Lyrics by Bruce Smith. Music by Murphy Smith. 

A song my Dad wrote the words to, work shopped on his birthday. Happy Birthday to my mentor and inspiration.

Can't Better Come Soon

New song. Moving towards more pop with this, little bit of Americana too in my opinion. Hope you guys like it.

Fix Me

Here's a song I wrote a few months ago, and since I haven't posted in a while, and it's the new year, I thought I'd share it with you all. Hope you like it, and the lyrics are below.

Goodbye

We came to the end, my friend, it seems. 
Is there any new place for us to find, but in our dreams. 
And every night when we went out to stare at stars and scream and shout, we knew it would come to this goodbye.  

I'm sure I'll miss the way you smiled but it will pass away.
And after just a little while, I'll stand and say.
Yes I miss you a lot, you put a grin on my face.
But after quite a long time, the stories erase
into an endless goodbye. 

Goodbye to our home, goodbye to this place, goodbye to our friends, goodbye just in case. We never see you again. So just in case, goodbye.

If I ever left you by yourself, I soon came home.
So maybe now is not the time, to be saying go.
But I think that it's time, cause what's left to do. 
You say that there's more, but it doesn't ring true. 
Cause you're gonna say, goodbye. 

I'm taking just another soul along. 
Because if they're not by my side, it feels so wrong. 
But that someone's not you, and we both know why. You ripped me apart,
And I made you cry. And here comes the try.
Goodbye. 

If parting is such sweet sorrow, then why can it wait till tomorrow.
If parting is such sweet sorrow, then why can it wait till tomorrow.
If parting is such sweet sorrow, then why can it wait till tomorrow.
Cause my bus leaves today. And it's my one shot, if I keep you in here, I won't have forgot. 
So here comes the try. (x4)
Goodbye

Goodbye

March 2015

lyrics:
Thursday night and I'm alone, with a little music playing. 
I'm sitting in my kitchen listening to what you've been saying. 
We're talking on our cellphones waiting for me to say goodbye. 
And I think. 

If I could take a picture and capture this moment, 
If I could stop time for just this second and own it. 

Sun is setting over hills right outside of my home.
Can you hear the music playing or that I'm home alone.
Would you even remember if I brought this night up again. 

Would you take a second to capture this moment?
Now that we don't talk, does it matter who owns it? 

I'm not saying, that it matters anymore.
I'm not saying it means more now than before. 

There's no big explosion. No confrontations instead 
There's only awful silence, and painful moments of dread. 
I let myself fall apart, while you remain cool and calm. 

And all I want is to go back to that moment.
All I want is one more chance to show it. 

I'm not saying I want you back here with me.
I think we both know that we are not meant to be. 

But if I could take one second back with the way that you were
If I could take a moment before the shit that's occurred
Maybe I could finally move on and forget who you were. 

But I can't,
And you're gone.
Story's done.
Moving on.

Let me know
Let me know
Let me know
Let me know

Isn't it amazing how just one things exists in my head.
One single moment where I was kissing you in my bed.
And nothing more is ever better,
Let me know if anything mattered. 

Let Me Know

New song. September 2015. music and lyrics by me

One day this will end,
And I won’t be your friend.
I feel you close to me, remember our time at that fair,
Making fun of people worse than us who we saw there.

We’ll start to forget,
They’ll be no need to regret.
They’ll come a time when memory dims this to a distant glow
The thought of hanging out and ordering from Dominoes.
I’ll think of you,
Best I can do.
When it all comes out in the rain

Raise a toast to
friendly ghosts who 
will soon populate my dreams.
A haunting medley,
in my head, Leave 
me alone I can’t be seen.
It’s embarrassing to always live in future tense,
Missing people who aren’t gone yet doesn’t make much sense

We’ve known for years,
That this disappears.
That when we’re sitting drinking we both feel the fading worth
The harsh reality that soon will be pulled from the earth.
We’ll talk again,
in five years, maybe ten.
When it all comes out in the rain.

Now we’re outside
In the porch light.
And you’ve got many things to say.
That it’s bullshit, 
That’s what you think,
You won’t ever go away.
I can’t spend my whole life trying not to fade from view
To stay involved is something to damn hard for me to do

Ain’t it enough that I’ll miss you?
Ain’t enough that I’ll always start to think of you,
When the sun goes down and I’m alone,
I’ll want to call you on my phone,
And when I’ve got kids of my own.

My name hurts you,
Your name hurts me too.
When it all comes out, 
When it all comes out,
In the rain,
In the rain.




In The Rain

Lyrics:

Focus mid-July.
I was stuck inside your lungs
Pick apart your shortcomings
While trying to play dumb
With petty vain remarks.
And you watched me fall apart.
When I knew you were too smart.
For that

It's like I'm in the Cold War:
And you're my only friend.
The iron curtain falls across the town
As we're marching towards our end.
It's your side I'm working for
What I thought I knew for sure.
Pick a dream that doesn't work
Anymore.
It's alright cause I can't want more.

