Crazy Man's Basement

Music

There and Back

1.	Everything	Play	Everything EVERYTHING She comes in every morning at ten I pour her a cup of coffee and then I look lovingly into her eyes She doesn't notice me. I try to find words to say to you My mouth freezes shut nothing I can do But stare impaired as she walks away Just ask me what I want and I'll say Everything our bodies in motion Everything a private delight Everything sweet love and devotion Everything you're all mine tonight. When she moves I see warm rays of sunshine Day or night doesn't matter at all Perfect lips stained the color of red wine Tongue twisting a soft southern drawl. In dreams you seem perfect for me girl No one's finer in the whole wide world Too weak can't speak maybe she would stay Just ask her what she wants and she'd say Everything our bodies in motion Everything a private delight Everything sweet love and devotion Everything you're all mine tonight. Lights off and the blankets turned down She smiles my legs tangled all around Her body rising over mine Ask us what we want and we'll say Everything our bodies in motion Everything a private delight Everything sweet love and devotion Everything you're all mine tonight. (Repeat) Lyrics
2.	Hold On	Play	Hold On HOLD ON Burning candles at both ends While making plans To save the world Who'll be saving us? Wish upon a falling star And pray to God so far away We try to get it right. Hold on to what we've got Hold on before it's gone Hold on I've got more to give Hold on before it's gone. Memory serves me very well We started running then we fell And never crossed the line. Now the time is drawing near And through the fog I see it clear Please stay with me tonight. Hold on to what we've got Hold on before it's gone Hold on I've got more to give Hold on before it's gone. Talking like we used to do Laughing staying up 'til two Then sleeping in your arms. We dream together there Moved by a common wind I'd stay forever there While the dark earth spins. Mornings here before you know Another kiss before you go And then you're out the door. Was it the last time or the first Is this "for better" or "for worse" Will we ever know? Hold on to what we've got Hold on before it's gone Hold on I've got more to give Hold on before it's gone. (Repeat) Lyrics
3.	All I Ask		All I Ask ALL I ASK Out the door silently not a word to say Countenance curled with the thoughts that your face betrays. I decide not to hide The thoughts I once kept inside. Nothing resounds quite the same as an empty room Waiting for you with a sense of impending doom Will you care or want to bear The thoughts I've come to share. All I ask is that you try to see what I see To understand the world through my eyes All I ask is that you give me just a moment To open up your heart and realize All I ask is that you try. Open a new wound and pray that we've closed the last Knowing in my mind our future outweighs the past Turn the key you're looking at me And the words flow easily. All I ask is that you try to see what I see To understand the world through my eyes All I ask is that you give me just a moment To open up your heart and realize All I ask is that you try. Memories fall like summer rain across my mind across our lives Stories unfolding, twisting, spinning there Like when you said always and forever Did you mean it, then — well mean it now Just a moment of understanding stands in our way. All I ask is that you try to see what I see To understand the world through my eyes All I ask is that you give me just a moment To open up your heart and realize All I ask is that you try. You try, you try, you try All I ask is that you try. Lyrics
4.	Runaway	Play	Runaway RUNAWAY Don't always go where you want to go Can't always see who you want to see Rich man, poor man or in between But there's always the runaway Take a deep breath and disappear Into the ghosts that linger there In each room like a memory Losing the time you runaway Back to the place her smiling face Safe from the world around me Eyes shining bright like the sky at night Her loving arms surround me. Call you up from your hiding place When you speak it's my saving grace A quiet house when you're not around Take it all in and runaway You're feeling too good for it to last Kicking yourself you fight the past It's not where you are but who you're with Take your last chance to runaway Back to the place her smiling face Safe from the world around me Eyes shining bright like the sky at night Her loving arms surround me. Every fret Every inch of you I forget You appear It all comes back so very clear Sight unseen Fulfilling each and every dream In my mind We've all the time in the world Back to the place her smiling face Safe from the world around me Eyes shining bright like the sky at night Her loving arms surround me. Lyrics
5.	The Dust of Me		The Dust of Me THE DUST OF ME A picture A memory in a hallway Faded with time The echoes Of laughter in the first house We all lived in. Time goes by — I stop and I think Maybe I'll be fine Looking through his eyes People change everything else stays the same. You know you are the dust of me. Words I once heard before Now are spoken Come so easy. His large shoes Once carried my two tiny feet. Now filled by me. Time goes by — I stop and I think Maybe I'll be fine Looking through his eyes People change everything else stays the same. You know you are the dust of me. (Heavenly ahhs) Time goes by — I stop and I think Maybe I'll be fine Looking through his eyes People change everything else stays the same. You know you are the dust of me. Standing before you Staring back is my reflection Wondering will I ever become All you were. Lyrics
6.	Seeing Livy Smile	Play	Seeing Livy Smile SEEING LIVY SMILE Warm summer day In the backyard — we play Watch you hide behind a tree Time stretching out so perfectly You hold my hand. And I can't wait to feel Sunshine raining down on me Running wild and free Just like a little child Seeing Livy smile. Lie in the grass Watching clouds as they pass Buzzing by bumble bee A million questions for me I'll answer them all. And I can't wait to feel Sunshine raining down on me Running wild and free Just like a little child Seeing Livy smile. When troubles bring you down You don't have to look far to be found In the grace of your daughter's eyes You'll find all you need to survive. Sunshine raining down on me Running wild and free Just like a little child Seeing Livy smile. Once in a dream It was the future and you seemed So much older with wiser ways Still we lived all our days Like we had before. Just couldn't wait to feel Sunshine raining down on me Running wild and free Just like a little child Seeing Livy smile. Lyrics
7.	Interlude
8.	Island		Island ISLAND She stole my summer When I saw her face Afraid she would leave me I floated away To an island in the sea. I spend all my days there And most of my nights Don't talk to strangers For fear that I might Leave this island in the sea. Everyday — so glad I'm living this way Cause I see Others try — passing they laugh and they cry But not me I'm happy here with all my anger and fear And I know That memories haunt So I'll stay as long as I want. I'm better off now Than I was before There's no one to think of When I close the door To my island in the sea Only me And my island in the sea Once as an old man I wondered aloud If life had passed me by Would I still be proud? Of my island In the sea Alone like me. Lyrics
9.	Close My Eyes	Play	Close My Eyes CLOSE MY EYES Warm inside a rainy night Steamy windows in a fading light Music cries but only you and I Can hear it love. Wind blows I long to hide In the shelter of her sigh Far away for today all I can do is just Close my eyes, see her face Her lips, her hair, the softness of her smile Close my eyes and pray I stay with her A little while. Star–filled sky trembling bough Lying underneath her shadow now Endless night morning bright Burns in my mind. Distant sounds echo still Feeling lost I drink my fill Lead astray I start to see my Way clear again when I... Close my eyes, see her face Her lips, her hair, the softness of her smile Close my eyes and pray I stay with her A little while. Driving home in my car Two silent worlds depart In your hands remains my heart Every morning I wake Longing for your touch again. Close my eyes, see her face Her lips, her hair, the softness of her smile Close my eyes and pray I stay with her A little while. (Repeat chorus 2x) Lyrics
10.	Be Harrison	Play	Be Harrison BE HARRISON Nobody smarter than me Nobody stronger Not better looking than me At least any longer. It drives me crazy April drives me crazy It still isn't springtime. We're perfectly average here All perfectly average Short bursts of thought have we All perfectly average. A tear on father's cheek Like falling rain They try to scatter your thoughts Scatterbrain. It drives me crazy April drives me crazy It still isn't springtime. Take a bow Harrison We need you now Harrison Join the ballerinas on TV. Masked faces hide the beautiful The sacred and the dutiful Do we even know what normal is? "Oooh I am the emperor" He said, "I am the emperor Free me from these chains! Come dance with me We'll kiss the ceiling in perfect synchronicity Together our hearts beat the same!" Take a bow Harrison We need you now Harrison Join the ballerinas on TV. Masked faces hide the beautiful The sacred and the dutiful Do we even know what normal is? Saved until the Moon came We were saved until the Moon came And took them both away She took them both away. "I forget why I've been crying", the old man said to me "It's all mixed up here in my mind." Lyrics	Be Harrison Credits Inspired by Kurt Vonnegut's short story, Harrison Bergeron Info
11.	Pull	Play	Pull PULL The car spins and weaves for a moment or two As you silently drift out of sight Lost in the snow I stand watching you go Still unsure how to leave you tonight. Lured into my mind Drop my head back and my eyes search the stars As my heart starts to feel you again The weight of your smile and the tug of your eyes I recall every "where" and each "when". A glass half empty or full? Feeling your pull You pull me back into you A ship unto your tide In an ocean of midnight blue Please don't steal away Stay. I need you to stay here in my sheltering wake And surrender to what used to be The only way to survive myself Is by dancing with your memory. Days go by and I can still Feel your pull You pull me back into you A ship unto your tide In an ocean of midnight blue Please don't steal away Stay. All my life before you I've waited for kisses that will Beat back this infinite ache Force me to give and not take. A pull that will anchor my world And shake all the roots of my soul On nights such as these I choose To hold you and never let you go. You pull me back into you A ship unto your tide In an ocean of midnight blue Please don't steal away Stay. Stay. There she goes... Lyrics

