Wednesday, August 17, 2022

Set List TikTok Live 9/15/2022

Lyrics For First TikTok Live
9/15/2022

Drinking and Thinking

I been a-drinkin
and a-thinkin
how sanity in me
keeps on shrinkin
I'm drinkin whiskey
which is risky
tonight.

I burned my midnights
into sunlights.
Reality
put up a good fight.
But with scotch
I will watch
it melt away.

Everybody thinks I'm crazy.
And my mind is over hazy
because she left me here
with bitterness and beer.

I'm a trippin
and a flippin
outta my mind
I keep on slippin
thru make believe
that I receive
tonight.

I been a-drinkin
and a-thinkin
how people are like eyes
that keep on blinkin
I'm sippin wine
but I'm not fine
tonight.

I see some motion
in the ocean.
Off the coast of everything
I hear commotion.
I'm here with sherry
on the ferry
tonight.

All their eyes stare straight at me
with criminal degrees.
They think I lost my way
because I always stay.

I'm where the door
meets the floor,
and I won't be back
anymore.
I'm mixing mai tais
with goodbyes
tonight.

Things I Never Showed You

I got things I never showed you
knick knacks broken bits of string
in a box with a keyhole
Sometimes I take it out to sing
Treasures trapped like frozen sinners
along the slowly passing years,
jewels I could have swore were winners
all just practice for the tears

Here's the time I touched your hand
a frozen Friday football loss
Here's the time I was the man
when I helped you bear your cross.

Honey I am not a dweller
I'm rarely ever caught like this
but we're the total of our travels
So I drink and dream and reminisce
Come tomorrow's rising sun
different lines will draw me clear
But tonight's just this open bottle
and all I want to be is here.

Here's every look you gave me,
stretched like ribbons to the start.
Here's the time we danced so slowly.
Here's your laugh and there's my heart

I got things I never showed you
knick knacks broken bits of string
in a box with a keyhole
Sometimes I take it out to sing
Treasures trapped like frozen sinners
along the slowly passing years,
jewels I could have swore were winners
all just practice for the tears

I Wanna Live on Sesame Street

If I lived near Big Bird’s house
I’d never have
to kill the mouse 
that runs the length of my floor.

ABCs and 1-2-3s,
these would mean
the world to me -
up, down, near, and far.

Triangles and storybooks
cooperate with funny looks.
Oh everything
has a voice.

I wanna to live
on Sesame Street.
I wanna rest
my weary feet.
I wanna live
on Sesame Street,
but the world
is far too real.

I’d never starve.  I’d never work.
That Oscar’s such 
an effin jerk.
I’d love to punch his eyes.
But if I lived near Big’s Bird’s house
I couldn’t even harm a mouse.
We’d dance until
the dawn.

Unknown

People have told me
before you die
great things will happen
and that is why
people will know you
They'll call your name
but great hasn't happened
It's all the same

My wind has blown
and I'm still unknown

Others have told me
You got an old soul
You know the meaning
of bitter and cold
You got this lens
so few can use
You build up these sculptures
and you call them the blues

My wind has blown
and I'm still unknown

The rest of you tell me
Keep doing your thing
You touch our hearts
with the words that you sing
Well I gotta tell you
some sadder truth still
touching your hearts
well it don't pay my bills.

My wind has blown
and I'm still unknown

Untitled Folk Song

I think the time has come
to change my mind
The coffee in my cup
has left me blind
I think the time has come
to change my dance
to tango past these clutches
of romance

Everyday these are the words 
I mumble
Before I take myself
into the jungle
where people pound their chests
like beasts to clouds above
while I feast
on unrequited love.

I think the time has come
to change my tune
to polish all the guns
and shoot the moon.
I think it's time
I lost my innocence
to bash these walls
to burn this picket fence

Everyday I got these 
little fires
that breathe the oxygen of 
my desire
to open up my mouth just once
to scream words in your face
to validate all this time
I waste.

I think the time has come
to stop the rain
to lick my wounds
and stumble thru the pain
I think the time has come
to shout THE END
to turn this car around
and start again.

Everyday I think in terms
of endings
Abandon what I've lost
and take my winnings
out into the nighttime cold
running down the street
I'm just searching for other ways
to eat

Leona Adams

Leona Adams
I thought about you today
Leona Adams
This is how I pray...pray...pray
I wondered if you wanted
to play.

Leona Adams
busty Miss 17
Cystic Fibrosis
kept you from being prom queen...queen...queen
Sometimes I think you
were a dream

Leona Adams
you wished we were closer in age
so we could be lovers
and you could keep turning your page...page...page
But your life was only
a cage.