You pretend to text somebody when you’re sitting at the bar
You’re moving way too fast and not getting very far
You make believe that you love me almost every night
But, I wake up to reality when I don’t see you in the morning light
Chorus:
I don’t care about the day
I don’t care about the night
I just want to see you every morning light
Every morning light
Every morning light
It’s not what you say, but all that goes unsaid
And I know you’ve been untrue ‘cause you’re lying in my bed
You’re still holding on as I close my eyes
But I wake up and you’re gone
I guess you just don’t care much for goodbyes
Chorus
You get there on time, and I’m already late
Was it meant to be, or was it just my fate?
Every time I look over, I see someone new
As she turns her shoulder, I look up and know it isn’t you
Chorus
Copyright© 2018 by Frank J. Bengier Jr.
Shot Me Down
I went through my contact list
To find someone that I could talk to
But there’s only you that I could tell about my broken heart
And you’re the one it belongs to
You’re the one who shot it down
Right into the, right into the ground
Every time I saw you
Every line I crossed for you
My heart was higher than the stars
Falling from the sky
And you’re the one I belong to
You’re the one who shot me down
Right into the, right into the ground
You shot me, you shot me, you shot me, shot me, shot me down
Shot me down, oh oh
When I look in the mirror
And I see my own face
I don’t feel no perile
Or feel no disgrace
As I feel the sunlight on the back of my eyes
I think of you in the distance
And I hear that lone wolf cry
Copyright © 2016 by Frank J. Bengier Jr.
with thanks to Jake Sweringen for cowriting and singing the last verse
Falling Behind
Met my dark angel and we crossed every line
Left that old world falling behind
When the sun is hiding from it’s own shadow
I look into your eyes and know it’s time to go
It’s time to go
Chorus:
All my lie- ie- ie- ie- ife
Falling behind
I stumble over the reason for the rocks that I’m walking on
I get up fighting even though I know I already won
That Island girl is sleepwalking and she’s trying to find me
One time around is not enough she better make it three
Chorus
And now I’m wide awake as Marie Laveau lies in my bed
I know I can’t escape when she’s in my head
If I wake up and I still have my mind
I’ll know it isn’t her ‘cause she’s not that kind
Chorus
Copyright © 2018 by Frank J. Bengier Jr.
This Steel Town
You might have it made I don’t know
With a hundred million paid on your IPO
But just keep your blinders buried
On the things that matter most
And you’ll never have a son
Never have a son
Never have a son of a living ghost
Remember that summer you worked at the coke plant
Three thousand in the ovens
And you thought that you could melt away
Melt away from this steel town
Three thousand in the ovens
And you knew that you would melt away
Melt away from this steel town
Well, you kiss your wife in the morning before work
Then she sees the kids off to school
And you drive through the same town where you were born
And if you keep your eyes on the road
You’ll never have a son
Never have a son of a living ghost
Remember those years you wasted at the coke plant
Three thousand in the ovens
And you felt like you might melt away
Melt away from this steel town
Three thousand in the ovens
And you thought that you could melt away
Melt away from this steel town
Well, I know I ain’t where you are
Not much to show for my trials
I realize now I never left this town
Though I traveled at least a hundred million lonely miles
But if I keep my blinders buried on the things that matter most
Then I know I’ll never have a son
Never have a son
Never have a son of a living ghost
And I know I never worked in the coke plant
Three thousand in the ovens
But I still thought that I could melt away
Melt away from this steel town
Three thousand in the ovens
And I thought that I could melt away
Melt away from this steel town
Three thousand in the ovens
And I knew that I could melt away
Melt away from this steel town
Three thousand in the ovens
And I knew that I could melt away
But I was wrong…
About this steel town
Copyright © 1999 by Frank J. Bengier Jr.
Tied To Your Heart
You walk into the room
Step into my mind
And I know I know I can’t forget
A single thing about you
Chorus:
And now that I’m free
With your chains on me
I’m tied to your heart baby
Never want to be set free
Anything you want
Whatever you say
I’m hanging by the words as they fall
Fall as you reign over me
Chorus
I wake up to the light
You’re all that’s in my head
I’m amazed by this dark angel
That I find sleeping in my bed
Chorus
Copyright © 2017 by Frank J. Bengier Jr.
