Album Notes

The reason this album is titled "Leap Day" is because one of my favorite songs of this album is "Leap Day" and the reason the song was titled "Leap Day" is because I wrote it on February 29th. I really like this song, I even put it on the master disk twice. So... my brother Chuckie Tom over at Nightshelf Records decided to leave it that way. Leap Day is number 6 and number 17 on the album. Hope you enjoy the album.

**Labor Jig (The Way It Always Goes)
Pain was in my heart
Thought it was my head
I’m smiling but I’m hurt
I know that I ain’t dead
I heard her naked laugh
But my brain was working slow
She slid inside a silky shirt
That’s the way it always goes
 
Fingernails peeled an orange
Like she stripped away my soul
A man ain’t got no hope
when he loses self control
My eyes were in her cleavage
But my brain was working slow
Heat burned away my sorrows
That’s the way it always goes
My eyes were in her cleavage
But my brain was working slow
Heat burned away my sorrows
That’s the way it always goes
 
I was dancing like Travolta
I’m fat but I can move
A promise in her eyes
Put me in her groove
That woman tore me down
My brain was working slow
The Sweet Lord sends forgiveness
That’s the way it always goes
 
That woman tore me down
She powdered up my nose
The Sweet Lord sent forgiveness
That’s the way it always goes
That woman tore me down
She got me out of my clothes
The Sweet Lord sends forgiveness
That’s the way it always goes
The Sweet Lord sends forgiveness
That’s the way it always goes

**Tomorrow
There’s nothing really wrong
Wish I could turn around and play some songs
But the money stayed away
And got no time to play today
 
But tomorrow
I’ll fly like a blue jay in the summer rain
Tomorrow we’ll laugh and play music, just two old friends
Tomorrow we’ll spend time like it will never end
Tomorrow
Tomorrow
 
Hey what’s the fuss
We both missed the bus to the clouds
There’s a rainbow in the sky
Please don’t you cry ,neither will I
 
But tomorrow
I’ll fly like a blue jay in the summer rain
Tomorrow we’ll laugh and play music, just two old friends
Tomorrow we’ll spend time like it will never end
Tomorrow
Tomorrow
But tomorrow
I’ll fly like a blue jay in the summer rain

**In This World (Bush)
I’m pondering on the source of all the anger in this world
Right now I just don’t have a clue
There gun runners selling war in the midst of this world
It’s crazy what greed makes people do
 
Tell me Mr. President do you figure you’ll always be in this world
You talk like God gave you a big war plan
Misdirection and deception are your footprints in this world
It’s crazy what fear can do to a man
 
Stockpiles of wealth and privilege lead to killing in this world
You’ve got to protect the treasures of your land
Sharing, Loving and Giving are blessing in this world
We’re all connected why can’t we understand
 
Pondering on the source of all the anger in this world

**Easter Morning
Grandma sitting at sunrise
Waiting on the sun
Songbirds sing her a lullaby
Easter has come
 
Cold sad winter is in retreat
Ice still covers Lake Madison
But church bells are happier this morning
Cause Easter Morning has come
Easter Morning has come
 
Well Grandma looks pretty in a flower dress
Plays her Irish Accordion
Saint Patrick’s was in Holy Week this year
Now Easter Morning has come
Easter Morning has come
 
Grandma smiles young at breakfast
Rowdy and noisy grandchildren
Song birds are singing brightly
Easter Morning has come
Easter Morning has come

**Go Easy and Run
Leaping from a train
On the sunny shore
Don’t you worry about your troubles no more
Find a little sand a little sun
Go easy and run
 
Waking from a dream
My you’re running fast
Can’t hardly see the shadows you cast
Find a little sand a little sun
Go easy and run
 
Waking from a dream
People off a bus
Honey they don’t really think like us
Let’s find a little sand a little sun
Go easy and run

**Leap Day
Did you reach out for the light
I think you might have tried
Were love ones in sight
I think you might have cried
 
Did that sleepy meadow change
Did the flowers all bloom
Were you grabbing your guitar
As you left the room
 
Did the math between the stars
All make perfect sense
As Einstein dreamed
 
Did you reach out for the light
I think you might have tried
Were your love ones in sight
I think you might have cried
Did you reach out for the light
I think you might have tried
Were your love ones in sight
I think you might have cried

**Not A Man
You can see a tree for what it is
Wind may have ravaged it’s limbs
You can see a tree for what it is
But it’s not a man
 
You can hear the sea in a sea shell
Secrets it whispers may be true
You can hear the sea in a sea shell
But it’s not a man
Oh no it’s not a man
A man is of those things
And if you listen close to that sea shell
You may hear the songs of a distant land
Sung by a small child
But that echo’s not a man
 
Yes you can see a tree for what it is
And time may have taken all its leaves
Yes you can see a tree for what it is
But it’s not a man
No it’s not a man
A man is of those things
If you listen close to that tree
You may hear the songs of a distant land
Sung by a small child
But that echo of that child is not a man

