Current Month Submitted Songs
Songbird
November
2021
Andrew Fischer
My little songbird
Where have you been so long?
It’s been far too many days
Since you’ve been gone
I miss your whistling
I miss your melody
You used to sing your sweet song
For me
Oh, darling won’t you fly back home?
I don’t want to have to sing my own blue song
You left me lonesome
You left me by myself
Now you’re singing your sweet songs
For someone else
Oh, darling won’t you fly back home?
I don’t want to have to sing my own blue song
My little songbird
Where have you been so long?
It’s been far too many days
Since you’ve been gone
Stay Alive
November
2021
Anna Beavers
Staying Alive © Anna Beavers November 2020
Vitamins, exercise,
Music scales, long drives
Taking deep breaths of cool mountain air
New words, new tunes,
New friends, good food
I’m not looking to go anywhere
CHORUS 1
There’s less time ahead than there is behind
And a certain liberation In the passage of time
I’m tethered to the earth reaching for the sky
But my heels are dug in. I’m not ready to fly
Determined to stay alive 'til I die
See my grandson throw his first pitch
Nail my big break without missing a lick
Wake to the sound of you saying my name
There’s so many things keeping me in the game
CHORUS 2
Like Ruth Bader Ginsberg I want them to say
“She stayed on the bench ‘til her very last day”
I’m tethered to the earth reaching for the sky
But my heels are dug in. I’m not ready to fly
Determined to stay alive 'til I die
Sway with the aspen dancing in gold
Watch the lives of our children unfold
Ride through Colorado with you by my side
Playing our favorite songs with the stars as our guide
REPEAT CHORUS 1
Outro:
We’re gonna round those curves in the road
We’re gonna stay alive 'til we go
Oh Christmas Tree
November
2021
J. C. Edel
Oh Christmas Tree
Music and Lyrics by James Craig Edel
Copyright © James Craig Edel
Houston, TX 77057 (713) 822-6349
(AFTER THE LYRICS, SEE MY COMMENTS ON THE ACTUALLY-HAPPY EVENT THAT LED TO THIS SONG!!! -CRAIG)
Oh Christmas tree, oh Christmas tree
Is she looking at a tree like you?
Does she think of us the way I do?
I’d like to know
Oh Christmas tree, oh Christmas tree
Are there needles falling on her floor?
And is there someone knocking on her door?
How could you know?
I really should be getting out
Maybe shopping for my friends
But God, she's all I think about
This feeling never ends
Oh Christmas tree, oh Christmas tree
There's so many things I could have done
How could I love again with anyone?
How could you know?
How could she go?
I miss her so
WHAT LED TO THIS SONG: Thanks for all the nice comments! Believe it or not, this song was actually inspired by an event that was happy. On a visit to Tucson, my home town, I'd had a terrific date with a woman named Yvonne, who was a friend of my sister, and whom I'd known since high school. The following December, I called Yvonne to see how she was doing, and she told me that she was having a glass of wine and trying to dislodge a screwdriver from the base of her Christmas tree. How it had gotten there, I don't remember, but it was an amusing story and part of a good and cheerful conversation. So, how in the heck did that turn into a sad song? Well, it's just a lot more fun to write a poignant song (to use Kari's apt word) than one that's upbeat! Ask Jimmy Webb...
You Cant Handle The Truth
November
2021
Tammy Carroll
You Can’t Handle The Truth by Tammy Carroll
Verse 1:
What if I showed you,
All my brokenness?
Opened the door to my soul,
And let you in.
Would you judge me,
And all my many faults?
Or should I keep my guard up,
And add another lock to the vault?
Verse 2:
What if I spilled my soul,
All over your comfort zone?
Before the surge of my sins…
Could ever be atoned.
What if I don’t fit in,
With your family or your friends?
Would it be the end,
Before we begin?
Chorus:
Can you handle my unrest?
Can you engage in my wars?
These scars I’ve had since a youth.
Is it really me you want, are you so sure?
Cause the way I see it,
You can’t handle the truth.
Verse 3:
What if I made this easy and beckoned you to go;
Before this moment gets out of control?
Or what if I take a risk and removed the masquerade?
Would we be Arlecchinos in the town parade?
Chorus:
Can you handle my unrest?
Can you engage in my wars?
These scars I’ve had since a youth.
Is it really me you want, are you so sure?
Cause the way I see it…
You can’t handle the truth.
Cause the way I see it…
You can’t handle the truth.
Mary Sarah
November
2021
Jeanie Rosenberg Trotter, Buddy Trotter, and Danny Liggett
Mary Sarah
Jeanie Rosenberg Trotter, Buddy Trotter, and Danny Liggett
V1
As I walked to the library
To check out a book
I saw a young boy being teased
For the way he looked
A little girl emerged
and broke up the fight
I was reminded of a girl
Who once saved my hide
Chorus 1
Mary Sarah, where are you now?
Mary Sarah, I lost you somehow
V2
We met for the first time
Way back in school
You were in pigtails
I was acting the fool
We became friends
You always had my back
But time moved on
And somehow we lost track
Chorus 2
Mary Sarah, for a short time
Mary Sarah, our paths did align
You stood up to bullies, to me you were divine
Your memory will forever be mine
Bridge
You were ahead of your time
You acted if you saw a crime
You helped me in need
A female hero, indeed
Solo/turnaround
V3
I’d like to locate you
And say what you meant to me
The years obscured your last name
But your face I clearly see
Chorus 3
Mary Sarah, I’d love to find you now
Mary Sarah, to talk to you somehow
My memories of you are not lost
I’m thankful that our paths crossed
©2020 Rosenberg, Trotter & Liggett
My Love
November
2021
Jay Harris
My Love
Woke up this morning, and of course I thought of you.