Cold Wind
I can feel the cold wind and I see an ocean
Welling up inside of you all in one motion
I just want to reach inside and melt the ice running through your veins
I want to know everything you’re thinking and feel every pain
Just like a volcano under a peaceful sky
The pressure’s on now, you won’t know when or why but I
I want to be there when that red hot river flows
I’ll swim right through your lava before your trail of clothes
And when I finally reach you and I touch your tender cheek
Our lips afire, I feel my knees go weak
From now ‘till the very end of every winter season
I stand before you and your presence gives me reason
I can feel the cold wind and I see an ocean
Welling up inside of you all in one motion
She pours herself on me like gasoline
On our bed of fire
Hungry look as she goes down on me
As the flames grow higher
When our time was written oh so far away
We were never given a chapter for today, but I
I want to write a page with nothing but your name
I’ll read it all again and live it frame by frame
I can feel the cold wind and I see an ocean
Welling up inside of you all in one motion
Copyright 2015 by Frank J. Bengier Jr.
Until Now
Until now, I could see all my life so clearly
And I was heading down a road with no return in sight
I was daring Dead Man’s Curve to take me to the light
And at my funeral I saw no one to care
Then, you were there to change my fate
Until now, time went on without depth then was gone
And I was falling right through space, so deafening the clocks
All my life a waterfall breaking to the rocks
And as I held out my hand reflecting to the waves
I felt your love there for me to save
Oh, there for me to save
So I stand here tonight on this stage in the light
And I’m only for you every waking day
Nothing matters that I do or anything I say
And I could end it all right now and never shed a tear
As you are here
As you are here
As you are here
Copyright © 2016 by Frank J. Bengier Jr.
Driving Right Back To You
Well I’ve got white lightning on my car seat
I’m moving way faster than the law
Through the hills of Ohio
The sharpest hairpin turns you ever saw
Chorus
And I’m driving right back to you
Driving right back to you
Driving right back to you to break my heart
Driving right back to you to break my heart
Well see those lights in the mirror
They think that they can take me to the ground
Oh, but now they’re getting smaller
In the dust I’m leaving this damn town
Chorus
They say that I’m no good for you
And that I’ll steal your heart and hide the key
But no, they don’t know me
Only you know what’s inside me
Chorus
Chorus:
And I’m driving right back to you
Driving right back to you
Driving right back to you to break my heart
Driving right back to you, don’t break my heart
Don’t break it baby
Copyright © 2015 by Frank J. Bengier Jr
Gone Like Me.
I tell you I know you, know you from somewhere
Been to your ocean and I swam through your soft hair
I was a fool not to take you
I didn’t know that I could make you
Now, I like where I am
Three thousand miles away, I can still taste your hand
Chorus:
She’ll take your heart into her hand
And melt your mind into her sand
You’ll feel so trapped that you’re free
Until you’re gone like me
Well, I tell you I saw her under the stairway
Toking a number that I rolled in the hallway
She was a tall drink of water
I was so parched that I had to have her
Now, it’s over again
I know I can’t recover from the state I’m in
Chorus
I know how this all ends, it goes on forever
I get you close and you just get even closer
I was a man always faking
Underneath, your legs were shaking
Now, I live for today
You know I’m gonna love you baby anyway so…
Chorus:
You take my heart into your hand
And melt my mind into your sand
I feel so trapped that I’m free
I guess you’re gone like me
Gone like me
Gone like me
Gone like me
Copyright © 2016 by Frank J. Bengier Jr. and Carlo Volhl
Stripper Pole
She runs that gold right through her fingers
Sometimes right through her soul
She moves right down along your body
Chorus:
Like it was, like it was a stripper pole
Like it was, like it was a stripper pole
She takes sometimes without forgiving, a heart as black as coal
You know to her it’s just a living
(Rap)
She looks right through you
Across the crowded room
Smell of danger
Just like perfume
And when she opens up her legs
It’s just like the dawn
When she opens her dark heart
Yours is gone
She runs that gold right through her fingers
Sometimes right through her soul
She moves right down along your body
Chorus
She’ll make you promise
One that you can’t keep
Then she’ll take you home with her
And never let you sleep
So if you’re wondering
If she’s worth the cost
One twenty dollar lap dance
And your soul is lost
I run that gold right through my fingers
Sometimes, right through my soul
I move right down your body
Like it was a stripper pole
Copyright 2016 by Frank J. Bengier Jr
Falling For You
I wake up in the morning
The sunlight hits my bed
I watch her as she’s sleeping
All my dreams are in her head
Chorus:
And I’m falling, I’m falling
I’m falling for you
I’m falling, I’m falling
I’m falling for you
I go to work each day now
Sometimes, I wonder why I do
When I get my paycheck
I bring it home to you
Chorus
I go to bed at night now
A good woman by my side
I tell her everything now
I never have to hide
Chorus
Copyright © 2018 by Frank J. Bengier Jr.
