All You Need Is Love - (Cover)

Happy Birthday Milo Wallace Roth! 
I wrote this for you the day after you were born which is my own birthday! Well, I have a twin - Martha, your parents know her, and let us tell you, we Virgos love to be orderly and precise. But we also love to turn a mess into music. May your ears grow full with love and your heart dance with the sounds of music!

Welcome to the world!
Love ~ Andy

Happy Birthday, Milo!

lies (i'll fix this later)

Artwork: "Portrait with Smoke II" by Rae Klein

I don’t wanna be tough
Among all these subtle feelings 
But I just shutter up
So I’m sneaking the lane 
Holding this momentary calm
Cause I’m honest like that

So I beg at my life
My mouth a cussing muscle 
Cause I’m hungry like that
I don’t wanna be scared
I hear children on the lawn And I cower and fit

When I enter my life again I clutch along the edge
Cause I’m stable like that 
But I don’t wanna be tough 
So I soften up
And topple awful in

Okay Alright
I can be in my life
Okay Alright Let me feel it My life
Okay Alright Here it is My life Alright

Shutter Up

Visual: “Season Change” by Lena Gustafson


I pull at my prayer
I struggle to
undo the olden wound

So I’m pacing the porch
I weary the stoop
And I beg my childhood too

I try
Bosom loin mind and gut
To settle My heart that’s the only way 
To settle My heart 
Holy hollering
To settle my heart

I straddle my prayer
It muscle me
Hold fast steady
Bear the swelling grief
And I cradle
And talk to my mystery 
Don’t shut me out Don’t deceive
Don’t embarrass me

I try
Despite the furious mind and gut
To settle my heart

Buck shudder cuss hiss and shake 
My early mysteries
Veil dull weakening
Holy roarer wholly hollering
C’mon settle me down
Pit clench cuss piss and sing
My heated prayers collide
Wreck that throat tattering
You pulled the honey out while I was inside the belly
C’mon settle down
Holy horror wholly hollering C’mon settle
Hold me down

Settle

Lost cuddle found while kitchening
So shutup and get in
Nervous needer known, now caressing 
Kiss busted up
Cops rush in

But then calm at the huddle 
A cuddle of carols
The carolling easy
All easily settled
Allay. ally. cuddle. Ally. okay. sure.

Caught sharing under kissing bag 
Mostly hands are kid glad
Much wobble
Much too tickling
Blankee tugged, fort falls in 

So tease in the tumult
A tunnel of tickle The tickling easy 
All easily ​funny
Allay. ally. cuddle. Ally. okay. sure.

Mellow and coo
all calming down 
Weeper and carolling 
And bless allways
And wept all the way out

Body mellow bloom And simplify
Honey do
The glad eyes
Tummy purring Teaser tunnelling 
Hush
Alright

Dm A7 Gm A7 Example

Andy Strain