Lyris for Songs on   Shadow Monsters

 

Connect Your Dots

All of my lifetime what do I have to show

Been stuffed and fluffed since the day I was born

Push to learn I push to survive

Been through some long cold lonely nights

 

Swim in the ocean

Feel the waves between your toes

Forget commotion

Connect the dots and let it all go

 

Midlife crisis can ruin your chance to grow

Self-indulgence you'll reap what you sow

Bad decisions part of the learning game

Make your plan but don't miss the off ramps along the way

 

Swim in the ocean

Feel the waves between your toes

Forget commotion

Connect the dots and let it all go

 

Look for the positives where negatives grow

Quests are plausible but they usually come to slow

When all seems quiet calm and so blue

Fine beauty in everything you  do

 

Like swim in the ocean

Feel the waves between your toes

Forget commotion

Connect your dots and let it all go

Swim in the ocean

Feel the waves between your toes

Forget commotion

Connect the dots and let it all go

 

Kids

Funny tho’ I’m to seasoned

I can still can remember my wild kid games

Seems like I could do just about anything

I knew it was the wrong decision

But when one’s young the pressure builds

I guess I’ll wanted to be like everyone

 

Kids do  Crazy things

Kids do foolish things

Kids  do  crazy things

 

Took three hours to shame me

Into jumping off Cedarville falls

Should I take that 40 foot leap of faith

(Come on Carol it’s really not that far

It didn't even hurt)

But when I hit the water my body felt dislodged   (much)

 

Kids do Crazy things

Kids do foolish things

Kids do Crazy  things

 

I guess it’s best that parents never know

All the places their children go                                                                                                                          That’s the way children learn to grow

 

The second jump was not the same

A slip was made before the falls

Narrowly I missed that rocky wall

Looking back to younger ways

Only inches from my judgment day

What I learned I hope it will always stay

 

Kids do the crazy things

Kids do foolish things

Kids do crazy things

 

I guess it’s best that parents never know

All the places their children go

That’s the way children learn to grow

 

Kids do Crazy things

Kids do foolish things

Kids do the crazy things

 

Sundowner Blues

Sippin’ on a cup of coffee with my daddy in the main dining room

Listening to your stories, maybe they’re true

 

I can still see that sparkle in your eyes all your hard work, and all of your pride

But for now it's coming for you

 

I try to see you anytime I can

Only wish that I could make you understand

Sorry there's nothing more to do

 

And when the sun goes down and it’s calling to you

Try to remember the sun will shine thru

But for now, you got sundowner blues

 

I’ve been here so many times before

I think my daddy was about 84

I’m sorry, Sundowners now turned on you

 

I’ve watched you pacing all these floors

Seen you try every single door

I know you’re lonely

And you want to go home

 

And when the sun goes down and it calling to you

Try to remember the sun will shine thru

But for now you got sundowner blues

 

It could happen to us

It can happen to them

It happened to her and it happened to him

When sunset falls and sundowner comes againMonsters

               Shadow Monsters

I know there's a monsters hiding right under my bed

These scary things  oh no aren't just in my head

I see the shadows on the wall

As they slither from the hall

Don't tell me they're not coming for me

 

Don't tell me they're not coming for me

To me they're real, so real, they must be

Coming for me

 

I know at night outside in the darkness of  the dark

Lurks the  scary creatures that can  rip out my beating heart

The moonlight shine thru the trees

I can see them hiding in the leaves

Don't tell me they're not coming for me

 

Don't tell me they're not coming for me

Cause to me they're real so real they must be

Coming for me

 

Trolls, Zombies, Vampires and those spooky Ghouls

My blanket covers my head it covers my soul

Underneath this fortress I can take on this scary place

And send those monster back to their own space

 

Don't tell me they're not coming for me

Cause to me they're real so real they must be

Coming for me

Shortcut (instrumental)

 

War

Someday innocence may come

And ask you what they mean when they say, war

You start to answer, you realize there’s much more

 

