A Rock & Roll Heart

I've Got a Secret

Keep it simple plain and straight

Say a word and seal your fate

Tell myself don’t complicate this too

I’ve got a secret for you

Words be nimble words be quick

Words resemble stones and sticks

If they break your bones I’ll fix them too

I’ve got a secret for you

Falling for you

Time will tell cause he knows I won’t

I’ll do what I do and hate what I don’t

Keep it simple plain and true

I’ve got a secret for you

A Rock and Roll Heart

I’ve got a rock and roll heart and a washed out mind

And the life I want, I want to leave behind

I’ve got a rock and roll heart and a washed out mind

Well the Beatles and the Band and the heroes I know

The lure of the stage with the lights a glow

But I got a pocket full of nothin’ and a hobo’s clothes

Now you’re over there on the other coast

And I’m over here in a sinking show

My words fill the room and come back untold

Then the fear sets in

I’m gonna die alone

Alone

I’ve got a rock and roll heart and a washed out mind

And the life I want, I want to leave behind

I’ve got a rock and roll heart and a washed out mind

To Kill Ya

Baby I wrote this song for to kill ya

Baby I wrote this song to see you gone

And I hope that these words will do the trick

And the melody will stick in your head

Drums they pound till you’re dead

Baby I wrote this song for to make ya

Baby I wrote this song to make you sing along

And I hope you tap your little foot

And raise your pretty hand

And shake it out

Saying how you almost knew the man who wrote this song

Then one, two, three you’re gone

And I hope it cuts you down

Maybe I wrote this song because I want you

Maybe I wrote this song because I don’t need you anymore

But baby maybe is a word

That people like to say to keep you hanging on

And when you’re all alone and destitute

I’ll say to you

One, two, three you’re gone

The Working Mom’s Anthem

You know I’m working everyday and getting home with bills to pay

I’m singing all the bluest songs and I’ve got a kid that’s on the way

I’ve got nothin’ to say, I’ve got nothin’ to say, I’ve got nothin’ to say, I’ve got nothin’ to say

I’ll sleep when I’m dead

I’m getting off on paid TV, I’m getting off and hour late

I’ve got everything it takes to be a wife in this day and age

I’m getting old, getting old, getting old, getting old

I'm tired of getting tired

It’s getting old this getting tired

My hands are getting tired

I’m tired

You know there’s lots of stuff to do but nothing really here to see

I’ve got a friend I see sometimes I’ve got a friend I see sometimes

I’ve got a hole, got a hole, got a hole right in my soul

But I’m bound to patch it up any day

I’m tired of getting tired

It’s getting old this getting tired

My hands are getting tired

I’m tired

She sits alone

All alone

Wondering when they’ll get home

She sits alone

All alone wondering how she got here

I’m tired of getting tired

It’s getting old this getting tired

My hands are getting tired

I’m tired

The Ballad of Sam Snooki

All you want you can’t have

And to this day it makes you sad

No one is talking about you, no one is talking about you

Everyone thinks you’re great

And all your life you could’ve been

A gold print name a company pen

Just close your mouth a while, just close your mouth a while

Maybe you’ll learn something

Want to walk where you choose

Play the game and never lose

Go out and pick a fight, find out who’s on your side

End up sleeping alone

Love Is

Maybe she would walk with you

Or maybe she would let you hold her shoes

Or maybe she would run and maybe you would fall

But what’s it gonna take for you to recognize

Everyone flies by the seat of their pants

Holidays wear you thin

And holidays come and go with the same

Hollow little thought in the back of your mind

But wrap your presents up in a paper bag

Who cares what kind of dough you spend on your gifts?

When all the right words, the words you’re waiting for

And all the right shadows fall

Well you’ll be waiting for years for that day to come

But don’t you wait too long, no don’t you wait too long

Because you know everyone falls in love

And everyone makes that change for love

But don’t you let it bring you down or cause you any grief

Because love is not a loan that you pay on time

Love is not crutch that you think is fine

Love is not a book made to keep you in line

Love is not a law for you to break or live by

Love is not a word that you should throw around

Love is not a stone for you to cast when you’re down

Love is in your eye

Love is in your hand

Love it doesn’t care if you’re a fool or a rich man

Because love is

Confidence Is

I was waiting in line down at the station

Carving out the years in my head

When I walked through to turnstile door you called my mind

And with love in the back of your mind

And me in the back of your handout line

We got high, so high!

Now them scenes in your head are never clear

When you love someone a little more than you reveal

And you’re waiting for your dance to come

You wait with wet palms

And the room fell under your toe

When you showed up in your boots with your slip dress on

And I was high, so high!

Then I walked around

With a dry mouth and a hole inside of my confidence

And the girls don’t know your name

And the time it don’t seem to change

And your friends don’t want to stay

And you come down sad

Steppin’ Out

Love, have you been steppin’ out?

Been steppin’ out on me

Love, have you been steppin’ out?

Been steppin’ out on me

I wait for you most everynight

When the stars shine down so bright

When the stars shine down, I want you around

I say those things, that you don’t want to hear

Because they’re on my mind

And I guess by now, we both know how

To live again, strangers

So love, have you been steppin’ out?

Been steppin’ out on me

Love, have you been steppin’ out?

Been steppin’ out on me

Annie

When those downtown lights burn up your nights, babe

Who's gonna take you?

And when you’re rolling home cold and stoned, babe

Who’s gonna make you right?

When your tongue it don’t sting and your eyes they can’t sing to me, babe

Who’s gonna take you?

And when your broke down song it plays so long, pretty babe

Who’s gonna take it off?

And when your word they just fall down to the floor, babe

Who’s gonna take you?

And when your good luck smile it don’t shine anymore for you, babe

Who’s gonna kiss your mouth?

I bought you pretty flowers

I called you on my way home

Have Van Will Travel

Go to the Midwest

You can drive to the shore

It’s just not the same

It’s just not the same no more

Before there were pictures

Before there was paint

You held it in

You held it in your brain

It was a long time ago

A long time ago

On and on it goes

Like the waves that pound the shore

A long time ago

On and on and on it goes

You can fool all the fishes

You can fool all your friends

You won’t get by me

You won’t get by me again

They say there’s a star for

Every life that’s gone by

You see it in

You can see it in your eye