Anyway

Don't feel bad when I say this
Don't be sad that I'm alone
I'm not sure that I chose my life
But I can carry on
Yes, I'm looking for "The one"
I have been since my birth
I'd know it if I saw her
And follow her to the ends of the earth
But you, you've got to trust me
You haven't known me long
You think you want me in your world
But I just don't belong
See, I know my life. It's stormy
I make a damn good friend
The storms have never phased me
The calms might do me in
See, I've done this all before
You don't want me anyway
I don't think you're my girl
And I think that that's OK
If you kept me around
You wouldn't want me long
So I'll save us both the trouble
And I'll just keep moving on
This should only hurt a moment
But you see now, I've been burned
So even if you disagree
I think by now I've learned
Let me burn my bridge to Babylon
I don't need to go again
And you might think you're somewhere else
But I know where I've been
See, I'm looking for a prize
So let me help you out
I couldn't keep my eyes on you
I really have no doubt
And I've done this all before
You don't want me anyway
I don't think you're my girl
And I think that that's OK
If you kept me around
You wouldn't want me long
So let me have my lonliness
You can keep the song

Bitter

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I remember the night you said farewell
I wished you'd go to hell

Well I hear back that baby you've made it there.
I'm all better,
No more vinegar
I'll send word back up through the grapevine
So you can hear that I'm doing fine
This way I can say that I don't care
I'm all better
I'm not bitter.
I'm not bitter

I remember a time you left me for dead
You wanted something else instead
I guess you found it on the TV
Every Friday Night
Must be dynamite
And I heard that you had to heal
But you left me, so that can't be real
Now you get to test all your theories
While you're all alone
I'm all better
I'm not bitter
I'm not bitter

I've been told that I seem a little depressed
Or just a touch obsessed
I guess that maybe I don't see it
I'm all better
I'm not bitter
I really hope that you're doing fine
Because you always were so kind
Except that night when you tore my heart out
I'm all better
I'm not bitter
I'm not bitter

You are so dead to me (Dead to me wah-ooh)
I wish you agony (agony wah-ooh)
Hope you rot in misery (misery)
I'm all over you, can't you see?

I cant wait for you to try and come back
So I can tell you "You're smoking crack"
And show you just how I'm not angry
I'm not bitter
No more vinegar
I'm going to find a new girlfreind
Just so that I can condescent
That way I can say that I don't care
I'm all better
I'm not bitter
I'm not bitter

Not bitter, not bitter, not bitter, not bitter, not bitter
Not bitter, not bitter, not bitter, not bitter
Not bitter, not bitter, not bitter, not bitter, not bitter
Not bitter, not bitter, not bitter, not bitter
etc...

Buy the Band a Beer

I met this old blues man
I never learned his name
He was out there living all my whiskey dreams
Could have taught me everything in life
If I'd have listened
After all his pain and strife
I often think of that old blues man
Standing here on stage
Pouring out stories like they're flowing from a tap
And they could live forever
Burned into your mind
Give me your stories and I'll make them mine, and
Buy the band a beer, you'll learn about tomorrow
Buy the band a beer, you'll relive yesterday
Buy the band a beer, and I'll sing your hopes and sorrows
Buy the band a beer
I think music lives on alcohol
It's a bourbon colored sky
Just think about it: that's why you're here
For just a minute, you're all beautiful
And I sound amazing
We're old friends drawing near
So remember when you're puking your guts out
Later tonight, by your car
And you wonder just why you would start
Music lives on beer and whiskey,
Maybe wine
You're here supporting the arts
Chorus
I'm not selling you your troubles
I won't trade on your pain
In a world of inebriated fantasy
If you're not happy then you've just got yourself to blame
In a song every broken heart is shattered
But every dream can come true
And everyone here is living in the music
Where everyone is everything that you ever knew
Chorus

Calling Me Back Home

I've been alone a long time.
I feel something calling me.
Calling me back home, but I've never been there.
Now you're gone forever.
You didn't leave when you had to go.
So shed a tear of joy. Shed a tear of sorrow.
When I need you, you'll live in my heart and my dreams.
I'll be fine.
Somehow you left me without leaving
But still your love endures
Everything has a season, and this one's gone.
No one makes it without changing.
No one makes it out at all.
When I need you, you'll live in my heart and my dreams.
I'll be fine.
i wasn't really ready
But I know that it was time.
It still hurts, but you can't take away the pain of life this time.
I'll be fine.
I've been alone a long time.
I feel something calling me.
Calling me back home.
But I've never been there.

