A G D
If you're alone, won't you come over?
A G D
I know you won't, was there something that I should have said?
A G D
Because I, I feel alone too
A G D
I know you feel it when I do
Emi A
When love songs keep repeating your name
Emi A
The heartbreak is easy, far harder is being you're gone away
D /C# Emi/7 D/A
With the weight on my heart and the wave of a hand
G E7
It all just disappears
G A A7
Is it just me feeling this alone out here?
D F#mi7 G
And I'm alone, I know but not lonely
And you could just come and hold me
And I'd be the man you wanted believe me
Cos I understand where you stand beside me
A G D
If you're alone, won't you come over?
A G D
I know you won't, was there something that I should have said?
A G D
Because I, I feel alone too
A G D
I know you feel it when I do
Emi A
When love songs keep repeating your name
Emi A
The heartbreak is easy, far harder is being you're gone away
D /C# Emi/7 D/A
With the weight on my heart and the wave of a hand
G E7
It all just disappears
G A A7
Is it just me feeling this alone out here?
"Voice of Poets Past"
Gmi D7 Cmi D7 G
V1:
I sit alone with windows wide
when everyone is sleeping
At midnight I can hear the cry
of ancient spirits weeping
C:
Cmi Gmi
And I listen for the heart of me
D7 Gmi
To tell me what they know
Cmi Gmi
If History bears repeating
D7
Won't you let me go?
V2:
I watch the hours, the creeping flowers
Growing o'er my pillow
The laughing sky, pregnant with clouds
Breeds children in a bubble
C:
Bridge
V3:
The tide is coming in again
To wash away my sorrow
Until the ghosts of poets past
Return to me tomorrow
Convenience kills the artistry
The darkness longs to comfort me
Because I've seen where the road of progress leads
They turn truth into mystery
Make people perfect unquestioning
Profits rewriting history
Down in the puddles where the children play
Dying of thirst too weak to say
Just strong enough to hold out a hand
Stare at the TV and turn to clay
This shit happens every day
Could I crawl into bed and just close my eyes?
Every moment pondering another child dies.
And though that makes me feel so small
Words alone can't do it all
Maybe I can inspire you in some other way
Now you say you're having nightmares
up on your queen sized bed
You keep domesticated animals
for the ghosts in your head
We buy some shit and pray to God
Something goes wrong we write a song
Anything to make it seem okay instead
Our taxes go to the fund the wars
Everything packaged ?
They remind us it could be worse, you could be dead.
Down in the puddles where the children play
Dying of thirst too weak to say
Just strong enough to hold out a hand
And if you turn to me and say
This shit happens every day
Highway of Shooting Stars
Everybody has a song that makes them cry
I live my life just learning how to sing mine
So I can sing my sorrow without watching it die
Cos baby when it's over
It's never really over
Everybody has a question in their eyes
I live my life just learning how to read between the lines
So I can sing my heart and you won't be denied
Cos baby when your heart beats
It's never what your mind thinks
And I did, Oh I didn't get far
I thought oncoming traffic was a shooting star
And I did, wish on you
In fairytales where dreams come true
She taught me how to dance and close my eyes
Everybody is too hard on themselves in life
Even the lazy ones don't believe they're worth it to even try
Some people make up their minds
They see a world of perfect spirits all standing in line
So when I speak my mind, it's only after all this time
Cos even when the ghost speaks
Amplifying the lonely
Chorus
Everybody needs someone to fight for
I live my life on the lover's breeze
A little song of leaves
I watch them blow away like a distant memory
Cos even when the wind blows
The echo of a rainbow
Chorus
Everybody is an ocean deep and wide
An endless river's devotion
Takes us to the other side
All alone in a dream I hear you cry
Softly lit like a silhouette lit up by the morning light
Cos baby when you're near me
It's like you really hear me
Chorus
After the Fall
Verse 1
G D Emi C
I'm a Christmas tree with a cat sleeping in my boughs
I'm a Chanukkah bush and a stonehenge sending signals to the clouds.
I'm a silent buddha smiling, I'm a juggler and a clown
I'm a path between every mezzanine of every church in town
Verse 2
I'm an angel, I'm a devil, I'm a dew drop on a petal
I'm not a pretty flower waiting on a bee
I'm an alley and a stream, hidden in me
Is a city made of everybody's dreams
Chorus
Ami7 D7 G D Emi
You may call me your beautiful boy
And I might love you even when you destroy
I remember late nights waiting on your call
I'm here still waiting... after the fall
Bridge
You may be the very part of me I ignore
And the only part of me I need when I walk out the door
And will I long for you when I can't hear you anymore?