I Let Go
When I wake up, I think of you
At night I dream of you and
In between, I’m lost in you
Yeah, in between
I’m lost in you, lost in you
And there’s nothing, nothing I can hold to you
No one else can ever change me
Chorus:
Oh, and I hold on
I hold on
I hold on
I let go
When I wake up alone with you
I see the light in you and
In the night, I’m lost in you
Yeah, in the night
I’m lost in you
Lost in you
And there’s nothing, nothing I can hold to you
No one else can ever save me
Chorus
Copyright © 2012 by Frank J. Bengier Jr. and Carlo Volhl
Midnight Express
In the light of day, only good is seen
But they’ll lock you right away if you’re a bad machine
To truly know yourself is to truly know your God
We only walk one way because we’re all the same
Broken cogs in this wheel and we’re all to blame
To truly know yourself is to truly know your God
It’s midnight now, and I hear that train far away
But, I’ll go the other way
Against you now, against you
Because I’m not like you
In the light of day, only good is seen
But they’ll lock you right away if you’re a bad machine
To truly know yourself is to truly know You’re God
It’s midnight now, and I’m on that train far away
But, I’m from the factory
And I know you’re bad, yes I know you’re bad
Because I made you
Copyright © 2015 by Frank J. Bengier Jr
You're Still There
I showed up twenty seconds later after you had gone
On that day I did not see you glide across the room
I didn’t look into your eyes
You never touched my hand
And your warm breath on my chest didn’t melt my heart
We spent twenty years apart just running from the blues
‘Cause I looked into a window and I stopped to tie my shoes
And you never wore my ring, I didn’t see you smile
As your father held your arm walking down the aisle
In that blanket as you held her wrapped up like a jewel
And you didn’t cry the first day we dropped her off at school
We spent twenty years apart just running from the blues
‘Cause I looked into a window and I stopped to tie my shoes
Chorus:
And I wake up from my worst nightmare
Reach out for you and you’re still there
You’re still there
You’re still there
Sometimes at night in the darkness when it’s too hard to see
I don’t exist ‘cause I’m no one without you next to me
All I hear is just silence hanging in the air
Afraid to reach out for your love and find that nothing’s there
I can almost hear you breathing, I know I smell your hair
To be so close and not have you really isn’t fair
Chorus
Copyright © 2015 by Frank J. Bengier Jr.
