Mild West

The bills come rolling

They say the rent’s past due

I don’t try to challenge authority

I don’t dispute

I don’t want to worry

Money ain’t no object

They make it easy on me

Don’t have to visit the store

No need to speak to anyone

Then it’s at my door

Wonder what all the rest of my friends do

I bet they don’t ignore the problem

Confront what they need to

The seventh wonder of the world

Took me so long to find it

Too much attention from the girl

We got lost and neverminded

The softest mention of the word

Cuts me off

So undecided

If one of us isn’t guilty

Then one of us is to blame

Nobody tells you when you’ve got it

Everybody tells you when you’re wrong

Start pouring the drinks that nobody wants me to

Keep them around for a little while

"Shut up, you don’t know anything anyone wants to hear”

Dial it down and manage a smile

Be my own kind of gentleman

When I don’t belong

I know I’m taking too much / Can’t seem like I’m losing my touch

Just settle the room and wait until things are done

That elephant can’t catch a break

I try to choose the battles that already have been won

Pretending there’s so much at stake

Traveling could be real

If you had a set of wheels

That you could consider your own

Visit me anytime

Leave your hometown for mine

I’m guessing you probably won’t

With no keys, no car

When times are hard

Stay where you are

No keys, no car

I can blame time and space

For keeping me from your face

Sometimes I wish it would end Maybe it’s not so bad

Thinking of talks we’ve had

We’re keeping pretty good friends

Open channels here

Echoing in my head

When you lean against

My side

Steady nerves appear

Hardly a word is said

Can you be consoled

by the things that I can’t hide?

Anima Mundi all around

I want to know what you’re giving to me now

Curse the rising tide

A fisher of stormy seas

When I cast the line,

To What depth?

Peering into my

Every reality

Fragile as the time

That passes between each breath

Wasting on the couch

I was asked if I’d like to go out

Nonsense, man

I’m still watching movies

I know what it’s about

I’m a slave to the habit of doubt

Like my best friends

I’m still chasing groupies

So when a leaf falls

Does it touch the ground?

And when the sun is out

Does it warm my skin?
When the bride calls

Does she receive her groom?

Or is this a locked room?

The jury sure is grim

But the the final verdict is in

Guess I’m guilty now

Thank you all for asking

Stands to reason when

I forfeit before I begin

That I wonder why

Nothing ever happens

Startled by your nervous reaction

Compromised my attitude

Who knows how any of this happens?

Who knows what any of this means?

Caught a feeling

Made it mine

Stood in line for the latest attraction

Wondered why it made me blue

Don't mind emotions

Most of the times

But I like to choose which ones

Distract me from just being fine

Face your true north now

Can you keep it the same without a fight?

Taste has faded out

Do you think it can change your appetite?

Shrimp etouffee

Easy going down

Shrimp etouffee

Look who's working now

Ain't that so high brow

You just follow your own home recipe

Bite the hand that feeds

Because it is meat, man

Tastes so good

You've got a full cup

Drink it all up

Steady diet of eating your own

Just so you know

Pull the thread

Looking straight ahead

You think it's a bad trick

To only see

What you want to see

It’s magic

I treat you like a winter coat

I need you when it's cold

And nothing else can keep me warm

But come summertime

I'm leaving you behind

There's nothing else I need you for

You want to stay

That's okay

It's a habit

You set the scene

You want the dream

You can have it

We could make a little home

Where it's just us two

Love in a vacuum

And when I want to be alone

All that I'd have to do

Is look away from you

You looks the same when I shut the door

You're my favorite winter coat

Make some space in your mind for the finer things

And adjust what's important to you

Set aside all the dull and the boring

All of this will be passing soon

When the new generation comes

Don't you want to live forever?

All your time spent recording the finer things

In some hopes that we'd see it as you

What's the cost of a life stored in memory?

Can we put you together again?

All the output of your mind

Does it define you?

Is it really you?

Turn on my air conditioner

Put my jacket on

Enjoy the world I've created

It won't last for long

I'll be in my bedroom

Where my bourbon hides

Don't need more of the great outdoors

It feels good inside

I don't take vacations

My summers don't last that long

I went away somewhere to stay

But I don't know where I've gone

Feel like a cowboy

on the lonesome trail

in the Mild West

where I belong

It's a stupid feeling

I know

But I'm old enough

To realize

That it's not what's going on