Nobody Like you

This is a song I wrote with some good friends in mind:)

Nobody Like You

We've been running for thousands of years

hold me back from my dreams and my tears

I walk right down to the powerful pier

take the boat ride that brings back over here

I timidly talk to my childhood fears

Say hello ask if truths in the mirrors

they point me to hope that gets you through the years

and they hold my hands swing me through my cares

Now lets not go crazy

thinking we're immune to the drowning

that their feeling from the bottom of the pool

And whose to say if you were holding hard

enough to hold it together for the people in dark

nobody knows what's breaking me down

Like you do 2X

You been asking for too many things

Demons telling you your too small to dream

there so convincing with their powerful theme

When they tell you you're defective it's easy to believe

they tear at your heart and they pull at your strings

you call to your God but hear back nothing

your waitings getting weary and you prefer to cling

to the hurt hard feelings and old familiar stings

Chorus

Curious Creatures Learning so slow

blaming your failures on demons down below

wondering if your special and acting like your lower

than the rocks and worth less than the soil

Your so depressed and cry yourself to sleep

so ashamed that your self medicating

Act like somebodies always to blame

fear that everyones on to your games

nobody knows me like you

no one knows me the way that you do 3X

Time to Change

This was one of the last songs I wrote while still living my parents and right before I got married. This is an end of an era poem for me.

Interestingly enough seems rather appropriate for today as well:) Seems like we are always moving in and out of different seasons in our life.

Time to change

I leave and return

Try to listen and learn

Memories I start to find

Closer than further behind

Now I leave wont return

Time to go out and learn

Humble abode starts to change

Instantly it starts to rain

if in new life there is a death

To that’s old, to all you hold

If things cant stay the same

it is time to change

time to move on with today

I walk to a friend

Steps away from door

Small town you know my face

But I aint coming round here no more

A flower blooms a new days dew

Do you struggle I know I do

With when to walk and when to run

They to pace yourself to run

Call you up come on over

I guess you cant I guess I cant

Good thoughts and intentions over

Life ends life begins

This crazy cycle starts over again

Again again again again

A little redundant again again

On and off again again

I guess it starts all over again

Believe

I wrote this song in May of 2009. It was my way of expressing that my and I had come to the end of a rough time:)

I Believe

I can't explain these feelings of shame

that fill up my soul break down my heart again

I want to express the feelings of pain

and apologize for the hurt and the bitterness

you feel like you can't go on

I want to know

I don't blame you

It's a miracle that we're still going

almost like a bird that's trying

to fly to the moon

when it feels like we can't breathe

we keep on swimming

up stream

try to find a better place to believe

we hold on to the other still contemplate

no difference between what we want and what we get

whose paying the discounts

you keep telling me it's the holding on to hope

that helps us get free and you believe we will

make a difference in your mind grow on up and believe in time

that we will shine like the stars in the sky

There ain't no way that I can stay

keep on living likes it ok

is there a chance that I may change

and you believe that there is

we will come to know what freedom is

it's like the perfect way to give

the gift of knowing what love is

not a paranoid fight or flight

not always needing to be right

not catching you in your spite

it's hoping that we might

stand together in our life

to beat the shame back with our light

ride off triumphantly into the night

with our hope down at our side

looking straight into your eyes

believing that your for my life

I believe you're for my life

Impossible

I wrote this song after watching a friend go through a rough time and feeling like my hands were tied behind my back in helping them.

Humanity is beautiful in all of it's brokeness :)

Imposible

I find a way to take the easiest things

and make them harder than they have to be

You know i try to make the ugly things

more beautiful so you will love me

and I try to make it work

and I pray i don’t get hurt

someone tell me something I can use

someone tell me something I can use

it’s imposible

I always find away to take the smallest things

and make them bigger than they could ever be

you know i like to make a real big scene

about the little things why would you ever want me

and I try to make it work

and I pray i don’t get hurt

someone tell me something I can use

someone tell me something I can use

it’s imposible

it’s always easier on the outside looking in

it’s not better if you go there my friend

come to me now and watch me wallow in my sin

i don’t have the words to say right now,

i don’t have the words to say right now

redemption is it possible is it possible.

You remind me of the hardest times

when I'm trying to find what was once there

You whisper words that are supposed to set free

but when I hear from you beats the shit out of me

and I try to make it work

and I pray i don’t get hurt

someone tell me something I can use

someone tell me something I can use

It's possible

Redemption

Empathetic Eyes

This is a song I wrote sometime last year, I think like I was feeling as though I should be doing more to help the world around me.

