STRICKEN - James Michael Taylor Boy's Theme (River Phoenix) in River's last movie, DARK BLOOD. ...none the less, in my broken mind, some of the false hope leaks thru... Key D capo @ 2 in C I've been C stricken. I've been pierced…

I can't remember her name. I saw her at Kerrville back in 2005. A little blond that always wore a leather cowboy had, played keys and wrote music for movies. (Someone remind me.) COULD SHE KNOW Could she know I think about her Thinking…

From a poem by Shannon Elizabeth Hardwick Francine Creates Her Story As If Asked to Author Her Own Birth Francine eats oranges like they are herself in a field after a long swim in the river next to her father's house and she is warm in…

Many years ago I read the Herman Hesse book Siddhartha. It tells the story of a family man who meets his dream girl and he leaves it all to be with her. She is what he lives for. Then she leaves him and he finishes his life sitting beside the…

TOO MUCH I've heard too much. I've seen too much. Don't ask me any questions because I know too much. I've read too much. I've written too much. Consider the lilies of the field. I know exactly how they feel My mom told me to be like…

The "umph" heard round the world. This month the killing of Lee Harvey Oswald will be 50 years ago. A remembrance by GHOST OF JOHN MURPHY. On the VOICES CD. (C) 2013 Royal T Music

Sometimes it's hard to figure out what just happened. And then again it's sometimes hard to figure out something that happened years ago. (To answer the question by the commenter, that's all me and my little self all alone in the basement…

TRUCK ...for a movie titled DARK BLOOD. The movie takes place in an area poisoned by nuclear testing. There is a flash back to the cataclysm... (C) 2012 Royal T Music

AFTER VEGAS For the movie DARK BLOOD (C) 2012 Royal T Music

DOWN THE ROAD Actually, from the soundtrack of RED DESERT PENITENTIARY, this fragment of the original is used in a scene in the movie, DARK BLOOD. (C) 2012 Royal T Music