A breakup song that doesn't sound like a breakup song... Recorded live at Next Coffee Company in Glendale, Arizona Lyrics: http://www.matthewmoranonline.com/Files/Music/IsItTooLate.txt

American Dream Copyright (c) 2009 - Matthew Moran Lyrics: http://www.matthewmoranonline.com/Files/Music/AmericanDream.txt A song about the sometimes disastrous pursuit of the American Dream. I wrote the first verse to this song back in 2003 but did not finish it until 2007.

Recorded at Cave Creek Coffee Company's open mic. Thursday, April 16, 2009. Mike Assad on Lead Guitar Kevin Brennan on Percussion The One Thing I Can Do Copyright (c) 2009 - Matthew Moran (Sea Gypsy Music) VERSE 1 I'm just cruising around this sleepy town No plans, no friends, just time to kill You cross my mind just about every turn And that's what keeps me stuck behind the wheel Since your goodbye I often think about The things I used to do but now I'm doing without (Chorus) CHORUS I can't love you like I used to do Can't make you smile when your feeling blue Can't hear your laughter no I can't break through But missing you... It's the one thing I can do VERSE 2 Memories about love, their such peculiar things You always see what could have been But I just see that your not here with me And that thing that I can do, it's doing me in Since your goodbye I often think about The things I used to do but now I'm doing without

Demo/rough cut of a song I wrote last weekend (April 5th). I wrote the chorus 9-10 months ago and it kind of sat around. A breakup song that doesn't sound like a breakup song. The One Thing I Can Do Copyright (c) 2009 - Matthew Moran (Sea Gypsy Music) VERSE 1 I'm just cruising around this sleepy town No plans, no friends, just time to kill You cross my mind just about every turn And that's what keeps me stuck behind the wheel Since your goodbye I often think about The things I used to do but now I'm doing without (Chorus) CHORUS I can't love you like I used to do Can't make you smile when your feeling blue Can't hear your laughter no I can't break through But missing you... It's the one thing I can do VERSE 2 Memories about love, their such peculiar things You always see what could have been But I just see that your not here with me And that thing that I can do, it's doing me in Since your goodbye I often think about The things I used to do but now I'm doing without (Chorus)

I recorded this yesterday morning... April 6th... just getting ready to head out to a meeting. When I Go Remembering Copyright 2009 - Matthew Moran (Sea Gypsy Music) A boy and girl talking at school, sitting on a bench Studying each other and losing their innocence This is the place I first said I could live life like this This is where I choose to go When I go remembering The doctor laid her crying against your chest Mother and daughter sharing love and life's first breath Me staring in wonder thinking God she's at her best This is where I choose to go When I go remembering God I watched those years roll by I couldn't slow them down, I tried It seems while holding on too tight I couldn't seem to get it right Woke up last Sunday from a dream.. 3am Tears on the pillow once again The one where you told me about him & said you're done God this isn't where I choose to go When I go remembering

South To Mexico (Smuggling My Heart) Copyright © Matthew Moran 2008 (Sea Gypsy Music) http://www.MattthewMoranOnline.com Recorded at Cave Creek Coffee Company, Cave Creek, Arizona September 27, 2008 Verse 1: Johnny & Patricia they’re good friends of mine They called me up said, “boy, it must be time” “We’re going to take you out – see you on your feet again” They don’t know I’ve got a different plan That’s the problem with this little town Everybody knows when you are up or down Need a change of venue, a change of scenery A language barrier might be just the thing (Chorus) I’m smuggling my heart South to Mexico A little border town where I can just lay low Cuz’ I hear they treat heartache with tequila And Loneliness by dancing with those pretty senoritas A dark cantina with no one I know Soft desert wind to warm my soul I’m.. Smuggling my heart South to Mexico Verse 2: Mariachis play this sad love song Don’t understand a word but still I sing along Between the locals and ex-patriats I find a place to put my love on track Verse 3: Que Bonita, Quieres Baillar We’re the last two sitting at this lonely bar My broken Spanish made you laugh I see Does your pretty smile mean there’s a chance for me?

