Lyrics
This is a collection of original song lyrics written over the course of my life.
Most of these pieces are rooted in personal experience—moments, relationships, and reflections that found their way into words.
Together, they form a record of growth, change, and the things that have shaped me.
You’re welcome to explore them in your own way and take from them whatever resonates.
Bittersweet
First you get me flyin’ high
Then you leave me high and dry
First you say our love is strong
Then you go and do me wrong
I never know if you want me around
Or if you think I just your clown
I don’t know what to do, loving you is bittersweet
Some days our line are parallel
Then i’m left for days in Hell
So I go from day to day
and analyse every word you say
Guess I just a fool for you
But what else can I do
It’s plain to see your love for me is bittersweet
Now you see her, know you don’t
First she’ll love you then she won’t
Now you see her, know you don’t
First she’ll love you then she won’t
Yes I know there’ll come a day
Shell decide to go away
It’s too late know to think about my pride
Only want you by my side
And as hopeless as this whole thing seems
I’ll have you in my dreams
Well I don’t know what to do
Loving you is bittersweet
You know it’s true
Loving you is bittersweet, bittersweet, bittersweet
Now you see her, know you don’t
First she’ll love you then she won’t
Now you see her, know you don’t
First she’ll love you then she won’t
Now you see her, know you don’t
First she’ll love you then she won’t
Now you see her, know you don’t
Carry The Weight
I went lookin’ for a little bit of inspiration
Or maybe just the words to a happy song
Cause harmony and loving syncopation
Gives a man a reason to carry on
Your touch started the passion flowing
Where so long It just laid dry
Now I can’t keep my heart from showing
Somehow you touched my long, long forgotten gentle side
Just when you had this fool believin’
That “love and pain” was just another line
Girl you went and did me like a late-show movie
Where someone is waiting to hit you from behind
You said love me but don’t need me
Cause I’m not ready to live that way
I want you to love me but I need you to see
I don’t want to carry all that weight
I was looking for a little inspiration
But somethin’ along the went wrong
We had harmony and loving syncopation
But these aren’t the words to a happy song
You said “love me but don’t need me”.
I’m not ready to live that way
I want you to love me but I need you to see
I don’t want to carry all that weight
Well baby I don’t want to carry all this weight
I don’t want to carry, carry the weight
I don’t want to carry all this weight
Baby when we made love, I thought that you we’re mine
Now you’re trying to tell me, you’re not the loving’ kind
I thought I’d never say this but my backs against the wall
I want your body, mind, heart and soul. Girl I want it all
Cattle Town
I remember winter rain fallin down with Icy pain over daddy’s shoulders, as he was bent at chores.
His poor hands were scared his memory marred for the good life had passed him by
His night were short and his day were hard
Dust as far as the eye could see
The prairie wind just kept on blowin’.
I wasn’n bout to stay and let it blow on me
So I went city bound, off to make a country boy shine
I said bye bye prairie ground,
and told a one-horse, truck-stop, cattle-town goodbye
When the good lord up and left it so did I
I hit those city street you know it seems the people you meet there, could really care if you live or die.
I gotta feelin so low, with no place to go and to tired to even try.
City life has got them hustlin’ women
They even got the hustlin’ men.
Everybody there want to be your brother
Just as long as you’ve a dollar left you can spend on them
So I’m country bound, I can’t seem to make it on my own
Bye bye concrete ground.
I’ll call a one-horse, truck-stop, cattle-town my home
My nights are cold and these days are hard
A haze as far as the eye can see
This city life can make a strong man weak
I just won’t stay and let it bury me
So I’m country bound, I can’t seem to make it on my own
Bye bye concrete ground.
I’ll call a one-horse, truck-stop, cattle-town my home
Bye bye concrete ground
Let the lights of the city wash me bash me back, wash me back home
I’ve been spending’ too much time alone,
Too much time alone been givin’ me the blues. Got no time to lose
I wanna put on my walking shoes and go home. This boys goin’ home
I just wanna see your smilin’ face. I wanna dance all around the place
when I get home. Let that prairie wind wash my soul clean. I’ve got no time left for this bad dream.
