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Everyone keeps asking me why I don't write lyrics, I guess it's cause I just never tired. Over the past few weeks I sat down and wrote a few songs. I have yet to finish the actual music, but I'm working on that. Hope you enjoy, as soon as I get the acoustic versions done I'll post them for download.

ONCE I WAS October 16, 2001

Walked away from a past I never wanted
Followed a shadow back to my home
Roaming selfishly silent
Calling myself out
Fighting my hands from my throat
Like an animal
Hungry for food

I'm not saintly sane
Freaks on leashes scare my soul
I'm not recently renewed
Though I thought once I was

Running away I see
That this is never what I wanted
Stoned on a bench in the middle of town
Onlookers point at the nakedness
My mind portrays
Sun burns
My eyes

I'm not rationally sober
Loneliness fears leaving me
I'm not easily pleased
Though I though once I was

Casting away my words
I look back on my falls
Crying sand castles
Hoping I'll live there soon
Spent my life trying
Failed to live
Closed my dream

I'm not flying by her
Hatred fuels my wings
I'm not humane
Though I though once I was

3000 MILES April 13, 2001

I've reached my demise
Took my ego chipped it down to size
Dead from the outside
You had to have cried, then smiled.
Pull your face back and laugh
I've come back .....

I'm no longer a stranger in my own life
Took my all, answered her call
Back on the road
Carrying a load
And it's only 3000 miles to her.

You look displeased
How am I suppose to be?
Say hi to my son
Tell him I won't be done
Till his smile carry's me a song
I've come back.....

I'm no longer a stranger in my own life
Took my all, answered her call
Back on the road
Carrying a load
And it's only 3000 miles to her.

Yeah you could say it was right
When I left you that night
And when you ask yourself why
Think how hard you tried
To ruin my life.......
I've come back to reality......

It exists 3000 miles away

 I wrote this song about me, and how I evolved from who I once was to who I am now. It's about dropping old habits and breathing in a moment. The she who is 3000 miles away, well she's the person I wrote this for. I'm not quite sure if it's 3000 miles to her, but in my heart she's just inches from my soul.

NEW TODAY May 5, 2001

I'm in a new body for a day or,
Two months, maybe more.
Put my thoughts on pause,
Hoping for some insight to open this door.
It's hot, and often cold returns,
Summer is not what it use to be.
We use to climb the tree,
And yell out what it was like to be free.

I'm new today,
So you won't recognize me.
I've grown 10 feet tall,
Like that old tree.
Watch me run and play,
I'm brand new today.

It's all cut short,
Life as it seems.
I've grown tired and gone home alone.
The sun don't gleam like it use too,
Many things aren't the same.
I took them for granted,
And it's all lost but never found.
I've searched for this meaning,
But I wasted my day looking around.

I'm new today,
So you won't recognize me.
I've grown 10 feet tall,
Like that old tree.
Watch me run and play,
I'm brand new today.......

New today, I won't waste this day.

This song is about shedding old views and adjusting to new ones. How life is always taken for granted, and the true meaning never comes along till it's too late to do anything about it. This song involves an old man or woman (maybe me lol) who wakes up new and gets to relive a few days/months of there life as they see fit. Remember!!! New today, I won't waste this day.