Camping Out, Getting Lazy and Silence

This Silence Copyright 2024 by Mike Dampf & Becky Sora
Bass: David Leadbitter/ Flute: Becky Sora/ Photo: Becky Sora

There's many ways I failed you
there's many tears been cried
last year is best forgotten, you know why
but a fat, pink moon is rising over old Ashbridges Bay
and white swans are descending from the sky

We are just out walking
guess there's not much left to say
that first night's gently closing New Years day
that first star's us starting over
that still water is my love
that promise is a truth I won't betray

and this silence holds the three words
I won't need to say

Hmmm

This Silence

The Cottonwood Flats (music and lyrics © 2023 by Mike Dampf; bass David Leadbitter; harmonica, percussion Becky Sora

Way up north, near my hometown
is a place no one goes when the sun goes down
past the dump, with the garbage and the rats
a brown river crawls through the Cottonwood Flats

Used to ride our bikes to the river some days
my ghetto box blasting Purple Haze
try to catch fish and junk like that
then go listen to the wind moan through the Cottonwood Flats

Camping overnight in Big John's tent
telling all the best lies we could invent
watching bugs being hunted by bats
until the stars shimmered high above the Cottonwood Flats

Now and then, when I'm thinking I'm wise
I see my life through my childhood eyes
something tells me I ought to go back
and do a little rambling in the Cottonwood Flats

The Cottonwood Flats

Come September (© 2024 lyrics and music by Mike Dampf; bass by David Leadbitter/ percussion by Becky Sora)

Come September, we'll remember how to slow down
the River's sleepy, old Willow's weepy
and he just hangs around
the Sun is warm, spirits whisper in the trees
your bare arm draws me near so lazily

Come September, a fire's embers flicker 'neath the stars
I'll see Venus, but you're the genius
and you'll tell me that it's Mars
the Moon's so cool, she casts silver on the stream
some old Fool once said 'Life is but a dream'
Life is but a dream

Come September

Writing songs and kitchen party playing with my many musical friends ... pretty much sums it up.