I'll Show You Mine If You Show Me Yours — Two adult artists exchange open sketchbooks across a sunny backyard table as their drawings become birds, river paths and flowering plants

The songbook

I'll Show You Mine If You Show Me Yours

Words by Douglas Heyes Jr. Listen to the recorded versions and follow the lyric below.

Original Doug Heyes lyrics · AI-generated music & vocals

A touring musician's brief homecoming mixes flirtation with recollections of poverty, military service and hard travel. The narrator moves between material success and memories that refuse to stay separate from the present. Another tour is already approaching, making his invitation to intimacy both boastful and pressed for time.

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Recorded versions

3 recordings. Different voices and arrangements bring another side of the song into the light.

Lyrics

I'll Show You Mine If You Show Me Yours

Words by Douglas Heyes Jr

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I'LL SHOW YOU MINE IF YOU SHOW ME YOURS

The Band is comin’ Home from a long ass Tour
I've been working so long I’m financially secure
There ain't nothin’ wrong with you a-searchin’ for the Cure
Nothin’ can go wrong if you keep your body pure
I'll Show You Mine If You Show Me Yours
We can do it back inside through these double glass doors
I'm a rolling Rock landslide and my bed is on the floor
Baby, I'll Show You Mine If You Show Me Yours

I hope you can forgive me that my thoughts are so impure
Now, I am a rich man, but I grew up really poor
Somebody was always knockin’ at my back door
INS or IRS, I didn't know for sure
I didn't even know what they wanted me for
I done my Military time, they sent me off to war
An old Girlfriend of mine was a Shooter for the Corps
She said, I'll Show You Mine If  Show Me Yours
That just suits me fine, Baby, I said with a smile
Taken off your Camos gonna drive me fuckin’ Wild
We're runnin’ out of Ammo, so let's shut it down a while
Head back in the bunker, you'll be cryin’ like a child
Can you hear the Thunder, Baby, can you feel the Rain
The way you move your Body makes this ol’ boy go insane
Riding on the Line between the Pleasure and the Pain
Nobody remembers that we're goin’ down the drain

Maybe there's a few things that I just cannot explain
Piloting a Goldwing through the California Plain
I got my Saddlebags loaded cuz I'm going to Bring the Pain
Watch me turn a Sunny Day back into pouring Rain
Baby here's a Blindfold, won't you cover up your Eyes?
Cuz what I gotta give you gotta be a Surprise
I can tell you like it from the Look that's in your Eyes
We're finally gonna make it after a whole lot of tries

Come on, Little Darlin’, cuz we got to get to it
Ain't no time for Alibis, we're gonna have to screw it
I know what you're thinkin’, that it's time to do it to it
Practice long enough you'll find that there ain't nothin’ to it
Nobody believes me so I'm gonna have to prove it
When it comes to all this shit we gotta sell it off or move it
We're headin’ out tomorrow for another long Tour
So Baby, I'll Show You  Mine If  You Show Me Yours
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