Dance me to the end of time

If I can not be with you, then I should know,

Then I should know.

& If I can not stay with you, the I should go,

I should just go.

You tame me just to push me down,

Say this was wrong, or just tie me down again.

You gave me your love just to take me down,

With the withdrawls I find from a misery

Of being without you tonight.

And I don’t know what I should say to a love like this,

And I don’t know if I can stay with a love like this,

With my life in my hands, I give you my heart again..

To dance me to the end of time or stab me in the back once again.

I f I can not be with you, then you must know

Then you must know.

& if my arms weren’t so safe for you,

Then leave me alone, just leave me alone to myself.

You tamed me somehow just to push me down,

And throw me the collar and steal all the keys to this town.

Withdrawls have come, because I’m a masochist…

Apparently I somehow liked this….

But I don’t know what I can say to a love like this,

And I don’t know if I can stay with a love like this,

With my life in my hands, I give you my heart again..

To dance me to the end of time or stab me in the back once again.

Sail me on the water, but promise me not to drown our love this time.

Sail me on the waters, but promise me not to poison the best of nights.

Sail me on the water, but promise me not to drown our love this time.

Sail me on the waters, but promise me not to poison the best of nights..

when the lights just burst  on me  again…

And I don’t know what I should say to a love like this,

Or a lover’s white fists that tied the knot around my neck again,

Won’t you pick me up stead of hanging me.. ?

I don’t know if I can stay, with a love like this, for a love like this.

If I stand here with heart in my hand…again

Would you dance me to the end of time & spare my heart

Of your dark sins?

Taylor Swift

So since Austin Kyle Renfroe has a song out on itunes called "Taylor Swift" (& it's really good by the way), I decided that I would play my hand at the friendly, family "& now it's my turn" moment. (And no, I totally didn't mean that in the Arkansas kind of way either.. moving on). Basically this was just a really fun & creative songwriting ex. for me. All of the Guitar stuff for it is still in my head at this point since it's 3:36am now lol.

If I had to sum this up I'd say this is a song from a songwriter to a songwriter about love of all kinds & its' potential.. in music.. in life.. in fantasy.. but more than anything it's realization in reality & what that can mean.

This may be the first song I complete & put out over the web for obvious promotional & marketing reasons :P

*****THE LYRICS*****
This is a love song, I hope that you can hear it.
I hope that you adhere to it just like those books with great advise.
This is a heart song, I hope that you can feel it.
I hope you want to steal from it & make the feelings that I'm talking
come to meet you in the real life.

And if my greatest words just fall short of who you are...
Well then the greatest kiss will have to wait & greet you in the dark.. oh

To feel you now, to touch your skin
To understand the shape I'm in..
To love me just for who I am...
To not believe that all love is pretend

To tame the stars & watch them fall over you..
To watch the rain, but not a minute too soon..
Maybe I'll know that I love you then...
Maybe you'll know & still the words will be
so small.. but still like wine

This is a love song, I hope that you can hear it.
I hope that you won't fear it, like a pathetic stalker with a fist of cheap fixed lines.
And if I'm played out to you, then just give me a decent chance..
to bring about a sweet romance
& when the sun comes up I'm betting you'll love me still.

No more, waking the dawn to find an empty pillow with no face.
No more, chasing the curb to find the pavement wants to meet you face to face.
(cause I'd rather kiss you anyway)

To feel you now, to touch your skin
To understand the shape I'm in..
To love me just for who I am...
To not believe that all love is pretend

To tame the stars & watch them fall over you..
To watch the rain, but not a minute too soon..
Maybe I'll know that I love you then...
Maybe you'll know & still the words will be
so small.. but still like wine
so small.. but still like wine..

And I am finding that love is an intoxicating,
it's an exhilarating, it's an unchanging, a belief that I've found..
And when you wake in the morning & always have a first kiss to find,
And you always have another gift beside you
And you always have a another rush in her eyes...


This is a love song, I hope that you can hear it.
I hope that you adhere to it just like those books with great advise.
This is a heart song, I hope that you can feel it.
I hope you want to steal from it & make the feelings that I'm talking
come to meet you in the real life..
make it real oh make it real now..

To feel you now, to touch your skin
To understand the shape I'm in..
To love me just for who I am...
To not believe that all love is pretend

To tame the stars & watch them fall over you..
To watch the rain, but not a minute too soon..
Maybe I'll know that I love you then...
Maybe you'll know & still the words will seem
so small, just like the perfect date with sweet red wine
just like the lottery odds, so small..
just like the fate of the Saab, so small...
like chances that Elvis died.

Are we in Paris yet?
Are we in Paris yet?
Are we in Paris?

