I wrote this song when a Grandfather clock
died at my house in Nashville.
“Wrecks Bell”
1. Grandfather Clock
Wrecks Bell (top)
I’m an old grandfather clock
I just sit around and tock
everybody passing looks at me.
I sit here in the same old place
Numbers all about my face
Like tossing raindrops in the sea.
AHH But I don’t care bout all this mess.
I’ll just keep the time, you can keep the rest.
If your hands ain’t keepin’ time
They ain’t the same as mine.
You’ve got to steal that time
From the rain.
You’ve got to store it up inside.
Lay back and let it ride
On shiny pinwheels for a brain.
Awh but I don’t care about happiness
I’ll just keep the time you keep the rest
I’ve spun out a hundred years
They come, and they disappear
I can turn the present into the past
But when my turn comes around
My Bodies broken down
I know my time has come at last
I don’t care about loneliness
I’ll keep the time
You can keep the rest
AHH I don’t care about all this mess,
I’ll just keep the time, you can keep the rest.
2. 113 Wet Dream
Blaze Foley
I just got back from Mexico in time to catch her second
I got lost she got through there was not nothin' else to do
Till I saw her she hot the stage
She read my mind didn’t miss a page
I read his mind, and I did not miss a page
My temperature was rising she looked so good
I Asked her please she said she would
I asked her when, how about now
I thought it was a dream but anyhow
Then she took me by the hand and led me to some promise land
She fenced me in, closed the gate, gave me good reason to celebrate
She fed me wine from a coffee cup, I could not keep my britches up
She said That’s all-right leave 'em down
I have not had a man around in quite a while Don’t touch that dial
Her face was pretty when she would smile her face was real pretty when she would smile
Her hair was big her eyes were blue we made it to her swimming pool
We made it to it, we made it in it, she would not let me rest a minute
She said you can rest some other time
And I was feeling so sublime
There was no way he could refuse
I found his weakness and I hid his shoes.
Thought I couldn’t but I somehow did
Thought about hiding but I couldn’t get hid
She got me up, threw down the covers
Read me a book about some lady’s lover
Then she threw down the book Opened up a bottle
Took off the break and put on the throttle
Fed me cheese from a pedigree heard
And took me to Jamaica with the flying bird
Well the moon quit shining when the sun came up
That’s all I can remember but it’s quite enough
To keep me warm when I’m too old too
keep me warm when I’m too old to
keep me warm when I’m too old too
keep me warm when I’m too old to
DO IT ANY MORE!!
3. She Said
Wrecks Bell
Song called she said.
Then I said.
Where’ve you been?
She said I could not sleep but I’m alright now
She didn’t know
That I heard the motor stop, I watched the car roll silent in the driveway
It’s happened before but She thinks I snore and don’t know it
OOOH
Then she said
How do you feel?
Well I lied again I said I was better.
Then I nearly died,
She brushed her teeth
But there was still Bourbon on the linger.
A friend said he knew.
I said me too.
Then she said
Somethings come up and I cannot go with you this weekend
Then her lips went blind
And Her pretty eyes became empty holes I could see in
I lay here alone
She’s 1 inch away but already gone
What the hell is love
And why’d the devil put it here to kill me
What sick recluse makes human hearts,
soft dumb and blind and weak and flimsy
Everything’s gone wrong
and my favorite Beatle is still gone
4 Burden
Wrecks Bell (top)
Take her away I don’t want her
I couldn’t have her anyway
I shouldn’t have been down here with her
Her credits too much to pay
Take her away she’s a burden
She’d only want for more.
Take her on back to her uncle
Who runs that candy store.
We started out like silver, we ended out like dust
All the words that left her fingers were turning into rust
Cause she didn’t know this feelin’ and she couldn’t dance a lick
Being raised by her uncle
That Baptist preaching slick
Take her away, I don’t want her
She’d only need for more
Take her on back to her uncle
Who runs that candy store.
