Happiness  Vs. The    Blues

Happiness smiles like the distant friend shes been, to far to hold, to distant to feel; The Blues,way to close to be anything besides a heartache and the worry she casts as a shadow on my almost gprgeous day..... One holds my heart as the other steals a kiss.....

California Soul

Key:  Dm

Verse:  My gaze is turned inward, where did I lose the wings that carried my heart on a free wind, on the free wind?

Chorus:  Where did I lose my California Soul, My California Soul? It wont matter where as long as I know I find it there inside, my California Soul, my California Soul...

Verse:  My heart is chained, when did I let go of the freedom that captured my spirit, that surrendered everything?

Bridge:  Float on to tomarrow past the Gypsy Sun, hang on, hang on to your California Soul........

Lets just say this song is staight up Rock'N;Roll................

Cast  Your  Spell  On  Me

Verse:  Hello, goodbye, beautiful sun, I come undone under your spell. vex me one more time. Cast this spell on me one more time. mezmorize me for forever and curse me if ever I again speak the word never, cast your spell on me.....

Chorus:  Kiss the sky, hold the stars, and fall away, fall away, this is everything you see, this is everything to believe....

Verse:   Hold the aurora, kiss the sky and touch the gorgeous midnight moon and wish for all that is beautiful inside of her eyes, the eyes that hold stars so bright dead in the dark of night, cast your spell on me one more time.....

I hate not being next to you to feel the warmth of your soul, to not taste the air you breathe.

I couldn't not write to night, and here are the results of it. I havent put music to it yet, but theres the lyrics for whatever music I write for it........ Thank you Jesus for writting within me and creating within me something so much more precious and beautiful than music, verse, lyric or anything I could ever begin to describe............

Blessed is the man whose lost it all,

MichaelTodd

Crashing & Burning  (Falling in Love)

Verse:       To find your heart at the top of this spire, asking myself can I be any higher? And then to find, to find............

Chorus:       And this cities falling down all around me, all around me, crashing and burning in and out of love, in and out of love..........crashing and burning and im in and shes in and out of love, falling in and out of love......

Verse:     Dancing on the edge, heaven is just a touch away and its a long way down to hell, till your falling, till your falling......

Two Weeks

Verse:  People tell me, they tell me I've lost myself, lost myself in this maze of vindication, lost myself in finding the life worth living. They tell me I've changed but am I to blind to see the truth, to blind to see the burden of proof??..............

Chorus:  The child that lives inside, the man that should bury his pride, God knows there isnt much, isn't much that either can hide. And I still trust my doubts and believe my fears but im that much closer to the truth inside to showing all that I could never hide.............

Verse:  People tell me, tell me im a prodigal son, am I that far gone? Is a wandering man better than a complacent boy? Whose to find what brings the middle to the place far from all that is comfortable to where all dances on the razors edge? Ill die trying to find the compromise, I'll die trying to find..........

The innocence of a boy brave enough to live is all but lost, Is he still brave enough to live and die for love, to live and die for the dreams like the man alive inside................

I have yet to put music to this song, im still working on it. I dont know if it will make it to the publics ears. This is something I more or less wrote to get something off my chest...........

This song has been written in the last 2hours and is about alot of questions I have within myself and alot of questions I have been getting from different people....... Its about me examining myself and examining my depths to find the truth about different things from my past and the present and the future................. I pray for nothing more then the truth and for God to find himself in the depths of who I am.......

blessed is the man whose lost it all,

MichaelTodd

Devil Inside Of You

Key:   Bm

Verse: Awake in the dark, asleep in the light, dead to the touch and yet alive to death you find so easy to surround yourself with, mignight becomes the dawn as you lay dead inside, as you lay dead inside.........

Chorus: Theres a Devil inside of you, theres Devil inside of you, it drives you to the hell you see, to the hell you feel when you touch your reflection, theres a devil, ohhhhh a gorgeous devil..........

Verse: Theres no life inside the twilight, inside the sunset that eclipses your heart, you dance with nightmares and romance hell like you'll live past eternity, oh believe me, believe me, believe me your dead already, believe me..........

