouted
Prepped and conditioned
Armoured well-suited
Rudely awakened
Tossed and forsaken
Hung drawn & quartered
Stirred well and shaken
Taste temptation
Kept it platonic
Lost a blind bet yeah
Ain’t that ironic
No concessions
I can’t accept it
Build a diversion
I will sidestep it
Sound the warning
There was no heeding
I’m pressing onwards
Was no seceding
Grasp the throttle
Grippin’ bionic
Approaching Mach 1
Hit supersonic
Sound is breaking
Hear but don’t see me
Soon I’ll be long gone
Jet forth and set free
2 Below 0 (2020)
BUST LOOSE
So I wake up in a dream
It seems just all so serene
Don’t know quite what to believe
Card I saw tucked up your sleeve
But I see a light down the way
Beckoning & calling my name
Implores me to take the next step
No matter of the odds which are bet
So I step on out the door
Look up & then down my floor
Hall light short circuits inside
It sparks flickers flames then dies
Feel primed & ready to score
Pour it on & give it some more
Riding the pendulum swing
To the clasp I desperately cling
As you call I’m pulling away
Expired meter voiding my stay
Penalty fine I can’t afford to pay
I’ve got nothing to say
Bust loose
Breaking headlong into the wind
Lit fuse
Propelling me further away again
No use
Going where there’s no return to send
Hit cruise
Waiting way past beyond the bend
So I walk on down the road
Shall pay when I hit the toll
Grey clouds clustering ahead
Obscure the path I once tread
But I feel the wheel start to turn
Correcting redirecting my burn
Feeling the envelope spring
No telling of the launch it may bring
But I see it coming around
Make up ground without any sound
Feeling the sweat start to bead
Tells me of the sign I should heed
Take a look & please read the sign
Clock’s ticking you are out of time
Clear intrusion way over the line
I politely decline
WHAT I WANT
Dusk was fast approaching
As I paced back & forth
Bead of sweat traced my brow
I had no place to go
But I had to get from where I was
Wasn’t wanted there no more
So I grabbed a white shirt & pair of black slacks
Slipped out back
The night was peaceful
Had no fixed address no one looking for me
The path was clear
So I took it
Run & kickin’
From where I was before
Clock is tickin’
Searchin’ for the exit door
Fingers pickin’
Master key on the floor
Nothing clickin’
The sweat drippin’ through my pores
Pulse is racin’
Searching for a second way
Fingers tracin’
Gather up my dossier
Heartbeat chasin’
Panoramic quick survey
Body bracin’
Leap of faith from the fray
The moon began to rise along that eastern ridge
Arcing slowly across the sky
Lookin’ down on me
For I was soul bare with a ragged stare
Weathered skin & a little thin
But I was still moving
I passed the cacti which stood like sentinels
Saluting my passage
Stoic silent
I just kept on thinking reminiscing reflecting
Thought of you from time to time
Did you feel it
So I looked up ahead & thought to double back
Maybe change tack
But kept on track
For I was a solo hobo with no loco moto
But that was fine by me
This moment anyway
& as the day began to break
A picture of your face shone across my mind
Warmed me to my soul
& I felt a lifetime pass in one nighttime
With answers to questions, I didn’t have
So I journeyed on
SYNERGY
Late one night
I was walking alone
No streetlights
Trying to make my home
Then you came in my mind
Stumbled to the beat
A vibe tripline
I’m left feelin’ the heat
Like a moth to a flame
Flicker to your light
As a boy with no shame
Fighting the good fight
Pull my chain
Don’t refrain
Please sustain
My need
I want you
You want me
One & one
Pure synergy
I lost you
You found me
What we’ve got
Sweet harmony
Early one morn
Tossing in my sleep
Clouded sunrise
Light beginning to creep
Entered in my dream
Like the twilight zone
Didn’t want to escape
Pleasure thunderdome
Like a pig to a trough
Hunger for the feast
Flick the switch to the off
Beauty & the beast
Bustin’ loose
No excuse
Sign the truce
I plead
Left astray
In the fray
Run away
Godspeed
PAY DIRT
Stay back
Don’t crack
Unsure when I’ll be back
Turn round
Stand down
Shut it don’t make a sound
Relay
Convey
There’s no time to delay
Fan out
Reroute
Don’t let the word get out
Go track it
That sound
Slow hack it
Expound
Go jack it
Surround
Mack tack it
Impound
Lay low
Go slow
On your mark get set go
Head down
Look round
Keep it within the bounds
Relate
Conflate
No time to debate
Ignite
Take flight
Keep clear out of sight
All I wanted in this spinning big wide world was you
Then you turned proclaimed we’re thru
Situation comes unglued
Don’t know what’s hearsay or true
Thinking all the things you said
Echoing within my head
& I’m left hanging by a thread
As the light changes to red
Close in
Begin
No sign where you have been
Fan out
Reroute
Inquire what it’s about
Engage
Upstage
Let’s turn the final page
Prevail
All hail
Assess & re-gauge
Locate it
Amend
Placate it
Ascend
Relate it
Extend
Rotate it
Transcend
I want it now
You need it how
Please hear my vow
I plea to thou
Standing my ground
Let me expound
Going full round
Confusion
Contusion
Conniption
Conviction
Persuasion
Evasion
Disruption
Eruption
Assess
Redress
Don’t fold under duress
Adapt
Retract
Step back quick-check the facts
Acquire
Desire
Keep stoking the fire
Avert
Desert
Dig deep ‘til hit pay dirt
DUST ME OFF
My heart it breaks
Body aches for you
My spirit shakes
Mind awakes it’s true
Don’t know if you do
But I felt such a fool
Pick me up dust me off
Make me feel brand new
My heart relays
Everyday to you
Don’t delay
Can’t withhold the truth
Message on its way
With words that can’t convey
Feel for you do you feel for me
Perhaps the same way
My tears won’t dry
Eyes don’t lie to you
Lost soul it cries
Hope it sighs it’s true
Don’t know if I’m wrong
The words to this song
Shoot the moon go for broke
Finish the leg strong
My mind implores
Heart adores it’s true
Can’t ignore
Knock on my door from you
Anecdotally it’s true
Categorically it’s you
No surprise where truth belies
How it comes to pool
Love don’t erode
Hope don’t corrode for you
Feelings explode
Don’t implode it’s true
My dream it plies
Time it flies with you
Crystallize
In your eyes it’s true
WIGGLE
Cause I really want to know
If or not it’s time to go
I just want to make it flow
Get it lined up in a row
Cause I really want to see
If or not it is for me
Set the lock & turn the key
Start the countdown now on three
Come here & shake it
Really want to take it
Can’t seem to fake it
Would be a shame to waste it
Turn it & baste it
Really want to taste it
Lick it & paste it
Really want to make it
Come & embrace it
Get the nerves to face it
Frame & encase it
Just don’t go debase it
Sketch freehand trace it
Mind you don’t erase it
Get on & chase it
Just don’t go misplace it
Feels like the world is spinning around
As though my feet aren’t touching the ground
Watching the colours explode into sound
Second hand is coming unwound
Feels like my mind explodes into space
Accelerate at a slow-motion pace
Sketch a fine line without any trace
Everything just falls into place
Go & ignite it
Strike a match to light it
Come uninvited
You’re really gonna like it
Proceed despite it
Grin then bear & bite it
Wrong & then right it
You just got to fight it
Come in & sample
The supplies are ample
Roll out the gamble
Shake your sweet Bojangles
Tempt it & dangle
Get on up & scramble
Ain’t gonna ramble
This is my preamble
CHASE THE SUN RISIN’
Said I’m moving on
Just a singin’ my song
