Most of my lyrics were scribbled down on papers, coasters, doodles and whatnot.
It will take some time to type them all out but I will try. I know they all sound boring too, but that’s the way they wrote themselves. They are for any musician or group to use as I have little musical ability. I put them out there and if I hear them again somehow that is payment enough to me.
Key: Ad Cont: Adult Contemporary, Count: Country, Cont: Contemporary, Bl: Blues, Spt: Spiritual
with approximate dates of creation.
Angel
Well she’s an angel, and she’s on her way home
There are no paths, but she knows just where to go
Straight ahead leaving memories behind
Go on Angel, well it’s your turn to find
To find your heaven on Earth, your place in the Sun
Go on angel, yes, your time has begun
You are where you are right here and now
So come on spread your wings, and soar into the clouds
Well she’s an angel and she’s on her way home
There are no paths but she knows just where to go
we’ve all been there, maybe you still are
Oh but angel has found her lucky star
She’s an angel and she’s on her way home….
Crazy Little Love Games
Ad. Cont. 1989
Outside my window, the rain begins to fall
And I start to hear that old familiar call
It calls back to me from many miles away
I can tell you honestly, I don’t know what to say
Cause these crazy little love games, they just aren’t right
Though I see you every morning, I see you every night
Well I just can’t go on loving in a way
That makes me stop and think, of where you are today
ohohoh
These crazy little love games aren’t right
I’ll see you in the morning
But you won’t see me tonight, you won’t see me tonight..
(needs work)
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1000 Nights.
Ad, Cont. 1991
How come, when I look into your eyes
I can see the stars of a thousand nights
Looking back at me
Tell me now, tell me what you see
What do you dream of
What would you teach me
I’m telling you now the way I feel,
I’ve felt it from the start
And if you don’t believe me girl
Take a good look at my heart
The evidence is clear, I only want you near
To this heart inside of me
So you can teach me how you see
Riding horses through silver streams
Beauty taken from stars that gleam
A picture you could paint for me
A gift of what this all could mean
I’m telling you now the way I feel,
I’ve felt it from the start
And if you don’t believe me girl
Take a good look at my heart
The evidence is clear, I only want you near
To this heart inside of me
So you can teach me how you see…..
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In My Dreams
Ad. Cont. 1990
I see you in my dreams every night
I hold my arms out to hold you so tight
I’m going crazy it’s just not fair
Cause all I get is the air
To hold you tonight, not in my dreams
Would mean everything in the world to me
So give me a chance, to give you my love
Let me hold what I’ve been dreaming of
I lay my head on the pillow
Knowing you’re who I’ll see
Cutting through life’s darkness
The girl of my dreams
To hold you tonight, not in my dreams
Would mean everything in the world to me
So give me a chance, to give you my love
Let me hold what I’ve been dreaming of
If this love can’t be real
Please have this part of me
At least you know how I feel
And of all of my dreams….
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Where I’d Rather Be
Ad. Cont. 1988
So many times
So many places
So many dreams ago
So many nights I sat and listened on the phone
To your heart
To your laugh
To your dreams
I just don’t know what this love really means.
Does it mean that when I’m with you
Your the only one I see
Does it mean that when you’re far away
That’s where I would rather be
Does it mean that I love you
No matter where you are
Is it that funny kind of feeling
I’m feeling in my heart
If that is what it means, then I love you
Does it mean that when I’m with you
Your the only one I see
Does it mean that when you’re far away
That’s where I would rather be
Does it mean that I love you
No matter where you are
Is it that funny kind of feeling
I’m feeling in my heart
If that is what it means, then I love you
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What I’m Not Trying to Say.
Ad, Cont. Duet. 1991
- Oh darlin no regrets
- Oh honey no remorse
M/F. It just had to be this way
- Of course
- And though we’ve had our times
- And we’ve made it through
M/F. I’m just happy that I shared
- A piece of my life with you
- If this love is somehow true
M/F. My heart will lead me back to you
M/F. I’m sorry if my love wasn’t there
M/F. I know that you really did care
- When you needed me more and more
M/F. We had no idea of what our lives in stored.
