Good track, well arranged...as for the clown show, if it's the one that comes to mind, think I've had enough...

Evangeline

Got my past packed in a hefty bag
In the backseat of my car
Got my headlights on the road ahead
My eyes fixed on the stars
And I don’t know where I’m going
I’m just sick of where I was
No sure way of knowing 
if I’ll find someone to love

I’m a runaway, runaway, runaway heart

Got my mind set on a happy life
With a girl I don’t yet know
Left my troubles in the driveway
With the last one I let go
She asked me where I’m going
I just answered with a shrug
The restlessness is growing
Gotta find someone to love

No more fights or empty nights
I left them on the drive
A tank of gas, a roll of cash
The endless road to ride

No, I don’t know where I’m going
But I finally feel alive

Lyrics by Carroll Kiphen
Music by Dj Lekich

(c)2021 Carroll Kiphen/Dj Lekich

Runaway Heart

Nobody Knows You When You're Down And Out
© Trad Arr (Jimmy Cox 1923) J. Merritt, B. Merritt & P. Fulham
Thanks to our music partner Peter, to a fine bass player Marty and to www.pgmusic.com
Our take on a nearly 100 year old domain song.  We tweaked the lyric to put it from a woman's perspective telling her man she'll make out OK without him.
Janice Merritt: vocals & arrangement
Peter Fulham: guitars & arrangement  
Marty Straub: bass
Bud Merritt: production, mix, mastering, photo, etc

YOU TRIED TO LIVE THE LIFE OF A MILLIONAIRE
SPENT ALL MY MONEY, YOU DIDN’T CARE
TOOK ALL OUR FRIENDS OUT FOR A GOOD TIME
BOUGHT EM BOURBON WHISKEY AND FINE WINE

YOU LEFT ME AND I FELL SO LOW
LOST ALL MY GOOD FRIENDS, I HAD NOWHERE TO GO
IF I GET MY HANDS ON A DOLLAR AGAIN
I’M GONNA HANG ON TO IT TILL THAT EAGLE GRINS

CAUSE NO, NOBODY KNOWS YOU
WHEN YOU’RE DOWN AND OUT
IN MY POCKET, NOT ONE PENNY
AND AS FOR FRIENDS, I DON’T HAVE ANY

WHEN I FINALLY GET BACK ON MY FEET AGAIN
YOU’LL WANT TO BE MY OLD LONG LOST FRIEND
THEY SAY IT’S MIGHTY STRANGE, WITHOUT A DOUBT
NOBODY KNOWS YOU WHEN YOU’RE DOWN AND OUT

WHEN I FINALLY GET BACK ON MY FEET AGAIN
YOU’LL WANT TO BE MY OLD LONG LOST FRIEND
THEY SAY IT’S MIGHTY STRANGE, WITHOUT A DOUBT
NOBODY KNOWS YOU
NOBODY KNOWS YOU
NOBODY KNOWS YOU WHEN YOU’RE DOWN AND OUT

Nobody Knows You When You're Down And Out

Let's Get Lost

green ring gold

Warning Sign Woman

Cold Front

You bought your ticket to a clown show
But no one was laughing
You thought everybody’d go
All were left gasping

The big tent
The grand illusion
Satan’s poisoned breath
Feeds your delusion

You bought your ticket to a clown show
But no one was laughing
You thought everybody’d go
All were left gasping

Clown conjures
Forgotten haints
The Lord sees beneath
The shade of your grease paint

You bought your ticket to a clown show
But no one was laughing
You thought everybody’d go
All were left gasping

Trying to ride to paradise 
in a hell-bent rocket
Brown shirt, red nose,
And a pillowcase in your pocket

You bought your ticket to a clown show
But no one was laughing
You thought everybody’d go
All were left gasping

Clown Show

©2011 revised ©2021 Noel Adams, words & music, all rights reserved
Australasian Performing Rights Association (APRA): GW71783691

------Lyrics------
When it's dark
Or when it's cold
My arms are here to hold you
I swear
I will always be there

If you fall
And need a friend
I'll pick you up and mend you
I swear
I will always be there 

Together, we are music
I’m rhythm and you are song 
When we dance
Can you feel it? 
In your arms is where I belong

Just you and me
Let’s run and play
Let’s chase forever all the way
As long as Earth keeps turning  
I swear 
I’ll always be there

[interlude]   

Together, we are music
I’m rhythm and you are song 
When we dance
Can you feel it? 
In your arms is where I belong

Just you and me 
Let’s run and play
Let’s chase forever all the way
And as heaven is my witness
I cross my heart  
I promise you
That where we go and what we do
As long as Earth keeps turning 
I swear, I swear  
I’ll always be there

I Will Always Be There

Edge Walkin' 
© 2021 Janice Merritt, Bud Merritt & Peter Fulham
Janice: vocals/melody/arrangement
Peter: electric guitars/resonator guitar/arrangement
Bud: lyric/arrangement/production/mastering/photo

EDGE WALKIN’

Tired of walkin’ a mile in everybody’s shoes
Keeping on and on paying my dues
This ain’t nothing but the edge walkin’ blues

Always trying to walk the thin line
I can’t thread that needle every time
Too long pretending everything is just fine

So many problems, oh, I need a little distance
Been running ‘bout a quart low on patience
Gonna try that ole path of least resistance

Tired of walkin’ a mile in everybody’s shoes
Keeping on and on paying my dues
This ain’t nothing but the edge walkin’ blues

This ain’t nothing but the edge walkin’ blues

Edge Walkin'

Another Name For The Moon

lantern moon lonely moon
once human face
we wait `til you rise in the water
whisper one word to keep a child safe
always and today
watch over our newborn daughter

high crying loon sends shivers
down the sky
her eyes follow so old so young
what should we name this quiet girl
framing the stars
with her tiny finger and thumb

soon soon the canoes will come
greet our wide eye daughter
choose choose say the paddle and drum
another name for the moon
shining in silent water

jump ever higher
grab fistfuls of cloud
dive deep hear the song of the fishes
laughter and stories old and strange
as the once human face
we ask now to grant all your wishes

soon soon the canoes will come
greet a wide eye daughter
choose choose say the paddle and drum
another name for the moon
shining in silent water
choose choose say the paddle and drum
another name for the moon
shining in silent water

© Robert Cordrey  Jan. 2019

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