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Latest Songs

 Co-write with Michael Hebert, Chuck Jones, Avrim Topel

WAKE UP AND DREAM     10/7/17

IS THERE SOMETHIN’ MISSIN’
CAN’T FIND WHAT YOU’RE SEARCHIN’ FOR
FEELS LIKE THERE’S SOMETHIN’ MORE
ARE YOU WAITIN’ ON A VISION
TO SHOW YOU WHAT TO DO 
TO MAKE IT ALL COME TRUE, HEY YOU
YOU BETTER

WAKE UP AND DREAM
YOU BEEN WALKIN’ IN YOUR SLEEP 
AND TALKIN’ YOUR SLEEP
IT DON’T MEAN A THING
TIL YOUR HEART IS ON THE LINE
RISE UP AND LET IT SHINE
WAKE UP, WAKE UP, WAKE UP
WAKE UP AND DREAM

STARLIGHT IS FADIN’
THE MOON’S A MEMORY 
WHAT’S IT GONNA BE
PRECIOUS TIME IS WASTIN’
SO OPEN UP YOUR EYES
START REACHIN’ FOR THE SKIES, HEY YOU
YOU BETTER

(REPEAT CHORUS) 

HEY YOU, HEY YOU, HEY YOU, YOU BETTER

(REPEAT CHORUS)

(Avrim Topel [ASCAP] atopel@mac.com/Michael Hebert [Corpus Music ASCAP] michael@michaelhebert.net/Chuck Jones [Jonesin’ For A Hit BMI]) cjones6022@gmail.com

 Verse 1
You’re snuggled sound asleep in bed,
The covers pulled up over your head
and I can hear your every breath
whisper puffs to my pillow,

It’s midnight and I’m still awake
the moonlight’s dripping thru the drapes
it’s casting a glow on your face
like a heavenly halo

Chorus 1
Take me with you on your dream
we can catch an ocean breeze
we’ll do anything you please
me and you on a dream cruise

If you take me on your dream
we can count the stars from the sea
it’ll be just you and me
me and you on a dream cruise

Verse 2
We’ll hoist our sails made from these sheets
and set off for some island beach
I won’t care if we ever reach
anyplace we set out to

We’ll tickle the tides with our toes
and anchor in a secret cove,
nobody will ever know where we go
when I'm with you

Chorus 2

Breakdown
You move me like you’ll never know
even when your eyes are closed

Chorus 3

END

 Verse 1
I remember looking in the bleachers, 
seein’ that empty seat where
I wished he was sittin’ with a proud look on his face,
and I remember walkin’ in the front door, 
Mamma makin’ dinner for us four,
knowin’ we would only be three and an empty space,

Pre
I can’t recall a time he wasn’t busy
No, I don’t know if he knew what he was missing,

Chorus
He showed me exactly what I didn’t want to be
I wanted him there more than anything,
he couldn't see, I was too young to understand,
That’s how I learned how to do it right when it was my turn,
didn’t miss a minute of the good stuff 
they were growin’ up, I was their biggest fan, 
He taught me what I shouldn’t do 
that’s how I learned how to,
How to be a man

Verse 2 (half verse)
Every time they say I love you, 
call me up when they don’t have to
just to hear my voice it makes me realize

Pre
that every door he closed back then was worth it
I opened up my heart cause I know they deserve it

Repeat Chorus 

Bridge
Those bitter pills turned sweeter over time    
when I knew his story never would be mine   
                                                                               

Chorus

END

 VERSE
She knows every word to every Marvin Gaye song
Likes to spin that vinyl round all night long
She’s already got the wine poured as I’m walkin’ through that door
Mercy, Mercy Me, yeah, I know what’s in store  

            [CHORUS]
            I’m crazy ‘bout the way My Girl looks at me
            Every time those speakers start playin’ Sexual Healing
            And the way she loves me it never gets old
            She’s got a heart of gold and a RETRO SOUL
            Heart of gold, heart of gold and a RETRO SOUL 

VERSE
How can I tell you she’s Some Kind Of Wonderful?
When it’s comes to sweetness she’s a natural
Ain’t No Mountain High Enough to keep me away
From her Precious Love at the end of the day

[REPEAT CHORUS]

      BRIDGE
      Well those old school grooves make me wanna hold her close
       And all I know is I never wanna let her go

	[REPEAT CHORUS]


END

 Prayers and Whiskey
© 2018
Matt Rogers, Avrim Topel, Steve Sample

Verse 1
There’s angels and there’s demons
There’s hurting and there’s healing
They push and they pull when someone’s gone
From stained glass on a Sunday
To the neon on a Monday
That’s the Heaven and the hell of moving on

Chorus 1
Goodbye breaks a heart in two
And I don't know what I should do
Cause I’m not sure which ones trying to fix me
A bible and an old wood pew
Or a bottle in a corner booth
I’m lost between
The prayers and whiskey

Verse 2
Yesterday while I was driving
I was singing, I was smiling
Thanking God for the those roads we went down
Tonight I’m down right angry
And I don't know if it’ll take me
To me knees or to that bar out on the edge of town

[Repeat Chorus]

[Repeat Chorus]

END

 UBER ON OVER  (Country version)
Verse 1
I was parked on my Friday night barstool
workin' on my fifth Bud Lite             
when she called me and told me 
"I don't wanna be lonely tonight"   

I said "Damn, my pick-up's out of commission,"
She said "Hon, don't let that stop you from missin' 
what I've got in mind when it's just you and I,
and right now we're just wasting time
'cause you can    

CHORUS 1
Uber on over, call up that chauffeur               
If you don’t have a car or you're stuck where you are                   
you can tap on an app, and arrive like a star
Yeah, you can
Uber on over, roll in that clover                 
Hammered or sober, from Dallas to Dover,    
or anyplace that you're going to, oo oo oo             
Uber on over      
                                                             
VERSE 2
My driver drove  up in a Tahoe
when she opened her door I said "uh oh",
and she smiled when she asked me if I wanted her to take me home 
 I said "I appreciate the invitation 
but tonight that's not where I'll be stayin'", 
then she said “tomorrow mornin’ when you wake up and you’re ready to go 
well, you can…”

CHORUS 2
Uber on over, call up that chauffeur               
If you’re needin’ a ride and you don’t wanna drive                   
you can tap on an app, call a car and arrive
Yeah, you can
Uber on over, roll in that clover                 
Hammered or sober, from Dallas to Dover,    
or anyplace that you're going to, oo oo oo             
Uber on over      
 
BRIDGE 
As we rolled off that ride got me thinkin'                       
ain’t no need to be drivin' and drinkin’,    
so the next time a date wants to party-on late      
there ain't no more reason to hesitate
'cause you can...  

CHORUS 3 
END

 Verse 1
I was parked on my Friday night barstool
workin' on my fifth Bud lite             
when she called me and told me 
"I don't wanna be lonely tonight"          

I said "Damn, my pick-up's out of commission,"
She said "Hon, don't let that stop you from missin' 
what I've got in mind when it's just you and I,
and right now we're just wasting time
'cause you can    

CHORUS 1
Uber on over, call up that chauffeur               
If you don’t have a car or you're stuck where you are                   
you can tap on an app, and arrive like a star
Yeah, you can
Uber on over, roll in that clover                 
Hammered or sober, from Dallas to Dover,    
or anyplace that you're going to, oo oo oo             
Uber on over      
                                                             
VERSE 2
My driver drove (pulled up) up in a Tahoe
when she opened her door I said "uh oh",
(and) she smiled when she asked me if I wanted her to take me home 
 I said "I appreciate the invitation 
but tonight that's not where I'll be stayin'", 
then she said “tomorrow mornin’ when you wake up and you’re ready to go 
well, you can…”

CHORUS 2
 
BRIDGE 
As we rolled off that ride got me thinkin'                       
ain’t no need to be drivin' and drinkin’,    
so the next time a date wants to party-on late      
there ain't no more reason to hesitate
'cause you can...  

CHORUS 3 
END

 Here's a new song co-written with Clay Mills and Randy Morrison.

She’s Thinkin’ I’m Drinkin’
Randy Morrison, Clay Mills, Avrim Topel
ave@avrimtopel.com   302-750-8563


Final break-up, ain’t no make-up,
This time she won’t be comin’ back
Yeah, she walked out, said we’re done now,
I told her I was fine with that

She said I’ll regret those words

     She’s probably thinkin’ I’m drinkin’
     Five shots down on a Thursday night
     Couldn’t wait for the weekend
     Half-way to the deep end
     tryin’ to drown her memory in tequila and lime
     If she’s thinkin’ I’m drinkin’ tonight
     well, she be right

Time has shown me that she knows me
better than I know myself sometimes
Yeah, she gets it, I can’t live with
without that girl in my life

     Chorus

She said I’ll regret those words
guess I’m showin’ her

     Chorus

END

 V1
It was the taste of your lips that I couldn’t resist,                                    
sweet and innocent,                                    
a thank-you for a picture perfect night.       

I wasn't looking for anything more,                                                                                                
but when we finally got to your door         
it just felt so crazy right 
                              
Pre-Chorus
It caught me by surprise, when I looked in your eyes
and I realized
I couldn’t let you stand there waiting
                                                                                                                               
                    A kiss, a kiss, your lips, your lips,
                    a night like this put magic in the moonlight,  
                      
                    Your lips, my lips, a perfect kiss         
                    a night like this put                                                                                      
                    magic tonight in the moonlight 
            
V2                                                                                                                                                       
We hit it off perfectly, you cast a spell over me                                 
we stayed out ’till three                                         
I didn’t want the night to ever end            
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                           
Before the night  was through I was fallin' for you                                                                          
and I think you were feeling it too                    
‘cause it wasn’t just pretend  
                      
Pre-Chorus
It caught me by surprise, when I looked in your eyes
and I realized
I couldn’t let you stand there waiting                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                               

                             CHORUS 2                                        

Bridge                                                                                                                                                                                        
No, I never expected believing    
that I could ever feel this way                   
so I took a risk and pulled-you-close to me                   
when I knew love was here to stay

                             CHORUS 3                            
                      
               
                                                                                                                             
END

 VERSE 1                                                              
His daughter asked, "Dad, can you help me           
what should I call God when I pray
He’s got so many names, and I need to know                                                                   'cause we talk several times every day 

Well, the question she asked got him thinkin’          
‘bout the ways we all look to the Light                          
and he told her that it doesn't matter
there’s really no wrong or no right                 
and he said 

CHORUS    
God don't care      
it’s only a name                                                  
and when we say our prayers                   
God is one and the same           

So when you pray                                     
and give thanks every night                            
and you’re seeking his grace 
then whatever you say is all right    

He’s the one true highest power                
and as far as I'm aware            
when you come to Him with love, (then)        
God don't care

VERSE 2
Some find Him in the breezes,             
others find peace in a song,                  
Call him Lord, or Jehovah, or Jesus, 
we’re all trying to find our way home      
                                                                 
                                      
TURNAROUND/INSTRUMENTAL

CHORUS  - Breakdown 

OUTRO
when you come to Him with love 
when you come to Him with love 
when you come to Him with love, 
then God don’t care     
END

 Verse 1 
My son lay in the ER from a head-on crash he had
I heard the paramedics say he didn’t have a chance 
I was screaming at the doctors, and I was losin’ faith
I found my way to the chapel as the tears ran down my face            

Chorus
Someone whispered, I knew it was God
He said let go, let me do my job….Surrender, Surrender, Surrender

Verse 2 
I fell down to my knees and prayed as hard as I could pray
I knew it’d take a miracle to get him through this day
I wrestled with the thought of lettin’ God and lettin’ go                                                   and realized that my boy’s life was out of my control,

Chorus
When He whispered, I knew it was God              (Jesus, help me)
He said let go, let me do my job….Surrender, Surrender, Surrender

Verse 3
The doctors worked straight thru the night and then one said to me
“I did my best, your boy’s alive, but now we’ll wait and see
I pulled a chair up to his bed and drifted off and held his hand 
when I woke up and said his name he opened up his eyes again

Chorus
When He whispered, I knew it was God
I let go and let him do his job…Surrender, Surrender, Surrender

 VERSE 1
It was the taste of your lips that I couldn’t resist,                                    
sweet and innocent,                                    
a thank-you for a picture perfect night.       

I wasn't looking for anything more,                                                                                                
but when we finally got to your door         
it just felt so crazy right 
                              
PRE-CHORUS
It caught me by surprise, when I looked in your eyes
and I realized
I couldn’t let you stand there waiting

CHORUS                                                                                                                              
A kiss, a kiss, your lips, your lips,
a night like this put magic in the moonlight,                        
Your lips, my lips, a perfect kiss         
a night like this put                                                                                      
magic tonight in the moonlight 
            
VERSE 2                                                                                                                                                       
We hit it off perfectly, you cast a spell over me                                 
we stayed out ’till three                                         
I didn’t want the night to ever end            
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                           
Before the night  was through I was fallin' for you                                                                          
and I think you were feeling it too                    
‘cause it wasn’t just pretend  
                      
PRE-CHORUS
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                           
CHORUS 2                                        

BRIDGE                                                                                                                                                                                        
No, I never expected believing    
that I could ever feel this way                   
so I took a risk and pulled-you-close to me                   
when I knew love was here to stay

CHORUS 3                            
                      
               
                                                                                                                             
END

 M.I.A. (WITH CHANGES)
Jill Chase, Avrim Topel, Tim Williams                                                    
                                                                            
VERSE 1                                                               
Lately I’ve been hurtin’
and I know one thing for certain                    
what I’m doing isn’t working and I lost my way       

It’s been too long since we’ve spoken   
now I stand before you broken           
with my heart and soul wide open ‘cause I need your strength 

PRE CHORUS 1
I know I’ll never be a perfect man  
but I’m here  because you always understand  

CHORUS 1
I’ve been MIA
I turned my back on faith
when I hit my knees this evening              
I hope I’m not too late                       
I took a fall from grace 
There’s no one else to blame     
I’m sorry that I ever turned away 
Please forgive me Lord, for bein’ MIA                                                  
                                                    
VERSE 2  
The way that I’ve been living                    
has been taking more than giving
and I’m thankful for forgiveness,  I’ve been such a fool                                                                                                                                  

PRE CHORUS 2
Now I’m asking you to give me one more chance 
and help me to become a better man  

CHORUS 2

BRIDGE
And there’s only one thing left to do
I’ll surrender everything I am to you
                         
CHORUS 3              

END

 VERSE
Bartender, give that man a double
top it off tall ‘cause he got troubles 
in his life
and with his wife
and when he’s finished, hit ‘em again

This is all new and he don’t know what to do
that’s why he’s sitting here talking to you
and he just might
be here all night
‘cause he could sure use a friend

CHORUS
She left him for a girl;
Blindsided, that’s the way it went,
It hit him harder than a head-on accident,
He knows there’s some things in life a man just can’t prevent.
(oh yeah), that woman blew up his whole world
when she left him for a girl

VERSE 2
What’ll he tell his family and friends
he can’t pretend, and he doesn’t wanna end up 
lyin’
or denyin’
the reasons why she went away

It’s not like anyone did anything wrong
Can’t sing that song, she’s gone, and there’s nobody to
blame here
when it became clear
that she doesn’t roll his way

CHORUS

BRIDGE
If she had told him any other reason for leaving
he wouldn’t be drinking today
Now he don’t know if he should be laughing or grieving
‘cause he’s so damn blown away

CHORUS

END

 VERSE 1
 In the darkest night, you’re the brightest light
In the bad times, you put the good in the fight
I know you don’t brag about the things you do, but 
It will all come back to you

CHORUS
Karma’s a beach
Put a pink umbrella drink in your hand
Feel the sweet, summer heat, feet in the sand
Can you smell of that coconut glow
 go ahead and just let go
Why don’t you
Kick back, relax, trade that cape for a while
cool breeze, palm trees, catch a wave with a smile
when the sun shines, it shines bright on you
Karma’s a beach

VERSE 2 
You’re a fighter, ride or dier
A high flier, super survivor
you play the part of the great defender, 
But hey, just remember  

CHORUS

BRIDGE: 
Just keep doing what you do
Doing good looks good on you
Keep doing what you doing, 
Doing good looks good, on you, so good
Karma’s a beach

CHORUA
Why don’t you
Kick back, relax, trade that cape for a while
cool breeze, palm trees, catch a wave with a smile
when the sun shines, it shines bright on you
Karma’s a beach