- I….I’m sorry
- Oh I am sorry
- Oh honey no regrets
- And darlin no remorse
M/F. It just had to be this way….. Of course…..
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I Wouldn’t Have You
1987
Sometimes late at night, I sit and wonder to myself
Just what it would be like, If I were with someone else
I wouldn’t have you to hold me in your arms,
I wouldn’t be able to see you every night
I wouldn’t be able to breathe any longer
And I wouldn’t see your eyes,
Oh I wouldn’t see your eyes.
In case you someday hear this song
I didn’t wonder very long
Please forgive the thoughts inside of me
It was just a thought you see.
I wouldn’t have you to hold me in your arms,
I wouldn’t be able to see you every night
I wouldn’t be able to breathe any longer
And I wouldn’t see your eyes,
Oh I wouldn’t see your eyes.
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What it Does to Me.
Country, Duet 1994
I didn’t understand that look in her eyes,
As she turned around and turned on the lights,
I guess I’ll be sleeping on the couch again tonight.
But no, she says, no she says
Oh honey I know it’s just you being you,
And after all that we’ve been through,
I guess what it is, that I hate the most,
Is losing for that time, you don’t know what it does to me
Oh what it does to me.
I didn’t stand, wished she’d found a better man
I could finally see what she feels for me, and I said,
Oh I said.
Oh darlin I know it’s just you being you,
And after all that we’ve been through,
I guess what it is, that I love the most
Is having you right next to me, of course,
What you do for me, oh what you do to me
As I stood and I took her hand,
I held her close and said I understand
What you mean to me, oh what you mean to me.
I know that it’s just you being you,
And I know it’s just me being me
Two lovers heart entwined ohh eternally….
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Because You Understood
Country 2002
The phone rang at the same time, that I watched it on the news,
As I put my little girl to bed, I knew what I had to do,
The nation had been shaken, and duty, it does call
As I look down at that little face, I watch my teardrop fall…
Gently sleep I say as I lay her head down,
Please don’t weep I pray the angels are around,
When you wake let me be there,
A gentle hand to start your day,
But if you don’t hear my voice,
I’ll be with you in other ways,
I’ll be with you when the stars come out at night,
And scare away the monsters,
That fill you full of fright,
I’ll be there when you don’t know what to do,
to point you a direction,
so you may follow through,
I’ll be there when you’re missing me the most,
And smile on down, cause you knew I had to go,
Well I hope I have changed this world a little as I lived,
And that those who remain,
Will still commence to give,
And remember the children that lie in our wake,
Cause sometimes this old world of ours,
Is very hard to take,
I’ll be there when the stars come out at night,
To scare away the monsters,
That fill you full of fright,
I’ll be there when you don’t know what to do,
To point you a direction,
So you may follow through,
And I’ll be there when you’re missing me the most,
And smile on down, cause you knew I had to go,
Away…..
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Seventeen:
1986
Ballad
Me and my friend, we were seventeen
We signed our lives away so we could fight for liberty,
We fought on far and distant shores,
Soon we didn’t know what we were fighting for,
And on one cold, dark and lonely night
I heard a bullet pass my head to the right
And as I turned to him as he lay there in the mud
And my tears mixed with his blood, and my tears mixed with his blood.
He said, I fight and kill and know not why, a thousand men should have to die,
For surely there’s a better way to gain the peace in which we pray,
And my only wish to you is find the peace, and find it soon,
For what a price that boys should pay, for growing into men this way,
Find the peace and find it soon, that’s my only wish for you,
For what a price that we should pay for growing into men this way.
I wrote this down that very night, in the glow of a firefight
It lays there with its words to see, in my hand when they find me.
