Unrequited Love
Key of G major: DDC CAA AAG GEE
End: DD CC AA GG F#F#F#F#F#F# F#
I wanted to confess my feelings
the night we laid like spoons
but how could I speak
with you so close to me
I needed just to be in silence
words seemed so vulgar and contrived
unfit to intrude upon our perfect moment
in the present, in your profound absence
I question if I dreamt it all and
what it meant to fall in
unrequited
unrequited
unrequited
love
Sweet Charlie Brown
Key of E major
E B C A F# C#
Didn't know it
When I met you
Too much feeling
Makes me anxious
Aaaaa
I still love you
I still need you
I still love you
I still need you
I still love you
I still need you
Didn’t know me
I was searching
Pushed and pulled just
Couldn’t cope then
Aaaaa
I still love you
I still need you
I still love you
I still need you
I still love you
I still need you
(solo)
Strophe and Catastrophe
Anthropocene catastrophe haunts us,
Cyclic crisis come round again.
I come round too, anguished beggar
that I am, despised and alone.
Each morning welcomes tea and emptiness,
confusion in the heart, chaos in the planet,
windrows aflame in some quiet corner of hell,
endless possibilities for change.
Everyone senses a reckoning is at hand,
a strange twisted future beckoning, and
everyone longs for the freedom of the storyteller
making up the song as he goes along.
Until Its Time
Feast for two
Feel it all
Lie with me
Here to stay
Heart in knots
Nerves like knives
Hope's alive
Come inside
We die alone
The rest unknown
Hold me close
Until its time
Death wails
Being bliss
We expire
We exist
GD EE BB CC BB CC
BB CC Feast for two
BB CC Feel it all
BB CC Lie with me
GG CC Here to stay
GG CC
GD EE BB CC Bryce CC
BB CC Heart in knots
BB CC Nerves like knives
BB CC Hope's alive
GG CC Come inside
GG CC
GD EE BB CC BB CC
The Linda Show
Fireflies
Come at dusk
The Linda Show
The wind cries
Talking to
My dead mom
Talking to
The Linda Show
Memories
Come in waves
Some days chickens
Some days feathers
Talking to
My dead mom
Talking to
The Linda Show
Night with the Living and the Dead
the hush of gallery lights where memories stir
I return to Umlauf’s green hush—
once, ten years ago, vows drifted like petals under this sun.
Tonight, basil-scented ice clinks in my glass,
a toast to what was, to what remains.
sculptures stand silent,
limbs carved from stone,
echoes of laughter we shared—
I trace a pavilion’s curve,
remember the tremor of your hand in mine.
later, West Fifth’s glow beckons—
McLennon Pen Co., where edges are askew,
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