Dreams Dissolve

This is where the dreams dissolve, this is where illusions shatter

It’s been a long year of trying to stay afloat

And oh the constant struggle, my mind fights for reason

My heart fights for hope.

Have I spent any of this time alone

Cause that’s what this was for

I’ve been hopping in and out of beds

With friends and lovers

I was never one of those who could not be alone

But now something has changed

Love never finds you when you want it to

It waits til you’ve stopped waiting

Will I have to spend this life alone?

Where is my companion?

So far I have been very blessed

Am I too demanding?

Open up the windows wide, let the cold air come in

Let the snow come too

Give me something unfamiliar, show me something I can use

Let me find something new

All these things I can’t figure out alone

They don’t matter with someone

Maybe I should learn to let it all go

And just have some fun.

Emily’s Song

When the rain pours down like this, On the working days

You could just lay in bed, But you know that you can’t stay there

Well your whole life’s changing, You got the house for sale

23 years rearranging, Each breath seems a sad exhale

Well love can be so forgiving

Gives you one more reason to live

You just keep on breathing…

When the rain pours down like this, And it just won’t stop

Hard to recall asking the weather, To send down these drops

So let’s dance, let the water find us, Let’s gather round

Love is coming at us from every angle, Let our joy abound

Well love can be so forgiving

Gives you one more reason to live

You just keep on breathing…

Please don’t let me stop moving, Don’t let me sink on down

I can feel my mind start slowing, I don’t have time for that right now

So let’s dance, let the water find us, Let’s gather round

Love is coming at us from every angle, Let our joy abound

Let our joy abound!

River Valley Plains

All the way down, This old highway I found

You asleep as I drove, My eyes wanting to close

Fell asleep to the sounds of that man, Telling us the history of this land

About the houses that were built, And the blood that was spilled.

Now there is no king to say who really owns these lands

We’ll just settle them as fast as we can

We’ll get a saw mill there so you can build your houses build your chairs

Does the mighty river know what we have planned?

I am woken by first light, I’ll leave you sleeping there ‘til check out time

Let the sun have it’s day, You’re a child of the night anyway

In this city these old weathered streets, They whisper things they were told not to repeat

So let’s get out while we can, To the place where the river valley ends

On this river valley plain we’ll cut these trees, we’ll grow these grains

We’ll settle it as fast as we can

One hundred fifty years we’ll throw our garbage shed our tears

Into the river that once ran clear through this land

All the way down, This old highway I found

You asleep as I drove, My eyes wanting to close

Too Easy

It was all going too easy, I should have known better

Never thought I’d have to face up to the hard truth

Cold as a stone, knocked me from my throne

All my life it was given to me, should’ve known it was too easy

You know I never worked a hard day, except when I wanted to

Just kept on sliding right on through

And every time in excess I thought I’d learned my lesson

But it never stuck to me, just kept repeating

Sometimes I wouldn’t know the right thing if it hit me in the face

Hear the telephone ringing, hear a note out of place

Gotta listen to my own voice when it’s saying something

Gotta leave this safe shore to find what I’m looking for

Ohh…It was all going too easy, I should have known better

Never thought I’d have to face up to the hard truth

Cold as a stone, knocked me from my throne

All my life it was given to me, should’ve known it was too easy

There You Are

Lover lay me down, my heart is quiet tonight.

You know that I am found inside these arms of yours that hold

When there is no answer in the dark

There you are.

Forgive me for being late, I was just running around

With others I would hesitate, with you I know the answers now

When there is no answer in the dark

There you are.

I long for those endless days of us not doing a thing

Keep the outside world at bay, let the telephone ring

When there is no answer in the dark

There you are.

Tell the others to go away it is just you that I need

Lock the doors and shut the lights, come lay down beside me

When there is no answer in the dark

There you are.

The Long Way Home

The hours that we spent in between

They didn’t mean what we wanted them to mean

We were tired and scared and having dreams of showing up unprepared

Now the little bird is perched on that giant tree

Singing songs so sweet and beautifully

Now as the sun it sets

I wonder if there will be anything I’ll regret

So let’s take the long way home

Every moment I spend with you

Let’s make it slow, so slow

We’ll mark the moments as they go.

