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the future keeps getting better

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SAM_0072I’m going to be increasing the amount of posts I post each week.  

I know.  I just cut back about a month ago, but I like variety and increasing posts allows me to post a larger variety of writing.

Along with the variety, I’ll be creating a couple of new series’ for the summer.  

Currently, I’m running my Public Speaking Series.  If you ever have to speak in public you know how difficult it can be.  I teach public speaking as a college instructor, so I thought I’d share some of my expertise.  Read the posts and listen to the podcasts every Tuesday.

I’m also currently re-posting Excerpts from my first book, A Train Called Forgiveness, on Fridays.  After I complete the reposts from my first book, I’ll be adding excerpts form my second book, At the Crossing of Justice and Mercy.

If you missed it, check out my Dad’s Last Sermon Series.  My dad passed away a couple of years ago, but a friend of his gave me a recording of his “last sermon.”  Although it’s a little left of the traditional Christian point of view, Dad was definitely a true believer.

Monday Morning Shorts will start in June and run through the summer.  I started writing some very short posts about a month ago.  I created the new category so that you could check out the examples of what’s to come.  Mondays are busy, and I know your time is important, so I’ll be posting short and concise, yet meaningful posts each Monday morning.

Songs for Saturdays: Yesterday I posted a song about homelessness by Steve Earle.  It’s the first time I’ve included a video on my blog.  In the future I’ll be posting either audio or video of songs each Saturday throughout the summer.  I’ll choose songs by great songwriters that I believe have social significance.  As I write songs myself, I may include my own songs from time to time, too.  Check out my Songs from A Train Called Forgiveness.

And I’ll continue to post poems, songs and guest posts.  Check out the remaining categories: My Poetry, Songwriting, and Welcome Guests.

If you’re interested in being featured on my blog, or featuring my work on your blog, please email me at danerickson@danerickson.

breaking out of your comfort zone

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IMG_0548When it comes to music, I’m somewhat of a purest.  I was raised on Rock and Roll, but over the years I’ve grown to appreciate the acoustic instruments.  I do own an electric guitar: A Fender Nashville Telecaster, with a Fender Blues Junior Amplifier, but other than that, I have an array of acoustic instruments: drums, guitars, banjos, mandolins, and ukuleles.

Be that as it may, throughout my adult life I’ve also teetered on the edge of electronically-programmed music.  I’ve played around with drum machines and programmable keyboards off and on since my early twenties.  But I’ve never taken the plunge and bought any programmable gear… until I started using Mac products.  My MacBook Air and my iPad Mini both have Garage Band.  Wow!  I can create high-quality demos at my fingertips.  It’s a recording studio in the palm of my hands.  Still, I cringe a bit at the idea of creating “canned music.”

Get over it, Dan!

Have you ever purposely stepped outside of your comfort zone?  I’m going to!   I’m going to publicly commit to a five-song recording project using nothing but the sounds from my iPad Mini, my hands and my voice: no traditional musical instruments.  Why?  Because it’s important to step out of our comfort zones once in awhile.  What can stepping out of your comfort zone do for you?

1. Improve your skills.  Stepping away from long-held attitudes and habits can provide you with new platforms and methods for improvement.  I have an intuitive mind for creating fully-produced songs.  Whenever I write a song, I hear the other instruments, but recording them all is another story.  Recording on Garage Band will allow me to experiment in full-band sound production without hiring five musicians and traditional recording studio time.

2. Get an education.  In the end, even if you dislike your new endeavor, you have gained an education.  By stepping outside of my purist musical boundaries, I’ll be learning more about computers, recording programs, sound engineering, audio mixing, music networks, and more.  What can you get educated about by stepping out of your comfort zone?

3. Expand your mind.  As I’ve journeyed through life, I’ve slowly become more open-minded about a plethora of subjects including: religion, education, philosophy, music, and more.  When we step outside of our comfort zones, we are willing to explore beyond the outer reaches of our own understanding.  That’s mind-expanding stuff.  Notice I didn’t say “mind-altering.”

4. Earn respect.  No matter what field you’re in, you can earn the respect of your peers by trying new methods, especially when those methods are cutting edge or you’re leading the pack.  If nothing else, you will gain respect simply by having another item you can list on your resume.  Is there something you can do that would build your skills and add to your professional experience?

