Ever read the book of JOB. I read it the first week I was in prison. It made all the difference.

Just trying to capture what happened at my front door just now.

Refuge into the imagination: Is it crazy? Is it survival? Is desire to survive crazy? THERE SHE WAS Key - G 102811 G She'd been gone for three years now so he'd been on the road Playing every truck stop bar and every song he…

This comes from a Steppenwolf song from back when. It has always been one of the most powerful statements of protest for me.

The Cindy I mention in this song is Cindy Sheehan. This was before out trip to Crawford. The rest is pretty self-explained. HEROS No, I ain't no hero, I'm just trying to survive Me and Cindy, just staying alive. Got a hurt in our heart and…

In 1951 I was eight years old but it's all like yesterday. The tumbleweeds and the horny toads. Flying kites so far into the desert air that I couldn't see them. Palmdale, California, 1951 Pretty yellow chickens hating in the sun Fertilizer…

Sometimes it might be best not to even think about what terrible things might happen. It might be part of setting those very terrible things in motion. How can one know?

WILD BILL Key C C Bass F# Am Bass G Bass F Bass C The moon shone like diamonds on mirrors in puddles shaped like horse’s feet Dm Dm - Dm…

I learned a chord my teacher told me was called THE GYPSY CHORD. So I wrote a song using nothing but that chord. Initially I had a girl named ....... in it but she didn't like that so I changed her name to, what was it, Emily.

One night after three month of no rain, as we were driving home from singing at Gringos in Grapevine a splash of water hit the windshield. I said to myself, "Sweet Rain." I went home and wrote the song. It's on the soundtrack of a movie called…