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LYRICS

Michael Monroe’s Lyrics on CD Recordings

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Discover Michael Monroe’s lyrics to music he created on the North Shore of Lake Superior and recorded using solar power in his MisTree Studio. Determine which recording the tune is on…click on recording below to locate the lyrics.

 

 

  • Time To Get Away

    Time to Get Away

    Well, it was gettin to be too much, responsibilities and such,
    I was feel’in way out of touch, like everybody was speakin Dutch.
    I was lookin for a hideaway, a place where I could take time to play
    I need more than a minute to myself today…..I need

    Chorus
    Time to get away It’s high time I find a way
    A way to ease my mind. Im gonna take some time
    Time to get away
    Time to get away

    Away from the city, A little place by the lake.
    Where the sunsets are pretty, And I can hear the breeze in the trees when I wake.
    A hammock in the front yard. Round the fire in the back yard.
    If it’s rainin we can play cards. You know it can’t be that hard to find

    Chorus
    Time to get away It’s high time I find a way
    A way to ease my mind. Im gonna take some time
    Time to get away
    Time to get away

    Well they’ve been callin on my telephone textin’ on my cell a phone
    I got a hundred emails.
    Standin in a long line headin to a deadline the traffic’s movin like snails.
    I’m hangin on for dear life is this really real life you know what I need?

    Time to get away It’s high time I find a way
    A way to ease my mind. Im gonna take some time
    For myself to find time to chill unwind
    Far away from the grind Where I’m feelin fine

    Time to get away…

    Life Of My Time

    I’m gonna live in a house by the ocean

    Wear nothin but suntan lotion

    Only work when I get the notion

    I’m gonna win the lottery

     

    I’m gonna be a millionaire

    I’m gonna live life Les e fair

    I’m gonna dance like Fred Astaire

    Im gonna win the lottery

     

    I ain’t  livin in reality

    Whats so great about reality?

    I found a better place in fantasy

    Im gonna win the lottery Im gonna win the lottery

     

    Meanwhile I’m livin in heaven

    Don’t have to work from 11 to 7

    I live to play and I play for a livin

    It’s like I won the lottery  It’s like I won the lottery

     

    I’ll be drivin a bus that’s a monster

    And tow behind it a Tesla Roadster

    If you’re hitchin I’ll pull right over

    Cause i won the lottery

     

    You say the odds are a billion to one

    I say I’m gonna be that one

    Playin the game is at least half the fun

    I’m gonna win the lottery

     

    The universe has it all lined up

    Knows exactly where I’ll wind up

    All my loose ends will be tied up

    When I win the lottery  Im gonna win the lottery

     

    Meanwhile I’m livin fine

    “I got you babe” and “Red red wine”

    And I’m Havin the life of my time

    It’s like I won the lottery…

  • Love Songs and Romantic Ballads

    Did You Ever Think of Me

    I’ve tried to imagine who you are, where you are, what were you feeling the day that I was born?

    Somehow you slipped away and I lost you before I knew your face I lost my place.

    Don’t get me wrong I’m not blaming you. I know that there was nothing you could do when she chose to go and

    I have a good life full of laughter full of love and still I need to know.

    Chorus:

    Did you ever think of me over all these years?

    Did you ever want to see the me that I’ve become?

    I’m not asking you to change or rearrange your life.

    But do you ever think of me when I am thinking of you?

     

    I was a young man and I was not expecting you

    From a romance that never had a chance

    But somehow you slipped away and I lost you before I knew your face I lost my place

    Although you never knew the father who was singing in a new town most every night

    Never staying long you have your own voice strong and truly knowing who you are you found your song

     

    A voice on the phone out of the blue. You’re asking the question I’m asking you

    Did you ever think of me over all these years?

    Did you ever want to see the me that I’ve become?

    I’m not asking you to change or rearrange your life

    But do you ever think of me when I’m thinking of you?

    Do you ever think of me?

  • Live At The Cedar

    Lyrics from these tunes are on other recordings

  • Wintersong

    Wintersong
    In the air like a winter song
    Making everything white all along my path
    Over memories of autumn hues
    It’s music to my eyes….

    And I’ve always loved harmony
    Cuts to the very heart of me
    Like fire in December
    Down to my soul it warms me. Chorus

    Chorus:
    Like the promise of love in the spring
    It’s in the way that the sun makes me sing
    It’s in the way that the autumn can bring
    A grateful tear to my eye
    Every season is calling to me
    ‘To be the changes that I want to see’
    In world full of disharmony
    I’ll sing my winter song.

    I know sometimes it seems
    Winter freezes everything
    But what appears to be cold and still
    Is only sleeping
    And sleep is when we dream
    of the songs we want to sing
    From the darkness and the silence
    Comes a new refrain. Chorus

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    Hibernation (instrumental)
    “What appears to be cold and still, is only sleeping.”

