I wish I
Could teach you
A thing or two
But I ain’t got
A single clue
Much less two

I wish you
Could teach me
To let it be
But if you do
I won't be me
So let me be

'Cause we don’t know
What to do
What to think
What to say
And we ain’t got
Any clue
What to be
What to love

And we don’t understand
We don’t understand
We don’t understand
We don’t understand
Anything about anything
Anything anything
Anything about anything
Anything anything at all

I wish time
Would teach us
To get along
So let's agree
That time is wrong
To take so long

'Cause we don’t know
What to do
What to think
What to say
And we ain’t got
Any clue
What to be
What to love

And we don’t understand
We don’t understand
We don’t understand
We don’t understand
Anything about anything
Anything anything
Anything about anything
Anything anything at all


Words and Music (c) 1998, 2024 by Jack E. Morris

Anything

(Surely God is mad)
(Surely)

It rains awhile
Then stops
It just started again
It just started again
It has no significance
Other than rain
It has no significance
Other than rain

Rain is water
And whatever water is
Is rainwater
(Surely God is mad)
Rain is water
And whatever water is
Is rainwater
(Surely)
Just rainwater

Its not mournful
But wet
It's not portentous
But random
It has no significance
Other than rain
It has no significance
Other than rain

Rain is water
And whatever water is
Is rainwater
(Surely)
Rain is water
And whatever water is
Is rainwater
(Surely God is mad)
Rain is water
And whatever water is
Is rainwater
(But surely)
Rain is water
And whatever water is
Is rainwater
(Surely)
Just rainwater

(Surely God is mad at America)
(But surely)
(He's sending hurricane after hurricane after hurricane)

It has no significance
Other than rain
It has no significance
Other than rain

Rain is water
And whatever water is
Is rainwater
(Surely God is mad)
Rain is water
And whatever water is
Is rainwater
(Surely)
Rain is water
And whatever water is
Is rainwater
(But surely)
Rain is water
And whatever water is
Is rainwater
(Surely God is mad)
Just rainwater

Just rain
(Hurricane after hurricane)
Just water
(Hurricane after hurricane)
Just rainwater
(Hurricane after hurricane after hurricane)


Words and Music (c) 2003, 2006 by Jack E. Morris
Spoken words feat. Mayor Ray Nagin (2006)

Rainwater (Nagin Mix)

This is the day I shall be wed
As I wait my thoughts are dead
They lie stretched on the rack of love
Embalmed like so many dirt-filled gloves

And each stiff finger remembers
Nothing of the cold black embers
It once caressed with so much care
As if each branch would lead somewhere
Now the fingers of every thought
Cannot remember what they sought

This is the day I shall be wed
From my heart all fears have fled
My heart alone is alive today
A living beating lump of clay

Sustaining life with every pulse
Incapable of feeling false
Doubt cast out from the heart of life
The tell-tail heart that found my wife
I love her though my thoughts are still
When I say I do I will

This is the day I shall be wed
This is the day I shall be wed
This is the day
This is the day
This is the day
This is the day


Words and Music  1981, 2024 by Jack E. Morris

Wedding Drills

That I can blame ice for freezing my fire
I don’t suppose
That I can blame night for eclipsing my day
I don’t suppose

That I’m frozen dark and flat and barren
Frozen dark and flat and barren
I , I, I won’t deny

That I can blame wind for eroding my mountain
I don’t suppose
That I can blame worms for eating my leaves
I don’t suppose

That I’m frozen dark and flat and barren
Frozen dark and flat and barren
I, I, I can’t deny

That I can ignite a sudden spark
That I can light up the dark
That I can spout lava flowing
That I can sprout a new leaf growing

I, I, I can only hope
I can only hope


Words and Music (c) 1989, 2024 by Jack E. Morris

I Can Only Hope

There is no road to freedom without you
I need you there for every thing I do
Cause all the places I might go
Would leave me feeling low
And lost without you there

Its not as easy as it used to be
To shut mine eyes and still pretend to see
'Cause all the answers I might find
Would leave me feeling blind
And lost without you there

Where did you come from
Some Strange fantasy
Will I always have you
So very close to me
But all this silly chatter
Doesn't really matter
I was lost
Now I'm found

There is no hope of everlasting peace
Without you up above and here with me
Cause all the answers I might find
Would leave me feeling blind
And lost without you there
And all the places I might go
Would leave me feeling low
And lost without you there