 VERSE 1
Babe you don’t have to worry
last night our lines got blurry
but I still slept in your jersey
and your lips showed me mercy

broken glass on the floor boards
dumped your shirts out the top drawer       
now we laugh, what was that for
you know our love don’t keep score

PRE CHORUS
Everything could be going right
Yeah, with somebody else but I

CHORUS
I would rather fight with you
stay up all night with you
I would rather be slammin’ doors, shouting curse words
‘cause even us at our worse 
is still what I would choose
over anyone but you
I would rather take this mess      
over their best ‘cause in the end
I would rather fight with you
I would rather fight with you

VERSE 2
when we’re sippin’ mimosas with someone new by the ocean
‘cause even fresh love emotions can’t come close to what we’ve got goin’

PRE CHORUS

CHORUS

VERSE 3
Babe you don’t have to worry
I know that our lines got all blurry

CHORUS

END

 Written by Steve Dean, Mary Haller, Avrim Topel

There’s a whisper in the wind
and it’s callin’ me again 
sometimes my heart and my soul collide 
so I lighten up the load on my Superglide
down the

Healing highway, 
when my life goes sideways, 
I’m lookin for redemption and a little grace,
a sweet piece of mind for my broken faith 
Down the healing highway

When there’s demons in my head
and the sky turns raging red, 
I know salvation’s waiting for me
those two yellow lines gonna set me free

Chorus

When the storms get a little too rough
I gotta take it to the open road,
when enough is enough,
I just gotta let it go whoa

Solo

Chorus

END

 VERSE 1
I'm like a flower on Sunday mornings, soaking up the Son and His light,
I'm growing strong from the bond we're forming, I wanna feel His might, 
When I'm alone and when I’m afraid, He's there to show me the Way,
and when I kneel down and pray each and every loving day

CHORUS 1
That's when the Spirit moves me       
that's when I feel my true connection
That's how my Savior soothes me
accepting all of my imperfections
He lifts me up with His love and grace               
and when I worship and give Him praise          
that's when the Spirit moves me
that's when the Spirit moves me
thats when the spirit moves me

VERSE 2
Whenever life hits a rocky road, I reach out to hold His hand,
He always lightens my heavy load, He knows I'm not a perfect man,
Every time that I hit the wall, every time that I drop the ball, every time that I stumble and I fall, all I have to do is call
 CHORUS 2

BRIDGE  
I feel the Lord in the breezes, that's when the Spirit moves me
When I'm embraced by His sweetness, that's when the Spirit moves me
Each time I do what He teaches, that's when the Spirit moves me
When I be talk-in’ to Jesus, and every time I do… 

CHORUS 3

END

 The Road To Perdition 
  Avrim Topel                    
        
Intro 
It was 3 strikes you're out, I was lookin' at prison
when the judge showed me mercy and said: "Son, I'll listen"                                                                        
V1    
I was born in a thunderstorm    
on a lonely night 
at the crack of dawn
and my predisposition                
was the road to perdition        
     
V2
Growin' up, I was all alone 
in a house that was not a home
and my only religion     
was the road to perdition
      
Bridge
Mamma worked at night time on her back       
Pappy cooked his moonshine in a shack     
Daddy did some bad things out in the garage
and he stole my mamma’s diamond ring before he blew Dodge 
(and the devil was grinnin’
on the road to perdition)   

Instrumental

V3
The highway was littered with whiskey and sin
I knew doin' it my way that I’d never win
That’s the way I was christened      
on the road to perdition    
  
V4
That's the whole truth, your Honor, that’s the way I was raised
at the heart of the matter is that I just can't change
and I haven’t stopped sinnin’ (no, I can’t stop my sinnin’)
on the road to perdition    
    
OUTRO
Lord I be confessing, all of my transgressions
Lord, I be confessing, looking for redemption
I’m on the road to perdition, mercy

END

 MY GIFT TO YOU
Andrew Rollins, Al Collingsworth, Avrim Topel

V1
I hope you know how much I love you
I hope you know how much  you mean to me
I hope  that everything I’ve taught you
has helped you be the man you want to be 
   
Pre-Chorus
I only wanted the best for you
and every dream that I dreamt for you
I did with love and to carry you

Ch
So you could fly away from here
and see your future crystal clear      
and all your fears just disappear 
and that’s my gift to you

V2
I proud you’re filling in the footsteps
I left to show you the way
There’s always lessons learned from regrets
that will come with every day

Pre 2

Ch 2

Instrumental

 Ch 3

Outro
I hope you know how much I love you

 Ex-Factor  
Robert Arthur, Avrim Topel, Susan Simonson

VERSE
I was out with someone new
Thought I was gonna be alright
That is til I saw you
Standing there in the neon light
Lookin better than I remembered you lookin back when
Hold onto my heart, here I go again

PRE CHORUS
Ohhhhhh
I can’t put my finger on it
Ohhhhhhh
All I know is I still want it
That whatever it is thing you got, damn it’s hot, but now it don’t matter
It’s the ex-factor

CHORUS
Didn’t think it would hit me like this
Seein you with someone else
Watchin you give him the kiss
I used to get myself
Slidin over movin closer than you ever did with me
Now, I know the truth, but I still ain’t free

PRE CHORUS

CHORUS

BRIDGE
Guess I’ll never find a remedy, girl your power’s still a mystery

CHORUS

END

 LOVE & LET GO
Dan Scholes/Ave Topel/Jennifer Hanson             
ave@avrimtopel.com   302-750-8563 

Verse
Like a shooting star up high
Fades into the darkest night 

Pre-chorus
Burning like the sun
For a second, then it’s gone

Chorus
Love and let go
I know that’s just the way it
Goes sometimes
But that doesn’t make any easier to let you go
When loving you is all I know
Love and let go 

Verse                                                                                                                                                                    If I could do it all again
Or change the way the story ends

Pre-chorus
If there’s one thing that you learn
There’s beauty in the hurt

Chorus                                                                                                                                                                       Love and let go
I know that’s just the way it
Goes sometimes
But that doesn’t make any easier to watch you go
Cause loving is all I know
Love and let go

Bridge                                                                                                                                                                    We were burning like the sun
For a second then it’s gone
Chorus         

Outro                                                                                                                                                              Love and let go  (3x)
that’s just the way it goes

 Stumbling    
Marty Dodson, Nigel Wheeler, Avrim Topel

V1
Is anybody sitting here
cool, I guess I'll take this chair
yeah, this band is killing it tonite
Do you a lot come here much,
I'm not pickin to try you up
Listen to me, can't get nothin' right 
Ch
I'm stumbling over every word
fumbling with this beer can baby
my poor heart is
tumbling like a house of cards
wondering if I'm goin crazy
you're so fine
I'm stumbling 

Lookin at ya' 
girl I'm thinkin
there ain't no way
if you’d ever give a guy like me  
the time of day 
...hey..hey...hey
you got me stumbling 

V2
This bar is loud it's hard in hear
Go ahead talk in my ear
Thank you but I don't know how to dance

Ok I'll guess let you lead
if you don't mind my two left feet
I glad am sure you're giving me a chance

Ch 2
Solo / Turnaround
Girl you got me
girl you got me
Ch 3
END

 EX-FACTOR 
Robert Arthur, Avrim Topel, Susan Simonson

VERSE 1
I was out with someone new
I thought I was doin’ fine
Till I saw her with him
and my heart hit rewind
Lookin better than I remembered her lookin back when
we were hot and heavy, here I go again

CHORUS 1
Ohhhhhh
I can’t put my finger on it
Ohhhhhhh
All I know is I still want it
That whatever it is you ain’t got looks so hot the minute you can’t have her
It’s the ex-factor

VERSE 2
Somethin’ ‘bout a broken heart
that makes a woman shine
you walk away, she starts
and she moves on to another guy
Ain’t it something, we keep wantin’ what it is that we let go
thinking we missed out and now we’ll never know

PRE CHORUS

CHORUS

BRIDGE
They want you to miss ‘em when they’re gone
so you’ll admit that you were wrong

CHORUS

END

 MY GIFT TO YOU - DUET
Andrew Rollins, Al Collingsworth, Avrim Topel
V1
Male
I hope you know how much I love you
I hope you know what  you mean to me
FEMALE
We hope  that everything we've taught you
helps you become who you want to be     
Pre
Male
We only want the best for you
Female
and every dream that we dream for you
Both
We do with love and to carry you

Ch
BOTH 
So you can fly away from here
and see your future crystal clear      
and all your fears just disappear 
yeah, that's our gift to you

V2
Male
We’re proud you're filling in the footprints
We left to show you the way
Female
There’s always lessons learned from regrets
That will come with every day

Pre 2

Ch 2

Instrumental
 Ch 3

Outro
BOTH
We hope you know how much we love you

END

 Breathless   
Avrim Topel  

V1
You stole into the room like a thief in the dark           
I was over the moon when you took my heart   
                                           
Ch 1    
To a world where the rules don’t exist          
We’re taboo, but with you, I can't resist          
No, I never felt passion like this
You leave me breathless

V2
Somewhere under the covers when it's just you and I        
I’ll keep your secrets, you keep holding me tight         
                                                     
Ch 2    In that world where the rules…

Bridge
Your love is relentless, abandon and reckless,   
Love’s sweet seduction fills the sky     
This heat and desire bring on fever and fire   
burning away in the night    

V3
You mesmerize me, I slip under your spell       
I get trapped in your dream, but I won’t kiss and tell      
 
Ch 3
In my fantasy rules don't exist  
We’re taboo, but with you I can’t resist
when I melt from the heat of your lips    
You leave me breathless

Outro
You leave me breathless
You leave me breathless

END

 TIME BOMB

INTRO
VERSE 1                 
The love of my life, she’s always runnin,
leavin’ me wantin, but she’s got another side             
it’s no wonder I think she’s perfect
she’s got my number, and when she dials it up to work it, that…

PRE CHORUS     
Girl starts grinning when she gets hot                   
We’re both winning when she don’t stop                          
I love where she takes me…        
CHORUS  1 
She’s like a time bomb waiting to love me  
counting down so long, but when it comes she     
brings back the passion lovin’ me sweetly   
she’s like a time bomb, when she’s makin’ love to me      
                                                                                       
POST CHORUS      
Whoa, whoa  -  oh,  whoa  - oh    
Whoa, whoa  -  oh,  whoa  - oh
  
VERSE 2 
Over the years I’ve come to discover,              
that when she’s happy, my girl is the best lover and 
PRE CHORUS 2
Her heart starts beatin like a tickin’ clock   
once she starts up she don’t stop
lovin’ me completely…     

CHORUS 2
POST CHORUS     

BRIDGE       
When we make sweet love tonight
we’ll blow it up like dynamite… 
     
BREAKDOWN                       
She's like a time bomb               
waiting to love me..…     

CHORUS 3
POST CHORUS

END

TITLE	GENRE	LYRICS	AUDIO
Wake Up And Dream (co-write)	Country	Lyrics	00:00 / 03:21
DREAM CRUISE (MIX 3) ver. 2	Pop	Lyrics	00:00 / 03:41
HOW TO BE A MAN (Marti Dodson, Avrim Topel)	Indie	Lyrics	00:00 / 04:00
RETRO SOUL (C. Mills, A. Topel, S. Smentek)	R&B & Soul	Lyrics	00:00 / 03:18
PRAYERS AND WHISKEY (M Rogers, A Topel, S Sample)	Country	Lyrics	00:00 / 02:59
UBER ON OVER* - (Country)	Country	Lyrics	00:00 / 03:11
UBER ON OVER* - (rock)		Lyrics	00:00 / 03:14
She's Thinkin' I'm Drinkin' (C. Mills, R. Morrison, A. Topel)	Country	Lyrics	00:00 / 02:48
MAGIC IN THE MOONLIGHT - Acoustic plus male voc	Country	Lyrics	00:00 / 03:05
GOD DON'T CARE	CCM	Lyrics	00:00 / 03:49
SURRENDER - CG	CCM	Lyrics	00:00 / 02:45
MAGIC IN THE MOONLIGHT acoustic plus fem voc	Country	Lyrics	00:00 / 03:05
M.I.A.	CCM	Lyrics	00:00 / 03:23
For A Girl	Country	Lyrics	00:00 / 03:17
Karma's A Beach (C Cunningham, JK Royston, A Topel)	Pop	Lyrics	00:00 / 03:08
Fight With You L. Miller, M. Haller, A. Topel	Pop	Lyrics	00:00 / 03:12
HEALIN' HIGHWAY (S Dean, A Topel, M Haller)	Rock	Lyrics	00:00 / 03:22
WHEN THE SPIRIT MOVES ME (CG)	Religion & Spirituality	Lyrics	00:00 / 03:51
THE ROAD TO PERDITION (MIX 2)	Country	Lyrics	00:00 / 03:17
My Gift To You DEMO	Folk & Singer-Songwriter	Lyrics	00:00 / 03:25
Ex-Factor	Country	Lyrics	00:00 / 02:45
LOVE AND LET GO	Pop	Lyrics	00:00 / 03:36
STUMBLING	Country	Lyrics	00:00 / 02:50
EX FACTOR	Country	Lyrics	00:00 / 02:35
My Gift To You (Duet)	Folk & Singer-Songwriter	Lyrics	00:00 / 03:29
Breathless	R&B & Soul	Lyrics	00:00 / 02:37
Time Bomb (Final)	Pop	Lyrics	00:00 / 03:02

Male Tempo

 A wolf lies in the darkness brooding over me tonight 
and a bounty hunter’s not too far behind,
The Marshall and his posse will be leaving at first light
seeking justice with a rope to right my crime  

     CHORUS 1
     I’m a wanted man, I’m a wanted man           
     I’m a fugitive alone and on the lam,           
     I’m an outlaw desperado making tracks while I still can                         
     I’m a wanted man, I’m a wanted man

VERSE 2
There’s a poster with my picture hangin’ on the courthouse wall
with a hundred dollar reward tag on my head  
It says I shot the sheriff in a drunken barroom brawl   
an’ they’ll pay for my demise alive o’ dead    
  
     CHORUS 2
      I’m a wanted man, I’m a wanted man           
     I’m a fugitive alone and on the lam,           
     I’m an outlaw desperado making tracks while I still can                         
     I’m a wanted man, I’m a wanted man
 
           BRIDGE
          I never looked for trouble, but trouble looked for me        
          one bad night in Apoloose at Dolly’s Bar,       
          Some hombre palmed his pistol just enough for me to see,    
          an’ I shot him ‘fore I ever saw his star      

     VERSE  3
     What’s done is done; my time has come                                 
     I killed a man an’ now I’m on the run
     The gin fueled my bravado and I shot him with my gun
     What’s done is done…   

     CHORUS 3 - OUT

 Better Living Through Chemistry

This is a special news report:
The Coast Guard has reported what appears to be two super tankers
surrounded by a large oil slick in the northern Pacific Ocean approximately
60 miles off the Anchorage Alaskan coastline… 

On the back cover of a magazine
I saw a picture that I wish I’d never seen
There were sea lions clappin’
and whale tales flappin’
and the earth appeared serene

In an icy blue picture of the Baltic Sea
To the fanfare of a most majestic symphony
On every channel of my TV
I see what they want me to see

After first impressions of Godliness
Tellin’ us all that there really ain’t no mess
Truth and disclosure
Put their guilt to the test
Or is this (just) the way that
the evil confess?

