Lyrics for CD Let Go


SHADOW LIFE

For years it is walking beside me
For years it’s a half-made plan
But that isn’t my life, just a shadow life
That’s not who I am

I fall in love, I follow love and I name the dreams I steal
I tell myself, well, this other passion
This never happened, this never mattered
This never, this isn’t real
This never, this isn’t real

Heat comes off the streets at night, heat comes off my brain
Among you all I feel like one of you
Just like one of you
Just like one of you

Move my body, breathe my name and look, I’m someone new
I tell myself, well, this other passion
This never happens, this never does it
This never, this isn’t true
This never, this isn’t true

For years it is walking beside me
For years it’s a half-made plan
But that isn’t my life, just a shadow life
That’s not who I am
That’s not who I am
That’s not who I am


RECORD, REJECT, REWIND

Record…

“Not a word,” you said, and laid a finger to your lips
Shapes and shadows, no one really knows
And too often no one even sees
The sunlight glint, all the tints of the snow

Record, reject,
Your eyes reflect
While noise deflects my attention
I don’t want you to go

{You can turn it off now
You can turn it off)

Record…
When you looked at me I bit my lip, it didn’t hurt
I just wanted to kiss you
I looked back at you but had to break my gaze
You know so many ways into my heart

Record, reject, rewind
‘Cause now everything’s fine
Well that’s what you say to me
I don’t believe you this time

(You can turn it off
You can turn it off now)


WHAT KIND OF DAY

When I see the Earth from space
I see your face
I want to embrace all that is you
I want to chase all that is true

When I come home you will be my wife
A fellow traveler on the ship of life
Floating on love, unlike the sea
For love is more clear if just as deep

What kind of day would it be without love?
A day to rush through or a day to regret
What kind of day would it be without love?
A day as dark as any night
A day to try to forget

When I see the sky I see your eyes
We are waiting for the sun to rise
But day comes in gray and clouds form
And all that was cold slowly grows warm

What kind of day would it be without love?
A day to rush through or a day to regret
What kind of day would it be without love?
A day as dark as any night
A day to try to forget

You are like a comet, free and bright
A stellar body moving through the night
And now the light still lingers in my mind
The glowing trail you leave behind

What kind of day would it be without love?
A day to rush through or a day to regret
What kind of day would it be without love?
A day as dark as any night
A day to try to forget

I try to forget


ORCHARD

Come to the orchard, follow the ribbon of birds in the sky
Of all people, you should understand
When I tell you the way that I am
When I’m taking your hand in the garden

Your face in the harsh light,
This isn’t the place that I’ve dreamed about
This isn’t the taste I’ve been dreaming about
Come to the orchard

When I am dancing, I don’t care much about anyone’s life
I am weather and ever I change, ever I change
And the look in your eyes is so strange
And you cradle my heart in the forest

Your face in the harsh light,
This isn’t the place that I’ve dreamed about
This isn’t the taste I’ve been dreaming about
Come to the orchard

Come to the city, float on the water that never flows free
You were always a mys’try to me
‘Til I stood with you under this tree
Now I’m taking your hand in the garden

Your face in the harsh light,
This isn’t the night that I’ve dreamed about
This isn’t the light I’ve been dreaming about
I’m feeling tortured

And I’m feeling happy, happier than I had known I could be
Nothing happens the way that I plan, way that I plan
Of all people, you should understand
And I think that you do


ICE AGE

I don’t want
Spring to come
I don’t want
Winter to leave me
Spring’s too bright and asks for all my energy
Winter is quiet and only asks for me to sleep

I want to stay by the fire
With toast and honey
All curled up in my blankets
I just want to watch
The snow fall outside my window
Following flake after flake until I’m mesmerized,
Mesmerized…
I like the Ice Age

I don’t want
Spring to come
I don’t want
Winter to leave me
Spring’s too full of life and always asking me to dance
Winter is dark and only asks that I stay still

Nothing I can do, soon it will happen
And I will be dancing and bright
And I won’t remember
That I didn’t want this
I just wanted to watch the snow fall,
The snow fall…
I like this ice age


NOW YOU'RE GONE

Now you’re gone, summer yawns out
Eyes are silent, rain falls
Now you’re gone, the clouds stretch long
And I wonder about lost things

Rain falls, memories fade
Darkness falls at midday
And you are traveling somewhere that seems very far away
Rain falls

And I wonder; did I love you?
I don’t think so, I don’t really think so
But this is another empty day
Although more beautiful than usual

And nothing comes back
Nothing ever comes back

Now you’re gone, summer yawns out
Eyes are silent, rain falls
Now you’re gone, the clouds stretch long
And I wonder about lost things

