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SONG LIST 1 The Last Man Singing

SONG LIST 2 Sheila Tequila

SONG LIST 3 A Day at the Office

SONG LIST 4 A Traveler in the Distance

SONG LIST 5 Love Without a Doubt

SONG LIST 6 Undertows and Afterglows

SONG LIST 7 High Tides and Landslides

SONG LIST 8 A Knight for a Lady

SONG LIST 9 Between Us and Love

SONG LIST 10 One Piece Missing

SET LIST 1 Glass Half Something

SET LIST 2 Plurality

SET LIST 3 Self in the Mirror

SET LIST 4 Partnered to the Crime

SET LIST 5 Living a la Mode

SET LIST 6 Definitely NOT Love

SET LIST 7 Train Off the Tracks

SET LIST 8 Boss Logic

SET LIST 9 Thralls of the Flame

SET LIST 10 Go Ask Gramm

SET LIST 11 Noise, Lies and Longing

SET LIST 12 Wounded Masculinity (Silhouettes of Pride)

SET LIST 13 Power Shields

SET LIST 14 6,000KM to DK (Six-Thousand Mile to Denmark)

SET LIST 15 Liminal State

SET LIST 16 Kneel, Heal and Rise

SET LIST 17 Smirks, Swears, Moans and Cries

SET LIST 18 Corrugation Row

SET LIST 19 Della of Troy

SET LIST 20 The Cost of Light

SET LIST 21 A Cold Plate

SET LIST 22 Inherent Absence

SET LIST 23 Zionation

SET LIST 24 Bi Ride or Die

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THE NEW AMERICAN SONGBOOK 36 sections

1 of 35 Dedication, Copyright and Manifesto

2 of 35 Who Tom Is

3 of 35 Introduction

4 of 35 What "Community" Says

5 of 35 Purpose and Structure of Three Books

6 of 35 Table of Contents

7 of 35 Quick Guide G to X

8 of 35 Full Texts of Lyrics

9 of 35 Rolling Stone Style Album reviews

10 of 35 One Sentence Summaries of Tracks

11 of 35 Albums Ranked by Rating G to X

12 of 35 Album Themes, Moods and Profanity Listings

13 of 35 Four Word Descriptions for Every Track

14 of 35 Tracks Listed by Category

15 of 35 Riddle Me This... Who is This Book For?

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17 of 35 Choose Your Own Adventure Album Orders

19 of 35 Business Plan and 21 Page Summary

21 of 35 Lyric Use Certificate

22 of 35 What Tom Wants

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24 of 35 Songwriter Comparisons

25 of 35 Tom's Cassette Tapes

26 of 35 Songs I Wish I Wrote

27 of 35 Contacts and Social Media

28 of 35 Should You Read This?

29 of 35 Can I Get Sued?

30 of 35 Final Thoughts

31 of 35 Why So Serious?

32 of 35 Five Car Ride Talks

33 of 35 Name Index (the rest of the book)

34 of 35 Names Index (From the Lyrics)