Think about doing something new, something that’s outside of the norm for you. Challenge yourself to use a new tool or try a new method.  You’ll increase your understanding, your talent, your experience, and more.  I’m going to think outside of my “box” guitar and get into the complete program of a variety of sounds on my iPad Mini.  I’ll keep you posted on the project and hope to complete five songs by the end of summer.

Question: What can you do to step outside of your comfort zone?

find hope in creativity

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Wall of Hope: Joplin, Missouri. Photo by Dan Erickson

Wall of Hope: Joplin, Missouri. Photo by Dan Erickson

Recently, my daughter had to create a presentation on dinosaurs for her second grade class.  As I watched her work, and helped her design her trifold presentation board, I noticed that she was filled with excitement.  She loved the idea of creating something to share with others.  She had great expectations.  She was filled with… “hope.”

Webster’s Dictionary defines hope as: “a feeling that what is wanted will happen; desire accompanied by expectation.”

The definition for create is: “to cause to come into existence, make, originate.”

As one who writes poems, songs, and stories it’s easy for me to see the link between “hope” and “creativity.”  When we are motivated to be creative, to make something, we are also filled with a feeling of expectation.  In fact, I would argue that without hope, we might not have the ability to create anything at all.

Hope drives the creative spirit.  As an example, let’s look at some of the reasons a great songwriter might write a song:

1. To praise: A songwriter might find hope in the idea that his or her song can be used to praise God or others.  The writer may be driven by the idea of creating a song that will build community.  This hope will motivate the writer to write to the best of their ability.

2. To share: Songs are meant to be heard, to be shared, both with listeners and other musicians.  When I write songs, I write with the intention of recording them with my musical friends.  My hope is that they will enjoy the process of creating a new recording as much as I do.  I also hope that listeners will enjoy listening to the songs.

3. To improve: A good songwriter, or any artist or tradesperson for that matter, continues honing their craft with each new composition.  Each time we write a blog post or draw a picture we do so with the hope of improving our talents.

4. To teach: Great songwriters tell stories.  Stories contain valuable lessons.  Through writing we can teach others.  Our experiences and our lessons in life are unique.  By sharing our own challenges and struggles, we might be helping others move forward.  It’s always my hope that others connect with my songs and stories and find them valuable in some way.

5. To live: Some writers reach levels of success that push them into the professional realm.  When I was a kid in a cult, I dreamed about being a rock star.  In my twenties, I went to Nashville to try to sell my songs.  Now, I continue to hope in the possibilities of making a living through writing.     

Creativity is an inspirational process.  We all have a desire to create something.  You might not write songs or books, but you may be a cook, a woodworker, or a personal coach.  Whatever it is you do: do it with “a feeling that what is wanted will happen.”  I know I will.

Read more about my songs and songwriting. 

Read excerpts from my book A Train Called Forgiveness.

Read my poetry.

Questions: Have you ever been excited about a creative process?  Have you felt a sense of expectation or “hope” when creating something?

Here’s a bonus:  I was playing around on my Garage Band yesterday and wrote this song: Track to Redemption.  It’s much rougher than the songs coming out on Wednesday, but it was a fun and creative experiment.  I only used vocals, hand drums, snaps, and effects.

Check it out here:

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wings of faith

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Suboriginal Art by Vensan Kamberk: used by permission

Suboriginal Art by Vensan Kamberk: used by permission

When I was young I believed I could fly

My faith was so strong

I stepped off the ground and I spread my arms wide

I never looked down as I sailed through the sky

 

On the wings of faith

Flying so high

On the wings of faith

 

Something is lost through the passage of time

Reality pulls you down

But the dreams that were dreamt through the eyes of a child

Keep endlessly pulling me into the light

 

On the wings of faith

Flying so high

On the wings of faith

The child inside

On the wings of faith

 

I’m never going to lose this feeling

I’m always going to choose to believe

 

On the wings of faith

Flying so high

On the wings of faith

The child inside

On the wings of faith

Will never die

On the wings of faith

 

Copyright 2012 by Dan Erickson and Missouri-Bound Music

first recording session: the importance of practice

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A couple of weeks ago I told you I’d be starting a recoding project.  I’ll be recording the songs from the book A Train Called Forgiveness.  The first recording session was a success.