Words and Music (c) 1980, 2025 by Jack E. Morris

Lost Without You

We huddled at the edge and watched the wind
Blowing north the water flowing south
The willows swaying weeping for the dead
The sun forever going going down

This hideaway we haunted harbored hoards
Of ghosts of outcast lovers hanging on
To all the times they huddled there before
Their time was up and they were gone

In our love love love love haunt
Our love love love love haunt
In our love love love love haunt
Our love love love love haunt

The ghosts of outcast lovers would attend
Whenever outcast lovers came to burn
The fire of the force at their command
For they are cold cold and they yearn

In our love love love love haunt
Our love love love love haunt
In our love love love love haunt
Our love love love love haunt
In our love in our love
In our love love haunt

It’s ages since we huddled in our lair
While other outcast lovers came and went
We’ll join the ghosts of outcast lovers there
When our time is up and we are spent

In our love love love love haunt
Our love love love love haunt
In our love love love love haunt
Our love love love love haunt
In our love in our love
In our love love haunt
In our love in our love
In our love love haunt


Words and Music (c) 2025 by Jack E. Morris

Love Haunt

Baby I believe I'm almost busted
They're calling for my money night and day
Well they can take my car
And kick me out the door
But nobody's ever taking you away
I said nobody's ever taking you away

Ever since I met you I quit working
'Cause we've been makin' love night and day
So if the banks foreclose
I'll let 'em have my clothes
But nobody's ever taking you away
I said nobody's ever taking you away

Well they can take my car
And kick me out the door
And if the banks foreclose
I’ll let em have my clothes
But nobody’s ever taking you away
I said nobody’s ever taking you away

Baby I believe I'm almost busted
They're calling for my money night and day
Well they can take my car
And kick me out the door
And if the banks foreclose
I’ll let em have my clothes
But nobody's ever taking you away
I said nobody's ever taking you away

Nobody’s ever taking you away
I said nobody's ever taking you away


Words and Music (c) 1998, 2002 by Jack E. Morris

Nobody's Ever Takin' You Away

I think it's something that we look at the TV
And listen to the radio
But come on baby let's go look at the stars
And see what we don't know
Seems to me that if we don't change
We won't have a place to go
Except for rocket people living in outer space

When the sea starts boiling and the sun burns hot
And the sky starts choking on the seventh day
When the sea starts boiling and the sun burns hot
And the sky starts choking on the seventh day

Oh boy when we look inside ourselves
It's like trying to see in the dark
Only know what we're told to know
Ain't nothing to set us apart
We look for power in the goods we can buy
Don't know why we've got a suffering heart
If we don't open it it's going to stay that way

Till the sea starts boiling and the sun burns hot
And the sky starts choking on the seventh day
Till the sea starts boiling and the sun burns hot
And the sky starts choking on the seventh day

There's nothing bad about something good
Why hate the rain
In a desert and dying of thirst
Soak it up let it ease the pain
Put out the fire of hate and greed
Peace will thrive again
Don't take a rocket scientist to fear the day

When the sea starts boiling and the sun burns hot
And the sky starts choking on the seventh day
When the sea starts boiling and the sun burns hot
And the sky starts choking on the seventh day
When the sea starts boiling and the sun burns hot
And the sky starts choking on the seventh day


Words and Music (c) 1981, 2003 by Jack Morris

Seventh Day

Tyger Tyger burning bright
In the forests of the night
What immortal hand or eye
Could frame thy fearful symmetry

In what distant deeps or skies
Burnt the fire of thine eyes
On what wings dare he aspire
What the hand dare seize the fire

And what shoulder & what art
Could twist the sinews of thy heart
And when thy heart began to beat
What dread hand & what dread feet

What the hammer what the chain
In what furnace was thy brain
What the anvil what dread grasp
Dare its deadly terrors clasp

When the stars threw down their spears
And water'd heaven with their tears
Did he smile his work to see
Did he who made the Lamb make thee

Tyger Tyger burning bright
In the forests of the night
What immortal hand or eye
Dare frame thy fearful symmetry
Dare frame thy fearful symmetry
 

Words by William Blake (1794)
Music (c) 2000 by Jack E. Morris

Tyger

Today I launched out of Venice and trolled
The Wagon Wheel with jigs and pigs
In the cuts and pockets of the dead-end marsh canals
Caught my limit of monster bass
Came home tired cleaned the fish
And stuffed the filets in the freezer

