There’s a lot of ways to be smart
Crafty smart, turning garbage into what passes for art
You can read some books and know it all
Be ready and smart when you hear your life call

Smart enough to come in out of the rain
So smart you drive everyone and yourself insane
You can dress smart, knowing just what to wear
Color coordinate your outfit with your underwear

Learning makes you smarter if you open your mind
People smarts help you be loving and kind
Smart enough to figure it out, how to get things done
Commonsense, well now that’s the smartest one

You throw your heart at the world
It throws it back like a girl
It comes up short as it hits the ground
You pick it up and can tell that it’s been around

One more time you throw it out again
One more time you hope you win
Just once more is all you need
It comes with pain, but you don’t have to bleed

Catch my heart as it is falling
Here me now as I am calling
I am one you will see
All in time I will set you free

Catch my heart, let me hold on tight
Hold me close make it feel so right
Don’t let me stand alone
Catch my heart, I’m throwing it home

04/09/19

There’s a candle in the window, shining through the night
It burns with the eternal flame and its everlasting light
There is one candle in the window, for each of us to see
One candle power, to show the strength in you and me
One flame dancing, lightly as the cold winds blow
One heart holds its light, and it shows where to go
Keep that one flame burning, glowing with its light
Knowing it holds the key, to seeing what is right
Though the night surrounds the light, tempering its flame
It is the darkness of night, that one candle puts to shame
Shining ever brightly, against the pitch-dark night
Glowing for you to see, there’s always one candlelight
The darkness will forsake you, lead you from your way
It can turn your heart from the light, in the bright of the day
It is ever tempting, as it sits outside your windowpane
Believe in that light, it shows darkness offers no gain
One candle in the window is all we ever need to know
One candle power, that lights the way we must each go
One flame dancing lightly, as the cold winds blow
One heart holds its light, and it shows where to go

2/25/06

Another day afternoon
Long shadows will be creeping soon
We are all shadows beneath the moon

Lonely light fills the sky
Darkness hangs in the bye and bye
Stars shine like little eyes

Through the shadows for all to see
What is darkness, what is me
Save the daylight to be free
3/06/22

I learned to be non-confrontational
What good does it do to argue
The truth stands when lies fall
Open minds see clearly

I learned the hard way
A job will wear you down
Hard work can easily go wrong
One ah-**** wipes out an atta boy

What makes you happy
Make sure it’s true in you
It’s too hard to share a dream
Find love together
9/01/25

Can’t catch the birds when they fly so high
You can’t see the world with tears in your eyes
You have to put your feet on the ground
To get your head in the clouds to look around
And you will never know unless you try

Now you might think you are above it all
Just before you take that call
But when you pick it up and say hello
You’ll be the one that has to go
And there will be no time left to stall

Right about then you’ll see the flashing lights
You can forget about all those lonely nights
You’ll be left with all you got
What you have and what you have not
And there will nobody cheering on your fights

When it’s all been said and done
You won’t be having any fun
You won’t get a second chance
You’ll be the victim of your own circumstance
And suddenly you’ll find out you’re not the one

When you finally come to realize
You’re seen through someone else’s eyes
You’re never as good as you thought
Can’t get to Heaven with what you bought
And you’re going to have to pay for all those lies

You’ll have to do some real explaining
Stop whining and stop complaining
Tell the truth to be forgiven
Admit the sins you’ve been living
And after that, in the Heavens will you remain
5/10/05

Leftover hippies are not as trippy
except for when they flashback
Too old to get high, memories in smoke
can’t snort any more crack

They’ve been out there
where everything looks real
Tied-dye moons with pink stars
monsters made out if steel

Remember the pusher man
summer of love, 1967
All the grass and pills you need
Enough drugs to get high up in heaven

Mr. Natural and some Boone’s Farm wine
That’s how they kissed the sun
All the peace and love they felt
We are brothers, everyone