Last weekend, I spent a few hours in the studio with my friend and producer Mike Schenck.  The idea was to lay down “scratch” tracks: simple instrumental/voice tracks for Mike and other musicians to listen and learn the overall feel and structure of the songs.  The recording went well.  It was quick and easy.  The hard part is still to come: practicing and recording the final versions of the songs.

Practice is essential to becoming better at any craft or art.  Ghandi once said, “An ounce of practice is worth more than tons of preaching.”  

As a writer, I practice regularly through blogging, poetry, and prose.  Music is a bit different. When preparing songs for recording you have to play the song over, repeatedly.  You need to use a click track or metronome to perfect your timing.  You also have to fine tune your melody and harmonies.  It’s the kind of practice your mother told you to do when you were a kid taking piano lessons.  Here are a few ideas for planning good practice sessions:

1. Commit to a specific time each day to practice.  I practice at 8:00pm when I put my daughter, Annie, to bed.  If I make this a ritual, I”m sure to practice most every day of the week.

2. Commit to a set length of time for practice.  Because I’m practicing songs, my length varies slightly.  There are eight songs in this project.  (I’ll be sharing some of the lyrics with you soon.)  I practice each song at least once per evening.  Some nights I’ll focus on practicing one song a few extra times.  It adds up to about 30-45 minutes per day.

3. Work on trouble areas.  If you want a quality, end product, you need to work out the bugs.  When I’m using the metronome, I find that the changes in and out of the different parts of the song can be challenging.  So, I run through those changes a few extra times.

4. Don’t give up.  Sometimes you might feel like you’re not improving.  But if you’re truly putting time and energy into your practice sessions you can’t help but improve.  If you stick with it, you’ll be pleasantly surprised with the end results.  

Don’t forget to take a few minutes to comment on my blog posts.  Each month’s top commenter will win an autographed copy of my book.

Question:  What kinds of routines do you find work best to keep yourself or your kids practicing?  Please post your comments below:

 

get back to the old songs: rewriting

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If you’ve been following my blog, you know I’m a songwriter without a song.  Although I’ve written hundreds of songs over the years I’ve been in a dry spell lately.  So, I’ve decided that rather than pushing myself to write new songs, I’m going to focus on re-recording some of my old songs.  In fact, in my book A Train Called Forgiveness, the protagonist Andy Burden is a songwriter.  The book is based on my own experiences and the songs are my own songs.  I’ve set up some studio time and I’ll be recording the songs that are mentioned in the book over the next couple of months.  After they’re recorded I’ll post them on the blog.  You’ll be able to hear the songs that Andy Burden writes about in the book.  Pretty cool, huh?

Click here to read excerpts from A Train Called Forgiveness.

There’s a lesson in this for writers.  When you’re having trouble generating new material, go back and improve upon the old.  Dig out your old journals, poems, or novel starts.  Study your work.  You might discover the writing is better than you thought it was when you stuck it in that box ten years ago.  Rework it.  Rearrange it.  Rewrite it.  You might even decide that with some tweaking, it’s worthy of publishing.  Another thing I’m considering in the future is to rewrite my Master’s thesis on the protest music of Woody Guthrie and promote it as a nonfiction trade book.  Why not?  It’s already been written.  It just needs some reworking and additions to make it more marketable.  So go dig out your old writing and get to work on your own project.

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You can win a copy of my book A Train Called Forgiveness.  For details: click here.

Questions: What have you written that you could dust off?  Do you think you might find a gem packed in an old cardboard box?  What are you waiting for?  Please post your comments below:

finding your song groove

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This is the first of a handful of posts I’ll be importing from my website openjamroom.com.  I have too many sites and will let the jam room go at the end of the year.  The post was originally dated February 9, 2012.  Enjoy!

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Writing a song is not always an easy task.  Unlike prose or essay, the words to a song must be concise.  The songwriter must tell a compelling story in less than a few hundred words.  Add other components, such as meter, rhyme, melody, and chord progressions into the mix, and you have a complex art.  It’s interesting that poets and classically-trained musicians sometimes claim to be working in higher art forms than popular songwriters.  A great songwriter has to be a master of both words and music.

