There's a drum with a rhythm that gave herself to me
Never knew how much I could love a heartbeat
For 28 years and four months it's still keeping time 
different paces still steady and I wanna give her mine

So will you be the sync to my heartbeat 
Will my eyes close when you fall asleep
Will your lungs take in the same air that I breathe
Will my blood spilled be the same that you bleed

Sinking, rising is my head on her chest
The way she sighs makes me feel like I belong
Slowly the air quenches the thirst of her lungs
My ear pressed against my steady drum

Steady

Honey bunches, have I got a song for you

If I was a bee, you'd be my flower
If I was a bird, you'd be the tune I'd sing for hours on end

Baby there isn't a doubt in my mind
If you ever need, I'll be there at the the drop of a dime
I'm yours for life

If I'm bein' honest and I always wanna be honest with you

If every day showed me clouds in the sky
I would be okay as long as you'd stay mine

If I lost all I had, just the clothes on my back
You, me and the dog bummin' on the railroad track, I could be okay with that - as long as you'd stay mine

You're my elixir, my kryptonite
I can't resist ya
Your effervescent glow, I know I'm done

But I still won, you're my prize
Oh that look in your eyes
I'm so in love
I'm so in love

Honey Bunches

This song is for those who have faced the dissonant struggle of loving someone, while refusing to accept what they stand for. With pain, I will fight to listen. In disagreement, I will not give up on love. 

Song written by Maddie Todd

i wish there was some place I could hide
run from my fear that my empathy will die
where will she go? could she someday rise?

my father and i see darkness in the other's eyes
we love the truth and hate the worldly lies
fighting for good, we stand on different sides

but what can you do when you're fighting the dark with a candle light?
and what can i learn when my tongue is a fire
and my ears are too full of my pride?
and i feel like i am becoming desensitized
and so, too, is my father on the other side

my tongue is raw from self-inflicted bites
family reunions make me long for the goodbyes
then i can drive and injure the shadows with my headlights

it's not that i don't love 'em
it's not that they don't care
it's the way they see the world as if everything is fair
it's the danger they don't see within the words they say
trade in a number for a name, an "us" for a "they"
and here I am, here I am
a human.

Desensitized - Demo

I see stardust in your eyes 
Flashback to my last life
A love born from infinity
Beyond the sense of time is you and I 

Meteorite, take your aim ash and fire
the speed of light might tame my eyes
But I could see you lightyears away

I promise you
When we collide I won’t flinch
I promise you
You don’t have to brace yourself cause i won’t
I promise you I’ll be yours for this life and the next life I’ll find you
For this life and the next life I’ll find you
For this life and the next I’ll find you

I see stardust in your eyes

Stardust Demo

Relentlessly, Kathy and her loved ones grappled with her diagnosis of ALS, a disease real as air. In an effort to make sense of life and the loss of his sister, Dick has carried Kathy's legacy into the Augustana University Theatre production, "Real As Air." This song is a new piece of her legacy. 

If you'd like to hear more songs from "Real As Air," come to the premiere at Augustana University. Shows run September 21st-22nd, 28th-29th at 7:30 pm and September 23rd & 30th at 2:30 pm in the Edith Mortenson Center. 

Get your tickets here:

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Lyrics by Richard Swanson and Maddie Todd
Sung by Maddie Todd
Produced by Maddie Todd and Chelsea Weber
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I can taste and see
I can feel your touch
But some things can't be felt alone

All the work we've done
And all the toil you know
Still caught in this tangible fear

But life is devastatingly sweet
Life is devastatingly sweet

Around seven-hundred days or so
I can see the edge, but I don't want you to go

Life is devastatingly sweet
Life is devastatingly

Life is Devastatingly Sweet

Hey 
It feels like it's been way too long since I've seen you
And Christmas Eve is coming soon
I finally got your letters and I cried at the end
there was a time when I could call you my best friend and I miss you

But I've been looking over my shoulder a lot
and I've been having bad dreams of what he's done
and you once said, "men do strange things when they're in love"
but his heaven is my hell if it's the same one I'm dreaming of

Hey
I know that you love me
and I hope you know I feel the same
I think my body's instincts tried to ease my pain
you knew before I did that I had pulled away from you

But I've been looking over my shoulder a lot
and I still have bad dreams of what he's done
and you once said, "men do strange things when they're in love"
he thought that I was beautiful, then he cut my wings off

good intentions are no longer good enough