You stop and think about what you will say

 

A thousand years or so ago

Twelve hundred moons of blood, a river flowed

It’s all the same, dying in his name 

 

Stop and think about what you will say

 

Seven score and four ago

Brothers shed their blood, to set men free

More are free, yet others still enslaved

 

Stop and think about what you will say

 

We keep on fighting, dying for their gain

Stop and think about what you will say

 

It doesn’t seem that long ago

We won the one to end all wars

That madman’s gone, but nothing much has changed

 

Stop and think about what you will say

 

Then came the lottery

Your birthday tells you, when you’ll leave

Every night at 6, live on NBC

 

Stop and think about what you will say

 

We keep on fighting, dying for their gain

Stop and think about what you will say

 

In the driest desert sand

some call the birthplace, of all man

and now we’re fighting, where this song began

 

Stop and think about what you will say

 

We keep on fighting, dying for their gain

Blind we seem to be to all the pain

Stop and think about just who’s to blame

Stop and think before you will say

Radio

When I was a young boy

So many years ago

After months of playing flutaphone

I knew where I would go

So I asked my father if I

Could join the grade school band

He said yes my son as long as you

Don’t play no violin

 

(When) We would ride in the country

And listen to the radio

Listen son that’s an alto saxophone

I could hear the trumpets blowin’

And I loved the slide trombone

But the clarinet was first to spark (stir, feed, steal) my soul

 

Every night we’d listen

To that radio

Tuesday night was Dixieland

Then off to bed I’d go

I’d wake up in the morning

And sound would fill my head

The ticking of the coco clock

And all those things he said

 

Chorus

 

Long before the Beatles

Captured my attention

It was Shostakovich, Ellington

And the Mothers of Invention

When I went off to college

I took my bass guitar

It wasn’t very long before

I was playing campus bars

 

Chorus

 

The years have come the years have gone

But some things stay the same

Whether blues or jazz or rock or Bach

To me they’re all the same

But now that I’ve grown older

And looking to the past

The sounds I heard the memories

Are all that really last

Raising Up A Child

Raising up a child is just like fishing

Raising up a child is just like fishing

You love so you want them to succeed

Just don't want them to be O C D

 

Grandma, I love you oh so much

Grandma won't you buy me that pickup truck

 

Putting in a car seats just like fishing

Putting in a car seats just like fishing

Thought I had it in slapped me in the chin

Putting in a car seats just like fishing

 

Feeding a toddler is just like fishing

Feeding a toddler is just like fishing

Burgers and fries your favorite things

Sometimes you wont eat well anything

 

Grandma my belly is hurting me

Grandma maybe with some candy my pain could ease

 

Big potty training is just like fishing

Big potty training is just like fishing

Sometimes they make sometimes they miss it

Big potty training is just like fishing

 

Grandma I really got to pea

Grandma oh forget  it,  it's running down my knee

 

Raising up a child is just like fishing

Raising up a child is just like fishing

Love them lots and fishing luck

You child will be  smart. successful, driven, caring , funny,  happy and free

Spinning Wheels

AS WE WAIT HERE FOR THE MORNING TO COME

THE EARLIEST SUN NOT YET BREAKING

SO WARM AND PEACEFUL DRAPED IN GRANDMOTHER’S QUILT

SIPPING KALUA AND COFFEE

THE STARS ABOVE US ARE STILL SHINNING SO BRIGHT

BUT ONLY AT NIGHT

BEFORE FADING

 

SPINNING WHEELS THAT ALWAYS BURN UP OUR TIME

OFTEN BLIND US FROM THE STARS IN THE SKIES

 

BEARING WITNESS TO THE BIRTH OF THE DAY

RAISING OUR YOUNG WITH SUCH PASSION

WATCHING BABY TAKES HIS FIRST SHAKY STEPS

YOU BLINK AND YOU SEE THE SUN’S SINKING

THE SCALES OF COLORS THAT SHINE DEEP IN THEIR EYES

A CIRLCE OF LOVE THAT CONTINUES

 

