Magnetic North

Really clipped a big one this time

Tore me down to pieces deep inside

why'd you have to make it all seem fine

right up to moment it went side -ways 

Woke up to the dream that you were gone

You weren't even ever here, you must have been a song

And in turn the whole world felt so wrong

Why'd you have to be a song

 Babe

Why'd you have to take your love away

After all the crazy games you played

Seemed like we had finally found our way

Why'd you have to go away

You were my magnetic north

Through the driving wind a driving force

You always were the one to set the course 

Now you left me here with no direction

There's a star that shined just to your right

Kept me oriented to you through the night

and it filled my darkness with such light

why'd it have to shine so bright

Babe

Yeah, you really fucked me up this time

As betrayal goes to woe you were the paradigm

I fell for you like rockets from the sky

Burning hard and stupefied

Babe

There is a silence when nighttime falls

Echoes loudly in the wood and in between the walls

Outside where all the wild beasts still call

Lies the sound of how you broke it all

Theres a midnight bell that sounds for joy

Stains the waking hours of this lonesome boy

Strange weather in the forecast for the forgotten toys

And I'd really like to find some joy so

Babe

 Babe

You Didn't have to take it all away

After all the crazy games we played

After all we'd finally found our way

So why'd you have to go away

 Here's a coat to keep you from the cold

keep you in my graces while we're getting old

And the hollow sound that is the call

Why'd you have to call the ball there Babe?

There's a star that shines just to your right

Keeps me oriented to you through the night

and it fills my darkness with such light

why's it have to shine so bright

Babe

Your Little Sister

Your little sister is just my style

I’d like to love her for a little while

She’s kind of crazy and a little wild

I’d like to drive her for a couple miles

Your little sister

I’d love to kiss her

That’s right baby she’s a one of a kind

Her perfect lips and her tight little body

Got my attention but her sweet soul bound me

And now I burn for it her vision hounds me

I can’t escape it since the day that it found me

Your little sister

Such a perfect picture

That’s right honey she’s one of a kind

Your little sister keeps me up at night

She’s got me burning like a match book might

She’s on the brain and then she’s on my mind

That little piece just soaks my appetite

Your little sister

I need to kiss her

What I’m really saying is she’s one of a kind

She flirts incessantly when you ain’t looking

I have concluded she’s the devil’s cooking

Seems so delectable and good for the looking

I’m just a catfish and she got her hook in

Your little sister

I burn to get her

That’s right honey she’s one of a kind

Just three years younger but that doesn’t matter

When we run off just like two mad old hatters

We’ll find some bungalow and let it all shatter

The world can finally fall apart when I have her

Your little sister

I’m gonna kiss her

That’s right honey she’s fine fine fine fine fine

Her temptation is the strongest kind

I can’t deny the girl ‘cause she’s so fine

I’ve dreamed about it all so many times

To pluck the fruit right from her sultry vine

Your little sister

I can’t resist her

And if this goes how I’m hoping she’ll be mine all mine

Berkshire Girl

 Night falls so dark on thi city

my hearts lying all black and blue

i've seen a lot of fevers dreaming about you

and everything you do

all these years out here on my own 

all these years with nothing sweet

al these years babe and im just dying

honey won’t you comfort me x2

my berkshire girl

she’s really something

a soul of fire fire, heart so carefree

my berkshire girl

she's really something 

and oh mama

she sure used to be

there she is in her 70s silk screen

big dark aviators clouding her eyes

there she sits in the most vivid memory

looking at the other guys

but  it thrills me that she mine

my berkshire girl’s got  me twisted in nightmares

the sweetest creature that haunts all my dreams

I dont want to die alone here

torn up at the seams

empty as can be

my berkshire girl she's really something

like a summer sip of sweet iced tea

my berkshire girl she's really something

and oh mama

she sure used to be

oh what a special way to treat me badly

oh what a special way to make me bleed

what a special way to love me sweetly every time we meet

took a back track back to the country

licking all of these brutal wounds 

you know that every road that leads me somewhere

should lead me back to you

because my berkshire girl shes really something

a treasure wrapped up in a summer dream

my berkshire girl thinks she's really something

and oh mana  oh baby

she really can be

Eulogy for Johnny Cash

 Eulogy For Johnny Cash

Sleep now my honey by my side     D    Em

I hear that train too and it’s time to ride    A    D

Waiting in the morning for your eyes    D    Em

I been thinking of mortality by your side A   D

And it makes me wonder if love comes with us to the other side    D   G

I won’t lie     A

They say this morning the man in black has died   D   Em

Guess even great men meet with their time A   D

Well I’m feeling close to something deep in life   D      Em

So dance with me my rose my love tonight A        D

Singing softly:

Prison ain’t no kinda place for angels in despair     G D

They’re just a little rough sometimes when they’re down here    A D

And heaven opens up for them ‘cause heaven just don’t care    G     D

And the man in black don’t take no flack so heaven better just beware   A      D

Sleep now baby in my arms

Cause all that burns on earth don’t last for long

Close your eyes and sing me some sweet song

Sing for everything that’s right and wrong

Sing for a heart that loves you oh so strong

And will so long

And in the silence you can hear an angel band

And voice that rings out loudest is the man

And strumming on that six string cutting through the day

Listen as the backup starts to play

Singing:

Prison ain’t no place for angels in despair

They’re just a little rough sometimes when they’re down here

And heaven opens up for them ‘cause heaven just don’t care

And the man in black don’t take no flack so heaven better just beware

 

Stay awhile and sleep away the day

I don’t know where I’m bound so I’ll just stay

There’s a game that’s named for poets that I like to play

Sitting up till dawn writing in some hideaway

There’s a train in the distance bound to take me far away

And it will someday

Sleep now baby close your eyes

And think about tomorrows blue and bright

They say that flesh and blood make a worried man feel fine

So stay and listen to that whistle moan and whine

Singing:

Prison ain’t no kinda place for angels in despair

They’re just a little rough sometimes when they’re down here

So heaven opens up for him ‘cause any heaven couldn’t care

But the man in black don’t take no flack so heaven better just beware

Backslider's Dream

It was a dollar a dance
downtown tonight at Maria’s
And the beautiful Becky,
 she dances like a Mexican rose
And she dances in trances of
visions of things that she dreams of
I’ve never met a woman as crazy
or who felt more like home

I only had twenty dollars
so asked if she’d let me keep dancing
And pay her double tomorrow
just to dance for the rest of the night
She didn’t say a word
but she pulled me just a little bit closer
As if to say,
“it’s alright you know you ain’t gonna owe me a dime.”

And way I feel tonight you may be in trouble
Reckless endangers the heart but it eases the time
And when I whisper in her ear
she drives me crazy
She says boy you look straight in my eyes
And I say girl don’t ruin the surprise
The best part of loving is found in the subtle disguise

And we could dance to the sound
of the old phonograph on my front porch
Steady hand on her waist
so inspired by a bottle of wine
With the wrap around lights
tossing shadows out into the night sky
And at one she’d just kiss me
‘cause she’s finally feeling alive

The way she looked out in the dark
was a window into the cold things she had
And I saw it as clear
like it was painted right up on the wall
But I would stop it right there
just in case with the morning might come regret
I’d just kiss her till she fell asleep
on the couch in the hall

And she’d wake to the falltime breeze
blowing over her body
And the smell of the coffee
drifting from right down the hall
She a stumbling angel
and she’s reaching for some kind of end line
she was looking for a soft road
 to get her away from it all

from - "Love Tigers"