Playlist Randy Brown

randy brown - body of clay

I had a most peculiar dream
My eyes were open wide
I dreamed my soul just lost control and left this body behind
So far below I saw myself where cold and still I lay
No clue that there I once had dwelt
Jjust an empty body of clay

Chorus
Body of clay body of clay
Cradle my soul until that day
When heaven and earth have passed away
And so this body of clay

My fear rose like a warm spring flood
My vision was washed away
I woke to find myself inside this body of clay
I will not fear death?s last goodbye
Or rue rot, ravel and rust
I know now my soul lives on
When this body of clay is dust

randy brown - brain chemistry

I heard the window break
I did a double take
I saw the lights on a Police car
I may look guilty but please don?t kill me
I can explain although it sounds bizarre

I done some dumb things
I jumped off porch swings
Lost a tussle with a ?lectric fence
I will confess, sir
Was to impress her
The only way this all makes sense, is?

Chorus
Brain chemistry made me do it
So you see, sir it wasn?t my fault
It was a bad choice, I knew it
I was just hopin? that I wouldn?t get caught

If you could see her you would agree sir
She is enough to make you lose control
I broke her window. Was it as sin though?
I was poisoned by testosterone

Bridge
Bewildered brain receptors
Since dark prehistory
Have ruled our thoughts and actions i
Is love a mystery? or just brain chemistry

randy brown - distance

We fished the Sabine river back before Toledo Bend
We took cane poles and water melons but we?d mostly eat and swim
Then we?d wade across to Texas just like wild Comanche?s itchin? for a fight
It felt like such a distance back to the Lousiana side

From the airport to the Sabine was a thousand miles or so
But I?m back here on this river like all those years ago
To think on trials and situations that sent to running back to this lost shore
I guess that miles don?t make the distance they don?t make a difference anymore

Chorus
It?s not lifetimes
It?s not light years
It?s not the turns made round the wheel
It?s not the miles that make the distance
It?s just the way they make you feel

Time and space just keep collapsing like through the wrong end of a lens
Till it seems my journeys over before it could begin
Now there?s some old man in my mirror he?s staring back like this ain?t real
He says, ?the miles don?t make the distance it?s the way they make you feel?

randy brown - dream big

I walked the highway late last night looked into the starry sky
I felt so tiny and alone the tears filed up my eyes
I stood there in the dark and wept feeling sorry for myself
My dreams and plans were shattered
And lay there scattered on the ground?
All at once the sky lit up I heard a voice, my jaw just dropped
It said ?I didn?t make this universe for tiny little dream?

Chorus
So dream big, live large, hang tough, take charge
Pop the top right off of your life take a long deep swig
Put all your little dreams together and dream big

The sun was high when I woke up. I was in my bed not up the road.
Was it real or just a dream I guess I?ll never know
But those words I heard they struck a chord
That small dreams yield small rewards
I?m gonna dream my dreams and live my life big a that starry, starry sky
Bridge
Whatever you can do or dream, begin it
Boldness has genius, power and magic in it ? Goethe

* The bridge of Dream Big is a quote taken directly from Goethe.

randy brown - hector stands

Hector stands and watches the river roll by
He says he?d soon die as to change his plans
It will go down soon, that?s what they say
But it doesn?t feel that way from where Hector stands

So Hector prays, to see his home his desire
And end this trial by fire that is living these days
?Lord, my body is weak but my spirit is stronger?
?Give me just a little longer? is what Hector prays

Then Hector laughs and it fills us with wonder
His voice sounds like thunder when he says ?this river is my path?
He stepped into the river and strode out over the water
To midstream and still further and I can still hear him laugh

The universe smiles on true grace and intention
That?s no new invention, it?s the law, it?s the plan
Hector is laughing and smiling and waving
From the far other shore where Hector stands

randy brown - i d rather hurt myself

All the talk, that's going around town
From me and maryann
Is getting you down down down
And i'm aware of all your friends
Calling you fool
Trying to show you the place
To wher i'm using you you you
After all these years we've been together
I'd know that now, you would know me better
I'd rather hurt myself than hurt you
Now i can understand
You've been all absent
The all town is laughting
And talking behind your back
But i shouldn't have to remind you
How low down people are
They say you've doing good
The better way to tell us apart
Just remember, before you walk out the door
The words i told you "twelve or more years ago"
I'd rather hurt myself than hurt you
I don't wanna hurt you no, no, no
I'd rather hurt myself than hurt you
I'd rather hurt myself than hurt you
I don't wanna hurt you no, no, no
Because you mean so much to me baby
And i'll give you all i got
If you want it so
I'd rather hurt myself, hurt myself, hurt myself
Than ever hurt you

randy brown - just the rain

You sit there alone and you mumble
When I ask, you just grumble and lie
Then I press you again and you fumble for words
And try to stumble your way to goodbye

You say that our love is slowly collapsing
It?s very framework is coming apart
By the sound of your sigh it?s like a piece of the sky
Has fallen down and broken your heart

Chorus
It?s just the rain coming down
Just the rain coming down
It?s the rain coming down
So baby, don?t cry
It?s just the rain coming down it?s not the sky

Yes, I know we?ve had some troubles
That doesn?t mean that our love will end
Because even if our trials were doubled
It?s nothing that a strong love can?t mend

