BUTTERFLIES AND BLUES
Woke up this morning
With butterflies inside my mind
Woke up this morning
With butterflies inside my mind
I may not be an outlaw
But I’m here to do my time
Woke up this morning
With butterflies and blues
Woke up this morning
With butterflies and blues
Swear me in please, bailiff
I’m here to sing the truth
10 a.m. on the drive to the city
Time to play in Mister Grainge’s yard
With the butterflies
They keep on flying and flying
Flying and flying
Flying and flying inside
Inside my mind
It’s still the morning
More butterflies inside my mind
It’s still the morning
More butterflies inside my mind
I can finally hear the music
I’m here to do my time
Searching for the monarch but my net’s too small
Got to play in someone else’s yard
With the butterflies
They keep on flying and flying
Flying and flying
Flying and flying and
Flying and flying inside
Inside my mind
INSIDE A REVERIE
Dreaming ‘bout another place in time
When the world was ours and you were mine
Where heaven had the only case of wine
For you and I
Three years foregone
I lost my voice and my own song
Hear me sigh
A reverie
Caught in a never-ending memory of you
A reverie
Open my eyes to find
Your whispering still ringing in my head
Most days I can’t get out of bed
Can’t get over the last words you said
And what it meant
Three years foregone
I lost my voice and my own song
Hear me sigh
A reverie
Caught in a never-ending memory of you
A reverie
Open my eyes to find
A reverie
A reverie
Sleepwalking aimlessly on cobblestone streets
Think I got it all wrong, am I wrong
Been lying to myself
You were better off with someone else
When will I learn
Hear me sigh
A reverie
Caught in a never-ending memory of you
A reverie
Open my eyes to find
A reverie
A reverie
A reverie
A reverie
Finding my voice, I’m going to have faith
I’m moving forward, I’m reaching for my fate
She’ll be engaged before next Christmas and
I’ll be erased and free from her reverie
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I’m out here in Boston playing the piano
Half past five outside all on my own
No job not a clue, scared of getting old
How do I get home
I want to know
What’s the use of growing old alone
I’m out here in Boston playing the piano
Let the perfect girl get away last night
I guess my fate’s just sealed in black and white
How do I get home
I want to know
What’s the use of growing old alone
I don’t know
How much music is left in this soul
But I got my piano
My piano
My piano
All the people watching time is going so slow
I just want to fly can’t live a life with any more lies
Is it my time to go
So I’m crying and sighing
At my piano
My piano
My piano
My piano
LOVE IS AN OBSTACLE
Watching TV
Drinking Earl Grey tea
Just you and me
Hearts changing key
Making love on the floor
In the ol’ ‘04
It was love I was sure
You kept wanting more
Love is an obstacle
Love is improbable
Love is unstoppable
And love is beating me
What do I do
With your lavender perfume
Do I mail it all back to you
Your Richmond sweatshirt
I’ll drop it all off
In a cardboard box
And I’ll leave it all
On your doorstep
Love is an obstacle
Love is improbable
Love is unstoppable
And love is beating me
Love is an obstacle
Love is improbable
Love is unstoppable
And love is beating me
Hearts keep changing key
Hearts keep beating me
I’d hop on a flight
Just to see you one last night
But then we’d make love and fight
In Italy
You swore to me
This you said to me
“I love you endlessly”
Love is an obstacle
Love is improbable
Love is unstoppable
And love is beating me
Love is expendable
Love’s undependable
Love has no end at all
And love is beating me
Hearts will change their key
But I’ll love you endlessly
(LET'S SING FOR) LOVE AND BE FREE
Let’s sing for love let’s sing for freedom today
Let’s sing for all the lives that’ve been lost along the way
We are one
Let’s rejoice and sing this song
Let’s sing for love let’s sing for freedom today
Did you read the news
Sirens blasted through the last crack of dawn
Overseas confused how three hundred wounded souls can stand so strong
But what can we do
Let’s sing for love let’s sing for freedom today
Let’s sing for all the lives that’ve been lost along the way
We are one
Let’s rejoice and sing this song
Let’s sing for love let’s sing for freedom today
She came a millionfold
Marching hand in hand to make a stand in the cold
All to ensure a liberty to uphold questioning scriptures foretold
But what good did it do
Let’s sing for love let’s sing for freedom today
