The Run to You

Duration - 4:34

Bpm - 140

Key Signature - Bb major

Played on guitar in - G3

Feel - Positive Hopeful Inspirational

Genre - Acoustic Rock

About - The final destination relationship

The Run to You

Livin' the life with you it's even good at this stage

Never been better baby this turning of the page

It ain't easy to frame this picture of a thousand words

I know it's late in the game at least a mixture on our terms

At each other's side in the endless give and take

Living in the give awards a smile in each awake

I've said it before and again it's later than it seems

Life by trial and error long ago lived in the slipstream

There was a time when proof was required

Somehow it validated your deepest desires

With nothing left to prove and everything left on display

There's comfort in the knowing that later ain't today

Hey baby I've spent a lifetime searching

Been running on empty most of my journey

Now I'm here with you the search is over and done

It was less about the empty than it was about the run the run to you

My Sanctuary

Duration - 4:10

Bpm - 126

Key Signature - A major

Played on guitar in - A open

Feel - Up beat Positive a love song of danceable proportion

Genre - Acoustic Rock

About - Where the relationship is a safe place

My Sanctuary

You can call it my Anderson Shelter laying neath the endless storm

After all the helter-skelter it's my retreat from the mind of the swarm

I ain't talking no plastic bubble more like a soaring air balloon

Worth the walking through mainstream's rubble the way is clear here with you

This is my place of sanctuary right here right now with you

This is a moment that can carry life itself just me and you

This is my place of sanctuary my shine in the dark with you

This is my isolation calling right here right now with you

You take the un out of untouchable in this dyad you have a way

You take tomorrow out of my day as I watch the world shrink away

As I watch the world shrink away

Another Caribbean Night

Duration - 4:19

Bpm - 120

Key Signature - G# major

Played on guitar in - G1

Feel - Relaxing soothing beachy laid back

Genre - Acoustic easy listening

About - Soaking up the warm vibes of the Caribbean

Another Caribbean Night

Lookin’ out over Oyster Bay my angel well I tucked her away

She got a little too much sun and I’m soakin’ up the Caribbean

Guava berry it’s seventy proof and I’m feelin’ just a little aloof

Presidente import beer and tonight there’s nothing that I fear

Yes I’m…

Feelin’ alright Captain Oliver’s in sight

Nothing feels up tight lookin’ out on this bay of lights

In another Caribbean night, Caribbean night

Does it get any better than this? I’m gonna write Dear Abbey a letter I guess

St. Maarten sky it hugs me while my Angel I know she loves me

I’m feelin’ pure of heart emotionally cleansed my soul is astart

And what waits behind me will ease the pain of leaving paradise

Reggae beat over the bay ocean surf it pounds away

Stars look down while pelicans dive and ain’t it good to be alive

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Sparkle

Duration - 4:02

Bpm - 062

Key Signature - Bb major

Played on guitar in - G3

Feel - Romantic

Genre - Adult contemporary/country crossover

About - Confident take me as I am I’ll be better than most proposal

Sparkle

I haven’t been myself for a while you haven’t been around to notice

I feel like a wound in need of healing with a kind of emotional poultice

You are the bread and the milk to lay upon my infection

A potent potion a magic elixir a segue of soothing injection

And I want to tell you…

I can’t give you diamonds baby but I can bring sparkle to your life

I can’t give for better or for worse only the best of me most of the time

I can’t give you 9 to 5 I’m outside that box still on your side

And I can’t give you housecoat and slippers

But these blue jeans are worn to rock you anytime

Soul to Soar

Duration - 5:11

Bpm - 074

Key Signature - C# major

Played on guitar in - C1

Feel - Inspirational uplifting melodic

Genre - Easy listening

About - A song of conscience singing to the global community

Soul to Soar

Good versus evil paired with the rules of war

Now there's an elderly law of cosmic duality

If there is a yin and also a yang

I sense a profound disclosed finality

