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IMPORTANT NOTE: I am committed to original artists and the creative process. I use AI to generate samples because I do not have the musical language or skill to communicate what is in my head. I leave the AI glitches and flubs in the recording to emphasize that I’m not looking to do music with machines – I’m looking to do music with talented humans. I own the copyrights to the music but do not insist that the tunes as presented be used. I WANT THE ARTISTS I WORK WITH TO MAKE THE LYRICS THEIR OWN. If the music as produced works for you, great, if not, let’s collaborate and give you something you love!
Power of a Woman
Move my unmovable heart/ Stare through my teenage longing/ Get to the soul,/ draw love out/ Make the boy the man/ Power of a woman/ Power of a woman/ Power sublime/ Power of a woman/ Power beyond time/ Power of a woman/ Push my unyielding will/ Carve into my granite dreaming/ Peel back the time, back to pure/ Make the man the boy/ Power of a woman/ Power of a woman/ Power sublime/ Power of a woman/ Power beyond time/ Power of a woman/ Feel the power changing me/ Feel the power, set me free/ Feel the power, let it be/ Power of a woman/ Man, feel the power/ Umm, feel the power/ Power of a woman
With You as My Lover
Sun rollin over the waves like a good dream/ Thoughts runnin through my head make the breeze seem/ Like a lover who can center my heart on a grand theme/ It’s a day like no other/, with you as my lover/ Nothing to discover,/ with you as my lover/ Wind through the air as dramatic as a great song/ Echos in the canyon making music I can sing along/ With you as my lover there’s no need to be strong/ It’s a day like no other,/ with you as my lover/ No need to recover, with you as my lover/ Eyes gazing up at the clouds in a smooth sky/ Blue spreading over the earth like a charmed sigh/ Heart of my lover beats warm, makes my soul fly/ It’s a day like no other, with you as my lover/ Don’t need to run for cover, with you as my lover/ Day turns to night while stars steal the sun’s light/ Moon smiles down bathing worry in it’s cold white/ Embraced by my lover in the darkness feelin’ all right/ It’s a day like no other, with you as my lover/ Don’t want any other, with you as my lover/ Sleep falls upon me like a blanket from the warm earth/ Dreams run in meadows while my spirit feels a new birth/ Whispers from my lover let me know what my life’s worth/ It’s a day like no other, with you as my lover/ Don’t want any other, with you as my lover/ It’s a day like no other, with you as my lover
Ride With Me
Step into the open air/ Where everybody seems to care/ Until the cost exceeds their creed/ The sacrifice might make them bleed/ And it’s pouring rain/ Shout into the public square/ Where voices strain and bravest dare/ To right the wrongs they witness day by day/ And pretend they have important things to say/, Can’t escape the pain/ Stop the insanity/ Rescue humanity/ Anxiety is falling like the rain/ Ride, ride with me on the peace bound train/ Doesn’t matter who you are/ Melancholy, poor, or star/ Everyone come escape the pain/ Ride, ride with me on the peace bound train/ Talking heads and ministers/ Some are good, some sinister/ Brawling for an exalted seat in our brain/ Pretending we can’t tell that they’re insane/ And it’s pouring rain/ Get a ticket at the booth/ Escape the lies and find the truth/ Ride the train that’s going somewhere good/ Get onboard, we’re going somewhere good/ We’ll escape the pain/ Stop the insanity/ Rescue humanity/ Anxiety is falling like the rain/ Ride, ride with me on the peace bound train/ Doesn’t matter who you are Melancholy, poor, or star/ Everyone come escape the pain Ride,/ ride with me on the peace bound train/ Get onboard,/ ride the peace bound train/ Get onboard,/ ride the peace bound train/ Get onboard, up outta the rain/ Get onboard, let go the pain/ Get onboard, ride the peace bound train
Hurtin’s All
Trying to get over, trying to shake these blues/ Between the drinking and the thinking/ Hurting’s all I seem to do/ The hurt goes deeper than the love I had with you/ Sitting on a bar stool, acting like a damn fool/ Remembering what we could have had/ Hurting’s all that I can do/ The hurt lasts longer than the time I had with you/ Trust is a game I don’t play anymore/ Love is a mystery I don’t need to explore/ You gave me something I can’t wait to ignore/ So I’m going back to drinking like I been there before/ Spending every weekend sitting all alone/ Empty beer cans stacked like broken vows/ Hurting’s all I get to do/ The hurt goes deeper than the dreams I dreamed with you/ I don’t know about tomorrow and I don’t really care/ I’ve made the bottle my new best friend/ Hurting’s what I’m gonna do/ The hurt stays closer than the bond I had with you/ Trust is a game I don’t play anymore/ Love is a mystery I don’t need to explore/ You gave me something I can’t wait to ignore/ So I’m going back to drinking like I been there before/ Trust is a game I don’t play anymore/ Love is a mystery I don’t need to explore/ You gave me something I can’t wait to ignore/ So I’m going back to drinking like I been there before
Left of the Bridge
