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Make Me Come Alive
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Make Me Come Alive - (music and lyrics by Dan Frechette)
I've got my hands on my destiny
She's the one who heats my every chill.
I've got a feeling deep inside me
she's always gonna be my thrill.
I've been running around the world just to find the time
To come home to find the girl who's been on my mind
to be there with her everywhere make me feel so good inside
(chorus)
Make me come alive.
make me come alive
and make me come alive.
I've got to wait a little longer.
Seems the day is slow and cold and sad.
The sun don't shine without her
but there ain't no way I'm feeling bad.
She's been in my life each night telling me what she sees.
Everything she wants to love has to do with me.
Everything she wants to know
she wants just to help me to dream.
(chorus)
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Money Shouldn't Talk That Strong
(Music and Lyrics by Laurel Thomsen)
Just bubbles in a bathtub
the poison was seeping to the bone
alone
In time the sages warn, no sign of a savior
we mourn
oh no
When selling off our decency ain't a crime
sends empathy cowering to the corners of our minds
and nature sends an SOS
what could be wrong?
Money shouldn't talk that strong
(Chorus)
Let's talk strong about our dreams
celebrate our differences
Talk strong about the future
Love our planet home
Find honestly in our struggles
courage in our strengths
Let's talk until our sameness shines through
like we're supposed to do.
People without hope live their lives by their fears
And evil seems to grow in all the neighbors we're afraid to know
Scarcity echoes through our minds
Divided up
we're lost of any voice that we could find
our puzzle pieces scatter
where do we all belong?
Money shouldn't talk that strong.
(Chorus)
When Bob and Phil and Joni wrote their songs oh so long ago
Did they see a future time living the same stories they sang to you?
Know the world still carried by the poor
Color, race, religions just steps from prisons door
Let's catch this moment
start a new song
because money shouldn't talk this strong.
(Chorus)
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Country Beauty Queen
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Country Beauty Queen - (music and lyrics by Dan Frechette)
She was born upon a farm in the year of '83
she was the quintessential country beauty queen
there's seldom queens in country life
but she deserved a crown
when she took her litlle brother out to play
she was the talk of Clementstown.
(chorus)
She was on the mind of every lonesome dreamer
Looking for the road
that was rising up to meet her
She didn't realise all the eyes that cried goodbyes
when she fell in love.
She met him out on the street serenading for a dime
something captivated her
she was hanging on a rhyme
somewhere along the skies above the rain came tumbling down
and they ran away that summer day to find some higher ground.
(chorus)
Life was writing pages and turning them so fast
she had no chance to look behind
to see what chapter passed.
Somewhere along the skies above
their dreams were flying high
and everytime she kissed him
it would distance every guy
she didn't know why love found her
she'd never been aware
of hearts beating with every meeting
until she found him there.
(chorus x2)
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Tricky
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Tricky (Music and Lyrics by Dan Frechette)
This place is cramping our style, love
There's somewhere else we can fly
Only thing that matters
It's a matter of time
We can stop blaming one another
Or the fact we both don't belong
If there were changes in the weather
where maybe nothing could go wrong
(Chorus)
It's tricky so tricky to get it right
It's tricky when our darkness is seen in the light
It's tricky so tricky you might miss your flight
It's tricky when there's nothing when you take a bite
We can live out our primes here, love
and look back at our primes being lost
We can sell emptiness
and add plans to the cost
Find our way to the mecca
where we'll be swept in a wave
I'll always be behind you
It's our safe in our cave.
(Chorus)
Crawl through the underworld, love
Find a new home in the sun
Where time will not be squandered
and the battle will be won
(Chorus)
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A Ransom Of Love
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Ransom Of Love (Music and Lyrics by Laurel Thomsen)
There's a crack where a little love can flow
a little love, a little joy, a little laughter
They're calling their names
in the streets filled with pain
'til the break and the bow forever after
(Chorus)
Waiting on the moon
waiting on the tides
waiting on a moment that just feels right
To toss out all these reasons
to not stake this claim
A ransom of love
calling a ransom of love
On the way to a goal
which most will never know
never care, never find, never look for
Long for what we have
and we'll find no better salve
and what we seek can be forever, now and after
(Chorus)
Stars play tricks in the dreamers eyes
Nowhere to go
these endless skies
There's a child in her room
calling swallows across the moon
through the cold and the mist and a sadness
but far beyond her world
is a feeling that's reserved
for the guns and the saints forever after.
