M Songs

I saw a Bette Davis movie On Insomniac Theater, After Johnny and the PTL Club. She played a sad ingenue, Shady past, shadowed future, A barmaid in some desperate pub. Well that woman’s as old As my grandma, That script’s old as original sin. But I fell in love For an hour and a half […]

Gonna give away, gonna give away, Gonna give away I say, all of my possessions. Gonna cut off all my hair, Buy clean underwear And take the last train home. ‘Cause it’s Mother’s Day, yes it’s Mother’s Day, Lord it’s Mother’s Day and I offer my confession. I’m a wretched soul, With a belly hole, […]

Take a grand total of all the things That make up a man. Throw in fifty cents – You could buy a cup of coffee. There is no scale upon this earth Can measure what my life is worth. You can throw out the bathwater – I’m holdin’ on to my baby. Chorus: I’m more […]

“I dedicate this song to George Jr.” -Introduction from a live performance on 12 Aug 2005 There’s some gaseous god laying down somewhere,Squeezing out this American dream.And it plays out for me, night and day,On my rent-to-own big screen.And it turned my kids to pagans and it turned my wife to salt.Then it turned me […]

Over there, in the empty chair, in the middle of the air, Copenhagen on his chin. Sitting there under pomade hair, not a solitary care, With a smile so rare it’s like a lottery grin. Chorus: Melvin’s gone to Heaven. He left yesterday. Heaven had a vacancy. He filled it right away. Melvin had a […]

“Back before I started pullin’ down four figures as a musician, I worked in a mall for about 12 years. It gave me an opportunity to make some observations about American life and the mall and how they’ve all kinda converged until America has become one really big mall, instead of America interrupted by malls. […]