Shine Your Anger

Date: September 10, 2010
Author: Daniel Barndt
Categories: Turn On Your Mind
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You shine your anger
You see the devil in my eyes
Project your selfish
Masochistic tendencies and lies
With every action
On everyone that loved you so much
You shine your anger
On every life you’ll ever touch

When will you admit it
Can you believe yourself at all
When will it fall apart
And leave you staring at a wall

 You shine your anger
Like a beacon of night through the day
It covers your pain
But it will never wash it away
You’ll leave me wanting
I’ll be alone and empty and frail
You shine your anger
Just like you’re driving a nail

When will it fall apart
And leave you staring at the wall
When will you admit it
Or can you believe yourself at all

When will it matter
Would you change the things you do
When will you realize
The me you hurt is you

The me you hurt is you

Black Shades

Date: January 12, 2010
Author: Daniel Barndt
Categories: Unintentional Love Songs
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Black dress, black boots, black shades
I got it made
When she’s wearing that
Black dress with those black boots
I can’t behave
When she’s wearing those
Black shades

Girl, I watch you getting out of that car
I see you in those boots and I know you’ll go far
In that black dress showing off what you got
Girl, you’re so cool how you get me so hot
In that…

Black dress, black boots, black shades
I got it made
When you’re wearing that
Black dress with those black boots
I can’t behave
When you’re wearing those
Black shades

Girl, I see you coming and I nearly beat you there
You’re sporting those dark glasses framed by silky hair
In that black dress showing off just for me
Girl, your blinding but you’re the only thing I see
In that…

Black dress, black boots, black shades
I got it made
When you’re losing that
Black dress with those black boots
I can’t behave
When you’re losing those
Black shades

© Daniel E. Barndt

Not Interested

Date: September 9, 2009
Author: Daniel Barndt
Categories: Turn On Your Mind
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I’m not interested
in your rights or in your wrongs
in your screams or in your songs
in denial or belief
in your joy or in your grief

I’m not interested
in the darkness of your light
in the justice of your fight
in the shortness of your sight
I’m not interested

I’m not interested
in your lies or in your truth
in your faith or in your proof
in your destiny or fate
in your love or in your hate

I’m not interested
in hearing your sad reasons
in seeing your clear treason
in changing with your seasons
I’m not interested

I’m not interested
in your rise or in your fall
I’m not impressed at all
I’m just not interested

© Daniel E. Barndt

You, In The End

Date: March 12, 2009
Author: Daniel Barndt
Categories: Turn On Your Mind
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You
You wear guilt like a badge of honor
Like a license to do it again
Do it again
You…do it again

You
You live life like a film of horror
Like a knife in the back of a friend
You’re not a friend
You…you’re my best friend

You
You tear through love like a new sorrow
Like it will never happen again
Happen again
You…happen again

You
You give life a better tomorrow
Like it might be worth more in the end
More in the end
You…lie in the end

© Daniel E. Barndt

Not Tonight

Date: March 1, 2009
Author: Daniel Barndt
Categories: Unintentional Love Songs
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Yeah, I’m floating again
An inch above the floor
And in the distance there’s a light
That I want much more than more
And in the sky I feel an angel
Watching over me
But I’m not safe… no not tonight

Yeah, I’m losing again
Just like I’ve done before
And in my past there’s nothing right
Because my future’s so unsure
And in my soul I feel a demon
Beckoning to me
And I’m not safe… no not tonight

When it’s all or nothing and up to me
My heart is full but I can’t breathe
My world is spinning and I can’t see
You’re everything so I can’t leave
There’s nowhere if you’re not here with me
I bite my tongue and beg to bleed
I need you now and my soul believes
It’s all or nothing and up to me

Yeah, I’m in love again
It’s harder than before
And it’s impossible to fight
When I’m dragged down to the floor
And in my mind I see a goddess
Staring back at me
But I’m not safe… no not tonight

