Leap (Demo3oct2022)

Demo for Scarlet Keys Class.  Exercise in triplets, story about working on old houses.  

Lyrics:
Bought an 1830s farmhouse                        
And I fell in love with it
Timber frame antique windowpanes
My friends say it’s a piece of …

But I know I can fix her,
I know I’ve got the skills
got buckets of over confidence
pallets of Advil pills

My girlfriend up and left me
My kids might leave me too
The only people who care to see me 
Are the old Home Depot Crew

I know all their aisles
I’ve walked many miles
Their financial team smiles
When I come around

In love with this old place 
I work at a snail’s pace
It might be half done 
When I’m deep in the ground

My girl said you got rosy glasses
as my list of projects grows
She said if you think that’s six inches
I can see why you’re so slow

I can swing a hammer
got a shed full of tools
I’m just not sharp at figuring out
How to bite off what I can chew

Like to think that I have vision
got a long list of to-do’s
I’m the king of under estimating
I’ll never see this through

Electric and septic detectors of smoke
New clapboards and baseboards this thing is no joke
Hot water new oil tank buckets of paint
I tell you my friends this is not for the faint

the king of underestimating
I’ll never see this through
There’s one more thing and one more thing
And just one more thing to do

I still can’t figure out
Why things they just take so so long
You would think that after all by now, I’d know
But you’d be wrong

They appreciate everything I do 
And that I’m an optimist
But one month more sleeping on that floor
And I tell you they’ll be pissed

Old shutters new Gutters old plaster disaster 
Body is aching I’m bruised and I’m battered
A fieldstone foundation, I’m trying meditation 
got miles and miles of pink insulation

the king of underestimating
I’ll never see this through
There’s one more thing and one more thing
And just one more thing
 to do

King Of Under Estimating

Demo for What's In a Song - prompt on color and metaphor

Lyrics:Sun streams in through the window, highlights scars on the hardwood floors
Mom’s in the dining room crying, and I don’t know what for
I’m on the hearth in the kitchen, chipped and broken and cracked
Glue barely holds me together, lying on my ragged old mat

Unwashed and empty, ain’t seen food for days
Ignored on the floor, left alone
Stoic Grey on the outside, 
Tear Drop Blue on the in

Screen door don’t need no more holes, no low whines for the worn tennis ball
The leash just hangs idle on its hook on the wall
Quiet sobs and long hugs when the kids go upstairs 
For the soul of a four-legged angel who’s no longer there

Unwashed and empty, ain’t seen food for days
Ignored on the floor, cold as stone
Stoic Grey on the outside,
Tear Drop Blue on the in

They placed a new vase on the mantle today  
The water bowl just to my right has no idea what to say
Final stage of love is grief
We heal in belief of new starts

So, we’ll wait for the next guy
All legs, tongue, and tail
Rambunctious and glowing
To raise us all up, and give us all hell

Until then I wait, cold and empty, Tear Drop Blue
Until then I wait, cold and empty, Tear Drop Blue

Tear Drop Blue

Current Runway acoustic demo, acoustic guitar, violin, vocals.

Geoff Crosby

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