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Aim High

From the stage of Duncan Showroom https://showroomproductions.ca/

Aim High © Jonathan Churcher 2014

Verse One
Aim high when you’re wandering solo. Aim high when you’re desperate for change.
Aim high when she’s walking towards you and she’s within range.
Aim high when you dial the number. Aim high when you make the connection.
Aim high when she’s sitting in front of you and you think she’s perfection.
You sit down and talk and you think she’s perfection.
You think she’s perfection. She is perfection.

Verse Two
Aim high when she’s standing in front of you. Aim high when you realize.
You’re feeling all crazy and wonderful, she’s looking deep into your eyes.
Aim high when the kissing won’t stop. Aim high when you play truth and dare.
Aim high when you go beyond words and she’s already there.
You go beyond words and she’s already there. She’s already there. Right there.

Refrain
Aim high when you tell her your story, aim high when you speak of your pain, Aim high when you tell her you love her again and again and again and again.
Aim high when you dance your dance, aim high when you laugh your laugh, Aim high when there’s nothing to know, you have nothing to ask.

Verse Three
Aim high when you’re feeling rage, aim high when the energy’s gone.
Aim high when you try to explain but everything comes out all wrong.
Aim high when the truth gets ugly, aim high when she curses your name.
Aim high when you show her your heart and she just walks away.

But don’t give up.

Refrain
Aim high when she tells you her story, aim high when she speaks of her pain.
Aim high when she tells you she loves you again and again and again and again.
Aim high when she dances her dance, aim high when she laughs her laugh
When there’s nothing she needs to know, nothing she needs to ask.

Aim high, aim high, aim high, aim high.

The Ballad of Walter Edgi

From the stage of Duncan Showroom https://showroomproductions.ca/

The Ballad of Walter Edgi © Jonathan Churcher 2014

Verse One
He was born on the banks of the beautiful Deh Cho
Life changed fast, and what did he know?
They took him as a child, and he didn’t understand
Why he could not live in his ancestral land.
All alone far from home and friends.
In a really bad school, where the pain never ends.

Verse Two
When Canada was 100 years old.
He wanted to be brave, to do something bold.
Out of the blue, he got a call
Would you like to paddle to Montreal?
Three-thousand miles in a canoe
He did not quit, he made it through.

Chorus
What a summer that was, he was part of a team.
With hope and joy, he started to dream.
Go back home, hunt caribou,
Catch fish for the elders and the sick ones too.

Verse Three
Many years later, a lot went down.
His precious mother gone, he left the small town.
From then on, the streets were his home.
In Yellowknife, he was quite well known.
A photo shows him with such sad eyes.
They say, “I had dreams, but all of them died.”

Verse Four
He trudged like a trapper through alleys and lanes
Past City Hall to the Frame Lake Trail.
From there onto Old Airport Road
With a big black bag to the bottle depot.
Though he wasn’t trapping lynx, marten, or fox.
Ancestors were with him wherever he walked.

Chorus
Year after year in the cold and the heat
He never stopped, he never missed a beat.
Step after step, with a determined stride
Such persistence and a will to survive.

Verse Six
On a warm July day, down by the lake.
The very last trip he’d ever take.
With ptarmigan, jays, and ravens around,
He lay what he was carrying on the ground.
Framed by the shoreline and warmed by the breeze,
He took his last steps surrounded by trees.

Chorus
Though he wasn’t trapping lynx, marten or fox.
Ancestors were with him wherever he walked.
On the other side, he’s not alone.
Ancestors are guiding him home.

The Ballad of Springhill

Writers: Peggy Seeger and Ewan MacColl

The Ballad of Springhill © Ewan McColl/Peggy Seeger

Verse One
In the town of Springhill, Nova Scotia
Down in the dark of the Cumberland Mine
There’s blood on the coal and the miners lie
In roads that never saw sun nor sky
Roads that never saw sun nor sky

Verse Two
In the town of Springhill, you don’t sleep easy
Sometimes the earth will tremble and roll.
And when the earth is restless, miners die.
Bone and blood is the price of coal, Bone and blood is the price of coal

Verse Three
In the town of Springhill, Nova Scotia
Late in the year of fifty-eight
Day still comes and the sun still shines
But it’s dark as a grave in the Cumberland mine,
Dark as a grave in the Cumberland mine

Verse Four
Down at the coal face, miners working
Rattle of the belt and the cutter’s blade.
Rumble of the rock and the walls close round
Living and the dead men two miles down.
Living and the dead men two miles down.