How many times have I heard life is a gift as if

A present sent anonymously

I don't buy into that in fact it's not a fair deal no

Given with rules so posthumously

This world is awesome this world is awful I know

I understand the dilemma created

Looking for more than the rules of war I know

With survival of the fittest berated

The open back window to the world gets closed every day

With a constant knocking on the front door

When the window opens in-between knocks the view is wide and open

Winds of change soothing rains set the soul to soar

At 381

Duration - 4:06

Bpm - 098

Key Signature - B then outro C#

Played on guitar in - A2 then outro A4

Feel - Nostalgic Reminiscent

Genre - Funky B-Bop Hip Hop

About - Growing up in the early days of rock & roll

At 381

I've always known I had a calling an inner voice of persuasion

An invitation to expression revelation and creation

I hear the melody in the wind the notes permeate my skin

Lyrics surround me like the wreathe of life from within

I really can't explain it's insane all I know is it's innate

Always wanting to express since I was maybe seven maybe eight

Always pushing me to write takin' it into the night

I'd wake up in the morning and the words were there with the light

My dad he was a whistler my mom she was a fiddler

My big sister was a rock and rolling raging Elvis fan

Every day after school in our kitchen his voice would rock and rule

I think back to those days of where and when it all began

Jive and bop and soda pop forty fives and do wawp wawp

Wild and innocent indiscriminate sovereign youth on the run

Me and my sis and her best friend

The chrome and arborite kitchen table pushed to one end

Those were the days it was so much fun

There on Brunswick at 381

Those mems are alive and thrive in me now

They breathe with passion still

They are the foundation my rock of salvation upon which I did build

A life of song and stage where the seeds of celebration were sewn

In those days of vinyl transistor radios and dial tone phones HEY!

Erotic Fog

Duration - 4:06

Bpm - 080

Key Signature - Bb

Played on guitar in - G3

Feel - Playful Burlesque Sexy

Genre - Adult Contemporary

About - in the “you can leave your hat on” sentiment

Erotic Fog

She said I’ve never felt comfortable before never as I have with you

You free my inhibitions you never judge or begrudge the naughty girl I have in me for you

I said I’ve always liked the feeling of feeling special like I do when I’m with you

When you walk into my life you release you unleash the bad boy I have in me for you

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She said you don’t have to analyze just look deep in my eyes

I know you’ll figure it out I want you to want me no doubt

I think I know what you need and I’m wanting to please

So make me feel like the onethen feast your eyes in the coming undone yeah yeah yeah

Stand on the chair wave your arms high in the air

Keep the romance do the door jam dance

Touch me as much don’t be shy with your fun guy

Tease me squeeze febreeze me and knees please me

You can trust me as you lust me cause I’m an exotic hog

And baby I’ll guide you through your erotic fog

One Life to Live

Duration - 8:22

Bpm - 110 Verses 080 Choruses

Key Signature - C major

Played on guitar in - G5

Feel - Inspirational Global Encouraging

Genre - Adult Contemporary/Reggae

About - Promoting an independent lifestyle free of superstition

One Life To Live

What a world what a life I cant imagine

It’s delusional to think of anything else

Worth this effort worth this pain

The joy the smiles that melt

I don’t believe in anything

But I know and understand a lion’s share

Life is what you make it you are responsible

The judge the jury of your lair

Everything is connected from a gnat to a whale

From a fern to a giant sequoia

From water to rock we are all in this together

In an epic universal voyage

Life is a celebration (one life to live)

A song in the key of life

Life is your own creation (one life to live)

Your canvas the brush defines

Life is your invitation (one life to live)

Show up its a one off event

Life is your own ovation (one life to live)

The stage is yours to dance

Life is your own narration (one life to live)

Based on real events

Life is an elegant summation (one life to live)

