Silent Apology

© 2013 Mark Cote

leeching the life that's left inside of me
unarmed to help but my friends they see
watching me fall
watching me fall

quicksand world now engulfing me
sand in my eyes I can no longer see
to watch myself fall
watch me fall

(chorus)  silent apology for the choice I made
                  silent apology upon my grave
                  what it feeds it pleads
                  a memory
                  silent apology's what's left of me

bleeding the feelings I want to show
into the night is where they go
for retail man I play my part
for public eyes my heavy heart
watching me fall
watching me fall

(chorus)
(instrumental)

into my eyes I'm looking down
my life dissolving without a sound
and after the fall
after it all

(chorus)

My Mad Hatter

© 2013 Mark Cote

Siamese cat with a wicked hat
riding a black dog
through sunny dark nights
sweet hooka filled fog

downwardly up don't know where it's at
in this mystical tea
a laughing green owl with eyes to my soul
is looking at me

and I wish, wish you were here
my, my mad hatter
yes I wish, wish you were here
my, my mad hatter

Changing the channel changing the lane
it all feels so strange
dawning from night a little bird sings
we all end up the same

and I wish, wish you were here
my, my mad hatter
yes I wish, wish you were here
my, my mad hatter

(chorus)  as swiftly as they go
                  as swiftly as they come
                  when it's beginning
                  it's coming undone
                  sometimes life is not what it seems
                  sleeping in the day
                  living in a dream
                  looking through the riddle
                  magic in the middle
                  and it's all about you
                  my, my mad hatter

(instrumental)

chocolate river and sweet salty air
I taste and I see
growing much younger but feeling so old
floating downstream

and I wish, wish you were here
my, my mad hatter
yes I wish, wish you were here
my, my mad hatter

(chorus)

Without Love

© 2011 Mark Cote

Cynical tongue can't taste the sweet
sweet offered to them at their feet
better the sour of suspicious minds
better to leave them all behind

(chorus)  Without love
                  the flower cries
                  without love
                  a sole heart dies
                  without love
                  at my feet
                  without love
                  we never meet

afraid of the world in your fears
afraid you may cry another tear
all alone you can't reach out
all alone you live in doubt

(chorus)

mockingbird sing me another song
mockingbird sing 'til the mourning dawn
she'll sing the only songs she knows
she'll sing off key in a different note

(chorus)

Soulful Singster

© 2013 Mark Cote

You shake the earth
and play our hearts
with every word that you sing

you grab our eyes
and hypnotize
such a groovy groovy thing

(bridge)  and this is just, just the way that I feel
                  in a melody you're so real
                 you're such a

(chorus)  Soul singster
                  soul soulful singster
                  like a whisper I feel like I kissed her
                  she's such a
                  soul singster
                  soul souful singster

reaching out
just like the sun
with a voice
so much larger than you

and when I gaze
I'm so amazed
at how you make it sound so true

(bridge)  In this full emotion of song
                  what is right can never be wrong
                  you're such a

(chorus)
(instrumental)

and this is just, just the way that I feel
in a melody you're so real
you're such a

(chorus)

Butterfly Beat

© 2011 Mark Cote

Take the honey from the sun
silken dreams the spiders spun
add the morning dew to her lips
the sweetest love I have ever kissed

(chorus)  and when I'm that sparkle in her eyes
                  butterfly beat her heart plays inside
                  butterfly beat in this heart of mine
                  with this love that is so discreet
                  butterfly beat every time we meet

Never seen such warmth in a smile
walk with me baby stay for a while
when she tells me "I love you"
the colors we feel come shining through

on this road that is so brand new
the strength I find is there in you
I have found all that I need
the one that beats inside of me

(chorus)

I'm Sorry's Not Good Enough

© 2011 Mark Cote

(chorus)  I'm sorry's not good
                  I'm sorry's not good
                  I'm sorry's not good enough
                  I'm sorry's not good
                  I'm sorry's not good
                  I'm sorry's not good enough

the love that I gave
you took it away
when I needed you
you would not stay
now you think two words can make it right
how you left me here on a cold cold night

(chorus)

time moves on
as we all know
but the pain inside I can't let go
I hope that karma treats you right
with a sarcastic grin on a lonely night

(chorus)

what you never saw
or refuse to see
when my heart cried out
you laughed at me
maybe fate was meant this way
for in a dreamer's arms I now can say

(chorus)

You Remind Me Of Her

© 2011 Mark Cote

In your eyes I can see
all of the laughter
the happy ever after
maybe that's part of what you do to me

when we walk all around
I'm loving your essence
it's just like a present
feels like Christmas on the Fourth of July

(chorus)  You remind me of someone
                  remind me of someone
                  someone that I used to know
                  you remind me of someone
                  remind me of someone
                  someone with that happy glow
                  yeah you remind me...
                  remind me of her

I see her heart and soul
the way that you care
the way that you share
the sister I lost not so long ago

you're never running fast
you savor every moment
every color's a component
the pretty rainbow that may never last

(chorus)