Don’t it make you sick
when they keep on dumping
All their toxic waste into our seas
Claimin’ that they’re EPA conforming
Polluting our planet with disease
Don’t it make you sick
when they try to tell us
How better off that you and I will be
If we all conform to their corporate slogan
Better Living Thru Chemistry

All the people who really know
From Jesse Jackson to Jacques Cousteau
Are getting more vocal
And reaching more local
Concerns and sensibilities

Don’t want to hear about no new Freon
Especially comin’ from some corporate con
Whose credibility with us is solid gone
with his smoke stacks and factories on

There’s something very wrong
With the whole damn system
Of trading toxic bucks for dignity
Our children suffer
When we do not listen 
to the principles of morality


Don’t it make you sick
when they keep on dumping
All their toxic waste into our seas
Claimin’ that they’re EPA conforming
Polluting our planet with disease
Don’t it make you sick
when they try to tell us
How better off that you and I will be
If we all conform to their corporate slogan
Better Living Thru Chemistry

 Carry Me 

I knew this day was coming for so long
now it's finally come and gone
How'll I ever carry on ? 
                                                                                                                                                                    
Who'll be there to keep me strong
Who'll pro-tect me when you're gone
Who'll correct me when I'm wrong                            

You taught me everything I  ev er knew 
Before you left I made a pact with you

Before you left
You promised me
That you'd live on         
In side of me,                 
And now it's dark
But I  can see                        
I know that you're still           
Here with me,
So carry me            

You taught me how to be a man                 
You showed me how to under-stand
When I fell down you took my hand
You helped me     
You gave me confi-dence and strength        
You'd always go to any length  
I always thought that you'd be there
Forever

Together we could tackle anything
and in the end we'd always laugh and sing

Before you left
You promised me
That you'd remain
Inside of me,      
And now it's dark
But I still see
cause in my heart you're 
Here with me
  
The priceless pearls and gems
that you shared time and time again
to help your family and your friends
these were the gifts you'd always give,
They threw away the mold
and all the silver and the gold 
that made you such a special treasure
in the way you always lived.                        

The wisdom in the words you'd always say
You helped me get thru every day
Constantly showing me the way
You're still my North Star
You lit up everyone you knew
With everything you'd say and do
Your friends could always count on you
          
You loved to fool around and joke and jest,
But we all knew that you were miles above the rest

Before you left
You promised me
That you'd live on         
Inside of me,
And now it's dark
But I can see
I know that you're still
Here with me
So carry me....               
Carry me...          

 Contemporary Girl 

Verse 1
I was parking my pick-up truck when I saw her li'l hamster car
I had on my coveralls and she looked like a movie star
She asked me to borrow my mobile phone, said her battery died 
And that's how I got her number, 'else I never would've tried

PreChorus 1
When I called her later on that night to ask her for a date, 
She went crazy when I told her that I'd  keep her out real late
 
Chorus 1
I'm in love with a contemporary girl
And even though we live in two completely different worlds,
She spends her days in cyberspace, and I can't even tweet
But I take her back in time when we get in between the sheets  
Love is blind, She's so fine, 
And I'm gonna make her mine

Verse 2
I  drive thru  Dunkin Donuts for my morning cup of joe
Rockin' out to country on my am radio
She hangs out at Starbucks sipping on her mocha latte
With her earbuds and her iTunes, man, she's such a little hottie

PreChorus 2
But when I bring her flowers and candy and I open up her door, 
and I tell her just how good she looks it makes her want me more

Chorus 2
I'm in love with a contemporary girl
And even though we live in two completely different worlds
I let her be my future and she lets me be her past
It doesn't really matter cause this love is gonna last
( Because opposites attract, and love is here to last )
When it comes to love and passion
She's so glad that I'm old fashioned

Verse 3
I'm up at 5 each morning, she sleeps till half past noon
I drive an hour to work, (and) she works from her living room
I live on TV dinners, Burger King and chocolate shakes
She's a raw food vegan and she seldom cooks or bakes



PreChorus 3
But when I drive her down the country roads on long hot summer nights
She tells me that she loves me when we're underneath the moon light 

Chorus 3
I'm in love with a contemporary girl
And even though we live in two completely different worlds,
I let her be my future and she lets me be her past
It doesn't really matter cause this love is gonna last
It's an opposites attraction
She's so glad that I'm old fashioned

(Repeat) Chorus

I'm in love with a contemporary girl
And even though we live in two completely different worlds,
She spends her days in cyberspace, and I can't even tweet
But I take her back in time when we get in between the sheets  
Love is blind, She's so fine, 
And I'm gonna make her mine

End

 Don’t Feel Much Like Christmas  

There’s something that I wanna do
Before this holiday is through
I’ve been calling up my angels, I don’t want to be alone anymore 
                                                           
I need to make things right with you
and I’m praying that you’ll hear me through
All I wanna do is fix us and get back to where we were before                                                                       
‘cause it don’t feel much like Christmas since the day that you walked out the door
   
You got the kids on Christmas eve
I’m home alone but I still believe   ( I believe )  
in redemption and forgiveness and the power to renew and restore
‘cause the way that I’ve  been feeling it just don’t feel much like Christmas no more

        I know I’m not the only Dad
        who’s sitting home alone and sad this Christmas. 
       The gifts beneath my Christmas tree 
        seem empty without you and me, I miss us

So there’s something that I'm gonna to do
to bring it back to me and you
I’ve been prayin’ to my angels that they’ll carry me this Christmas Day
Cause it don’t feel much like Christmas ever since you left and went away

       I know I’m not a perfect man                                
         But I need you understand this Christmas    
         I’ve changed my ways, I’ve seen the light
        and what I need this holy night’s forgiveness
        
There’s something that I’m gonna do
Before this holiday is through
I’ve been calling up my angels, I don’t wanna be alone any more  
Cause it don’t feel much like Christmas since the day that you walked out the door  

No,  it don’t feel much like Christmas since the day that you walked out the door 
No, it don’t feel much like Christmas since the day that you walked out the door

 Verse 1
Boom! One look was all it took,                            
My knees went weak, the whole room shook         
My heart raced like I thought that it exploded.        
 
Her eyes locked on to me                                                                                                  
Her angel smile shined heavenly
and the day she looked my way told me
I knowed it…and I wasn’t even loaded                        

Pre-Chorus 1
Then a thousand freight trains roared inside my brain,             
‘Cause I knew a ride like this would be insane….               

Chorus 1
I went in eyes wide open                  
It was shaky from the start        
She was sweet like clover honey
and she stuck right to my heart

I had my eyes wide open
But when it came to other guys             
I knew I was in deep trouble           
she was sugar drawin’ flies              

Optional Turnaround 1
and the love she gave me                 
was never gonna save me

Verse 2
My buds said girls like that
will raise ya’ sharp and leave ya’ flat
they’ll break your heart
for certain every time

But I was off and running
Like a horse right out the gate
I heard wedding bells a ringin’    
I was blind and couldn’t wait                                                      

Pre-Chorus 2
There was no denying I was solid gone,
There was nothin' left to do but carry on…

Chorus 2
I went in eyes wide open               
It was shaky from the start             
She was sweet like clover honey
and she stuck right to my heart

I was a-wishin’ an’ a-hopin’                  
but when it came to other guys        
I knew I was in deep trouble
she was sugar drawin’ flies               

Turnaround   
And it all got clearer
the closer I got near her

Bridge
(Well) I took her to the County Fair on Saturday
for some cotton candy and the rodeo,                          
when a handsome cowboy took his buckin’ bronco all the way  
She just smiled at me and said she had to go             

Chorus 3
I went in eyes wide open
It was shaky from the start        
She was sweet like clover honey
and she stuck right to my heart

I had my eyes wide open
but when it came to other guys        
I knew I was in deep trouble           
she was sugar drawin’ flies              

(Optional Outro)
She surely dissed me
And never even kissed me

I learned my lesson
and now I be confession’

And that’s my story
in all its truth and glory

END

 Verse 1
I’ve been coming down to Florida since two thousand and eight
and every night I catch my Live at Five on Channel Eight
The headline story I see every evening on the news
S’bout “Florida Man”, and guns and boats and booze 

Chorus 1. 
Florida man, starring nightly on the evening news 
Florida man, with his ball-cap and tattoos                         
Florida man, gotta six-pack cooler and a Florida tan
Florida man got nothing left to lose     
Florida man, and guns and boats and booze. 

Verse 2  
Fourteen hundred horses powered that mighty Cigarette
down the inter-coastal (flying) just as fast as he could get,
He crashed into a restaurant ‘bout a hundred yards on shore
Now the tourists keep on comin’ back for more               

Chorus 2
Florida man, with his Ray Ban glasses and his rusty van
Florida man, with his rod racks and his guns
Florida man, with a Busch Beer couzie sittin’ in his hand
Florida man, goin’ down like the setting sun
Florida man, and boats and booze and guns

Bridge.  
(He’s) all grit and perspiration, he' on every TV station 
He keeps throwing back those longnecks till he’s numb, 
He appears on every channel and he’s always dressed in flannel 
Makes you wonder, could he really be that dumb

Chorus 3
Florida Man, passed out sweaty in the Florida sand
Florida Man, he’s an outlaw on the run
Florida Man, fishin' for his dinner, drinkin’ Bud from a can
Florida Man, flaming out like a setting sun    Public En’my number one
Florida man, and boats and booze and guns

Chorus 4
Florida man, with a six pack cooler and a Florida tan
Florida man, he’s as crazy as they come                  
Florida man, hunted down by lawmen all about this land 
Florida man, public en’my number one
Florida man, with his boats and booze and guns
Oh Florida Man…
Yeah Florida Man…
Florida Man…
Yeah Florida Man…

END

 The Ghost Soldier by Avrim Topel & Geir Keyes

To the halls of Valhalla and through Heavens door 
They promised to bring us if we went to war
Called away from our children, our homes, and our wives
By the emperors' orders to give up our lives

We answered their summons without question or fear
And we charged to the edge of each new frontier
They told us our foe was a threat and too near
So we carried our shields and we died by the spear

We're the ghosts of the soldiers who fought every war
When one war was over, they started one more
We followed our orders and believed every lie
And we marched into battle and fought 'till we died

We fought through the slaughter and swallowed our pain
In the heat of the battle where each man was insane
And we fought every war and then fought them again
So our captains and kings could continue to reign.

We're the ghosts of the soldiers who fought every war
When one war was over, they started one more
We followed our orders and believed every lie
And we marched into battle and fought 'till we died

They sent us to fight in a new senseless war
And in the height of battle with the carnage and gore
Berserk as we witnessed with blood in our eyes
A woman give birth, and her new baby cry

We laid down our arms and stood there and stared
At the dead and the dying and the men who’d been spared
And others who saw us let the battle subside
And the madness was stopped after so many died

We're the ghosts of the soldiers who fought every war
When one war was over, they started one more
We followed our orders and believed every lie
And we marched into battle and fought 'till we died

I once was a soldier who went to war
But I laid down my arms and I won’t fight anymore

 Intro -      
I spent eleven years on death row down the hole 
Till the warden and his wagon came to take away my soul

Verse 1 
I saw the hangman underneath the hanging tree
with his hanging rope and blindfold, he was waiting there for me
I asked the warden for a final cigarette
But he turned around and snickered "Boy, I ain't done with you yet."

Then the warden told the hangman that he'd see him down the road,
Said " I got someone for you to meet, we're going down to Mexico"

Verse 2
We rode a fortnight through a lonely barren wasteland
till we finally reached a mountain, then we climbed into the sky,
The air was putrid, I felt evil all around us,
and I thought I should've let that hangman take my life and die.

Then we came upon a black hole that descended in the earth,
and I wretched in silent agony as I entered my re-birth.
   
Verse 3
I witnessed terror and I heard the feral sows,                  
I smelled sour blood that curdled as it boiled in her bowels,
When I finally met the devil he was cagey as can be, 
and he said "I'm gonna bless you, son, for all eternity"

Then an icy chill of evil slowly washed all over me
and I slipped into the darkness as I lost humanity…  

Instrumental

Outro Verse
Hangman, hangman, could have had your way with me,
Could have had  me on your gallows, could have hung me from that tree,
But instead I got recruited when I didn’t understand
that the sheriff made a deal, and the devil had a plan

Woulda’ rather met that hangman and his hangin’ rope and tree
cause I’m dancin’ in damnation now for all eternity.

END

 Hooks and Licks    

In this world of wild speculation   
In this land of fast technology 
In this life of crazy contradiction
When you can’t believe in what you see
And you need a vacation
From your home
Just to get
Both your feet back down on the ground

The last thing that I need is more confusion
Don’t tell me of the way that we should be
Don’t make me any part of your illusion
‘cause I believe the truth will set you free
I can’t keep track of the stories
From what’s real
And I don’t want to hear it anymore

If you hurry up
You can worry
‘bout the politics of more
Fuck your enemies           also sing it as “Buck” your enemies”
Even start a war
Forget relaxin’
Just keep it taxin,’
Just to be would be a bore…   

I got a way to bust this situation
My momma left me with a bag of tricks
A special way to vent my aggravation
And I do it with my hooks and licks
Blow it out with a lyric
Its just feelings
They’re never right or wrong

 I Should have Told You  

I saw a hundred shooting stars the night I met you 
I thought the universe was ours I can't forget you
I should have told you

Your love collided with my heart   and it exploded
You rocked my world right from the start you knocked me over
I should have told you 

Chorus 1
I should have told you the moment I saw you last night      
that I knew right away it was love at first sight,
I should have taken a chance,  but something got in the way
and I choked on my words, and then you went away
  
I had a chance at love and missed I missed my
moment                                                                                        
I should have opened up and risked letting you know it
I should have told you                     

I should have told you the moment I saw you last night
I should have asked you to dance, I could have held you so tight
I should have taken a chance, but something got in the way                              
And I couldn't tell you what I needed to say
 
You gotta chase your dreams or else they won't be there tomorrow
And I lost mine not chasing you                        
When you left I should have followed
It's a bitter pill to swallow
Oh, I really should have told you

I should have told you the moment I saw you back then
If I could do it all over and see you again
I would be dancing with you, and I'd be holding you tight
And I would tell you what I should have told you that night                                        

 

 I Still Love You - (Male voc)

I carved our names into a sycamore tree   
and circled them both with a heart 
I knew when I met you
I loved you from the start
You made me a better man
You made me so much more than I was on my own
and now my life's beautiful
But it never could have been if I was still alone

I still love you. ( 4x )

I never imagined myself as a guy 
who would ever be settling down 
But then I met you and it turned my life around

If I could go back in time
I wouldn't change a thing
I'd do it all again
With you I have everything
a partner in my life, a lover and a friend.

I still love you (3x)

And as the years go by
You're still the only one
when all is said and done
With everything I do
I know this much is true
I still love you ( 4x )

I still love you ( 3x )

 I  STILL LOVE YOU  (V2) - (Male vocal) 

I carved our names into a sycamore tree
and circled them both with a heart 
I knew when I met you 
I loved you from the start 
               
You made me a better man
You made me so much more than I was on my own
My life was so beautiful
But it never would have been if I had been alone

                           Lightning struck down this tree                   
                           And God took you away from me, but
                           I still love you
                           Today as I walk thru this life
                           I have an angel for a wife, and
                           I still love you 

I never imagined myself as a man
who'd ever be settling down 
But then I met you and it turned my life around

If I could go back in time
I wouldn't change a thing
I'd do it all again 
With you I had everything
A  partner in my life, a lover and friend.     
  
                           Lightning struck down this tree                   
                           And God took you away from me, but
                           I still love you
                           The greatest joy I ever knew
                           Was spending my life loving you, 

And as the years go by
You're  the only one
when all is said and done
With everything I'd do
I know this much is true...
I Still Love You

                           Lightning struck down this tree                   
                           And God took you away from me, but. 
                           I still love you
                          The greatest joy I ever knew
                          Was spending my life loving you, and
                           I still love you 

            
I still love you ( 3x) 

 Merry Christmas for Padre Pedro

It's Merry Christmas for Padre Pedro, and the orphans that live at Casita Grande,
Even though Pedro didn't have money for presents, he made sure that the kids had a magical day. 
Every year, on the day before Christmas, he'd chop down a tree for the good girls and boys
and he taught them to trim it with pine cones and ribbons, and the carols they'd sing we're far better than toys.

One day Pedro marched into the forest, with his horse and a sleigh to go chop down a tree
But he lumbered back home 'fore he ever got started, he was too sick to get one on that Christmas Eve 
The good doctor was called to Casita Grande and examined the poor Padre every which way
When the doctor was finished he told us to pray, he said Pedro might not make it till Christmas Day

It was quiet at dinner, just porridge and bread, there was no tree or pine cones that year
Then the children all snuggled up into their beds and they prayed Padre still would be here

Padre Pedro woke up Christmas morning to whispers and whimpers he heard down below
From his room he could see a most beautiful tree and outside he saw tracks in the fresh fallen snow
When he rose from his bed like an angel on wings all the children rejoiced and they started to sing
for the grace that had come when they started to pray made a miracle happen on that Christmas Day.

It's a Merry Christmas for Padre Pedro, and the orphans that live at Casita Grande, 
for the grace that had come when they started to pray made a miracle happen on that Christmas Day.

