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Squidward Longing
Day 986 - September 12, 2026
Lyrics | Music: Oliver Richman
Performed By: Oliver Richman
Turning 26
Day 985 - September 11, 2026
Lyrics | Music: Oliver Richman
Performed By: Oliver Richman
Sorry I missed your birthday call
I didn’t make it to midnight
Late night adventures are fun and all
But so is going to bed
When did it happen
When did it change
When did my warm September nights get colder
There’s so much to live for
So why’s it that growing up means growing older
Why’s it that growing up means growing older
Looking around make no mistake
With you I’ll make it to midnight
When life changed the road that I thought I’d take
Tonight I see where it led
You make it happen
You make me grow
When life leaves me stressed I’m blessed to rest on your shoulder
You make it clearer
You show me growing up isn’t growing older
So thanks for being my song
When I’m too afraid to hear it
With a little more love
I’m learning not to fear it
So let the change arrive
Suddenly I’m more alive
Cause you help me see there’s nothing I’ve to fix
So cheers to Day 985
And to turning 26
Even When It's Hard to Hear It
Day 984 - September 10, 2026
Lyrics | Music: Oliver Richman
Performed By: Oliver Richman
When the piano won’t turn on
It doesn’t mean the song is gone
The music’s always there in spirit
Even when it’s hard to hear it
And the light is also out
Guess that’s what life’s about
When it’s not how it’s supposed to be
Is there something new to see
Lavender Sky
Day 983 - September 9, 2026
Lyrics | Music: Oliver Richman
Performed By: Oliver Richman
Lavender sky
Soon all your color will bid me goodbye
Striking and quick as a raindrop goes dry
You weren’t meant to stay
Lavender sky
Thundering proudly and wondering why
All of your lavender’s low in supply
Seems like you have enough grey
Wait Anymore
Day 982 - September 8, 2026
Lyrics | Music: Oliver Richman
Performed By: Oliver Richman
I don’t really want to wait anymore
I don’t want it on my plate anymore
I don’t think I can create any more excuse accommodating
Sick of always wondering when
“Now” will ever get me to “then”
Tell me why again and again I keep on waiting
Different Today
Day 981 - September 7, 2026
Lyrics | Music: Oliver Richman
Performed By: Oliver Richman
It’s gonna be different today
Won’t let my dreams get away
I hope and pray
It’s gonna be different different different today
There’s something new in the air
And I can’t help but breathe it in
And feel it alter who I’ve been
As if it’s always been there
Cause now the things I want to be
Don’t appear that far from me
It seems the clouds are finally parting
And something starting to grow
I don’t think I can see it yet
But in my heart I know
It’s gonna be different today
Won’t let my dreams get away
That sky of grey
Is gonna be different different different today
It’s gonna be different today
Won’t let my dreams get away
That sky of grey
Is gonna be different different different today
In 20 Days
Day 980 - September 6, 2026
Lyrics | Music: Oliver Richman
Performed By: Oliver Richman
In 20 days it’s day 1000
How can that possibly be true
Who knew how long I’d last
I can’t believe how fast we grew
In 20 days it’s day 1000
Promoting makes me feel contrite
Before my worry grows:
I’m doing 2 live shows that night
But no rush—
I still have 20 more to write
In a Week
Day 979 - September 5, 2026
Lyrics | Music: Oliver Richman
Performed By: Oliver Richman
A lot can happen in a week
And I sure need a lot to happen
To all the progress that I seek
Will you come my way
Perhaps today would feel less bleak
If tomorrow were not to happen
With the mistakes that I made yesterday
Finding New Ways to Sing
Day 978 - September 4, 2026
Lyrics | Music: Oliver Richman
Performed By: Oliver Richman
Trying to rest my voice
Cause there’s so much this month will bring
And I know it will test my voice
So I’m finding new ways to sing
Finding new ways to sing
Finding new ways to sing
Whistless Words
Day 977 - September 3, 2026
Music: Oliver Richman
Performed By: Oliver Richman
Vocal rest- No lyrics
New Month
Day 976 - September 2, 2026
Lyrics | Music: Oliver Richman
Performed By: Oliver Richman
New month
New week new start
But one thing never changes
The season rearranges
Everything but me
The trees all play their part
How easy they change color
But I keep growing duller
Than the world I see
Why don’t I grow like the leaves do
Why don’t I change like the sky
If only my nature were a little more like nature
