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You Came Around
03:45
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Lyrics:
Seems to me that to be free now
I must leave it all
At the wheel all roads appeal
To heed the author’s call
All the wrong words said
Eyes that cried and pleaded
While you’re tearing blind
I won’t look behind ‘cause
I let you down
Not to be found
I let you down
All for the sound of other voices
Crazy Horse don’t need the force
While in his resting place
Should I laugh?
No photograph was taken of his face
Yet the places here
Take away all my fear
On a falling star
I will be where you are
I’ll come around
On sacred ground
I’ll come around
Heeding the sound of charging horses
Visions hold what’s been foretold
I lay me down to sleep
Love the cure
Of this I’m sure:
My soul is yours to keep
Leave the angry lines
And the road back unwinds
Know that where I’m at
I am full of thanks that
You came around
Heaven come down
You came around
Without a sound, illumination
I’ve come around
To your solid ground
I’ve come around
Without a sound…
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Lyrics:
Some see the world too often dull and gray
With all we have I think there’s so much more to say
Palette and brush no more a lifeless hue
Bold masterpiece!
No matter where I go with you
Outside the cold chills to the very soul
Somehow the fires burn anew
No matter where I go with you
Some turn away
Avert their gaze in fear
With open eyes so many wonders can appear
Though darkness falls
No sadness will come through
Light always shines
No matter where I go with you
Thunder may sound
Rain could be pouring down
Somehow the skies are always blue
No matter where I go with you
Now let us gaze through this window in time
Always how the sun brightly shines
Bringing clear days
As we touch love divine
I will follow your heart’s cue
No matter where it leads me to with you
Some stake their claim to blindness self-imposed
With open minds we know the future’s never closed
Courses to chart and promised lands in view
Journeys begin
No matter where I go with you
And truth be told
Though we grow old
Deep within our souls
Somehow our love is ever new
No matter where I go with you
With you
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3. |
Our Love Goes On
04:16
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Lyrics:
Life belongs to us for always
‘Cause we’ve been strong for us through hard days
There was a lonely time when I was blind
And in my selfishness I left you behind
Until a healing song came into my mind
And so I keep holding on to that song
I know now our love is strong
Past is gone
Our love will go on and on
Lives a song for us, calling you and me
It silently sings on to us until we set it free
When it’s that melody I long to hear
Soon there’s a soothing voice that comes to my ear
And as it sings
Ringing notes take away my fear
So I keep holding on to this song
I know that our love is strong
Pain is gone
Our love will go on and on
Hear the song
Sweet melody
It will bring all things back to your memory
We’ll be free
There’s a song for us, every nation
We must find its key and our salvation
One day we’ll sing the harmony and hear the muse
Until then
It waits in our hearts
Until we choose pathways which let us cross the sea
And sail from lies to truths
So I keep holding on to this song
Knowing that our love is strong
Pain is gone
Our love will go on and on
Our love goes on and on
Our love is so strong
Pain be gone!
Our love will go on and on
Our love goes on and on
Love will go on
We will go on
Our love goes on and on
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4. |
State Of Grace
02:57
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Lyrics:
Everybody everywhere
Heavy burdens we must share
With you gone
Don’t want to go on
Prove me wrong
Everybody everywhere
Love the fruit that we must bear
And in time
Still we may find peace of mind
Peace of mind
Now as I look to heaven in the night
The sky no longer shines as bright
Where once were lights and lasers found
Stars above have now come falling down
Everyone
Love the promise yet to come
There’s a place we’ll see your face: state of grace
State of grace
Lead us to the state of grace
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5. |
Samsara
02:39
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Lyrics:
You can’t change me
Girl, you won’t arrange the thoughts laid down in my mind
Through the soul of one
Who can’t but help feel
Riding on this life wheel
I must move along
Life it seems must be used to achieve our dreams
Don’t hold on now
I will soon be gone
Though we’ll remain always one
Through the soul of One
Who’s always been here
Though He may not seem near
We’ll never be alone
In the end, live to learn time and time again
Life it seems must be used to achieve our dreams
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6. |
Suprise!
03:30
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Lyrics:
In this life
Running through all my days
Empty strife
Meaningless and gray as in a haze
I prayed and waited
Visualized, meditated
Something will appear
Sensing this
Ages of time ago
You I miss
You formed your place within my soul
I prayed and waited
Visualized, meditated
Then you came along
Surprise! Believe me baby I never knew
Surprise! Ah that you’d be arriving as a dream come true
Surprise! Now I know that you created me to be with you
Selfless art
You show me what life will be
In my heart
There is love and there is we, we
I prayed and waited
Visualized, meditated
Then you came along
Surprise!
Oh the power in you girl, I felt it from the start
Surprise!
And nothing ever touched me like the feeling in your heart
Surprise!
With thoughts connected, we’ll never be apart
Surprise! Ah!
We’ve got eternal energy and it will never change
Our lives! Ah!
Though circumstances of our lives may rearrange
Such highs! Ah!
We are the one truth, for the world outside is strange
No lies!
Surprise! Ah!
Ah now the light is with us and darkness taken flight
Your eyes! Ah!
We’ve passed through the fires of our initiation rite
So wise! Ah!
Into the sun, out of the lonely night
No lies!
Surprise!
Love you so!
Love your soul!
