Posts Tagged ‘Country Music Lyrics’

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

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

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

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

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

Rimsy Rosey Dipsy Dapsy Dozey

October 3, 2025


Rimsy
Rosey
Dipsy dapsy dozey

Brizzy
Brayzee
People think I'm crazy

Hipsy
Hopsy
Flipsy flopsy frozey

Dimby
Damby
You really understand me

Ohzee
Nosey
Tipsy tapsy toesy

Freedoo
Weedoo
I really wanna see you

Bimsy
Bamsy
Boomsy woomsy toomsy

Meedope
Beedope
You sunshine me with hope

Richard W. Bray

A little heaven big enough for two

September 28, 2025


A funny movie on a rainy day
Things we’re feeling but we cannot say

I say goodbye to all the gloomy doom
Just by knowing that you're in the room

A gentle symphony of you and me
Dissolving into simple melody
Greatest beauty that could ever be


Like a fire on a frozen night
You bring the heat and keep it burning bright

So many hurts and stings and scary things
Shelter me with all the love you bring

A gentle symphony of you and me
Dissolving into simple melody
Greatest beauty that could ever be

More contentment than I ever knew
A little heaven big enough for two

A gentle symphony of you and me
Dissolving into simple melody
Greatest beauty that could ever be


by Richard W. Bray

can we listen? can we talk?

September 17, 2025


can we listen?
can we talk?
can we walk around the block?
can we solve our problems
with words instead of rocks?


can we listen?
can we talk?
are we able to be free?
can we plant a garden
without a Poison Tree?

can we listen?
can we talk?
can we ever be certain
it's not a big lie
not the man behind the curtain?

can we listen?
can we talk?
can we walk around the block?
can a man have an opinion
without losing his job
?

can we listen?
can we talk?
frustration festers below
keep it out in the sun
and let your flower grow

by Richard W. Bray

Ain’t nothing on the outside that’s gonna make you whole

August 21, 2025

To fight aloud, is very brave —
But gallanter, I know
Who charge within the bosom
The Cavalry of Woe —
–Emily Dickinson

You always loved the thunder
And you're scared of the light
Hiding from your insides
So you pick another fight

It's time to shut up
And listen to yourself
Your neverending squabbles
Are ruining your health

Scrolling through the profiles
And it makes your body burn
Life is not a scrapbook
Some people never learn

It's time to shut up
And listen to your heart
Stop flailing around
Or you'll tear yourself apart

You're over there and everywhere
You're talking on the phone
In everybody's business
You can't stand to be alone

It's time to shut up
And listen to your soul
Ain't nothing on the outside
That's gonna make you whole

by Richard W. Bray

Before the truth puts on its pants

July 9, 2025

Before the Truth puts on its pants
The Lie begins its grim advance
Honesty ain’t got a chance
The world is just a Devil’s Dance

I lived a lie called you and me 
In a world that cannot be
So many things I could not see
Now I’m blessed with misery

Before the Truth puts on its pants
The Lie begins its grim advance
Honesty ain’t got a chance
The world is just a Devil’s Dance

Don’t believe your lying eyes
Don’t fall for tales from spooky spies 
We’re running out of alibis 
When murder falls down from the skies

Before the Truth puts on its pants
The Lie begins its grim advance
Honesty ain’t got a chance
The world is just a Devil’s Dance

Nations skid and empires fall
The crazy pity of it all
Don’t bang your head against the wall
When the Devils start to call

Before the Truth puts on its pants
The Lie begins its grim advance
Honesty ain’t got a chance
The world is just a Devil’s Dance

by Richard W. Bray