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David Townsend

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The Many Songwriting Feets of David Townsend

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1

Zeus and His Witch Mistress Brew Up A Storm

 

Instrumental


2

Pass Away

 

I know it's dying
What can I do?
I watch it pass away
And I can't care
Cause then I'd be dieing too

It's a part of me
So dear
So very near
I just can't stand to see
This world take it easily

Maybe if it were gone
I'd just get the blues
But it's trapped silently
Stirring my soul
Waiting to let go
Let go!


3

Love Letter Mania

 

I got your letter
it made me feel so fine
and if that distance window
separates our love from completeness

then I'm not worried
cause distance is just time
and we can conquer that in our dreams

there is castle of faith that sits in the sky
and as the wind blows it follows
smiled on from all who have
dreamed of an eternal love
you can't build a base that high
some say its divine
others says its only a child
who thinks that they can fly

but ain't it true
that in the end
we'll all have the limitless sky


4

Doing Alright

 

I’m doing alright
I’m doing alright
Don’t worry bout me
Don’t worry bout me
I feel just fine
I feel just fine
You’ll see
Silly


5

Sherley the Turtle

 

There she go
Slowly but surely
That’s the way it flows with sherley

Shes such a turtle
But shes beautiful

Shells painted
Fluorescent yellow blue
And though she’s tame
She’s scared of you

Sherley the turtle
Why can’t you let go?
Why can’t you hold on too?
You steady and slow
Your always on the move
When you gonna settle down?


6

The Ducks

 

Lyrics not available at this time


7

Girl

 

Chorus:
Girl
You bring the laughter
To my disaster
You strangle the truth

When that the waters blue
And we could see clear through
I saw the stones
You just saw the bones
So then you gave a grin
And started flapping your fins
Where did you go?
Someplace I didn’t know
I waited on the beach
You came back with some eats
It was a bone marrow
Why did you know?

(chorus)

When we were in Arabia
I had on a white hat
What did he say to ya?
The guy with the black cat
Out on the desert sand
I was caring a load
When we found a deadman
You gave a grin and joked
He looks like a scarecrow
Why did you know?

(chorus)

But sometimes when I tell her the news
I swear she looks right through me
Far away in a roofless dollhouse
Playing with headless babies


8

Back Home

 

Sitting back home with the grass and the trees
Sweet breeze begging me please
Stay home where you can rest it with ease
Oh, ain't it good being home
Mom and dad and the kitty cat
Home


9

Blueskies

 

What is changing?
What don't?
Tell me
Somethings shaping
Tell me what will be

Lifes like the weather
Sunny blues and grey showers
What will it be?
Nice or stormy
In the end

What would you do if you knew?
Would it be through
With nothing left for you to do

Or is it like the weather
Always new surprises
I hope I know
That well never know
The ending


10

Margarita

 

Margarita throw your hair
Margarita will you share some time with me?
Just stand next to your window...

Margarita do you care?
Are you bothered by my stare?
Or did you know that I can see you?

Oh Margarita, you do look beautiful tonight.
I can see you're going to bed soon because you have your pretty pink nightgown on.
Oh what I'd give to see you take one of your showers, but I guess not in the night.
I wish there was more...

Margarita it’s a shame
how I use you in my game.
You wonder how I know your name.


11

Ocean Stanza

 

If you need a break that can wipe clean your slate it’s the ocean for you
of all that I've seen it’s the ocean that makes us the cleanest

come and wet your hair
feel it everywhere
so much harmony that you have to share

so then I'll hope you'll end as two
new love
shore love
a new pairs so cute
and though its dying soon
its just to spread the fruit

remember vacations you took to the beach in your childhood
these memories are filled to the brim with a love and happiness

smell the lotioned air
feel your childish care
castles in the sand and remember nothing

and then I hope you'll come to
caring for all that you have
grateful and sad
realizing that you've gotta get back there at last
better make it fast


12

A Jig

 

Lyrics not available at this time


13

A Fig

 

Lyrics not available at this time


14

That's It For Today

 

Lyrics not available at this time


15

Talk

 

Lyrics not available at this time


16

Sojo To Frisco

 

We're on a sojo to Frisco
don't you want to come to the west coast ?
we're gonna live by the ocean
sing our hearts to the shore


17

See Ya Later

 

See ya later Tallahassee
So long Mexico
In a while New York City
Looks like it's time for me to roll

Something keeps convincing me I gotta go
And then I'm left all alone

I've done a whole lotta visiting
Cause there's a whole lot to see
But lately I've been missing
All the friends that I flee

And after years of traveling so free
I find I don't have a home


18

Dooby Wop

 

Baby bloway my mind
slice your peach and rouse my dibby dabby doober

that's right
you got it
oh

get your sweet long legs in bed
we got some rubby dubby lubbing to do
we'll make it sizzle

all night
we're gonna make it happen
we'll reach the height of passion

dooby wop
after the romancing
comes the best part
I think you know what I mean
we're gonna let off some steam

in the hay or in the garden
any time any way
I wanna make it with you
baby I wanna know you and show you
there ain't know better way
than making a baby
one love is two and three and….


