This is from an unreleased album of songs from the late eighties. This song is about about a sad sack who is waiting for a lover to meet him at an island paradise and bring tons of money from a swindle they pulled off. Trouble is she was double crossing the double crossers. 

Living It Up 
(w&m Jeff Smith)

You said you would meet me 
On the dotted line
You said you’d bring money 
And we’d live like spies
I get your packages
No return address
Mysterious hundreds 
My wallet’s a mess
I reread your letters 
No visible clues
Second thoughts do no good 
When I can’t contact you

I don’t know where you are but I’m living it up
Under a turquoise sky and a mountain top
The moon on the ocean is quite enough
To make me wonder how it is that I’m living it up

You said adventure 
Was not routine
You want excitement 
You caress extremes
Say, take a fast car 
Round a tight curve
Balance it on two wheels 
Jjust to tease the nerves
I’ve been waiting 
In the sun for weeks
It’s getting easy, to blend in 
As long as I don’t speak
Chorus

I don’t mind mystery 
And I’m not alone
In fact i like it 
I feel at home
The women are friendly 
Aand mostly half nude
The men are like brothers 
And we’re so easily amused
Time slips by me 
And i forget
To watch for your plane, 
I’m drinking in the sunset

John Jennings -guitar and b/u vocals
Rico Petrucelli -bass
Jon Carroll -keyboards, b/u vocals
Robbie Magruder -drumset
Peter Bonta -guitar
Jeff Smith-guitars, keyboard, percussion, vocals
Engineer-Bob Dawson
Producers -Norm Rowland and Jeff Smith
Recorded in a week at Bias Recording

Living It Up

I Hope You're Happy

I hope you're happy
And your family's safe
And all your friends 
Are out of harm's way

i hope your dreams 
Are coming true
And that someone 
Knows and loves you

I hope your work 
Keeps you inspired 
And you can rest 
When you get tired

i hope you know 
You will never end 
And you are the light 
Since it began

I Hope You're Happy

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Take Me Out

It's The Little Things

Smart Boy

Easy goin' tribute to the salubrious effects being in love.

Up At The Late Night Moon

Lucky Boy

She Was Not Like That

She had a little meltdown
But nobody came
She had a little meltdown
She was never the same

She lost her lover
To her first best friend
She wrote them a letter
She never did send

She was always thinking 
she might come back
But not to brag about it 
She was not like that

She has a little two step 
When she knew the answer
She has a little two step
Just like a dancer

She moved away
She left her home
But in her heart
She was never alone

She was always thinking 
she might come back
But not to brag about it 
She was not like that

She Was Not Like That

My mother called you up, said I was no good for you
My mother called you up, said I was no good for you
I wonder how she knew

My grandmother saved a man from a long slow death
My grandmother saved a man from a long slow death
With a pillow on his face she stopped his breath

We all got bones in the closet
That we don't want everyone to see
Some of them are heroes and some are not
But they're all part of out families

My father was a kid when a sniper took his team
My father was a kid when a sniper took his team
He was a foxhole survivor who could not leave that dream

We all got bones in the closet
That we don't want everyone to see
Some of them are heroes and some are not
But they're all part of out families

Bones In The Closet

Now when life gets to be 
An uphill climb
And everything you do
Ain't worth five hundred dimes 

When all your friend don't know
Who you are anymore
Remember change is good 
When your walking out the door

Let me be the seatbelts
That keep you buckled in
When you are flipping out
And the hearches begin
When you feel your wires are crossing
Let me be your ground 
Let me be the steering wheel 
That turns your life around

Steerin' Wheel

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Jeffrey T. Smith Music

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