Verse Five
Twelve men lay two miles from the pit shaft
Twelve men lay in the dark and sang.
Long hot days in a miner’s tomb
It was three feet wide and a hundred feet long
Three feet wide and a hundred feet long

Verse Six
Three days past and the lights went out
That’s when Caleb Rushton said,
“We’ve no more water nor light nor bread
So we’ll live on hope and song instead
We’ll live on hope and song instead”.

Verse Seven
Listen for the shouts of the barefaced miners
Listen through the rubble for the rescue team
Six hundred feet of coal and slag
Hope imprisoned in a three foot seam.
Hope imprisoned in a three foot seam.

Verse Eight
Eight days passed and some were rescued
Leaving the dead to lie alone
All their lives they dug their grave
Two miles of earth for a marking stone
Two miles of earth for a marking stone

Verse Nine
In the town of Springhill, you don’t sleep easy
Sometimes the earth will tremble and roll.

Colliding With Goliath

Video: Colliding With Goliath. Producer: Mark Winkler.

Colliding With Goliath

© Jonathan Churcher 2015

Verse One
He was on a world tour, young, healthy, virile, strong.
Very suave, very cool, with a gift for sweet love songs.
He could soothe woman’s hearts, he could make them swoon and weep.
They’d scream for him on stage, and call his name out in their sleep.
But the woman he desired, his true soul mate for this life.
The one he loved so deeply, called him late one night.
Bluntly, and unkindly she declared,
Female voice:
“We are through.”
I’ve emptied the entire house and our bank account, too.
You’re not making music, you’re pimping for the man.
Send nothing for my birthday, don’t speak to me again.

Though his heart was heavy with grief and disgrace
He had no choice but to perform and with a smile on his face.
Three Times A Lady, Fly Me To the Moon
Ain’t No Cure For Love, he’d valiantly croon.
Take It Easy, Michelle, My Heart Will Go On,
Love Will Keep Us Alive, and but the thrill was gone.
He was…..

Colliding with Goliath, but time’s healing hands revealed
What the dark and lonely battle with his demons had concealed.
Over the horizon rose a glowing inner sun.
And then the war was over, he survived, he had won.

Those who face Goliath, they are warriors tried and true.
Their solo warrior’s dance opens doors we all walk through.

Verse Two
She wrote seven drafts of a story, she so badly had to tell.
Each one wrought with sweat and tears, but she was driven and compelled.
Whenever she presented the reworked manuscript
The editor would laugh and scoff, and try to make her quit.
So she gathered all her courage, handed in the book once more.
Then held her breath and waited, then he began to roar:

Male voice:
You ain’t no budding author, a writer you’ll never be.
Your novel’s not much better than a young girl’s diary.
Don’t waste your time, go home and throw away your writing tools.
Go hang your head and stand among the other dreamer fools.

So she started in again with passion, not despair.
Refusing to be silenced, and writing with due care.
Words, they flowed freely, sentences were tight.
Paragraphs and chapters, she knew when they were right.
She grasped essential truths and laid them out so clean
And the ninth draft gained acceptance, and she got to live her dream.
she had …..

Collided with Goliath and refused to back away.
She looked the monster in the eye and said , “I’m here to stay”.
Her strength of mind kept her in the true arc of her life.
She can call herself an author, for that , she’s earned the right.

Destination YZF

Destination YZF (c) Jonathan Churcher

Verse I
I didn’t want to fly,
I hate those all-night flights
Can’t look down at the earth
And I love the way it curves.
For the entire day; heavy west coast rain.
Once on-board, just one thought: “When Will I See This Place Again?”

Chorus
Hey,ay Hey,ay Hey,ay ay
Above the clouds we are
Headed for the arctic stars
Not weighed down, instead,
Something heavy has been shed
Something has been shed.

