Voice of the Silouhette
by daniel griswold
I look at you through
the blinds
the silouhette of your light
I can't believe you're here
and I'm uncomfortable
I've listened
to your voice
from a distance I can hear
the beauty of your words
you sing so very clear
would you sing
to me
if I walked out and touched your face
there's a peace on your face, that peace that I can hear
would you
wrap your arms around
and comfort all my fears
I need you, and I'm lonely, so just hold me
In my mind I'm happy,
I am happy with you
Galilean, all I wanted, was that peace inside my
all I needed was that something, but I don't
know and I
I am needy, I am running, I am seeking,
Please just be my father, I am trite and losing
will you hold
me?!
Through the blinds I see your light
that light I've always feared
your silouhette makes me happy
I've
never seen it quite so clear
I'm nervous for that love
that love you gave my friend
and I'm scared I'll soon
be lost
but I'll take a chance, though I've sucked
and I'm not ready
will you hold me!
if I walked out
from the blinds
would I scare you if I hugged and never let you go
would you see me
if I came running to your
silouhette
your voice is lovely
I'm sick of my little dark room
I am leaving,
I am leaving for you
oh
ohhh oh ohhhoh!
copyright 2002 daniel griswold
The St. Augustine Hobos
by daniel griswold
I am bitter
I
am sad
I am unhappy
my name is Chad
I am hard-core
never ever sweet
I don't like love-songs
I am a
freak
Jenny's the girl that lived in Ponce de Leon
blue walls all around-spent time at Cinnebon
there's this
guy she thought was cute
so she just had to see him
but when the weekend came around
she felt she needed more
freedom
oh, you're so sexy, oh, your so sweet
I'm so unhappy when I grovel at your feet
black hair, pale skin,
your eyes
the one that trusts in you just somehow dies
Jimmy's the boy who lived down the hall
in the dorm
room Jimmy felt he had to call
the girl he'd been liking six times a week
cept Sundays cause he went to church
as a break
but love in the stomach is like bliss in a can
and it's hard when this love is just a one way plan
so
Jimmy thought he'd try for her and what did he get
S-S-S-Susan took his heart like Jackie Chan!
we're all doomed
to failure
if we churn in the sea
so I guess we better think past this monstrosity
cause the sun is always brighter
on the other side
so let's live and let love until we're at least twenty-five
back into the carousel, I don't
think I can handle
all the fakeness of the love I thought you had for me
as my heart was just a fragile as a burning
trash can
you took my lips in that dead kiss that took my by surprise
copyright 2002 daniel griswold
The Walk
by daniel griswold
I walk down Stark and Mill lane
watching
the clouds pass by
and the stone walls pass me slowly
but the world is speeding by
and I want to know so much
more than this
than this little place I see
here the air is sweet and the trees are green
but I need to run away
I lay down in a field of grass
and think about my home
and the peace where I once lived
I gonna leave
and search right now for somthing
something, so much more than this
oooh, I'm weary, of all these nice things
oooh, I'm tired, and I need to run some
ooooh, I'm finding, that I'm lonely and I
ooooooh! Please find me,
and take me back away
to that place, that place where I can see
to that place, where I can feel again
ooo-oohh
Take me. please take me, oh I need much more than this
and I'm withered, and weathered, will you take me home
I
can feel it in the skies
when I pass the old pine tree
and the fields of hay
for all the miles of rows and rows
to see and
I, can feel the end is coming
though I'm still just young and free
will I ever, will I ever
tell
them that there's nothing here
and I need to fly so much
copyright 2002 daniel griswold
He Follows the Swallows
by daniel griswold
I lifted all the hay
and
went to the baseball game
and drove a standard car
and drove over the Mountain
that lives over El Paso
and
I got strong from lifting hay
and I watched the dogs get fed
then I watched the home team win
and I wrote two
songs today
not including this one
and I sat down to dinner with my family
and I said a joke that I laughed at
when no one was listening
and that was cool,
because everyone laughs anyway
then I listened to indie-rock
while writing emails to my friends
and I'm so happy
that the world sings songs
so I write one more
and
all I want to do
when the night comes
is watch these little birds
sing
winter comes
fly birds
fly
I'll follow you
in my standard car
over the mountains
into Juarez
where many poor people live
and
I'll live in a box
and dream of my family
while watching the street dogs
that play and play
in the streets
all day
with the soccer kids
from over the mountains
where the big cross lives
granting miracles
then
I'll watch the hometeam win
and see the hay turn purple
while the whole world waits
for it's singing birds
to return home
in El Paso
fly birds fly
wherever you cry
and you're beautiful
little birds
sing
copyright 2002 daniel griswold
I Was Wondering
I know you're wondering
I
know we're not the same
but I was pondering
if you would smile with me
and you, you are my smile
with
all the words you say
and all the peace of mind
will you walk with mine
call me when you're home
call
me all night long
I need to say you're fine
I need you, say you're mine
I wish that I could say that I could
love more
I wish I would pay for your full price
I wish that all the world was perfect
I wish I had a dime, at
least you're here, tonight
heart is walking home
I am waving in the sea
could you sail me past your
blue
in skies, is the symbol for our lives
blue in skies, is the peace before we die
blue in skies, will you take my hand
right now
blue in skies, will I see you in my eyes
oh jesus
copyright c 2002 daniel griswold
The Deep Sleep
When I fall asleep I give my money to the poor,
like an elevator up and down - I go to the store,
there's a bird that flies right by my window everyday,
I must look like Charlie Brown - good greif - I'd rather fly away.