35 of 35 Alphabetical Index by Track Title

18 of 35 Collaborhythm Collabtunes Project Summaries

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NOTE: This collection used for what I am calling 'READ MY STUFF BEST TO WORST' was published: 2/5/2020 originally. It has 95 percent of ALL of the stuff listed in my 31 ALBUMS collection and I'm sure a few more that aren't listed there. If I have showed the world 400 things i've written there's gotta be a few thousand that I have not. THAT'S for Patreon or ONLYFANS which I will have to start posting on...  
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****WARNING EXPLICIT LYRICS, ADULT THEMES,
DIRTY THOUGHTS & SHIT THEY DON'T WANT
YOU TO KNOW IS IN THIS M*THAF*CKA********
"I'm not gonna lie... I wrote and read all this shit...
and I'm kinda f*cked up!" - Tom Jensen, collaborhythm
(start with a few nice ones)
FRESCO
by Tom Jensen
I've been waiting for a night like tonight
For so very, very long
Sitting here studying the portrait of my life
Wondering just where the artist went wrong
So why does my sketch in black and white
Contain so many deep, dark shades of gray?
My life before today had left me feeling sad and blue
When I'm with you I never want to say goodbye
To someone so beautiful that the angels sigh
I think of you in thoughts so kind
I painted your picture, it took me some time
You are the one that makes my life worth living
Yours is the last face I see before I fall asleep
You'll never be the one to break my heart
Never leave me alone to weep
Now all thoughts of retracing my past
They have become erased
And I live within your eyes
With each new line I'm redefined
Every time I draw your face
When I'm with you I never want to say goodbye
To someone so beautiful that the angels sigh
I think of you in thoughts so kind
I painted your picture, I could paint it blind
I drink to your health as I raise my glass
Toasting to a future and time that has not yet passed
As time crawls by and I stare above
I believe only in you - my muse - my love
Now all thoughts of retracing my past
They have become erased
And I live within your eyes
With each new line I'm redefined
Every time I draw your face
When I'm with you I never want to say goodbye
To someone so beautiful that the angels sigh
I think of you in thoughts so kind
I painted your picture, I hang it in my mind
MARRIED TO SOMETHING ELSE
by Tom Jensen
You watch him come stumbling 
through the door
Find yourself wondering 
if you can take it anymore
The wedding ring bonds 
until death does part
But what’s on your finger 
is not in your heart
After ten years it’s still the same
While the love is gone
The smell of whiskey still remains
You know you can’t let him drag you down
That’s why some nights 
you live in another town
You dream of a future where you are free
Maybe it just wasn’t meant to be
You stare at the door until he comes home
Thinking your happiest days are spent alone
Its tugging at your heart 
it replays in your mind
When he’s sober he’s one of a kind
But that only happens
about half of the time
After ten years it’s still the same
While the love is gone
The smell of whiskey still remains
You know you can’t let him drag you down
That’s why some nights 
you live in another town
You dream of a future where you are free
Maybe it just wasn’t meant to be
It’s never too late for another start
Age doesn’t matter 
when it concerns the heart
You know you can’t let him drag you down
That’s why some nights 
you live in another town
You dream of a future where you are free
Maybe it just wasn’t meant to be
It’s time to say your peace 
and pray a little prayer
To hope he’ll make it on his own 
when you’re not there
Then maybe he’ll take 
a look down inside himself
And realize he’s married 
to something else....
DEAD END by Tom Jensen
I know who you are
And who you want to be
I know you're entrapped
And you want to be free
You can't put off until tomorrow
What needs to be done today
We've had this talk so many times before
There's not much more I can say
When the days become years
You'll know that it's true
You'll look back and say
Why didn't I listen to you?
I've been down that road
Let me tell you my friend
That sooner or later
You'll see a dead end
The road will deceive you
With its ups and its downs
It's so hard to find direction
With your head spinning round
You found a hole in the sky
But it's so lonesome there
Even when you gaze down
You still feel no fear
Come on my darling
It's time to turn the page
The only way you're not dying
Is from old age...
I've been down that road
Let me tell you my friend
That sooner or later
You'll see a dead end
The road will deceive you
With its ups and its downs
It's time to get it together
Turn your life around
Two years later --
I'd hoped to see you again
But I couldn't make it
So some flowers I'll send
I tried to convince you
But you wouldn't bend
So sorry for you
Now you'll never mend
I've been down that road
I told you my friend
But sooner, not later,
You saw the dead end
The road has deceived you
With its ups and its downs
It's just so sad
I'll never see you around
UNITY 
by Lai Youttitham, Justin Justice & Tom Jensen
Sometimes when I look into your eyes
I feel I’ve been reborn
And yet other times 
I can feel my heart become 
Colder, broken and torn
There is no greater pain 
than letting what you want
Slip right through your fingertips
Sometimes it hurts, sometime it haunts
But the burning in your heart still lingers
Much like the touch of her lips
What I feel I might not always say