Can’t be staying long
Must be rollin’ along
Yes I’m groovin’ on
Ride from dusk until dawn
To where my spirit is drawn
Taillights fade & then gone
Gonna head for the hills
Beyond the horizon
Gonna make like the moon
Chase the sun risin’
Yeah man so I was just heading down that dusty road
Minding my own, window down
When a flash of light caught my eye in the rear-view mirror
& then you burst forth
Turned a blind eye to all my good deeds
Went AWOL in my hour of need
Reaped what was sewn then replenished with weeds
Washed your hands as you wished me Godspeed
Lent a deaf ear to all of my pleas
Hid the antidote for my disease
Body blow brought me down to my knees
Turned & smiled while I slowly bleed
Looks like things are clearing up ahead
With nothing left behind
Maybe time to ease off on the gas for a bit
Push the seat back
Yes I’m flowin’ goln’
I won’t see you anymore
Yes I’m growin’ goin’
As I’m walkin’ out the door
Yes I’m strollin’ rollin’
As I know what it’s in store
Yes I’m goin’ knowin’
I won’t see you anymore
HIG & JIG
Caught you sittin’ by the stand
Feet were sinkin’ in quicksand
Said come quickly
Lend a hand
Take 2 steps forward
Slide to the right
Turn hip shake it
Hold it tight
Retrack back jack it
Rotate it nice
Hig & jig it
With all your might
Free wheelin’
Feelin’ surreal &
How I’m movin’
Oh so good yeah
Dream weavin’
Got me believin’
Groovin’ like I
Know I should
Lend me your ear
Feelin’ low
Think I lost
My mojo
Said relax Mac
Forget the score
Had this feeling
In my bones
It abandoned
Left my home
Wish I could get
Back & roam
Build it up & tear it down & slightly stirred & shaken round
Amplify in sound surround & turn it up let it compound
Elevate let it resound replay it to a full rebound
Escalate & gaining ground & toe to toe & pound for pound
Take it high & bring it low & blur the lines & let it flow
Watch it go have it unfold just hang it loose & make it roll
Serve it hot or dish it cold & shoot the mark & hit the goal
Play the half & take the whole in this moment fully enrolled
So now get movin’
Groovin’ right
Bust it loose yeah
Hold it tight
Ain’t much for muscle
I can fight
THE LOVE THAT I GOT
I’m swaying
You’re weighing
But I cannot stop
The love that I got
I’m fraying
You’re praying
But I cannot block
The love that I got
Doesn’t matter all the things you do
Irrelevant whom you try to fool
Academic how you seek to trick
Ineffective needles which you prick
It’s the rock I’m rolling
Lone path I’ll be cajoling
Baggage yeah I’ll be stowing
That’s just yeah how it’s going
I’m knocking
You’re balking
But I cannot lock
The love that I got
I’m talking
You’re walking
But I cannot dock
The love that I got
Doesn’t matter all the games you play
Inconsequential much of what you say
Amateur ploys you seek to feign
Immaterial objects which you gain
You’re sending
I’m lending
& all that you let
Is what you shall get
You’re mending
I’m trending
& all that you set
Is what you shall get
Doesn’t matter whose toes you may step
Unconcerned with what odds may be bet
Unimportant of the lines you blur
Indifferent to the false leads which you spur
But I cannot dock
The love that I got
But I cannot lock
The love that I got
But I cannot block
The love that I got
But I cannot stop
The love that I got
POW
Stuck in a rut
No ifs ands or buts
Down in a glut
Seems I lost my strut
Struck in the gut
Not quite sure by what
Lifeline is cut
Exit way is shut
Then you come in the doorway bay
Turn around I say hey hey hey
Imply that you’d like to stay
Think it could be my lucky day yay-yay
Mired in a drought
Without any doubt
Holler & shout
Got nothing to tout
Lost on a rout
With nothing to flout
Stuck on the outs
Seems I lost my clout
Then you call on the telephone
Address me in a certain tone
Inquire if I’m home alone
Determine if I might be prone oh yeah
I want it now
You need it how
I like it wow
You got it pow
Stuck in a ditch
Without any hitch
Locked in a pitch
Without any switch
Seeking a niche
Not quite sure of which
I got an itch
Makes me wanna twitch
Got the warning you’d drop on by
Think I knew the reason why
Shrug my shoulders turn & sigh
Truth I told was all a lie I said
Down in a muck
Like a sitting duck
Wheels spin & stuck
Trend I’d like to buck
Progress is struck
Things have run amok
Wish I could chuck
Get back to good luck
Then you burst ‘neath the full moonlight
Mood is set the timing’s right
Sparkling under the twilight night
Ignition on as we take flight come on
I want it now
You need it how
I like it wow
You got it pow
You want it now
I need it how
You like it wow
I got it pow
OVERDRIVE
I’ve been prodded & been poked
Pushed & pulled & then provoked
Hounded each & everyday
Seemingly each & everyway
Been dismissed without respite
Skipped the bark received the bite
Kicked & trashed upon the floor
Full onslaught my body bore
Had all memory erased
Skip the plot cut to the chase
Sensing the walls are closing in
Seeking an exit way again
Idly dismissed without a case
Thrown out while standing safe on base
Judge smiled so condescendingly
This time there won’t be no jury
Empty pockets naked mast
Endless sea shapeless & vast
Bait my feeble line & cast
Stretch it out to make it last
But I’m digging in my heels
Fighting for what I know is real
& if you’d care to throw it down
Be forewarned I’m duty bound
Note that my eyes are curtain-veiled
Peek behind them if you dare
Fire brimstone nostril flare
If looks could kill then see my glare
WE’RE THRU
When I’m riding alone & I’m thinking of you
& I wonder aloud about what I should do
But I’m not really sure ‘cause I don’t have the time
Got no sense, wits, yeah now rhythm or rhyme
Thought I was wise
Now I feel like a fool
Figured all was aligned
It’s all askew
Need a séance
Foresee the news
Wonder how I could be so blind
Replay the tape quick please press rewind
Ain’t stoppin’ at the exit door for you
Not coppin’ yeah to all the things you do
Ain’t poppin’ tales straight out of the blue
Not droppin’ yeah now what I know is true
Ain’t crawlin’ on my hands & knees to you
Not fallin’ for the same old tricks you do
Ain’t ballin’ as I head out for the blue
Not stallin’ here’s a newsflash now we’re thru
When I’m lying awake & I’m drinking ‘bout us
Endlessly pondering about what was the fuss
But I don’t really know ‘cause I don’t really care
Had enough of two-faced truth double dares
Thought I was cool
Now I feel like a klutz
Thought I had the all-clear
Now I’m down on my luck
Wish I knew now
What I didn’t know then
Hit the brakes stop cold in my tracks
Shiftin’ the gears reverse double back
Board up the doors lock all the gates
Hands to yourself now don’t tempt fate
I’m not falling for you
I know what now is true
I ain’t missing you
I know just what to do
I’m not thinking about you
I know what now is true
I ain’t wantin’ you
Know just what I should do
It’s time to say goodbye yeah
SYNERGY (2020)
Synergy
Late one night
I was walking alone
No streetlights
Trying to make my home
Then you came in my mind
Stumbled to the beat
A vibe tripline
I’m left feelin’ the heat
Like a moth to a flame
Flicker to your light
As a boy with no shame
Fighting the good fight
Pull my chain
Don’t refrain
Please sustain
My need
I want you
You want me
One and one
Pure synergy
I lost you
You found me
What we’ve got
Sweet harmony
Early one morn
Tossing in my sleep
Clouded sunrise
Light beginning to creep
Entered in my dream
Like the twilight zone
