Autumn Waltz

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Temptation Blues

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Everything Burns

[soundcloud url=”https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/217706358″ params=”color=ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false” width=”100%” height=”166″ iframe=”true” /] A cold night The fire wanes Another drink To keep me awake Shadows on This life I’ve made What I’ve lost And what I saved But everything burns Everything burns eventually A big house But an empty bed I collapse into And want you instead In this light […]

Goodbye at the End of the World

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Pale Blue Dot

[soundcloud url=”https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/217706348″ params=”color=ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false” width=”100%” height=”166″ iframe=”true” /] A mother’s voice and child’s cry A heart that pounds just like the tide The sound of thunder, sound of rain A solitary voice in pain It’s all so much It’s all so much And all we are All we’ve ever been On a pale blue dot Like […]

Shakespeare’s Lovers

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Fields

[soundcloud url=”https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/217706335″ params=”color=ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false” width=”100%” height=”166″ iframe=”true” /] A rusted tin roof And empty window frames A crumbling porch That the grasses claimed It’s nobody’s home no more A plowed field in spring And prayers about the weather Rows of corn run From the road to forever A rear window masterpiece Images, but no words A […]

Let’s Run

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When You Wake

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Trumptation Blues

“South Carolina is too small for a republic and too large for an insane asylum.” – James L. Petigru, former South Carolina Attorney General, 1860 [bandcamp width=100% height=120 album=2198238095 size=large bgcol=ffffff linkcol=0687f5 tracklist=false artwork=small track=1064607167] As the 2016 presidential campaigns got going and professional loudmouth Donald Trump achieved “frontrunner status” among the field of GOP candidates, […]