RED RIVER ROLL ON BY COULDN’T CATCH ME IF YOU TRY LORD YOU GET DEEPER EVERYDAY IN A PUDDLE IN A PARKING LOT IN A FIELD OF FORGET-ME-NOT’S LORD THEY GET TALLER EVERYDAY I’M THE SAME I’VE ALWAYS BEEN I’LL ALWAYS BE I’M THE SAME ONE TRICK PONY IN A ONE HORSE TOWN TRIED TO…
Category: Dear Puppeteer
Safe to Say
something happens to my words between my brain and my throat. i can see them in there riding in a little paper boat. trying so hard just to stay afloat but it’s rough whether it’s a long letter or just a little note. i got so much i want to say. i don’t want to…
A Little Crazy
it’s true the talking heads in the news want to scare you everything is parsed in “yeah, but it could get worse” to keep us tuning in forever. somewhere a soldier’s sitting in the dead of summer in the ocean on a platform in the eye of a hurricane we came but we just can’t…
Like a Cartoon
i’m like a cartoon. i’m drawn to where i go. these clouds i’m below look like a painting. some times i wonder in slow mo like a child being flattened by a fat man fainting. may sound silly but it’s true. actually, most things do. lord, lord, i prayed to you. now here i am….
In the Basement
sitting here naked, sitting here hooked gonna get swallowed by an ancient book i’m sitting here starving, sitting here stuffed looking for my diamond, feeling rough like a scarecrow in love with a crow i can’t remember if i just don’t know my hands they tremble like a wind blown rose every day is an…
I’m Good Company
i’m trying to get drunk enough to cry got these tears lodged inside and sober they just cloud behind my eyes i’m trying to get drunk enough to cry i’m trying to get high enough to fly leave this cold cold ground behind soaring sure be sore in the morning i’m trying to get high…
The Garden
while on my way to walk through the garden while on my way i stopped in the city….. i still want to walk in that garden some day i hope that garden will wait for me. i met a man who looking at my hand said he could tell i didn’t work just by my…
When My Time Comes
When my time comes, I want the world to know though I loved my life, I do not hate to go Nonono. Nonono. it’s always been clear to me. I smile to think I’m here for but a little while. Yeah yeah yeah. Yeah yeah yeah. I won’t be on my knees pleading for more…
Train of Thoughts
There are those who will hate to see you shine because it reminds them of the blindness they’ve embraced they will talk you down all around town and then laugh and be all friendly face to face. But that don’t mean nothing’. That’s just nothing’ but mean. I mean, we all hate to feel small…
Choose Thy Love
There’s no easy way to say it. No way to say it right. We’ll be talking all day late into the night and in the morning we’ll come to see the light better for knowing worth the fight Cause I love you it’s growing too Makes me want to grow old for the first time…
Can’t Fly To Heaven
If only they’d crown the king of failure or gave a prize for heartache at the fair or gave a dime for every time you feared the jailer if juggling just meant throwing things in the air not getting younger, never found that fountain my bigger dreams now fit in my hand i’ve stopped looking…
Dear Puppeteer
i was carved from a block of wood a thousand years old by a boy who gave me my eyes and arms and legs he’s gettin pretty good at gettin me to do as i’m told he can’t hear me i beg my six strings one head one mouth two hands two feet my six…