 More Than Just Casual Friends (Male Vocal)

The way she looked at him  
across the dance room floor
He could see in her eyes
she wanted to be much
more than
just casual friends

Stranger from out of town
Connected by the stars
His sun behind her moon
His Jupiter, her Mars
more than
just casual friends

She’s starts asking him
all about the work
that he does by day
But he tells her his interest
is only in her and this night
And at 2am
in a rainy (night) cab
out on Broadway
Strong emotions
and feelings of love
run deep in the night

The way she looked at him
across the dance room floor
He could see in her eyes
she wanted to be
more than
just casual friends

 My Friend Jimmy

No I had not seen my friend Jimmy
in a dozen years of time
although it really didn't matter
our friendship wasn't of that kind 

We had a constant bond between us
that would forever be so strong
and it surpassed the time and space
of what was right and what was wrong

I always loved him like a brother
I shared his life at dusk and dawn
now I refuse to cry
because I know
that he's just moved along
to a better place
yeah

When people ponder on the question
of what this life is all about
they ought' look at
my friend Jimmy's life
and really check it out,

You know he lived his dreams and goals
it seemed he always had a smile
and when his time had come
he made his peace
with dignity and style

So as I tell him
"See ya' later"
I know that he would understand
to celebrate his life
and party with a Mariachi band

 Nightsky

Way up north above British Alberta
not too far south from the Artic Sea,
as the sun reclines beneath the tundra
comes the moment where I long to be

The nightsky opens up into motion,
the planets all start to careen,
the meteors fly into the ocean,
more vividly than in any dream,
The Northern Lights keep calling out to me

You can hear what heaven sounds like
if you care to go
to the land of polar bears
and silken silent snow,
If you seek renewal
from the world you left below,
Hang out ‘til the other side of dawn

The nightsky opens up into motion
the planets all start to careen
the meteors fly into the ocean
more vividly than in any dream,
The Northern Lights keep calling out to me

 Old Guys Just Like Me
  
I was thumbing thru the pages of my favorite magazine
reading stories ‘bout musicians I adore,
When I realized they're mostly guys approaching seventy
And I told myself you're not young anymore

     So here's to all the old guys just like me,
     We're pursuing what we're doing while we're doing what we be,
     The fire's still burning brightly, we're still chasing all our dreams,
     So here's to all the old guys just like me

When I look into the mirror I'm surprised 
‘cause I'm looking at a stranger now that I don't recognize,
I catch comfort from the wisdom in the wrinkles I can see 
only time bestows on old guys just like me

     So here's to all the old guys just like me,
     We're pursuing what we're doing while we're doing what we be,
     The fire's still burnin brightly, we're still chasing all our dreams,
     So here's to all the old guys just like me.

And no one really grows up 'cept your parents and your teachers,
and your grandma and your grandpa and your ministers and preachers 

      So here's to all the old guys just like me,
      We're pursuing what we're doing, we're still doing what we be, 
      From Liverpool to Winnipeg and Nashville, Tennessee,
      Here’s to all the old guys,
      Sharing stories, swapping lies,              
      So here's to all the old guys just like me. 

 Verse 1                                                             
Beulah was a half-breed Texas wrangler             
Her veins were coursin’ hot Comanche blood 
This side of Santa Ann
she’d outdraw any man                                
Her boots were caked with trail dust and mud  
     
Beatrice was a loner and a killer
whose black heart drove her here to stake her claim    
Rode into our fair town           
Set on putting Beulah down  
She killed a hundred men to make her name    

Pre Chorus                                                                      
And the storm clouds gathered rightly in the distance 
and the thunder rumbled yonder down the range
That night under a full moon
Said they'd meet up at high noon
and we knew our town would never be the same.                 

Chorus 1                                                                                     
The stories how the west was won still stand the test of time
with many women put to rest like bloody valentines.             

Verse 2 
Now the hot summer sun hit a hundred twenty one
with the air so thick it made it hard to breathe,             
Face to face they stood their ground                        
Somebody was going down
and we all knew that  only one would leave                

Beulah was as cool as late November
When Beatrice’s ill-timed nervous tick took hold *    

Beulah watched when Beatrice flinched       
she out-drew that black-heart wench
while we all watched the dance of death unfold.     

Pre Chorus 2
Beatrice fumbled in her hell-fire molten anger
with her pearly handled pistols by her side,
But she wasn't fast enough
and the half-breed proved too tough
Beulah got off the first shot and Beatrice died.       

Chorus 2                                                                                      
The stories how the west was won still stand the test of time
with many women put to rest like bloody valentines…                 


Outro
like bloody valentines.             

 The Day That I Tuned-in To Country

I used to love my rock 'n roll                              
The music of my heart and soul                       
I'd crank it till I’d lose control        
it made me feel alive and free                                                             

One day, I tried to sing along                                                                 
but all the melodies were gone,                                 
And just before I thought I'd lose it               
I tuned-in to Country music  

     Love songs and pick-up trucks,  
     Sweet tea in Dixie cups,
     Hay stacks, six-packs, cruising down the train tracks,
     Hoe-downs, line-dance, Oklahoma , romance,           
     Fishing holes and Georgia peaches,       
     Spring break, Alabama beaches,                   
     When the music lost it’s melody
     That’s the day I tuned-in to Country                  

 I discovered Country music dancing with a lady-friend 
 when I didn't want the evening or the song to end,  
Then I felt my heartbreak to a Country music song                                                  
 and it kept me up and thinking 'bout her all night long,
But the night that rap replaced the melodies I used to know
I tuned in to country on the radio, to 
                                       
     Love songs and pick-up trucks,  
     Sweet tea in Dixie cups,
     Hay stacks, six-packs, cruising down the train tracks,
     Hoe-downs, line-dance, Oklahoma, romance                          
     Steel guitars and cowboy bars,
     Muscle Shoals and muscle cars,                         
     Do yourself a favor, give yourself a break,   
     Go a little corn-pone, get a little heart-ache          

Love songs and pick-up trucks,  
Sweet tea in Dixie cups,
Hay stacks, six-packs, cruising down the train tracks,
Hoe-downs, line-dance, Oklahoma, romance,                     
Fishing holes and Georgia peaches,        
Spring break, Alabama beaches,  
Steel guitars and cowboy bars,
Muscle Shoals and muscle cars,  

When the music lost its melody
That’s the day I tuned-in to Country                        

 The Universe

Faraway beyond the blue horizon
half-way between truth and fantasy, 
in the time and space that dreams reside in
comes the moment where I long to be

The nightsky opens up into motion,
the planets all start to careen,
the meteors fly into the ocean,
more vividly than in any dream,
The universe keep calling out to me

You can hear what heaven sounds like
if you care to go
come with me, I'll take you there,
and you will finally know,
If you seek renewal
from the world you left below,
Hang out ‘til the other side of dawn

The nightsky opens up into motion
the planets all start to careen
the meteors fly into the ocean
more vividly than in any dream,
The universe keep calling out to me

Repeat chorus

 Too Many Women and Only One Me (revised)

Rolled in on a greyhound,  
Moved to a new town,                         
My new landlady                                              
greeted me at my front door,                   
Brought me some whiskey,
then we got frisky,                                     
and now I hope                                         
she comes back for more...                                                      

My neighbor asked me      
Out on a date                             
I take it slow                  
But she just won't wait, no no,      
After I kissed her
I really missed her                                            
Then I met her friend                                  
and I'm falling hard all over again".                    
                                           
          Too many women and only one me
          Way too much honey for one honey bee
          These kitties keep on chasing puppy up a tree
          Cause there's just
          Too many women and only one me

My new boss lady
wore pointy pumps,                                
Hump day was comin' 
She gave me goosebumps
I couldn't get that                              
girl out of my head                                        
so I quit my job on Friday,                   
asked her out in-stead.                   

                                                                 
          Too many women and only one me
          Way too much honey for one honey bee
          These kitties keep on chasing puppy up a tree
          Cause there's just
          Too many women and only one me

Well I came to Jesus Sunday 
for my day of reckonin' 
And I watched all of the women                      
that I met that week walk in                            
I was praying for salvation
when my boss knelt down and said    
"Better get your butt back on that bus"
 and slapped me 'cross my head 

That's the way everything started
and it hasn't been a week 
Can't control these lovin' feelin's                    
now the future's lookin' bleak,                  

Man, this juju's gonna kill me            
It's a curse that's getting worse        
Better exit on that Greyhound
'fore I leave here in a hearse.                        

          Too many women and only one me
          Way too much honey for one honey bee
          These kitties keep on chasing puppy up a tree
          Cause there's just
           Too many women and only one me

 You Don't Have To Be Alone Tonight (Let Me Love Ya' Baby BB)

The barmaid said drink up, last call, 
when love came walking down the hall
her eyes met mine as if to call 
You don't have to be lonely tonight 

I wondered, would she take a chance
on reckless love, a one night stand
I tried to tell her with a glance 
You don’t have to be lonely tonight

You don’t have to be alone tonight 
Let me love ya’ baby, Let me love ya’ baby 
For just this night and nothing more 
If that’s what you’re looking for 

Her eyes told me she wanted more 
She followed me right out the door
She whispered SOFTLY, “mi amour,
You don’t have to be lonely tonight

You don’t have to be alone tonight 
Let me love you baby, let me love you baby
I’ll love you ‘til the morning light
You don’t have to be lonely tonight


The night is dark, the hour is late
The heat is on and I can’t wait
There won’t be any hearts to break tonight

You don’t have to be alone tonight 
Let me love ya’ baby, Let me love ya’ baby 
For just this night and nothing more
if that’s what you’re looking for 

You don’t have to be alone tonight 
Let me love you baby, let me love you baby
I’ll love you ‘til the morning light
You don't have to be lonely tonight

 When We Meet Again

When we meet again
And turn back the hands of time
When we meet again
You’ll share your life
I’ll share mine

Whatcha’ been up to
How ya’doin’
How ya’ been spendin’
All this time
Have ya’ been able
To accomplish
All of the things you
Had in mind?

When we meet again
And turn back the hands of time
When we meet again
You’ll share your life
I’ll share mine

Did ya’ get married
Any children
Did ya’ stay happy
All alone
Are you ok with
How your life is
Where is the place you
Call your home?

When we meet again
And turn back the hands of time
When we meet again
You’ll share your life
I’ll share mine

 It happens once or twice a year   
I gas my truck, I pack my gear
I'm gone, 
I'm flying down this Interstate        
I'm going back, and I can't wait
to go                                                                         

     Home, I'm going home
     I've been away for way too long,      
     I'm going home.                                      
     Home, I'm going home
     Back to the place where I belong,
     I'm going home

When I get back to my ol’ town                
I look to see who’s still around                   
I know,                                                  
I’ll cruise thru my old neighborhood                            
I’ll reconnect, it feels so good                             
to go                                   

     Home, I'm going home
     Back to the place where I belong,      
     I'm going home.                                      

There’s a roadhouse on Main that's exactly the same 
as it was back then,
back in nineteen ninety nine,
Now I'm  searching the faces of folks at the bar         
'cause I'm looking for
an old childhood friend of mine

     Home, I'm going home
     I've been away for way too long,   
     I'm going home.
                                      
     Home, I'm going home
     Back to the place where I belong,
     I'm going home

 When lovers at night time become strangers at dawn 
and duty’s a mistress with battle-lines drawn 
where the end is betrayal but you carry on
When love is war

The Waning Moon, this salty mist,  
impending doom, a lover’s tryst, 
an angry sea, a deadly kiss,
When Love is War

This solitude, and loneliness 
are longing for a sweet caress, 
tomorrow’s dreams meet the abyss,
When Love is War

When the truth becomes hollow and empty 
in a world that exists without laws
Your ghosts from the past come to haunt you
while your destiny never takes pause, 
All it takes is one fatal distraction 
to render your perfect plans flawed
when love is war

When love is war across the sea
the timeless tides of destiny
are lost for all eternity
when love is war

DOC 2016

 I was parking my pick-up truck when I saw her li’l hamster car
I had on my coveralls and she looked like a movie star
She asked me to borrow my mobile phone, said her battery died
an’ that’s how I got her number, else I never would’ve tried

When I called her later on that night to ask her for a date
she went crazy when I told her that I’d keep her out real late

     I’m in love with a contemporary girl                                                    
     and even though we live in two completely different worlds               
     She spends her days in cyberspace and I can’t even tweet               
     But I take her back in time when we get in between the sheets         
     When it comes to love and passion                                               
     She’s so glad that I’m old fashion                                                  
              

 I’m up at 5 each morning, she sleeps till half past noon
I drive an hour to work and she works from her living room
I live on TV dinners, Burger King and chocolate shakes
She’s a raw food vegan and she seldom cooks or bakes

But when I drive her down those country roads on long hot summer nights
She tells me that she loves me when we’re underneath the moon light

      I’m in love with a contemporary girl                                                       
      and even though we live in two completely different worlds                   
      She spends her days in cyberspace and I can’t even tweet                   
      But I take her back in time when we get in between the sheets             
      When it comes to love and passion 
      She’s so glad that I’m old fashion                                                       

      I’m in love with a contemporary girl
      and even though we live in two completely different worlds                       
      She spends her days in cyberspace and I can’t even tweet                   
      But I take her back in time when we get in between the sheets                                         
      When it comes to love and passion
      She’s so glad that I’m old fashion

 It was a peck on the lips                                                       
that I couldn’t resist                                    
sweet and innocent                                    
a thank-you for a picture perfect night.       

I wasn't looking for                                                                          
anything more,                                                                                                
but when we finally got to your door         
it just felt so crazy right                               

It caught me by surprise 
I got butterflies                            
when I looked in your eyes
I couldn’t let you stand there waiting
                                                                                                                     
                      
                    A kiss, a kiss,
                    your lips, your lips,
                    a night like this put                                                            
                    magic in the moonlight,                        
                    A kiss, a kiss,
                    your lips, your lips, 
                    a night like this put                                 
                    magic tonight in the moonlight             
                                                                                                                                                     
We hit it off perfectly                                                     
you cast a spell over me                                 
we stayed out ’till three                                         
I didn’t want the night to ever end            
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                           
Before the night  was through                         
I was fallin' for you                                                                          
and I think you were feeling it too                    
‘cause it wasn’t just pretend                        
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                   
When I looked in your eyes
I got butterflies                                            
and I realized
I couldn’t let you stand there waiting                                                                                              
                                                                                
                             CHORUS 2                                        
                                                                                                                                                                                           
No, I never expected believing    
that I could ever feel this way                   
so I took a risk and pulled you close to me
when I knew love was here to stay
                                                                          
                                 CHORUS 3   

END
——————————————————————-

 VERSE 1
I sit in solitary alone inside my head 
thinking how I lived my life, an’ what I should have done instead We swore we’d be forever, but I didn’t stick around
you waited half a lifetime, I left and let you down

CHORUS 1
This is my testimony, this is my one and only truth
If leavin’ makes me guilty, my crime was leaving you 
This is my testimony, this is my nothin’ but the truth 
I’d tell a judge and jury my crime was leaving you 
Nah nah-na-na Nah nah nah-na nah
Nah nah-na-na Nah nah nah

VERSE 2
If I could do it over I’d have never left this dance
but now i’m back again, asking you for one more chance,
You said the clock was tickin’ and the deck was stacked too high 
I folded on commitment, you said your last goodbye

CHORUS 2
This is my testimony, this is my one and only truth
If leavin’ makes me guilty, my crime was leaving you 
This is my testimony, this is my nothin’ but the truth 
I’d tell a judge and jury my crime was leaving you 
Nah nah-na-na Nah nah nah-na nah
Nah nah-na-na Nah nah nah

BRIDGE
Now I wait, wait, wait, till the jury casts my fate

CHORUS 3
This is my testimony, this is my one and only truth
If leavin’ makes me guilty, my crime was leaving you 
This is my testimony, this is my nothin’ but the truth 
I’d tell a judge and jury my crime was leaving you 
Nah nah-na-na Nah nah nah-na nah
Nah nah-na-na Nah nah nah

 Verse 1
I was parked on my Friday night barstool
workin' on my fifth Bud lite             
when she called me and told me 
"I don't wanna be lonely tonight"          

I said "Damn, my pick-up's out of commission,"
She said "Hon, don't let that stop you from missin' 
what I've got in mind when it's just you and I,
and right now we're just wasting time
'cause you can    

CHORUS 1
Uber on over, call up that chauffeur               
If you don’t have a car or you're stuck where you are                   
you can tap on an app, and arrive like a star
Yeah, you can
Uber on over, roll in that clover                 
Hammered or sober, from Dallas to Dover,    
or anyplace that you're going to, oo oo oo             
Uber on over      
                                                             
VERSE 2
My driver drove (pulled up) up in a Tahoe
when she opened her door I said "uh oh",
(and) she smiled when she asked me if I wanted her to take me home 
 I said "I appreciate the invitation 
but tonight that's not where I'll be stayin'", 
then she said “tomorrow mornin’ when you wake up and you’re ready to go 
well, you can…”

CHORUS 2
 
BRIDGE 
As we rolled off that ride got me thinkin'                       
ain’t no need to be drivin' and drinkin’,    
so the next time a date wants to party-on late      
there ain't no more reason to hesitate
'cause you can...  