[Verse 1: Man] I was over the edge, needed a breather/ Try to pull up out of the dark/ Took a right down the street, left at the alley/ Headed to the old town park/ I remembered the bridge, How we would meet there/ But that was a happy long ago/ I crossed over the bridge, minding my business/ Deep in thoughts you’d probably know/ [Verse 2: Woman] I was close to the ledge, my life going nowhere/ Had to clear my head and my heart/ I sat down by the bridge, trying to think clear/ Hoping for a brand new start/ I looked up at the bridge, smiled for a moment/ A fleeting shadow from my past/ I looked away, afraid of the torment Of the love I had hoped would last/ [Verse 3: Man] Left of the bridge, right out of nowhere/ I turned and saw you sitting there/ Out of my mind, I couldn’t believe it/ The wind was blowin’ through your hair/ My mind reached back, my heart stopped a moment/ Is this the girl I loved back then/ I froze in my tracks, blinded by memories/ Of how we were way back when/ [Verse 4: Woman] You stood on the bridge, came out of nowhere/ All that I could do was stare/ Was this for real, could it be happening/ Or was it something in the air/ I closed my eyes, afraid to reopen/ I couldn’t risk losing again/ I knew it was you, my soul told me clearly/ How I’ve longed to see you my friend/ [Chorus: Duet Man and Woman] We were left of the bridge, right out of nowhere/ Standing face to face after all/ Where did the years go, my how the tears flow/ All my dreams are suddenly real/ [Verse 6: Duet Man and Woman] We were left of the bridge, right out of nowhere/ Let’s make this moment never end/ I’ve been too long without you,/ how can this be true/ It’s so good to hold you again/ [Chorus: Man and Woman] Left of the bridge, right out of nowhere/ You came back into my world/ Left of the bridge, right out of nowhere/ This is more than I’ve deserved/ Left of the bridge, right out of nowhere/ Everything is suddenly clear/ Left of the bridge, right out of nowhere/ I want you forever, I swear/ Left of the bridge, right out of nowhere/ Ill love you forever my dear
The Old Farm Hand
He’s a nimble man for pushin’ eighty-two/ Made of horsehair grit and iron sinew/ Got muscles wound like cord steel/ He’s got a granite grip you can feel/ And when he smiles – wide as the plains/ He’s a helluva man/ He’s an old farm-hand/ His sky blue eyes can stop you in your tracks/ With a twinkle so sly while he’s up to his tricks/ His perma-hat sealed fast to his grey head/ Slackers soon find they’d be better off dead/ Still outworking men a third of his span/ He’s a helluva man/ He’s an old farm-hand/ Old farm hand/ He’s a helluva man/ Outworkin’ the sun, he’s out before dawn/ Still throwin’ hay high in the barn/ Drinks coffee stronger than coal/ His whisky even stronger I’m told/ He’s an old farm hand/ One helluva man/ Ain’t no doubt where he stands/ He’s a helluva man/ Old farm-hand/ He’s a little bent in more ways than one/ But he ain’t breakin’, while there’s a job to be done/ His boots are stout and never complain/ Worn and faded and cows***t stained/ They’ve carried him over every step of this land/ He’s a helluva man/ He’s an old farm-hand/ We’d be wiser men if we’d learn his ways/ We should pray the Lord doesn’t shorten his days/ The world could use more with his mind/ Steadfast and mild, mighty and kind/ He’s a man worth knowin’/ He’s a helluva man/ He’s an old farm-hand/ Old farm hand/ He’s a helluva man/ Outworkin’ the sun, he’s out before dawn/ Still throwin’ hay high in the barn/ Drinks coffee stronger than coal/ His whisky even stronger I’m told/ He’s an old farm hand/ One helluva man/ Ain’t no doubt where he stands/ He’s a helluva man/ Old farm-hand/ He’s a helluva man/ Old farm-hand
Hard Lovin’ Woman
I need a man that’s smooth as leather/ Thats tough as well as true/ One that bends but doesn’t break/ Who fits like old and shines like new/ I want a man hard as Gibraltar/ Soft and tender too/ One that weathers all my storms/ And holds me till I’m through/ Because I’m a hard lovin woman/ Who needs a good, honest man/ A man who will be faithful/ I’ll give you more than you can stand/ Yes I’m a hard lovin woman/ I need a gentle handed man/ A man who goes down easy/ And gives me all that I can stand/ I need a man who gets up early/ Works hard with me in mind/ A man who comes home every night/ Who drinks beer while I drink wine/ I want a man who just adores me/ Who fills me up with love/ Who drinks me up like moonshine/ And gives thanks to the Lord above/ Because I’m a hard lovin woman/ Who needs a good, honest man/ A man who will be faithful/ I’ll give you more than you can stand/ Yes I’m a hard lovin woman/ I need a gentle handed man/ A man who goes down easy/ And gives me all that I can stand/ I need a man to respect me/ When I get a little drunk/ A man who’ll watch out for me/ Without getting in a funk/ I need a man to keep up with me/ When I’m shootin a 45/ A strong man to ride with/ Shootin whiskey or drinking Rye/ Because I’m a hard drinking woman/ Who needs a whiskey lovin man/ When the bourbon goes down easy/ And the night is in his hands/ Because I’m a hard lovin woman/ Who’s hard to love at times/ But if you treat me sweetly/ Better lovin you’ll never find/ Because I’m a hard lovin woman/ Who needs a good, honest man/ A man who will be faithful/ I’ll give you more than you can stand/ Yes I’m a hard lovin woman/ Who needs a gentle handed man/ A man who goes down easy/ And gives me all that I can stand/ All you hard lovin women/ Come with me one more time/ All you hard drinking women/ Raise your glass with mine/ We need some hard lovin women/ Hard lovin women so fine/ Are you a hard lovin woman/ Let me hear you sing that line/ Yes I’m a hard lovin woman/ I need a gentle handed man/ A man who goes down easy/ And gives me all that I can stand/ A man who goes down easy/ And gives me all that I can stand/ He gives me all that I can stand/ Cause we’re all hard lovin women/ Hard lovin women!