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    River (Joni Mitchell) (SONY/ATV TUNES LLC OBO JONI MITCHELL PUBLISHING CORP.)
    Its coming on Christmas
    They’re cutting down trees
    They’re putting up reindeer
    And singing songs of joy and peace
    Oh I wish I had a river
    I could skate away on
    But it don’t snow here
    It stays pretty green
    I’m going to make a lot of money
    Then I’m going to quit this crazy scene
    I wish I had a river
    I could skate away on
    I wish I had a river so long
    I would teach my feet to fly
    Oh I wish I had a river
    I could skate away on
    I made my baby cry

    She tried hard to help me
    You know, he put me at ease
    And he loved me so naughty
    Made me weak in the knees
    Oh I wish I had a river
    I could skate away on
    I’m so hard to handle
    I’m selfish and I’m sad
    Now Ive gone and lost the best baby
    That I ever had
    Oh I wish I had a river
    I could skate away on
    I wish I had a river so long
    I would teach my feet to fly
    Oh I wish I had a river
    I made my baby say goodbye

    Its coming on Christmas
    They’re cutting down trees
    They’re putting up reindeer
    And singing songs of joy and peace
    I wish I had a river
    I could skate away on

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    Catch The Wind (Donovan Leitch, SOUTHERN MUSIC PUB CO INC)
    In the chilly hours and minutes,
    Of uncertainty, I want to be,
    In the warm hold of your loving mind.

    To feel you all around me,
    And to take your hand, along the sand,
    Ah, but I may as well try and catch the wind.

    When sundown pales the sky,
    I wanna hide a while, behind your smile,
    And everywhere I’d look, your eyes I’d find.

    For me to love you now,
    Would be the sweetest thing, ‘twould make me sing,
    Ah, but I may as well, try and catch the wind.

    When rain has hung the leaves with tears,
    I want you near, to kill my fears
    To help me to leave all my blues behind.

    For standin’ in your heart,
    Is where I want to be, and I long to be,
    Ah, but I may as well, try and catch the wind.

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    Snow Leopard (Instrumental: Percussion by Marc Anderson
    Marc Anderson actually sent Michael a percussion track he created which inspired Michael to create music around the percussion. It wasn’t until he played the “Snow Leopard” baritone guitar that the piece came together.

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    Winter Embrace
    Sky Blue and evergreen
    On a sea of sparkling white
    And I knew this morning scene
    Would make me feel that all is right.

    So easy to be at peace
    So At home here in the woods
    I would carry this feeling
    Always with me if I could. Chorus

    Chorus:
    Oh winter embrace me
    Show me who I am
    From silent to stormy
    My heart is in your hands.

    Gliding through green corridors
    A whispering train on a snowy rail
    My best friend’s behind me
    Every morning without fail.

    Sometimes a moose or a deer
    Or a wolf will cross our path
    If we don’t meet them face to face
    We can always spot their tracks. Chorus

    From the warmth of my cabin
    I see the snow wind through the pines
    Though a blizzard is raging
    A quiet gift is left behind.

    Sky blue and Evergreen
    On a sea of sparkling white
    And I knew this morning scene
    Would make me feel that all is right. Chorus

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    Hey Ho Nobody Home (Traditional)
    Hey, ho, nobody home – Meat nor drink nor money have I none Yet shall we be merry –
    Hey, ho, nobody home – Meat nor drink nor money have I none Yet shall we be merry –
    Hey, ho, nobody home – Hey, ho, nobody home

    Soal, soal, a soal cake – Please, good missus, a soal cake
    An apple, a pear, a plum, a cherry – any good thing to make us all merry
    One for Peter, two for Paul – Three for Him who made us all

    God bless the master of this house and the mistress, also-
    And all the little children that ’round your table grow
    The cattle in your stable, the dog at your front door
    And all that dwells within your gate, we wish you 10 times more – Soal, a soal, a soal cake.

    Go down into the cellar and see what you can find
    If the barrels are not empty we hope you will be kind
    We hope you will be kind with your apple and strawber’
    For we’ll come no more a ‘soalin’ ’til this time next year Soal, a soal, a soal cake…

    The streets are very dirty, my shoes are very thin I have a little pocket to put a penny in
    If you haven’t got a penny, a ha’ penny will do
    If you haven’t got a ha’ penny then God bless you Soal, a soal, a soal cake…

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    Solstice Dance (Instrumental: Narnia Theme)
    Originally the “Theme From Narnia” a Grand Marais Playhouse production of “The Lion Witch and Wardrobe”, 2006 for which Michael was commissioned to compose music for and Tim Styles (aka Tim Suck), a high school student played banjo, mandolin and guitar as part of the Cook County Mentorship program.

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    Light Of Love
    This is the time of awakening
    The season has come for new life
    The cold giving way to a warm wind
    The darkness is ‘chased by the light’

    The world half asleep since the snowfall
    Turning her face to the sun
    Somehow the seeds still remember
    To spring from the earth as one.

    Chorus
    And we sing the songs of love and we watch the stars above
    For a sign of the change in the seasons, a return of the light of love.

    Some of us stay through the winter
    And some of fly to the sun.
    Those who remain know the joy that comes
    With the taste of spring rain on the tongue.

    Chorus

    Is this the reason for living
    To learn from earth how it’s done
    We’re never far from our mother
    she’s where we are going and where we’re from.

