She seeks bad luck to hurt herself
It isn't hard to find
She is beautiful, you can see, with the heartache and struggles
Of a troubled mind

Let love drip down sweet and heavy like the honey from a honeycomb

She undermines everything good
It never seems to be right
When a child, seashell in her hand, hears the ocean roar far away
The ocean hears the child

Let love drip down sweet and heavy like the honey from a honeycomb

Sheet music https://drive.google.com/file/d/1xAEJV86dvw9YaqeHz-19opJf-uoxL7mF/view?usp=drive_link
7.3

LET LOVE DRIP DOWN

You're gonna be a big star 
I know you're gonna go far 
You're gonna have the big lights 
I know you're gonna shine bright 

- Since the world was new there's only been one you to do what only you can do 

You're gonna have a big heart 
I know you're gonna find love 
You're gonna be a mother 
I know you're gonna suffer

Sheet music https://drive.google.com/file/d/1PwVT88e-L-zi2RByw7E4gO093wjuvSmb/view?usp=drive_link
7.6

YOU'RE GONNA BE A BIG STAR

I had somewhere to go, I had places to be
An advancing career, people's trust and esteem
I had somewhere to go, things I wanted to do
Then it all crumbled down when I couldn't have you
I had somewhere to go

Whoa, I let it go, I watched it go down

I had somewhere to go, I had things to achieve
Had affection to give that you couldn't receive
I had somewhere to go, I had reason to care
But life only brings joy when you have it to share
I had somewhere to go

Whoa, I let it go, I watched it go down
I had somewhere to go

Image: detail from Vincent van Gogh's Poppy Field
Sheet music https://drive.google.com/file/d/1mv_-7vbqJeNbXPh5Zof1SuaICZdrGy12/view?usp=drive_link
8.7

SOMEWHERE TO GO

We were cool in the past, hung with Jack Kerouac
We were beat, we were Zen, Alan Watts was our friend
Rode with Neal Cassady further on LSD

Down to Mexico where the life is slow, died in San Miguel
Long ago now, too long ago

Sheet music https://drive.google.com/file/d/1EGY-1bfAXjt16XnzGsB97DF-He62i62x/view?usp=drive_link
9.1

WE WERE COOL IN THE PAST

an americana twist on Nick Drake song

When I was young, younger than before
Never saw the truth hanging from the door
Now I'm older, see it face to face
Now I'm older, got to get up *clear the place

Then I was green, *green as the hills
*Played all day while the sun shone still
Now I'm darker than the deepest sea
Just hand me down, give me a place to be

And I was strong, strong in the sun
Thought I'd see when day was done
Now I'm weaker than the palest blue
Oh so weak in *my need for you

original lyrics:
*clean
*greener than the hill
*Where flowers grew and the sun shone still
*this

sheet music https://drive.google.com/file/d/1BJP5DQ5kElYMjezDS3sIoZIgFB2hXBd8/view?usp=drive_link
9.2

PLACE TO BE (Nick Drake cover)

Snowflakes slowly falling from the sky
You hear singing by the riverside
You see dancing in the firelight

Hidden treasure lies beneath the sand
She appears and takes you by the hand
She leads you into the promised land

Ramparts are falling, you hear her calling
Oh-oo Oh-oo, calling you now
Pretense is over. only surrender
Oh-oo Oh-oo, surrender now

sheet music https://drive.google.com/file/d/1q-lBtLfwhYkBcKvYtUFy9e40s0oNaYv1/view?usp=drive_link
10.4

SURRENDER

My arrangement of 1940 song by Jimmy Van Heusen and Johnny Burke

Imagination is funny, it makes a cloudy day sunny
Makes a bee think of honey just as I think of you
Imagination is crazy, your whole perspective gets hazy
*Soon you're asking a stranger if he knew what to do

Have you ever felt a gentle touch
And then a kiss, and then and then
Find it's only your imagination again, oh well

Imagination is silly, you go around willy-nilly
For example I go around wanting you
And yet I can't imagine you'd want me too

*original lyrics: "Starts you asking a daisy what to do, what to do"

sheet music https://drive.google.com/file/d/1bR9qn1paoTO7ifVyv3looakgm8CD4Nh3/view?usp=drive_link
10.5

