Life And Love

Inimitable You

Taipei Awaits

It might not make sense
It’s out of sequence
Still here it is, with all of the bruises, all of the scars
Not so flattering subject matter
But you’re the best part of my memoir.
Verse and chapter
Dread and laughter
My first edition as if it was written up in the stars
Got it bookmarked where our love starts
Cause you’re the best part of my memoir.
Ain’t no greater meaning
Yet you mean the whole world to me.
It’s nothing stellar
It’s no best seller
Won’t likely find it in all of the places best sellers are
Still there’s one shelf where lucky hearts dwell
Where you’re the best part of my memoir.
If no one likes it
If no one buys it
If the world derides it I won’t rewrite it
It’s my work of art
Won’t take it too hard long as you’re my sweetheart
You’re the best part of my memoir.

My Memoir

Moonbeams Most Every Night

One death by a lover’s hand
One death by a jealous husband
One death typically will do
But one death ain’t enough for you
Wrecked and ruined, forever doomed
One death. One death.

One death suspicious circumstances
One death illegal substances
One death is ten too few
One death ain’t enough for you
Endless misery for all your cruelty
One death. One death.

And just when you think it ends
Another death and another death again and again and again and again
One death. One Death.

One death amidst a fevered dream
One death in the waters deep
One death, the debt’s come due
One death ain’t enough for you 
All the cash you’ve accrued won’t do no good, it won’t do no good.
One death.

And just when, you think it ends
Another death and another death
Here it comes here it comes again and again. Again and again.

One death nobody saw it coming
One death happened all a sudden
One death, dead through and through
One death ain’t enough for you
Last words memorized. All of it lies, all of it…

One death by a lover’s hand
One death by a jealous husband
One death typically will do.
One death ain’t enough for you.

One Death (Ain't Enough For You)

Would You Hold My Hand

I give her my heart
Brilliant me
I give her my heart
And she deceived me
Now I'm filled with darkness
While you're shining bright
Big dumb moon
Big dumb moon
In a big dumb sky

She got me bewildered
She got me bewitched
She might as well sold me
The Brooklyn Bridge
And now I'm wondering
Why oh why
Big dumb moon
Big dumb moon
In a big dumb sky

Bright fat and full
Looking down at me
In an ocean of stars
Twinkling fancy free
Do you not care
Do you not see
The fool she made of me.

A little betrayal
A little deceit
Nothing new to her
But it's new to me
And it's got me sinking
To the depths of the night
Big dumb moon
Big dumb moon
In a big dumb sky.

On a lovely night
Just like this
I was mistaken by the moonlight
Mistaken by a kid

Now I'm filled with darkness
While you're shining bright
Big dumb moon
Big dumb moon
In a big dumb sky

Big Dumb Moon

Not Gonna Fall For That

What's Got Into You

All the huddled masses
From faraway shores
Yearning to breathe free
May there be peace and love
For all humankind
But tonight, what about me

Save the spotted owl
The dolphins and whales
And every redwood tree
May there be peace and love
For all humankind
But tonight, what about me

What about me here alone
What about me one lonesome soul

I see the crippled children
Makes me want to cry
May every illness be healed
May there be peace and love
For all humankind
But tonight, what about me

I wish and pray
That there could be a home
For every soul on the street
May there be peace and love 
For all humankind
But tonight, what about me

What about me here alone
What about me, just one lonesome soul

The bombs that fall
The guns that fire
The millions of casualties
May there be peace and love
For all humankind
But tonight, what about me

All them huddled masses
From faraway lands
Yearning to breathe free
May there be peace and love
For all humankind
But tonight, tonight, what about me

What About Me

I heard it's so very far
I got no boat
I got no car
Still I'm going
Somewhere I never been
Walking to Jerusalem

I heard people telling me
The breeze there is cool
The honey sweet
Peace and love among everyone
Walking to Jerusalem
Walking to Jerusalem

Might take quite a while
Many days and night
It's gonna be perfect
When I arrive
Just one prayer
Gonna pray it again
Walking to Jerusalem

There's nobody fighting
That's what I heard
No bombs or injustice
No unkind words
Just peace and love
Among everyone
Walking to Jerusalem
Walking to Jerusalem

Might take quite a while
Many days and nights
It's gonna be perfect
When I arrive
Just one prayer
Gonna pray it again
Walking to Jerusalem 
Walking to Jerusalem...