For The Love Of The Game
I spent my wild and reckless youth in smoky light of poolrooms
Hiding from the truth of what it means to win and lose
Tried to make myself a better name by howling at the moon
The more I learned about the game, the more I felt confused
But there were times the game itself took ahold of me like magic
When the ball, the cue and my arm came alive
One in the same, playing strictly for the love of the game
I spent my hard and hopeful night in the smoky light of nightclubs
Acting out the truth of what it means to give and take
Tried to find a song inside me of joy, faith and love
The more I acted to the words, the more I felt ashamed
But there were time the song itself took a hold of me like fire
when the word the melody and my voice came alive
One in the same, strictly for the love of the game
Now I spend my peaceful days in the shelter of loves grace
Working on the truth of what it means to live and learn
If I doubt I’m reassured by looking at your face
The more I give my love to you the more that love returns
Now for all time we can share the magic and fire
One voice, one melody, two hearts alive
One in the same, strictly for the love
One voice, one melody, two hearts alive
One in the same, strictly for the love of the game
How Can You Love Me Now
You were the perfect 17 an untouched cheer leading social queen.
You flipped your hair and I could see you thought
“ No one’s ever gonna get to me”.
So I stopped my misbehavin’, used the moves that I’d been savin’.
We vowed to love never looking back,
now for you and I more than years have passed.
And I’m sittin’ with my chin on a windowsill.
Feelin' guilty like a man with his hand in the till
Tell me how can you love me now
How’d you keep the flame alive
How can you love me now
Any fool can see, the man you used to know has up and died.
Time has left me worn and weathered
Left me feelin’ tarred and feathered
After all this how can it be
Your bedroom door still welcomes me
You’ve watched your high school football star
Relive his youth from bar to bar
Where a willing young thing is easy prey
For a man obsessed with yesterday
Even though I taken your pride
You still choose to stand by my side
Tell me how can you love me now
How’d you keep the flame alive
How can you love me now
Any fool can see, the man you used to know has up and died.
Tell me how you do it
Hold on to your dream and never pass the point of no return
What’s you secret to it. I really wanna know
Tell me how can you love me know
How’d you keep the flame alive
How can you love me now any fool can see
The man you used to know, the one you used to know has up and died
I Want To Go Upstairs
A Japanese kimono, nothing underneath
You waltz around the kitchen pretending I don’t see
It’s the dead of winter baby but I’m dying of the heat
You blow me a kiss and throw back your hair.
I want to go upstairs
We’ve talk about the children, shuffled in our seats
We’ve hit the news and the weather, now we’re starting to repeat
You promised me through dinner you were saving something sweet
Leave this mess until the morning, have the baby say their prayers
I want to go upstairs
After six lonely weeks on the road
The mind starts playing tricks when you’re too long away from your home
It seemed like ever minute I thought about getting you alone
Some things can’t be fixed talking on the phone
You look at me with your face all tuning red
Like you don’t know what you’re doing and I’ve somehow been mislead
You say I’m looking tired and I’d be better off in bed
Then you kiss me like a Devil-child sent to raise me from the dead
Say goodnight to your mama, kiss your daddy on the cheek
You can make my excuses; I’m to far gone to speak
A blind man would notice child just what you’ve done to me
You can make up a lie, you can put on airs
You can blame it on me child I don’t care
You can tell them the truth, you’ve got business elsewhere
I want to go upstairs
I’d Still Be On My Feet
You’re walking slow, feeling low,
but you know just where your goin’.
It’s a rainy night, you see her light,
Impatience clearly showin’,
You step to the door, you’ve been there before.
Brings back memories of grieving.
You ache to the core, still you’ve come back for more.
She’s not alone, your leavin’.
So, I guess it’s back to walking the street
If not for Joleen, you’d still be on your feet.
You wander home, all alone
You’re lost in what to do.
