MOUNTAINS & FOG

Got a good thing cookin' with the record player on

We're goin' down, down, down but we keep keepin' on

We got the rhythm that's startin' to please

It sounds a little like Booker T & The MG's

 

(CHORUS)

Got my old lady

Got my dog

Got my old lady

Got my dog

Got the mountains

Got the fog

 

There ain't much shade and it's even humid there

I grab a cold beer from my refrigerator

My old guitar don't wanna stay in tune

And that mean old sun got no love for the moon

REPEAT CHORUS

There ain't no way out and it's hell gettin' in

But once you're there it's like a heavenly sin

Now we've moved to the scotch I'm havin' some fun

I got my head boppin' like I'm Donald "Duck" Dunn

REPEAT CHORUS

 

TAKE THE TROWEL

Do it so it's a reflex

Polish it like it's silver

Twist and turn the words around

Til the order makes you shiver

 

Write the lines the good and bad

Just get them all out

Re-buff the lines of history

If you ever have a doubt

 

Don't take it all too serious

It should be like child's play

And if it all gets too heavy

Take a little holiday

 

Walk in the steps of the giants

So your shadow will be hid

Harvest the seeds of inspiration

And raise them like your kid

 

In time they will blossom

You'll forget they were ever gone

You won't know if they came from Leonard

Tom or Keith or Bob or John

 

It matters not to the work

It's a job that must be done

I'll humbly take the trowel

And toil under the sun

 

WEAVE THROUGH THE FIRE

Weave through the fire

Sing some blues

Regarding matters of the heart

Tell em the news

 

Weave through the fire

You got the moves

Waltz through the fire

Sing some blues

 

Go down to the river

Try to wash away your sins

You've been wearin' em for years

Ever since where did it all begin

 

Time can be an enemy

Have you heard the news

Weave through the fire

Singin' the blues

 

Ya capture it

You got only this life to live

With one hand lend

With the other hand give

 

Put your feet on the platform

Wearin' your blue suede shoes

Weave through the fire

Singing the blues

 

Regarding matters of the heart

You better tell them the news

You gotta weave through the fire

Wearin' them rock and roll shoes

 

It wasn't just a fad

Oh am I the one to break the news

You gotta weave through the fire

Singin' the blues

 

BETTER THAN THIS

Sun beatin' down on the open road

Got the windows up and the air on

Taking the turns with the magic of the chords

Floatin' on the rush of seeing the bison

 

We're holdin' strong and sneakin' a kiss

Life can't get much better than this

Our feet on the ground

Our heads in heavenly bliss

Life can't get much better than this

 

Watching the mountains grow

Surrounding our meek little lives

Embracing each second

As the next one arrives

 

Knowing it's fleeting

And it wasn't built to last

But that's part of the charm

When you're livin' this fast

 

We're still holdin' strong and trynna sneakin' a kiss

Life can't get much better than this

Our feet on the ground

Our heads in heavenly bliss

Life can't get much better than this

 

Sun beatin' down on the open road

Got the windows up and the air on

Taking the turns with the magic of the chords

Floatin' on the rush of seeing the bison

 

We're holdin' strong and sneakin' a kiss

Life can't get much better than this

Our feet on the ground

Our heads in heavenly bliss

Life can't get much better than this

 

THE SOUND

There's a chill in the air in the morning

The leaves they keep threatening frost

The garden keeps promising harvest

But there's rivers we still gotta cross

 

The moon declares itself the victor

But the sun is winning this round

I got my ear to the wind

Searchin' for the sound

 

Got the itch in my fingers for leavin'

It's workin' it's way to my toes

The afternoon is so humid

While the evening nips at my nose

 

I got a melody that I'm hummin

It was quiet now it's starting to pound

I got my heart to the wind

Searchin' for the sound

 

I forgive the winter for coming

I forgive the summer for it's death

Sure the air might be getting colder

But not to the point of seeing my breath

 

 The gentleness of my lover

Keeps my feet on the ground

I bare my soul to the wind

Searchin' for the sound

 

The pages that I keep on filling

Take up too much space on my shelf

But I think it's for the best

Rather than keeping them all to myself

 

There was a time it was fleeting

A time when the holy muse frowned

My eyes tear up from the wind

Searchin' for the sound

 

BIG LUV

We're in the city where the angels weep

And where crime never seems to wanna go to sleep

We live by our virtues and unwavering trust

As we cross the bridge that is made out of rust

 

You play it cool as I reminisce

You play it cool as I give you a kiss

The mud below and the sky above

Gimme some of that big luv

 

There's too much construction and no place to park

We'll be lucky if we get anywhere before it gets dark

I showed you the rink where we made our own rules

I showed you the school where they taught all the fools

 