Empathetic Eyes

kind of want, kind want to know

kind of want, kind to find out

what about, what about the coming

what about woman

what about the drowning

if you see, see a lot of people

then fool around, wonder about the weather

i figured out, figured they probably knew

keep us all busy

with our unsatisfaction

dance with me

dance around truth

resurrect the sixties

resurrect your movement

find a way

make it happen alright

the right way was the wrong way to get it done

the first time was not the last one to see it through

I stand firm in your empathetic eyes

your empathetic eyes

need to, need to believe that

we will, find away past it

changing, change the things we can

we won't stop until we drop

in the promised land

Your home

it was given to me

my home

it was taken from me

who knows

how long it be till

everyone is cooking

everybody's kitchen

Am F C G

Your empathetic eyes

give them to me

i sick of walking blind i want to see

your empathetic eyes

what do they see

when you pear down from your judgment see

your empathetic eyes

does see

how hard i try?

Love Song

This is a song I wrote in 2005 whilst I was living in Belfast.

Love Song

Could I interest you in a love song

the mind knows nothing about

It can help you find a lover

The wind whispers softly

Could I interest you in a new song

this world hates to hear

it can help you find your way out

those walls are not really there

this time it's true

right now for real

not a fantasy or nice dream

But the chance to feel

Alive Again

You can have my life

I wasn't doing much anyways

if you can do something better with it

than just counting down the days

you can have my heart beat

it was starting to get mundane

if you could change the rhythm of the beat

to the beating of the rain

this time it's true

right now for real

not a fantasy or nice dream

But the chance to feel

Alive Again

The waking dead crashing waves

one man's strong the other one caves

all my thoughts and all your dreams

come crashing down off the balance beems

nobody's looking but everyone hears

what's a few more bruises what's a few more beers

i can't finish what you started

now i realize what i never wanted

to feel

Alive Again

Calling

This is a song I wrote for a christian band(fishers of men) I was apart of back in 1998. I don't think we ever played this song out, ended up breaking up before I had finished it.

It's about destiny

Calling

Look inside your heart,

Do you see me there?

Look away from dark,

You wont find me there.

The decisions seem so hard,

Only as hard as you make it.

The calling seems so strong

Go ahead and take it.

Chorus

(We all have are paths to take

We all have are choices to make

We all have love to give

He gave it all to us we should give it all to him)

The world call seems so strong

But his love is even stronger

The worlds pull seems so dark but

His light is ever greater

He is calling out to you

Because he wants you to know

You really do belong here

(Chorus)

So you’re a pillar now

You’re holding up so much now

You said yes to your calling then

You turn your cheek now

Offer it up to him

You’re ready to serve him then

Yes i'm ready lord

(Chorus)

He carried the cross for you

He took that fall for you

He came down to earth for you

And then he died for you

He gave it all for you he did it all for you

So don’t forget about him

Don’t shut him out then

And answer your call from him

Story

I wrote this for a group of seekers that I meet with....I may have even uploaded the song to my soundclick if you wanted to hear it

http://soundclick.com/share?songid=7457506

Story

All the paths that we wander down

weaving in and out of the hope that we've found

crawling through the muck in our minds that compound

the stories of our lives that reflect our souls

They tell you lies that keep you beached

but you baton down the hatches and try to reach

a land of promises a fresh ripe peach

the truth about our souls that fill our sails

Your love can open up my eyes

Gives hope that's filling up our lives

We can trust and find out who we are

In you we've found where we belong

Memories of where we came from

emotions of broken dreams that become

all consuming fire you fight not to succumb

to the things you hate that never help anyways

Temptation to relapse and go back

to all the things that bruise and crack

our dignity and knock us off track

what you do is not who you are your are so much more

Your love can open up my eyes

Gives hope that's filling up our lives

We can trust and find out who we are

In you we've found where we belong

Deep down deeper than we've seen

We discover that what we've been

Has nothing to do with our wandering

But a vessel of love for the king

Father be our Father

Mother be our Mother

Hold us close to you

help us love one another

Other Side

This one was written in 1999 and is about my life changing during that time period

Other Side

Truth beyond the known

Wisdom beyond fear

The river runs too wide

The water seems so clear

If you never try

You might never fail

If the world ended tomorrow

Where would you go from here?

Is there some distant planet?

You have your heart set

Is there a time long long ago?