You lie awake tryin’ to shake,
the hold you know she has on you
But when you close your eyes
she whispers lies
You know she’ll never say
She haunts your night, but you curse the light,
that takes her love away
So, I guess it’s back to walking the street
If not for Joleen, you’d still be on your feet
If not for Joleen, you’d still be on your feet
I’m Proud Of You
I’m proud of you
I always feel so proud of you
You’ve never turned away or been afraid
To represent apart of me,
You understand the heart of me
When the lows hit hard and I lose my direction
When my words won’t fit and I don’t know why
You’re there for me
To show me that you care for me
And when I reach to high and I feel myself falling
You take my hand and lift me up
You’re there for me
To show me that you care for me
And through the years
Throw laughter and sorrow
When our time is through, I’ll always be,
So proud of you
Maybe Someday
I was seventeen, with fancy dreams
It sure was hard telling Mama goodbye
But a bird can’t sing til it’s tried it’s wings
And can’t be free til it’s learns how to fly
I don’t know where I’m goin’, Can’t say where I’ve been
But I know I’m gonna make it, I’m gonna make it somehow
And maybe someday I can go
Home, back where I long to be
Home back to my history
Home, back with my family
After all this time, will they welcome me?
Rain, sweet rain, you never change
Wash me back to that long ago place
It seems so long since I’ve been home
Each day each mile can be seen on my face
I don’t know where I’m goin', but I know where I’ve been
But I know I’m gonna make it, I’m gonna make it somehow
And maybe someday I can go home
Maybe someday I can go home
I’m gonna make it someday so I can go home.
There’s More To Love Than That
In a barroom filled with broken dreams.
With the other would-be Jimmy Deans
Telling lies of the woman we had Loved and lost.
And the circles I was caught up in
Only ending just to start again
All those years you loved me patiently
Now through your eyes I see
There’s more to love than that
That’s what you told me
There’s more to love than that
That’s what you showed me
Now each day I find more to love
Slipping in and out of someone’s heart
Isn’t that the way it always starts?
Spend one night but when light of morning comes, loves gone
Now with every night of love we spend
I keep coming back to you again
I know, love can’t survive in shadows
And when you hold me, the light of love appears and makes it clear
There’s more to love than that
That’s what you told me
There’s more to love than that
That’s what you showed me
More to love, and every moment with you, there’s more to love
In a barroom filled with broken dreams
Tonight there’s one less Jimmy Dean
Motherlode
Sometimes a fever sets in, even in the gentlest of men
He can’t see the sun for the rain, and just needs and end to his pain
Caught in-between the fear and the dream, a smile and a frown
but they’ll be no turning back now In search of the Motherlode
Sometimes melancholy I feel love and the fire
Sometimes through my music I can feel Jesus and the fury
But right now I need a saviour to lay me down and shelter me
Til I can find Motherlode
Some men are quick to succeed, while other are caught in-between
I haven’t a soul left to sell, I may travel half way to hell
In search of the Motherlode
The Motherlode
The sweet Motherlode
Nobody Loves You Like I Do
Music’s been my lover for a long, long time.
A suitable companion keeps an idol mind at play
And keeps the devils away
Lots a folks will tell you that you can’t go home
When you felt my arms I thought I’d always live alone
Who would have know
You be sitting here a heartbeat away
Making so hard for me to say
All the word that stayed inside of me so long
Come slowly stumbling out
They’re all sounding wrong, but here I go baby
Nobody loves you like I do
No matter what I do or say
Just let my music say it to you
Nobody loves you like I do
Nobody loves you like I do
I wanna chase the morning sun away from our front door
Hold you in my arms and love you one time more
Today, that’s what I’m here for
Cause music’s been my lover for a long, long time.
Come on lady we can leave our yesterdays behind
And find some peace of mind. A little peace of mind
Nobody Loves You Like I Do
No matter what I do or say
Just let my music say it to you
Nobody loves you, like I do
No matter what I do or say
Just let my music say it to you
Nobody Loves You, Nobody,
Nobody Loves You Like I Do
Not Gonna Sing The Blues
I wanna sit back in my rocking chair
Pretending I haven’t got a care
I don’t care if the sky is blue or grey, no.
If you what to sit with me, brother you had better see
I don’t what ta sing the blues today
My friends come talking politics. They’re all up in arms
I tell them that I don’t know what to say
The railroads comin’ through our town
Bound to take away my farm
But I’m don’t gonna sing the blues today
Jesus loved the farther. Loved the Holy Ghost
Of all his earth bound children he loves singing ones the most.