My Magnificent Attraction
You crawled in/ Turned my life a dazzling chaos/ You smiled that smile of capture/ Drew me into delicate rapture/ My insanity/ My emotional cage/ My profanity/ My beautiful rage/ My magnificent attraction/ Because you made yourself my dream/ You entered all my potentials, predicted all my futures/ You caught me, kissed all my pain/ Your chaos became my elegant chain/ Be my insanity/ Be my emotional cage/ Be my profanity/ Be my beautiful rage/ Be my magnificent attraction/ I’m a delighted prisoner/ You a willing and skillful keeper/ Walking through my days with good intention/, seizing my nights with satisfaction/ My magnificent attraction/ Be my magnificent attraction/ Chaotic satisfaction/ Beautiful intention/ My magnificent attraction
Hardback Chair
Sittin in a hardback chair/ Starin through a frozen window pane/ Watchin the cold out there/ Lookin down an empty country lane/ It’s winter for the old oak tree/ Watchin the last leaves loose their grip/ Every now and then another slips/ And tumbles to the ground/ I’m sittin with my hardback heart/ Starin at the winter of my life/ Now and then a memory slips/ Now and then I loose my grip/ And I tumble to the ground/ If I could roll back the years/ If I could uncry the tears/ If I could remake who I am/ If I could be with you again/ If I could turn the world around/ If I could ask for just one sound …/It would be the sound of you/ The sound of you – Comin home to stay./ I’m walking down this country road/ Tracing the path of all this pain/ The frozen dirt and bitter cold/ Tell me that we’ll never be again/ It’s winter and the wind blows shrill/ Singin birds have long since gone away/ Trees stand bare and naked on the hill/ And the skies are always gray/ If I could roll back the years/ If I could uncry the tears/ If I could remake who I am/ If I could be with you again/ If I could turn the world around/ If I could ask for just one sound …/It would be the sound of you/ The sound of you – Comin home to stay./
Read the Lines Between
The cover is not the book/ Pages beg to be turned/ A heart has to be learned/ Read the lines between/ Dare to take the look/ Read me, know my soul/ Hold me, take control/ Turn the pages of my heart/ Chapter, verse, and every part/ Read me, know me, love me/ Read me, know me, love me/Title read is not story known/ The tale longs to live/ Words breathe and give/ Read the lines between/ Strain to hear the tone/ Read me, know my soul/ Hold me, take control/ Turn the pages of my heart/ Chapter, verse, and every part/ Read me, know me, love me/ Read me, know me, love me/ Authors hide their souls in words/ Wisdom searches every line/ Love stalks the shadowed spine/ Read the lines between/ Behold their secret worlds/ Read me, know my soul/ Hold me, take control/ Turn the pages of my heart/ Chapter, verse, and every part/ Read me, know me, love me/ Read me, know me, love me/ Read the lines between/ See what’s left unseen/ Read the lines between
Change
All I think/ It’s about to change/ Collide with my world/ Tear it apart/ Take it stone by stone/ Break my heart/ Wish I knew/ What needs to change/ Smash into my world/ Take it apart/ Break it bone by bone/ Make it start/ Change it all/ Watch it fall/ Echo through my mind/ Shadows find/ When I change/ Change it all/ Change and fall/ Break my heart/ Pay for doubt/ Don’t resist the change/ Slam into my world/ Twist it apart/ Rip it limb from limb/ Take my heart/ Play it out/ Let it come the change/ Merge through my world/ Tease it apart/Pull it thread from thread/ Break my heart/ Change it all/ Watch it fall/ Echo through my mind/ Shadows find/ When I change/ Change it all/ Change and fall/ Break my heart/ Change it all/ Change and fall/ Break my heart/ Break my heart