Lyrics

Travel and Teacups Copyright Heather Styka 2009

Every Chord

In the morning maybe I'll write a song about you
Not like I haven't tried before
These notebooks of unfinished lines
are laughing at me behind scratch outs
And I don't know why you're still on my mind

(Chorus)
Every chord that claims to know you
doesn't know any more than I do
Every key I try to sing in
Every tune I can't ignore
Every time I play it over
Every chord that claims to know you
Leads me farther from you than before

I'm the type who always knows just what to say
Give up if it takes more than a day
to sort out my thoughts into a song
But I'm singing words that I don't understand
These strings feel strange beneath my hands
As I wait for you to sing along

(Chorus)

These uncertain and these laughing rhythms
Sleepless chorus, endless verse
Humming through the early morning
Melodies that cause something to stir

Every chord that claims to know you
Only makes me see that I want to know more

Clementine

He's occupied my thoughts
On and off for over a year now
He doesn't pay any rent
and I don't pay any mind
He's gonna find me out
Gonna find me in the library
with the candlestick
Gonna find out I've been
waiting all this time

(Chorus)
Clementine, I'm hatching a plan
You're the first to laugh and the last to leave
What do you say we ride our bikes
down to Germany
Clementine, I know you're like me
You fall in love with everyone you meet
We fall in love with everyone we meet

So here I go again
Running into him on strange street corners
It's going on my list of things I like to do
He combs his hair and heads out west
I love them all but I love him the best
I love them all but I love him the best

(Chorus)

Sailors, Prophets &

The day I tried to paint myself in your heart
I was so close to succeeding
You could see my eyes
dark as the ocean at night
The day I tried to paint myself in your heart
The distance between us receding
I wanted you closer than I'd ever known

When I lifted my paintbrush the walls were erased
And I painted thoughts that were too soon to say
And the water that night was brighter than day
as it hit the shore

(Chorus)
I wait for signs like sailors and prophets and kings
Reading into your eyes like reading the wind
I wait to see in

The day I tried to find the place where you are
wherever you go in the quiet
I listen for your breath
even when you are miles away
The day I tried to find the place where you are
I dreamed that you'd come back to me
I wanted you to see me like you did before

We stretch and retract and we come and we go
Measuring actions and leaving alone
But my measure of truth is that I wander restless
until you are close

(Chorus)

The day I tried to write you into my heart
I wrote such beautiful stories
And you could hear my words
true as the silence of stars
The day I tried to write you into my heart
I dreamed that you'd come and stay there
Stay until the story ends

Each day is different but I love you the same
Whether you stay or go
Or the plot starts to change
I will write you and paint you and find you when you pull away

Prairie Song

I lived my whole life in these fields
Raised a family, best as we could do
In prairie fires when the smoke clears
All the earth starts anew

We came here from Nebraska
Had to leave when the farming got bad
and you children needed shoes
I haven't left this town since
Sometimes I think about the world out there
China and Chicago, California, foreign shores to me and you

(Chorus)
Go, go, go from this house we call home, from the prairies that you know
Go, go, go, my only daughter, go
You were made for more than what's in store for you
Go

I know you've got your eyes on the Williams boy
Hard worker with nice strong arms and not too much to say
He reminds me of your father
Now, I love your father and we've stuck together through hope and hell
But remember well, if you marry that Williams boy
This town is where you'll stay

There's a dream that sits inside your heart
I only know that because the same dream was in my own
Dreams of rootless trees and falling leaves
and flying geese making their way far from home
Real oceans, not made of tall grass
Real mountains, instead of silos
And tall, tall buildings that scrape the sky

Inspiration

Once I stole a book from my library in high school
It hadn't been checked out since 1982
So I thought no one would miss it and I wanted to keep it
It had color pictures of statues from India
So now its on my bookshelf
And a sudden urge has hit me
to take up stone-carving
And carve my own wheel of samsara
Someday we're gonna travel past the farthest mountains
And when I'm very old I'll write my memoirs

These sudden inspirations take hold of me like rainstorms
And I'm left without reason and drenched with lack of time
That's how you affect me like words that must be written
I can't turn away from you or put you aside
I know that when you hear this
You'll mark it down and counting
all the songs that you have inspired in me
And when we walk down the sidewalk
We'll hum this very softly
With my heart bursting with these notes inside of me