(Chorus)
I'm okay, I'm alright, I can see without sight
I'm a feeling of you sleeping far away
I'm a wind through your tree, I'm the one who believes
I'm a chance you took to tell me what it means
Bridge 2
I might be the part of you that's old
And the only part of me you want to hold
And will you long for me when you can't hear me anymore?
Verse 3
I'm a fallen snow on the rooftop clawing in
I'm a kaleidoscope show of the rainfall and the mess I'm in
I'm a city night in broad day light and a prayer for the past
And a prayer for the future that comes too fast
(Chorus)
"Reflection"
For Barbara Lowenstein
D A Emi7 G
We all have our little ways to avoid life
Some lose their feelings in a bottle, I sing mine
But I'm just doing the same, finding a way out of feeling the pain
We can't go back, we are so alone
A memory of your face and we're on the road
Chorus:
A G D
Take away this lonely life and lead me away
Time's a stranger who can't give you the time of day
And life goes on without us each day sown
A G Bmi A D
The reflection is my own
I tickle flowers did you hear my heart?
The winged caged flies the birds around the park
And it soars on without us each night flown
The reflection is my own
V2:
Can you help me here I'm winding down
All the trees are bare and no leaves on the ground
I look out of my window as the seasons roll on
Like trying to swim up river when the water's gone
(Chorus)
Bridge:
Emi A7
What's in is out, what's up is down
Every thought we have is out loud
I see your smile I breathe so easy
All I want is for you be near me
We all have our little ways to avoid life
Some lose their feelings in a bottle, I sing mine.
"Voice of Poets Past"
Gmi D7 Cmi D7 G
V1:
I sit alone with windows wide
when everyone is sleeping
At midnight I can hear the cry
of ancient spirits weeping
C:
Cmi Gmi
And I listen for the heart of me
D7 Gmi
To tell me what they know
Cmi Gmi
If History bears repeating
D7
Won't you let me go?
V2:
I watch the hours, the creeping flowers
Growing o'er my pillow
The laughing sky, pregnant with clouds
Breeds children in a bubble
C:
Bridge
V3:
The tide is coming in again
To wash away my sorrow
Until the ghosts of poets past
Return to me tomorrow
The next song I will record this week is "The One Tree", it's based on a recurring dream and a vision I had after my cat Rasta passed away in 2005.
The One Tree
(Verse 1)
Dsus
I woke up on the wrong side of the mirror
Gsus
And everything in dreams is always clearer
Dsus
I'm always heading off somewhere with purpose
The sky's alive and so am I it's easy
G
Picking up coins for inspiration, D
It hadn't dawned on me they'd been dis-carded
(Bridge)
G
Suddenly it's not enough to need you
G A
Everything expected and nothing left
(Chorus)
D A
At the end of the world where will you be?
F#mi G
Looking for laughs or loving me?
D A
At the edge of the world where will you stand?
F#mi G
Lost in love, or holding your hand.
A7
with the one tree, flying free...
Verse 2:
The ocean turned upside-down, a dolphin trade for stars
Awakened eyes un-opened, lit up like passing cars
The salty sea licks my feet on starlit shores
The earth unveils in mighty layers and reaching the core
(Bridge/Chorus)
Verse 3:
I lay my body down in the desert
A silent crow beside me and the mountains
The horizon's sign the heart flatlines
The silence and the bell is all I hear now
She comes to me an angel born of starlight
Her eyes aflame I don't know her name, bt it's all right
I remember when she led my baby to Heaven
A spiral stair and long white hair ascending
(Bridge/Chorus)
"I Fall Awake"
Capo on 4
V: Em B7 C G Ami Emi B7
C: C G D B7 C G D
V:
Inbetween every heartbeat is a Mise en scène
Showing us there's more to what we long to be
On a path within you'll find us, binaural energy
Dancing in the ancient falls beyond belief
C:
I will not go back to sleep
Even if it means that I--
Must let you fly from me
And if I--
Fall awake and see
My only enemy and meaning leaves me
And meaning leaves me...
V2:
I jumped through a window and up into the clouds
Flying in formation with a family of dragons
Our wings beat so gracefully, in the peaceful blue sky
And then I found another one and brought another world to life
C:
V3:
Behind every nightmare, a longing for the dream
Pretend than I am real enough to know the meaning
To love and know how to lay my body down
And lead you far beyond the long long long way 'round
C:
