Jim Henley

THERE'S TWO LINDAS IN OKLAHOMA ©℗ 2018 Jim Henley There's two Lindas in Oklahoma and I think it's a shame there's two Lindas in Oklahoma cause they're both the same One Linda thinks that she loves me The other Linda is wise There's two Lindas in Oklahoma She's got the prettiest eyes CHORUS Remember cartoons from before we were older an angel and a devil on each of your shoulders Well Linda's got 'em now and I know it's a sin if I were to root for the devil to win One Linda in Oklahoma knows just what's she's seekin' The other Linda in Oklahoma calls me on the weekend One Linda swipes right on her phone when she meant to swipe left The other Linda thinks of moving back home but she hasn't moved yet CHORUS BREAK Like Linda in Oklahoma there's two of me too One of me loves only Linda The other loves the shit that I put her through We could make it a double wedding a happy couple for sure me and Linda before the altar and our demons make four CHORUS There's two Lindas in Oklahoma There's two Lindas in Oklahoma There's two Lindas in Oklahoma and I think it's a shame ------------- Recorded in Philadelphia, PA, Silver Spring, MD and Moorestown, NJ. Jim Henley - vocals, production.

SERPENTS CANNOT CLOSE THEIR EYES ©℗ 2018 Jim Henley Satan thought, I want to be a serpent So he went and had a talk with God He could not explain just what his wish meant Even to himself it sounded odd “I want to scrape my belly on the bark and on the leaves I want to feel the sun upon my scales I want to have a forked tongue on which I can taste the breeze But most of all, I want to have a tail” CHORUS: “Be careful what you wish for” is the watchword of our time Or any other time you care to contemplate Has it occurred to you that even wishing is a crime And if it did, tell me would you hesitate God said, you’re in luck cause We’re expanding There will always be something to do Your new duties won’t be too demanding Basically your work will come to you The Garden’s ground was rough and it was roughness that he loved The honeysuckle on the breeze was sharp The sunlight came down splintered from the canopy above He swallowed his first rodent a few minutes after dark CHORUS The couple came and God came shortly after, To Satan curled around his favorite tree There was something fetching in her laughter The man, however, he could take or leave God said it’s a formality at worst old friend Satan wondered why he was surprised And though he wanted very much to cry before the end Like Angels, serpents cannot close their eyes CHORUS There is a garden somewhere where the gate is always barred And in the middle there’s a tree nobody has to guard And despite the rumors you’ve heard, Satan dwells within And sheds and sheds and sheds and sheds and sheds and sheds his skin CHORUS ------------- Recorded in Philadelphia, PA and Silver Spring, MD. Jim Henley - piano, vocals, GarageBand touch instruments, production.

© Jim Henley Lyrics: A Man of Few Words I wanted to be a man of few words but it didn't work out it didn't work out I wanted to be a come-what-may guy but it's too late now it's too late now --------- a man of few words he doesn't say much but it means a lot oh it means a lot I wanted to be a man of few words but it didn't work out it didn't work out -------- a come-what-may guy takes life as it come each day's a gift each day's a gift I wanted to be a come-what-may guy but it's too late now it's too late now -------- I'll tell you a secret if you swear to forget it I don't want to be it I just want the credit I just want the credit for being the kind who doesn't care if the credit is mine Recorded December 2016 - January 2017 in Silver Spring and Philadelphia Personnel: Jim Henley - lead vocals, GarageBand smart instruments Produced, after a fashion, by - same guy Strictly amateur mix by - same guy Mastered by - as freaking if. It's a demo!

