ALL MY LIFE
By David Snyder

V1

All my life
been trying to find my home
Every mountain climbed alone
Every whisper in my ear
Is this all there is—this fear
And why is not clear
That we’re crying the same tears

Oh this pounding of the bombs inside my heart
How many times can all of us re-start

CH

Free me now and let me disappear
All my life I’ve wanted something here
Free me now, and let me find the road
Where nothing’s set on fire and then explodes
One place that lives as if there’s wrong and right
I’ve been looking for it in the dark and light
All my life 
All my life



V2

All my life
I’ve wondered what to say
In what language should I pray
Oh this pounding of the bombs inside my heart
How many crumbling towers fall
Before this evil kills us all


CH

Free me now and let me disappear
All my life I’ve wanted something here
Free me now, and let me find the road
Where nothing’s set on fire and then explodes
One place that lives as if there’s wrong and right
I’ve been looking for it in the dark and light
All my life 
All my life

All music and lyrics copyright 2023 by David Snyder
ASCAP/Day of Faith Records

David Snyder: Lead Vocals, Piano, Electric and Acoustic Guitars, Synth, Strings, Production, Engineering, Mixing and Mastering

ALL MY LIFE

ALL PRETTY GIRLS

By David Snyder

V1

Once I met a girl
I was young
And she smelled like a rose
I was so much in love
That I bent down and kissed on her toes
She said she would love me today and all of my life
The next day she took off with my friend
And that wasn’t right

CH

Why do all pretty girls
Just make you break down and cry
Why do all pretty girls
Never even tell you why
[repeat]

V2

So I drove to Phoenix
To find and tell her some things
And win her heart back with a shiny diamond ring
In front of a trailer she had a baby poking out of herself
I said man it’s time to put my love back up on that shelf

Bridge

Oh People
I have admit it
As long as I live
I will never get it

CH

Why do all pretty girls
Just make you break down and cry
Why do all pretty girls
Never even tell you why
[repeat x 4] with gut-wrenching solo as well

All Music and Lyrics Copyright 2024 by David Snyder
ASCAP/Day of Faith Records

David Snyder: Vocals, Acoustic and Electric Guitar, Additional Instrumentation, Production, Engineering, Mixing and Mastering

ALL PRETTY GIRLS

JEREMIAD # 66

By David Snyder


V1

Well a man named Quinn the Eskimo
Was sitting in a burned-out Texaco
On the edge of a black apocalypse
In a filthy bathroom stall
Metal door open on America
There were bullet holes in the steel
hungry dogs prowling in the forest
You know how those dogs must feel
So he sat on the toilet thinking
Have I been doing a little too much drinking
And what's left of America now
On the whole
Then God gave him an answer
Cause right where he was sitting
He saw an empty toilet paper roll
Yeah


V2

Down on the tip of the border
They're starting the civil war
Don't send no federal troops down here
We got the Texas National Guard
If those federal troops start shooting
Then we'll start shooting back
Ask Quinn the Eskimo
This is the Alamo
Texas comes first it's a fact
On the edge of a border crossing
Two amigos they were talking
Said what does America look like on the whole
A little bit like Guatemala
But with a lot more filth and squalor
It looks like 
It looks like an empty toilet paper roll

V3

Out West a boy and his father
They're greasing up their guns
And they've got some rocket launchers
They can throw
Well, they've read the Constitution
And their barns of ammunition
Could fill up North Dakota, don't you know
You can say they're locked and loaded
And they’re angry on the whole
Yeah they’re locked and loaded
A little angry on the whole
But you can make any kind of bomb you want
You can make any kind of bomb you want
With an empty toilet paper roll

V4

Well, back at the lone Star Texaco
Where the hound dogs do howl
Quinn the Eskimo knows he has to
Get off of the toilet somehow
And he needs to leave by sunrise
If Ezekiel doesn't mind swinging by
And bringing that fiery Chariot of his
Down from the Celestial sky
He'll have to lead a negotiation
And he'll have to trade for double ply
He may have to get saved or surrender
But he'll be better off on the whole
If he can just replace
If he can just replace
that empty toilet paper roll

V5

So if you make it down to Tampa
Or you cross through Alabama
You pick up the vibe
That they just don't give a damn
Yeah there used to be an America
And it used to be the Promised Land
Then it dropped off the map
Just like Birmingham
And Quinn never found his paper 
So he headed to a different land
As we wiped his hands
On his dirty Carhartt jeans
Besides that pile of burning tires
Is there anything left to eat
Is there any fresh clean water
Left in this desert heat
If anybody tells our story
And the truth be told
What does it look like here
In America on the whole
Well, I guess it looks like a burned-out Texaco
Or an empty toilet paper roll
Yeah that's what Quinn said to himself
When he set out on his midnight stroll
On his midnight stroll, he said
You turned the constitution of America folks
Into a toilet paper roll