19

Johanna

 

I'm easily broken I'm easily beat sometimes I get so low I suffer and hurt All I need is the gentle love and care of one girl Johanna Johanna how can I repay thee cause when the pains too deep you won't surrender Johanna still get worried she's leaving me cause I'm a loser but Johanna is so reassuring she says I'm not a creep and I don’t abuse her


20

Seasons Reasons

 

Funner wearing summer starlight
Freer moving summer clothes
The sun wiggles his toes
In the sand and on the sea

And she's pointing right at me
I don't care where you are
You're the center of the universe

Easy going autumn colors
Painted leaves are falling home
I didn't know death could glow
Radiating beauty

When it comes time for me to go home
Now I know where I'll go
To the source of the universe

Peaceful calm falls onto winter
Silent whites throughout the night
The snows letting us know
It's not the season for a fight

And thank God for time to rest in peace
And that's what lets you know
All is well in the universe

Love is brewing in your minds eye
Winters springing into life
The birds sing in the trees
Songs of amore and delight

And these songs will bring men to their knees
And the women will agree
Love created the universe


21

She Gives Me A Smile

 

She gives me a smile
She gives me a smile
She gives me a wink
She’s a winker
She does the sweet thing
Anytime
Any time
Man she knocks me out
She is one real beauty
Baby


22

East City Girl

 

There was a girl out on the east city streets
I couldn’t tell if she was nice or mean
But I knew her skin sweet as a peach
Then I felt a lustful sin
My heart was burning (I want her)
My eyes were yearning (I like her)
There was a girl out on the east city streets
I couldn’t tell if she was nice or mean
But I asked her if she’d be with me
And then she touched me
She said she was too old at 21 and I only
7


23

Joking Folks

 

Lyrics not available at this time


24

Lulla

 

Instrumental


25

Ghost Detective

 

Ghost detective
what a perspective
he's got magnifying feelings
he'll feel the clue in you

don't try to run
he's as fast as lightning
he'll get you dead or alive
with karma by his side


26

Down At The Busy Corner

 

People pass me by
While I just sit on my stoop and drink
Down at the busy corner
They said
Don’t you care about susanna?
You know she loves ya
Hey boy ya better go home


27

Part Right

 

Ain’t that right?
Ain’t that right?

Response:
Soo what?

You wanna fight ?
You wanna fight?

Response:
Lets gooo

I don’t care if Jesus gonna get you to heaven
That don’t make you ALL right with me

I don’t care, even if you bought me a chevy
That don’t make you ALL right with me

I’m all right
I’m all right

Response:
Nooo
Your part right
Your part right
Only

I don’t care if Jesus gonna get you to heaven
That don’t make you all right with me

I saw you skeeming on my old lady
So don’t you pull that blasphemy
Blasphemy!


28

Why?

 

Why can't we stay together?
Why do they send us apart?
They say it's for the better
They tell us we need to get smart

So they send us to schools
And then give us the holidays
Minimized love seems so cruel
And thoughtless
And now
I'm all alone

Our love was still in the growing stage
Bond blooming more day by day
But now it's just diminishing
Cause we didn't reach not fade away

Sooner or later
I'll start getting lonely
And run into some other girl
And then
Its over and done

Why?


29

Back Lake Park

 

Lyrics not available at this time


30

Dirty Clothes Blues

 

All my baby ever talks about to me
Is getting my clothes on the line
Well if our loves boiled down to dirty laundry
I ain't got time

To stay round dumbfound
Breaking my back downtown
While she's soap opera candy bathtub feeling fine

Chorus: I said, "oh I gotta move out"
I left my dirty clothes my baby and my house

But don't you worry cause the house wasn't much to me
It ain't worth a dime
6 stairs, busted pipes, gas leaking
It ain't fit for life

And all the big mouthed fussy neighbors
Dabble in some kind of crime
I'm sick of living in a neighborhood
nicknamed "swine"

Chorus

Packed my clean clothes in my sack
I made some sandwiches and
Started heading south
Knew all my worries and my troubles were gone when I
Stepped outta that house


Gotta book by Bukowski and a bottle a wine
So now I'm sitting on the south bay feeling fine

Chorus


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