Shaner

She Is The Music

2015-12-07T20:01:00.001-06:00

She is the music

I am the words

She is the melody that gets you hooked

And I am the verse

She is the wing

And I am the bird

I could not fly

Without her

She is the melody

And she is the meter

She is the rhyme and the reason

And I swear to god I believe her

She is the music

I am the words

She is the melody that gets you hooked

And I am the verse

She is the wing

And I am the bird

I could not fly

Without her

She is the dream

That allows me to sleep

She is the voice and she is the rhythm

Every word that I speak

It's all her

Because She is the music

I am the words

She is the melody that gets you hooked

And I am the verse

She is the wing

And I am the bird

I could not fly

Without her

Because she is the music

Peaches and Honey

2015-10-11T18:12:00.001-05:00

I've been chasing this world

Not knowing

Where the sunshine is going

When it's going down

I've been chasing these dreams

Not knowing

Always going around

A cinnamon smile

On a rainbow

near a dry western road

A peach tree near the garden of fables

A honey stained kiss

And a dream laid away and stowed

And the cloud sings a song

For the Angel wings she tries on

She flies on

When the picture is flawed to perfection

And no more saints to air moral objections

And his soul grows unfazed in the face of rejection

And the rising and setting sun find connection

We will know

The cinnamon kiss

That we missed

Peaches and honey smiles

At the end of a rainbow

And the clouds sing a song

For the wings she tries on

She flies on...

One More

2015-10-11T16:23:00.001-05:00

There is a piece of me

That burns inside

A different face

I'd like to hide

I know can't

Because I've tried

So come along

Enjoy the ride

Gather around

Watch the show

I will explain

But you won't know

Still the same

About to blow

Mourn the flame

Where the ashes go

I will explain

You still won't know

Sidewalk narcotics

And a liquor store

You know it seems

I've wrote this song before

For one more smile

That's still adored

A shooting smile doesn't mean

It don't hurt no more

There's a piece of me

That burns inside

A different face

I'd like to hide

I know I can't

Because I've tried

So come along

And enjoy the ride

Me And Waylon

2015-10-09T11:03:00.001-05:00

Flying down a highway

It's just me and Waylon

Hanging on every line

Every rhyme has me swaying

I know he's a long time gone

But I still believe every word he's saying

Riding down a highway

Just me and ol' Waylon

Every now and then my mind slips away

Looking back to remember

My favorite two bit whore

I can't believe I ever loved her

Guess, because I don't anymore

That old lines getting longer

My bedroom's a revolving door

Still every now and then I remember

My favorite two bit whore

Big Bertha back in Beaumont

She still turns me on

Like a shotgun whiskey chaser

And a Billy Joe Shaver song

Freight trains and cocaine

And blue eyes crying in the rain

Aching with a freedom

That borders on insane

But nothing does a damn thing for me

Like Kris Kristofferson

That old phones a ringing

Everybody wants to play

I don't mind'em coming

But everybody wanna stay

If you ain't got no cash

Then you can't afford to pay

Still I don't mind you coming

But you can't afford to stay

Flying down a highway

It's just me and Waylon

Hanging on every line

Every rhyme has me swaying

I know he's a long time gone

But I still believe every word he's saying

Riding down a highway

Just me and ol' Waylon

Hey Sadie

2015-10-04T13:00:00.001-05:00

Sadie Baby

Sadie baby

Sadie, babe you've been gone too long

Hey Sadie,

Hey baby,

Please come back home

She said"

In all your natural life

You wanted me for your wife

When you got what you wanted

You went and messed around"

I said "Sadie baby,Sadie baby

Sadie, babe, I didn't mean to let you down.

