Corinne's comment to Dave on his "Hey There Delilah" cover.

Cover of the song "Clocks" by Coldplay. Not sure how well it translates to just an acoustic version, but damn it I can't play the piano very well. =P

Oh, and that's my phone that goes off about   more...3/4 into the movie - thanks, Kelly!  less

Cover of the song "Sparks" by Coldplay.

All instruments, vocals performed by David Biggs.

I've got some more Radiohead, Collective Soul, Oasis, and Tonic covers in the works- but I wanted to finish   more...this song first, one that I often play at Open Mics, etc.

This song is not being played exactly the way that Coldplay performs it.. I didn't have a capo on hand, so I just played it without.

For anyone that reads these descriptions, please let me know if you think the guitar tone sounds better or worse than in the "Cast No Shadow" cover.. This time I just mic'd the guitar, and usually I record it straight into the computer. I'd appreciate the input, thanks!

Lyrics:

Did I drive you away?
I know what you’ll say,
You say, “Oh, sing one we know,”
But I promise you this,
I’ll always look out for you,
That’s what I’ll do.

I say “oh,”
I say “oh.”

My heart is yours,
It’s you that I hold on to,
That’s what I do,
And I know I was wrong,
But I won’t let you down,

(Oh yeah, oh yeah, oh yeah, yeah I will, yes I will…)

I say “oh,”
I cry “oh.”

Yeah I saw sparks,
Yeah I saw sparks,

La, la, la, la, oh…
La, la, la, la, oh…
La, la, la, la, oh…  less

Cover of the song "Endlessly" by Muse off of their album Absolution. Had to change the feel of the song a lot, since it's really only made up of keyboards/bass and vocals. Hopefully it turned   more...out ok.

If you get a chance to go see Muse in concert, jump on it - they throw one heck of a live show.

Lyrics:

There's a part of me you'll never know
The only thing I'll never show

Hopelessly I'll love you endlessly
Hopelessly I'll give you everything
But I won't give you up
I won't let you down
And I won't leave you falling
If the moment ever comes

It's plain to see it's trying to speak
Cherished dreams forever asleep
Hopelessly I'll love you endlessly
Hopelessly I'll give you everything
But I won't give you up
I won't let you down
And I won't leave you falling
If the moment ever comes

Hopelessly I'll love you endlessly
Hopelessly I'll give you everything
But I won't give you up
I won't let you down
And I won't leave you falling
But the moment never comes  less

Cover of the song "Hey There Delilah" by Plain White T's. Yeah I'm a sap, so shoot me. =D

Lyrics:

Hey there Delilah
What's it like in New York City?
I'm a thousand miles away
But girl tonight you   more...look so pretty
Yes you do
Time Square can't shine as bright as you
I swear it's true

Hey there Delilah
Don't you worry about the distance
I'm right there if you get lonely
Give this song another listen
Close your eyes
Listen to my voice it's my disguise
I'm by your side

Oh it's what you do to me
Oh it's what you do to me
Oh it's what you do to me
Oh it's what you do to me
What you do to me

Hey there Delilah
I know times are getting hard
But just believe me girl
Someday I'll pay the bills with this guitar
We'll have it good
We'll have the life we knew we would
My word is good

Hey there Delilah
I've got so much left to say
If every simple song I wrote to you
Would take your breath away
I'd write it all
Even more in love with me you'd fall
We'd have it all

Oh it's what you do to me
Oh it's what you do to me
Oh it's what you do to me
Oh it's what you do to me

A thousand miles seems pretty far
But they've got planes and trains and cars
I'd walk to you if I had no other way
Our friends would all make fun of us
and we'll just laugh along because we know
That none of them have felt this way
Delilah I can promise you
That by the time we get through
The world will never ever be the same
And you're to blame

Hey there Delilah
You be good and don't you miss me
Two more years and you'll be done with school
And I'll be making history like I do
You know it's all because of you
We can do whatever we want to
Hey there Delilah here's to you
This ones for you

Oh it's what you do to me
Oh it's what you do to me
Oh it's what you do to me
Oh it's what you do to me
What you do to me.  less

Cover of the song "Wild World" by Cat Stevens. What a timeless piece of music this is - I've heard hundreds of covers of the song but people seem to try a little too hard when they're playing   more...it..

Here's my version.

Lyrics:

Now that i've lost everything to you
You say you wanna start something new
And it's breakin' my heart you're leavin'
Baby, i'm grievin'
But if you wanna leave, take good care
Hope you have a lot of nice things to wear
But then a lot of nice things turn bad out there

Oh, baby, baby, it's a wild world
It's hard to get by just upon a smile
Oh, baby, baby, it's a wild world
I'll always remember you like a child, girl

You know i've seen a lot of what the world can do
And it's breakin' my heart in two
Because i never wanna see you a sad, girl
Don't be a bad girl
But if you wanna leave, take good care
Hope you make a lot of nice friends out there
But just remember there's a lot of bad and beware

Chorus

Baby, i love you
But if you wanna leave, take good care
Hope you make a lot of nice friends out there
But just remember there's a lot of bad and beware

Chorus  less

Another song from many years ago, rearranged a bit from when it was originally recorded.