Perhaps wouldn’t hurt to say goodbye
Carley
Day 975 - September 1, 2026
Lyrics | Music: Oliver Richman
Performed By: Oliver Richman
C-aring, kind, magnanimous, and brighter than a star
A-n inspiration from Big Blue World to ECR
R-easons that I love her will never come to end
L-ittle did I know a “push” would lead to my best friend
E-ven when we’re far away, we’re never far apart
Y-our light and love and magic are forever in my heart
Carley
When I lose my morale
Thanks for being a pal I can go to
Carley
You’re who I want to be
And there’s so much of me that I owe to
Carley
Thanks for being my fearless protector
You what a DTASC director should do
God it’s amazing how we grew
And I’m so lucky to have a friend like you
Discover
Chasing Time
FULL
Lyrics | Music: Oliver Richman
Performed By: Oliver Richman, Abby Mohaddes, Gabby Ballesteros
LAST NOVEMBER
Last November you were happy
New horizons clear as day
I remember being happy
But last November's far away
Last November rain was falling
But it didn't hide the sun
Cause last November life was calling
To a world that just begun
Time is racing by
Can't help but wonder why
I've spent a lifetime chasing daydreams from my mind
That I left the world I thought I knew behind
IN A HUNDRED YEARS
In a hundred years from now
I wonder how
The world will see
In a hundred lives from here
Will life appear to be
In the lights that house our bedroom
In the love you always bring
In a hundred years from now
Will time sing
Da da da da da
Da da da-da
Da da da
Da da da da da
Da da da da da
Sing with me forever
Dance with me through time today
A life ago, I never thought
The world would find a way
Cause life can fill with sorrow
Hiding out in fear
But now I see tomorrow
With your light and laughter here
Da da da da da
Da da da-da
Da da da
Da da da da da
Da da da da da
COME BACK
A little less sunshine today
A little less laughter to borrow
All of our dreams far away
Facing the pain of tomorrow
So wake me up when the nightmare’s ending
Wake me up when life is real again
Wake me up to prove that time’s pretending
But until then
Come back to your chair, Abby
Come back to your chair
I sit in your chair, Abby
It feels like you’re there
A little less music today
Filling our lifetime with quiet
A little less dancing today
Scrolling through time to deny it
So, take me back when life was endless dreaming
Take me back with millions of miles to go
Take me back when time was full of meaning
I’d never know until you'd go
So, come back to your food, Abby
Come back to your food
It’s waiting for you, Abby
Spoiling for you
Come back to your phone, Abby
Come back to your phone
They’re calling your phone, Abby
I sit here alone
So fuck the sun for shining today
Fuck the busy streets for moving on
Fuck the world for finding a way
When mine is gone
IF TIME COULD STAY
If I could turn the clocks back
If I had known tomorrow back then
If I could rewind time's track
If I could see your smile once again
Maybe I would open up my eyes
And never compromise
One moment chasing echoes that are bound to fade away
I’d imagine
If time could stay for a moment
If time could stay
I’d find a way in this moment
To say the things time took away from you
If love could paint tomorrow
Building monuments to mark the endless climb
If love could reform sorrow
In a world where we might live untouched by time
Maybe I would open up my heart
And never hold a part
Of time we have with anger from a day that’s come and gone
I’d imagine
If time could stay for a moment
If time could stay
I’d find a way in this moment
To say the things I should have said to you
But time isn’t waiting
For hearts in the past
Though time’s still creating
A million more moments
And maybe in one moment
Time won’t stop the love
Cause love is meant to last
YOU CHANGED MY SONG
I hear the breeze of last November
On every road we could’ve been
With lasting footprints to remember
When life was waiting to begin
Will the lights still shine without you to guide me along?
Will the world find you
In a life or two
Cause you never knew
How you changed my song
You changed my song with words I never knew
You changed my heart
With love that never grew
Till I met you
Now I hug a little tighter
Knowing time will move along
So in a hundred years from now
The world will rearrange ‘cause
You have changed my song
Corn Popsicles: A Corn Popsicle Found Me
Corn Popsicles
Lyrics | Music: Oliver Richman
Performed By: Oliver Richman
This is my submission for the Corn Musical
Lonely summer
Walking down to H-Mart
Singing Where do I go from here?
