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…

(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

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

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

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…

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…

(c) 2000 Royal T Music

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) 2007 Royal T Music

(c) 2007 Royal T Music

PAGAN MAN Pagan man in a pagan land You need britches britches Sell 'em to the Indian Trade 'em to the Indian Dump 'em on the Indian Pagan man in a pagan land You need horses, horses Sell 'em to the Indian Trade 'em to the Indian…

(c) 2007 Royal T Music

YOU - capo 2 G DCG There's a place in my (GG.G)mind Where your face had a home Long before you walked into my life Before you were a (D)known There's (C)note in my (GG.G)song That I knew fit somewhere Tho…

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

This is from a poem by Cindy Sheehan's daughter, who's name I will include here when I remember it. It's her response to losing her brother in the Iraq war. A much publicised death. I think her name is Carlie. A NATION ROCKED TO SLEEP Have…

KAMP KERR Well, I ain't no hero. I'm just trying to survive Me and Cindy, we just staying alive We got a hurt in our heart and a tear in our eye But, we ain't heroes There's a small-town constable, he likes to play cop So he bought a…

TESLA Who invented remote control? TESLA Who invented the fluorescent light? TESLA Who invented the radio? TESLA And who died alone and forgotten in 1943? TESLA So, you say now, “Don’t be angry.” And you say, “Just tell the story…

When I wrote this I thought the idea was pretty far-fetched. Little did I know... I started this song in Nashville. I was hanging out with Lisa Aschmann. She was going to tell me a melody for it but that never happened so I took the…

ADOLESCENT ANGEL - capo @ 6 in C C F C Morning sun shies thru the curtains C G C Throwing shadows on her face C F C I…

JESSE I never met Jesse, but I heard her howl in the night And I heard her pup yelping for whatever they help for She was strong and she was there in the Texas night Out on the prairie between Alvarado and Lillian You could hear them, singing…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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 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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

THE LAST WOMAN ON EARTH You will admit, of course that the life of the world is your life What you know of history is your history And what you know of the future is your future And that goes for women we must presume The women you have…