I open my eyes, look in the mirror & I'm seeing you...
put in a verse of mine

Easier than breathing (not to say you're easy) :P

 I want to teach to you about learning..
This is a lesson of laws about learning..
This is a lesson of laws about learning the right way to spell:
“You & me”

I took my best guest and put the R before the vowel sound..
I took my next guest and made a simple funny sound..
at least if I can't get it right then I can make you laugh..

But seriously.. I just want to breathe...

And she said.. that's just what it is..
Because the best way to spell a truer love than all the others
is “It's easy as breathing”

And when you put your foot to the rubber..
You will find that you can't run from her..
cause the biggest of your fears start to drown beside the years that you want to love her.

And that's it... because it's easy as breathing..
Oh that's it... you make love as easy as breathing.

I want to teach you the words to my version
of the incessant, automatic better version.. of this..
oh yeah & if you take the time to listen I would say:
“You know that it's you.”

I want to take the time to memorize your number
even when I have predict-a-text & auto-dial..
because the meaning of the season that I find myself believing in
is calling for style (not auto-tune)

and it's leading me into your eyes, can I stay for awhile?
But seriously.. I still need to breathe...

And she said.. that's just what it is..
Because the best way to spell a truer love than all the others
is “It's easy as breathing”

And when you put your foot to the rubber..
You will find that you can't run from her..
and then the biggest of your fears will start to drown beside the years that you're wanting to love her.

And that's it...
Oh that's it...

And we can joke about salvation history,
And we can talk about this crowded, tangled, web we weave..
but amidst the crowded room, I will always meet your eyes when I open that door.

And we can talk about semantics & the words we see,
or we can live them like we mean that they're not make believe..
and when we live them like we mean them in our living room...
then we will surely be free...
or we could think just a little farther.. outside.. of our box...
because love does..

I want to teach you a lesson about learning..
This is a lesson of laws about learning..
This is a lesson of laws about learning the right way to spell:
“You & me”

I took my best guest and put the R before the vowel sound..
I took my next guest and said a simple funny noun..
at least if I can't get it right then I can always make you laugh..s

But seriously.. just laugh once for me...
But seriously.. laughing & breathe!

And she said..
Love is not a number or a spelling
but it's easy as breathing..

And I said..
Love is not a number or a slumber
case it's easier than breathing..

And when you're around..
I can't depend on my lungs to even make a sound
because I'm dreaming of a feeling where I'm kissing you and leaving all the “oxygen-kind”.
And I'll take you in for the rest of time.
And I'll breathe you in for the rest of time.
And I'll take you in cause loving you is easier than breathing,
but that's not to say.. that you are easy.. no!

Your loss

So I realize this is a LOT ironic. I started this song yesterday and wrote some more on it today after the Taylor Swift special.. um.. I could finish it now.. but I feel like I want some of tomorrow's event to soak in and maybe have some kind of lasting effect on the overall shape of the song. Right now it's about a bad relationship, bruises and being left & just deciding that in life we have the option to wallow or to move on and make the most of our future by learning from the past and all of the coupled blessings & injustices that are somehow thrown our way. WE can learn & achieve amidst and through both of these seemingly opposite things. Success & failure aren't really all that different... The wise person realizes that success can't truly be measured until the end of a story.. defeat is only assumed when you allow yourself to believe that you are stopping your history & future to dwell on current or past events. Keep moving. Learn from things and make the next step better. I'm like a child learning to crawl and talk and walk in love.. so are you. Step forward and fall.. but get back up and do it better the next time!

Somehow I know that there's going to be more than that message to intertwine in this song.. tomorrow I deal with a funeral and then working almost 8 hours in Jackson during crazy Friday madness... I will birth art out of the situation though.. I really will. And if for some reason I was to be horribly injured tomorrow or die even.. someone else will see this and they will be inspired to live with urgency and to love with passion and to voice it in word & action. This means that no matter what happens tomorrow.. today was a success.. but the story is still unwritten.. so we can't call it success yet.. now can we?

***Preliminary lyrics.. (unfinished)***
Break the dawn & tell your story,
I could tell that you were lonely in the hands of time.
Fight the book that's on your shelf
& feed the fish that live inside your soul to calm the seeds of time.

These rhymes can only go so far
it seems that love's made like a Gar
to catch & slip away...(any day now)

The book that sits upon my shelf is writing me into a selfish
prayer to pray in vain...

This is a metaphor of how a double door can let you in and spit you out with a bitter taste.
This is a metaphor of how a rubber soul can run your heart to the ground & laugh in your face.
And if it seems that I'm a little bit selfish, I've earned the right to fight without a bruised fist
It's you that did this,.. it's you that did this to me..
Your loss is my victory.

