Keep a fire burning in your eye Pay attention to the open sky You never know what will be coming down I don’t remember losing track of you You were always dancing in and out of view I must have thought you’d always be around Always keeping things real by playing the clown Now you’re […]
Doctor, my eyes have seen the years And the slow parade of fears without crying Now i want to understand I have done all that i could To see the evil and the good without hiding You must help me if you can Doctor, my eyes Tell me what is wrong Was i unwise to […]
Leaving - Retrospective
Jet fuel and traffic lines Pulling up to the delta signs Distant shape of my hometown Black stain where the wheels touch down I pick up the morning news I pass the man who’s never shined my shoes Through security and to the train That will take me to the airplane Count the miles on […]
I pulled out with the mountain laurel blooming On a dirt road that is soon to be paved Down to the site of my original establishment And the west end family grave Cause one day moves into two (One day moves into two) And I’m losing Everything except for you (Everything except for you) And […]
Trouble - Retrospective
Trouble came around here Here in the South we fix something to eat Steam risin’ up off the greenery and We welcome the strangers we meet Alien sick growing in these walls Like moss in a crack that time made I brush a guy in the airport whistling it’s a small world after all And […]
Go - Retrospective
Note: This song is a reincarnation of Problem Child Through the dustbowl through the debt Grandma was a suffragette Blacklisted for her publication Blacklisted for my generation Go, go, go Raise your hands, raise your hands high Don’t take a seat don’t stand aside This time don’t assume anything Just go, go, go So feed […]
I’m gonna clear my head I’m gonna drink that sun The saddest sight my eyes can see Is that big ball of orange sinking slyly down the trees Sitting in a broken circle while you rest upon my knee This perfect moment will soon be leaving me Suzanne calls from Boston the coffee’s hot the […]
My friends they wash the windows they shine in the sun we’ve done I said, “let’s put on some tunes, sing along, Doolittle all day” Go down to the riverside take off our shoes and wash these sins away The river said, “la la la shame on you” River said, “la la la” it said […]
I sit two stories above the street It’s awful quiet here since love fell asleep There’s life down below me though the kids are walking home from school So long ago when we were taught That for whatever kind of puzzle you got You just stick the right formula in a solution for every fool […]
Now the parking lot is empty Everyone’s gone someplace I pick you up and in the trunk I’ve packed A cooler and a two-day suitcase Cause there’s a place we like to drive Way out in the country Five miles out of the city limit we’re singing And your hand’s upon my knee So we’re […]