You work to pay the cost of living
You live to play 
You die someday get forgiven
But it’s a damned shame about the high cost of fishing
It’s a damned shame about the high cost of fishing

You need a boat motor trailer and a truck to pull 'em
Fishfinder mobile phone and GPS
Graphite rod and titanium reel
Spinner crank soft and topwater baits

Once upon a time I'd grab handfuls of earth
Out the worm garden that grew in the yard
Stuff the squirming dirt in a can
Pick a cane pole behind the shed
Walk down Orleans Avenue
To the City Park lagoons and fish till dark

You work to pay the cost of living
You live to play
You die someday get forgiven
But it’s a damned shame about the high cost of fishing
It’s a damned shame about the high cost of fishing

You need a boat motor trailer and a truck to pull 'em
Fishfinder mobile phone and GPS
Graphite rod and titanium reel
Spinner crank soft and topwater baits

The water was black and deep then
Swimming with bream and cats and sac-au-lait
And the possibility of a green flash
The phenomenal churn yank and splash
Of a monster bass erupting
Like a green god out of black water

You work to pay the cost of living
You live to play
You die someday get forgiven
But it’s a damned shame about the high cost of fishing
It’s a damned shame about the high cost of fishing

It’s a damned shame about the high cost
A damned shame about the high cost
A damned shame about the high cost of fishing

High Cost of Fishing

Hip hip
Hip hip

Hey baby
What ya tryin to do me
You say you want to be mine but you cant
Because youre choosy
I know Im ugly
But I cant help it
My mama says Im really cute
But I dont show it

And Id really like to make it baby
Maybe just to walk you home
But I find it hard to handle just
Talking to you on the phone
Yes Id really like to make it baby
Maybe just to take you home
Cause I find it hard to handle just
Talking to you on the phone

Hip hip
Hip hip

Hey baby
What ya tryin to do me
You say you want to be friends but I cant
Unless you do me
Ive got some money
You can help me spend it
Ill even give you the keys to my car
If you dont dent it

And Id really like to make it baby
Maybe just to walk you home
But I find it hard to handle just
Talking to you on the phone
Yes Id really like to make it baby
Maybe just to take you home
Cause I find it hard to handle just
Talking to you on the phone

Hip hip
Hip hip


Words and Music (c) 1998, 2002 by Jack E. Morris

I'd Really Like to Make It

I understand
You had to leave
'Cause you and I
We couldn't breathe

But why'd you take my dog?
I really loved that dog
Why'd you take my dog?
You know I loved that dog
She was my best friend.

I called her Grace
She licked my face
She walked with me
All over the place

But why'd you take my dog?
I really loved that dog
Why'd you take my dog?
You know I loved that dog
She was my best friend.

I came home from work today
But Grace didnt greet me
I called her name
She never came
Then I found your note you said you
You had to leave me
Well thats okay
I wish you well but Baby

But why'd you take my dog?
I really loved that dog
Why'd you take my dog?
You know I loved that dog
She was my best friend.

I understand
You had to leave
'Cause you and I
We couldn't breathe

But why'd you take my dog?
I really loved that dog
Why'd you take my dog?
You know I loved that dog
She was my best friend.


Words and Music (c) 1998, 2000 by Jack E. Morris

Why'd You Take My Dog?

Sweet sweet woman
Come here babe I'm missin a rib
Sweet sweet somethin
Wont you stop and rock my crib
Just like Lana did

Sweet sweet woman
Bring out the best in me
Sweet sweet somethin
Sweet like the honeybee
Buzzin the apple tree

Ooh
La la

Sweet sweet woman
Look at you in a crown
Sweet sweet somethin
Queen of the neutral ground
Empress of down

Sweet sweet woman
Sing out heavenly Muse
Sweet sweet somethin
Somethin in the way she moves
Keeps me in the groove

Ooh
La la

Sweet sweet woman
Sweet sweet somethin
Sweet sweet woman
Sweet sweet somethin


Words and Music (c) 1979, 2025 by Jack E. Morris

Sweet

The carnival is over now you say
You must have met the juggler yesterday
And I in all my silly innocence
Gave to you my last fifty cents

Youre like a carousel a carousel
You picked me up and kicked me off like all is well
Youre like a carousel oh well oh well
Youre like a carousel a carousel
You run around in circles like a ride from Hell
Youre like a carousel from Hell oh well

