After almost ten years of bouncing around, I finally found a place with a living room to record these in. I tried to produce these a little more and started to work with some other musicians. They aren't all the straight forward arrangements that I play solo. I was kind of experimenting,......which i hope to start more of, again.

I think these are some of my strongest songs,...as a group. There were some real soul searhing moments when these popped out...!!

Here are clips in Real Audio format:

The Songs:

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  Atlanta

  mighty ships sail off to carry
  all the treasures i have found
  unerring in perfection beyond my reason they are bound
  even if i had a compass pirates would slip away
  hungry for tomorrow with these dry bones
  they´ll never stay

  that fine little girl is tearing me apart
  she's taken all the pieces of my broken heart
  and there's nothing left to do
  but lace up my worn out shoes
  and go drifting through the lost and lonely
  i will wander

  oh atlanta
  draw me closer to your shores
  i'm coming back for more i´ll soon surrender
  hold my head within your arms
  i just can´t believe this world of ours
  and the only sweetness i´m allowed is near your harbor
  your safe harbor

  take your rubies and your lace
  hold your mirror closer to my face
  so the thread which i might weave
  shines through delusion

  with all the gold and all the jewels
  and all the dreams of all the fools
  held so tightly within my right hand of justice
  you´d come and loosen up my hold
  with your wisdom so very old
  tearing down my walls for free
  filling my hunger

  because you told me once before
  in this dreamers world you´ll open every door
  and each springtime you may find is soon turned under
  but if you´ll show me to the sky
  i´d like to give it one more try
  ´cause with your halo in my eye
  i´ll stand delivered

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  Journey to be Free

  the only thing that´s not so clear
  as the wonder in your eyes
  is the strength of the conviction
  that would keep you from the lies

  taking back the finest thing
  you might have ever done
  would be by far much easier
  than to complete what you've begun

  oh....my half born child, impatiently
  can't you feel the moments fall like petals on the sea
  come gather them in your basket bring the best ones home to me
  for there is no greater reason on this journey to be free

  amanda can´t you hear
  the warning of the tide
  it will take you back most surely
  as your moorings start to slide

  and the clouds which blaze so brilliant
  with the setting of the sun
  could gather in the twilight
  to wash away all that you've done

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  roll away the mountains
  roll away the sea
  you have crossed the mighty ocean
  so that truth would set you free

  but when all that´s left are medals
  for the battles you have won
  you come to me and say,
  how can i buy belief
  in what i´ve worked so hard for to become

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  Down at the Levee

  i´m goin´ down to the i´m goin´ down
  i´m goin´ down to the i´m goin´ down
  goin´ to the levee i´m goin´ down to the sea
  goin´ to the ocean
  and i´m gonna take my baby with me

  don´t want no preachin´ baby don´t want no pain
  don´t want no preachin´ baby don´t want no pain
  don´t want to worry turn my back to the strain
  and i tell you all right now
  i might not go back there again

  rise up in anger you gonna raise up some scorn
  rise up in anger you gonna raise up some scorn
  hand from hand limb from limb surely you will be torn
  if you raise a little cain
  you wish you´d never been born

  might be some thunder, baby, might be some rain
  might be some thunder, baby, might be some rain
  off in the distance but it could be coming back to stay
  it´s been a long, long way a winding
  to be winding up this way
  

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  One More Stranger From the Road

  holding places in time that you know
  trading faces so blind
  telling me sheltering dreams from below

  could you be so kind
  would you mind
  one more stranger from the road

  alone as all of my hopes come bursting
  i´ll sweep the ashes from the clay
  hardened only to stand more securely

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  tender, gentle truth unfolding
  don't hold on to your heart
  if you call me i will come running

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  I´ll Remember the Good Times

  i´ll remember the good times
  when there's no time at all
  if there isn't a kind word
  i´ll find one to recall

  because forever´s a long time
  i´d rather not spend
  needing excuses
  for missing my friends

  
  i´ll brighten a candle
  in the window i´ll place
  hoping to steer home
  these memories erased

  for me who´s been given
  these few years of their best
  i needn´t disturb
  what's been left to it´s rest

  
  i´ll see the light in an old eye
  grown wild with years
  shining before me
  guiding me near

  for while in judgment i´m standing
  of their frustrations and fear
  which one of our dark side´s
  stands guiltless of tears

  
  so tell me of fortunes
  forsaken for love
  of castles defended
  and light from above

  for in one tender moment
  when love is so blind
  forgivness is endless
  ´till the end of all time
  
