LOVE’S LIKE THAT

Do you want to know what love is
Do you think you can be told
Do you think that you can seek it
Like people search for gold
Is there some hidden secret
Some special sign or key
That only certain people know
But others just can’t see

Love is like a rainbow
Like sun rays in the mist
All the colors of affection
Are there in a lover’s kiss
Love’s like that…love's like that

Didn’t think that I would find love
Thought time was running out for me
Then it struck when I wasn’t looking
When you solved love’s mystery
You covered me with kindness
Your affection was always there
No matter what I say or do
I know you'll always care

Love is like a river
With a constant gentle flow
The comfort that it brings you
Is one thing you can't outgrow
Love’s like that…love's like that

I no longer have any questions
There’s no need for any lies
I always see a million stars
When I look into your eyes

Love is like a rainbow
Like sun rays in the mist
All the colors of affection
Are there in a lover's kiss
Love’s like that…love's like that
Love’s like that
Like that
BROKEN HEARTED WORLD

No one wants to see
A broken heart in pain
No one understands
The knowledge they would gain
From opening their minds
To the beauty in the dark
Or laying down their pride
For a chance to light a spark

Broken hearted souls
Never breaking through
No one wants to know
The pain that they all knew
No one wants to hear
The sorrow that they speak
Broken hearted souls
The secrets that they keep

Life goes on for those
Who've never felt the pain
Of living with a heart
To never love again
Eyes will turn away
From those who suffer on
Ears will never hear
The beauty of their song

Broken hearted souls
Never breaking through
No one wants to know
The pain that they all knew
No one wants to hear
The sorrow that they speak
Broken hearted souls
The secrets that they keep

Double edged sword
Is how this world rotates
Those who have it all
Ignoring those who pray
For someone to stop by
For anyone to care
Instead they wear a smile
For as long as they can bare

Broken hearted souls
Never breaking through
No one wants to know
The pain that they all knew
No one wants to hear
The sorrow that they speak
Broken hearted souls
The secrets that they keep

Broken hearted souls
Will always shine with me
Broken hearted world
Is where I'll always be
LIKE A QUEEN

(The Ballad of Elizabeth Martha Brown, hanged for murder, August 9, 1856, Dorchester)

V1
True that I took a wee axe to his head
He’d come home full of ale, and he’d whipped me
The wicked young man I’d so foolishly wed
Had toyed with another in our marriage bed
Oh many the ways he had tricked me

V2
Humble of birth, a mere servant was I
Just a minnow in life’s meaner shallows
But bidding farewells, I held my head high
And when the time came I looked Death in the eye
And strode like a queen to the gallows

V3
Sadly, my name will hold no pride of place
For the gawkers weren’t there out of pity
I stood in the rain like a statue of grace
The coarse linen hood pressing wet on my face
Though sentenced, I didn’t feel guilty

V4
Hangman made certain my dress was well bound
With a heavy black strap at the ankles
It would have offended that virtuous crowd
Had any exposure of legs been allowed
If skirts billowed up while I dangled

Brief solo

V5 (repeat V2)
Humble of birth, a mere servant was I
Just a minnow in life’s meaner shallows
But on bidding farewells, I held my head high
And when the time came I looked Death in the eye
And strode like a queen to the gallows
YOUR TOUCH

When I woke up this morning
Something was calling out to me
Before my eyes would open
I could feel but I could not see
Deep as the ocean Gentle as your dreaming
Like a streaming sunshine flooding my mind
Your touch
Your touch that runs right through me
Like a clear glowing mountain stream
And cleanses all my senses
Of life’s sorrow
‘Til it seems you always knew me
Fashioned all my dreams
As you capture in the moment
My tomorrows
And time that weaves the structure
From which I live my life
You take away and lay there in it’s place
An endless kind of knowing
Like fresh spring breezes blowing
And I’m lost here
Without time or space

And all the roads I’ve walked along
That I’ve come to love so much
Seem to lead me to your touch
Yes all the roads I’ve walked along
That I’ve come to love so much
Seem to lead me seem to lead me
Seem to lead me
Here to your touch
Seem to lead me. Here!
BLUE CHAMPAGNE

Tonight I'll be dancing with a shadow
With no one I can touch or feel
While your image pours through my senses
I yearn for what used to be so real

I'll be drinking blue champagne
As I try to make it through
I'll watch those tiny bubbles
All alone... without you

It's funny we think love lasts forever
Believing it will never lose its glow
Then it starts to dim and lose its luster
The reason why we may never know

So now I'll be drinking blue champagne
As I try to make it through
I'll watch those tiny bubbles
All alone... without you

Our love was gentle, our love was kind
Our love disappeared like a dream lost in the night

Now I'll be drinking blue champagne all alone
Yes I'm drinking blue champagne all alone
Without you...without you
LAST HOURS

In these last hours ‘it’s the simple truth of being
That we take so much for granted
That rests upon my senses
Like the gentle falling rain
And I marvel at the clearness of my vision
And the depth of my deception
That sometimes it is my tears alone
That show me I’m in pain
For each moment
Holds the terror and the wonder of all living
Holds the power and the helplessness of giving
I’ll always love you
In those last hours it was the simple truth of being
That we take so much for granted
That lay strong upon my senses
Like the falling rain
And I marveled
at the depth of my deception
And the clearness of my vision
As my vigil was my only prayer
That you were not in pain
And I swore then!
That I would never turn from what I learned there
I will live out my whole life with this sweet song
As my refrain
I am forever -
I am forever changed
I’ll always love you
HE DIDN´T DO

