Category: Book Club - LINDSAY WHITE

LYRICS

People often ask where they can find lyrics, so I compiled 10+ years worth of songs into one location! I even included some of the tunes I consider to be hot garbage clunkers, just for the fun of documenting the journey. If you'd like to support my songwriting, please download my music on iTunes, add songs to your Spotify Playlists, subscribe to my Youtube channel, and/or purchase physical copies of CDs wherever possible. These contributions help me sustain my career as an independent artist.

Roses Are Dead

2/14/2021

1. Ii’ve been thinking ‘bout roses
one of nature’s designs
how they don’t stick their noses
in the business of dying
what I suppose is
when they fall from the vine
they’re just making room
for more things to bloom
when it’s their time

if roses are dead
and people die too
don’t worry your head
they’re just something new
the petals will shed i
t’s just what they do
only to wither
so they can deliver
life back to you

i’ve been thinking ‘bout thorns
how they’re sharp in your hands
how they give off a warning
how they state their demands
and the opinion i’m forming
i hope you understand
that pain’s just a part
of healing your heart
it’s all going to plan

Knees

1/28/2020

1. you kiss my forehead every morning when you’re going to work
and i say i love you please be safe
try not to worry about the strangers and the dangers that lurk
inside my head cause they’ll make me make you be late
i know one day that one of us is gonna bite the dust
it kinda makes you wanna pull a thelma and louise
i’m not a praying lady baby but I love you so much
the thought of losing you makes me get down on my

knees and say
don’t let it be today

2. i kiss your lips every night when we’re going to bed
and you say i love you have sweet dreams
try not to listen to the bees buzzin’ in my head
that we’ll be dead in the blink of an eye it seems
it happens to the very best and worst of us
and every single living creature in between
i’m not a praying lady baby but I love you so much
the thought of losing you makes me get down on my

knees and say
don’t let it be today

Br.
maybe, maybe, time is a fabrication
yeah maybe, just maybe, we’re all pieces of one creation
walking in our separate skin but the same energy
it makes you get on your

knees and say
let’s celebrate today
and hopefully i’ll be with you some way
for eternity, what do you say?
you and me
you and me, always

Read My Mind

10/26/2019

1. you can give me liquor
you can give me pills
something to make me sicker
than i already feel
you can give me laughter
you can give me hope
somebody to look after
when i can barely cope

but you can’t read my mind
neither can i
go ahead and try
tell me what you find
you don’t know my brain
strangely, we’re estranged
how can i explain
i’d never find the time
you can't read my mind

2. you can give me music
you can give me words
sometimes i’m scared i’m gonna lose it
sometimes words just make things worse
you can give me questions
you can give me space
somewhere i can learn the lessons i’ve been questioning how to learn in this place

but you can’t read my mind
neither can i
go ahead and try
tell me what you find
you don’t know my brain
strangely, we’re estranged
how can i explain
i’d never find the time
you can't read my mind

is made up
of the crazy stuff

you can’t read my mind
neither can i
go ahead and try
tell me what you find
you don’t know my brain
strangely, we’re estranged
how can i explain
i’d never find the time
you can't read my mind

The Magic's In Me

6/20/2018

i’ve been reading all the signs on the wall
i’ve been staring at the stars in the sky
i’ve been wondering if this road leads anywhere at all
if it ended in demise, i would not be surprised
but that doesn’t mean i’m not willing to fight
i’m calling all the strength in me i need to survive
there’s a fire in me i just need to ignite
i’ve been fumbling in the dark, looking for a spark of light

it’s in the sunrise, It’s in the sunset it’s in the thrill of the unknown
every heartache, every mistake it’s in our blood, it’s in our bones
every sand of desert, every strand of hair the magic’s there
hanging in the balance of the valleys and peaks if you listen, magic speaks
Oya, Oya, the magic’s in me
Oya, Oya, the magic’s in me
Oya, Oya, the magic’s in me
Oya, Oya

you’ve been telling me bout star-crossed love
you’ve been selling me on shakespeare
i've been wondering if love alone will ever be enough
cause i know there’s so much more at stake here
but that doesn’t mean i’m not willing to try
i’m calling on the strength in me just to look in those eyes
there’s a fire in me, i just need to ignite
i had such a heavy heart, i’m trying to do my part to make it light

don't you see, don't you see, don't you see

When that Idiot Wind Starts to Blow

4/7/2018

i've had enough of you
i've had enough of you
i sure wish your mouth came with some glue
cause i've had enough of you

it's not what you say but the way that you state it
it's not what you serve up but the way that you plate it
i'm already fed up 'fore i see the menu
yes i've had enough of you

you're like a book i can't read
you're like a book i can't read
the day i put you down was the day i was freed
yeah you're like a book i can't read

each word so much worse than the last
i curse every page and skim past
all this stuff, it's just fluff, a marshmallow stampede
yeah you're like a book i can't read

i concur with your scorn for my cynical ways
it's a lazy and boring disguise
but the soapbox you stand on takes up too much space
and it's taking a toll on the roll on my eyes

when that idiot wind starts to blow
when that idiot wind starts to blow
i always take it as my cue to go
when that idiot wind starts to blow

i don't like to watch when the emperor streaks
or the way that the breath of a bragging man reeks
i'm covering my eyes i'm plugging my nose when that idiot wind starts to blow
yeah, i always take it as my cue to go when that idiot wind starts to blow

