Posts Tagged ‘country music’

squeeze and squeeze

May 27, 2023

Let me, let me tell you
Time tough, time tough
Everything is out of sight
It's so hard, so hard, so hard, so hard
Time tough, time tough
Everything is going higher and higherToots and the Maytals



Prices getting higher
Wages stay the same
Put the profits in your pocket
And blame supply chains

You shut down the factories
You send our jobs away
You never have to worry
About the price we pay

Making up excuses
To squeeze and squeeze
Greed and corruption 
Are the real disease

Trample the people
Lay our country to waste
Pillage and plunder
Puts a smile on your face

Dismember the nation
With phony divisions
Disrupt and distract
From your horrible decisions

Making up excuses
To squeeze and squeeze
Greed and corruption 
Are the real disease


by Richard W. Bray

The Algorithm Knows

May 20, 2023


The algorithm knows
Everywhere you go
Where you buy your clothes
Your favorite tv shows

The algorithm knows
Everyone you kiss
Your secret little tryst
The one you really miss

The algorithm knows 
You’re talking in your sleep
Things that make you weep 
The promises you keep

The algorithm knows 
Everything you buy
Everything you want
It even knows why

The algorithm knows 
It grows and grows and grows
It thinks that it's your pal 
It loves you just like HAL


by Richard W. Bray

Every liar knows the truth

May 13, 2023





Try to rewrite your life
And never look back
Go to fantasyland
To find a new track

Always looking for a shortcut
And a new type of scam
You could pay off all your bills
If you met a stupid man

Such a crazy crazy girl
In your dreamy dreamy world

Try to rewire your brain
But it always snaps back
When you're pretending away
A big ole pile of crap

Every liar knows the truth
That's how you build your lies
You multiply your troubles
When you believe your disguise

Such a crazy crazy girl
In your dreamy dreamy world

by Richard W. Bray

learning from the sun

April 28, 2023





if i didn’t do 
those stupid things
i wouldn’t have
my songs to sing

i wish that you 
would rather die
than tell yourself
another lie

if i change 
i won't be who i am
if that upsets you
i don't give a damn

i wish that you 
would rather die
than tell yourself
another lie

don't know what i'm doing
till i am done
i’ll learn about tomorrow
from the sun

i wish that you 
would rather die
than tell yourself
another lie

i wrung my soul out
through the years
and washed it clean
with blood and tears

i wish that you 
would rather die
than tell yourself
another lie

by Richard W. Bray

I always knew you’d come true

April 21, 2023

I always knew you were there
   Somewhere

I always knew there was a way
   Someday

I always knew you'd come true
   Somehow

And I'm believing it now

You're so sweet 
And you're so true

Everything I ever knew
Everything I wanna do
It's all living in you

By Richard W. Bray

the abyss inside

April 16, 2023





Billy is as slippery
As a soggy salamander
His insides are abandoned
And his words are full of slander

Billy’s full of ridicule
For folks who ain’t around
When someone leaves the room
He can't wait put ‘em down

Ain’t got an ounce of honor
But he’s loaded with ambition
He's got the perfect skill set
To become a politician

Billy’s full of ridicule
For folks who ain’t around
When someone leaves the room
He can't wait to put ‘em down

With a smile as true as tinsel
He tells you what you wanna hear
He’ll saturate your ego
And pour another beer

Billy’s full of ridicule
For folks who ain’t around
When someone leaves the room
He can't wait to put ‘em down

Solitude is agony
And silence terrifies
He tries to fill the universe
With blasphemy and lies

Billy’s full of ridicule
For folks who ain’t around
When someone leaves the room
He can't wait to put ‘em down

By Richard W. Bray

Love Is the Force

April 1, 2023





Prices going up
Not enough to eat
People dying younger
And living in the street

Anger and resentment
Pushing folks apart
We need to get together
And open up our hearts

Love is the force
Trace it to the source

So many takers
Legions of fakers
Time to shut them down
And bless the peacemakers

Praise the blue skies
Don't believe in lies
Reach your hand out
And listen to the wise

Love is the force
Trace it to the source

by Richard W. Bray

Where do the people in my dreams come from?

March 22, 2023

Where do the people in my dreams come from?
Do they have occupations
In their dreamy dreamy lives?
Do they wake up in the morning
And kiss their dreamy wives?

Where do the people in my dreams come from?
Do they inhabit other people’s dreams
Or only visit mine?
Do they all hang out together?
Do they live in space and time?

Where do the people in my dreams come from?
Do they exist in dimensions
That humans cannot see?
Do they go to bed at night
And dream about me?

by Richard W. Bray

Mosaic

February 25, 2023

Fill the world with song
Sing until you're silly
Wild and beguiled 
By Roses and Lilys

Stars on Alabama
The way you look tonight
Baby I'm amazed
When you hold me tight

Nobody to see us
Nobody to hear us
Pay no mind to stupid words
With nobody near us

Those ordinary things
That I gotta do
I throw em out the window
To be alone with you

By Richard W. Bray

No turning back

January 7, 2023

The marriage went stale
We lived our separate lives
I had a pocket full of floozies
She slept with some wives

Drinking in a crowd
And laughing way too loud
Ignoring what I lost
Forget about the cost

On a dusty old road
With nothing left to see
I burned down every bridge
From Barstow to Western Tennessee

Drinking in a crowd
And laughing way too loud
Ignoring what I lost
Forget about the cost

I'll buy another round
And cut myself some slack
I'm telling you for sure in this crazy ole world
There ain't no way to turn ever back

Drinking in a crowd
And laughing way too loud
Ignoring what I lost
Forget about the cost

By Richard W. Bray