Verse 1
My old man came from the wrong side of the tracks,
He loved breaking momma’s heart like his whiskey glass,
He used those same ways he broke her in two,
On sister and me but we never knew,
Bullying wasn’t something he didn’t do,

Verse 2
He was only as strong as the weakest in our house,
Life hit hard with him but we all survived somehow,
Like the devil in disguise he lied to us to,
I prayed knowing God would help me make it through,
Believing was something Dad didn’t do,

Chorus
I didn’t do the crazy fights, with my wife,
Didn’t make my kids run, scream, and hide,
Didn’t leave em’ feeling so black and blue,
I learned a lot about life from him, that’s the truth,
By doing everything he didn’t do,

Verse 3
Nowadays I’m raising a family of my own,
Life been better since he’s been good and gone,
When it came to a Dad I couldn’t pick or choose,
Sometimes I wonder what was his excuse,
For doing everything I wouldn’t do,

(Chorus) – Repeat

Bridge
It may be hard to understand,
He made me a better man,

(Chorus) – Repeat

I learned a lot about life from him that’s the truth,
By doing everything he didn’t do,
By doing everything he didn’t do
Skin and bone and flesh

I am liquid light
Shimmering, swirling
In your tie-dyed eyes
I am liquid light
Melting into the crevices
Of your mind

I am molten gold
Dripping around the corners
Of your aching soul
I am molten gold
A touch of magic
So transformative

Chorus
I am skin and bone and flesh
In my denial I digress
I am skin and bone and blesh
Though my soul aches for transcendence

I am bleeding ink
The stain that carries
All our sins
I am bleeding ink
The blurred words merging
On the brink
Big Forever Sky

V1
Watched my dad sit by the window
Where he’d gaze across the lake
Dreaming of the prairies
And the trains he used to take
The forest couldn’t hold him
And the mountains were too high
He needed room to move in
Like a big forever sky

V2
Watched my mom sit at the table
Reading tea leaves in her cup
Dreaming of the promises
And all she’d given up
My father couldn’t hold her
But she didn't say goodbye
She only drifted deeper
Into living out their lie

Chorus
Both of them aching
Both of them breaking
Each of them knowing why
But too far beyond speech
They remained out of reach
Of a big forever sky
...A big forever sky

V3
Watched their solitary children
Grow like weeds around their feet
Scrambling for sunlight
With needs they couldn’t meet
Our parents never saved us
Though we didn’t know that then
But if we could re-live our lives
We’d love them both again

Chorus
All of us aching
All of us breaking
Each of us knowing why
But too far beyond speech
We remained out of reach
Of a big forever sky
...A big forever sky
Never Been Here Before

He picks up the letters that lie by the door
Just bills and reminders he’s seen them before
Drops them on the table and feels his despair
Can’t think what to do, runs a hand through his hair
Sits down to a breakfast of one slice of toast
He’s still pale and hungry and looks like a ghost
Looks out the window and the bleak scenery
Boarded up shops and litter are all that he sees
And it’s not getting any better, he knows that for sure
It’s not like he’s never been here before.

She looks in the mirror and wearily sighs
It’s a face that she struggles to recognise
She puts on her make-up to hide all the years
To see it’s not working is one of her fears
She touches her hair now, she’s made it an art
It’s become a routine, but she looks the part
Picks up her handbag that matches her shoes
That always strangle her feet and give her the blues
But it’s not getting any better, she knows that for sure
It’s not like she’s never been here before.

They met in the shadow of a high prison wall
He can’t think what to say and she feels so small
They walk to a park bench and sit for a while
Talk about nothing but they do it in style
Minute after minute they roll back the years
And after a while they are both shedding tears
But not for the past or for what could have been
The glimpse of the future they could never have seen
And it’s now getting better, they feel that for sure
They know they have never been here before
In all their lives they have never been here before.
NOBODY TOLD ME

(Verse)
I wake up in the night sometimes
And think I’ve felt your gentle kiss
That old clock on the mantel chimes
Can’t stand the thought of dreams like this

(Verse)
Your coffee cup is empty now
But I still make enough for two
I stumble through the day somehow
Can’t think of anything but you

(Chorus)
Nobody told me
Our bed would feel this big and wide
Your picture’d tear me up inside
Lost count of all the hours I’ve cried
Nobody told me

(Verse)
I remember autumn days
The amber light soft on your hair
I remember your sweet ways
The love we made, the life we shared

(Verse)
I thought that losing you would be
The greatest sorrow I could bear
But every day and night just bring
The life I’ve lost, the things I fear

(Bridge)
Now dawn is comin’ on
The night is nearly gone
And I can’t stop these tears from falling

(Chorus)
Nobody told me
Our bed would feel this big and wide
Your picture’d tear me up inside
Lost count of all the hours I’ve cried
Nobody told me
I CAN'T FEEL YOU ANYMORE

I can't feel you anymore
Your touch is not there in the night
No more tossing and turning in bed
Wondering what could've made it right
Your lips have lost their charm
You now feel empty in my arms
The passion is not there like before
I can't feel you anymore

I can't feel you anymore
My eyes don't miss seeing your face
No more tossing and turning in bed
There's nothing of you I can't erase
With your words and body gone
No sense of you lingers on
Nothing is like it was before
I can't feel you anymore

The past is now past
When I thought love would last
Where it would stay between me and you
But that has all changed
And there's no love that remains
Now you're just someone I once knew

I can't feel you anymore
Your touch is not there in the night
No more tossing and turning in bed
Wondering what could've made it right
You lips have lost their charm
You now feel empty in my arms
The passion is not there like before
I can't feel you anymore

I've stopped asking why
Cause I can't deny
I can't feel you anymore...I just can't feel you anymore