Some Man, Some God, Some War

1/14/2018

she is dried out like the desert
she is famished, all but vanished by design
and her hide out is her cactus heart
her own hand grenade, a barricade of spines

the sands of time repeating
she’s seen suffering before
her future takes a beating for
some man, some god, some war

she is minding her own business
steadfastly building castles of sand
when she is blinded by a raging son
who demolishes and calls it all his land

those poor holy rolling soldiers’ plights
they can’t live without their virgins and whores
to lift their strengths and spirits to fight for
some man, some god, some war

we are sucking out the venom
of poisonous scorpions and snakes
we are bucking this ecosystem
til our mother’s deserts are our daughter’s lakes

oh, wondrous, thunderous women
together too loud to ignore
no more curtsies at the mercy of
some man, some God, some war

The Funeral

6/15/2017

*pronouns changed from she to he in honor of my friend Jeffrey Joe who I lost the year I wrote this song

everyone’s wearing black
everyone looks so sad
everyone can be seated now
everyone ends up dead
everyone bow your head
everyone remember

was there a time or two or three he had you laughing?
was he with you giving tissues when you cried?
was he the kind of kind worth photographing in your mind?
did he give you a good story for the day he died?

everyone goes to bed
everyone ends up dead
everyone will live another day
everyone still misses
everyone reminisces
everyone has something to say

was there a time or two or three he had you laughing?
was there a moment you just had to memorize?
was he the kind of kind worth photographing in your mind?
did he give you a good story for the day he died?

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Big Magic (How to Be a Winner When You Lose)

12/29/2016

*some lines from this song are pulled from Elizabeth Gilbert’s Big Magic as reference/wink to the book. How to Be a Winner When You Lose was a song prompt from Eagles Songwriter Jack Tempchin

Verse: D C Bm A
Chorus: D A G A // G A D C Bm G A

it's not like i was asking loss to be my best friend
but she stuck around when the chips were down
i've always found her at the bitter end
it's not like i've forgotten where the doors are or how to knock them
i quite like the sound of the pavement pounding
underneath the steps of my ambition

i wanted big magic
the kind of life that shoots across the sky
lighting up the dark
i've got this book of matches
wet with regret, splintered with time
and I can't find the spark
seems like big magic's only big hat trick
is to go when she knows you blew a fuse
she'll leave you sitting in the dim
learning how to be a winner when you lose

it's not like I'm complaining about the waxing and the waning
i prefer the rise and fall of a curve ball
i'm always honored by her visitation
it's not like i am choiceless or powerless or voiceless
but i feel so weak, it gets hard to speak
in the ruthless furnace of expectation

Fox and Hound

10/23/2016

Verse: E B A E
Chorus: A Am E // B A E

sit still, don't breathe
this is how you leave, you have been deceived
nostrils flare, scared eyes
you can't event cry, you are paralyzed

the fleeting fox, the hunting hound
chase each other around
was it real, or just pretend?
tell me this isn't all there is to being a friend

deceased, you feast
tell me how i taste at least
pursed lips, time drips
what a winning waste of a losing grip

detect, report
truth and lies distort, where's my life support
refuge, refugee
this is how you flee - showing no mercy

Good of a God

8/19/2015

Capo 4 shapes:
Verse: Em C Em (end on D)
Chorus: Em D A
Bridge: C G C G // (but I'm a) Em C D // (heads and birds) C D A Em (end on D)

father hear my pleas, don’t make me scrape my knees
even diogenes, he agrees with me
a syndrome of self neglect is the sin of intellect
holding lanterns to the light is no necessity

what good is a god with the head of a falcon
that lives on the body of man?
what sense is the strength of a thoroughbred stallion
running like a scared mare every chance that it can?
what comfort lies in millions of lives
if they’re over before they began?
sometimes it shapes me, sometimes it escapes me
the good of a god in the body of man

father hear my cries, i’m not buying alibis
your books so wise disguise the valleys for the peaks
if all your world’s a page you’ll never take the stage
baby steps assuage the magnitude of quantum leaps

heaven knows i’m also froze and apples don’t fall far
trust me, any day’s a good day in the shade of where you are
but i’m a prudent teacher’s student and I'm just trying to understand
heads and birds, actions and words
and the good of a god in the body of man