Forever and Always

Once I was lost

BROKEN

Taken for granted

      underestimated

Then there was YOU

       and you saw me - YOU

found me….plucked me from the ashes

       and made me warm

within the safety of your heart

YOU gave me new purpose

       A new life

A reason for living

You are my always

       And my forever

I can never repay the heart

that saw inside mine

       But I can give my love

Unconditionally

      Forever….and…..Always

Let My Love Be Your Guide

LET MY LOVE BE YOUR GUIDE

(1)

Holding you

I hold everything that matters in this world

And nothing means more to me than you girl

When you look my way

And you smile that smile

Girl, you know you make my whole life worthwhile

CHORUS

Take my hand

Let me walk with you forever

Facing the whole world together

Heart to heart

Side by side

Baby, let my love be your guide

(2) 

In your eyes

I see every possibility unfold

And all the love two hearts could ever hold

When you pull me close

And you touch my skin

Babe, you know I fall in love again and again

CHORUS

Take my hand

Let me walk with you forever

Facing the whole world together

Heart to heart

Side by side

Baby, let my love be your guide

Liberty, Women and Beer

LIBERTY, WOMEN and BEER

F

I like freedom

Bb ——————————- F

And I love the red, white and blue

F

I’ll fight, I’ll pay the price

F _——————————————C

if that’s the cost to protect me and you

F

And I like sunshine

F——————————Bb

and those Friday night lights

F

and good lookin’ women

C—————————F

dancing on Saturday nights

CHORUS

F———————-Bb

So pour me a cold one

Bb ————————F

and let’s get one thing clear

F—————————C

I sure love my country

C——————————F

and I’m proud to live right here

F———————Bb——-Eb——Bb

I cling to my religion and my guns

Bb——————————-F

and the three things I hold dear

F—————C————F

Liberty….Women and Beer

I like rock n roll music

and some good ol’ country twang

and southern belles just raising hell

playing skynard and shaking that thang

And I like whiskey

and warm summer nights

and making love to my woman

and loving her just right

Sober and Wiser

Verse 1

I remember when I was her fighter

Before the drink made me wanna fight her

The better man inside is all she’d see

But the beer, wine and the liquor

Are strange kind of mirror

Showing reflections of the dark side of me

Verse 2

I regret that first sip

When the bottle first touched my lips

I watched my self-control walk out the door

Jack, rum and tequila

Only left me trying to steal a-

nother shot, another empty pour

Verse 3

The morning sun revealed to me

I’m not the man I’m sposed to be

If you could even call me a man at all

But I guess it’s like the Bible says

The Lord works in mysterious ways

And pride always goes before a fall

Verse 4

But I’m sober and I’m wiser now

Just hoping that some way, somehow

She can help me hold on to the light

As long as I see her face

And hold on to her warm embrace

I know everything’ll be alright

chorus

I was raised

to be a good man

To raise my hands in prayer and work and nothing more

But I let the bottle

ruin my good plans

I’ll never see myself the same way, that’s for sure

alt

I was raised

to be a good man

To raise my hands in prayer and work and nothing more

My sweet woman

has given me another chance

I just can’t let her down, that’s for sure

If You Could

If You Could

V1

I know I make it hard

With all the stupid things I do

I know I haven’t always

Been there for you

If I could only start again

I’d try to do the things I should

Baby, give me one more chance

Oh, Darlin’, if you could

Chorus

Oh, Darlin’ if you could

Can’t you see I’m a simple man?

Might not be doing any good

But I do the best I can

Help me be a better man

Like I promised you I would

Take me by the hand

Oh, Darlin’, if you could

V2

When I look into your eyes

I see a lover’s heart

When I look into your smile

I see the world I’ve torn apart

If I could take back all the tears

Oh, my lover, you know I would

Let me hold you in my arms

Oh, Darlin’, if you could

Chorus (repeat)

Absinthe of Time

 I am haunted by Demons

foul-smelling,

they come to me,

drenched in oak-barrel dreams

and bourbon promises.

They whisper my fails

in vapors of rum,

and call me to join them

as we fall

all the way down.

But the floor has no bottom.

The absinthe of Time knows no cushion.

Peaks and valleys 

become mountains and canyons

and a corkscrew becomes my only relief.

Inversion

I am an Inversion

              birthed in contrariety

                   my soul somersaults

                        through surly

                             metastasis

This state of antagonism, 

              a disconsolate sufferance,

is a bitter essence

The mirror casts back my visage

              shapeless, undefined

                    a capricious vagabond

                           an eclipse of my youth

Lines in my face

             reconstruct lines in the sand

                       battle-lines, crossroads

                               with imperceptible agony

And the cold void

              between the missteps

                        is the reward

for being the Devil’s advocate