When I stay awake I slip my hands into little holes,
that line my ragdoll pants my mom says symbolizes my soul,
I'm just a calico expression of what I want to be,
a systematic 'magination of society.
Round, flyin round, with the figures -
givin it up to the holy ones.
Squares, filling my lungs with the textures -
I wanna see the end but I'm just going nowhere...
and I stare.
Last time I went to sleep I wokeup at my friends back door,
an alcoholic and a master fallin to the floor,
I saw the stars of the night as if I fell from a train,
I'm just a victim of the grasses overgrowing my brain.
My eyes perceived a rose against the desert pray,
with Hallelujah's echo hallow but I thought I should stay,
cause now there's mistletoe up hanging by God's great big pie,
and now I'm happy, so let's have it, God - let me die.
Round, flyin round, with the figures -
givin it up to the holy ones.
Squares, filling my lungs with the textures -
I wanna see the end but I'm just going nowhere...
and I stare.
Drivin down the road I saw an animal as limp as could be,
I prayed real hard cause I knew that baby coulda been me,
eats like fire soaking like an indego stain,
my soul perspires contemplating all the world's plain.
Could it be I'm happy- my apartment's dripping with blood,
now I'm sitting desperately seperated from my living God,
I push the pew and wath the angels rustling in the trees,
I want to touch the sun like angels flying in the breeze.
I'm floating past the hemispheres!
Round, flyin round, with the figures -
givin it up to the holy ones.
Squares, filling my lungs with the textures -
I wanna see the end but I'm just going nowhere...
and I stare,
and I stare,
and I stare,
and I stare,
do I care.
Samuel's Song
Who's Samuel? - Samuel's the boy across the street
Who's Samuel? - Samuel's the boy across the street
He's never been old enough to cross the street
Who's Samuel? - Samuel's the boy across the street
Ribbons of sidewalk
Chalky rings on the floor
Covered in Cat
Summer sweet
Candy coconut parrot
Mirror pirate heads
Gabby gone gold
Winter feet
All he ever wanted was a tricycle that works
At 3 AM in life he's asking what's the Universe?
The TV tells him stories 'bout a Hippopotomus
When he climbed out of the tree he asked me
"Where's the next verse?"
I told him:
Happiness lies in a bottle
Sweet summer pirate away
Calling the President of Candy
Ribbons of sidewalk to play
Say say:
Samuel, I'm gonna end the world today
The big blow up button's just a minute away
The President politely just asked me to pray
And my little boy - that's the reason why you just can't stay
and he said okay
he said okay
he said okay
he said okay
I'm so sorry Samuel
Samuel please - just play
Ribbons of sidewalk
Chalky rings on the floor
Covered in Cat
Summer Sweet
Candy Coconut Parrot
Mirror Pirate Heads
Gabby Gone Gold
Winter Feet
All he wanted was a ... (dun dun dun!)
There's One
Once Once Once - there was a Girl Girl Girl,
I told her Dun Dun - that I didn't need Her er er,
That was a lie - because I'm Stuuupid,
Because I live my liiife anyywayyyy!
I'm a living idiot, and never have I seen,
that I'm searchin that I'm searchin
for a girl that's just like me. 2x
Once Once Once I knew a girl girl girl,
She looked into my eyes eyes eyes,
into another world world world,
and everydayyyyy - when she looked my wayyyyy,
I made the dumbest face,
and then I looked awayyyyyy!
BECAUSE I'M STUPID!
I'm a living idiot - and never have I seen,
that I'm searchin, that I'm searchin,
for a girl that's just like me. 2x
Then Then Then I met another girl girl girl
She made me kiss herrrrr - confused my world world world,
Oh yeah, but then, dun dun - I ran awaaaay,
Down the longest hallls, of getaway,
and I'm sick of girls who playaaaaaay!
