I Heard Bob Dylan's Like A Rolling Stone In The Car With My Father While Going To The Laundromat When I Was Seventeen And Knew What I Wanted To Spend My Life Doing: Coming Up With Great Song Ideas!!! 
​I Can't Sing Or Play An Instrument So I Would Post Videos Of My Song Ideas On YouTube With The Words On The Screen And Invite Musicians From All Over The World To Turn My Words Into Songs. 
​I Ended Up Making Over 120 Songs And Writing Enough Lyrics To Have A Song Or Poem Every Day For A Year. I've Broken All My Stuff Down Into 31 Albums With 12 Songs Each. 10 Albums Have Music And Vocals Already And 21 Do Not. 
Now The Plan Is To Take Over A Physical Location And Use My Words As Drawing Power To Lure Some Musicians Who Want To Make Some Music. We Make Music Live And Include An Online Audience In Some Type Of Live Stream And People Who Contribute To The Song We Are Making Are Entitled To Get A Percentage Of The Song Based On What They Have Contributed. 
In Essence, I Have 365 Lottery Tickets And We Want To Have A Place Where People Can Come And Scratch Those Tickets Where We Can Sell Them Stuff And Create Enough Of Revenue Stream To Make A Living Whether Or Not We Become World Famous Or Not! A Coffee House/Bar Called Songwriters Close To A Bus Station Or Public Transportation Is All It Would Take To Start! I Am Open To Creating All New Music With The Words To The 120 Songs That Were Already Made But The Songs Do Serve As A Good Representation Of What I/We Hope To Replicate And Possibly Surpass From This Point Forward.
​Additionally, I Want To Have An Interactive Audience Online Who Can Also Participate (Live) With A Moderator Who Can Also Join In As We Come Up With New, Original Music And Song Ideas On The Spot
My Goal: I Don't Need Or Necessarily Want To Be Famous. But If It Happens, It Happens. What I Want Is Healthcare, Some Up Front Money To Start As A Show Of Good Faith/Seriousness, A Not Too Crazy Weekly Salary And Decent Cut Of Whatever Revenue Is Generated From This Venture Through A Variety Of Streams. 
Not Long After YouTube First Began I Became A Partner And Accumulated Over 10,000 Subscribers Before I Ended Up Deleting My Channels And Taking A Break Form Making Music. Over Ten Years, Actually. 
Well, I Got The Music Bug Again And Its Time To Break Out My Big Old Book Of Poems And Song Lyrics. The Closest I've Come To Sharing My Writings And Music To A Live Audience Is Reading A Poem About Drinking At An Alcoholics Anonymous Meeting About Twenty-Five Years ago And Having My Friend Bryan Sing One Of Our Songs Live To A Rocking Crowd At A Bar In China. Haha.
So, With All That Said I Now Say This:
I Need A Place To Begin...
I Need Some Believers...
And I Need To Pee... 
THIS IS THE INTRO TO MY 2020 BOOk read my stuff best to worst:
A poem/song (366) for every day of the year
by Tom Jensen…

(with current updates!)


About Me:

My name is Tom Jensen.

I am really good


at three things in this world. One of them is writing lyrics
for songs with the occasional poem tossed in every so
often for style points.

About This: I’ve been writing poems and song lyrics for
over twenty years. In 2007 I put a bunch of my poems
onto YouTube videos and asked musicians to turn them
into songs. Many of them did. 

Fast forward 13 years
(AUTHOR'S NOTE IT'S NOW 18)

and I have collected up all the
best things I’ve written and
arranged them in order from MY BEST 
ones to ones that
aren’t quite as good. 

I ranked all my babies so you can
just start reading the best stuff right away.

 Stop reading when you don’t like 
them anymore, no problem…
See how far ya get! 


I’m opening ALL my lyrics up to
musicians again. Let’s make some music!
Time to spread our wings…
readtom.com

(AUTHOR'S NOTE - NOPE, it's collabtunes.com)
is my website

These poems and songs are meant to be read or sung out
loud (preferably in a strong Boston accent to ensure
maximum rhymability). Haha. 

But seriously, some stuff
doesn’t rhyme in southern twang…
 I’m warning ya. Haha.

I invite musicians from all over the world to turn my
poems and lyrics into songs

Over 120 songs have been made from my words so far…

I’m a road’s scholar of the soul…
I got my PhD in Rock n’ Roll…
First you become a reader…
Then you become a believer…
That’s when we all get together…
To try to make this world better…

My Goal: I believe that art is a vehicle for change with
time outs taken for necessary escapism. (AUTHOR'S NOTE:
I don't believe in anything that much anymore so don't
get all bent out of shape if you see something you don't
like.

 If you read everything you will
love me and hate me pretty evenly!)

Dedication: I’m glad to still be sharing the earth with
 Noam Chomsky – my favorite living author. (AUTHOR'S NOTE:
It seems that once Noam and that football coach with all
the rings (Bill B.) got some young tail their minds went
a little crazy! There may be something to be learned here
... I mean Noam went full Letterman FFS!)

Contact: I am always looking for people who like what
I do and want to help. There is contact information
available at readtom.com. (AUTHOR'S NOTE: That's a lie.
Contact information is available at collabtunes.com)


Thank you for your time, 

Tom Jensen