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7. |
Paging Jennifer
04:12
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Lyrics:
Paging Jennifer
I’ve got a message for her
Paging Jennifer
It’s time to make the offer of my script
The other actresses eclipsed by Jennifer
As she read for me
It was her face that haunted
Woke the dead in me
Her voice remained undaunted by the field
A new religion now revealed in Jennifer
Audition’s over now
I don’t need direction how to act the part of one who’s falling in love
Strange sense of comedy
This growing urgency to make good this connection
Or I’ll be needing help from above
Paging Jennifer
The message not received
Paging Jennifer
Won’t let myself believe she’d turn me down
That I’d forever play the clown for Jennifer
Tragedy in three acts
As I fall through the cracks
And watch her flying high upon a career
In an extended run I would become undone
Her method brings my madness which won’t be playing same time next year
Paging Jennifer
So many parts before her
Paging Jennifer
Silently I implore her not to leave
I need the art that is conceived in Jennifer
Paging Jennifer
The message has been taken
And within her answer
It seems I am forsaken in the end
But all my feelings still begin in Jennifer
She’s not the one who’s cried, fallen apart inside
She’ll play that on the stage but not in her head
In her soliloquy she made it clear to me
She won’t be traveling my way
But playing other venues instead
Paging Jennifer
No further message for her
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8. |
I'll Walk With My Baby
03:58
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Lyrics:
I gotta tell ya
I’m so happy today
I know nothing can change that
Nothing can stand in the way
You see I’ve found my reason for living
Like a beautiful pearl
I’m gonna be her boy
And she’ll be my girl
When I walk with my baby, with my baby
You will see she means the world to me
Shows me how our life will be
So carefree
When we walk together
I’m so proud by her side
And all of this love I feel
I never will try to hide
Life still may hold troubles
Oh but I’m not afraid
‘Cause with the strength of my baby
I’ll always have it made
So I’ll walk with my baby, with my baby
It’s her love that gets me through the night
Tells me everything’s alright
She shines bright
She makes me see all things clearly
I do love her so dearly
I will never let her go
Because my soul revolves around her
I could not live without her
I will tell the whole world so
(Tell the world I love her so)
Oh I gotta tell ya
We’re so happy today
Nothing will change our minds
We just know that’s how it will stay
See, we’ve found our reason for living
I’m hers and she’s mine
We’ve joined our hearts and hands
You see, we’re making plans for all time
You will see she means the world to me
Shows me how our life will be
So carefree
I’ll walk with my baby, with my baby
‘Cause it’s her love that gets me through the night
Tells me everything’s alright
She shines bright
(and some final sweet vocal thoughts end the song – dm)
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9. |
Frosty Morning
03:07
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Lyrics:
One frosty morning
We were walking hand in hand
Was a frosty morning
As we strolled throughout our land
Autumn harvest was in and pasture freshly mown
What good land it had been, we had reaped what we had sown*
That frosty morning
As we made our way around
On a frosty morning
You know she didn’t make a sound
I thought she was quietly listening to the birds and willows crying
Now I know what I missed then and it makes me feel like dying
One frosty morning
I awoke to find her gone
Such a frosty morning
Still can’t figure what went wrong
She never told me her sorrow
Or that our love was a lie
Now to haunt my tomorrows
Here’s a note that says “goodbye”
Oh lady
Why’d you decide on leaving?
Love
All I got left is my grieving
The winter’s cold must have put a chill in your soul for me
Now I shuffle through leaves in the yard
Feel the air that’s getting colder
Never dreamed it could be so hard
To be alone and feeling older
On this frosty morning
Such a frosty morning
Frosty morning
*When I sing this song live I change the lyric to:
Autumn harvest was in and the pasture taking rest
What good land it had been, we had sown and reaped our best
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10. |
Never Leave
06:15
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Lyrics:
Love
Now we live as vines in the sun
Well-intertwined
Grafted seamlessly
Our beginnings one
Grow strong within this bond
No life without you here
No life beyond
I thought that you’d never leave
Didn’t you need me too?
And now I don’t know what to believe
I’m not strong with you gone
Who?
Who was it tried to cut us apart?
Who told the lie
And led you to believe I deceived your heart?
I clutch my golden band
I feel you slipping down and through my hands
I thought that you’d never leave…
I don’t know what to believe…
We
We try to find firm ground while it rains
Confused in part
By the frightened thoughts coursing through our veins
I see behind your eyes
The words I fear one day you’ll vocalize
You’ll say
I thought that you’d never leave
Didn’t you love me too?
And now I don’t know what to believe
I’m not strong with you gone
If the child in us is wise
He knows that green-eyed monsters tell lies
It’s all disguise!
What is said and what comes between
May fester and grow jealous green
So let us keep
Our hearts swept clean
Our souls pristine
Our minds serene
No jealous green!
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11. |
Will I Fall?
04:07
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Lyrics:
All is lost they say
All hope hanging by a fraying rope
All of time they say will pass
Desert through an hourglass
I have heard the warnings
I’ve heard them all
But I have never had my back up against the wall
When will I fall?
As our cold and lonely world
From its catapult is hurled
All our lifetimes passing by
Stars across an evening sky
As we seek shelter in the things we do
Can we ever find comfort when the lies of life become true?
Then are we through?
Then the younger memory fades
Sunlight through the window shades
Taking family and friends
Never to come back again
All life’s battles carried
Those you lost and won
All the dreams that failed and all the things we left undone
What will they become?
Will I be the last to know?
Or will I be the first to go?
Or will I hear the call?
Or will I fall?
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David Melbye Red Wing, Minnesota
David has been a board-certified music therapist since 2000. He served hospice patients for many years and currently
practices privately.
In addition to his solo CD's (below), David’s arrangements have appeared on two Todd Rundgren tribute CDs. He has also contributed his work as a singer, vocal arranger, guitarist and bassist to CDs by Carolyn Koebel, Beth Patterson and Tom Rime’s Rhythmus.
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