Single
Outside the City
Lyrics
About an hour, hour outside the city
You can start, start to hear the countryside
Sounds nothing like guns, let me tell you son
Sounds just like a beautiful woman crying
Yeah baby if you listen, listen closely
Can’t you hear, can’t you hear the tears flowing from her eyes
Like a rain it keep on, keep on, keep on blowing
Just blowing, blowing down the mountain side
When she comes to embrace you
Got to heed, heed that call son
If you try to ignore it
Deep down, it’s going to burn you up
Life will never ever quite be the same
When you learn to hear the wind call your name
Beck and call to you
And your heart Lord, tells you, the winds speaks the gospel truth
Yes your heart tells you, the winds speaks the gospel truth
Ragtop Car
Lyrics
Some say that the love of the wanderlust
Is just a life that won’t amount to much
A man born with rambling shoes
Is just another man born to loose
I want to set the record straight
Before I hit the road today
Got a ragtop car
Enough gas to take us far
Enough away
Because I plan to drive all day
When the evening comes
We’ll be like loaded guns
Out in the night
Shooting stars out the sky, baby
When the blue sky’s lost in a concrete maze
I get the feeling, I wanna get lost for days
Lace up my rambling shoes
Get a chance to beat the 3rd street blues
Race up the Taconic Parkway
Drive until the break of day
Got a ragtop car
Enough gas to take us far
Enough away
Because I plan to drive all day
When the evening comes
We’ll be like loaded guns
Out in the night
Shooting stars out the sky, baby
I got myself a roadie in my hand
Talking a cool Pabst Blue Ribbon in a can
I’m not trying to be tough
Just priming up the motor of love
Gotta loosen up
Here come my baby just a strutting that stuff
She got a ragtop car
Enough gas to take us far
Enough away
Because I plan to drive all day
When the evening comes
We’ll be like loaded guns
Out in the night
Shooting stars out the sky, baby
New Day Dawn
Lyrics
Ain’t no right ain’t no wrong
When you sit and watch a new day dawn
Ain’t no wrong ain’t no right
Been sittin’ since the dark of night
Walked myself to the edge of town
Made damn sure no one follow me down
Yes and to keep myself a little company
Well I got a little hipper from the whiskey family
But it don’t
No it don’t
Yes it don’t
Matter much now anyway
All alone
All alone
One and only
Let me get my thinking straight
Just cut the cable and the TV screen
Just a rabid dog barking back at me
So many voices chiming through my head
Can’t put a face to all the words just said
Get more listening to the wind and rain
Or the rumble of a diesel train
Cause a mans a man, a fact’s a fact
Those are lies and we can’t be lied to like that
But it don’t
No it don’t
Yes it don’t
Matter much now anyway
All alone
All alone
One and only
Let me get my thinking straight
Can’t tell a lie through a song
Expect folks to listen all that long
Guitar note catch a breeze and off it goes
Who’s going to catch them I don’t know
Over top a voice gonna hit that note
You know it’s coming from a bluesman’s throat
Thats my version of a TV screen
You see it doesn’t have to be all obscene
But it don’t
No it don’t
Yes it don’t
Matter much now anyway
All alone
All alone
One and only
Let me get my thinking straight
Do It Right
Lyrics
No sight of the man on the interstate
Spent a mess of time truckin’ on the road today
I got a one-way ticket babe, the diesel down
And I’m blowing off some doors as I pass each town
As I pass each town, as I pass each town
As I pass each town, laying that diesel down
Going down, going down
Let me tell you
Yeah, oh yeah
If you’re gonna do it, do it right
Grab your little woman, treat her right
If you’re gonna do it, do it right
Grab your little woman, treat her right
Get down, going down
Like a shotgun kick, I move as fast as I can
Yes that’s the signature style of a do right man
And I know every action means the word to you
That’s why I’m trucking this load to bring the goods to you
Bring the goods to you, bring the goods to you
Bring the goods to you, baby bring the good to you
I say yeah, yeah
If you’re gonna do it, do it right
Grab your little woman, baby treat her right
If you’re gonna do it, do it right
Grab your little woman, treat her right
Bring it down
I know it’s late at night, but I need to know
Just what kind of love you’ve got in store
I know outside is just a drizzling, drizzling rain
So won’t you start a fire in your hearth again
In your hearth again, in your hearth again
In your hearth again, light a fire in your hearth again
Yeah, yeah
If you’re gonna do it, do it right
Grab your little woman, treat her right
If you’re gonna do it, do it right
Grab your little woman, treat her right
Just like I told you
If you’re gonna do it, do it right
Grab your little woman, treat her right
Get down, get down
Motor Kine
Motor Kine is a love letter to the wild sands of Baja Mexico where open land collides into the Pacific Ocean. I’ve sung Motor Kine live across the globe for years, with many different bands and instrumentation. This version provides insight into my 2020-2021 creative process.
Lyrics
Dusty roads through the canyon gorge
Like a bullet baby how we run
Steer me babe with a gentle hand
On into that old boy sun
I am your Motor Kine
I know you’ve seen me riding
Greased back I shine like lighting
Leg up mamma and take a ride
Dusty roads through the canyon gorge
Like a bullet baby how we run
Steer me babe with a gentle hand
On into that old boy sun
Your desert is of the rarest beauty
I’ve never seen the like
Your sands they give me my water
Your sun keeps me alive
Race down the pacific ocean
Run down those Mexico sands
Just for nothing babe, just cause I want to
Gonna fly all across these lands
Motor Kine don’t take low octane
Get yourself out and buy me some premium fuel
Motor Kine don’t run on that cheap stuff
Ease your hand mamma, keep me cool
Race down the pacific ocean
Run down those Mexico sands
Just for nothing babe, just cause I want to
Gonna fly all across these lands
Join Along
LYRICS
Aye yeah, aww Babe
Oh wont you feel it, feel it yeah, join along
If you want a right place
If you want a piece of the action, action
Whole sweet embrace
Always amplifies attraction
Let me see the moonlight in your eyes
Let me see the New York City lights
Let me smell some incense in the air
Baby don’t you know that we’re almost there
Because, each night is only rock & roll, babe, babe
You can have it any way you want or else waltz away
And we walk right inside
Hand in hand I look you right in the eyes
Gonna tell you I love you a million times
Up in here
Oh won’t you feel, yeah
Baby join along
Won’t you feel, feel, feel it, join along
She stepped right off the train
Headed straight across the platform
Behold such a beautiful face
Asked me for a lighter, you got one
Let me see the moonlight in your eyes
Let me see the New York City lights
Let us smoke the incense in the air
Baby don’t you know that we’re almost there
Because, each night is only rock & roll, Oh babe, babe
We can have it any way that we want or else waltz away
And when we walk inside
Hand in hand I look you right in the eyes
Gonna tell you I love you a million times
Up in here
Can’t you feel yeah babe
Won’t you join along
Can’t you feel me, feel me, feel me, join along
Feel me, feel me, feel me, join along
I know you long to join along