I opened a Reverb Nation account tonight!

Tonight I opened a Reverb Nation account, and I uploaded a few of my songs onto there. All the songs are already on this blog, except for two old songs of mine: Tobacco Eyes, and Sunshine. Http://reverbnation.com/danpevar

Musical Update...

I've been doing some soul searching lately, and I finally decided to get out of the open mic scene. I want to buckle down and do what I should have done years ago, and either join a band, or put one together myself. My main goals are to write and record songs with my band, and to play gigs. I haven't been in a band with a PA system and practice space since I was in college 15 years ago, and I miss it with a passion. I've been playing at open mics for years, but they are a poor substitute for being in a band. Fixing this situation is my number one priority right now. Wish me luck :) -Daniel

New songs I wrote during 2009

Here are some new songs that I wrote this year...

The Moonshine is Dead

Oh now the sunshine is totally dead
Darling Mary Anna is buttering her bread
Her and her sisters are new to this town
Traveling on rainbows and dressed in black gowns

Let's get all fired up and count down the days
Until we are all amazed

Oh now the moonshine is totally dead
Darling Mary Anna is wrapped up in threads
Her and her brothers are new to this town
Dazed and confused and riding around

Let's get all fired up and count down the days
Until we are all amazed

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Of Our Kind

his mind obeys frosty peace

his soul resides within our beasts

but if they growl we do beseech

join us now, join us now, inside us now

we invented ice blue with fire

hoping liars would keep us alive

but the tree of life is built of pine

of our kind, of our kind, it’s all of our kind

black cats roam among our crowd

our allies dressed in feathered crowns

fair weather dancers are rarely found

inside our children, inside us now, inside us now

we invented liars and tears of rain

as if they were free from speckled pain

but our tears are dead and dry as pine

of our kind, of our kind, it’s all our kind

now we know the measured minds

are huddled round the better times

our saddened faces call for rain

but not this time, not this time, not of this time

our vineyards caught out blackest times

we hoped the liars would drink our wine

would raise our spirits tall as pines

of our kind, of our kind, it’s all our kind

You Tube videos!

Here are the links to some of my You Tube videos... Enjoy!

Miss Delicious:

a capella: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SKzC3UpBec4
with band: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6a4anyupg70

Domination in Black:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a6a44W8Eb60

Blue Guitar:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_hngav5ORrA

Down by the Riverside:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=411KfKQI0VE

Cannon Ball Joe:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uQlu8UicsF0

K's Song:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1izCeDksiqk

Sara:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UhpB9kLLI-s

Here are some songs that I perform...

On File

If an unkind word appears

File that thing away

If some novelty in jeers,

File that thing away

If some clever little bit

Of a sharp and pointed wit

Carrying a sting with it –

File that thing away.

If some bit of gossip come

File that thing away

Scandalously spicy crumb

File that thing away

If suspicion come to you

That your neighbor isn’t true

Let me tell you what to do-

File that thing away

Do this for a while

Then go out and burn the file

John Kendrick bangs

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Storm Riding Woman

Listenin’ to the wind

Your love flute ringin’

through the rain again

I know you love the moisture

I can see it in your eye

And now you wanna cure

The fever in the sky

Storm riding woman

You’re a child of the Cherokee sky

Grab your love flute

And share your medicine songs with mine

Here I stand

Listenin’ to the wind

Your love flute ringin’

Through the fields again

I know you love the earth

Well I can understand

Now you wanna cure

The fever in the land

Storm riding woman

You’re a child of the Cherokee sky

Grab your love flute

And share your medicine songs with mine

Here I stand

Listenin’ to the wind

Your love flute ringin’

