Day Four! Four Songs in Four Days. I’ve had a lot of help. I could never have done this on my own. This one was written with my dear friend Lana White.
Thank you for coming over and writing this song with me Lana!
Day 3
Day three of three songs in three days. How long can I keep this up? Who can say for sure.
Cowrite with my friends Kevin and Chris, who make up 1/2 of a band I’m in called Send A Raven.
When You Run Out of Time
What can we do
Now that we’re dying
If I could start again
With energy to spend
Hide all the clocks
Pull me back in
Stained glass
Watch the expanse
All this medicine isn’t keeping you alive
The best part is the next part
When you go back in time
Send away all the angels
It’s all that you can do
They do not deserve to see
What the world did to you
You might not get any closer
On the edge looking down
Out in the horizon
Is a world you haven’t found
All this medicine isn’t keeping you alive
What is worth holding on to
When you run out of time
All this medicine isn’t keeping you alive
What is worth holding on to
When you run out of time
All this medicine isn’t keeping you alive
What is worth holding on to
When you’ve run out of time
Day three of three songs in three days. How long can I keep this up? Who can say for sure.
Cowrite with my friends Kevin and Chris, who make up 1/2 of a band I’m in called Send A Raven.
When You Run Out of Time
What can we do
Now that we’re dying
If I could start again
With energy to spend
Hide all the clocks
Pull me back in
Stained glass
Watch the expanse
All this medicine isn’t keeping you alive
The best part is the next part
When you go back in time
Send away all the angels
It’s all that you can do
They do not deserve to see
What the world did to you
You might not get any closer
On the edge looking down
Out in the horizon
Is a world you haven’t found
All this medicine isn’t keeping you alive
What is worth holding on to
When you run out of time
All this medicine isn’t keeping you alive
What is worth holding on to
When you run out of time
All this medicine isn’t keeping you alive
What is worth holding on to
When you’ve run out of time
Day 3
Day three of three songs in three days. How long can I keep this up? Who can say for sure.
Cowrite with my friends Kevin and Chris, who make up 1/2 of a band I’m in called Send A Raven.
When You Run Out of Time
What can we do
Now that we’re dying
If I could start again
With energy to spend
Hide all the clocks
Pull me back in
Stained glass
Watch the expanse
All this medicine isn’t keeping you alive
The best part is the next part
When you go back in time
Send away all the angels
It’s all that you can do
They do not deserve to see
What the world did to you
You might not get any closer
On the edge looking down
Out in the horizon
Is a world you haven’t found
All this medicine isn’t keeping you alive
What is worth holding on to
When you run out of time
All this medicine isn’t keeping you alive
What is worth holding on to
When you run out of time
All this medicine isn’t keeping you alive
What is worth holding on to
When you’ve run out of time
Day three of three songs in three days. How long can I keep this up? Who can say for sure.
Cowrite with my friends Kevin and Chris, who make up 1/2 of a band I’m in called Send A Raven.
When You Run Out of Time
What can we do
Now that we’re dying
If I could start again
With energy to spend
Hide all the clocks
Pull me back in
Stained glass
Watch the expanse
All this medicine isn’t keeping you alive
The best part is the next part
When you go back in time
Send away all the angels
It’s all that you can do
They do not deserve to see
What the world did to you
You might not get any closer
On the edge looking down
Out in the horizon
Is a world you haven’t found
All this medicine isn’t keeping you alive
What is worth holding on to
When you run out of time
All this medicine isn’t keeping you alive
What is worth holding on to
When you run out of time
All this medicine isn’t keeping you alive
What is worth holding on to
When you’ve run out of time
Day 2
Day two of two songs in two days. Yes, I’m trying to write a song a day. Technically I finished this one before the day was over. Technically it was started Monday when Ingrid came over. Another Billy and Ingrid cowrite for the books.
Day 1
Day One of writing one song per day
Happy New Years! Thank you once again for being here. This one is a cowrite with Huntsville Alabama’s Ingrid Marie. Thank you Ingrid!
