OUT THERE SOMEWHERE Her eyes were blurry. Her face was painted Her hair was dyed black. Her purse was heavy She said something. I asked her to repeat it She said, “Stop the car. I thot I could trust you.” I pulled it over and I waited…

(c) 2000 Royal T Music

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…

THE LAST TIME The last time we said good-bye I didn't even look her in the eye The last time I kissed her mouth I didn't even think about Some day I'd have to do without If I never see her again I don't know why If I ever see her again…

GRAMMA’S SHAMPOO Capo @ 3 Key Bm Bm7 Am7 Bm7 Am7 GRAMMA’S SHAMPOO is washing my hair G D C Bm7 And I hope it will notice that…

(c) 2000 Royal T Music

There was a movie Peggy and I were doing the location sound over in east Dallas: THE HOLDINGS OF THE HEART. If I remember right they put this song in the movie. THE HOLDINGS OF THE HEART - in C The heart can hold a lot of things: the sunshine…

(c) 2000 Royal T Music

AFTER WE'RE BROKEN After we're broken we will turn from a fight Ask what it pays and not if it's right Reaching for balance while falling from grace Fall from the light without losing our face After we're broken we know it's too late…

(c) 2000 Royal T Music

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…

(c) 2000 Royal T Music

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…

Peggy left in the winter of 2007. Seems like yesterday. I dream of her so often it seems that she is still around here somewhere. When Peggy comes home I’ll have the dishes put away The floors will be swept and all the bills will be paid…

If I'm not mistaken this is my first Mozart piece. © 2009 Royal T Music

Off the coast of California where the dolphins jump the waves We stood and watched them from the cliffs above Until the sunlight went away Then we slept in the ancient shadows underneath the redwood trees…

The Map Is Getting Smaller The map is getting smaller The houses disappear The streets I used to play in Have all disappeared The map is getting smaller The high ways far and near The road that went to Gramma's house I watched it disappear…

THE GATHERING "...and I was lead to the mountain top, and I beheld the valley beneath me. And the angels were below me and the sky above. And I was shining. The lightning was in my blood and the thunder was in my fist. "These can be yours…

THE FINAL WORD One night James Michael went to bed and held on to this girl And in the morning light he found that it was another world Realities envisioned seemed to challenge status quo And every time he would say, “Yes.” the world, it…

TETHER BALL I'm justa lonely tether ball hanging on a pole I've been around and I've see it all And it all gets really old Just a lonely tether ball Tired of taking my licks I've been beat up and I've been beat down Watching' you gettin…