james in the desert

The Hardest Thing

the hardest thing I’ve ever had to do was to share the Love I have for you shared with the very heart of music poetry and art sensual consensual hurry up Love - the rent is due should I dance should I sing should I pack up all my things

For a Feeling

hoping for the worst planning for the best seems so frequent here in the west fires burn and floods flow Loved ones are lost and federal's the cost to trump thump or to dipple trickle a sonic symphony knows when to play as the sun sets maybe Mother

Santa Fe

hella hard to stay away from Lovin’ you santa fe I left on time today ‌ bustin’ balls in baton rouge ok thought my chevy truck would be enough to find my way to santa fe would ya hide would ya stay away from one more night with me [miss/in]

La Boca

look to the east on the third day babe diamonds are cut pull em' out of a rut la boca la boca la boca la boca look into the best of the worst darkest day la boca la boca la boca la boca what’s that ring it'

Dial It

when you dial it up just right and wanna stay out late tonight is it more wrong or right to dial it up just right tonight some just nibble others they bite some go quiet but most they fight when what’s good in every hood rings and echoes like

Point Guard

you turned into a two-point girl in a one-point world and no that feelin’ ain’t funny scabbin’ my way toward broadway off a little to the left or the right but the lights still shine bright every night what’s the game falling all over me I

One Day

it could happen one day you came to kill he came to play still just the start of the day we can rewrite this script maybe and why not we twenty-two to forty-three just a flash pan memory to me but here right now I keep both hands

Make Sense

I want it all to make sense but lemme tell ya somethin’ fella it’s a poor defense straddlin’ a pressed-spear fence would you take me as you see me could I roll with you mista please [say I do] see I got this broken-heart disease the past

Back Home

If I don’t make it back there if I can’t get back home if the Love we once shared ever-glows and groans if I can’t make it back there if I don’t get back home tv Love’s a hero and villain's Love

Doesn't' She

when the twenty-dollar whore comes a knockin’ at your door say I know you gonna want more but the bottles and bongs nursery rhymes move us along would you like to see what it means to me to bow before Love gracefully come take a knee next to me

Northbound Lane

would you say my name in the northbound lane so much left to change you’ll never be the same in the northbound lane I stumbled she mumbled the rods and the cones and a house we don’t own the cameras flash this night’s movin’ fast in the

Sometimes Love

everybody needs a little Love sometimes I can’t be there no more so I wrote this rhyme for you me and you shared a lot of time as two a lot went wrong the healing from hell made us strong haven’t heard your voice in so very long

The Battle's One

one by one the battle’s one always been that way and that way will it stay one by one the battle’s one work with what you got work with what you got work with what you got some cold some hot son give it a shot and work

Something Left

there’s something left it’s a day-by-day between my face and your gentle grace I purr all night long and just before dawn is this the beginning or the end where it all leads is a torchlight mystery to read when there’s nothing left of me

Hurts Me Here

it hurts me here when you roll like that took what you want never gave it back a lil’ punch for lunch a lil’ slap how about that miss fortune knows the right motion when you’re combing the ocean for bottles caps and crap gonna drag it onboard and

A Little While Now

so I’ve been here a little while now broken down like a child so innocents should not be sent to the scene of the crime it came from the north a sea black as can be she winked at you she smiled at me I bought a two dollar

One Ping

to get it so wrong to be so weak and yet seem so strong for yellows and blues may a new dawn greet you and the reds whites and blues the burden’s on you's to believe it's right to do such wrong more stubborn men

Big Red Circle

there’s a big red circle I know how to teach a sunday night sermon he asked you to preach and in the end each will choose to go barefoot or [with/wear] designer shoes I fancy these sandals from galilee they carried me faithfully from city to sea and

Sometimes Love

CHORUS starvin’ for your sometimes Love your Lovin’ always lifts me up Love me up to heaven above starvin’ for your sometimes Love starvin’ for your sometimes Love your Lovin’ always lifts me up Love me up to heaven above starvin’ for your sometimes Love VERSE always the same Love

Time to Move

it’s time to move when you beg for your food when it rains everyday and turns to ice every night and the sun came out to play but he wouldn’t stay the hell can I say to get thru this day without feelin’ broken n’ empty the highways

Next Day Air

next day air from here to nowhere and nobody cares what Lovers share when the curtains are drawn several hours before dawn I could make it there by next-day air box me up raise me up when in [rome/roam] and you wanna go home feel the history groan

Walked In

she walked in on me what did she see can we walk the line and let it be she walked in on me… oh what’d she see she walked in on me what can it mean is this a nightmare or a dream what can it mean so I

Some Fear

some fear takes hold of me dreamin’ about things I ain’t never seen what does it mean these wolf-moon dreams this fear still grips me blood on her talons snow on her wings she does a wink-blink thing and she did it to me what will we

The Next Hundred Years

the next hundred years hide a whole lotta fears the next thing draws near do we laugh cry or cheer when the unseen next thing draws near a moment here a moment there auto-tuned harmonies intoxicate my mind and pickle-tickle my spine and somethin’s startin’ here yeah

Streetlight Tramp

streetlight tramp stuck on a minor key vamp they met in a dive bar not far from harvard yard a table for two checkin’ out the view laughs and smiles with you just north of nowhere every-man is ever-there and fully aware and though this life has days