intriguing song and very good performance. Powerful chorusses!

Cinematic and a bit mysterious...nice production!

When the morning sun
Pries open your eyes
You light a smile
And you burst the sky

Has it been this long
We can’t be wrong
We’re right where we belong

Have I ever told you
How good it feels to be with you
If I’ve never told you
I don’t need words to say I love you

In the breath of night
Dancing with the daffodils
Blissful stolen kiss
My heart overfills

Has it been this long
We can’t be wrong
We’re right where we belong

Have I ever told you
How good it feels to be with you
If I’ve never told you
I don’t need words to say I love you

To Be With You

Janice Merritt: vocals, melody & arrangement
Peter Fulham: guitars and arrangement
Bud Merritt: bass, lyrics, arrangement & production
© 2022 J. Merritt, B. Merritt & P. Fulham
Thanks to Peter & PG Music

Time is hard on your lies
Time wore down your lies
They’re easy to see in your eyes  

Time is hard on your secrets
Time showed me your secrets 
I’m left with nothing but regrets
 
Time is hard on a crossed heart 
You hoped to die crossing your heart
It was a vow broken from the start 

Time is hard on your fear
Time has exposed the fear
Now your judgement day draws near

Time Is Hard

Janice Merritt: vocals, melody and arrangement
Bud Merritt: lyric, arrangement, mix, mastering and photo
Peter Fulham: guitars and arrangement
Zeros
© 2023 J. Merritt, B. Merritt & P. Fulham
Thanks to Peter and PG Music
www.janiceandbud.com
www.pgmusic.com

V1
you never thought a minute about looking up
always staring left or right and following dollars
the game’s nearly over  there’s no overtime 
fate, oh fate, is gonna empty your coffers 

Chorus
didn’t life look grand through all those zeros?
sitting on top of the world’s billionaire list
a long ride up but a short fall down’s coming
don’t waste time thinking you’ll be missed 

V2
outa desperation you tried a little contrition
but mount redemption’s not an anthill
you kept bending reality to fit your schemes
now look around everybody’s had their fill

Chorus

V3
doing the right thing never came easy
because you don’t recognize the wrong things
friends are running while the hour glass runs dry
branded a loser no matter what the future brings

look around, no wealth, no friends, it’s all gone
the end is near, uh oh, your time’s up!

ZEROS

An Old Man Cries

A country ballad in which the subject ventures back into romance after having his/her heart shattered in a previous relationship. Caution in the way!

Complete Surrender – Lyric
©2011 Alan D. David, BMI

(v1)
Burned by love some time ago
It’s hard to let my feelings show
Scars remain from that hurting time
My heart’s afraid to cross the line
But somehow you’ve broken through
Fixed my heart as good as new
But there’s still one thing you need to know

CHORUS
If I fall in love with you and offer you my heart
I hope you always, always will remember
It’s more than just I love you
It’s everything I am, it’s complete surrender

(v2)
A simple lesson I have learned
A partial love gets no return
Give you’re all where love’s concerned
Any less is a heartache earned
Half a love can’t be redeemed
There can be no in between
If I fall in love it’s everything

Complete Surrender

Now And Then

Every now and then there is something in my eye,  
I rub it once in hope it makes me cry. 
You dried up all my life, took the meaning from my soul.
Now and then are different, I know.

When you came and went, I was fine that you were gone.  
Now I don't know how to carry on.
Our "then" is what I need.  I need you now to show.
Now and then are different, I know.

Now and then I dream of how it used to be.
If now was then and then was now, then you'd be here with me.

Now each day begins with longing for "back then."  
Then I long for you again.
Won't you please make this alright.  
Come back and never go.
Now and then are different, I know.

Now And Then

I am so far out of my comfort zone on this one that if I was playing baseball I would be behind the left field fence!

I am playing the bass, rhythm, and lead guitars as well as trying to sing; my asthma and allergies let up for a day! I also played about half of the B3 track with Band-in-a-Box playing the balance of that track as well as the drum track.

Cellular Zombies

Verse
They are walking in our town like they're the only ones around
Their heads are always down like they're looking at the ground
Throughout our country they do roam
Heads down staring at their phone

Verse
They think it's really neat, they just sent 50 tweets
They walk into stop signs, some right into the street
Glassy eyed and walking blind
I'm not sure they have a mind

Chorus
They are Cellular Zombies
Addicted to their phones
Cellular Zombies
Even in groups they are alone

Verse
The pictures that they take are always free
Good thing because of the number of sellfies
Pictures of all the food they ate
Enough to make me regurgitate

Cellular Zombies

BEER GOES WITH EVERYTHING

I'm just a good ol boy with a few friends in high places
And last week one of the aforementioned got a suite for some horse races
Guess I faux pas'd up ordering prime rib and white wine
Cuz them stiff-necked folks looked down their noses shocked and mortified
Well I don't have a PhD in the science of grape-ology 
But I know one libation meant for any food I'm tastin'

BEER GOES WITH EVERYTHING
From lobster tails to chicken wings
It's the universal bev'rage
Gives taste buds all their lev'rage 
It's mellower than merlot 
And bolder than a bottle of Chablis
Yeah, BEER GOES WITH EVERYTHING

There's lots of theories speculatin' how a drink with hops and barley
Could pair so perfectly with any food at any party
But I'm of the opinion all the magic's in the foam
It turns bad flavors upside down and makes good ones explode
And if you spill it on your clothes there's no need for swearing
Beer's a neutral color; matches anything you're wearing

REPEAT CHORUS
                                                                      
Oh, Mac and cheese is cheesier 
Broccoli goes down easier
Hamburgers taste meatier

REPEAT CHORUS

Dewey Longuski (BMI)
©2023

Beer Goes With Everything

A song about losing your way while navigating through a teetering relationship.
       Dave Bell of Blue Attitude played guitar, and I added bass and vocal.

You're Driving Me Out Of Your Mind

© 2025 J. Merritt, B. Merritt & P. Fulham  
Janice Merritt: lead vocal, harmony vocals, background vocals, melody, arrangement and mix 
Bud Merritt: lyric, mix, arrangement, mastering, RealTracks*, RealDrums*, MIDISuperTrack and photo
 Peter Fulham: guitar solos/fills, mix and arrangement 
 Thanks to *PG Music.

Sinkhole

V1
Been wandering around the high ground
While wondering about the low ground 
It’s been so long I’ve forgotten why
Searching for a clue to where I’m bound 

Ch
Now I’m floundering about in a sinkhole  
Reckon my middle ground fell through
Why are those people staring down at me
Could it be they simply enjoy the view

V2
I once thought every road went somewhere 
I spent too long trying to tell my own fortune 
Wasted time trying to separate needing from wanting 
It was easy to turn reality into distortion  
 
Ch

SOLO

Bridge
I acted like doing nothing was something
Another recipe for failure  in the making 

Ch

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