Not much to write about today, so here’s a set of song lyrics I recently completed for my old Top Priority bandmate Jerry “Keys” Palma to put to music. This will be our first true collaboration on a song in more than three decades. I’m looking forward to see what “Keys” comes up with for an arrangement.

“Tequila Mockingbird”

Palm tree stirring in an evening breeze
Dark sky in greys, a lightning flash haze
The summer days turn on a dime
Another year flying, where goes the time?
And was it so that long ago?

Morning mist glides off the starboard beam
Wind in the sail, a sperm whale tail
Now voyager don’t you feel old?
A passage unfolding, a tale untolding
Left standing alone at the pier

Squeezin’ the lime, I’m passing the time, there’s not a whole lot left to say
A pitcher to pour out, a night for a tour out, I’m telling ya darlin’ one day
Gonna buy me a boat and I’ll give it the word:
Tequila Mockingbird

One of these days I’m gonna face the facts
Nothing is changing, time’s just rearranging
The same human dramas grow old
The ocean is calling where the stars are a falling
In this life or maybe the next

Squeezin’ the lime, I’m passing the time, there’s not a whole lot left to say
A pitcher to pour out, a night for a tour out, I’m telling ya darlin’ one day
Gonna buy me a boat and I’ll give it the word:
Tequila Mockingbird

If something worthwhile comes out of it, I’ll let y’all know – perhaps it’ll get posted on the Kittyhawk Productions Top Priority website (which, if a certain Victor Cugini ever gets off his lazy butt to complete, just might be operational sometime soon!)