I saw you today
On the #12 Bus
You were going my way
Going my way

Riki Tiki Tavi (Donovan Cover)

Recorded live at Shillelagh Tavern, Queens, NY 8-26-16

Cover Ups

She's Electric - Oasis Cover

One Headlight - Wallflowers Cover

Woodstock - CSNY Cover

Are we ready to be happy again?
Lay back maybe listen to Donovan?
Mired in a funk so deep
You wanted not to be awake 
Nor did you want to go to sleep
It was a gentle breeze 
Some kind of soulful sneeze
That freed you sleepless from your bed
Then you finally said

Hey hey what's in your head?

Now to stand in the beat 
When it envelops your seat
It can open your mind
And becomes such a treat
And when you open your mind
Don't be surprised what your find
Can be food for the soul
When you become a bit kind
Your soul it is fed
Like a weight made of lead
Your cares melt all around you and
Exit your

Hey hey what's in your head?

Well are you waiting for signs
Well the signs are all here
So you can wait for the face
Of it all to appear
And tell you there I are
And here you am
But then it's right back
To the business at hand

Hey hey what's in your head?

Words and Music (c) 2011 Brian Follweiler
Jonah Adamcik: Backing Vocals
Arthur Benson: Backing Vocals
Brian Follweiler: Guitars, Lead Vocals 
Al Roebuck: Bass Guitar 
Vinnie Sosnowski: Drums
Seth Nathan, @SethNathan1: Mixing

Album on iTunes

WEILER - Hey Hey

Little Miss Gypsy Rose 
It's time we hit the road 
I had an awful, great time 
Under these sorrow-filled groans 
Are the overtones of a love divine 
Farewell I hope you take care 
Maybe we'll meet again 
If we dare 
Little Miss Gypsy Rose 

Little Miss Gypsy Mine 
You sure gave me something fine 
I owe those years to you 
But I can't jump the gun 
And tell you you're the one 
When our days are so few 
And from now on a little part of you 
Will stick to every page like glue 
Little Miss Gypsy Rose

Words and Music (c) 2009 Brian Follweiler 

Brian Follweiler: Guitars, Lead Vocals 
Al Roebuck: Bass Guitar 
Vinnie Sosnowski: Drums 
Seth Nathan, @SethNathan1: Mixing, Hammond B3, Wurlitzer 
Garrett Finley: Backing Vocals

WEILER - Gypsy Rose

Keep unraveling every strand
Til you get to the bottom
And you see what's left to stand on

Untie those knots til you find that me
When the ball become a string
It's nothing you can see

I dare you to eat the carrot you've been chasing
Cause you put it there yourself
Like a rat that you've been racing with

Stop Struggling Man

Words and Music (c) 2016 Brian Follweiler
Brian Follweiler: Guitars, Lead and Backing Vocals 
Al Roebuck: Bass Guitar 
Vinnie Sosnowski: Drums
Seth Nathan, @SethNathan1: Mixing, Hammond B3, Wurlitzer

WEILER - Stop Struggling

Call me up late at night
Can we get together to my delight
She says, "Oh we're just friends"

Late in the evening or afternoon
I need to see you make it soon
and oh, we're just friends.

And she asks me just how will this end?
I guess when we say we'll just be friends.

You know I'm more than lust and greed
But sometimes a buddy is all I need
And oh, we're just friends.

Old habits don't die easily
If she comes back after I set her free
and oh, we're just friends.

And she asks me just how will this end?
I guess when we say we'll just be friends.

