Demo to a song from a song cycle I am writing

Lyrics:

After the bombs fell
I thought I saw your silhouette 
Across the fields of smoke and ash
And I… Just wanted to say Hi

Your fallout shelter
It's miles away but I'm determined
To muster up all of my courage
and introduce myself

Only us left
Just us two on the whole earth
Unless we can induce some births
And save the human race

But before we repopulate
I'd like to go on a first date
Find out your favorite movie
And what you like to eat
Before we start to procreate
And rebuild everything we hate
I have to ask you one thing
Will you be my Eve?

I know the pressure 
that you must be under
the last potential mother
And me your only suitor

I know it's scary
that I'm your only option
but between me and extinction 
It's an easy choice to make

So Before we repopulate
I'd like to go on a first date
Find out your favorite movie
And what you like to eat
Before we start to procreate
And rebuild everything we hate
I have to ask you one thing
Will you be my Eve?

Cause We've got all the time in the world
We can take it slow so we don't have to rush
We've got all the time in the world
To rebuild all the cities from the dust
We've got all the time in the world
Our great great great great grandkids will thank us
We've got all the time in the world
But thats time enough for me to screw this up

So Before we repopulate
I'd like to go on a first date
Find out your favorite movie
Mine’s “Encino Man"
Before we start to procreate
And rebuild everything we hate
I have to ask you one thing...
Can we repopulate again?

The Apocalypse Song

When you left the garden
I went back to my hole in the ground
Watched you leave with clothes on your backs
The sky had said you left to find yourselves

Well I hope
you're doing well
I hope
you're doing well

What have you been up to
Thousand years since you left me
The sky has been real quiet
I still sleep neath our favorite tree

And I hope
you're doing well
I hope
you're doing well

One day you scratched my ears
You Said "hello again"
You told me about how
The sky was making you a friend
You showed me your new scar
I sniffed at your stitched cut
you said to really love a woman
Give a piece of yourself up
I fell asleep beneath
that goddamn poison tree
You said things wouldn't change
you said it'd always be us three
Well ignorance is bliss
And I'm just fine alone
Fighting off the belly-crawlers
Burying my bones

Still I hope 
You're doing well
I hope
you're doing well
Still I hope 
You're doing well
I hope
you're doing well
 


Adam's Dog

Lyrics:

Streetlights blurred as we sped up
your father’s house was all lit up
So I dropped you off at home
And I drove off on my own

Nothing made more sense
Than words you whispered through your backyard fence
nothing felt so safe 
as unmade beds on rainy days

And I dropped you off at home
And I drove off on my own

One night I came around 
to find you on your roof
with stolen books from lost and founds
aching for the truth  

And when I said goodbye
to porch light signal fires
I felt so damn ashamed
of letting time expire

Streetlights

See I’ve been sailing on this ship here for the past eight months
Aching at the wrist from all the.. Sailing I’ve done
And tonight as our vessel crossed over those choppy waves
I looked to starboard at the water and I thought I saw your face

but beauty in the ocean, you’re my only wish
See the sea has got searching for your sweet salterwater kiss
So we’ll dive beneath the surface in such sweet saltwater bliss
Mrs. Mermaid please tell me that you are more human than fish

I’ve been drinking but I’m afraid all the bottles are drained dry
and they'll remain so lest I see a liquor store come float on by
Until that day, there’s one way that I’ve learned I can cope
Toss those bottles off the boat filled up with thousands of love notes

but beauty in the ocean, It’s been far too long
since I’ve heard you serenade me with your sexy Siren song
See the sea’s been pretty soundless with a tense and eery calm
Till swelling waves can steer my sinking ship into your arms

so when water fills my vessel, I won’t scream for help
cause soon we’ll nestle in our cozy cottage made of kelp
With our giddy guppy children gliding freely in our yard
This dream could be ours darling, if you’d just let down your guard.

And when the dream is over and we’re floating belly up
And fishy god attends our funeral to grant a final flush
I’ll hold you in my fins forever, until the end of time
till our bodies dissapear into dark dim depths of brine

But I’m still on the bow spouting out this drunken plea
Swabbing decks and cashing checks as my mind plays tricks on me
hallucinating water women out of some floating debris
with my lonely letters littering the bottom of the sea

but beauty in the ocean, you’re my only wish
See the sea has got searching for your sweet saltwater kiss
But since you’re fake it’s say to say that I won’t miss you, miss
cause it’s been said that the sea is fully of plenty other fish


Beauty In The Ocean


you said we’d be romulus and remus
founders of a holy city, where we’d both reside
now our separate lives lie between us
Nursed by wolves and hurling toward a gruesome fratricide

Rome wasn’t be built in a day, you said with a smile
But it sure did take a while