Where would we go today? What would I hear you say?
Some great adventure, I could never find myself.
But you know where to go. Always higher, never low.
Chorus
My love, is your love, I hope it’s all you’ll ever need
My love, your love, I pray it’s all we’ll ever need.
What makes it happen, I guess no one understands.
Just what I do to you, just what you do to me.
No expectations, no judgements or demands
Just calm as we can be, just how it outta be.
You shine just like a million stars when I look into your eyes,
Filling every hole inside of me like waters from a tide.
Good times come so easy, like a sunset from a ridge
Seeing colors no one's ever seen from nothing that we did..
My love, is your love, I hope it’s all you’ll ever need
My love, your love, I pray it’s all we’ll ever need.
A Dreamer Of Dreams
November
2021
Ron Rost
A Dreamer Of Dreams
This song I wrote from a SWRFA song (prompt)
All my life moving in circles
Forever on pace to restart
A roundabout circuit the only course I know
an automated journey I’m on
Always I see smiling faces
The cheerful enchanted abound
My role to deliver a gleeful guarantee
But there’s someplace that I’d rather be
Chorus
If I could break my reins and run
Find my place in the sun
Finally free what a life I’d lead
A dreamer of dreams like me
I long to let loose on the prairie
Drink from a cool mountain stream
Feel the salt breeze as I bolt down the beach
Why should that be out of reach
Chorus
I’m just a painted pony on this midway carousel
Yearning to grab that brass ring
Living my life on a Merry-go-round
A dreamer of dreams like me
If I could break my reins and run
Find my place in the sun
Finally free what a life I’d lead
A dreamer of dreams, a dreamer of dreams
A dreamer of dreams like me
Is that so much to ask
(So much for the horse)... to ask
Parrothead Man
November
2021
Dan DeHart
Parrothead Man
Dan DeHart 2019
His home was a boat named “Parrothead Fan”
A floating shrine to the Margarita Man
He played Jimmy’s songs in the local bars
Hoping for tips, to be thrown in a jar
He had no family or a steady girlfriend
He’d been very famous, he liked to pretend
His life seemed to hang on the present tense
Which, of course, was just a careful defense
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Chorus
He tried to be Buffett, to hide all the tears
From a broken heart he’d protected for years
He’s put on a show by downing the beers
While running from love, not the man he appeared
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He was the life of party, when he played his guitar
To impress all the tourists at the Tiki Bar
Eyeing the crowd and hoping to lure
A semi good looker for a sailboat tour
He’d show her some photos he’d carefully chose
That made him look happy in his previous shows
He hoped of course she would spend the night
Then send her off forever on the next day’s flight
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Instrumental
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Chorus
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His world revolved around his life on the sea
And sinking away old memories
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Chorus
Tag
While running from love, not the man he appeared
Hiding his heart he’s protected for years
Be There
November
2021
regineld Shelton Jesse Navarro
All I ask is for you to care trouble arise be there
experience life’s wonderful highs
so much better having you by my side
always show me that you care
when trouble arise be there
your love a symbol of pride it’s the stuff that keeps me in stride
your love has closed the divide
know I feel so alive
always show me that you care
when trouble arise be there
being there is essential as the air I breathe
it as important as the books I read your not a farmer
but you planted a seed our love grows deep with out any weeds
always show me that you care
when trouble arise be there
always show me that you care
when trouble arise be there
it’s a beautiful thing two people come together
it’s up to us make it last forever
Our Train Still Goes
November
2021
Kari Loya
Song Lyrics 058 – Our Train Still Goes
Kari Loya 2020
When up is down and down is up. And everything feels like a start-up.
With no Angels ’round… and more lost than found…
We keep heads up try to look ahead through the fiery haze of gloom and dread.
Life telescopes by and makes us ask why?
We do all this chuggin’ but not enough huggin’ and every day brings more debuggin’
So we rack our brain ‘bout what to attain.
Our 20/20 seems long gone… we all just tryin’ to hang on.
But our train still goes…
Chorus:
Chooga chooga cha
Chooga chooga cha cha
Chooga chooga cha
Chooga chooga cha cha
These rails could lead anywhere
So let’s hit the next station and take it from there…
Da da da da da da da da da da da da
Da da da da da da
Da da da da da da
5-4-3-2-1 and go. Ain’t gonna sit around waitin’ for a show cause…
We the ones on stage makin’ beauty from rage.
We can be the Phoenix now. Ain’t gonna settle for less than WOW…
We the ones to rise and be wealthy and wise.
Hop aboard, join the fiesta. Got 1st class and Wild Westa.
Every minute’s gonna testya. Fun with friends? Yeah, you betcha…
Hi speed? Lo speed?—Don’t matter. Mountain passes… Something flatter…
But our train still goes….
Chorus 2x
Bridge:
Our train still goes and goes and goes [6x]
But our train still goes…
Go! Go! Go! Go!
Chorus
A Little Lovin
November
2021