Didn’t want to escape
Pleasure thunderdome
Like a pig to a trough
Hunger for the feast
Flick the switch to the off
Beauty and the beast
Bustin’ loose
No excuse
Sign the truce
I plead
Left astray
In the fray
Run away
Godspeed
THE ASTRONOT – SPACE RACE (2020)
ON THE HIGHWAY
Driving this road so long
Don’t know where it’ll roll
Cruising the highway
Unsure if there’s a toll
Searchin’ for a signpost
Tell me which way I should go
I had a pretty passenger
Now you know she’s long gone
Had a shotgun princess
That seat’s vacant light is on
Looking for some company
As I pull into this town
Pit stop is what I need
One-on-one TLC
Been down so many roads
Need direction where to go
Keep my headlights shining
Deep into the night
As the sun sets west
I’ll drive into the night
The moon breaks that far crest
I’ll hug the corners tight
Won’t pull my red ride over
‘Til morning’s pre-dawn light
GOIN' DOWN
I’m goin’ down
Since you left
Forgot my name
With the hounds
Since you trashed
Threw me away
World’s spinnin’ ‘round
Since you turned
Walked out on me
I hear no sound
When I call futilely
I’ll be rising
Pick myself up
Lockstep
To the top
I’m climbin’ up
From the rubble
Where I found my heart
Risin’ up
On the double
From what tore it apart
Sky’s clearing
Sun’s nearing
Upon my cracked face
Blood pulsating
Emanating
Through my weathered veins
From where springs this feeling
Nobody knows
Starts and stops
Comes and goes
Destiny reeling
Changing my mind
As the feelings
Unwind
IF I LOSE YOU
Never wandered out alone
Never strayed too far from home
Now I’ve left my bed
Confusion lies ahead
There
Off in the distance
You stand
Offering resistance
The wall ‘gainst which I lean
Begins to fall
If I lose you now
A part of me would die
If I lose you now
My heart would surely sigh
It’s no lie
Scars scratched upon my face
The pain of you I taste
Cuts through me a deep slice
Of jagged tears of ice
Here
Armed for destruction
Aimed
At my fragile construction
The precipice on which I stand
Begins to slide
Wounded on bended knee
Guard is down hear my plea
White flag defenseless
Calling out S.O.S.
WON'T YOU SPEND THE NIGHT WITH ME
Been outside
In a timeless space
Endless thoughts
Enquire my tastes
Time stops
Then stumbles by
Different place
Wish I could try
Second guessed
A hundred million times
Hard to play the game
When they draw those blinds
Set adrift
Far from home
Wish I’d get back
To where I am from
So won’t you spend the night with me
I’ve been hurting for your company girl
Won’t you spend the night with me
With me
Won’t you spend the night with me
I’ve been so down & lonely
Won’t you spend the night with me
With me
Used to live
Life as it came
Never thought of
Consequential gains
Take me back
To who I was
Remind me
Of what I can
Do for you
PATHWAYS
If you’d like to see
What’s become of me
Guess we all change
It isn’t good to stay the same
Should you pass
By my face
Familiar shot
You can’t place
Give it time
Light will shine
A lost moment
Of you and I
As the nighttime looms
My heart will still be drifting
When the morning dawns
Your soul is lightly lifting
If you’d like to hear
All the news of yesteryear
Not to linger past
Make the present moment last
Should you wake
In a dream
Is it real
Or make-believe
As the daylight shines
My mind is calmly thinking
When the evening calls
Your light is gently sinking
As you draw the blinds
To end another day
Should our pathways fail
Good luck along the way
ANYWAYS
Saw you walkin’ back the other day
As I lay back in the tall cool grass
I was thinking I was thinkin’ about you
As clouds rolled on ahead
With these thoughts going in my head
Anyways
I just had to say
You looked so wonderful to me
Gotta try to believe
Anyways
Cool day in September
Hint of rain mixed in the air
Time to move along from here
Kneelin’ long the worn chalk line
We weren’t winning
Sittin’ on the green hillside
You were grinnin’
Something that you create
Just by being
Took me far away from there
Oh I think of you
Each and every time
Do you know I’m here
And how I feel for you
Be as it may
I’ll keep shufflin’ ‘long anyways
VANCITY BLUES
The rain it pours
Damn near each and every day
From mid-October
To the month of May
Lord how I long
For you to come my way
Granville Street
Commercial Drive
East Hastings
I wish you’d arrive
Until then
I got those Vancity blues
If I don’t see you
I just might blow a fuse
The traffic’s bad
The bus is full again
How I’d like
You to be my only friend
The feeling’s true
I can’t pretend
PENNAN BRAE
He sailed from the Highlands
South to Vera Cruz
Deep in the Brazilian heartland
A man of twenty-two
Up the coastline
North to Montreal
Leather bag upon his frame
Six foot one inch tall
He lived the way I want to
Freely without care
Rode the western railway
Wind rushing though his hair
East to West coast to coast
Where his best plans were laid
Yonder cross those hills
Where the spirit wills
Where I chase my thrills
Yonder cross those
Got some land
Worked it to the bone
Met a true love
There they made a home
Had a family
Three girls and no more
Warm welcome awaited
By his front porch unlocked door
Moved the way I want to
With a subtle grace
Hand extended
Warm smile on his face
A life of peace and joy and love
Is what true freedom seeks
Wonder
When we’ll walk again
In a garden
That you fondly tend
Share the laughter
Smell the cashmere
As you press me
Tight against my tears
HAVE YOU EVER BEEN
I was walking down by the bay
Saw you ‘neath the sun’s rays
Then you turned and looked away
Sunshine left clouds filled my day
On my path I set forth
East West South and North
Lone rider take left or right
Through the morn into the night
Have you ever been so lonely child
Have you ever felt the clouds and rain
Have you ever been so lonely child
As lonely as I am right now
I was drifting by the oceanside
Caught your footprints in the tide
Then the waves caused them to hide
I was pained and lost inside
Road ahead slightly bends
Will it ever come to end
Treading thin on tires I roll
Searching for the half to make me whole
I was racing in the jungle heat
Crossed the path you had beat
Then the foliage came to meet
My dead-end heart began to sink
SIGNS
Wonder if it’s true or if it’s false
Does it have a heartbeat or a pulse
Don’t hang ‘round when things flat-line
Got better uses of my time
Ponder if it’s real or make-believe
Beneath the mask do you deceive
As you reach for my right hand
Time to make you see and understand
You run on a red light
Stop on green
Break on the freeway
Backroad speed
So I’m changing
Shifting gears
As the drawbridge
Quickly nears
Tell me of a guy whom you met
As if you’d care to place a Vegas bet
Got no sleight of hand to hide
What you see you get with no surprise
Then you call on me to make my move
Don’t respond to someone on cue
Got no drama role to play
Yesteryear tomorrow or today
Think I know who I’m dealing with
If it is real or just a tryst
Feel it as you take my left arm
You seek not love but to do harm
In this game I’m not for you
Find another to easily amuse
Got no time to idly hang out
Time to turn off with little doubt
You run on a red light
Stop on green
Break on the freeway
Back road speed
Turn right in the left lane
Forward reverse
Signs you are making
So perverse
So I’m changing
Shifting gears
As the drawbridge
Quickly nears
Check my safety
Note the time
As I can read
All the signs
SPEECHLESS (2020)
Instrumental versions of the songs from The Astronot soundtrack.