Near the ocean waves again

I know you love to go

Skinny dipping at the beach

And now you wanna cure

All the fevers you can reach

Storm riding woman

You’re a child of the Cherokee sky

Grab your love flute

And share your medicine songs with mine

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Marina

In the letters you mailed to me

You wrote me that your man lies to you

The both of you are living by the sea

And your shanty home is summer sky blue

Your heart’s on fire

You’re in love with a liar

Sadly, you’re madly neck deep in desire

You feel oh so tired

Of walking that wire

Sadly, you’re madly in love with the fire

You walk along the beach every day

Trying to find little heart shaped rocks

You keep them in a drawer hidden away

Buried underneath your folded socks

Your heart’s on fire

You’re in love with a liar

Sadly, you’re madly neck deep in desire

You feel oh so tired

Of walking that wire

Sadly, you’re madly in love with the fire

You wonder why I sold my blue guitar

The truth is that I barely knew how to play

Thinking back now about all our songs

It feels like we wrote them yesterday

Your heart’s on fire

You’re in love with a liar

Sadly, you’re madly neck deep in desire

You feel oh so tired

Of walking that wire

Sadly, you’re madly in love with the fire

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K’s Song

Lemon Rings and children’s swings

French fries and butterflies

Black with cream & railroad steam

Tye-dyes & distant eyes

Timeless hands in ancient lands

Fireflies & jaded skies

Tired minds & thrift shop finds

Lion shares & grizzly bears

Hidden lies & baby cries

Chatter brains & window paynes

Kind words & talking birds

Itchy skin & forgotten kin

This and that with Jane & Jack

Mismatchen’ shoes & the Moody Blues

Ringing bells & wishing wells

We stand and see by the rolling sea

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Smilee

The day was almost done

School bells rang right on time

Teacher dismisses class

Sara’s lips crack a smile

Why do we always

Climb invisible walls

Is there even a reason

There always was a song

Singing loud was here style

Her friends all hummed along

Sara’s lips crack a smile

Why do we always

Climb invisible walls

Is there even a reason

Just look into her eyes

And brush against the radio dial

Blue birds rise in the sky

Sara’s lips crack a smile

Why do we always

Climb invisible walls

Is there even a reason

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Sweet Louise

Bang bang bang bang

At my window payne

Must be Louise

Or is it the rain

Bang bang bang bang

who could it be

I roll out of bed

And guess who I see

Like Gretal she was led

By her breadcrumbs to my door

I never knew her age

Sweet Louise

Bang bang bang bang

I open the door

Louise standing outside

Looking to score

Bang bang bang bang

She’s just ending her night

& her garlicky hair

is pulled back just right

Like Gretal she was led

By her breadcrumbs to my door

I never knew her age

Sweet Louise

Bang bang bang bang

Her black coat is wet

She’s probably starved

Yeah, that’s a safe bet

Bang bang bang bang

Her gift basket of bread

Has ten kinds of jam

I’m just dying to spread

Like Gretal she was led

By her breadcrumbs to my door

I never knew her age

Sweet Louise

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Miss Delicious

Hello Miss Delicious

You say you’re trying to be sugar free

Well, I don’t believe it for a second babe

‘cuz you’re about as sweet as can be

Hello Miss Delicious

Won’t you share your candy with me

I’ve got one mighty big sweet tooth

And I’m jonesing for something sugary

Hello Miss Delicious

You’ve got vanilla skin & chocolate colored eyes

Your teeth are candy coated popcorn

And your smile is the crackerjack prize

Hello Miss Delicious

Chew your mango and blackberry gum

When you spit it out the car door window

You know it just adds to your charm

Hello Miss Delicious

I hear your candy cotton is sweet

Won’t you feed the circus in my heart

Until the day you set the elephants free

Hello Miss Delicious

Your candy hearts and caramel creams

Are sweeter than honey suckle nectar

I wanna share in your candyland dreams

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Dirt Floor

There’s a dirt floor underneath here

To receive us when changes fail

May this shovel loose your trouble

Let them fall away

Well the mist shall be your blanket

While the moss shall ease your head

As the future is soon forgotten

As the dirt shall be your bed

There’s a dirt floor underneath here

To receive us when changes fail

May this shovel loose your trouble

Let them fall away

-Chris Whitley

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You’ve got to belong to it

Build an inner door

Drop then explore

You smoke your head on straight

Then drink your woes away

Some might not understand

Possession that’s beyond your head

You recognize it

While some ignore it

Avoid the masses

You’ve got to belong to it

So the music is your friend

Well it’s the room above my head

So seriously I take the will that never breaks

Some might not understand

The possession that controls your hands

You recognize it

While some ignore it

Avoid the masses

You’ve got to belong to it

It’s the power it’s the sin

And then you’ve got your whiskey, you’ve got your smoke

And it’s all a man could ever need

To plant the perfect seed

To disembody me

Making you more like me

You recognize it

While some ignore it

Avoid the masses

You’ve got to belong to it

-Pantera

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The Man with the Blue Guitar

The man bent over his guitar

A shears man of sorts the day was green

They said, “you have a blue guitar,

You do not play things as they are.”