I loved her like my own skin
She couldn’t do no wrong
I could have turned her lie ‘in into this pretty song
I could have taken seconds and turned them into firsts
But her Uncle wouldn’t have me, he’d rather die of thirst
Take her away she’s a burden
She’d only want for more.
Take her on back to her uncle
Who runs that candy store.
I’d trade the sun into street lamps if she was old as me
I’d take tomorrows drinkin and pour it in the sea
No matter how you read it, it comes out like Dick and Jane
No matter where the sun goes it rises just the same
Take her away, I don’t want her
She’d only need for more
Take her on back to her uncle
Who runs that candy store.
Take her away she’s a burden
She’d only want for more.
Take her on back to her uncle
Who runs that candy store
5. I’m Tired of You
Wrecks Bell (top)
I’m tired of you
could have happened any day
would have happened anyway
What could we do
But lay in waste
Drown in years
All disappointed
And fat on beer
Somehow, we fell into marriage
never fell in love
Two years of smiling
Two years with that precious dog
Can’t forget the fishing
Or the cocaine blues
How I loved you mountain time
Colorado too
But I’ve grown tired of you
could have happened any day
would have happened anyway
What could we do
But lay in waste
Drown in years
All disappointed
And fat on beer
Tried to make this a love song
But it just wouldn’t do
Heavy on the lyin’
Light on the truth
I’m tired of you
could have happened any day
would have happened anyway
What could we do
But lay in waste
Drown in years
All disappointed
And fat on Star Bock Beer
6 Are you Mine
Wrecks Bell (top)
Are you mine, can I have your legs?
Can I share your yesterdays?
Can I live behind your eyes?
That’s where lovers stay?
In the tears you haven’t cried?
Can I have your legs, are you mine?
Are you mine, can I have your hands
Will they cup and pray for me or strike me down again
If I needed you, would they be there in time
Can I have your hands, Are you Mine
Chorus
I can’t trust myself for these words I say
Love isn’t love until you give it away
I can’t trust my mind or the thoughts inside
Cause when I talk to myself I lie.
Are you mine can I have your eyes
I want to look at me as I receive your perfect prize
I want to feel like this
Thill the sun goes dry
Can I have your eyes are you mine
Are you mine can I have your heart
I’ll use it sparingly
I won’t wear out those loving parts
It will never ba-beat alone it, has a home this time
Can I have your heart Are you mine.
Can I have your legs
Can I have your hands
Can I have your eyes
Can I have your heart
You are mine
This song, written by Rich Minus. He never finished the
second verse. I wrote that verse, but the song was written by
Rich.
7. Die with My Dreams On
Rich Minus (top)
Well it’s so easy to lose track of all your dreams
get caught up in day to day
And let the big ones slip away
You didn’t know that they’d been stolen by that sly old father time
Till you saw them in a pawn shop
Years and miles on down the line.
Well I’m gonna die with my dreams on
Playin some old-fashioned love songs
To a red headed girl, I’ve not known long
With some friends who’d miss me when I’m gone
She’d laughingly looks at me saying
I’ve never met one quite like you
I said hey little babe, take a good look
and in the meantime, here’s looking at you.
Well the band wasn’t bad, so she asked me
to meet her out on the dance floor
She looked so fine in that dress and all of the rest
I could ask but who could ask for more
She slowly undressed in the mirror
and her beauty left me with no doubt
You won’t find any faults in this beautiful waltz.
Cause tonight is what this song’s about,
Well it’s so easy to lose track of all your dreams
get caught up in day to day
And let the big ones slip away
You didn’t know that they’d been stolen by that sly old father time
Till you saw them in a pawn shop
Years and miles on down the line.
8. Heroin Cave
Wrecks Bell (top)
Life is a gift can’t believe I threw the package away
I left it outside in the middle of the yard
Where the rain beat it down and it tore it apart
& It blew past the gutters of the dirty old streets
through the drug laden houses where nobody sleeps
everyone counts their blessings but me
Love is a gift I can’t believe I drank my chances away
I was deaf as a mute, blind as a scream
As I walked over lovers that clung to my feet
They spun all around me and
begged for my breath but
liquor was king, and I needed my rest
Everybody needs somebody to impress. I Guess.