When they burn down our town,
Pack up your things and flee
Cause if you stay around.
I won't know how to leave

Yeah, they call it MAD for a reason.
As we hurtle towards demise
Cause of the year or the season.
Can't stop looking in your eyes
And you wake up every morning
Drink another thing of poison.
Drive to work or kiss your boyfriend.
I don't care
Just as long as you let me stay there.

When they burn down our town.
I'll breath in all the smoke
You melt me down to my core
I'm laughing as I choke.

We don't seem quite as desperate
When we're doing this together
Cause I never want you to leave again.
And we tear it apart
I sabotage it myself from the start

Cut to August 1
Falling faster than I figured
As we drive to grocery parking lots
With our fingers on the trigger.
Soft kisses leave their mark
Like I'm setting off a spark
That turns the whole damn park
To ash.
In the year of the 100 hundred yard dash

And it'll burn fast.
When the leaves get dry
And light the wet past
Stand where you were.
Across continents deciding
Who would say the last word

Hundreds of feet underground
Wondering who had survived
We're living in the nuclear
Winter of our life.
They call it MAD for a reason
We push together uneven.
Without a thing to believe in
But you.

You got the hell outta town
You drove towards the sea
But though you're miles away
I don't know how to leave

And so I'll blowtorch the doors
And arrest myself for treason.
Maybe another disaster
Could be right for the season

Mutual Assured Destruction (MAD)

Arranged and performed by Murphy Taylor Smith, Emerson Mae Smith, and Patrick Kyle.

For Dad, because of everything. 

Originally written and performed by John Darnielle and the Mountain Goats.

San Bernardino

Arranged and performed by Murphy Taylor Smith, Emerson Mae Smith, and Patrick Kyle.

For Dad, because of everything. 

Originally written and performed by Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band.

Streets of Fire

Arranged and performed by Murphy Taylor Smith, Emerson Mae Smith, and Patrick Kyle.

For Dad, because of everything. 

Originally written and performed by Bob Dylan.

It's All Over Now, Baby Blue

"Caught" 
Written and performed by Murphy Taylor Smith

Lyrics:
You’ll wake up
Roll over on your side
But you won’t be alone
Not even if you tried.
It won’t be cause of me.
No, I’ll be far away,
But everyone will be there for you,
Least, that’s what they say
And we’ll get our tragic ending, we deserve it you and I.
You’ll look up,
And I’ll be gone.
Now you can cry.

You wake up 
To face another day
You don’t know how to look at me
So all that I can say
Is none of this is you
Cause all of it is me
And nothing I can say or do
Would ever set you free
And you’ll know that I’m lying and you’ll love it anyway. 
The smile on your face will give it away

And I’m caught with you in the middle of it all
Yes I’m caught with you somehow 
And I’ve fought with you as the world around us falls
Cause you’re not what I need right now
And that’s more than I can allow.

I’ve had enough
Of fighting in the bedroom
Long past knowing what the fight’s about
Christ it’s enough
So I’m not even sorry
And that is the worst thing to find out

I’ll wake up
And I’ll wake up alone
You made sure of that
And who can blame you, who’d’ve known.
Some things we put away 
But some infect and spread
And it gets so much harder 
To remove them from your head. 
So make me play the bad guy 
But the worst thing, god forbid
Was loving you as much as I did

And I’m caught with you and you’re asking me why
Yes I’m caught and you don’t mind
And I’ve thought of you more and more as time goes by
Cause I can’t leave you behind
Our hands are stuck intertwined!

So wake up
Wake up and set me free
I’ll never ever leave your side
If you don’t let me be.
You can tell me how to fix it
But you’ve never stopped and thought
There’s a part of you
That wants to be caught

© 2018

Originals

Caught

A Christmas song about visiting family after coming out. Merry merry!

Lyrics:
You used to tie me up with string
Wrap me in velvet like a King
I was not one of your presents
But still I was yours
But I was a boy last Christmastime
And you can’t get it through your mind
You’ll call me “he", start to stutter 
If I say “she”, then you’ll mutter
“Will someone else pass the butter please?”
Someone whose pronouns and name you remember with ease

I meet your gaze across the room
Sharing a sense of certain doom
We cross and hug while you ask when my period starts 
And I thought you know what
These are well meaning people who don’t know a lot 
About me, how I’ve been
So just suck it up and explain it all again.

It’s fun to be sad at Christmas
I live in a film noir
The lights they admire 
Burn too bright to be fire
Let them frighten the choir
And insight something higher
To fight for control of the night

It’s fun to be sad at Christmas 
I damper the brightest star
See the wise men who pray
As the skies turn to gray
So their eyes turn away
From my sighing dismay 
Even I might delay asking why
If it meant your kid wouldn’t cry

I shrink and settle by the fire
Wish I could be what you desire 
Someone you’re proud of, not someone you’d rather stay home
My mom says I should prob'ly leave
I smile and give myself reprieve
This year’s a wash so forget her
Just think next year might be better
Who knows next year might be better

And if next year comes
And it’s still not true
Then I’ll sing this song
To inspire you
To change,
At least try to change 
Your point of view

Because I know you
And although you cannot understand 
Why I am
Who I am
I have to keep trying 
Cause family is having a plan

MurphyTaylorSmith

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