IMAGINATION (cover)

When the days were long
And the nights were warm
We saw the break of dawn
When we were young and strong

Rode the whole day hard
Worked the ranch and farm
Till the sky turned dark

Didn't see it coming
You not around
Only the faint sound
Of when the days were long

sheet music https://drive.google.com/file/d/14x-UskbrZTRWFjkMvjEK1cOj7QreykGh/view?usp=drive_link
10.8

WHEN THE DAYS WERE LONG

Inspired by Tommy Caldwell's book and film

I'm not slipping and I'm not falling
I'm rising higher ever higher
Away away away away
I'll climb away I'll find a way
I am climbing my dawn wall
I am hiding in its arms

Sheet music https://drive.google.com/file/d/1NjpTPb80ESOzFOwOGn41X6PpCZjHqKVc/view?usp=drive_link
11.6

MY DAWN WALL

- Restless heart, selfish heart, reckless love

When I was walking by the riverside
I saw a tumbleweed along the path
Golden, quivering and shining bright
The wind blew it away before I could catch it

Still I look for you when I pass by
Where, I wonder, did you go that day
Such delicate perfection stays in my mind
A beauty like this never fades away

Sheet music https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Ox-ZlzrAEowUjyit8GE3Aq2RLPPA9izV/view?usp=drive_link
12.1

RESTLESS HEART

Sheet m
usic https://drive.google.com/file/d/1s1JkmemeDRAHb_N77P4-edQ977ERmA54/view?usp=drive_link
12.7

PEACEFUL BORDERS (instrumental)

I wanna go back home again
I wan' another chance with you
Don' wanna stay here till the end
Don' wanna find somebody new again

Now I sit and wonder
How I lost my way
Back home

sheet music https://drive.google.com/file/d/1HO9edRhiq9ZiKM-574ifkuX4k6LdTy6-/view?usp=drive_link
12.8

I WANNA GO BACK HOME AGAIN

- They never wear shoes on their feet
- Where dogs run loose and sleep in the street

The children create the world
Words spoken remake the earth
When it rains they go out to play
Break the rules in their made up games

sheet music https://drive.google.com/file/d/1epaRFxPu8wLiwTesoqI5uOGFX-9L91kD/view?usp=drive_link
12.9

CHILDREN CREATE THE WORLD

(reposting from last time around when this spiteful maniac came into power. Sigh, anger. I have a couple other songs, mostly on welcoming immigrants and refugees, that I'll post soon too)

When the tough get going now, watch out
Then the going gets tough for all the less strong

Now that isn't what you've heard, I know
But it's truer than the words you have heard

When the Trump gets going now, stay calm
Hold your head up high and tall, don't bow down

- When you're weak you're strong in God, full of love for one another

sheet music https://drive.google.com/file/d/1oWxNWL8NovYy1MOP29iLxNkgTlO--abj/view?usp=drive_link
7.8

WHEN YOU'RE WEAK YOU'RE STRONG

(another from 8 years ago, confronting the Trump catastrophe)

When the proud build walls on the land
They become the ones imprisoned
When the proud build walls on the land
They will crumble down to the ground

- Hear what Jesus says to you
- Only the meek will inherit the earth

Orgullosos muros se levantan
Ellos mismos se encarcelan
Orgullosos muros se levantan
Se derrumbarán al suelo

They will crumble down
Se derrumbarán

sheet music https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Azb2yzH0yZnljk8v8NfDEaqYAU2vwA2t/view?usp=drive_link
7.7

SE DERRUMBARÁN

We were gone miles from home
We were lost, all alone
We forgot about the past
What we had couldn't last
Alone can't last

Hopped a train from Cheyenne
Fire burned across the land
In the quiet of dawn
Wondered where you had gone
The land, you gone

On the streets of San Jose
I will try to find my way
If I ever get free
I'll escape out to sea.
My way to sea

We were gone miles, we were gone miles...

sheet music https://drive.google.com/file/d/1wWOF8mGRvR4d5l7O5N6pXjGxmEcTU7JO/view?usp=drive_link
1.1