Carl

Hi my name is Carl
Let me play for you
I'll play what you want me to
And be whoever you want me to be
I want you to know that I played with Geddy Lee
So come and see what you want to see
Just have a beer, I'll help you unwind
Oh, no, no you're too kind
That's alright, I don't mind
Come on stage and you will find
That I really love all of you
And that's what this is for
I can never be poor
Can you tell me the hockey score, I can't make it out from here.
I could be from Paris
I could be from Queens
Anywhere that I might have been
Is a new home town I'm bringing back to you
London, Sydney, Dallas, Marrakesh, Peru
If you want me to
I'll spin the globe and blow your mind
Bump my fist or shake my hand
Just like a soul man
Do you mind, can I borrow your beer, I'll give it back if you want when I'm done
That's what this is for
I can never be poor
Can you tell me the hockey score, I can't make it out from here
Hey man, I'm Carl, let me play for you
If you want me to
I'll take away your troubles for a while
And I play here every single day
So what can I say?
Hang here for a moment and unwind
Tonight I'm not all I seem
Because I'm living my dream
In a world where I'm playing for all my single helping friends
And that's what this is for
I can never be poor
Can you tell me the hockey score, and did we win?
Can you check once more again?
Hey man, I'm Carl, and I'll play for you
I'll play what you want me to

Crush

I think my heart just played a trick
But if it did I think that I'll be sick
Red hair, a perfect smile
A pretty face and a lot of style
And I think that she's looking back at me
And now she's walking over here
I think I'll offer her a beer
The heavens must have just aligned
There's no other way I could find
A girl that looks like this one next to me
I think I'll go write you a song
And then I'll sing it all night long
'Cause every time I need a rhyme
It seems your name is my next line
I guess they call it a crush I've got on you
I want you right here next to me
I want to show you off for everyone to see
I think my hearts been locked and you might have the key
And I hope that you'll be taken with the moves
That I'm making
Chorus
Well you say everything just right
It doesn't seem you'll put up much of a fight
I want to take you home with me tonight
And let me show you every trick I know
Chorus

Drifting

Robyn Reid ©2014
I close my eyes and slowly spin, weightless again
Never mind the time, it's meaningless in this place
The shore is so far away, I can't see it anyway
And I'm drifting, drifting away
I'm drifting, drifting away

It's unsettling, being pushed and pulled by forces I don't control
I'm afraid to drown, but I'm afraid to swim
I don't know if I can make it in, it's such a long way to go
And I'm drifting, drifting away
I'm drifting, drifting away

Bridge
There's no end to the sky, There's no end to the sea
There's no end to the horizon As far as I can see
I could choose to let go, I could choose to be free
Let the waves wash over me
And give up, let the current take me

Deep down, I know I want to swim, to feel alive when I breathe in
I want to walk on the beach again
So I take a breath, And stop drifting away
I take a breath, And stop drifting away

Fine Either Way

You wanted someone else
And I tried to be that
I guess I didn't make it.
I never asked you to change.
Don't put that on me.
Just be who you are, don't fake it.
We used to be someone else.
Now I don't know who we are.
Maybe we are really just you and me.
You can go or stay
I'm fine either way
You just go or stay, I'm fine.
I used to write you songs
That led to your reactions.
Do you still feel that passion?
I love who we used to be.
I still love who I am
Who are we? I just don't know.
We used to be almost one.
Now maybe one or two.
All i know is that we can't stay the way we are.
Chorus
Don't go. Please stay. We're fine. We're not broken.
Don't go. Please stay. We're fine. We're not broken.
Don't go. Please stay. We're fine. We're not broken.
Don't go. Please stay. We're fine. We're not broken.
Chorus
Stay with me
Hold back agains the world
One more night
You're all I have and we're not broken.
Stay with me
hold back against the world.
I don't know.
You can go or stay
You can go or stay
I'm fine.

