Firefly

Firefly
I know I don’t have much to give

I know I tend to take too much

I know for some it may be easy

But for me it isn’t such

And sometimes I feel like a firefly

Shining my own light

And I try, but I can’t seem to find my way

Or navigate my sights

And it’s fine, I guess I have to learn to settle down

Accept a lesser life

Next time, I won’t get my hopes so hi

So I don’t fall from these heights

I used to try to swim up stream

Then I got washed right out to sea

And though I try to shake this feeling

 I’m thinking it’s probably me

And sometimes I feel like a firefly

Shining my own light

And I try, but I can’t seem to find my way

Or navigate my sights

And it’s fine, I guess I have to learn settle down

Accept a lesser life

Next time, I won’t get my hopes so hi

So I don’t fall from these heights

So either way girl I guess I can’t stay

So I have to move on leave you alone

Maybe next time, it’ll be the right time

Or maybe I’ll  just find my own

So I don’t have much to give

And I’ll take everything you are

I really don’t mean to be greedy

I’ll try to be what you need and more

And sometimes I feel like a firefly

Shining my own light

And I try, but I can’t seem to find my way

Or navigate my sights

And it’s fine, I guess I have to learn to settle down

Accept a lesser life

Next time, I won’t get my hopes so hi

So I don’t fall from these heights

More Binge Writing - Hope In Hand

Hope In Hand

He’s the kind of boy in parking lot

Surfing on a tray barely hanging on

Says it’s just a phase but it’s really not

Living for today case tomorrow’s lost

And she’s the type of girl with a medical wristband

Watches every step to avoid the quicksand

Runs to clear the street when the sign hits three

Stepping on the sidewalk looking back at him

Sometimes you ain’t got nothing at all,

But a little bit of hope in a hand, so don’t let go

Friends say that they were never a match

And couldn’t paint a picture where they were attached

Just too different and they wouldn’t see

How two different people could be the same

Coaster rides by his side, she closes eyes

And screams at the heavens praying she wouldn’t die

He takes her by the hand and she suddenly knows

She’s gonna be alright as long as holds her

(Bridge)

He says, it’ll work out some how

We don’t have to think right now

I know what it’s all about, oh and

She finds, it’s harder to just let go

The safety she used to know,

Holding a hand of hope

There they go, holding hands, crossing the street

She’s pulling him across when the sign hits three

But he just smiles while holding her back

Hopping up the curb and having a laugh

Illogical, don’t you know, a boy and a girl

The last two believers left here in the world

No one better tell’em what they don’t know

A mismatched couple with nothing but hope

Sometimes you ain’t got nothing at all,

But a little bit of hope in a hand, so don’t let go

This is Me

So I spent my Friday night with the "Chinese Tom Cruise."  Seriously that's what the AD called him.  While waiting between scenes, I pulled out my phone and wrote an upbeat song (for a change).  Kind of forced but the lyrics are pretty solid I think (see below).

This is Me

Here I am wishing again
Falling stars surround my head
Staring through a cloudy night
Future shining oh so bright

Hoping high waking up
Walking by, my head held up
Smiling wide for all to see
Optimist meets reality

(Pre-chorus)
Sometimes I sit in my bed
Wonder why and then again
Sometimes I'm just too damn tired to think

So, strike a match and watch the glow
Nothing left you need to know
Everything is alright
When lit by candle light
And worries seem to just disappear
Dissolve into the atmosphere
Sunsets of pink and gold
Clouds can look so beautiful

And there I go again
Holding on 'til the bitter end
Wouldn't have it another way
Makes me who I am today

And it's alright I don't need to know
A way to be acceptable
I'm fine with who I am
Not perfect but that's ok

(Pre-chorus)
So this is it, this is me
If I changed dunno who I'd be
Why is it so bad to stay the same?

