You Just Don't Give A Damn - Song A Week 2010 - 22

Umm... not much to say about this one. I think I stole part of the melody from another song I wrote about a year ago, but cannot find it. Must not have been that good. Hopefully this is an improvement.




You Just Don’t Give A Damn – T.C. Elliott

I know you just don’t understand
And you have ruined all my plans
Can’t you just try to believe?
How hard can it really be?
You just don’t give a damn

Some days you sit there and pretend
That we will always be best friends
Then you say something not quite right
Somehow you always start a fight
You just don’t give a damn

Sometimes I wonder why I try
When you tell another lie
For six years we were the best of friends
And now you’re gonna let it end
You just don’t give a damn

Chances come so infrequently
And you know what it really means to me

Will you just try to understand?
Will you face me man to man?
Do you know what it really means?
There is more to it than it seems
You just don’t give a damn

Cherry Chapstick - Song A Week 2010 - 21

This is a co-write with Travis Allen. Travis is the singer and guitarist in our band, Melancholy Trousers. A special thanks to Travis for allowing me to use this as a song a week.

Give Me Five - Song A Week - 2010 - 20

I've played the 'give me five' game with both of my daughters for years. I have no idea why this idea came running out of my noggin but it did.




Give Me Five – T.C. Elliott

Give me five on the side
Way up high, way down low
You’re too damn slow
Give me five on the side
Way up high, way down low
You’re too damn slow

It isn’t easy at six years old
It isn’t easy just doing what you’re told
Mommy and Daddy always fight
And they know neither one is right

Chorus

There was a program at school
And my Daddy just wanted to look cool
So he came up with this game
So now Daddy bares the blame

Chorus

There were people all around
Laughing at me I hate that laughing sound
People just stood there and stared
No-one ever seems to care

Chorus

My Daddy saw the teardrops in my eyes
So he gave me a little surprise

Give me five on the side
Way up high, way down low
Way to go
Give me five on the side
Way up high, way down low
Way to go

Truckin Down The Highway - Song A Week 2010 -19

A quick one. A fun one. An easy one. A light one. These are the phrases I choose to describe this weeks song.




Truckin Down The Highway

Truckin down the highway of love
Truckin down the highway of love
Back to the girl I've been dreaming of
Truckin down the highway of love

Been singing my songs
For three weeks straight
But now I'm headed back to you
I'm driving my truck
Down the interstate
I'm driving the whole night through

Chorus

Five hundred miles
Another tank of gas
Seven hours closer to my home
I wear a bigger smile
With every car I pass
Soon I won't be alone

Chorus

These Stairs - Song A Week 2010 - 18

This week was a pretty quick write. It's a one take vox/guitar with an additional track of lead acoustic.




These Stairs – T.C. Elliott

You said you didn’t want to see me
‘Round here ever again
Of course you say a lot of things when you’re mad
What is it that I did
To make you feel this way?
Am I really all that bad?

Here I am walking down these stairs again
You shut me down, you never want to let me in
Here I am on these stairs again

I remember first year college
I saw you on the street
You said I could pick you up at eight
You looked so good that night
Walking down your stairs in moonlight
I fell in love on our first date

Here I am walking down these stairs again
You shut me down, you never want to let me in
Here I am on these stairs again

Now I’m walking up to your door
To make you understand
There is nothing we can’t overcome
If you let me in I’ll tell you
How much I want you near me
Who wants a heart that’s on the run?

Here I am walking down these stairs again
You shut me down, you never want to let me in
Here I am on these stairs again

Intro: G D C D x2
Verse: G D em C, G D C x2
Chorus: Em D C B, G D x2, Em D C B Em

A Matter of Time - Song A Week 2010 -17

My next door neighbor was diagnosed with cancer and given about six months to live... that was almost a year ago. The details in this song are completely fabricated, but the spark that led to the song is real, lives next door and still waves to me sometimes when I mow my lawn.




A Matter of Time – T.C. Elliott

He’s been here for years
In this neighborhood
As the world just goes on by
All the things he loves
Turns into memories
They grow old and then they die

A lonely teardrop falls
The only sign of pain
He knows that this too will pass
It’s only a matter of time

All his kids are grown
They’ve all gone away
So he sits lonely and alone
He talks to the photographs
Hanging on his walls
Lonely in the house that was his home

All his pills are gone
And so is all his wine
Soon his pain will go away
He’s been sick for years
Now his time has come
He knows he’s better off this way

Hate And Pain - Song A Week - 16

Two local college students, both in their teens, recently littered on Mizzou campus. They threw cotton on the ground outside of an area frequented by black students. Needless to say it has been in the headlines around here quite a bit.
This song kind of takes a look at it.

Hate and Pain



Two dumb kids with nothing to do
Dared each other with something to prove
They snuck in and didn't make a sound
Then they threw cotton on the ground

Oh how could you be so stupid?
Did you know what you were gonna do?
Did you really want to stir up all of this hate and pain?
Stupid boys was it worth it?
A bag of cotton and your future
Did you really want to stir up all of this hate and pain?

They messed up and went to jail
Who is gonna go their bail?
Just two monsters they wanted to be
We locked them up and threw away the key

Chorus

They call you racist boys
Do they really know?
Is it a prank or is it more?

They let them out and tears were shed
Now they try to get ahead
Are they monsters or stupid teens?
Nobody knows what it means.

Chorus