    Chorus

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    Melting (Instrumental)

    Inspired by the spring melting snow along the Cascade River, North Shore of Lake Superior, MN

  • Simple Life


    Simple Life

    WE BUILT OUR HOUSE OF LOGS IN THE WOODS
    BUILT IT OURSELVES BECAUSE WE COULD
    WHEN IT WAS DONE WE SAID IT WAS GOOD
    WE WANTED TO LIVE THE SIMPLE LIFE

    I GATHER WOOD RIGHT OFF OUR LAND
    SPLIT IT FOR FIRE WITH MY OWN HANDS
    HAUL MY WATER FROM THE SPRING WHEN I CAN
    ALL SO WE CAN LIVE THE SIMPLE LIFE

    I JUST COULDN’T LIVE IN THE CITY WAY TOO MANY ROADS AND NOT ENOUGH TREES
    I CAN ONLY TAKE IT FOR A DAY OR TWO THEN IT’S BACK TO THE SIMPLE LIFE

    I WAS BROUGHT UP AT THE EDGE OF TOWN
    ONE FOOT ON PAVEMENT ONE ON GROUND
    CROWDED DAYS AT SCHOOL SPUN MY HEAD AROUND
    SO I’D HURRY BACK TO MY SIMPLE LIFE

    I CAN’T SEEM TO GIVE UP ONE OR THE OTHER
    THE CITY’S MY WORK THE COUNTRY’S MY LOVER
    SO I’LL BE BETWEEN THE TWO FOREVER
    AS LONG AS I CAN LIVE MY SIMPLE LIFE

    I JUST COULDN’T LIVE IN THE CITY WAY TOO MANY PEOPLE AND NOT ENOUGH SOLITUDE
    I CAN ONLY TAKE IT FOR A DAY OR TWO THEN IT’S BACK TO MY SIMPLE LIFE
    I JUST COULDN’T LIVE IN THE CITY WAY TOO MANY BUILDINGS AND NOT ENOUGH AIR TO BREATHE
    I CAN ONLY TAKE IT FOR A DAY OR TWO THEN IT’S BACK TO THE SIMPLE LIFE

    SO NOW I FIND MY MUSIC IN THE WOODS
    IN BETWEEN CHORES OF WATER AND WOOD
    THEN I PACK UP MY SONGS OF STRINGS ON WOOD
    TO BRING YOU A TASTE OF A SIMPLE LIFE

    YOU KNOW IT’S ALL INSIDE OUR HEADS
    NO MATTER WHAT WE DO OR WHERE WE MAKE OUR BED
    AS LONG AS WE ARE LOVING AND WE’RE FED
    ANYONE CAN LIVE A SIMPLE LIFE
    EVERYONE CAN LIVE A SIMPLE LIFE
    I JUST WANT TO LIVE A SIMPLE LIFE

    As It Should Be

    GROWING SIDE BY SIDE
    WITH NO FEAR OF WHO IS STANDING NEAR
    OUR ROOTS ARE INTERTWINED WHAT’S YOURS IS MINE
    WE’RE ALL JUST REACHING FOR THE STARS

    AND ONE THEY NAMED SOL THE SUN
    ON THIS EARTH WE ALL DRAW OUR LIFE FROM
    SHE SEES US ALL BELOW AS ONE BOUNDARIES NONE
    LIFE AND LIGHT FOR ALL

    WE COULD TAKE A LESSON FROM THE TREES
    WE COULD TAKE DIRECTION FROM THE BREEZE
    WE COULD TAKE A MOMENT TO SEE
    EVERYTHING IS AS IT SHOULD BE

    CHANGING POISON INTO AIR
    GROWING BRANCHES WHERE WE LOOSE ALL OUR CARES
    LIVING LONG GOING NOWHERE WATCHING AS
    THE WORLD PASSES BY

    AND THOUGH THIS OLD POPLAR FELL
    IT’S LIVING ON WITH A SONG TO TELL
    SO CAN WE MAKE HARMONY FROM THE PEOPLE
    FALLING NEEDLESSLY

    Chorus

    AND AS THE MOON RISES HIGH
    AND CASTS THE SHADOW OF A LEAF ON MY EYE
    I KNOW I DON’T HAVE TO TRY TO UNDERSTAND
    THE MYSTERY IN A SIGH

    Chorus

    What I Needed Most

    I didn’t know what I needed
    I only know I needed something
    A little help with life’s puzzles
    A chance to be myself in the light
    And when I need it the most
    A listening ear or guiding hand
    A word or two in the right direction

    Chorus:
    Then I found a house I could call a home,
    for a while or a place to learn and be and grow
    A place full of love and open arms

    I found some people I could call my own
    Understanding and a feeling that I’m not alone
    Its what I needed most to move on to now

    You can get caught in the middle
    When everything seems like a riddle
    And you don’t like the game
    Everyone is playing
    Well all I wanted was to be real
    And understand the things I feel
    And to feel like I have some direction

    Chorus

    Calling

    There’s a light on the horizon, and it’s calling out my name
    and before I know what I’m seeing, it’s the heartbreaking rust of sunrise… sunrise.
    There’s a river deep inside this canyon, and it’s calling out my name.
    Step by step and turn by turn, she fills my heart till I’m singing
    Calling… calling.. calling
    There’s a bird on the wind, and she’s calling out my name.
    To be free once again, to be me…. ah that’s the game.
    There’s a longing deep inside my soul, and it’s calling out my name.
    Flows through my life just like the river… cuts through my heart just like sunrise.
    Calling… calling…. calling