CHORUS 3 
END

 UBER ON OVER  (Country version)
Verse 1
I was parked on my Friday night barstool
workin' on my fifth Bud Lite             
when she called me and told me 
"I don't wanna be lonely tonight"   

I said "Damn, my pick-up's out of commission,"
She said "Hon, don't let that stop you from missin' 
what I've got in mind when it's just you and I,
and right now we're just wasting time
'cause you can    

CHORUS 1
Uber on over, call up that chauffeur               
If you don’t have a car or you're stuck where you are                   
you can tap on an app, and arrive like a star
Yeah, you can
Uber on over, roll in that clover                 
Hammered or sober, from Dallas to Dover,    
or anyplace that you're going to, oo oo oo             
Uber on over      
                                                             
VERSE 2
My driver drove  up in a Tahoe
when she opened her door I said "uh oh",
and she smiled when she asked me if I wanted her to take me home 
 I said "I appreciate the invitation 
but tonight that's not where I'll be stayin'", 
then she said “tomorrow mornin’ when you wake up and you’re ready to go 
well, you can…”

CHORUS 2
Uber on over, call up that chauffeur               
If you’re needin’ a ride and you don’t wanna drive                   
you can tap on an app, call a car and arrive
Yeah, you can
Uber on over, roll in that clover                 
Hammered or sober, from Dallas to Dover,    
or anyplace that you're going to, oo oo oo             
Uber on over      
 
BRIDGE 
As we rolled off that ride got me thinkin'                       
ain’t no need to be drivin' and drinkin’,    
so the next time a date wants to party-on late      
there ain't no more reason to hesitate
'cause you can...  

CHORUS 3 
END

 Prayers and Whiskey
© 2018
Matt Rogers, Avrim Topel, Steve Sample

Verse 1
There’s angels and there’s demons
There’s hurting and there’s healing
They push and they pull when someone’s gone
From stained glass on a Sunday
To the neon on a Monday
That’s the Heaven and the hell of moving on

Chorus 1
Goodbye breaks a heart in two
And I don't know what I should do
Cause I’m not sure which ones trying to fix me
A bible and an old wood pew
Or a bottle in a corner booth
I’m lost between
The prayers and whiskey

Verse 2
Yesterday while I was driving
I was singing, I was smiling
Thanking God for the those roads we went down
Tonight I’m down right angry
And I don't know if it’ll take me
To me knees or to that bar out on the edge of town

[Repeat Chorus]

[Repeat Chorus]

END

 Stumbling    
Marty Dodson, Nigel Wheeler, Avrim Topel

V1
Is anybody sitting here
cool, I guess I'll take this chair
yeah, this band is killing it tonite
Do you a lot come here much,
I'm not pickin to try you up
Listen to me, can't get nothin' right 
Ch
I'm stumbling over every word
fumbling with this beer can baby
my poor heart is
tumbling like a house of cards
wondering if I'm goin crazy
you're so fine
I'm stumbling 

Lookin at ya' 
girl I'm thinkin
there ain't no way
if you’d ever give a guy like me  
the time of day 
...hey..hey...hey
you got me stumbling 

V2
This bar is loud it's hard in hear
Go ahead talk in my ear
Thank you but I don't know how to dance

Ok I'll guess let you lead
if you don't mind my two left feet
I glad am sure you're giving me a chance

Ch 2
Solo / Turnaround
Girl you got me
girl you got me
Ch 3
END

 The Road To Perdition 
  Avrim Topel                    
        
Intro 
It was 3 strikes you're out, I was lookin' at prison
when the judge showed me mercy and said: "Son, I'll listen"                                                                        
V1    
I was born in a thunderstorm    
on a lonely night 
at the crack of dawn
and my predisposition                
was the road to perdition        
     
V2
Growin' up, I was all alone 
in a house that was not a home
and my only religion     
was the road to perdition
      
Bridge
Mamma worked at night time on her back       
Pappy cooked his moonshine in a shack     
Daddy did some bad things out in the garage
and he stole my mamma’s diamond ring before he blew Dodge 
(and the devil was grinnin’
on the road to perdition)   

Instrumental

V3
The highway was littered with whiskey and sin
I knew doin' it my way that I’d never win
That’s the way I was christened      
on the road to perdition    
  
V4
That's the whole truth, your Honor, that’s the way I was raised
at the heart of the matter is that I just can't change
and I haven’t stopped sinnin’ (no, I can’t stop my sinnin’)
on the road to perdition    
    
OUTRO
Lord I be confessing, all of my transgressions
Lord, I be confessing, looking for redemption
I’m on the road to perdition, mercy

END

 VERSE 1
I'm like a flower on Sunday mornings, soaking up the Son and His light,
I'm growing strong from the bond we're forming, I wanna feel His might, 
When I'm alone and when I’m afraid, He's there to show me the Way,
and when I kneel down and pray each and every loving day

CHORUS 1
That's when the Spirit moves me       
that's when I feel my true connection
That's how my Savior soothes me
accepting all of my imperfections
He lifts me up with His love and grace               
and when I worship and give Him praise          
that's when the Spirit moves me
that's when the Spirit moves me
thats when the spirit moves me

VERSE 2
Whenever life hits a rocky road, I reach out to hold His hand,
He always lightens my heavy load, He knows I'm not a perfect man,
Every time that I hit the wall, every time that I drop the ball, every time that I stumble and I fall, all I have to do is call
 CHORUS 2

BRIDGE  
I feel the Lord in the breezes, that's when the Spirit moves me
When I'm embraced by His sweetness, that's when the Spirit moves me
Each time I do what He teaches, that's when the Spirit moves me
When I be talk-in’ to Jesus, and every time I do… 

CHORUS 3

END

 TIME BOMB

INTRO
VERSE 1                 
The love of my life, she’s always runnin,
leavin’ me wantin, but she’s got another side             
it’s no wonder I think she’s perfect
she’s got my number, and when she dials it up to work it, that…

PRE CHORUS     
Girl starts grinning when she gets hot                   
We’re both winning when she don’t stop                          
I love where she takes me…        
CHORUS  1 
She’s like a time bomb waiting to love me  
counting down so long, but when it comes she     
brings back the passion lovin’ me sweetly   
she’s like a time bomb, when she’s makin’ love to me      
                                                                                       
POST CHORUS      
Whoa, whoa  -  oh,  whoa  - oh    
Whoa, whoa  -  oh,  whoa  - oh
  
VERSE 2 
Over the years I’ve come to discover,              
that when she’s happy, my girl is the best lover and 
PRE CHORUS 2
Her heart starts beatin like a tickin’ clock   
once she starts up she don’t stop
lovin’ me completely…     

CHORUS 2
POST CHORUS     

BRIDGE       
When we make sweet love tonight
we’ll blow it up like dynamite… 
     
BREAKDOWN                       
She's like a time bomb               
waiting to love me..…     

CHORUS 3
POST CHORUS

END

TITLE	GENRE	LYRICS	AUDIO
A Wanted Man	Country	Lyrics	00:00 / 03:40
Better Living With Chemistry	Rock	Lyrics	00:00 / 04:26
Carry Me	Americana	Lyrics	00:00 / 03:59
Contemporary Girl	Country	Lyrics	00:00 / 03:37
Don't Feel Much Like Christmas*	Country	Lyrics	00:00 / 04:09
Eyes Wide Open	Country	Lyrics	00:00 / 03:31
Florida Man	Country	Lyrics	00:00 / 03:31
Ghost Soldier	Rock	Lyrics	00:00 / 03:48
Hangman_JF	New Songs	Lyrics	00:00 / 03:08
Hooks & Licks	Singer-Songwriter	Lyrics	00:00 / 02:32
I Should Have Told You	Pop	Lyrics	00:00 / 03:18
I Still Love You - Male vocal	Country	Lyrics	00:00 / 03:28
I Still Love You V2 - (Male Vocal)	Country	Lyrics	00:00 / 03:50
Merry Christmas For Padre Pedro	Christmassongs	Lyrics	00:00 / 03:06
More Than Just Casual Friends (Male Vocal)	Adult Contemporary	Lyrics	00:00 / 03:02
My Friend Jimmy	Adult Contemporary	Lyrics	00:00 / 03:03
Night Sky	Rock	Lyrics	00:00 / 03:27
Old Guys Just Like Me * (Final)	Country	Lyrics	00:00 / 03:12
The Ballad of Beulah & Beatrice 1.18.16	Country	Lyrics	00:00 / 03:58
The Day That I Tuned - In To Country	Country	Lyrics	00:00 / 02:35
The Universe	Rock	Lyrics	00:00 / 03:26
*Too Many Women and Only One Me (revised)	Country	Lyrics	00:00 / 03:34
You Don't Have To Be Lonely Tonight (Let Me Love Ya' Baby BB)	Pop	Lyrics	00:00 / 02:31
When We Meet Again	Pop	Lyrics	00:00 / 02:39
Home 1.7	Country	Lyrics	00:00 / 03:13
When Love Is War (male, tempo)	Adult contemporary	Lyrics	00:00 / 03:05
Contemporary Girl - radio version	Country	Lyrics	00:00 / 02:26
Magic In The Moonlight_Male vocal	Country	Lyrics	00:00 / 03:08
Testimony (TJ)	Rock	Lyrics	00:00 / 03:33
UBER ON OVER* - (rock)		Lyrics	00:00 / 03:14
UBER ON OVER* - (Country)	Country	Lyrics	00:00 / 03:11
PRAYERS AND WHISKEY (M Rogers, A Topel, S Sample)	Country	Lyrics	00:00 / 02:59
STUMBLING	Country	Lyrics	00:00 / 02:50
THE ROAD TO PERDITION (MIX 2)	Country	Lyrics	00:00 / 03:17
WHEN THE SPIRIT MOVES ME (CG)	Religion & Spirituality	Lyrics	00:00 / 03:51
Time Bomb (Final)	Pop	Lyrics	00:00 / 03:02

Female Tempo

 Bold Gals Just Like Me  

I was thumbing thru the pages of my favorite magazine
reading stories ‘bout musicians I adore
When I realized they're mostly gals who shaped and molded me
And I told myself you're not young anymore  

     Here's to all the bold gals just like me
     We're pursuing what we're doing while we're doing what we be
     The fire's still burning brightly, we're still chasing all our dreams
     So here's to all the bold gals just like me

When I look into the mirror I'm surprised 
Cause I'm looking at a woman now that I don't recognize,
I catch comfort from the wisdom in the smiling face I see 
Mother time bestows on bold gals just like me

     Here's to all the bold gals just like me
     We're pursuing what we're doing while we're doing what we be
     The fire's still burnin brightly, we're still chasing all our dreams
     So here's to all the bold gals just like me.

And no one really grows up 'cept your parents and your teachers
and your grandma and your grandpa and your ministers and preachers 

      So here's to all the bold gals just like me
      We're pursuing what we're doing, we're still doing what we be,
      The fire’s still burning brightly we’re still chasing all our dreams,    
      Here's to all the bold gals 
      Sharing stories, still around, so               
      Here's to all the bold gals just like me.

 I’m Not Your Honey Du Jour        

It's dark out, I wake up                
No time-to put-on any make-up
I just grab my apron and I fly out the door,
I meet 'em, I greet 'em,
I get 'em ready-set to feed 'em        
At Rolie's Diner down on I-84                                                    

Some mornings they sass me   
Some fellas hit on me, and                                             
It's like they plum forget what they came here for
 (So Tell ya' what )
I'll bring  your water                                                          
Pour your coffee, take your order,                                      
(But listen up)                                    
You best behave 
or else I'll show you the door        

               I'm a cool cool kitty                                  
               Waitin' tables, lookin' pretty                
               And I'll serve you breakfast for sure    
               But listen up                                                           
                 This ain't no sweet shop, so         
              You better stop, cause sugar,                                                              
               I'm not your Honey Du Jour.                    
  
Hey mister,read my lips.
Eyes back on the menu, not my hips,     
Do what you came in here for                         
(But) if you go and treat me rude                           
(Then) I can't guarantee your food, cause sugar,    
I'm not your Honey Du Jour.         

If you finished up your breakfast
Then you best be gettin' on your way
'Cause you don't be wanting Bubba in the kitchen            
starting out your day.                     

               I'm a cool cool kitty                                
               Waitin' tables, lookin' pretty                
               And I'll serve you breakfast for sure    
                   But listen up                                                           
                  This ain't no sweet shop, so                                          
               You better stop, cause sugar,                 
               I'm not your Honey Du Jour.                 

 I'm Not Your Honey Du Jour (b) 

It's dark out, I wake up                
No time-to put-on any make-up
I just grab my apron and I fly out the door,
I meet 'em, I greet 'em,
I get 'em ready-set to feed 'em        
At Rolie's Diner down on I-84                                                    

Some mornings they sass me   
Some fellas hit on me, and                                             
It's like they plum forget what they came here for
 (So Tell ya' what )
I'll bring  your water                                                          
Pour your coffee, take your order,                                      
(But listen up)                                    
You best behave 
or else I'll show you the door        

               I'm a cool cool kitty                                  
               Waitin' tables, lookin' pretty                
               And I'll serve you breakfast for sure    
               But listen up                                                           
                 This ain't no sweet shop, so         
              You better stop, cause sugar,                                                              
               I'm not your Honey Du Jour.                    
  
Hey mister,read my lips.
Eyes back on the menu, not my hips,     
Do what you came in here for                         
(But) if you go and treat me rude                           
(Then) I can't guarantee your food, cause sugar,    
I'm not your Honey Du Jour.         

If you finished up your breakfast
Then you best be gettin' on your way
'Cause you don't be wanting Bubba in the kitchen            
starting out your day.                     

               I'm a cool cool kitty                                
               Waitin' tables, lookin' pretty                
               And I'll serve you breakfast for sure    
                   But listen up                                                           
                  This ain't no sweet shop, so                                          
               You better stop, cause sugar,                 
               I'm not your Honey Du Jour.                 

 I STILL LOVE YOU - DUET
 
MALE
Verse.     I carved our names into a sycamore tree  
               and circled them both with a heart  
               I knew when I met you 
               I loved you from the start
               
Pre-chorus     You made me a better man
                        You made me so much more than I was on my own
                        And now my life's beautiful 
                        But it never would could have been if I was still alone

  Chorus.  I still love you. ( 4x )

FEMALE                
Verse.     I never imagined that you and I 
                would still be here hanging around 
               'Cause when I met you it turned my life upside down

 Pre-chorus    If I could go back in time
                       I wouldn't change a thing
                       I'd do it all again 
                       With you I have everything
                       A partner in my life, a lover and friend.     
  
  Chorus.  I still love you
                
MALE & FEMALE
Bridge.       And as the years go by.   
                  You're still the only one
                   when all is said and done
                   With everything I do
                   I know this much is true

Chorus
                  I still love you ( 4x ) 

Outro
                   I still love you (3x)

 I Still Love You (Female voc) 

You carved our names into a sycamore tree
and circled them both with a heart 
I knew when I met you
I loved you from the start
I knew that you were my man 
You made me so much more than I was on my own
and now life is beautiful
But it never could have been if I was still alone

I still love you. ( 4x )

I never imagined myself as a girl 
who'd ever be settling down 
But then I met you and it turned my life around

If I could go back in time
I wouldn't change a thing
I'd do it all again
With you I have everything
a partner in my life, a lover and a friend.