When I held you in our first embrace
The gypsy woman laughed into my face
And all the spotted horses fell in line
Knowing you would soon give them the sign

Youre like a carousel a carousel
You picked me up and kicked me off like all is well
Youre like a carousel oh well oh well
Youre like a carousel a carousel
You run around in circles like a ride from Hell
Youre like a carousel from Hell oh well

Came inside bought a ticket to ride
Stood in line waited quite some time
Took my turn had a lot to learn
A nickel a ride youre never satisfied
Never satisfied never satisfied

Well I must admit I had myself some fun
If I was a clown youd be the one
But I dont care for living in a tent
Anyway my moneys all been spent

Youre like a carousel a carousel
You picked me up and kicked me off like all is well
Youre like a carousel oh well oh well
Youre like a carousel a carousel
You run around in circles like a ride from Hell
Youre like a carousel from Hell oh well


Words and Music (c) 1998, 2000 by Jack E. Morris

Carousel (Fast Ride)

He too saw the promise
Of a distant light
But unlike him
He renounced the gold hat
And unlike her
She did not renounce him

His parties were simpler
But she was content
With what he could offer
A gift for hope
For a life together
And the promise of a dream

Don’t want no Daisy
That would make him crazy
He’s perfectly happy
To be a not so great Gatsby
A not so great Gatsby

Even now he remembered
The sad thing that happened to them
The deprivation
The desperation
The foul dust
That floated in their wakes

Don’t want no Daisy
That would make him crazy
He’s perfectly happy
To be a not so great Gatsby
A not so great Gatsby

Then through the smoke
He peered into her eyes
And saw the light there
Green as ever
And knew that they'd turn out
All right at the end

Don’t want no Daisy
That would make him crazy
He’s perfectly happy
To be a not so great Gatsby
A not so great Gatsby

Don’t want no Daisy
That would make him crazy
He’s perfectly happy
To be a not so great Gatsby
A not so great Gatsby


Words and Music (c)

The Not So Great Gatsby

I have a notion that the sun will rise again
It always has in every other place I've been
And I ain't afraid that all my stars will fall
And leave me in the dark
And I ain't afraid that all my dreams will end in
     sorrow
And I ain't afraid that I will waste away
And never make my mark
And I ain't afraid that I will die before
     tomorrow oh no

There was a time when I would curse the frozen
     night
But now I know that everything will be all right
And I don't believe that all my stars will fall
And leave me in the dark
And I don't believe that all my dreams will end
     in sorrow
And I don't believe that I will waste away
And never make my mark
And I don't believe that I will die before
     tomorrow oh no

Ain't no doubt about it
You can never win them all
Today you're down and out and
Tomorrow you're feeling ten feet tall oh yeah

I have a notion that the sun will rise again
It always has in every other place I've been
And I ain't afraid that all my stars will fall
And leave me in the dark
And I ain't afraid that all my dreams will end in
     sorrow
And I ain't afraid that I will waste away
And never make my mark
And I ain't afraid that I will die before
     tomorrow oh no
I ain't afraid that I will die before tomorrow oh
     no
I don't believe that I will die before tomorrow
     oh no


Words and Music (c) 1986, 2003 by Jack E. Morris

Before Tomorrow

I'll never the know the answers
To the questions
That keep running through my head
Ever since you stole my heart

I remember when I met you
With your painted face
You said that love is a game
That you would win at any cost

I suppose I'm just a dreamer
You turned out to be a cheater
You took me baby for everything that I had
Now you're gone
Now you're gone
Without me
Without me

Nothing lasts forever
Though I wonder
Why we didn't last at all
I woke up and you were gone

In the end it doesnt matter
That you hurt my pride
Because I know time is my friend
And someday she will lay me down

I suppose I'm just a dreamer
You turned out to be a cheater
You took me baby for everything that I had
Now you're gone
Now you're gone
Without me
Without me

Didn't you believe me
When I said I love you so
I guess you didn't need me
I guess you had a place to go
Without me
Without me

I'll never the know the answers
To the questions
That keep running though my mind
Ever since you stole my heart

In the end it doesn't matter
That you hurt my pride
Because I know time is my friend
And someday she will lay me down

I suppose I'm just a dreamer
You turned out to be a cheater
You took me baby for everything that I had
Now you're gone
Now you're gone
Without me
Without me