WE WERE GONE MILES

Lavender blue, lavender green
When I am king you'll be my queen
Who told you so? Who told you so?
'Twas my own heart that told me so

sheet music https://drive.google.com/file/d/13WeVVcVTUuIN36QAotEwcozLiSYJGmyc/view?usp=drive_link
1.4

LAVENDER BLUE

	
En las colinas del Santo veo las luces de abajo
Entre las hojas en el viento, en las colinas del Santo
El rio da, el lleva lejos

In the hills of the Santo I see the lights glisten below
Through the leaves when the wind blows, in the hills of the Santo
What the river gives, it carries away

Al lado del aguas del Santo me acuesto sin rumbo
Lo que sabia que extrano al lado del aguas del Santo
El rio da, el lleva lejos

Beside the waters of the Santo I lie down with nowhere to go
How strange now what I used to know beside the waters of the Santo
What the river gives, it carries away

sheet music https://drive.google.com/file/d/1WP7tNmkroXbdTqvRQsVuHsZzq1qZ14B-/view?usp=drive_link
1.6

DEL SANTO

They're walking in the fire
They will not bow in fear
They're talking in the fire
With words I cannot hear

They walk in fire. They will not bow
They sing in fire. I don't know how

sheet music https://drive.google.com/file/d/1oE3LSYlvnSX1_QD5bYy9ziiL4YSqVafv/view?usp=drive_link
1.12

THEY'RE WALKING IN THE FIRE

	
In the spring my dreams streamed out
From sea to shining sea
O Sibylline
Now petals drop down one by one
She loves me, loves me not
O one by one

- O teach me how to laugh and how to cry
- O break chains of the past and we will fly
- And we'll fly

Sheet music https://drive.google.com/file/d/1HNA-OEN4prFmsjGf_iJRXlqBXHqvLg4L/view?usp=drive_link
2.8

ONE BY ONE

Words taken from my friend's memoir: Walking Backwards to Pepperland, by Bruce  Ashford

- You're walking backwards. Where are you going?
- You're waking backwards. Tell me where you're going
- (a)Backwards to Pepperland. Back where it all began
- (b) How can you understand? Backwards to Pepperland
- Walking backwards

"The spontaneity passed in time. Maybe it died and was filled up with yuppiedom and pretenderland. Because you had to do something, something you had to buy into even though you didn't want to, when better stuff used to be free."

Tender gecko on the window lost its tail to survive
Clinging inside, looking outside, living sacrifice
Kilauea the volcano rumbles far below
Rising magma, glowing halo ready to explode

Raging rocker, jerk-off winker, burst of red in my brain
On the ceiling shadow eye blinking slowly all night and day
Sparkling diva, Atman heart flower, golden hill, mescaline
Shadow people on the prowl, backs broken by the machine

The millennium coos the white dove, sad dark-eyed Christ Child
Makapuu beach, God within reach, my heart shouts to the sky
Tender gecko on the window, new tail, revived
Clinging inside, looking outside, restored alive

"I understand the heart of a child exposed to the cosmos, in the wonder of nature when it first encounters Brahma's dream of the universe. I know this child heart when it faces the games of adulthood. It is a story of innocence betrayed."

sheet music https://drive.google.com/file/d/1QjATBUWyfa8yL_Zsk7DtMIUDZKO0EHmQ/view?usp=sharing
2.1

WALKING BACKWARDS

Let's kiss goodbye. My time has come
There're so many things I should have done
But it's your world, it's your world now

I found myself here breathing the air
I followed my heart without a care
But it's your world, it's your world now

- If I could say what I wanted to say to you
- I'd say be on your way. I'd say be on your way

I'm glad you came. I feel your love
Hold my hand. That is enough
For it's your world, it's your world now

Now you should go. Listen to me
I want you to know I set you free
For it's your world, it's your world now

sheet music https://drive.google.com/file/d/1CqTv7P4WqvxuSkknvl2KhPpjSuV-0wRK/view?usp=sharing
2.10

YOUR WORLD NOW

I don't stand a ghost of a chance with you
What I need the most - sweet romance with you
Like a pilgrim in a foreign land, I keep moving on to forget the past
Whatever I say, whatever I do, is no use in reaching you
sheet music https://drive.google.com/file/d/1sVr8cei2eXbyOxouT7Hw_U3y3LU-o_ui/view?usp=drive_link
2.12

