Brand New Year  Brand New Year (sample)

Timmy Gleason

Happy New Year to you

Enjoy this one darlin’ if you can

That’s another one gone and it won’t be long

  ‘til another one’s gone again

Here we are standing in the night

Beneath the open sky

An empty sea of opportunity

   and the light before your eyes

It’s a Brand New Year

   I feel it’s coming around

It’s a Brand New Year

   can’t you hear the sound?

So the snow came down

We saw a town disappear

For three dark days they were drifting away

    to a silence in the air

But soon we’ll be dancing in the streets

Howlin’ at the moon

Feel the wind, the brass, lift a champagne glass

   for a toast to me and you

It’s a Brand New Year

Can’t you feel the sounds

Of a Brand New Year?

I feel it’s coming around….

….and around and around and around and around and around again….

Sweet Angeline Sweet Angeline (sample)

Timmy Gleason

The perfect woman came into the comfort of my bed

I was sleepin’ and she leaped in the back of my head

So I named her and I claimed her as the goddess of my mind

Now I wonder if she’s out there somewhere, a face for me to find

Sweet Angeline, I wanna meet you, so jump out of my dreams

I found a girl in all the world that smiles when she screams

It’s just my luck that she got stuck inside my head it seems

So Angeline come runnin’ out now girl, come runnin’ out to me

A thousand days have come and gone and I have not found her yet

Each time I try to say goodbye I recall that we have not met

Your leeriness begins to fade and you open up and then

It breaks your heart just when you started to fall in love again

Sweet Angeline, I wanna meet you, so jump out of my dreams

I found a girl in all the world that smiles when she screams

It’s just my luck that she got stuck inside my head it seems

So Angeline come runnin’ out now girl, come runnin’ out to me

The world is simple, there are no answers to these questions of our hearts

So you forget about it, live without it, and go on loving in the dark

Oh, but Angeline will always be there at the end of my rope

Haunting me with fantasy and teasing me with hope

Sweet Angeline, I wanna meet you, so jump out of my dreams

I found a girl in all the world that smiles when she screams

It’s just my luck that she got stuck inside my head it seems

So Angeline come runnin’ out now girl, come runnin’ out to me

Come runnin’ Angeline

I Might Die Tomorrow I Might Die Tomorrow (sample)

Timmy Gleason

As my last Easter approaches I am sittin’ here surrounding by my friends

I got a six string, a cold drink, a deathwish, and a black ink fountain pen

I’ve been reading stories about the heavens where the gluttons are starved and the starved   

     are served the finest meat

I don’t think it really matters what they put upon your platter if you are too dead to eat

I know time is fleeting so I can’t afford to count all the money that I make

If Heaven has a drive-thru I want a small French fry and a large vanilla shake

I got so many things to do I’m afraid that I don’t have time to pray

Because I might die tomorrow, or maybe even later on today

I blew up my own balloon so it was big enough to fall into the sky

Flying through this countryside I realized this barren land of cows and corn and sex and 

    porn was slowly passing me by

So I set out for Death Valley from a fountain in the Florida Everglades

Life gave me several lemons so I found someone with oranges and made an even trade

Good morning cows, good morning corn, I got to get out before the storm but I’m sure     

    I’ll see ya’ll again real soon

I’ve got sins that need repentin’ and people to thank I forgot to mention, and I’ve got to  

    do all this crap before I sit down to eat my lunch this afternoon

So I’ll say goodbye and release myself unto the sky and float on to that valley where I’ll

    forever stay

I might die tomorrow or maybe even later on today

I can’t decide how much time I should spend deciding what I should do

I take too long heating up the air and not enough soaking up the view

Just when I was feeling sad I called up my Granddad and asked him if any of this talk

    about true love held any truth

He said when he was younger he had heard about it on the radio and more recently had  

    seen it on the television tube

These balloons like old saloons and dreams of true love and God above, they may slowly  

    drift away

Me, I might die tomorrow or maybe even later on today

We got to dance while we got the chance, we got to sing while we can

We go, “Lat da deedle da, lat da deedle dattle dee

              Lat da deedle da, lat da deedle dattle dee”

I can hear the music playin’ and the daylight is fadin’ so darlin’ come on out and dance with me

Lee Iaccoca Lee Iaccoca (sample)

Timmy Gleason

I was down in Missouri, starting to worry

   About the war and the state of our land

So I bought a wine bottle and 20 instant lotto

   And smoked me some good contraband

I drank four hours, won a free ticket and three dollars

    Now I’m 16 bucks in the hole

I conversed with a photo of Lee Iaccoca

    We smoked a sizeable bowl

We could not recall why I was worrying at all

    on account of the smoke and the wine

I read the daily news but I’m tired and confused

    about the troubles in the world of our times

The very next day I woke up in disarray

    Wondering why I slept in the sink

I combed my hickey, cracked open a Mickey

    And got drunk before I had time to think

I got blotto and plastered, shit-faced and blasted

    And it solved all of the conflicts in my world

And I could not recall why I was worrying at all

    on account of the smoke and the wine

I read the daily news but I’m tired and confused

    about the troubles in this world of our times

So, rather than be some modern day Bob Dylan,

I sit here and I get drunk with my good friend Lee Iaccoca

How Will They Ever Learn?

Timmy Gleason

The fire rages on like swirls of liquid sun

It fuels the fear within us all

The children in the field are now a human shield

We tack it up to our resolve

How will they ever learn?

How will they ever see?

When we ignore the lessons that we teach?

To stop a band of thieves we steal their hands and knees

And say you’re free to crawl away

The martyrs’ mothers bawl, bring them up to watch them fall

Weathered, beaten, and ashamed

How will they ever learn?

How will they ever see?

When we ignore the lessons that we teach?

Now it’s come to this, all the things we’ll miss

But it won’t stop, or not until we go

So the fire rages on, the color of the setting sun,

And it’s all been shown before

How will they ever learn?

How will they ever see?

When we ignore the lessons that we teach?

Somethin’ Right

Timmy Gleason

There’s something wrong with this world all right,

The setting sun has fallen into the night

If there’s solace in our fleeting day

It’s the ease that you put into me when I hear you say—

Yeah, Yeah, it just feels right

When you’re beside me in the evening light

I say Yeah, Yeah, I know what you mean,

Fall asleep next to you and life fades into dream

I ain’t goin’ down in no blaze of guts

I’ll sleep through the war now you may call me nuts,

But I’ve got this little lady that I just can’t leave,

And I will watch you through the window as I hear her scream—

Yeah, Yeah, it just feels right

When you’re beside me in the evening light

I say Yeah, Yeah, I know what you mean,

Fall asleep next to you and life fades into dream