You can be ashamed of being a rich kid ’cause your parents give you what you want You can be ashamed of being middle class and of Uncle Jeb who’s a chef at a restaurant You can be ashamed of your hand-me-downs and your little baby brother named Roy You can be ashamed of allContinue reading “There’s No Shame In Being A Country Boy”
Category Archives: Inspired by a Place
Dead Inside
Dead inside That’s how I turned out Dead inside I don’t know what I’m about I have no idea how I got this way But here you are asking me today If I remember a time when I felt well But I promised I would never ever tell I cannot unpack all those feelings LockedContinue reading “Dead Inside”
Coffee Bean & Tea Leaf Meet-Cute Song (Duet)
Man: There you are, I don’t know you but I see you every day Here at this place, you never ever take a look over my way And I don’t know why your eyes haven’t met mine And I don’t know why but I believe in God’s Design And this I know, This I feelContinue reading “Coffee Bean & Tea Leaf Meet-Cute Song (Duet)”
The Regular
Well, I’m a regular at the Lucca Grill Where I order the same thing every week A Ham and Pineapple Calzone & a Coke And they listen to me even when I’m bleak I don’t have many friends around anymore My ex-wife took the kids away from me So I go there to check inContinue reading “The Regular”
Halloween in Haddonfield
Parents go out and leave their kids at home With hot looking babysitters who mess around Their boyfriends arrive when the kids are asleep And they try not to make any big sounds Maybe they decided to watch a scary movie Maybe they’re drinkin’ beer n gettin” high They’re likely dry humpin’ in the familyContinue reading “Halloween in Haddonfield”
Meadow in the Moonlight
In a meadow in the moonlightWhere the rabbits fall asleepWe laid down on a blanketAnd we both started to weep For we were so grateful to be aliveA good friend of ours recently diedIt was the passing of our innocenceThat night our souls became tied The stars above us were alignedAs we spoke of howContinue reading “Meadow in the Moonlight”
BloNo Blues
I’m two hours from Chicago, Illinois Trying to turn into a man from a boy At a school both my parents went to How I wish they instinctively knew Coming here was their decision, not mine In these Twin Cities I’ll never be fine Got the BloNo Blues Got the BloNo Blues I can’t shakeContinue reading “BloNo Blues”
The Emigrant Gap Bandit
See, If you could step right into my shoes You would know why I am this way You would know my complete story Why I’m in this Reno jailhouse today If you could see what I’ve been through If you could live where I was raised If you could step right into my shoes YouContinue reading “The Emigrant Gap Bandit”
His Poor Hand
He was at a high stakes card gameRight above Drifters in BloomingtonFrom the looks of him you could sayHe wasn’t having a lot of fun He was losing his money faster than youcould call him an unlucky sumbitchBut this is how things changed so fastHow he won it all then strutted out rich It wasContinue reading “His Poor Hand”