GHOST OF A CHANCE

Pulled from the reservation to get an education far from home
Scars of desolation, seeking annihilation, dope mojo
Met you at the station, rehabilitation, methadone
I clung in desperation, you dispensed salvation to my soul

- Pilar Dolorosa, Pilar Gloriosa, Amazona
- Pilar Lagrimosa, Pilar Furiosa, Hiawatha

Where there's no inspiration there's constant altercation, weeds are sown
I shrank from affection, you found a new direction on your own

sheet music https://drive.google.com/file/d/17BlgSCjwQc90oeeZHzfaGqhlJQYi7JZM/view?usp=drive_link
3.1

PILAR

- Only me, only me deep inside
- So deep inside of you, only you, only you

You had your pick of all the boys
They all longed to be your choice
There was none you couldn't get
But you chose me instead

I slept inside a beat-up car
With my songs and an old guitar
Where I'd go no one could guess
But you chose me instead

We spent eight summers on the road
Slowed down when our faith grew cold
You can't choose love is all you said
And you chose me instead

Our children saved us in the end
We gained our freedom, lost our friends
Clinging to our promises
You chose me instead

sheet music https://drive.google.com/file/d/1IvHq5KLkXW52sYI0NL8nNhtG5NlCPVgA/view?usp=drive_link
3.3

ONLY YOU

Abu abu abu abu oe oe
Abu abu abu abu oe oei
Babies sing, heads a-bobbing
Babies dance, hands a-waving

All the universe is playing
All the people here are singing too

sheet music https://drive.google.com/file/d/1JcvwxMPYXVzz8YVMiomxtnBo6AS44Jy_/view?usp=drive_link
3.4

ABU ABU

Inspired by Knut Hamsun's novel Hunger. Narrations are from the beginning and end of the novel (Robert Bly translation).

 "All this happened while I was walking around starving in Christiania--that strange city no one escapes from until it has left its mark on him."

- Christiania, city on the sea
- Christiania, nowhere left for me

Hunger greets me when I wake and holds me thru the day
I bow to strangers in the street and shuffle on my way
If I had a warm room with a window
I'd sit inside and watch the crowds passing down below

I don't need your empty praise or care about your sneers
No one asked me to be born to live under your fears
Sorry if my poverty offends you
I learned more from hunger than ever at school

"When we were out on the fjord, I straightened up, wet from fever and exertion, looked in toward land and said goodbye for now to the city, to Christiania, where the windows of the homes all shone with such brightness."

sheet music https://drive.google.com/file/d/1j_WT3zywwHkQz-TpwpPh3p-oeRurfe22/view?usp=drive_link
3.10

CHRISTIANIA

- I tried to ride the wind
- I tried, I tried again

They say God's spirit is like the wind
It blows wheree're it will, you hear the sound
You know not whence it comes or where it goes
It rushes one way then turns around

sheet music https://drive.google.com/file/d/1cp3u0tkT-Z1dM3ZLLyfptaUFMBad1ncZ/view?usp=drive_link
3.11

LIKE THE WIND

Can you find my dreams in a burlap sack?
Down in New Orleans by the railroad track
Can you feel my heart in the warm sand?
If you try too hard you won't understand
The signs point to Jesus

sheet music https://drive.google.com/file/d/1-nawc5kgc5ywabs4zKnweAC4Hy13x3X-/view?usp=drive_link
3.12

THE SIGNS

Float the tide to the sea. All the signs point to Jesus
Float the tide to the sea. Roll over me, free

Left my dreams in a sack on a street in Savannah
Left my dreams in a sack, don't care to look back

- Stolen kisses, stolen dreams, never what they seemed to be

Had our day in the sun, found rest in your shadow
Had our day in the sun. Everything's undone

sheet music https://drive.google.com/file/d/1RFfHxpOylWHDF72Y-QGMiiiLMPqb3vuO/view?usp=drive_link
4.1

FLOAT THE TIDE

Psychedelic Indie Folk  -  love longing loss 
alienation nature spirituality dying transformation
No AI. No voice modification technology
Recorded with Cubase on Focusrite Scarlett 2i2 
MuseScore for digital sounds and sheet music

WAZEE

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