SHOES During the Iraq war there was a traveling exhibit: On a mall they would line up pairs of boots. One pair for each American soldier killed in Iraq. (c) 2006 Royal T Music

CHAMELEON She's a chameleon. "Been there. Done that." She's a chameleon, if you know my Ilene She's a chameleon At first I thot that we were twins in spirit Everything I'd touched, she'd been near it Shaking her head, "Yes, I know…

For a short clip of of a video of this: https://vimeo.com/214337550/f68cc0c21b This song made me a professional songwriter when George Sluizer, the director of THE VANISHING, put it in the movie by that name. SWEET RAIN Key G G…

I wrote this song after planting and fertalizing a crop of sudan grass just to have the sun shine down with no relief on it for 100 days and no rain. We, Texas Water, were heading home one night AFTER A GIG at Gringo's in Grapevine when the…

I had this house I had been working on and I had all my movie making stuff in it. It burned down. That's sort of like this song but not... WASTING OF YEARS by James Michael Taylor I have a brain that I must keep busy I have a heart with…

ACID TEARS As the hours turn into days and the weeks turn into years I am happy, but I'm always close to tears Surely as the love that we share will last forever Our bodies will die and our love will go on And tho the thot that love will…

It’s a small town. Woodlake, California. East side of the San Joaquin Valley. 14 miles from where all those “Lindsey” olives you see on your grocery store shelves come from. The Woodlake Echo, says, “In the foothills of the Sequoias”. FOOTHILLS…

BEANSPILLER I'm a beanspiller I'm a squeaky wheel I'm the guy that speaks up and ruins the deal and when you get hurt I say,"Ouch!" I'm the change you loose in your couch I'm a leaky faucet I'm a tree that weeps I'm a tattle tale…

WHERE Where will I spend the rest of our life? Where will I live our tomorrow Our only hope springs from within your sorrow And if I thot your pain could be bought I'd start saving today for tomorrow Where, where Our only hope springs…

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