You turned the constitution of America
Into a empty toilet paper roll
And that's what America looks like
That's what America looks like
Yeah that's what America looks like
on the whole


Words and music by David Snyder copyright 2024
ASCAP/Day of Faith Records 

David Snyder: Alternate Tuning Acoustic Guitars (DADGAD) and Vocals, additional instrumentation, production, engineering, mastering

JEREMIAD # 66 (THAT'S WHAT AMERICA LOOKS LIKE)

So, for Easter, I thought I would not write a song about anyone else's shortcomings, but a song about my own.

JESUS KICK MY ASS

By David Snyder

V1

Sometimes  I say some things 
I  can't believe 
And I’m rude as hell 
Wear it on my sleeve 
I go off half cocked 
And run my mouth  too much 
And my friends all leave and say 
I'm out of touch 

(Pre-Chorus)

Then I turn on some country radio 
And it tells me everything I need to know 

(Chorus)

I don't need a shrink 
I don’t need no therapy
And I don't need  to think
Any more about me 
And  I don't need to take
An anger management class 
No  I just need Jesus 
To kick my ass 
Yeah I say Jesus
Jesus kick my  ass

V2

I get tangled up in pride 
And start cuttin’ off my nose
Acting out of fear
And hurt the ones I love the most

(Pre-Chorus)

Then I turn on some country radio 
And it tells me everything I need to know 

(Chorus)

I don't need a shrink 
I don’t need no therapy
And I don't need  to think
Any more about me 
And  I don't need to take
An anger management class 
No  I just need Jesus 
To kick my ass 
Yeah I say Jesus
Jesus kick my  ass

(Bridge)

I'm tired  of walking
On this broken glass
So I surrender up this flesh
And the things I can’t get past 

(Chorus)

Oh, I don't need a shrink 
I don’t need no therapy
And I don't need to think
Any more about me 
And  I don't need to take
An anger management class 
No  I just need Jesus 
To kick my ass 
Yeah I say Jesus
Jesus kick my  ass

All Words and Music copyright 2024 David Snyder
ASCAP/Day of Faith Records

David Snyder: Vocals, Arrangement, Instrumentation, Mixing and Mastering

JESUS KICK MY ASS

A Walking Country Song
By David Snyder

V1

Throwin’ chairs off of a Nashville roof
Cause I’m drinkin’ little 100 proof
You know I’m grinning in a baseball cap
I wear it backwards cause you like it like that
Cause I ain’t classy but it’s how I roll
I’m the one they never could control


CH

Ah girl I’m gonna make it
Take every heart and break it
Just as long as they can take it, I’m stayin’ strong
Cause girl I was born a walking country song

V2

Got a mullet in my mugshot yo
I’ll post some bail and then I’ll skip parole
I’m wearing handcuffs but I’m breaking  loose
Then I’m gonna love you while I’m wearing my boots
Sometimes it seems like I can do no wrong
No matter what I do they always sing along

CH

Ah girl I’m gonna make it
Take every heart and break it
Just as long as they can take it, I’m stayin’ strong
Cause girl I was born a walking country song


Bridge

Yeah I drink too much
Yeah I talk too much
But girl you’re so damn smokin’
That you’re hot to the touch

CH

Ah girl I’m gonna make it
Take every heart and break it
Just as long as they can take it, I’m stayin’ strong
Cause girl I was born a walking country song


V3

I was caught buck naked but I'm not in jail
I was caught buck naked and I'm raising hell
And I was born spoiled rotten
If you can't tell

CH

Ah girl I’m gonna make it
Take every heart and break it
Just as long as they can take it, I’m stayin’ strong
Cause girl I was born a walking country song

Outro

And I can write a hit
Write it like this
And every song sounds the same
But I’m staying strong
Cause girl I was born a walking country song
Cause girl I was born a walking country song
Cause girl I was born a walking country song


Music and Lyrics copyright 2024 by David Snyder
Day of Faith Records/ASCAP
David Snyder: Vocals, instrumentation, arrangement, mastering, production and engineering

WALKING COUNTRY SONG

AND WHEN SHE LOVES ME

By David Snyder

V1

And when she loves me
She gets me flying around
And when she loves me
She gets me going down
And when she loves me
She makes me start to quake
And when she loves me
I think my back’s gonna break
And when she loves me
She makes me monkey around
And when she loves me
I sing sha na na na
And when she loves me
 I say hey, hey hey