A summer's wedding in winter

I just thought of a melodic structure of semi-jazz, semi-classic influenced guitar to use with this & may appropriately arrange piano for it. There is some French used in the Outro as appropriate from the previous word painting used. This is meant to be a proposal between two lovers left standing after an almost Shakespearean (though modern) tragedy. I'm not marking verses or choruses due to not wanting to interrupt the flow of the wording. Enjoy! If I ever did a song along the lines of a Michael Bublé, Frank Sinatra, Rufus Wainwright style..   THIS WOULD BE IT!!!


I've got you painted on these pictures,
but “in my mind” is always far away.
I'd prefer if I could sit or stand beside you,
& admire the way the sun lights off your face.

Oh, an afterglow of a summer spark
at the kissing tree when you were young.
Oh an afterburn from a summer kiss
like a wedding ring that's born to fit.

And you stand only cause the rest of them fall,
and I'm standing here beside you
and I'm left to gaze at what was won..

And I stare only cause I'm left in total awe
and I'm standing here beside you
til the kneeling part & the fancy words to follow.

I've got two lamps upon a shelf,
And one of them is for my faults,
to ward off a once cold, dim heart..

And two is for the nights of “me & you”...
though grammar has some power I'm left
to discard all my prose & rhymes when..
words can't come to make you move..
my lips will come to make you swoon
And this is love

And you stand only cause the rest of them fall,
and I'm standing here beside you
and I'm left to gaze at what was won..

And I stare only cause I'm left in total awe
and I'm standing here beside you
til the kneeling part & the fancy words to follow.

Take a look at my humanly flawed eyes
& see if you can see my former self.
No doubt, the perfect woman made me perfect too..
and she is here and she is dancing in my arms...
a Venus goddess bows to you.

And you stand only cause the rest of them fall,
and I'm standing here beside you
and I'm left to gaze at what was won..

And I stare only cause I'm left in total awe
and I'm standing here beside you
til the kneeling part & the fancy words to follow.

Outro (in French)
Et ils viendront et vous embrasseront sur vos bouts du doigt, mais j'embrasserai vos lèvres d'offre.
Danse, danse pour moi. Rappelez que nous sommes vivants dans le monde parfait de l'amour et libres.

{translation}- Outro..
And they will come & kiss you on your fingertips, but I will kiss your tender lips.
Dance, dance for me. Remind that we're living in the present perfect world of love & free




Letters to Juliet

V1: This is the story of a love history
       Of a boy that once was marred in defeat
       Until the laugh of a girl & her smile & her hair
       Took off the boring & victory was sweet.

       The weight of golden light & love butterflies,
       A night of roses & a fist full of white lies,
       To tame this garden & to uproot all the weeds,
       It was told, I was bold, she was gold…
       She melted & covered me.

Pre-chorus 1:
And your letters marked the time of a love & a grace from above.
And your lips were a garden of songs made of songs that came to wake the dead & revive the  weak.

Chorus 1:
& letters from Juliet remind me that love is a story but more than just rhymes.

Your letters from Juliet remind me that love holds the power to beat all our crimes.

V2: This is the story of a girl & her feat,
        A boy that swept from under them when they would meet..
        & the times hold a key to our mechanical lines..
        Loose the chains of youth to shed our eyes from public disguise.

      To take the “our” with 7 golden lamps that help us to see..
      This church is miles & miles from where my mind wants us to be.
      To grow a garden & to fill it with love…
I was sold from the cold into the wedding throws of emerald love.

Pre-chorus 2:
And your letters mark the time of a love & a grace from above.
And your lips sealed on me like a spark that’s sure to set my mind to love..
I surrender.


Chorus 2:
& letters from Juliet remind me that love is a story but more than just rhymes.
Your letters from Juliet remind me that love holds the power to beat all our crimes.

& you will find that love is a life of the joys & the pains & the pleasures & frills
But letters from Juliet can renew a fragile mind to a lifetime of thrills.

Bridge: You’re here with me.
              You’re here with me.
             You’re here with me.
              You’re here with me.
        (my love, my love, my love for the perfect victory)

Chorus 3:
& letters from Juliet remind me that love is a story but more than just rhymes.
Your letters from Juliet remind me that love holds the power to beat all our crimes.

& you will find that love is a life of the joys & pains & pleasures & frills
But letters from Juliet mark my mind..
To remind me …

But letters from Juliet mark my mind…
To remind me you’re mine forever…

But letters from Juliet mark a mortal mind..
To bring the heavens tonight.

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