Musical Progress

Grab What You Can Blues March 2009 - Jim Herrmann

Verses
If you're slidin down a mountain
fallin out of control
If you're fallin down a mountain
slidin out of control
Grab what you can
save your doggone soul

If you're broke and you're busted
and your job has let you go
If you're broke and you're busted
and your job has let you go
Grab what you can
and let all the rest go

Bridge (with stops)
Grab it on the road
or grab it in your home
Grab it in the morn
or when the sun is sinking low
You got to Grab What You Can

Find a New Way To B September 2009 - Jim Herrmann

Chorus
Change your longitude, change your latitude
won't change nothin' 'til you change your attitude
Move to the trees or move to the sea
won't move your life until you Find a New Way To Be
Find a New Way To Be

Verses
You've got troubles as you live in the bubble
of a life you stumbled into
You trip and you tumble, flip and you fumble
through that routine you always do
You want out now but you don't know how
You wanna get away from the game that you play

chorus

Be Strong Live Long August 2011 - Jim Herrmann & Linda Erday

Intro
Verses
Some might grieve, for what it took away
I’m in a battle, many would say
The colon I lost and the toll it took
But I'm not one who goes by some old book

Chorus
Be Strong, live long
It's just a condition I'm managing
Be strong, live long
A body is constantly changing
Be strong, live long
And don't let disease rule your life.

intro

I want you to see the lessons I’ve learned
The path I walk, the pages I’ve turned
The loss does not out weigh the gain

Choose Your Battles May 2009 - Jim Herrmann

Intro
Choose Your Battles
Choose Your Battles
Yeah yeah

Verse
Living with family year after year
Often times is hard and sometimes leads to tears
Should toothpaste or TP get in the way
Keep it in perspective you'll laugh about it some day

Chorus
Choose Your Battles
What's it worth for you to win
Choose Your Battles
Careful what you begin
Choose Your Battles
Don't waste time on cheap returns
Choose Your Battles
Always know what bridge you burn
Choose Your Battles

Breakthrough June 14 2009 - Jim Herrmann

Verse
I'm looking for a breakthrough
I'm looking for a light
Looking for new possibilities
for being in my life
I want to clear the rackets
running in my head
I want to find out the untruth
in everything I've said

Chorus
I want to be free
to live a great life
Get right with my Mother and Father
Brother, Sister, Wife
I want to be free
to live without fear
Not worry 'bout the future or past
be present now and here

My life has got some problems
that I'm not gonna fix

You Don't Own Me Jim Herrmann - September 2007

Verse
You can't tell me what to do
I don't think that I belong to you
I'm not sure what path I'll take
But staying here would be a big mistake

Chorus
You don't own me you can't control me
I'll find a way to walk away
You don't own me you can't control me
I'll walk away someday

You tell me just to cut my hair
Now I don't think that's really fair
When I try to expand my mind
You tell me that it's not my time

chorus

You put me out on an open road
Then said just do as you're told

How Can I Miss You Jim Herrmann - September 2007

Verse
I never thought I feel this way
I never thought I'd have the nerve to say
I never thought I'd find a way
I never though I'd see the day
I never thought I'd have to play
I never thought I'd see you walk away
I never thought I'd rue the day
I never thought I'd beg you to stay hey

Chorus
Darling you know I love you each and every day
But how can I miss you, how can I miss you
How can I miss you, if you won't go away

I thought that I would treat you right
I thought that you would be polite

Dream Girl February 2009 - Jim Herrmann

Chorus
You're my Dream Girl
I dream of you each night
In my dream world
I'm holding you so tight
I hope someday I just might
Find my real world Dream Girl

Verses
You laugh, at all the silly things I say
You love, all the music that I play
I know at the end of the day
You'll be mine come what may

chorus

Your features, are oh so very fine
And I know, there's depth to your mind
When it's time to cross the line
You'll be right by my side

Bridge
I wake up, in the night

Showers in my Soul April 2008 - Jim Herrmann

Verse
Now it may be those April showers
Will bring about those May flowers
More sunshine and longer days
Mean more time for us to play
And leafy trees and greener grass
May portend good things to pass
We've got to find a way to make it last

Pre-Chorus
May a new spring, and the hope that it brings
Mean it's time to go, for the Showers in My Soul

Chorus
Rain rain go away, won't you come back some other day
Rain rain go fly a kite, don't ruin my day come back tonight

Chorus
I remember when you used to take my breath away
Now you simply suck the life from me
I remember when we would always go out and play
Now we simply fight and disagree

We used to walk around together always hand in hand
We used to cuddle up together make love in the sand
Now those days of yore seem like a fairy land
How it ever got this way I can't quite understand

chorus

Remember when we started out, we couldn't get enough
The world seemed full of carnal lust and other magic stuff
Somewhere along the way it started getting rough