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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 needChorus
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 awayAway 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 findChorus
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 awayWell 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 fineTime 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. ChorusChorus:
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*******************************
Hibernation (instrumental)
“What appears to be cold and still, is only sleeping.”*******************************
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 cryShe 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 goodbyeIts 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*******************************
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.*******************************
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.*******************************
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. ChorusChorus:
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. ChorusFrom 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*******************************
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 homeSoal, 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 allGod 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…*******************************
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.*******************************
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 LifeWE 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 LIFEI 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 LIFEI 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 LIFEI 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 LIFEI 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 LIFEI 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 LIFESO 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 LIFEYOU 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 LIFEAs 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 STARSAND 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 ALLWE 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 BECHANGING POISON INTO AIR
GROWING BRANCHES WHERE WE LOOSE ALL OUR CARES
LIVING LONG GOING NOWHERE WATCHING AS
THE WORLD PASSES BYAND THOUGH THIS OLD POPLAR FELL
IT’S LIVING ON WITH A SONG TO TELL
SO CAN WE MAKE HARMONY FROM THE PEOPLE
FALLING NEEDLESSLYChorus
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 SIGHChorus
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 directionChorus:
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 armsI 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 nowYou 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 directionChorus
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…. callingOneawa
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 ONEAWAI 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 beautyChorus:
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 meI 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 thereChorus
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, CRAIGMy 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 noMy 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 butsThey 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 beNow 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 swingingThey 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 topMy 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 KershawI 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 shouldThe 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 moreWouldn’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 awayWouldn’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 careYou 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 youThe 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 moreWouldn’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, oohWouldn’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 careI 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 shouldAs Far As I Can See
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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.
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Love will find us again because time is our friendAnd 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
ChorusCan 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.
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Can we learn to loveCan 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
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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
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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…
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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….
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Follow Your Happiness
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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.
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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
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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
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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
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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
ChorusLiving 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
ChorusNowhere
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 seeChorus
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
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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 rainMore lyrics to follow