**Winter Season
When he took to leaving
He was awful tired of grieving
Wanted to be out on his own
 
Blue uniform collar
He’d sell anything for dollars
He was smooth and hard as a stone
 
And now I know the reason
He was in his winter season
He was waiting for his shoots to crack the ground
He found his occupation
In the great lawless nation
When he saw his horse go down
Saw his horse going down
Saw that horse going down
 
When he took to killing
He was awful tired of spilling
His own blood just to see the color red
He left his homeland
Became enough to make a stand
Now he’s overseas and the yankee’s dead
That’s how it gets out of the country sometimes Yankee
 
And now I know the reason
He was in his winter season
He was waiting for his shoots to crack the ground
He found his occupation
In the great lawless nation
When he saw his horse go down
Saw his horse going down
Saw that horse going down
 
Lifted him off the ground
Lifted him off the ground

**No Train
There ain’t no train runnin’ through here
No train runnin’ through here anymore
There ain’t no train runnin’ through here
No train runnin’ through here anymore
 
There ain’t no train

**Ides of March
She’s limpin’ some but her stride is sharp
Sundogs in the sky on the Ides of March
Rainbow rising in an angel’s heart
Gilded wounds on the Ides of March
 
She believes in angels
She believes in angels
 
Well she’s in the mirror and it’s looking back
She’s a flower in the shades of black
She rides a rainbow she follows the arch
Her years behold the Ides of March
 
She believes in angels
She believes in angels

**Burned Gasoline
Some secrets they just ain’t true
It’s the finger pointing back at you
Worm is in the apple core
Blue collar worker is the rich man’s whore
 
And I’m locked into the mortal truth
All these lies just drain the youth
Show them games and make them play
Give lip service about judgment day
 
Give ample drink to drown the fools
Tell ‘em war ain’t got no rules
W, he’s scaring all of us
Fly your flag and get on the bus
 
Well how many soldiers die in vain
And callin’ out their momma’s name
Tell me has the American Dream
All burned away in gasoline

**John F
Across the universe inside a dream
I was ridin’ on a light beam
With a man I’d met from the past
Who was introducing himself
To the future
 
The spirits are returning from their sleep
Still having earthly promises to keep
I said John F you’re drivin’ fast back
From the future

**Born Kings
They were born to be kings
But they die as a poor boy sings
But that’s another song
Another song
 
Guns kill a child
Why ain’t the world wise
That’s another song
That’s another song

**Make Her Come Back
Make her come back
Lord make her stay
Don’t let the cold wild wind blow her away
 
Make her come back
Lord make her stay
Don’t let the cold wild wind blow her away
 
Under dark black clouds
Babies cry
You and I under endless skies
Mother angel called you home
She’s tired of being left alone
 
Make her come back
Lord make her stay
Don’t let the cold wild wind blow her away
 
Oh make her come back
Lord make her stay
Don’t let the cold wild wind blow her away

**Buy This Country
If I had the money to buy this country
I’d move down to Mexico
If I had the money to buy this country
I’d move down to Mexico
 
They arrested my brother
They never liked us in Denver
Did we even get a bails bondsman
I can’t even remember
 
Hey meet me at the border
I’m the Fourth of July
I can’t even speak their words
They make me cry
 
If I had the money to buy this country
I’d move down to Mexico
If I had the money to buy this country
I’d move down to Mexico
 
Here’s some money from my piggy bank
At the slaughter house
Well Lord I’m layin’ low
Silent as a mouse
 
Hey meet me at the border
I’m the Fourth of July
Don’t ask me about old Juan
That will make me cry
 
If I had the money to buy this country
I’d move down to Mexico
If I had the money to buy this country
I’d move down to Mexico

**Today
Well today
Today
Well I’m walkin’ down the street
Moanin’ out a wish
Like I could see the future from down here
The blackbirds surround me in their empty high branches
Like they know my sentence and they’re watching me walk to the chair
 
Well today
Today
I started to pick up my wasted yesterday chances
There’s nothing you can get your heart wrapped around like broken down busted blues
 
Well today
Today
I’m gonna see if I can forget the criticism that I level at myself
And remember the beautiful touches from the past feminine fingers
 
Hell I’m walkin’ fast thinkin’ I was once fleet of foot
I stop and eat a green apple
As tart as childhood
 
Well today
Today
On my return I stand mirrored in the patio door
There’s grey in my beard
Our fat long-haired cat stares at me
We both put up with each other and try to stay out of each other’s way
The nice lady of the house pets us both some days

**Leap Day
Did you reach out for the light
I think you might have tried
Were love ones in sight
I think you might have cried
 
Did that sleepy meadow change
Did the flowers all bloom
Were you grabbing your guitar
As you left the room
 
Did the math between the stars
All make perfect sense
As Einstein dreamed
 
Did you reach out for the light
I think you might have tried
Were your love ones in sight
I think you might have cried
Did you reach out for the light
I think you might have tried
Were your love ones in sight
I think you might have cried