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Coming Back

Coming Back
My record’s bad
My love is sad
My ma is mad – I long for you
I’m coming back
Coming back
Coming back
Don’t you cry, babe
I’m coming back
They locked me up
When I got fed up
Now I’m hard up – I cry for you
I’m coming back
Coming back Coming back
Don’t you cry, babe
I’m coming back
Girl, I’ll never lie
As long as you – take me back
Coming back
Coming back

This was my first song I wrote when I was fourteen. How did I know they would lock me up… LOL.

Clear Skies

I can see many changes
In the way of helping one another
It’s no surprise how we can rebuild life Just by coming together
I’m looking back On the shadows of the past
But sometimes I get discouraged
In a world that’s overcast
Walking in the sunlight at night
It’s hard when you can’t see the day
Searching for sunshine at night
Sometimes dreams are like a lighthouse in the dark
And I think it’s me, but I could be wrong
Running over and down steep hills
I can’t begin to explain
The frustration that fuels me inside
Sometimes every day
Seems like the same as the one before
And if I recall any moments of love
I hold on to them close and forevermore
I can’t begin to explain
But there’s something wrong
And it’s fighting from east to west
Seems like life is a pest
I can’t begin to explain
The feelings I have inside
I keep trying to tear down
My walls deep inside
When really I just hide
So don’t come looking for me
Clear skies above us in my mind
But there’s something wrong
And it’s in the world
But I’m not going to worry today
Everything’s fine to me my Lord

12 Principles leading to world peace:

– Honesty (within oneself)
– Hope (and rising above hope)
– Faith (beyond religion)
– Courage (to push through the obstacles)
– Integrity (within oneself and in others)
– Willingness (to transcend beyond the beyond)
– Humility (all we need is love)
– Brotherly & sisterly love (you know what I’m talking about)
– Justice (leaving all results entirely to LOVE)
– Perseverance (why gave up? We made it this far)
– Spirtual Awareness (It’s time to slowly awaken from the dream)
– Service (we should service somebody beyond ourselves)

True love is no game!!!

Begin

I know what You need from me
It is all so clear
Your fire burns deep within
It is time to begin
Sometimes I struggle hard
As You have seen
Your love is reeling in
It is time to begin
Some people get themselves so caught up living in the everyday world
They never give themselves a chance to begin to do what is right
There are some of us that just carry on, let the day pass until it reaches night
While others get lost in the darkness and never, find their inner light
You can see I am hanging on
Like a button on a coat
You are the thread that keeps me in
It is time to begin
Some people get themselves so hung up living in their mundane life
They never give themselves the hope to begin to use their insight
The rest of us that just keep moving on let the love grow within
While others wander and never rise above to join together in the fight

A manic letter written to Meher Baba in 2006 from beginning to end. No editing or updating of lyrics…one take. This amazing skill as never came back to me and it now appears on my concept album.

Another Day & Dig It

Another Day
Another, another, another day in California
Another, another day in California
Highway chase
On the afternoon news
South on 101There’s a man with nothing to lose
Another, another, another day in California
Another, another day in California
Every day unfolds
Pieces of the story
And I can’t help to wonder
If I should really worry
Rich Love Dig It
I can’t help, but shed a tear
Every time I read the paper
Every time I watch the TV news
I just want to pick up my six-string and sing the blues
(Dig it) Every single day somebody cries
Each and every day somebody dies
Murder on channel nine, suicide on five
Seems to me I’m in a cesspool, I’m just fighting
Fighting to stay alive
I’ve just been sued, again
Every single day someone rolls the dice
Each and every day someone pays the price
Every single day danger in the street
Each and every day seems so bittersweet
We can’t help, but shed our blood
For the cause of modern love
For the divine heaven above
We should serve somebody beyond ourselves
(Dig it) Every single day someone rolls the dice
Each and every day someone pays the price
Every single day danger in the street
Each and every day seems so bittersweet

“Another Day” was written as a prelude to “Dig It” on my concept album. “Watching people argue about the world situation night after night makes me feel like I’m doing something about it.” This is a quote from a New Yorker cartoon. It inspired me to really start doing something and make a change in my own life.

Sunday Driver

Sunday Driver
Where he goes nobody knows
How he lives nobody really cares
A smile on his face
A tear drop in his eye
Falling down under
He devours his pride
Sunday driver
He soaked his mind into the sky
To absorb life he could not find
Sunday driver
Hundred miles an hour his thoughts race the car
Speeding down empty streets his mind is so far
Sunday driver

One of a Kind

She is one of a kind
She is everything in everyway
She’s never easy to find
She’ll make you wait another day
I have experienced her hidden love
I see her in everything and everywhere
She can be a lighthouse in the distance
But sometimes the darkness is too thick
She lives on Grey Cloud Island
She loves her children
She is all in one
She flies multi-colored kites
She does what she can
She’s one of a kind
I wish she could see inside my heart
I loved her the moment our eyes met
I wish she was all mine
She is one of a kind

Rich Love Awesome Friends Forever and Always!!!

Desperate Cry

Here behind the walls inside
A zillion miles of fear we hide
Icy dreams fill empty souls
Lonely screams and no one knows
We are far out there
Crashing down
Sunshine on the outside
World spins round on a dark ride
I dare to dream from on High
A mother’s fear and a dim light
We’re all out there
Crashing down
When I try to remember
My reason for living
I think of You And forgot what I’m recalling
Every new morning
A child is born
Thrown in this world
Desperately torn

Anne

Anne gives nothing to me
Except a few moments of careful thought
And this is priceless
Anne likes to get lost
Sometimes I find myself wandering
As she makes circles around me
But I follow her like a pup
As I’m stuck wondering
If she’ll ever see the real me
I love you Anne!
Anne is not in love with me
But she has some love for me
Her main man beats her down
Anne runs back to him for more
After all she’s lost
I can understand that is
Anne’s way to learn
I love you Anne!
Anne said she doesn’t like to be alone
So I gave her everything I had
It’s clear to see
Where her friends come from
They only call if something is needed
Seems to me that she’ll always be alone
Except in the moments of love from on high
This fills my heart so I never need to worry
Knowing that her children are watching over her
And His love guides her to Him
I will always love my Anne and her children.

Rich Love Awesome Friends Forever and Always!!!

Anna and Arianna

Anna and Arianna I’ve been following you around for ages
I’ve been waiting for your kiss
I sure do love when you sing and drive
I want to be your babie’s daddy
Watch her grow into a woman
I want to give my heart to you and her
Sun shines and the skies blue
Birds fly and I love you
If I only had one wish
I think by now you know what that is
If I only had my arms around you
Sun shines and the skies blue
Birds fly and I love you

Rich Love Awesome Friends Forever and Always!!!

Dedicated to Anna Burke and Arianna (Sweet Baby).

You’re Fine

Pushed forward into a room full of blank faces. White walls, white floors, white ceilings, numbing white lights. Lives being changed forever in this emotionless pit. Souls being intentionally killed with the help of one little kit. Wheeled in, snipped and probed, it’s like a f*cking assembly line. Wake up, wipe the blood and tears, nurse says coldly, “you’re fine”. “You’re Fine”