WALK WITH ME
And I feel
That I’d like to walk with you
And I know
That I’d like to talk with you
I’m no fool
I want you
And I feel
That I’d like to run with you
And I know
That I’d like to hide with you
Lose my cool
I want you
And I feel
That I’d like to roll with you
And I know
That I’d like roll with you
Yes it’s true
I want you
STRUT
Movin’ down the street
Lookin’ good & feelin’ neat
Walkin’ down the road
Steppin’ to the beat
Got some lightnin’ in my feet
Walkin’ down the road
Then I saw her face in the sky
Kaleidoscope a 1000 eyes
Fixed my gaze ‘til the sunrise
Dawned on me as I realized
Clairvoyant crawled in my head
Stoked every fire I fed
Prescient move to have led
Road down I shouldn’t tread
Picking up the slack
Jump ahead then double back
Walkin’ down the road
Knockin’ on the sugar shack
Rush could give a heart attack
Walkin’ down the road
Then I heard her voice in the wind
Sweet melodic vibration
Abandoned all predestined plans
Undivided attention
Hoogah Joogah Loogah
You talkin’ to me
Hoogah Joogah Loo
You wantin’ me
Hoogah Joogah Loogah
You walkin’ to me
Hoogah Joogah Loo
Come to me
Sifting thru the sand
Time keeps slippin’ through my hand
Walkin’ down the road
Trackin’ like a boomarang
Locked in on my home again
Walkin’ down the road
Then she took me by the hand
Led me to a foreign land
Where the strange trip then began
Revealed to me her hidden plan
Clairvoyant crawled in my head
Stoked every fire I had fed
Prescient move to have led
Road down I shouldn’t tread
Instinctual mind to have read
Knew every desire I had bred
Should’ve stayed home in bed
She said I’d be better off dead
A WOMAN
Sometimes you really think you know someone
Somehow you feel that they’re the one
But they turn and then hurt you
The very one you thought was true
And I know what I need to do
I must be long rid of you
Please go away
I freely will confess
I was fooled tricked and licked by the best
Thanks no need to stay
Cause a woman can make you come alive
Or a woman can cut you down to size
I’ve been dormant here too long to stay and lie
A woman can make you realize
Sometimes you really think you found a friend
Someone on whom you can depend
But their true colours are soon shown
The very one you thought you’d known
And I know what I need to complete
I must take to walk a new beat
Thanks good luck good-bye
I gladly shall attest
Farewell to you is the best
Please don’t ask why
Cause a woman can make you come alive
Or a woman can cut you down to size
I’ve been dormant here too long to stay and lie
Cause a woman can make you heal
A woman can fake it real
A woman can bring it all alive
CRASHLAND
I walk you talk
Retreat defeat
Creepin’ to the edge
Leanin’ ‘gainst the ledge
Peering down below
On my tippy tippy toes
I freefall for you
From the sky
My pulse is racin’
Do or die
Air’s wearing tearing
Against my skin
Hallucinatin’
An illusion
Crashland
I’m gonna hang 10
Gotta pretend
That I’ll be alright
Crashland
I’m gonna time bend
I need a good friend
To make the night
Crashland
I’m gonna vibe send
I need a soul mend
To see the light
Crashland
I’m gonna get zen
I gotta change trend
I’ll take flight
I move you groove
Pretend befriend
Then I take the plunge
Desperation lunge
Falling in a dream
To a bottomless ravine
Rip cord is tearing
From my hand
The countdown’s started
To the end
In a manic panic
My heart pounds
Hopes fading at the
Speed of sound
Spinning and gyrating
Blackin’ while gravitatin’
In a deadspin viral spiral
Vertigo a running wild
Twistin & a tumblin’
Lightning rippin thunder rumblin’
Revolving & rotatin’
Out of body levitatin’
PATHWAYS
If you’d like to see
What’s become of me
Guess we all change
It isn’t good to stay the same
Should you pass
By my face
Familiar shot
You can’t place
Give it time
Light will shine
A lost moment
Of you and I
As the nighttime looms
My heart will still be drifting
When the morning dawns
Your soul is lightly lifting
If you’d like to hear
All the news of yesteryear
Not to linger past
Make the present moment last
Should you wake
In a dream
Is it real
Or make-believe
As the daylight shines
My mind is calmly thinking
When the evening calls
Your light is gently sinking
As you draw the blinds
To end another day
Should our pathways fail
Good luck along the way
GOIN' DOWN
I’m goin’ down
Since you left
Forgot my name
With the hounds
Since you trashed
Threw me away
World’s spinnin’ ‘round
Since you turned
Walked out on me
I hear no sound
When I call futilely
I’ll be rising
Pick myself up
Lockstep
To the top
I’m climbin’ up
From the rubble
Where I found my heart
Risin’ up
On the double
From what tore it apart
Sky’s clearing
Sun’s nearing
Upon my cracked face
Blood pulsating
Emanating
Through my weathered veins
From where springs this feeling
Nobody knows
Starts and stops
Comes and goes
Destiny reeling
Changing my mind
As the feelings
Unwind
ON THE HIGHWAY
Driving this road so long
Don’t know where it’ll roll
Cruising the highway
Unsure if there’s a toll
Searchin’ for a signpost
Tell me which way I should go
I had a pretty passenger
Now you know she’s long gone
Had a shotgun princess
That seat’s vacant light is on
Looking for some company
As I pull into this town
Pit stop is what I need
One-on-one TLC
Been down so many roads
Need direction where to go
Keep my headlights shining
Deep into the night
As the sun sets west
I’ll drive into the night
The moon breaks that far crest
I’ll hug the corners tight
Won’t pull my red ride over
‘Til morning’s pre-dawn light
IF I LOSE YOU
Never wandered out alone
Never strayed too far from home
Now I’ve left my bed
Confusion lies ahead
There
Off in the distance
You stand
Offering resistance
The wall ‘gainst which I lean
Begins to fall
If I lose you now
A part of me would die
If I lose you now
My heart would surely sigh
It’s no lie
Scars scratched upon my face
The pain of you I taste
Cuts through me a deep slice
Of jagged tears of ice
Here
Armed for destruction
Aimed
At my fragile construction
The precipice on which I stand
Begins to slide
Wounded on bended knee
Guard is down hear my plea
White flag defenseless
Calling out S.O.S.
