Jackson Browne

Thank you kindly, I said to a stranger
The man who just bought me a beer
I saw in your eyes a pleasant surprise
Then you asked if I’d ever been here
I told you that you hadn’t been paying attention
’Cause I’ve been around for a while
You laughed as you told me Hey, I’m looking now
Then I think I fell in love with your smile

And the band played Jackson Browne
While we sat there and talked all night
And the whiskey we both threw down
Made you and me seem just right
We didn’t know what was in our future
But honey, it sure looked right
We talked the whole night away
With Jackson Browne

The next thing I knew, you were calling me baby
When we’d go out on a date
And one day we went to your family’s cabin
Out in the woods by the lake
We spent the weekend fishing and hunting
And I got that seven-point buck
At night you would get out your daddy’s guitar
And we sat in the bed of your truck

And you played me Jackson Browne
I can hear it when I close my eyes
With the fireflies and the crickets around
The memory makes me smile
That beautiful summer is ours forever
So many unforgettable nights
You sang the whole world away
With Jackson Brown

Now it seems to me that life’s like a song
Nothing goes on forever
But I can’t imagine there would be a time
When I don’t remember

Yes I know that we lost our chance
And you’ll never be in my life
So I stand in these lights and play
Jackson Browne
Oh, I think of you every time I play
Jackson Browne

The Key of H (The “Naked Twister” Song)

I want to write in the key of H
I want to tell stories you’ll never believe
Expand your horizons past all expectation
And spin you around with the tales that I weave

I want to write in the key of H
Where vast personalities revel and sing
They drink from glass slippers and swim with piranha
And pour Everclear over everything

I want to write in the key of H
And make the whole garden bloom all winter long
And the bees and the birds and the squirrels in the trees
Will dance to the wildness they hear in my song

I want to write in the key of H
Where Wonderland seems a walk in the park
The Red Queen will hide when she hears my guitar
And tea with the Hatter will be quite a lark

I want to write in the key of H
Where leprechauns frolic and unicorns play
They eat golden clouds and the bathe in the sunset
And play naked Twister most every day

I want to write in the key of H
And I think you can guess what inspires me to
Yes I want to write in the key of H
’Cause in that crazy world I could still be with you

The Moon and the Mountains

I’m lining up these bottles
Ready to knock me down
Trying to drink away memories
That the deepest river couldn’t drown
I know it isn’t healthy
Being here alone
But I’m running out of options
To get away and go

Where the moon goes in the morning
When she sails off out of sight
Sinks down below the mountains
And disappears in the morning light

Love just keeps on leaving
Sometimes it makes a choice
Others it gets taken
And nobody has a voice
So I sit in silence
Staring up at the sky
Waiting for a set of wings
To finally help me fly

Chorus
I don’t want you to see me, this pain I keep inside
Your condescending pity is why I really hide
I’m just trying to get back to the way I used to feel
And here within my weakness, it’s almost like it’s real

Where the moon goes in the morning
I’ll fly with her away
Sink down behind the mountains
And disappear at the break of day

Further Down

Lonely bed, quiet house
Wind is in the eaves
Dark within, cold without
Beneath the blowing leaves
I hold this bottle close, closer than my pain
And it whispers lies to me, that I’ll never love again

I turn on the radio
It’s a double-edged sword
Might cut through the darkness
Might cut straight to my core
It can soothe my aching soul, but if the wrong song plays
I’ll be right back in hell beneath the crashing waves

Now I’m sinking further down
Can’t find any peace
If I could only catch my breath
Maybe I could find release
But your memory holds me and the echo surrounds
Diving into the abyss - further down

Never the Same

The lines on my face are reminders
Of the trials and troubles I’ve known
The joy and the pain, it’s an endless refrain
And it echoes the life I have chos’n
The smile and the frown lines together
With the silver that grows every day
Mark out the path I’ve been walking
Without any words they can say

Don’t you smile, sit in your armchair and wonder
What could come of your life if you only had given it time
We all have a part we can play
Someday we’ll look back and say
It goes on forever, we’re always and never the same

She’s given up on the bikinis
Says that half shirts were only a phase
Some scarves in a drawer, all tattered and torn
Could bring back her bellydance days
But she doesn’t like showing her body
Now that children and stretch marks arrived
Till one day she looks in the mirror
And decides that this is her time

Chorus/Lead

He pulls down the brim of his ballcap
And spits on the ground at his feet
His wondering eyes stare at the horizon
The places he wanted to see
There’s no guarantee of tomorrow
So he sets aside all of his plans
He stores and he sells till he stands by himself
It’s time to start over again

Chorus

In spring and in summer, in winter and fall
Year after year, it’s the same for us all
It goes on forever, we’re always and never the same
It goes on forever, we’re always and never the same