Lyrics:

Wake up.. in silence,
Your voice.. is all you are.
Breathe in.. don't swallow
Inside you're one of us

But outside,
  more...The sun beats down
Without you,
I'm lost without a sound

These words untouched,
Though time moves on
Protected by our love,
for this our silent song  less

One of several older songs that I've wanted to redo for a while and finally gotten around to recording..

This song was written about 6 years ago so please don't take the lyrics and mood of the song as   more...an indication of how I'm feeling at the moment. =D

Lyrics:

i know the fire in your heart,
is dead
i hear the words within my ears,
my fears
and you replace me as i am,
a friend
i knew that we would never be
so real again

so tell me i don't understand
and tend the fire with your hand
and there is nothing i can do
just please come back to me won't you

some kind of sunlight in your eyes,
surprise
and i feel the shortness of my breath,
depressed
a tired picture fades from view,
it's you
i'm lost inside myself again
the end

so tell me i don't understand
and tend the fire with your hand
and there is nothing i can say
just please come back to me someday  less

Cover of the song "Blackbird" by The Beatles.. Written by Paul McCartney, this song is beautiful and timeless - and although I couldn't possibly do it justice, here's my attempt. =D

I'm not playing   more...this absolutely correctly, and am aware of that.. just in case anyone wants to leave a comment to that effect.  less

Cover of the song "High and Dry" by Radiohead. Tried to do something different here by adding in some extra pictures and effects with my video editing program. Feel free to let me know if it   more...adds to or detracts from the performance..

Pictures used are royalty free and from stock.xchng

Two jumps in a week, I bet you think that's pretty clever don't you boy.
Flying on your motorcycle, watching all the ground beneath you drop.
You'd kill yourself for recognition; kill yourself to never ever stop.
You broke another mirror; you're turning into something you are not.

Don't leave me high, don't leave me dry
Don't leave me high, don't leave me dry

Drying up in conversation, you will be the one who cannot talk.
All your insides fall to pieces, you just sit there wishing you could still make love
They're the ones who'll hate you when you think you've got the world all sussed out
They're the ones who'll spit at you. You will be the one screaming out.

Don't leave me high, don't leave me dry
Don't leave me high, don't leave me dry

It's the best thing that you've ever had, the best thing that you've ever, ever
had.
It's the best thing that you've ever had; the best thing you've had has gone away.

Don't leave me high, don't leave me dry
Don't leave me high, don't leave me dry  less

Cover of the song "Clumsy" by Our Lady Peace.. what a cool song, and probably not something that should be acoustic but what the heck. =D OLP Rocks!

Throw away the radio
Suitcase...Keeps you awake
  more...Hide the telephone, the telephone
Telephone in case...You realize that
Sometimes your just not OK
You level off, level off, level off
It's not alright now...You need to understand
There's nothing strange about this
You need to know your friends...You need to know that

I'll be waving my hand
Watching you drown, watching you scream, quiet or loud
And maybe you should sleep
And maybe you just need...A friend
As clumsy as you've been there's no one laughing
You will be safe in here, you will be safe in here

Throw away this very old...shoe lace
Tripped you again
Try to shrug it off, shrug it off, shrug it off
It's only skin now
You need to understand...there's nothing fake about this
You need to let me in...watching you and

I'll be waving my hand
Watching you drown, watching you scream, no one's around
And maybe you should sleep
And maybe you just need...A friend
As clumsy as you've been, there's no one laughing
You will be safe in here, you will be safe in...

I'll be wavin my hand...Watching you drown...
Watching you scream...Quiet or loud...
And maybe you should sleep
And maybe you just need...A friend
As clumsy as you've been, there's no one laughing
You will be safe in here, you will be safe in here...Yeah
You will be safe in here...in here...Yeah  less

Cover of the song "Sunshine of your love" by Cream as performed by Why Not Featuring Paul Allodi at Bungalow Joe's Open Mic on Tuesday, February 20, 2007.

Cover of the song "Fake Plastic Trees" by Radiohead. I was a little off with the high notes in the beginning, keep watching though I promise it gets better. =P

lyrics:

Her green plastic watering   more...can
For her fake chinese rubber plant
In fake plastic earth.
That she bought from a rubber man
In a town full of rubber plants
Just to get rid of itself.
And it wears her out, it wears her out
It wears her out, it wears her out.

She lives with a broken man
A cracked polystyrene man
Who just crumbles and burns.
He used to do surgery
For girls in the eighties
But gravity always wins.
And it wears him out, it wears him out
It wears him out, it wears him out.

She looks like the real thing
She tastes like the real thing
My fake plastic love.
But I cant help the feeling
I could blow through the ceiling
If I just turn and run
And it wears me out, it wears me out
It wears me out, it wears me out.

And if I could be who you wanted
If I could be who you wanted,
All the time, all the time, ohhh... ohh...  less

Cover of the song "Black Star" by Radiohead. Thom Yorke says the song is about sex in the morning, the best time to have it. I agree with him, but don't see what exactly that has to do with   more...the song. =D But hey, the guy's a little crazy.

lyrics:

I get home from work and youre still standing in your dressing gown,
Well what am I to do?
I know all the things around your head and what they do to you.
What are we coming to?
What are we gonna do?