Make it read like time well spent

What a world what a life a journey amazing

A story to call your own

You are the poet you are the author

The editor the publisher the rosetta stone

Your energy resides unless it glides

Through the universe’s original life force

What you put out is what you get back

Like caring for a magnificent gift horse

In the Struggle

Duration - 4:57

Bpm - 116

Key Signature - C major

Played on guitar in - A3

Feel - Concerned Tense

Genre - Acoustic Rock

About - Discent as to where ‘the world’ has gone from a ‘Boomer’s’ perspective

In The Struggle

Everywhere you look today it’s like an angry flash mob

Someone cries anxiety another harassment at their job

Society’s evolved problematic from its toes to its nose

Political correctness has enabled the entitled to decompose

There was a time when independence from the nest

Was a flight that couldn’t come soon enough

Now it's 25 30 40 or maybe never

Cause the system doesn’t encourage growin’ up

There’s a struggle on the street at work and in the home

There’s a struggle in the park on line and on the phone

There’s a struggle to resist what you see and what you know

There’s a struggle to persist In the fight

For the seeds that you’ve sown

In the struggle

Everywhere you look today everyone is on their phone

In their cars and out on the street in the malls and in their homes

This generation’s no idea no awareness of the gravity of the moment

How to stay in weigh in instead they move through life like drones

The lawyer the psychologist self-serving politician

Have installed a certain fatal disconnect

Being forced to accept against our standards and our will

Otherwise known as politically correct

Everywhere you look today there is discord and contempt

In the halls of justice and the church pews it seems like nothing is exempt

Responsibility accountability have been replaced with

“I’ve got rights you know yeah”

A coup d’e-tat of the moral fibre for which I remain on the front line fight

Love Cover Me

Duration - 4:02

Bpm - 062

Key Signature - A

Played on guitar in - A

Feel - Sensual Loving Powerful

Genre - Anthemish Rock

About - Coming off the road and needing that human touch

Love Cover Me

Tonight I want you to cover me with your love

And like heat is to fire baby healing is to your touch

And I want you and I need you love cover me tonight tonight

Like it’s the first time (Like it’s the only time) (Like it’s the very last time)

The way I feel is nothing new

It happens sometimes in the lonely and blue

But I’ll come around given some time

I know you understand I can see it in your eyes

I’m counting on you to carry me through tonight

The Sum of the Parts

Duration - 4:20

Bpm - 080

Key Signature - F major

Played on guitar in - D3

Feel - Positive Reflective Settling Time passing

Genre - Acoustic rock

About - Embracing the getting older thing…

The Sum of the Parts

Getting to the finish line when you're young is not a concern

Although it's a lifelong obsession the goal seems set in ambiguous terms

One day you're twenty-five and the world's in the palm of your hands

Then fifty years fast-forward it seems times passed through your hands like sifted sand