So I’m gonna sit here singin’ this song one more time.
Jesus loved the farther. Loved the Holy Ghost
Of all his earth bound children he loves singing ones the most.
So I’m gonna sit here singin’ this song one more time.
Woke up this morning, woman had gone
Packed her things and she up and went away
20 years of working hard she up and she does me wrong
But I don’t what to sing the blues today
I gonna sit back in this rocking chair
Pretendin’ I haven’t got a care
I don’t care if the sky is blue or grey.
If you what to sit with me brother you had better see
I don’t what to sing the blues
I don’t what to sing the blues
I don’t what to sing the blues today
I won’t do it. I just won’t do it
Not gonna sing the blues, not gonna sing the blues
Not today. Can’t make me do it. Can’t make me do it
Not gonna sing the blues, not today babe
Peaceful
For keeping me warm when it’s cold outside
Here’s a song for my love and a song for me
Cause she knows just what to do to set my soul free
She brings me coffee in the morning in my favourite cup
She gets me feeling so much love I could cry
And when it’s cold outside and i don’t wanna get up
Ya know she throws her arms around me to give me one good try
And It’s peaceful right now, for the first time
My life is peaceful, peaceful right now
I’ve got a song for the morning, got a song for a lazy day
And I’m always right at home singin’ the blues
It’s hard to sing a happy song when the words aren’t true
Now they all come easy, all because of you
I the evening we sit down by the fire
Just discussin’ any thing that comes to mind
Lord she knows how to love me right, every day and every night
She won’t let down a minute, she puts her whole self in it
And it’s peaceful right now, for the first time
My heart is peaceful, peaceful right now
I’m feelin’ love, so much love that it peaceful
Peaceful right now
Here’s a song for my woman the lady in my life
Gets me feelin’ so much love I could cry
Simplify
Papa was a gambler, he cared for little else
Mama always workin’ and tryin’ to keep her health
Rightly so I’ve taken an equal share from them
I spend my whole day workin’ to find a way to win
Too many voices battle in my mind
It’s time to simplify
Once my lover told me, I was climbing just to fall
The bright light and glory wouldn’t free me at all
The only prize worth a chasin’ was bein’ true to myself
You can lose your soul if you work to hard to please everybody else.
Too many voices battle which one is mine
It’s time to simplify
Should I be a poet, should I be a gambler
Would I even know it if it starts to drag me under
Should I be a soldier or should I be a drummer
Will I be the cloud or thunder
Papa was a gambler he cared for little else
Mama always workin’ and tryin’ to keep her health
Rightly so I have taken an equal share from them
I spend my whole day working to find a way to win
Too many voices battle in my mind
It’s time to simplify
Too many voices which on is mine?
Slow Dancing In The Fast Lane
Every day you’re further away
I can’t take this fast pace
No time to unwind
I’m missing your face. Let’s make our escape.
Girl when you come walkin' through that door tonight
the lights down low, we’ll go
Slow dancin’ in the fast lane
No one can reach us tonight
Slow dancin’ in the fast lane
Planned all day our getaway
Candlelight or moonlight?
A rare wine we’ll take our time
It’s alright. It’s our night.
Girl I know you need me like I’m needing you
So take my hand, we’ll go
Slow dancin’ in the fast lane
Put your body to mine
Slow dancin’ in the fast lane
We’re slow dancin’ in the fast lane
Can you feel the heat, when our body’s meet
It’s no fantasy, it’s love
Girl it’s Love. Can you feel it? Can you feel my love?
Oooh I’m with you baby, I’m only with you tonight
I missed my lady, I missed my girl
Slow dancin’ by the firelight.
I’ll become a part of you; you’re the best of me
And any fool can see just how much I need you baby
Slow dancin’. No one can reach us tonight
So Much To Give
So much to give giving so willingly
Willingly give me, all she has to give.
No way to live. Living a fantasy.
Hurting so silently when I’m gone
Loving with heavenly fire. Now, we are one.