 You took it all in you had excellent form

You took it all in though it was way to warm

The mud below and the sky above

Gimme some of that big luv

 

I'm glad to be leavin' and I'm glad that we came

Some things are different than others

Some are painfully the same

But it's all temporary at least in our world

Soon everything will start to unfurl

 

I don't need nothing but to live by your charms

I don't need nothing when you lay in my arms

The mud below and the sky above

Gimme some of that big luv

 

DAYDREAM

My focus was steady

But now it's starting to drift

I gotta follow the muse

I gotta respect the gift

 

Need to wrap this package

In a neat little bow

Search for questions

Get answers as I go

 

I'm stuck in a daydream

Where everything makes sense

There is no past or future

Only present tense

 

I've almost completed

The task I had at hand

I don't know if it'll last

I don't know where it will stand

 

But I lived it and wrote it

That'll have to be good enough

I'll either lose this hand

Or they won't call my bluff

 

I'm stuck in a daydream

Where everything makes sense

There is no past or future

Only present tense

 

I wear this cowboy shirt

I've got my cowboy scars

I've got wounds you can't see

That I healed in the bars

 

I've learned to move on

Or at least kid myself I have

Sometimes I know better

Sometimes I just gotta laugh

 

I'm stuck in a daydream

Where everything makes sense

There is no past or future

Only present tense

 

 LINGER

Don't call it a crisis

It ain't all that bad

Don't call it a panic

My excuses are iron clad

Maybe it's the age

Maybe it's just today

Maybe it will linger

Maybe it will go away

 

I'm not angry

I'm not disappointed

All my feelings

Seem to be endlessly disjointed

 

I can smile

I can cry

True emotions

I can not deny

 

Don't call it a crisis

It ain't all that bad

Don't call it a panic

My excuses are iron clad

Maybe it's the age

Maybe it's just today

Maybe it will linger

Maybe it will go away

 

I've got some friends

But they're not that close

I had some before

And I almost overdosed

 

Got my will to write

And I got my ink

Got my own little family

And that's good enough I think

 

Don't call it a crisis

It ain't all that bad

Don't call it a panic

My excuses are iron clad

Maybe it's the age

Maybe it's just today

Maybe it will linger

Maybe it will go away

 

LAUGHTER

In the field

We hear the train

Cryin' out it's song

In the drivin' prairie rain

 

In the tent together

Watching the clouds as they swirled

Everything as it should be

Us against the world

 

Waiting for the rainbows

That eventually will come

Laughing till we're giddy

Laughing till we're dumb

 

All is quiet now

I can't say for how long

The sky may stay clear

Or the wind may come on strong

 

Either way we'll be together

No tempest can bring us down

We'll stomp on the terrace

We'll survive this town

 

Waiting for the rainbows

That eventually will come

Laughing till we're giddy

Laughing till we're dumb

 

Now the fall's upon us

As we sit and wait

Living life together

Ain't it great?

 

Let them think they conquered

Let the fools (bastards) think they won

For we know the real story

No matter how many webs they've spun

 

We're living their fantasy

We're beatin' on the drum

Laughing till we're giddy

Laughing till we're dumb

 

 GOODBYE J.R

Goodbye JR

Thanks for all your good

Though you'll never get the credit

That you probably should

 

Goodbye JR

The music lives on

The dawn is now more lonely

With you gone

 

You carried the weight

After all these years

Managed to find

A way to sing through the tears

 

You taught the blessings

Without too much preachin'

You put into words

The shape we were in

 

Goodbye JR

Thanks for all your good

Though you'll never get the credit

That you probably should

 

Goodbye JR

The music lives on

The dawn is now more lonely

With you gone

 

You got me under a spell

In a cosmic trance

The code of handsome lake

And the ghost dance

 

One sky above

One earth below

Well it's in my blood

And I can't let it go

 

Goodbye JR

Thanks for all the good

Though you'll never get the credit

That you probably should

 

Goodbye JR

The music lives on

The dawn is now more lonely

With you gone

 

There was a low road

Where the mud was flung

But you took the high one

With the words that you sung

 

No fear of fallin'

When the night was young

Got Madame X's voodoo

On the tip of my tongue

 

Goodbye JR

Thanks for all your good

Though you'll never get the credit

That you probably should

 

Goodbye JR

The music lives on

The dawn is now more lonesome

With you gone

 

Your voice it rings out

And it gives me a shiver

I'll meet you someday

By that ol' crazy river

 

There was many an ego

There were plenty of faults

But you brought them all together

One more time for the last waltz

 

Goodbye JR

Thanks for all your good

Though you'll never get the credit

That you probably should

 

Goodbye Robbie

The music lives on

The dawn is now more lonesome

With you gone