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it sure beats living a lie

April 17, 2026 



Smashing into walls
Cuz you really like the view 
Singing to your hatred
Cuz it loves you so true

I might pay a price for telling the truth 
But it sure beats living a lie

Practicing your backstroke 
Swimming in the gutter
Wearing your deception 
A coat of many shudders

I might pay a price for telling the truth 
But it sure beats living a lie

Self-preservation 
Is the only thing you trust 
Throwing friends and lovers
Underneath the bus

I might pay a price for telling the truth 
But it sure beats living a lie

Inside out
Your pride is really shame 
There's nothing left to hide 
There's no one else to blame

I might pay a price for telling the truth 
But it sure beats living a lie

by Richard W. Bray

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Clean My Thinking

April 10, 2026 

She's got big dreams and small feelings
Treats me like potato peelings
I'm hung up on a woman
Who can't respect a man

Lobotomized accommodations 
The sudden fall of mighty nations
I'm hung up on a woman
Who can't respect a man

Stupid people and stupid talking
Close my ears and just keep walking 
I'm hung up on a woman
Who can't respect a man

Cheats and liars getting wealthy
Surrounded by so much unhealthy
I'm hung up on a woman
Who can't respect a man

Stop my crying. Stop my stinking
Time for me to clean my thinking
I don't need a woman 
Who can't respect a man 

by Richard W. Bray

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You broke the rest of me too

February 22, 2026 






You didn’t just break my heart 
You broke the rest of me too
And then I spent a lifetime
Dreaming after you 

Hoping for somebody 
Exactly like you
You really felt like a vision
Too good to be true

You said I was fun
Instead of saying goodbye
You dismissed all my dreaming
In the breath of a sigh

I still know how to love
But I forgot how to fall
Another leap of faith
Could be the end of it all

by Richard W. Bray 

									


				
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You don’t have to read about the fall of Rome

				February 10, 2026

				

					











Put your phones in the fridge
Cuz it’s time to tell the truth
They’re destroying our families
They violate our youth

They got teletype readers
And knuckleheaded minions
They made it illegal
To have an opinion

Politicians bought and sold
In the blink of a flash
They’d sell their mother’s soul
For a handful of cash

They mortgaged off the future
And partied like fools
Every 5 minutes
They make up new rules

They got as much honor
As the Easter Bunny
Now they wanna pay us back
With Monopoly money

You don’t have to read
About the fall of Rome
Just look what they did 
To our beautiful Home

by Richard W. Bray

									


				
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Played Out Retromania

				January 16, 2026

				

					











We wrote down recipes 
And kept em in a box
Magic and Stockton
Had really long socks

Retromania
Boomer egomania
Singing in the rainia
On a plain in Spainia

The olden days 
We're golden days
Bless those vintage bygone ways

Time to break the chainia
Pour it down the drainia
Before we go insania
With played out retromania

We sang some happy true songs
And broken-hearted blue songs 
Now it's time for new songs

Time to break the chainia
Pour it down the drainia
Before we go insania
With played out retromania

by Richard W. Bray 

									


				
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Don’t be a stupid needy Nimrod

				January 8, 2026

				

					












You've been acting pretty odd
Just like a stupid needy Nimrod

Frustrating friends and your relations
With all your crazy expectations

I can’t paddle your canoe,
Wipe your nose and tie your shoe

Frustrating friends and your relations
With all your crazy expectations

You whine and then you whinny 
Like you’re a goofy little ninny

Frustrating friends and your relations
With all your crazy expectations

Always jumping to conclusions
To support your lame delusions 

Frustrating friends and your relations
With all your crazy expectations

Thinking truth is what you feel
Take a look at life for real

Frustrating friends and your relations
With all your crazy expectations

by Richard W. Bray

									


				
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she loves me like a penguin

				December 30, 2025

				

					












she knows everything about me 
and we've never even spoken 
if she ever stops following
everything will be broken

she loves me like a penguin
she always follows me around
she waves her little penguin wings
all over town

you know i've always had a notion
love is really just devotion
when she wiggles cross the ocean
she warms up the arctic night

she loves me like a penguin
and you know birdies mate for life
she loves me like a penguin
and penguin love is pretty nice

by Richard W. Bray

									


				
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The spirit of the trees comes out at night 

				December 20, 2025

				

					
















The universe is charged and wondrous
Feel the force that floats among us
Resist the anger hate and greed
Only take the love you need

The spirit of the trees comes out at night 
Dogs and children see the hidden light 

Dynasties will rise and fall
Nothing's written on the wall
Seeking truth out day by day
We stagger on our wanting way

The spirit of the trees comes out at night 
Dogs and children see the hidden light 

Every breath is blessed and free
Share the joy and dignity
Love and kindness never cease
Live with hope and work for peace

The spirit of the trees comes out at night 
Dogs and children see the hidden light 

by Richard W. Bray






									


				
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Attention is the air I breathe

				November 15, 2025

				

					
















No memory of having starred
Atones for later disregard,
Or keeps the end from being hard.
–Robert Frost

You're the water 
I'm Narcissus 
You're the source 
Of all my wishes
When the pool
Begins to dry
That's when I 
Begin to die

Everybody, look at me 
Attention is the air I breathe

When my latest
Book won't sell
It's like the deepest
Ring of hell
People won't
Return my calls
Like Icarus
I fall and fall

Everybody, look at me 
Attention is the air I breathe

I used to be 
Among the guys
That everyone 
Would recognize
Invisible
And seized with pain
As seasons turn 
And fashions change

Everybody, look at me 
Attention is the air I breathe

by Richard W. Bray 

									


				
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There’s lots of hurt to go around

				October 18, 2025

				

					

















She scrambled up my insides pretty good
I drank myself past crazy, knock on wood

I grabbed my hounds and packed my sled
And prayed for better days ahead

I never cared for that old town
There's lots of hurt to go around

I thought she'd be the one to make me true
I end up sad no matter what I do

The best laid plans don't guarantee 
A life that's free of misery

I tried so hard – I let her down
There's lots of hurt to go around

We did the Tallahassee do-si-do
Then she left me bleeding in the snow

My chariot is flying low
I guess it's just my time to go 

Harps and horns make lovely sound
There's no more hurt to go around 

by Richard W. Bray 






									


				
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