Some Song Lyrics

Note on the Music: Although the technology apparently exists to make audio recordings in one's own home and make them available on the internet, this is, for the time being, beyond my ability. So the lyrics will have to do. If you want to try and imagine the chords, all the songs are a simple G-C-D construction. As a side note, if anyone has advice on how to break this addictive chord cycle, I'd be more than happy to hear it!

Freedom's Just Another Word
(Up-tempo, 4/4, kind of a Buddy Holly beat)

I smoked my morning cigarette
One more moment to regret
and I don't think I'm
coming back to bed.
Been listening to the radio
they played a song we used to know.
the words just keep on rolling
through my head
And you must know
that I've been thinking
'cause I know
you weren't just out drinking last night
Yeah, but it's all right -

Chorus
'Cause Baby here I go
I'm gonna find my way
I'm gonna live from day to day
And I'm gonna find my very own
point of view
But as I'm standing on the threshold
of tomorrow,
I'm thinkin' freedom's just another word for loosin' you.

Now we don't get the Sunday paper anymore
So I'm staring at the wrong side of the door
and I'm wondering if I should even wake you up.
But I'll just let you rest your head.
And I'll leave some asprin by the bed,
with a note that says I wish you lots of luck.

Chorus

There ain't no difference anymore
Between Love and Radiance
And I'm not losing, even though I'm lost.
But everywhere I go, everyone I meet,
every smile I throw,
not smiling at you will be the hidden cost.

Chorus

MoonShine (Hemmingway Waltz)
(Mid-tempo waltz)

I took a walk by the creek,
thought I heard Hem speak.
He said, "Hey, what the hell's goin' on?
It's been so many years,
so many more tears,
I thought by now you'd have moved on."
And I said, "What am I supposed to do,
learn some sort of lesson from you?
You couldn't even stick it out.
There's still the same old wilderness
of loneliness and tenderness,
and yes, the overshadowing doubt."

Chorus
Moon, shine on the valley
Moon, shine on me
You took your life, took your heart,
took your hand for yourself.
Go down and let me be.

The moon takes it's toll.
The smoke still rolls, off my tongue
when I try to speak.
But I keep in mind there's an end of the line
out here over one of these peaks.
So what am I supposed to do,
learn some sort of lesson from you?
I'd never let it get that far.
But the moon keeps on chasin' me,
aw, Pappa, can't you see?
The moon is my favorite star.

Chorus

Now I see your face
in the same old place.
Same expression, year after year.
Who burned out who, the moon or you?
It seems to me, that's perfectly clear.
Is this what I'm supposed to do,
learn this rotten lesson from you?
I don't know if I can.
I'll still be lettin' time fly by
still be lookin' to the sky
for a glimpse of my favorite old man.

Chorus

Buy Me Another Drink
(Kinda Bluegrassy)

You asked me where I went to school
and right then I thought you were cool.
I knew that it was true when you sat down.
You looked around the bar and asked why everyone was smiling
We don't see a lot of strangers in this town.

Chorus
If you buy me another drink
I just might start to feel, I think
I'm falling for you and I know just why.
It's the stories you're not telling me,
the lines that you're not selling me,
I think you just might be my kind of guy.

Oh, my head is firmly on the ground
My feet up in the clouds, another night out on the town.

Now here we are at closing time,
talkin' 'bout your place or mine,
I'm sorry, babe, but I don't think I can.
For while you are my kind of guy
there's something new I'd like to try.
Just for a change, I'd like to have a man.

The Long Run
(It's a ballad)


A rain drop hits my windshield
and it's just an old cliche.
It takes me back to you, my dear,
and dreams of yesterday.
I should have known better
that to think you were the kind
that I could loose forever
in the darkness of my mind.

Chorus
Now I'm moving on, and you're still long from gone. And I'm still so far from anyplace I'd call home. But there's one thing I do know - in the long run, we're better off alone.

Right now with you was always good, tomorrow had it's doubts.
I feel like standing in a rain storm to wash the whole thing out.
Maybe I took you for granted, maybe you did the same for me. We did the best that we could do when we set each other free. Chorus

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