Five Eighth's Fantasy

Feel the change in the air
A palpable mystery of reds and gold
The streams of time, they take me there
Interweaving all that's old and new
Interweaving all the glistened hue
Oh, I'm going there
Heaven in a teacup of autumn dew
Come with me, you'll see mystery
20 years broken to fix the man inside
In my mind I feel Africa
Watering the land with untapped sources from my mind
In my heart I feel foreign lands
The Andes soaring, Myanmar speaks, and China too
As Guatemala or Peru
Chorus
A dozen years alone can change a man
And someday you can find the paln
The one where you're called away
In foreign shores and unfamiliar time
Feel the change in the air
A palpable mystery of reds and gold
The streams of time, they take me there
Interweaving all that's old and new
Interweaving all the glistened hue

If I Could Be Me

There's water everywhere but not a drop to drink
I'm up a creek without a paddle, so row your boat
Gently down the stream, I'm chasing Captain Morgan and Jack Sparrow.
I hope they'll throw me a line.
Because I want to be me
But I forgot how
I need to be
Someone living in the now
I know
That I could be
Something great
If I could be me again.
And 20 hours passed
Since the last
Time that I saw
Someone who
I once knew
And then
30 hours more to the store
Where I could buy
Another new face
Chorus
And now I'm looking at 100 million stars
It makes me feel so big; it makes me feel so tiny
Will I find my place, or do I need another new face
To find my way back out onto the world
Now I'm marching while I sing the old One-Hundredth
Sipping eighty proof and lime, running towards the door
Running towards the light, or maybe brighter darkness
It's a hundred days or so until I go.
Chorus

Kind of Crazy

I look up at the evening sky
And something makes me want to cry
'Cause suddenly I've found what's true
It's all wrapped up inside of you
I used to think my heart had died but
I just felt something beat inside
And you know I could never lie
It seems you were sent from up on high
What kind of crazy
Would you like for me to be?
If you would let me know
I'd focus my insanity
What kind of crazy
Would it take to win your heart
I'd love to give us a start
And so you know, you drive me crazy.
I had a dream years ago
The one where you found me
But then I had to pack my dream away
It's been gathering dust until today
But now you're back from the other side of the globe
And I think I'm finding hope
If you have to leave again, just know
I think this time I'd like to go
Chorus
I'm not the kind to lose my mind
I'm normally a little jaded
And most of the time the things I see
All look worn and faded
And a lot of the time I'd like to scream
But when I'm with you it's like a dream
So if you're everything you seem
I think I'd risk most anything
Chorus

Kiss Me On a Tuesday

I'm fine with goodbye kisses
They always lead to somewhere new
Somewhere exciting
Somewhere that I can do
Sure, I taste bittersweet kisses
Saying goodbye to love
But they seem so natural
Theyr'e the only thing that's true
So kiss me on a Tuesday
It's the natural thing to do
No need to miss me today
That comes tomorrow
I need to treasure these kisses
Tomorrow I'll be alone
Until someday
When I find a home
You know that it seems my partings
Aren't what I want them to be
I want them happy
Because we both are free
And life has to win every single day
Death just has to win once
So let's be happy
Today we're alive
Chorus
Looking at the sunset
Reminds me of tomorrow
It's how I'll see today
When today is done
I'm laughing at the autumn now
It's all faded to new
Tomorrow's alone
Tomorrow is true
Chorus

Nighttime Passing

Nighttime passing
After dark
Two children playing
At the park
He holds her hand
Photo booth
Cotton candy
And deep fried food
Take a photograph
Still frame
Then look back and laugh
Evening wedding
She wears white
He's nervous, she's alright
Say the wedding vows
First dance
Happy evermore
Fat chance
Chorus
Years later
They still try
Still together
Wonder why
He never hits her
Some days they even kiss
In suburbia
They call that bliss
Chorus
Nighttime passing
Nighttime passing
Forever passing
Until it stops passing
Oh make it stop passing

Nothing

Can't fight this battle anymore
Another conflict in that same damn war
And it's the same old thing again
When it seems you're slowly running out of friends
And when they ask what's wrong you say "Nothing"
Because that's all that's left... is nothing.
Not crying 'cause you aren't strong
Crying because you've been strong too long
And then you pull yourself together
Put on your face that says "I'm fine"
Chorus
Why do you have to do this again?
When does it end?
Another test, another bend, another battle that you never win.
You changed it all, it's still the same.
Running so hard, but pulled up lame.
It seemed the end was just in sight
Another storm blew out the light.
It's not you haven't got a lot.
It's what you need, you haven't got.
It's just another twist of fate
The cavalry charge is too late.
Chorus

