This is fantastic Zack! What a performance with so many layers of music, vocals and lyrics. Wish I could have made it last night.   Jim Wood

Nervous Dog Walker


VERSE 1


She's got her hands double wrapped 
with the reinforced straps 
hanging three dogs off her leash

Her eyes always wide 
with every passerby 
as the canines drag her through the streets

Their tongues hang out 
as they pull her all about 
up and down every single avenue

Their nostrils perked 
while they're panting from the work 
but she's the one that's more afraid of you


CHORUS


She'd never bite though
But if she did I'm not sure that I'd mind
You'll never get close
You'll only ever be a passerby 

Too many jitters for a jitterbug
Too shaken up to ever shake it up 
You'll never get close
You'll only ever be a passerby
so pass her by 


VERSE 2


Tuesday 3 o'clock 
She is right here on the dot
Just like every single day before

But today's more fun
'cause she only has one
And something's caught her eye up in the store

She looks down the street 
for a place to hang a leash
A golden opportunity it would seem 

But she took one look at me
and ran away and screamed
with a little poodle tied between her knees


CHORUS


She'd never bite though
But if she did I'm not sure that I'd mind
You'll never get close
You'll only ever be a passerby 

Too many jitters for a jitterbug
Too shaken up to ever shake it up 
You'll never get close
You'll only ever be a passerby
so pass her by 

INSTRUMENTAL
CHORUS

Nervous Dog Walker

- CHORUS

Catch me like drip drip run the river down
Catch me, drip drip run the river down
Catch me like drip drip drip run the river down
Run run river run run

 -  VERSE 

Into the water
Into the motion 
Begin the chase 
and I'll watch as your edges fade

Without a warnin' oh
Blessed erosion
Let the rapids run cold
and your shape erase

- PRECHORUS

In the wake baptized wash away the sin
Water breaks that pride worn away to nothing
Oh you think you're headed somewhere other than
Down down d d down, run run river run

 - BRIDGE 

You think I'm the valley now 
Watch the river run down
Carvin' deep into the ground
like a run run river run

Deeper 'til I see
how a mountain bleeds
better run better run
outrun the river

Think I'm in the valley now 
Watch the river run down
Carvin' deep into the ground
like a run run river run

Deep into that place
Seal a mountain's fate
Better run, better run
outrun the river, run

- CHORUS

Catch me like drip drip run the river down
Catch me, drip drip run the river down
Catch me like drip drip drip run the river down
Run run river run run

-BRIDGE

You think I'm in the valley now 
Watch the river run down
Carvin' deep into the ground
like a run run river run

Deep into that place
Seal a mountain's fate
Shoulda run, shoulda run, 
Here comes the river

ENDING

You think I'm in the valley now now
You think I'm in the valley now now now
You think I'm in the valley now now
Run run river run run

Run River Run

This is part of a larger collection of songs aimed at being written from a given character's perspective. 

LYRICS:

I watch the world go by, through a tiny window
with the colors just right each color just right
It's time to dim the lights, a diminuendo
please silence your phones everybody goes calm

Don't you know that the story on the screen isn't
Anything it's only make believe but umm...
Here I am in control of the machine 
I have 90 minutes left less, less breath left

Oh, I'm only pressing play 
hand pressed against the window
while watching all the watchers and

Oh, I think I've seen them all 
while watching all the watchers 
but they never seem to see me at all

I watch the star all fade and there's no pretending
that the glimmer won't fade as the watchers turn away
but they don't know my face they won't know my ending
I have 90 minutes left less, less breath left

Oh, I'm only pressing play 
hand pressed against the window
while watching all the watchers and

Oh, I think I've seen them all 
while watching all the watchers 
but they never seem to see me at all

Don't you know that the story on the screen isn't
Anything it's only make believe but umm...
Here I am in control of the machine 
I have 90 minutes left less, less breath left

The Projectionist

Lyrics: 

New thought, new pain
Here's a bottle, new medication
Child proof, no cap they're afraid that we'll all grow up

New day, you awake
It's all blurred together and this is
all of us on a new prescription

Well I guess I should've paid 'em more
White coats handing out white coated branded cures
I'm not sure but I'm patiently waiting in line
Just a patient, waiting in line
But I'm patiently waiting in line
Just a patient, wait
What's my line
I need a script

Stick to the script
Gotta take a stick to the script

New dose, here ya go
It takes more to keep escaping
Bigger pills get your fill just to make these 
Colors all fade away

Mommy you a zombie
All sedated for the screen you're watching
And so sure insurance is saving us

Well I guess I should've paid 'em more
White coats handing out white coated branded cures
I'm not sure but I'm patiently waiting in line
Just a patient, waiting in line
But I'm patiently waiting in line
Just a patient, wait
What's my line
I need a script

Stick to the script
Gotta take a stick to the script

Feelin' sick here's a script, get your fix
not a fix feelin' ill here's a pill and a refill
Here's a refill for the pills 'cause you're still ill 
Here's the line yeah here's the script

Stick To The Script

Freelance Music Producer/Composer based in the Unites States.

Nervous Dog Walker

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