CH

She gonna love me now
She gonna make me scream
She gonna make me sweat
She gonna make me dream
And when she loves me
She gonna never stop
And when she loves me
She gonna get on top
And when she loves me
She says her pet’s a rock
And you what they say I’m a puppet sock
Hey, hey, hey
Hey, hey, hey hey

V2

And when she loves me
She blows the top off my head
And when she loves me
I don’t know what I said
And when she loves me
I get weak in the knees
And when she loves me
I say ba-baby please
Baby please

CH

She gonna love me now
She gonna make me scream
She gonna make me sweat
She gonna make me dream
And when she loves me
She gonna never stop
And when she loves me
She gonna get on top
And when she loves me
She says her pet’s a rock
And you what they say I’m a puppet sock
Hey, hey, hey
Hey, hey, hey hey

Instrumental dance break

Chanting

And when she loves me now
She gonna never stop 
And when she loves me now
She gonna get on top
She gonna get on top
Hey, hey, hey


CH

She gonna love me now
She gonna make me scream
She gonna make me sweat
She gonna make me dream
And when she loves me
She gonna never stop
And when she loves me
She gonna get on top
And when she loves me
She says her pet’s a rock
And you what they say I’m a puppet sock

Hey, hey, hey
Hey, hey, hey hey

All music and lyrics copyright 2024 by David Snyder

ASCAP/Day of Faith Records

David Snyder: Vocals,  Rhythm and Lead Guitars (Stacked Stratocasters and Stacked Telecasters right and left) Keyboard and Synths, Instrumentation, Mixing Mastering with Parallel Master Buss Technology and the Wall of Sound.

Please just dance, and please do not try and figure out the lyrics or analyze them. Even I do not know what I was talking about.

AND WHEN SHE LOVES ME

THE HERO
By David Snyder

V1

They say you have to beat the odds
And give it all you’ve got
Fight against your fatal flaws
Just to reach that mountain top
They say you’ll never know what you can take
Until you reach that point where you might break

CH

But sometimes the hero
Is the man who doesn’t change
And sometimes the hero’s the  man
Who just lives with the pain
And sometimes the hero is the man who doesn’t have to be ashamed
Because sometimes the hero
Is the man who doesn’t change

V2

And he knows you have to live by faith
So he always says his grace
And he’ll rush into a raging fire
If there’s someone he can save
And he’ll never say there’s no more he can take
Cause that man of faith never hits the point where other men might break


CH

Cause sometimes the hero
Is the man who doesn’t change
And sometimes the hero
Is the  man who lives with the pain
And sometimes the hero is man who doesn’t have to be ashamed
Because sometimes the hero
Is the man who doesn’t change


BRIDGE 

You keep the faith
You keep the faith
Even in the pouring rain
You keep the faith
You keep the faith
It’s the one thing that remains
You keep the faith
You keep the faith
And that’s never gonna change
You keep the faith
You keep the faith
It’s the one thing that remains

CH

Yeah sometimes the hero
Is the man who doesn’t change
And sometimes the hero
Is the  man who lives with the pain
And sometimes the hero is man who doesn’t have to be ashamed
Because sometimes the hero
Is the man who doesn’t change

All music and lyrics copyright 2024 by David Snyder
ASCAP/Day of Faith Music

David Snyder: Vocals, Guitar, Additional Instrumentation, Mixing and Mastering

THE HERO

THE ONE WHO SET US FREE

V1

We all need
Someone to believe in
We all need someone we can trust
We all need someone to hold onto
When the world outside turns to rust

CH

But I don’t put my trust in
Anyone on this earth
Because most folks down here
Are just too much like me
So I only put my hope in
Only put my faith in
The one who set us free

V2

We all need someone we can count on
When we can barely climb the stairs
We all need someone to defend us to the end
When no one else even seems to care

CH

But I don’t put my trust in
Anyone on this earth
Because most folks down here
Are just too much like me
So I only put my hope in
Only put my faith in
The one who set us free

Bridge

So even when my heart’s completely shattered 
I’ll just keep knocking on heaven’s door

CH

And I don’t put my trust in
Anyone on this earth
Because most folks down here
Are just too much like me
So I only put my hope in
Only put my faith in
The one who set us free

All music and lyrics copyright 2024 by David Snyder, ASCAP/Day of Faith Records

David Snyder: Vocals, Guitars, Additional instrumentation, Mixing, Mastering, Production and Engineering