They want to plant doubt in your mind
Just to bring you down
But I won’t give in to them
She was saying goodbye
She was saying goodbye
You can be sure that I am missing you
At this very moment
Wherever you are
In my mind, I hear music
As she holds me in her arms It’s a sad song I don’t remember
I have done nothing wrong
But these are changing times and people, they don’t know me
She was saying goodbye
She was saying goodbye
You can be sure that I am missing you
At this very moment
Wherever you are
Music, she was my first love Music, she was my first love
Knocking on the door
And she opens herself to me
And for the first time I can see all the colors that I know were meant for me And I can hear all the colors that I know were meant for me
And they accept me
They accept me
They accept me
They accept me
I was losing my edge
Sorry now not to have her
Standing out on this ledge
Oh, what I wouldn’t do for her
Thirty feet from the top I looked at her and she turned away
Is that all you’ve got
So close and yet so far away
We got so high I couldn’t think now I needed air
If I made it back I knew I wouldn’t care at all
So I pushed on into the death zone all alone
I was all alone in the death zone
The writing was on the wall it said
Now you’re gonna have to take that fall and
You know it isn’t all because your trials have just begun
Thirty feet from the top I looked at her and she turned away
Thirty feet from the top
So you’ll live to fight another day
Oh, we’ve come so far together
Just reach down untie the teather
‘Cause I don’t care I’ll rise like the Phoenix
From the ashes of my life
The ashes of my mind
Thirty feet from the top I looked at her and she turned around
Thirty feet from the top
Watch me now ‘cause I’m going down
I was just passing through
When you caught my eye
I felt something like déjà vu
Heard my heart cry
You held my hand
For the first time And I could hardly stand
Then our lips touched For the first time
For the first time again
We move like twin souls from one flame
Passing through the night
You are an angel at my side
Help me see the light
You held my hand for the first time And I could hardly stand
Then our lips touched For the first time
For the first time again
I know we’ve been here many times before
Just me and you yeah
But still that nervous energy It somehow feels new baby
I hold your hand For the first time And I can hardly stand
Then our lips touch For the first time
For the first time again
We’re falling, falling, falling in love
For the first time again
Light is all around
Better keep your hands steady
Just pretend you’re on your way If you’re not there already
Remember… Leave that lonely girl alone
Leave that lonely girl alone
Her heart is better left unknown
So, leave that lonely girl alone
When she walks into the room
All the heads, they turn now
And all the lessons I have lived
Looks like they’ve been unlearned now
My words, they fade away
Just like the song she’s humming
I knew somehow that she would be here
Before I saw her coming
And they said… Leave that lonely girl alone
Leave that lonely girl alone
Her heart is better left unknown
So, leave that lonely girl alone
I knew my fate was sealed
The first time that I met her
All she did was steal my heart
And all I did was let her
Something cold was in her eyes
Inside her heart was burning
Long ago I recognized
Her love would not be returning
And I’ve got to… Leave that lonely girl alone
Leave that lonely girl alone
Her heart is better left unknown
So, leave that lonely girl alone
Don’t make me tell you things that I don’t want to remember
I told you not to call me now
She said, “Good morning, you’re up early.”
“That’s because I haven’t been to sleep yet.
And where were you? No, I don’t think so. You should get your story straight.”
I tried to make my voice bright, but there was way too much mad in it
She wasn’t listening anyway
Then she says I’m gonna make it up to you
I’ll make it up to you I’ll make it up to you
But I don’t think so
No, no I don’t think so
Will we make it through the week
No, I don’t think so
Something’s gotta fall
Then she says I’m gonna make it up to you
I’ll make it up to you
I’ll make it up to you
But I don’t think so
Anything she says
No, I don’t think so
I wander through the museum
And time stands still
But only for a moment
Because move on it will
It is the year 2055 I hold my grand-daughter’s hand
It’s too late to change my future
And leave to her this shattered land
I could try to explain how it was to her
If I could only remember the day
Before it all changed
Or was it always that way
We were better off when we didn’t know
You can say we were naïve
But we dealt the cards ourselves
Didn’t see the ace up his sleeve
I wander through the museum
And time stands still
But only for a moment
Because move on it will
It is the year 2070 I hold her picture in my hand
Everyone I know is gone
But by some cruel miracle I’m alive
I could try to explain to you history
I could hand you a book from my shelf