Blame it on the black star,
Blame in on the falling sky,
Blame in on the satellite, that beams me home.

The trouble words of a troubled mind, I try to understand what is eating you.
I try to stay awake, but its 58 hours since that I last slept with you.
What are we coming to?
I just dont know anymore

Blame it on the black star,
Blame in on the falling sky,
Blame in on the satellite, that beams me home.

I get on the train and I just stand about now that I dont think of you.
I keep falling over, I keep passing out, when I see a face like you.
What am I coming to?
Im gonna melt down.

Blame it on the black star,
Blame in on the falling sky,
Blame in on the satellite, that beams me home.  less

Cover of the song "Imagine" by John Lennon.

All guitars played by Bastiaan77 (youtube.com/Bastiaan77).
All vocals performed by Xylopolist.

A rather unique arrangement of this song by Bastiaan77   more...made me inquire to see if he would like to do a collaboration. After getting the OK, I laid out the vocal tracks and created this video. I think it turned out great, and look forward to more collaborations with Bastiaan and others.

Lyrics:

Imagine there's no heaven
It's easy if you try
No hell below us
Above us only sky
Imagine all the people
Living for today...

Imagine there's no countries
It isn't hard to do
Nothing to kill or die for
And no religion too
Imagine all the people
Living life in peace...

You may say I'm a dreamer
But I'm not the only one
I hope someday you'll join us
And the world will be as one

Imagine no possessions
I wonder if you can
No need for greed or hunger
A brotherhood of man
Imagine all the people
Sharing all the world...

You may say I'm a dreamer
But I'm not the only one
I hope someday you'll join us
And the world will live as one  less

All instruments and vocals are performed by David Biggs.

Cover of the song "Cast No Shadow" by Oasis. One of my favorite bands out there.. Sure they're pretty arrogant (Liam and Noel) but they're   more...also some of the best songwriters in the business.

I just got a new microphone for my birthday from my girlfriend Erin, so I'd like to dedicate this song to her. This is the first time I've ever added backup vocals to my own, played electric guitar with the acoustic, and recorded the music with my computer instead of the camcorder.

Sorry I didn't include video of the backing vocals and/or electric guitar but there were just too many takes!

Lyrics:

Heres a thought for every man who tries to understand
What is in his hands (whats in his hands)
He walks along the open road of love and life
To find it if he can (to find it if he can)

Bound with all the weight of all the words he tried to say
Chained to all the places that he never wished to stay
Bound with all the weight of all the words he tried to say
As he faced the sun he cast no shadow
(haaaaaaaa-ah)

As they took his soul they stole his pride (priiiii-hide) [-- 3 times
As he faced the sun he cast no shadow

(haaaaaaaa-ah)
(haaaaaaaa-ah)
(haaaaaaaa-ah)

Heres a thought for every man who tries to understand
What is in his hands (whats in his hands)
He walks along the open road of love and life
To find it if he can (but only if he can)

Bound with all the weight of all the words he tried to say
Chained to all the places that he never wished to stay
Bound with all the weight of all the words he tried to say
As he faced the sun he cast no shadow
(haaaaaaaa-ah)

As they took his soul they stole his pride (priiiii-hide) [-- 4 times
As he faced the sun he cast no shadow
As he faced the sun he cast no shadow (haaaaaaa-ah) [-- 2 times
As he faced the sun he cast no shadow  less

Cover of the song "Counting Blue Cars" by Dishwalla. Another band that has tons of amazing albums worth of material, but this is the only song people have heard by them (for the most part).

If   more...you like this, go buy some of Dishwalla's other material! =D  less

Cover of the song "Comfortably Numb" by Pink Floyd. Justice cannot possibly be done to the song with just an acoustic guitar, but I've made a go at it anyway!

Cover of the song "Runaway Train" by Soul Asylum. Everyone seems to forget about this band among the rest of the rock bands in the 90's, but no one can forget about the song that made them famous.   more...Another request, this one from tadrockhogan.

Hope ya like it.  less

Cover of the song "Times Like These" by The Foo Fighters. Requested by heathermfingb, I'm actually not sure why I haven't tried to cover this song already - I'm a big fan..

Great, now I'm going   more...to be listening to Foo Fighters for like a week. =D  less

Just a couple things about myself.. cheers.

Cover of a song called "One Thing" by Finger Eleven. Now, I have the album of theirs called Greyest of Blue Skies but I don't think I've ever heard this song before.. so don't be too harsh please!   more...=D

Oh yeah, this is a request from mufkin on LiveVideo.. hope ya like it.  less

Cover of the song "Lucky" by Radiohead. I didn't realize how good their songs sounded on acoustic until I ran into a bunch of tabs on the internet recently!

Cover of the song "Mad World" by Tears for Fears, made even more popular by the cult classic Donnie Darko.. this song is sad and uplifting at the same time.. hard to put your finger on.

This   more...was my first request, hope you enjoy it! If anyone has another you know how to reach me. ;)  less