By my count, I've got two months to write four first drafts of songs for the hobo musical.
No small feat.
Here's the newest one. It's a PG-13 version of Pretty . A grown up approach to how a hobo on the road might find small pockets of love. Sad and sweet and all that.
lyrics
first verse
stepping off the boxcar at the edge of town
face dirty and my coveralls a ruddy brown
heading to the barber college
for a shave and a shine
looking fine
dressing up in my cleaner working clothes
skip the brothel cuz a gentle heart always knows
theres a lover out there waiting
for a little time
chorus
tonights enough if you just start living
put your worries away
let your senses play
tonights enough for a prince or a beggar
in the quickening dark
hold your breath see a spark
tonights enough to be loved by another love
second verse
see you staring bear a grin and you look away
i tell a joke have a smoke listen as you say
never seen a stranger take an interest
in this little plain jane
wild as rain
were holding hands aint it grand
whisper in your ear
you turn to kiss and its bliss
crickets stop and cheer
rising up you lead me onward
to a quiet room
chorus
bridge
only together for an evening
sunrise and ill soon be on my way
still were delighting in the evening
in the shadows face to face well find
we are beautiful
third verse
see a sliver of the sun through the windowpane
i smell your hair and prepare listen for a train
getting dressed i watch you sleeping
shut the door behind
feel my heart unwind
tell myself this is living as im getting by
in another days time she wont even cry
after all she could do much better
than a bo like me
chorus