Verse2
Didn’t fall asleep
Watched the city lights recede
The brightest flickered one by one
Disappeared ‘til there were none
Heard a raga in the airplane’s drone
That could be a song called “At Last, Alone”
Not hard to guess what lay below
Foothills, jagged peaks, and snow.
We’d passed the point of no return
Closed my eyes— heard bridges burn
Took a breath and let it go
From here on it would be all unknown

Chorus
Hey,ay Hey,ay Hey,ay ay
Above the clouds we are
Headed to the arctic stars
Not weighed down instead,
Something heavy has been shed
Something has been shed.

Outro
I didn’t want to fly,
I hate those all-night flights
Can’t look down at the earth and
I love the way it curves.

The Dragon’s Breath

The Dragon’s Breath © Jonathan Churcher 2015

Refrain
I live on Silent Hilltop, in the Valley of Don’t Come Near,
In the middle of Lonesome Forest, beside the River of Fear.
I sleep alone in the darkness, I dream of outer space.
I rise each day to the sad refrain of a planet going to waste.

Verse One
Where the industrial revolution started to unfold,
Nobody asked, “What about the globe?”
Shakespeare could have penned the script, for all the world’s a stage.
Now the plot’s as thick as smoke, we’re the actors in this play.

Verse Two
Lakes and rivers fail, as the rain declines to fail.
Insects, plants, and birds they begin a northward crawl.
Mountain lions leave the south, following the deer.
The land is full of omens speaking loud and clear.

Chorus
Every lightning strike ignites a forest fire,
Every burning tree emits a cry.
Every cry is nature’s voice, listen as it tells.
We brought this dragon’s breath upon ourselves.

Verse Four
Such confusion for the hibernating soul,
Autumn stays so long and keeps away the cold.
Caribou can’t find protection from the winter’s freeze.
They wander here and there looking for a stand of trees.

Verse Five
The 2014 wildfires we just can’t ignore.
Smoke blocked the highway, it pounded on our door.
And this ain’t no incense filling up our lungs all summer long,
And it ain’t no ceremonial smudge, it’s way too strong

Chorus
Every lightning strike ignites a forest fire,
Every burning tree emits a cry.
Every cry is nature’s voice, listen as it tells.
We brought this dragon’s breath upon ourselves.

Gazing At Polaris

Gazing At Polaris © Jonathan Churcher 2015

Verse 1
When all you hear is breathing and your mind is really calm
When you see the tide has turned, and your frantic pace is gone.
When you’re ready to stand still, and your intellect’s at rest.
Listen for the melodies buried in your chest.

Verse 2
Go walk the El Camino, get some training for your brain
Write letters to the editor, call the mayor, complain.
Burn the midnight oil, burn the candle at both ends.
Become a workaholic, rise so fast you get the bends.

Chorus
Where you are in time and space is where I want to be. (2x)

Verse 3
The music in your heart is a vast chromatic scale,
It touches everything from the atom to the whale.
A wellspring of emotion, the energy of life
A constant point of reference, a Polaris star at night.

Verse 4
Buy some Nordic walking poles, never eat ice cream
Binge on sitcom reruns, learn to speak Chinese
Party with your friends, gamble all night long.
Go to work with bloodshot eyes, tell the boss he’s wrong.

Verse 5
Something to consider when your life becomes a blur
A coyote with no heart is just another predator.
What started as eccentric, became a circle true,
I knew I’d found the center, when your face came into view.

Chorus
Where you are in time and space is where I want to be. (2x)

Have You Ever

Have You Ever © Jonathan Churcher

Chorus
Have you ever held someone so close, it changed their life forever?
Have you ever been held so close it changed your life forever?

Verse One
I felt it once, for just a flash.
No sound or sight, free at last.
No more tomorrow, no more today.
All points of reference taken away.

Chorus
Have you ever held someone so close, it changed their life forever?
Have you ever been held so close it changed your life forever?

Verse Two
There he was, on a ledge
Anger came flying out, fear was spread
Everybody’s thinking, can we pull him through?
But it’s not what you say, it’s what you do.

Chorus
Have you ever held someone so close, it changed their life forever?
Have you ever been held so close it changed your life forever?

