A Farewell to Spring

Sing For Me 3

Echo 4

Sun Showers 5

Of All the Reasons 6

Closer

Worthless Son of No One 7

Meant To Be Alone 10

Nothing We Were 11

Farewell to Spring 12

Another Summer Alone 13

Going On Ahead Traveling Light 14

Cape Fear

Beautiful Disaster

Sand and Ashes

The Butterfly Summer

Still the River

My Life Passing By 18

Waiting Around to Live 22

It’s a Lonely Life No Matter 23

Those Hills 25

Empty Wood 26

Secret Things 27

A Walk in the Woods 29

Fool's Gold

Half the Moon 30

Lost Days 33

As Best I Remember

First Light

Where I'm Going Now

How Could I Blame You? M'anamchara

Anklets Too Many Minds

Floatin' Cathy Blues You can Lay Me Down

Benediction Tonight We Ride

New York, 17 It's You I've Longed to Hold

the Difference Between (i'm over it)

If I Could Let You Go

Summer '83
B Sides

Lost in Space 53

A Blackberry Winter 54

Wish It Was Okay (How Much I Miss You) 56

Ghosts of Girlfriends Past 57

It Is As It Will Be 58

Not the Obvious Demons 60

Captive Heart 61

Conflicted Heart 62

Heart Failure 64

Unfinished Business 66

Little Loves 68

Wild Rose 69

The Fox and the Rocks 70

A Farewell to Spring

Sing For Me

I watch the bunnies playing

I think the squirrel is saying,

“Teresa, won’t you sing for me?”

I hear the robin singing

I need the joy you’re bringing,

Teresa, won’t you sing for me?

Sing, oh won’t you sing for me, Teresa

Teresa sing

Now all the trees are swaying

I hear the leaves all saying,

“Teresa, won’t you sing for me?”

I’m in the sunshine basking

Dreaming that I am asking,

Teresa, won’t you sing for me?

Sing, oh won’t you sing for me, Teresa

Teresa sing

Sing, oh won’t you sing for me, Teresa

Teresa sing

Echo

You were fifth grade, second base

Playing with the boys

I’m sorry they neglected you

Once they left their toys

You were in the shadows

Wish that I’d been there

Had a beauty all your own

Wish that you had known

I just came to say it didn’t fade

Go now, find your beauty and your fate

Someone told you long ago

You had no voice of your own

I’m sorry you believed them

I’m here to say they’re wrong

Go out find your own voice

The beautiful one I’d heard

It’s been so long

But it’s not been too long

I just came to say it’s not too late

Go now, find your own voice and your fate

Go out find your own voice

The beautiful one I’d heard

It’s been so long

But it’s not been too long

I just came to say it didn’t fade

Go now, find your own voice and your fate

Go on, find your own voice and your fate

Sun Showers

Such a gray day

A hundred percent chance of rain

I’m crying cause I’m sad

Cause I cause so much pain

Then you called, just to say you get me

And you love me for who I am

You brought sun showers

What I always wanted to be

Smiling and crying

Raining down on me

It’s a beautiful morning driving

Through the gray small hours

Then I see a rolling meadow

Under a blanket of flowers

And a faint smile comes upon my face

And the first warm drop of sun showers

You gave sun showers

What I always wanted to be

Smiling and crying

Raining down sun showers

Thought you were my twin

The one from that crazy dream

But it was only in my head

Where nothing’s much how it seems

You didn’t say goodbye, but you gave me a reason

Still I don’t know why, you came to me for a season

And you brought sun showers

What I always wanted to be

Smiling and crying

Raining down on me

You gave sun showers

What I always wanted to be

Smiling and crying

Raining down sun showers

Raining down on me

Of All the Reasons

There’s always rain in my heart

Sometimes there’s a storm

And of all the reasons why I love you

Mostly you make me warm

I’ve given up on clear skies

I don’t remember them at all

They’re just something I made up

An illusion I once saw

When everything was new

And it all seemed worthwhile

In the warm clear light in your eyes

And the innocence of your smile

There’s always rain in my heart

Sometimes there’s a storm

And of all the reasons why I love you

Mostly you make me warm

I can’t hear the

Still small voice for the thunder

But lightning shines in your eyes

Dark stars full of wonder

How could you’ve waited all these years?

Say it’s not my fault

All those things that happened to you

Lie and let me off

There’s always rain in my heart

Sometimes there’s a storm

And of all the reasons why I love you

Mostly you make me warm

It’s warm for December

And windy with clouds and sun

And the occasional sprinkle

While I’m travelling on

Feels like God’s kissing me

Till I can’t breathe

And I have you to thank

For giving that to me

There’s always rain in my heart…

Closer

You asked if Colorado Springs

Was too far for me

I said, “I don’t know”

So I guess we’ll see

But I’m closer

To everyone you want to see

Got the smell of exhaust

And some wraparounds on

It feels like I’m travelling

In some travelling song

Candy canes power lines

Make me think of you

Van the Man sings about God

And I feel it too

My heart is full

And I smile to myself,

Cause he’s healing me

And I’m off of the shelf

I thought that Colorado

Was a little far for me

Still I didn’t know,

I said, “We’ll see”

But I’m closer

To everywhere you want to be

You asked if Colorado Springs

Was too far for me

I said, “I don’t know, and I’m sure we’ll see”

