The Words
I’ve been practicing with words for a really long time
I know how to shape them how to sculpt them make them rhyme make them mine
Then along comes you and I don’t know what to say
You’re such a beauty so I keep trying anyway
From the top of your head down to your sweet toes
How sweet you are girl
No one knows no one no no one knows
Such a pretty dish Answer to my wish
You really blow my mind you’re so damn fine just plain divine
I don’t have words to touch the beauty of you
It might be time to learn some I never knew
It’s my job to sing my heart out so I’ll have to
Learn some words to touch the beauty of you
I’ve been trying to get my thoughts into a lyric line
I’m familiar with the process I’ve done it a couple of times
There’s just so much I’ve been thinking of
While I’m thinking ‘bout you and still falling in love
From the top of your head down to your sweet toes
How sweet you are girl
No one knows no one no no one knows
You sweet little thing I can’t help but sing
You’re such a pretty girl my mind’s awhirl you rock my world
I don’t have words to touch the beauty of you
It might be time to learn some I never knew
It’s my job to sing my heart out so I’ll have to
Learn some words to touch the beauty of you
Souvenir
I open my phone searching for some souvenir of our wonderful weekend
The selfie of your smile as I stepped out onto the street it glows for me
And I’ll create more souvenirs glimpses into moments that can’t be captured with words but
they’ll be treasure maps for our memories
To follow they’ll lead us through the beauty again and again
I opened my heart foraging for friendship and I knew not what more
You were an instant beacon of friendship and peace of calm in the storm
And I laid down my armor when you brought to light that I wasn’t only keeping things out I was
keeping them in
You reminded me who I’m meant to be so the love just flows and flows
I’m not all of the things that make you smile
I’ll never get tired of looking into your sky blue eyes
And I’m alright I’m alright
Blueberry
I am rooting for the blueberry
To ferry her into a deep sleep
Enough that the monsters can’t touch her
They can’t touch her
So I hold her till we’re still and
Peacefully breathing
Yeah, I hold her till they pass on by
I am sifting through shifting sands
This castle I create about what it all means
And this moat to remind me
Who I am who I am
So I hold her till we’re still and
Peacefully breathing
Oh I hold her as it blows on by
I am flipping through memory’s pictures
Weeks and days made of gold and
No fools no no fools here
Except perhaps my heart when she’s near
So I hold her till we’re still and
Peacefully breathing
Oh I hold her as they roll on by
All Along
I knew all along I wanted her
Friends a couple of years never saw another
I couldn’t speak up for so many whys
I couldn’t keep the moon out of my eyes
She was bold I was shocked
Took my hand and we rocked
My world will never be the same
My breath was made to sound her name
I can’t make you believe in love
Can’t convince anyone that we’re not cursed from above
But I can tell you what all of this stuff is made of and I can shine
The way she lights me up hey
I can shine maybe help show the way
Much as I wanted I never knew
How good this would be coming true
I still think magic brought her to me
It all keeps happening so perfectly
She was bold I was shocked
Took my hand and we rocked
My world will never be the same
My breath was made to sound her name
I can’t make you believe in love
Can’t convince anyone that they’re not cursed from above
But I can tell you what all of this stuff is made of and I can shine
The way she lights me up hey
I can shine maybe help show the way
I knew all along I wanted her
Thank You
I can’t quit singing
That’s what birds do
And it’s been so long so long
I’ve been falling for you
Somewhere along the way
I learned to fly
Or maybe I always knew
I just remembered
When I looked at you
You were so bold
Speaking your mind
Opened that door
And let me share mine
I could barely believe
I’d kept my cool
Somehow you didn’t know
How long I’d longed for you
On the down-low
We’re on to somethign
I never dreamed
It all feels so good so good
Might need you to pinch me
I love to swoon for you
I love your smile
I adore adoring you
And holding you close
Doing what we do
Beautiful
You’re glowing and graceful and it’s not your fault
Some sparkles dropped off and my eyes caught them
I’ll keep looking around for something else to do
I didn’t mean to think this way about you
And didn’t want you to know I was feeling this way
But I know me and I’ve got no kind of poker face
So if you saw through what I didn’t say
Just know you’re beautiful I think you’re so beautiful
You know you’re beautiful I think you’re so beautiful
You’re kind and funny and my heart knew you
As the kind of friend I could open up to
I just poured it all out the first time we met
And I haven’t quite gotten over it yet
I didn’t want you to know I was feeling this way
But I know me and I’ve got no kind of poker face
So if you saw through what I didn’t say
Just know you’re beautiful I think you’re so beautiful
You know you’re beautiful I think you’re so beautiful
I want to slowly brush the hair from your face
I want to gently remind you of your grace
But I know I know I know it’s not my place so I won’t
But just know
Just know you’re beautiful I think you’re so beautiful
You know you’re beautiful I think you’re so beautiful
Yeah you know you’re beautiful
I think you’re so so beautiful
You’re So
You were brave when I wasn’t ready to be
I can’t complete you and you can’t complete me
I can only support you in what makes you feel free
And baby you’re so free
Oh baby you’re so free
Ooo Whatever you wanna do
You know I will follow you
I’m real into whatever you wanna get up to
Baby you’re so you
Oh baby you’re so you
I love this falling and watching in happen so slow
For some years now I have wanted to know
If I was close to you what would you show
And baby how you glow
Oh baby how you glow
She’s the Angel