HAVE YOU EVER BEEN
I was walking down by the bay
Saw you ‘neath the sun’s rays
Then you turned and looked away
Sunshine left clouds filled my day
On my path I set forth
East West South and North
Lone rider take left or right
Through the morn into the night
Have you ever been so lonely child
Have you ever felt the clouds and rain
Have you ever been so lonely child
As lonely as I am right now
I was drifting by the oceanside
Caught your footprints in the tide
Then the waves caused them to hide
I was pained and lost inside
Road ahead slightly bends
Will it ever come to end
Treading thin on tires I roll
Searching for the half to make me whole
I was racing in the jungle heat
Crossed the path you had beat
Then the foliage came to meet
My dead-end heart began to sink
WON'T YOU SPEND THE NIGHT WITH ME
Been outside
In a timeless space
Endless thoughts
Enquire my tastes
Time stops
Then stumbles by
Different place
Wish I could try
Second guessed
A hundred million times
Hard to play the game
When they draw those blinds
Set adrift
Far from home
Wish I’d get back
To where I am from
So won’t you spend the night with me
I’ve been hurting for your company girl
Won’t you spend the night with me
With me
Won’t you spend the night with me
I’ve been so down & lonely
Won’t you spend the night with me
With me
Used to live
Life as it came
Never thought of
Consequential gains
Take me back
To who I was
Remind me
Of what I can
Do for you
SIGNS
Wonder if it’s true or if it’s false
Does it have a heartbeat or a pulse
Don’t hang ‘round when things flat-line
Got better uses of my time
Ponder if it’s real or make-believe
Beneath the mask do you deceive
As you reach for my right hand
Time to make you see and understand
You run on a red light
Stop on green
Break on the freeway
Backroad speed
So I’m changing
Shifting gears
As the drawbridge
Quickly nears
Tell me of a guy whom you met
As if you’d care to place a Vegas bet
Got no sleight of hand to hide
What you see you get with no surprise
Then you call on me to make my move
Don’t respond to someone on cue
Got no drama role to play
Yesteryear tomorrow or today
The fog lifts as lines connect the dots
Take the turn-off and check my blind spot
Look in the rearview ahead the coast the clear
Making inroads as I take the wheel
Think I know who I’m dealing with
If it is real or just a tryst
Feel it as you take my left arm
You seek not love but to do harm
In this game I’m not for you
Find another to easily amuse
Got no time to idly hang out
Time to turn off with little doubt
You run on a red light
Stop on green
Break on the freeway
Back road speed
Turn right in the left lane
Forward reverse
Signs you are making
So perverse
So I’m changing
Shifting gears
As the drawbridge
Quickly nears
Check my safety
Note the time
As I can read
All the signs
THE ASTRONOT – GRAVITY (2019)
STRUT
Movin’ down the street
Lookin’ good & feelin’ neat
Walkin’ down the road
Steppin’ to the beat
Got some lightnin’ in my feet
Walkin’ down the road
Then I saw her face in the sky
Kaleidoscope a 1000 eyes
Fixed my gaze ‘til the sunrise
Dawned on me as I realized
Clairvoyant crawled in my head
Stoked every fire I fed
Prescient move to have led
Road down I shouldn’t tread
Picking up the slack
Jump ahead then double back
Walkin’ down the road
Knockin’ on the sugar shack
Rush could give a heart attack
Walkin’ down the road
Then I heard her voice in the wind
Sweet melodic vibration
Abandoned all predestined plans
Undivided attention
Hoogah Joogah Loogah
You talkin’ to me
Hoogah Joogah Loo
You wantin’ me
Hoogah Joogah Loogah
You walkin’ to me
Hoogah Joogah Loo
Come to me
Sifting thru the sand
Time keeps slippin’ through my hand
Walkin’ down the road
Trackin’ like a boomarang
Locked in on my home again
Walkin’ down the road
Then she took me by the hand
Led me to a foreign land
Where the strange trip then began
Revealed to me her hidden plan
Clairvoyant crawled in my head
Stoked every fire I had fed
Prescient move to have led
Road down I shouldn’t tread
Instinctual mind to have read
Knew every desire I had bred
Should’ve stayed home in bed
She said I’d be better off dead
CRASHLAND
I walk you talk
Retreat defeat
Creepin’ to the edge
Leanin’ ‘gainst the ledge
Peering down below
On my tippy tippy toes
I freefall for you
From the sky
My pulse is racin’
Do or die
Air’s wearing tearing
Against my skin
Hallucinatin’
An illusion
Crashland
I’m gonna hang 10
Gotta pretend
That I’ll be alright
Crashland
I’m gonna time bend
I need a good friend
To make the night
Crashland
I’m gonna vibe send
I need a soul mend
To see the light
Crashland
I’m gonna get zen
I gotta change trend
I’ll take flight
I move you groove
Pretend befriend
Then I take the plunge
Desperation lunge
Falling in a dream
To a bottomless ravine
Rip cord is tearing
From my hand
The countdown’s started
To the end
In a manic panic
My heart pounds
Hopes fading at the
Speed of sound
Spinning and gyrating
Blackin’ while gravitatin’
In a deadspin viral spiral
Vertigo a running wild
Twistin & a tumblin’
Lightning rippin thunder rumblin’
Revolving & rotatin’
Out of body levitatin’
WALK WITH ME
And I feel
That I’d like to walk with you
And I know
That I’d like to talk with you
I’m no fool
I want you
And I feel
That I’d like to run with you
And I know
That I’d like to hide with you
Lose my cool
I want you
And I feel
That I’d like to roll with you
And I know
That I’d like roll with you
Yes it’s true
I want you
THE ASTRONOT (2018)
WALK WITH ME
And I feel
That I’d like to walk with you
And I know
That I’d like to talk with you
I’m no fool
I want you
And I feel
That I’d like to run with you
And I know
That I’d like to hide with you
Lose my cool
I want you
And I feel
That I’d like to roll with you
And I know
That I’d like roll with you
Yes it’s true
I want you
STRUT
Movin’ down the street
Lookin’ good & feelin’ neat
Walkin’ down the road
Steppin’ to the beat
Got some lightnin’ in my feet
Walkin’ down the road
Then I saw her face in the sky
Kaleidoscope a 1000 eyes
Fixed my gaze ‘til the sunrise
Dawned on me as I realized
Clairvoyant crawled in my head
Stoked every fire I fed
Prescient move to have led
Road down I shouldn’t tread
Picking up the slack
Jump ahead then double back
Walkin’ down the road
Knockin’ on the sugar shack
Rush could give a heart attack
Walkin’ down the road
Then I heard her voice in the wind
Sweet melodic vibration
Abandoned all predestined plans
Undivided attention
Hoogah Joogah Loogah
You talkin’ to me
Hoogah Joogah Loo
You wantin’ me
Hoogah Joogah Loogah
You walkin’ to me
Hoogah Joogah Loo
Come to me
Sifting thru the sand
Time keeps slippin’ through my hand
Walkin’ down the road
Trackin’ like a boomarang
Locked in on my home again
Walkin’ down the road
Then she took me by the hand
Led me to a foreign land
Where the strange trip then began
Revealed to me her hidden plan
Clairvoyant crawled in my head
Stoked every fire I had fed
Prescient move to have led
Road down I shouldn’t tread
Instinctual mind to have read
Knew every desire I had bred
Should’ve stayed home in bed
She said I’d be better off dead
A WOMAN
Sometimes you really think you know someone
Somehow you feel that they’re the one
But they turn and then hurt you
The very one you thought was true
And I know what I need to do
I must be long rid of you
Please go away
I freely will confess
I was fooled tricked and licked by the best
Thanks no need to stay
Cause a woman can make you come alive
Or a woman can cut you down to size
I’ve been dormant here too long to stay and lie
A woman can make you realize
Sometimes you really think you found a friend
Someone on whom you can depend
But their true colours are soon shown
The very one you thought you’d known
And I know what I need to complete
I must take to walk a new beat
Thanks good luck good-bye
I gladly shall attest
Farewell to you is the best
Please don’t ask why
Cause a woman can make you come alive
Or a woman can cut you down to size
I’ve been dormant here too long to stay and lie
