The NashVegas Demos, Vol. 2

by Donny Brazile

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My first recording effort in Nashville. I wanted to demo as many db tracks as I could and attempted 40. We got 26. And now you have not one, but two volumes of db demos. Special thanks to the talented (and quite amusing) Nash Overstreet. Bad-ass rock star (who all the ladies love) and a fine, fine producer. Great fun recording, faux British accent pretty much the whole time. Just me and my guitar, some harmonica, a vocal effect or two, you'll have to use your imagination for everything else.

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released 11 May 2007
Produced by Nash Overstreet

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Track Name: Back To the Basics
BACK TO THE BASICS

Gonna get back to the basics
Gonna unplug that TV
Gonna think a little bit more about our life together
And a little less about me
Gonna back to the basics
Plant some vegetables in the back yard
No one said it was gonna be easy
But it can’t be this hard

So I gotta get back
Get back
Don’t you wanna get back
To where we belong
Come on back
Get back
Cause it’s all gone wrong/Cause it’s been too long

Gonna get back to my roots
Get back to where and when and why I was born
Gonna get back to get it back on track Jack
Get some shelter from this storm

Like a child who’s little heart bleeds
This is what the whole world needs
To get back

Gonna get back to the basics
Finally gonna read that book
Gonna spend more time laughing and running and singing and jumping and loving
Might even learn how to cook

We been so busy thinking if we could
We never stopped to think if we should
So come on back

© 2006 Donny Brazile
Track Name: Between a Woman and a Man
BETWEEN A WOMAN AND A MAN

It doesn’t have to be like this
She said
I don’t think I can live like this
She said
The fussin’ and fightin’
Like thunder and lightnin’
I don’t think I can live like this
She said

I don’t want to be lonely
She said
I just want you to talk to me
She said
She’s over-thinkin’ things
I’m over-drinkin’ again
I don’t want to be lonely
She said

I don’t think I’ll ever understand
Just what it is between a woman and a man

I don’t want to be lonely
She said
I just want you to talk to me
She said
I had nothin’ to say
I just watched her walk away
I just want you to talk to me
She said

Now I think I finally understand
Just what it is between a woman and a man

It doesn’t have to be like this
She said

© 2003 Donny Brazile
Track Name: Easy
EASY

How are ya baby how ya been
Do you think that we could try it again
With you
It all came so easy
Easy and free
That’s they way I always thought it should be

Easy

Hola mi cielo wouldn’t you know
I never shoulda let you go
With you
It all was so easy
As easy as a summer breeze
That’s why I never wanted you to leave

Life is hard enough for two
It oughta be easy between me and you

Bye bye baby I hate to say
It doesn’t have to be this a-way
With you
It could be so easy
Simple and free
Don’t you think that’s the way it oughta be

© 2003 Donny Brazile
Track Name: Everything's Gonna Be Alright
EVERYTHING’S GONNA BE ALRIGHT

People come and people go
I try hard not to make it so
But what can I do
That’s just the way people are

Daddy leaves and Mama just can’t stay
Pack your things son we’re moving away
Forget what you knew
But this I promise you

Things go wrong but baby that’s alright
Long as I got you in my arm tonight
I’ll keep you safe and dry until the mornin’ light
Hush a bye my baby everything’s gonna be alright

You can look but you can’t touch
I guess I never wanted it as much
But what can I do
Men cheat and women they lie
Neither one ever understand why
And it’s sad but it’s true
There’s nothin’ you can do ‘cept

Take my hand and baby hold on tight
There’s no need to argue baby fuss or fight
I’ll rock you pretty steady till the sky come a-light
So hush a bye my honey everything’s gonna be alright

Say hello say good bye
Men they cheat and women they lie

© 2003 Donny Brazile
Track Name: Last Dance (Lori's Song)
LAST DANCE (LORI’S SONG)

It was one of those fleeting moments
And I barely caught her eye
One of those things that they say happens
When we’re just passin’ by
So I took my place on the stage
The way I do every Saturday night
Took a glance down at that dance floor
And everything was alright

The music started playin’
Pretty ladies spun around the room
And the sawdust under their boots
Kept the rhythm to a rockin’ tune
And their feet just got lighter
And their sweat poured like beer
Now the dance floor’s a hallowed ground
It’s hallowed ground

This dance could be the last dance
And tonight could be all we know
So let’s raise a glass to good cheer
And the friends who are here this time next year
Cause sooner or later it’s time to go

There I was in my own oblivion
Watchin’ pretty ladies havin’ fun
Paid no mind to the clock on the wall
Time was on the run
And I never will forget them
The way they laughed and danced that night
For a moment that’s now forever
Frozen in my mind

The music kept right on playin’ …

It was one of those fleeting moments
And I barley said hi
One of those things we (stupid) humans do
When we’re hurrily passin’ by
But they danced like no one was watching
And they sang with all their might
Now there’s an angel on heaven’s dance floor
And it’s hallowed ground

© 2003 Donny Brazile
Track Name: Make It Right
MAKE IT RIGHT

I’m not tall dark and handsome
I may not be the one you’re looking for
I might win some I might lose some
Then again I might lose ‘em all

I’m not Prince Charming
Somewhat disalarming
I’m not all I’m cracked up to be
I’m just all cracked up

But that doesn’t make it right (that doesn’t make it right)
That doesn’t mean you can treat me like that
That doesn’t make it right
Na na na na na

I coulda been President
Instead I’m insignificant
Now I act as a catalyst
So others won’t wind up like this

© 2003 Donny Brazile
Track Name: The Best Thing That I Do
BEST THING THAT I DO

You’ve got your reasons to stay
You’ve got your reasons to go
I’ve got the same thing in spades
Baby can we make this thing roll
Hell I don’t know

I try so hard to be a good man for you
Seems lately baby there ain’t nothing I can do
But I’ll keep tryin’ if you want me to
If you ain’t buyin’ I’ll try again for you
For you
It’s the best thing that I do

You’ve got your reasons for hurtin’
You’ve got your reasons for sure
I’ve got the same thing for certain
Can I show you the door

© 2005 Donny Brazile/Jack Ritzman
Track Name: The Cure
THE CURE

She told me of a man who needed his space
I could see her sorrow in the smile on her face
It’s a tired line I know
But it’s true
Any man who’d leave you baby
Well he’s a fool

She’s young and beautiful and smart
She’s the cure for a broken heart

I told her of troubles I had of my own
How a woman can turn a young man’s heart to stone
I could tell by the way she sighed
She agreed
And I thought yeah baby
You’re exactly what I need

You’re young and beautiful and smart
You’re the cure for a broken heart

I thought I’d find a remedy in a bottle at the bar
I thought I’d find a remedy in a little red sports car
I thought I’d find a remedy takin’ on a new point of view
But the only cure I found so far is you

I wondered if we stood a snowballs chance in Havana
I imagine she’d just say no and it’s probably doesn’t matter
But for one stolen moment
When her eyes met mine
She said I was a beautiful man
And I’d be just fine

She was young and beautiful and smart
She was the cure for a broken heart

© 2000 Donny Brazile
Track Name: Them Days
THEM DAYS

Superman and Batman Elvis Presley and the president
Anything seemed possible with possible exception of disappointment
Mama always told me I can do what I set my mind to
Now mama doesn’t lie but I don’t know why she never told me the truth

I guess I had my fun
I had to let it end
Them days are gone
Never find ‘em again

Dreamin’ of the day and schemin’ up a way I could try to make a dime
So I broke up the band and loaded up the van and headed out for the state line
Now the livin’ is grand in California land with a guitar in my hand
But I’ll be damned and I can’t understand why it didn’t turn out like I planned

Indian summer and the leaves on the trees
Orange and red and they fall to the ground
Every time I see that ol’ house on your street
My ol’ heart starts to pound