Jerusalem

He walked the world with no socks and no shoes
Everybody be calling him the King of the Jews
He's got a whole damn church
You'd think that'd be enough
Things were good 'til Jesus messed it up

There's a hundred different ways
To have a little fun
But to walk the path of righteousness
There's only one
I was the favorite son until the day I wasn't
Things were good 'til Jesus messed it up

I get no pleasure from causing wreckage and ruin
It just happens to be the one thing I'm so good at doing

For centuries people been falling for me
Through greed, ambition, and lust
You'd think there'd be a little respect for Uncle Beelzebub
But for me they got scorn while for Him they get reborn
Things were good 'til Jesus messed it up

Take any ten souls together have 'em standing in a line
Take any ten souls together, eight of 'em are mine
Yet I cannot break free from this inadequacy
Things were good 'til Jesus messed it up

I get no pleasure from causing perpetual doom
It just happens to be the one thing I'm so good at doing

Had a girl in Cincinatti everything was going grand
Until Jesus comes along says take my hand little lamb
I had endless weed and coke
He had endless love and hope
Things were good 'til Jesus messed it up
Everything was going well
Everything was going to hell
Things were swell 'til Jesus messed it up.

Jesus Messed It Up

Even though there's nobody watching over
I offer this prayer to the empty air
That someone may see that someone may care
Even though...

Even though there's nobody watching over
With these hands I hold to a slender hope
That someone may hear that someone may know
Even though...

This whole world may explode
Still, I'll be at this bar drinking and praying alone
Even so, even so I know there's nobody watching over me

Even though I've no faith no more
I wanted to be lifted by the gospel choir
I want to be sanctified, I want to be sanctified
Even though...

Even though I'm one infinitesimal soul
I got no cause to believe
And yet I want to believe that
Somebody may be watching over me
Even though...

Even though there's nobody watching over...

Drinking And Praying

This is the love march
Come on get in line
To all the beat-down disheartened 
It's you I got in mind
What's that they say
Someday the mighty gonna fall
And the last ones among us
Be the first ones after all

This is the love march
Cuz we got love in our hearts
Everything else fades away
Everything else falls apart
Got a drum beating a rhythm
A poet with a rhyme
Come on step it up now
Take it double time

Oh, oh, how did we get so low
Lord up in heaven
Lord up above
Would you give us the strength
To bury the bastards with love

This is the love march
Armed with love and understanding
We're many million strong
Every day we been expanding
When there's nothing left to fight with
And nothing left to say
We stand up on our feet
We go marching anyway

This is the love march
Just take a look around
Heads help up high
Feet on the ground
Saying no to the bullies the villains and thieves
I know a bit about love
And they ain't love to me

Oh, oh, how did we get so low
Lord up in heaven
Lord above
Would you give us the strength
To bury the bastards with love

Though I'm so tired
I keep going
We keep going

Selma, Alabama
Washington DC
Delano, Ohio and everywhere in between
They can't hold back the tide
Try as they may
Eventually it's gonna be
Love that wins the day

This is the love march
Cuz we got love in our hearts
Everything else fades away
Everything else falls apart
Got a drum beating a rhythm 
A poet with a rhyme
Come on step it up now...

This is the love march
When there's nothing left to fight with
We still got love, love, love
All you need is love, love, love
This is the love march...

(Hey there, in case you don't know, Paul Butterfield Blues Band had a wonderful song called Love March...perfect for the times)

Love March

American Exceptional

Dubiousity Of Love

Sweetness as an act of defiance in a time of cruelty

Sweetheart Mine

Redemption Train

American Girl (cover)

I Was Right About You

Jerusalem live

One Soul Gone live

I got a baby's bassinet and a clarinet
Don't know that it still plays
This exercise bike was my ex-wife's
My liquidation sale

You could probably use this fine pair of shoes
Barely been out on the trail
An assortment of Tupperware
A kick drum and snare
My liquidation sale

The stuff of my life thoughtfully priced
Displayed on my front lawn
Soon enough all of this stuff
Gonna be gone, gone, gone

That trinket in your hand's very special my friend
But I'm gonna make you a deal
Was from my sweet daughter Jane before we become estranged
My liquidation sale

Name your price, let me know, it all has to go
Down to the loose screws, bolts, nuts, and nails
My lease has expired now I'm nothing but tired
My liquidation sale

The stuff of my life thoughtfully priced
Displayed on my front lawn
Soon enough all of this stuff 
Gonna be gone, gone, gone

These things that you see once were special to me
This ring from a love since passed away
Ashes to ashes, dust to dust
Everything goes like it must
My liquidation sale

My Liquidation Sale

I'm walking in the tall grass
Cool to my feet
Got nowhere to go
I got nowhere to be

O just to be boys again
O to be boys again

Help me up on this bicycle
Point me downhill
A hunert miles an hour
O what a thrill

O just to be boys again
O to be boys again

Maybe just a scent on the breeze
But it's all coming back to me
The sun suspended never to set
All been lost to me now, and yet...

