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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