BRAVE
I walked in to your room
I couldn’t find the words
Do I have to spell it out
Sit down this one’s gonna hurt
I thought you might have known
Many times I had tried
To lay it all out
Should have come as no surprise
You don’t have to be brave
You don’t have to let it go
You don’t even have to try
You are never alone
You don’t have to be brave
I guess I should have known
Should have read the signs
Should have hid your keys
Should have read your mind
You gotta make your move
It’s gonna be ok
This could be your shot, kid
This could be your big break
You don’t have to be brave
You don’t have to let it go
You don’t even have to try
You were never alone
You don’t have to be brave
Or pretend that you’re strong
Let’s just both fall apart
Right here where we belong
You were already packed
I was turning over stones
Something shifted in the earth
When I picked up the phone
We’ve been stumbling in the dark
For half of our lives
Something bigger than us both
Pulled me back inside
You don’t have to be brave
Chris Barnes Single
Check out the new Chris Barnes single I produced. We will be releasing a song a week until his album is done. I’m looking forward to it. Some great songs. https://open.spotify.com/track/2rq7Y0Ybe6f15JzFZNOQXl
Chris Barnes Single
Check out the new Chris Barnes single I produced. We will be releasing a song a week until his album is done. I’m looking forward to it. Some great songs. https://open.spotify.com/track/2rq7Y0Ybe6f15JzFZNOQXl
Rainy Day (New Song Demo)
I want to live in the middle of nowhere
Never change the clocks
Stay up until the early morning
Doing whatever I want
Wake up when the sun goes down
Climb out on to the roof
Tell the night I invented the sky
Just to give to you
But you didn’t want it
So you handed it back
Wasn’t part of the master plan
If you could fold it up
Maybe put it away
Take it out on a rainy day
But the stars don’t wait for no one
And I’m not running out of time
You didn’t stop the world from spinning
You were barely mine
I can see all the parallels
Dimensions, space and time
The far reaching ripple effect
Of you walking out of my life
But I couldn’t do it
So I handed it back
Wasn’t something you could understand
If I could hold on
Maybe make you stay
But I’m not gonna be your rainy day
I couldn’t do it
So I handed it back
Wasn’t part of the master plan
If you could fold it up
Maybe put it away
Take it out on a rainy day
Rainy Day (New Song Demo)
I want to live in the middle of nowhere
Never change the clocks
Stay up until the early morning
Doing whatever I want
Wake up when the sun goes down
Climb out on to the roof
Tell the night I invented the sky
Just to give to you
But you didn’t want it
So you handed it back
Wasn’t part of the master plan
If you could fold it up
Maybe put it away
Take it out on a rainy day
But the stars don’t wait for no one
And I’m not running out of time
You didn’t stop the world from spinning
You were barely mine
I can see all the parallels
Dimensions, space and time
The far reaching ripple effect
Of you walking out of my life
But I couldn’t do it
So I handed it back
Wasn’t something you could understand
If I could hold on
Maybe make you stay
But I’m not gonna be your rainy day
I couldn’t do it
So I handed it back
Wasn’t part of the master plan
If you could fold it up
Maybe put it away
Take it out on a rainy day
The Quarry Demo
TMaking this one public so you get an idea of what we are doing over on Patreon.
What is Patreon?
It’s a subscription service where you pay a low monthly installment for exclusive content. It is a way to directly fuel creativity because it contributes regularly to the creative process. It is something I have dreamed of before it existed, because the traditional album cycle (Write An Album, Record It, Release It, Sell Copies for $10, Tour It, Do Nothing Until You Can Rinse and Repeat All That) never really made sense to me. I’m ALWAYS writing. I’m always doing something. Rather than release one thing every two years, I can release things as I write them, involving those who wish to be included in the creative process and behind the scenes stuff.
What do you get when you pay $1 a month? Exclusive demos of songs before they show up on new albums. Unreleased demos dating as far back as 2002. How about $5 a month? Videos of me rehearsing for a tour, cover videos of songs I’m learning/enjoying, studio footage, photos and random stuff I find on old hard drives. How about $10 a month? You get everything. Instructional videos, diary entries, stream of consciousness writing (what I do before I edit an idea in to a rough draft before it becomes a song) and entires from my biography as I write them.
What do I get when you contribute? Everything. It inspires me to be more creative, writing more songs and putting out more albums. It makes me thankful for every day. It makes me work harder and gets me to hone in my focus. It makes me realize what is really important about this life that we are given. And, it pays for shipping vinyl overseas when I totally mess up on how much it is going to cost. It pays for my monthly ProTools subscription, time in the studio, guitar strings, pens and paper. It pays for guitar and amp repairs. It is a HUGE help.
Thank you those of you that are here, still here. As always, let me know what you’d like to see more of. I hope you can stay here forever with me. It is such a huge help. And such a cool thing. So much gets lost in the world of social media. We start to feel alone even though we are more connected than we have ever been. This safe place is away from all the noise, a place where we have a direct line to one another. Thank you so much for being here. Without you I’d just be screaming at the walls…more haha.
Billy
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