“The Way We Started” Words and Music by D. R. Commander Copyright ©2007 Twelve-Foot Hedgehog Music (ASCAP). All Rights Reserved. [Verse] You've been climbing up the stairway lost in a dream, And I've been hanging in your shadows behind the scenes You've got me running like a rat who's lost in a maze Doing lunches, taking meetings, and dropping some names, And throwing bones out to whoever got you your fame Hollywood's been kind to you, but I'm still the same [Chorus] Let's go back to the way we started Time won't change the way we parted You've been hiding out from me, Cursing what we used to be Why can't we start it again? [Verse] I can't keep up with all that SoCal drama you bring Sometimes I wonder if you give a damn when I sing Larger than life still doesn't mean that you know everything You've been flying on a first-class ticket for free, And I've been riding in your trunk and paying the fee I think you're special, and on that much we agree [Chorus] [Bridge] You're taking your life for granted, and you're leaving me Holding the bag while you're chewing up the scenery Why can't we go back to the way things used to be? I'm still I, and I think there's something left of “we” [Verse] You've been going all the places I couldn't go, And I've been hanging on the dock out back of the show Sometimes I wonder, and other times I just know [Chorus]

"Dead to the World" Words and Music by D. R. Commander Copyright ©2007 Twelve-Foot Hedgehog Music (ASCAP). All Rights Reserved. [Verse] He gets high on cigarettes and coffee, Lennon and McCartney, Willie and Merle Smokin' C's out back of Lucky Seven, Film it at 11, dead to the world [Chorus] Joey had the ladies in his freeze frame, Playing at the wrong game, dishing out the wrong blame Mikey took the cash and went to DC Now he's on the TV looking for a new fame [Verse] Making movies all over the city, Neon lights are pretty, but nights are long Second crew in just as many days, The cast is in a haze between right and wrong [Chorus] Prada bags lined up along the floor, The girls scream out for more, but the lead is out the door Take the bottle out into the skyway, My way or the highway, looking for a new score [Solo] [Verse] Trailer park in the cover of the dark, He tries to make his mark, but she just ran away Filling reels from Burbank to La Jolla, '98 Toyota hunting for prey [Chorus] Steely Dan was playing on the hi-fi, Something from Katy Lied going back to seven-five She was living life just like her picture No one's gonna miss her, looking for a new dive [Verse] She gets high on cigarettes and coffee, Lennon and McCartney, denim and pearls Smokin' J's out back of Lucky Seven, Watch it at 11, dead to the world

“Atlanta” Words and Music by D. R. Commander Copyright ©2007 Twelve-Foot Hedgehog Music (ASCAP). All Rights Reserved. [Verse] You know I don't owe the kind of debt that makes a proud man lay his cards upon the table They say I can't offer you the moon the way I could when we were young and so in love The promise is something I can't give to you The truth is, I just can't live for two, And it only takes one to run [Chorus] Hey hey, I got to keep heading down the road I've got the voice that's calling me, Writing a one-way ticket back there to Atlanta I want to be holding you tonight, Even though it's plain to see There's just no way this could be right [Verse] Maybe I shouldn't have gone on about the way you seem to light up every room And Baby, I should have left last week, but I can't help but think that maybe it's too soon If there's a pillar, I can hide behind it If there's a way, you know I'd try to find it If I only had the time [Chorus] Hey hey, I got to keep heading down the road I've got the voice that's calling me, Writing a one-way ticket back there to Atlanta I shouldn't be holding you this way, Even though we both know I would be better off if I could stay [Solo] [Verse] You know I don't climb the tallest tower just to get closer to God than to you You know I don't play my only ace unless I have nothing left to win or lose You can't say I didn't warn you I wouldn't be here by morning light I've got to make Baton Rouge tonight [Chorus] Hey hey, I got to keep heading down the road I've got the voice that's calling me, Writing a one-way ticket back there to Atlanta I want to be holding you tonight, Even though I've got to go You know I won't forget to write you from Atlanta

"The American Dream" Words and Music by D. R. Commander Copyright ©2008 Twelve-Foot Hedgehog Music (ASCAP). All Rights Reserved. [Verse] Lonely child in the dark staring out at the gray skyline She hears the clock on the wall chiming half past nine She took the train down from Madison hoping to meet her kind She wants a house in the suburbs and 2.5, Living on the edge of time [Chorus] Far across the fields like the cover of a magazine Filling up on cheap wine, burgers, and gasoline Things never work out like they do on the silver screen Was she running from herself, was she living the American dream? [Verse] She met him down at a bar on the corner of 17, In the heart of the downtown social scene She had the scent of desperation and nicotine He was holding back fearing the world unseen, Living in the in-between [Chorus] She was never married to the prince in the Snow White scene, But living all alone's not the loneliest you can be She wanted all that his eyes reflected from the TV screen They were living in silence and living the American dream [Solo] [Verse] Lonely child in the dark staring out at the gray skyline She sees the mark on the wall reading half past nine, Living on the edge of time