And far far away

(All I ever hear is

The grass is always greener

On the other side

Someone always knows

The truth that opens doors

On the other side

The sky is always bluer

The truth is always truer

On the other side

On the other side)

Fear that closes doors

Beauty beyond truth

The fall that seems to far

The cliffs to high from here

If you never fall

You might never learn

If the music ended tomorrow

What would you listen to?

Is there some distant orchestra?

You have your ear tuned

Is there time long long ago?

And far far away

All we want to know is

Who’s in charge here?

Who is right, who is wrong

And what am I doing here

I don't want to walk in

Another mans shadow

What’s right, what's wrong?

What am I doing here?

What am I doing here?

And all I ever here is

The grass is always greener

On the other side

On the other side

On the other side

Look What You've Done

This is a song I wrote this year for a group I am apart. It is spiritual with no real bent on any one expression, although I am sure you will be able to recognize the western christian hint. I was going to try to publish these in order but I it's not working out that way.

I might put some of these songs up on a website that you will be able to listen to them on. Which is this one

http://www.soundclick.com/bands/default.cfm?bandID=383724

Look What You've Done

Ask me no questions I'll tell you no lies

telling the truth gets you cut down to size

program your world to avoid your fears

taking those shortcuts sets you back for years

understand God and she teach a song

their words from the earth they're whole and their strong

a melody you heard deep in your mothers womb

it's always in focus you're always in tune

You'll drink in the desert you'll toast to the see

You'll bath in the sun cause it's pure and it's free

You'll always have tears cause you hold nothing back

I pray that you'll settle but you never unpack

I pray you unpack

Look what the Lord has done

look how far you come from the place you began

see how we connect to the weeds and the wine

and the holy heck see how you've made a stand

be proud of the times that you chose yourself

over system and ease and worthless wealth

to be a word of life

no one can take that away from you

they can pluck out your eyes

beat and bruise but you have made it through

Ask me one mile and I'll offer you two

but give me your water it's the least you can do

don't insult me with silver and your priceless gold

I don't want your treasures its you that I hold

I'm weak and I'm strong all at the same time

show me your soul and you're mountains i'll climb

way down in your valley's in the midst of your streams

my visions are clear and they're my making dream

You open your flowers and cry to God

Scream Father forgive I've been such a fraud

I offer to save but I'm grasping at air

you seal up your wounds and open elsewhere

I pray you open up

Look what you have done

see how far you've come from place you began

see how we connect to the trees and the beat

and what you expect to be comfortable just being

You're sure your colors have begun to fade

from yellow to different shades of gray

You can't be a word of Life

no one can make you see

how you've come from heartache and pain

to a place where you've made it through

Ask me for secrets I'll hide all my shame

when this life is over i've no one to blame

I just apologized for something you did

it's easier than admitting all that I've hid

I'd love myself more if I could just lay it all out

stop all of the excuses share all of my doubt

i don't think I'm capable of that

I'm small and I'm weak and I'm and perfectly sad

if I called out for healing what do you think I'd get?

more of the same i'd be willing to bet

I pray I bet

Look what I have done

Look how far I've run from the place where I began

see how we connect to the computer the TV

the internet to seek and not ever find

I'm proud of all the wrong things

I did to be noticed and crowned as your king

A backwards word of life

I'll wait for a vision to come

that tells me I'm worth more than I assume

I'll make it through

Hi I am broken please tell me your name

I am last line so happy you came

Footsteps On the Street

This is part of the first song I ever wrote. I say part because I am certain that there were more words than this. I am sure I have it some where's but for now this is what it is.

I wrote this song in 1994 with my friend Mike Villimaire, as far as I know it is his first song as well. Besides of course "Lonely Hearts" which was more of an improv song.

K found the rest of the song. It's a little dramatic but hey I was 16 what do you expect?

Enjoy

Andy out

Footsteps On The Street

James/ Villemaire

In a tent on a street Running down trying to find it

Praying to god we wont be seen Going crazy all my problems

All my thoughts gone Looking for it couldn't find it

So I wanted to turn back but you wouldn't let me

Said we're going far, Said you could see the future

But all I could see was darkness and I could hear were

Footsteps on the street

Footsteps on the street

Stripped of all my problems

gone were all my fears

Footsteps on the street

Told you that I wanted it You said I didn't need it

Told you that I needed to leave You said no you don't

I said I wanted to run So you followed

Running into the night Running into our fears

Running over the moment trying to reach the moon

Ran along the tracks said you heard a train

All I could hear were

Footsteps on the street

each one pounding out a different memory

each one pounding out a different pain

Footsteps on the street