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Cont:
1980
IOU
This is for all of you I’ve known in my life,
For teaching me lessons sometimes more than twice,
Like seeing the world trough someone else’s eyes,
Here’s a little message to you, here’s a little message for you,
Well there’s a little thank you that I need to fill,
An I.O.U. from the heart if you will,
You helped shape this life and I hope you take pride,
That I will pass it down the line,
When I was young I would sit and cry,
When they said I couldn’t do it, you told me they lied,
You said everyone’s soul has wings and can fly
Here’s a little message for you, here’s a little message to you,
Well there’s a little thank you that I need to fill,
An I.O.U. from the heart if you will,
You helped shape this life and I hope you take pride,
That I will pass it down the line,
To everyone I’ll know in my life….
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She Cries Easy
Cont:
2012
I met a girl inside a crowded room,
She was trying to find her life
She seemed scared to hear her voice again
Wiping tears from her eyes
She was just being honest
She knows she won’t be the same
Finding that the angels didn’t leave
She found a way to feel again
It’s just one way; she makes it through her days
She cries easy but that’s alright
It’s just one way; she makes it through her days
She cries easy but that’s alright
She’s not alone inside her room no more
She’s not alone inside herself
She’s picking up the pieces of her past
And finding their places on the shelf
She’s not afraid of the things she doesn’t know
She’s okay with all the pain
She knows there are some yesterdays
But she won’t be there again
It’s just one way; she makes it through her days
She cries easy but that’s alright
She cries easy, she cries easy,
She cries easy, but not tonight.
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Is Heaven Real
Country
2012
I held his hand, he squeezed mine tight
He’d been crying about his Grampa all through the night,
Here in church, to say goodbye,
He looked up at me with those scared and tired eyes,
He asked me those three words that shook my life,
I just told him the words that felt so right,
Is Heaven real? Is all he said,
And with that everything I ever learned rushed to my head,
But there was only one place for a reply,
So my heart spoke as tears welled up inside
Is Heaven real? Well I don’t know?
I can tell you how I feel, and not much more,
When I lay my head, at night to sleep
I close my eyes, and it’s there I often see,
The ones that passed, oh.. they’re all still there,
They comfort me and guide my simple prayers,
I feel that they are watching over me,
Is Heaven real? I guess that we will see?
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He squeezed my hand, and said that’s right,
Grampa told him all of that just last night.
He said when I lay my head down at night to sleep
I’ll close my eyes, and there I’ll often see,
The ones that passed, they’re all still there,
They’ll comfort me and guide my simple prayers,
He hopes I feel that they’re watching over me,
Is Heaven real? I guess that we will see?
But from what I’m told it’s not a mystery…
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Is Heaven real? I guess that we will see,
But the way I feel it’s real enough for me…
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This is not an anti anything, it is a view of what I see going on these days in the media and society.
Boys
Count:
2015
The times have all changed now, it slipped right on by
The questions are all answered by strangers online
And all of the girls are empowered with joy
But wait a minute now, where are the boys?
They have the same questions, about their young lives
I still see no difference in the hurt in their eyes
But monsters are born with the slip of a tongue
And with all of life’s lessons, it can’t be undone
What are we saying, are they not here too
Were did the boys go, and what did we do
Wash away, wash away, their hearts and minds
Be afraid, be afraid, don’t waste your time
Wash away, wash away, their human pain
Be afraid, be afraid, they’re all the same
Be afraid, be afraid, they’re all the same
So we make sure that our girls are safe and cared for
While boys we make monsters, feared and ignored
The times have all changed now, for this I am sure
But I don’t think this is by far any cure
They have the same questions, about their young lives
I still see no difference in the hurt in their eyes
But monsters are born with the slip of a tongue
And with all of life’s lessons, it can’t be undone
What are we saying, are they not here too
Were did the boys go, and what did they do
Wash away, wash away, their hearts and minds
Be afraid, be afraid, don’t waste your time
Wash away, wash away, their human pain
Be afraid, be afraid, they’re all just the same
Where did the boys go…
What did we do.