The Flood

Florida is nicknamed "The Sunshine State", but it couldn't have been named that by anyone who lives there. Those who live there know it rains all the time, ALL the time. It could be a perfect day, and then out of nowhere a few inches of rain will fall in a matter of minutes. I moved from Jacksonville in January of 08 and have been going to school at LCSC here in Lewiston since. I really love it here, but I miss Florida a whole lot too. I was jamming on my guitar and came up with this little riff and started thinking about the place I worked at and a whole bunch of images started coming to my mind - the train, the swamp, the homeless dude, and the many many car crashes I saw happen on the highway right in front of me. So these lyrics just started coming to me and I wrote a new song.

drifting
a moment on the train
it never seems the same
never see the rain
i dont need it anyway
ride on

swimming
a swamp of another name
it taste like salt and shame
never see the rain
coming like a hurricane
flood on

dancing
a shelter in the drain
hopped up on cocaine
never see the rain
breaking on you everyday
hold on

roaming
on wheels that never change
crash into the grade
never see the rain
all your dreams are washed away
float on

The Baby Blues

I was very bored the other day. Probably spending my time watching tv, when I should have been doing homework. I picked up one of my acoustic guitars that was tuned to open D, meaning that if I strum all the strings open is a D major chord. When I use a slide, it just moves that chord up and down the fret board. But anyway, open tuning and the slide are used a lot for blues so I started jamming a blues riff, and my best friend Lindsey started telling me about her baby online. I started rambling off some random words from the perspective of her baby Kaden. This was what came out of it.

im just a little baby
laying on a pillow
i love my mamma
and my cat chitto

i gotta drink from the bottle
i dont get to choose
and now i wet myself,
ive got the baby blues

people always talking
when im trying to sleep
but ill wake them all up
when im ready to eat

im keepin my mamma up at night
she never gets a chance to snooze
oh please change my diaper
i got the baby blues

got a lot of new clothes
sometimes im dressed like a bear
when im out in public
all the women stare

but i cant do nothin about it
im just a little bit confused
you gotta get this diaper off me
i got the baby blues

i make a lot of faces
yeah i make em every day
my mamma cant get enough of me
she cant believe how much i weigh

ive got a lot of new toys
that i dont even know how to use
oh i smell real bad now
i got the baby blues