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A Friends Place
This was written about a recent stay that we, my fiance and myself, made out to LA to see one of my best friends from high school. In addition to being an extremely selfless and giving host – his place was so beautiful and relaxing. It was an amazing escape for what is a crazy city of LA. We had such a peaceful and relaxing time hanging with friends and just kicking it by his indoor fire. It was truly a great experience – I hope this can take you there for just a moment. Enjoy!
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A friends place
Can be as warm
And comforting
As the human embrace
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With a makeshift bed
A simple place to sleep
All is well
When your livin’ cheap
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But with every moment
Passing through these eyes
The sun in the morning
The evening skies
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I notice the faces
Smiling all around
A humble abode
In this huge town
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Shared towels
And washing machines
Life is so sweet
In these passing scenes
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We get in late
Hitch a ride
Made it to LA
And it is about time
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Crisp air
And summers familiar
I would take anything like this
Or anything similar
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The morning we go for food
Meet some friends
Call some more
To meet at days end
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Faces familiar
From a time ago
But we are still connected
Wherever we go
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We enjoy a fire
Snapping soft and sweet
It makes for an easy
Evening treat
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Life is simple
When sharing sustains
Can even take away
Some of life’s pains
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Thank you can not match
It just falls short
You can’t just say
You’ve been a good sport
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The city scene
Has been nice to me
A friend to host
With all sincerity
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We made our way back home now
Hope to be back through
But for now
The only thing we have to say
Is thank you
City Veins
This was written late night on the Blue Line on our way to O’Hare International Airport in Chicago. It was written as an observational piece and I tried to keep it simple. I try to relate the veins to the heart in the final line. Enjoy!
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The veins of the city
Run deep underground
Running people back
Forth
All around
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A majestic lady reads
While a hearty man laughs
Yet another gentle man
Set with a deep stair
With a jolly women next
To him
That is just content
With her chair
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Run me left
Run me right
With the dirt caked
On the trains side
The rattle
Abrupt
The air
Dense and course
For we are on our way to LA
And that is for certain
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“We thank you
For riding
And please come again”
When the weather is better
“But please be on your way”
You jolly jet setter
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Catch a flight at O’Hare
I must not be late
Everything is set in LA
We have set a nice date
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Reflecting on the steel
With polished silver hue
From hands a many
At one moment it may be holding 20
Or 30
Or 40
I cannot really say
The polish runs clean
For it gets buffed everyday
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The silences is now sweet
Yet I could have some chatter
Could use a conversation
On the economy and
What is the matter?
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But for now I sit
Peacefully upon the worn out seat
I am just thankful to be
A part of the cities
Heartbeat
I am no Poet
This was written right after watching the presidential inauguration. I really enjoyed the poet Richard Blanco and his poem “One Today”. I used it, and the rest of the ceremony, for inspiration. I thought that it would be important for me to really focusing on what it is that connect us together as Americans, and also can devise and separate us through erroneous use of our egos etc. I hope you enjoy it! Cheers!
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For I am no poet
No writer, nor musician
No athlete or businessman
I am but nothing and will return
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I must be stripped of all
Before I know what I am
What I am made of
What wiring makes my soul
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All the confusion and static
The noise and the stammer
Of what others want
And I need
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In the confusion I believe one
And forget another
Only to remember
To be reminded of yet another
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So I challenge myself and you
To strip away what is
And to find what will be
What is it that you stand for
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To look at these flesh and bones
And find what the meaning is
Beyond the labels and toys
Finding a simple meaning within
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For we are all connected in a manner
An inner webbing that connects us
That unites us
And if we so choose tears us apart
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Yet we strive for more
To seek meaning that is greater
Than the sum of our parts
And unifies us
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This is our challenge
Our calling
Our honor
To be what we are
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To forget the other meanings
And find our own
Not in our own minds
But from deep within
Net Worth
What is your net worth
Go you! Proclaim it throughout the earth
Ring it on high
Ring it on low
Bring a receipt
Wherever you go
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Remind your friends with cash in hand
Even pay for them to see your favorite band
“I wonder how much they are worth”
Surely not as much as me
I am sure my banker would agree
Ring the registers from on high
It’s like pie falling from the sky
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I will stand with my hands ready
To grab what is mine
Might just take one of yours
But hey who is keeping score
Now get my car and call me lady
You know this part of town can get quite shady
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Maybe I should not be quite so loud
I mean I do not want to attract a crowd
Who knows what that will mean
It was my pie I found,
I thought I caught it
But please don’t bring those fellows
Who want to conduct the audit
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If leverage is leverage
And bottom line true
The bell rings cold
When the receipt reads past due
Extend me some credit
Just a little more
I just want to settle the score
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But the banker looked confused
This analogy he used
“The way I see it
To make this all easy for me and you
Upon every mans head it should be written
Two decades and a half after their birth
So he may proclaim it throughout the earth
But for now I must ask you again
What is your net worth?”
