So Sad

SO SAD - Written by Carroll Bryant 

So sad

Victims of circumstance

Too bad

You had your chance after chance

To come in from out of the rain

To comfort all of your pain

But it drives you insane again and again

Too late

It’s now over and done

So great

To know you were the only one

Now you’re just the lonely one

To blame for the loss

You’re paying the cost

Got lost in the fog of it all and it all and it all

It’s terrible

So confusing

Unacceptable

You’re always losing

Dreams come and go

You don’t seem to care

Live in between here and there

Loves despair

Maybe it’s just something in the air tonight

So sad

Too bad

Victims of circumstance

You blew your chance

So sad

Too bad

I was the best you will ever have

Did have

Ever had

Too bad

So sad

Let Your Love Come Down

LET YOUR LOVE COME DOWN - Written by Carroll Bryant 

I can still recall the first time I ever saw you

Your dreams were spilling from out of your eyes

My only thought was how thrilling

This feeling I feel is like a magic carpet ride

Could it be I’m falling in love?

I can’t get enough of your special touch

In the moment of when we kiss

Is it supposed to really feel like this?

Exquisite bliss

Let your love come down to me

Let your love come around and set me free

Like a fairy-tale disguised

On this magic carpet ride to the skies

Let your love come down and rescue me

I can still imagine holding your heart

Caressing it softly - tenderly - endlessly

Writing a song in my head to sing to you

In the light of this feeling in the dark

Could it be I gave away my yesterdays?
I can't find the path to simplicity
In the moment of when we yearn
Are we supposed to feel that burn?

Live and learn

Let your love come down to me

Let your love come around and set me free

Like a fairy-tale disguised

On this magic carpet ride to the skies

Let your love come down and rescue me

In this world there’s loneliness

We can’t forget how that could feel

How it could be

In this world there’s more regret

We can’t forget that pain is for real

And that’s not how love should be

Could it be I’m falling in love?

I can’t get enough of your special touch

In the moment of when we kiss

Is it supposed to really feel like this?

