It was heretical, fanatical
No less than detestable
The words the man spoke
Were vile, reprehensible
They took him outside
Threw stones 'til he died
I oversaw it all
With wonder and pride

I stood and watched him as he died
And truly thought we had it right
I never thought I'd have to ask
For forgiveness for that night

I was blinded by the light
Nothing in my sight
But the Lord has set me free
So I take up His fight
Jesus He is king
Lord of everything
I will preach it to the end
I will preach and I will sing

I hunted them, arrested them
Took them and imprisoned them
From house to house they saw me out
Destroying what belonged to Him
But I wanted more
Outside Jerusalem's door
I had gotten approval
I would get them, I swore

Cause I've been converted
On the road up north I did see
A vision of Jesus
Calling down unto me
Blinded by his light
I fell down onto my knees
Now get up and go, He said
You're not alone
Into the city to learn
What you need to know

Blinded

She always wanted a son
But was given none
So she went to the temple
To the Lord above
She sat there in prayer
Until the priest saw her there
He thought she'd been drinking
'til she told him her tale

She said that she would
And she understood
The weight of her vow
And did all that she could

So let me make my promise kneeling
Let me say it to the Lord
Let me shout it to the ceiling
And let me keep my word
Even though I bleed or suffer
Let me praise Him in the light
Let me love myself enough to
Let me give my promise life

She sat there in silence
Alone with the Lord
She prayed and she promised
She gave Him her word
If she could conceive
A child she'd bring
Him to the temple
To serve Elohim

She visited Shiloh
As often before
With a new robe
For the child she bore
And gave to the temple
Gave to the Lord
She kept her promise
And got her reward

Let Me

AI rendition of my song Again


Smoking away my motivation
Drinking away the pain
Getting into an altercation
Nothing changes, the days are the same
Saturday night at the downtown station
Fueled by 40s waiting for a train
Passerby look on in captivation
And go along their servile way

The nights are dark
In the daylight sleeping
Dreams are darker
Bring one to weep
All night long
I try to conquer
All the things
I've done and seen

So raise your glass to the life we live
Another sunrise observed through gin
Waiting at the station for the train of sin
Again
Drinking in the afternoon to cure the shakes
We're out on the road there's no hitting the brakes
We're playing at the tables with the highest stakes
Again
Oh, we do it again

Shooting up all the consternation
Taking the anger put it in my veins
Can never get away from the frustration
The way the world is, the things it claims
Getting fed up with this vexation
This tired heart wants to go away
And fly until this pure damnation
Is gone and comes a better day

So I take the train home in the middle of the night
Fresh off the bottle, fresh from a fight
Head is spinning at the speed of light
This is it boys, this is life
So drink it down, pass it round
Pound your fists and stomp the ground
Cause we want more, more than a war
A war on us we do abhor



Again

AI rendition of my song Chasing The Dove


(Verse 1)
You see me across a crowded bar
You tell me you think we might go far
You're seeing a dream before your eyes
White picket fence and the baby's cries
I'll tell ya baby it's not that kind of night
A drink and a conversation might
Lead to some things behind closed doors
But nothing will come of it I'm sure

(Pre Chorus)
Turn the lights down low
Drink it up baby we got nowhere to go
We'll take it nice and slow
Wake up in the morning to the afterglow

(Chorus)
And we go our separate ways
Going about the day in a haze
Memories fill my gaze
Of yesterdays
And girls I have loved
And the unrequited ones
The ones who chased the dove
And were undone

(Verse 2)
At the end of the night at another place
Another woman, another face
I'm too broke to fix, too tired to care
Take me home, take me anywhere
I'll tell ya baby I'll be gone with the morning light
I've done some things I've got to set right
The latest one is sitting here
Head on my shoulder breathing in my ear

(Bridge)
I don't want to hold on to the meaningless nights
But lock and key keep the doors shut tight
I see them every time I sleep
I drift amongst the empty sheets
Reaching for tomorrow like a fleeting dream
Trying to catch hold, trying to break free
I'm trying to make it better I swear
But love is a game and the rules were never fair

Chasing The Dove

AI rendition of my song Ride Or Die


You lit the match
I fanned the flame
You put your finger on the trigger
And I did the same
We took the cash
And hit the gas
You could hear us hauling ass
Down the interstate

Well there's no map
No exit signs
To tell us where to go
To tell us where to hide
But we don't care
We're on a ride
The ride of a life
It's ride or die

We will never look back
We won't question why
We will never think twice
About ride or die
It's us and it's them
We don't have to try
Look up to the sky
It's ride or die

We see the lights
Flashing bright
Red and blue covering
The midnight sky
We fire blind
Out of the side
We put the pedal to the medal
Running for our lives

(Bridge)
It's ride or die
Through the midnight lights
The stars above
The moon so bright
It's ride or die
With you by my side
Money in the back
No will to hide

Ride or Die

AI rendition of my song I Can't Run Away


The beer in this bottle
Is looking back at me
Into my eyes, I fear
What does it see?
The horrors of trials gone
And all but forgotten
Or does it see into
A heart that is rotten

There's a lot to be seen
Deep inside of me
There's a lot to be covered
In a biography
There's a lot to be read
Deep between the lines
There's a lot to be hidden
In the back of my mind

And I can't run away
I can't run and hide
I can't run away
From this feeling inside
I can't run away
From the truths of the past
I can't run away
Should I face it at last?