A whole store full o' treasures
Penny candy and gum
I never knew shoplifting would be so fun

O just to be boys again
O to be boys again

O that I could lose all I've become
O that I could find what I once was

O just to be boys again
O just to be boys again
Oh to be boys

O To Be Boys Again

I don't know who I am
I don't know where I am
It's one AM and I want you
I don't know what I am
I don't know if I am
It's one AM and I want you
You're the arms that don't want me
You're the eyes that haunt me
You were taken from me in my infancy
Now I want you back
I want you back
I don't know a thing about
I'm filled with doubt
It's one AM and I want you
Between heaven and hell
I don't know where you dwell
It's one AM and I want you
Why do you why do you why do you why do you torment me
What did I ever do to you
What do you what do you what do you what do you want from me
Why won't you let me be, let me be
I'm walking a dangerous street
Unfamiliar to me
It's one AM and I want you
I can hear your laughter
I'll never have you
It's one AM and I want you
Like this...
I don't know who I am
I don't know where I am
But it's one AM and I want you
I don't know what I am
I don't know if I am
It's one AM and I want you
It's one AM and I want you

One AM

Hard Day's Night (cover)

My People Are Impossible

This little life don't come to much
I'm not a Rockefeller as such
I only want to love and to be loved
And I'm charmed by you

What would I even say to you if ever
I could string a couple words together
I got a tender heart but a tongue of leather
And I'm charmed by you
I'm charmed by you

The night is dark and bitter cold
I'm looking for something I can hold to
Then lightening striking through my soul.

I tell a lie I say it's true
I can't complain yet still I do
It takes a full force trauma just for me to get through
I'm charmed by you

I'm an empty bottle I'm an empty vessel 
I seen it all and it ain't that special
Until the day I get to the threshold
I'm charmed by you
I'm charmed by you

In the darkness here tonight
I'm looking forward a spark to light up
When out of nothing here comes something

This little life don't come to much
I'm not a Rockefeller as such
I only want to love and to be loved
And I'm charmed by you
I'm charmed by you.

Charmed By You

Tiny boat, big sea
No land nowhere to be seen
Gotta tiny on a big sea

Some days we row along merrily
Some days the wind blows mightily 
So happy that you're here with me

He might have been a big man
A titan of industry
But he's got an itty bitty boat just like me

Some days we row along merrily
Some days the wind blows mightily
I'm happy that you're here with me

Due north through the freezing wind and rain
Due south through the troubles of our days
Due east to a far off distant land
Your hand in my hand
Your hand in my hand

Come across a boat
Filled with refugees
Men, women, little babies
Sitting knee to knee
They got a tiny boat on a big sea

Some days we row along merrily 
Some days the wind blows mightily
I'm so happy you're here with me

I seen my father on his death bed
I heard my father, the last words that he said
Such a tiny boat on a big sea

He rowed that boat time and time again
Now I see another boat waiting for him
It's a tiny boat on a big sea

Tiny Boat, Big Sea

Is it a holiday
Is it June or May
I have no idea
I've come bearing gifts either way...

Winter, Spring, Summer, or Fall
Any time you're near
Is the very best season of  all
You're my favorite time of year

At our very own corner off Central Park
I'll be waiting for you here
Soon I'll be seeing you light up the dark
You're my favorite time of year

All my stars and planets
My sun and moon
It's true when I say all my nights and my days
Revolve around you

The way my heart flips and sings
Whenever you appear
The tilt of the earth don't mean anything
You're my favorite time of year

Yours is the face I long to see
The voice I long to hear
It don't matter to me astrologically
You're my favorite time of the year

All my stars and planets
My fortunes too
It's true when I say all my nights and my days
Revolve around you

New Years Eve in old Time Square
Wool hat and mittens and muffs for your ears
Your hand in mine is my only care
You're my favorite time if year

Winter, Spring, Summer, and Fall
Any time you're near
Is the very best season of all
You're my favorite time of year

Paul Haas

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