The man replied, “things as they are

Are changed upon the blue guitar.”

And they said then, “but play you must,

A tune beyond us, yet ourselves,

A tune upon the blue guitar

Of things exactly as they are.”

I cannot bring a world quite round,

Although I patch it as I can.

I sing a hero’s head, large eye

And bearded bronze, but not a man,

Although I patch him as I can

And reach through him almost to a man.

If to serenade almost to a man

Is to miss, by that, things as they are,

Say that it is the serenade

Of a man that plays a blue guitar.

-Wallace Stevens

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The King of Carrot flowers (part 1)

When you were young

You were the king of carrot flowers

And how you built a tower tumbling through the trees

In holy rattlesnakes that fell all around your feet

And you mom would stick a fork right into daddy’s shoulder

And dad would throw the garbage all across the floor

As we would lay and learn what each other’s bodies were for

And this is the room

One afternoon I knew I could love you

And from above you how I sank into your soul

Into that secret place where no one dares to go

And your mom would drink until she was no longer speaking

And dad would dream of all the different ways to die

Each one a little more than he could dare to try

-Neutral Milk Hotel

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Free Bird

If I were to leave here tomorrow

Would you still remember me?

I must be travelling on now

To the places I’ve still got to see

If I stayed here with you girl

Things just couldn’t ever be the same

Cause I’m as free as a bird now

And this bird you can never change

Lord knows, I cannot change

Bye, bye, it’s been a sweet love

And this feeling I can never change

Please don’t take it badly

Lord knows I am to blame

If I stayed here with you girl

Things just couldn’t ever be the same

Cause I’m as free as a bird now

And this bird you will never change

And this bird you cannot change

Lord knows, I cannot change

Please lord help me change.

-Lynyrd Skynyrd

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Red House

There’s a red house over yonda

That’s where my baby stays

I ain’t been home to see my baby

In 99 and ½ days

Wait a minute something’s wrong

The key won’t unlock the door

I got a bad, bad feelin’

That my baby don’t live here no more

Guess I’ll go back over yonda

Way back, cross the hill

If my baby don’t love me no more

I know her sister will

-Jimi Hendrix

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Dopes to Infinity

We are all here my friend

All dogged all spaced but all so beautiful

We burn that mountain down

And always pump for peace when possible

We bite ourselves and bite our dogs

And stretch the flesh unmovable

We are all here my friends

Alive and spaced but all so beautiful

I can see by the hole in your head that you

Wanna be friends

You’re the right one baby

I can tell by the moon in your eyes that you’re

Loved by the tribe

You’re the right one baby

Hook you up to the coil of the one who makes

Time with the sun

And who keeps us pumping

See your mind on the hood of my car, and

Forever in power

As the world keeps dumping down

We are all here my friends

All dead and spaced but all so beautiful

We burn that mountain down

And always pump for peace when possible

We bite ourselves and bite our dogs

And stretch the flesh unmovable

We are all here my friends

Alive and spaced but all so beautiful

-Monster Magnet

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You don’t know what love is you just do as you’re told

