New album now at the printers!

Clark Street Carols,The new Adam Selzer and his Revolving Door All-Stars album, featuring "Crooked Houses," "When Kevin Comes Marching Home," "New York Rain," "One Last Short Poem," "Bells of St. Julians," "I Don't Believe in Summer," "Barbara Allen's Grave," "But Not the Songs," "Your Neighborhood Gives Me the Creeps," "Long Way Home," and "An Intellectual COuntry Song About Joan Baez."

can't choose (Who do you love?)

Technically should be "whom" do you love, but that just sounds stuffy, doesn't it?

CAN'T CHOOSE

like a child of three
I want whatever I see
even what don't belong to me
sometimes we can't choose where we fall

it's pretty smoky in here
& you're standing so near
is it our words or just the beer
that keep us talking so long
(long after you should be gone?)

I'm in no place to fall
I'm in no place to fall
I have no grace to fall
I'm in no place to fall

what a sly little glance
do I have a chance?
I'd snap my fingers and dance
if that would turn your head
(What would turn your head?)

with a shy little smile
you stayed for awhile
playing your new songs in the old style
tell me who do you love?
(who do you love?)

repeat chorus
first & last verse

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This is my second new song in as many weeks...I'm very prolific when my heart's been broken.

Since You've Been Gone

I ride the bus to the end of the line
Cause since you’ve been gone I’ve had nothing but time
To think about all the ways I did you wrong

I stand unknown in unknown streets
Performing poems and miraculous feats
Inspired by the ways I’ve been done wrong

Since you’ve been gone
I’ve taken the long way home
since you’ve been gone
I’ve changed my tone

since you’ve been gone
I’ve found a new way to play
Since you’ve been gone
I’ve been trying to get away

Since you’ve been gone

I walk the streets until the morning light
Looking for something to make it alright
But all I find are reminders that you’re gone

I sing my songs til I’m deaf from the sound
But still you don’t seem to want me around
You’re sitting up front but still you’re long gone

I can no longer wait at the bus stop
That I once waited at with you
I can no longer sing all the sad songs
That I once sang for only you
You’re a thief who cannot be trusted with love

Composed today, with the exception of the first two verses, which were composed earlier...hell if I remember exactly when.

sigh

It never fails.... the album heads off to be printed tomorrow, if all goes well, and tonight I come up with a new song with a really catchy chorus that I can't stop playing

WHICH SIDE ARE YOU ON
The drove the trucks with the missiles down my street today
shortly after dinner, we'd sent the kids all out to play
and then, about eight thirty, the streetlights all came on
and the kids all had to come inside before the trucks were gone
chorus:
shut and quit shouting at me baby
don't you know there's a war going on
shut up and quit shouting at me baby
don't you know there's a war going on

(a some point the last line of the chorus will change to "which side you are you on"). This'd probably be overkill on the same album as "When Kevin Comes Marching Home," but maybe I'll play it live.