    Oneawa

    FALLING DOWN ON THE SNOW, IT HARDLY SEEMS LIKE THE SAME SUN AS ONEAWA OAHU
    IT’S ALWAYS BEAUTIFUL THERE EVEN IF IT’S RAINING IT’S WARM AND IT’S SO INVITING.
    NOT LIKE WINTER I’M SO TIRED IT’S SO BITTER IT’S FOR NORWEGIANS
    I’M IN A THIN SKIN I WAS MEANT TO LIVE IN A BROWNER SKIN ALL YEAR LONG
    PICKING FRUIT FROM THE TREES AND DRINKING FROM A COOL STREAM
    LIVING ON THE BEACH PEACEFULLY
    WHY AM I SPENDING MY DAYS DIGGING CRYSTALS MADE OF WATER WHEN LIFE OUGHTER
    BE EASIER INSTEAD OF FREEZING HERE I COULD BE MELTING INTO THE OCEAN SINGING SONGS TO MY SOMEONE  WHO DESERVES SOME OF THE GOOD LIFE ONEAWA

    I COULD HAVE STAYED RIGHT THERE I DIDN’T HAVE TO LEAVE
    I ONLY THOUGHT I HAD RESPONSIBILITIES
    NOW LOOKING OUT AT THE SNOW IT SEEMS SO FAR AWAY
    THAT PARADISE ON THE BEACH WHERE WE GAVE BACK OUR LAYS
    TO THE OCEAN AND SAND THE FLOWERS SLIPPED THROUGH OUR HANDS
    JUST LIKE THE TIME WE SHARED ON KAILUA OAHU……. ONEAWA
    HOW WAS I TO KNOW THAT I WOULD FEEL SO EMPTY
    COMING HOME NOTHING WAS THE SAME
    EVERYTHING SO STILL SO FROZEN AND SO BLACK AND WHITE
    CLOUDY DAYS LONG NIGHTS SO MUCH DARKNESS
    WHAT’S THIS LONELINESS? WHERE’S MY HAPPINESS?
    I THINK I CAN GUESS… ONEAWA…

    ONEAWA… ONEAWA…

    Chorus

    All Of Me

    Happy Birthday, my darling
    this is your love minstrel at your feet again.
    What to give the woman who has everything
    a beautiful life, a beautiful man, a beautiful car, and natural beauty

    Chorus:
    How can I give you what you already have,
    How can I surprise you? You’re reading my mind…
    So, I don’t have to tell you that you already have
    All of me

    I could build you a house on a hill over looking the lake, but I did
    Its a funky house on a little hill but its a really big lake
    I could sing you a song saying how much I love you
    but I did and I do and I am…its for you.

    Chorus

    You’re in my voice, you’re in my mind
    you’re in my heart, all of the time
    you’re in my hands, you’re in my hair
    and where you are, my strength is there

    Chorus

  • IF

    IF/strong>

    if i were perfect i’d be done

    if i were human we’d be one

    if i were happy i’d have fun

    if i’m just whining is this art?

    if i don’t stop i won’t have to start

    if it’s all a movie i’m just playing my part

     

    how long can i keep this body?

    can i trade it in when i’m done?

    for another one just like the other one

    i want to give it another run

     

    if i weren’t frozen i’d be alive

    if i start walking i’ll arrive

    if i get tired i might ride

    if i don’t die i will survive

    if i survive i might just thrive

    if i can thrive then i can fly

     

    how long can i keep this body?

    can i trade it in in the end?

    for something completely different

    i want to begin again

     

    if there’s no pain is there still gain?

    if i’m not crazy am i sane?

    if everything goes down the drain

    if it’s not hell then is this heaven?

    if i’m not there well where am i then?

    if i can bring my dog i’ll be happy

     

    How long have i had this body?

    can i trade it in when i’m done?

    for a spirit or a drop in the ocean

    on a planet ’round a purple sun

    if i were perfect i’d be done

     

    peace of mind/michael monroe

    peace of mind i can find when i’m sleeping

    it’s not hard to run away from everything

    but i’m lost when it comes to living in this world

    and doing something meaningful

     

    what’s not been said what’s not been done

    a million times before by the best and brightest humans

    who am i but another crazy minstrel getting high

    by singing songs about me

     

    chorus:

    i’m caught in the middle of time again

    runnin’ around like i can’t find my own end

    too old to be wanderin too old too young to be old

    too long on this journey to question the road

     

    the best of them had lives filled with hell and fury

    walking through fire purified their spirits

    but i’m spoiled on the path of least resistance

    go with the flow it’ll all come back around again

     

    just enjoy the ride it’ll all be fine in the end

    remember why you love to sing and dance

    there’s no reason why not to indulge in the beauty

    of this world it’ll all be over someday

     

    chorus

    repeat first verse

    repeat last verse

     

    you are the one/michaelmonroe

    she looks across the kitchen table

    at the man she’s loved for sixty years now

    maybe all of them weren’t so grand

    but she can still see him as a handsome young man

    she used to hear him from across the park

    singing to the crowds on saturdays

    and as she watched the children in her care

    she imagined that they were theirs

    chorus:

    and she could see beyond her twenty years

    to a day when they would be one

    to a day like today happy and gray

    they can still sing “you are the one”