Money is a gift if you have it its nice if you don’t that’s ok
I burned and bent it I earned it and spent I threw at shadows with nobody in it
I saved it to waste it and had a bunch Dammit
But it burned through my packets and straight into the planet
but everyone makes a hundred on that second test
Life is a gamble its fragile its weak its along shot to play
We’re born in the ring at the devil’s retreat
Where the angels keep score but were forced to compete
I took the two deuces that god dealt to me
I beat a full house till it plead on its knees
Everyone should be as lucky as me
Drugs are a scourge
They took some of my best friends away
I took them for fun my soul went to sleep
They sunburned my insides and buckled my feet
They sped up my heart I stayed up for days
I spent two sweaty years in a heroin cave
But now I just smoke flowers with Willie
9 Wolves
Wrecks Bell (top)
I can’t do noting I’m getting old
Can’t sell my music it’s way too slow
The clock just shouted out a time or two
It’s painted ladies on the sly
Our sanity would pass me by and leave me lying just outside her door
Life is strange in how it does fly
Metal flakes of history go by
Nothing’s fun and all the rhymes are used.
So take your smiles and write them down
Use them wisely before the next round of trouble
Leaves you cold and old and mean
Save the best for last you know
It’s what you’ve got when you get old
And the wolves are dead and buried near the door.
Life is strange in how it does fly
Some people never figure out why
It’s not how you worship its simply how you are.
So lighten up and carry more and the world will meet you at your door
Some with open arms - broken limbs
Help the ones that won’t come back its life’s amazing cul-de-sac
The world is round, but the corners are all full
Life is strange in how it does fly
Gentle breezes blow us right by
The end is near and you never know it all.
10 Transplant Talking Blues
Wrecks Bell (top)
Well Tomorrow’s my birthday I’ll be two hundred and three
Those transplants keep on a saving me
Just to save a little bit of money and time
I had a zipper installed on my chest
Yeah, my old body won’t quit
I just recently wore out my 9th pair of feet
I’ve got organs of every size
I got em tailor made and galvanized
When I get a reject, my eye lights up
So, I don’t have to worry about dyin
Hell, that ain’t nothin I still got to worry about livin.
Well Both my eyes are made to last I got one of em plastic and one of-em glass
I’ve got a rubber nose an aluminum chin
My diaphragm is made of tin
And you hear how loud this song is sung
I’m doin it all with a paper lung
I got it from my paper boy he died,
got beat to a pulp
Well I got a new liver got a new spleen
got a new kidney it is working real keen
got a new heart beating like it should
Doctor told me now that my face is no good
I’m on a waiting list for a new face, it might take awhile
I’m gonna have to wait for some really good-looking guy to drive his motorcycle into a train. Backwards!
I wrote this song about my 2nd wife LeAnne Bell.
She was killed by an over worked nurse in an understaffed
ward at UTMB in Galveston.
I didn’t write anything for two years. It nearly killed me.
I was so blessed, after 2 years of
sorrow, Janet came into my life. We were lovers from the
60’s and seemed to pick up where we left off 50 years ago.
We are married now and my life can continue. It took me
two years to write this song. When I finished, I had my last
cry………………..
11. LeAnn’s Lament
Wrecks Bell (top)
It’s hard to break the news to my old friends
Where has your lover been
Well I’d take a knife in either hand
And open up a wound to let her in
My broken eye would gladly die to see again
But it would not find her here
Yea time just keeps on winning
That’s it’s job it unrelenting
And the razor sadness cuts me
Like I’m air.