Verse Three
You struck the chord, you sang the line.
You got the feeling right, and that’s all fine
The lyrics came, and then the song.
You played around the world and proved the critics wrong, but…

Chorus+
Have you ever held someone so close, it changed their life forever?
Have you ever been held so close it changed your life forever?
Have you learned the lesson your heart wants you to know?
Have you learned the lesson your heart wants you to know?

The Journey Home

The Journey Home © Jonathan Churcher

Verse One
Turning over in my sleep, I’m vaguely aware
Of a dream about the quickening pulse of a hibernating bear
Salmon feel the primal urge and start their journey home
Five hundred fathoms beneath the waves, whales create a song
Crowd whispers dying down before the curtains rise
This play’s about a growing heart shedding a disguise.

Chorus One
Say yes and think of every word you’ve ever said
All the voices that you’ve heard, the faces that you’ve read
Say yes and think of all the people you have moved
The times of deep content when there’s nothing left, nothing left
Nothing left to prove. Nothing left to prove to prove x2

Verse Two
A time and place arrives that force a person to slow down.
Where soul and spirit and heart and love all find common ground.
Sun sheds its skin and flickering aurora fills the sky,
Glaciers rise and melt, seas fill up and then run dry.
Light years measure distances when silences prevail
It’s time to stir the ether now and slowly I inhale.

Chorus Two
Say yes and think of every place you’ve been to in this world
All the quiet time you’ve had, all the sounds you’ve heard.
Say yes and think of moments when the galaxies arose.
Long before the planets began to shift and rove, began to shift.
Began to shift and roam, began to shift and roam 2x
Turning over in my sleep, I’m vaguely aware
Of a dream about the quickening pulse of a hibernating bear.

La Ballade de Jean Batailleur

La Ballade de Jean Batailleur © Zachary Richard

Verse One
Je m’appelle Jean, Jean Batailleur,
Je m’ennuie tant que ça me fait peur.
Je suis orphelin, abandonné,
Sous la pleine lune, on m’a trouvé.

Verse Two
Au bout du monde, où je suis né,
La vie est dure, l’amour cassé,
C’est pas la peine de faire comme si,
Tout est foutu, tout est pourri,
La vie est dure, y’a pas d’espoir
Quand on est mauvais comme moi.

Verse Three
Passe la bouteille, sers moi un verre,
Plus que je bois, plus je vois claire,
Y’a pas d’avenir, y’en aura pas,
Y’a que l’amertume et le tracas.
Des fois je vois l’étoile rouge,
J’entends l’appel, je sens le loup.

Verse Four
Prends ton couteau, allons dehors,
Viens donc danser avec ‘Tit Jean.
A coupe de poing, et au fusil,
Je suis le plus fort dans le pays.
Ca m’a donné que de l’ennui
Des points de souture et des ennemis.

Verse Five
Je m’appelle Jean, Jean Batailleur,
Je m’ennuie tant que ça me fait peur.
Je suis orphelin, abandonné,
Sous la pleine lune, on m’a trouvé

Launch Don’t Drift

Launch Don’t Drift © Jonathan Churcher 2015

Launch don’t drift, launch don’t drift, launch don’t drift, launch don’t drift, launch don’t drift! Don’t drift!

No Eclipse

No Eclipse © Jonathan Churcher 2011

Clear Calm Warm Breathe Here, Binary, No, End
Clear my head Clear my head, calm my nerves
Calm my nerves Warm my heart, make a bond
Warm my heart Seal my fate, swing around
Breathe say yes Two step through firmament
Here and now Here and now, all aglow
Binary star No eclipse, binary star
No eclipse Circle dance, a la ronde
End this quest End this quest, breathe say yes
Clear my head Here and now Binary star, warm my heart
Calm my nerves Binary star Swing around, here and now
Warm this heart No Eclipse A la ronde, clear my head
Breathe say yes End this quest Breathe say yes, end this quest
Here and now, swing around Clear my head Clear my head, warm my heart
Make a bond, a la ronde Calm my nerves Swing around, here and now
Circle dance, Warm this heart A la ronde, clear my head
Two step through firmament Breathe, say yes End this quest

Pack of Lies

Pack of Lies © Jonathan Churcher 2011

Verse One
Join the table but beware
Everyone’s playing solitaire.
This could be your lucky day?
What do the fortune tellers say?
Get closer you can hear the sighs of people playing with the pack of lies.