Crucifix over the door instead of a clock
In this bed all the wheels are on lock
I want a paddle to push me out and away
Back into the fray
Merry-go-round of medicine served not delicate but direct
Interrogation round the clock always something to inspect
My mind reminds me to recount my gratitude
It bolsters my mood
And I’m stuffed like the I love you bunny
I hope it didn’t hurt him like it did me
I’m stuffed like the I love you bunny
I hope it didn’t hurt him like it hurt me
For so long after she was boiling steel
For so long after she was boiling steel
Replacing my ticker-tape replacing my
Replacing my ticker-tape replacing my
Goddess please take tired and give me back fight
I can’t seem to find it in me tonight
I know I’ll need it to get back to my health
Back to myself
This environment so endlessly strange
Every four hours they ask you your date and your name
Try to keep in mind it’s not that long a stay
Just a couple more days
And I’m stuffed like the I love you bunny
I hope it didn’t hurt him like it did me
I’m stuffed like the I love you bunny
I hope it didn’t hurt him like it hurt me
For so long after she was boiling steel
For so long after she was boiling steel
Replacing my ticker-tape replacing my
Replacing my ticker-tape replacing my
She brings me angels and books and a baby plant
She’s the angel I already knew that
She’s the angel I already knew
She’s the angel
She’s the angel
What Do You Do
What do you say when you
Can’t say anything but you
Can’t stop thinking of things you’d like to say
Maybe some day
What do you do when you
Can’t do anything but you
Can’t stop thinking of things you’d like to do
And with whom You can’t say
I don’t have anything to offer you
I can barely take care of myself
I still have some work to do
On my habits and my health
But I think you’re so damn beautiful
Always have thought so
I don’t have anything to offer you
I just wanted you to know
What do you say when you
Can’t say anything but you
Can’t stop thinking of things you’d like to say
What do you do when you
Can’t do anything but you
Can’t stop thinking of things you’d like to do
And with whom You can’t say
I think you’re so beautiful
Always have thought so
I don’t have anything to offer you
I just wanted you to know
What do you say
What do you do
What do you say
What do you say what do you
What do you do I mean
What do you say
Do Do Do Do
Oh Oh Oh
La Da Da Da
Da Da Da Da
What I Said
I can’t remember what I said when you told me you were no longer with her I’m sure it was not any sort of socially acceptable response to that information on such an occasion and forgive me but the brakes in my brain came on as hard as they did the day I say my imagination’s had brush the hair from your face I remember the place I was sitting at the time and how even in my imagination it took my breath away it took my breath away and how I could not stay the tide of words and phrases moving through me to try to capture the way the light moves around you the light moves around you the light moves around you the light moves it moves the light moves around you
Gravity Slipped
I’ve been to the top of this so I already know
It’s such a long long way to fall
In fact if I’m being honest I don’t think there’s a bottom at all
I think I could just fall
For so long I'd finally learn to fly
I never knew why
Love feels like letting go like losing your grip
Like gravity slipped it slipped
There’s a melody in the way you move
I wonder does anyone hear it like me
There is a light in the presence of you
I hope to get near it to see how you’re so free
The way I’ve always wanted to be
Just like she
When love feels like letting go like losing your grip
Like gravity slipped it slipped
I suppose what this song is trying in my long long winded way to say
If you should ever find yourself having good God one of those days
I’m here for you always
I’m your friend till eternity fades
And if on the way
Love feels like letting go like losing your grip
Like gravity slipped it slipped
Like it slipped
Oh it slipped
It slipped
Chicago
We stayed on Michigan Avenue at the Congress Hotel
It’s a really old building the hallway had a little old building smell
And it’s beautiful and grand like Lake Michigan across the way
Like every now like every day with you it’s magical hey
Oh Chicago I barely know ya but you seem real cool
Mexican Independence Day is quit the fiesta I can’t wait to see you
Oh Chicago
Indy’s a city for zoomers they encircle on the 465
They’re glowing all around late at night the canal is reflecting their light
And how proud did I feel when that cute girl said you looked like a meal
Like she was feeling what I feel it’s all so incredibly real
Oh Chicago I barely know ya but you seem real cool
Mexican Independence Day is quite the fiesta I can’t wait to see you
Oh Chicago
Northern Michigan you know I’ll always love you
You and I have been friends a long while and true
I know it’s good to have roots like it’s good to grow and to go
Follow your glow to what you show so you and I move in the flow
Oh Chicago I barely know ya but you seem real cool
Mexican Independence Day is quite the fiesta I can’t wait to see you
Oh Chicago
Milky Way
I’ve been a rogue planet tooling through the Milky Way
No sun no solar system no night and no day
No big gravity to pull me any which way
I’ve been a rogue planet tooling through the Milky Way
I felt a gently pull that grew stronger by and by
Realized where it was coming from looking into your eyes
You were reflecting light from a far-off star
I had to get closer to see to see who you are
We had the whole town to ourselves we looked out at the stars
We felt the magic of that night we saw a gaslight from afar
You can’t tell me the stuff the Universe says not to share
She’ll poke you in the guts make you laugh make you forget what was there
Cloud shadows on a field farmland lullaby
We went up to the lake so you could say goodbye
The privilege of lumber barons unappealing Hartwick Pines
Venus and the moon saw us home we made really good time