What’s this all have to do with finding your song groove?  Everything.  In order to write a good song, the writer must be able to break it down into words (as a poet) and music (as a trained musician).  From this point, a good songwriter must be able to break each area down even further.  A great song starts with nothing but an idea.  From my experience, we only find our groove after reaching back into silence and starting with an idea, a word, a note.  That is the foundation.

The other component of a great song is emotion.  A smart song is good.  A clever song is clever.  But a song that grips and tugs at the human emotions, making the listener feel, both the emotion of the words, and the music, is the only kind of song that can reach the gold standard of great.  And where does a writer find that sort of power?  Through life experience and hard work.  So if you want to find your songwriting groove.  Live.  Feel.  Practice.

less facebook, more music: choose your time wisely

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Time.  These days it seems there’s never enough time in a day to complete everything I’d like to complete.  Lately, I’ve been writing about my love of music and songwriting.  I’ve been lamenting the fact that I’ve not written a song in well over a year.  It’s time to weigh out what I consider important in life.  Perhaps you have some similar problems and might find this post helpful.

1.  What do you love?  When deciding upon the best use of our time, we should ask ourselves what things are we most passionate about?  That’s an easy answer for me: God, family, writing, music, reading, art, the outdoors.  These are the things that make me tick.  They excite me and keep me energized.  Notice that Facebook, Twitter, or any other social media are not on the list.

2.  What’s your purpose for using Facebook?  Next, in deciding whether social media time is cutting into more productive uses of time, we must ask ourselves why we use social media?  I started using social media simply to be social, to stay in touch with friends and loved ones.  After I wrote my first book, A Train Called Forgiveness, I started to use social media as a promotional tool.  I started adding more and more friends and created a new fan page to support my book: http://www.facebook.com/authordanerickson.  My hope was that keeping a steady presence on Facebook and Twitter might increase book sales.

3.  What are the results of your use of Facebook?  Next, what are our results in using social media?  I have likely sold a dozen more copies of my book due to using social media.  I’m not complaining, but those weren’t the numbers I was hoping for when I started spending more time on Facebook and Twitter.  Promoting a book via social media is an important aspect of creating an overall platform as an author, but it’s a steep uphill climb.  One must question if the climb is worth the time.  I think it might be, but I also think there are times when you need to cut back, especially if you seem to be forfeiting things you love.

4.  Choose wisely: In the end, we only get so much time on this earth.  When we reach our final days, nobody will say, “I wish I would have spent more time on Facebook.”  More likely, some will say, “I wish I’d spent more time serving God,” or ” I wish I’d spent more time with my kids,” or “I wish I’d spent more time doing the things I love.”

It’s up to you.  What’s the most important use of your time?  If you’re trying to promote a product like me, social networking can play an important role.  But if your product is good, if your story has the power to help and heal others, if your music is passionate, then the product is more important than the promotion.  You can’t take your money with you when you go.  Neither can your kids.  But you can leave your mark through story and song for generations to come.

Questions: What are the most important things in your life?  Do you spend too much time on social media?  How can you rearrange your time?  I know I’ll be playing more music and spending less time on Facebook for awhile.  Please post your responses below:

 

how to write a love song

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I’m no expert on love.  I’ve been married and divorced.  I divorced to protect my child, but I could not keep my marriage intact.  I haven’t written any love songs, at least not by popular standards.  Still, I have written many songs about love.

As a songwriter, I’ve written songs about God, people, relationships, heartbreak, financial struggle, hope, despair, and yes, love.  Yet, I’m not sure a single song I’ve written would be classified as a “love song.”  Why?  Because I write about real life, about challenges, about working through things together or apart.  I write about doing whatever it takes to provide the best for those who need it most.  Not your typical love songs.  Let’s look at the norm for a love song and why that norm is flawed.

Most songs that are considered love songs are either idealistic or sexual.  They either paint the picture of a perfect relationship, happy, free, romantic, and never in need of work and repair, or they treat love as a driving sexual passion.  From my humble point of view, neither of these forms are truly love songs.  So what makes a good love song?

1. Show the bad with the good: Notice I put “bad” first?  A good love song does not focus only on the good aspects of the relationship.  That’s not realistic.  A good love song includes troubles and trials along with the good times.  This shows that two people have grown stronger through time and hard work.

