My blood pressures high my good cholesterol's too low                                                                             My heart beats too fast I gotta go slow                                                                                                     What the doctor don't know is that I just fell in love                                                              ...

 I don't perform anymore. I've never really enjoyed it. I am a songwriter who enjoys recording. The studio is my venue. I don't like to entertain people. I don't think I have the ability to energize or inspire my audience. I might remember a handful of times when anyone has ever expressed to me that they enjoyed my performance. 

This is the story of the song, 115 Hyde Park Avenue A card table covered with a clean white cloth in a storefront in Hyde Park where the great young minds of Tampa gathered to discuss Beethoven and Krishna Consciousness down the street from the university and about a mile across the bridge from the County Jail in downtown Tampa. Ybor City Piano Man, Rev Ralph, former Left Banke singer, Steve Martin-Caro, the surrealist painter, Raphael Diaz, Cosmic Dave who was just cosmic, the author of The Final Spin, the Great Waybon John Hearing and tunesmith Ray Galindo. poring over volumes of Machiavelli, Poe and the Life of Bach. Feasting on Greek Wine, goat cheese and Irish Soda Bread AND the Bösendorfer Baby Grand standing like a monument in the middle of the room. ...

 

Vietman                                                                                                                                              I was too young to understand ...I was too young to know                                                          I  was just a little boy and they wouldn't let me go                                                   ...

It's starting to look scary They got invasions so make no reservations in that town This is life in the 21st century It's starting to look scary We have new infections we can cure with some injections These are the choices that are given to me This is life in the 21st century Toys look like guns now guns look like toys Boys look like girls now the ...

                                                                                                                                                                  Am F I see you in the shadow dancing with the creature Dm E Her smile like a fracture, a cryptic feature Am F The ruler of illusion pulling strings in the dark Dm E You my friend are just a pawn in her art Am F She's walking through the ashes, leaving you in smoke Dm E You ’ re ...