JUST A CAT It looks like someone taped a firecracker to him and blew it off. "Firecracker?" He's just a cat. Just a cat. A raggedy old cat. So why are we crying? The world is on fire. Light the fuse. It's a firecracker "Firecracker…

NEW DAY Key A A E A E In the morning when she gets me up A E D E Pours some wake up in my coffee cup A D E A (D A E) She opens the window…

NEW DAY Key A A E A E In the morning when she gets me up A E D E Pours some wake up in my coffee cup A D E A (D A E) She opens the window…

The Brighter Candle The brighter candle knows the truth In golden glow of brightest sun And knows there’s no eternal youth The brighter candle So many, walking, go nowhere On bikes and skates with silver hair It’s like a dream she once…

Written for the movie THE STONE RAFT Que Paso capo @ 5 in G Am/G x3 G G bass Em Am bass G bass F# The man on the radio said we are falling apart Am bass G bass F# G Falling apart…

I found this poem I wrote back before she left. I put music to it and recorded it night before last. Yeah, the high voice is me too. LEAVING Key Am Am Dm He rattles like a tambourine, his…

I found this poem I wrote back before she left. I put music to it and recorded it night before last. Yeah, the high voice is me too. LEAVING Key Am Am Dm He rattles like a tambourine, his…

PRETTY THING She hears the termites in the wall while he's sleeping He can't even hear the phone from outside She smells the cigarette from neighbors out smoking He's got a nose but best she figures it died She likes the bed made up but…

THE HAND OF GOD I wrote this for a movie Keith Kjornes and I were making. I don't remember the name of it. I was trying to write a song as bad as the movie. I think I succeeded. The hand of god reached down and made Adam He said…

Maia was from Georgia. The Georgia that was part of the the USSR. She drew pictures of her sisters. She lived on orange juice and tea. (Horns by my brother, John.) MEETING MAIA Where the tram stops in front of the Van Gough Museum, I waited…