102.1 "The Scene" (in studio)

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1.	Tom & Andy interview w/ Brian Kramp - 102.1, "The Scene"	Play
2.	Close My Eyes (acoustic)	Play

Tom & Andy in-studio appearance on January 22, 2006. Features five (5) minute interview and acoustic version of "Close My Eyes".

Radio and Television Airplay

1.	> XM Satellite Radio - Unsigned (XMU - Ch 43)
2.	> WLUM - 102.1, Milwaukee's Alternative Station
	> WKLH - Classic Hits 96.5, Milwaukee
	> WUWM - 89.7, UW-Milwaukee
	> Marquette University Radio, Milwaukee
	> WRST - 90.3, UW-Oshkosh
	> WKTI - 94.5, Milwaukee
	> LIVE365.com Internet Radio
	> TMJ4 - Television, Milwaukee
	> WISN 12 - Television, Milwaukee
	> KROS - Clinton, IA (Midwest Review)
	> WLZR - 102.9 The Hog, Milwaukee

WAMI 25th Anniversary Compilation

Credits

1.	CINCERE ---- I Do
2.	CRAZY MAN'S BASEMENT ---- Everything
3.	MADISON COUNTY ---- Make My Way Back Home
4.	ROB ANTHONY ---- Is There a Page
5.	RYAN McINTYRE ---- Fell Off My Bike
6.	CLAUDE DORSEY ---- Summer Is Over
7.	DEIRDRE FELLNER AND THE WHOLE OF SOUL ---- You Fill Me Up
8.	SALT CREEK ---- Tony's Balonee
9.	DARYL STUERMER ---- The Least You Can Do
10.	EXIT ---- Mary Go Round
11.	THE BOOGIEMEN ---- Boogie Nation
12.	SUNSPOT ---- Prozac Girl
13.	BOXKAR ---- Let Down
14.	MR. LUCKY SYNDICATE ---- You Don't Have To Go Home But You Can't Stay Here

A collection of original songs from selected 2005 WAMI award winners. Crazy Man's Basement's single, "Everything", is featured as track #2. Visit wamimusic.com to learn more about the Wisconsin Area Music Industry.