     

    well it wasn’t quite how she’d imagined

    overseas and so far from home

    he off somewhere in his uniform and

    she waiting for him all day all all one

    the loneliness almost drove her crazy

    she tried to fill her days withempty chores

    things he didn’t seem to notice

    they were grooming him for war

     

    but she could see beyond those painful years

    to a day when they would be one

    to a day like today happy and gray

    they can still sing ” you are the one”

     

    and now she hears him from down the hall

    singing as he works at his desk

    she’s rearranging photos in the living room

    and remembering all the things

    that she loved the best

     

    on his arm on their wedding day

    their first child on her breast

    the way she feels when the family’s all together

    and the fragrance rising from the ceder chest

    brings her back to the day they met

     

    and she could see beyond her twenty years…

     

     

    skating away/ian anderson/jethro tull

    meanwhile back in the year one

    when you believed in no one

    you didn’t stand a chance son

    if your parents were undone

     

    cause you were bred for humanity

    and sold to society

    one day you’ll wake up to the present day

    a million generations removed from expectations

    of being who you really want to be

     

    chorus:

    skating away skating away

    skating away on the thin ice of a new day

     

    and as you push off from the shore

    won’t you turn your head once more

    and make your peace with everyone

    and those who chose to stay

    will live just one more day

    to do the things they should have done

     

    and as you cross the wilderness

    suspending in your emptiness

    and you feel you have to pray

    searching for a sign that the universal mind

    has written you into the passion play

     

    chorus

     

    and as you cross the circle line

    well the oswald breathes behind

    you’re a rabbit on the run

    and sliver splinters fly in the

    corner of your eye

    shining in the setting sun

     

    do you ever get the feeling

    that the stories too damn real

    and in the present….tense?

    everybody’s on the stage

    and you’re the only person

    sitting in the audience?

     chorus

    what if/michaelmonroe

    i had a dream i was dancing by the fire

    i was a native of this land many years ago

    loving my people and hating the strangers

    who came from nowhere and drove us all away

    now i find myself busted at this table

    a few chips and my cards in my hands

    loving the game and hating the dealer

    Ojibway watches as i throw it all away

     

    chorus a:

    but what if i were you in another life?

    what if you were me next time around?

    what if when we hate were really hating ourselves?

     

    i fell in love and we had a daughter

    she was the center of my world for seven years

    but love turned cold and i had to leave her

    and to this day she wonders what was wrong with me

    i thought for sure i could do so much better

    than my mother and father before me

    till i repeated their words to the letter

    words i swore would never come from me

    chorus a

    chorus b:

    what if were all in the same boat?

    what if we only think were special?

    what if when we love were really loving ourselves?

     

    do you ever feel like you woke up

    on the wrong side of the universe?

    d\on’t you just want to go back to sleep and

    find your way back home?

    but what if were all from the same place?

    what if we only think were different?

    what if when were lonely were just missing ourselves?

    chorus a

    chorus b

    are we loving ourselves?

     

     

    one stupid question/michaelmonroe

    what am i doing here? what are we doing here?

    that’s the question of the day

    is it a privilege? is it a prison?

    is it a school will we graduate?

    then who is the teacher? what was the lesson?

    i’d like to know if it’s not too late

    but nobody asks any more

    nobody wants to be a bore

    nobody wants to be the one to say

     

    i’ve got one stupid question that’s been

    hanging in the back of my mind year after year

    when i’m sittin by the fire in the moonlight

    i just can’t help but wonder what am i doing here?

     

    will you still love me when i’m not pretty

    when i can’t sing anymore?

    i hope i’m not there yet

    let me know if i missed it

    i’ll do it till it don’t sound good any more

    maybe when i’m 84 and i don’t want to sing anymore

    i just want to sit on the floor and meditate a little more

    on that one stupid question that keeps

    hanging in the back of my mind year after year

    when i’m sittin by the fire in the moonlight

    i just can’t help but wonder

    what am i doing here?

     

    maybe that’s not the question

    maybe i’m wasting precious energy on things

    i’ll never know

    why can’t i just live my life doing what i think is right

    doing what i hope will help me grow?

    but i just can’t ignore it can’t seem to let go of it

    like a dream that i can’t recall in the day

    and if life is really just a dream

    i hope it’s a really good dream

    and when i wake up i’m gonna say

     

    i’ve got one stupid question

    that’s been hanging in the back of my mind year after year

    when i’m sittin by the fire in the moonlight

    i just can’t help but wonder

    what am i doing here?

     

     

    swim/stuart davis

    the only reason that it’s scary getting old

    is people treat you like you’re too big to hold

    and you still feel just like a kid

    you call my bluff when i pretend to be at peace

    you take the water that i finally release

     

    close your mouth, open your arms

    that is why i reach for you so much

    i think i’m drowning until we touch

    life is an ocean we fall in

    when you hold me i can swim

     

    in this hospital the beds are made of steel

    and metal instruments are all some people feel

    but what you need is something soft against your skin

    so you don’t have to pretend to be at peace

    i’ll take the water that you finally release

     

    close your mouth, open your arms

    that is why you reach for me so much

    you think you’re drowning until we touch

    death is an ocean we fall in

    i will hold you while you swim

     

    forever young/bob dylan

    may god bless and keep you always

    may your wishes all come true

    may you always do the for others

    and let others do for you

    may you build a ladder to the stars

    and climb on every rung

    and may you stay forever young

     

    chorus:

    forever young forever young

    may you stay, forever young

     

    may you grow up to be righteous

    may you grow up to be true

    may you always know the truth

    and see the light surrounding you

    may you always be courageous

    stand upright and be strong

    and may you stay forever young

    chorus

    may your hands always be busy

    may y our feet always be swift

    may you have a strong foundation

    when the winds of changes shift

    may your heart always be joyful

    may your song always be sung

    and may you stay forever young

    chorus

     

