B Songs

Pride has taken everything I know.It’s killing me but I just can’t let it go.I tried controlling things controlling meBut pride’s a drug and I just can’t let it be. Chorus:Mercy comes to me.Mercy sets me free.Mercy takes my darkest nightAnd fills it with the burning light.Mercy’s just God’s way of loving me. Jesus said, […]

“The inspiration for this song came while I was in the checkout line at Woodman’s. I saw this obviously single guy with nothing in his cart except soda, chips, frozen pizza and TV dinners. I just made up the details of this story from there. It is quite liberating to write in someone else’s persona. […]

You’ve got a beautiful smile,I pray it always stays with you.‘Cause it gets slippery after awhile,When you live in this place. Chorus:It’s such a simple thing.It’s such a perfect thing,It makes the angels sing out“Gods Amazing Grace!”It’s such a little thing,But I would do anythingFor the smile on your face. Well I lost my own […]

“Dedicated to Jimmy Swaggart and Jerry Lee Lewis, born as cousins, raised as brothers.” -From the liner notes of Ghost Stories From Lonesome County The sun rose red on two Louisiana brothers,Borne of one dream to two different mothers.And the babies cried in the tongues of the tower,Mamas left them at the feet of another […]

I love her as I love you.I love you as I love her.Seems to be a sacred simile,My sweetest lover and my Lover/Creator. Chorus:It makes me realize all the ways that you blaze in my heart.Makes me realize all the ways that you blaze.It makes me realize all the ways that you blaze in my […]

“This is the first song I ever did out in public and they still let me play after I did it. The thing about writing topical songs is that as soon as you learn how to do ’em, they’re out of date. But I keep doin’ this anyway because I’m gonna keep doin’ it until […]