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Shades On Inside Jul 2013
Last night wasn't so good
Tonight isn't lookin' much better
I am gettin' used to waking up without you here
I hear things around
And my hope dies
Old No. 7's starting to take its toll on my head

I guess I should have seen the writing on the wall
But I could never take my eyes off you
Now I hear you're with another man
I am hangin' on the best I know how
I remember how you ****** like a woman
But you loved me like a child

And I hope he breaks your heart
I hope you cry a river
I hope you know how I feel now

I loved you the moment I saw you
I should have known it wouldn't last
The good things in life always end too soon
Well I packed up and moved far away
I am tired of writin' bout you
It seems I waste my best words

And I hope he breaks your heart
I hope you cry a river
I hope you know how I feel now

I hope
Shades On Inside May 2013
Home town blues
Same walls closing in
Tryin’ to get out the gate
There’s much work to be done
I am not sayin’ there’s nothing wrong
It’s just getting’ so hard to believe

A lot of time spent lookin’ for the reasons
But it’s the simple ones that hold some truth
Some call this paradise
Some call this a land of pain
I am not sayin’ it’s either
It’s just getting so hard to believe
Shades On Inside Apr 2013
I knew you were goin’ to show up again
Hello, my old friend it’s been awhile
I’ve wondered where you’ve been
I felt you’d been hangin’ around
I am glad to know you’re back in style
Well pull up a seat and make yourself at home
I ain’t  goin’ nowhere this time
I am getting’ used to you comin’ along for the ride
I at least got you in my corner
I know you’ll always fight for me
I’ll keep you close this time and never let go
It’s better to feel than to be numb they say
I hope you like your new room
It’s big and has a lot of love to give
Please don’t change it too much though
Well, I guess you never really left
Just took some time off to rest
Well now that you’re back and here for good
We can go it alone; we don’t need no one else
Cuz there’s somethin’ to be said about takin’ what comes
So I am ready this time I am waitin’ right here for you
Hello sadness, hello sadness
Welcome back my old friend
Shades On Inside Apr 2013
I can't think of the words to say
But the sad songs make it better
Forgetting's easy
For a moment or two
They pass with fleeting hope
I don't seem to count much
Yet life's good enough to make you forget
Good memories begin to fade
At 6 a.m. with a soul of Old No. 7
Youth's unlucky ride
Getting lost on some dark Georgia road
Lived and died a thousand times in my dreams
Got something I never knew I had
I got my fiction
Because what's the truth really worth?
Shades On Inside Apr 2013
Too lonely tonight.
To bow out of the fight.
See how close you've come to death?
Discover what you've lost and what you (have) left.
These things don’t happen everyday
When you realize how far you have
to fall.
Out there all alone.
To stay or to go home.
Don’t forget to find a place to soften your soul.
Do what you should. Do you what you’re told.
These things don’t happen everyday
When you realize how far you have
to fall.
Not enough.
Was it really that tough?
Opening scars you don’t want to heal.
To expel pain you try but cannot feel,
These things don’t happen everyday
When you realize how far you have
to fall.
Found the door.
You know what you said this was for?
Emptiness I can feed her.
It’s OK you've always been a bleeder.
These things seem to happen everyday
When you realize how far you have
to fall.
Shades On Inside Apr 2013
Rockin' on the front porch
Gazin' down the street
Loathsomely fannin'
Away the Southern Heat

Oppressed hands
Pickin' the days toils
Balmy and wet
Southern Heat never spoils

Whisky bottles bourbon brown
Deep fired and syrupy sweet
Vices to die for
Welcomin' Southern Heat

Clothes pinned on a line
Flappin' in dense air
Mamma starched ‘em stiff
The Southern Heat dressed debonair


There is a trouble around
It smile’s with a firm handshake
Jesus in Confederate Grey
The Southern Heat for the Devils sake
Shades On Inside Mar 2013
The Slow Dance, of what does it make you think?
Of summer dresses, ice tea and lemonade
Of ballrooms and masquerades

The Slow Dance, it has a deliberate movement, does it not?
In time you must roll hand in hand
Like lovers cheek to cheek lost in forgotten land

The Slow Dance, but is it a dance?
A waltz, a trot, and a rag time step
You feel  secrets that no one knows you've kept

The Slow Dance, surely you see what I mean?
Gravely, I know not what is in store
To end is to begin and find out once more

The Slow Dance, why do only a few take part?
It is meant for one but not for all
Yet many take their step, stutter, and fall

The Slow Dance, when does it end?
Through pain and sorrow of a heavy heart
When it is all too great, you must step apart

The Slow Dance, but how long does it take?
Over in a moment, a decision of rash
The end can be long or just a flash

Ah yes, The Slow Dance is not a dance at all
Just an isolated path sauntered alone
The means to end only a few have shown

— The End —