An exploration of songs and songwriting via the music of Scott Simpson and Dancin' Moon Studio of Spearfish Canyon in the Black Hills of South Dakota
Featured song from 2021's Keys to My Head LP
Promise of Being Filled
All alone is not alone anymore Once you make peace with yourself. Darkness is not a loss of sight Nor being emptied a loss of wealth.
These snowy hills will be emptied in the spring, This cutting wind fallen still. I will relinquish this white-knuckled hold... Open up the promise of being filled.
Silence has a language no tongue could ever speak, Holds a wi...
Featured song from 2021's Keys to My Head LP
Southwind
Southwind and a pickup truck On a gravel road and I think I'm in luck Cause the sun's high in the western sky And in an hour or two I'll be by your side.
I know these hills like the back of my hand But they feel like a no-man's land without you. Ten days on a workin' trip, Back's achin' and my jeans are ripped I'm through.
Southwind and a pickup truck On a gravel road and ...
Featured song from 2021's Keys to My Head LP
In the Pines
In the pines, in the pines Where the sun never shines That's where the cold wind blows In the pines, in the pines Where the sun never shines I shiver when the cold wind blows
My hours and my days Are filled with a haze Rising up from the soil Like a grave, The dead and the dying Are far past lying And their voices come, The living, to save‚
In the pines, in the pines W...
Featured song from 2021's Keys to My Head LP
Full of Fear
Gotta leave here tomorrow gotta leave here tomorrow poison’s deep in my marrow gotta leave here tomorrow Oh, oh, oh the path is straight and clear Oh, oh, oh, but my heart is full of fear morning sun shows the way morning sun shows the way travel’s safer by day morning sun shows the way Oh, oh, oh the path is straight and clear Oh, oh, oh, but my heart is f...
Featured song from 2021's Keys to My Head LP
Making Our Escape
It's dark in here, it's dark in here Most days I don't even hear, don't even hear A thing, no not a thing, not a thing...
So many years, it's been so many years Since he came to check on me, break open a box of tears... Not sorrow, no not sorrow, just love‚ tears of love
Yeah, we used to fly above the bed Him on his back me overhead He put the words right in my mo...
Featured song from 2021's Keys to My Head LP
Ragged Set of Claws
I am not the man I used to be I am not the boy I was Some days I have trouble getting used to me Some nights I fight A ragged set of claws... A ragged set of claws...
Brave adventures Were my future Back when I dreamed myself A hero's cape and hood But every time I leave My bat cave these days Some clever joker shows me why I should stay cave-bound for good......
Featured song from 2021's Keys to My Head LP
Answer to Pane
I look out on an empty field
but I’m not so sure my fate is sealed
They are building, building all the time.
Strip mall, industrial park,
duplex—it’s like a Noah’s ark
replenishing the city, two of every kind
Well, some say the eyes are me to the soul
But I’m not sure they’re big enough holes
To welcome in near enough light.
When someone chooses to pull th...
Featured song from 2021's Keys to My Head LP
1987
Sky as blue as ocean
Summer clouds are sailing by
Black-eyed Susans on the shoulder
Sway and dance but they never cry
They never cry...
Setting out is all too easy
You think a map is all you need
But then the road is closed and the
Weather turns...
We will arrive just wait and see.
A log cabin near the Great Divide
Your hair loose in the breeze
Water falls into a...
Featured song from 2021's Keys to My Head LP
This Lonely Road
I set out on the 1st of May
I had a hunger in the worst of ways
a hunger for a love, a love like you.
I rounded a corner in the morning light
almost blinded— almost lost my sight
there on the shoulder was you.
Oh my Lord...
I got a feeling
you and I’ve been down this lonely road
this lonely road before.
I got a feeling
you and I’ve been down this lonel...
Featured song from 2021's Keys to My Head LP
If You Wanna Make a SongYou gotta have a hole In your heart,
Stick out your neck so long,
Give everybody the keys
To your head,
If you wanna make a song. (repeat)
When the tension’s too much
Or even not quite enough,
I know I need to tune it up or else I’m
Always gonna play too rough.
Yeah sometimes it’s just electric
And other times it’s not
But all that really matters to me is t...
Ready For Jesus
The missionary is only 20.
He's telling us that the people in Honduras have nothing---
he describes a family of seven
who live in a mud hut
with a dirt floor and a doorway
with no door so the animals wander in and out.
They are ready for Jesus...
he sa...
my dream
I see you like this:
you clutch the tiny warm ball
of a new brown field-mouse.
pressing it into the warmth of your
scented neck
where your hair bends gently in to
brush your careful fingers...
it is cold outside,
and your breath moves slowly
away:
clouds of warmth
in the snow-white sunlight,
your words of comfort, your
essence atomized,
released
and later,
if the mists linger in the
year-old plow-valleys
whispering...
Birthright
Jacob stole his birthright,
being clever and tricky
and gets the bad rap
on account of greed,
but what about the sin of Esau
who sold his birthright for a single
bowl of soup?
Sure, at the time
it seemed reasonable...
near roubaix lake
they've made a new stream
the early snow has filled
this footbridge barely supports
my weight above the runoff
ten inch PVC hastily
placed releases water
from the makeshift dam
of mud and sticks
to rot the roots
of newly...
Design
1
We have a secret place
my daughters and I where
an old creek
has run empty
The sky above that hill
pushes fast past the swaying tips
of pines
but the birch, oak
and ironwoods have not yet
leaves enough to dance
Joe and Marge at the Movies
They were getting old and they didn't even know it. Joe smiled like the crowsfeet and the false teeth and the double chin didn't show--- weren't there. Marge walked just like the base of her neck didn't bow up and hump down into her spine--- just like the index and middle fingers of her right hand weren't twisting slowly, year by year as the knuckles grew to the size of ch...
artifacts
I'm burying my head deep
into a distant May
a stretch from this late January where an
unseasonable warmth
has reawakened
these lilacs beneath my skin
(they sprawl, varicose,
purple clusters
across my forearms
aro...
late august seminar in andrews hall
the fields
along I-80 are dark as
three years back
when you moved
behind every stalk
in the side-spill
of my headlights--
silent trips
only three weeks
four weeks
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