But I’m closer

To everything you want to be

Got the smell of exhaust

And some wraparounds on

It feels like I’m travelling

In some travelling song

Worthless Son of No One

Last night I asked

If you wanted to talk

You said you weren’t sure

You told me goodnight

But it sounded like goodbye

And I started to cry

I winced and told the world,

I’ll throw up tomorrow,

Tomorrow’s another day

Want to be cold but I’m not

In the morning, in my head

“Stupid”, he says

Spits out the word like it’s a dirty sin

Hear him from another room

“That worthless, no-good son of yours”

But I don’t hear one thing in return

So I’m a worthless, no good son of no one

And I start to cry

But I’ll throw up tomorrow,

Tomorrow’s another day

And I’m cold a gain

I’ll throw up tomorrow,

Tomorrow’s another day

I’ll still feel the same

You came from my past

Showed me the heart I broke

How my memory had lied

Bout my terrible life, spent sorry for myself

They’d been better had I never been born

Now I hear them cry

The hearts I left behind

I’ll throw up tomorrow,

Tomorrow’s another day

Pretended to be warm but I lied

Told me you always loved me

And you always will

It was always me, even still

But last night you said

You were too drunk to talk

And too not a lone

You were going to bed

“Are you with him?”

“Sorry” was all you said

My head started to spin

I felt like passing out

I’ll throw up tomorrow,

Tomorrow’s another day

I can’t go on like this

I’ll throw up tomorrow,

I can’t handle this

You just say, “Okay”

And it never will be the same

I never will be the same

Never will be the same

Meant To Be Alone

I stand here listening to the gurgling

Of a brook I cannot see

I realize I’m not sad enough

For who I’m meant to be

So break my heart,

Leave me a lone

I’ll hold out hope

Till it’s past time to go

A child again, I grasp the branch

Of a tree that takes me back

I’d climb it had I more time

And per chance no one would ask

Break my heart a gain,

Lead me back to where I’d been

Leave me no hope at all

That you’d come back a gain

Intimacy, my enemy

I don’t know why

I overlook the obvious

So oftentimes and sigh,

Break my heart,

Leave me a lone

I’ll hold out hope

Till long since you have gone

Break my heart a gain,

Lead me back to where I’d been

Leave me no hope at all

That you’d come back again

Nothing We Were

I’ll not see you now

Not in waking hours, not anyhow

But where’s the loss?

I’m the last one you’d see again

So I’ll keep your memory

Lost in time

Pictures and imaginings

From that spring

Innocence awakening

In my mind

Everything I thought you were

Not everything

I’ll not see you

So now you’re dead to me

But I can’t be that mean

That line I never crossed

But it’s one I’ve sometimes seen

So I’ll keep your memory

Lost in time

Pictures and imaginings

From that fall

Innocence awakening

In my mind

Everything I thought you were

Not at all

I’ll not see you

Everything I thought you were

Not at all

Everything I thought was

Not at all

Farewell to Spring

I’m not a Viking or a king or anything

I’m just a boy who’s pretending

I had to go back home to the days of Spring

Cause I never said farewell

Another Summer Alone

Please come and see me,

Why waste the summer alone?

Remember those summers past

The first out on your own?

If I had a potion

Wouldn’t waste it on someone new

I’d save it for the day we meet again

And use it all up on you

It doesn’t really matter

You’re not twenty-three no more

Cause summer is here again

And everything’s in store

If this madness has a purpose

I’ll find my heart is true

And if we are polar opposites

I’m a mirror image of you

If I had a potion, you wouldn’t hate passion

Reflecting the hunger you hid

Don’t make me waste it on someone new

Come on, you’re still a kid

Can’t you see I’m lonely,

And I worry that these are the last

Youthful days of summer

Leavin’ only the past

Can’t stop the rain from falling

God knows how I tried

Yes you can just stay in your house

But it’s still raining out side

Come on out and see me

We can hide from the afternoon rain

Close on the porch, while summers past whisper,

“Remorse is worse than pain”

Going On Ahead Traveling Light

Till you have one fan

And lose them

You’re not truly free

No one’s s’posed to b’lieve in me

Anyway

Hate me all over

And let me be

I don’t need you, not today

I can’t hear your words

But like the echo of your voice

I don’t know where I’m headed

But like the fear in my choice

Trying in vain to find some place

That brings to mind better days

But there’s a horizon to memory

And they remain in the haze

The closer I get,

The farther it seems

Is it moving away

Am I a fool in my own dream

Or did I just go a stray?

Laugh at me if it makes you happy

And you despise me still

I can’t hear your words

But I like the echo of your voice

I don’t know where I’m headed

But like the fear in my choice

Can’t hear your words

Over the echo of my own voice

Wasn’t born to follow and I

Never really had any choice

Cape Fear (Lone Mustang)

like that palomino

two days east of Albuquerque
i tried to break you
you alone, a mustang
in the tall grass near cape fear
but I never knew you

like the wind coming off the ocean
you've come a long way
to reach these barrier islands
and no one will ever ride you
i followed you long as i could
and i alone as you
with the sand in my eyes, and my skin turning red
till i turned around, confused
not sure where i'd been led
like the wind coming off the ocean
no one knows where you come from

or where at last you go
and no one will ever ride you

i think at times, to go back

and watch you from a distance

capture your soul in photograph

as you captured my resistance

and i would that for a moment

you’d remember me

like the wind coming off the ocean
no one knows how memory comes
or where at last it goes
or how perchance it guides you

like the wind coming off the ocean
no one knows where you come from
or where at last you go
and no one will ever ride you

like the wind coming off the ocean

no one will ever ride you

Beautiful Disaster

Cuter than a puppy

In a little red wagon