Tied To Your Heart

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Every Morning Light

You pretend to text somebody when you're sitting at the bar

You're moving way too fast, 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, it's all that goes unsaid

I know you've been untrue because 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 is it just my fate

Every time you look over, I see someone new

As she turns her shoulder

I wake 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 Swerengen for co-writing and singing the last verse

Falling Behind

I 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 her eyes and know it's time to go

It's time to go

Chorus:

All my lie-ie-ie-ie-ife

I'm falling behind

I stumble over the reason for the rocks that I'm walking on

I get up fighting 'cause I know I've already won

That island girl is sleepwalking

She's tryin' to find me

One time around is not enough

Better make it three

Chorus

And now I'm wide awake as Marie Laveau lies in my bed

I know I can't  when she's in my head

If I wake up and she's still on 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 and 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, we won't know when or where

But I , I want to be there when that red hot river flows

I'll swim right through your lava into your trail of clothes

And when I reach you and touch your tender cheek

With lips of fire, 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

as she goes down on me

And the flames go higher

When our time was written oh so far away

We were never given a chapter for today

But I, I'm gonna write a page of 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©2016 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.

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 here 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.

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.

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

I'm 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

Well 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 know what's inside me

Chorus

Driving right back to you don't break my heart

No, don't break it baby

 Copyright©2016 by Frank J. Bengier Jr. 

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.

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.

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