In some respects I suspect you’ve got a respectable side

When pushed and pulled and pressured you seldom run and hide

It’s for someone else’s benefit, not for what you want to do

Until I realize you’ve realized I’m going to say these words to you

You don’t know what love is, you just do as you’re told

Just as a child of ten might act but you’re far too old

You’re not hopeless, or helpless, and I hate to sound cold

But you don’t know what love is, you just do as you’re told

I can see you ? any problems that might arise but in his mind

There can be no sin if you never criticize you just keep repeating

Those empty I love yous

Until you see you deserve I’m gonna lay right into you

Yeah you don’t know what love is you just do as you’re told

Just as a child of ten might act but you’re far too old

You’re not hopeless, or helpless, and I hate to sound cold

But you don’t know what love is, no you don’t know what love

Is, no you know what love is

You just do as you’re told

-The White Stripes

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The ace of spades

If you like to gamble

I tell you I’m your man

You win some you lose some

It’s all the same to me

The pleasure is to play

It doesn’t matter what you say

I will share your greed

The only card I need

Is the ace of spades

Playing for the high one

Dancing with the devil

Going with the flow

It’s all a game to me

Seven or eleven

Snake eyes watching you

Double up or quit, child

The devil’s take is split

The ace of spades…

You know I’m going to lose

And gambling is for fools

But that’s the way I like it baby

I don’t want to live forever

And don’t forget the joker

Pushing up the ante

I know you’ve got to see me

Read um and weep, child

The dead man’s hand again

I see it in your eyes

Take one look and die

The only thing you gonna see

You know it’s got to be

The ace of spades

-Motorhead

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This Land is your land

This land is your land, this land is my land

From California to the New York Island

From the redwood forest, to the gulf stream waters

This land was made for you and me

As I was walking a ribbon of highway

I saw above me an endless skyway

I saw below me a golden valley

This land was made for you and me

I’ve roamed and rambled and I’ve followed my footsteps

To the sparkling sands of her diamond deserts

And all around me a voice was sounding

This land was made for you and me

The sun comes shining as I was strolling

The wheat fields waving and the dust clouds rolling

The fog was lifting and a voice come chanting

This land was made for you and me

As I was walking’ – I saw a sign there

And that sign said – no tress passin’

But on the other side … it didn’t say nothing!

Now that side was made for you and me!

In the squares of the city – in the shadow of the steeple

Near the relief office – I see my people

And some are grumblin’ and some are wonderin’

If this land’s still made for you and me

-Woody Guthrie

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I simply walk

As I travel through time

Sometimes I fly

Sometimes I crawl

Other times I simply walk

My neck craned to see 360 degrees

Measured in seasons smiles growth and tears

I remember what it was like before I existed

I know that’s where I’ll be when I rejoin the river

After my brief stint as a water droplet

As I travel through time

Sometimes I fly

Sometimes I crawl

Other times I simply walk

My heart trying to absorb all the love there is

Everyday I swell up

I thirst for interaction

I collect, dissect, and perfect

All the feathers of sensuality

The bird inside me beats its wings

So hard I could explode into a galaxy

As I travel through time

Sometimes I fly

Sometimes I crawl

Other times I simply walk

Gladly hoisting the weight of my self-imposed responsibilities

Those two droplets who combined to form me so many years ago

I come from them with so much delicious moisture

I hardly know them though I’m of them

My love leaves me no choice but to honor

Their struggles and their tears

I can’t stop traveling

I can’t stop reveling

In the beauty and chaos of this manificent maze

As I travel through time

Sometimes I fly

Sometimes I crawl

Other times I simply walk

Tears flowing down my cheeks

In awe of a bit of green poking through the dirt

-Tara Cannon

Miss Delicious

http://www.lulu.com/content/3084091

Hello Miss Delicious

You say you’re trying to be sugar free

Well, I don’t believe it for a second babe

‘Cuz you’re about as sweet as can be

Hello Miss Delicious

Won’t you share your candy with me

I’ve got one mighty big sweet tooth

And I’m jonesing for something sugary

Doo doo doo....

Hello Miss Delicious

You’ve got vanilla skin and chocolate colored eyes

Your teeth are candy coated popcorn

And your smile is the crackerjack prize

Hello Miss Delicious

Chew your mango and blackberry gum

When you spit it out the car door window

You know it just adds to your charm

Doo doo doo...

Hello Miss Delicious

I hear your candy cotton is sweet

Won’t you feed the circus in my heart

Until the day you set the elephants free

Hello Miss Delicious

Your candy hearts and caramel creams

Are sweeter than honey suckle nectar

I wanna share in your candy land dreams

Doo doo doo...