Words and Music (c) 1986, 2002 by Jack E. Morris

Without Me

Some folks settle for less
Some folks are not as ambitious as we
We won’t settle for so little
We wouldn’t be happy with anything less
Some folks settle for less

Some folks settle for three-bedroom brick homes
With fenced yards in nice neighborhoods
Some folks settle for crush pile stainmaster 
     carpet
And ceramic tile

Some folks settle for less
Some folks are not as ambitious as we
We won’t settle for so little
We wouldn’t be happy with anything less
Some folks settle for less

Some folds settle for big screen DVDs
CDs surround sound and satellite
Some folks settle for Accords and Camrys
And Silverado pick up trucks

Some folks settle for less
Some folks are not as ambitious as we
We won’t settle for so little
We wouldn’t be happy with anything less
Some folks settle for less

That’s why we live in a four-plex apartment
With cheap broken tile floors
That’s why we watch a nineteen-inch play old
     cassettes
And drive a 76 Corolla

Some folks settle for less
Some folks are not as ambitious as we
We won’t settle for so little
We wouldn’t be happy with anything less
Some folks settle for less

Some folks settle for less
Some folks are not as ambitious as we
We won’t settle for so little
We wouldn’t be happy with anything less
Some folks settle for less

Some folks settle for less
Some folks settle for less


Words and Music (c) 1998, 2000 by Jack E. Morris

Some Folks Settle

We’re tired of reaching for the tempered dream
Of stretching days and getting squeezed by years
And bored with the swaggers the pushes and 	shoves
Of people in rushes to get somewhere

Like hogs in a slaughterhouse hoping to eat
Like children in the rye without a catcher
Why chase the wind we can turn and face it
Why measure time by the mirror in our room
We can follow earth we can follow sun
We can follow stars and moon

We’re dying to live in the material world
While blinded by the pixels as they stream
We’d sooner starve alone in the lively air
Than follow billions to a phone dream

Like hogs in a slaughterhouse hoping to eat
Like children in the rye without a catcher
Why chase the wind we can turn and face it
Why measure time by the mirror in our room
We can follow earth we can follow sun
We can follow stars and moon


Words and Music (c) 1978, 2025 by Jack E. Morris

Face the Wind

Through an icy windshield
White panoramas
Cubic landscapes
Crystal fractures
Breaking off revealing
Rude eyes gleaming lustily
In the darkness

Whining in the windows
Crying in the wind
When you roll the window down
Wheel bearings spin
Wailing like Prometheus
Enduring somehow
The unendurable

The cold cold smell
Of unfamiliar territory
The taste of carbon 
Monoxide and fear
Wheels locking
Steel crunching
Lungs releasing
One last breath

Through an icy windshield white panoramas
Cubic landscapes crystal fractures
Breaking off revealing
Blackness and rude
Eyes gleaming lustily
In the darkness

Whining in the windows crying in the wind
Roll the windows down wheel bearings spin
Wailing like Prometheus 
Enduring somehow
The unendurable revolution
Revolution

The cold cold cold smell of unfamiliar territory
The taste of carbon monoxide and fear
Wheels locking
Steel crunching
Lungs releasing
One last breath
One last breath


Words and Music (c) 2001, 2003 by Jack E. Morris

Death Rattle

It’s hard to define the word love
It’s hard to explain when you’re in it
I’ve got a feeling higher than the heavens above
I swear babe it’s growing every minute

I’m longing for your precious love day and  night
With a longing that’s different and new
It’s getting so strong that it’s blinding my sight
'Cause all I can see now is you

Abounding in beauty within and without
You’re a goddess of goodness and grace
If I was a baby I’d cry and I’d pout
Till I rested my eyes on your face

Now there ain’t no way to say
Everything that I’m feeling
But I just thought I’d give you a clue
About one little fact
That I find hard concealing
I’m in love so in love with you

I’m unworthy of you but I want you for me
Indeed I could not want another
So many things about you that I never thought I’d      see
Things I’ve never seen in any other lover

And you’re more than just a lover you’re a truehearted friend
What more could a man ever need
With you in my heart my love won’t ever end
But will grow like a flowering seed

No there ain’t no way to say
Everything that I’m feeling
But I just thought I’d give you a clue
About one little fact
That I find hard concealing
I’m in love so in love with you