The Only Thing That's Left

You used to say that you wanted to play but now the rules have changed
The party's all leaked out of your brain
You used to swing from the chandelier now you're standing on the floor
I remember what you used to say, but it's all a pack of lies
I was a fool because I thought that it was true
And now the blame at the end of the game is all I've got from you
I don't want you 'round no more
So turn around and shut the door
The only thing that's left now is goodbye
I used to love to listen to you talk
But if I'm honest it was mostly because of the way that you look when you walk
So now if you could walk away
You'll look better than with anything you'd say
You used to strut in those real tight pants
And I have to admit that I liked to take a glance
But it's done hon', you had your fun,
And I've got to run, but thanks a ton
I have other places to go and other games to play
Chorus
If you won't go
I think you should know
If you reap what you sew
It would be much worse
When I look I don't see
Any authenticity
And so, here is the key
There's nothing left for you here
I know all the games you played
And I know I've earned my heart of jade
Afraid we sadists trade this for a better dream from a darkest nightmare
So I get down on my knees and all I ask is please
Please please please please please me
The way that I please you
And we can part as two
Chorus

Picture Perfect Postcard

Robyn Reid © 2014

Small little people on their small little bicycles
Ride on the boardwalk eating ice-cream and popsicles
It's the kind of place where I want to be
The kind of place where I want to be

The beach is nearby sunny and bright
People are smiling as kites fly high
It's the kind of place where I want to be
The kind of place where I want to be

Chorus:
Close your eyes, can you see
This picture framed in your mind?
Where everything is as it should be,
Where everything is gonna be alright

The hills are all green there's a ferris wheel
The small cityscape serene and ideal
It's the kind of place where I want to be
The kind of place where I want to be

Chorus

Small little people on their small little bicycles
Ride on the boardwalk eating ice-cream and popsicles
It's the kind of place where I want to be
The kind of place where I want to be

(Potential last verse:
All are at peace, young and old
No one is sick, hungry or cold
It's the kind of place where I want to be,
The kind of place where I want to be)

Ending:
I'm homesick for a dream
I'm homesick for a dream
I'm homesick for a dream
It's the kind of place where I want to be

Standing Alone

This is how it feels when you're stuck in the middle and you're
Trying to decide if your pride died or what's left inside is confusion
Or if you can decide
It's something like pain and it's something like pleasure.
You didn't know, but you think you found a treasure.
But it's not yours or mine or theirs. it just stands alone.
Oh, the cheese stands alone.
Oh, disease stands alone. So what is real?
Am I abed, all close to my dreaming or
Surrounded by crowds, loud, carousing, and screaming?
When you don't feel what is real all your zeal steals the steel from your back.
You can't quite relate because there's no relating.
The pictures in your mind are an abstract painting
Of a carousel in a cell where the infadel makes you yell for a big back Cadillac.
Chorus
I miss you, I miss how I feel.
I miss you, I miss what is real.
I miss you, and when will I heal?
I miss you, and I can't conceal.
This is how it feels when you're stuck in the middle
And you're trying to hold on to what's gone.

Trails

Robyn Reid ©2014

Get your compass and a map, I'll get my pack and my hat
Let's lose ourselves in the forest, Wander west, find what lies before us
...It's a glorious day, I wish we could stay

It's a beautiful day, the sky is blue, I just want to spend it with you
I could walk this path for hours, looking at the wildflowers
...It's a glorious day, I wish we could stay

Chorus:
I close my eyes, make a wish, that you could always be with me
Cause when you're near, my world is brighter
With you is where I want to be

Let's go around another bend, I don't want this day to end
Hand in hand I'll walk with you, until it's dark and the day is through

Chorus

End
...It's a glorious day, A glorious day
It's a glorious day, I wish we could stay

Why Not Wednesday?

Was it something I did or something I said?
If you listened for my name, you'd think I was dead
Tell me, what's wrong with me?
Why not Wednesday?
It really won't hurt
I just want to know
Can you tell me what's wrong with the middle of the road?
It's like I don't belong
Why not Wednesday?
Am I really forgotten?
Did I do something wrong?
It seems everyone else has got their own song, tell me
What's wrong with me?
Why not Wednesday
I know Monday was stormy
And Tuesday's gone
Even Thursday's child has got his own song
It's Friday, and I'm in love, but what about me?
It's Saturday night, and that's alright for fighting
If it's not Pleasant Valley, Sunday's bloody... frigtning
But when everyone else gets done writing, it's never Wednesday
Chorus
I know Saturday's great and Sunday is lazy
Friday's amazing and Monday is crazy
But it's not like I'm so bad. What about me?
Surely there's someone that can take my hand
Put me on stage with their three piece band
There's got to be someone for me
What about Wednesday?
Chorus