But I need you tonight just as much 
as I needed you today
Like a river overflowing
I know that my love for you is still growing
Let us hope it never fades away
That is why I say…
Unity…you and me together
Soon we’ll see if we can be 
Forever for, for one, for one another
Or else never 
will true love ever be discovered
Let me bend you and shape you…
Into…. what I want you…to be
A soul mate….a friend…
A lover of life for your whole life ‘til its end
My soul, conscience and my guide 
A true mirror to my inside
My eternal undying spring
Remember…
From nothing comes everything…
Comes everything
My delicate flower 
Giving me a garden in the wintery snow
Take me and show me 
Exactly where you would like to go
We both know that I’d follow 
just given the word
And as soon as I cried 
 From the years of lifted sorrow…
You’d be given the world
Unity…you and me together
Soon we’ll see if we can be 
Forever for one another
Unity…you and me together
Soon we’ll see if we can be 
Forever for one another
Or else never 
will true love ever be discovered
Or else never 
will a true love ever be discovered
UNTITLED UNLABELED
by Tom Jensen
I will never ask you 
For what you cannot give
Since I always speak the truth
I no longer know how to live
In a world full of illusions
False promises and disguise
One that no longer seeks solutions
Only places to hide
I wouldn't ask you for your heart...
Only for some piece of mind
I wouldn't ask you for your body
Only for some of your time
I will never ask you
If you'll love me 'til the end
I’d just ask you to hold my hand
And walk and talk with me and be my friend
I will never ask you
For that which 
I'd ever have to take
Nor would I want something that wasn't real
Hollow, pretentious or fake
I wouldn't ask you for your heart...
Only for some piece of mind
I wouldn't ask you for your body...
Only for some of your time
I will never ask you
If you'll love me 'til the end
I’d just ask you to hold my hand
And walk and talk with me and be my friend
I would ask you…
To just be my friend...
I would ask you…
To just be my friend...
FALLEN WALLS
by Tom Jensen
A whirlwind of thought starts spinning around
I've been thinking a lot ‘bout what's been going down
And about what's been going on 
as I read the texts of history
I see the pages keep repeating… 
The idea is becoming clear to me
I'm noticing a pattern of ebb and flow
The rise and fall of man, men and kings
As a great chasm seems to keep growing between
Self-proclaiming all-seeing beings 
and those who'll never know
I watch castles crumbling while at the same time
New statues keep rising as slaves stand side by side
Working all day on newly fallen walls 
And it's our job to keep rebuilding
What's not for our own protection 
Since these structures are used for dividing...
All people and states
All races and religions
It's become the best way to separate
Old new ideas from 
The foundation of tradition
First condense them
Then convince them to believe it's too late
When they know it really isn't
Get them to lose their hope
For if you can break their faith
Maybe they'll all stop searching for what's hidden
History's hands of time have told 
That when there's no buried treasure to behold
We all know there'll be no shovels left to be had 
Nor no more miners to find others out there 
to help them with their digging....
Ahhh
SLEEPWALKERS 
by Tom Jensen
When they're playing chess with you...
The game never lasts very long
Still haven't got a clue... why do you...
Why do you smile when you take a pawn?
Then their bishop overtakes your knight
When he wasn't even dressed to fight
Soon their queen upends your rook
Before you could even look
Another smile...
your knight just claimed a pawn
But now... now your little horsie's gone
He didn't run away... he just got sleighed
As the king of your castle 
he numbers his days
Yeah, you're wondering and pondering 
As you're endlessly wandering 
on and on and on...
And you're scribbling and scrabbling 
Along the chessboard of life feeling you're just a pawn
Sleepwalkers
Sleepwalkers
You just made a list of things 
that you need to say
About yourself, about the world 
and all its ways
Sometimes you think that it's a lie 
that hard work pays
Now that everything has been numbered –
 yes even your days
Why is everyone... 
sleepwalking around this globe…
This giant wheel?
Seems as a whole we can no longer feel 
While deep in this slumber
For the gift of the presence of love 
we no longer hunger
When our dreams are gone... 
yet we still walk on and on and on and on...
You just made a list of the things 
that you need to say
And it 'tis just one...
There's hardly no time left for anyone
As names and faces 
keep fading farther away
Still, you know you've got so much to give... 
so with this guilt you live
I'm sorry, 
but there's just too few hours in a day
You find your precious time 
becomes taken up 
Oh look now how... 
You're so easily led astray...
How'd your life become this way? 
(sleepwalkers)
Is this what you say?
(sleepwalkers)
While you're wondering and pondering 
As you're wandering 
on and on and on and on...
As you're scribbling and scrabbling 
Along the chessboard of life feeling you're just a pawn
sleepwalkers
sleepwalkers
EXIT THE SANDMAN By Tom Jensen
So the midnight oil
Seems to be burning again
The sandman's at your door
But he can't come in
With so much trying your mind
Tonight he's not your friend
Since there's so much
You're still trying to find
Before your time
comes to an end
You used to dream about today