Exquisite bliss

Let your love come down to me

Let your love come around and set me free

Like a fairy-tale disguised

On this magic carpet ride to the skies

Let your love come down and rescue me

A Midnight Love Affair

A MIDNIGHT LOVE AFFAIR - Written by Carroll Bryant 

I see you everyday

You’re pretty all the time

I love to see you smile

Your face is engraved in my mind

How I would love to hold you

In my arms for evermore

Playing with your fire

But girl I know the score

You’re just an animated love machine

A broken hearted woman with broken hearted dreams

So take my hand and I don’t care

Take a chance with a midnight love affair

Headed for disaster while you’re standing there

Falling fast for a midnight love affair

A midnight love affair

What am I to do

All alone in the dark

Nothing makes sense

And everything’s falling apart

How I would love to kiss you

In places that would make your skin crawl

Dancing inside your fire

But girl I know it all

You’re just an everyday stolen fool

A lonely hearted girl with lonely hearted rules

So take my hand and I don’t care

Take a chance with a midnight love affair

Headed for disaster while you’re standing there

Falling fast for a midnight love affair

A midnight love affair

You and me and so it goes

You and me and nobody has to know

You’re just an animated sex machine

A beast of burden like I’ve never seen

Come and spill your dreams on me

So take my hand and I don’t care

Take a chance with a midnight love affair

Headed for disaster while you’re standing there

Falling fast for a midnight love affair

A midnight love affair

An Empty Room

AN EMPTY ROOM - Written by Carroll Bryant 

An empty room

Windows open

A fireplace

Coals need stoking

An echo whispers gently in my ear

The wind is freezing

Tears keep falling

Thoughts are melting

My heart’s calling

Let it go and let it be my year

And the earth starts shaking

People running

In the distance

One big explosion

Face the truth and then face the fear

You know where this is heading

An empty room

Paint is cracking

Wood floor scratches

Ceiling needs spackling

The smell of death lingers in the air

Your love is sepsis

My time’s ticking

Lost at the races

Souls keep begging

And you don’t even seem to care

You know where this is heading

An empty room

Feet are frozen

Doors closed tightly

Everything’s broken

Another face of day that only stares

The world is spinning

It’s so chilling

Stop believing

Tongues keep swearing

Two eyes blind with mice everywhere

You know where this is heading

An empty room

Windows open

A fireplace

Coals need stoking

An echo whispers gently in my ear

An empty room

I’m still standing

So misplaced

The end is beginning

Let it go and let it be my year

And in this empty room I stand

Pieces of a broken man

Born unto this strangest of lands 

You, a suicide bomber

An empty room

Windows open

I close them 

All We Need To Be

ALL WE NEED TO BE - Written by Carroll Bryant 

I was laying in the grass today

Watching clouds go by

Every thought of you was a heart beat waiting

To take my breath away

As I pictured you in the sky

Looking down upon me with a smile

You were looking nothing less than amazing

Taking my breath away

Never in a million years

To give you one single tear

Unless they are tears of joy

Never in the hope of chance

To never ever hold your hand

You’re just a girl, I’m just a boy

This is all we need to be

I was laying in the grass today

Flowers blooming all around

Every thought of you was a sweet sensation

Taking my breath away

As I counted down to all the hours

That I hold you in my mind

The world looks better when you are with me

Taking my breath away

Never in a million dreams

To make you think that what it seems

Is anything less than what it is

Never in a fatal wish

To never ever steal a kiss

When I will give them all to you for free

This is all we need to be

And in this day and age when words can be a tweet

I will dedicate to you everything that is so sweet

And in this day and age when touches can be so fake

I will hibernate your fears … away

And in this day and age when Facebook can replace

All the pictures in our hearts that’s true

And in this day and age when blogs are what we say

I will always blog about you … about you

I was laying in the grass today

Watching clouds go by

Every thought of you was a heart beat waiting

To take my breath away

Never in a million years

To give you one single tear

Unless they are tears of joy

Never in the hope of chance

To never ever hold your hand

You’re just a girl, I’m just a boy

This is all we need to be

And you take my breath away

Talk With You

TALK WITH YOU - Written by Carroll Bryant

There’s nothing more important than to know that you’re all right

Somewhere out there smiling and making love with life

Even though I miss you more than words could ever say

I know you have your reasons, but here I am today

Just thinking of you

And how you make me feel

I fight off the blues that seem to know me much too well

And if I could get just one thing in this world

I would want you - beautiful girl

I would want to talk with you

Or walk with you

Somewhere down a country road

Holding hands forever with you

Feel me too - I beg of you

Don’t leave me sitting here lonely in this secret room

I call my heart

I write a million stories about what you mean to me

I never get them published because they are but only dreams

I’d rather get to live them under the sun and the full moon

Living through the seasons like some forgotten cartoon

Just thinking of you

And how you cheer me up

I wait for a sign that resembles the face of love

And if I could get just one thing in this life

I would want you - to hold me tight

I would want to talk with you

Or walk with you

Somewhere down a country road

Holding hands forever with you

Feel me too - I beg of you

Don’t leave me sitting here lonely in this secret room

I call my heart

It’s no good, they try and say, to dwell on history

But that’s the only place right now

I can have you here with me

There is no point in crying if there’s nothing left for me

Wherever you are right now

That’s the place I long to be

There’s nothing more important than to know that you’re all right

Somewhere out there smiling and making love with life

Even though I miss you more than words could ever say

I know you have your reasons, but here I am today

Just thinking of you

And how you make me feel

I fight off the blues that seem to know me much too well

And if I could get just one thing in this world

I would want you - beautiful girl

I would want to talk with you

Or walk with you

Somewhere down a country road

Holding hands forever with you

Feel me too - I beg of you

Don’t leave me sitting here lonely in this secret room

I call my heart

You have my heart

Rainbow

RAINBOW - Written by Carroll Bryant

Rainbow, where is my pot of gold?

This man is starting to grow old

Where is my rainbow?

Rainbow, tell me where did you go?

Don’t tell me that you don’t know

I want my rainbow

I lived my life a lonely man

Drifting out and drifting in

Bouncing from girl to girl

Just to find a heart so true

Now the clock is ticking again

Still haven’t found that special friend

Traveled all over the world

Still looking to find her - to find you

Rainbow, where is my pot of gold?

This man is starting to grow old

Where is my rainbow?

Rainbow, tell me where did you go?

Don’t tell me that you don’t know

I want my rainbow

I’m trying hard not to think so much about it

If I deserve love then I don’t want to live without it

Hard times I know will come with the dawn

Can’t wait for the day I find my piece of the sun

I lived my life a lonely man

Drifting out and drifting in

Bouncing from girl to girl

Just to find a heart so true

Now the clock is ticking again

Still haven’t found that special friend

Traveled all over the world

Still looking to find her - to find you

Rainbow, where is my pot of gold?

This man is starting to grow old

Where is my rainbow?

Rainbow, tell me where did you go?

