Posts Tagged ‘country music’

feet on the ground

February 23, 2024

Earth's the right place for love:
I don't know where it's likely to go better.

Robert Frost

Got my feet on the ground
Looking at the stars
Crazy billionaires
Wanna fly away to Mars

Got my feet on the ground
Staring life in the face
Got oodles of compassion
For the human race

Got my feet on the ground
The body is the mind
No more wasted days
With my head in my behind

Got my feet on the ground
Got my head in the game
A flower is a flower
By any other name

Got my feet on the ground
Got my eye on you
Wubba dubba dubba
Woopty doopty do

by Richard W. Bray

by loving you

February 15, 2024

nothing is only one thing
i drink up the rainbow you sing

no one else will understand
the way we talk by holding hands

we have forever to find out
what this thing is all about

there's only one thing i can do
love the world by loving you


by Richard W. Bray

You Ruined My Life—Send Money

February 9, 2024


You're a horrible person
And a deadbeat pop
You wouldn't bail me out
When I ran over that cop

You bought me diamonds and furs
And Lamborghinis
But you won't bribe the judge
You're such a grumpy old meanie

I'm headed for the slammer
It's not very funny
You ruined my life
Send money


On my seventh birthday
I got five hundred dolls
I called you a monster
Cuz I wanted them all

I stomp and I scream
When I don't get my way
Everything's your fault
I'm gonna make you pay

Don't apologize
And don't call me Honey
You ruined my life
Send money


My credit cards are maxed
I can't pay my bills
Who's gonna cover
My parties and pills?

You're a horrible ogre
And a stupid jerk
You said it's time to grow up
Like you expect me to work

You should support my dreams
Come rainy skies or sunny
You ruined my life
Send money


by Richard W. Bray


love song to the world

December 25, 2023

I'm just a singer with some words
I rearrange the ones I heard

Town to town with my guitar
Nightclubs, honky tonks and bars

Love and longing, greed and pride
Dreams and jealousy collide

Sing it happy, sing it blue
Tell a tale and make it true

Let's sing a love song to the world
Full of happy boys and girls

Can't stop the misery with a song
But it sure beats dropping bombs


by Richard W. Bray

my shameless rhapsody

December 15, 2023

You learned to hit a curveball
From another kid's dad
My tale is endless woe
A monument of sad

You can cuss me, you can curse me
You can put me in my place
You can slam the front door
In my stupid f---ing face

Every volume on the shelf is a song about myself
My whole universe is me and my shameless rhapsody


I thought freedom was heroic
It was just a cloak of lies
Only fools are gonna mourn
When the hallucination dies

I got no right to be proud
Of the man that you became
My only solace in life
Is that you bear my name

Every volume on the shelf is a song about myself
My whole universe is me and my shameless rhapsody


by Richard W. Bray

Tether Me to Heaven

December 10, 2023

A lifetime of enchantment
Is all I ask of you
Dreaming of impossible
Because it's what you do

Tether me to heaven like the stars across the sky
Feather me with comfort and your lover's lullaby

Free me from a thousand woes
My flesh cannot endure
Shelter me with sunshine
That flows from you so pure

Tether me to heaven like the stars across the sky
Feather me with comfort and your lover's lullaby


You can be my proof rock
Solid as a stone
Even when we're miles apart
I'll never be alone

Tether me to heaven like the stars across the sky
Feather me with comfort and your lover's lullaby


by Richard W. Bray

Tell Yourself a Story

November 7, 2023

I spent a whole lot of years
In an imaginary race
Learning to ignore
What was in front of my face

Forty-seven lies
And a bottle of gin
Tell yourself a story
Every time you don't win

I lived a sprawling dream
I signed above the line
Took a spin around the world
With my head in my behind

Forty-seven lies
And a bottle of gin
Like I never even saw
All the places I've been

Like a good little soldier
I had a happy little life
While every nephew and his uncle
Took a turn with my wife

Forty-seven lies
And a bottle of gin
I wonder if my son
Is my next of kin

Built myself a mansion
Then I tore it all down
When your whole life tumbles
It barely makes a sound

Forty-seven lies
And a bottle of gin
Tell yourself a story
Every time you don't win

Forty-seven lies
And a bottle of gin
Tell yourself a story
Every time you don't win

by Richard W. Bray


hatey hatey heart

November 2, 2023

Sometimes life is gonna hurt
Attacking others makes it worse
It's gonna take a lot of work
But you don't have to be a jerk

Please, get some help with your disease
It really isn't very smart
To have a hatey hatey heart

A lot of bad things going on
That’s why we have to carry on
You don’t have to be so dour
Go outside and smell a flower

Please, get some help with your disease
It really isn't very smart
To have a hatey hatey heart

Don't wanna let your insides rust
Like your soul is full of pus
The thing you really need to know
Is how to let your anger go

Please, get some help with your disease
It really isn't very smart
To have a hatey hatey heart

Please, get some help with your disease
It really isn't very smart
To have a hatey hatey heart

by Richard W. Bray

sometimes a body needs a body

October 29, 2023

If you've got the freedom, I've got the timeKris Kristofferson 

Sad song on the jukebox
The barman rang his bell
Another night with my buddies
And the tales that they tell

I seen you around town
You move real nice
I'd like to get to know about
Your sugar and your spice

I’m not gonna tell you how to spend your time
Sometimes a body needs a body till the morning sun shines

Maybe there's a chance 
We could have a good time
Maybe I could learn about
Your rhythm and your rhyme

The wind is blowing lonesome
It's a long walk home
My room is awful empty
I don't wanna be alone

I’m not gonna tell you how to spend your time
Sometimes a body needs a body till the morning sun shines

by Richard W. Bray

always talking trash

October 21, 2023

You always talk so much trash
About everyone you know
Are you insecure?
Or are you just an asshole?

You always talk so much trash
It's getting really old
Did you have a bad day?
Or are you just an asshole?

You always talk so much trash
Such an active piehole
Are you trying to impress?
Or are you just an asshole?

You always talk so much trash
Like you think we don't know
What you say when we're not here
God, you're such an asshole!

by Richard W. Bray