So, strike a match and watch the glow
Nothing left you need to know
Everything is alright
When lit by candle light
And worries seem to just disappear
Dissolve into the atmosphere
Sunsets of pink and gold
Clouds can look so beautiful

(Outro - Spoken)
In the end all I have is me
and I know, I know, yeah I know
Yeah that's alright, that's alright
and that's alright yeah, yeah, yeah!

So, strike a match and watch the glow
Nothing left you need to know
Everything is alright
When lit by candle light
And worries seem to just disappear
Dissolve into the atmosphere
Sunsets of pink and gold
Clouds can look so beautiful

The Avenues

Another day...another song

The Avenues

Morning fog on a summer day

Should be sunny but it looks like rain

A coffee shop full of broken hearts

Air so sweet like a lit cigar

Ohhhhh

Ahhhhhh

Ohhhhh

Ahhhhhh

She pulls her hair back off her face

Tilt head smile then a warm embrace

A scoop of sugar from a shaky hand

A dropped out gaze without a plan

Ohhhhh

Ahhhhhh

Ohhhhh

Ahhhhhh

They say every end can start anew

With a walk on over to the avenues

But a friendly smile and a hug goodbye

She just left, cuz he ain’t right

Ohhhhh

Ahhhhhh

Ohhhhh

Ahhhhhh

A lowered head, push of the door

She wants less than she did more

They say every end can start anew

As he walks on out of the avenues

Ohhhhh

Ahhhhhh

Oui Have Been Hard At Work

K.C. has been binge writing all week and cranked out six new songs (I Get By, Restless Love, I Won't Sleep, Firefly, Sunday Train, Midnight Drive) and rewrote Deadman.  Meanwhile Dan cranked out two more songs on Tuesday.  Who knows, Oui may have another album's worth by weeks end.

Here's a new one

Midnight Drive

Spent all day inside

Stirring in my fog

Stepping out the front door I come undone

The air smells like rain

Mixed with wet asphalt

 Dragging both my shoes to hear the sound

I took a midnight drive, went running in the rain

Something I’ve debated all my life

Passing cars like trees along the way

Felt so alive that I almost died

The keys in my hand

Are ringing like a bell

Opening my door I’m scared as hell

Blurry highway signs

An unfamiliar road

Reading like a lie told late at night

I took a midnight drive, went running in the rain

Something I’ve debated all my life

Passing cars like trees along the way

Felt so alive that I almost died

Pressing down my foot

Screaming out my name

Rain upon the windshield sheeting off

Slipping from the road

Losing all control

Emptying my lungs the glass is fogged

I took a midnight drive, went running in the rain

Something I’ve debated all my life

Passing cars like trees along the way

Felt so alive that I almost died

I Get By

So I write best when I drink Merlot.  It's a fact.  Here's tonight's bottle.

I Get By

Standing in the stills, slipping off the walls

Walking down the road, without my clothes

Sticking out a thumb and waving down a car

Hopping in front seats, don’t care where they go

Cannot feel a thing, hand upon a flame

Don’t know what it is to be that way

Swimming at an island that isn’t there

Thinking isn’t something I can do again

There was a time, I could get by

I used to know what I was fighting for

If I was young, I wouldn’t dare

As I get old I don’t seem to care

Sun above the hills, dripping down the falls

Wish upon a scar and dream aloud

Screaming down along the avenues

Smoking out my lungs and breathing out

Haven’t learned a thing, nothing all these years

Make-out at a bar without her name

And sitting stupid, while I’m keeping out

Looking at the passed and dream of fame

There was a time, I could get by

I used to know what I was fighting for

If I was young, I wouldn’t dare

As I get old I don’t seem to care

Painted faces laugh, sipping my merlot

Cannot find the girl I used to know

Wishing nothing more than nothing less

Reading tea-leaf lives I lived before

When it gets dark, cannot find the light

Everything is reasoned in the night

Rationale will wait ‘til mourning comes

Nothing ever hurts like a lovers bite

There was a time, I could get by

I used to know what I was fighting for

If I was young, I wouldn’t dare

As I get old I don’t seem to care