THE ONE WHO SET US FREE

Alaska


V

Well I'm going to get on down the road 
We're I'll end up nobody knows 
Where I'm going the grass don't grow
Just a wilderness of ice and snow 

Ch

Going to Alaska y'all that ain’t no joke
Moving to Alaska now because I'm going broke 
I’m guilty as charged your honor
So I admit that I ain’t woke
Have fun, gotta run, back at ya
Cause I’m movin’ to Alaska
 hell yeah

V

Going to move in with the Eskimos 
Going to smoke my pipe where there are no roads 
Going to find out what the wise man knows 
Going to ask him where that wind does blow

Ch

Going to Alaska y'all that ain’t no joke
Moving to Alaska now because I'm going broke 
I’m guilty as charged your honor
So I admit that I ain’t woke
Have fun, gotta run back at ya
Cause I’m movin’ to Alaska
hell yeah

Instrumental


Bridge

Please don't ask me 
Why I'm leaving town 
It's just a stupid question 
All around 
Cause I’m goin’ where I can’t be found
Oh hell yeah now 

Ch

Going to Alaska y'all that ain’t no joke
Moving to Alaska now because I'm going broke 
I’m guilty as charged your honor
So I admit that I ain’t woke
Have fun, gotta run back at ya
Cause I’m movin’ to Alaska hell yeah


Words and Music Copyright David Snyder 2024
ASCAP/Day of Faith Records


David Snyder:  Lead Vocals, Acoustic and Electric Guitars, Lead Guitar, Additional Instrumentation, Arrangement, Engineering, Mixing, Mastering

ALASKA

STAIRWAY TO SOMEWHERE


V1

I can see my with Druid eyes
That the green trees have not died
In the dark forests of old
In the Dragon’s Shire

And a new day will soon belong 
For those whose hearts still sing the song 
As they swim in the silver stream
Of believing

And the oceans will dream 
Of a new world not seen 
But reveals everything 
We are thinking

OH…

Ch 1

So we’re searching the mist
For what is left there
And we’re dreaming of a stairway 
to somewhere

V2

And we will meet at the June fair 
In the sixth month of May 
Though it makes sense to say 
This has no meaning 

But the jester will play
And the druids will pray 
And the maids will give theirs 
For the milking

In the mists of Avalon 
The angel fairies sing a new song 
And they say that the evening 
Is dawning 

OH



V3

And the sky is upside down 
And the queen wears the crown 
Of the king who gave his 
To the jester 

OH

V4

So a bright light will surely shine 
On the road to the Wizard’s shrine
Where the princess gives birth 
To the morning 

And  then a new day will come 
To those who come from 
That dark castle we knew 
Before forgetting 

OH

SOLO


CH

Ch 1

So we’re searching the mist
For what is left there
And we’re dreaming of a stairway 
to somewhere

So we’re searching the mist
For what is left there
And we’re dreaming of a stairway 
to somewhere

dreaming of a stairway 
to somewhere





All music and lyrics copyright 2024 by David Snyder, ASCAP/Day of Faith Records

David Snyder: Vocals, Guitars, Acoustic and Electric Guitars, Lead Guitar, Lead Guitar Solo, Orchestration,  Additional instrumentation, Mixing, Mastering, Production and Engineering

STAIRWAY TO SOMEWHERE

David has been selected as one of the Best New Alternative Artists on ReverbNation. But, he has been writing too much music! If you go to David's Main Music Website or David's Soundcloud Hub you will see links to all of David's albums and other Soundcloud pages. At 300 songs per year, it is getting a little thick in these woods, but all the rabbit trails are below. David Snyder is an award-winning songwriter and North Carolina-based Independent Artist. He is a winner in the 2015 PG Music International Awards for Excellence in Composition, Production and Arrangement. He plays guitar, violin, bass, keyboards, mandolin, percussion and the radio. He is also a Regional Coordinator for the Nashville Songwriters Association and has numerous writing credits with a wide variety of recorded artists. He owns his own record label, Day of Faith Records and writes and records with many artists nationwide in almost all genres, including alternative, jazz, "new country," bluegrass, Americana, rock, psychedelic, soul, jazz, gospel, funk, fusion and electronica. He has been playing the guitar since the age of 12 and playing professionally since the age of 15. His fondest musical memory is having received some guitar tips from Chet Atkins after sneaking backstage at a concert when he was 15. His music has also been performed at the Julliard School and the Lincoln Center. David is classically trained but draws from a wide variety of influences in his music.

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