Summer Song

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Here's a little summertime song I just wrote today... its got some cool chords in it (Click here to see the full tab), hopefully I'll have some recordings up here before summer's over (waiting on a new laptop...)

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Sun is shining, waves crash the shore

Nothing to remember, nothing to work for

Drinking lemonade, no grab me a beer

Got the sand between my toes, can’t ask for no more

‘Cause it’s summertime

Sun is shining and we’re

Having a good time

You and me girl

All we need

Is for this to

Never end, never end

Turn up the music, put on your shades

Spf 50, screw the shade

It could only be better if the water was warm

If this wasn’t new England, we’d have it made

‘Cause it’s summertime

Sun is shining and we’re

Having a good time

You and me girl

All we need

Is for this to

Never end, never end

Drowned

I’ve been tired physically and now am tired mentally;

And there’s no one to talk to that will listen

No one to hear that might understand

Tired and wretched soul just yearning for a warm heart

To reach out and grasp so firmly as though it must last

One thousand, one million years

Sorrow and joy fill the sky but I cannot!

No, I must but I cannot hold on to something so inexplicable

So innate in its beauty that I must, I have to hold on

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Time wasted, love released onto a cold rock of a heart

It bounces back day by day, night after night

But then like a faucet turned open my cold heart pours forth

Water so pure, so tasteful that one who drinks of it might feel as though

They were just reborn

But it is in the death of my rock that I am reborn

The drowning of it that makes it anew

I have drowned back to life

(2006)

True Friendship

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 Friends will be friends forever

‘til the night ceases to dawn

They will hate each other never

Cannot bicker long

Today I tell you this

You must not forget

If someone you do miss

Be happy that you met

Sometimes it’s hard to say

Love isn’t clear as day

True friends will never leave

You have to believe

They may be half the world apart

But they will care for you from the start

Never will they go

Ask them. They will know

They know your deepest desires

They’ve seen your darkest fears

To them you are a fire

Your love, it sears

Scars you may have given them

But two things they won’t forget

The fact that you love them

And the day you met

(2004)

The Tiniest Bead

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Although in winter’s day we sit

And talk of stories yet untold

Of friends and foes we have not met

Of life and future to unfold

When waiting storm begins attack

And sitting there we are afraid

Of howling winds upon our back

We pay a debt that’s yet unpaid

Of house and home and family naught

The sea has claimed all these to it

Without a chance we stood and fought

But win the sea would not permit

But now that all of us are gone

And you were not completely right

To say that what we did was wrong

To stand pig-headed and to fight

Now with the generations past

So that our children won’t forget

While growing up so strong, so fast

The ancestors they never met

We always dream of what’s to come

And with this dream we become hooked

Although we think that we have none

These simple pleasures overlooked

Of life and love we have a lot

But to this we have no regard

What we need is not sold or bought

Its only found if we look hard

Just live the life that you have now

The future will be what it wants

Just remember to take your bow

And to make your dreams more than thoughts

From deep within ourselves we need

To find the peace the world can give

As small as the tiniest bead

It is all we need to live

(2004)

Innocence (song)

V1:
I'm lost in a foreign world
solitude but no peace.
I've ventured past my youth
the world's a scary place.

V2:
Death is everywhere
there is no hiding here.
Bombs falling from the air
no one without a tear.

Refrain:
I want to go back to when
my Daddy was a hero and
I want to go back to when
My mommy was a god.
Everybody was my friend
I was never wrong.
Back before my tragedy
Reality.

V3:
Lifting, growing, aging, trying
social security, medicare
slowly losing, quickly dying
Jesus, Mary almost there

Refrain:
But I want to to back to when
my Daddy was a hero and
I want to go back to when
my Mommy was a god.
Everybody knew just where
I had ever been.
Back before my tragedy
Senility.

V4:
Now I've made it home
I'm not alone anymore
there's nothing missing in my life
And I want you to know... I want you to know

Refrain:
I've made it back to when
my Daddy is my hero
I've made it back to when
my Mommy is my god.
Nothing to fear now
I won't shed a tear now.

(2005)