I GOT YOU CHILD

This is an old old song written more than 30 years ago… called it UNDEROO CHILD (remember Underoos?) at the time and up until a few weeks ago.

Been breathing new life and more understandings into it lately and discovered that the song wants to communicate more than a feeling of nostalgia for our childhoods. I GOT YOU CHILD is also about working with our younger selves on a daily basis and reassuring them that they still have a profound voice and a non-negotiable seat at the table. 

>> LYRICS <<
Think about the people / think of all the silly people / think of all the little people running / through the yard
Take someone’s hand / and with a simple gesture man / you can step like they step / and feel like they do
NOTHING/EVERYTHING HOOK: I was a child / I was a sleepy little child / I was a dreamy little child / in my Underoos (2x)
I had nothing / and I had everything to lose.

Dan kicked the can / into the ice cream man / and he said with a smile / “how do you do?”

“I’d like a popsicle / maybe a creamsicle / whatever you got Mr. / I can use”

I like Spider Man / I like him a lot / I like the webs he spinds / I like what he’s got /

I like the mask he wears / his whole color scheme / I like the words he says / I can hear him scream

I cut a deal with the man on the slide / gotta give me one more year / so I can ride on this ride

Make my legs small / so I can fit on this thing / I’ll make my mind feel it all / so I can …

You can’t give me a thousand moments / and you can’t give me what’s yet to come

you can’t give me my eyes tomorrow / so all I want to be…. is an Underoo Child

I got you child / I can hear what you say

I got you child / I spent a long time away

I got you child / we gonna play

I got you child child child child child child / I got you child child child child child child

I got you child

LET THE WATER

This song began as a reinvention of a song called DIG RIGHT IN, written in NYC in the early aughts, until it needed to become it’s own thing about a year ago.

The lyrics (many of them borrowed from age old wisdom) speak for themselves.

The song title asks a letting go; an honest reckoning of the timelessness of our experiences of life; a faithful surrender to being a small, yet powerful, part of a much larger whole.

<< LYRICS >>

LET THE WATER


VERSE 1 so above

so below

where we’re going

just don’t know

I ain’t saying times won’t be unkind

LET THE WATER wash away cos I don’t mind

baby I just dont mind

no mind


VERSE 2 so without

so within

i ’d rather sink

than never swim

all these ends     > are <

  to begin

LET THE WATER wash away all that’s ever been


VERSE 3. keep on moving

cast away the doubt

i ‘d rather sing

than twist & shout

all these ends     > are <

to begin

LET THE WATER 

JUST LET THE WATER . . .


U READY ? Are you ready ?               Yes I’m ready

Please tell me that you’re ready      U know I’m ready


YES I KNOW You know I’m ready and I know you’re ready

Yes I know, Yes I know we’re ready

/   C’mon and get /   ready

You know I’m ready and I know you’re ready

Yes I know, Yes I know we’re ready

/   C’mon and get /   ready









BRIDGE and all this time

I keep on wondering

What you gonna do

Cos I keep trying

For a better way to get              close to you. 

But time keeps on moving

And im still sitting here

Same time       same place

So whachu  whachu  gonna do

It’s only up to you

You know it’s true