TO LOVE A WILD FIRE
Self-Released Album
January 2020
California Style ROOTS & AMERICANA
To Love a Wild Fire is a curated collection of love songs, prayers, and laments drawn from the Ram’s reservoir of unreleased home recordings.
All of the songs on To Love a Wild Fire were written and performed as a gesture of love and appreciation. Inspired by the Pacific and Indian Oceans, the Eastern Sierras, and the family farm outside of Philadelphia.
“I write my best songs when spending time with family and loved ones. Nothing inspires good music or storytelling quite like the lasting power of love. It’s eternal. Reminds me of a passage from Herman Hesse that described how the love we share keeps us warm into old age through the coldest of nights.
The times we spend in love, are the times that last forever. “
The Ram’s younger days were of motion driven by wanderlust. From rural Pennsylvania, through New York, up into the Vermont border. In 1999 he drove to California with nothing but a beat-up F150. His traveling jones was traded in for the chance to settle down with his lady and build a family by the ocean in North County San Diego.
By Moonlight We Ride | Music Video
First in Line | Music Video
Love is a Terrible Thing to Waste | Music Video
Looking at the Moon | Music Video
Ode to My Sisters & Brothers | Music Video
Come Easily | Music Video
Keep Warm | Music Video
HOMEGROWN Lyrics
Keep Warm
= Verse
Looking down on the Rocky Mountains
on a jet plane flying over
peering out the window clouds pass me by
Well, I must have been crazy,
to love a wild fire.
A wildfire explodes then it’s gone.
= Chorus
And a change in the weather,
the wind changes direction.
Just a signal that the fire’s gone cold.
the times we spent in love
are the times that last FOREVER.
Sure gonna miss them when they’re gone.
But they’ll keep me warm
Yes they keep me warm
Ohh they Keep Me Warm
ALL THE TIME
= Verse
Wishing you were here with me
drinking my bourbon whiskey,
just one kiss of your lips would light up the sky.
Streets of Philadelphia
Golden Sun of California
freedom sings her song, the greatest gift of all.
= Chorus
Well I’ve been around the world
this old world a few times
One thing I’ve learned I will explain
the times we spent in love
are the times that last FOREVER.
Sure gonna miss them when they’re gone.
But they’ll keep me warm
Yes they keep me warm
Ohh they Keep Me Warm
ALL THE TIME
Ode to My Sisters & Brothers
= Verse
My guiding light
brothers & sisters tonight
I’ll tell you one thang
play some guitar sweet
baby move your feet
lord we’ll get this whole place swinging
—————
kiss of love to my sisters
a shout out to my brothers right now
—————
tell you right now
if it all went south
happy to be right here with you BABE
= Chorus
This road is heavy
but I’ll find my way
Nothing but Dangerous Highway
First in Line
= Verse
Give me rock and roll music till the end of time
if I need to sell my soul ill be the first in line
Favorite tune blasting from the radio
Can’t, you hear me knocking by the Rolling Stones
Dance with me baby
hold me real close
the one I choose
the one I love the most
= Chorus
Baby show em how it’s done
hold me little chosen one
baby show en how it’s done
= Verse
Woke up this morning feeling no pain
my baby’s love hits me like the pouring rain
Here comes the evening watch my baby sway
beauty flows like some fine champagne
Hang with me baby
walk real close
the one I choose
the one I love the most
= Chorus
Baby show em how it’s done
hold me little chosen one
baby show en how it’s done
= Verse
Say now little baby don’t you board that jet
I ain’t half done with the whole of you yet
The full moon’s a GLOW It’s gonna wax & wane
saxophone playing by the subway train
My partner in crime
lets chase down so fun
hold you as tight as I can
my little chosen one
= Chorus
Baby show em how it’s done
hold me little chosen one
baby show en how it’s done
Looking at the Moon
= Verse
One solitary man looking at the moon, looking at the moon
One beaten down dream had the guts to stand, stand tall through it all
I saw her run, run into the night, run across the dawn
One single rose was thrown it fell into my hand, it fell into my hand
= Chorus 2X
I will ride, across the midnight sky
I see you look up, with your starlit eyes
= Verse
One solitary man looking at the moon, looking at the moon
One look in those eyes blew my mind, blew my mind
One heart rise above the rest All the rest will fall, All the rest will fall
One look in those eyes I decided to stay, I decided to stay
= Chorus 2X
I will ride, across the midnight sky
I see you look up, with your starlit eyes
4X Bridge ———- INSTRUMENTAL
Roll on the back of the Milky Way if you like
= Chorus 2X
I will ride, across the midnight sky
I see you look up, with your starlit eyes
= Verse
One look in those eyes blew my mind, blew my mind
One listen to her song Filled my heart, it didn’t take long
One listen to her song blew my mind, blew my mind