This weekend you were driving some hours from Chicago
And when I think about you I start smiling
I know that makes you happy 'cause you like when I smile
And I like thinking 'bout you more than I'd like to admit
I was wrong when I thought we were like a movie
I'd rather live inside the songs that we both love
They could be our houseboat and we'll have notes for rafters
And in the evenings guitar strings will be our lights

Reykjavik

I like your stories
Leaving red paths of shells and following them home
And these secret laughs and tricks and smiles
Keep me from feeling alone

It's nice to know
When I need to go and I'm restless as boats without ropes in the bay
You'll bring the maps and the old photographs
and we'll go somewhere far away

Tonight the lights are on in Reykjavik and we're dancing in the rain
'Cause we like when rain falls on our faces
And the fragrance when it's gone away
Your hand's on my back as we're passing through harbors
And fields and mountains and towns
Tonight the lights are on in Reykjavik
And we're gone without leaving the ground

We're stranger than most here with strangers and ghosts
The air mixing with the sea
If it hides me from sight, the pathways you left
might lead you back to me

Sometimes the pressure is too much to handle
Feels like everyone's bringing you down
But tonight the lights are on in Reykjavik
And we're gone without leaving the ground

Wild Mountain Thyme (traditional)

Oh the summertime has come
and the trees are sweetly blooming
and the wild mountain thyme
grows among the purple heather

(Chorus)
Will you go, lassie, go
and we'll all go together
To pluck wild mountain thyme
all among the blooming heather
Will you go, lassie go

I will build my love a bower
By yon crystal flowing fountain
and on it I shall pile
all the flowers of the mountain

(Chorus)

If my true love will not go
Then I'll surely find another
Where the wild mountain thyme
grows among the purple heather

(Chorus)

I will build my love a shelter
By yon clear mountain stream
and my love shall be the fairest
That the summer sun has seen

(Chorus)

What We Have

She came before me
She came to the city from an Iowa town
She looked just like I do now
Lasso the moon so she could pull it down

She met him on the railroads
A James Dean type who always came around
They were married in January
20 years old and 20 below and a wedding gown

(Chorus)
And we don't even comprehend
We don't even comprehend
What we have, what we have, what we have
All these years before us
Recklessness and beauty and youth
And youth is wasted on the young
And we're always pushing on
Hey, maybe with some age I'll find wisdom too

She never feared anything
Standing on the precipice, toes curled over the edge
And she didn't wear sensible shoes
Made dresses in the latest fashion
Lady in red
She doesn't listen to directions
When the signs say don't, she thinks they say do
She's been known to lie a little
If the lie is better than what's exactly true

Chorus

It's not hard to believe that we will never die
But while we dream of immortality this cancer burns inside
Wisdom keeps me silent, oh I am but a fool
And I don't know what to say to you
So silent tears will do
And I fear... (Chorus)

The Ocean

I saw you standing on the street corner today
I was wearing sunglasses
You didn't recognize me
And I wanted to keep it that way
But I am not ashamed to admit
I've been looking for you every day
Somehow hoping we would randomly meet

And you would say
How have you been
And I would say
Never been better
And would you like to stay and talk for a little while
And you would take me down to the river
We'd follow it till it hit the sea
But the truth is I was walking and you didn't recognize me

(Chorus)
I can't stay away from the ocean (x3)
Can't stay away

I sat by the water writing letters to my past
They fell into the ocean
Ink dripping and bleeding
My words were lost so fast
So I walked away
I wandered on home
But the next day I was back
Looking out on the waves
Looking for a way to be alone

(Chorus)

If we meet again
It will be by the ocean
I'll dive in and I'll retrieve all of my letters
Find my words again
I'll speak the truth
I'll go sailing with you
We'll float on till you understand
That people like us were never meant
To live on dry land

Yeah we can't stay away from the ocean...
If we meet again it will be by the ocean...
I can't stay away from the ocean, etc.