“Jennifer” Words and Music by D. R. Commander Copyright ©2007 Twelve-Foot Hedgehog Music (ASCAP). All Rights Reserved. [Verse] Staring out into this midnight summer sky The stars reflecting like a mirror in her eyes I wonder if I can find her heart We were drawn together but worlds apart She don't know what's going on She can't see the sunlight for the dawn While the fire dies and the night starts growing old While the embers dance and my coffee's getting cold She tries to hide behind her pain Like a silver cloud in the pouring rain She gives me a reason to come home, To stay up waiting by the phone [Chorus] Jennifer, don't let my heart break one more time Jennifer, don't leave me hanging on your line Tell me what's on your mind Don't say you're the losing kind Whisper your sweetest dreams to me [Verse] I see an eagle soaring above that red rock hill He reminds me of the way I used to feel On our lone mountains there we stood, Both of us waiting for something good Why does love have to be that hard? Why does her heart have to be so far? [Chorus] [Solo] [Chorus]

“The Blacksmith Shop” Words and Music by D. R. Commander Copyright ©2007 Twelve-Foot Hedgehog Music (ASCAP). All Rights Reserved. [Verse] Down past the lights and crowds of Bourbon street, There sits a pub that's stuck in time Back in the corner, Johnny plays the tunes Just like he's done since '65 You can see the wind and the flood in the lines on his face, Forty years of four-hour nights The quarter is mostly back together post-K, And everywhere's a waterline But the Whos, they dance and sing without a care, Without tomorrow on their mind [Chorus] And Johnny played 'em an old tune They can't quite remember, and neither could he In that smoke-filled room, For a moment all the world seems to stop Down at the Blacksmith Shop [Verse] Maxwell bought me hurricanes, and he didn't tell me he'd arranged For me to sit in But I believed it kind of strange when Johnny said, "Hey, just for a change, you know I'd like to ask my friend ..." I was half a drink past quiet humility, And I was three quarters of a drink past knowing how to sing, And I had long out-drunk my swiss cheese memory, so I sang 'em "Crocodile Rock", and "Take it Easy", and "I've Got Friends in Low Places", And half of "Running on Empty" [Chorus] So I sang 'em an old tune They can't quite remember, and neither could I In that smoke-filled room, For a moment all the world seems to stop Down at the Blacksmith Shop [Solo] [Chorus] And Johnny played 'em an old tune They can't quite remember, and neither could he In that smoke-filled room, For a moment all the world seems to stop Down at the Blacksmith Shop Down past the lights and crowds of Bourbon street, There sits a pub that's stuck in time

"Hill Country Rain" Words and Music by D. R. Commander Copyright ©2008 Twelve-Foot Hedgehog Music (ASCAP). All Rights Reserved. [Verse] It was a cold, gray morning in '98 when someone opened up Heaven's gate Clouds began their dance over that sleepy German town The sky fell down like a hurricane, dropping 4 inches an hour of rain, Falling like a stone upon the ground Before another hour had passed us by, the river rose to 40 feet high, And houses floated down just like a leaf upon the breeze 22 feet above the plain didn't spare us all from the endless rain, Once the river turned into a sea No one ever thought it could happen here With the dam upstream we had no fear, But dams can't hold back water that beneath their shadow flows It rose so fast as the rains came down that we barely made it to higher ground With nothing but the children and our clothes The storm moved on in time with the flood, pushing half the Mississippi's worth of mud, Sweeping down through Cuero like a runaway freight train A 20-foot wave covered half the town They went 7 miles to find dry ground, Stranded in the cold Hill Country rain [Chorus] Hill Country rain is falling down into the canyons and the streams Hill Country rain is going to drown all of our sweet American dreams When the rivers start to fill, you'd better head up to the hills 'Cause only time can stop the cold Hill Country rain [Verses] Two old men said, back in '72, this place filled up like a swimming pool, But we just smiled and shook our heads and looked the other way Everybody thought they had bought the dream 'til they saw it floating away downstream Underneath October skies of gray I once knew a man down on Rio Drive His wife didn't make it out of there alive They climbed a 40-foot tree, until the river rose some more He floated seven miles on a piece of wood, along with most of the neighborhood, But eight of them never made it to the shore There was never any doubt that we'd build again We loved the water like a long-lost friend, Though our friend would sometimes tend to fly into a rage We built like a fortress against the tide, between the pecans on the riverside We kept one eye on the sky and another on the gauge Four years later, Fourth of July, the ground was cracked and three months dry A record storm moved up the river, much to our relief Everybody thought we were out of harm's way 'til the lake rose 50 feet in a day The dam had done its job, but there was too much rain to keep The water, it hit the spillway breach, and just like the waves crashing on the beach, Three times the Mighty Colorado pouring down the hill This had never happened since they built the lake, and some of the Corps thought the dam might break The rains had fallen hard, but then the rains fell harder still The lake came down with a mighty roar, then the river rose and then it rose some more I turned on the TV to see my house float down the street We had just rebuilt from the flood before when the Guadalupe knocked down our door And came into our house just like a thief Not many people remember that day, and there's millions more built in harm's way Everything that we build, Nature one day will reclaim But if every few years it happens again, then why do they call it the ”hundred-year plain"? You can't blame it all on the cold Hill Country rain [Double chorus]