One year left in college
And I can’t help but acknowledge
That things would be different
If I knew you were near
Where are the friends you…
Meet in the movies?
Willing to wait…
Ready to be there…
Am I too much?
Am I too late?
Leave it to fate
And I suddenly see there
Lying on the shelf
A six-sided reflection of myself
Waiting…
What would I do without seeing the view
Of a corn popsicle?
Where would I be without learning to see
Like a corn popsicle?
Simple yet blazing
Profound and a-maiz-ing
And doesn’t need praising to raise to the top
I can finally say: I’m finally free!
Today is the day
A corn popsicle found me
To be corn-tinued…
Glasses
Day 881 - May 30, 2026
Lyrics | Music: Oliver Richman
Performed By: Oliver Richman
Inspired by this passage of
They Both Die at the End:
I take a deep breath. “But if for some reason
this plan doesn’t work, we need to promise to
find each other in the afterlife. There has to be
an afterlife, Roof, because it’s the only thing
that makes dying this young fair.”
Rufus nods. “I will make it so easy for you to
find me. Neon signs. Marching bands.”
“Good, because I might not have my glasses,”
I say. “Not sure if they’ll ascend with me.”
In case God takes away my glasses
Here’s what I look like
No clue where we’re bound to go
But need to make sure you know
In case it’s somewhere without glasses
In case it’s harder there to see
Cause it took way too long
To find you here in this world
And just in case
I don’t have glasses in the next one
I need to know
It won’t be just as long for you to find me
Just as long as you can find me
My Rose
Lyrics | Music: Oliver Richman
Performed By: Oliver Richman
Did you get my rose this morning?
I hope it made you grin
Don’t forget my rose this morning
When reality sinks in
Cause I’m not as pretty as a rose
I’m not as graceful as her leaves
I’ve never felt the kind of love that she receives
Despite the thorns I try to hide
I know I’ll never change the view
My petals are not the ones you chose
I’m not as lucky as the rose
Who knows how it feels
To be held by you
Back Up
Day 466 - April 10, 2025
Lyrics | Music: Oliver Richman
Performed By: Oliver Richman
Made a song from the sound
of a truck backing up
Back up
Can we just back up?
Can we just hit rewind
Before what’s bad get worse
Back up
Too late to back up
Too late to make the words
I said to you reverse
Reverse
I can’t move forward
Knowing you’re not here
I’ve tried to find a different road
But I can’t change the gear
So how did you move forward
And pave a different track
When all that I can do is
Look back
Song a Day 568 (LIVE at Joe's Pub NYC)
Day 568 - July 21, 2025
Lyrics | Music: Oliver Richman
Performed By: Oliver Richman
Yesterday was one of the most special days I’ve ever had.
I’m such a lucky guy. My only complaint is that I had so
much fomo because there were people from so many aspects
of my life that I desperately wanted to hang with and
introduce to each other so if you were there or watching the
livestream holy moly thank you literally please hang out
with me I love you. Thanks for having me @Joe’s Pub
Song a Day 568
At Joe’s Pub
July 21, 2025
(Yesterday)
I like beginnings
More than ends
That doesn’t mean I like to start
No
I’m never certain how to start
(Good Art sign) Close? (sigh)
Is it worth beginning?
Well, that depends
Is it real or is it “smart”?
No
Is it something from my heart?
Gross
I know my words never come out perfect
I know my notes still have room to grow
But too long I’ve let the fear of saying “goodbye”
Keep me from saying “hello”
So hello!
That fear is hard to part with
But tonight I’ll try to start with what I know:
(“The Ballad of Phil and Phyllis” music)
It’s my first solo show
It’s the opening song
I started it yesterday
So it’s not that strong
But you’re really here
I know it’s very late
So thanks for coming down on
Day 568
Time comes time goes
And you never think you’re ready
I don’t know if I’m ready
New dreams new clothes
Though the path may feel unsteady
Just look at where it led eventually!
Cause it’s hard to see
What lies beyond the highs and lows
If it means something tomorrow…
No one really knows
Cause one day you have no clue
How to write any words worth saying
And then the next day
You’re playing it at Joe’s
At Joe’s!