I can't help it I've got the soul of a clown

She said

"In all your born days

You couldn't get out of your way

Now just stay out of mine

You'll sit on your front porch

Together with a bottle all alone

You'll beg and you'll cry

You'll try and you'll try

It's just a waste of time

Because Sadie baby is gone"

I cried and I cried

Said "give me one chance

I'll keep you satisfied"

She said "if you was an honest man

You wouldn't have to apologize for the times you lied

You can't right

Because you prefer to do wrong

Do wrong all alone

Because Sadie baby is gone"

And I cried:

Sadie Baby

Sadie baby

Sadie, babe you've been gone too long

Hey Sadie,

Hey baby,

Please come back home

Teardrops In The Rain

2015-10-04T10:27:00.001-05:00

Lately my life

Is fast cars motorcycles

And Jim beam whiskey

And another young girl

Only learning to play the game

Tomorrow she better learn fast

How to miss me

Because I'll be gone

Like Teardrops in the rain

A long time ago

Maybe there was one who could've held me

But she is gone

I guess it's for the best

She found something to replace me

And I found that freedom

Means more than a word in a song

Since then I've taken

Everything I took

Living hard running out the show

You can't see, so you can't know

It's all smoke and mirrors

Just a carnival game

I will show you but you can't look

Because I'll be gone

Like Teardrops in the rain

I'll shoot you straight

And you'll find surprise

Take my truth

And turn bourbon into lies

Another driven snowflake

Fallen with a Scarlett stain

I will show you but you can't look

And I'll be gone

Like teardrops in the rain

The Dreams Of A Nightmare

2015-09-13T13:27:00.001-05:00

She called his name last night

For the first time he did not care

She knows that she's lost him

To the dreams of a nightmare

He's somewhere fighting

His fragile self esteem

Mending his broken ego

In the arms of a living lying dream

And she cries for the chancing

Of the petty war she fought

Out chanced the chances

Of a heart she sold and bought

As the moonlight dances on her skin

Like the fingers of a stranger

Reminiscent of thunder stars

And that old holy song of mystery and danger

He's out there somewhere

Fighting his fragile self esteem

Mending his broken ego

In the arms of a living lying dream

She paints a story back in time

Of a careless burning at the stake

Dancing with the embers

She used to scorch her own fate

And he's out there somewhere

Fighting his fragile self esteem

Mending his broken ego

In the arms of a living lying dream

She called his name last night

For the first time he did not care

She knows she finally lost him

To the dreams of a nightmare

Crash and Burn

2015-09-07T10:43:00.001-05:00

Mama was a gambling gal

Put a nickel in the slot and I come out

100 miles per hour down a red mud road

Life's a highway

I gotta see where it goes

They say flying too high

Will burn you down

But I never learned

The low way around

They say moving too fast

Your bound to crash

But I was born without brakes

So I can't slow down

Lighting a fire

Around every turn

Life's a party

I'm gonna crash and burn

They said I looked like angel

On the day I was born

They never thought to check

For my horns

A hell raising man

Eating pussy and pills

Never worried what it costs

Cause I don't pay bills

Lighting a fire

Around every turn

Life's a party

I came to crash and burn

From Himself

2015-09-07T09:10:00.001-05:00

With one last "wish you well"

The Angels went out to play

Innocent without knowing

They spread their wings and flew away

And they left

Him with no one to save him from himself

Cigarettes on the counter

Jim beam on the floor

Looking in the mirror

Not recognizing the face he has seen

One hundred million times before

And the darkness

Hits so cold

When he thinks of the angel harem

That he sold

For one hundred million dollars worth of worthless gold

And the smile on his face

Hides the place

On the dark side where he dwells

With no one around

To save him from himself

He is riddled with stories

And illusions of a smile

Of a long ago dream

That used to seem worthwhile

No one says

Because no one knows

Just when it will come

Terrorized by the demons

He was born with dying from

He is haunted by the traces

Of the pretty life he left

Terrorized by the places

Touching him but no one else

An easy masquerade

Marching a 40 year parade

Until no one was left

To save him from himself

And he tried to leave some laughter

And some honest make believe

A little more pretty to the pretty world

That will be sadder when he leaves

An empty notebook

In a rocking world of poetry

And his burden rested with the cause

Of making love and being free

He gave them one last "wish you well"