And getting to that finish line suddenly feels

Like today is closer to that goal

Doing the math looking forward to looking back

The sum of the parts become greater than the whole

It's not about the shine rather about the glimmer

It's not about the boil rather about the simmer

It's not about the run rather about the pace

It's not about the leather rather about the lace

It's not about the fire rather about the embers

It's not about January rather about December

It's not about the mountain rather about the valley

It's not about the intro rather about the finale

Magic and Myth

Duration - 4:26

Bpm - 120

Key Signature - B major

Played on guitar in - B

Feel - Resolving Resolute Edgy

Genre - Hard Rock

About - Reflection on a past relationship

Magic and Myth

It was that time in my life when I needed that something

That something I never had when I should have

To elevate me to the next level moving forward

Back to the future realized in the past

I never gave it a thought that the call of the wild

Would bring you into my life and into my show

What was the bait would eventually take

You away to your seeds you had to sow

There were those who said from the very start

It wasn't gonna end well to begin with

Never good at the basics I've had time to appraise it

Our story lays somewhere somewhere between magic and myth

I find myself often drifting off and thinking of what would've been

If the sound of your song hadn't come along my way and into my skin

Chaos on the Edge of Collapse

Duration - 4:42

Bpm - 072

Key Signature - Bb major

Played on guitar in - G3

Feel - Moody Contemplative Thought provoking

Genre - Acoustic Rock

About - Political Music Journalism

Chaos on the Edge of Collapse

Stupid is as stupid does cliches running rampant

What goes round comes round and off on another tangent

Unhinged with another rant sermonic and devoid

Of any rational and leadership quality despoiled and destroyed

It's gone insane it's a runaway train soon off the rails

Where's the brakes hey we only got hate when all else fails

Decency calm and joy are words no longer employed

The coward culture in the USA honesty and honour destroyed

How the despot fooled the foolish

Yeah misery loves company

Red hats beating with black hearts

There you have it bloodline held hostage in custody

‍ ‍ Things have changed it'll never be the same

Even the blind see it they can feel it all going insane

And the deaf can hear it feeling it on their skin

Chaos on the edge of collapse just about cavin’ in

A second chance after failure first

Clearly a case of the sheeple smitten

Now the Constitution of the USA

Ain't worth the paper on which it was written

It’s Never Too Late

Duration - 4:32

Bpm - 064

Key Signature - C major

Played on guitar in - A3

Feel - Moody yet hopeful

Genre - Adult Contemporary

About - Rising against violence by Earth’s global citizenry

It’s Never Too Late

What a world oh my at times I sigh and try

To comprehend and understand the violent chemistry

That makes man want to destroy and blindly employ

His need and greed for rule and supremacy

History dictates territorial debates and the fate

Of the estates from the blood spilled ancient past

Nothing has changed still predictably estranged

Here we are far from the bar humanity's struggles have amassed

Looking for answers while employing high standards

At best it's a guess a grave uncertainty

Thinking mankind will eventually find

A path to trust in the mutual urgency

It's never too late to turn the tide

It's never too late for the people to rise

It's never too late to sound the horns

It's never too late to separate the roses from the thorns

Promoting false hope dangling from the rope

Off a bridge built so long ago

Is a setup for failure like the keyless jailor

Or the arrowed archer without a bow

A Good Woman’s Love

Duration - 5:31

Bpm - 076

Key Signature - Bb major

Played on guitar in - G3

Feel - Easy Relaxed Reflective

Genre - Acoustic Rock/Country Crossover

About - the woman you’ve fallen in love with and are still with

A Good Woman's Love

Nothing's ever as easy as when said "it was meant to be"

Nothing ever that romantic without nurturing of the seed

Everything has a purpose without someone pulling the strings

Every past visible in the present it shares in what it brings

If the choices that we made in our histories we self-defined

Were altered by just one decision the stars would never have aligned

If I could go back in the choices I made nothing that I would impart

Would ever change the two beating paths that brought us here to this one heart

You opened up your arms to me you shared the world you lived

You counted on me I trusted you we both took a chance in the give

I knew full well going in your love wasn't an easy give

That's ok with me you see a good woman's love never is

I've thought of those before me and of the choices they now own

I wanna think of those as interventions benefits from the unknown

I have no regrets as my choices led me to you

To have earned your love means everything to me it's the seal it's the thread it's the glue

Be My Lover

Duration - 4:39

Bpm - 096

Key Signature - F#

Played on guitar in - E2

Feel - Melodic Warm Sensual

Genre - Acoustic Rock

About - Wanting a lover and human touch post long term relationship ending

Be My Lover

Be my lover be my friend

Answer the passion I have to give

Unchain the dragons that cry at night

Be my lover be my friend be my lover tonight

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So here I am babe in shock and despair