Well I never really thought about givin’ it up but I’m a-thinkin’ about it now
25 years gone by and I still haven’t figured it out
Did I invest too much or not ingest enough will I ever shut-up me and my big mouth
Now I’m beggin’ for forgiveness for too much monkey business and I can’t get off of the Couch

Them days

© 2001 Donny Brazile
Track Name: Things Are Tough All Over
THINGS ARE TOUGH ALL OVER

Mama’s got a bad heart
Daddy’s got cancer
Preacher tells me son
Jesus is the answer

Things are tough all over

Now they shut down the factory
And sent us on our way
Now we take what we can get
For a fraction of the pay

Little sister took to whorin’
I took to drink
But the whisky ain’t workin’
And now I’m on the brink

Now the weather’s turning cold
And the heating bills are high
California’s burnin’
And the river’s on the rise

Baby brother joined the army
I joined this band
Thought I might take to farming
But there’s no living off this land

Now my woman wants to leave me
Says we can’t see eye to eye
Now everybody’s hurtin’
And we’re all gonna die

© 2005 Donny Brazile
Track Name: Time Marches On (Leap Year)
TIME MARCHES ON (LEAP YEAR)

You ever heard of a has been
Well I never was
And why I haven’t been
Well it’s just because
But I still think about you
Every now and then
And I’d kinda like to someday
See you again

Then I think about the time gone by and how time marches on

I held you in my arms
Like a ghost from the past
Ten years they pile on
Oh so fast
You were my princess
And I was your king
Funny how now that don’t mean a thing

Then I think about the time gone by and all the time that’s yet to come
Then I think about the time gone by and all the crazy things I done
Then I think about the time gone by when I found out you were gone
Then I think about when you were mine and how time marches on

I can’t hold on
I can’t let go

How do I look in your eyes now
Do they look like mine
Come ‘round every four years
Only to find

Then I think about the time I lied and how I done you wrong
About the time you were satisfied but not for long
Then I think about last goodbye and how I held you in my arms
Then I think about that time you smiled and how time marches on

© 2000 Donny Brazile
Track Name: Woebegone
WOEBEGONE

We barely knew each other but that didn’t stop the fall
From the first time I saw her ‘til the last time we talked
She was a beauty barely 21
Now I’m out on the highway wonderin’ what I done

I drove a thousand miles
Just to get away from her
Although I don’t know
What I’m gettin’ away fer

By the time I get to Memphis
The thought of her will be all but gone
By the time I get to Memphis
My thoughts’ll turn to San Antone

Now I’m at the Florabama rememberin’ a girl from Utah
When I asked her was she from heaven she said no Arkansas
Now somethin’ happens to a man when he’s in a bar and two states at the same time
And I’m here with Oysters McClellan tryin’ to think of a suitable rhyme

I drove all night and day
Just to see how far I’d get
Now I’m in Louisiana
Feelin’ no regret

Well I begged you baby for an answer
When I knocked upon your door
Said baby baby please
Don’t leave me anymore

She was everything I ever dreamed of
She was my life my light my one true love
Now the car’s gassed and loaded and I’m out on I-10
Wonderin’ if I’ll ever ever see her again

I drove all god damn night
Just to find myself closer to it
Now I’m in Austin Texas
And I’m feelin’ like shit

But by the time I get to Kansas
The thought of her will be all but gone
By the time I get to Kansas
My thoughts’ll turn to comin’ home

Woebegone
I’m comin’ home

© 2000 Donny Brazile
Track Name: Worlds Apart
WORLD’S APART

We come from different towns
We both have different views
We come from different backgrounds
We both get different blues
But how do you navigate the heart worlds apart

We come from different (social) classes
We have different religions too
And despite our different status
The difference makes it cool
But where do you start when you’re born worlds apart

And I don’t mean to be mean
And you’re too cool to be cold
That’s just how we were raised
Just doin’ what we’re told

We have different goals
We are different
To our very souls
How do we make it day to day
When the stupid little differences get in the way
And it breaks my heart that we’re spinning worlds apart

It’s a work of art
To embrace the space
Worlds apart

© 1999 Donny Brazile