But that was back then...
Back when...
You smiled as a child...
Before you got sucked in
Back when...
You always shared and never cared...
About the color of somebody's skin
Back when...
You didn't try to solve all your problems
With the bottom of a bottle
Drowning up your sorrows in a pool of sin
Back when...
You still had time to let the road unwind
But now your patience is wearing thin
Exit the sandman
Why not see it from the other side?
Doin' the best I can, man
And that ain't no lie that ain't no lie
DAYLIGHT AGAIN By Tom Jensen
Daylight again… Comes now and again
My only friend… That's left in the end
The shadows hide as the clouds creep by
I take stake in my mistakes in
The life I know the one I can't shake
Grabs me by the collar and won't let me go
There's only one way to live there’s only one way I know
I've been taken… I've been shaken
And sent out on my way
I have tumbled… I have stumbled
Just going from day to day
The only sunrise ahead
Is the one I see when I go to bed
I wake up in the dark circled by sharks
So I cover my head until there's daylight again
I'm trapped in a tunnel while sucked down the funnel
The light is dim in either direction
When you're only trying to escape and be safe
There's no time for perfection
From day to day to year to year
Somehow, some way I'll get outta here
Where I stand my feet are stuck in the mud
There's no chance I can rise above
With bars on the doors I can't climb out
My guide left me when the candle blew out
I came to my sense
and that was when
I knew I'd be down here
until there's daylight again
WATER FLESH AND BONE
by Tom Jensen
Should I go to San Francisco? 
I'm getting sick and tired of the snow 
I've been stuck around here 
For all my years 
And I've been thinking I better go 
There's not much that I'd be leaving 
Except the one person I believe in 
And maybe, maybe that's the reason 
Maybe it's time to let her go? 
For every day she waits 
The closer I come to slipping away 
I thought we were soul mates 
But I don't feel as strong about her today 
As I did yesterday
And I'm still waiting... 
But I'm barely hanging on 
My mind, it keeps debating 
Over whether I am right or I am wrong 
But every time I try to write
She becomes the subject of my song 
And I'm still waiting...
But I think that this time 
I might’ve been waiting too long 
She held the hands that helped mold me 
Into what I now am 
She was my inspiration 
Turned the key that drove me 
Away from a dark and desolate land 
She was my motivation 
But we all know 
That sometimes life doesn't always go 
The way in which you had it planned 
Some mornings you feel... 
Like you're on top of the world 
While other times... 
You're the damned of the damned 
So this morning I asked myself 
Should I go to San Francisco? 
I'm getting sick and tired of the snow 
I've been stuck around here 
For all my years
And I've been thinking I better go 
There's not much that I'd be leaving 
Except the one person I believe in 
And maybe that's the reason 
Maybe it's time to let her go?
WATCHER by Tom Jensen
Hold onto your dreams
Tonight could be the night you fall in love
Hold onto your dreams
Remember there is someone
Watching from above
He sees the picture complete
There’s no need to be discreet
Never have to worry about defeat
It’s okay to fall down at his feet 
The watcher will guide you
Once you take a look inside you
The watcher will hide you
When trouble comes to find you
He will stand behind you
I’ve never seen his face
Never looked into his eyes
He’s never said a word
Never told me a lie
He was my spirit guide
Who held me by the hand
Led me through darkness
After day had turned to night
Now I’m no longer on my own
He removed my blindfold
And showed me to the light
Hold onto your dreams
Tonight could be the night you fall in love
Hold onto your dreams
Remember that there is someone
Watching from above
He sees the picture complete
There’s no need to be discreet
Never have to worry about defeat
It’s okay to fall down at his feet
I’ve found my way back home
Not afraid of the dark…
Just don’t feel the same way I used to
The watcher gave me a spark…
Lighted this path that leads to you
The torch has been passed
Now it is my turn to watch over you
Hold onto your dreams
Tonight could be the night you fall in love
Hold onto your dreams
Remember that there is someone 
watching from above
Remember tonight could be the night…
You fall in love
VISITED A PLACE
by Tom Jensen
If you stop and listen...
You can hear a crying earth
With all of life's trivial things
It can be hard to measure worth
I visited a place 
That used to be a forest
A little girl made a puzzled face
No one else noticed the problem
She represented brutal honesty
My God, I thought they'd outlawed it
Yet when she looked back at me
I turned away like I never saw it
I cleared all those trees myself
For you see that I am a logger
As each one falls what grows is my wealth
Now that land's a factory of her father's
If you stop and listen...
You can hear a crying earth
With all of life's trivial things
It can be hard to measure worth
I visited a place
That used to have a garden
Back before the bombs fell down
And all this crumbling decay started
I used to be able to sleep at night
But lately I've been having problems
I used to think things would be all right
There are so many evils out there
And by myself I just can't stop 'em
Do we really think we're going to find
The hands of the clock unwind
If so many people just like me and you
Say we have something 
more important to do