  • Abandin My Own Mind

    Lyrics from these tunes are on other recordings except for:

    Twisted
    DURY, BAXTER / ROSS, CRAIG

    My analyst told me
    That I was right out of my head
    The way he described it
    He said I’d be better dead than live
    I didn’t listen to his jive
    I knew all along
    That he was all wrong
    And I knew that he thought
    I was crazy but I’m not
    Oh no

    My analyst told me
    That I was right out of my head
    He said I’d need treatment
    But I’m not that easily led
    He said I was the type
    That was most inclined
    When out of his sight
    To be out of my mind
    And he thought I was nuts
    No more ifs or ands or buts

    They say as a child
    I appeared a little bit wild
    With all my crazy ideas
    But I knew what was happening
    I knew I was a genius…
    What’s so strange when you know
    That you’re a wizard at three
    I knew that this was meant to be

    Now I heard little children
    Were supposed to sleep tight
    That’s why I got into the vodka one night
    My parents got frantic
    Didn’t know what to do
    But I saw some crazy scenes
    Before I came to
    Now do you think I was crazy
    I may have been only three
    But I was swinging

    They all laugh at angry young men
    They all laugh at Edison
    And also at Einstein
    So why should I feel sorry
    If they just couldn’t understand
    The idiomatic logic
    That went on in my head
    I had a brain
    It was insane
    Oh they used to laugh at me
    When I refused to ride
    On all those double decker buses
    All because there was no driver on the top

    My analyst told me
    That I was right out of my head
    But I said dear doctor
    I think that it’s you instead
    Because I have got a thing
    That’s unique and new
    To prove it I’ll have
    The last laugh on you
    ‘Cause instead of one head
    I got two
    And you know two heads are better than one.

    Wouldn’t It Be Good
    Nik Kershaw

    I got it bad, you don’t know how bad I got it
    You got it easy, you don’t know when you’ve got it good
    It’s getting harder just keeping life and soul together
    I’m sick of fighting, even though I know I should

    The cold is biting through each and every nerve and fiber
    My broken spirit is frozen to the core
    I don’t want to be here no more

    Wouldn’t it be good to be in your shoes
    Even if it was for just one day
    Wouldn’t it be good if we could wish ourselves away

    Wouldn’t it be good to be on your side
    The grass is always greener over there
    Wouldn’t it be good if we could live without a care

    You must be joking, you don’t know a thing about it
    You’ve got no problem, I’d stay right there if I were you
    I got it harder, you couldn’t dream how hard I got it
    Stay out of my shoes if you know what’s good for you

    The heat is stifling, burning me up from the inside
    The sweat is coming through each and every pore
    I don’t want to be here no more
    I don’t want to be here no more
    I don’t want to be here no more

    Wouldn’t it be good to be in your shoes
    Even if it was for just one day
    Wouldn’t it be good if we could wish ourselves away, ooh

    Wouldn’t it be good to be on your side
    The grass is always greener over there
    And wouldn’t it be good if we could live without a care

    I got it bad, you don’t know how bad I got it
    You got it easy, you don’t know when you’ve got it good
    It’s getting harder just keeping life and soul together
    I’m sick of fighting, even though I know I should

  • As Far As I Can See

    Stay tuned for lyrics…under construction

  • Twice In One Day

    Life Is  A Mystery

    I try to talk, but I know you’re not listening.

    Our experiences aren’t the same. They say love is fickle, they say love is blind.

    But we could love so easy, if we just clear our minds.

    Chorus:

    Can you really tell what I am thinking?

    Can you really feel what’s in my heart?

    Can we really know what we are doing?

    Oh, life is a mystery, it’s a beautiful mystery.

    Life is a mystery, it’s a beautiful mystery.

     

    You try to talk but you know I’m not hearing you

    My experience it clouds up my mind sometimes

    If we can remember our common existence

    We will see were are all of one kind

    Chorus

    We hold so tight to all our expectations

    And stuff ‘em in our ears like a ball of cotton

    So how can we hear the ever changing music

    Of this beautiful life this beautiful life

    Oh so open up your ears now open up your eyes

    Forget what yo u think you know ‘cause

    We’ve been fed so many lies

    I said life is a mystery, it’s a beautiful mystery….