Cause a woman can make you heal
A woman can fake it real
A woman can bring it all alive
CRASHLAND
I walk you talk
Retreat defeat
Creepin’ to the edge
Leanin’ ‘gainst the ledge
Peering down below
On my tippy tippy toes
I freefall for you
From the sky
My pulse is racin’
Do or die
Air’s wearing tearing
Against my skin
Hallucinatin’
An illusion
Crashland
I’m gonna hang 10
Gotta pretend
That I’ll be alright
Crashland
I’m gonna time bend
I need a good friend
To make the night
Crashland
I’m gonna vibe send
I need a soul mend
To see the light
Crashland
I’m gonna get zen
I gotta change trend
I’ll take flight
I move you groove
Pretend befriend
Then I take the plunge
Desperation lunge
Falling in a dream
To a bottomless ravine
Rip cord is tearing
From my hand
The countdown’s started
To the end
In a manic panic
My heart pounds
Hopes fading at the
Speed of sound
Spinning and gyrating
Blackin’ while gravitatin’
In a deadspin viral spiral
Vertigo a running wild
Twistin & a tumblin’
Lightning rippin thunder rumblin’
Revolving & rotatin’
Out of body levitatin’
PATHWAYS
If you’d like to see
What’s become of me
Guess we all change
It isn’t good to stay the same
Should you pass
By my face
Familiar shot
You can’t place
Give it time
Light will shine
A lost moment
Of you and I
As the nighttime looms
My heart will still be drifting
When the morning dawns
Your soul is lightly lifting
If you’d like to hear
All the news of yesteryear
Not to linger past
Make the present moment last
Should you wake
In a dream
Is it real
Or make-believe
As the daylight shines
My mind is calmly thinking
When the evening calls
Your light is gently sinking
As you draw the blinds
To end another day
Should our pathways fail
Good luck along the way
GOIN' DOWN
I’m goin’ down
Since you left
Forgot my name
With the hounds
Since you trashed
Threw me away
World’s spinnin’ ‘round
Since you turned
Walked out on me
I hear no sound
When I call futilely
I’ll be rising
Pick myself up
Lockstep
To the top
I’m climbin’ up
From the rubble
Where I found my heart
Risin’ up
On the double
From what tore it apart
Sky’s clearing
Sun’s nearing
Upon my cracked face
Blood pulsating
Emanating
Through my weathered veins
From where springs this feeling
Nobody knows
Starts and stops
Comes and goes
Destiny reeling
Changing my mind
As the feelings
Unwind
ON THE HIGHWAY
Driving this road so long
Don’t know where it’ll roll
Cruising the highway
Unsure if there’s a toll
Searchin’ for a signpost
Tell me which way I should go
I had a pretty passenger
Now you know she’s long gone
Had a shotgun princess
That seat’s vacant light is on
Looking for some company
As I pull into this town
Pit stop is what I need
One-on-one TLC
Been down so many roads
Need direction where to go
Keep my headlights shining
Deep into the night
As the sun sets west
I’ll drive into the night
The moon breaks that far crest
I’ll hug the corners tight
Won’t pull my red ride over
‘Til morning’s pre-dawn light
IF I LOSE YOU
Never wandered out alone
Never strayed too far from home
Now I’ve left my bed
Confusion lies ahead
There
Off in the distance
You stand
Offering resistance
The wall ‘gainst which I lean
Begins to fall
If I lose you now
A part of me would die
If I lose you now
My heart would surely sigh
It’s no lie
Scars scratched upon my face
The pain of you I taste
Cuts through me a deep slice
Of jagged tears of ice
Here
Armed for destruction
Aimed
At my fragile construction
The precipice on which I stand
Begins to slide
Wounded on bended knee
Guard is down hear my plea
White flag defenseless
Calling out S.O.S.
HAVE YOU EVER BEEN
I was walking down by the bay
Saw you ‘neath the sun’s rays
Then you turned and looked away
Sunshine left clouds filled my day
On my path I set forth
East West South and North
Lone rider take left or right
Through the morn into the night
Have you ever been so lonely child
Have you ever felt the clouds and rain
Have you ever been so lonely child
As lonely as I am right now
I was drifting by the oceanside
Caught your footprints in the tide
Then the waves caused them to hide
I was pained and lost inside
Road ahead slightly bends
Will it ever come to end
Treading thin on tires I roll
Searching for the half to make me whole
I was racing in the jungle heat
Crossed the path you had beat
Then the foliage came to meet
My dead-end heart began to sink
WON'T YOU SPEND THE NIGHT WITH ME
Been outside
In a timeless space
Endless thoughts
Enquire my tastes
Time stops
Then stumbles by
Different place
Wish I could try
Second guessed
A hundred million times
Hard to play the game
When they draw those blinds
Set adrift
Far from home
Wish I’d get back
To where I am from
So won’t you spend the night with me
I’ve been hurting for your company girl
Won’t you spend the night with me
With me
Won’t you spend the night with me
I’ve been so down & lonely
Won’t you spend the night with me
With me
Used to live
Life as it came
Never thought of
Consequential gains
Take me back
To who I was
Remind me
Of what I can
Do for you
SIGNS
Wonder if it’s true or if it’s false
Does it have a heartbeat or a pulse
Don’t hang ‘round when things flat-line
Got better uses of my time
Ponder if it’s real or make-believe
Beneath the mask do you deceive
As you reach for my right hand
Time to make you see and understand
You run on a red light
Stop on green
Break on the freeway
Backroad speed
So I’m changing
Shifting gears
As the drawbridge
Quickly nears
Tell me of a guy whom you met
As if you’d care to place a Vegas bet
Got no sleight of hand to hide
What you see you get with no surprise
Then you call on me to make my move
Don’t respond to someone on cue
Got no drama role to play
Yesteryear tomorrow or today
The fog lifts as lines connect the dots
Take the turn-off and check my blind spot
Look in the rearview ahead the coast the clear
Making inroads as I take the wheel
Think I know who I’m dealing with
If it is real or just a tryst
Feel it as you take my left arm
You seek not love but to do harm
In this game I’m not for you
Find another to easily amuse
Got no time to idly hang out
Time to turn off with little doubt
You run on a red light
Stop on green
Break on the freeway
Back road speed
Turn right in the left lane
Forward reverse
Signs you are making
So perverse
So I’m changing
Shifting gears
As the drawbridge
Quickly nears
Check my safety
Note the time
As I can read
All the signs
EARLY RISE (2011)
ON THE HIGHWAY
Driving this road so long
Don’t know where it’ll roll
Cruising the highway
Unsure if there’s a toll
Searchin’ for a signpost
Tell me which way I should go
I had a pretty passenger
Now you know she’s long gone
Had a shotgun princess
That seat’s vacant light is on
Looking for some company
As I pull into this town
Pit stop is what I need
One-on-one TLC
Been down so many roads
Need direction where to go
Keep my headlights shining
Deep into the night
As the sun sets west
I’ll drive into the night
The moon breaks that far crest
I’ll hug the corners tight
Won’t pull my red ride over
‘Til morning’s pre-dawn light
LONELY HEARTBEAT
We sat all silent by the lakeside
Buddy Holly singing close by
Feeling the melodies
Of his songs
Layin’ quiet by the low tide
Ritchie Valens playing nearby
Hearing the rhythm and riffs
Of his guitar
As August heeds to Fall
I hope that we can recall
Birds take their southern cue
As we stay laidback and amused
Bass breaks the water top
May this sensation not stop
Leaves transform from green to gold
Our love will never grow old
And as I hold you now
You make my lonely heart beat
Such a feeling I can’t describe
When you make my lonely heart beat
Heaven must be close by
When you make my lonely heart beat
Sensation I can’t deny
When you make my lonely heart beat
Breathing deeply by the shoreline
Elvis Presley rocking nearby
Feeling the energy
Of his style
Stirring slowly by the campfire
Chuck Berry rolling close by
Hearing the rhythm and rhymes
Of his poems
As days shorten to night
We squeeze hold each other tight
