Monday Morning

The Less Said the Better

Britney, but with more glockenspiel and mellotron.

I Wanna Go (Britney Spears Cover)

My Own, My Precious

I Have to Hold on to What I Have

Piano + death.

She closes her eyes and bursts into snow
Follow the wind, go where it goes
and, oh, only when it slows will she come in for the landing

A shark never sleeps, she swims to 
Follow the fish, you die if they die
The goal - get old as you can get then come in for the landing

Taken by the tide
Picking up the signal that rains down from the satellite
Taken by the tide
Riding on a sine wave
Fool enough to think she'd ever get away

The asteroid swings by to say hi
Close enough to see the scars on her hide
And, oh, fast as you can fly you'll always wear your history
Taken by the tide
Picking up the signal that rains down from the satellite
Taken by the tide
Riding on a sine wave
Call it a choice if you want, that's okay

Taken by the Tide

Song for a musician friend who spent a lot of time on the road (in The Before Times), from the perspective of his very kind, wise and patient wife.

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Where are we gonna be in two years or three?
Will all of this random ever turn to routine?
I know that you gotta leave I can’t act like I’m pleased
But if this is the cost you know I’ll pay happily

It’s worth all this and more
When you walk through that red door

Go where you go it’s alright
I will understand
Take on the world every night
I have got your back
Do what you do to be you
I fell in love with that man

Baby I cannot lie, it can get trying
Vying for attention, fighting for your free time
We are both chasing storms, we all need a port
Come get warm I’ll be yours and you can be mine

And I know what it’s all for
When you walk through that red door

Go where you go it’s alright
I will understand
Take on the world every night
I have got your back
Do what you do to be you
I fell in love with that man

It’s worth all this and more
And I know what it’s all for
Can’t wait to find what’s in store
When you walk through that red door

Go where you go it’s alright
I will understand
Take on the world every night
I have got your back
Do what you do to be you
I fell in love with that man

That Red Door

From back in the day when we was poor. Music don't pay, y'all.

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Our love, tired but hanging on
You almost feel bad for the thing
We married in the back of a minivan
I tied your ring and then sold the string

I don't care, maybe it's not fair
Maybe we're wrong for carrying on
It's insane, at least that's what all our friends say
But I'll take us anyway

Our house long ago fell apart
Now it's held up with duct tape and gum
Neither one hardly makes anything
Together we somehow make less than our sum

I don't care, maybe it's not fair
Maybe we're wrong for carrying on
Everyday the future looks more and more grey
But I'll take us anyway

I'll sell whatever we've got around
Anything that isn't nailed down
I'll work a different job everyday
I'll dig us out even if it leaves me in the ground

I don't care, maybe it's not fair
Maybe we're wrong for carrying on
It's okay we know we're more than what we make
I'll take us anyway

More Than What We Make

Song for a friend who's young marriage asploded.

Also a 5/4 jam for those who care about things like that. And maybe a bit overproduced?? Who cares! I like it!

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Maybe you were right, maybe she was right
Either way
Only one made the thing detonate
Blew it away

It wasn't you
Need to prove it to you
Even here there's truth

No one said your perfect
Something's always under the surface
But just in case you still haven't heard it
I'll tell you the truth, it's not on you
So come on and go tell your friends now
Everyone wants to help you mend now
Pull you from the lost and found
To tell you the truth, it's not on you

You felt it was right, because it WAS right
Understand?
These broken pieces aren't what the thing is
Understand?

I am on your side, always on your side
You misplaced your love, it's common enough
We all know that you tried and just cause something dies
Doesn't mean it was never alive, never alive

No one said your perfect
Something's always under the surface
But just in case you still haven't heard it
I'll tell you the truth, it's not on you
So come on and go tell your friends now
Everyone wants to help you mend now
Pull you from the lost and found
To tell you the truth, it's not on you

The Thing Is

Some are only in it for the money
Some are happy holding others down
Some will wish you well in pleasant weather
Then when the flood comes let you drown
Some can close their eyes to all the darkness
Some will see the light and have a fit
Some are clean until they finally notice
Everybody else has had a hit

So if anybody tries to look away
I'll just meet you face-to-face
this is why we're here and now 
In this strange place
I've felt it all my life and it's time to get something right
We're all out on our own
So we're not alone

Some will make you feel like an imposter
Some are so obsessed with what you did
Some are wired wrong and some are hopeless
Some confess that everyone is
So winter comes and then you start to feel it
So spring arrives and 'I' turns into 'us'
Summer comes and opens every window
The leaves leave but the feeling never does

And yes I'll play the part with all my heart
With every piece and every shard
With every song and every scar

So if anybody tries to turn away
I'll just meet them face-to-face
this is why we're here and now 
In this strange place
I've felt it all my life and it's time to get something right
We're all out on our own
So we're not alone

Not Alone

My five year old daughter came into my studio and made up this song on the spot. It's better than anything I've ever done. Lyrics are my best guess.

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There was a rainbow
And then a butterfly
There was a sunny day
And the clouds and everything

We all want to be with a butterfly
See the rainbows

I know some people are better things
Rainbows
Oh, we come in the night

I know we will
We want to be with a butterfly
I know what to feel
Every day
I know what to do to
Make you proud 

Bridge (???)

Rainbows, butterflies
Rainbows, butterflies
Every day we need to see
Butterflies rainbow, i know what that feels
ah

Rainbow butterfly
Rainbow butterfly
I know what that feels like to see them all
Butterfly, butterflies, it’s very good if you try

Make me so happy
They’re so happy for me
I love rainbows and butterflies
They make so happy

Rainbow Butterfly

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New song every once in a while.

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