I still love you (3x)

And as the years go by
You're still the only one
when all is said and done
With everything I do
I know this much is true
I still love you ( 4x )

I still love you ( 4x )

 I STILL LOVE YOU (V2) - FEMALE vocal 

You carved our names into a sycamore tree
and circled them both with a heart  
I knew when I met you
I loved you from the start
               
I knew that you were my man
You made me so much more than I was on my own
My life was so beautiful
But it never would have been if I had stayed alone

Lightning struck down this tree                   
And God took you away from me, but
I still love you
The greatest joy I ever knew
Was spending my life loving you, and
I still love you 

I never imagined myself as a gal              
who'd ever be settling down 
But then I met you and it turned my life around
               
If I could go back in time
I wouldn't change a thing
I'd do it all again 
With you I had everything
A  partner in my life, a lover and friend     

 Lightning struck down this tree                   
 And God took you away from me, but
 I still love you
The greatest joy I ever knew
Was spending my life loving you, and
       
And as the years flew by
You were the only one
when all was said and done
With everything I'd do
I knew this much is true...
I Still Love You
           
Lightning struck down this tree                   
And God took you away from me, but
I still love you
The greatest joy I ever knew
Was spending my life loving you, and
I still love you 

I still love you 

I love you (3x)

I still love you 

 More Than Just Casual Friends - Female Vocals

The way she looked at him
across the dance room floor
He could see in her eyes
she wanted to be much 
more than
just casual friends

Stranger from out of town
Connected by the stars
His sun behind her moon
His Jupiter, her Mars
more than
just casual friends

She’s starts asking him
all about the work
that he does by day
But he tells her his interest
is only in her and this night
And at 2am
in a rainy (night) cab
out on Broadway
Strong emotions
and feelings of love
run deep in the night

The way she looked at him
across the dance room floor
He could see in her eyes
she wanted to be
more than
just casual friends

 Sooner R. Later

Sooner R. Later, you just hangin’ around
Smokin’ butts and drinkin’ coffee.
I wouldn’t wager that you’ll get very far 
Long as you hang around here.
Major distractions keep comin’ your way
At ya’ from every direction,
Can’t you smell trouble?
No, you won’t last a day
Long as you hang around here
You’re gonna take a fall
Sooner R. Later

Now you’re talkin’ the talk
An’ you’re soundin’ so deep,
I know you think that you’re tryin’,      
But you don’t understand 
That the road is too steep
Long as you hang around here,
 You sleep in the meadow
All tattered and torn,               
You come and you go as you please,
If you still dream about me        
you be fooling yourself  - cause
you’ll never end up with me            
Don’t envy you at all, Sooner R. Later
Don’t you give me no call, Sooner R. Later

You broke every window that was open for you
Threw away every chance that you had
No, I wouldn’t be bettin’ you get very far
Long as you hang around here.
You might fool a fool
but you can’t con a con
or fly low and under the radar,
‘Cause we all know that trouble’s
still waitin’ for you,
Sooner R. Later
You gotta leave this scene, Sooner R. Later
Go to another town, Sooner R. Later
Get out while you still can, Sooner R. Later

 When lovers at night time become strangers at dawn       
and duty’s a mistress with battle-lines drawn                          
where the end is betrayal but you carry on
When love is war

The Waning Moon, this salty mist,              
impending doom, a lover’s tryst, 
an angry sea, a deadly kiss,
When Love is War

This solitude, and loneliness 
are longing for a sweet caress, 
tomorrow’s dreams meet the abyss,
When Love is War 

When the truth becomes hollow and empty    
in a world that exists without laws
Your ghosts from the past come to haunt you
while your destiny never takes pause,        
All it takes is one fatal distraction 
to render your perfect plans flawed
when love is war

When love is war across the sea
the timeless tides of destiny
are lost for all eternity
when love is war

DOC 2016

 Hooks and Licks    

In this world of wild speculation   
In this land of fast technology 
In this life of crazy contradiction
When you can’t believe in what you see
And you need a vacation
From your home
Just to get
Both your feet back down on the ground

The last thing that I need is more confusion
Don’t tell me of the way that we should be
Don’t make me any part of your illusion
‘cause I believe the truth will set you free
I can’t keep track of the stories
From what’s real
And I don’t want to hear it anymore

If you hurry up
You can worry
‘bout the politics of more
Fuck your enemies           also sing it as “Buck” your enemies”
Even start a war
Forget relaxin’
Just keep it taxin,’
Just to be would be a bore…   

I got a way to bust this situation
My momma left me with a bag of tricks
A special way to vent my aggravation
And I do it with my hooks and licks
Blow it out with a lyric
Its just feelings
They’re never right or wrong

 Falling for you, shooting stars and moonlight sparkled in the summer sky,       
I’ve been so blue, losing you in my life, we never said goodbye       
Some nights …I lie awake, I can’t get you off my mind…         baby won't you

             Love me like you loved me back then  
             un-break this heart and help it mend,  
             Just one night together like when    
             we fell in love and try again,  
             and if there's no happy ever after     
             maybe we could finally leave as friends,             
             so, if you ever loved me, if you still think of me,  
             baby won't you love me like you loved me back then   

Our dance was strong, passionate and tender, like a never-ending song                                                             
I said so long, and I still remember, the way I left was so wrong    
Some nights I lie awake, I can’t sleep since you’ve been gone                                              
baby won't you                                          
              CHORUS
If we turn this heartache into laughter maybe we can finally make amends,
baby, won't you            
    
CHORUS
    
END

 Falling for you, shooting stars and moonlight sparkled in the summer sky,       
I’ve been so blue, losing you in my life, we never said goodbye       
Some nights …I lie awake, I can’t get you off my mind…         baby won't you
             
             Love me like you loved me back then  
             un-break this heart and help it mend,  
             Just one night together like when    
             we fell in love and try again,  
             and if there's no happy ever after     
             maybe we could finally leave as friends,             
             so, if you ever loved me, if you still think of me,  
             baby won't you love me like you loved me back then   

Our dance was strong, passionate and tender, like a never-ending song                                                             
I said so long, and I still remember, the way I left was so wrong    
Some nights I lie awake, I can’t sleep since you’ve been gone                                              
baby won't you                                          
             
 CHORUS

If we turn this heartache into laughter maybe we can finally make amends,
baby, won't you            
    
CHORUS
    
END

 Verse
It was a peck on the lips that I couldn’t resist 
sweet and innocent
a thank you for a picture perfect night
I wasn’t looking for anything more 
but when we finally got to my door 
it just felt so crazy right

Pre-Chorus
It caught me by surprise
I got butterflies
when you looked in my eyes
I knew you wouldn’t leave me waiting

Chorus
A kiss, a kiss, your lips, your lips,
a night like this put magic in the moonlight
A kiss, a kiss, your lips, your lips,
a night like this put magic tonight in the moonlight

Verse
We hit it off perfectly, you cast a spell over me 
we stayed out ‘till three
I didn’t want the night to ever end
Before the night was through 
I was falling for you 
and I think you were feeling it too
‘cause it wasn’t just pretend

Pre-Chorus 

Bridge/Breakdown
No I never expected believing
that I could ever feel this way
so you took a risk when you were leaving 
and I knew love was here to stay

Chorus 
END

TITLE	GENRE	LYRICS	AUDIO
Bold Gals Just Like Me	Country	Lyrics	00:00 / 03:12
I'm Not Your Honey Du Jour	Country	Lyrics	00:00 / 03:12
I'm Not Your Honey Du Jour (B)	Country	Lyrics	00:00 / 03:10
I Still Love You - Duet	Americana	Lyrics	00:00 / 03:28
I Still Love You - Female vocal, original chorus	Country	Lyrics	00:00 / 03:28
I Still Love You (V2)- (Female voc)	Country	Lyrics	00:00 / 03:29
More Than Just Casual Friends - (female vocal)	Adult Contemporary	Lyrics	00:00 / 03:02
Sooner R. Later	Adult Contemporary	Lyrics	00:00 / 03:25
When Love Is War (tempo)	Pop	Lyrics	00:00 / 03:03
Hooks & Licks	Singer-Songwriter	Lyrics	00:00 / 02:32
Love Me Like You Loved Me Back Then (mod)	Pop	Lyrics	00:00 / 04:10
Love Me Like You Loved Me Back Then	Pop	Lyrics	00:00 / 04:10
Magic In The Moonlight_FEM	Country	Lyrics	00:00 / 03:08

Male Mid-Tempo to Ballad

 There’s an hour each year when the world gets still like the hush from a fresh fallen snow
At 11pm before Christmas
with the fade of the embers’ last glow
Snuggled silently by the Christmas tree as the flickering candles burn low Lights on branches cast shadows
on the presents stacked down below
Yuletide logs softly smoldering before snuffing out their last light Looking back a year knowingly
as the world nestles in for the night
Drifting off into dreamtime and slumberland calm and still lull distractions away
At 11pm before Christmas
at the dawn of the holiday
One more moment serene and so precious ‘fore awakening Christmas Day
Peace and silence surround us
more than anytime else in the year, When the whole world goes soundless and everything else disappears
There’s an hour that comes when the world gets still and the angels return every year
At 11 the night before Christmas
the message is oh so clear
At 11pm before Christmas in the quiet that all can hear
DOC 2016

 There’s an hour each year when the world gets still like the hush from a fresh fallen snow
At 11pm before Christmas
with the fade of the embers’ last glow
Snuggled silently by the Christmas tree as the flickering candles burn low Lights on branches cast shadows
on the presents stacked down below
Yuletide logs softly smoldering before snuffing out their last light Looking back a year knowingly
as the world nestles in for the night
Drifting off into dreamtime and slumberland calm and still lull distractions away
At 11pm before Christmas
at the dawn of the holiday
One more moment serene and so precious ‘fore awakening Christmas Day
Peace and silence surround us
more than anytime else in the year, When the whole world goes soundless and everything else disappears
There’s an hour that comes when the world gets still and the angels return every year
At 11 the night before Christmas
the message is oh so clear
At 11pm before Christmas in the quiet that all can hear

 Daddy With A Daughter

When I became
a daddy with a daughter 
for the first time,
it made me think of what was yet to come, 
‘cause little girls grow up
to become someone else’s wife
and I feared that day would surely be
the hardest of my life

I’m a Daddy
with a daughter
havin’ trouble
in believin’
that she’s growing up now
right before my eyes

I remember
when she was just a baby
turn around now
an’ she’s a little lady
with her long hair blowin’
in the summer skies

I received that phone call
from the boy dating my daughter
and the next day he was sittin’ ‘cross from me.
He told me that he loved her
and he’d always treat her right
then he asked for my permission
to ask her to be his wife

I’m a Daddy
with a daughter
havin’ trouble
in believin’
that she’s growing up now
right before my eyes

And as the years go past
I try my best to make them last
to slow the hands of time.
I thank the Lord above
who blessed me with this girl I love
how long will she be mine?

Later that same evening
in the twilight on our back porch
I saw that young man
bend down on one knee,
and her love was overflowin’
then she turned and smiled at me
I knew life was simply changin’
and what I would always be

I’m a Daddy
with a daughter
havin’ trouble
in believin’
that she’s growing up now
right before my eyes

 Henry Got His Mojo From Abraham (Gospel)  

The breaks in life are made in childhood,           
Don’t make no difference where you’re from,       
Henry got his mission from his ol' grandfather's vision, and he        
Packed up and landed in Wilmington.   

Henry got his mojo from Abraham
Rabbi taught Henry to be a man        
Don't take 5 Books of Moses for us to understand
The Good Book is all you need.

Henry was young when he acquired his secret weapons
The special lessons he learned on his grandpa's knee, like
Respect comes before knowledge, this must always prevail, 
and other things they just don't teach at Harvard or Yale     
                
Henry got his mojo from Abraham
Rabbi taught Henry to be a man
It don't take 5 Books of Moses here to really understand
The Good Book is all you need.

Kept a bible in his pocket everyday of the week,
kept it there for you and me,
And while he'd never preach he'd use the Good Book to teach
To pass the message, plant the seed...

Henry got his mojo from Abraham
Rabbi taught Henry to be a man         
Ain't no 5 Books of Moses needed here to understand
The Good Book is all you need.

Righteous is as righteous does
for all eternity,
Walk the walk and you'll find out
It's all you'll ever need.

Henry got his mojo from Abraham
Rabbi taught Henry to be a man         
Don't take 5 Books of Moses to truly understand
The Good Book is all you need.

 Lovers or Friends (unplugged)

There’s something’ going’ on between us
I’ve been holding inside me for far too long
We used to never keep secrets
I think there’s something wrong

You used to love me like no one loved me
you were my woman I was your man
Is this mature love that I'm unsure of
I need to understand
Are we lovers or friends

The way you look at me lately,
The way you talk to me ’s not the same,
The way you touch me is different,
The way you love me has changed.

You used to love me like no one loved me
you were my woman I was your man
Is this mature love that I'm unsure of
I need to understand
are we lovers or friends

I can’t change the way I feel so please don’t pretend
‘cause I need to know now if your love is still real
or did love come to an end

This winter’s coming on early
our lives have changed in so many ways,
will you be sitting beside me
how will we spend our days?

You used to love me like no one loved me
you were my woman I was your man
Is this mature love that I'm unsure of
I need to understand
Are we lovers or friends

 Lovers or Friends

There’s somethin’ goin’ on between us 
I’ve been holdin’ inside me for far too long
We used to never keep secrets
I think there’s something wrong

You used to love me like no one loved me
you were my woman I was your man
Is this mature love that I'm unsure of
I need to understand

The way you look at me lately,
The way you talk to me ’s not the same,
The way you touch me is different,
The way you love me has changed.

You used to love me like no one loved me
you were my woman I was your man
Is this mature love that I'm unsure of
I need to understand
Are we lovers or friends

I can’t change the way I feel so please don’t pretend
‘cause I need to know now if your love is still real
or did love come to an end

This winter’s comin’ on early
our lives have changed in so many ways,
will you be sitting beside me
how will we spend our days?

You used to love me like no one loved me
you were my woman I was your man
Is this mature love that I'm unsure of
I need to understand

Are we lovers or friends
lovers or friends

 Little Grin

Just when we knew that our love was forever
You told me that you were with child
I couldn't imagine life getting any better 
until that magic moment arrived,
You touched me, 
I cried

It's a girl, such a beautiful girl,
That you brought us to share in our world
And we'll lover her, forever, and give her our hearts and our souls,
It's a glorious girl.

Little grin, we love you
thru thick and thin, we'll be there,
For good and bad, 
whenever you're happy or blue
we'll be there for you
Your mom and me, we're so proud,
and we can see the wonderful life
we'll be sharing with you

 Mirror Mirror

Mirror mirror
Can you help me
Find the answers I am looking for
I’m in love with a woman 
But she doesn’t love me no more

Lady lady
Drive me crazy
I’m talkin’ ‘bout the woman I adore
I’m still wild abut her
But she doesn’t love me no more

I’d given her the kind of life that she never had
With everything a gal could want
But now she’s leavin’ home and I’m just feelin’ bad
I’m sittin’ home grievin’
While my woman’s leavin’ me today

Mirror mirror
Can you help me
Find the answers I am looking for
Cause I’m in love with a woman
But she doesn’t love me no more

 Old Guys Just Like Me
  
I was thumbing thru the pages of my favorite magazine
reading stories ‘bout musicians I adore,
When I realized they're mostly guys approaching seventy
And I told myself you're not young anymore

     So here's to all the old guys just like me,
     We're pursuing what we're doing while we're doing what we be,
     The fire's still burning brightly, we're still chasing all our dreams,
     So here's to all the old guys just like me

When I look into the mirror I'm surprised 
‘cause I'm looking at a stranger now that I don't recognize,
I catch comfort from the wisdom in the wrinkles I can see 
only time bestows on old guys just like me

     So here's to all the old guys just like me,
     We're pursuing what we're doing while we're doing what we be,
     The fire's still burnin brightly, we're still chasing all our dreams,
     So here's to all the old guys just like me.

And no one really grows up 'cept your parents and your teachers,
and your grandma and your grandpa and your ministers and preachers 

      So here's to all the old guys just like me,
      We're pursuing what we're doing, we're still doing what we be, 
      From Liverpool to Winnipeg and Nashville, Tennessee,
      Here’s to all the old guys,
      Sharing stories, swapping lies,              
      So here's to all the old guys just like me. 