And nothing comes back
Nothing ever comes back


THE TRIP

Here we are
This is as far
As we need to go

I think this is it
This is the place
Out in the night, under the moon

The waters are warm
And flowers bloom in my heart
Wet green grass, flat on my back, flat on my back

Moon glow falling from the sky
Like love running down into my eyes
Your face, this night, I’ll never let go
Moon dust stuff all over us

I haven’t looked
At the trees like this
For years, and years, and years and years

Never seen
The moon like this
Never felt the warmth of it

Moon glow falling from the sky
Like love running down into my eyes
Your face, this night, I’ll never let go
Moon dust stuff all over us


FROM SATURN

I don’t have friends form Saturn
I don’t judge anybody
I just don’t think we’d really have much in common, oh no no no

They just don’t think the way we do
Haven’t been through what we’ve been through
Don’t do the things we like to do
Because they come from Saturn

We all go ‘round the same sun
But those rings are in their sky
I just don’t think they’d really have much to tell us, but I don’t know

They just don’t think the way we do
Haven’t been through what we’ve been through
Don’t do the things we like to do
Because they come from Saturn

I don’t have friends from Saturn
Don’t know what they believe in
I’m pretty sure they really can’t feel what we feel; I don’t think so

They just don’t think the way we do
Haven’t been through what we’ve been through
Don’t do the things we like to do
Because they come from Saturn
From Saturn

I don’t judge anybody


THINGS COULD CHANGE

Littered streets and glitter meet
The tie-dyed mood confuses me
Static and heat so often compete
I tell myself this has to end

Let your mind roam free, let your heart grow
Sand and sea give way to rock and snow
Little did I know
Just how fast things could change

Let your mind roam free, let your heart grow
Let your mind roam free, let your heart grow
Little did I know, little did I know
Little did I know, little did I know

As the storm brews I can still choose
I don’t ask why, the answer would be a lie
It seems so simple, once it is done
Sometimes God speaks in a different tongue

Let your mind roam free, let your heart grow
Sand and sea give way to rock and snow
Little did I know
Just how fast things could change

Let your mind roam free, let your heart grow
Let your mind roam free, let your heart grow
Little did I know, little did I know
Little did I know, little did I know


WHEREAS

Where is, whereas
Where is love
Where were we?

When, when we love
Where do we go?
When we love
Where is, whereas

I love
When
Not if
Always
Never
sometimes
Never
sometimes

Where is, where was
Here, not there
Here is where
My love is here

Where were we
When
When we found
Where it is
We found it
here
We found it
here

Where were we
When we found love?

Where were we
When we found love?


FEVERFEW

I have to say
As I look in your eyes
That what I like best
Is telling no lies

The sky seems so high

Now that you’ve made
Me understand
I can’t tell you
Just how sad I am

And words have failed again
And words have failed again

Gushing light, slowness of sound
Cats smile slyly, I’m not coming down
Feverfew, cool serene
Look at that look, this is no dream

What did you say?
Just show me how
Since I’ve gone mad
I’m happier now

But the sky is still so high

I have to say
As I look in your eyes
That what I like best
Is telling no lies


ART AND YOUR EYES

The trees here
have all been cut down
But when you paint them,
they are alive again
Yet you cry when you could be looking at the moon

This empty canvas tells me nothing
of the design of my life
Only art never lies,
art and your eyes
Finally there is someone, someone who can’t forget me
Finally there is someone who can’t forget me

You and I
have dreamed the same dream
A kiss that never ends,
even in death
A love that harms no one, that charms everyone who sees it bloom

There is a painting I’ve seen
Of a man that chisels his perfect woman out of stone
And he calls to her, and she falls into his arms


GHOSTS

You asked me to join you
I pondered awhile
You never did push me
But sometimes you’d smile

I thought it all out
The pros and the cons
I said “maybe next time”
And then you were gone

You sent me a postcard unblemished by tears
And it didn’t even say, “wish you were here -
How I wish I was with you”

I still think about that
I wish I had gone
I heard how it worked out
It sounded like fun

But something about it I just couldn’t do
And I was so totally wrapped up in you
I just don’t understand how people live all their lives

Now in my mem’ry
Though it’s been awhile
You wait for my answer
And sometimes you smile

I play it all out
As if it were now
I always refuse you
I never know how

And even back then I was mad at myself
The words I said sounded like somebody else
But they made sense at the time

I still think about that
I wish I had gone
I heard how it worked out
It sounded like fun

But something about it I just couldn’t do
And I was so hopelessly wrapped up in you
I just don’t understand how people live all their lives

How I wish I was with you




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