Tapdance Tornado (2025)

  1. (might as well)

  2. maybe Someday

  3. jazz Tea

  4. can’t be Yours

  5. bioLuminescence

  6. siloBloomingpresence

  7. alL…

  8. rEach

  9. after Thoughts

  10. (fundamental forest)

  11. Endymion

  12. Won’t you

  13. Farewell chaos

  14. Another

  15. Drifting cause

  16. Evermore

  17. Thus

(might as well)

maybe Someday

Blue moon come to me I’m ready for you, help the tide turn the dust into a tune 

Make the night into your muse

Red sun, hit me with your fire tongue, need more heating of my blood

Take your love and 

Break me off a piece of that chain, love flows by like a wild train 

Roll on in blurry painted names 

Shake me up and make your claim, make our love the brightest stain 

Maybe someday we’ll find silver in the rain  

Black star, shining like a lonely car, distant headlights in the dark

Constellations in our  

Hearts, love flows through but not in vain 

Scars, living art that knows no frame 

Let go of your holding game, make our love the light we sing

Maybe someday we’ll find silver in the rain 

Maybe someday we’ll find vision in our dreams 

Maybe someday we’ll find something to believe in

jazz Tea

As a start, could I walk you to your car, though I know it isn’t far away 

We could talk about the pieces of our hearts, and how they often feel so far away  

What’s your stand, do you wanna make a plan

Or could you meet the match to echo your intrigue 

We could talk about it over jazz tea

Every second is a second chance, reset the room to reverence

Every second is a second chance, if your heart returns the glance

can’t be Yours

Running away from everything, I don’t need anymore 

It’s been a while since I had something to run for 

So I’ve been pushing all my dreams, to the bottom of the drawer 

Buried underneath some comfortable routines and routine chores  

I’m not sure, if I’ll ever have the drive to drive my life above the shelf

Can’t be yours, if I can’t be myself, for longer than a second at a time  

Running away from everyone, I can’t seem to comprehend 

I’m too tangled in this spun out web I’m spinning in 

So I’ve been placing all my lines, on the pedestal of the past 

And I’ve been preaching about time for years but damn it’s moving fast 

I’m not sure, if I’ll ever have the will to weave my web beyond the cracks 

Can’t be yours, even if you’re right in front of me but I keep looking back  

I’m not sure, if I’ll ever write a line as bright as back in twenty-twelve 

Can’t be yours, if I want everything for myself  

Can’t be yours 

bioLuminescence

We pocket all our change, just to keep our hips moving

They sway and shake, we give and take, but we mostly throw away  

It seems surreal at a first glance, but beneath the magnifying trance 

Beginnings end, they shatter and bend 

Just to begin again

siloBloomingpresence

Season tips the burning ember, into smiling flame 

Laughter breaks and cracks right after, bright ignition intuition 

What an easy game to play for days

We could speak for free while sitting sideways 

Shed our skin for pungent plunges, into the deep of dream abundance 

We’re serpents in the lake

Slide through time like diamond star shine, and golden days 

Unfolding ways

Our souls are saved

alL…

It’s all in your heart, it’s all in your mind 

It’s all so easy left behind 

rEach 

I’d reach for your hand but I read that to grasp is to lose 

Or maybe it’s just that deep down I’m afraid you’d refuse 

Time turns to dust in the stillness of dusk, a rooftop reminder of what we might want

But patience will make us all ancient, as the pavement turns blue, I wish I could turn to you 

You sent me a book of reflection sweet scribbles of time 

I fiddle replies in revolving trapdoors in my mind 

Time turns to tell and I’ll tell you too much, a ramble of spells spilling out like a crutch

Leaning and latent and true, subjective illusions I wish we both knew  

You sit in your home with your blue-eyed dog, and infinite spirits singing their song

A foggy red glow from the window, the babbles of birth and a laughing piano

after Thoughts 

(fundamental forest)