 One Divided By Two (unplugged)

I play guitar in a country band
Travelin' all across this blessed land
In concert halls and one night stands
I’m livin’ my life on the road                      
                                                  
She stays at home and waits for me            
(She) wakes me up each mornin’ on the telephone           
She understands it’s hard to be
Spendin each evening alone                                      

 I’m travelin’ on          
Divided each day 
By the woman I love         
And the music I play 
To my band I stay loyal    
To my heart I stay true       
But its hard  
To be one      
Divided by two    

When the curtain calls
And the lights turn low
I love the applause
And the afterglow
Then I think of home
And I want to stay
It’s hard choosing who I love
From what I play

I carry on the best I can
Lovin’ her            
And playin’ in my country band 
I hope she’ll always understand   
I’m doin’ the best that I can 

 I’m travelin’ on          
Divided each day              
By the woman I love         
And the music I play 
To my band I stay loyal    
To my heart I stay true       
But its hard  
To be one      
Divided by two    

 One Divided By Two 

I play guitar in a country band 
Travel all across this blessed land
Concert halls and one night stands 
I’m livin’ my life on the road                      
                                                  
She stays at home and waits for me            
(She) wakes me up each mornin’ on the telephone           
For both of us it’s hard to be
Spendin each evening alone                                      

 I’m travelin’ on          
Divided each day 
By the woman I love         
And the music I play 
To my band I stay loyal    
To my heart I stay true       
But its hard  
To be one      
Divided by two    

When the curtain calls
And the lights turn low
I love the applause
And the afterglow
Then I think of home
And I want to stay
It’s hard choosing who I love
From what I play

I carry on the best I can
Lovin’ her            
And playin’ in the country band 
I hope she’ll always understand   
I’m doin’ the best that I can 

 I’m travelin’ on          
Divided each day              
By the woman I love         
And the music I play 
To my band I stay loyal    
To my heart I stay true       
But its hard  
To be one      
Divided by two   

 Queen of the Starlight Cafe - Avrim Topel & Elizabeth Clark 

She danced into the diner, she was barely six-teen                       
and she worked after school every day                       
She was praying she'd find the young man of her dreams                     
Who would steal her young heart away                    
 
One day off the highway her true love appeared
in a shiny brand new Chevrolet,
When he parked at her counter she knew that her prayers             
had been answered, Prince Charming was sitting right there,
all the customers sighed as two hearts made a pair                                                            
And her life changed forever that day,                    
She's the Queen of the Starlight Ca-fe
                                                                                                                                                             
Come summer they rented a new mobile home 
and they talked about children someday,
He traveled too often, and he left her alone                
But they spoke every night on the diner pay phone.    
     
The diner was busy on Christmas eve night                                                                            
But she worked her shift, she didn’t care,                        
She was glowing just knowing that she'd rush right home   
To the arms of her man and the presents she’d find  
                                         
It was 2am Christmas when she finally got home                                                                
Plumb exhausted, but she didn't care                                                                           
But the pain of betrayal turned her heart into stone                                                                  
when the man of her dreams wasn’t there  
                                                                                       
These days she waits tables, she's still dancing alone
Like she has 30 years night & day                                                                                    
Her shattered dreams hide behind wrinkles and tears                                                            
She’s the Queen of the Starlight Cafe                                                                          
and her shattered dreams hide behind wrinkles and tears
She's the Queen of the Starlight Cafe.

 Sweet September

In a boatyard in Nantucket 
sits a hull with a soul,
and she’s been there since ’63.
If timber and canvas could tell stories 
all your secrets would be safe with me

Sail away Sweet September  
Sail away (in)to the sea            
Sail away and remember   
What you used to be

In your prime
you sailed the oceans
from the Windwards, 
‘round Cape Horn
and thru the Bering Straights
into the Arctic Sea.
Thru the years your captains drew
a course that always carried you
with Godspeed
and with grace
so valiantly.

Sail away Sweet September    
Sail away to the sea   
Sail away, I remember 
Your deck under me

You've been sittin' there in dry-dock
For far too many years now
You've been waitin' all this time
so patiently
We'll make that final voyage
just you and me
And now the time has for you
To go back to the sea

Far off shore you sit atop 
a barge with a list
And its tilting to the lee side heavily
You slide across the slippery deck
and slip beneath the waves
On to the ocean floor
For all eternity

Sail away Sweet September    
Sail away to the sea   
Sail away and remember 
What you meant to me

  Far away in the Southern Ocean
where gentle giants live proud and free,
There is danger on the horizon          
from the Japanese whaling fleet                 

Sometimes in life you can hear a calling
to right a wrong that’s worth fighting for,    
Good Sea Shepherds, heed the warning,       
Lead the charge to the whale wars  

There’s blood in the water
And murder and mayhem                          
The Sea Shepherds sail

To stave off the slaughter
The mission to save them
The good must prevail

The stakes are too high,  
they fight so the species never dies,
Hear them cry…       

It’s foreign business in violation 
of sacred life at it’s very core,
There’s death and annihilation
in the seas off the Arctic shore

With solo intention
To stage intervention,
The harvest must fail

Protecting the pods
Against perilous odds
The good must prevail

The stakes are too high
They fight so the species never dies…
Here them cry…

Far away in the Southern Ocean
Far away in the Southern Ocean

DOC   5.30.2016

 When We Meet Again - retro version

When we meet again
And turn back the hands of time
When we meet again
You’ll share your life  
I’ll share mine

Whatcha’ been up to
How ya’doin’
How ya’ been spendin’
All this time
Have ya’ been able
To accomplish
All of the things you
Had in mind?

When we meet again
And turn back the hands of time
When we meet again
You’ll share your life
I’ll share mine

Did ya’ get married
Any children
Did ya’ stay happy
All alone
Are you ok with
How your life is
Where is the place you
Call your home?

When we meet again
And turn back the hands of time
When we meet again
You’ll share your life
I’ll share mine

Don’t ever stop
Believin’ in us
and when we meet again
Don’t ever stop
Believin’ in the
Magic of a friend

When we meet again
And turn back the hands of time
When we meet again
You’ll share your life
I’ll share mine

 With You

If I could live my life over
and do anything I could do
I wouldn't change things
I'd just rearrange things 
with you

I'd find more hours to be there
more time than we ever knew
nothing specific
'cause life's just terrific
with you

I'd rise and shine early each morning
so I could have coffee with you
and on Saturday nights
we would party 'til dawn
and sleep in on Sundays
'til two

So if I could live my life over
there's nothing much different I'd do
I'd just make a little more
time to spend
only with you
with you

That's what I'd do
only with you
with you

 November Rains by Avrim Topel

The moment you picked up the phone
I knew the tone
You didn’t have to say a word
I’ve been around
long enough to know
if I am in or out

I can’t understand
why fate keeps
dealin’ me this hand
You know it
always comes up less
and never more

For I am no stranger to
these November rains
They chill my heart
my bones
my soul

Bittersweet city night
Misty mornin’
Foggy dawn
The barstools and the games
Shiny pavement
The laughter and the glow
that come from face with no names

Oh, for the life of me
I can never see
You know I always
come up less
and never more

For I am no stranger to
these November rains
They chill my heart
my bones
my soul

 Beaver Valley

There's a little patch of heaven in the countryside
Where northern Delaware meets the Pennsylvania line
All along the river banks of the Brandywine
It's the prettiest place I know

With farms and mansions on her hills
and country roads that give me chills
I loved her then, I always will
and every time I go back

I grew up in Beaver Valley 
Blastin' Wilson Pickett
Singin' Mustang Sally
on the a.m. radio,
whoa-o-o-o-oh

Throwin' back long neck Rolling Rocks, 
Chillin' by the river, 
Hidin' from the cops
It's the best place that I know
Back in Beaver Valley

I pumped Ethel for gas money
to make some extra cash for me and my honey
We'd buy some Boone's Farm Apple Wine
and head down to the Brandywine

Down by the river
Parkin' with my baby
under the moonlight 

Down in the valley
We made love
every Saturday night

After Friday nights at the bowlin' alley
We'd hop into our cars, have a big road rally
Pedal to the metal for a wild ride 
Back down to the river side 

Chorus

 Original by Avrim Topel, Marti Dodson
This is a rewrite in the 3rd person by Avrim Topel

How To Be A Man       Avrim Topel, Marti Dodson    Third Person re-write 

Verse 1
He remembers looking in the bleachers, 
seein’ that empty seat where
he wished  Dad was sittin’ with a proud look on his face,
and he remembers walkin’ in the front door, 
Mamma makin’ dinner for all four   
knowin’ they  would only be three and an empty space,

Pre-Chorus 1
He can’t recall a time Dad wasn’t busy, 
and he didn’t think he knew what he was missing,  

Chorus 1
He showed him exactly what he didn’t want to be  
he wanted him there more than anything,
watching him with the other fathers in the stands,
That’s how he learned how to do it right when it was his turn,
didn’t miss a minute of the good stuff                                      
when they were growin’ up, he was their biggest fan,                 
He taught him what he shouldn’t do 
that’s how he  learned how to,
How to be a man

Verse 2 
Every time they say I love you, 
call him up when they don’t have to
just to hear his voice it makes him realize

Pre-Chorus 2
that every door he closed back then was worth it
and he opened up his heart ‘cause they deserved it

Chorus 2 

Bridge
Those bitter pills turned sweeter over time,    
and after all those years he realized

Chorus 3
END

 VERSE
She knows every word to every Marvin Gaye song
Likes to spin that vinyl round all night long
She’s already got the wine poured as I’m walkin’ through that door
Mercy, Mercy Me, yeah, I know what’s in store  

            [CHORUS]
            I’m crazy ‘bout the way My Girl looks at me
            Every time those speakers start playin’ Sexual Healing
            And the way she loves me it never gets old
            She’s got a heart of gold and a RETRO SOUL
            Heart of gold, heart of gold and a RETRO SOUL 

VERSE
How can I tell you she’s Some Kind Of Wonderful?
When it’s comes to sweetness she’s a natural
Ain’t No Mountain High Enough to keep me away
From her Precious Love at the end of the day

[REPEAT CHORUS]

      BRIDGE
      Well those old school grooves make me wanna hold her close
       And all I know is I never wanna let her go

	[REPEAT CHORUS]


END

 Here's a new song co-written with Clay Mills and Randy Morrison.

She’s Thinkin’ I’m Drinkin’
Randy Morrison, Clay Mills, Avrim Topel
ave@avrimtopel.com   302-750-8563


Final break-up, ain’t no make-up,
This time she won’t be comin’ back
Yeah, she walked out, said we’re done now,
I told her I was fine with that

She said I’ll regret those words

     She’s probably thinkin’ I’m drinkin’
     Five shots down on a Thursday night
     Couldn’t wait for the weekend
     Half-way to the deep end
     tryin’ to drown her memory in tequila and lime
     If she’s thinkin’ I’m drinkin’ tonight
     well, she be right

Time has shown me that she knows me
better than I know myself sometimes
Yeah, she gets it, I can’t live with
without that girl in my life

     Chorus

She said I’ll regret those words
guess I’m showin’ her

     Chorus

END

 Co-write with Michael Hebert, Chuck Jones, Avrim Topel

WAKE UP AND DREAM     10/7/17

IS THERE SOMETHIN’ MISSIN’
CAN’T FIND WHAT YOU’RE SEARCHIN’ FOR
FEELS LIKE THERE’S SOMETHIN’ MORE
ARE YOU WAITIN’ ON A VISION
TO SHOW YOU WHAT TO DO 
TO MAKE IT ALL COME TRUE, HEY YOU
YOU BETTER

WAKE UP AND DREAM
YOU BEEN WALKIN’ IN YOUR SLEEP 
AND TALKIN’ YOUR SLEEP
IT DON’T MEAN A THING
TIL YOUR HEART IS ON THE LINE
RISE UP AND LET IT SHINE
WAKE UP, WAKE UP, WAKE UP
WAKE UP AND DREAM

STARLIGHT IS FADIN’
THE MOON’S A MEMORY 
WHAT’S IT GONNA BE
PRECIOUS TIME IS WASTIN’
SO OPEN UP YOUR EYES
START REACHIN’ FOR THE SKIES, HEY YOU
YOU BETTER

(REPEAT CHORUS) 

HEY YOU, HEY YOU, HEY YOU, YOU BETTER

(REPEAT CHORUS)

(Avrim Topel [ASCAP] atopel@mac.com/Michael Hebert [Corpus Music ASCAP] michael@michaelhebert.net/Chuck Jones [Jonesin’ For A Hit BMI]) cjones6022@gmail.com

 V1
It was the taste of your lips that I couldn’t resist,                                    
sweet and innocent,                                    
a thank-you for a picture perfect night.       

I wasn't looking for anything more,                                                                                                
but when we finally got to your door         
it just felt so crazy right 
                              
Pre-Chorus
It caught me by surprise, when I looked in your eyes
and I realized
I couldn’t let you stand there waiting
                                                                                                                               
                    A kiss, a kiss, your lips, your lips,
                    a night like this put magic in the moonlight,  
                      
                    Your lips, my lips, a perfect kiss         
                    a night like this put                                                                                      
                    magic tonight in the moonlight 
            
V2                                                                                                                                                       
We hit it off perfectly, you cast a spell over me                                 
we stayed out ’till three                                         
I didn’t want the night to ever end            
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                           
Before the night  was through I was fallin' for you                                                                          
and I think you were feeling it too                    
‘cause it wasn’t just pretend  
                      
Pre-Chorus
It caught me by surprise, when I looked in your eyes
and I realized
I couldn’t let you stand there waiting                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                               

                             CHORUS 2                                        

Bridge                                                                                                                                                                                        
No, I never expected believing    
that I could ever feel this way                   
so I took a risk and pulled-you-close to me                   
when I knew love was here to stay

                             CHORUS 3                            
                      
               
                                                                                                                             
END

 Verse 1
You’re snuggled sound asleep in bed,
The covers pulled up over your head
and I can hear your every breath
whisper puffs to my pillow,

It’s midnight and I’m still awake
the moonlight’s dripping thru the drapes
it’s casting a glow on your face
like a heavenly halo

Chorus 1
Take me with you on your dream
we can catch an ocean breeze
we’ll do anything you please
me and you on a dream cruise

If you take me on your dream
we can count the stars from the sea
it’ll be just you and me
me and you on a dream cruise

Verse 2
We’ll hoist our sails made from these sheets
and set off for some island beach
I won’t care if we ever reach
anyplace we set out to

We’ll tickle the tides with our toes
and anchor in a secret cove,
nobody will ever know where we go
when I'm with you

Chorus 2

Breakdown
You move me like you’ll never know
even when your eyes are closed

Chorus 3

END

 MY GIFT TO YOU - GN
Andrew Rollins, Al Collingsworth, Avrim Topel
V1
I hope you know how much I love you
I hope you know what you mean to me
I hope  that everything I've taught you
helps you become who you want to be 
Pre                                                                                                                                   I only want the best for you                                                                                            and every dream that I dream for you
I do with love and to carry you

Ch
So you can fly away from here
and see your future crystal clear      
and all your fears just disappear 
yeah, that's my gift to you

V2
I proud you're filling in the footprints
I left to show you the way
There’s always lessons learned from regrets
That will come with every day

Pre 2

Ch 2

Instrumental
 Ch 3

Outro
I hope you know how much I love you
I hope you know what  you mean to me
END

 M.I.A. (WITH CHANGES)
Jill Chase, Avrim Topel, Tim Williams                                                    
                                                                            
VERSE 1                                                               
Lately I’ve been hurtin’
and I know one thing for certain                    
what I’m doing isn’t working and I lost my way       

It’s been too long since we’ve spoken   
now I stand before you broken           
with my heart and soul wide open ‘cause I need your strength 

PRE CHORUS 1
I know I’ll never be a perfect man  
but I’m here  because you always understand  

CHORUS 1
I’ve been MIA
I turned my back on faith
when I hit my knees this evening              
I hope I’m not too late                       
I took a fall from grace 
There’s no one else to blame     
I’m sorry that I ever turned away 
Please forgive me Lord, for bein’ MIA                                                  
                                                    
VERSE 2  
The way that I’ve been living                    
has been taking more than giving
and I’m thankful for forgiveness,  I’ve been such a fool                                                                                                                                  