Autumn breeze picks up speed
You are all I’ll ever need
Firefly does its dance
To this thing we call romance
Waves to shore slowly lap
In our black and white photograph
As night gives way to dawn
This path we’ll continue on
Our vibe certified priceless
Ringing true from East to West
Swaying softly ‘neath the sunrise
Rock ‘n’ rollin’ all the time
Living the memories
Of our lives
NEED A WOMAN SO BAD
Alone again
Not quite sure how to fight it
Screwed up again
Don’t quite know how to psyche it
Spinning ‘bout
This merry-go-ride
Of ups and downs
Try to jump
I can’t get off
Just go round and round
Don’t you know that I need a woman so bad
Got the blues and I’m feelin’ kind of sad
Don’t you know that I need a woman
A woman so bad
Got the blues and I’m feeling kind of sad
Down again
Not quite know how to right it
Messed up again
Don’t quite know how to hide it
Hangin’ on
This bronco ride
Of jerks and kicks
Try to leap
Can’t get off
Lick after lick
I recall better days
By my side
Now you’re gone
Lay awake
In the night…
DON'T KNOW NOTHIN' 'BOUT LOVE
Saw you standing
By room Twenty-Nine
Sped my heart
You stopped all time
What should I do
Don’t feel like playin’ the fool
Wanna go up and talk to you
But I don’t know nothin’ ‘bout love
Wanna take you out I don’t know where
‘Cause I don’t know nothin’ ‘bout love
Passed by
Walking with your friends
This shot
May never come again
Time to swallow my fear
The moment’s drawing near
Then I saw the look in your eyes
Misread your thoughts think I wanna die
Things don’t go smooth for me
I’s warned there’d be days like these
As I freefall in one bad daydream
Yet from whatever height
I will get up right
HOLLOW INTENTIONS
Say you’re gonna love me
Know you won’t
Say you got the blues
No you don’t
Say your heart is free
To another it is loaned
Keep sayin’ all these things
That should drive me wild
Think you suit me well
Fit like a tattered coat
Think you hold me up
Rock like a battered boat
Think you sound so nice
Nag like a goat
Keep thinkin’ all these things
Make you look like a child
As you keep going on
‘Bout how good you are
Takin’ two pills
Leavin’ you afar
Leave you with the company
Whom you most enjoy
Yourself…
Insist you will warm
Just a frightful cold
Persist in fast nights
Seem a little slow
Consist your value
Not worth any gold
Keep believin’ all these things
Time to change your mind
PENNAN BRAE
He sailed from the Highlands
South to Vera Cruz
Deep in the Brazilian heartland
A man of twenty-two
Up the coastline
North to Montreal
Leather bag upon his frame
Six foot one inch tall
He lived the way I want to
Freely without care
Rode the western railway
Wind rushing though his hair
East to West coast to coast
Where his best plans were laid
Yonder cross those hills
Where the spirit wills
Where I chase my thrills
Yonder cross those
Got some land
Worked it to the bone
Met a true love
There they made a home
Had a family
Three girls and no more
Warm welcome awaited
By his front porch unlocked door
Moved the way I want to
With a subtle grace
Hand extended
Warm smile on his face
A life of peace and joy and love
Is what true freedom seeks
Wonder
When we’ll walk again
In a garden
That you fondly tend
Share the laughter
Smell the cashmere
As you press me
Tight against my tears
FOR YOU
I’ll remember you
For all your joy and giving
I’ll remember you
For the beauty of yourself
I’ll remember you
With thoughts of love and tenderness
We’ll remember you
With us you’ll always be
The doves they fly
Into the open air
All nature sings
Freely without care
The waves they flow
Gently to the sea
So do my thoughts
Of gentle memories
The ribbons
Of red and golden hue
Flowers
As beautiful as you
The sunshine
Which falls in the next land
There we’ll walk
And softly hold your hand
God’s tears
Fall on you tonight
She nears
Leads you to the light
No fears
Love and don’t despair
He hears
All our thoughts and prayers
AMBER GLOW (2009)
NEED YOU NOW
Don’t you know I say I need you
Yes I do
Don’t you know now that I need you
Yes I do
I need you now…
Know the joy and pain
Being by myself
Felt the sun and rain
Freedom and self-doubt
Now I’ve been through that
Thought a time or two
‘Bout my longings and desires
To be with you
I need you now…
Now that you’ve tried
To make it on your own
What is rusted
Was once a heart of gold
As you decide
To come back for a try
Heard you whisper
Beneath your alibi
I need you now…
All the things you do
Time and time again
Like the world they turn
Back to you my friend
If we pursue that path
Which leads to our demise
Its fruitless yield
Would be as no surprise
Let’s buck the trend
See with your own eyes
IF I LOSE YOU
Never wandered out alone
Never strayed too far from home
Now I’ve left my bed
Confusion lies ahead
There
Off in the distance
You stand
Offering resistance
The wall ‘gainst which I lean
Begins to fall
If I lose you now
A part of me would die
If I lose you now
My heart would surely sigh
It’s no lie
Scars scratched upon my face
The pain of you I taste
Cuts through me a deep slice
Of jagged tears of ice
Here
Armed for destruction
Aimed
At my fragile construction
The precipice on which I stand
Begins to slide
Wounded on bended knee
Guard is down hear my plea
White flag defenseless
Calling out S.O.S.
SIGNS
Wonder if it’s true or if it’s false
Does it have a heartbeat or a pulse
Don’t hang ‘round when things flat-line
Got better uses of my time
Ponder if it’s real or make-believe
Beneath the mask do you deceive
As you reach for my right hand
Time to make you see and understand
You run on a red light
Stop on green
Break on the freeway
Backroad speed
So I’m changing
Shifting gears
As the drawbridge
Quickly nears
Tell me of a guy whom you met
As if you’d care to place a Vegas bet
Got no sleight of hand to hide
What you see you get with no surprise
Then you call on me to make my move
Don’t respond to someone on cue
Got no drama role to play
Yesteryear tomorrow or today
The fog lifts as lines connect the dots
Take the turn-off and check my blind spot
Look in the rearview ahead the coast the clear
Making inroads as I take the wheel
Think I know who I’m dealing with
If it is real or just a tryst
Feel it as you take my left arm
You seek not love but to do harm
In this game I’m not for you
Find another to easily amuse
Got no time to idly hang out
Time to turn off with little doubt
You run on a red light
Stop on green
Break on the freeway
Back road speed
Turn right in the left lane
Forward reverse
Signs you are making
So perverse
So I’m changing
Shifting gears
As the drawbridge
Quickly nears
Check my safety
Note the time
As I can read
All the signs
THE SAME WAY
Know what your daddy thinks
He doesn’t like me
Doesn’t like my kind
Doesn’t want my company
Never tries to understand
The kind of person that I am
There I am
Taking all his talk
Hear what your girlfriends say
I’m no good for you
Not one of their crowd
Say that I’m a fool
They can go on for eternity
What they say doesn’t matter to me
There they are
Waiting for me to walk
After all that they say
Will you still love me the same way
After all that they do
I will always love you
Feel no need to move from here
Magnetic pull draws me near
If there was a line in the sand
Wouldn’t cross I would take my stand
See some guys got some views
‘Bout me and you
Talking of
What’ll happen when we’re through
Not going anywhere
Ain’t scared of their talk or their stares
There they hang
Waiting for me to balk
GOIN' DOWN
I’m goin’ down
Since you left
Forgot my name
With the hounds
Since you trashed
Threw me away
World’s spinnin’ ‘round
Since you turned
Walked out on me
I hear no sound
When I call futilely
I’ll be rising
Pick myself up
Lockstep
To the top
I’m climbin’ up
From the rubble
Where I found my heart
Risin’ up
On the double
From what tore it apart
Sky’s clearing
Sun’s nearing
Upon my cracked face
Blood pulsating
Emanating
Through my weathered veins
From where springs this feeling
Nobody knows
Starts and stops
Comes and goes
Destiny reeling
Changing my mind