Because I'm a living idiot, and never have I seen
that I'm searchin, that I'm searchin,
for a girl that's just like me. 2x
American Apple Pie
You walk down a long dark concrete slab
to the Mary Tyler Moore that teaches history
The class as a rule is carpeted
and the teacher just begins to speak
Then the chalk board melts and typewriter molds
as a fairy flys across your blue eyes
You hold onto your desk but your arms
sprout wings as the classroom
begins to sing
This is the anthem
the song of the ages
American apple pie
We've got a hole in our head
with a ruler instead
but we're happy with our
apple pie
You drive down a long dark concrete slab
to the Devil of a bosses' cemetary
The cubicle smells like paper and pens
and the coworkers file from their anthills
When the moniter tells you that peace lies in a bed
and the bread and butter books fly away
You hold onto you desk
but your legs break free as your clavical
begins to sing
This is the anthem
the song of the ages
American apple pie
We've got a hole in our head
with a ruler instead
but we're happy with our
apple pie
You lay on a concrete slab of a bed
cause your kids just ran away
At 83, your mind is put to the test
and you're sick of eating turkey puree'
Nurse Betty's got a girdle the size of Detroit
with a face to match a Ford motor grill
But nothing really matters when the clock just stops
and the casket's goin heaven's way
Still you hold onto your desk as the world just spins
and the angels
begin to sing
This is our story
the song of the ages
American apple pie
We've got a car in the shack
but our insides are black
and we'll keep on goin
till we die
This is the anthem
the song of the ages
American apple pie
We've got a hole in our head
with a ruler instead
but we're happy with our
apple pie
The Method
I've got you
I've got me
All the things we can see
When we are - together
I'm like meth when we go
How did you freakin know
That I wanted
a piece - of forever
I forgot how many tears had to fall for myself
I lost the best thing I had
But now I've got things to my time
And it's wasted so long as I was looking at you
Peace together - the chains of my soul
were once then in bondage
Calling ahead - to the brash persecution
of my brother whom I'd loved as mine
Fog, Smoke, and Hubcaps
Orange shirt with the bright blue pants and
Domino's Pizza with a future of heart attacks
Big black marker on my forhead
From the recesses of my overdrawn bank account
Boy! Isn't life fun when the sun calls your eyes
to the windows every morning for a fresh snow
that cries for the tea that is sipped to stay awake
because you're still sick
Just stop. I've got an idea, an idea, and idea
that'll make you want to blow this joint
I gotta place where the world just stops
and it all ends there...
Fog Smoke and Hubcaps
Life sure is confusing!
Fog Smoke and Hubcaps
oy! I want to go back to that place!
Fog Smoke and Hubcaps
Cause the playground's callin me today!
I'm still just thinking!
But boy! I'm getting sick of this place...
Then! The revolving and gravity pull the pencil out
from of your mind - when the reports crimp the
messy hair that your mother has
when she forgets who you are
Because I don't know how to tell you why your cola is warm
or why your doctor just died of a heart attack - just sit back
I guess and feel the flow - forget the future and fly away with me!
When we fight to stay asleep...where the past is never ending
I've dreamt of all these worries...that harm our minds each day
could the man down the street by the burning trash cans
tell the difference between his nightmares and the day,
you hold the difference between the nightmares and the day
you hold the difference between the nightmares and the day
Then they try to leave the fray
but now we're okay.
Milltop Tavern Song
inspired by the band Seratonin
Keep on moving - into the night
Keep on moving - into the night
I've got another place to be - oh
Why did you call my name.
You gotta keep on moving - into the night
Keep on moving on - I've got another place to be
In the middle of the night yeah
I've gotta keep on moving on.
Did you hear my name - did you hear my name?
The darkness is dead - and I am dumb
Take me away - take me away into the night.
Gotta keep on movin, I'm moving out tonight
In the middle of the night yeah - I've got to keep on moving on
I've got a brother in New Hampshire - and a future wife in Spain.
Tonight
She says hello to the sunshine
hello to the night
She says hello to the people
and gives them quite a fright
but that's just fine (but that's all right)
cause it's just her
on one lonely evening
she sat upon her bed
she looked at stars of angels
that beckoned her ahead
and all those pressing people
within her thoughtful head
here's what she said
here's what she said
She said,
hello to the sunshine, when I see your face
hello to the speckled stars, that hang on silvery lace
when I hear the angels sing
a thoughtful song or two
it's all right
She said it's all right
in the desert of the night it brings, a great unearthly calm
she pulled out her guitar to play, and sing just one more song
she walked out from her room to me, I guess I was alone
and this is what she sang to me, beneath a dying palm
She sang,
hello to the sunshine, when I see your face
hello to the stars that sing, upon a silvery lace
all I want is peacefulness
I guess you want that too
So let's forget the people that have stepped on me and you
She sang,
hello to the sunshine - I'll see you really soon
hello to the silver stars- amidst a falling moon
hello to my friends away - and to my lonely heart
I'm happy just to know one day - I'll find a better start
let's start tonight
tonight.
St. Augustine
I came to Saint Augustine lonely
then I searched to find a friend
the fields of people moved slowly
then I finally let just one in
-into my heart I let her in
-into my life she was there
-she was kind of just like me
-that's why I can't believe
I can't believe I
I fell in love with my best friend
It shouldn't have been that way
I let my anchor go and floated on her wings
but that was bad, because she didn't love me
I guess it was those crazy green eyes
or the sarcastic look on her face
all of my center - it focused on her
but I forgot and I forgot
she was my very best friend
I fell in love with my best friend
it shouldn't have been that way
I let my anchor go - and floated on her wings
but that was wrong, and I know that today
come back
come back to me
come back cause I've set my heart free
come back
God! I'm lonely
come back, just to hang out with me...
I came to St. Augustine lonely
then I searched to find a friend
the fields of people moved slowly
then I finally just let one in.