I look in the mirror
The face that I see
Is wide eyed and frightened
I can't let it be
Something must give
Something must end
Something must break
I pray the Heavens forefend

I've prayed to the Heavens above
To the Gods and the angels living thereof
To the saints and the sinners, and all who would hear
Will someone please listen, I pray out of fear
The fear that I'm broken
The fear that I'm bent
The fear that someone will see
The things that I've hid

I Can't Run Away

AI rendition of my song Yellow News Blues


Woke up in the morning to an alarm
Phone screaming that my family was in harm's way
A man two hundred miles away
Slaughtered a calf and didn't dig a grave
Sensational news to start the day
To set me on my merry way
Reminding me that I might die
At the drop of a hat, the fall of a dime

But it's not the worst thing I've heard this year
The intention of it is quite clear
To keep down the populace by way of fear
And make 'em believe that help is near
Keep 'em to a high school level now
They're better in a factory if they're low brow
Anything more than that will be
Only for the ones that we police

Nothing happening at all today
But every morning it's the same
The Yellow News Blues got me some kind of way
It's got me crying out for a better day
It's got me dreaming of something new
For the world and me and you
For anyone else who shares the view
Far away from the Yellow News Blues

Saw an old man in the middle of the city
Said it didn't used to be this way in the 50's
And I said old man, since the dawn of time
The Yellow News Blues has kept you in line
Working for the man every night and day
Papers tell you it's the only way
To care for your wife and your newborn babe
So become a machine, become a slave

I can't take another lie
The news that says it's do or die
The truth still floats around somewhere
Somewhere out there people care
Somewhere out there truth still reigns
Above the noise and the crazy claims
Above the outright dishonesty
And the ones who hear have been set free

Yellow News Blues

AI rendition of my song "Why Am I Alive"

(Verse 1)
We shipped out of Boston for the rest of our lives
Six of us went, five to their demise
The vessel was big and weighed down with gear
We were hunting for lobster at the end of the year
The trip started slowly, some things didn't go right
But we powered through and worked through the night
And saw it was safe so we start to unload
But when our gear hit the bottom, the engine explodes

(Pre Chorus)
It went up in a fire
It went up in smoke
We tried to fight it
But the boat she was broke
She started to sink then
We started to run
Into a life raft
I'm the only one

(Chorus)
Why am I alive, Lord, oh what did I do?
To deserve to survive when the rest are with you
A fire in the night and my friends are all gone
Left all alone to figure out what went wrong
Lord I would rather have you taken me then
Than leave me alone with these thoughts in my head
Of why did I make it, of why didn't they
They were better than me in just about every way

(Verse 2)
The fire started small, near the engine it grew
It didn't take long before the engine it blew
Mikey was taken as he fought with the flames
The explosion it got him, he was crying your name
With tears in his eyes as I pulled him away
He was gone in a moment, glassy eyes turned my way
I will never forget the light leaving his eyes
The moment is burned forever into my mind

(Bridge)
I sit and I ponder
The ways and the wonders
Of life and of death
And all the pain that I know
None of it cares
In the least it's not fair
The sea will see to it
And pull you down below

(Outro)
I walk by the docks
On a morning so fair
And wonder if Mikey's
Looking down on me there
I can still see his face
His infectious smile
It will haunt me forever
It still makes me cry

Why Am I Alive

AI Rendition of my song "Take Me Home"

(Verse 1)
How many times will I wake up
From this nightmare given life
Darkened skies behind bloodshot eyes
Chasing me through the night
Pills and needles, guns and smoke
A tourniquet around my throat
Killing me softly, I fade away
Leaving nothing but an empty space

(Pre Chorus)
And I cried and I dreamed
For others and for me
The last hope we had seen
Someone would set us free
But we never heard tell
Of where the angels dwell
We were left just where we fell
In the burning pits of Hell

(Chorus)
Jesus Christ, I'm dying!
Just leave me where I lay
There's nothing here worth trying for
Just leave and walk away
Jesus Christ, come see me!
Before my dying day
I'll ask once for forgiveness
If you'll take me home to stay

(Verse 2)
The dreams I had are all shattered
Like glass across my face
Bruised, bloody, and battered
I go along my way
Gasoline is burning down
The bridges I've traversed
Destruction's coming all around
It's like it's been rehearsed

(Bridge)
Someone once knew
And tried to break through
To everyone that I know
But the demons they grew
And took what they will
Leaving all of us filled
With despair and desire
For an upcoming thrill

(Outro)
Jesus Christ, it's coming
I can't run away
Jesus Christ, I'll see you
On my judgement day

Take Me Home

Hey all! Thanks for stopping by and I hope you enjoy the music! I've been playing guitar for about 20 years and writing for about 10. I'm pretty much a normal guy for the most part, kids, girlfriend, all the good stuff. I'm also a Veteran (which happens to be where I learned my first song on guitar). Anyway,  I hope you enjoy and constructive criticism is always welcome!


dahtra@outlook.com for any inquiries!

Why Am I Alive

Dahtra

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