As the Angels went out to play

Smiling as they innocently spread their wings and flew away

The burden left

With no more reason to save him from himself

Tijuana To Birmingham

2015-08-30T22:09:00.001-05:00

She was born in Tijuana

Wild as that old western town

Somehow the years found her

Out here in Birmingham

We met in a restaurant

Swapping stories of the west

As the nighttime rolled along

She touched away the misery that was beating in my chest

And I shared with her the stories

Of a wild man who roams

She laughed with understanding

Sharing stories of her own

She was born in Tijuana

Wild as that old western town

Then landed in El Paso

And made her way to Birmingham

In the morning she told me

How she would hold me until I moved on

I knew from the night we spent without sleeping

I found a dream I thought was gone

And I shared with her the stories

Of a drunk man singing a lonesome song

She smiled with understanding

And shared a lonesome dream of her own

She was born in Tijuana

Wild as that old western town

The good lord sent her

To save a wild man from dying alone in Birmingham

She was born in Tijuana

Wild as that old western town

The Gypsy Queen

2015-08-26T09:50:00.001-05:00

When his dear mother died

He did not grieve

He didn't bat an eye

When his pretty wife told him to leave

He spent a lifetime

Just letting things go

Like he'd never have to feel

What he would not show

And he headed east

Towards New Orleans

Dreaming in the arms

Of a gypsy queen

She charmed his eyes

And his riddled mind

With illusions of a future

He would never find

She could see

He was a desperate man

So she picked his pocket

As she held his hand

He so easily placed

His misplaced dreams

In the hands

Of a gypsy queen

But as his pockets

Were relieved of there gold

Like a crushing stone

That gypsy rolled

Then one night

That life would end

Popping dollar beer with Vicodin

In a $50 room at the chateau inn

Looking out a window

Over magazine

He saw a sad lost man

Being conned by a gypsy queen

One life over

A new began

He paid $50

And he left the chateau inn

He cried for his mother

And he cried for his wife

And he smiled down the road

At a brand new life

He thought of the horror

And the pleasures seen

Everything has a purpose

He just paid for the service of a gypsy queen

He thought of the horrors

And the pleasures seen

Everything has a reason

Even that gypsy queen

These Lies I Tell

2015-08-23T12:18:00.001-05:00

Since you've been gone

I've been pretending to be strong

Since you've been gone

Trying to play it cool

No one knows I'm a fool

I'm the coolest fool you'll ever see

Because these lies I tell

I tell them so well

No one knows I'm lying but me

My lying smile

Says I'm happy on my own

With no one here to raise hell

And carry on

My lying smile

Says I'm happy you're gone

And if I really miss you

No one could ever know

When I want to kiss you

There's no way to let it show

Because I've learned to play it cool

No one knows I'm a fool

Hey, I'm the coolest fool you'll ever see

And these lies I tell

I tell them so well

No one knows I'm lying but me

I've learned to play it cool

No one knows I'm a fool

Hey, I'm the coolest fool you'll ever see

And these lies I tell

I tell them so well

No one knows I'm lying but me

Paved In Sin

2015-08-23T10:51:00.001-05:00

I dreamed there is a road out there

That leads somewhere

I ain't never been

But every hill I've been up and down

Every corner I've turned around

Traveling a highway paved in sin

Like every goodbye story

With every doe eyed girl

As with every morning dreamer

In the whole wide world

Laying with devils

That haunt me still today

And I keep praying the good lord

Will wash my stains away

When I'm alone

The struggles seem so vain

And these sins still remain

Alone and unconquered

As the evening sun hides her gold

Like a long haired young girl

Out there somewhere

With a storm raging in her soul

I don't know where I'm going

Anymore, I ain't really sure where all I've been

I've been riding a highway

Paved in sin

The days are getting shorter now

The nights seem shorter too

I've been trying different things

But nothing feels like it's new

Running out of a gas

But I can see the end

The crossroads down by the river

Just before the bend

A complicated life

set so easy to the tune of a highway

Paved in sin

The Song

2015-08-22T18:59:00.001-05:00

His blue eyes were wild

As his steady hand

Everyone could see

He was a troubled man

A heartbroken renegade

Out on some prairie trail

He chose a heartbreaking story

Over some old fairytale

Sitting quiet in a corner

Holding his whiskey drink

He didn't say much

But everyone could hear him think

And it's not that he's bad

It's just that he did not belong

He was never the singer

He was always the song

He never was the singer

He just lived like a song

Her eyes were burning

Scorched behind her fair skin

As she took measure of a life she didn't really choose, but it's the one she was living in

