Jack Be Nimble

Michael's #7 song for February Album Writing Month. Lyrics by Kathleen Little.  

You Got Butter In Your Car

You Already Know (v5)

A Piece Of This Feeling (lyrics by Siebass, music and vocals by Ashley Brewer)

Photo by Texas Wedding Photographer, Matthew T Rader: matthewtrader.com

Darlin' you're a picture
That I wanna take
I'm up inside my mind with a pistol for a brain

Got an itchy trigger finger
I wanna shoot it straight
Just when I think I know you, girl, that's when you let me down again

Woohoo (say what ya mean girl)
Woohoo (before it's too late)
Woohoo (say what ya mean cuz)
Time ain't on your side...on your side

Now darlin', I'm a simple boy
With simple needs
I like a girl who tells me straight if she wants to she can leave

If you're a wandrin'
Then that's ok
I don't need your cherry red lips tryin' to tell me you wanna play

Woohoo (say what ya mean girl)
Woohoo (before it's too late)
Woohoo (say what ya mean cuz)
Time ain't on your side...on your side (repeat)

Time ain't on your side
Time ain't on your side
Time
Time
Time ain't on your side
Time 
Time
Time ain't on your side
Time ain't on your side



Time Ain't On Your Side

This turned out very different than I imagined. Almost beat poetry, but I dig it.

Lyrics by Richard Provan (Quork)
Music by Siebass

Lyrics

The tiger in the zoo is just like me and you
Eyes soften when I sing Dave Matthews

You were the one before we’d ever seen each other
Passionate words on a screen
We clicked and kept on clicking
Talking late into the night sharing our dreams
Now we’re making plans for the rest of our lives together

Can’t believe how fast a guy can fall

Funny how we read between the lines
Fill in the silences inventions of the mind
The women in my office are tickled pink
Sent me off with fundies sex dice and feathers
Then we met and you weren’t who you seemed
Who I’d dreamed

The tiger in the zoo is just like me and you
Wild and caged no future to look forward to

Back at home I’m not talking the rest of my life
Not meeting peoples’ eyes
Yeah it was pretty good I guess
You know these things always take time

You hold all the cards and my heart in your hands
Sometimes I think you’re just looking for an excuse to blame me for the breakdown
You talk too much why do you disappear
Why can’t we be friends I expect more from my friends
Why do you need to share your every feeling just another lying guy

Can’t believe how far a guy can fall

I deleted all your emails when we crashed and burned
Those beautiful words of growing passion growing colder
Yesterday I found our rise and fall in my sent folder

The tiger in the zoo is just like you and me
Slow motion everlasting tragedy

TigerIntheZoo

Collab with my buddy, topic for lyrics was "trimming the fat"

Lyrics by Michael Stettes
Music by Siebass

Excess Nexus

VERSE

so you got rid of the scraps
leftovers, knick-knacks
the toxic and fair-weathered
wasted breaths and silent letters

but they didn't go away
just got a new place to stay
beyond your simple science
they formed an alliance

one day they caught you sleeping
crept up on you creep creeping
stuck your body in a vice
and ran off into the night

you woke up surrounded
body trapped and mind confounded
far as your eyes could see
were things you didn't need

PCH 

now you're in a weird dimension
faced with deadly intention
you were done with these fools
but they weren't done with you

CHORUS:

Surrounded by your trash
how long will you last
in the 
EXCESS NEXUS 

You kicked 'em to the curb
but now it's your turn
in the
EXCESS NEXUS

(Solo)


Tried to trim the fat but the fat fought back!
Tried to let it go but it won't let go!
Guess you’re stuck in the 
EXCESS NEXUS

A sad fate
with no escape
from the
EXCESS NEXUS