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Words and Music: KJ Denhert © 2006

Everybody needs a little problem sometimes
If only, to get up in the morning and fight for your right
Your right to not be lonely and still
I can find better pill, some inspiration in kind, from wanting

To make a better life for me and
These crazy dudes that I love
To fit my hardened heart in side
The house of love

Still everybody needs a little problem sometimes
If only, to have a turn to share your tawdry tales of woe
Wishing I could fly like a bird on the wing
All I would do is sing bop sh’ dooby
Strum it string by sting and good lord keep it grooving, my

When all the cards are stacked up,
And my mother’s on the phone
She says there ain’t no use in dreaming girl
It’s not a dream anymore more, more, no, no

Settle up my tab now, I’ve got to keep moving
I’ve been down this road, enough to know
No one’s gonna save me, just cause I’m behaving
I was the first on line and I’ll be the first to go

Go go go go go
I will be the first to go

I’m going to make a better life for me
And these crazy dudes that I love
I’m going to fit my hardened heart inside
The house of love

Settle up my tab now, I’ve got to keep moving
I’ve been down this road, enough to know
No one’s gonna save me, just cause I’m behaving
No one’s gonna save me, just cause I am behaving
No one’s gonna save me, just cause I’m behaving
I was the first on line and I’ll be the first to go
I will be the first in line, don’t you know

Lyrics Never used;
Tell me, why lie
Why lie about the hard times
In your life,
Crying, crying in the nighttime
Spinning lies of glory, and missing out on why

Words and Music: KJ Denhert © 2006

Oh my isn’t it delightful
Just a few days ago, you might have said things were frightful
That I was being spiteful,

I met a girl named I knew (Anu), met another named I know (Aynur)
You may say that can’t be true but I tell that it’s so
And I say that’s all right she is on the money tonight

There’s so many things I really ought to know
Things we shouldn’t say in mixed company
Places to stay away from others you’ll want to go

From the halls of education come the laws of mice an men
Lucky seven’s bound to turn up if you roll the dice again, and sing
That’s all right she is on the money tonight

They call me Lucky Seven
Lucky thing is that I never give up
Lucky loves looking out for number 1/6 2/,5 3&4

No one wears a smile everyday
I thought that I was the conductor
Turns out I was riding on the train
I had a hard time finding anything called love,
I found a second hand guitar
only needed to be strung and I said
That’s all right she is on the money- oo
And I hope you think I’m funny
Cause I’m feeling mighty good and I know
She’s on the money tonight

Music: Harold Arlen; Lyrics: E.Y. Harburg

Somewhere over the rainbow
Way up high,
There’s a land that I heard of
Once in a lullaby.
Somewhere over the rainbow
Skies are blue
And the dreams that you dare to dream_really do come true.
Someday I’ll wish upon a star
And wake up where the clouds are far behind me.
Where troubles melt like lemon drops
Away above the chimney tops
That’s where you’ll find me.
Somewhere over the rainbow Bluebirds fly
Birds fly over the rainbow
Why then, oh why can’t I?
If birds can fly over the rainbow
Why then oh why can’t why then oh why can’t
Why then oh why can’t I adlib. kjd

Not sung: If happy little bluebirds fly_Beyond the rainbow_Why, oh why can’t I?

Words and Music: KJ Denhert © 2006

More than he had money,
More than he had fame
He heard the whisper of angel voices in the rain
They said he’d be all right
To heed the call again
Gave his regards to old Broadway
Gave his number out again

I watched as his penciled name
Faded on the pad
I said goodbye to the best friend
I never really had
Some men are made to move
Me, I’m a wanna be nomad

There’s no country for this man
He’s not coming home again.

What weariness of mind
It gives me just to watch
I want to hold him here
I need my friend so much
Still there’s a great wide world
I hope we stay in touch
As the day arrives goes by

How very strange it is
The mindset he rejects
He’ll write some letters
That he probably will forget to send
No reason better than there’s no reason to stay
No ties that bind could ever make this man a slave

And I said
There’s no country for this man
He’s not coming home again

All of my life waiting
Stars in the night, like dreams for the taking
Closing my eyes and waiting
My lust for adventure is abating

What’s My Name
Words and Music: KJ Denhert © 2006

Not Your Problem
This is not your problem
This is mine all mine
Never mind what’s happened because it all will be fine
I said it all will be fine

Words and Music: KJ Denhert © 2006 Dog Eared Black and White

I was playing in my past in a cardboard box of photographs
With a dog eared black and white of you
The world was new girls and boys walked two by two
Swearing that I would be first to fly to the moon

I can see your face
Hear your laughter too

We laughed we cried, we told each other lies
Invented ways to see if we could get ourselves a rise
We’d dance we’d sing, sure that we knew everything
We built a fortress that was true