Chorus: Theres a Devil inside of you, theres Devil inside of you, it drives you to the hell you see, to the hell you feel when you touch your reflection, theres a devil, ohhhhh a gorgeous devil..........

Bridge: Is it breathing and alive tonight? Are you looking to take me down with you in the dark of night? Are you waiting for my soul, for me to lose control, Ohhh and I see, and I see.......

This is another song I've been sitting on for a while........ I started writting while I was still in a purgatory before God pieced my life back together some three and a half years ago...... I actually started writting this song in NewYorkCity early in the morning riding the subway, I was just questioning deeply where my life was going and why I felt so dead inside and why darkness and the devil were so much closer to me than God felt. It had felt that way for a long time.............. This song is dark, its meant to be, its meant to show someone dancing on the edge of a razor between sanity and hell.......... I pray it leaves you with questions, with new meaning to the light, and to the dark......

blessed is the man whose lost it all,

MichaelTodd

Naked

Key: D

Verse: Ive seen you cut through me, drain my sanity and leave me insane, inside a mind that is the calm before the storm, waiting to feel reborn, but torn between the thief and the savior, and I cant save you, but I'll die to show you......... 

Chorus:  My heart is breaking for the first time, your heart is naked for a reason, right now im ripped wide open, this time, this time, touch me as my soul bleeds, bleeding from a heart wide open......and my heart is, my heart is naked..........

Verse:  Alone inside yourself, finding your more scared of the truth than it is of you...What to do? What can you do? Waiting for the lie that feels comfortable, theres never an easy way out, but your imagination always finds one........

Chorus:  My heart is breaking for the first time, your heart is naked for a reason, right now im ripped wide open, this time, this time, touch me as my soul bleeds, bleeding from a heart wide open......and my heart is, my heart is naked..........

Verse:  Heres to me, and a heart worth finding, Heres to me, I hope im strong enough ohhh I hope im brave enough; heres to humanity, the excuse for perfect love; heres to us, ohhh heres to us, and our broken hearts.... And I know I felt something cut through me to find my naked heart, and leave me vulnerable, to leave me.....

Chorus:  My heart is breaking for the first time, your heart is naked for a reason, right now im ripped wide open, this time, this time, touch me as my soul bleeds, bleeding from a heart wide open......and my heart is, my heart is naked..........

Bridge:  Truth bleeds love dying to find a reason why.......even if the truth kills me, even if the truth kills me..............

This song is one I've been writting for the last God only knows how long, I'd say six months at least. It hasnt been an easy one to write in any sense. Its forced me to examine myself everytime I try and finish it and its definitely hasnt been easy to write in the sense that Im trying to convey a simple but so desperately real issue...... The song is about continually being broken and finding the reason to remain quote un quote "naked"  and having a "naked heart" with God and people in the sense that your hiding nothing.......putting on no shows, being honest with yourself and with everyone else, and most importantly God even though he knows what is going on at any point..... I guess it kinda goes back to the whole quote of "Love as if you have never been wounded"..... I pray that this song finds you asking questions, finds you examining and searching Gods heart to find yours......

blessed is the man whose lost it all,

MichaelTodd

The Setting Of The Sun
key: Am

Verse: Wake up and see the sunrise in your heart. let go of the sunset and let it cry itself to sleep. You've been living for your past, but dying for today..... Tonight is the night the world begins again, so dont call me a stranger because you've been chasing sunsets all your life looking for me.......

Chorus: And I want to hold you for longer than today but tomarrow is here already, and all I want is what all wise men say will surely die with the setting of the sun...........

Verse: Lie here with me and just forget the world and fall asleep to the beat of my heart, dreaming awake with our eyes wide shut as we feel the sunrise. To find this to be so real, to find this to be lasting, to chase the sunrise and never see a sunset again, this is the dream that I see inside of you....

Bridge: And all I can see is the sunrise that lies deep inside your perfect eyes.........

Have you ever found yourself inside of moment where the second hand on a clock just seems to slowly die in a moment that can only be so perfect that God himself has to stop and smile? A moment where all the rest of the world could be in the depths of hell but what you have and what you have found with one other person becomes a heaven like no other, but still find yourself scared of what tomarrow could bring as well as what could become of the whole thing afterwards?..........