Don’t tell me that you don’t know

I want my rainbow

Falling (Thoughts In The Brain)

FALLING (THOUGHTS IN THE BRAIN) - Written by Carroll Bryant

Words from the tongue

Legs on the run

Arms that are forever reaching out

Eyes that can’t see

What you did to me

What is that all about?

A mind can get lost

Inside of the breath of your mouth

Are you haunting me or am I

Just haunting myself?

Poems that I write

Songs that I sing

Doesn’t make it right

Doesn’t do anything

I keep falling to my ground

I’m still falling

But am I falling in … or falling out?

Thoughts in the brain

Tears like the rain

Blood spills from the scrape

Ears that can’t hear

The sound of a heart

When it decides to break

A hope can get caught

Inside of a rainbow of lies

Are you chasing me or am I

Just chasing my time?

Poems that I write

Songs that I sing

Doesn’t make it right

Doesn’t do anything

I keep falling to my ground

I’m still falling

But am I falling in … or falling out?

Why is the ocean blue?

Why is the grass so green?

Why can’t the dark see the light?

Why do you have to be so mean?

Why can’t the wind just take a break?

What is that all about?

Why can’t up ever go back down?

Why can’t left just take a right?

Why can’t the colors find their grey?

Why can’t peace ever win the fight?

Why can’t a thief leave what he takes?

What is that all about?

Poems that I write

Songs that I sing

Doesn’t make it right

Doesn’t do anything

I keep falling to my ground

I’m still falling

But am I falling in … or falling out?

Poems that I sing

Songs that I write

Doesn’t do anything

Doesn’t make it right

I keep falling to my ground

I’m still falling

I’m still falling

Poems that I write

Songs that I sing

Doesn’t make it right

Doesn’t do anything

I keep falling to my ground

I’m still falling

But am I falling in … or falling out?

I’m still falling

I’m still falling

What is that all about?

