Take Your Time (Live At The Roost ATX)

This song miiiight be about our first trip to Ikea Valencia.  But it's also probably about all the feelings that come with making big decisions and chasing your dreams. ..prolly more the Ikea thing, though.

Would I

Contrary

Drive

Deal with the Devil

Sad eyes, but she got too much ambition
Too many shadows to stand in
Too many fools grand standin
But you know she ain't on the level
To get on top she made a DEAL WITH THE DEVIL

Hard times, but never one to back down
So many times he made it happen
So many called it boot strappin
But you know he ain't on the level
To keep his throne he made a DEAL WITH THE DEVIL

Oooooo, but there'll be hell to pay
Feel it in those aching bones 
Oooooo, but there'll be hell to pay
For a fool who can't leave well enough alone

Riding high, on the backs of better men
Too busy telling em its all fine
Too busy marking up the bottom line
But you know he ain't on the level
To fill his pockets made a DEAL WITH THE DEVIL

Deal With The Devil

Now's the time

Time for getting strong again
True love put a boot to my head 
And we're pushing on like always

I had been asleep again
Felt good justa restin my bones
but seasons gotta change

Now's the time for love
To ride in on the wings of the mourning doves 
Ain't quite right for us
Just ta sit round bitchin bout the old days
Lost that kind of love
Makes a man help another man just because
Every Now's the time for love
Cuz both draw breath down into lungs

Time to get along again
Fear put a gun to my head
Think we're bound for pushin daisies 

I been losin sleep again
Doubt's grip tryna breaka my bones
When they say that we can't change

Now's The Time

I feel for you

These days are grey and it's taking a toll on you
Didn't plan it this way but we're here, what else can we do
Have a cry 
And you say that we can make through
But it hurts me babe. 

I feel for you 

When every moment/morning feels like a STATE OF EMERGENCY
And the dream we share seems push you away from me
Just like a stone
Thrown far to a frozen sea
And hurts me, babe. 

I feel for you. 

All the doubts we have seem to stretch into an endless night
And we tire and we fuss and worry we won't get it right 
Cause we want it bad
And we know that's it's worth a fight
But it hurts, babe

I feel for you

Feel it in every word you say when you talk that way when you speak my name when you run away 
when cry out loud when you show me how when you stand so proud or when you fall down 
when you hold my hand tell me I'm your man, when you...when you...when you...

I Feel For You

Maybe someone can help me with the spanish? Tengo miedo para dar este cancion...
Very much a work in prgress...but i needed to turn something in for my group.

en este CARNIVAL 
tengo un puesto peligroso
Porque estoy buscando
Una mujer para cambiar

Mi vida mi vida tan triste mi vida 
Tan solo mi vida tan solo mi vida 

No hay nadie para mi
He pensando tantas veces 
Que más puedo hacer 
Pero busca a mi mujer

Tan Solo

“Consequences, regrets, & beatings”
Lyrics below

Description: We were prompted to write a song that include two actual street names. 
I had been thinking about the little Texas town where I grew up. And at the time I had  written several songs that seemed to be themed around the proverb of the Prodigal Son - I wasn’t really doing that on purpose, they just kept turning out that way. Probably some subconscious brain stuff due to packing up and moving abroad. Or more likely it was, God stuff. Ya know what I mean?
So, all of that led me to this memory of the time 3 guys tried to jump me in a shady part of town. I was prolly 16 or 17 at the time. 
I had gotten a call from a friend that I knew had been hanging with said shady types. She was in trouble and needed a ride. So I told her I’d pick her up. 
The minute I jumped in the car I had a feeling that something was hinky about the whole thing. Couldn’t shake it. But couldn’t leave her hanging. So I went. With my guard way up. 
All I can really say is that, it felt like God was warning me to keep my back to the wall and be aware of the exits. Heh. 
Got to the place and of course the friend was nowhere to be found, but these 3 punks oozed out of the shadows. 
One was a childhood friend who had taken a dislike to me at some point. Who could say why? I’m certainly a charming fella. The other two were your standards high school misfits. Prolly guys I would have been friends with if the other dude wasn’t part of the equation. 
Now, because I had felt that spidey-sense thing, and because I’m smart enough to know that I’m no Chuck Norris, I managed to...extricate myself from the situation. 
But man, I learned a lot from the whole ordeal! The experience really stuck with me and served to prepare me for so many other moments in life when that unseen friend would somehow speak into my guts to warn me of some dumb thing I was about to do or encourage me to be on the look out for some upcoming opportunity. So yeah, I hear voices, I guess.
Musically, this guitar riff has been under my fingers for YEARS!! I tried 4 or 5 other times to write lyrics for it but they never seemed to mesh. I think I’m pretty happy with this a start...I’ve got several additional lyrical ideas that I’d like to play with - could help the tune from a storytelling perspective (I’ve left them in the lower portion of the song lyrics, if you’d like to peruse and make suggestions;). 
Hope you dig the tune. Feedback is always welcome!