  
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  Listening to the Wind

  doesn´t really matter why you stop and listen to the wind
  standing on the corner 'cross from where you did begin
  listening to the night go rolling off until you cry
  reaching out for something strong enough to say good-bye

  and i know there's a reason for the haunting of your eyes
  for the last thing that you needed hangs decaying from the skies
  but if nothing could be broken you'd be frozen there alive
  holding on to pieces sharp to cut you down to size

  because who holds (sells) the promises unbroken
  and who counts the days ´til they grow old
  and who´ll fill the countless prayers unspoken
  and be listening to this mystery unfold

  is there really any difference in the fabrics that you´d worn
  until the sword of justice fell and left them all so torn
  unmoving, ever-restlessly, addressing, evermore
  you´d get twice as much for half the price down at store twenty-four

  and i know that you've carried all the letters for the king
  and though you knew the words they would never let you sing
  but one virtue is so precious you could wear it for a ring
  for if you´d come here any sooner you know it wouldn´t mean a thing

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  now i really do believe that there is an answer on your shores
  rising up to freedom from where forgiven grieves are stored
  waiting there for something holding out for more
  you can see the ships are passing ever closer to your door

  but i know you'd be wanting to be told the reason why
  everything worth standing for keeps laying down to die
  but i´ve offered up my innocence and stand on feet of clay
  you see I´ve bartered off my eloquence and buried it away

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  I Never Wanted to See My Baby Cry

  i never wanted to be the one to keep moonbeams in the sky
  i never thought i´d have to call on angels to get by
  but everything that could keep me here
  just makes it hard to say good-bye
  and i never wanted to see my baby cry

  i never wanted to be the one to take away
  the dreams that could come true
  i never wanted to see the sky fall down all around you
  but if i were to hold you now
  you would know that it was a lie
  and i never want to see my baby cry

  feeling like the only one
  as the world just turns away
  standing there so lonely
  like you have always felt that way

  i never wanted to be the one to make all of the petals fall
  and i thought i could understand enough to understand it all
  becoming more or less but i could not tell you why
  i just never wanted to see my baby cry

  you and i i thought that we
  could always feel this way
  i thought we were right beside
  but we were just worlds away

  i never wanted to be the one
  to tell all the little times that they were a lie
  i never wanted to take the stardust down from our eyes
  but if i were another man i´d never want to say good-bye
  ´cause i never wanted to see my baby cry
  
  
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  Stagger Lee

  could be on a rainy morning
  could be on a rainy night
  stagger lee and billy d. lyon
  had a great big fight
  he was a bad man
  that stagger lee

  stagger lee said billy
  please don't take my life
  i´ve got two lovely children
  and a very lovely wife
  but he was a bad man
  that stagger lee

  stagger lee said billy
  i can´t go for that
  you won all my money
  and my brand new stetson hat
  he was a bad man
  that stagger lee

  stagger lee shot billy
  he shot the boy so bad
  that the bullet went through billy d. lyon
  and broke the bar tender´s looking glass
  he was a bad man
  that stagger lee

  
  
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  Tracy (some days)

  tracy´s lost the pieces
  to the puzzle that she found
  out among the misplaced packages
  when garbage day came round

  some nights she goes collecting
  when the busy day is through
  doesn´t have to be quite perfect
  doesn´t have to be so new

  just a little bit of something
  for the closet or the den
  might just come to nothing
  you never know, but then

  some days she finds a little piece of kindness
  some days there´s a whisper and a frown
  some days she thinks we all just walk in blindness
  but one day she knows an (the) answer will be found

  there was a story written
  woven to a rhyme
  sung in perfect harmonies
  then given to mankind

  for the seed grows tall at harvest
  it is reaped by those who´ve sown
  made to finest offerings
  while the sun and moon look on

  the gifts of all creation
  the joys of daily bread
  but somewhere past her waking
  they´ve all but left her head

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  now, tracy holds the handle
  on the bag with gabriel´s horn
  she found it down off mercer street
  with a flannel shirt that's hardly worn

  and there´s a place beside her night stand
  on the collected works except one book
  of some illustrious statesman
  who turned out to be a crook

  she´s got the hopes and fears of all the years
  collecting dust until the day
  when tracy finds the last piece missing
  and turns this world back to it´s way

  but for now-
  
  
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  I Know

  i know where i am going
  but i´ve never been there before
  i'm only finding the door
  how could i ask any more

  looks like holding but i´ve been hiding
  i had no reality
  i took everybody´s for free
  thanks now i´ve got only me

  my father said that he´d been traveling
  so far from where he had been
  he wondered how far he could spin
  i´d like to see him again

  the gladiators they suffer their children
  they cause all these wonders to bleed
  hold them fill up their need
  hope that we all will be freed
  
  
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