Can't change the world 
by wishing only by trying
If you stop and listen...
You can hear a crying earth
With all of life's trivial things
It can be hard to measure worth
I visited a place… I visited a place…
I visited a place… I visited a place…
I visited a place 
that could have been my Eden
If only I had spoken up 
but unfortunately I didn't
I let myself fall back asleep
Until now I kept my nightmare hidden
I visited a place that no longer exists 
If only we had woken up... 
It would never have ended up like this
UNWINNABLE by Tom Jensen
Culture vultures circling the sky
Off our self-doubt is what they thrive
It’s either the daily dodge 
or else face the grind
Something finds you every time you hide
Given time and sobriety
You can reshape your reality
In this kaleidoscope world
You can clearly see
Sometimes you pay a hidden fee 
On what ya thought was free
It’s not all about material goods
Talking ‘bout a man all alone in the woods
When no one is watching what does he do?
Are honor and integrity 
things that he holds true?
What one does to others
Will someday be done to you
As the company you keep
Will one day keep you
Given time and sobriety
You can reshape your reality
In this kaleidoscope world
You can clearly see
Sometimes you pay a hidden fee 
On what ya thought was free
I bathed in dark energies
All the while absorbing light
Living in between two planes of existence
As the day became my morning 
And the morning my night
Wrong has always been wrong
But now it was alright
When you become freed 
from the disease of please
Is when you begin to build walls 
that only others can see
You take all you need and often times more
An unwinnable game always trying to score
An unwinnable game always trying to score
OVERRATED by Tom Jensen
It's all the same yet so much has changed
Since ten years ago
There's so much I've learned 
but still I've returned
To what I used to know
New strangers appear… 
Old friends disappear
For some reason I've let them go
So simply stated:
My book no one's read it…
My life story nobody knows
Though my cover is quite plain 
My text is full and rich
Be it fact or fiction
Who knows which is which?
I fake my happiness, hold back my tears
So I appear elated
It's best that I hide behind 
these hollow eyes
While I'm intoxicated
It's all the same yet so much has changed
Feeling high, then feeling low
I've visited here and I've traveled there
But what have to show
It's all the same yet so much has changed
Since ten years ago
There's so much I've learned 
but still I've returned
To what I used to know
New strangers appear… 
Old friends disappear
For some reason I've let them go
So simply stated:
Life's too complicated
Tired of telling my tale of woe
It's suddenly so clear to me
That I may never be
What I want to be
So hopefully being the best
Is overrated…….Overrated
NAME IN LIGHTS By Tom Jensen
When you put it on the poster
The shorter the name
The bigger the print
You’re knee deep in posers
Your name in lights
You hit the bigs, yeah
They say there’s bullets 
flying down Broadway
But you haven’t yet heard the news…
You just got to have your piece of cake
And now you want to eat it, too
You wanna be the next Bobby Dylan
Oh, today it’s Johnny Cash
I could tell by your cool sun glasses
Looks like you lost your funny hat
You say your sound’s original 
I’ve never heard nothing quite like that
Well I’ve been around a long time my boy
And I’ve got just one question 
that I’d like to ask…
You’re knee deep in posers
Your name in lights
You hit the bigs, yeah
But what happens when you’re exposed
By both the paparazzi 
And the pigs…oh!
Will you still say: 
You love your life with all the stuff 
You got because of what you said and did?
Or will you finally 
See the light and make right 
For all the crimes that you commit?
When you put it on the poster
The shorter the name
The bigger the print
You’re knee deep in posers
Your name in lights
You hit the bigs, yeah
They say there’s bullets 
flying down Broadway
But you haven’t yet heard the news…
You just got to have your piece of cake
And now you want to eat it, too
SINGER SONGWRITER
by Tom Jensen
I'm a singer... a songwriter...
I'm a lover... and a fighter...
I'm a poet... a word dancer...
I love asking questions…
Though I don't always like the answers 
Still I do it…Try to see through it
Though I know that I don't have to
If you were me what would you do?
Is the question that I now ask you:
I'm a searcher... yes a seeker
I'm both a student... and a teacher
Yet I'm no prophet... nor a preacher
I sit here and I think – 
But that just leads 
to more confusion...
I live to question…Become a believer
Not in self-deception 
but in something deeper
That gives my life meaning…
Even more than rhyming
And that's the reason that I keep on trying...
I try to open minds those that are closed
And uncover what needs to be exposed
By bringing myself up to the brink
Where my head feels like it will explode
Boy... I could use a drink
But that only adds cloudiness 
to this great grand illusion...
I'm a singer... a songwriter...
I'm a lover... and a fighter...
I'm a poet... a word dancer...
I love asking questions 
Though I don't always find the answers 
Still I do it…Try to see through it
Though I know that I don't have to
If you were me
What would you do?
Is the question that I now ask you:
I'm a singer… a songwriter
PUZZLE PIECES By Tom Jensen
The newspapers 
have all gone
Been blown away 
in the wind
The magazines have 
all been bought up
Turned to ads 
for corporate spin