"One-Way Line" Words and Music by D. R. Commander Copyright ©2007 Twelve-Foot Hedgehog Music (ASCAP). All Rights Reserved. [Verse] Heading into the Vancouver skyline Staring out the window, I've got nothing but time Destination: Waterfront Station I'm riding down the rails of a one-way line I tried to bury my dreams with the past Her eyes shone like a diamond in the morning light Now I can't make this train go any faster I'm riding down the rails of a one-way line [Chorus] I'm moving on a twilight feeling, Trying to stop my heart from healing, Wondering why I'd ever let her go The city lights in different places, The nameless and the lonely faces Telling me what I already know [Verse] Across the blue of the cold, cold sound She's standing in the wind and the evening tide Looking down on that Squamish town While I'm riding down the rails of a one-way line She never wanted that neon life, But she stepped into the shadows thinking everything's fine It's hard being a musician's wife, So I'm riding down the rails of a one-way line [Chorus] We're moving through the silent midnight, Reflecting with the harbor moonlight, Marking time with countless beating hearts The trees in simulated freeze frame, The statues in a giant chess game Moving like a whisper in the dark [Verse] The train cuts the city like a knife, I'm heading into town, leaving Richmond behind Looking down on that slice of life, I'm riding down the rails of a one-way line Heading into the Vancouver skyline Staring out the window, I've got nothing but time Destination: Waterfront Station I'm riding down the rails of a one-way line Riding down the rails of a one-way line Riding down the rails of a one-way line

“Jennifer” Words and Music by D. R. Commander Copyright ©2007 Twelve-Foot Hedgehog Music (ASCAP). All Rights Reserved. [Verse] Staring out into this midnight summer sky The stars reflecting like a mirror in her eyes I wonder if I can find her heart We were drawn together but worlds apart She don't know what's going on She can't see the sunlight for the dawn While the fire dies and the night starts growing old While the embers dance and my coffee's getting cold She tries to hide behind her pain Like a silver cloud in the pouring rain She gives me a reason to come home, To stay up waiting by the phone [Chorus] Jennifer, don't let my heart break one more time Jennifer, don't leave me hanging on your line Tell me what's on your mind Don't say you're the losing kind Whisper your sweetest dreams to me [Verse] I see an eagle soaring above that red rock hill He reminds me of the way I used to feel On our lone mountains there we stood, Both of us waiting for something good Why does love have to be that hard? Why does her heart have to be so far? [Chorus] [Solo] [Chorus]

"One-Way Line" Words and Music by D. R. Commander Copyright ©2007 Twelve-Foot Hedgehog Music (ASCAP). All Rights Reserved. [Verse] Heading into the Vancouver skyline Staring out the window, I've got nothing but time Destination: Waterfront Station I'm riding down the rails of a one-way line I tried to bury my dreams with the past Her eyes shone like a diamond in the morning light Now I can't make this train go any faster I'm riding down the rails of a one-way line [Chorus] I'm moving on a twilight feeling, Trying to stop my heart from healing, Wondering why I'd ever let her go The city lights in different places, The nameless and the lonely faces Telling me what I already know [Verse] Across the blue of the cold, cold sound She's standing in the wind and the evening tide Looking down on that Squamish town While I'm riding down the rails of a one-way line She never wanted that neon life, But she stepped into the shadows thinking everything's fine It's hard being a musician's wife, So I'm riding down the rails of a one-way line [Chorus] We're moving through the silent midnight, Reflecting with the harbor moonlight, Marking time with countless beating hearts The trees in simulated freeze frame, The statues in a giant chess game Moving like a whisper in the dark [Verse] The train cuts the city like a knife, I'm heading into town, leaving Richmond behind Looking down on that slice of life, I'm riding down the rails of a one-way line Heading into the Vancouver skyline Staring out the window, I've got nothing but time Destination: Waterfront Station I'm riding down the rails of a one-way line Riding down the rails of a one-way line Riding down the rails of a one-way line