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

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Dum Dum Diddle

© 2011 Mark Cote

upper class
sassafras
the one with the gift of the word

what a lady
drives me crazy
singing like a little bird

(chorus)  dum dum diddle diddle dum diddle doe
                  dum dum diddle diddle dum
                  dum dum diddle diddle dum diddle doe
                  dum dum diddle diddle dum

who will know
where words will go
how she puts them into place

multi-rhymed
out of time
with such style
with such grace

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I sit in awe
the blind man saw
such a silly goose

she speaks in riddles
in the middle
in the colors of chartreuse

(chorus)

Heart's Desire

© 2011 Mark Cote

why do I
get this feeling all the time
every time you speak those words to me

hearts in time
on this trail that we ride
we laugh together side by side

(bridge)  every time
                  I'm with you
                  I think that I'm on fire
                  but I know
                  I am not
                  it's just my heart
                  heart's desire

(chorus)  heart's desire
                  from the North's cold and grey
                  heart's desire
                  to the Spring of a summer day
                  ride this wave that takes us higher
                  on the wave of
                  our heart's desire

Some day
when we should be hand in hand
but until that day I understand

in a dream
I am in yours you're in mine
maybe tomorrow we will find

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If You Just Believe In You

© 2011 Mark Cote

Billboard buses on mockingbird lane
carry people with stars in their eyes
to neon dreams and back alley schemes
from worlds they left behind

puppeted people speak plastic words
will try to keep you underground
for invisible strings is all they bring
steal dreams without a sound

It doesn't matter to you at all
it doesn't matter
it doesn't matter...

(chorus)  sequins are diamonds if you believe
                  reality is the dream that you conceive
                  if you just believe in you
                  you can make those dreams come true

                  the road is not as long as you see
                  the goal is closer under moving feet
                  if you just believe in you
                 you can make those dreams come true

the turtle can't see from inside his shell
but his world is safe and warm
will the rain burn or will it clean
the rumble of a storm

It doesn't matter to you at all
it doesn't matter
it doesn't matter...

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