Lonely

You don't know that you're lonely
I won't admit I'm lonely too
We're quite the pair, lonely together
'Cause lonely's what we like to do
And I guess if we wanted, we could join forces
After all, one and one make two
But I'd have to admit that I'm feeling lonely
And that's something I'll never do

You see it's quite the paradox really
All the lonely people are never alone
I won't bother asking where they all come from
And I've seen all the places that they go
And I guess if we wanted, we'd make it all better
Make sure the wounds of division are through
But we'd have to admit that we're feeling lonely
and that's something we'll never do

You don't know that you're lonely
I won't admit I'm lonely too
We hide in our work and our beds and our houses
And we hide in the books and the bars and the news
And I guess if we wanted, we'd find a solution
I guess if I wanted, I'd stop hiding from you
But I'd have to admit that I'm feeling lonely
and that's something I'll never do
Yes, I'd have to admit that I'm feeling lonely
and that's something I'll never do

Fortune Tellers

She said
Don't listen to the fortune tellers
They're only peddling lies
After all, they told me I was done feeling lonely
and things were gonna go right
But it doesn't get more alone then this
Crying out in the desert like no one's around
Playing cassette tapes of Tom Waits
She's waking up with her feet on the ground

She's waiting for something or someone
to make her feel again
My huckleberry friend
We're two drifters, shape-shifters,
breaking hearts and taking names
And all the while, all we want
is to feel again

She said don't listen to the fortune tellers
They're only peddling lies
But as for me, I treat each brick and stone
as if it's love in disguise
We build homes out of Lincoln Logs
so we can tear them all down
Playing cassette tapes of Tom Waits
Even when we fall, we've got our feet on the ground

We're waiting for something or someone
to make us feel again
My huckleberry friend
We're two drifters, shape-shifters,
breaking hearts and taking names
And all the while, all we want
is to feel again

Golden Light

You don't want to be the shadow on the wall
Cast by the elm tree so narrow and tall
But you go round and around like the seagulls above
They're beautiful from a distance
The fears that you have, the problems that you hide
Multiply like rabbits and tear you up inside
You stop eating and your heart stops beating
And you don't know how to survive
Just want to get out of this alive

(Chorus)
Where did you go, my golden light
You can't control this on your own
Now I don't know much about living
But you don't have to do it alone
You don't have to do it alone

You want to run away, live out by the lake
But no matter where you run, you're still just as fake
You've got your eyes on the sky at the seagulls above
While you're digging your own grave
I don't know how to help, no one really could
We're breathing the same breaths and doing what we should
And we're trying to get by and we're waving our flags
And we're covering what's inside
Just want to get out of this alive

My golden light refused to shine
You're beautiful from a distance
Seagulls and a sunset
Guess I'll see you in the morning

The Sun Also Rises

We could have such a nice time together
Isn't it pretty to think so
You and I, we sure know how to have a lovely evening
Then I go

(Chorus)
Who do I turn to when everything feels like everyone's leaving me cold
If it's any consolation, the sun also rises
At least, it's pretty to think so

We live our lives separately
I'll send you a wire
I'll send you a letter
When I get oh-so-lonely
And I'll feel temporarily better

(Chorus)

We'll spend our nights trying to remember
Our days, trying to forget
Write it down, all these conversations
There's no hope but we'll hope yet
Don't think about it all, don't talk about it all
Don't stir up pangs of regret
If it's any consolation, I think that I loved you, I loved you the moment we met

Twelve Songs: July Sessions Copyright 2005 Heather Styka

White Lie Waltz
The girl in the white dress gets the last dance tonight
White is perfect pearls, eternal light
Will you dance with me angel
I am no angel, you see

[refrain]
My senses can hardly take it as you spin me around and around again
But every 1-2-3 step that I take is a little white lie
Every 1-2-3 step that I take is a little white lie

White is blank paper
Clean, unused
Delicate lace and baby's shoes
The soul of the daughter
Or so the mother naively believes

[refrain]

For the first time in my life, my body is a feather from an eagle's wing
But my soul weighs me down
White is perfect
But it's not as real as we pretend it to be

[refrain]

I'm miles away from your bridal gowns
The red blood in my veins brings me down
My unforgivibly red human heart wears a long, flowing dress of little white lies

[repeat first verse, refrain]

Baby, It's Alright
Sometimes it can seem like you aren't strong enough to go on
'Cause baby, right now there ain't no easy way out
But that doesn't matter, I'll be there
And I will show you just how much I care
Baby, it's alright if you can't come here tonight