Endymion

You may take all of the time 

You’re breathing slower, even though you’re 

Lowering, olive sunrise 

Sink swift ships set sail to the trail 

Through veil and hail and violent hell 

Of self-felt flail, you’re swallowing helpfuls of vision  

And you’re sleeping with a false alarm clock 

Speaking in sparks 

So the golden glow glinted window 

Gleaming its part 

Oh soft dream you’re slumbering 

Between dimensions, did I mention anything 

Or is it just my imagination 

And you’re leaving on a time turn trolley 

Leaping in the dark 

And the silver slow sliver widow 

Gleaming her art

Beaming eye stars

Won’t you

Won’t you keep me by your pillow 

Won’t you hear me when I snore 

When you see me in your tilted window

Won’t you lead me through your door 

Will you listen if I’m distant 

Can we blend into the floor 

Or would you climb into the ceiling 

Will you watch me as I sink or soar blink before 

Thoroughly think through this more

Farewell chaos

Might I say, how nice to see you there

Leaving alone in silence, while our hands are clasped in prayer

You could stay, the night we wouldn’t dare

Speaking sideways angles, with eyes caught in a stare 

Why the wait, it’s always ever there

Feather floating endless, severing the center

In the wake, when wisdom finds flare

Following forget-me-nots, untying knots with care

Let’s compare, our visions and listen to the tear

Of the ever dream, a clever gleam that never seemed so rare

I wonder where your frequencies fare

Show me how to share

Another

Would you put up with another hit 

Or would you sink into the chair, didn’t think that you should care 

Cold shoulder, a cool hug 

Another dizzy churning spell spill from my lukewarm mug 

My stomach’s butter, my mind is gin 

Just a retroactive cause outside the place we’re in 

So let it be, let it go 

In an instant glimmer glance across the table’s glow

Drifting cause 

You speak truth through eyelid snoozing 

Side seduction into nothing

I’m telling you through every move I do 

Involuntary twisting, a tripling, a drifting 

The dizzying kazoo, the buzzing of a bumbling brute 

On the porch with torchlit pupils 

Grasping at the sky, mistaking stars for claws 

It’ll put you in a pause 

Heaven said to break away, I told her hey I’ll be back someday, anyway 

In the meanwhile, hell grins in my mean smile 

It’s to who but you or I 

And if we can recall without trying, we’ll see we’re the 

Same plain thing, underneath the dirt shine of our 

Narrative ring, intertwining inner starlight 

How interesting we’ve become in the hum of the 

Simple string sum, cymbals scream for the deep drum 

Wind blows the season 

Slide beside dreamin

Evermore

Winding lines in a perfect day, casting shadows in the floor 

Sleepy light, can we go to stay, cease to breathe before 

In creep the seeping night, it’s crawling in display

A shiver in the spine, the shade of spades

Speaking in a lullaby sigh

Something singing in the slight

Space between the, crack door cry and the moan of midnight

Stillness shakes the shore

Thus 

Carry on

You always shine so divine

And help another speak their mind

It was so easy to soar

And then you left an open door 

Carry on 

And when the evening feels like night

The brighter light from a path so bright

And we can see them now

And I can see you now

 Carry on

Underground Surfer (2022)

  1. Taciturn

  2. Alcoholic Dreams

  3. Loft Thoughts

  4. Rooftops in Rome

  5. Inhale

  6. Beach Zombies

  7. German Stars

  8. Amsterdam

  9. TopsyTurvy

  10. Roll On

Taciturn

Oooh

Alcoholic Dreams

My head spins like a twister, ever since I missed her, ever since these nights

My mind sighs if only, I’m sick of feelin lonely, lost in what’s not right

Is it you or is it me, is it a lack of ability, are all these questions a waste of time

Cuz yes I’ve shown I’m ready, so yes or no just tell me, no why do I even try

I know why

Cuz your smile is so contagious, your actions are outrageous, and still we’re raging on

Our eyes can meet for a moment, and everything is golden

Ah damn I need to scrap my plan, but something keeps me waiting

Where the hell have I gone since Wednesday, what is choking up my mind

Not Estrella or the whiskey, it’s just the glimmer in your eye

When you noticed that I spoke, cuz every word I’ve said’s to you

Whether passive, pass the grass cuz I need something to get me through

So I’ve abandoned my intentions, and now I know why

You’re the reason why

Cuz grace is the taste of cigarettes, nights holding hands that we’re gonna forget