Looking at a picture book

Maybe, forty years from now

And she drinks it over

How she made it through somehow

She will always know

Her greatest mistake

The biggest thing she lost

Was on the long shot chance

That she did not take

And she still thinks about a renegade boy

On some hard prairie trail

And the safe life she chose

Over some damned old fairytale

She tried to stay true

And she tried to stay strong

She was always the singer

But she could've been the song

She was only the singer

She should've been the song

Thirty years of dust and gravel

On some hot old southern ground

And they look back at how lost they really were

And how easy it would've been to get found

And he loves her still today

A lifetime ago and that many miles away

As he stares down one last prairie trail

He gets lost in make believe

With a smile and a tear

He just disappears into some old fairytale

He closed his eyes one last time

Knowing she could do no wrong

He was just the writer

She was the song

He was just the writer

And she was his sad sad song

Getting High And Laying Low

2015-08-15T23:30:00.001-05:00

People talk

But they don't know

I've been doing what I had to do

Laying with it don't matter who

I've been getting high and letting go

I've been staying high and laying low

I like to whisper

But some people shout

Most folks don't know what they're screaming about

It don't bother me no more

Down the hall is another door

Down the hallway

There's another door

I try to listen

And I try not to scream

I can't miss what ain't seen

I can learn and I can grow

But I keep getting high and letting go

I've been getting high and letting go

Down the corner

Around the street

Where the creatures gather

And the saints all meet

Wasting time

When time moves slow

Just staying high and laying low

29 Months

2015-08-15T21:04:00.001-05:00

I guess I'll work out my sentence

Finish up the time I have to serve

It won't be long babe, I'll be out of here,

To get what I deserve

29 months babe

I've only got 29 more

In 29 months babe

They'll unlock that door

I said 29 month babe

Pay attention, I only got 29 more

In 29 months babe

They'll unlock that door

I've been down out

Ball and chained

You know I've been down and out

I've been ball and chained

But 29 months are all that remain

Until they have to set me free

In 29 months I'll be gone

But everyone her will remember me

I said 29 months babe

I only got 29 more

In 29 shorts months, darling

They gonna open that door

Time

2015-08-15T20:01:00.001-05:00

Didn't I do it all

Everything I said I would

Didn't I do it all, baby,

Didn't I...didn't I do it good

Things change, I know,

Things change

You and I know things change

But it feels so strange

Going away without you

Time moves on

They say time moves on

But I think time has been chasing me

We can't change what has come and gone

They say time just moves on

But lately I think time is catching up with me

Look at that old mountain

Where I used to play king

Standing on top and looking down

At the world I owned

Blinded by the shine

Kissing the ring

Of my own crown

And time keeps moving on

But didn't I do it all

Everything I said I would

Didn't I do it all babe

Didn't I do it good...