(Chorus)
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6. |
Beale Street
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Beale Street - (Music and Lyrics by Dan Frechette)
On Beale Street was where I found you
you were looking for a stained glass window
to hang in a church you go to
I pointed you to a place
where they sell stain glass they make
but all you wanted to do
was get to know me
through and through.
(chorus)
Now you know me
and now that you know me
in 5 days or so we'll marry
you know me
and now that you know me
and we'll sail on the love boat ferry.
You say you've seen me in your dreams
I can't say what that means
but girl I hope that you've been seen in my dreams too.
On Beale Street we walk today
and our life is pretty plain
we dream of eclipses of the sun and the moon
we don't know what the future holds
as much as what the future held
but I know that a Beale Street house will be our home soon.
Now you know me
and now that you know me
we're sailing on the love boat ferry
you hold me
and you unfold me
and in five days or so we'll marry x2
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7. |
Colfax Harbor
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Colfax Harbor - (Music and Lyrics by Dan Frechette)
In the ruins of Colfax Harbor,
sits a girl who is waiting for her ship to come in
Standing down by cool water
dedicating her day to her long lost friend
(Chorus)
It was bound to happen soon
a sweet kiss embraced by the moon
Further up the lonesome trials of time
She could find nobody there
the fog was thick
her wet eyes stare through dreams
Of a most natural crime
Echoing words of a promise
that he told her so many nights before
I will meet you in the harbor
and I will line your heart with silver and gold.
(Chorus)
Those days they were cherished
She dreamed of houses, beaches, walks in the park
She begins to see the big moon sinking
As crimson begins to make its way through the dark
The telegram came the next morning
a solemn man with a message of pain
The ship it sank off Colfax Harbor
ten miles from where his golden heart lain
(Chorus)
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If A Wave
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If A Wave (Music and Lyrics by Laurel Thomsen)
If a wave
began right here
Would you hold it tight and empty
let it disappear?
Or let it flow
find other ways
Let it pick you up and carry you
grow into an ocean
You can part a wave from the sea.
(Chorus)
My world begins with me
From here to all I see
I own these wounds
and the flowers that grow free
My world begins with me
And if love began right here
would you still look for another
hide away in fear?
Or would you feed it's tiny light?
Let it breath out with and through you
merge with all the love out there
you can't part a spark from the fire.
(Chorus)
We're still looking for the answers we thought we knew
and wishing on the same dreams the whole world through
You can't part a wave from the sea.
And if peace began right here
Would you count it as a sweet luck
Push needy souls clear?
Or set it free
on little wings
Small forces felt around the world
spread out to eternity
you can't part the breeze from the air.
(Chorus)
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9. |
Hey, It'll Be OK
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Hey, It'll Be OK - (Music and Lyrics by Dan Frechette)
You can't say that it's over
So many do survive
Just spend your days being grateful
Happy to be alive
And everywhere there's misfortune
and everywhere there's light
We can see what we perceive
and hey, it's alright
(Chorus x2)
It's OK, it'll be OK
You can't change the people
but you can dance in faith
You can see the moon and sun and the stars and say
hey, it'll be OK
Look out at the survivors
So many learning to live
Of those who play with fire
there are those we can forgive
Some people fighting for freedom
and some people fighting the free
We all must die in grace
while making history
(Chorus x2)
Chances are you're broken
Chances are you'll heal
Don't shy away from truth, babe
Learn how to feel.
You're not alone, my friend
Take a look around
We're all sheltered in these houses
without a sound.
(Chorus)
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10. |
Together Again
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Together Again - (Dan Frechette)
If I could stay here
a real long time
then you'd know it's because I love you deep inside
Take the cue
that's what you do
Because you'd know at least that I'm a fool for you
I'm waiting for that special day when we can be together again. Together again.
I'm waiting for that special day when we can be together again. Together again.
You've changed me
I've changed for good
and now nothing will return me to the pain
and it's plain
it's plain to see
that you have made a miracle of me
We won't grow colder
we'll just grow older yeah
waiting for that special day when we can be together again.
Together again.
I'm waiting for that special day when we can be together again. Together again.
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