     

    Simply Love

    Yes, I said I love you but I won’t try to own you

    where’d we ever get the notion we could control this emotion

    Well it comes and it goes like the wind like a rose

    like the dance we danced last night the music stops but it’s all right

     

    Chorus:

    Oh this love is simple this love is free

    This love isn’t some romantic dream

    Sometimes we don’t get along

    Sometimes we fit like a glove

    But underneath it all it’s simply love

     

    I’m tired of pretending forever romance happy ending

    When the music brings up old emotion I try to remember

    Love is a potion makes me laugh makes me weep

    And my heart slowly falls asleep

    And I forget our hearts are free

    That this loves comes from you and me

    Chorus

    Sometimes I can go all night sometimes all I do is fight

    But it’s all part of the dance I think it might just be a game of chance

    But I go on anyway

    And I won’t settle for marriage or hate

    I won’t freeze at true love’s gate

    Chorus

     

    Kiwi Fruit

    Ever Since We’ve been together

    I can think about just one thing

    It’s forbidden fruit from the garden

    Its the thing that makes me sing

    You know I’ve tasted every kind of sweet from the tree

    But I just can’t seem to get enough of you and me

     

    Now that I’ve found my kiwi fruit no other juicy fruit will do

    I used to like the tangerine and the mango sweet

    But only kiwi fruit makes my meals complete

    Only my kiwi fruit only my kiwi fruit will do

     

    In the morning when I wake up after twelve next to you

    I’ve got to find my breakfast served complete

    Bring me kiwi fruit and please hold the meat

    When my icebox is bare nothing can compare

    To my kiwi fruit, there’s no substitute

    I’m gonna stay under the covers ’til you bring me my kiwi fruit

    Only my kiwi fruit will do, only my kiwi fruit only my kiwi fruit will do

     

    Now that I’ve found my kiwi fruit no other juicy fruit will do

    I used to like the tangerine and the mango sweet

    I sued to like Carmen Miranda’s peaches best

    But the kiwi fruit tastes better than all the rest.

    Only my kiwi fruit only my kiwi fruit will do

     

    Love Will Find Us Again

    I did my yoga in your bedroom

    And in the kitchen you were fryin up breakfast

    And I could tell by my bones and your bagels

    This kind of morning would not be our last

    And by 9am I was all alone on that turnpike exit 69

    And I could still feel your kisses on my face

    I could still hear you singin our favorite line

     

    Chorus:
    Love will find us again because time is our friend

    And when loving should end, it will end

    Love will tell us the time love will drop us a line

    When our lives should entwine again

     

    It would have been so easy to stay

    Too easy to fall too hard

    And every time I do when I pick myself up

    I find another crack deep in my heart

    And I know that you don’t need a husband

    You know we both need romance

    So I’m sending you this love song and
    One day soon there’s a chance
    Chorus

     

    Can We Learn To Love

    I’ve been looking for a mother

    I’ve been looking for a child

    I’ve been looking for somebody

    To keep me from running wild

    Right in the middle of the loving

    I somehow become a little boy

    Still looking for love still wanting his toys

     

    What is this thing we do

    Something pulls us together

    And we act like fools

    What shall I be free or woman hungry

    It looks so much like romance

    You know how I love to dance.

     

    Chorus:
    Can we learn to love

    Can we ever be free

    Will we ever rise above

    All of the problems that we carry

     

    Sometimes I feel like a motherless child

    With mother earth all around me

    Still I cannot see

    My friends all love me

    So why can’t I

    I’m not alone in this world

    We breathe the same air you and I

    Chorus

     

    Twice In One Day

    Twice in one day

    I find myself in that twilight

    Between sleeping an d waking coming and going

    Just before my eyes open and before I fall at night

    A moment of silence

    Twice in one day

     

    Chorus

    And I’ve got to have some silence

    Twice in one day twice in one day

    And I’ve got to have some fun

    Twice in one day twice in one day

    And I’ve got to have some loving

    Twice in one day twice in one day….

     

    Twice in one day we made love

    and she took me to that feeling

    Of knowing who I am  without caring without worrying

    It was not her intention to enlighten me

    To make me see but it happens sometimes

    When the act goes so deep

    And I’ve got to have some loving…

    Chorus

     

    Sometimes I get so busy

    I forget what living this life is for

    Uncentered and dizzy I start thinking

    I’ve got to work for this life

    Like I’ve got to scratch to get what I deserve

    But I always seem to get just what I need

    And I need to have some fun….

    Chorus

     

    Follow Your Happiness

    Chorus:

    Follow your happiness

    Follow your happiness

    If there’s one thing in this life to remember

    Follow your happiness

     

    Now when you’re lost in confusion and you don’t know your no from yes

    This advice I would give to you follow your happiness

    Now it ain’t easy bein’ human and yet life can be so delicious

    So much pleasure so much pain

    Sometimes I can’t tell the difference

    So once in awhile I stop —

    And let the rest of the world pass me by

    In the quiet of my heart I find the reason why.

     

    Chorus

    I mean really if it’s a ll just a waste of time

    Playin somebody else’s game

    Singin somebody else’s lines

    Well I’d rather die

    But I know when I feel happy

    And I know when something’s askew

    When I’m happy I’m living in harmony

    And I feel closer to the truth.

