************************************ I tried to call you, baby, on the telephone line. But I never can connect, It’s busy everytime. Who you talking to? Who you talking to? It ought to be me, But I can’t get through! You told me that you loved me And I believed you then But now I think you’ve gone…
Author: Lance Harrison
I am a "Life Artist". I create music, art, theatre, drama, and comedy in my daily existence. I consider myself to be one of the luckiest people on this planet! My dreams come to fruition regularly. There is a certain freedom in my basic anonymity yet I am known by many. I currently live with my wife and partner, Donna, on an island in the middle of nowhere in a country few even think about.
High Plains Drifter
*************************************** I’m a high plains drifter That blew into your town “Paint it red!” Is what I said And then we’ll burn it down I’m the man at the carn-evil Controls the wheel of fate Round and round Out of control ’Til I slam on the brakes. I’m hiding in your closet And underneath your…
I’m Going Home
************************************ If I should live to see the day Death comes round to take me away You can tell my friends I’m going home I’ve wandering over this Earth Ever since the day of my birth Now you can tell my friends I’m going home Have a party, make some sound When they put my…
Take These Blues
************************************** Why is it that these blues keep hounding me? All I want is a life that’s free of misery. I’m down here on my knees And I’m begging at you please Lord, take these blues away from me. I try to be a good man, but the devil always seems to win. I chase…
Down The Hole
***************************************** Hook, line, and sinker There’s one born every minute And when you come to realize your situation Well, you’re too deep in it There ain’t nothing you can say To save your soul There ain’t nothin’ you can do But fall down the hole Fall down the hole Wined and dined Like a fish…
State of the Union
***************************************** Living at the dead end of a one way street. Bars on the windows Mental chains on your feet A TV babysitter keeps you glued in every room With every gory detail of our own eventual doom The cities and towns I once knew so well are People living in a hopeful despair They…
Nine Foot Sack
************************************* I drag a nine foot sack like a ball and chain Though it’s blistering hot I don’t pray for rain Should a rain come I could never forget I may be a free man But enslaved by debt I may be a free man But enslaved by debt I got a little chunk of…
Back On You
************************************** You stay out drinkin’ until all hours come home drunk and trample Mamma’s flowers Then you go and try to put the blame on me ‘til she finally breaks you down With the 3rd degree It serves you right to suffer when you act the way you do All that mess that you be…
Chicken Shack
*********************************** I’m goin’ down to Luther’s get me a bootleg sack I said I’m goin’ down to Luther’s get me a bootleg sack And then it’s over to Miss Sally’s Shake it down by the Chicken Shack Them bones be flip ‘n flyin’ In the air and on the floor I said, them bones be…
Home Again
********************************** On some long lost lonesome highway Thousand miles to the nearest town My old ride finally gave it up I had to lay her down The night was black as lamp soot No stars or moon at all Only straight ahead or somewhere else Which way I turned I don’t recall Don’t know how…