I remember sayin’
We’ll be lovers it’ll be easy
And I can’t believe she fell for that line my friends
But I’d fall right now because she pleased me
But the nurse was fast asleep, and those needles play for keeps
And they took her over there
They left me over here
The sun is black
The earth is flat
There is no God
I’m sure of that
Cause I love you I still love you
And I hate that
So, I spent another thousand nights alone
Wearing my lonely badge
whisky sends me letters and heroin keeps asking me to play
I hear a knock I wondered who ‘d be calling me
Hello death come on in
I hear you are quite the gentleman
You never play but always win
And you cheerfully great us all as
our lives end,
I remember say in’
We’ll be lovers it’ll
be easy
And I can’t believe she fell for that line again
But I’d fall right now because she pleased me
But the nurse eyes were dark, and those needles met their mark
And they took her over there
But they left me over here
The sun is black
The earth is flat
There is no God
I’m sure of that cause
I love you I still love you - And I hate that
Up Against the Wall Redneck Mother
In Pig Latin. This was recorded in a studio.
Ray Wylie Hubbard (top)
He was born in Oklahoma
And his wife's name is Betty Lou Thelma Liz
He's not responsible for what he's doing
His mother made him what he is
And it's up against the wall, redneck mother
Mother who has raised her son so well
He's thirty-four and drink in' in a honky tonk
Just kick in' hippies' asses and raisin' hell
He sure does like his Falstaff beer
He likes to chase it down with that Wild Turkey liquor
He drives a '57 Ford pickup truck
Got a gun rack
"A Goat Roper needs love too" sticker
And it's up against the wall, redneck mother
Mother who has raised her son so well
He's thirty-four drink in' in a honky tonk
Kick in' hippies' asses and raisin' hell, ah pick
Ah play it for mama
M is for the mud flaps she gave me for my pickup truck
O is for the oil I put on my hair
T is for T-Bird
H is for Haggard
E is for Eggs
And R is for Redneck
Up against the wall, redneck mother
Mother who has raised her son so well
He's thirty four and drink in' in a honky tonk
Kick in' hippies' asses and raisin' hell, let's go
Yeah and it's up against the wall, redneck mother
Mother who has raised her son so well
He's thirty-four drink in' in a honky tonk
Kick in' hippies' asses and raisin' hell
Ah Muskogee Oklahoma where are you.
Parody Lyrics Pig Latin by Wrecks Bell
And Mickey White, known as the
Hemmer Ridge Mt. Boys.
I couldn’t find the Pit-Latin Dictionary in Pig-Latin
So my friend Greg May found it in Latin, Enjoy.
Qui natus in lacinia
Et Anna uxor eius nomen est Agnus Thelma Liz
Non est autem reus id quod fecerit hes '
Et facta est eo quod et ipse et mater est
Suus super murum matrem redneck
Ita etiam filio eius, qui erexit Mater
Triginta quatuor Drinkin 'in honky tonk
Just kickin, hippies, asinas viginti et pullos uvae 'infernum,
Certus non sicut dolor in Falstaff
Terrebit eum cum liquore velit Wild
'57 Qui expellit a RAPINA salsissimus vir vivens GMC
Possedi gun eculeo
'Amor requirit Roper quoque capra "Sticker
Suus super murum matrem redneck
Ita etiam filio eius, qui erexit Mater
Triginta quatuor Drinkin 'in honky tonk
Kickin, hippies, asinas viginti et pullos uvae 'infernum,
ah carpere
Ah pro ludo est mama
M est ad illa mihi pro luto flaps
RAPINA salsissimus vir meus
Domine est propter oleum et ponet super caput meum,
T T-Bird enim est
Not in H,
E est in eggs
R et est in Redneck
Contra murum, mater Redneck
Ita etiam filio eius, qui erexit Mater
Triginta quatuor Drinkin 'in honky tonk
Kickin, hippies, asinas viginti et pullos uvae 'infernum, et eamus
Yeah suus super murum matrem redneck
Ita etiam filio eius, qui erexit Mater
Triginta quatuor Drinkin 'in honky tonk
Kickin, hippies, asinas viginti et pullos uvae 'infernum,
Quid fascinum esse, ut eamus lacinia U