So if your hopes and your spirit should tumble
Till you think our love might crumble and die
Just remember the best sometimes stumble
It keeps them humble enough to get by

randy brown - money is a drug

Money is a drug
You have some you want more
But there?s never quite enough
Money is a drug

Comfort is a trap
It lures us an seduces
Till you?re it it?s velvet grasp
Comfort is a trap

Security?s a lie
We want so to believe in
Just don?t look it in the eye
Security?s a lie

Bridge
On this one way street there?s a dead end sign
I understood complete when I saw through the lie
That money is a drug

randy brown - quantum valentine

Well, she?s doing it again
Committing my favorite sin
Like she was her own evil twin
Dr Jeckel, Ms Hyde
She?s breaking all of nature?s laws
A little side effect that has no cause
She?s making something out of nothing
She?s my quantum valentine

It?s the old argument of which came first
The sows ear or her blue silk purse
If the answer is a blessing or a curse time
Only time can tell
She?s got me feeling kinda out of place
Like a quarter in a penny arcade
Like sunglasses in the shade
Or hot cider on the 4th of July

She?s a common law celebrity
The queen of impropriety
An affront to my sobriety
She is the storm around the calm
When she looks that look at me
It?s like I?m blind but still can see
It melts away reality
And I?m right there in her palm

randy brown - tempus fugit

I have the clock my grand-dad wound
Two latin words are on its face
Tempus fugit is what it says
It means time flies

Time it is the wildest bird
It flutters just beyond your reach
It does not argue judge or preach
No time just flies

Chorus
Tempus fugit, time flies
The night falls, the wind dies
Tempus fugit, time flies
Wing beats pierce the pitch black sky
Time flies

Time it is a bird of prey
That stoops and strikes your precious things
And carries them on mighty wings
Yes, time flies

Bridge
A feathered flash that swoops and glides
The moments of my life wing by
Till in the blinking of an eye
It all just flies, life flies
And time just flies away

randy brown - trouble

A sunny day wasn?t in the cards
The rain was cold and it was blowing hard
He was curled up tight against a bus stop bench
He looked just like he could use a wrench

I was smug; you see I?d been around
I walked right up and I sat right down
I said, ?old man, you?ve got some trouble in your life
I?m here to help you sit things right?

Chorus
He said ?trouble is a trick of light
It disappears when you look at it just right
So much confusion from an optical illusion, trouble?

His words, they took me by surprise
That dirty bum he had conviction in his eyes
He took my sincere desire to help and all my good intentions
And turned them back upon themselves

Chorus

My road is paved like the road to hell
My good intentions didn?t serve me very well
But you take your chances and you plant your seeds
With a little luck you get back something that you need? like trouble

Chorus

randy brown - truth is a rabbit

Truth is a rabbit, is a rabbit, is a rabbit
Truth is a rabbit in a bramble bush
Truth is a rabbit, is a rabbit, is a rabbit
Truth is a rabbit in a bramble bush
In a bramble bush, in a bramble bush
Truth is a rabbit in a bramble bush

Can't lay a hand on it, hand on it, hand on it
Can't lay a hand on it in that bramble bush
Can't lay a hand on it, hand on it, hand on it
Can' t touch the rabbit in the bramble bush
In a bramble bush, in a bramble bush
Can't touch the rabbit in that bramble bush

So we circle and point and point and point
We circle and point at the bramble bush
We circle and point and point and point
We point at that rabbit in the bramble bush
In a bramble bush, in a bramble bush
We point at rabbit in the bramble bush

We say it's there somewhere, somewhere, somewhere
It?s in there somewhere in the bramble bush
We say it's there somewhere, somewhere, somewhere
That rabbits somewhere in the bramble bush
In the bramble bush, in the bramble bush
That rabbits somewhere in the bramble bush

Truth is a rabbit, is a rabbit, is a rabbit
Truth is a rabbit in a bramble bush
Truth is a rabbit, is a rabbit, is a rabbit
Truth is a rabbit in a bramble bush
In a bramble bush, in a bramble bush
Truth is a rabbit in a bramble bush

** The saying ?Truth is a Rabbit? came from Pete Seeger which he attributed as something his father often said. I just adapted it into song form.

randy brown - you says it all

I have found that one and only love
One my heart has been searching for
Other loves have said a lot, I know
But so unlike the ones I knew before

Baby, you says it all
Baby, you says it all
Baby, you says it all
You says it all, all

I have felt that one and only dream
One I know this heart will always feel

You have made my
Life one endless smile
I got to say I really
I really like your style

Baby, you (baby, you says it all)
Good God almighty, I said you, you
(Baby, you says it all)
My baby says it all
(Baby, you says it all)
You says it all, all

And you have made
My life one endless smile
I got to say I really
I really like your style

Baby, you (you say, you say)
(You says it all)
God almighty, baby, you
(You say, you say)
(You says it all)

My, baby, you
(Baby, you says it all)
Wow, wow, wow
(You say, you say)
(You says it all)

My baby says it all
(You say, you say)
(You says it all)
From her head to her toes
(You say, you say)
(You says it all)

I want everybody to know
(You say, you say)
(You says it all)
Hey, hey, you, you, you
(You say, you say)
(You says it all)...

randy brown