My Song List

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All Originals [click "Listen to Music" to hear my homegrown (except for two) demos]

A Million of That Trillion 

Ain’t That Enough Tomorrows for Today?

All of a Sudden I’m 50

Altarboy Mojo

Aren’t You Even Gonna Lie?

As Angry as You Want to Be

At the House

Atticus Schmatticus

Back to Haunt Me

Bleeding from a Self-Inflicted Wound

Blood Run Clean

Boys Without Dates

Cansado

Caught in the Undertow

Cedar Fire

Choose to Live with It

Cyberlimbo

Darrow’s Courthouse Pub

Dee's Roadkill Cafe

Don't Flirt With the Married Guy

Doin’ Life On The Installment Plan

Dominoes

Don't Toy With Me

Dreams from My Father

Ego The Size Of Mexico

Eleanor, Will You See Me?

Every Man Has Only One Revolution in His Heart

Every Time I Mention You

Every Woman's Game

Everybody Lies on Their Resume

Fading

Ferry to Coronado

Five Small Towns

Fourth and Two

Full Night’s Sleep

Heart Cast in Tempered Steel

High-Priced Attorney

How Can Everyone Know the Truth (and Still Disagree)?

How Many Bites Do You Get? Listen to Music

I Didn’t Choose You

I Don't Win

I Had a Dream About You

I Looked At You

I Meant it Every Time

I See the Signal

I Want to Talk to You

I’d Have Stayed

I'd Love to Hear My Own Advice

I’d Rather Be Numb

I’d Rather Have Your Sister

If I Could Be Like Bob Duvall

If I Had A Dime

If You Die in Iowa

If You Need a Reason to Miss Me

If You Think I’m Losing My Love For You

If You're a Fan

I'm Gonna Run

In Every Little Town

In My Blind Eye

Inside Man

Inside Out

Into the Dunk Tank

Irish Boys

It All Points to You

It Meant A Whole Lot More To Me

It Will Never Be Simple Again

Just Drive

Just Let Me Play

Keep Your Eyes on the Floor

Last Airport Home

Last Fall Tour

Last Night in Waikiki

Lillian Asplund

Linda

Living Out of a Suitcase

Living Through a Datemare

Looking Down on 2nd Street

Melting In The Sun

Michael’s Song

Montreal

Morning Too Soon

Mother Blues, Don’t You Love Your Son? Listen to Music

My Boss is a Harvard Boy

My Fall Back Life

My One-Hundred Percent Original Soundcheck Song

My Place in Line

My Song About Why I Don’t Do Christmas Songs

Naive

No Hair

No Safe Love

Not Young and Thin No More

Nun-ja Warriors Listen to Music

One Day I'll Sing this Song to You

One Man's Heaven

One September Weekend

One-Sided Promises Listen to Music

Over The Clouds

Out So Far . . . And It's So Late

People Who Don't See My Way

Please Don't Leave Today

Porque, Hermana?

Put Me In A Song

Rebound Thing

Reunion

Ringing All the Time Listen to Music

Riverview

Russian Roulette

San Diego Listen to Music

Separate Ways

Seven of My Closet Friends

She's Still Walkin'

Smoke at Home

Smokey Listen to Music

Springbrook

Still the Matter of My Dreams

Thank God For Caller I.D.

The Best Part of the Dream

The Better of the Two of Us

The Cop Shop Now

The D.E.A.

The Loneliest Night of My Life

The Mayor of DeSoto

The Other Side of Your Heart (NOTE:  This song is licensed by the thugs at BMI.  Thus, I will not perform it in any establishment that doesn't have a BMI license.) 

The People Down the Hall

The Reason for Your Spite

The Sandbag Line

The Shallow End of My Memory

The Story of My Life

The Young Spanish Prince Listen to Music

These Demons

These Same Two Arms

This Horrible Sense of Never

Threadbare Peace

Three Thousand Houses in Three Hundred Days

Thursday

To Thaw

Under the Bridge

Up for Grabs

What Another Man Has Listen to Music

When Baby Lester Turns 40 Listen to Music

When the Water Runs Out on the Island

When You Come Back Again

When You Reach Out Your Hand

When Your 48 Hours Have Flown

Where the Boundaries Are

Where'd You Get That Scar? 

You're in the Driver's Seat

plus about four songs it’s better not mentioning by name!!

NOTE:  These are the tunes you'll hear in my performances.  If you want to record or perform a John Burns original, there are thousands and thousands more.

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