Lyrics:

Every strum
and every note
aren't even close

Try to say
a thing or two
pick up the phone

Feeling numb
my hands are cold
don't even know

night or day
forget the food
grab the remote...

[Chorus]
Turn me on.
Give me life.
Flip the switch and I'm filled with such delight.
Turn me on.

Every day
and everything just 
feel the same

The clock strikes six
I hit the snooze
but I'm awake

I catch the bus
and sit alone
I'm never late

I grab a seat
and then I work
my life away

Turn Me On - Rough Version

Lyrics:

I've been told to blind
too many eyes
I hide myself behind
the lines of lies

They say "What's living
must be here to die."
I don't know
Don't know

[Chorus]
We lead without eyes
Hope for the blind
We have monsters inside
That control our minds

I don't know the score
or how that goes
I try to lock the doors
that wont stay closed

They say "What's breathing
must be here to choke"
I don't know
Don't know

[Chorus]

I ignore the signs
that say they're wrong
I let the binds
and shackles take my soul.

I grow weak.
I grow old.
I don't wanna be but
I don't know
Don't know

[Chorus]

*Fade out badly

Hope For The Blind - Rough Version

Lyrics:

You're walking alone, in the dark of the land
and out of the corner of your eyes you spot a lonely old man
guitar in tote he's been livin' off the shells
"listen to me I've got a story to tell."

He says

"I'm on the run, I've got eyes on my sleeves
days since I've rest, weeks since I've eat
settle a spell and let's have us a break.
I'll start the fire if you tell me your name"

He starts off the night with a riddle of fate
you say you don't believe and that you've never had faith
It isn't for me but they all say the same
"some day you'll see it's not a choice you can make"

He goes on to say he's been walking the earth
ocean to sea; he's been London to Perth
eye's getting tired he starts chanting a beat
drifting away you start falling asleep.

[Chorus]
"Every strum on my wooden guitar
gets me one step closer to the edge of the dark
capture my soul in your white string bag
I know the way to make raindrops start"

You wake up at dawn and don't know where you are
All that remains are sticks burnt from a fire
and three little lines have been drawn in the sand
a guitar is there and it's drawing your hands

You pick up the thing and you're starting to play
you've never before but fingers glide on the strings
You sing a sad tune with some words just right
the sun and the moon are getting lost in the time

You don't realize your life flash by
you weep it seems you've been tricked by a thief
and all that you own is just one sad song
to sing alone until fate....

comes along

[Chorus]
Every strum on my wooden guitar
gets me one step closer to the edge of the dark
capture my soul in your white string bag
I know the way to make raindrops start

Wanderer

Lyrics:

The clouds roll past us quickly,
I sit with bated breath but you...
You never really liked them.

The sun beats down upon us
I feel the warmth under my skin
While you sit in the shade.


Your head rests on my stomach
My eyes are closing now but yours...
yours never fully opened.

My mind is filled with day dreams
of when our lives are finally set
While you sit in the shade.


We have been drifting apart
I tried to bring us close but you
You didn't really want to

I haven't been the best to
you and you say you've been thinking
While you sit in the shade.


It's been so long now I don't
know if I'd recognize but you
you never even missed me

On days like this I want to
go back in life just one last time
while you sit in the shade.

The Shade

This is the first song of my upcoming album, Phototropism. I still have work to do yet on Cogs, but I liked this one too much not to share it.

Lyrics:

I walked in with head hung low
I know I've been, out a while
but I'm here now

You face seems pale but the doctors say
You're stayin' strong, and any day
You'll get out

Your room's quiet but the birds outside are
Singing songs, I know I think 
You'd like them


Open up your eyes dear
You've been sleeping
You've been sleeping too long


My cheeks are stained with the tears I've shed I
prayed the nights, to see you out
of that bed

But this Ain't quite what I had in mind
I got my wish, but you're inside
a casket

They say God works in mysterious ways You're
telling me, but I'm not sure
I like it


Open up your eyes dear
You've been sleeping
You've been sleeping too long


It's been so long now, I don't know what
wish you had, I wish I'd asked
but I'm here now

If I went back, and changed one thing I'd
change the day, I walked in late
and missed you

The days go by, and I'm scared to face your
aging grave, 'cause I didn't say 
Good bye

Open up your eyes dear
Open up your eyes dear
You've been sleeping
You've been sleeping too long

The Long Sleep

Another song off Phototropism

**Lyrics:
I don't care
How your day was
Hide my face 
and walk away

I've had enough of your mouth
I beg you please not to say

One more thing...