I just want a night with you to remember when I won’t drop you on your head

But every night without a glass is a cold shoulder to the past

You always say I should be older, well this aging’s killing me

And I don’t wanna waste another line anymore

So goodnight and through your beautiful open closed door

Loft Thoughts

I don’t know why I’m waiting, when we’re either fighting or dating

And every date ends in a fight

I don’t know why I’m speaking, when you’re not listening but sleeping

And I want to fall asleep with you

Much adieu

I don’t know why I miss you, we were drunk each time I kissed you

But tell me do you remember

But something bout the way you

Didn’t turn away, made me feel inclined to find you mirror my way

Your reason, I’m leanin too far to say two, now what do I do

Please don’t turn away, can’t it be the same it felt on that first day

Dim numbers, sit underground in quiet bloom, what else can we do

Rooftops in Rome 

Do you see the view of rooftops in Rome, I don’t need a home

I don’t need to be waging a war, maybe that’s just what teenage years are for

Getting older, getting faster, yeah I’m still tryna get past her

Her smile is the Vatican, but I can’t think that again

Be a roamer, meet with Homer, these days it seems I’m rarely sober

Lost meaning of the word over, over and over again

I’m holding onto a star, crooked spin and hookups in a bar

On a train to Tarragona with a forty-eight Euro guitar

Jugs of wine in route to Barcelona

The aroma of whiskey and soda and just who we are

Spilling out in liters and cards

I’m gone to travel so far, beauty in the sun and the dark

Do you see the view of rooftops in Rome, everywhere I am home

Inhale 

Lookin out the open window each sight comes in a breath

My mind’s a Swiss train on tracks of so much to come yet

Oh I have got to do, oh so much left to do

A night at the museum asleep out in the grass

My heart’s a broken bone but it’s tearing off its cast

Oh I need something new, oh always something new

Swim through seas of green and skies of blue, the air is Alpine and the view

Kisses all the knots away, here’s to better days

Oh I have got to do, so much left to do

Oh I need something new, always something new

 Beach Zombies

Lookin back on yesterday feels like a dream, and I’m still asleep

I see people hurry by ears blowin out steam, but that can’t be me

No there’s too much to think, see, hear, smell, taste, and touch, I scream

Out the window at the Autobahn breeze

Lookin back is so one-sided so I look up to the front, a blink of the road

All these thoughts I try to write it, write about what I want, but not what I know

No there’s a lot I thought I knew and knew and fought I grow, closer to home

The further I go, woke in a dream and remembered to glow

Split through the seams in a land of snow, oh, golden roads

I’m sorry Finland didn’t work, and all of your friends

Took your reactions, reacted berserk, and everything ends

But look back at all the places you’ve gone, forward to all the places you’ll go

Leaning and lost and walking til dawn, you always remember to glow

Cuz you’re an underground surfer, a drunken firefighter

Let your curiosity charm you into yet another all-nighter

Pass the lighter, pass the hash, the catch is you owe me twenty-two in cash

Follow the wizard in your dreams cuz everything’s moving so fast

We slept in the car, stared at a fire with a tiny guitar

Almost forgot how we held hands in the dark, in a mirror

Let the top of the hill make our year

 German Stars

A beggar just past by in the station, a reverent sigh of patience

Cuz tonight we’re doin right, in the city of Northern Lights

Where the stars all shine so bright

An Audi just passed by on the highway, but keep your mind’s eye to the skyway

Cuz today we’ll be okay, so grab your Strat and play

And thanks again for letting us stay

German stars, chips, beer and cars, we’ve all got a helluva lot to say

Hold the whole world deep in our hearts, while our minds take the day by day

Hold the whole world deep in our heart, while our mind takes the day by day

Amsterdam

Take the boat out for a ride before it sails away

Counting years upon my life I’m still swimming out to bay

Spent the day getting so high I can’t figure out one thing to say

I’m stained green, and red, and dead

Pass the street the bells and bikes feelin like life is a movie

Pencil in our don’ts and likes and the adjectives are all so groovy

Cross the trail through illusion, and confusion in every word

Is a sentence so absurd, when feelings can be heard

Like a whisper in my dream, I need to sleep again

I know that I fall, in every breath that I forget to breathe

Feelings are now blurred, and all my thoughts are stirred

In this pot, this melting point is turning what’s preferred beyond control

And I know, that falling’s just a breath away

TopsyTurvy 

Oooh

Roll On

We just missed the train from that moment of fear

So many roll on while I’m standin right here

Just feelin it pass with its pestilent roar

The only sweet freedom I’ve come to adore

I’m a sinner, a saint, I can never decide

All I can do is roll on til the end of my life

All I can do is go on just riding the tide

And hoping that soon it will rise

So we’re floorin it north and the thunder does shout

To Boulder or Chicago or wherever the hell we can get out

Dear progress is found in the darkest of skies

So sleep in the car and clench shut your eyes

And breathe in the air with smoke and a flame

To find dizzy dreams, and all that remains

Is the splitting of seams and a gleam-eyed parade

Just marching to the end of our days, someone show me the way

I’m ready to catch and I’m ready to crack

So I’m crackin more cans as I try to catch my breath

The sway is a breeze so to speak from a dream

And I’m caught in the current of the momentary gleam

Of our eyes rollin back in our heads with every sway

When it’s five AM and sleep feels so far away

So we’re burnin more rolled up reminders of the grey

The vision the spark of a momentary daze

Lukewarm Coffee (2021)

