Thomas Riley

from Best Friends by Nathan TR Shaw

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This is the first track that I'm releasing from my third album "Best Friends:

Once in a great while
I will wake up with a smile
and the whole day will look bright and blue.
Once in a blue moon
I won't feel like 82
and I'll have a big surprise planned for you
with balloons and
cotton candy.
Mom and daddy
all there to wish you well
it's hard to tell if this is real.

When I see that tooth
I want to go through the roof
but I know I've got to keep my cool.
When I hear that name
I go halfway to insane -
like the smelly kid you knew in school
named Eugene or
Thomas Riley.
Ask politely
for him to make it go.
It's hard to know if this is real.

Once in a great while
I will wake up with a smile
but I know I'll end up in a frown.
Here in Santa Rosa
at the end of Guatemala
right is left, wrong is right
and up is down.
Welcome to our
paradise home -
double rainbow.
Where nothing has a name -
it's all insane
could this be real?

Twinkle twinkle little star
I often wonder if you are
little and close or big and far.
I wonder.

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from Best Friends, released September 24, 2014

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Nathan TR Shaw Dayton, Ohio

Nathan is from the Cincinnati Ohio area and has been playing music for 27 years. He began with piano lessons when he was 8 years old and later taught himself guitar, drums and bass. He has been writing and performing his own songs for over 15 years.

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