What did you think of the world when you were growing up?
Was it full of idyllic scenes and just hard luck?
Or was it monsters underneath your bed but with a calming voice inside your head?
What did you think of the world when you were growing up?

What do you see in the girl that you are calling up￼￼￼￼￼￼? ￼
Is it the way she makes you feel when all of your friends look up?
Or do you feel a sense of something real, a love that hurts a love that heals?￼￼￼
What do you see in the girl that you are calling up?￼ 

And though a million different ways, it’s happening every single day￼
I want you to know you don’t have to stay

Step out of your mind
You might like what you find
Just know it’s not all in your hands there’s something better still
￼￼
What will you do when the camera doesn’t cut away?
When it’s the end of the book and the hero can’t save the day?￼￼
Is the story done? Is it that you assume that the race is run?￼
It’s not, it’s not

Step out of your mind
You might like what you find
Let go of the perfect world that you say “will work out if I get my way”￼￼￼
Step out of your mind￼

Step Out of Your Mind

Streetcar - Daniel Ceaser cover

Let me tell you now the story of a king
Of the night he came to Earth with saving grace to bring
The shepherds with their flocks weren't alone there in the night
Angels came and beckoned them to behold the sight of God

Do you hear the news with the rising sun
Away in Bethlehem a song by angels sung
A babe in a trough yet he is the one
The mighty King who alone this war has won

God of Heaven this is His birth
Sent to save us from the earth
Wholly Man and God is He
Glory

Do you hear the news with the rising sun
Away in Bethlehem our king is come

Our King Is Come

Give me a second to collect my thoughts in a cloud above my head you'll tend to see connecting threads
I'm like an open book a movie screen a rolling tape at least that's what they tell me but have they seen

Nine words out of ten they can't sit still they say and they run whither they will
I tend to fold and let them fill
It seems kinda silly the way I choose to use words when I know I'll lose what else can I do but say

Can I define those enthusiastic eyes so hard to find 'round here you know
Can't put to words things that'll leave you either speechless or spitting nonsense
Oh what do you say we find somewhere new with a beautiful view and watch the sun go down as it plays tag with the moon

Oh can't you see I'm in a loop I try but I just can't refrain this crazy sentiment I can't explain
I think my tongue has lost its use but I know that my words haven't lost their truth so I'll just keep singing the way I don't know how to do

Can I define those enthusiastic eyes following me walking down the street keeping me from sleep well I wonder what they see
I mean good grief give me a break I try to focus but you know I can't paraphrase that simple gaze like I should

March - Enthusiastic Eyes

We’re not same me and my left side brain 
Right wastes my time it’d rather build a line 

The way i see it in my rearview the more i resolve the less that i do 
So it seems like you’d think it might be my idea of love ain't right

I give it all I got and I know it ain't a lot 
But on you i had a thought
I’ve never been the guy to go looking for a fight
But for you I may tonight

The feeling being told to change your mind when you can’t even read the signs plainly set before your eyes
Don’t you lose your feet just follow mine 

Tonight you look up at the shine that you expect to be tumbling down around you wakes up just the same but it waits it waits for the guy that 

Gives it all his might and on piece of paper writes that for you he may tonight

I know yes I know of the peace waiting for me
"I'll give Him all" I've said how many times I don't know cause after every little feel good talk there's something else in my thoughts 

But you don't say "dress up son and fix your hair you'll find my grace is waiting there" you come down to a sinner's poor trembling side
"Oh I wish I could" "I would but I" "I know I should" these little lies fight me and they won't ever leave me
So Lord please stay here beside me

His love is undeserved there's no good that you or I or anyone could do
I say "look at me" but so often I fail to see you make something out of me for you

But I know you don't blow the grain out with the chaff you carve until there's no "me" left I step out of the grave that I dug for myself
"Oh I wish I could" "I would but I" "I know I should" these little lies fight me and they won't ever leave me
So Lord please stay here beside me

June - Lord Please Stay Here Beside Me

I don't need a highway I don't need a boat
There's no bridge I need to cross
Cause the world that I've been circling is right there in your head
It's where I'd go to get you again