© Jim Henley Lyrics: All Doors Open in Baltimore there's a dolphin trainer by the harbor in the fading light there's a yuppie up from Federal Hill who greets her every night there's a brownstone that's been gentrified where they clutch and they sigh at least that's how i picture it in my mind's eye in my younger days i had a love in every station stop until i met her on the way to take up her new job i took the dolphin trainer's ticket and she took my heart cause each unhappy ending has to have a happy start all doors open in Baltimore you can get out if you're sure but the train don't stop no more you must tuck and roll charm city's what they call it hon you're better off in Wilmington or Aberdeen or anywhere at all she taught my heart to jump through hoops and dance upon its tail and always to return to take the treasures from her pail i'd meet her by the harbor and we'd head back to our loft and we could take all evening just to get her wetsuit off but i still rode the rails cause that's the job i had to do and out of seven days i was home just a night or two was loneliness the thing that drover her to that yuppie's bed or did she just prefer the way he did her tricks instead all doors open in Baltimore you can get out if you're sure but the train don't stop no more you must tuck and roll charm city's what they call it hon you're better off in Wilmington or Aberdeen or anywhere at all now put the smartphone down i'm only kidding of course we'll stop the train when you depart but don't you sometimes wish the world were smaller no bigger than a single broken heart all doors open in Baltimore you can get out if you're sure but the train don't stop no more you must tuck and roll charm city's what they call it hon you're better off in Wilmington or Aberdeen or anywhere at all Recorded October-December 2016 in Silver Spring, Philadelphia, Brooklyn. Personnel: Jim Henley - lead vocals, EZ piano, GarageBand smart instruments Produced by - same guy Strictly amateur mix by - same guy Mastered by - as freaking if. It's a demo!

© Jim Henley and Patrick Nielsen Hayden Lyrics: Scatter My Ashes on the Internet *as a girl i mostly lived in books mom and dad lived in books too and our house it was a quiet house three of us in the living room this was love even so this was love that much i know* when i die scatter my ashes on the internet when i die i won't be anything at all as a friend you know that words will be my legacy as a friend do the impossible for me +as a man i was a soldier in a stupid war and i wrote about everything i saw and we learned we learned from each other when we met in the comments of my blog was this love i don't know was this love maybe so+ when i die scatter my ashes on the internet when i die i won't be anything at all as a friend you know that words will be my legacy as a friend do the impossible for me +the morning of my last patrol my tent was heavy with the frost+ *i smiled at the camera hole and showed you three new books i bought* +the video got choppy so we went back to typing+ *you said that it was time to go just as i was writing:* when i die scatter my ashes on the internet when i die i won't be anything at all when i die you know that words will be my legacy when i die do the impossible for me when i die do the impossible for me when i die do the impossible for me Jim Henley - Male lead vocals Amy Carstensen - Female lead and backing vocals, keyboards Billy Jones - Guitars, bass, beats, bvox Recorded by Billy Jones at Bones Jones Music, Rockville, MD Mixed by David Spreng (Scatter My Ashes On the Internet) Mastered by Chris Graham

© Jim Henley and Amy Carstensen Lyrics: Headstone for Two let's go by a headstone baby big enough for two i'll be on that headstone so will you we will never go there baby not while we're alive we will only go there when it's time i'll be dead before you baby we both know i will i hope life takes its own sweet time having you killed if you don't end up there with me i will never know baby i want you to go where you gotta go but if today you wanna run your hands across a rough stone with both our names upon it baby that's enough as long as i'm alive i'll know that we have got a plot eventually we'll all be forgot the promise that we made today will always have been made when words and even stones are washed away so let's go by a headstone baby big enough for two i'll be on that headstone so will you Jim Henley - Male lead vocals Recorded by Billy Jones at Bones Jones Music, Rockville, MD Mixed by Corey Bowers (Humans, Headstone for Two) Mastered by Chris Graham

© Jim Henley and Patrick Nielsen Hayden Lyrics: Humans humans are like science fiction humans never quite come true find them in the human section of the interstellar zoo it's like they are in a mirror but it's not the shaving kind see them shrink as you move nearer widen as you fall behind flesh and bone flesh and bone flesh and bone we've got flesh and bone once this girl on television smashed apart a wooden chair then she staked a dozen vampires that girl had such perfect hair don't hate me because i'm pretty pretty isn't worth the spite if you're gonna hate me hate me cause I'm better at your life flesh and bone flesh and bone flesh and bone we've got flesh and bone we will tell the human stories we will sing the human songs we will replicate their glories we will get them almost wrong we lived in the empty spaces purely as magnetic tones now we've taken human faces now we've taken human flesh and bone flesh and bone flesh and bone we've got flesh and bone Jim Henley - lead vocals Amy Carstensen - backing vocals, keyboards Billy Jones - Guitars, bass, beats, bvox Recorded by Billy Jones at Bones Jones Music, Rockville, MD Mixed by Corey Bowers (Humans, Headstone for Two) and David Spreng (Scatter My Ashes On the Internet) Mastered by Chris Graham