As the radio 
repeats itself
So much so that you 
stopped listening
And TV...
well not much 
has changed... 
It's still the same 
as it's always been
We both look 
at each other
As loneliness 
starts creeping in
Once upon a time 
we like brothers
Now we feel lucky 
just to be friends
All the signs 
during these times
Have been put up 
to lead us astray
So that our views 
become skewed
So that we see 
the world 
in a different way
For our bonds 
are becoming broken
With every smile 
that our face keeps hid
Every hello that 
remains unspoken
This world becomes
a tougher place to live
Because everything 
that for ourselves we take
Becomes something that 
someone else can't give
So we better think twice 
about the choices we make
Before it's too late
to change this state 
we're living in
That's why I'm 
moving and shaking
Been busy trying 
to stir things up a bit
Rearranging this
big jigsaw puzzle
So that 
all the pieces fit
RAT PARK by Tom Jensen
Like the town witch on fire
I’ve become a social pariah
I have lost my desire
To climb up any higher
There’s an energy vampire
Now standing right beside ya
There’s lots to know that you can’t see
Until you crack the code or else find the key
I was in rough shape 
Looking for an escape
Started feeling sick
Must be time to get fixed
Look inside to see what’s broken
Hoping it’s not a hopeless situation
And that I really am worth saving
Since copping is not coping
When stopping isn’t an option
Oh how can I regain my focus?
It seems we cling to our vices
In major times of crisis
And when we’re feeling isolated
Day by day we’re being sedated
In a state of constant bereavement
Because we’ve failed to have our needs met
Hence our only sense of achievement
Is when we depart this world and leave it
Often it is fleeting and lost after a moment
Though you’re taking a beating 
you try your best not to show it
It was when my world was dark
I made some friends at rat park
They said that I could stay there
That there were lots of fun games to play there
In lofts, down slides and on wheels we play
Oh no more boring lonely days
I’ve been growing stronger no longer do I crave
Of thinking, drinking or sleeping away the day
Yeah, some get lost and some get saved
Others find themselves getting thrown away
Some are still searching 
even after all these days
You either make your escape 
or become one with the maze
Remember if God grants wishes 
To all those who kneel and pray
That means that somewhere there’s 
A fallen angel waiting to have his day
REHAB By Tom Jensen
Sometimes I need a good talking to
To set my mind at ease
It's not always good for you
Doing just what you please
When the door is locked
You just need the right keys
Stop peeking through the keyhole
Get up off your knees
Just a glimpse of the whole
Will never do
With the door barred and chained
It's so hard to get through
Like a deer in headlights
Your feet stick like glue
Denial is just another lie
That you believe is true
Yeah...
I've been sedated
My head played with
Medicated
Regulated
And every word they said dictated
I've been questioned and I stated
That everything good I had I've traded
With every step I've walked been baited
A life like mine you begin to hate it
Well, the doctor's in
And he'll take your money
Then when you're not looking
He'll call you funny...
Names behind your back
The nurses are in on it I got a hunch
See their crooked smiles
While they're serving lunch....
Their white gowns
Should be striped with black
You gotta pay the bills
That'll pay for all the pills
They say will cure your ills
While they're raking in the mils
They locked him in the closet
And then they lost the key
Twenty years later
When they finally found it
They finally set him free
Though he looked much older
He looked okay to me
Though he acted much colder
Like we all expected him to be
Rehab - you never come out
The way you came in
Rehab - Get drunk off words
When they take your gin
Rehab - You'll never be the same
Rehab - you'll never go there again
When he gets home he has a drink
Passes out at the kitchen sink
Though his liver's fine his mind is bloated
Just one drink and his head exploded
Rehab - you never come out
The way you came in
Rehab - Get drunk off words
When they take your gin
Rehab - You'll never be the same
Rehab - you'll never go there again
TONIGHT'S MOONLIGHT by Tom Jensen
Orange is the color of the trees
At least the ones that still have leaves
In the coolness of the night
I watch a gentle breath take flight
I watch it vanish out of sight
In the glimmering, glittering moonlight
I'll never shiver in the cold
For now I have someone to hold
In the coolness of the night
The skyward birds are taking flight
Soon I’ll sit holding my new love tight
In the glimmering, glittering moonlight
It’s through your calming eyes
That I become hypnotized
In the coolness of the night
My senses, they are taking flight
It’s you who takes me to new heights
In the glimmering, glittering moonlight
The sun could sleep for seven years
And still I wouldn't freeze
You've become my refreshing
Reassuring summer’s breeze
Sitting here alone without you 
I’m just part of the whole
But when we are together 
I feel both my heart and soul
Anxiously I’m waiting here
My heart, it skips a beat
It seems like an eternity,
These seconds before we meet
Before we reunite…
In the glittering moonlight
Eyes are magic windows
That look inside the mind
Through yours I see us together
Until the end of time
Until the end of time
Beneath tonight's moonlight
TABLE FOR TWO by Tom Jensen
