Reunion

There is just one bottle left to open

The others never made it through the week

The lip is cold the body nearly frozen

So take a drink

Adhere yourself be patient and cross legged

Let me breath you in, resuscitate

Let me take your hands and say remember

Yesterday…

Baby/there’s no denyin

I’m still alive/And I’m still trying

Hold you close late at night

While we reunite

You look the same, I know you’re getting older

But god has been kind to your pretty face

Sometimes I like to think I never met you

Then it stings much less when you’re away

You squeeze my hand and tell me to be stronger

Can’t help but be embarrassed when you say

You always have to tell me to be someone

Be someone, be someone

Baby/there’s no denyin

I’m still alive/And I’m still trying

Hold you close late at night

When we reunite

Just you stop your crying

Look at me I’m holding tight

Hold you close late at night

While we Reunite

Deep when we’re alone

Deeper in my life

Lucky

I locked the keys inside again/Oh well

I might be back on top again/Cant tell

I thought I’d sent bad karma back/To hell

For now I wait on Triple A /Oh well

But that’s the trick

That did you in

You let it spin and you got

Locked up, just trying to do your job and

Get right

Lock eyes, grab my hand and hold

It tight

Different face same place, day

Or night

You come and rescue me from

This fight

But that’s the clown

That got you round

You doubled down

And you got lucky

It’s strange what’s shaking lots of us

Around

The time is flying by without

A sound

We plead to let us play the game

Year round

But the rules are changing constantly

Fall out

Late at night I swallow love

hold tight

I wonder if there’s a better way to

Get it right

Does happiness lie in my fist

If I fight

Or am I standing staring at a

Green light

But that’s the tear

That got you here

You played with fear

And you got lucky

Cool If I Come Over

Ain’t it strange the way your mind works

Checks and balancing your day

You got it all inside that fat purse

It don’t fit but you shove it in there anyway

I been looking for you, looking for me

Your show is almost over

And you’re stuck in your seat

Here we go

I been holding out, cause you’re holding the key

Is it cool if I come over

And see if you’re into me

I conjure up your morning routine

Loud alarm that sounds your day

I know it involves a bit of sun cream

And a mask to keep the wolves at bay

I been looking for you, looking for me

Your show is almost over

And you’re stuck in your seat

Here we go

I been holding out, cause you’re holding the key

Is it cool if I come over

And see if you’re into me

Feelin lame

I hope you’re game

I’m insane

But I can change

Let it lay

Put it in play

I want to say

I want to stay….

I bet you got a lot of house cats

The landlord charges you a fee

A stack of magazines that say that you want that

The one thing missing there is me….

I been looking for you, looking for me

Your show is almost over

Gotta wait another week

Here we go

I been holding out, cause you’re holding the key

Is it cool if I come over

And see if you’re into me

Hot Times

Hot times in the 70s

Drugs are your friends and your enemies 

You’re sober

Then its over

Hold close all your vanities

Swallow the obscenities

No room for them

To make amends

But can you hold it

In the palm of your hand

break it down

and make it understand

Grip it tight

like a marker in the sand

type it up

like you’ve got a plan

fake the tell

you got the winning hand

hold your ground

like a marker in the sand

Hot trial of the century

a little piece of history

you always lose

when you’re on the news

it’s your biography

all about you when you’re the lead

fall over

then its over

Big One

Where have you been debutante?

Your eyes are painted shut

The culprit is the glossy wand

 You used when you made up

That pretty face ,

replaced something

Knuckles buried deep within

The grip of a six pack

The ice reminds you of the very urge your pushing back

There’s a burning but you need it so

There’s a raincloud and its heading back my way

There’s a valley where they’re giving out heartbreak

I’m on high ground  but I tell you I’m sliding down

And here I am just watching all

The walkers and their dogs

Hiding in plain sight like a good sentry of the smog

Invisible to only those who see, me

There’s a raincloud and its heading back my way

There’s a valley where they’re giving out heartbreak

Intoxicated, cause I’m thinking about her face

And its quiet when the big one starts to quake

And its quiet, when the big one starts to shake

Its all quiet when the big one starts to shake

Fifteen

I’ve been studying my waistbands

Taking out the wastecans

Checking my fly

I been living in the basement

Checking on my faceplant

While you’re telling lies

Alibis

15 candles and a big red sun

15 reasons that you couldn’t come

15 wishes and one to grow on

I got a pimple in my earlobe

Listening to Cee Lo

Getting high

My older brother is an asshole

He gives me such a hassle

Just for being my

Little size

15 candles and a big red sun

15 reasons that you couldn’t come

15 wishes and one to grow on

15 candles and a red balloon

15 reasons that you left so soon

15 excuses for being you

You….you broke my heart

You left me dry

When you said goodbye

But now I’m

Going blind

But I’ll survive

I’ll find

A better life

Hey Darlin'

Hey darlin, what you doing here tonight?

Your eyes are shining bright as the sun.

Hey baby, won’t you look at me tonight?

