Singing Sailors Cover

Singing Sailors Cover (2017)

There's a river between us now
Some state line borders, some broken towns
Some singing sailors doing what they please
Now I'm down to saying prayers on my knees

I've loved your eyes, your innocence
In the face of bad times and where it wents
There's no wind on this bitter earth
Time and distance claim my blues for what they're worth

I'd call your name when I grew scared
I'd write your home if you were there
I am so broken by losing you
Only life can heal and see me through

When it "rains" I'm all alone,
confused by lonely, headed for home
Some singing sailors doing what they please
Now I'm down to saying prayers on my knees

There's a river between us now
Some state line borders, some broken town
Some singing sailors doing what they please
Now I'm down to saying prayers on my knees
Now I'm down to saying prayers on my knees

Maria Spanish Rose Cover

Maria Spanish Rose Cover (2016)

She was a rose in Spanish clothes
Had her hair hung down, all shiny brown
I asked her name as the sun did wane
She said ‘Maria, I’ll be around’
She said ‘Maria, I’ll be around’

And that’s when cold said I was old
That I had no reason to sing this song
But I was fooled, my heart was unschooled
And Maria came along 
In a bomber jacket, chewing gum
On an ancient cycle, in the streets of town
She rode her Harley, I wore a gun
No one ever said a thing about what we’d done
This old poet and his girl so young
Were blind to time, refused to run
Came full circle in Mexico
In the night by the stars and the moon glow

She was a rose in Spanish clothes
Had her hair hung down, all shiny brown
I asked her name as the sun did wane
She said ‘Maria, I’ll be around’
She said ‘Maria, I’ll be around’

One Path Left to Go Early Version

One Path Left to Go (2015)

All my Life I have tumbled in the wind

All my life I have walked the path of sin

The storms of summer come and the blizzards finally go

But my own fate I'll never know

Read it in the papers that they're planning for a war

Extraordinary weapons that I've always abhorred

Will lay a lonely child to waste

His momentary pain will then pass away

The leaders of this nation in their manicured place

Claim I've done awful deeds of horrible disgrace

As they launch their bombs unto the towns

The parasites inside make people drown

They'll tear out their insides in a horrible display

Of chemical perfection made in a lab far away

With money that you and I have earned

We pay to see these children burn

People are freezing and starving in the street

We waste our lives toiling for corporate greed

United we can take a stand

Money'd devils won't give us commands

Another time, another place, the world might be ok

But not tomorrow, not today, while we all drown in pain

The wealthy have bought out all our souls

And we're chained down, just one path left to go

Oak Park Spirit Dance

Oak Park Spirit Dance (2016)

The Spirits of Oak part drift down the dark urban corridors. Witching Hour is near. Their tones and timbres give us an uplifting feeling... for the Summer Solstice will soon be upon us.

Come into the Garden - Nick Drake Cover

Come into the Garden - Nick Drake Cover (2015)

Original written by the legendary British artist Nick Drake (1948 - 1974)

In the bright red sky

In the heat of an evening

When only prisoners sleep

She said she couldn't

Come to the garden

See an old man weep

She said her dreams were too far to be thought of

Her scars too wide to heal

She said she couldn't come to the garden

See a blind man kneel

She sailed away to a blue horizon

In floating thoughts she'd sway

She said she couldn't come to the garden

See an old man pray

She wished them luck as they left on their journey

Maybe she'd join them soon

But she lost her grip at the tip of life's fingers

Went home and worshiped the moon

Drone Citizen

Drone Citizen (2015)

I toiled for meager wages
For two decade and a half
Finally the blindness took me in
Didn't realize what they've done to my head
Spread disease and laid the blame with me

Your health will be secure, the manager then said
As I ate his lies, destitute and dumb
In agony I pray to a god who is never there
Save the broken shell that I've become

All the drones toil on in the burning sun
The privileged classes look away
Our effort is led on by their pointed guns
Our only real escape from this is death

A decade has passed since machines could think alone
They'd help mankind, their makers proudly said
I shake and shiver in my cold fluorescent home
The room is bare, my savings growing thin

Classified for life as the ones who will die
Working for the privilege of the few
We're desensitized, pupils dyed pure white
Sleep dreamless, conquered by the truth

I listen to the rain and the telecast machine
The agents talk of wars in distant lands
I weep for the end of my family's proud tree
Sterilized, by the higher classes hand

Swept away in pain, I am trembling
Wishing for my consciousness to cease
Shattered dreams all die, hope is crucified
Emotions numbed, yet I remember grief

Nuclear Silhouettes

Nuclear Silhouettes (2015)