Sugar

I found sugar on my morning train
I found sugar on my morning train
She gimme that look make a man insane
I found sugar on my morning train

Six in the morning, five days a week
Four blocks walking down to number three
Two stops later she’s climbing on board
First time I saw her, I said good lord

I found sugar on my morning train…

Backstage betty coming on too fast
Bougie little bunny she can kiss my ass
High class woman won’t even look up
They ain’t putting nothing in my coffee cup

I found sugar on my morning train…

Twenty-five minutes out of every day
Buy my ticket and go the same way
Maybe tomorrow I can miss my stop
Find out where she gets off

I found sugar on my morning train…

New Normal

Sitting alone with the windows open
Ninety degrees and the AC’s broken
In my mind I’m almost frozen
I play for a while on the old piano
Lie on the floor and light some candles
Figuring out what I can handle

We don’t have to fight, see each other cry
We don’t wake each other up in the middle of the night
No one to tell me what to do, tell my secrets to
Gotta keep em all inside somehow
I guess this is the new normal now

Telling a friend how I’m doing
Try not to get too far into it
If I’m not careful, I know I’ll lose it
This neighborhood has a charm about it
I’m walking past unfamiliar houses
Trying hard to make sense of all this

We don’t have to fight…

Robby Hecht & Elise Hayes

Tell Me

We've been so out of touch
Staying so far apart
But it's hard to give up
I'm attached at the heart
There's something you gotta say
I'm not ready though
I don't really want to hear it
I don't really want to know

Tell me you miss me like crazy
Tell me you can't do it all by yourself
Tell me you wish you were right here beside me
Just go on and try any lie you can find and tell me

I know we fell off track
Yeah we lost our way
And it's a lot to ask
You to say you'll stay
I can see all your reasons
I can see why
But I'm gonna fall to pieces
As soon as you say goodbye

Tell me…

Robby Hecht & Mindy Smith

Forget About You

It's that time of the day
When the slowly setting sun turns
All I see to gold
Memories play like stories before bedtime
We once were told

I have tried to forget about you
Over and over again

I never was one
To look back over my shoulder
How things have changed
Now I can't run fast enough or far enough
To get away

I have tried to forget about you
Over and over again

Robby Hecht & Kim Richie

Ferris Wheel

I don’t exactly remember what I was looking for
At the time, I just needed someone who needed more
But there’s one thing I want to say
Before you turn your back on me
I never thought it would end this way
When I opened the door

My love is a ferris wheel
I can hardly feel all the way down
My love is a hurricane
I just chase the rain all the way down

I have a hard time believing that certain things are true
But I know that I never thought I’d be leaving you
And I have a tendency to hang on
So if you ask me just what went wrong
I’ll have to write you a whole damn song
To really push it through

My love is a ferris wheel...

Did it ever have to start
Does it ever have to start

My love is a ferris wheel...

Two of Me, Two of You

There are two of me and two of you
Two who have betrayed love, and two who have been true
And together we went crashing through
Every bond and vow and faith we knew
Me and the fool I've been and the two of you

Of the two of me, one always knew
That I would always love you whatever you might do
And the more unfree and troubled you grew
I could feel the whole world splitting in two
Trying to make the room for the two of you

So like a fragile little child
More than a little lost and wild
How the light would leave the sky when you cried
And return again when you smiled
And how the light would invade and divide
The darkness I have inside

There were two of me and two of you
Searching for a passageway hidden from our view
And together we went crashing through
Every bond and vow and faith we knew
Me and the fool I've been and the two of you

Jackson Browne

One Year Older

Autumn comes and Summer goes
Moon hangs high and the sun stays low
Pile that wood and burn those leaves
Black smoke holding onto me

And I gotta remember to call my brother
He’s one year older tomorrow
Where’s the time go

Winter comes and sky turns gray
Long cold nights and quiet days
Turn the logs and warm your hands
Til the whiskey comes around again

And I gotta remember to call my mother
She’s one year older tomorrow
Where’s the time go

Spring comes rising from the ground
To taste the rain that’s falling down
Hide your heavy coat away
Watch the birds all gliding home again

And I gotta remember to call my father
He’s one year older tomorrow
Where’s the time go

Summer comes and teachers smile
All the wound up children running wild
Picnic tables in the shade
Pass the cold iced tea and lemonade

