Lyrics for
Release Date: Dec. 27, 2007


LET ME GO copyright 2007 by Bud Buckley
It took too long to find you,
I did me over and you found me
The price so high I was blind to
The cost of letting you astound me
But now it's time and it's been time for a long time
Oh it's time and it's been time for a long time Oh oo oo oo

CHORUS:
If I could, I'd take you with me
Feel your smile deep in my soul
We both know they can't reach me
So I beg you let me go Oh Oh oo oo oo oo
Don’t make me beg, Don’t make me beg, Don’t make me beg, Just let me go

We both left home behind
To find a brand new place
And life was kind
In our searching embrace
But now it's time and it's been time for a long time
Oh it's time and it's been time for a Long time Oh oo oo oo
REPEAT CHORUS

Before you, life was more hard
Than the face I showed you
But together we starred
In a love story overdue
But now it's time and it's been time for a long time
Oh it's time and it's been time for a long time Oh oo oo oo
REPEAT CHORUS


YOU CAN'T LEAVE MY MIND Copyright 2007 By Bud Buckley

I feel you in all the places that you've been
I hear you in the silence, I hear you in the wind
In the dust I read the traces you left behind
You can leave anyplace but you can't leave my mind
You can leave anyplace but you can't leave my mind

I see you in the things you've left out of place
I see your creases in the chair and in the mirror I see your face
Every place you've been is every place you've left your sign
You can leave anyplace but you can't leave my mind
You can leave anyplace but you can't leave my mind

You blow through my hair even when it's still
I feel you in every thing you've touched
You seep into me against my will

I can try to fill these spaces with things that aren't you
Decorate in colors of a different hue
I could try to erase you from this place and time
You can leave anyplace and you'll never leave my mind
You can leave anyplace but you'll never leave my mind.
You can leave anyplace but you can't leave my mind


UNDERGROUND Copyright 2007 Bud Buckley
Parrots on a stop sign still daring to talk trash
On a honeysuckle wall built to camouflage burning ash
Sun glares from the east, clouds gang up in the west
Riding down the middle, dreading what comes next

When the American dream is no more to be found
Grab who and what you love
And go for the underground, go for the underground
Underground Underground

The air is getting filthy, so we'll call it nice and clean
The rivers run with mercury and the fish are turning mean
There's killing done for freedom, we just call it democracy
If it's in the name of God you can't call it hypocrisy

When those endless soundbytes make your head pound
Grab who and what you love
And go for the underground, go for the underground
Underground Underground

It's fine to get rich un less you're working with your hands
Ask for a living wage, watch your work go to other lands
You buy that line and put in the time, do just what you’re told
'til one day your job is downsized and you wake up sick and old

When you're down so far you just can't rebound
When your life's no better than a homeless hound
When you get to the point you just want to keep your profile down
When you can't sit and watch an other one get crowned
Grab who and what you love
And go for the underground, go for the underground
Underground Underground



KEEPING SECRETS Copyright 2007 Bud Buckley, Kathy Feeney

Remember that day we were skipping stones, lakeside outside our selves
The dark mirror lake hiding deep unknowns, old church window reflects pastels
I didn’t mean to sink my stones, I didn’t mean what you thought I said
I didn’t know what secrets the lake owned, I didn’t know what was inside your head

CHORUS:
Keeping secrets, it hurt to smile
Keeping secrets, like a willful child
Keeping secrets, like we had no clue
I loved you too much to admit we’re through


We sat as still as the lake, as still as that old church where the faithful no longer come
Stained glass windows, blood ringing in my ears, silence leaving me numb
Your silence is causing this ache that my heart’s trying to deny
Your stillness as cold as the lake, Just make a ripple so I know you’re alive

Repeat chorus

While the water held its breath, the old church heaved a sigh
Listening for hello but hearing goodbye

We cut each other deep until the secrets were released
Fading scars, slow healing wounds we fight to find peace
No more skipping stones now the lake is a frozen field
Can we make it across this thin ice over what is still concealed?
Repeat chorus



ELEVATOR Copyright 2007 Bud Buckley, Kathy Feeney

Elevator, oo you Elevator, Elevator, oo you Elevator

I feel you before I even hear you
Frantic, I push your buttons to get near you
Romantic , how you finally appear to
Tease me, seize me, retrieve and please me

CHORUS:
Elevate, I’ll wait
Elevate, I’ll Wait
Elevator, oo you Elevator, Elevator, oo you Elevator

I know I’m not the only one to ride you
I ask for it so it’s not like I’ was lied to
I’ll make you one stop only if I decide to
No crime , this time, I’m fine, yeah right I’m fine
Repeat Chorus

Inside I have to trust you
It scares me to be at your whim
Much Too late to hesitate
Don’t wanna go back to where I’ve been

Don’t leave me on the ground floor
Not used to going so low any more I’ll
I give in, now let me in, open t up your door
Just take me, don’t mistake me, you Shake me, awake me
Chorus and out


