Don't Get Me Started

© 2016 Mark Cote

when in the South
well shut your mouth
don't let the good 'ole boys
get to you

when traveling west
do your best
put on your shades
but don't you
look at the sun

(chorus) don't get me started
                  how we departed
                  now the winds will blow
                  wherever I go
                  and now I know
                  now I know
                  just don't get me started

the warmth up north
the heat that you feel
but is it really
what you believe?

into the dark you carry the light
but into the light you carry the night
you can never
run from you

(chorus)
(instrumental)

the nightmare
the dream
you can never scream
and willow tears dry
in the sun

(chorus)

I Never Believed It Until You

© 2013 Mark Cote

She was a lady
long midnight hair
and my heart just knew
her smile would take me there

jasmine blossoms
like love it filled the room
my boyhood dreams
were about to come true

(chorus) and I never dreamed..
                  it would happen to me
                  the one I dreamed about
                  is here loving me
                  they can say to you
                  your dreams will come true
                  but I never believed it until you

secretly this love
lived only in my mind
we lived to far
she could never be mine

what I didn't know
was what she thought of me
never underestimate
the power of meant to me

(chorus)
(instrumental)
(chorus)

The Things That You Do

© 2016 Mark Cote

You
wash the stripes from my shirt
you
take the bars off my heart
how do you do
the things that you do?

chase
the storm clouds away
it's strawberry days
now the skies are blue with
the things that you do

(chorus) and yes it's true
                  the things that you do
                  nobody else
                  compares the wonder of you
                  and it's true
                  yes you
                  with the things
                  with the things
                  the things that you do

you
put the beat in the song
let it play
all night long
to the tempo of dew
and the things that you do

(chorus)
(instrumental)

(spoken bridge) well here we are
                                 dancing head over feet
                                 and I feel that it is like a mirage
                                 when the words taste sweeter
                                 than an ice cream cone
                                 and the dream is growing large

(chorus)

Shake It Up Get Down

© 2013 Mark Cote

Ice
she sets the cold on fire
why
like a bird on a  wire
yeah
yeah
yeah

sweet
she whets my appetite
free
she's like dynamite
yeah
yeah
yeah

(chorus) you've got to
                  you've got to
                  you've got to
                  go up
                  turn around
                  shake it up get down
                  go up
                  turn around
                  shake it up get down
                  go up
                  turn around
                  shake it up get down
                  for me.......

love
she's a young man's dream
rub
her moves' a mystery
yeah
yeah
yeah

dance
each night a sight to see
prance
she's just out of my reach
yeah
yeah
yeah

(chorus)

So Blue

© 2016 Mark Cote

(chorus) If I'm so happy why am I so blue
                  so blue
                  though the sun is shining so blue
                  it's true
                  if I'm so happy why am I so blue

through the week not much to say
just do my bit then drive away
though I found you and you found me
most of my time working in complacency

(chorus)

all the weekends filled with you
I can be me, walls breaks through
like a part of me I never knew
I see in your eyes you feel it too

(chorus)

wish our time was all we had
than days apart it makes me sad
so contrasting colors and shades of grey
I wonder why I have to say

(chorus)

Blissful Ignorance

© 2016 Mark Cote

hamster on circus wheel
starring at the stars
wonder where to go
wonder just how far
and oh....
it's a sunny day
when the birds would sing
and the bees would play

lizard scale a serpent's grin
smiling oh so proud
never will it end
if they don't know what it's all about
and oh....
it's a sunny day
when the birds would sing
and the bees would play

(chorus) bliss...ful ignorance
                  the sweetness of the sand
                  the skeleton hands
                  and
                  an upside down sun
                  will they know when it's begun
                  or will they only know
                  blissful ignorance

horses on the carousel
talk among themselves
never even will they know
when there's nothing left
and oh....
it's a sunny day
when the birds would sing
and the bees would play

(chorus)

What More Do You Want from Me?

© 2016 Mark Cote

spent years at the bottom
and I found myself
but for years now I wonder
what more of me is left

still the same old shoes
as I twist my neck
with this new perspective
I no longer can connect

(chorus) I'm down on the floor
                  I'm down on my knees
                  you've already brought me down
                  what more do you want from me
                  should I see something more
                  what more could I see
                  life already brought me down
                  what more do you want from me

learned to walk alone
and hold my light
when no one reached out
I held on tight
something in me
I found to believe
religion for some
so much more I perceive

(chorus)