Verse Two
Face up to the truth, pick any card,
Turn it over, now that’s not hard.
Not what you want? – take some more
Add them up, what’s your score?
Nobody wins, nobody ties, when they’re playing with a pack of lies.

Verse Three
This game could be your winner takes all.
Go with your gut as you make your call.
A thousand words is a picture’s worth.
Use them to pray for your re-birth.
You’ll need to find a way to rise, when you get hit with the pack of lies.

Verse Four
Hold those cards close to your chest,
As close to the heart as you can get.
You seek a warm and caring hand
But not the kind that robs a man.
Still alone after a thousand tries? You must be playing with a pack of lies.

Verse Five
Are you in the lead like an Alpha dog?
Or trotting along at an easy jog?
Shuffling with this crowd of fools
Everywhere you go it’s Nevada rules.
Look around and realize, you’ve been running with a pack of lies.

Verse Six
The game continues through the night
It’s getting tense, it’s flight or fight.
The others fold, each falls and slips,
The pot is yours, it’s golden chips.
And then you can’t believe your eyes, it’s a glistening pack of lies.

Recap – finale
Look around and realize
You’ll need to find a way to rise
Nobody wins, nobody ties
When they’re playing………….. with a pack of lies…………..

Reverie at Cameron Falls

Reverie at Cameron Falls © Jonathan Churcher 2015

A strange and perilous wave breaks over the water-worn rocks of Cameron Falls, where plot lines, time lines, head lines, and heart lines converge and merge.

Band sings: “When the earth is a ghost town, and the seasons barely change. When the earth is a ghost town, and the seasons barely change. ‘Blues for a Blue Blue Planet’ will be the final serenade”

Is this just another night of play going nowhere on the unethical treadmill of the good life?

The roaring and cresting tsunami of your shortsightedness towers over you. Filling your ears with a dumb cacophony that crawls and shudders across the land.Like a genetically-modified, artificially-intelligenced, industrially-super-sized bulldozer.

If this dwindling waterfall were an oracle, it would not speak with the explosive thunder of a bursting volcano, or the shuddering low groans of a creeping glacier, but as a drought of whispers.

Our own breath must carry survival secrets to our ears; loud and clear, now and here. (4x)

Rock Walker Blues

Verse One
Rock Walker flies through space, and gently touches down.
Rooted in the soft earth, anchored to the ground.
Right away spin and stomp,
Run, leap, twirl, and romp.
He comes out swinging, eager to dance.
He wants to learn from experience.
He’s got a hungry heart, he digs deep,
Somersaults and leaps and bounds.
To a thundering beat, to a thundering beat, to a thundering beat.
To a thundering beat.
Ocean diver, forest hiker, mountain climber, sky flyer.

Verse Two
May he ascend like Daedalus, may he remain hawk-eyed.
Never losing focus on the purpose of the ride.
Challenged by an Arctic blast
Empowered by a warm updraft,
One day he’ll stare in awe at the hurricane’s advance,
He’ll listen for the stories in the north wind’s chants, the north wind’s chants,
The north wind’s chants. The north wind’s chants. Embedded in the round trip, eventually he’ll learn.
The same wheel that brought him here, takes care of his return.

Verse Three
One day we all make the long journey home.
Face the lonesome valley, prepare for the unknown.
When we’ve gone whence we came.
The world will never be the same.
All I can do is send waves of love to you,
Pray for perfect weather for your rock walker blues.
Rock walker blues rock walker blues, rock walker blues.

Rock Walker flies through space, and gently touches down.

The Troubadour’s Prophecy

Verse One
Around the world our thoughts will fly, in the twinkling of an eye.
Our towns will grow and spread so far, joined together with stone and tar.
And where the snow would once be found, the locals walk on open ground.
The frightened lowland people flee, running from a rising sea.

Refrain
This story’s told in simple verse, be it blessing be it curse.
I am not singing of next week, it’s future centuries I see.