One solitary man looking at the moon, looking at the moon
= Chorus 2X
I will ride, across the midnight sky
I see you look up, with your starlit eyes
I Can’t Find My Way (Call of the Wild)
= Verse
babe I can’t find my way back home
I can’t find no air to breathe
I can’t find my way outta here
Lord it might be the death of me
Lord, I know that you need me home
the wheel in the sky on fire
gonna say to me it’s just a lie
when that something calls me out in the night
= Chorus
Gone are the times away
gone are the nights alone
I can see your light shine
it brings me back from the call of the wild
= Verse
Neon light burn holes in my eyes
moon screams out my name
lord I’ve been like a moth to the fire
I’m tuned into the call wild
Baby HELL YES I know
hard living’s not where I want to be
the price of what I think is being free
I don’t know what calls me out into the night
= Chorus
Gone are the times away
gone are the nights alone
I can see your light shine
it brings me back from the call of the wild
= Verse
Now I know that I’ve always been home
I’m now awake from that lucid dream
the one that took the breath outta me
the one that scared the death outta me
Lord, I know that you got me home
I see love in your eyes are on fire
I know that you are my burning light
your beauty called me back in from the night
= Chorus
Gone are the times away
gone are the nights alone
I can see your light shine
it brings me back from the call of the wild
= Verse
The moonshine screams out my name
raging soul cant ever be tamed
lord I’ve been like a moth to the fire
I’m tuned into the call wild
Baby HELL YES I know
hard living’s not where I want to be
the price of what I think is being free
I don’t know what calls me out into the night
Come Easily
= Verse
Makes no difference where I’m going
doesn’t really matter where I’ve been
When I feel her eyes upon me
I know, I’m exactly where I need to be
= Chorus
Home is where you make it
Sweet home should come easily
Could be on some distant beach I’m a lying
Could be ‘neath the shade of my baby’s tree
= Verse
I spent six years in New York City
like living in a penitentiary
Stole a motorbike rode it to the ocean
My broken heart came back to me
= Chorus
Home lord you’ve got to go out and take it
Sweet home should come easily
Could be on some highway that I’m riding
Could be left behind in those city streets
Bridge 8X
Mercedes to SKAT and Hum along with the bridge.
= Verse
I came to reside in California
Spend my days rolling at the beach
All the pretty girls there they let their hair down
they’ve got nothing on my sweet beauty
= Chorus
Home feels just like my woman
Does it fell good?! Lord you’d better believe
She comes & joins me anywhere Im lying
She gives me shade beneath her tree
Fare Thee Well
= Verse
The moon came out
and the Milky Way disappeared
staring at my shadow
wondering how the hell I got here
could it be that this happenstance
is what brought me to this place tonight
or am i just another fool
blinded by the moonlight
= Chorus
maybe baby time will tell
maybe baby time will tell
my brother fare the well
maybe baby time will tell
= Verse
On the day that our father died
the songbird she starts to cry
the songbird could only cry
I lost my place in this here world
he was our symbol of the GOOD life
Let my tears be the seed that heals
the scars left on this here farm
it’s not that you done me wrong
it’s just we’ve all got broken hearts.
= Chorus
maybe baby time will tell
maybe baby time will tell
my brother fare the well
maybe baby time will tell
= Verse
Thirteen years to the day
I can still feel you by my side
I can still see your smiling face like yesterday
all I got to do is close my eyes.
At the first light to the new day
cold water wakes my warm face
I try to swim beyond the horizon line
because I know you’ll be by my side
or
as I climb up through the rising tide
feels real good to have you by my side.
= Chorus
maybe baby time will tell
maybe baby time will tell
my brother fare the well
maybe baby time will tell
LOVE Is a Terrible Thing To Waste
= Verse
Take to the street to play music
got my amplify
open guitar case
All of the hookers and hustlers
gonna make em move
where they congregate
= Verse
Pro-stit-tutions illegal
but ya’d never know
by the look of this place
Mind you I’ve got no problem
cause I tell you LOVE
is a terrible thing to waste
= Chorus
Ask me where Im goin’
I’m a going way down town
Ask me what I’ll be up to
I say I’m a gonna spread a little love around
= Verse
Playing myself some guitar
a big old smile
right across my face
I’ve been out here for 3 hours
I think its time
to smoke a little jay
= Verse
Inspiration she finds me
on crowded sidewalks
just about any place
When I’m with her I hold her so closely
cause I tell you LOVE
is a terrible thing to waste
= Chorus
Ask me where Im goin’
I’m a going way down town
Ask me what I’ll be up to
I say I’m a gonna spread a little love around