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Sleepy Hollow
Funny how some can misconstrue where they are with who they are

I’m not changin’ my mind just changin’ plans
I’m not worried ‘bout love, I hope you understand
Everywhere we go it’s wintertime
Always in her heart but never on her mind

‘Til we move from Sleepy Hollow
Until we leave that town with our weary minds
‘Til we pay back all we borrowed
We’re gonna run for a real long time

Everybody knows just who we are
See us through the windows of the sleazy bars
Everywhere we go it’s wintertime
The thought we’d ever part, it never crossed our minds

‘Til we move from Sleepy Hollow
Until we leave that town with our weary minds
‘Til we pay back all we borrowed
We’re gonna run for a real long time

‘Til we move from Sleepy Hollow
Until we leave that town with our weary minds
‘Til we move from Sleepy Hollow
Until we leave that town with our weary minds

Until we leave that town, until we leave that town
Oh, until we leave that town
Until we leave that town with our weary minds

A Little Faith
Here’s hoping that “having everything” means something different to everyone

Satisfied with one night stands
She never understood it
Never understood it at all
She needs somethin’ she can touch with her hands
That’s the only way she could put it
That’s the only way she needs to put it, that’s all

But with a little faith in me
With just a little faith in me
She could have anything she believes in
With just a little faith in me
She could have everything

When she was broken hearted it was easy to give
Without knowin’ she was givin’
Without knowin’ she was livin’ so tall
And realizin’ later on how it was all so confusin’
And no one was really usin’ her at all

With just a little faith in me
With just a little faith in me
She could have anything she believes in
With just a little faith in me
She could have everything

With just a little faith in me
She could have everything
With just a little faith in me
She could have everything

Already I’m Losin’ You
Proof positive that it is impossible to be wise while in love. This song, using the title,” Wilma”, was recorded with Phil Ost in 1979 on vinyl.  Band name: Ice Skates With Arms.  Album title: “Buy This Record and No One Gets Hurt”

Tonight which game is it we’re playin’
I assume you have your advantage by a point or two
Your kind’s been seen before
Keepin’ me behind your door
Leavin’ only a keyhole to see you through
And already I’m losin’

Already I’m losin’ you
Already you blocked the view
Already I’m feelin’ blue

I stepped out of bounds, broke your rules
Go ahead and add my name to your list of fools
To change your mind would be unkind
But you’ve been so hard to find
And I’d do it all again if I had to
Knowin’ I would be losin’

Already I’m losin’ you
Already you blocked the view
Already I’m feelin’ blue

Tonight which game is it were playin’
I assume you have your advantage by a point or two
Your kind’s been seen before
Keepin’ me behind your door
Leavin’ only a keyhole to see you through
And already I’m losin’

Already I’m losin’ you
Already you blocked the view
Already I’m feelin’ blue

About you
Already, I’m already losin’
Already, I’m already losin’

Lucy Rose
I suppose this one is really about the freedoms and constraints that only young lovers can feel. Free to love but bound by the harsh reality of the human condition.  A talented young writer, John Reed, assisted me with the lyrics

Hey, Lucy Rose, pack up your clothes
We’re goin’ away
Loving and hating and bleeding again
Well, the games never end
And we need all the help we can get

Hey, Lucy Rose, pack up the clothes
We’re not going to stay
Loving and hating and bleeding again
Well, the games never end
And we need all the help we can get, Lucy Rose

Do you see what I’m wonderin’?
Can you see me at all?
Do you hear what I’m blundering?
Can you hear me anymore?