Well it’s hard to define the word love
But it’s easy to know when it’s true
So I’ll say it again and again I’m in love
I’m in love so in love with you
I'm in love so in love with you


Words and Music (c) 1985, 2002 by Jack E. Morris

Love Song

Baton Rouge has the Tigers
Houston has a dome
Neither one has what we need
We need to go home

Ever since Katrina
We’ve bounced around
She tried to wash us away
We won't drown
New Orleans
New Orleans

Lafayette likes to party
Dallas has the dough
Now the Saints go marching in
San Antonio

Home is where the heart is
Home is far away
Everywhere folks sing the blues
It ain't the same
New Orleans
New Orleans

Back in New Orleans
We’re gonna rock and roll
Back in New Orleans
We’re gonna make it whole
The heart of soul
New Orleans
New Orleans

People call it Nawlins
They call it New Orlenes
The place Care forgot
In a dream
New Orleans
New Orleans
New Orleans
New Orleans


Words and Music (c) 2005, 2025 by Jack E. Morris

New Orleans

Grown-ups are too big to see the ground
Grown-ups are too big to see the ground
They watch the costumes masks and arms
The throws into the crowd
From giant floats like little clouds
They catch stuff in the air 
But if it hits the ground
They leave it there
They leave it there

Grown-ups hide even the highest floats
Grown-ups hide even the highest floats
Backs and backs of heads and hands
Like tiny treetops block the view
So all I see are tractor wheels
And lots of legs and
Big big shoes
Big big shoes

And they don't notice me
Because I'm littler than them
I'm a bratty kid
Without a leash
I just wander free
Among these Amazonians
No grown-ups gonna rain on
My parade
My parade

Grown-ups don't know what they're missing
Grown-ups don't know what they're missing
Dodging knees I stoop and scoop up
Tons of treasures in a blink
They think they're smart
But down here
I'm the King
I'm the King

And they don't notice me
Because I'm littler than them
I'm a bratty kid
Without a leash
I just wander free
Among these Amazonians
No grown-ups gonna rain on
My parade
My parade

Grown-ups are too big to see the ground
Grown-ups are too big to see the ground
Dodging knees I stoop and scoop up
Tons of treasures in a blink
They think they're smart
But down here
I'm the King
I'm the King

They think they're smart
But down here
I'm the King
I'm the King


Words and Music (c) 1998, 2000 by Jack E. Morris

Rex Parade

Rain rain rain wind and rain
On the shores of Pontchartrain
Mississippi flood plain
New Orleans
Hurricane

Ride ride ride out the storm
Never been this bad before
Flood waters at the door
New Orleans
Easy no more

Now it’s rising
Rising rising
Rising high
The water’s rising
Rising rising
Rising high

Climb climb climb to the roof
SOS to the troops
Staying here was a goof
New Orleans
Ain't waterproof

Fly fly fly fly away
Coast Guard chopper saves the day
Where to now we can’t say
New Orleans
Is far away

Now it’s rising
Rising rising
Rising high
The water’s rising
Rising rising
Rising high

Drain drain drain the city dry
Tear it down and build it high
Make those levees touch the sky
New Orleans
Must never die
New Orleans
Must never die

Now it’s rising
Rising rising
Rising high
The city’s rising
Rising rising
Rising high


Words and Music (c) 2005, 2025 by Jack E. Morris

Rising

We were lovers we were friends
We broke up in the end
Now I think about you all the time

Kept my heart on the run
Did not see you're the one
Don't know how I could be so blind
I want you back again again

I want you back again
Again again again
I want you back again again
I want you back again
Again again again
I want you back again again

Loving you I can't forget
Losing you I regret
I still think about you all the time

Now I see what I've done
Tried to run from the sun
Don't know how I could be so blind
I want you back again again

I want you back again
Again again again
I want you back again again
I want you back again
Again again again
I want you back again again

Time after time
I run the memories through my mind
When I'm alone
Made up my mind
To put it all on the line
When we're alone again

I want you back again again
I want you back again again

I want you back again
Again again again
I want you back again again
I want you back again
Again again again
I want you back again again
I want you back again again


Words and Music (c) 2016, 2024 by Jack E. Morris

Again Again

Throw out the furniture appliances TVs
Flood water gets in everything
Throw out the memories the comforts of the past
Pile them up on the curb more debris

Keep me dry keep me dry
Make me high help me rise above the tide
Keep me dry keep me dry
Make me wise help me climb
The mountain in my mind
Where the tide never rises so high
Keep me dry