     

    I Love All Kinds of Music

    Chorus

    Well I love all kinds of music

    But I don’t do rap

    I hear many kinds of music

    But I don’t play much jazz

    I’ve had my share of sorrow

    But I don’t sing the blues

    I love all kinds of music

    And I play what I choose

     

    Now rap is just music without all those notes

    Free ramblings from the brain

    But I’m tired of talk I don’t want a word up

    I just want to sing

     

    Music is rhythm  music is truth

    Music is melody music is youth

    Music is harmony music is listening

     

    Sometimes people ask me they say what do you play

    After I’ve been singin for an hour or so

    And I say to myself, how can I possibly put it in a box

    I love all kinds of music

     

    Chorus

    I play a little bit of reggae a few love songs

    And a touch of rock and roll

    Calypso and jazz but no Madonna

    Original music fills my soul

    I’ve got to sing my own songs…

    We’ve got to sing our own songs

     

    Here Now

    I don’t think about insurance except to drive my car

    I keep my money in a red bag

    And it doesn’t go very far

    I don’t have a plan for retirement

    I can hardly think three weeks ahead

    Every day is a brand new world

    You can pass through it living or dead

     

    Chorus

    Are you hear now?

    Here now?

     

    I try not to think about tomorrow, I try to forget yesterday

    All we really have is a day at a time

    Tell me how many moments are in a day

    Moment to moment it’s heaven or hell

    Are you missing this moment to worry about the next

    Are you living every day as if it were your last

    Or are you waiting for a time when it all will be past
    Chorus

    Living in your head trying to make sense

    Of a life that is more than paying the rent

    Try to fill your life with a future and things

    But you simply can’t ignore when your heart of heart sings

    Kick back into the inside just forget about the outside for awhile

    Use your freedom feel your love

    Take theta time to do what you love
    Chorus

     

    Nowhere

    I’m up I’m down

    I’m wandering all around

    Things change I change

    Always one foot off the ground

    One day I know where I’m going

    And the next I’m lost at sea

    But the fun is in the going
    I may not reach what I see

    Chorus

    Going nowhere

    Now here

    Loving living laughter silence tears

    I’m in love again and again

    but things change I change

    In the end we begin again

    Like a River ever flowing

    I will go where I will go

    And the joy is in the knowing

    That I go with the flow

     Chorus

  • As Far As I Can See

     

    Time Out Of Mind

    At the end of the day when Terra turns her face from the sun.

    All feathered minstrels end their song but one has just begun.

    He sings to the moon and the stars in a round that goes on and on.

    He sings of the circle of life that we all turn upon.

     

    Never tires of the song He’s been singing since time out of mind.

    What we all take for granted He sings like the very first time.

    Keeping a secret that remains a mystery to our kind.

    And to all who will listen He sings the clues for us to find.

    And if we are quiet, and if we are wise.

    And we open our ears, and watch fireflies.

    In the twilight we will hear  the song of the whippoorwill.

     

    And if we are quiet, and if we are wise.

    And we open our ears, and watch fireflies.

    In the twilight we will hear  the song of the whippoorwill.

     

    At the end of the day when Terra turns her face from the sun.

    He sings of the circle of life that we all turn upon.

    Never tires of the song He’s been singing since time out of mind.

    He sings to the moon and the stars in a round that goes on and on.

     

  • Summer Rain

    Summer Rain

    Our love’s like scattered showers, we’re never quite out of the rain.
    They say it makes the flowers grow, but flowers never show the pain.
    Like you do and I know that you’re never quite out of my mind
    And it keeps on raining…

    Summer rain, our love is summer rain.
    We walk under clouds of joy and pain
    And we’re never quite out of the rain.

    Why do I keep on singing, songs of sunny skies?
    Why do I curse the weather when the rain is in my own eyes?
    And your eyes, I wouldn’t trade em for a thousand sunny days.
    It keeps on raining…

    Summer rain, our love is summer rain.
    We walk under clouds of joy and pain
    And we’re never quite out of the rain.

    And your eyes, I wouldn’t trade em for a thousand sunny days
    So let it rain…

    Summer rain, our love is, summer rain.
    We walk under clouds of joy and pain…
    and we’re never quite out of the rain

    More lyrics to follow


As It Should Be

Snow Leopard Baritone Guitar

Lyrics

  • As It Should Be

    GROWING SIDE BY SIDE
WITH NO FEAR OF WHO IS STANDING NEAR
OUR ROOTS ARE INTERTWINED WHAT’S YOURS IS MINE
WE'RE ALL JUST REACHING FOR THE STARS
    AND ONE THEY NAMED SOL THE SUN
ON THIS EARTH WE ALL DRAW OUR LIFE FROM
SHE SEES US ALL BELOW AS ONE BOUNDARIES NONE
LIFE AND LIGHT FOR ALL
    WE COULD TAKE A LESSON FROM THE TREES
WE COULD TAKE DIRECTION FROM THE BREEZE
WE COULD TAKE A MOMENT TO SEE
EVERYTHING IS AS IT SHOULD BE
    CHANGING POISON INTO AIR
GROWING BRANCHES WHERE WE LOOSE ALL OUR CARES
LIVING LONG GOING NOWHERE WATCHING AS
THE WORLD PASSES BY
    AND THOUGH THIS OLD POPLAR FELL
IT’S LIVING ON WITH A SONG TO TELL
SO CAN WE MAKE HARMONY FROM THE PEOPLE
FALLING NEEDLESSLY
    Chorus
    AND AS THE MOON RISES HIGH
AND CASTS THE SHADOW OF A LEAF ON MY EYE
I KNOW I DON’T HAVE TO TRY TO UNDERSTAND
THE MYSTERY IN A SIGH
    Chorus

Michael Monroe

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Acoustic Folk Legends Performance

Folk Legends Chanhassen DT Fireside Theatre