Pain that out weighs the desire
Soon she’ll learn to love again
Loving with heavenly fire. Now, we are one.
Pain that out weighs the desire
Soon she’ll learn to love again
So much to give no one to give it to
Some Things Can’t Be Denied
You don’t have to tell me that you love me
I already know, I already know
I can feel forever when you hold me,
I know I can trust the warmth of your touch
I don’t need the words when I can see the love-light in your eyes
Some things can’t be denied
Some times when you ask me why I love you
I don’t really know, I don’t really know
If there’s one secret code to our equation
It’s accepting the fact; it’s not in the math
We could spend a lifetime trying to sort the reason from the rhyme
Just to find some things can’t be denied
They say that nothing last forever
But where would we be if that’s what we believed
Maybe love can’t be explained
It’s the heart it’s not the brain
So if there’s an answer to loves mystery
I don’t what ta know, I don’t need to know
I just want to hold on to each memory
And err on the side of enjoying the ride
When our story’s over and they turn back the pages of our lives
I know they find some things can’t be denied
When it comes to you and I
Some things can’t be denied
Preserve The Family Name
Mitchell was a quite man from a wealthy family
And though we came from different world he always made time for me.
With pressure from his father I watched him slowly change
You must do everything you have to preserve the family name
Like his father before him it was expected that he
be the very best at university
Then she came into his life from who knows where
She had nothin’ she could give him but love
Hoping love was enough
What’s her name? What’s here background?
What does her father do?
Are the on the same social plain as me and you?
Well If not then boy, would you have your father die of shame?
You must do everything you have to protect the family name
Mitchell has his country club, a million dollar home
Mitchell has an emptiness that won’t leave him alone
And now he sits nights alone and drinking remembering her face
He sometimes wonders if she’s ever found love where love was enough
Do the things you have to do. You have to play the game
Do the things you need to do to preserve the family name
Do the things you have to do. You have to play the game
Do the things you need to do to preserve the family name
Walls of Love
Man this city’s cold when you’re lonely
No one wants to know when your down
I’d feel a whole lot better if she’d phone me
Cause I can’t find my ass when my baby’s not around.
And man it’s hard, to fight the lonely blue
Baby won’t you tell me what you want me to do
Once this woman told me that she loved me
Her sweet young body put me in a spell
Then one day that woman up and left me
When I had nothing left that I could sell
And man it’s hard, to fight the lonely blue
And you won’t even know what to do
You might be on top but it all come to a definite stop
When your wall of love are closing in on you.
When your wall of love come closing in.
So if there’s a moral to my madness
It’s just you’d better hold your baby tight
If you go and bring her any sadness
She won’t be home to keep you warm at night
And man it’s hard, when you fight the lonely blue.
You won’t even know what to do.
Well you might be on top but it all come to a definite stop.
When your wall of love come closing in on you.
When your wall of love come closing in on you.
When your wall of love come closing in.
You might have a fancy car, but the money don’t mater
You might have a diamond ring, but the money don’t matter
We Sure Did Laugh A Lot
We sure did laugh a lot
We sure did love a lot
And now that all seems lost
I have to pay the cost
For letting myself open up to love you
I sure did lose a lot
I played the fool a lot
Now all that’s left for me
Are broken memories of loving you
I sure did laugh a lot with you
I’ve never been a believer, in living in the past
But God tonight the past won’t let me go
When it gets a hold of me
It’s like you’re still here with me, loving me again
We sure did dream a lot
We sure did sing a lot
Now in this empty room
One voice sounds out of turn
Sad but true
But I sure did laugh a lot with you
What Became of Me
There’s a star upon my door
And my name on the marquee
As I embrace the bribery
I wonder what became of me
Ladies waiting in the hall
Who’ll be the lucky one tonight?
It’s a comic tragedy
I wonder what became of me
You must pay for what you get
That’s what they always say
I’ve paid in spades for my regrets
Every dog has got to have his day
There’s the man I used to know
I don’t see him anymore
He’d sit and sing his song for free
I wonder what became of me
In my younger days they would say
What a promising career
The most likely to succeed
I wonder what became of me
I wonder what became of me
What We’re Will to Lose
We go at each other, insisting were right
Refusing to throw in the towel and call it a night
We’ve pressed all the buttons and touched all the nerves
If someone walks out the door maybe it’s all we deserve
Nobody know how it starts, still here we are
Holding are hearts in our hands trying to understand
What we’re willing to lose to win?