Let’s sing for all the lives that’ve been lost along the way
We are one
Let’s rejoice and sing this song
Let’s sing for love let’s sing for freedom today
All the refugees crossing borderlines to be turned away yet again
Way in the east fighting over the same old land to what end
When will it end, when will it end
Let’s sing for love let’s sing for freedom today
Let’s sing for all the lives that’ve been lost along the way
We are one
Let’s rejoice and sing this song
Let’s sing for love let’s sing for freedom
So love and be free
Love and be free
Love and be free
Love and be free
Love and be free
Love and be free
Love and be free
(When will it end, it will end through)
Love and be free
So love and be free
Let’s sing for love let’s sing for freedom
Let’s sing for love and be free
Let’s sing for love and be free
ALL MY LIFE
Your hazel eyes
Were the first to cross mine
Convinced you would save me, no
How many years
Since I last saw you, my dear
I can hardly remember
But all my life, I’ve realized
Breathing in the dust
Of the house, we were in lust
All the sweet lies ‘til the sunrise, but my fears were right
I still don’t know why
You never said goodbye
All the train rides through the long nights gave me red eyes that you denied
But all my life, I’ve realized
All my life, I’ve realized
You’re coming unbound
While circling ‘round
You’re searching, you’re searching for gold
I’m spiraling down
And screaming so loud
Believing, believing no more
Believing no more
(I’m alright)
She followed her stars
Saying I’m not in the cards
Every shred of my soul was stolen away
But all my life, I’ve realized
All my life, I’ve realized
All my life, I realize
How many years
Has it been that many years
When every shred of my soul was stolen away
WAIT FOR THE JUDGE
In the quiet of the street lies a man praying next to me
Waiting for his judgment day to come
The messiah lets him into the altar of offering
And saves him from a world of worn-out sin
Never having the patience for a G-d
The man will wait
For the judge
For the judge he has an iron hand waving down his gavel and
Reaching in to shed some truthful light
“Order, order,” and we all arise
Where stained glass meets the sunlight
The foreman reads a verdict we couldn’t bear
“We’re losing our patience for the law
We will not wait
For the judge”
Sister Rosa judges me not well
Her sunken eyes won’t ring the mission bell
Narrow aisle to sing through the gates of hell
She said, “Your music will have to wait”
For the judge
For the judge
For the judge
For the judge
Rectify our temples with the burning of the sage
This ain’t no trial, this is the coming of the age
The congregation is filled with rage
While the choir sings “Amazing Grace,” waiting
For the judge
For the judge
For the judge
For the judge
NEW LIFE
I want to live a new life
I want to live a new life
I want to live a new life
Is this the life for me
Is this the life for me
I’ve been praying for a new day
I’ve been praying for a new day
Could have had it any other way
Is there a way for me
Is there a way for me
All my friends are either working at Deloitte
Or still in school for G-d knows what
They have two beautiful children and a cookie-cutter wife
But all I want to do is sing and write
I want to live a new life
I want to live a new life
I want to live a new life
Is this the life for me
Is this the life for me
And my face is turning grey
In a sea of chardonnay
So I sent my ex a stupid little note
With verses from a poem I never wrote
She writes back with the lines I left out
“We’ll be sober by morning
Go and live this life renewed
You’ll be sober by morning
But I’ll never forget you too”
New life, new life
New life, new life
New life, new life
New life, new
I want to live a new life
I want to live a new life
I’ve only got one life
Is this the life for me
Is this the life for me
Is this the life for me
THE SINNER'S LAST SONG
I am a cheater
I am a liar
I am a fool
For letting go of you
I am a child
Always in denial
I am a fool
For messing around with you
Please forgive me
For the sinner I am
Please forgive me
I can be a better man
Please forgive me
I’m so vulnerable
With nowhere to go
And nothing to do
Except to write this song
I’ll write it about you
I am afraid
Of being lonely forever
I was a fool
For writing this song to you
Now you found another lover
Who looks just like my brother
This is the last song I’ll write for you
And this is the last song I’ll write for you
This is the last song I’ll write for you
For you