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I Wanna Make Me Love Singing

It's been a long time since I reveled in a rhyme

I'm sorry to confess

I wanna open my mind to the one-of-a-kind instrument we all posess (hey)

I wanna make me love singing

Till the bells in my head start ringing

I wanna make me love singing

Till the bells in my head start

doo be do be doo bee do

It's a fear of being heard

Lest you wrote the wrong words

To go with that beautiful song

It's a shame don't you think

To be right on the brink

Of gratitude for your tongue (hey)

I wanna make me love singing

Till the bells in my head start ringing

I wanna make me love singing

Till the bells in my head start

doo ba doo dn doo ba doo ba do ba doo ba do ba dooo..

From Far Away

Bullets into slivers

Earthquakes into shivers

The highway is a river

To me

Family is a phone call

Classmates are nothing at all

My bedroom door is way too small to see

If I keep to myself today

Let my walls keep the world at bay

Things will be as they were always

From far away

Home is a longing

A partner is a thirst

Getting old is everything

And aging is the worst

Our friends are texts through stars as dots

Drawn on a paper sky

And youth is trifling, frightening, low

And something we desire

If I keep to myself today

Let my walls keep the world at bay

Things will be as they were always

From far away

Song Four

[guitar and shaker]

Let's Put Something On

Get out the crackers

Get out the cheese

Get out the peanut butter, oats and milk and raisins, whatever you please

Pull out the freezer drawers

Pull out the stops

Pull the rainy day card, sit inside along till your heart pops

We've been skinny forever, let's put something on

We've been lonely forever, let's put something on

Get out your records

Get out your seat

Get out your tappin shoes, your listless blues will evaporate with the beat

Put on the Steely Dan

Wonder the Steve

Move to the Pharoah Sanders, 'Retha Franklin, Rain Station, Big Thief

We've been skinny forever, let's put something on

We've been lonely forever, let's put something on

We've been skinny forever

We've been lonely forever

We've been wantin forever to put something on