This is a tortured love song about some guy in a band losing his girl to another guy in the band. Good reason to play solo.. ;-) Filmed at Cave Creek Coffee Company, Cave Creek - September 27, 2008 Everyday Lies Copyright 2008 © Matthew Moran (Sea Gypsy Music) http://www.MattthewMoranOnline.com Verse: I drove by your house today Unintentional, I lost my way Shouldn't be surprised to see his car He always told me you were wrong for me But you're just right for him it seems Guess that explains why he missed last nights show (chorus) Chorus: I don't feel hurt and I don't place blame Don't hold you responsible for my shame And I don't rage and I don't cry These are my everyday lies Verse: So I drove down to that old laundry mat The day we moved you vowed you've never go back That explains why it feels so safe Its not like I planned this whole thing through Not like I'm avoiding you Not like I don't know what Id say cuz Id say (chorus) Bridge: We both play it easy with the truth You said you didn't want to hurt me And I don't want to see you cry.. so I oblige With my everyday lies (chorus)

Lonely Mile Man Copyright © Matthew Moran 2008 (Sea Gypsy Music) Recorded live at Cave Creek Coffee Company, Cave Creek, Arizona September 27, 2008 Chorus An empty stretch of blacktops worn down many travelers soul Leads 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, Im a Lonely Mile Man Lonely Mile Man Verse Its a lonely highway that a few of us must share If youve 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..yeah

filmed at Cave Creek Coffee Company, Cave Creek, Arizona. Opening for Lucas Cates. The Night Is Not For Sleeping Copyright © Matthew Moran 2008 (Sea Gypsy Music) http://www.MattthewMoranOnline.com Just past midnight I come sneakin in the door I lay beside you but I cant ignore Your quiet breathing & you silhouette sublime The night is not for sleeping I trace your thigh, your hip, your waist, your back, your neck, your lips Caress your hair and I draw deep of that aroma there I see you smile a beautiful acquiesce The night is not for sleeping The minutes pass with our sin wrapped in our innocence The world beyond these bedroom walls, does it even exist? One frantic moment and then seal it with a kiss The night is not for sleeping The memory of tonight is branded deep within my brain The sweat, the sweet, I swear its there, Ill never be the same And then you whisper, Babe, lets do that again The night is not for sleeping The morning chill, it dances lightly cross your skin I watch you sleeping and my mind begins to drift again. Your quiet breathing & your silhouette sublime The night is not for sleeping

I'll Make You Feel Copyright 2008 - Matthew Moran (Sea Gypsy Music) http://www.SeaGypsyMusic.com http://www.MatthewMoranOnline.com Hey babe, close your eyes Your lover man’s here to take you by surprise Prayers answered in the middle of the night I know your lonely baby turn out the light CHORUS: I’ll make you feel Much more than remarkable Yeah, I’ll make you feel Like this is love; I know you’re tired of the same routine Men insensitive to woman’s needs But not me baby, no I’m not like that I’ve got the magic, every trick in the hat (chorus) Tonight the passion & wine will flow Shadow’s flicker in the candle’s glow Lay back baby, yeah let out a sigh Just block the world away and I’ll make it right (chorus) (chorus) But it's not love..

Do It Again Copyright 2008 - Matthew Moran (Sea Gypsy Music) Recording on September 27, 2008 at Cave Creek Coffee Company in Cave Creek, Arizona 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 her 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 And smiles through the tears cuz she’s gonna win [chorus] 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 [chorus]

Morning Girl Copyright 2008 - Matthew Moran (Sea Gypsy Music) Recorded on September 27, 2008 at Cave Creek Coffee Company (C4) in Cave Creek, Arizona The sunlight through the window warms your soft skin where you lay The coffee's brewed, your breathing keeps the time as I wait quietly for you to wake And you must realize that I'm like a man who's been hypnotized cuz there is nothing in my world But me and my morning girl Morning Girl You flash that pretty smile A lifted sheet invites me in Coffee spills, another pillow stain To mark this moment caught in time And you must realize that I'm like a man who's been hypnotized cuz there is nothing in my world But me and my morning girl Morning Girl Talking skin to skin As we lay out the day's events A casual touch, then cares and sheets tossed to the floor We start our morning dance again And you must realize that I'm like a man who's been hypnotized cuz there is nothing in my world But me and my morning girl

From my recent show in Chicago... Is It Too Late Copyright 2008 - Matthew Moran (Sea Gypsy Music) Is it too late, Is it all gone Or can I pick up the pieces of our broken love Don’t know what to say, I don’t know what I’d do If I can’t, write another love song for you Verse I know you’re tired of my adolescent ways My ever changing focus must be driving you insane But I can make you laugh and sometimes you see the dream Are we just as hopeless as we seem (chorus) Verse Catch you at your best and we’re like a dream come true Catch you at some other time, you’re certain that we’re through Still something about me must get underneath your skin It’s the passion that we share when you give in (chorus) Bridge These words that I write They come from my soul But still you’re not sure what to do But beyond this veneer of this laughing facade Is a love that you know must be true

Recorded during my recent house concert. This is a song I wrote in probably 1993. Can't Let Her Go Copyright 2008 - 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)