SPINNING WHEELS THAT ALWAYS BURN UP OUR TIME

OFTEN BLIND US FROM THE MOON ON THE RISE

 

WORN OUT FACES WILL BE GRANTED NEW GLOW

AND WORRIES WILL FADE WITH THE EVENING

THEY WILL CARRY ON THE MISSION WE’VE KNOWN

STARTING A NEW CYCLE SPINNIG

WHILE THE MOON TRAVELS THE CRICKETS WILL SING

A PROMISE THEY BRING STARTING OVER

 

SPINNING WHEELS DON’T HAVE BURN UP OUR LIVES

ALL YOU HAVE TO DO IS OPEN YOUR EYES

 

Standing Patrol

TAKE A STROLL ON A LONELY ROAD

REALLY GOT NO PLACE TO GO

SEE WHAT I NEED TO KEEP MY SANITY

FRATENIZING WITH THE GOOD AND BAD

CANT”T YOU SEE THE FLASHING RED FLAGS

CAN’T TURN MYSELF AWAY FOR ANY REASON

 

I’M STANDING PATROL AND I’M PLAYING THE FOOL

 

STAND PRETTY SHORT AND MY FINGER’S ARE SMALL

BUT INSIDE I’M REALLY QUITE TALL

THINK WE KNOW EACH OTHER THEN LOOK A LITTLE DEEPER

RAN TO THE PHARM WITH MY LAST DIME IN HAND

TRYING TO MAKE SOME SENSE OF IT ALL

ANYTIME ANY PLACE FOR ANY REASON

 

I’M STANDING PATROL AND I’M LOSING CONTROL

 

DON’T REALIZE WHAT I’VE GOT TO GIVE

ONLY CAN SEE THE NEGATIVE

THE FIRE BURNING IN MY SOUL

IS SMOLDERING

MADE MANY MISTAKES WILL MAKE MANY MORE

KEEP MY HEAD HELD HIGH WHEN I’M LOW

ANYTIME ANY PLACE FOR ANY REASON

 

I’M STANDING PATROL AND I’M PLAYING THE FOOL

 

FRIGHTENED LITTLE PEOPLE END UP ALONE

TAKES A MAJOR TOLL ON US ALL

ANYTIME ANY PLACE FOR ANY REASON

 

I’M STANDING PATROL AND I’M LOSING CONTROL

I’M STANDING PATROL AND I’M PLAYING THE FOOL

I’M STANDING PATROL

 

 

Circle

See through your eyes so filled with support

(thru your eyes)

One of the lucky few who really knows you

Part of something more than a feeling

 

You can call me late in the night

(I'll be there)

I'll stand ready to help shed light

You've done the very same for me so many times

 

And I've got this circle of friends that keeps me strong

In this circle I know that I belong

 

I'll try and make you see

(can you see)

The need of a song for all of us to sing

Someone to blend, someone who's just the same

 

And I've got this circle of friends that keeps me strong

In this circle I know that I belong

 

And years gone past since we were young

(we were you)

Funny when we're hangin' nothing ever changes

Part of something more than a feeling

 

And I've got this circle of friends that keeps me strong

In this circle I know that I belong

Tipjar

 

Guess it's time to say goodnight

You've been great, but soon it will be light

Safe travels and keep the faith

Got to go it's getting late

 

We'll take the tip jar so we can pay  rent

A little bit short cause the money's done spent

 

Music made for all to share

Twirl spin dance away your cares

Keep the sun on your back

Keep on the upper path

 

We'll take the tip jar so we can pay  rent

A little bit short cause the money's done spent

 

So till we meet again

Keep love in your heart

Hold up your chin

Always remember the music plays again

 

We'll take the tip jar so we can pay  rent

A little bit short cause the money's done spent

 

Another day another show

We are driven to go go go

but for now it's time to say goodnight