2. A good love song is not about sex: Sex can be a wonderful part of a strong loving relationship, but love is not sex, and sex is not love in itself.  It might sound boring, but a good love song should reference little things like doing the dishes or feeding the dog, before it gets into the bedroom.  Love is partially made up of the little things we do for each other.  It takes compromise.  If you can show us how the characters have compromised for one another in a song, you’re writing something much truer than the many so-called love songs.

3. Use simple, not dramatic music: I’m always amazed at how many “love songs” have dramatic melodies and music while only speaking of the good times.  Although there can be many ups and downs in a love relationship, it should not be a continuous roller-coaster ride.  There should be a peaceful and balanced give and take between two people.  Using dramatic melodies for love songs is like adding drama to the relationship.  It’s best to lose the drama and let the words of truth make your point in accompaniment to simple, yet beautiful music.

4. A love song can be written for anyone: A love song does not have to be romantic.  Love songs can written to God, to your children, even to your enemies.  Love is patient, kind, does not count wrongs, etc.  We can show these qualities toward many people, not just romantic partners.

So, if you’re like me, a songwriter who’s never really written a love song, think again.  Look at some of the songs you have written.  If they deal with compromising your own needs for the needs of others, bingo, you’ve written a love song.

Questions: Do you have a favorite love song?  What is it?  Why does it represent a great love song?  Please post your responses below:

 

anniversary of an angel in bits and pieces of song

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On August 22, 2001, Angel Hope Erickson was born still.  Earlier in that year my wife (at the time) and I had been given the news that she was pregnant.  About the same time I landed my first full-time community college teaching job in Parsons, Kansas.  We moved, excited to start our new family.  At a routine mid-term check up, it was discovered that there were severe problems with the baby, problems that could not be fixed.  One doctor, and then a second, said the baby would never make it to full term alive.  We accepted their findings and my wife went through with their recommended procedure of induced labor.  After  nearly 24 hours, Angel was stillborn.  We were able to hold her lifeless, yet precious little one-pound body for a few moments.  The nurses took a few pictures and then they took Angel Hope away.

A couple of days later there was a funeral.  I missed my first week of work at my new job and my new employers showed tremendous support, both financially and emotionally.  We saw little Angel once more just before the funeral.  Angel Hope was born and buried in Joplin, Missouri, a town that has since seen its share of heartache.  I make a point to return to Joplin every year.

So why am I posting this?  It comes back to writing and writing as therapy.  How do you deal with an unexpected event like the premature loss of your firstborn child?  I dealt with the loss through song.  I’ve written at least 20 songs that are either directly about Angel Hope or make reference to her.  Here are some bits and pieces, verses and choruses from some of those songs.  The lesson: writing can help with healing.

 

From the song “Baby” 2001

There’s a better place waiting for you, baby

There’s a better place waiting for you, baby

Where the storms of life won’t ever tear you apart

And this cold, cruel world will never break your precious heart

So go to sleep little baby

Rest in peace, my love

 

From “Hard, (Lament # 29) 2001

Sometimes life is hard, hard, hard

Things go wrong and it’s hard, hard, hard, hard, hard

Sometimes life is hard

 

From “Safety at the Crossing” 2001

Well, we all feel grief and sorrow

Over precious ones we’ve lost

But a mother’s love is stronger

For the child that Jesus calls

Though her life on Earth was bretahless

It will all be worth the cost

Cause you’ll meet again in heaven

By the mercy of God’s love

 

From “Some Fine Day” 2001

Some fine day I’ll be with you

I’ll be with you my love

Some fine day I’ll be with you

Yes, I’ll be there some fine day

 

From “Angel of Hope” 2003

Red-purple skin, pure, soft, like cotton

Grey-eyes closed to all this worldly pain

Now you’re dancing with the little dog in heaven

And falling all around me with the rain

 

From “Childless Lovers” 2003

Childless mothers

Don’t seem to have much to live for

Their dreams have been shattered

Their hearts have been torn

Childless fathers

Don’t seem to have much to live for

Their worlds seem empty

And they feel so sad and alone

 

From “Hey, God (Why’d You Break My Heart) 2003

Hey, God, look at me

I’m in a state of misery

You gave us life then stole the seed

And that just don’t seem fair

At night I look up to Your sky

Shake my fist and ask You why

But lately I get no reply

And I wonder if you’re there

Hey, God, hey, God

 