I love when everything falls into place

Only happens after I’ve given up the race

Well, I have eyes to seeI have life that’s bursting forth inside of me

So let’s take the long way home

Every moment I spend with you

Let’s make it slow, so slow

We’ll mark the moments as they go.

To many people I have been many things

Hunger hatred love and endless innocence

And to those who’ve gone

I am one who will remember them in song

So let’s take the long way home

Every moment I spend with you

Let’s make it slow, so slow

We’ll mark the moments as they go.

We’ll mark the moments as the go

Yeah we’ll mark the moments as they go.

Stronger

I feel the seasons change, That means my life will too

The change is early this year, Is there nothing I can hold on to

I know I’ve got you all around, But I need someone to sink into

Someone who’s standing still, Someone with a very strong will

I always have my eyes on someone out of reach

Won’t somebody teach me how to be stronger

That’s what I long for.

No I can’t go on like this, All these turn arounds

But what alternative, How can I help myself

Even though I had watched him, Struggle with this all his life

It gives me the will to fight, But for how much longer

I always have my eyes on something out of reach

Won’t somebody teach me how to be stronger

That’s what I long for.

I always have my eyes on something out of reach

Won’t somebody teach me how to be stronger

That’s what I long for.

Snow Day

Snow down, you can’t hear it land, Take time if you can to see it’s shape

Slow down, there’s no need to rush, There’s nothing but snow and slush on the streets

And all the dogs are stuck inside, They’ll be there until spring time

Oh It’s too cold they say

Snow day, everything is shut down, There’s no one in town, on the streets

It’s no day for doing a thing, No chores I’ll just song you to sleep

And all of us are stuck inside, Out there it’s just too wild

Oh it’s too wild out there

From my bed I can see that tree, It speaks to me in my sleep

Lover said I’m glad it’s there, It’s something to stare at today

And all the crows they laugh at us, As my car turns to rust

Oh it’s too old they say

Church Bell Blues

We’ve got many things to decide, And it’s keeping me up at night

I don’t want no taking sides, There ain’t or wrong or right

How will we compromise, How will we make things right

Plant a seed and watch it grow, Right now nobody knows

We’ll keep our secrets close, Just until we get home

We’ve been working nice and slow, Out here on the road

Soon we’ll hear those church bells ring, We’ll ask all our friends to sing

The wine will be pouring, When we exchange those rings

Into a brad new world, We will be entering

Calls are coming in for me, Y’know it’s awfully nice to see

How will we manage as three, When there ain’t no money

I’m sure we’ll work things out, This ain’t no time to doubt

January Song

I wasn’t expecting this, but I’m ready now

Suddenly the winter hits, there’s so much snow down

It’s not like the year before, everyone has changed their place

I‘m knocking on brand new doors, everything is rearranged

Yes it was a crazy year, we all had so much fun

But now I feel I’m wasted here, time to get some things done

It feels so hard to begin, just want to hang around with you

Think I could fit some business in between loving you.

Now we’re all tired and we’re all broke, now we’re all anchoring

Too much drinking too much smoke, too much of something

It is January, and I’m wide awake

Always feels like morning and I’m running late.

Brave Love

We’ve all had bad love

Some of us have been blessed

With the kind of love that nurtures and cares

The kind of love that does away with the rest.

So how can I tell you

The good things will come

When I have had so much

And you seem to have had none, But the good things will come

It’s so easy to wall ourselves in

Behind coldness and fear

Don’t want to tear those wounds open again

But you can not stay here

With all these people but who do you love

And who loves you

Can you give your self to anyone

Can you dare to, can you dare to?

I want to shake the trees and send down the rain

I want to love you

Show you this world alive again

I want to love you, I want to love you.

Long Time

All those books that you gave to me now lay

Scattered amongst these rooms

And marked with pen are the passages then that you felt spoke the truth

I could use you now to guide me somehow or to

Walk me down that isle

But I will not be the first you will miss giving birth

This will be your seventh grandchild

Well it’s been a long time

It’s been a long time

Got your old 45s on the turn table while

I go flipping through those pages

All those old photographs of days we can’t get back still

The people sing your praises

It’s been a long time

It’s been a long long time