As the feelings
Unwind
FLING
Down by cool waters
Skylight splashed on us
Night’s breath swept over our bodies
Full moon hanging above
Forcefully surrounded
Swept by Valencia’s embrace
The rush of her passion
Lost in our space
On the shoreline of desire
By an ebbing tide their bodies danced
Love enraged and longings fired
Deep inside a heated summer romance
Deep in the Cathedrals
Scented in hemlock and fir
Lovers in exile
Abandon requests of this world
Waxed by ole crescent
Enveloped in ecstasy
Mirage of fantasia
Lovetouch of remedy
Lost in touch
Physical paradise
Stars climax
Night falls sunrise
Peaceful rest
Slips you away
Floating high
Into the day
All laid out on nature’s pyre
Moonlit shadows of their bodies danced
Love intense and fever dire
Deep inside a heated summer romance
WANDERER'S REQUIEM
Loneliness
From where did you come
Why did you
How long ‘til you’re gone
Happiness
To where did you go
Why did you
Why is it so cold
Slowly look around
No one’s to be found
Call out someone’s name
There is no sound
Hey man do you know where I am
How did I get here
Once had company
Not a soul is near
Why is this happening
Did nobody wrong
Been lost forever since
Been holding out so long
As the rain comes pouring down
There’s loneliness in this town
I have no girl to write to
As the wind cuts through the night
Strikes with all its might
I have no girl to write to
Mysteries
Won’t you unfold
There is a story
To be told
Oblivion
Fall down on me
I’m waiting
Can’t you see
Hey man know how I feel
Know my situation
Try so hard to change it now
Get the same ole station
Some say it’s a phase ah it’s all a haze
Just goes on for days and days
Can you change it rearrange it can you date it then relate it
Tell me what to do
As the sun scorches the badlands
My soul can barely stand
I have no girl to write to
As the snow adds to the cold
Will my story remain untold
I have no girl to write to
He has no girl to write to
No he has no girl to write to
The poor boy has no girl to write
He has no girl to write to
No he has no girl to write to
The poor boy has no girl to write
SHADED JOY (2008)
SOMETHING'S MISSING
Walkin’ lonely street tonight
Women holding their men tight
Hand’s empty holding nothin’ but air
Heart is too nobody there
Headin’ up over my tinsel town
Catch the main drag of ups and downs
On that road much too long
Not sure of right from wrong
Sun dies at night seasons change
Last leaf falls with my tear in the rain
No I don’t know who she is
And I don’t know where she lives
Until I find her
Something’s missing
And ‘til I find that certain miss
‘til I taste her fateful kiss
Let me tell you man
Something’s missing
This morn felt the ocean’s power
Lifts your soul in the wee wee hours
Wave breaks left on the ground
Get up shake it off be strong
This eve caught the flash of a star
Thousand light years my hopes afar
Supernova wipes it all away
Stay true never lose faith
Believe in a better tomorrow
Though we have tasted much sorrow
‘Cause I don’t know who you are
No I don’t know where you are tonight
As the moon hangs high in the sky
So does my heart I’ll meet you here tonight
PATHWAYS
If you’d like to see
What’s become of me
Guess we all change
It isn’t good to stay the same
Should you pass
By my face
Familiar shot
You can’t place
Give it time
Light will shine
A lost moment
Of you and I
As the nighttime looms
My heart will still be drifting
When the morning dawns
Your soul is lightly lifting
If you’d like to hear
All the news of yesteryear
Not to linger past
Make the present moment last
Should you wake
In a dream
Is it real
Or make-believe
As the daylight shines
My mind is calmly thinking
When the evening calls
Your light is gently sinking
As you draw the blinds
To end another day
Should our pathways fail
Good luck along the way
HAVE YOU EVER BEEN
I was walking down by the bay
Saw you ‘neath the sun’s rays
Then you turned and looked away
Sunshine left clouds filled my day
On my path I set forth
East West South and North
Lone rider take left or right
Through the morn into the night
Have you ever been so lonely child
Have you ever felt the clouds and rain
Have you ever been so lonely child
As lonely as I am right now
I was drifting by the oceanside
Caught your footprints in the tide
Then the waves caused them to hide
I was pained and lost inside
Road ahead slightly bends
Will it ever come to end
Treading thin on tires I roll
Searching for the half to make me whole
I was racing in the jungle heat
Crossed the path you had beat
Then the foliage came to meet
My dead-end heart began to sink
THE FORGOTTEN MAN
It’s another rainy night
In this cold shore-lined town
Water beads down my window
Dies without a sound
Leaves fly through the sky
Trees dance back and forth
Winds announce their presence
Howling from the North
Sit here silently
Watch the scene unfold
Grown man weeps utterly
Can’t believe what he’s told
His girl of fifty years
Can’t recall his name
Eyes the storm outside
Feels the anger feels the pain
If you don’t mind
Just sit low
Tell you a story
You’ll want to know
‘Bout the old man
Whose love forgot about him
He was an old man
He didn’t understand
What happened to the woman
Whose life he gave
What happened to the woman
Who forgot his name
Thunder softly speaks
Past the lightning of the sky
Sunshine rays stray slowly in
Once clouds take heed and die
Hurting tears always fall
Past the strike of the heart
Tears of joy overcome
As the darkness departs
Sit here with hands in lap
Tears flow from his eyes
Want to give him all my help
Just a boy am I
He’s seen the world at war
Times that caused him strife
His soul is hit again
He loses the love of his life
I’m sorry man but I don’t know what to do
I wish that I did ‘cause I feel bad for you
Though I see not the years
Of wisdom that you do
Reunited you will be
Forever in your youth
BLIND LOVE
Invisible
Approaches you
Unrealized
Abandons soon
Come and gone
Like a blue moon
Smoked-out lights
Air is tight
Frisks your soul
Attempted plight
Runs to hide
In the night
I think that I
Will never know
From which way
Love does flow
I could not see
The blind love
That was sent to me
How could I sit
So absent mindedly
I could not see
The blind love
That was sent to me
The love oh it came
So silently
Undetectable
Yet delectable
Can’t taste
You’re susceptible
Of missing love
Sometimes
Camouflaged
A deep mirage
Thousand eyes
In a great collage
Blur of faces
Undescribed
Senseless
Everyway
Missing it
Every single day
I am clouded
Completely enshrouded
Locked up
In a mist that will not rise
Another dimension
Held in suspension
Need to tear this veil
Cure my eyes
WON'T YOU SPEND THE NIGHT WITH ME
Been outside
In a timeless space
Endless thoughts
Enquire my tastes
Time stops
Then stumbles by
Different place
Wish I could try
Second guessed
A hundred million times
Hard to play the game
When they draw those blinds
Set adrift
Far from home
Wish I’d get back
To where I am from
So won’t you spend the night with me
I’ve been hurting for your company girl
Won’t you spend the night with me
With me
Won’t you spend the night with me
I’ve been so down & lonely
Won’t you spend the night with me
With me
Used to live
Life as it came
Never thought of
Consequential gains
Take me back
To who I was
Remind me
Of what I can
Do for you
ANYWAYS
Saw you walkin’ back the other day
As I lay back in the tall cool grass
I was thinking I was thinkin’ about you
As clouds rolled on ahead
With these thoughts going in my head
Anyways
I just had to say
You looked so wonderful to me
Gotta try to believe
Anyways
Cool day in September
Hint of rain mixed in the air
Time to move along from here
Kneelin’ long the worn chalk line
We weren’t winning
Sittin’ on the green hillside
You were grinnin’
Something that you create
Just by being
Took me far away from there
Oh I think of you
Each and every time
Do you know I’m here
And how I feel for you
Be as it may
I’ll keep shufflin’ ‘long anyways
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