  1. Schwab House Blues

  2. Other Shoes

  3. So Slow

  4. Crickets

  5. Drop

  6. Bokonon

  7. Backyard

  8. Rise

  9. Still

  10. Exhale

Schwab House Blues

Well I could skip town in a couple of weeks, never to call, or even send a postcard, to you

Cuz I won’t be connecting the dots of the places we forgot, just take another shot or two

Until we’re all, sleepin in, dreamin, oooh we’re stuck within it

And I could spend another year high, sittin by the water, exploring my emotions

And everyone else that comes by, they dissolve as I crack another potion

Until my, sunken grin, is gleamin, oooh one of these days yeah, oooh one of these days I’m leaving it all behind

And once again, the ceiling, oooh it’s spinnin and the world just keeps spinnin spinnin

Round and round and round…

 Other Shoes

Well baby I’ve been tellin you lies, try to make myself seem all qualified

But I’ve got so much to hide and little to give from this little old lamb kind of life

Sometimes I don’t have reason to move so I step on my feet with rocks in my shoes

So let’s write a hoppin groove another anthem to another answer that we’re gonna lose

 So Slow

Baby, I wish you were sand

So I could take your great great sea of thoughts and run it through my hands

Lady, I’d like you to know

That you have got my heart it beats so fast when you move so slow

When you move so slow…

Crickets 

The world is a letter in a dream, I slipped a stamp in my pillow

Spark some vision, my excess is my engine

As we fly, flee, slowly, time turns eternally

We're pearls at sea, leaves along a willow tree

The world is a hypocritic critic, I'm sleepin, cue the crickets

Hold that thought for a millisecond more and kick it

Round and round and round, and the breeze is twisted

On a silhouette tour, it's free if you're interested

No stop shop in store, it's easier assisted, leave the floor uplifted, please be sure to visit

Drop 

Runnin round and round again I’ve got a flashback in my pocket

Holdin back another tied up tongue behind feelings

My pocket sits, the clock it ticks, I’m knockin on a stop sign with a fist of all I knew before I thought it

Oh the end is round the corner, where it always seems to dare, I am aware, I am aware

Voices scream in every way, in a colorful screen in a colorful way

Your breath is free to sway in the breeze

Golden locks in melting pots, with a poisonous medicine, your sea of thoughts all just become a stream

Oh each second’s getting shorter, but we move too slow to care, are you aware, are you aware

Black hole assuming order, puzzle piece fit in a stare

 Bokonon

On the backside, I’m waitin

I’m savin up some nights for something different soon to begin

With the door shut, and the light out

Twisting shadows sing blessings of belated emergence

This reassurance, it breathes flame into the night

Welcome a tidal wave of sound, eclipsing the night sky

And soon my darkness, is filled with reason

Chance that’s bleeding phosphorescent light

Making the world into a dream

And waking me up, with peculiar travel suggestions

Dancing lessons from God, may your gold ship sail Bokonon

May your days go on and on and on and on

 Backyard

Open up the doorway to the storm that you’ve been bleedin

Schemin changes with the season, aint no reason when we’re dreamin

To be more than just a patient, life is not to make you anxious

Feel the beauty when we’re wasted, we’re so close that I can taste it

I’m so close but I aint faced it, when it’s gone

Feel the voice in every rhythm, find the choice in each decision

With an easy goin livin, where the breeze be blowin within

Where the leaves be growin liftin to the sea

 Rise

When you exceed, all the things, that make your heart go round

Will you believe, the blushing sky, and rise

And rise…

Still 

Tell me tell me what you’re thinkin tonight, and I’ll try to match you

Lately findin that I’m sinkin beneath the light, while I’m still trying to reach you

I’m still tryin to reach you, I’m still tryin to reach you, I’m still tryin to reach you, I am still

Tell me tell me why you’re speaking out to a room full of clouds and grey kisses

What are you missin from yourself that makes you distant

Yeah maybe if you listened to yourself things would be different

Tell me tell me what’s your plan, if you can

But if you can’t you could make up anything and I’d believe it

What are you missing from yourself that makes you distant

Yeah maybe if you listened to yourself things would be different

Exhale

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