I find myself in a state of disrepair

Some situations inflame rather than illuminate

My heart’s out on my sleeve and I’m ready to fall at your feet fall at your feet

Sometimes silence says it all

Sometimes the words say nothing at all

Sometimes the heart cries verses of pain

Sometimes the mind only hears the refrain just the refrain

Life in the Past Lane

Duration - 5:12

Bpm - 124

Key Signature - G major

Played on guitar in - G

Feel - Moody Head & the Heart Conflict Tense Powerful

Genre - Acoustic Rock

About - Reflecting on past relationships

Life in the Past Lane

Some would say it's dangerous flirtatious at best

Appealing to your past as a past tense guest

Some would say there's remedy in those memories accrued

The years act as medicinal a sense of renewal sweetens the mood

Everybody has ghosts in a closet to hide

And there on the bedpost hangs the memories of night moves gone by

Some would say it's a notion misplaced over fear

The years act as a potion and the ghosts they disappear

It's a never ending conflict the battle of the head and the heart

One acts as the conscript the other plays its voluntary part

Livin life in the past lane every once in a while

Livin life in the past lane resurrecting an ancient smile

Livin life in the past lane revisiting yesterday's style

Livin life in the past lane going back through life's turnstile

It's risky at best but the reward is dancing like a butterfly

There amongst the flowers with the preying dragonfly

The Light of Day

Duration - 4:01

Bpm - 082

Key Signature - Bb major

Played on guitar in - G3

Feel - Positive Uplifting Inspirational Motivational

Genre - Adult Contemporary

About - Never giving up on your dreams

The Light of Day

Success in the aftermath of failure

Is testament to belief in one's self

Holding on staying strong in the rejection

Lifting up standing tall the doubts expelled

From the ground up to the sound out there is joy

In the end replacing the grief long endured

It is said that patience is a virtue

Found in the disappointment eventually a cure

Don't give up on a dream

It's not always gonna feel like it's on its way

Don't give up on a dream

Keep feeding the hunger till it finds the light of day

Don't give up on a dream

Let patience guide you there's other forces at play

Don't give up on dream

Believe in yourself till it finds the light of day

We’re Going to be Alright

Duration - 3:39

Bpm - 096

Key Signature - A major

Played on guitar in - A

Feel - Positive Reassuring A hugging slow dance song

Genre - Adult Contemporary

About - Confidence in the relationship for the long haul

We're Going to be Alright

I'm just feeling like two birds in epic flight

You and me and life sharing all the light

We see you and me we're going be alright

I know in my mind here in space and time

Our love is enshrined in our hearts well defined

We try you and I we're going to be alright

Sometimes I'm overwhelmed with this

Other times I recover in the bliss

With a good look around us I turn our sound up

All the noise and distraction is turned down

I'm just feeling this ain't no magic trick

Something happening with I just know there is

Trust in us we're going to be alright

My heart beats with yours my skin sweats your pores

My love shines through you your love shines with a hue

And colours you and I we're going to be alright

Treasures

Duration - 4:40

Bpm - 114

Key Signature - G major

Played on guitar in - G

Feel - Sensual energy Positive

Genre - Acoustic Rock

About - The beginning of a relationship

Treasures

I said I’ve never known a woman like you looking deep in her eyes of ocean blue

With her hair falling down like a waterfall and her smile of a sun-drenched hue

Beautiful and smart sexy and funny I never knew a woman like you existed

Can this go anywhere or do you want out now in a voice calm and healing holistic she said…

You’re good for me and I’m good for you I don’t want to lose you now

Let’s take a chance better to dance than to not have danced at all

Show me respect and I’ll show you the same my self-worth is yours to discover

Make me feel good like a good man should and all my treasures all my pleasures

Are yours to discover yours to uncover

I said life for me is day to day smiles gracing years of memories that get me on through

All that I’ve loved and all that I’ve lost is a measure of a heart that’s true

I can be your fun guy I guess I kind of dig that role at this stage

Can this go anywhere or do you want out now in a voice calm and healing holistic she said…

Rise to the Night

Duration - 3:35

Bpm - 130

Key Signature - Bb major

Played on guitar in - G3

Feel - Driving Meaningful Reflective Making the right decision No regrets

Genre - Acoustic Rock

About - Reflecting upon the before and after of a long term relationship and the positive results experienced.

Rise to the Night

There was always a question but never a doubt

The answer was always never about

The end destination justifying the means

Rather the journey allowing my dreams to breathe

After the fall gave rise to flight

After the fall gave rise to a light

After the fall gave rise to sight

After the fall gave rise to the night

Out of the blue going your own way

Our paths clearly defined there on display

You went your way and I went mine

Yours guided by daylight mine by the night

The Run to You

My Sanctuary

Another Caribbean Night

Sparkle

Soul to Soar

At 381

Erotic Fog

One Life to Live

In the Struggle

Love Cover Me

The Sum of the Parts

Magic and Myth

Chaos on the Edge of Collapse

It’s Never Too Late

A Good Woman’s Love

Be My Lover

Life in the Past Lane

The Light of Day

We’re Going to be Alright

Treasures

Rise to the Night

J. Brian Pitch Ready Song Catalogue

j.brian@jbrian.ca