Over Rated
This is a new song that I have been working on very diligently in the past couple of
weeks. It is about the pressures of always looking for the next best thing and
looking to the future in life – when really all you have to care about is going on
right in front of your eyes. This song will be on our next album out in late 2013.
Enjoy!
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I’m feeling so over rated
My life is so complicated
Not the best but I face it
These feelings are fresh
But I am jaded
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Oh and I feel like I am going
Nowhere
And I feel like I want to be
Someone
I don’t want to write this song
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Forget about tomorrow
If you want to live today
Forget about tomorrow
If you want to live today
If you want to live today
Remember what I say
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My thoughts can be so relentless
You ‘bout gave up when I said this
Now that I know that you’re faded
Well I had to go but I waited
For you
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Oh and I feel like we are going
Nowhere
And I feel like we are missing
Something
And I don’t want to write this song
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Forget about tomorrow
If you want to live today
Forget about tomorrow
If you want to live today
If you want to live today
Remember what I say
Marketing
This was written late night. After a long day of marketing and social media-ing. Long day
and semi frustrated with it all and how it can take away from what you really want to
being doing. Enjoy!
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All the time spent marketing
Now I know why it’s a full time thing
I have to spend some time on twitter
I watch it like a babysitter
With a cute emblem of a little critter
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But it is so much more than that
A tweet is a tweet
For I am winning the race of the rats
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But log on and get your computer
I get distracted by watching McGruber
Eh but why bother who cares
This white screen looks back, it stares
For me to embark on a journey, begin to
Climb the stairs
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But for now I must rest and get some deep sleep
This computer keeps me away from slumber and rest
But now go check Facebook
And get that off your chest
A tweet is for twitter
Status the update
Facebook and Twitter
I can not begin to contemplate
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And then there is sweet little Google
How many peoples eyes ogle over this Google
Search me this search me that
I need to know the top ten ways to burn fat
The questions run on for days even years
But with no response ever to the ears
Unless with Siri she’s the one
She brings it all together
The holy one
She even knows a joke
That’s a lie
But asking her is still fun
But ode to distraction
I must return to my path
This I must proclaim
I must say
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For now I will sneak away
From bots and other things
To rest, rest calm and peaceful
And restore my faith in worldly beings
Notre Dame song The Bergamot
Video
Our local team, Notre Dame, did not win the BCS title game but they sure did make a small town proud! Here is a song for the FIGHTING IRISH!
Down Around Town
This is as much a piece of work as it is a play on words and meaning. I try to utilize the last
word in the last 3 lines of each verse to speak something to the reader – in addition
to what the poem is actually reading. I am trying to find a way to convey meaning
both internally and from the roots of the poem, utilizing words that struck a chord
with the mind frame in which I am writing. Enjoy!
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Words burning up
And falling down
All around
Tinsel town
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Not one man
Today
Can say
And “Play”
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Words collide slowly
Feeling
The ceiling
Cracking and peeling
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A mind collection
Bending
Sending
A thought of pretending
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Through veins pumping
Asking to quit
This shit
And just sit
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Pockets invaded
In time
Not one dime
Will be mine
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Forgetting questions
Ask for yours
For tours
Through U.S. contours
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Tipping crashing
Feeling tall
Until we fall
And beginning to crawl
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Thoughts collapse
With whiskey
A bit risky
And feeling frisky
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Further patience made
In time
A clear mind
Will be a sign
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To clear the stage
Now
Simply adhere to a bow
Replying “Ciao”
The End of Days Mayan Tribute Video
Video
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This is The Bergamot’s ode to the Mayans. Dedicated to the Mayans on the last day of the world, according to their calendars, December 21st 2012.
ENJOY!!!
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LYRICS:
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VERSE 1
If there was no tomorrow
Do you think you’d be alright?
If you had to go with me
Do you think you’d put up a fight?
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OH
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Leaves and limbs are bending
But the trees are standing upright
There is a bitterness in the air
And a coldness in the night
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OH
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CHORUS:
But I don’t
Want to tell you
All the
Dreams I have
I take a breathe
And turn
That’s when it happens
Your gone
Again
OH NO
OH NO
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Anticipation is building
Fear creeps in through the night
Breathe deep and move quickly
Everything will be alright
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OH
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Fields they are burning
As you hold me close tonight
Winds around us are cursing
They hiss with the passing of time
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OH
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CHORUS (REPEAT)
