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Tonight
Words and Music by David Shepherd Grossman
This song was sketched out in the 1980's but really didn't come around until this recording in 1999.
The irony is that it is about a moment in time. This one moment took over 10 years to get right.
Too many drinks Too many cigarettes
I hope you recall I'm bound to forget
What I have done what I have said tonight
Can you pass me some punch from that bowel over there
I'll try one or two sips then crash in this chair
You know I'd love to love the love we used to love
Tonight we laughed about some old times
We talked about some new times
We reminisced some things I'd rather forget
We dance about the room
We toasted to the moon
We said too much too soon
And it ain't over yet
Tonight
I never had a side to be on
We'll roll out of town wake me at dawn
I can see us now already gone tonight
But I had
Too many drinks Too many cigarettes
I hope you recall I'm bound to forget
What I have done what I have said tonight
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LEAVES
Words and Music by David Shepherd Grossman Ó 1984
Sure is late I best be getting home soon
But I love it out here with the full moon
Shining on the pond
Chorus
Crickets sing through the weeping willow tree
Fire flies dance against the night
I can hear my name blowing 'round the leaves
I wonder if I'll be alright
There's a lost Indian
Walking downtown
Looking for the land he lost
Don't he know he's got it found
Chorus
No one ever said that as you grow up
You have to grow apart
No one ever told me that
Everyone looks alone
Chorus
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Annie Don't Know
02:58
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Annie Don't Know
Words and Music by David Shepherd Grossman
Annie don't know
Annie don't know
Annie don't know
She don't know what it's like to cry
Because she is crying all the time
She don't know what it's like to feel low
She don't know
Chorus
She don't know why she's going out
She don't know why she'd staying home
She don't know what to care about
She don't know if she's alone
She don't know what it's like to cry
'cause she's crying all the time
She don't know what it's like to feel low
She don't know
Chorus
She'll have you take a number and wait in line
Annie don't know how I feel about her
Annie don't know what I need to know
Chours
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Stumbling Off 6th St.
03:50
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Stumbling Off 6th Street
Words and Music by David Shepherd Grossman ã 1996
Cold is the alley in back of the bar
It used to be somewhere to go
Moving from doorway to doorway waiting
For sunrise or someone I know
I got a bus pass
I got no money
I got no job
But I do my best
Each morning I fill out work applications
But I got no phone and got no address
Couches and floors of artists and gangs
Benches and bus stations
Shelters and homes
All over crowded with too many people
But I doubt if I ever felt more alone
5AM it's the end of the line
Bus driver let me out on the shore
I slept in the sand
And wondered again
If this day would open a door
Cause there's nothing not to believe in
There's nothing not there to know
Ashes on water washed in the sun
Let my spirit go
I must be crazy
I rent a hotel room
Junkies in doorways passed out on the floor
I step around them
They ask for my money
I empty my pockets
They ask me for more
I was born
In this city
Now I sit in St Patrick's church every day
And sleep on the stairs with a on legged cowboy
Who was headed for Texas
But lost his way
Back on the street again everyone's fighting
There's not enough peace to go around
The wind is too heavy the rain is too cold
There are too many nights in this town
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Darkness
Words and Music by David Shepherd Grossman
Took a room at low rent
Bedded down in deep cement
Hard as this head
Cold as this heart
No room for another
No sister, no brother
No one but me
And no other part
Chorus
Darkness
Is not what you want
It is not what you need
When nothing goes right
Spaces
Filled by your soul
When touched by another
Leads you to light
Asked a friend for a favor
Some kind of life saver
He was there in spirit
But not there in heart
Said ya on the 1st call
Time passed no word at all
Must have changed his mind
The mask goes up
The plans they fall
Chorus
Grey cloud in a blue sky
Big city passing by
Homes within walls
Tears behind eyes
Find room for another
Some sister some brother
Someone to care
We got to love one another
Chorus
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Together Alone
04:02
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Together Alone
The grass is so green
The days are so long
I park my whole life in a dream
Step outside and walk along
Finding you here in my day
My days start at the dawn of your night
Thinking of something to say
To make it alright
They say you come to this world all alone
And you leave alone
But it takes two to leave one alone
And you leave more when you leave
We leave Together Alone
Flowers sing to the field
Trees far away line the sky
Mountains look over the trees
And a breeze breathes a soft lullaby
For a farmer plowing his field
To a road-side shack - a fruit stand
An ocean that takes it to sea
And then washes it back on the land
Still you seem so apart
Even though you’re a part of it all
They cut your core at the start
And believe when you leave that you’re leaving – you’re leaving us all
But we remember
Together Alone
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David Shepherd Grossman Los Angeles, California
All music written by DSG
('cept where noted)
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