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Collected some songs I wrote, available on whatever streaming service. Links here.

New song – have a listen here.

Charlie’s last night was in this here hotel
Fell in the shower washing his ass
Years would go by without meaning a thing
Then in a moment his life flew past

Charlie’s third wife wheeled him out of the room
Groom for the day he turned it around
Years would go by without saying a word
Then through the fog a true love was found

Now rest in peace Charlie
You’ll never know what might have been
You might have been somebody
Or you might have been my friend

This life ain’t fair buddy
God knows I wish it were
Cause you and me Charlie
Aren’t made for this dirty world

Small towns will hide what they don’t understand
Can little Charlie come out to play
Years would go by tell me what have you heard
Voices through walls say some other day

Charlie’s regret danced around his old room
Crooning and laughing inside his head
Years would go by without leaving this house
Any goodbyes can remain unsaid

Now rest in peace Charlie
You’ll never know what might have been
You might have been somebody
Or you might have been my friend

This life ain’t fair buddy
God knows I wish it were
Cause you and me Charlie
Aren’t made for this dirty world
Cause you and me Charlie
Aren’t made for this dirty world

New song, listen here.

Tell me something
I can understand
How can our sun
Look so lonely on
Such a lovely day

Tell me something
I can use today
Do these old soles
Know I’m moving on
To the promised land

Where am I to go now
Who am I to call
Why did I come back here
No memory at all

Tell me something
How can this be planned
How can each sigh
Breathed at break of dawn
Just get thrown away

Lying at your doorstep
First one’s always free
Doesn’t really matter
I know I can’t be seen

Don’t you say it matters
I know you can’t see me

New song, listen here.

Through brackish light I see
Where I am meant to be
Your eyes are staring back
In burnt mahogany

Untangled from the shore
Across the sea of blue
While sinking down I swore
I love you, I do

A repeat of a dream
A vision on the screen
For one insomniac
An ending I’ve always seen

A helpless commodore
Entombed without a crew
Is this a metaphor
I love you, I do, I do

New song, listen in the usual places.

Happy holidays
I’ll be on my way
Apologies tied in my throat
I’ll take my hat and coat now

Once we were inside
That place we used to hide
You said to me
How can it be
No one can have it all

Photographs and childish rhymes
Gentle as the falling snow
Were we happy, I don’t know
Let’s talk some other time

On the day I cried
You were there outside
You heard my voice then turned to go
And I still don’t know how

Hanging Christmas cards
Hey what’s that in the yard
They’re on the roof
I don’t need proof
I never felt so small

Photographs and childish rhymes
Gentle as the falling snow
Were we happy, I don’t know
Let’s talk some other time

New song, listen here.

Have you seen the moonrise
Over the mountains in winter
On thousand year old sentinels
From back before we grew up
And ruined everything

But have you seen
The way she looks at me

Or a timeless blue sky
Pardoning innocent sinners
The far off ringing of the bells
That forced us all to grow up
And miss what might have been

But have you seen
The way she looks at me
There’s nothing else like it

This could have/should have been taken care of a long time ago, but it almost seems like when liberals luck into power they don’t actually want to exercise that power. Instead they retreat into civility mode for fear of offending the people they just said were a threat to our country. Wonder why, he asks naively.

New song, listen here.

Like clockwork. Nobody helps Republicans rehabilitate their image more than centrists. Liberals love to pat themselves on the back. Seeing the Obamas buddy around with a war criminal, for instance, warms their civility-loving heart. (Do you think it makes W jealous that Barack had access to better technology? That he had nothing better to do than work on his shitty paintings while his successor got to drone strike weddings with no consequences? Anyway, the liberal should be locked up too, but he puts out these cute Spotify playlists now and hangs out with The Boss, so it’s all good.)

Back to this…hey listen, I thought conservatives were a threat to our democracy and way of life? I thought this was another Most Important Election of Your Lifetime? You’re going to do all this work, burn through all this money to win and then just give them a job and platform? Which is it? If one Republican is a good thing, why not two? Why not more? Just get it over with and do the whole cabinet and VP and then resign. When the next fascist comes along, and he’s a little more charismatic, and he does a slightly better job of hiding his bigotry, and he can string his words together more coherently and is slightly less off-putting, and he wins because the centrist message of “we’re not as bad as him so you have to vote for us” doesn’t work anymore, do you think liberals will acknowledge the role they played in helping push the country further to the right?

The fascist isn’t an outlier. His approval rating in his own party is over 80%. This is who they are, who they were. A liberal would rather flip a few thousand “good” Republicans than do anything for the tens of millions of people who don’t vote. A liberal’s dream is to barely win an election and then do nothing, pretending they don’t have any power. (Well, that and insider trading out in the open with, again, zero consequences). Their comfort and smugness are really all they care about.

We see you, and we hear you. And what we hear is “we want money and healthcare.” Well we’ll do you one better. We in the Democratic party know what you really need, and that is a 50,000 dollar tax credit to start a business. We know, deep down inside, you all want to be business owners. Make your own American Dream. You say you have crushing medical debt, student loans, and constant worry from living paycheck to paycheck. We in the Democratic party say this – you have opportunities. Imagine how freeing it will be to take a break from raising your kids, working multiple jobs, or trying to find a place to live, and take on the huge risk and responsibility of starting and running a business. Just businesses as far as the eye can see, one big strip mall from sea to shining sea. Business owners buying shit they don’t need from other business owners. You could finally start that t-shirt business you dreamed of when you were 12, and your neighbor could buy junk from China and try to resell it, and that guy who lives under the highway onramp could sell fucking cupcakes or something, who cares? Use your imagination, peasant. Business, business, business, it really is a fun word to say. In closing, we in the Democratic party will do everything we can to make sure nothing ever gets better. Now let’s get down to business!

A liberal doesn’t stand for anything. They smugly hide behind “civility” to deflect any criticism. Speaking out of turn angers a liberal more than a bombed-out hospital. Pay no attention to my senile granddad funding a genocide. There will be a time to deal with that, they say, but the time never comes. When they luck into winning they would rather take the high road and compromise with fascists instead of helping anyone beneath them. They’ve had 4 years to deal with the other guy and done nothing. But hey, in a few months you get to vote for a fucking cop.