But I would swear it never happened
And I was there myself
I know it feels like it’s too late
And we’re in the eleventh hour
Now is the time for integrity
And speaking truth to power
I wander through the museum
And time stands still
But only for a moment
Because move on it will
It is the year right now and I Wake up to a new day
Memories of the future
Come back to me Come back to me all hazy and grey
Last night in my dream
There was no time to wait
I had all the answers
But they still all came too late
We’re in the eleventh hour
Truth isn’t always in power
I wander through the museum
And time stands still
But only for a moment
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Your hair falls through my fingers
Through them just like rain
And for one crazy moment
I know I’m not insane
Slide into my arms and I can feel
Like I’m home again like I know it’s real
Slide into my arms and I can feel
Like I’m home again like I know it’s real
They’ve got nothing on you, Babe
And they’ve got nothing on you
Your fragrance comes to me
Riding on a breeze
It rushes to my head
Sends me to my knees
Slide into my arms and I can feel
Like I’m home again like I know it’s real
Slide into my arms and I can feel
Like I’m home again like I know it’s real
They’ve got nothing on you, Babe
And they’ve got nothing on you
The look that’s in your eyes
I’ve never seen before
We both know that something special
Is happening for sure
Slide into my arms and I can feel
Like I’m home again like I know it’s real
Slide into my arms and I can feel
Like I’m home again like I know it’s real
They’ve got nothing on you, Babe
And they’ve got nothing on you
Last night I was alone
Some heavy drinking and a dream
And then I saw her
In another bar on the other side of the street
But I couldn’t get there
She was so close I couldn’t touch her
So, I watched her through the window
Until she looked in my direction
She said to tell you
Chorus:
Though you feel alone sometimes
When the night gets colder and colder
She is with you, she is with you
That’s her hand on your shoulder
I know you feel alone sometimes
When the night gets colder and colder
She is with you, she is with you
Feel her hand on your shoulder
I’ve been away so long I don’t know what your life is
You would remind me too much of her
And I’d never move on with my life
And I guess that was selfish
Now, it’s too late to change anything
And she said
Chorus
It’s my loss again
But I had to pass to you this information
Although it came to me in a drunken dream
She wrote this song, took over my mind
Took over my mind to channel through me
So that she might reach you
Chorus
I felt that I was being shaken
So, I opened my eyes
Now aware of my light
I see where my shadow dies
Why didn’t you give to me some more time
I know I wasted so much of it
You had all the time that you needed
You just wouldn’t believe it
In the world of words
He was a wealthy man
But his real life was over
Almost before it even began
Why didn’t you give to me some more time
I know I wasted so much of it
You had all the time that you needed
You just wouldn’t believe it
I felt that I was being shaken
So, I opened my eyes
Now aware of my light
I see where my shadow dies
Why didn’t you give to me some more time
I know I wasted so much of it
You had all the time that you needed
You just didn’t believe it
For the first and only time in his life
He walked through the shadow of the curse
And felt his blood run cold
Flowing free from bad to worse
He saw it on the air
So curious and strange
But when he looked again
He knew that nothing had changed
Why didn’t you give to me some more time
You know I wasted so much of it
I had all the time that I needed
But I just didn’t believe it
He went to church that day thinking he had done his part
Stopped at the pub on his way home when that demon took his heart
She didn’t know what it was when she saw him from afar
Didn’t recognize herself in the mirror that ran behind the bar
She got into his car
Got into his car
At first, it started out real tame
Just an hour or two was all
I guess they both needed something
To go with nothing at all
Later on it occurred to him, he was standing on a knife
On his way to a place in time that cut into his life
As he circled the drain
Struggled to be brave
Stronger than death
More powerful than the grave
Even as he walked his eyes were cast lower and lower
Afraid to lose himself if he couldn’t wake up from the shock
And softly his song rose to its knees
Beating with the rhythm of a resurrected heartbeat
On his shoulder she was not about as well deserved
As his trophy, she could only believe slowly
In all men
In an outside room friends they came and went
Leaving their thoughts and prayers
But their sins they won’t repent
It’s okay to stand idly by while the world moves slowly on
Going in the wrong direction
Too soon, we’re here and gone
This was his world watching from above
Stronger than death
More powerful than love
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