It's twenty-five thousand miles
It's twenty-five thousand miles
Twenty-five thousand miles to you
But those twenty-five thousand miles
Are twenty-five thousand miles
That I'd walk with a smile on to you

It seems to me these days go by so slow
Is it so or just in my head
Well you would think the speed of this old ball spinning round
Might give you and me some clarity

Well the green leave will die and the flocks will fly and you look in the sky it's just not a bright and in the blink of an eye you'll see those buds bloom what a sight
Well I catch my breath every now and then I make it look a lot like a holiday and I'm not fooling anyone but I'm not stopping now

25,000 Miles (Day 1) 7/14/19

Three over two been working hard to see it all through then there's you looking like you've figured it out
You know what they say it's a better day the day that you stop and say hey I've got some time I'll figure it out
Why don't you figure it out
And I've been playing it out in head for so long cause there's got to be something more to this song

There's that guy that makes it up saying "it's a thing go look it up"
But then there's me that made it work I put it in a song in my paperwork
But you wanna know what it really means? Take a seat and eyes on me please
The truth whole and nothing but truth is I've run out of lines so maybe next time

Okay okay okay fine I'll tell you what it means
What it means is...
Tell me one thing you get it now or should I explain it more plainly till you finally see
Cause three over two it's come to light it means more to you and you think it's different say than two over three 
Tell me now don't you agree?
And I've been running it out of my head for so long cause there's gotta be something more to this song

Huh!

But you wanna know what it really means? Take a seat and eyes on me please
They say the truth will set you free and the truth is I'll see you next time

Three Over Two (Day 2) 7/15/19

Here's all I am Lord the same sinner as before Lord
And I'm to blame only You can change me Lord

Blind Bartimaeus sat by the roadside seeking one who came in from afar
For his bread he begged and cried around him knowing none but one could make him whole

When he heard it was the Savior walking past him he cried "Jesus son of David mercy please"
The many crowded round him bid him silent but he shouted louder still "Oh Lord hear me"
Jesus stopped and turned to him said "rise and come near. What will thou that I should do to thee?" 
Bartimaeus said "Lord I know You can make me see again"

Here's all I am Lord the same sinner as before Lord
And I'm to blame only You can change

Blind Bartimaeus (Day 3) 7/16/19

Out Of Town (Day 4) 7/17/19

Dreams Don't Have To End When You Wake Up (Day 5) 7/18/19

You are just a little snippet of a song I can’t get outta my head  
Here I go singing it over and over again 
Cause baby you are a certain kind of dish I wish I had I’m craving minutes with you 
You’re the cool breeze when I work and I take a break just to get away if I’m
Stuck at a desk or I’m drippin' with sweat It doesn’t matter that much I’ll admit  

Ohhh you’re always in my head but I don’t mind
Tell me ohhh am I going insane or just crazy over you  
My thoughts go speeding up on a subway keepin' up is a full time job
I don’t want to wait I’ll bite the bait you give me
They say get a grip but they don’t know how could they they don’t know you like I do

Always In My Head (Day 6) 7/19/19

Sometimes stuck in my mind is a regret
I get up with a chip on my shoulder where I should be trying to carry my burden not showing my hurting

You know I know you know that you’ve been there 
You’re scared to take a little bite cause your pride won’t let you seem uptight 
So let’s try to be a little light

I’m no better than the man saying “look at me look at my giving hands at least I’m not the poor man in the sand” 
Say only what you need to say don’t worry ‘bout tomorrow and waste today your neighbor’s every man you face be sure to show the grace that He’s shown you 

Justified but the way is wide to our downfall
It seems the more I think I’m right the more I tend to lose my sight of His mercy and wait for help from me

Little Light (Day 7) 7/20/19

you want to know why I’m mesmerized why I’m standing here looking hypnotized 
well you you can thank all the butterflies cause girl you’ve been flaunting those blue eyes

you gotta stop that girl the one with all the pretty curls she stole my heart and ran away now she’s the center of my world 
I know that we just met but she’s already such a threat and now she runs these streets but talks so sweet and I just gotta catch her and say my peace and so

