About playing live on stage
Acoustic Folk from Portland, OR
Story behind the song
Hmmm...well a lot of the song is about what its like to be playing live on stage. How you try real hard to make people happy. How its tough sometimes even when you know every song well and you still forget lyrics. I guess everyone has had a similar experience whether it involved playing an instrument or just standing in front of people. I guess the point is that it really doesn't matter what other people think. Play what you want to play and do what you want to. The songs are a ryhme of MY life not yours...And I'll never know whats right so I will just play and do what I think is right.
Lyrics
Rhyme of My Life
I’ve a silly suspicion that what I say
Well it may not come out right
It’s closing time and if I play real hard
I just might sleep tonight
There’s something in the way that the world around me
Comes alive and starts to move
When I’m desperately trying to find some way
To add some funk into my groove
I’ll jam it all out when I sing and shout
And pretend that I care what this is about
It’s finny when you know all the words by heart
But not a single note ever comes out
But I know that I’ll never know what’s right
And that’s why I won’t take requests tonight
The songs that I sing well it’s all just a rhyme:
A rhyme of my life
So lie back there into your couch
And listen to me come alive
I’m just waiting for the right moment
To bust out my surprise
You know I never ever knew the right way to go
I only knew where to start
It a mixed up crazy thing I play
Couldn’t quite call it art
And know I’m tripping all over my verse
Cause I just got so confused
I’m mixid up twixed up turned around
Sometimes I feel abused
