James Anthony

Tough Questions

Teacher: what would you do if Love asked you to what would you do if Love asked you to what would you do what would you do what would you do when it’s late icy and cold and up ahead is a smoking wreck if Love asked you to

What's It Like

what’s it like to dance every night what’s it like to paint with a mic what’s it like to stand in the bright lights what’s it like when more than a few sing along with you oh… what’s it like what’s it like what’

Shade Tree

oh shade tree save me more today than yesterday oh shade tree, you… savin’ me lettin’ me breathe helpin’ me see dear shade tree Love and thanks to thee what you come to expect what’s it mean to redress down to the wire mid-august on fire flames burnin’

Atlantica Nights

we could walk on down to chinatown in east el-aye let me play with you you can play with me too slip into a four-four groove star-gazin’ at lyle-place [with you] oh atlantica skies I’m the smile behind your tears… I’m the quiet peace

Overwhelm

overwhelm fast finds me fast falling asleep thoughts and feelings about the places I go and the people I meet is there no big red bow no wrapped-up and complete only an echo and a shadow from somewhere [far/deep] below let my attention now go to this comfy

Martian Love

baby shake me up Peter-Pan deMuck blastin' off to mars with Elon Musk faster yer seatbelt that’s a must when yer makin' martian Love baby shake me up Peter-Pan deMuck blastin' off to mars with elon musk honey never gonna bee enough man ain’

Last Year's Guy

put the car in drive wipe the tears from my eyes said bye bye to last year’s guy tired of the off-white lies the shifting tides and his shifty eyes another mixed up guy did I do something wrong did I say too much did I say something

Way Back We

could I make you out could I take you out would you ride with me to my home in the south it’s gotta [good] soul yeah I’d so Love to show ya climb a mountain or two climb two mountains with you and did it all from zoom

Can't Be Won

this is a fight you cannot win do battle you may but at the end of the day life will be taken away what goes up often comes down drag it out [bang it out] push it in pull it out one final scene maybe a director’s cut of

Final Approach

when it’s gettin’ late and the tale of the tape is tellin’ goodbye-type lies shoutin’ out the east window of an old brick shop been out there a while hidden among a group of evergreens and I know why I know wye I know wye I know wye

Lost Rain

when you lose and lost me in the rain it's hard to listen when it’s quiet and Life unfolds just fine one moment at a time I walked upstream for a mile or so lookin’ for a fork where a second stream still flows and the crunch

Sharp & Smooth

baby my pencil’s sharp and smooth and ready for your groove if yer in the mood oh be-have rub your pencil [up] on my page wha what da fuk it got to do wit luck it’s crazy out that door [and] crazy has its place late nights

Whispers

somewhere out across the deep blue sea I stopped asking for her to come back to me Mother Earth wrapped Her Loving arms around me now when you cut me I still bleed but I no longer bleed for you and me tensions rise in the corner of my eyes

Glitter Bomb

sometimes she gonna give you a glitter bomb sometimes Love leaves you - that’s ever-wrong sometimes yer dreamin’ out loud when the silence whispers [how/now] it was a long march in april we sat down all these sorrows drown in the icy sound sometimes it’s black sometimes

Sleep

downward-facin' somethin' another up-start gonna break my heart am I a two-tone tart and is this really art exactly what part of afraid of the dark is getting the best of you don't ya know that the u-tube has thousands of ways

Fallin' Down

watched it all go wrong and it didn’t take long oh what a waste another friday-night basket case bombs are blastin’ rods are castin’ and we all fallin’ down and we all fallin’ down monday’s medley smacked and grabbed me pulled me close whispered, ‘you’re gonna

Ernie & Bert

last night at work after the midnight twerk I heard a lil' story bout' ernie and bert ernie and bert ernie and bert brokeback glamping in a big ol’ yurt got me a horse gonna take me to war [to the valley next door] I’m waitin'

Four Thousand Nights

it’s that hurt-heart heavy that wishin’ that you’d call that burnt-spot we both liked a lot things known only to me and you baby that’s the glue that married me to you it's the silly stupid fun playin with squirrels and rats and

HUMAN (Anonymous)

For centuries... we have searched for meaning we have built we have destroyed we have conquered we have succumb to man's brutality inspired by fear but it's in our nature to be propelled by hope we count our fears at night praying that they will push

Bar Fight

danger is a bar fight that nobody wins Love is a night light I forgot to plug in would you still sing with me... at long last after so many years have past fly only prayer flags up the captain’s mast oh Love oh life oh day oh night

Use Me

use me oh muse in me stand here beside me hide me high in a maple tree swing me wild and swing me free oh thorn bush baptize me set me free to dance from SoHo to Eze [pr. ehzz] wearing a dervish fez a lil' hide-and-seek

Steeple Scene

steeple seen so long ago on this year’s maps that steeple still shows would you believe everything that I'd be hard livin’ like that three years passed she took em’ back it was a little too real in that wide-open field shovels and stone fingers and

North of Nothin'

north of nothin’ roll me slow and low watch the fallin’ snow and somehow know baby just let [it] go turntables play in stables songs about sinning and winning the neighbors are grinning oh well what the hell thousands of years fell and hound-mouth found me out couldn’t

recovery

The Loss Cycle (draft)

The normal cycle for all losses...

When I'm Stuck

when I’m stuck I know I’m not enough I once had six strings to pluck now I spend stormy days aw shucks am I broke broken or both if the city and towns take the lost and found funnel friends in much Love and time we will spend