Sorry

SORRY - Written by Carroll Bryant

I’m sorry for the words

I’m sorry for the hurt

I’m sorry pretty girl

I just like to get real mean

And I am sorry for everything

I’m sorry for the pain

I’m sorry for the rain

I’m sorry for the games

That you know I like to play

And I am sorry for everything

There’s a war inside of me

It’s taking place and I believe

That it may never ever stop

I’d kill myself if that’s what you want

And there’s a demon in my head

My skull’s a flame inside I dread

We love to hate and hate to love

I hate those words, can’t get enough

Of you

It’s true

I’m sorry for the tears

I’m sorry for the fears

I’m sorry to leave you here

When I always go away

And I’m sorry for everything

There’s a battle of delight

Taking place behind my eyes

Dirty holes and smelly socks

I still get chills from my inbox

Every time I read your name

Butterflies start taking place

We hate to love and love to hate

I hate that we are both this way

It’s true

I love you

I’m sorry for my time

I’m sorry we’re so blind

I’m sorry for my mind

When it often slips away

And I’m sorry for everything

I’m sorry for this song

They are just words I had to say

And I am sorry for everything

The Greatest Feeling

THE GREATEST FEELING - Written by Carroll Bryant 

I can’t for the life of me figure it out

So caught up in you and what you’re all about

I can’t find the reason and so I can’t say

X marks the spot when you look at me that way

There must have been a million times

There must have been a million girls

One thing I realize

Is you’re the greatest feeling in the world

There’s no truer lesson than the one you can’t learn

If you play with matches then you’re gonna get burned

Some will take for granted what they can’t take at all

Jumping off the edge for the thrill of the fall

There must have been a million eyes

There must have been a million lures

One thing just falls in line

Is you’re the greatest feeling in the world

Everything tastes bitter with sour grapes

The haughty ways of naughty flirts

Everyday is sweeter that slips away

You can’t be late for what will surely hurt

Everything feels better with passive lies

The dainty stares of empty heads

Everyday that passes is undefined

You can’t relate to what is surely dead

Everything tastes bitter with sour grapes

The haughty ways of naughty flirts

Everyday is sweeter that slips away

You can’t be late for what will surely hurt

And you know it’s gonna hurt you someday

I can’t for the life of me figure it out

So caught up in you and what you’re all about

I can’t find the reason and so I can’t say

X marks the spot when you look at me that way

There must have been a million times

There must have been a million girls

One thing I realize

Is you’re the greatest feeling in the world

There must have been a million eyes

There must have been a million lures

One thing just falls in line

Is you’re the greatest feeling in the world

When I’m holding you I know it’s pure

You’re the greatest feeling in the world

The greatest feeling

The greatest girl

The greatest feeling

You’re the greatest feeling in the world

Ode To The Yelling Tree

ODE TO THE YELLING TREE - Written by Carroll Bryant

So this is what love is

Watching you sleep

Feeling you breathe on me

My skin

Watching you dream

So this is who I am

A man in love with you

Knowing you love me too

My heart

Bursting within

When the rock slide fell on top of me

I was thinking that I was history

You came along with a brand new song

And showed me that you know me

And I belonged to someone

When the earth quake wanted to swallow me whole

You were there with a hand for me to hold

I was blind at first but now I see

What you mean to me

And I belong to someone

So this is what happy is

Watching you eat

Looking at that smile on your face

My sin

Watching you bless me

So this is who you are

A girl consumed with passion

Knowing that I won’t forsake you

My soul

Bursting within

When the ocean wave washed me ashore

You were there to declare love even more

Comforted me with tenderness instead

The empty words that lived inside my head

And I belonged to someone

When the world came crashing down on me

You were there to set my spirits free

You took me in and held me in the night

Now I believe that it’s time

To belong to someone

When the rock slide fell on top of me

I was thinking that I was history

You came along with a brand new song

And showed me that you know me

And I belonged to someone

When the earth quake wanted to swallow me whole

You were there with a hand for me to hold

I was blind at first but now I see

What you mean to me

And I belong to someone

So this is what love is

Watching you sleep

Feeling you breathe on me

My skin

Watching you dream

I’m watching you dream

You’re dreaming with me

Let’s keep on dreaming …  

She's Crazy

SHE'S CRAZY - Written by Carroll Bryant 

When night comes crawling around

Everybody gathers at the tavern on the edge of town

And when that girl comes prancing in the joint

All the guys go to war like the Hatfield’s and McCoy’s

The juices start to flowing

Testosterone gets out of control

Hell bent and whiskey woman

You know she’s not going to sleep alone

She gets crazy, out of her head

I’m gonna take her outside, out behind the back shed

Baby, that’s what he said

Don’t pay yourself no never mind

The girl, she likes to get crazy

Juke box hero’s are fine

Nobody pays a nickel and it plays itself all night

And that girl knows what to do

Little by little or one by one and maybe two by two

The doors to her paradise thighs

Is guarded by sin without a key

Just one look at you with those devil shot eyes

You know she’s not going to leave you in need

She gets crazy, out of her head

I’m gonna take her outside, out behind the back shed

Baby, that’s what he said

Don’t pay yourself no never mind

The girl, she likes to get crazy

Out of her head

I’m gonna take her outside, out behind the back shed

Baby, that’s what he said

Don’t pay yourself no never mind

The girl, she likes to get crazy

She is her own kind of brand 

Or mechanical bull for sure

She gets them all so dumb and blind 

Then she leads them to the door

To their doom

To the sex room 

The juices start to flowing

She knows how to wrangle up the boys

Hell bent and whiskey woman

They’re gonna go to war like the Hatfield’s and McCoy’s

She gets crazy, out of her head

I’m gonna take her outside, out behind the back shed

Baby, that’s what he said

Don’t pay yourself no never mind

The girl, she likes to get crazy

Oh, yeah

Woman

WOMAN - Written by Carroll Bryant 

We can look to a rainbow just to find lost dreams

We can look to a shooting star that carries not a meaning

We can look to a heart that’s hurting from a pain so true

When in truth, it’s all disconcerting

I would rather be looking at you

You’re the kind of woman that can cause a war

Falling through the floor of illusions

Walking through the door of tomorrow

You’re the kind of woman who can kill with just a stare

Leaving me bare and in confusion

Lighting all the fires in my soul

My sorrow shows every time you go

There are really no answers to what lies in between

There is really no purpose for us that we can find anything

There is only justice of the heart and everything that is real

Then in truth we discover exactly nothing

Or maybe the way we truly feel

You’re the kind of woman that can pick and choose

You got the moment waiting

Standing there like a ruse

You’re the kind of woman who can thrill with just a smile

Leading me to eternal mourning

Snuffing out the love-light in my eyes

My sorrow shows every time you cry

Do you want me to beg for you?

Tussle you?

Knock you to the ground?

Do you want me to fornicate?

Suffocate?

Or make some kind of sound?

I can't read your mind as well as I can read mine

You’re not an open book at all

How hard do you want me to hit when I fall?

You’re the kind of woman who can get me every time

Pull me out of the morning shadows

Throw me back into time

You’re the kind of woman that can pillar inside the lines

Leave them wanting more of never

Cast away the demons from my life

My sorrow shows every time I try