Not My Circus Not My Monkeys

© 2017 Mark Cote

has your work week got you down
and the time clock came unwound
boss breathing down your neck
and you wanna say what the heck

false sense of pride
false sense of stress
when all you can do
is give it your best

(chorus) when it all looks not so sunny
                  tell yourself
                  not my circus, not my monkeys
                  I know it may sound a bit funny
                  but tell yourself
                  not my circus, not my monkeys

know what they are trying to do
won't be a party to their zoo
won't make a monkey out of you
just say this thing I say to you

(chorus)
(instrumental)

won't be a party to their zoo
won't make a monkey out of you

(chorus)

Stars In Our Eyes

© 2017 Mark Cote

once upon a slow-motion caterpillar night
when bullfrogs sing to pass the time
crickets laughing right out loud
to the chaos that's going down

ants marching to a spider's beat
will never know what spider's eat
until it's too late
irony will be their fate

(chorus) underwater in the sky
                  all they do is wonder why
                  we see it all with stars in our eyes ( stars in our eyes)
                  underwater in the sky
                  when it's gone like fireflies
                  we see it all with stars in our eyes

another view of the same old day
we see the clouds as palm trees sway
will they be prepared when the rains they come
or washed away as worlds come undone

(chorus)
(instrumental)

crickets laughing right out loud
to the chaos that's going down

A Beautiful Melody

Amy Abernathy and Mark Cote

Sing me a song of happiness
Play me a song of pure joy
I was shackled by my misery
but I quit playing in the key of me.
Life has a different rhythm.
Now that you are beside me.

(Chorus) It’s beautiful melody,
                  A love orchestrated symphony
                  When your arms are around me
                  It’s a beautiful melody.


Even if it’s new it feels so surreal.
I am hearing a  chorus of true love.
A refrain of a hummingbirds hum
grooving from a six string strum
All I hear is wonderful love song
Looking forward to what may come


(chorus)


Bridge-
You got my feet tapping,
My heart pounding
A lyric of unending bliss
Every minute with you
Is time I don’t want to miss.

            It’s beautiful melody,
            A love orchestrated symphony
            When your arms are around me
            It’s a beautiful melody.

            It’s beautiful melody,
            A love orchestrated symphony
            When your arms are around me
            It’s a beautiful melody.

Boys Will Be Boys

© 2013 Mark Cote

back then in our teens
brake pedals and gasoline
football rings and beauty queens
boys will be boys

t-shirt girls and cut off jeans
drive-ins we made the scene
we lived out the summer dream
boys will be boys

(chorus) when I look back now
                  I wonder how
                  we ever made it through those years
                  through all the fun
                  through all the beer
                  we still made it
                  made it here
                  boys will be boys

muscle cars and pickup trucks
cruise the strip to try their luck
show 'em all what you've got
boys will be boys

cheap perfume and boyhood dreams
a melody a moonlit sea
my first love her and me
boys will be boys

(chorus)

Run Run To Me

© 2013 Mark Cote

dusty roads and all alone
never know which way to go
different towns we're both the same
run to me

waves of sweet or waves of grey
we always know the things to say
but I'm still so many miles away from you

(chorus) If you can run
                  run to me
                  baby I can run
                  run to you
                  together we can make it through
                  if you run to me
                  I'll run to you

the rains we feel are all the same
nothing to lose and all to gain
I can see it in your eyes
run to me

sands of time will tell our fate
in our dreams while we wait
the days they stretch so long away from you

(chorus)

Where Dreams Cry

© 2017 Mark Cote

rainbows crying like children
the ones that are left there inside
trees that feel so stranded
unable to take a stride

eyes hopelessly wonder
do stars look for me too
can you see from the outside under
to a perpetual view

(chorus) a look into the mind
                  where dreams cry
                  look inside and you will find
                  where dreams cry

when thoughts keep getting bigger
you live in a worlds all alone
just a trade-off for the dreamer
paradox of it's own

maybe it's just a smoke-screen
maybe I don't make sense
and I just wanted to fly
as you peer out over your fence

(chorus)

Lady Rising

© 2017 Mark Cote

in this prefab world
real emotions seem to go unheard
so he packs them up for another day

smiling prefab smiles
no one even looks inside
they just walk away and mumble on

another point of view
cry in the light
they just look right through
but there's one girl who can read his nights
and she holds on and on and on.....

(chorus) lady
                  rising
                  with love like a sunny morning
                  warming
                  the empty of the night...
                  prefab people
                  can't reach me without emotion
                  vanish like shadows in the night....

keeping strong I won't let go
to emotions they never show
or be a blind collective thought
no one sees

when she smiles
when she laughs
he knows he's found his other half
and together they paint the world
with blue and red from grey

(chorus)