WEILER - We're Just Friends

Pick up the pace when I'm slowing down
And I'll do the same when things turn back around
It's fleeting to see but there's sky where we stand
Climb higher and higher with our eyes fixed on the land
Please take my hand

With times getting tough we can fend for our own
Digging further and further right into our holes
In the fight to survive or to prop up our pride
You can cut yourself off from the things that give you sight
It'll be all right

Lessons unlearned or forgotten and burned
Can be painful to hear when the tables are turned
We can walk on the path, we can march through the grass
We can store the right treasure so our good things might last
Don't cling too fast
All things must pass

Words and music (c)2009 Brian Follweiler

The Eternal Spring

Sky Where We Stand

Where the trees grow tall
Where the brown leaves fall
Where the wind blows cold
That's where I'll take you
and ain't it good to live like this

Where the sand is hot
But the shade is not
Where the ocean's blue
That's where I'll take you
and ain't it good to live like this

All the high walled up places I've gone to
Or the dark valley nights I wander through
Companions I've found were cold and few
Except maybe you

Where the pavement's cracked
And the cash is strapped
In the city cruel where I once met you
Ain't it good to live like this

Where the dress is blue
And the shoes are new
Where the night is young
And there's nothing we can't do
Ain't it good to live like this

Words and Music (c) 2014 Brian Follweiler

Unknown Album (9/26/2010 11:58:24 AM)

Ain't it Good

Why would I do
Like I wanna do
Like a cloud burst
Thunder and rain
Why would I today
When you gonna stay
Like a cloud, slowly
Like a cloud only to stay

To the meadow
Lay low like a stone
Someone taller will catch the bolt
When the clouds do break
My love now awake
Coming home
Coming home in from the cold

(c) 2011 Brian Follweiler

Cloud Burst

Well I'm back where I belong, on my own
Every inside, every outside is my home
Sitting, standing, walking, breathing on my own

Well it must get lonely there, ain't it so?
There's a good kind of that too man
Don't you know?

Leave girls and gold behind, leave the line
If you succeed that is exactly what you'll find
There are side streets you can walk and peaks to climb

If I'm looking kind of low, friend, push my nose
Not high up in the air but where it goes
Tell ya that could be my posture not my pose

Words and Music (c) 2009 Brian Follweiler

Back Where I Belong

Congrats and welcome to your life
It's yours now do what you like
Oh where do we go?
Oh where do we go?

The world's weight lies in your hands
But once you know you'll understand
Oh where do we go?
Oh where do we go?

Go with the flow cause there's not too much else you can do
See where it takes you before your time is through

Congrats and welcome to your life
It's yours now do what you like
Oh where do we go?
Oh where do we go?

Where Do We Go?

Joan Chew - Violin
Matt Castro - Bass
Garrett Finley - Cajon

Paint It Black (Rolling Stones Cover)

@MenAndWhales brought me up to perform Golden Slumbers, and then stick around to Carry That Weight until The End. We'll be doing the entire album on December 7 at SingleCut in Astoria.

Golden Slumbers - Carry That Weight - The End (Live at Pianos with Men & Whales)

Just to note - I'm well and fine, as I hope for everyone. Looking forward to a reworking of "Looks Like We Made It" by Barry Manilow.

--

My lungs is craving, I got a shakin' in my head
Hospitals crowded, can't run enough tests
If I lived till tomorrow it's gonna be a long time
For I'll reel and I'll fall and rise on covide
An' it's real, an' it's real, one more time

When I was a young man I learned not to care
Big parties and beaches I often did dare
My mother and father said congregatin's a curse
But the fate of their baby is many times worse
An' it's real, an' it's real, one more time

Keep your damn distance and then wash those hands
Touch your face once, and you'll touch it again
Then sometimes you sneeze and you cant help but think
Was it just allergies or am I getting sick?
An' it's real, an' it's real, one more time

Stay away from the cities, stay away from the towns
Stay away from the man pushin' the chloroquine around
Stay away from the quacks with a miracles they find
Or you'll live off your days as a slave to covide
An' it's real, an' it's real, one more time

An' my lungs is heavin, I've got a fever' in my head
I wish I had heeded what Doc Fauci said
Sheltered in place, it's gonna be a long time
But we reel and we fall and we rise on covide
An' it's real, an' it's real, one more time

Covide (Demo Rework of Buffy Sainte-Marie & Donovan's Codine)

I just feel like there's room left for more good rock and roll songs. They don't even have to be mine.

WEILER

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