SAWTOOTH REQUIEM Sawtooth Mountain. Working minimum wage Clearing slash for a trail for the lift to the edge Snow starts to falling the wind blowing sharp Freezing my breath and breakin' heart Some men's got to hunt. Some men's gotta ski…

SLAUGHTER MOUNTAIN My mom’s dad was a coal miner. Her mother died of TB when she was a kid. When she was twelve, her dad, dying of black lung, slit his throat with a butcher knife. That left her with a cripple little brother to take care of…

PERFECT When I said, “She’s perfect,” I meant she’s Perfect for me You might not see her that Perfectly When 1 and 1 is 2 and 2 and 1 is three, that’s math and on math we all agree But Perfect has a sliding scale on which we all find our…

CALIFORNIA Capo @ 4 in C/Am I’m (Am) going back to California A little place in the San (E) Joaquin (Am, stepping down A G F# F E) Where the back pasture builds To Sierra foothills And Kaweah tumbles down cool and clean I’m going back…

This is all me... VOICES There is something deep inside that wants to laugh and cry Something that would like to tell it's story There is something deep inside that wants to dance and wants to fly Maybe you would guess it's called the…

There are things I hear But it's not with my ear Voices calling. Who is calling? (C) 2020 Royal T Music

RAGE a song by Jeff Prince Smoke curls 'round her finger tips and rises toward the light She crumbles up another pack and curses at the night And that god-damned clock, Tik tok, tik tok, mocks her mournful face From kitchen wall to kitchen…