THE SILENCE THE Copyright 2007 by Bud Buckley

Sometimes I think I'm living in the wrong place
Sometimes I think I left too much behind
Sometimes leaving the rat race
Doesn't always treat you kind
Sometimes nothing seems to be fair
I need the silence there
I need the silence there

I remember what I did
I can't go back and rearange it
Have no idea where I'm going
It's only now that I can change it
To revise the past would certainly be rare
I need the silence there
I need the silence there

I need to keep my head here on my own neck
I need to keep my eyes inside my face
I need to keep from steering toward that train wreck
I need to make this a quiet place
It's a challenge not to flip backwards in this chair
I need the silence there
I need the silence there
I need the silence there
I need the silence there


I STILL REMEMBER (HOW THAT FEELS) Copyright 2007 Bud Buckley

Working harder than I did she’s making the grade
Makes me feel so proud to see the life she has made
She gives much more than it’s polite to take
She says to give is no mistake

CHORUS:
I still feel her on my lap, my little sack of sugar powder
Gives me that gap-toothed smile and squeals,
We’d roll around the floor, couldn’t get much louder
I still remember, I still remember
I still remember how that feels,
Oh oh oh


What lay beneath her smile, I tried to guess
I choked on my words, asking for forgiveness
To be her hero, I’d need to understand
How to reach through this emotional quicksand
Repeat Chorus

I think my only mistake was to give her what she thought she wanted
When she said to let her go
I waited for her to come back, she waited for me to reach her
All that waiting, all that wanting,
All that wondering, what did we know?

I just want to be the rock she can stand on
If I should go sooner than I planned on
I’ll still be as close as lightning to thunder
About my love, she’ll never have to wonder

Repeat Chorus
I still remember, I still remember
I still remember how that feels,
Oh oh oh


MELTDOWN Copyright 2007 Bud Buckley, James Braha

Let Down, another Goddamn letdown
Old friends I loved and trusted,
Drive me mad, I’m so damned disgusted
Shakedown, I’m in the middle of a shakedown
Just wanna run and hide
Traitors coming’ at me from all sides

CHORUS:
Meltdown , You put me in a meltdown oh yeah
Meltdown, You put me in a melt down

Ripdown, here comes a classic ripdown
Leave me bare assed in the street,
Burned again, more goddamned heat
Takedown, you got me in a takedown
You jerked me all around
Turned me upside down
Repeat Chorus

Putdown, this is the ultimate putdown
You wiped me out just like a flash flood
Dragged my reputation through the mud
Repeat Chorus twice


TATTOO Copyright 2007 Bud Buckley

Bad ideas seem so perfect when they first inflame your mind
Possibly they'll show no mercy going from cool to lame in time
The taste of now, sweet gone sour, that you can't wash away
I Need something to last something thicker than what's so phat today


My tattoo shows you where I was at that place in time
My tattoo advertises my one time state of mind
That's why I wrote this song, I wrote it all for you
It'll haunt me years from now an audio tattoo

Bad idea, what was I thinking when I made no move that day
I just watched, did not touch, too scared to steal you away
How was I to know how fast the years would go, how long we'd be apart?
How your voice your smile your every move would stay engraved upon my heart

My tattoo shows you where I was at that place in time
My tattoo advertises my one time state of mind
Don't need a dragon, a bleeding heart or creature from the zoo
I wear you in my voice and smile, you're my indelible tattoo


CROWDED MEMORY Copyright 2007 Bud Buckley, Kathy Feeney

In my crowded memory, I see your faces looking
Out at me like now was yesterday
Smiling your stories at me,
You were this sergeant's Lovely Hearts Club Band
Back in the day

CHORUS:
Miles and years mean nothing against our friendship
New styles, careers, nothing can transcend it
Look at us then, look at us now,
Look at us then, look at us now,
Look at us then, look at us now,

In my crowded memory, you acted bored when I
Warned you which rules not to bend
In your crowded memory,
Hope I’m more than just some
Guy who you knew way back when
Repeat chorus

If we passed on the street now
We might not know for sure but we’d
Turn and look to see if it was true
'Cause in our crowded memories
Wind stirs the images of
Age and youth blending old and new
Repeat chorus


SITTING ON THE WING EP

Frozen Shadows Copyright 2009 Bud Buckley

Deep winter bruises after all your games, your leaving’s worse than I had feared
No warm passion and all our hopes snowed under, disappeared
Crunch of frozen mud under my boots, and you flew off above the trees
You’re too far gone to come back home, frozen shadows over me

CHORUS:
Frozen shadows they invade me
Glacial scraping of blood on bone
Icy fingers and you betrayed me
Frozen shadows I’m so alone

You don’t remember where home is, it’s missing from your map
You hunt attention that’s foreign to me, I’m bloody, dying in your trap
You cashed in on my old wealth, checked out on your new money
You’re Queen of the snow and I’m black ice, frozen shadows over me
REPEAT CHORUS:

How much longer can this last, before the mercy of the sun
How much winter must I endure before I come undone?
I guess I never should have bet there was more to you than beauty
It’s hard to admit that I chose you frozen shadow’s over me