From “Santa Fe” 2003

Tuck all our memories in a purple box

Load it up in a turquoise truck

An angel dangles from the rearview mirror

She looks ahead to where the skies are clearer

 

From “Cold August Day” 2004

You’re not here and breathing

And I’m still walking in the shadows

I hear your heartbeat pounding deep in mine

Trapped beneath these Midwest skies

Seeking, yet not finding heaven

Strumming my guitar to pass the time

 

From “Joplin, MO” 2004

The hospital sits on the side of the hill

The old cemetery is higher up still

Where my love is carved in stone

In a quiet back corner under a tree

Decorated in flowers and going on three

In my mind I’m watching her grow

 

On the other side of Joplin, Missouri 

She laughs and she runs and she sings

La de da de da

On the other side of Joplin, Missouri

My love flies away on golden wings

 

From “Lifeboat” 2004

I listened to your heartbeat

I kissed your bare feet

I stroked your soft, silky skin

A vision of sweetness

Sleeping in your green dress

Won’t  you come back to me again?

 

There’s just no getting over you

There’s just no getting over you

Now, I’m a lost soul

I need a lifeboat

 

From “Looking for a Girl” 2004

Wandering these streets

I watch the children play

Got blisters on my feet

Cause I’ve been walking all day

I hear the wind whispering her name

 

From “Beautiful Pain” 2005

It’s a beautiful kind of pain

When I think about you

Like a butterfly dancing in a flame

I can see you, but I can’t touch you

Still I can hold you in my dreams

My beautiful pain

 

From “Eyes Wide Open” 2005

I still remember the day

It was raining in August as we went our separate ways, love

Since I left you up on that hill

I keep on searching and I guess that I always will, love

And if I should die tonight

Then I’ll die with my eyes wide open

So I won’t miss you should I pass your way

And I’ll find tender words unspoken

So I’ll win your heart should I pass your way… again

 

From “Midwestern Girl” 2005

She’s my Midwestern girl

And I’m so far away

How I long to be near her

But I just can’t leave here today

These old responsibilities

Weigh me down like a stone

So my Midwestern girl

Spends another night alone

 

From “Newton County” 2005

It’s two hours from Tulsa

Up two lanes of 44

Back to Newton County

Let it rain a little more

It’s two miles to Missouri

I’m trembling to the core

I can feel your presence

Let it rain, let it pour

 

From “the Hurtin’ Side” 2005

There’s a brand new photograph

Hanging on the wall

Of two, happy, smiling people

A sleeping baby in their arms

And everything looks so perfect

From within that picture frame

But if you close your eyes

And look a little closer

 

You’ll see the wings of an angel

With tears running down her face

For the empty space where she’s supposed to be

You’ll see the shape of a halo

And the years of heartache

You’ll see the hurtin’ side of a happy family

 

From “Two Sisters” 2005

Two sisters

Fill our hearts with twice the love

Two sisters

One is flying up above

 

From “Artificial Flowers” 2006

I miss the thunder

I miss the sound

That reminds me of my love

My love underground

My love underground

And time keeps on ticking

As the colors start to fade away

 

Artificial flowers

Last a thousand years

Artificial flowers

Bring on real tears

 

From “The Prairie” 2006

Some folks love the mountains

Some folks love the sea

My love is somewhere on the prairie

Look in all directions

My heart was born to see

The wings of an angel on the prairie

I wish I were a train

Driving into Tulsa tonight

 

From “Funeral for an Angel” 2007

At a funeral for an angel

It’s the saddest day they’ve ever known

A funeral for an angel

She spread her wings and now she’s gone

 

From “Landmark” 2007

And every single word

Is carved into my heart

It’s really all I’ve got

As a landmark

And when I’m lost and lonely

Stumbling through the dark

She’s my landmark

 

From “Silhouette” 2011

The hurt goes on forever when a child dies

It’s been ten years and I’m still in the rain

When I look to you my friends, my heart cries

I know there’s nothing I can do to ease your pain

But this is still our town

And we’re never gonna let it go

We’re gonna hold on to the life

 

I’m just a silhouette of the man I used to be

I lost everything, but I still believe

I’ve learned to forgive, but I won’t forget

I’m just a silhouette, even through the darkest of nights

I’m just a silhuotte

I am bathed in light