You're a ray of
bright young sunshine
More or less
You make my day

Each day I happen to love you more
I just can't contain

One more thing...

[Chorus]
What I found is no one's right
we are all just living for the first time
Don't matter for the clothes you wear,
the shade of gray your soul decides to take,
the way you hide your pain;
Someone else will say

You're wrong

I just live
in the subways
Slide my feet
in holy socks

I've met success and I can't say that
I'd like to again

One more time...

You're a king 
inside a castle
Tore your way
straight to the top

Each day you look in my eyes and
think of only estate

[Chorus]

Phototropism

You're Wrong

Lyrics:

There is a place
There are faces I remember
With only photographs
To tell me what their names were

There was a time
there are lines that have escaped me
With only broken glass
To show me what I can't see

There is a whole
lot to me that you don't know

[Chorus]
I lift the weight of all these memories
Some will drag me down until Can't breath
It goes to show that even though
I try to make them leave
they wont go


There is a place
There are faces I remember
With only photographs
To tell me what their names were

There was a time
there are lines that have escaped me
With only broken glass
To show me what I can't see

There is a whole
lot to me that you don't know

[Chorus]

Flicker

Lyrics:

I wipe the sweat off of my sleeve
I'm seein' stars and I can't breathe

I lift the weight off of my mind
I'm tryin' hard to make things right

I live my life in fear of love
I just can't see myself tied down

[Chorus]
I run away
I run away
I can't escape 
this endless dream

I dip my toes in tempting streams
I feel alive and oh so free

I lie awake and vent my sighs
I can't believe I live this lie

Well it ain't no surprise 'cause 
you've got eyes on the back of your head and I've got
Eyes for somebody else

[Chorus]

Endless Dream

Lyrics:

I've had enough
time to think it over

Yeah I'm not tough
I like to think I might be bolder


but how it turns out
I'm just playing my guitar
and singing badly

but how it turns out
I'm just playing my guitar
and singing badly


Yeah that's tough luck
the hopes that you'd stay sober

Yeah it's been rough
all those years now off my shoulders


but how it turns out
I'm just playing my guitar
and singing badly

but how it turns out
I'm just playing my guitar
and singing badly


I hate the stuff
you used to win me over

Now that I'm stuck
I'd like to think I'm getting older


but how it turns out
I'm just playing my guitar
and singing badly

but how it turns out
I'm just playing my guitar
and singing badly

but how it turns out
I'm just playing my guitar
and singing badly

but how it turns out
I'm just playing my guitar
and singing badly

Playing My Guitar And Singing Badly

Lyrics:

Wipe off the sweat of your brow
You wont be famished later
Admire the shrine of your hour
up here above the labor

up here
up here up here

up here
up here up here


Bathe in the fountains of gold
while sleeping fiends grow restless
let flow the linens and scrolls
up here the king of bless'ed

up here
up here up here

up here
up here up here

Watch all your idols come down
the flames begin to flicker
stand tall and banish the crown
up here the king of wicker

up here
up here up here

up here
up here up here

Sing at the top of your lungs
No desert fruit among you
Dream of your vigilant life
up here atop the sand dunes

up here
up here up here

up here
up here up here

Wipe off the sweat of your brow
You wont be famished later
Admire the shrine of your hour
up here above the labor

up here
up here up here

up here
up here up here

Sing at the top of your lungs
No desert fruit among you
Dream of your vigilant life
up here atop the sand dunes

up here
up here up here

up here
up here up here

up here
up here up here

up here
up here up here

up here
up here up here

up here
up here up here

Up Here: The King Of The Bless'ed

I enjoy making music in my spare time. Let me know if there's anything I can improve on! 

David Lamar

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