Lyrics:
“At the corner of Brazos st
dead end at prairie Lea  
That’s where trouble came and found me

Came at me from the shadows
One old friend, the others unknown
Felt the warning from somewhere down deep

I never shoulda been there
Knew the odds but didn’t care
Rolled the dice and they fell fair, but not for me.

My defenses can’t relieve me
From Consequences, regrets, and beatings
In the shadows tryna fight the demons
Don’t make no difference that I had my reasons
Situation’s goin south and it’s on me

Blood and sweat muddy the ground
Had me outnumbered takin me down
Knew I never shoulda come around near that street

Couldn’t make out what he said
Maybe a threat of life or death
Made my peace and gathered a breath to go out clean

(*Just when I knew it would all be over 
A felt a hand upon my shoulder 
An unseen friend came and...

Seen him again once or twice
When a shadow’s falling on my life
Feel that presence at my side...to save me(fighting, protecting, carry me*) 

But sometimes you can’t see
The other side before you take the leap
My excuse not enough to keep from falling
The fall from happening (beat*)”

“Consequences, regrets, & beatings” *work in progress*

Feb 11, 2019
The writing group has started up again for the spring semester. Our first week had no actual prompt - we could write anything we wanted to write. This gave me the opportunity to work on an hilarious and awesome song idea that came from our youngest son, Leif. 
I have a list of wacky kid song ideas that I want to write. Most of them come from insane stuff that our kids have said. Many of which are direct quotes from Leif. He says the most amazing things!! 
So the story goes: a few years ago I had just taken Leif out of the bathtub and wrapped him in his cool shark towel - the kind where the shark’s mouth makes a hood - and he was staring at himself in the mirror. I had just noticed the wheels turning In his head when he casually said, “sharks are bald.” 
I think I kinda froze for a second as my brain tried to comprehend that amazing observation. And then I fell on the floor and died laughing, and am still laughing, and I will never stop laughing about that brilliantly hilarious thought which had certainly never crossed my mind before. Little kid brains are just incredible. 
Maja of course contributed to the lyrics on this one and we also brain stormed with our two youngest about lyrics and ideas for the song. Such a blast to work on music with them. I hope to do a lot more of that!
Paden (10yo) sings the verses and 1st Chorus and Leif (8yo) is singing on the last chorus. Don’t judge them based on my rushed and sloppy editing skills. Haha! 
We’ve got some more writing to do to finish this one. But it is just so dang cute I’ve gotta go ahead and post it, so their grandparents can enjoy it;)
Hope you dig it, too!  

Lyrics:
Sharks are bald
I was swimming in the deep blue sea
When a shark came swimming up next to me
He said “hey buddy please don’t think I’m weird, 
But I really like your cool haircut and your beard”
So I thanked him for the compliment 
And I asked where all of his own hair went
He said “whoa dude, didn’t you know
Sharks are bald our hair don’t grow
But if it did, I’d have a ‘fro”
Bet you never thought of that before

Sharks are bald 
But they don’t mind
They save a lot of money on shampoo
Sharks are bald 
But sometimes 
They wish they had a really nice hairdo. 

“We sharks are built for speed
So hair is one thing we just don’t need
But I’ll tell ya every now and then
I wish I had hair down to my dorsal fin
And I wish every once and a while
That I had fluffy mustache to go with my smile”
.....
Could you even imagine that?

Jack Burton 34

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