Some people tell me I should just give up on you now
But baby, they don't know me and how much I care
I don't give up so easily
It's in these hard times that you really need me
Baby, it's alright if you can't come here tonight

I won't worry about how things were supposed to be
Things don't always go as planned
Long as I have you and you have me
Changes will come and go but baby I will stand by you

As long as you want me babe, I'l be around
And the moment you can come back to me, you know where I'll be found
I don't care if you've got to go away
Just as long as I know one of these days you'll stay
Baby, it's alright if you can't come here tonight
Baby, it's alright if you can't come here tonight

Quit
I'm quitting cigarettes and I'm quitting men
I've quite before but I'm quitting again
I'm quitting chocolate and I'm quitting meat
I'm quitting those high heels that are bad for my feet

[refrain]
You know I only care about you when I feel like it
And one of these days I'm gonna quit
You and you're habitual lovin'
Yeah you and your habitual love

I'm quitting alcohol but before I do
I'll drink to my health and I'll drink to you
I'm quitting espressos, substituting green tea
I know you think I'm crazy from the way you look at me

[refrain]

I'm quitting carbohydrates and fattening foods
All my bad habits and all my bad moods
You can say I'll never follow through with my plan
But I will quit you baby just to prove that I can

[refrain]

You're no addiction, I can stop any time
I'm the boss of my body and heart and mind
I admit the concept is hard to believe
But I only need you baby as much as I need to breathe
I'll quit your lovin', I'll quit your love

Lots of meditation and good will towards men
Yoga transcendentalism with a little Zen
I don't cry about it when my feet get wet
Practice deep breathing when I get upset

[refrain]

Artist and the Doctor
The artist ran into the wheat fields
Begged forgiveness from the harvest yellow sun
And the doctor heard the gunshot
He understood it; he did not run

[refrain]
Don't condemn me Adrian
I never expected you to understand anyway

The artist forgot to take the morphine
Neglected to dull the senses
Doctor don't diagnose
Administer a dose to take away emotion

[refrain]

The doctor went to find the artist lying there in those fields of grain
Martyred by his muses
The doctor knelt beside where the artist was lain
After two days between life and death
The artist spoke his last question
That the doctor tried so hard to understand
"Who would have thought that life could be so sad?"

[refrain]

Doctor don't you know the artist is bearing your pain
He is more sane than you will ever know
He sees those cracks that he will never show to you
He's painting away the sins that you don't understand
It's much too much to lay on one man
And in the letter he said "Don't condemn me"

Don't condemn me Adrian
Who would have thought that life could be so sad

Present Tense
I'm learning to let go of the past
I'm learning not to wonder about the future
Angels may have been here before, and things may be looking better ahead
But all I want, and all I need is now

Love has come and gone but I'm never saying goodbye
Never closed a book, always wondering
What could have been
Living in the last page
Never writing the end
But all I want, and all I need is now

You could spend your life waiting for the good times ahead
But you might forget the glory of today
And never realize what you have, what you have
All my hopes and dreams are fufilled
In each moment and not in the future
Cause all I want, and all I need is now

The ashes come raining down
Oh it's not long that we have
The ashes come raining down
We'll never have this moment again

There's nothing quite so beautiful as the way you are right now
In this instant
I don't care how you were, or what you will become
Perfection is in each second
Don't let them slip away
The only thing that matters is you and me today
All I want, and all I need is now

Open Road
I've been hiding in the shadows of a half-told story
When I sleep at night I close my eyes so no one can see in
I'd be lying if I said I never worry
But last I checked a little happiness ain't no sin
And what about the neighbor, and what about the friend
The things we cannot tell each other only hurt us in the end
And my heart is a secret that even I can't comprehend
But if I sing a little song maybe someone will understand

[refrain]
All along, all I needed was an open road to find me
All along, all I needed was a little bit of truth

Ain't no crime in hearing that different drummer
Marching on, sing that song of unassuming love
I'll join in the parade of honesty and fire
See these tiptoe shoes only play the blues and they've been on too long
These skeletons they hide in the darkest corners
But there ain't no shame in living the way you want to live
I'm a diary, yes I'm a lock, and all you've got to do is knock
And we will kick the doors open
Yes, we will forgive