Wont you make me feel like

I’m the one…

There’s one life I’ve ever known

Much I’ve changed but not outgrown

I’m trying to make a go

Alone

But I can’t see without your stare

When your voice is never there

There’s a void hang in the air

At home

Hey darlin can you dance with me tonight

Let me hold you tight

In my arms

When I wake up

And I’m kicking myself

For not holding the door

When I had the chance

With this makeup

Am I fooling myself

Should have held you in my arms

When I had the chance

There’s one life I’ve ever known

Much I’ve changed but not outgrown

I’m trying to make a go

Alone

But I can’t see through blurry eyes

Can’t walk if I’m paralyzed

Useless, hypnotized and stoned

But not high

Hey darlin won’t you be with me tonight

Wont you make me feel like

I’m the one…

Bandaged Hand

I got a feelin, oh I got a feelin

I took a beating oh I took a beatin

But now, I know I need break from it now

I really need to break

I see you dealin, I know you’re cheatin

Aint got a full deck but still I see you dealing

And now

I know I need to fold what I’ve got

If I could just get

I got your heating, I know I got you heating

They turned the thermostat down to keep you breathin

But oh, I really like to hang with you oh

And I really want to hang out tonight

If I could just get it right

If I could just get it right

If I could just get it

The less I bleed the more I need it

The less I stare the more I see it

It’s like blowing out the sun with a paper fan

The less I eat the more I feed it

The less I give the more I receive it

Lessening the blow with a bandaged hand

I reached the ceiling, oh I reached it kneeling

Ain’t got a ladder but still I touch the ceiling and oh

I know you got it in for me now,

And not like in a bad way but how

If I could just get it right

I got my shit real tight

If I could just get it right

Crooked Wheel

I got a tattoo of a melody

I got the lyrics done in custody

I did some wrong

But now that’s gone

Inside my mental penitentiary

I’m just looking for a deal

And a way to make you mine

Think you better take the wheel, when you drive me

I’m no marksman but I shoot a lot

There’s not a battle that I haven’t fought

I don’t know what you took me for

But I’m never going back

Don’t let your preconception throw you off

I’m looking for a plan

And a place to park my van

Turn up the radio radio

Looking for a feel

Put the pedal to the metal

Take my crooked wheel

I lived a lifetime in a cheap motel

Underneath a portrait of a hookah shell

I carved my name

On the window pane

And sent my conscience right on back to hell

I am looking for a lake

And a place to park my brake

I leave the light on and I nurse a beer

Watch the lightning and I persevere (insincere, disappear)

There’s a nagging pain

And it feels like rain

Just keep pretending that you want me here—do ya?

I am looking for a line

And a way to call you mine

Trigger Finger

If you can make it through the flight

You just might win the fight

There’s a light on inside your head

I want to help you find your way

It’s rare I get to say

Everything’s gonna be ok

But I’m gonna pay

Every part of you is feeling like a photograph

Got that trigger finger all the time

“I’m dying here” is sure to be your epitaph

and you

you better laugh

There are worse things in the world

There might be a little girl

With a rock inside her kicks

If there’s one thing I have learned

Too much sun can burn

It ain’t nothing a that aloe can’t fix

So take your licks!

Every part of you is feeling like a photograph

Got that trigger finger all the time

“I’m dying here” is sure to be your epitaph

and you

you better laugh

Man I got your back

Keepin you on track

At least I’m trying

It’s not for a lack of tryin’

Every part of you is feeling like we’re gonna crash

Got that trigger finger all the time

“I’m dying here” is sure to be your epitaph

Honey Bee

You woke up

Even with the nightlight on

You’re seeing shadows in the break of dawn

You called out

Deep inside a dream of my own

It was a nightmare I was all alone

There was not a little ballerina

Dancing for no one

besides herself

You buzz around me like a honey bee

The world brand new awaits you wait for me…

Fill the cup

Water always does the trick

Seal the lid and let you cry with it

You grown up

I wrestle with it every day

Got to cherish every little frame

I know there was a time before you

But for the life of me I can’t recall

You bound around me always fancy free

The world brand new

Awaits you wait for me…

Ask me why

There's pain and there's lies

Don't always have the answer but I'm happy to try 

Ask me how

There's you and there's now

I'll share it with you soon as I can figure it out

Hang on my love 

Times running out

Cherish the day

that's what life is about

So ask me what

Song I should sing

Ill hum it just to hear you ask anything 

There you are

Smiling in the same old way

Cause maybe it’s your wedding day

I see it

Clear as I can see your face

There’s someone who steals your heart away

But you will always be my ballerina

Dancing like we only have ourselves

And you fly around me

Swaying next to me

The world brand new awaits you

Wait for me… Wait for me.

Angela

The night it brings a multitude of creeps and beggars and

They walk in a circle trapped in this foreign land

Waiting on something/ something real

I fly above it all, and I feel the moonlight breeze

Not even thinking why I’m flying with such ease

Angela you knew I’d come down

Grass in my teeth

Shame on me

This mortality

It seethes

Reminds me I’m not free

I dreamt I was a diver with a life supply air

I cut my teeth on coral with a deep breath and a prayer

I logged a hundred hours/ in that reef

Waves would crash above me but that didn’t bother me

But Angela I saw you and I knew I couldn’t breathe

I feel like a shell to the bottom of the sea

And woke up from my dream

Shame on me

This mortality

It seethes

Reminds you its not free

If I bleed

Will you carry me

If I need

Will you ferry me

When you said anytime did you mean anytime?

Cause this here’s my only my only dime.

I could try you later I could, oh I could try

But Angela, you set me, only you set me right

I dreamt I was a hero and all my parts were sound

No one gonna bother me, deep inside this cloud

Then I woke up from this dream

Shame on me…