The coffee's on... I used to have coffee with you
But you're gone...
And now I'll have to find someone new
No, I don't like to
Drink my coffee alone
So I'd call and hope that you'd pick up the phone
And we'd talk
Until the kids came home
And we'd talk
Until my coffee it turned cold
And we'd talk some more 
When the kids ran off to play
And we'd talk...
That's how we'd spend the rest of our day
Then you'd cook
With the phone held up to your ear
As you set the table for only two
You knew that I was there...
Even though I was here
(even though I was here)
You knew that I was there
(you knew that I was there)
Even though I was here
(even though I was here)
You knew that I was there
The coffee's on...
I used to have coffee with you
But you're gone...
And now I'll have to find someone new
Table for two
Table for two
Table for two
Table for two
LIVING LARGE By Tom Jensen
When my fat girl winked at me
I smiled back Immediately
‘Cause I’ve learned to 
like ‘em you see
hefty, chunky, 
bumpy and large
You know when obesity 
Comes running towards me
You know I don’t stray far
Oh yeah…oh yeah….
I’ve grown to love ‘em large
Sure she’s got some 
pie on the thigh
And some rack on the lamb
But at least I found someone
Who loves me for who I am…
Sure she may sag a bed
Or perhaps maybe 
even bend a chair
But it’s really good 
for your head
To know she’ll
always be there…
Sure, she’s got more 
than just one chin
And the girth of 
two full-grown men
But she’s become 
the center of my earth
Not because of 
gravity but because 
I know what true
love is worth…
It’s not weighed by 
pounds of the flesh
Yet it’s so rare that 
Two people mesh
Sure, she fell on me 
the last time we hugged
That’s not how or why 
I got sucked into the 
belly button of love…
I just felt so cozy 
so safe, so warm
And well-protected from
all of this world’s harm
So now I live here in this place
Living off the 
crumbs and gravy 
that runs down 
The sides of her face…
Sure, when she sits 
she somehow expands
But we were meant 
to become one 
in God’s great big plan
Because I finally found a girl
Who loves me for all that I am
So when my fat girl winked at me
I smiled back immediately
‘Cause I’ve learned to 
love ‘em you see
hefty, chunky, bumpy and large
You know when obesity 
Comes running towards me
You know I don’t stray far
Oh yeah…oh yeah….
I’ve grown to love ‘em large
Oh yeah…oh yeah….
I’ve grown to love ‘em large
RAIN by Tom Jensen
Rain...it makes the flowers grow
Rain...doesn't hide what it doesn't know
Rain...leads to floods look out below
Rain...don't say I didn't tell ya so
Pain...it doesn't always show
Pain...fills up what's empty and hollow
Pain...remembers names from long ago
Pain...better when it's dull and shallow
Such a dark and depressing day
Only time will tell if it will fade
All I know is that I'm uncertain
Will it ever lift?
This endless cloud...
This heavy curtain?
A heart once prone to give
Can now no longer trust
I proved you don't need love to live
Yet things inside begin to rust
You can dull your senses to suffering
If you feel you must
If you're like me you've given up on love
Now you settle for lust
I cut my arm only to watch it bleed
Just to see if anyone would take me
I spent a month inside a cold dark room
Just to see if it would break me
I built a house in the middle of the woods
Just to see if I could make it
I spent a whole year inside that cold dark room
Just to see if I could take it
And when it rained...
Sometimes it was heavy
Sometimes it was slow
Rain...when it came
At least I had somewhere to go
When it comes to pain...
You can only take so much before all feeling disappears
You start to grow numb
Soon dreams, reality and your darkest fears
All become one
And when that day comes...
This cold dark room will be waiting here
PERFECT IMPERFECTIONS
by Tom Jensen
Perfect imperfections
Perfect imperfections
I always tried to show 
you the best of me
Sure, I may have lied 
about the rest of me
I should have given me whole
For scars make love real
What we can't control
Is what seals the deal
The sharing of fears
and weaknesses
Helps manifest lovers
from friends
Can lead to holding 
each other at night
When you don't want the day to end...
And I don't want this day to end...
No, I don't want this day to end
Perfect imperfections
Perfect imperfections
I long to see your face
in the rising sun
I long to hold you dear
because you're the one
(You're the one)
I find I found I failed
This great test of me
I should have told you 
all about my history
With this new day
Comes a new way
For you and for me
Yes, for both of us
In this new light
Will come tonight
As we shall have 
So much to discuss
Perfect imperfections
Perfect imperfections
Perfect imperfections
Perfect imperfections
PERFECT WORLD By Tom Jensen
I've spent my whole life
Looking for what I can't see
For what will never be
As the only thing
that can set me free
Is an unknown memory
That somewhere lives
inside of me
Behind a locked door
Perhaps you hold the key?
This set pattern we follow
is just one of their lies
A world lacking communion
only me's and I's
Through competition our
brotherhood has been broken
As no one's acknowledged
these words that I've spoken
Everything, even people
filed by order and rank
Number one built the Titanic
And yet down it sank
There's still time left
to return these ideas
you've been sold
Rise up in rebellion,
could you be so bold?
The whole world's a fight
I can't get no peace
My mind gets disrupted
When it's at ease
The sun and I awake as one