Verse Two
Where dark of night and bright of day, longer than a season stay.
A man named Franklin will strive to sail three ships, he won’t survive.
The sun descends like a fiery brand, and burns the forests of a frigid land.
With no more snow on the mountain side, the hunters’ relics no longer hide.

Refrain
One day the blue replaces white, as water freely flows from ice.
And soon thereafter all will hear, the winding, Northwest Passage passage is clear.

Verse Three
The wind’s not cold and it cannot freeze, so short the winters all will be.
And no more antlered cattle found, on the melted grazing ground.
With the northern waters growing warm, a whole new nation will be born.
And as the waters rise on the Mackenzie Delta shore, some wonder if there will be war.

Refrain
Everything we do or say, creates tomorrow in some way.
Do what you can, be at your best,
Share, teach, give, love, ignore then rest.

Twelve Bar Blues

Verse One It’s my favourite place, the Angel’s Heart
I stopped there once, and got my start.
Relax, breathe deep, empty the mind
Leave your body and the planet behind
Float free for a while, go with the flow, glimpse the
Promised Land, enjoy the show
At the Angel’s Heart, I saw you there
Radiating love and care
Even today as I walk the streets
I see that warmth in everyone I meet
This may look like a pleasure cruise
Ain’t no such thing its a 12-bar blues

Verse Two
Here we are at the Something Out of Ten
So you never know who’s foe or friend
I’m staring around the room like a maniac,
Looking for a pair of eyes that are staring back.
I love an Old Town woman in a feverish way
But she don’t love me that’s plain as day
The Something Out of Ten shows lessons learned
Like, sooner or later someone gets burned like when a
Married man hangs with a single woman
He’s gonna pay a price and he had it coming
There’s always a chance that you’ll get bruised
It’s all part of the 12-bar blues

Verse Three
Here we are at the Lost and Found where
Fate and destiny buy the rounds
It’s dark in here and what a shame because
We’re all trying to help each other win this game
Every time someone new walks in
It’s déjà vue all over again
Sometimes Cupid provides a spark
And that’s enough to get us out of the dark
Such a wild place where anything goes
The good news is they never close
That in itself is a wonderful clue
There ain’t no end to the 12-bar blues

Verse One reprise It’s my favourite place, the Angel’s Heart
I stopped there once, and got my start.
Relax, breathe deep, empty the mind
Leave your body and the planet behind
Float free for a while, go with the flow, glimpse the
Promised Land, enjoy the show
At the Angel’s Heart, I saw you there
Radiating love and care
Even today as I walk the streets
I see that warmth in everyone I meet
This may look like a pleasure cruise
Ain’t no such thing its a 12-bar blues

Visionary Mind

Intro: spoken
Scientists call us homo sapiens, the knowledgeable wise ones.
We’ve deconstructed atoms and made huge cities run.
But how long can we continue? ’cause when everything is tolled
We have some heavy debts to pay not far down the road.
But the oracles are silent, the deities are mute.
Looks like we are all we’ve got to find a better route.

Verse One
In the Rockies is a mountain called The Sleeping Buffalo.
To build the nation’s railway, they took away the coal.
Now a different collier works a different mine.
Searching for the treasures of the visionary mind.

Verse Two
Frustration and exhaustion haunt this shadowy domain.
Your heart becomes a shovel, a pick axe is your brain.
Everyone who labours here, no matter how inclined.
Eventually pays homage to the visionary mind.

Chorus:
It may strike you when you’re sleeping, or claim you in a crowd.
Come to you as a fleeting thought or an image in a cloud.
A confluence of fables in a crucible of time.
Who knows where it comes from – the visionary mind.

Verse Three
Down the main shaft goes a playwright, another all-night shift.
Digging in the darkness, sometimes cursing it.
Maybe one short monologue is all that she can find.
But she will pay give thanks to the visionary mind.

Verse Four
Musicians have a blast when they venture underground.
The creaking cracking rocks – a whole new world of sound.
Later on the surface they will finally unwind.
Letting loose the music of the visionary mind.

Wave After Wave

From the stage of Duncan Showroom https://showroomproductions.ca/

Instrumental – rather rudimentary – for rehearsal purposes. Better version to follow soon.