And I gotta remember to call my sister
She’s one year older tomorrow

And I gotta remember to call my brother
He's one year older tomorrow
Where's the time go

Robby Hecht & Joseph LeMay

The Ones I Love

Every morning, when I open up my eyes
I remember I am not alone
I have a partner lying by my side
I have a family, and we have made a home

When I begin to feel the motion of my day
And I fear that it could carry me away
Their shelter here will keep me strong enough
I live inside the ones I love

Every evening, when I close my eyes
And I lie with the long day’s memories
I call back the moments when I was warm beside
The ones who have always covered me

When I begin to feel the motion of my day
And I fear that it could carry me away
I can put them on like slippers or like gloves
I live inside the ones I love

I know one morning, I’ll open up my eyes
And for a moment, I’ll wonder at the change
But I’ll find my body was only a disguise
I will fly through their minds and through their veins

When I begin to feel the motion of my day
And I fear that it could carry me away
When my cocoon has finally held me long enough
I’ll live inside the ones I love

Lexington

I stopped into a roadside bar by the Georgia shore
When I saw a pretty lady floating softly across the floor
I bravely strode up to her, but before I even tried
A man tapped on my shoulder, said I see you’ve met my bride

I stuttered an apology, but he said not to fret
So I bought a round and so did he and soon our tongues were wet
I said I was bound for Lexington, and I asked about his past
He turned to face me squarely and set down his empty glass

He said he’d just come from Lexington, down through Caroline
He’d meant to soon return again but now he’d changed his mind
For he had met his true love here and married her this day
He wished me luck in Lexington, and I was on my way

In four weeks time, a sign for Lexington said I’d arrived
I found a scene and sat next to a girl with lonely eyes
We spoke until the barman nearly swept us from the bar
And I knew I was in love with her by the brightness of the stars

I asked if she would be my girl ‘neath the Kentucky moon
But she said she loved a traveling man who’d sworn he’d come home soon
She faithfully described him, and my heart, it almost tore
For I knew he was that groom I’d met down south a month before

I asked myself, oh should I speak, for if I dare refrain
Then she will hope forever here, and I’ll never hope again
But I could not break that young girl’s heart, so i left her there to pray
And now two lonely people wander Lexington today

In There

No one ever sits in the sitting room
They only go in there to dust and run the vacuum
Once a year a tree goes up and the lights go on
But no one really goes in there

No one fires up that old fireplace
But it sure does look inviting, and it fills up the space
Just above hangs a painting of two kids in love
But no one’s building fires in there

The silver is sterling, the china is bone
Locked away in the hutch by the rotary phone
I say tonight, it’d be good for us both
To turn this house upside down and back into a home
And just let go

No one ever plays that old piano
It’s just a surface for pictures and candles
We sometimes give a chord a try as we walk by
But no one’s playing songs in there

The silver is sterling…

No one ever sits in the sitting room
They only go in there to dust and run the vacuum

Robby Hecht & Mindy Smith

Damn Good Advice

Just saddle up here on this stool at the bar
Order up something and then pour out your heart
Look deep in your soul, there's a way to pull through
No matter what's broken, here's what you do

Quit drinking, quit smoking
Tell your lover you love em
Keep kissin', try to listen
Buy roses by the dozen
You won’t ever get lonesome, yeah, wouldn't that be nice
I wish I could take my own damn good advice

Now I'm sitting here thinking about how it went bad
We were going to sleep angry, waking up sad
So I'm sipping this whiskey, alone lost and lonely
But my barstool'd be empty if I could only

Quit drinking…

If I hear it enough, I just might give it a try
So I'll say one more time
I'll say one more time

Quit drinking...

Robby Hecht & Brittany Kennell

If I Were a River

If I were a river, then I’d chase you down
I’d chase you down and I’d roar out your name
If I were a river, then I’d chase you down
I’d chase you down today

If I were a mountain, then I’d block your way
I’d block your way from the sky to the ground
If I were a mountain, then I’d block your way
I’d block you and turn you around

If I were a delta, I’d bring you back home
I’d bring you back home by the light of the stars
If I were a delta, I’d bring you back home
I’d bring you back home in my arms

If I were the ocean, I’d never let go
I’d never let go like I’ve done in the past
If I were the ocean, I’d never let go
I’d never let go at last

If I were a river, then I’d chase you down
I’d chase you down and I’d roar out your name
If I were a river, then I’d chase you down
I’d chase you down today