Sam Keenan
ONE SONG. EVERY DAY. FOR A MONTH.

For better or worse, I wrote, recorded and posted a new song from scratch every day in January 2010. Feel free to comment on them.

Song-A-Day VI is the sixth year of a whacky experiment that has proven quite fun and productive.

You can download them free. If you prefer to pay, donate (and thanks).


Song-A-Day VI Day 31

 Knock Me Over

knock me over
if it costs you your stars and your stripes
knock me over

knock me over
so you don’t have to look at the sight
knock me over

knock me over
turned from the pillar of salt and light
knock me over

like back when it began
oh-oh
only have what you’re given
and if you’re muscles ache
oh-oh
only have what you can take
you try to lift your chin
oh-oh
only have what you’re given
to be more than you are
oh-oh
have it if you knock me over

knock me over
like a domino pushing in line
knock me over

knock me over
like you’re very own 4thy of july
knock me over

knock me over
you can’t slow down and i can’t retreat
knock me over

knock me over
there’s no victory without defeat
knock me over

like back when it began
oh-oh
only have what you’re given
and if you’re muscles ache
oh-oh
only have what you can take
you try to lift your chin
oh-oh
only have what you’re given
to be more than you are
oh-oh
have it if you knock me over

knock me over


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Song-A-Day VI Day 30

 So, in the rules of "Song-A-Day", passed down from the prophets, there are 2 slop days allowed. This seems to be one of them, though I don't mean to diss the great Jesse Lukes, and Emily Reese who are my cohorts in this impromptu jam-song that annoyed the neighbors for sure. It was recorded with my phone.

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Song-A-Day VI Day 29

 What a long day. 

Here's this though.

Your Cherry Wine

enough talk
let me see your sass walk
find another frequency band

know that purr
under lacquers of myrrh
don’t want you to misunderstand

take my love and then triple it
triple it
had your cherry wine
in a cup with a coffee lid
sipping it
feeling the design

move that thing
working on your back swing
like a liquid crystal display

temptation with no hesitation
but you’d never lead me astray

take my love and then triple it
triple it
had your cherry wine
in a cup with a coffee lid
sipping it
feeling the design

birds in fairy light
trying, though they might
can’t carry me tonight

stomp your feet
along with the back beat
that look got all over your face

choice of strobe or tying a blindfold
but you’d never lead me astray
never lead me astray

Play Audio Your Cherry Wine

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Song-A-Day VI Day 28

something got into the cake
found a slithering snake

high on the bookshelf
stored sounds in a broken shell

grateful or sneering cynic
lining pharmacy clinic

tell me it isn’t
your miniature prison

behind every closed door
around every corner
sad hearted mourners stalk
wading and wishful
study the fish bowl
breathing each others muck

gather the canary’s song
share it and then we’ll belong

high on the bookshelf
stored sounds in a broken shell

behind every closed door
around every corner
sad hearted mourners stalk
wading and wishful
study the fish bowl
breathing each others muck

Play Audio In a Broken Shell

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Song-A-Day VI Day 27

 This song doesn't have words, due to me spilling a drink into my mac. Lucky the neighbors had a computer for me to upload with. It's a bit long, but I kinda like it without words.

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song-A-Day VI Day 26

 


mi amore
freckle and hyde
always bent never the bride
now you’ve gone too far
i’m gonna need a fast car
one with lightening on the sides

(oh yeah
gone to far
he’s gonna need a fast car)

this old motor’s gotten week
verdant valleys and high peaks
now you’ve gone too far
i’m gonna need a fast car
one that’s powerful and sleek

(oh yeah
gone to far
he’s gonna need a fast car)

hit my head when i fell into the muddy river face down
woke up in the soft arms of a silky nightgown
she said “what was i to do? wasn’t gonna just let you drown”
“you babble in your sleep, but nothing very profound”

windshield is collecting mist
see how bad the vision gets
now you’ve gone too far
i’m gonna need a fast car
one that never can exist

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Song-A-Day VI Day 25

gave away my youth in tiny pieces over time
gave away my age when i went deaf and dumb and blind
and i would be angry at the cruelness of fate
but i lost my feelings on a bet that they could wait

gave my purity to an unsatisfying sin
gave away my worship to an idol made by men
gave away the dirt where i had once put up a shrine
gave away my home because it wasn’t really mine

stains along the floor from when i still wept
when you walk away you take whatever i have left
stepping on the crumbs that i never swept
when you walk away you take whatever i have left

gave away my wisdom to lighten up for a race
gave away my logic to a soul without a face
i’ll try to debate you for the winnings that you seek
but i lost my reason just when i began to speak

and if you are destitute with starving mouth to feed
already gave my money to somebody not in need
i would help you figure how to come up with a cure
but i gave my ideas to budding entrepreneurs

stains along the floor from when i still wept
when you walk away you take whatever i have left
stepping on the crumbs that i never swept
when you walk away you take whatever i have left

i would be after you in an agonizing chase
but like many fools i couldn’t have my heart replaced
you could try to mobilize me with regrets and guilt
but i lost my conscience to a con artist and jilt

i gave up my title because it was obsolete
gave up my identity to be rid of conceit
i gave up my goals because they were too far to reach
i gave up my will to the tide gnawing at the beach

stains along the floor from when i still wept
when you walk away you take whatever i have left
stepping on the crumbs that i never swept
when you walk away you take whatever i have left

Play Audio Whatever I Have Left

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Song-A-Day VI Day 24

 After some musical successes at the cabin, it was time for Emily and me to write about our girlfriends.

Play Audio Girlfriend

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Song-A-Day VI Day 23

 Thanks to Emily Reese for all the help on this one!

If you can't tell, it was super fun.

Enjoy.

Play Audio Be Static

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Song-A-Day VI Day 22

 This is the first of a few done up in a cabin north of Duluth. You may hear Emily Reese singing harmony.

Lyrics:

Discovering the Secrets of the World

doubled equations and i can’t add no more
how many knocks should i put on your door
sorry if i am too persistent
i so wanna be your assistant

think it’s a simple series of events
tell you what you can do with my common sense
give it the kilowatts degrees
and wait until it is begging for mercy

oh, what are you showing
under a lab coat
discovering the secrets of the world
my bubbling beaker
might turn out a freak
discovering the secrets of the world

move to the green rhythms of radar
skip rocks off reflections of the stars
calculating all the thermal energy
i’m glad that you’re so smart

you have the method now it is time to choose
you have connected serious molecules
snapping the playful band elastic
breaking the laws of mathematics

oh, what are you showing
under a lab coat
discovering the secrets of the world
my bubbling beaker
might turn out a freak
discovering the secrets of the world

forces are in motion and collide
it passed time for you to come outside
make room in the cabin of your rocket ship and we’ll go for a ride

Play Audio Discovering the Secrets of the World

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