Don't Say That To Me (Working Title/Scratch Guitar Demo)

When I was a freshman in high school, my chorus performed John Williams' "Duel of the Fates," from Star Wars - Episode 1: The Phantom Menace...at our winter holiday concert.

NMRHS 1999 Chorus - Duel of the  Fates

I throw off my sheets
My ears and alarm clock ring to me 
I'm sore as a sunburn 
Staying up all night making paper doves I could leave with you
Every line I drew 
It was all I ever knew of love 

Oh that's not so, please listen close,
he's not the center of your world. 
It's like you're 12 years old, and what if I am?
You forget the things you're told 
Why ivy clings to stone, and what if it does?
You leave for air and lose your home 

And I start to wonder 
Why the lights all fade away 
Hey, stay awake, and don't steal my sun 
Or the doves I made will leave you for the daylight 

I've rolled up my sleeves 
I'm plotting a course through deep green sea 
The waves crash and I shake my knees 
They won't hold me back, they're not anything 
But they're the price I pay, they are all I ever knew of hate 

Oh that's not so, please listen close,
She's not the center of your world 
Why ivy clings to stone, I still don't know why.
Your course leaves you alone. 
Sunflowers turn to stare, it's never enough.
You look away and lose your home 

I will climb this house, and lay in the sun 
Beneath the clouds, the sooner that I 
Can climb this house, and lay in the sun 
Beneath the clouds, the sooner i'll be home 

And I start to wonder 
Why the lights all fade away 
Hey, stay awake, and don't steal my sun 
Or the doves I made will leave you for the daylight 

The more I know the more I wish I knew you 
So I drew you little birds 
To sing the words I won't say to you 
But they do 

Don't steal my sun, 
Or the doves I made will leave you for the daylight

Demo

Pinewood Derby - Ivy on Stone

Rubbing an eye, searching the sky for rain 
Cause your wheels can slip if the road's still slick in your lane 
Speeding along, you're singing a song to me 
You gotta guide your ride around every puddle you see

Saving up your skipping stones, 
and I think that I know why. 
You were bubbling a chewing gum 
with a cartoon gleam in your eye. 
I wish you could have seen it for yourself

Goodbye July, you're searching the sky for snow 
Yeah it's cold outside but you're not confined to your home 
Your mittens are on, you're singing a song to me 
You gotta watch these seasons that freeze all over the green

Jumping in a pile of leaves, 
Cause you can't do that all year. 
Just like pushing off a plowtruck's hill, 
as a way to pull you near. 
I wish you could have felt it for yourself.

From the way you talked, I'd have thought you older 
From the way you shook, I'd have thought you colder 
Turn to face and your left's my right, October 
Turn away and we're sharing sides, is over

Daisies for my love... 
Well I thank you dear, but that will not be enough

From the way you talked, I'd have thought you older 
That's just the way I am 
From the way you shook, I'd have thought you colder 
That's just the way I am 
Turn to face and your left's my right, October 
That's just the way we are 
Turn away and we're sharing sides, is over 
That's just the way we are.

Pinewood Derby - October

I wash my dinner plate and folded up the table cloth that night.
You were the finest face that ever graced my failing sense of sight.

You had a fever then, the kind that sticks your hair to your forehead.
You were the medicine whose side effects would still keep me in bed.

So I opened up my mouth and we,
Let the frozen breath leak out of me.
Then my silver tongue will rust, it will fall away.
But still you would say...

Could you rush the hot water to the wash basin?
My heart's getting colder, could you pour it in?
I just can't watch all those rivers running down your skin.
Then leave me to soak up all the lines that you see.

I found a yellow piece of paper, it was crumbling with decay.
You left it later on the table with a message you have made,
And it read...
I washed my hands of you and folded up my suitcase yesterday.
You draw a wasted face and I do believe I wanted you this way.

So I opened up my mouth and we,
Let the steaming breath pour out of me.
Then my silver tongue will melt, it will fall away.
But still you would say...

Could you rush the hot water to the wash basin?
My heart's getting colder, could you pour it in?
I just can't watch all those rivers running down your skin.
Then leave me to soak up all the lines that you see.

The wash needs to dry.
It's pacing outside.
I saw you.
I can't make you choose.

Could you rush the hot water to the wash basin?
My heart's getting colder, could you pour it in?
I just can't watch all those rivers running down your skin.
Then I'll leave you a sentence of the words that I see,
I have washed my hands of you.

Pinewood Derby - Wash Your Hands

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PYGU Theme Handheld

Recorded 2006

Since we had first started, you justly still faltered.
The evidence does show the imagery existing,
A mattress ill-fitting and your memory all pinned to the wall.
This whiskey sour has passed the hours, it's given me time to think.
Like how much is missing, along with conviction.
It's left us with little but sleep.

Viewing the fallen, small pieces.
Plainly vague and facetious.
It was an error in judgement and company.

A screenplay worth reading since you had a feeling you knew what it was about.
As crazy as it is, you made up the sequence.
Beautifully left about and segmental anyhow.

Viewing the fallen, small pieces.
Plainly vague and facetious.
It was an error in judgement and company.

untitled

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Important Things That Don't Matter

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The Juniper Clause is the music of Michael O'Leary. Active since 2001.

Mikey is also a member of Pinewood Derby ( http://myspace.com/pinewoodderby )

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