[refrain]

I tried to find myself, I pulled into the wayside
Sure I've got my baggage, but I can carry it just fine
Stretch your legs, get a map
Take a breath but don't look back
The truth is in the changes and we left the locks behind
We left ignorance and arrogance miles ago
And not that far ahead a diner serves forgiveness
And makes a tasty pecan pie
Truth sits on my shoulder and love is in the passenger seat
And peace comes on the radio and takes me by surprise

The double shift mothers and the ghosts of unborn children and the widow and the orphan
They're on the road to truth
The forbidden lovers and the unwelcome brothers, without a home, without a choice
They're on the road to truth
The fighting and the killing and the hating and blood spilling
Secrets and lies, closed doors, closed hearts
The open road is waiting, we don't need no hesitating
The truth is here inside
Yeah this is where it starts

[refrain]

So Lucky
[refrain]
I am so happy to be alive 'cause you know it's not hard for that to change
One moment, one place in time, and all you have could be thrown away
I am so lucky to have you in my life and to survive
I am so lucky to have you in my life and to be alive

Love, inner peace, my favorite book, my favorite pants, my favorite underwear and socks
Sushi, origami, pizza, fried chicken
Cows cats birts dogs zebras and whales
Hippos gerbils hamsters fish, swimsuits and the beach
Sand mountains lakes, the ocean, ice cream
Wind sunshine rain and thunder
Snow angels devils good times and bad
Trees, roses, ferns, baby's breath, the scent of pine
Grass beauty pain medicine and chili peppers
Time

[refrain]

Paint pens pencils paper
Canvas sculptures licensce plates bumper stickers rock country rap
Folk jazz blues, Beethoven and Bach
Mozart monkeys mashed potatoes chocolate chip cookies
Fresh berries wild apples wild horses
Daffodils and lilacs and tulips
Guitar green red blue violet yellow black white silver and gold
Macaroni and cheese
To laugh, to cry, shoes, walking barefoot, lightning
Buddha Jesus Allah Abba God Mother Nature family and friends
Bowling, tennis, chocolate email letters phone calls
Showers, four-leafed clovers, rainbows
Babies, old, young, and anyone in between
Life death life life living
Living in a beautiful world

[refrain]

Linden Street
Walking along Linden Street
The symmetrical trees reaching over the sidewalks
You were walking alone beside me
And you know things about me no one else has figured out
So you're being cautious and that's okay with me
It's just no one's ever been careful with me before
They tossed me around and they let me down
I guess all's fair in love and war

[refrain]
I'm letting go, I'm giving in
But I know she still has your heart
And I can see in your eyes
She's standing just around the corner
I don't mind, I understand and you can take
All the time that you need
We can take it slow
You're worth the time
I'll be here, walking along Linden Street

These dreams, this past
We're holding back
You're bruised, you're biding your time
And me, a year ago
I never would have known that I would ever learn to be fine
He loved me so much I thought that I would lose touch
With how to do do it all over again
But you're surprising me with how wonderful you can be
If only I had known about you then

[refrain]
I'll be here, walking along Linden Street

Driving Away
I was driving away, cursing the day that we ever met
Saying how am I, how am I, how am I ever gonna love again
The last thing that you said was
Why does everything have to be so difficult with you
And I cried, maybe it's because I love you

[refrain]
You see I like to read my lines straight from the script
With as much as emotion as I can muster
And if you don't cry
If you don't run after me calling my name
It's not the way the scene was supposed to go
But I know you never loved me any less than I loved you
This isn't a tale of unrequited love
It's just the story of a heroine who cries too much
And a hero who never cries at all

I was driving away, thinking how great it was that we could still be friends
Saying I'm okay, I'm okay, I'm okay with this situation
But when I called you I never got through the conversation past "how are you" "fine"
You said "I'll talk to you later, catch you some other time"

[refrain]

You said "don't cry for me, I can't be your Argentina
I won't be the one to let you down"
But you can't let me down if there's no where to fall
I never asked for love at all
But if we love and if we lose did we ever really love at all
We burned up fast
My romances always do and if fifty years had passed and we were still together
I couldn't have loved you any more than I did
I won't regret love, I'll never get love
But the flood waters have to recede at some point
And leave us safe and dry beneath a sunny sky
And there's no need for a fire in the fireplace when the sun is shining

