All content (C) 2025, TK Major unless otherwise noted
GOING HOME
Wake up baby
turn your light down low…
I want ta see your pretty face
one more time before I go
They’re coming for me in the morning
coming to take me home…
When you see that light in the sky
that’s when you know I’m going home
[bridge]
When you see that light in the sky
that’s when you know I’m going home…
Don’t try to call me baby
cause they ain’t got no telephone
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BABY WAS A FRIEND OF MINE
the first time I saw her
I knew it was too late
a shadow fell across my soul
I asked her for a date
Baby was a pistol
way too hot to hold
baby was a big mistake
some things you cant be told
(but) baby…
was a friend of mine
baby…
was a friend of mine
she couldnt keep from cheating
she never did stop lying
but baby… was a friend of mine
Now, Baby drove me crazy
for almost seven years
then she drove away one day
with a repo-man from Sears
I found her in a Motel Six
out in San Berdoo
she was watching Lucy re-runs
and sniffing airplane glue
………………………ch…….
Now the last time I saw her
she said that it was fate
I thought for sure you’d save me
(she) said as she turned away
I thought i saw a tear
slide across her face
I thought I saw forever
just as it slipped away
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Wake up each morning
and I reach for my Bible
I reach for my razor
and I reach for my gun
I reach for the dream
I was dreaming last night
but each single morning
that dream is gone
(cause it’s a) – Big Nasty World – a
terrible mean place
It’s hard to stay alive
and it’s hard to keep the faith
Its a rotten world – a
grim shabby place – but
out of the endless depths of time
honey, you’re here today
I’m tired of living, baby
and I’m tired of dying too
I’m tired of tomorrow
and all the shift-that-I-been-thru
I’m tired of forever
and I’m tired of yesterday
I’m tired of – never
and the man the child became
I used to love ya baby – and you know that’s true
I used to love God and you know that too
I used to love myself It was hardest of all
Loved the whole GD world but that was before the Fall
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alt:
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[its a rotten world
a grim shabby place
But you don’t get out alive
so why not live for today]
Honey there’s a circuit breaker baby [Em7add9]
deep inside my heart
late last nite the whole thing blew
felt all my feelings stop
isn’t it amazing doll [Am7]
how fast it all can change [/fade]
the twitch of a tiny hand [Em7add9]
and today is yesterday
the love l felt for you was
like a frozen photograph
where you watch the ghosts appear
baby, step into the past
wasn’t there forever
at least for a little while
wasnt there a time for us
[and now/] too bad that’s out of style
©1991, TK Major
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IT’S TIME FOR ANOTHER FLOOD
People think heaven is behind the sky
People thinking crazy things and not thinking why
They think the answer’s going to fall from above
I think the answer is another flood
ch: It’s time, time for another flood
It’s time, baby, time for another flood
People live in wickedness and dwell in greed
They’ll murder their brother to get more than they need
They even rape the Mother and swim in her blood
I call on the Father for another flood
ch
All of this truth has all been a lie
Our immortal souls have already died
The time for salvation has come and gone
and all that’s coming now is another flood
ch
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pop opera idea
Towers of the Rich (or something)
TIme for another Flood
Scared of the Light
can draw from a lot of already written songs
Anti-hero is a rich and powerful televangelist
who is afraid of fiery young minister
who televangelist thinks is the real thing and that both scares him
makes him aware of his the core-deep doubt that he’s hidden so long it’s second nature to him
but also stirs him to competition [ed: see girl/woman below]
but then he finds out that the fiery young preacher
is far more cynical or just plain evil or something.
How do I get a girl in this?
Obviously, she must be torn between them…
But you could have two couples with one competitive relationship targeting one of the women — the young one, beautiful and seemingly innocent? Or the still beautiful older woman (herself maybe a trophy-ish second wife somewhat younger than the televangelist?
Both. More opportunities to have the obligatory soprano and alto parts. I guess that’s why you see so many of these trapezoidal relationships…
like, of course, Who’s Afraid of Virginnia Wolf?
TONIGHT I GUESS WE’RE IN LOVE
(Your Eyes Have It Tonight)
I never felt like this ever before
well maybe just once or twice
I guess that it’s Love I can alaways tell
the answer is always in the eyes
[ch] Your eyes have it tonight
they glow like the stars above
your eyes have it tonight
Tonight I guess we’re in Love
I been around the world five or six times
I never saw nothing like you
All those places all thosere faces
It took all this time to find you
ch
Just got back from the Orient
I was doin a job for some friends
my letter of credits hung up I aint got no doughr
but at leastin you I got a freind
ch
Let me stay with you for a couple of days
I swear I won’t get in the way
I got some business — collect on a couple of markers
and then I’ll be on my way
9 August 1987
COPYRIGHT 1987 TK MAJOR
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Now, Baby, It’s Never
Everything you say
seems to mean goodby
Though we talked forever
I never did know why
Now baby its never
our time wont come again
This time forever baby
This time it’s the end
Last night when you kissed me
it burned me to my soul
Everything I thought I knew
was all a lie I know
Now baby its never…
I walked along the aqueduct
just before the dawn
The sun looked old and tired as it came up
but at least the night was gone
Now baby its never
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HE MIGHTA FELL
(C)1991 TK MAJOR
They found his car
didn’t find a note
but they found this rose
lying by the side of the road
The sky was dark
when I got the call
her voice shook bad
She could barely talk at all
CH: the rocks were slick
you could never tell
the sea so far below him
he might ha’ fell
I knew he was sick
never knew how bad
but I know he fought it
with everything he had
I guess we’ll never know
what the end was like
I know he cursed the darkness
I hope he saw the light
CH: the rocks were slick
you could never tell
the sea so far below him
he mighta fell
*The rocks were slick
*from the winter rain
1:29pm Sep 12,1991
*ad nauseum-
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[capo up 2]
Em/”/F#/G C a.n.*
I Just Started to Cry
We ran through the summer night
it was hot and it was black
we ran until we were all alone
and didn’t even know the way back
We were young
we were in love
that summer we were one
when I look back I start to cry
to think of what is gone
A storm came up from the south real fast
and lightning lit the rain
I looked in her eyes for a moment
and then it was dark again
Our hands entwined and then our tongues
we were soaking wet
we made our way to the old Hansen barn
and there our souls met
I woke up the next morning
and she slept by my side
the sunlight poured through the hayloft door
and I just started to cry
I cried cause she looked so pretty lying there
I cried because I loved her so
I cried cause I knew she was the only one
and I cried cause I knew I was gonna go
(C) 1991 TK MAJOR
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