Though it's not my first choice
I'd prefer to sleep in late
I wish I had a voice
Some say if winning
isn't everything then
why keep score?
Those same people
send other mother's
sons to war
I could be like you
or maybe someone else
One step towards them
and one away from myself
Sometimes they see me
and ask me "How I feel?"
I respond,
"Like a hamster
on a rusty wheel"
If you feel trapped like a rat
in this world so cold
Rise up in rebellion,
could you be so bold?
The whole world's a fight
I can't get no peace
My mind gets disrupted
When it's at ease
Watching the sunset
Is a long forgotten art
Feet so busy walking
Separate from the heart
The brokers in their
suits and ties
walking down Wall Street
The ones with their
diamond watches
and their hair so neat
They get so stressed out
playing all their
Wall Street games
Go home and
yell at their wives
forget their own kids' names
All for the love of money
and nothing more
If they call that rich
then you can call me poor
If they tell you the lie
"all that glitters is gold"
Rise up in rebellion,
could you be so bold?
The whole world's a fight
I can't get no peace
My mind gets disrupted
When it's at ease
When was the last time
You noticed the moon?
I'm surprised
You've forgotten so soon
As I climb up the mountains
and float over the sea
I find myself alone
and contented
alive and free
No need to look
at my watch
or punch a clock
And I actually
notice my feet
when I go for a walk
It could be like this
if enough people believe
Just as the wind
blows a flower
I'm planting my seed
There's so much more
than what you've been told
Rise up in rebellion
could you be so bold?
IN THE POURING RAIN
by Tom Jensen
Look into my heart
Look inside your soul
Do you see they are the same?
Have you ever gazed beneath my eyes?
And what I attempt to hide...
Just like a children's game?
My emotions tell me
To tell you
I love you
But my mind is scared of the pain
What if when I tell you
You're my sunshine
It begins to rain?
Since I fell in love with you
I've never been the same
When the world is quiet
I still hear your name
When I am by your side
I feel no pain
I am warm and dry
In the pouring rain
Look into my heart
Take a look into my soul
Can you feel the warmth of a fire...
Burning out of control?
My emotions tell me
To tell you
I love you
But my mind is scared of the pain
What if when I tell you
You're my sunshine
It begins to rain?
Since I fell in love with you
I've never been the same
When the world is quiet
I still hear your name
When I am by your side
I feel no pain
I am warm and dry
In the pouring rain
I could never lose you as a friend
Nor could I break my heart again
My only fear is if I wait
Then maybe it would be too late
Since I fell in love with you
I've never been the same
When the world is quiet
I still hear your name
When I am by your side
I feel no pain
I am warm and dry
In the pouring rain
HIVE MIND by Tom Jensen
Weaponized envy surrounds me
It’s everywhere I can’t break free
Negative energy now grounds me
As I’m watching the world so jealously
My high anxiety stresses me
I’m alone because I fear intimacy 
So averse to pain I constantly retreat
I’m living like a zombie half asleep
Some say this outcome was expected
Look how everything’s grown hectic
Has anyone been left unaffected
By the eye in the sky’s hive mind collective?
Ostracized and placed outside the wall
Is where your fellow heroes fall
With lasting remains 
inside an unmarked grave
True to themselves at least one was saved
Unwilling to play a schizophrenic game
In which fact and fiction 
are one in the same
Where truth and lies 
are often seen on the same side
As enemies become friends 
and your rivals allies
You soon realize there’s a great divide
Between not only us and them 
but both you and I
Leaves you to scratch your head 
and wonder why…
Or maybe be just like them and not even try
And yet that seems like suicide
As you boldly claim, 
“Today’s not your day to die”
You then break out with a great big smile
Yelling “F*%k it all! I’ll walk the extra mile!”
Sacrifice for something 
Bigger than myself
Maybe trade away the day today 
To make tomorrow great for someone else
A flock of sheep can be a dangerous thing
Tended by a shepherd or led by a king?
History has recorded the tales of both
Carrying crosses and swearing oaths
All of that has led us to here
Where honor and faith 
I watched disappear
Become replaced
With aggression and fear
It’s been happening so long
For years and years
Soon feels natural
So that nobody cares
You see me alone and standing here
Lying to myself hoping nobody hears
They gave up on me 
so I gave up on my peers 
I’m the only one who knows…
they’re still unaware
I turned around again…
and there was no one there
HAVE NOT By Tom Jensen
You only live once...
Well at least
you've got your name
You tried to give once...
Got burnt and you
were never the same
Stay away from this one...
You who went from healing
to being one of the lame
Thy will be done...
The only thing you've learned
is how to point the blame
And now your motivation
for waking is slowly stripping
You can sense the tubes
of morphine still dripping
Becoming lost at such a cost
That you wonder just
Why you should go on
Why try to live the dream?
When your imagination is gone?
For once you lose
your inhibitions
The hands around you
mold you into what they want
Shaping and persuading you
Into giving what you haven't got
Leveling society
By changing you from
a have into a have not t

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