Words and Music: KJ Denhert © 2006 What’s My Name

What’s my name
What’s my story
What’s my name
Where’s the glory, glory

Living in a world that felt so lonely
No one to blame but my self
I thought that I could love you only
You wouldn’t keep me on a shelf
Comes a time and time does what it does
Lust turns to love and love turns to lust
Comes a time in your mind and you find
Wake up in the morning, sit up in the bed
And I ask my self

What’s my name- Oh Mister can you tell me
What’s my story – Do you think you really know
What’s my name
Where’s the glory, glory

Get up get up get up get it straight baby
Everyone will be on time but you know that you’ll be late
You better get up get up get up and clean your plate mister
Everyone will be on time but you know that you’ll be late

Words and Music: KJ Denhert © 2001

I walked backwards this afternoon
There’s no doubt you appeared
Wearing that grin let me in, I’ll be good
I am not scared, any longer

Sixteen days in a ballroom gown
I’m as tired as my shoes
Learning the dance of no chance
I’m invited to lose
Darling do you get the picture?

I’ got time
I’m not addicted to some bitter love
I’m glad to know that you think that it’s fine, fine
Seems like I was dancing so much faster than my courage
Just the same I will leave it all behind

Don’t underestimate the fist for the glove
Inch yourself back from the line
I’m going nuts it’s a rut
Can we leave it all behind

Darling do you get the Picture?

I’ got time
I’m not addicted to some bitter love
I’m glad to know that you think that it’s fine, fine
Seems like I was dancing so much faster than my courage
Just the same I will leave it all behind

Words and Music: KJ Denhert © 2005

If I were to try to tell you the reasons why
I think you’re beautiful, beautiful.
Would you roll your eyes and walk away
And tell me not to say things like that.

So I must ask why,
Under a starry sky,
Don’t you feel beautiful, beautiful
Beautiful as this night, beautiful because

Ageless is beauty that whispers and follows the songs that the heart, like a madman, assembles sometimes

My, once in awhile, my darkness subsides and then I realize
That it is beautiful, beautiful to be by your side while Venus lights the velvet sky
It’s your time of year

So, darling take care, treasure your blues, and all that you’re meant to do
And you’ll feel beautiful, so beautiful,

Beautiful as this night, beautiful because

Ageless is beauty that whispers and follows the songs that the heart, like a madman, assembles
Beauty is ageless it’s you she resembles and leaves me believing that beautiful is all that you do.

Words and Music: KJ Denhert © 2005

Chorus
Seeing a man as a man
Nobody really understands
Watching the crowds in the street
Nobody seems to look like me

I took a step
Leaving a space for regret
Half of the things that I want
I seem to forget
I still want you
There when my last dream comes true
I just can’t seem to keep up with the things that you do

Chorus
Why not come in from the rain
No one will hurt you here again
As long as you’re not in pain
I should be fine

Now with you gone
Who’s here to look after mom
Half of the time I am questioning just what went on
All that I’ve found
Stumbling on unsteady ground
Half of the time I just see myself walking your rounds
And I cannot bear the sound – of that

After the war we were all suddenly ready to take sides
We’ve been divided and poised to be deceived
Seeing a man as a man
Nobody really understands
Little seems fair in the end
Nothing was planned – anyway

Words and Music: KJ Denhert © 2006

Sad song, don’t be too long on my mind today
I’ve got, a whole lot planned
Don’t get in my way

Rainlight, fog in the morning
Shadows of yesterday
And I want to believe I am brave
I can love you and still go my way
Now I am ready I’ll sing for my solace today

Sad song, don’t be too long on my mind today

Isn’t it weird what made me so scared
And how quickly my fears they do fade

And I want to believe I am brave
I can love you my very own way
Now I am ready no sad song will stand in my way

Sad song, don’t be too long on my mind today
Yes I want to believe I am brave
I can love you my very own way
Now I am ready no sad song will stand in my way

Words and Music: KJ Denhert © 2005

I can hear you laughing working into darkness
Sacrifice and passion, hold me in your heart
Rivera, turn your passion into art

La la

Live it love it, love like water,
Give me four more cases of your love
Give it want it kinda, sorta
Give me four more cases of your love

Monday turned to Tuesday
It was midnight and a quarter
Surrounded in your language
I am your helpless daughter
Rivera, paint your passion on my wall

Live it love it, love like water,
Give me four more cases of your love
Give it want it kinda, sorta
Give me four more cases of your love

Give me four more cases…

© KJ Denhert/ San Glaser [GEMA]

Because of all these things
I got to know
What winter time is like
in New York
I came last spring now
I’m remembering
The loveliness of wanting
all these things
I was right on time to catch
the Hudson River line
Every stop along the way
was new
But the spring became the fall
You were distant when I called
And by wintertime I wondered if our love was through
With those big brown eyes so sensitive and wise
It’s no surprise I fell in love with you so soon
Now I try to run away
but my heart just won’t obey
And on every street I wander I want you

Because of all these things
I got to know
What wintertime is like
in New York
I try to run away
but my heart just won’t obey
Because of you me
and all these things