Storm Riding Woman http://www.lulu.com/content/3084009

Here I stand

Listenin’ to the wind

Your love flute ringin’

through the rain again

I know you love the moisture

I can see it in your eye

And now you wanna cure

The fever in the sky

Storm riding woman

You’re a child of the Cherokee sky

Grab your love flute

And share your medicine songs with mine

Here I stand

Listenin’ to the wind

Your love flute ringin’

Through the fields again

I know you love the earth

Well I can understand

Now you wanna cure

The fever in the land

Storm riding woman

You’re a child of the Cherokee sky

Grab your love flute

And share your medicine songs with mine

Here I stand

Listenin’ to the wind

Your love flute ringin’

Near the ocean waves again

I know you love to go

Skinny dipping at the beach

And now you wanna cure

All the fevers you can reach

Storm riding woman

You’re a child of the Cherokee sky

Grab your love flute

And share your medicine songs with mine

Marina http://www.lulu.com/content/5421675

In the letters you mailed to me

You wrote me that your man lies to you

The both of you are living by the sea

And your shanty home is summer sky blue

Your heart’s on fire

You’re in love with a liar

Sadly, you’re madly neck deep in desire

You feel oh so tired

Of walking that wire

Sadly, you’re madly in love with the fire

You walk along the beach every day

Trying to find little heart shaped rocks

You keep them in a drawer hidden away

Buried underneath your folded socks

Your heart’s on fire

You’re in love with a liar

Sadly, you’re madly neck deep in desire

You feel oh so tired

Of walking that wire

Sadly, you’re madly in love with the fire

You wonder why I sold my blue guitar

The truth is that I barely knew how to play

Thinking back now about all our songs

It feels like we wrote them yesterday

Your heart’s on fire

You’re in love with a liar

Sadly, you’re madly neck deep in desire

You feel oh so tired

Of walking that wire

Sadly, you’re madly in love with the fire

K’s Song

http://www.lulu.com/content/3084077

Lemon Rings and children’s swings

French fries and butterflies

Black with cream & railroad steam

Tye-dyes & distant eyes

Timeless hands in ancient lands

Fireflies & jaded skies

Tired minds & thrift shop finds

Lion shares & grizzly bears

Hidden lies & baby cries

Chatter brains & window paynes

Kind words & talking birds

Itchy skin & forgotten kin

This and that with Jane & Jack

Mismatchen’ shoes & the Moody Blues

Ringing bells & wishing wells

We stand and see by the rolling sea

Smilee http://www.lulu.com/content/5421738

The day was almost done

School bells rang right on time

Teacher dismisses class

Sara’s lips crack a smile

Why do we always

Climb invisible walls

Is there even a reason

There always was a song

Singing loud was here style

Her friends all hummed along

Sara’s lips crack a smile

Why do we always

Climb invisible walls

Is there even a reason

Just look into her eyes

And brush against the radio dial

Blue birds rise in the sky

Sara’s lips crack a smile

Why do we always

Climb invisible walls

Is there even a reason

Sweet Louise http://www.lulu.com/content/5421700

Bang bang bang bang

At my window payne

Must be Louise

Or is it the rain

Bang bang bang bang

who could it be

I roll out of bed

And guess who I see

Like Gretal she was led

By her breadcrumbs to my door

I never knew her age

Sweet Louise

Bang bang bang bang

I open the door

Louise standing outside

Looking to score

Bang bang bang bang

She’s just ending her night

& her garlicky hair

is pulled back just right

Like Gretal she was led

By her breadcrumbs to my door

I never knew her age

Sweet Louise

Bang bang bang bang

Her black coat is wet

She’s probably starved

Yeah, that’s a safe bet

Bang bang bang bang

Her gift basket of bread

Has ten kinds of jam

I’m just dying to spread

Like Gretal she was led

By her breadcrumbs to my door

I never knew her age

Sweet Louise

Six Original Songs!

The Following Songs were recorded at Chaplin's last Spring. Blue Guitar's Lyrics are by Wallace Stevens. Tara Cannon wrote the lyrics to I Simply Walk. And, the rest of the songs are 100% original... Enjoy!


http://www.lulu.com/content/5421622 Cannon Ball Joe

http://www.lulu.com/content/5421641 Blue Guitar

http://www.lulu.com/content/5421675 Marina

http://www.lulu.com/content/5421690 I Simply Walk

http://www.lulu.com/content/5421700 Sweet Louise

http://www.lulu.com/content/5421738 Smilee