REPEAT CHORUS:
Frozen shadows and I’m all a lone


A WAYcopyright 2009 by Bud Buckley

Evacuate all sea life, Red Tide advances
Nature’s gone unnatural, dwindling last chances
Overheated planet, turbulent weather
See predator and prey swim away together

CHORUS:
Swim away, escape with our skins
Swim away forget all our sins
Swim away, swim away
Swim away, escape with our skins
Swim away before the end begins
Swim away, swim away


Evacuate all insects, pesticides run rampant
Can’t sow your own seeds if you don’t own the patent
Bees and Frogs vanish, fragile as a feather
See the bugs and the birds fly away together

CHORUS 2:
Fly away, escape with our skins
Flyaway, forget all our sins
Fly away, Fly away
Fly away, escape with our skins
Fly away before the end begins
Fly away, Fly away

Evacuate all Wildlife. Wait! We have to do better
No time for denial, Extinct is forever
There is no escape, We’re all in this together

CHORUS 3
Have to stay to save our skins
Have to stay, Atone for our sins
Have to stay, Have to stay
Have to stay to save our skins
Have to stay, Atone for our sins
Have to stay Have to stay
Have to stay, Atone for our sins
Have to stay Have to stay


MOVE ME copyright 2009 by Bud Buckley

She said, write me, sing me something deep, I don’t mean low
She said, If you want to have me then I will have you know
Some literary words, and a clever use of verbs
And If you want me, you have to move me

CHORUS:
Oh move me, move me, move me. inspire and improve me
Give mewordsthat move me Oh ooo ooo ooo

She said, I love it when you say things I never heard before
I’m charmed beyond control by your use of metaphor
You can have me for a sonnet and a thoughtful simile
And if you want me, you have to move me

REPEAT CHORUS:

I said, look at me, darlin’, dive into my eyes
My hands around her waist, my heart’s of such great size
I say what I feel but I need you to just feel me
And If my words should move you, well you know how that moves me

REPEAT CHORUS then:
Oh move me, move me, move me. satisfy and soothe me
Give me words that move me Oh ooo ooo ooo



SIT ON THE WIND copyright 2009 by Bud Buckley

Birds up high, floating through the air
Dipping our wings to take us anywhere
We find our wordless way on the breeze
Touching the earth whenever we please
Gliding down to rest, grateful and blessed


CHORUS
Together we sit on the wind,
Together we sail across the sky
When we want to we swoop and we dive, effortless, synchronized
Together we, sit on the wind

When nothing seems to go our way
We’ll both go, or we’ll both stay
To ride new rivers in the sun and the rain
To comfort and soothe each others pain
We take it together, feather for feather


REPEAT CHORUS

BRIDGE
We’ve mourned with the swan who’s lonely
Felt the pain for what he’s missing
Side by side let death be our only cause for lonely reminiscing
My best friend, my precious wife, partners for life

Together we sit on the wind, Together we sail across the sky
When we want to we swoop and we dive, effortless, synchronized
Together we, sit on the wind
Together we, sit on the wind
Sit on the wind

JACOB'S HURRICANE copyright 2009 by Bud Buckley

Jake heard a hurricane is comin’ and he should run for his life
He said, “I got bigger problems. Something’s comin’ for my wife
So go board up your windows, flee your mobile home
Cause my darlin’s trapped in bed, she’s sick to the bone”

CHORUS
Well Jacob’s not afraid of a hurricane
He’s afraid he’ll never see her again
He can put up with damage and financial ruin
But he don’t know what he’d do without her
He’d be lost and useless without her
So bring on the hurricane

Jake’s neighbor tows his boat from his beach house
With his programmable toaster in his car that talks
Calculates his loses, tries to reach his spouse
She’s safe up north with a foo foo dog she walks

REPEAT CHORUS

When it’s over people will pick up what’s left of their lives
For Jacob it’ll never be over for him
Dreams of biting wind and memories sharp as knives
If he’s neglected her, he’d be living a sin

REPEAT CHORUS Plus:
So bring on the hurricane, Bring on the hurricane, Bring on the hurricane, Bring it on




GO IF YOU WANT TO copyright 2009 by Bud Buckley

You can go if you want to
I wish you’d stay cause I want you to
Let me feel your heat , let me taste your air
You can go if you want to
But I want you to make that sound that I like
When I kiss you right there


CHORUS
Open like the petals of a flower
I’ll show you how good a flower can feel
A blossom waiting to reveal
I want to fill you to the roots of your being
Do all the things a lover can do
But You can go, if you want to

You can tell me you’re busy
You can tell me you got things to do
Well I got things I want to do with you
You pretend you don’t need me
But I don’t think you want to leave me
So just go if you want to

REPEAT CHORUS

So tear yourself away from me
If you really think that’s the way it should be
I’ll wait here in the garden where we belong
I hope you don’t go too far
So I don’t know where you are
Just slip away and come back soon if you want to


REPEAT CHORUS Then: You can go But I hope you don’t you want to