Tell Me, Leann - Second Draft

I posted a basic first draft of this one at the end of March, played on synth organ. Since then I've been working out a more melodic version on electric guitar. This is it.



Jump in the water, it's only up to your knees
so you know I'm not as deep as it seems
I'm just hanging upside down
Caught up with Bobby, he said he understands
I started drinking just to do what I can
cuz I don't wanna drown

So tell me, tell me--what are we all crying for, Leann?
If I can't find the words maybe you can

Been looking at pictures of when we were young
nowhere to go and nowhere to come from
but somehow made it here
Met up with Mandy, she said it's okay
even though the colors have all faded away
the sky is still clear

So tell me, tell me--what are we all crying for, Leann?
If I can't find the words maybe you can

Two New Tunes

Couple new songs I'm working on.





Somehow

I'm getting ahead of myself, and I'm tired
You're getting an earful of mouth running wild
and I think that it's time to slow down

Been thinking about what you said, and it's true
I don't need you to understand my point of view
it's just for me to sort out somehow

I just need to slow down somehow
I just need to slow down somehow


Dime

You asked me if I could stand to get a better view
but when I did you said I was looking down on you
it's tough to help you out when you don't trust how I do

We're stuck on different sides of the same dime

You came to me singing a tune with the tongue of a goat
and I said it might as well have been a song I wrote
it's not the words coming out, it's how they feel in your throat

We're stuck on different sides of the same dime

Well sometimes, y'know, I can't help myself
I see only the black and white
And yeah, I know that it's all mixed up
but some days the gray looks like a line

And it's a whole 'nother scene
when there's no more in-between

We're stuck on different sides of the same dime