Posts Tagged ‘country music’
March 19, 2021
Madly here we go again
Making war to feel like men
All the suffering in the world
Inflicted on a little girl
Everyone you boss around
All the people you push down
The hateful hunger to control
Lord, it takes a mighty toll
Disparage everything they do
Cuz everyone should be like you
That’s how a tyrant runs his home
Cutting children to the bone
Everyone you boss around
All the people you push down
The hateful hunger to control
Lord, it takes a mighty toll
Squeezing every single dime
From their labor and their time
That’s what production’s all about
Plug 'em in and turn it out
Everyone you boss around
All the people you push down
The hateful hunger to control
Lord, it takes a mighty toll
By Richard W. Bray
Tags:country music , Country Music Lyrics , lyrics , Mr. Dill , World Domination Posted in If it sounds country , Lyrics | Leave a Comment »
March 1, 2021
Your skin changes color
What a marvelous tongue
You warm me all over
When we’re sitting in the sun
Your nictitating membrane
Really makes me wanna sin
When you slither all around me
You know I always shed my skin
We could raise a brood of geckos
On grasshoppers and kale
Dig a hole for your eggs, dear
I’ll even grow a new tail
If you’ll be my little mamba
I’ll be a happy crocodile
Fending off a thousand vipers
Just to see your scaly smile
By Richard W. Bray
Tags:country music , Country Music Lyrics , love songs , lyrics , reptiles Posted in If it sounds country , Lyrics | Leave a Comment »
February 13, 2021
Life isn’t fair
Everyone agrees
Don’t put your angry on me
Sorry bout your temper
And your bonnet full of bees
Don’t put your angry on me
Take a deep breath
And have a cup of tea
Don’t put your angry on me
Journey to the park
And climb the biggest tree
Don’t put your angry on me
Watch a funny movie
And laugh until you pee
Don’t put your angry on me
Rage is a prison
Set your spirit free
Don’t put your angry on me
by Richard W. Bray
Tags:anger management , country music , Country Music Lyrics , lyrics Posted in If it sounds country | Leave a Comment »
December 17, 2020
‘Tis sweet to know that stocks will stand
When we with Daisies lie—
—Emily Dickinson , If I Should Die
Darker nights than ever
Hearts of shattered glass
Hefting laden caskets
Setting granite in the grass
They will come for all the bodies
Then they’ll come and take our homes
The machine keeps right on turning
And grinding up the bones
When disaster makes you richer
What could ever make you whole?
Is it just the love of Mammon?
Or the absence of a soul?
They will come for all the bodies
Then they’ll come and take our homes
The machine keeps right on turning
And grinding up the bones
by Richard W. Bray
Tags:country music , Country Music Lyrics , los ladrones que mandan , Mammon , O Where Are You Going , W.H. Auden Posted in Emily Dickinson , If it sounds country , Lyrics , W.H. Auden | Leave a Comment »
October 11, 2020
How’d you make the world
Collapse and disappear?
How’d you make your voice
The only thing I hear?
How’d you take my troubles
And tear them all apart?
How’d you know the song
In my heart?
How’d you know the song
In my heart?
How’d you patch me up
And nurse me back to health?
How’d you create a world
Where time was someplace else?
How’d you erase the past
And make a whole new start?
How’d you know the song
In my heart?
How’d you know the song
In my heart?
by Richard W. Bray
Tags:country music , Country Music Lyrics , love songs , lyrics Posted in If it sounds country , love songs , Lyrics | Leave a Comment »
October 7, 2020
broken lives
and broken hearts and
foolish empty pledges
I’m rugged and I’m ragged
and sharp around
the edges
Don’t get too close
I’m booby-trapped
Broke from eating
Too much crap
There’s so much shit
When I explode
It’s gonna be
The motherload
all the lies
you swallow, they
never get digested
every segment
of your soul
will become infested
Don’t get too close
I’m booby-trapped
Broke from eating
Too much crap
There’s so much shit
When I explode
It’s gonna be
The motherload
by Richard W. Bray
Tags:country music , Country Music Lyrics , lyrics Posted in If it sounds country , Lyrics | Leave a Comment »
September 15, 2020
all day long
I think of you
subsisting on
your residue
too good to be true
too good to be true
too good to be true
warmth and style
and royal blue
all wrapped up
inside of you
too good to be true
too good to be true
too good to be true
your hair, your smile
your ballyhoo
I would pay
to be your shoe
too good to be true
too good to be true
too good to be true
sophistication
through and through
you’ll never play
the ingénue
too good to be true
too good to be true
too good to be true
I live for love
I never knew
the psycho ward
is overdue
too good to be true
too good to be true
too good to be true
by Richard W. Bray
Tags:country music , Country Music Lyrics , Jeff Gettis , love in hell , love songs , lyrics , sad songs Posted in If it sounds country , love songs , Lyrics | Leave a Comment »
September 2, 2020
I got a friend named Looney Tick
He chewed all day and ate a brick
Washed it down with motor oil
He drinks it fresh before it spoils
I don’t believe in superstition
Minerals are good nutrition
I got a friend named Looney Tick
You never know what clothes he’ll pick
He’s decked out in all his splendor
Cargo shorts and red suspenders
I’m a walking fashion plate
How them haters love to hate
I got a friend named Looney Tick
Sanity is not his schtick
He cleans his table with a mop
He stole a car and called the cops
I don’t need no evidence
I’ll just use my common sense
I had a friend named Looney Tick
He fought a grizzly with a stick
His daddy told him that ain’t wise
But he believed his lying eyes
That bear is big but I’m real quick
Never mess with Looney Tick
That bear is big but I’m real quick…
The last we heard from Looney Tick
by Richard W. Bray
Tags:country music , Country Music Lyrics , crazy people , lyrics Posted in If it sounds country , Lyrics | Leave a Comment »