Well, Lucy Rose, we got what we chose
And I just want to say
While laughing and crying and losing our minds
We’ve been less than kind
And now we need all the friends we can get
We need all the help we can get
We need all the friends we can get
Oh yes, Lucy Rose

Angry Confessions
This song was my niece, Elizabeth’s, favorite
(see Acknowledgements)

One day you might say a thing or two to change my world
I know how it goes when deep inside your heart’s unfurled
Because you never trusted happiness or takin’ a chance
But you made a list of angry confessions

I hear you’ve been near and having trouble sleeping at night
I know how it goes when you’re just too tired to fight the good fight
When you never trusted happiness or takin’ a chance
But you made a list of angry confessions
Angry confessions

You never trusted happiness or takin’ a chance
But you made a list of angry confessions
Angry confessions
Angry confessions, oh no, no
No more angry confessions

You never trusted happiness or takin’ the time
But you made a list of angry confessions

 I Still Want Her To Be With Me
Just too much to drink at a college reunion in a tropical setting

We got drunk in the cantina
Had too many Tahitian treats
I started hallucinating, then I passed out on the beach

So who’s gonna run when there’s nowhere to run to in heaven?
That’s the way it has to be
She’s not the same like she was at the reunion
She’s changin’, but I still want her to be with me
I still want her to be with me

She was talking to the barmaid
She was smiling then she started to scream
I remember that fit of outrage
She was coming apart at the seams

So who’s gonna run when there’s nowhere to run to in heaven?
That’s the way it has to be
She’s not the same like she was at the reunion
She’s changin’, but I still want her to be with me
I still want her to be with me

Broken Down Man
Ahh…. yes. That old fear of one day not being able to physically care for oneself, rears it’s ugly head

And he looks to a place that he calls his space and time
And he seems to be tormented just by his own mind

And he’s only afraid of that broken down man
He’s only afraid of that broken down man
Yes, he’s only afraid of that broken down man in his dream
Baby is that me?

And each day is so long and so much will go wrong in his life
And he holds mother’s hand even though she’s been dead a long time

And he’s only afraid of that broken down man
He’s only afraid of that broken down man in his dream
Baby is that me?

And the warrior runs leaving so much undone in his life
Dodging bullet and hate and he can’t make the break, not in time

And he’s only afraid of that broken down man
He’s only afraid of that broken down man
Yes, he’s only afraid of that broken man in his dream
Baby is that me?

In his dream
Baby is that me?

Baby is that me?
In his dream
Baby is that me?
 

$500 Car
My version of ‘You’ve Lost That Lovin’ Feelin’

Well, I only got myself to thank for this empty tank
Backseat full of dirty old clothes
I only had a mile to go when I heard it blow
Sometimes that’s just the way a story goes
I guess that’s just the way this story goes

And my heart is just a five hundred dollar car
A five hundred dollar car
My heart is just a five hundred dollar car
Breakin’ down on its way back to lovin’ you
Yeah it’s true
Breakin’ down on its way back to lovin’ you

I tried to do the overhaul, that ain’t all
I slipped and stumbled, tripped to fall
I tried to put it back together one more time
But I kept crossin’ that center line
When does and old fool finally lose his mind?

Well, my heart is just a five hundred dollar car
A five hundred dollar car
My heart is just a five hundred dollar car
Breakin’ down on its way back to lovin’ you
Yeah it’s true
Breakin’ down on its way back to lovin’ you, yeah
Breakin’ down on its way back to lovin’ you

No One Knows You’re Home
It must be nice to know how it feels to run toward something instead of away from it

Old, cold, nowhere else to turn
Living all alone, no other way to learn
Too many bridges left, nothin’ left to burn

All night in a restless dream
Taken by the blind side, never had to mean
Anything at all,left behind for free

You can move too fast
Even if it means you hide your heart
Through life and love alone
And you move along
Far enough along to start anew
Where no one knows you’re home

Days end with a baleful cry
Mourning all of those that had to pass her by
Too hard fast, driven on her own

How long, how long can I turn?
To and from the one I love, the one I learn
After all is said and done, who has to run?