Rip out the floors and walls the wires and the pipes
Salt water eats through anything
Rip out the heart and soul the spirit and the pride
Gut the house air it out let it breathe

Keep me dry keep me dry
Make me high help me rise above the tide
Keep me dry keep me dry
Make me wise help me climb
The mountain in my mind
Where the tide never rises so high
Keep me dry
Keep me dry

When the eye of the storm
Comes ashore let it roar
Let the ocean rage against the sky
Well be home with a prayer
No more running anywhere
The city on the hill will survive
Safe and dry

Keep me dry keep me dry
Make me high help me rise above the tide
Keep me dry keep me dry
Make me wise help me climb
The mountain in my mind
Where the tide never rises so high
Keep me dry
Keep me dry
Keep me dry


Words and Music (c) 2006 by Jack E. Morris

Keep Me Dry

Her eyes would never look at mine
I could never look away
My love became too strong to hide
I love her more today

The seed we planted barely took
It never reached the sunlight
Then a rainstorm washed it up
To soil rich and bright

I didn't think the seed would grow
Until I saw a new green stem
Then a leaf unfolds
And a flower blooms
And it begins

Now shes my friend 
Shes my wife
Shes the love of my life
Till the end

Finally she looked at me
Then she knew my love was true
Though it took a while to see
I knew she loved me too

I didn't think the seed would grow
Until I saw a new green stem
Then a leaf unfolds
And a flower blooms
And it begins

Now shes my friend 
Shes my wife
Shes the love of my life

And I know its not easy 
Putting up with me
So I need to make her understand
How much she means to me

Shes my friend 
Shes my wife
Shes the love of my life
Till the end


Words and Music (c) 1985, 2025 by Jack E. Morris

She's My Friend

Sending letters to the world
Don't know why have to fly
Unsolicited pseudonymous
A battle cry before we die

Dead letters on the rise
Dead words dead lines
Undelivered unreceived
So many dead dead leaves
Dead letters

Writing stories on the wall
Casting songs through electric air
Poets novelists artists lyricists
All who dare lay it bare

Dead letters on the rise
Dead notes dead dead rhymes
Silent symbols on a page
Muffled voices from the grave
Dead letters

Still there is a chance
One might get a glance
Of the heart art that beats inside
Between you and me
Anyone can see
Dead letter letters are alive
Dead letters are alive
Dead letters are alive

A billion letters in the mail
Addressed to anyone read by none no one
Dear so and so let me tell you so
The number no one none is no fun

Dead letters on the rise
Dead words dead dead lines
Undelivered unreceived
So many dead dead leaves
Dead letters on the rise
Dead notes dead dead rhymes
Silent symbols on a page
Muffled voices from the grave
Dead letters
Dead letters

Words and Music (c) 2006, 2019, 2024 by Jack E. Morris

Dead Letters (Private Courier)

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New Orleans indie songwriter Jack Strange offers a rich catalog of original AI-free acoustic rock, alternative, and folk-rock songs. Strange's albums include "Still Alone" (2000), "Heartbeat" (2002), "Ever Laughter" (2003), and "Back in New Orleans" (2009), and his forthcoming album "Blood on the Neutral Ground" is projected to be released in September 2025. Strange also is the author of "Would-Be Poems" (2025) and "Snake Tales" (2020).

All Strange songs are written, composed, and arranged by Jack Morris, except William Shakespeare wrote the lyrics in "Sylvia Who" (1589), and William Blake wrote the lyrics in "Tyger" (1794).

All Strange songs are performed by Jack Morris, with special guests the Morris Family Chorus performing on "Peace and Joy," featuring Beckham Breaux, Theresa Ocampo,  Payton Morris, Everett Breaux, Jordan Morris, Nora Ocampo, and Marigny Breaux, and Nora Kate Ocampo performing backup vocals on “Love Haunt.”

"Neutral Ground" cover art photo courtesy of Stacey Morris Breaux.

"Back in New Orleans" cover art courtesy of Joshua Breaux.

All Strange recordings are produced by Jack Morris.

All Strange songs are available for licensing for publication, performance, and commercial use.

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Jack Strange does not exist. He and his musical and literary works are products of the human imagination. Any resemblance to analog or electronic persons, living or dead, or to analog or electronic musical or literary works, is entirely coincidental.

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