Harvest songs
This Year's Crop
This year’s crop is all but dead
Unfortunate but what did we expect
Bugs and weeds laziness begets
And a winter of regret
This year’s crop is all but gone
No merriment or harvest songs
Dead roots are never wrong
We reaped it all along
Round and round the year’s slowly unwind
And I can’t even get it right this time
Don’t get no profits or respect
We just feast and store whatever’s left
But winter’s long and merciless
It ain’t even February yet
Round and round the years wilt up and die
And offer up a cold goodbye
Next year’s crop can start as a seed
Let’s plant our feet and bury all our dreams
Who cultivates the things that they don’t need
Grow new names and memories
New names and memories
Names and memories
Used Car Blues
Sweet Kelly I think I’ll pack it up this time
Cause I’m about to lose my weary mind
You’d swear that I sell things things brand new
These people keep singing their used car blues
How’s a man supposed to make ends meet
I’m trying
How’s a man supposed to earn his keep
I’m trying
What’s it gonna take to get you in my shoes today
Just like you I’ve got the same bills I gotta pay
Sweet Kelly I think I might just trade it in
No warranty will fix the shape I’m in
They all need a car that’s great on gas
Drive a hundred miles a day to work and back
How’s a man supposed to keep his sanity
These used car blues will be the end of me
At this rate I’ll be gone before the day is through
Take the bait, don’t contemplate, i’ll throw in the towel too
Sweet Kelly I think it’s time to close the deal
Lock the doors and get behind the wheel
You’d swear that I sell things things brand new
These people keep singing their used car blues
How’s a man supposed to make ends meet
I’m trying
How’s a man supposed to earn his keep
I’m trying
The Fox and the March Hare
Desperate times and desperate measures
It hasn’t been the best year
Keep your grapes I’m much more clever
My God are you still there
I murdered my hope you murdered time
Seems like we are quite the pair
A spot of tea with my new friend but
May made this March Hare
And when it’s over
You saw it coming
It’s quite the feeling
When it’s gone
And when the spiral
Stop’s it’s spinning
The world has a way
Of carrying on
I jumped and jumped to my conclusion
Ripe was my, was my despair
I bet down the hill the grass is greener
And the grapes grow everywhere
And when it’s over
You saw it coming
It’s quite the feeling
When it’s gone
And when the spiral
Stop’s it’s spinning
The world has a way
Of carrying on
Forget the grapes, I’m thinking stew
Where’s my friend the March Hare
The raven’s on the writing desk and
The Hatter’s in the mirror
And when it’s over
You saw it coming
It’s quite the feeling
When it’s gone
And when the spiral
Stop’s it’s spinning
The world has a way
Of carrying on
A Place To Call Home
We're packing up boxes
Putting labels on things
Headed for the great unknown
Whatever it brings
Say goodbye to this place
We lived all our lives
All the beautiful days
And long sleepless nights
There was love here
And there was pain
There were children growing tall
Learning their names
It's so sad love
To watch these things go
But honey as long as there's you and I
There's always a place to call home
I long to see mountains
All those long winding streams
Follow those clouds that are calling
Discover our dreams
But these walls that surround us
Oh they'll never let go
A place just ain't some place
When it's your home
There was love here
And there was pain
There were children growing tall
Learning their names
It's so sad love
To watch these things go
But honey as long as there's you and I
There's always a place to call home
There are ghosts here
And there are saints
This house is more than floorboards
Cheap coats of paint
This one sentiment
It's silly I know
But honey as long as there's you and I
there's always a place
I said honey as long as there's you and I there's a place to call home
Electric Lovers
Loneliness can be a black out
Drain the daylight from your heart
All the questions keep you up so late
They tear your mind apart
Happiness maintains its mystique
Like a stranger in the night
Happenstance is just the hope you seek
When you're searching for the light
Electric lovers come and play
Light these fears up straight away
It seems so lonely waiting for the spark
Electric lovers need the dark
Everything is such a mystery
Everybody's a shadow
Your answers run up an alleyway
and scatter by a neon glow
Electric lovers come and play
Light these fears up straight away
It seems so lonely waiting for the spark
Electric lovers need the dark
Electric lovers have the power
To charge you up and turn you on
Keep you humming through the deep of night
And through the break of dawn
Love Is Magic
Is love an illusion
Is love true and real
Because I think that some of us
Are better than the rest
At masking the reveal
I wanna storm the stage
I wanna start the show
It's just every trick I try to do
The crowd somehow already knows
Every slight of hand exposed
Growing up is tragic
Growing up is tragic
When you learn a dove has to die
Every time you do the trick
When you learn
That love is
Love is magic
I'm sawed in half
I'm a hat but no bunny ears
I wish I could say Abracadabra and
make myself dissapear
Growing up is tragic
Growing up is tragic
When you learn a dove has to die
Every time you do the trick
When you learn
That love is
Love is magic
Sha la la la
Love is magic
Even giants despair
Ragweed Summer
Ragweed summer
Your sunflower dress and homemade wine
With each other
There's always ways to slowly pass the time
So let's dance around the lamp lit street
Kiss the strangers that we meet
Show em all the love they can't deny
Ragweed summer
Daisies sway, in fields we lay entwined
Seasoned lovers may have the know, but we got all the time
So let's dance around the lamp lit street
Kiss the strangers that we meet
Show em all the love they can't deny
Ragweed Summer
An old porch swing and breeze just blowing by
With each other there's always ways to slowly pass the time
So let's dance around the lamp lit street
Kiss the strangers that we meet
Show em all the love they can't deny
Five Alarm Fire
I survive in the space behind your eyes
Where who you really are begins to be
Deep inside where your soul and mind collide
An explosion that we all begin to see
You can't deny this burning desire
This red hot flame of holy ecstasy
Awake we lie, aware of space and time
Aware of who we are about to be
Your firecracker eyes and dynamite smile
Doesn't take long to start this fire
Heats me up, cools me down
Til the flames begin to dance around
Steal a kiss, scorch my lips
Touch your skin burn my figertips
A five alarm fire baby don't get hotter than this
And you reply "You know you're one hell of a guy"
"Why'd you go and pick a girl like me?"
So tonight we'll stay awake, I'll show you why
And who we really are you'll begin to see
Your firecracker eyes and dynamite smile
Doesn't take long to start this fire
Heats me up, cools me down
Til the flames begin to dance around
Steal a kiss, scorch my lips
Touch your skin burn my fingertips
A five alarm fire baby don't get hotter than this