When you move too fast
Even if it means you hide your heart
From life and love alone
And you move along
Far enough along to start anew
Where no one knows you’re home

You move too fast
Even if it means you hide your heart
From life and love alone
And you move along
Far enough along to start anew
Where no one knows you’re home

I’m Not Carin’ Anymore
If someone can say this and really mean it, they are truly free

You can do what you want
Turn your back on our love
I’ll just drink it away
Like I do it everyday now
You can take it all back
But think about all those dreams
And though the future may lack
The past will say just what it means, yeah

And the last time something mattered, nobody cared
So I’m not carin’ anymore

You can do what you want
Turn your back on our love
I’ll just write it all down
Not make a single sound….yeah
You can take it all back
But think about all those dreams
And though the future may lack
The past will say just what it means, yeah

And the last time something mattered, nobody cared
So I’m not carin’ anymore

I’m not carin’ anymore, oh yeah
I’m not carin’ anymore

And the last time something mattered, nobody cared

People In Love
I really don’t know what I was thinkin’ when I wrote this one. I’ve been married and divorced four times

Hold on to those memories of when you were young
‘Cause you’ll need them, babe, at a certain age
Try to bear in mind you’re not the only one
Who feels left out, but somehow no pain

But being around people in love can make you feel good
Every now and then a little lonesome, like bein’ in love could
Music and laughter more often than not
Makin’ you recall time you had forgotten
The people you’ll love are the ones who can still be in love, oh yeah

Finding what you’re looking for is harder to find when you’re looking for it
So, take a rest, it’s Reader’s Digest
Saturday night lock the house up tight, turn on the set
A case of wine, in bed by nine in the a.m.

But being around people in love can make you feel good
Every now and then a little lonesome, like bein’ in love could
Music and laughter more often than not
Makin’ you recall time you had forgotten
The people you’ll love are the ones who can still be in love, oh yeah

Just being around people in love, yeah
Bein’ around people love
Oh bein’ around people in love, yeah, yeah

Sweet Dreams
A lament for the hopeless

I used to look forward to goin’ to sleep
Now I’m afraid to close my eyes
Anymore I have that same old dream
The one where she says goodbye
So, little boy what you wanna be is a doctor with a law degree
Keep that window open late at night to hear that ol’ train’s lullaby

‘Cause sweet dreams never come true, but the nightmares do
Oh the nightmares do

He dreamt of bein’ a millionaire, live each day without a care
Now he stands there at forty-five, barely makin’ enough to survive
She tells him that she’s gonna leave, he lost that job at the factory
He says “Oh why didn’t ol’ Grandpa tell me?
Why’d he have to go ahead and lie?”

He never told me that the sweet dreams never come true
But the nightmares do, well the nightmares do
Sweet dreams never come true
But the nightmares do, yeah they do, oh the nightmares do

Those sweet dreams they never come true, but the nightmares do
The sweet dreams they never come true, but the nightmares do
Oh the nightmares do, yeah they do, the nightmares do

I used to look forward to goin’ to sleep
Now I’m afraid to close my eyes

In The Long Run
This addresses the giant emptiness inside some of us. Good luck filling the void

Did you run far, through the open field?
Was it so hard, could you stay that real?
I don’t know you, and I don’t know your mind
But I hear you, I hear you every time

And in the long run I’ll know exactly how you feel
In that giant emptiness revealed

It’s perspective, it’s another view
I don’t have to, and you don’t have to
But you can tell me, and I won’t hear a word
It’s the only, the only thing absurd

And in the long run I’ll know exactly how you feel
In that giant emptiness revealed

Wayward Love
This song is about how a people that have been so abused by a country can still love it so much

Everybody’s goin’ down south
They don’t wanna be afraid of the shadow man
These people are doin’ by doin’ without
Are they gonna be the ones to understand?

And who are you talkin’ about?
Who are you when you jump and shout?
What are you afraid of?
And could it be another wayward love, oh no

Could it be a wayward love? ah, oh no
Somebody had to come up with the bad plan
Could it be a wayward love? ah, oh no
Are you gonna be the ones to understand?

And who are you talkin’ about?
Who are you when you jump and shout?
What are you afraid of?
And could it be another wayward love, oh no

All songs written by Ben Juneau except “Already I’m Losin’ You” by Ben Juneau & Phil Ost, and “Lucy Rose” by Ben Juneau & John Reed. All songs published by Max Berry Music (BMI)

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