PRE CHORUS 2
Now I’m asking you to give me one more chance 
and help me to become a better man  

CHORUS 2

BRIDGE
And there’s only one thing left to do
I’ll surrender everything I am to you
                         
CHORUS 3              

END

 EX-FACTOR 
Robert Arthur, Avrim Topel, Susan Simonson

VERSE 1
I was out with someone new
I thought I was doin’ fine
Till I saw her with him
and my heart hit rewind
Lookin better than I remembered her lookin back when
we were hot and heavy, here I go again

CHORUS 1
Ohhhhhh
I can’t put my finger on it
Ohhhhhhh
All I know is I still want it
That whatever it is you ain’t got looks so hot the minute you can’t have her
It’s the ex-factor

VERSE 2
Somethin’ ‘bout a broken heart
that makes a woman shine
you walk away, she starts
and she moves on to another guy
Ain’t it something, we keep wantin’ what it is that we let go
thinking we missed out and now we’ll never know

PRE CHORUS

CHORUS

BRIDGE
They want you to miss ‘em when they’re gone
so you’ll admit that you were wrong

CHORUS

END

 VERSE
Bartender, give that man a double
top it off tall ‘cause he got troubles 
in his life
and with his wife
and when he’s finished, hit ‘em again

This is all new and he don’t know what to do
that’s why he’s sitting here talking to you
and he just might
be here all night
‘cause he could sure use a friend

CHORUS
She left him for a girl;
Blindsided, that’s the way it went,
It hit him harder than a head-on accident,
He knows there’s some things in life a man just can’t prevent.
(oh yeah), that woman blew up his whole world
when she left him for a girl

VERSE 2
What’ll he tell his family and friends
he can’t pretend, and he doesn’t wanna end up 
lyin’
or denyin’
the reasons why she went away

It’s not like anyone did anything wrong
Can’t sing that song, she’s gone, and there’s nobody to
blame here
when it became clear
that she doesn’t roll his way

CHORUS

BRIDGE
If she had told him any other reason for leaving
he wouldn’t be drinking today
Now he don’t know if he should be laughing or grieving
‘cause he’s so damn blown away

CHORUS

END

 MY GIFT TO YOU - DUET
Andrew Rollins, Al Collingsworth, Avrim Topel
V1
Male
I hope you know how much I love you
I hope you know what  you mean to me
FEMALE
We hope  that everything we've taught you
helps you become who you want to be     
Pre
Male
We only want the best for you
Female
and every dream that we dream for you
Both
We do with love and to carry you

Ch
BOTH 
So you can fly away from here
and see your future crystal clear      
and all your fears just disappear 
yeah, that's our gift to you

V2
Male
We’re proud you're filling in the footprints
We left to show you the way
Female
There’s always lessons learned from regrets
That will come with every day

Pre 2

Ch 2

Instrumental
 Ch 3

Outro
BOTH
We hope you know how much we love you

END

TITLE	GENRE	LYRICS	AUDIO
At 11pm Before Xmas 3.4	Christmassongs	Lyrics	00:00 / 04:27
At 11pm Before Xmas 4.4	Christmassongs	Lyrics	00:00 / 04:06
Daddy With a Daughter	Country	Lyrics	00:00 / 03:24
Henry Got His Mojo From Abraham	Other	Lyrics	00:00 / 02:53
Lovers Or Friends(guit-voc)	Country	Lyrics	00:00 / 03:52
Lovers or Friends	Country	Lyrics	00:00 / 03:51
Little Grin	Other	Lyrics	00:00 / 02:42
Mirror Mirror	Adult Contemporary	Lyrics	00:00 / 02:16
Old Guys Just Like Me * (Final)	Country	Lyrics	00:00 / 03:12
One Divided by Two (guit-voc)	County	Lyrics	00:00 / 03:04
One Divided by Two (full band)	Country	Lyrics	00:00 / 03:02
Queen Of The Starlight Cafe - Male Vocal	Country	Lyrics	00:00 / 04:04
Sweet September	Adult Contemporary	Lyrics	00:00 / 05:48
Whale Wars	Folk & Singer-Songwriter	Lyrics	00:00 / 04:39
When We Meet Again - retro version	Adult Contemporary	Lyrics	00:00 / 03:45
With You	Adult Contemporary	Lyrics	00:00 / 02:29
November Rains by Avrim Topel	Adult Contemporary	Lyrics	00:00 / 02:36
Beaver Valley	Country	Lyrics	00:00 / 03:04
HOW TO BE A MAN (GV - 3rd PERSON alt)	Country	Lyrics	00:00 / 04:00
RETRO SOUL (C. Mills, A. Topel, S. Smentek)	R&B & Soul	Lyrics	00:00 / 03:18
She's Thinkin' I'm Drinkin' (C. Mills, R. Morrison, A. Topel)	Country	Lyrics	00:00 / 02:48
Wake Up And Dream (co-write)	Country	Lyrics	00:00 / 03:21
MAGIC IN THE MOONLIGHT - Acoustic plus male voc	Country	Lyrics	00:00 / 03:05
DREAM CRUISE (MIX 3) ver. 2	Pop	Lyrics	00:00 / 03:41
My Gift To You (GN)	Folk & Singer-Songwriter	Lyrics	00:00 / 03:29
M.I.A.	CCM	Lyrics	00:00 / 03:23
EX FACTOR	Country	Lyrics	00:00 / 02:35
For A Girl	Country	Lyrics	00:00 / 03:17
My Gift To You (Duet)	Folk & Singer-Songwriter	Lyrics	00:00 / 03:29

Female Mid-Tempo to Ballad

 Queen of the Starlight Cafe - Female vocal -(Avrim Topel & Elizabeth Clark)

She danced into the diner, she was barely six-teen 
and she worked after school every day 
She was praying she'd find the young man of her dreams 
Who would steal her young heart away 

Then one day off the highway her true love appeared
in a shiny brand new Chevrolet,
When he parked at her counter she knew that her prayers 
had been answered, 
Prince Charming was sitting right there,
All the customers sighed as two hearts made a pair 
And her life changed forever that day, 
She's the Queen of the Starlight Cafe

Come summer they rented a double-wide home 
and they talked about children someday,
He traveled too often, and he left her alone 
But they talked every night on the diner pay phone. 

The diner was busy on Christmas eve night 
But she worked her shift, she didn’t care, 
She was glowing just knowing that she'd rush right home 
To the arms of her man and the presents she’d find 

It was 2am Christmas when she finally got home 
Plumb exhausted, yet she didn't care 
But the pain of betrayal turned her heart into stone 
when the man of her dreams wasn’t there 

These days she waits tables, she's still dancing alone
Like she has 30 years night & day 
Her shattered dreams hide behind wrinkles and tears 
She’s the Queen of the Starlight Cafe 
Now her shattered dreams hide behind wrinkles and tears
She's the Queen of the Starlight Cafe.

 Old Gals Just Like Me
  
I was thumbing thru the pages of my favorite magazine
reading stories ‘bout musicians I adore
When I realized they're mostly gals who shaped and molded me
And I told myself you're not young anymore 

     Here's to all the old gals just like me
     We're pursuing what we're doing while we're doing what we be
     The fire's still burning brightly, we're still chasing all our dreams
     So here's to all the old gals just like me

When I look into the mirror I'm surprised 
Cause I'm looking at a woman now that I don't recognize,
I catch comfort from the wisdom in the smiling face I see 
Mother time bestows on old gals just like me

     Here's to all the old gals just like me
     We're pursuing what we're doing while we're doing what we be
     The fire's still burnin brightly, we're still chasing all our dreams
     So here's to all the old gals just like me.

And no one really grows up 'cept your parents and your teachers
and your grandma and your grandpa and your ministers and preachers 

      So here's to all the old gals just like me
      We're pursuing what we're doing, we're still doing what we be,
      The fire’s still burning brightly we’re still chasing all our dreams,    
      Here's to all the old gals 
      Sharing stories, still around, so               
      Here's to all the old gals just like me.

 Hooks and Licks    

In this world of wild speculation   
In this land of fast technology 
In this life of crazy contradiction
When you can’t believe in what you see
And you need a vacation
From your home
Just to get
Both your feet back down on the ground

The last thing that I need is more confusion
Don’t tell me of the way that we should be
Don’t make me any part of your illusion
‘cause I believe the truth will set you free
I can’t keep track of the stories
From what’s real
And I don’t want to hear it anymore

If you hurry up
You can worry
‘bout the politics of more
Fuck your enemies           also sing it as “Buck” your enemies”
Even start a war
Forget relaxin’
Just keep it taxin,’
Just to be would be a bore…   

I got a way to bust this situation
My momma left me with a bag of tricks
A special way to vent my aggravation
And I do it with my hooks and licks
Blow it out with a lyric
Its just feelings
They’re never right or wrong

 The Waning Moon, this salty mist,               
impending doom, a lover’s tryst, 
an angry sea, a deadly kiss,
When Love is War

This solitude, and loneliness,
are longing for a sweet caress, 
tomorrow’s dreams meet the abyss,
When Love is War 

When the truth becomes hollow and empty    
in a world that exists without laws
Your ghosts from the past come to haunt you
while your destiny never takes pause,        
All it takes is one fatal distraction 
to render your perfect plans flawed
when love is war

When love is war across the sea
the timeless tides of destiny
are lost for all eternity
when love is war

DOC 2016

 VERSE 1
 In the darkest night, you’re the brightest light
In the bad times, you put the good in the fight
I know you don’t brag about the things you do, but 
It will all come back to you

CHORUS
Karma’s a beach
Put a pink umbrella drink in your hand
Feel the sweet, summer heat, feet in the sand
Can you smell of that coconut glow
 go ahead and just let go
Why don’t you
Kick back, relax, trade that cape for a while
cool breeze, palm trees, catch a wave with a smile
when the sun shines, it shines bright on you
Karma’s a beach

VERSE 2 
You’re a fighter, ride or dier
A high flier, super survivor
you play the part of the great defender, 
But hey, just remember  

CHORUS

BRIDGE: 
Just keep doing what you do
Doing good looks good on you
Keep doing what you doing, 
Doing good looks good, on you, so good
Karma’s a beach

CHORUA
Why don’t you
Kick back, relax, trade that cape for a while
cool breeze, palm trees, catch a wave with a smile
when the sun shines, it shines bright on you
Karma’s a beach

 LOVE & LET GO
Dan Scholes/Ave Topel/Jennifer Hanson             
ave@avrimtopel.com   302-750-8563 

Verse
Like a shooting star up high
Fades into the darkest night 

Pre-chorus
Burning like the sun
For a second, then it’s gone

Chorus
Love and let go
I know that’s just the way it
Goes sometimes
But that doesn’t make any easier to let you go
When loving you is all I know
Love and let go 

Verse                                                                                                                                                                    If I could do it all again
Or change the way the story ends

Pre-chorus
If there’s one thing that you learn
There’s beauty in the hurt

Chorus                                                                                                                                                                       Love and let go
I know that’s just the way it
Goes sometimes
But that doesn’t make any easier to watch you go
Cause loving is all I know
Love and let go

Bridge                                                                                                                                                                    We were burning like the sun
For a second then it’s gone
Chorus         

Outro                                                                                                                                                              Love and let go  (3x)
that’s just the way it goes

 VERSE 1
Babe you don’t have to worry
last night our lines got blurry
but I still slept in your jersey
and your lips showed me mercy

broken glass on the floor boards
dumped your shirts out the top drawer       
now we laugh, what was that for
you know our love don’t keep score

PRE CHORUS
Everything could be going right
Yeah, with somebody else but I

CHORUS
I would rather fight with you
stay up all night with you
I would rather be slammin’ doors, shouting curse words
‘cause even us at our worse 
is still what I would choose
over anyone but you
I would rather take this mess      
over their best ‘cause in the end
I would rather fight with you
I would rather fight with you

VERSE 2
when we’re sippin’ mimosas with someone new by the ocean
‘cause even fresh love emotions can’t come close to what we’ve got goin’

PRE CHORUS

CHORUS

VERSE 3
Babe you don’t have to worry
I know that our lines got all blurry

CHORUS

END

 Breathless   
Avrim Topel  

V1
You stole into the room like a thief in the dark           
I was over the moon when you took my heart   
                                           
Ch 1    
To a world where the rules don’t exist          
We’re taboo, but with you, I can't resist          
No, I never felt passion like this
You leave me breathless

V2
Somewhere under the covers when it's just you and I        
I’ll keep your secrets, you keep holding me tight         
                                                     
Ch 2    In that world where the rules…

Bridge
Your love is relentless, abandon and reckless,   
Love’s sweet seduction fills the sky     
This heat and desire bring on fever and fire   
burning away in the night    

V3
You mesmerize me, I slip under your spell       
I get trapped in your dream, but I won’t kiss and tell      
 
Ch 3
In my fantasy rules don't exist  
We’re taboo, but with you I can’t resist
when I melt from the heat of your lips    
You leave me breathless

Outro
You leave me breathless
You leave me breathless

END

TITLE	GENRE	LYRICS	AUDIO
Queen Of The Starlight Cafe (F)	Country	Lyrics	00:00 / 04:04
Old Gals Just Like Me	Country	Lyrics	00:00 / 03:12
Hooks & Licks	Singer-Songwriter	Lyrics	00:00 / 02:32
When Love Is War (slow)	Pop	Lyrics	00:00 / 03:38
Karma's A Beach (C Cunningham, JK Royston, A Topel)	Pop	Lyrics	00:00 / 03:08
LOVE AND LET GO	Pop	Lyrics	00:00 / 03:36
Fight With You L. Miller, M. Haller, A. Topel	Pop	Lyrics	00:00 / 03:12
Breathless	R&B & Soul	Lyrics	00:00 / 02:37

Instrumentals

TITLE	GENRE	AUDIO
At 11pm Before Xmas 4.4 Inst.	Soundtrack	00:00 / 04:08
Contemporary Girl Inst	Soundtrack	00:00 / 03:37
Carry Me Inst.	Soundtrack	00:00 / 03:59
Daddy With A Daughter Inst.	Soundtrack	00:00 / 03:24
Eyes Wide Open Inst.	Soundtrack	00:00 / 03:31
Florida Man Inst.	Soundtrack	00:00 / 03:31
A Wanted Man Inst	Soundtrack	00:00 / 03:40
Hangman Inst.	Soundtrack	00:00 / 02:59
Henry Got His Mojo From Abraham Inst	Soundtrack	00:00 / 02:40
Hooks & Licks Inst	Soundtrack	00:00 / 02:32
Home 1.61 Inst	Soundtrack	00:00 / 03:13
I Should Have Told You Inst	Soundtrack	00:00 / 03:18
Lovers or Friends Inst	Soundtrack	00:00 / 03:38
Lovers or Friends Guitar Inst	Soundtrack	00:00 / 03:01
*I Still Love You - Inst.	Soundtrack	00:00 / 03:28
Little Grin - Inst.	Soundtrack	00:00 / 02:25
The Day I Tuned In To Country Inst	Soundtrack	00:00 / 02:35
The Ballad of Beulah & Beatrice Inst	Soundtrack	00:00 / 03:58
I'm Not Your Honey Dujour - Inst.	Soundtrack	00:00 / 03:10
When We Meet Again Inst	Soundtrack	00:00 / 03:57
Old Guys Just Like Me Inst	Soundtrack	00:00 / 03:12
When Love is War Inst v2	Soundtrack	00:00 / 03:03
One Divided By Two - Gtr Inst	Soundtrack	00:00 / 03:07
When Love is War Inst v1	Soundtrack	00:00 / 03:04
Sooner R Later Inst	Soundtrack	00:00 / 03:25
Whale Wars Inst	Soundtrack	00:00 / 04:36
When Love is War Inst v1	Soundtrack	00:00 / 03:04
When Love Is War Inst (slow)	Soundtrack	00:00 / 03:38
One Divided By Two Inst	Soundtrack	00:00 / 03:08
Nightsky Inst	Soundtrack	00:00 / 03:26
Mirror Mirror Inst	Soundtrack	00:00 / 02:16
My Testimony Inst	Soundtrack	00:00 / 03:33
Merry Christmas For Padre Pedro Instr	Soundtrack	00:00 / 03:06
At 11pm Before Christmas 3.4 Inst.	Soundtrack	00:00 / 04:27
November Rains Inst	Soundtrack	00:00 / 02:36