It’s my first solo show
It’s the opening song
And my voice may crack
But I’ll sing it strong
Cause you’re really here
So let’s celebrate
When my skies were looking grey
With you I found a ray
Of love and hope and joy
On Day 568
Stranger in a Bookstore
Day 117 - April 26, 2024
Lyrics | Music: Oliver Richman
Performed By: Oliver Richman
POV: You’re a hopeless romantic
in a bookstore
If you turn my way
And you caught my eye
Would we fall in love the way it happens in the stories?
Is it too cliché?
Thinking sparks would fly
That we’d fall in love the way it happens in the stories?
Would you ask my name?
Would you start to smile?
Would you feel the same relenting hope
That this new chapter last a while?
Would we stay right here and talk
Till we both forget the clock
Or were we only meant to walk the fiction aisle?
Cause you turn my way
And you catch my eye
And I say goodbye
To the stranger in a bookstore
Stranger in a Bookstore (Reprise)
Day 330 - November 25, 2024
Lyrics | Music: Oliver Richman
Performed By: Oliver Richman
Never thought you’d turn my way
Never thought that story’d come to be
In a world where love’s passé
I don’t understand why you’d love me
I’m no prince
No fearless knight
I’m no hero worth the fight
Didn’t think that you’d rewrite my story
Thought I read this book before
Guess I somehow missed the greatest part
Now I know there’s always more
Now at last you’ve opened up my heart
And set the author free
I couldn’t find the key
Until you turned my way
And caught my eye
And helped my see
My story
The Song of Achilles
Day 510+ - May 24, 2025
Lyrics | Music: Oliver Richman
Performed By: Oliver Richman
What if The Song of Achilles was a musical…
Inspired by Chapter 6 of
The Song of Achilles (when
Patroclus realizes his jealousy
Of Achilles might be… something
Else) by Madeline Miller
Patroclus:
“Dm dm dm dm”
goes the stone
that he throws
across the water
Twenty
“dm dm dm dm”
Thirty
“dm dm dm dm”
Forty
“dm dm dm”
Further than mine
Last week all I wanted was to throw
my stupid stone into his face
Until his dimples lose their shine
“Dm dm dm dm”
But suddenly it’s fine
“Dm dm dm dm”
goes the lyre
that he plays perhaps to tease me
A hundred men have played those strings
But none like he
Last week I was angry
That his stupid princely hands unlocked a song
Where I could never find the key
But now everything around me rings
And suddenly I wish those strings were
“Dm dm dm dm”
me
And it’s almost like fear
Almost like crying
But it’s different from the things I’ve felt before
When I know that he’s near
It feels like I’m flying
But who knew I’d see Olympus
With my feet still on the floor
My Dream Last Night
Day 676 - November 6, 2025
Lyrics | Music: Oliver Richman
Performed By: Oliver Richman
I wrote a really good song
In my dream last night
But I forgot the way it goes
And as much as I try to remember it
Only the ghost of my dream knows
Oh, there was a melody I found
Oh, felt like that best one I had written
The best one I would write
Perhaps I’ll hear the song again
When I go to bed tonight
September
Day 610 - September 1, 2025
Lyrics | Music: Oliver Richman
Performed By: Oliver Richman
September
Can’t believe you’re finally here again
It’s my favorite time of year again
Waiting for the day that you return
Wondering if you remember
How the leaves looked not too long ago
I can still hear how your song would go
Leaving me a lesson I don’t learn
Well maybe next September
Maybe next September
When a Song Fights Back
Day 7 - January 7, 2024
Lyrics | Music: Oliver Richman, Kaden MacKay
Performed By: Oliver Richman, Kaden MacKay
SONGWRITER:
Should it go here?
Should it go there?
Should it go up or down
Or stop - no
It should go somewhere
But where?
It should be clear
Clear and concise
Pleasing to the ear
Something to entice
Leaves you with a tear
It should go here!
But I wanna go here
Who are you?
SONG:
I’m the song
you want to write
Well, not yet
Not quite
But I would be
If you only set me free
You could hear the things I see
You could play within the key
Of what I could be
Wait, What?
Imagine all the buried treasure
Once you know the measure of a measure
Is never in the craft but in the pleasure that can flow
Once you let go
But if you don’t
You’ll never know
