A song about gettin old and stayin young.

Spring In My Step - 7

Present - 9

Thinking About - 11

A song about awkwardly non-confrontational conversation. ||

We only speak in melodies
I'll get everyone to listen except you.
Why should I whisper and be discreet
when I send vibrations hanging electric in the air?
I'll pretend that I don't care if you don't notice.

Your words make their way 'round more easily these days.
How the tables have turned.
I think I know what you're about to say;
please write it down before you do,
and read it through a few times.
Make sure it all turned out right
and you haven't changed your mind.

If you're asking me if I have any regrets,
I'll reply, "But of course I do."
I wear them like a string of pearls around my neck
collecting my unsaid apologies,
and they're closing in on me.


Pearls - 12

Weightless - 13

A song about a person I really don't know. ||

To Roam  - 14

Piece - 17

A song about reconnecting. ||

I have plenty of reminders set so that I won't forget
how much better off I could be.
But somehow they keep coming back again
like a worn out friend who always needs a floor to sleep on.

So they keep on haunting me.
Especially on nights like these when

I don't know if I won't ever see you but I know you'll be
avoiding me.
But I don't want to be alone.
I don't want to dream alone.

I'll lay awake and listen through the walls
while my neighbor crawls into bed with someone new.

They're too raucous to ignore;
all their obnoxious love and snoring.

I don't want to stay up again and think about how I've
lost touch with all my friends.
But at least they don't pretend

that we know each other at all.
It's not like before
we don't know each other anymore.

What could I have been expecting when
I went and left all them?
Why should they let me in?

Don't - 19

A sketch made in a practice room, and a song about leaving. ||

Going

Listen to Nancy Wilson/Cannonball Adderley and Jose James doing better versions of this tune. Originally composed by Buddy Johnson.

Save Your Love For Me

A collection of simple recordings from the living room next door.

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