Yeah, it’s you, my love
Staring back at me
And you’re not safe… no not tonight

Yes, it’s love, it’s love
Beckoning to us
And we’re not safe… no not tonight

© Daniel E. Barndt

I Love

Date: December 3, 2008
Author: Daniel Barndt
Categories: Unplug Your Head
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I love the smell of fresh spring rain
I love the taste of sweetened tea
I love the feel of soft, soft grass
I love the songs birds sing to me

I love a chilly Autumn breeze
I love a fire burning bright
I love a walk upon the shore
I love a hand to hold so tight

I love to swim beneath the moon
I love to dance out in the rain
I love to wander through the night
I love to love and love again

Of all these things I love to love
Not much could ever be as true
As loving love that loves right back
And so I love to just love you

© Daniel E. Barndt ~2008

Just Love

Date: January 12, 2007
Author: Daniel Barndt
Categories: Unplug Your Head
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When the words don’t make sense
When you can’t trust the sounds
When it goes by in a blur
Then you know what you’ve found
You’ve found love

When your friends disappear
When the fights seem so lame
When it all turns out right
Then you know what to blame
Just blame love

When you can’t seem to think
When your breath just won’t come
When your heart skips a beat
Then you know what it’s from
It’s from love

Love is the hurry
Love is the pain
Love is the worry
That you’ve missed it again

Love is the crazy
Love is the trust
Love is the maybe
That leaves you in the dust

Love is the joy
Love is the pride
Love is the happy
That I’m feeling inside

When I’m finally alive
When I’m safe and secure
When I’m singing to you
Then I know this for sure
It’s just love

© Daniel E. Barndt

What Makes A Dead Soul Cry

Date: January 12, 2004
Author: Daniel Barndt
Categories: Unplug Your Head
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Three shining stars in the sky looking down on me
And I don’t know why, where or what they might want from me
But everywhere I go I’ll always know what I want to see
Three shining stars in the sky always guiding me

Alone in a room, in a tomb in the darkness
Where no one can go, past a gate and a courtyard
Sitting cold on a stone, on a bone chiseled mantle
Lies the key that is me locked away in a tower

Who knows how to get there, how to be there when I need them?
Someone holds the locket in the pocket of my freedom
Riding through the despair and the nightmares of my treasons
I’m welcomed home with love and from above I learn the reason

What makes a dead soul cry?
A new life to live, something to believe in
What makes a dead soul cry?
It’s not that complicated, there’s only one good reason
Love

© Daniel E. Barndt

Four Of Twelve Become One

Date: February 21, 2002
Author: Daniel Barndt
Categories: Unplug Your Head
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June
As Spring removes her gown
Of soft and silky breeze
Summer stands unclothed but
For frosted gust to grieve

September
Soon Summer dons a wrap
Of brightly colored leaves
And Fall remembers not
The truth we once believed

December
Though Fall completes its quest
To strip as like the trees
Sir Winter covers all
With chill and crystal freeze

March
When Winter bites no more
Bringing him to his knees
Spring blossoms beauty ’til
Once again we are appeased

© Daniel E. Barndt

Something Called Love

Date: October 10, 1994
Author: Daniel Barndt
Categories: Unintentional Love Songs
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I used to believe
That love was only once a lifetime
I used to believe
It could never happen twice
But now I can see
I may just have another chance
And now I can see
My wrongs can turn to rights

So I send you this gift
Straight from heaven above
And I send you this gift
It’s something called love

I now understand
What happens to a broken heart
I now understand
Love can happen once again
Please take my hand
Trust me not to hurt you
Please hold my hand
For true love never ends

If you take this, my gift
And don’t shove it away
If you take this, my gift
I’ll love you everyday

I cannot explain
Exactly why I found it
I cannot explain
The beauty that it holds
But if you have pain
An aching in your heart
And if you have pain
I’d like to ease your soul

So I send you this gift
Straight from heaven above
And I send you this gift
It’s something called love

Something called love

© Daniel E. Barndt