DRAGONFLY Using loops from a program called ACID (c) 2002 Royal T Music

SWEET YOUNG THING He lays out a freshly-pressed Arrow Clean socks and his new underwear He brushes his teeth with tooth paste It seems there's a charge in the air And he thinks about that Sweet Young Thing And how she trembled the night…

Video at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lMyTe57GAR4 That Same Conversation Linda lies, listening, quiet as a mouse She can hear their voices echoing all thru the house She listens sadly as Mommy and Daddy Are having That Same Conversation…

WOULD YOU FORSAKE A MEMORY If what we do is what we are And every pain will leave a scar Love must leave a beauty mark A light to guide us when it's dark And tenderness, a hope for more And Trust, a key to any door What comfort, then…

FOREVER EYES Let's just say it's 20 years from now Your hair's turned gray and I'm still alive, somehow When all is lost, we've found, that money buys Will I still see Forever in your eyes? Let's just say our promises are true That you…

I was in Spain, in the Pyrenees, working on THE STONE RAFT. I was the only American, read, "English speaker." I was feeling very alone. SOLITARY WALK Am INTRO Am F Am F Am (walking down) G F G Tho I follow in the footprints of my friends…

NO NEW LOVE Ain't no new love like an old love in this town Ain't no new love like an old love to take and turn my heart around Stop it on a dime when you said that you'd be mine Ain't no new love like an old love in my heart Ain't no…

CHOICES "After my house burn down I was confuse. Why are they burning down my house? My neighbor house..." "We called it The American War." My friend, John, said this about this bit of audio drama: I had forgotten how painful I find…

I have a video called THE BROKE PIANO on line at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JON_poM_sdY Ironically, it does not include this song. Key D D (figure is D D sus, D D sus) I am a BROKE PIANO. Got no damper and no keys G…

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…

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…

DENIAL SANATA Denial's not a river in Egypt. Oh, yes it is. Oh, yes it is. The Nile is a river in Egypt Oh, yes it is. Oh, yes it is Put your feet in the water Put your head in the sand Put your hands in your pockets Try to clap for…

SHE DIDN'T KNOW Her flame wasn't orange. It was white. The kind you can't see at the noon day bright. Not the fickle flicker of a candle light But a point miles off on a moonless night She didn't know she was beautiful Nobody told her…

COUNTER

SLOOP JOHN B - REVISITED My 9/11 song Come on the Sloop John B, my grandfather and me Blindly sailing. Hopes are failing. Storm hangs o're the sea Guns a-blazing! Blaze amazing. Pants down around my feet Captain, he got drunk. Just sits…

SONG OF THE CIRCLING MOON We live on the shore of a mighty sea Where the current is strong and nothing is free The water is cool at the warmest noon And the tides are ruled by a circling moon We live on the edge of eternity With our minds…

TEENAGERS ARE STUPID Teenagers are stupid At least I was All the silly things we'd say Silly, silly things "Everyone is doing it." It's a wonder we lived to be this old Teenagers are stupid Teenagers are stupid What a hoot How can…

THERE IS A LOVE There is a love that withers. There is a love that fades The kind of love that makes you wanna hide behind the door Pull down all the shades There is a love that makes me wanna tell you About how good I feel There is a…

PALMDALE, CALIFORNIA 1951 Palmdale, California 1951. Pretty yellow chickens hatching in the sun Fertilizer spreader flings its fecal load. I climb up to watch in the trees along the road. Little chickens, running, pecking, darting, so…

WE DON'T KNOW MUCH We don't know much... We could be sad and not know why We could say we're happy and know that it's a lie We could say we're finished and start right up again We could sware we're losin' and turn around and win We could…