When hard words are spoken they can’t be unheard
We may live to regret each angry word
The keys to the kingdom can spill through our hands
While we keep holding our ground defending some line in the sand
Nobody knows how this ends so here we are
Will we forgive and forget or will we live to regret
What we were will to lose to win?
Why can’t I swallow my pride?
So afraid I’ll be the first to show a sign of weakness
Why can’t my heart just lead the way?
The keys to the kingdom can spill through our hands
While we keep holding our ground defending some line in the sand
Nobody knows how this ends so here we are
Will we forgive and forget or will we live to regret
What we were willing to lose? This is our moment to choose
What are we willing to lose to win?
Whirlpool
You look so inviting. You came on soft and warm
Now I’m tossing side to side, like a ship lost in a storm
Caught in a whirlpool sinkin’ down deeper day by day
In a whirlpool, lovin’ so strong and I can’t get away
Tried to get to you girl, Looks like you got to me
The more I try to leave ya, the less I’m really free
Caught in a whirlpool. You’re pulling me deeper day by day
In your whirlpool, you’re lovin’s so strong and I can’t get away
In your whirlpool, you’re pulling me deeper day by day
In your whirlpool
Lovin too strong and I can’t get away
My strength won’t last
I’m over my head, sinkin’ fast
And I won’t fight to break free now
Cause you make me so high pullin’ me down
Deeper deeper deeper spinin’ round and round and round.
Deeper deeper deeper
Whirlpool, takin’ me deeper day by day
Wanna take me down deep, oh I love it when you take me down
Babe you’re pulling me
Makes me fill so good when you take me high
Woman Of The World
Woman Of The World,
Hard working girl from that dress down to her shoes.
Gives a man a big head then rips off his bread
In a game she ain’t about to lose
Yesterday she was livin’ high in London.
Today she’s back working L.A.
Make a filthy rich man feel rich and filthy
Til they don’t mind payin’ her way
Woman of the world,
Hard working girl, from that smile down to her hips
She come on like a teaser, like only you can please her
It’s extra for the ego trip.
She’ll tremble as she whispers, “ You’re my only love”
In the morning not a clue can be found.
If your money’s loose and here times are tight,
It’s you she’s gonna be around.
Woman of the world,
Hard working girl, so impressed by the people you know.
Use and abuse, you got nothing to lose, by putting on your high-class show.
Woman of the world,
Hard working girl, take it all down to the vault
You know what they say “Don’t just give it away”
You’re perfection, to a fault.
Hey a girl gotta do what a girls gotta do.
Some day the other shoe’s gonna fall
If the timer’s set, when it all goes up
You’ll be light years away from it all
Woman of the world,
Hard working girl, you impress all the people you know.
Use and abuse, you got nothing to lose, putting on your high-class show
Ah ya know you’re the woman of the world. Hard working girl
You Can’t Get There From Here
There’s a cold wind behind me blowing summer from the trees.
Like a song that denies me a loving melody
Still too much is unanswered I still raise the question, Why?
Like a letter that’s unopened, sitting, waiting a reply.
Hiding behind these fears, I know you can’t get there from here.
There’s a place I’ll be goin’ I’ve never been before
All the pain I’ve been knowin' won’t come around my door
All the bags I’ll be packin’, hold no room for the blues
All the friends I’ll be makin’. Are the one you never lose
Hiding behind these tears, I know you can’t get there from here.
To many days, to many days of confusion
To many nights, to many nights all alone
Afraid of the light, afraid that love’s an illusion
Afraid of the dark, afraid to be left on my own
There’s a cold wind behind me blowing summer from the trees.
Like a song that denies me a loving melody
Still too much is unanswered, I still raise the question why?
I’m a letter that’s unopened, sitting, waiting a reply.
Hiding behind these tears, you can’t get there from here.
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