I was driving away, I visited you even though I knew you didn't want to see me
And I saw that my pictures were taken down
But now I know why you won't look me in the eye
It's nothing personal
You just don't want to fall in love again and bring me down with you

[refrain]

Fragile
[refrain]
I am fragile like the dewdrops but I am stronger than the wind
And like the waves that crash around me, I'm part of all that once has been
And like the wild flower on the mountain
If you try to tame me, I'll wither and fade
And as for you, you are my water
You are my sunlight and my shade

You know they tried to call me butterfly
So I tried to fly away
Then they tried to call me firefly
So I glowed as bright as day
But you, you just listened and tried to understand
Who I really am
You didn't try to cage me, so I didn't try to run away

[refrain]

Sometimes the world gets me down
And I don't know where to turn
But in those moments of silence, in those moments of darkness
That is where we learn
And I have learned to trust you even though it's hard for me
And I'm sure it's not easy for you
You didn't try to chain me
You didn't try to change me
But you always stayed true

[refrain]

I Find Myself Smiling
Phone rings, it's you of course
Asking how my day was
And to be perfectly honest, it couldn't get much worse
But out of the corner of my eye
I see the frame, beneath the light
On top of the nightstand by my bedside
With your picture in it and I...

[refrain]
Find myself smiling even more than I used to
I find myself laughing when no one's around
And if no one is there to give me looks like I'm crazy
I say your name out loud
And you make me happy in knowing that someone else exists
Who periodically looks up at the same moon that I do
Thinking the same thoughts that I do
Smiling the same way that I do
When I'm thinking of you

I was happy before I met you, I was doing fine
But these days I can't keep track of where it all began
When I see your car pull in the drive
My soul does a dance and I feel alive
And it's hard to believe that after this long with you I still do...

[refrain]

Somehow it seems that these trees are getting greener than they even were in my dreams
Along the road to where you are
How long can we go before reality kicks in and we stop spinning
No, I won't let you go
Oh I won't let you go

[refrain]

Careful
You hold my heart in your hands
It isn't very hard to break it
So please be careful with my love
Be careful with my love
How many times have we had
This same conversation
How many times will you hear me cry

[refrain]
I'm done with being disappointed
But I'm never done with you
Don't know if it's you or me
But somehow, someday we'll be okay
And someday we will know what it all was for

I believe that everything happens for a reason
But please be careful with me, love
Be careful with me, love
You will love me just the way that you were meant to love me
Still it doesn't hurt to watch whre we are going

[refrain]

Misunderstanding
Love is blind, love is misunderstanding
Misunderstanding
Love is blind, love is misunderstanding
That's something that you and I know

Maybe I still love the way that you say hello
And hate the way you say goodbye
Maybe you still make me smile

[refrain]

Soldier Song [Hidden Track]
[refrain]
I loved a boy, he was just eighteen
His hair was black and his eyes were green
A pack of camels in his torn blue jeans
And his hair was black and his eyes were green

He was the sharpest shooter in Arkansas
He loved God and his country and the Boy Scout Law
He was marching tall and proud and lean
When they sent him off to fight in a coat of green

He sent me letters whenever he could
And he followed his orders just the way he should
He told me he'd be home when the war was won
And how he wanted to see his baby son

But those letters, the more I read
The more he talked about wishing he was dead
You wash the blood from your hands but it won't come clean
And in all his nightmares he wore a coat of green

He tried to kill himself so they sent him home
In an army plane of steel and chrome
I'll never forget what I have seen
There was fear and pain in those eyes of green

They said they'd get him help, get him well
But don't listen to those lies they tell
His therapy session was halfway through
When they sent him back to fight for those stars of blue

He wrote, "You guys are the only thing keeping me living
And I hope that God really is forgiving
'Cause the things I've done, and the things I've seen
Well there ain't no wonderful trees of green"

He never had to commit suicide
'Cause that next month he died
He was shot down by enemy fire
And he joined that heavenly angel choir
See the president never knew his name
'Cause disposable boys are all the same
You can kill yourself or live that glory dream
The only place you can find rest
Is under that grass of green

