UNLIKELY HERO by Dennis Ogle

You see him there everyday

Durin' your mornin' commute

Always standin' on the same street corner

tattered clothes and worn out boots

Carries a cardboard sign that says

I'll work for food

You never give the man a second thought

How would he have known it

When he woke up this mornin'

He'd be a different man in the eyes of everyone

That used to look down on him

Nobody knows this unlikely hero

Who really cares if his face has a name

whose gonna pray for this unlikely hero

Today the hands of the needy

Became the hands of fate

She was daddy's little girl

And she loved it when he'd drive her to school

The road was slick from the rain last night

He was takin' it slow and cool

Overloaded semi swerved into her daddy's lane

But she was pulled from the flames

By the hands of fate

How would he have known it

When he woke up this mornin'

He'd be a different man in the eyes of everyone

That used to look down on him

Nobody knows this unlikely hero

Who really cares if his face has a name

Who's gonna pray for this unlikely hero

today the hands of the needy

Became the hands of fate

It wasn't that long ago he was a young man

A young man with a dream, and an open road

to his destiny 

SOME DAYSby Dennis Ogle

Long time gone and I'm still punishing myself
Think I might be crazy, should've been,
Over you by now
Way to long
I've been hangin' on to your memory
what'd I do to deserve this
Time will tell if I will ever know
what I knew when I knew you
Left me here with a shattered heart
And a memory that I can't let go

Some days, you know it really gets me down
You know it really gets me
Some days I wish I'd never met you at all

Time's goin' by but nothin's really movin'
Feel like I'm on a ghost train
That's never gonna slow down
Just this mornin', I saw your face in my mirror
Tellin' me one more time that you're leavin'
Time will tell if I will ever feel
What I felt,when i felt you
Left me here with a broken dream
And a memory that won't let me be

Some days, you know it really gets me down
You know it really gets me
Some Days
I wish I'd never met you at all

Got to know why
Could've left me with a little bit more than goodbye
If I was anything to you
Don't you think it's worth an explaination?

THE END OF THE STORY by Dennis Ogle

What were you thinkin'?
You brought your nightmare to my life
And now you're sinkin'
Don't look to me to do what's right
I won't go down with you
I won't go down
I won't go down with you
When my last day comes
My last breath will be mine\
And I'll hold on to tomorrow
It's all I got left at the end of my day
Broken words on blank pages
The cornerstone of everything
always beginning the end of the story

well I guess I'm sorry
But it's your life, I'm not to blame
You know you can't say
If the tables were turned, you wouldn't
do me the same way
I won't go down with you
I won't go down with you
When my last day comes
My last breath will be mine
And I'll hold on to tomorrow
It's all I got left at the end of my day
Broken words on blank pages
The cornerstone of everything
Always beginning the end of the story

I can't remember the last time
I felt so completely connected
focused in my mind
I'll try hard not to F%&K it up
You try to watch what you say
I'll only focus on the good times, the good days
I won't spend too much time lookin' back
I've got pictures for that kind of thing
I'll only do what I can do today
And maybe this world won't drive me insane
But I'll hold on to tomorrow
It's all got left at the end of my day
Broken words on blank pages
The cornerstone of everything
always beginning the end of the story

TOO OLD TO DIE YOUNG by Dennis Ogle

Never thought I'd live to see a day
that I'd turn away from the TV
Don't wanna hear no more about life
in this crazy world
We've gone off the deep end
I don't recognize it
Day in, day out, it's gonna move on
Right from the beginning
long after we're gone

But don't count on me, no
God won't hear me
I'm already too old to die young
Don't look at me no
Not my problem
I'm already too old to die young

And it's no surprise to me
that my generation is
taking the blame
for the state of creation
Reality is a matter of taste
One mans excess is another mans waste
Day in, day out it goes on
and I'll be a memory
by the time it's all gone

So don't count on me, no
God don't hear me
I'm already too old to die young
Don't look at me, no
Not my problem
I'm already to old to die young

This is our legacy
This is our last chance
to prove ourselves to history
We still have time

HALF EMPTY CUP

I am living in the light again.
Nothing outside has changed,
but nothing is the same.
I gave up my place in the world
when I stepped off of the river of time.
Something in my head tells me the life I Let go is only slightly worse than the fear of losin what I hope to gain.
But I am living in the light again,
And feel like a human being.
There is room for everyone on the river of time, until our turn to cross into the Abyss.
I'm living in the light again.
As I toast with a new generation,
I know my half empty cup will be
full.