Category: Lyrics

Becky, she’s just a girl I met on the beach
Becky, she reached down to my soul, wouldn’t let go
She said stay here, sit beside me, just be free
Take it easy, make life easy in my arms

She broke me down, emptied me out
To fill me with the things that truly matter
Her kisses were just a promise for the moment
And that was all right by me, each kiss was an eternity

Choices we make, glimpse we forsake in the moments of insanity
Convincing ourselves the paths we choose are dear to lose
Becky, she’s just a girl I meet in my dreams now
Becky, she comes to kiss me in my dreams now

Becky, she’s just a girl I met on the beach
Becky, she reached down to my soul, wouldn’t let go

Feeling trapped, can’t seem to get away
Wrapped in lost days and lost ways, alone again
Can’t seem to get things right with you, with you
Reaching out loving you, missing you

So what’s it going to take for me
To make it through another day
One more beer to make
The heartache fade away

And just because self-pity comes so easy
To me, it shouldn’t be what I feel
When I look at you and you hold me tight
Why can’t I just fall into your eyes

So what’s it going to take for me
To make it through another day
One more beer to make
The heartache fade away

Need to find a way out of my mind
Follow my heart to where it leads me
Back into your heart and into your life
Need to jump start my heart

So what’s it going to take
For you to embrace
This bewildered and broken man
Making his last stand

Need to find a way out of my mind
Follow my heart to where it leads me
Back into your heart and into your life
Need to jump start my heart

I say it to myself
A hundred times each day
Thinking of all the ways
I love you

And it’s just because of you
I can touch the sky
Oh, I can fly away with you
Away with you

Dreams, they’re not all they seem to be
I’ve got you, you’ve got me
Dreams, they’re much more you see
When two become as three

A breeze through the autumn leaves
The salt spray of an ocean breeze
It’s serenity
It’s serenity

Written in 1979

Words
Written to rhyme
Keeping in time
With thoughts in mind

Words
On a paper napkin
Reminds me of when
You made my head spin

Words
That I use to express
This feeling of fullness
And of gentleness

Seem to lack
This feeling inside me
Which cannot be expressed by
Words

written in 1969

She’s just my little girl
Been that way since she came into this world
Be that way for the rest of my life
Doesn’t matter if she’s five or sixty-five

Her swimming pool was a five-gallon bucket
And there was plenty of room to spare
Grandma’s glasses was hers to claim
Anyone’s pocket was her personal domain

Built her a house for Barbie and Ken
Think she was nine, maybe ten
Her mouth got so big, her eyes bigger still
I don’t know which one of us got the bigger thrill

Now she’s a teenager
Her room’s always a mess
Time is slipping away
She’s growing up to fast

She’s got a mind of her own
And I thank her mom for that
She’s got a heart of gold
And I thank God for that

When she’s thirty-five with kids of her own
She’ll still sit on my lap and bring me back home
To the times we spent through thick and thin
To her hugs and kisses when she was nine, maybe ten

I wrote this song for my daughter when she was a teenager around 1999. She is now closer to 40 than to 10, but as each day goes by my love for her grows. I am proud to say she has become a beautiful, loving woman, wife, and mother. All the things her mom and I hoped for her.

I wish I were a ship that spreads its wings
And flies away on a deep blue sea
I wish I were a golden eagle
Soaring far, far above the Rockies

But I guess I’ll have to stay awhile longer
And see what I can do
About this situation
I’ve been put through

And if it weren’t for you I think
All my time would be spent crying, dying
Here you’ve stayed while all the others
Went flying, flying away

Your eyes are my deep blue sea
And you’re smile is my wings to fly
And you’re loving
Is my ticket to the sky

Written in 1973

The simple joys you bring to me
Those moments of ecstasy
How I wish I could guarantee
These things for you

And the knowing is always growing
Shining brightly in those baby blues
As my feelings, alway reaching
Ever boundless, continue soaring

A gift so great, I hesitate
To put a name upon it
It has no edges, it has no seams
It’s the loom of dreams

So dream my son a dream of dreams
That someday you may find
A son to share some simple joys
And a ride through fantasy

Written in 1980 after the birth of my first child

Drove by the old place tonight
Looking for an old face inside
Knew it would be a waste of my time
Chasing the past-it’s a spiritual crime

I saw lots of pretty new faces
They were all dressed up as hopeless cases
Feeling lost in these emotionless mazes
Had to be nuts to think I’d find traces

Of you, anywhere
I’m filled with fear
I’ve lost you
Forever

All my friends just say that time is on my side
It sure didn’t take long to swallow my pride
Every breath I take is aching for your smile
Hoping every step I take is one closer to finding signs

Of you, anywhere
I’m filled with fear
I’ve lost you
Forever

All my faith in life and luck have been misleading
All my prayers are scattered and they’re fleeting
Memories of you come so easy it’s like breathing
Don’t blame me if I have to keep on seeking

For you, everywhere
I’m filled with fear
I’ve lost you forever
I’ve lost you forever

Your smile is that of a child’s on Christmas day
But your tears of those of a woman who has lost her way
And your loving is like an ocean wave
Engulfing and caressing, all you gave – all you gave

And though I know you’ll deny it, I know you care
And all your laughing and crying can’t hide it – I know it’s there
And this silly game you’re playing will bring you down to your knees
And then you’ll ask pretty please, again

But how can you be so sure I’ll be there
I know one thing for sure, I’ll be going from here
But loving you is so, so easy to do
And leaving you is so, so hard

Hard on me, so hard on me                                                                                        Feels like a broken dream, a broken dream
Your smile is that of a child’s on Christmas day
But your tears are of those of a woman who’s lost her way

And your loving is like an ocean wave
Engulfing and caressing, all you gave – all you gave

Written in 1975

These nagging questions in my mind
Oh will they never go away
The doubts, the fears, and all the tears
Oh where’s that sunny day

And it’s so, so easy to be near you
And it’s so, so easy holding you
It’s so hard telling myself it’s through
I just can’t seem to believe it’s true

All the pain, the anguish and blame
Are gifts from me to mine
And though I know they don’t exist
It still hurts none the same

And it’s so, so easy to be near you
And it’s so, so easy holding you
It’s so hard telling myself it’s through
I just can’t seem to believe it’s true

Playing the game, it’s a foolish waste of time
Can’t we just say our goodbyes
I thought it over, such a simple thing to do
Then why the tears in my eyes