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A mellow love song about Houston and my wife.

Betting It All On Houston

Best Of My Love

The story of a congressman and a teenage track star. 

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He spent that Wednesday on Capitol hill
Her high school morning was quiet and still
He wears a blue navy suit in his big black car
She’s going out to be track and field star

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By three oclock he got his calls all done
She put on her sneakers and went for a run
He had a meeting, got his campaign started
Out on the field, she was a perfect target

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He took a dinner with the NRA
She couldn’t know what would happen that day
He saw the story on MSNBC
She never saw her face on TV

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His re-election’s just months away
Her track coach wonders what she’s gonna say
He’ll make a speech with his 2A pin on
She didn’t live to go to her prom

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Do you wonder how he sleeps at night
He’s so sure, he knows he’s right
How does he know that he won’t be
the next crying father on TV

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Thoughts And Prayers

An Achy Breaky break up song

Y’know I almost hate to say it but Im glad
To see that I finally gave you up
I wouldn’t try to deny the good we’ve had
but I’m so tired of tryin when times are bad
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I haven’t written very many songs for you
I think I was afraid of what I’d say
I hope that lots of good times come along for you
And I’m sorry that we ended it that way

Oh I’m tired of making time to suit your whim
And I’m tired of havin fights for silly things
Its funny how neither of us win
But then, it isn’t funny it’s a sin

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— Bridge

I’m sorry if these words don’t sound to nice to you
or revive some thoughts of what we thought we had
but I’m just justifying writing it was right to do
cause every word I wrote of it is true

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— V4

Once I loved you so much it astounded me
I thought forever I’d love you that way
If I hadn’t stopped to look around me
You know I’d still be loving you today

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LifeStories

Many Songs For You

The story of a suburban misfit

One day you’ll wonder when you’ll ever get things right
You say you’ll know that then you’ll be back to stay the night
And everything you’ll do is not for them but you
You know its crazy but someday you’ll love them too
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But you’re a run run run run run run runaway
You’ll find a perfect place, it’ll be allright someday
You’re a run run run run run run runaway
Nobody tells you what to do
Nobody gonna bother you cause
Nobody even cares for you
when you’re a runaway

You tried to work it out but it never seems ok
You stayed and tried to fight to get things your own way
It always seemed that there was something you did wrong
You wonder what you did to end up in this song

You wish that they would just leave you alone
So you could have some fun chill out and just get stoned
Your girl she doesn’t know what gets you down
She knows what bad boys do and for that she’ll stick around

– Bridge (after 3rd verse, then repeat chorus for ending)
Don’t know where to go from here
Doesn’t matter but its crystal clear
Another place another time of year
is bound to set things right

– chorus

Runaway

The story of a man and his bottle

It’s four o’clock in the morning, and the rest of the city’s asleep.
But you’re up keeping park benches company
with the imaginary company you keep.
There’s a brown paper bag in your past now,
your best friend trusted and true.
And as you settle down tonight against the chilly black air,
that bottle will be talking to you — it says:

Hey there buddy, will you listen to me?
Life can strip you naked of your pride and your name
And love will leave you saying to the cold dark rain,
I need you.

He thinks there’s nothing left to live for,
He knows that everything has to die.
He sees a black widow spider devour her mate,
and through his eyes he understands why.

So to his brown paper womb he’ll retire each night,
to forget about his miserable life.
He’ll dream of stone hard sons, and watery daughters,
and cry for his black widow wife —

he says:I can’t understand how you ever loved me,
when all I ever gave you was pain.
And I left you saying to the cold dark rain, I need you.

So tomorrow morning he’ll wake up,
and search his bottle for that last loving drop.
And he’ll curse to himself that his matches are wet,
as he caresses a cigarette butt.

For the rest of the day, he’ll wander the streets,
making faces at the people he sees.
And cause he’ll need another bottle as the sun goes down,
he’ll be begging from the people he meets –

he says:Hey there buddy, can you help me?
I need another friend for the night
Don’t leave me saying to the cold dark rain, I need you.

I Need You

Love is free - all that hip shit rot. 

Oooh you, you know someday
You love will leave you for acting this way
Face of granite while your soul’s on fire
Won’t you stop a minute on your way to a higher destiny
But this was more than just a rest for me…
Lovin you’s like squeezing blood from a stone
So I will leave you alone
Someone’s come along and stripped you right to the bone
Theres nothing left to you
So what else can I do
But say goodbye..

And oh yes, I think I’d say
that you could never love me anyway
Cause it came too easy and it came too quick
and to a girl like you, that’d never stick.
You’ve got to bleed for it.
You have a need for it.

Lovin you’s like squeezing blood from a stone
So I will leave you alone
Someone’s come along and stripped you right to the bone
Theres nothing left to you
So what else can I do
But say goodbye..

Love is free, all that hip shit rot.
Hey, love aint free, you pay everything you got
But love is always changing, it’s alive
And it changes you too, you’ll never survive
unless you cope with it
You’ll go broke from it.

Lovin you’s like squeezing blood from a stone
So I will leave you alone
Someone’s come along and stripped you right to the bone
Theres nothing left to you
So what else can I do
But say goodbye..

GoodBye

Say Goodbye

A story about missing pieces.

When I was born we weren’t refugees till papa said he’d have to rescue me
Men in the village want to take me away he said its safer if we left someday
We started walking, other families arrived walking together, the babies behind
Papa said we’d find a better place walking together – day after day

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Where’s Mama Where’s papa
Tore us apart when we were small
Oh Mama Oh Papa
We barely knew you at all

And then we got to the USA, he’d get a job there, papa would say
He’d work all day and get us food to eat, Mama said we’d all get shoes on our feet
But then they said we had no papers to say men in the village want to take me away
Papa told them why we left that day – they took him to jail anyway…

We’ll never know what happened that day
Papa wouldn’t leave us – we know he would stay
He’d work forever – day and night he would
Papa just wanted to do whatever he could

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A few days later, mama tried to see where papa was and left me to be
head of the family, said she’d be back soon we’d be together by that afternoon
Later that night, a lady came to see us, we had no parents and she said that she would keep us
safe from harm, we’d be warm and dry. We walked behind her in the clear blue sky…

We’ll never find out what happened that night
Mama wouldn’t leave us out of her sight
She’d love us forever, we know that she would
Mama just wanted to do whatever she could

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Years have passed, and every day I say papa might find us I hope and pray
Other families try to give us their love, but Mama and papa are all I think of

== chorus repeat as outro==

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Frank Imburgio – Vocals Guitars Drums Piano
Dee Scotto Violin
Charley Powell Bass

Words & Music (c) 2019 Frank Imburgio

Where's Mama

Codvid-19 quarantine project.
Solo multitrack 
Piano, Guitar, Drums & Vocals - Frank Imburgio
Dedicated to the healthcare workers of New York, who like my wife dedicate their lives to their patients,