Believing In Love

2015-08-13T21:13:00.001-05:00

There are scars on my face

Scars on my heart

Scars on my legs

From chasing in the dark

It's easy to see

If you look at me

I've been hurt in my time

But I've never felt so free

As when she looks at me

Says I am hers and she is mine

I'll never stop believing in love

Some people say

Love is make believe

Like dreaming in the day

I'm ashamed to admit

The older I get

The more I see things that way

So it's easy to see

If you look at me

I've been hurt in my time

But I will never feel so free

As when she looks at me

Says I am hers and she is mine

I will never stop believing in love

I'll never stop believing in love

Sex And Whiskey

2015-08-05T15:21:00.001-05:00

My life ain't nothing but sex and whiskey

That ain't as fun as it sounds

Seeing the same old face in every girl who will miss me

When the morning sun rolls around

Getting wasted

And wasting life

Writing songs that I can't sing

And singing songs I couldn't write

Out of time

Without a key

I've got'em standing in line

But that line ain't as long as it used to be

My life ain't nothing but sex and whiskey

That ain't as fun as it sounds

Seeing the same old face in every girl who will miss me

When the morning sun rolls around

When The Stars Were Aligned

2015-07-27T14:35:00.001-05:00

When the stars were aligned

And I was her friend and she was mine

When the stars were aligned

I was as reckless as she was wild

She held my heart in her hand

And I trusted her just like a child

When the stars were aligned

I was her friend and she was mine

When the stars were aligned

The colors all came together then

That old riddle would not break

The story means more than the end

We choose every chance we take

And there were moonlit butterflies

Flying across the whiskey skies

Forever did not matter then

Chancing laughter for the next sunrise

There was always magic burning with surprise

When the stars were aligned

Regret does not write poetry

Nothing but the moment

Is ever really meant to be

And those moments are still smiling somewhere

Where the stars were aligned

When the stars were aligned

I was her friend and she was mine

When the stars were aligned

I was as reckless as she was wild

And I trusted her just like a child

Johnny Cash Is Dead And I Still Tell Too Many Lies

2015-07-26T12:33:00.001-05:00

We used to sit out by the bar

And listen to "Cry Cry Cry"

I would tell her that I love her

Then I would give it my best try

But that was a long time ago

Johnny Cash is dead

And I still tell too many lies

Johnny Cash is dead and I still tell too many lies

I wake up in the morning

That old sun screams at me

I wake up in the morning

The sunlight screaming at me

Smelling like cigarette perfume

And a bath of last night's whiskey

That woman I sing about is gone

She disappeared right before my eyes

That woman I sing about is a long time gone

She disappeared right before my eyes

God knows I don't think about her anymore

Because Ol' Waylon is dead and I still tell too many lies

Reckon I was born

In a time not my own

Reckon I was born

In a time not my own

Listen to the radio

And WZZK won't play

One goddamned country song

Maybe I was born

100 years too late

A damn sad joke

By a simple twist of fate

Running out of reasons

Running out of excuses and alibis

But Old Hank is dead

And I still tell too many lies

The Last Goodbye Song

2015-07-13T19:35:00.001-05:00

I guess I ain't the man I wanted to be

Or even the one I thought I was

You saw me about to drown

And you held me down

I don't know if it was just for fun

Or just because

But something funny happened

When I was laying there in the gutter all alone

I found out I've been living without

You since you've been gone

And though I know

There is nothing left that I owe

I thought I would write you one last goodbye song

One last goodbye song

Long overdue as long as you've been gone

Get drunk and crack a smile

It's been a long long while

But raise your glass and sing this last

Goodbye song

Baby when you found me

I was already low, thought I was low as I could be

Ain't it funny passing time

How love and a rhyme

Put a hold on and made a fool of me

Yesterday I shed one last tear

And lost the last thing I had to lose

I replayed the last few years and thought if I had a choice just what I would choose

I wouldn't change a thing as the truth that rings moaning these hillbilly blues

You left me for a cowboy

And you left me for your friends

You left to live the same old life

You were always living in

One last time

I'll let you cross my mind

But the illusion is gone

You never wore my ring

So we don't owe each other a goddamn thing

But still, I'll give you one last goodbye song

One last goodbye song

Long overdue as long as you've been gone

Get drunk and crack a smile

It's been a long long while

But raise your glass and sing this last

Goodbye song

2015-07-10T15:57:00.001-05:00

Everyone needs a cause

Even if it seems lost

Mine are love and freedom

Maybe I am excessive in my plight

But liberty is a light

Where heroes shine when you need them

2015-07-03T13:34:00.001-05:00

Success, to me, is a garden. It is creation it is love. I don't need society or her rules or expectations. Success to me is a dream to pursue as opposed to one coming true. A crazy dreamer driven by the bounds of his own combine or a far away highway sign. It is in words that I can be proud of and a kiss I would never take back.

Somewhere along the way I will probably grow up and then I will die. Until then I will just dream to create and love. I will call that successful

100 Notches And The Badman

2015-07-01T13:22:00.001-05:00

I have 100 notches on my gun

Don't get too close or you will be 101

Heed my call or you will fall to my gun

With the damage done

I hope you understand

I'm a bad bad man

Please listen close and believe the words I say

You will fall and I will smile and ride away

I won't stay

It's not who I am

I'm a bad bad man

You think that you know me

Because once you could hold me

And call me friend

I am not the same

I have changed

A lot since then

You made me what I am

I'm a bad bad man

And I have 100 notches on my gun

Don't get too close or you will be 101