Blue Eyes

I was playing this the first night I saw your face
shaking in a coffee shop staring at you my foot trying to keep pace
then you started singing with me kinda blew my mind 
I said girl you don’t seem to mind all the eyes on you and she said 

do you hear that echo echo telling you to let go let go 
of all of your cares just for just for tonight
this could be the start though start though the are you ready set go set go 
there’s no better time when you feels like it’s right 

five hours later I still didn’t know her name 
but we talked there ’til they closed and then later on the road when we took a right down main
we struck up a rhythm and I started singing my song
three am the crowd is singing along now I see what she means and I ask you

Echo

happy 19th, karis anne :)

oh Ms. Anne of mine let me write you a song
line by line entwine showing that each one belongs

oh Ms. Anne of mine let me play you that tune
I'll sing it soft and slow like this rain like you hand

oh Ms. Anne of mine soon you'll see soon you'll know
what you mean to me and how I feel when you must go

someday when your skies are grey come and meet me under the golden rays cause you'll hear me say

oh Ms. Anne of mine when you're scared think of this
though your heart may hurt songs were made nature's kiss

Oh Ms. Anne

syncopated rhythm I can hang with them common logarithm won’t be my be-denim sink or swim sailor needs a new tailor cause when he goes under he wears another layer
you are stuck in the moment cause you can’t seem to not clog up the sink man that’s simple stuff fam “don’t you leave the seat up” said your mamacita 

we go down and switch around the cup that has the hidden crown I think it’s in another town but someones gotta tell me now my team converts a second down I think they make their daddies proud but when it all comes back around I hope they use their proper nouns 
cause you gotta love it when you see a little budget in the green you gotta shove it and spend it when it’s raining buckets do you think I gotta cut it cause I can’t afford to lose it well I think you’re just a puppet twice as fast you gotta watch it

watching the cradle I’m sipping a ladle as soon as I’m ready as soon as I’m able I’m telling a fable pertaining a stable I’m throwing a volleyball right through a bagel I’m sick of the labels considered unstable I feel like you’re Brutus a kind of betrayal you know a portrayal that’s kind of a staple of doing things good with a baller reciprocal 
He’s in a place that morality labels a good place to be if morality’s tabled it’s good to be able to give up your maples and shoot for the stars in a 20 foot lightning bolt I am not capable kicking with spiritual keeping the fight in the ring in my inner self gotta contain myself I cannot hear myself talking to him is like winning up all the wealth

Andrews Candy :)

took a walk the other day it let me down the road out of my town singing “wood de doop doop” and suddenly it cam back around
in a tree up on the left a mockingbird singing my song she said “pardon me sir but whatcha doing there on the ground”

you don’t stop moving when you’ve started to soar there’s no coming back now
mock mock mockingbird you always want more than this old world can give 
but please don’t turn and fly away cause the song that you sing and the words that you say
how can I start to believe another 

when we get together we find our favorite spot on the lake pier I bring sandwiches she brings a lemon and a bottle of… clear blue liquid 
I said “why’d you bring a lemon? aren’t those pretty sour?” she said “why yes they are but don’t you know the old saying when life gets you make lemonade”
so we did

give me a hand I don’t want to miss this world I always seem to
I guess I suppose I’m as near as it gets without sinking the ship or flying the coup 
give me the key I don’t want to miss seeing if the city never sleeps
up and up up here we go I see what she means

Mockingbird

“give me a minute to gather myself” I said it to you then I put you through Hell
you gave me an hour I took 20 days as I figured you’d bore and then want my embrace
but you were serious and that’s where it lies the way I run from a test is I “run out of time”
now you’re gone and I can’t find words to convince myself that it doesn’t hurt

my eyes should be dry and my hair should be fly and my life should be fine without you
but my lips keep on sighing my cellphone keeps trying my heart’s still denying we’re through

I don’t know what went through your head but I know about mine and I hate what I said
a string of words that I didn’t mean I know they didn’t help but I can’t help what I see
is it true what they say that you’re fine it’s been 20 days I’m still hooked to your line
but given your apathy I shouldn’t still peek watching lovers walk hand-in-hand with tears on my cheeks

but whoever said we were burning down bridges better get their facts straight better play back the tape
I still think part of you is similar to me and that moves you

Shafer Green

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