Verse One
Here we are, stranded on a wild shore
Magic carpet made of blue and green.
On guard we stand, proud residents of Gaialand
Eco-systems bursting at the seams.
Can’t go forward, can’t go back, stranded in a cul-de-sac of
luxury and liberty.
Can’t go forward, can’t go back, stranded in a cul-de-sac of
luxury and liberty.

Verse Two
Carbon dust scattered in a universe of boom and bust.
Gravitated here and fell to the land.
With a primal brain balanced on a calcium frame
Makes you wonder what the hell is the plan.
Clergy sings a certain song, science tells them they are wrong
Angels embrace and devils lay waste.
Clergy sings a certain song, science tells them they are wrong
Angels embrace and devils lay waste.

Verse Three
In this solid realm, who is really at the helm?
Makes you wonder what’s behind it all.
Numbing fear, hounding us from far and near.
Are we headed for another Fall?
Some say love is all we need, others get their fix from greed.
The pure, pure spirit meets the charlatan.
Some say love is all we need, others get their fix from greed.
The pure, pure spirit meets the charlatan.

Coda
Here we are, stranded on a wild shore
Magic carpet made of blue and green.

Where I Want to Be

Intro:
Where you are in time in space, ‘ where I want to be.
Where you are in time in space, ‘ where I want to be.

Verse One
Been in sweat lodge darkness, seen the rocky glow,
Watched ghosts of mammoth hunters freely come and go.
Healers shared their secrets, they turned my heart around,
Listened to Tibetan monks, they say we’re not earth-bound.
They say we’re not earth-bound.

Verse Two
Watched the community choir bring a piece of heaven to town.
Wolves were howling in the night, that’s a wonderful sound.
Heard thrushes sing at down, filled my eyes with tears.
Played music with killer whales, they sang loud and clear.

Refrain:
Where you are in time in space, ‘ where I want to be. (2x)

Verse Three
Got too close to a big bull elk, he took a run at me.
Felt a Mississippi thunderstorm’s electricity.
Gazed in awe as trumpeter swans rose into the air.
Called grey whales to the shore with a simple, silent prayer.
Called grey whales to the shore with a simple, silent prayer.

Verse Four
Stare into the future, find out what’s in store.
Travel in dimensions, where your spirit soars.
Everybody’s life extends throughout eternity.
But where you are in time and space is where I want to be.

Refrain:
Where you are in time in space, where I want to be. (2x)

Without You

Verse One
Like a
Train that’s off the rails a
Schooner without sails a
Fox without a tail a
Tracker off the trail a
Garden without kale or
Straw that can’t be baled a
Test you always fail a
Dream that’s up for sale a
Postman reading mail a
Knight without a Grail an
Iron man who’s frail a
Saint who’s gone to jail
Chorus:
That’s me without you

Verse Two
Like a ….
Millionaire with bills a
Doctor feeling ill a
Miner’s lost his drill a
Host can’t pay the bill a
Son out of the will a
Jack without a Jill no
Echo in the hills
Canaries that can’t trill a
Tenor sounding shrill
Fish with damaged gills an
Ocean without krill a Polar bear with chills
Chorus
That’s me without you

Verse Three
Like a….
Window without sills a
Tank no one can fill a
Bar without a till a
Circus with no thrills a
Hotel with no frills no
Steaks are on the grill
Poison in a still
Holland without mills a
Druggist with no pills a
Writer with no quills a
Stop sign on a hill
Time is standing still tick tock tick tock
Chorus
That’s me without you

CODA
SPOKEN
Like the planet without gravity, Saturn with no rings, a forest with no shadows, a year with no summer, a rock band with no drummer, a symphony orchestra with no violins. Can’t you see?
Chorus:
That’s me without you That’s me without you

SONGS

Aim High

The Ballad of Walter Edgi

The Ballad of Springhill

Colliding With Goliath

Destination YZF

The Dragon’s Breath

Gazing At Polaris

Have You Ever

The Journey Home

La Ballade de Jean Batailleur

Launch Don’t Drift

No Eclipse

Pack of Lies

Reverie at Cameron Falls

Rock Walker Blues

The Troubadour’s Prophecy

Twelve Bar Blues

Visionary Mind

Wave After Wave

Where I Want to Be

Without You

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