I loved a boy, he was just eighteen
And now he's under that grass of green

A Little More Time Copyright 2004 Heather Styka

Similar to Goodbye
One more to add to the list of my missed connections
One more that's etched inside the little black book of my mind
This time all that we tried pushed you further inside me
Guess it's easier that you didn't say goodbye

[refrain]
So here I am, here I go
Here we danced on the balcony below
Here I swear that I won't cry
So this is something similar to goodbye

We had magnetic attraction
Too bad we needed a little more time
I know we had a reaction
Still I hope that I linger in your mind

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Funny how sometimes it's the people we love most
That we will never see again

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Halo
Some might say that sunny days will wash the clouds away
Some might be afraid of thunder but I say it's okay
I want to jump into a puddle just to see if I might drown
To sink into the mud, to stand back up to fall back down

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I want to be a flower as the raindrops fall onto the petals there
To skip right down the street, the wet concrete
As the houses watch us standing where
The headlights are your halo
And the lightning snaps a photography
While you, lovingly, follow me
Come and kiss me in the rain

Tomorrow morning I'll wake up to smell the fresh damp air
I picture you beside me with those jeans you always wear
We had a pond where there used to be grass, the rain came down so hard
And the ducks just splashed around in their new home in our front yard

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Would You Fly
If I had feathered wings
To carry me upon a song
I'd listen to this melody
And know you'd sing along
'Cause twin hearts are like that
You've always known the things I've known
Always felt what I've been feeling
So I know I'm never alone

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Would you run to me
Would you come to me, let me wrap you up inside a cloud
Would you take my hand and let me fly

If happiness could be found
In having someone near
I'd be the happiest girl in the world
If you would always be here

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Take my dreams with you
You are my dreams, my fantasy
And I will never wake up
And I don't want to wake up
From you
Take my dreams with you

[refrain]
Would you fly with me

Here and Now
When I look back upon all the places I've gone
All the people I've loved
It's hard to believe that time keeps rolling on
This feels so strange
And this is not the same
I hate to be redundant with these typical cliches
But people are changing
While time keeps driving on
Did I miss the bus that takes me to the here and now?

There's no turning back no, no matter how we try
'Cause living is a one-way street
Keep cruising till you die
I don't want to be stranded
But sometimes you look behind
Did I miss the bus that takes me to the here and now?

Can't stop the changes
Can't stop the world from spinning round

When I look back upon all the places I've gone
All the people I've loved
It's hard to believe that time keeps rolling on
Did I miss the bus that takes me to the here and now?

Living, Loving
I've been negative
I've been bitter
I've been a difficult, cynical sinner
But I'm learning life's worth living
When I'm living it loving someone like you

I've been living without ambition
But now you have inspired my mission
My paths are becoming clear now
I'll take on the world, long as you are here
Now

Woah La da da da da
Fairy tales seem like they're coming ture
When I'm living, loving someone like you

People told me skies would clear up
Oh they asked me, begged me to cheer up
But I was waiting for you to find me
Knew a knight in shining armor would come riding

Woah La da da da da
Fairy tales seem like they're coming ture
When I'm living, loving someone like you

Promise
I will wait while you will fly
And I will wait until the night
I will wait while you decide
To dry my tears after I cry and
I know that you are not mine but
I will wait until the time that
You are done with everyone but me
Let it be time for no one but me

I will sit at home and pray
And think about the time you'll stay and
I will be there when she hurts you
I will be the one you come to
I will heal your wounds while I am
Bleeding, just to wait until when
You are done with everyone but me
Let it be time for no one but me

I won't take any more crying
I won't wait while I am dying
I am not a cushion to fall onto
When your love must fail you
I am done with you, you're done with me
Let it be time for no one but me

Silver
When the rain hits the lake
It sounds like silver
It's alive, it's awake
And it's part of who I am
And the patterns that it makes
Each circular ripple
These are times that it takes
To help me understand

[refrain]
Where am I now, where am I going
Do I have what it takes to be great
Where can I go to find the answers
Things are clearer out here on the lake

I awake to a sky painted by an artist's palate
As I walk, a dragonfly
Follows me home
Home is where the heart is
But I don't know if left my heart behind
I guess my home is here now
And I guess I'm beginning to understand
What's on my mind

[refrain]

When the rain hits the lake
It sounds like silver

Beale Street
Cool town, hot night
Makes me think of days gone by
Drunken dreams and smokey rooms
Sizzling sidewalks and steamy July
You can take me away
Where the music continues to play
Somewhere from my memory
A neon light still shines
The night remembers the dreams and schemes from
Beale Street

Memphis knows who comes and who goes
The night may die, but the music lives on
A saxophone's sound
Guitar stirs the air
Broken bottles lit up in the dawn
Nobody knows the trouble I've seen
Since I've lived next door to the blues
A voice cries out from another time
A hat receives one more dime
Trying to make my way on
Beale Street

Hopes and plans, they wither away
Like candy that melts in the sun
You feel like you've been here all your life
But baby, you've just begun
On Beale Street

Daylight fades, nighttime comes
Street lamps, come on, it's time to shine
The heat of the day takes my breath away
Sitting in dark clubs and sipping sweet wine
The world is frozen still
In this place so divine
Records, contracts and chords from long ago fill my mind
Fun and games, death and pain on Beale Street
Rights and wrongs, the sad old songs from
Beale Street

Baby
Baby tries to break away
Baby listens, hears the screaming and the pressure and
Will she ever break away
Baby just wants to be like her mother

[refrain]
Just say no
That's what they all say
Just say no
That's what they all say to say
I say, Baby sleep tonight
Safe from the starlight
That burns in Mama's cigarette so bright
Baby always wanted to be like her mother
Now she's gonna end up just like her mother today

Mama does a lot of crying
Her pillow doesn't get much sleep
Numbness brings its lullaby
Baby wants to be like her mother

[refrain]

When will the happiness come
She's losing sleep, she's counting sheep
That fly over the rainbow
There's no place like home
And the cow jumps over the moon
And apparently daddy ran away with the spoon
If bluebirds fly why can't she run away too
We all sing

"Sleep baby sleep
Thy father tends the sheep
Thy mother shakes the dreamland tree
And down come lovely dreams for thee"
Her dreams fall down

Pedal to the Floor
So are you ready to go
Down to the beach or up to the moon
There's a little cafe I know
Hey, are you free for this afternoon
Or we could hop in the car and ride on to
Someplace we've never been before
Doesn't matter where or how or when
Just roll down the windows and close the door
Pedal to the floor

Roll down the street and park our feet
On the sidewalk at the very same time
Sure, the world is impressed, we're at our best
And I assure you we're dressed to the nines
Sun is shining down, we make our way through the town
Did I ever tell you you could be a movie star?
Doesn't matter where or how or when
Just roll down the windows and close the door
Pedal to the floor

Oh what a view but not as good as you
Air in my lungs and wind in my hair
Ice cream is sweeter and days are complete-er
And nights I just don't want to sleep
Some kind of freedom
Hey, who needs 'em
Let's go on to someplace we've never been
Doesn't matter where or how or when
Just roll down the windows and close the door,
Pedal to the floor

Stars in the Subway
Every single day
We're looking for someone to fall back onto
A lover, a soulmate, a friend
We just want someone to notice we exist
Someone who'll treat us that way
That way

[refrain]
And there were stars in the subway
And there was hope above
There was a painting in my heart
Of deep and endless love
These strokes of blue all around us
This burning yellow won't fade
And there was you, my painted angel
For whom these stars were made

Then I caught your eye and there was
Something deep inside me, inside you
Something that wanted me to notice
To paint your picture, read your poetry
Would you read me

[refrain]

Twilight
[refrain]
In the twilight, the graceful twilight
I'll fade away
Into the sun on the horizon
You will meet me there
Beneath the pink cotton candy clouds
Some days are worth crying for
Some days are worth living and dying for

I have a tendency to keep on living the same day to day
I have a habit of getting lost more when I go the right way
Break me from bonds of ordinary people and places and things
Show me the beauty the world has to offer
Give me painted wings

[refrain]

Keep on that same old highway you have always known
Everytime you look in the mirror
You're finding that you are always alone
Would you take the time to notice
How the kids down the block have grown
How can you see the past or future
If your nose is always to the grindstone

[refrain]

Oh it's moments like these
That slip and swim away
This sherbet sunset
Is a perfect end to the day

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