Matthew Moran

Recorded on my webcam, November 11, 2009

A Little Bit of Everything
Copyright (c) Matthew Moran - Sounds Like Life Music

VERSE
She's the midday sun, it burns me with its heat
She is midnight when the darkness calls to me
She's the sunrise casting light across my eyes
She is sunset with the promises of the night
(Chorus)

CHORUS
S...he's a little bit
She's a little bit
She's a little bit of everything
{repeat}

VERSE
She's an argument on a crowded city street
She's making up and making love and oh so sweet
She's her hair a mess on a rainy afternoon
She's a fantasy when she walks into the room
(Chorus)

VERSE
She's a martini in a little black evening dress
She's tequila when she puts me to the test
She is fine red wine having dinner with some friends
She's Sangria with her toes stuck in the sand
(Chorus)

VERSE
She's a book half read, you never reach the end
She's a song I sing and I'll sing it once again
She's a villain full of danger and charm
She's a lover, so inviting, soft, and warm
(Chorus)Read More

Can't Let Her Go
Copyright 2009 - Matthew Moran (Sea Gypsy Music)


[VERSE 1]
At times she’s all that I can see
Can’t let her go
Every breath that I can breath
Can’t let her go
It’s more than my love she holds
Can’t let her go
‘Cause when she smiles she steals my soul
Can’t let her go

And when I watch her fast asleep
Can’t... let her go
And when the darkness is complete
Can’t let her go
It seems she haunts my every step
Can’t let her go
But that’s a specter I’ll accept
Can’t let her go
(chorus)

[CHORUS]
Sometimes I feel, she’s cast a spell
‘cause it is so complete, can’t let her go

[VERSE 2]
I see her cross a crowded room
Can’t let her go
But she don’t know I’m watching her
Can’t let her go
If you knew my thought’s embrace
Can’t let her go
Would blush/smile or slap my face
Can’t let her go
(chorus)
Read More

SLAM SHUT
Copyright (c) 2009 - Matthew Moran


She said she was looking for a better life
A brand new start, a way to jump this bumpy ride
Her broken dreams and shattered faith had been tossed aside
But give her time to find herself and she’ll get by

He hitched himself a ride just south of L.A.
Wondered if it would drop him sho...rt or take him all the way
As the city receded it was begging him to stay
He had nothing to lose, he had nothing to say

(chorus)
Slam shut another door
Chalk it up to just one more
Relationship that’s gone awry

You can’t hold onto to your past
Or what was never meant to last
You gotta give in if your gonna get by


Verse:
You make your bed when you make your mind
You gotta sleep in it, you gotta do the time
There’s no use second guessing what is yours and what is mine
If the truth be told you’ve been doing fineRead More

I Want Everything
Copyright 2009 - Matthew Moran

VERSE
She said, Baby I must confess
I'm missing you, yea I'm a mess
I reach out for you and your not here
I call for you and your not there
(chorus) - probably add verses here

CHORUS
I heard you saying that you just want everything
Don't you know I want the same thing too
All I wan...t is everything and baby that means
All I want is you

VERSE:
I want the sunlight on your face
To be your storm, your sea, your resting place
To kiss you awake, to kiss you to bed
and a brand new day to start it all again

I want passion that won't every end
To be your every lover and your one true friend
I want to fill your mind with fantasy
I want to chain you down, I want to set you free
(chorus)

VERSE:
I want to be your morning & be your night
Be there to make up after every fight
I want the best of you and I want your worst
I want to feed your hunger and quench your thirst

I want your 10 cent and 4-letter words
I want you rational and I want you absurd
I want love that burns hot to the touch
Yeah I want everything, is that too much
Read More

Do It Again
Copyright 2009 - Matthew Moran

30 miles outside of Albuquerque
The old man set his pack down to rest his bones
Years of bad luck and bad decisions
Years of no place to call a home

Looks out towards the West, into the sunset
Said, “I think it might be time to settle down.”
Then he lit another smoke
Laughed at his old... joke and
Stuck his thumb back out into the wind
Sayin..

(chorus)
It’s a long road to nowhere
It’s a long time when time is all you have

But if you don’t count all those days
Where you seem to lose your way
You can fool yourself & say
I can do it again

Verse 2
A young girl with her baby and her bruises
Nursing both and a shattered heart
Climbs aboard a greyhound to California
Searching for the sun, the warmth, a start

She don’t look back, she knows that he’s still sleepin’
The beer and the pills they saw to that
And she’s cries for her hope
And those dreams gone up in smoke
but she smiles through the tears cuz she’s gonna win

Bridge
Standing in the ocean
Waves swirling around her feet
She looks back at her little boy
Playin’ on the beach

And an old man and his guitar
His song comes floating in the wind
She says, “It’s days like this that let me know… I can do it again.”


I Look out towards the West, into the sunset
Say, “I think it might be time to settle down.”
Then I light another smoke
Laugh at my old joke and
Stick my thumb back out into the wind
Read More

The Tide
Copyright 2002 - Matthew Moran


Verse 1:
She’s standing on the front porch, looking west
Salty mist in her eyes & times like these put us both to the test
Cuz in her mind she’s on the California coast with wind blown auburn hair
Hearing gulls, waves, and children and wishing I would take her there

Verse 2:
Does she rem...ember times we’d both call in sick
We were drawn through the canyons by a pull way to strong to resist
And she’s lay in my arms as we watched the waves roll in
I was drowning in love as the tide pulled me in again

(chorus)
She is like the sea, her love is like a rolling tide
My heart is like the sand, it risk just being swept aside
Then chase in vain pursuit as that wave returns to the sea
Praying that a full moon bring the tide back to me.

Verse 3:
Listening to her sleep as her dreams carry her away
She won’t recall and thing when she wakes but that don’t change anything
She hears a sirens call, sees a distant shore, feels her toes in the sand
And you can’t hold the sea when tide slips through your hand
(chorus)
Read More

performed at It's a Grind in Simi Valley California..

She Knows Love
Copyright 2009 - Matthew Moran (Sea Gypsy Music)

Verse 1:
Everything About Her Takes My Breath Away
Her gentle and her passion they go hand in hand
She always seems to know exactly what I need
Cuz what I need is just what she is giving me.
(chorus)

Chorus:
I've... been taken for a turn
There are lessons that I've learned
And of this there is no doubt
She knows love, she knows love, she knows love
And what it's about

Verse 2:
Morning comes and she is smiling with the sun
Her coffee and her kisses make my motor run
& I can't understand all that she sees in me
But in her eyes I see everything that I can be
(chorus)Read More

Filmed at It's a Grind in Simi Valley, CA.
August 18, 2009.

Lonely Mile Man
Copyright - Matthew Moran 2008 (Sea Gypsy Music)

Chorus
An empty stretch of blacktop's worn down many traveler's soul
Lead's them to the border but always one more hill to go
And like a modern day messiah, I lead them through this land
But never to the... water, I'm a Lonely Mile Man
Lonely Mile Man

Verse
It's a lonely highway that a few of us must share
If you've been broken-hearted, you can join us there
Faces shielded from a desert wind
Thumb stuck out we try again
Searching for that sweet and dangerous ride... on an
(chorus)

Verse
Side by Side and Face to Face, we face the night alone
Drink by Drink and tear by tear we shuffle and we roam
We all get here in our own way
But every story is just the same
Just past the love and through the pain... on an
(chorus)

Bridge
Their hearts are tangled, torn, and tossed
But their souls are resolute
Some on the losin' side of faithlessness
Some who've tasted that forbidden fruit..yeahRead More