You come to me with blueprints for a palace
I critique it brick by brick until the page is blank
shrugging at my words, you call me callous 
We’ve come so far from naming stars along the river bank

Rome wasn’t be built in a day, you said with a smile
But it sure did take a while  
Rome wasn’t be built in a day, you said with a smile
But it sure did take a while

With black Ash on my hands, the city’s burning
You ask why our dreams seem to always end in smoke
Through my silence, I can tell your hurting
You fade into the forest with the final words we spoke

And four years later when my crown is crumbling
I’ll find you in the forest with a family of our own
You strike me down and in my last words, mumbling
I beckon back to bickering on where we’d place our throne



Romulus & Remus

In fourteen hundred ninety two
Columbus sailed the ocean blue and fell off of the edges of the world
And as he fell, he cursed himself
And thought of young queen Isabelle
Her laughing rattling her strings of pearls

Before he left, he smugly said, 
“If the world is flat, then strike me dead”
and he took one last look at the coast of Spain.
He thought about his father, Dom and girls in school who’d done him wrong
As he dropped off of that Geometric plane

And all of Europe cried,
Christopher! Would god i’d die for thee
Christopher! another victim of that mighty sea

Across the world, they spread the word
That nobody still had heard
if Christopher had made it out alright
They conceded the seas were too rough, the search teams all had given up
Saying “Christopher Columbus surely died.”

This ordeal put the word through hell, including young queen Isabelle
Who’d watch the open seas full of despair
She prayed and prayed one day she’d wake
and find it all a big mistake 
it’d been a dream and Christopher was there.

And Isabella cried,
Christopher! Would god i’d die for thee
Christopher! another victim of that mighty sea

Chris was falling past the stars
and both the blessed moons of mars
and nothing had quite turned out like he’d planned
He fell and fell and fell some more
until the falling made him bored
he didn’t know quite where, or if, they’d land

Chris knew he’d soon be dead for good
and flashed back to his childhood, the silly games he’d play when he was ten
And as the ships began to shake the fearsome jolt of twelve earthquakes,
He thought of Isabella’s face again

And his loyal crew cried,
Christopher! Would god i’d die for thee
Christopher! another victim of that mighty sea

Chris awoke with such a start
as panic hit his thumping heart cause he was lying on a rocky surface
He opened up his eyes to see the whole of Spain and Italy
Attending one large memorial service

The crowd was gasping, screaming too
to see columbus and his crew were safe inside the wreckage in a pile
They’d somehow found their way back home 
and crashed upon the streets of Rome
and Isabella stood there with a smile

And Isabella cried:
Christopher! Tell me all about your trip and then…
Christopher! Promise me you’ll never sail again



Christopher

Lyrics: Season’s greetings
read a two year old christmas card
I found at the bottom of my top left drawer

frequent meetings
in grocery aisles and coffee lines
And nods of recognition at the dollar store

And oh the steps I took
to create happenstance
and oh the way you’d look
stifling your smile with a parting glance

Season’s greetings
Winter’s neary over
And the scrape of shoveled sidewalk wakes us up at dawn

You’re repeating
your mothers worn out catchphrase
Like a prayer to the apostles with a sheepish yawn

And oh the steps I took
to create happenstance
and oh the way you’d look
stifling your smile with a parting glance

And some day when the lines
on your face resemble
we’ll fade into the earth like all that was
And when that day arrives
Looking back on tangled lives
We’ll fade into the earth like all that was

And oh the steps I took
to create happenstance
and oh the way you’d look
stifling your smile with a parting glance

Season's Greetings

Lyrics:

We kept our names out of each other’s mouths
We spoke in streams of morning fogs
in separate centuries we thrashed about
torn from our own epilogues

Time
won’t be kind
it won’t feel right when this has ended
and I
will resign
to a life I’ve never comprehended

When I tell the story of that night
to considerate applause
I take all my time to tell it right
every cadence, every pause

but the story doesn’t sit with me
each exaggerated word
every play to specificity
leaves the image more obscured

Time
won’t be kind
it won’t feel right when this has ended
and I
will resign
to a life I’ve never comprehended

Each amalgam made of common sense
pulls apart and comes undone
she’s a poison to my confidence
she’s an audience of one

Audience of One

Original song by Simon & Garfunkel

Lyrics:

Cecilia, you're breaking my heart 
You're shaking my confidence daily 
Oh, Cecilia, I'm down on my knees 
I'm begging you please to come home 

Making love in the afternoon with Cecilia 
Up in my bedroom 
I get up to wash my face 
When I come back to bed someone's taken my place 

Oh Cecilia, you're breaking my heart 
You're shaking my confidence daily 
Oh, Cecilia, I'm down on my knees 
I'm begging you please to come home

Cecelia

Ripley Waltz

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