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Your Light | Drowning in You | Hidden Love | The Real World
Sweet Lorraine | Shadow Moon | Something Else
West Coast Blues | All Along The Watchtower
Your Light
(John Lent, Neil Fraser)
Ah babe, when I look at you
I see your light; it's shining through
When I look at myself I sigh
The blues have messed up my mind
I want your light; I'd like to shine
I'd like your tenderness to be part of mine
But I'm drawn to the darkness and I don't know why
Down so deep I can't see the sky (Chorus:) Throw me a life-line; mail me a key
Boost up your love-light; send some to me
Then I'll surface someday whole and clean
And give back what you've given to me (Bridge) you're standing in the middle of the sidewalk
you're looking like the silver on a dime
your smile's so wide it could make the rain stop
you shine so fine it otta be a crime
(Repeat Chorus) Ah babe when I look at you
I see your light and it's shining through
When I look at myself I sigh
The blues have messed up my mind
When I look at you you look so fine
The blues have only made you shine Top
Drowning in You
(John Lent, Neil Fraser)
Hey there woman, what to do?
That long face ah, don't look good on you
You’re far away; you’re troubled, too
And I don’t know; I don’t know what I’m gonna do
Between these blues and these waters
I’ll be drowning in you
Hey there babe; ah, what’s with you?
You’ve got a way of spreading the blues
You drag me down ‘till there’s nothing to do
But I ain’t gonna sink to the bottom with you
Between these blues and these waters
I’ll be drowning in you People run; ah they reach for a cure
Looking for something; something solid and sure
Ah they can’t sit still; they gotta move move move
No they can’t be still; gotta work that groove
Between these blues and these waters
I’ll be drowning in you
I’ll be drowning in you Top
Hidden Love
(John Lent, Neil Fraser)
I always was so careful
Tucked everything away
I tried to keep my deep deep smiles
And gentleness at bay
I did this for a reason
Like a hand slides in a glove
Till you slipped in and opened up
My hidden love Why did I always try to build
A house around my fears
And hide my heart within it
As if it wasn’t there
As if I had no heart to lose
When all the songs were sung
As if I didn’t need to feel
My hidden love (Chorus) My hidden love is shining
My hidden love is whispering
My hidden love is laughing
At the thought of being here
Out in the open
Out in the clear
How did you out-maneuver me
Below me and above
How did you anticipate
My hidden love (repeat Chorus) Top
The Real World
(John Lent)
In the morning when the birds rise up
And their song becomes the world
And my feet move down through the house
And the day starts to unfurl
I get the coffee going and wake you with a smile
And we sit talking for a while
Ah the lazy noon comes sliding
With the sun across the lawn
The heat is full like honey
The shade is deep and long
While the water whirls its circus
That goes round and round and round
and we stand grinning on the ground
(Chorus)
I know this is the real world
We dream it all the time
I know this is the real world
We cannot seem to find
Why do we turn our backs on it
As if it wasn’t there
When we’re standing all around it
In the air?
In the evening when the sun slips through
The edges of these hills
And all the night sounds chatter
And the street becomes so still
We walk out in our garden
Just to see what we have grown
And whisper beneath the quarter moon Top
Sweet Lorraine
(Mitchell Parish, Cliff Burwell)
I just found joy
I'm as happy as a baby boy
with another brand new choo choo toy
when I'm with my sweet Lorraine A pair of eyes
that are bluer than the summer skies
if you see them you will realise
why I love my sweet Lorraine When it's raining I don't see the sun
for it's in my baby's smile
just to think that I'm the lucky one
who will lead her down the aisle Each night I pray
that nobody steal her heart away
just can't wait until that lucky day
when I marry sweet Lorraine Top
Shadow Moon
(John Lent, Shelby Wall) Hate is a hammer
Hate is a spoon
Hate is a needle a shadow moon
Always comes early never leaves soon
Hate is a nightmare in the afternoon
Why do we always rise to the bait
Turn what could be love into hate? Old man in darkness
Has little to say
Lives in a bottle likes it better that way
What has hurt him gave him a shove
Beneath all that dark the old man is love
Why do we always rise to the bait?
Turn what could be love into hate? Towers are falling
Down from the sky
Kingdoms collapse in the shadow moon’s eye
Soldiers are weeping they want to know why
The sun’s bright light has darkened the sky
Why do we always rise to the bait
Turn what could be love into hate? Hate is a hammer
Hate is a spoon
Hate is a needle a shadow moon
Always comes early never leaves soon
Hate is a nightmare in the afternoon
Why do we always rise to the bait
Turn what could be love into hate? Top
Something Else
(John Lent)
Every time I see this town
I wonder where my time has gone
I see this kid on a Friday night
I see his faith neath the thin streetlight
And oh time is thinning
Oh time is spinning
Into something else Here's the boy and there's the man
Here's the joy and there's the pain
One looks forward one looks back
Two trains running on a single track
And oh time is thinning
Oh time is spinning
Into something else (Bridge) you spend so much time moving up that hill and on the run
you hardly know who it is you are
and now you're moving down the other side into another sun
your eyes take in so much you can't believe the brightness:
where you are
I bring my selves wherever I go
Some run fast and some walk slow
Some love the heat while others love the snow
But each one wants to go go go
And oh time is thinning
Oh time is spinning
Into something else Top
West Coast Blues
(John Lent)
Fields are darkening in the afternoon
The sun's going to slip behind those mountains soon
All this white drifting away
Not much traffic in the way today All the trees are heavy with white
As this road whistles into darkness tonight
I just left a truck stop in the pass
Just me and the truckers are going to last tonight (Chorus) drifting
drifting into white
all the highway signs read
slow down tonight drifting
drifting into you
I will find you in these
West Coast blues tonight
I got Van Morrison in the dark
Singing like his soul had gone so far
While all his dreaming fills the car
I can hear your crying like
A sky above the car (repeat Chorus) Top
All Along the Watchtower
(Bob Dylan)
(performed by Lent, Fraser, Wall live at Okanagan College, Vernon, B.C.)
There must be some way out of here
said the Joker to the thief
there is too much confusion
I can’t get no relief
businessmen they drink my wine
ploughmen dig my earth
none of them along the line
know what any of it is worth No reason to get excited
the thief he kindly spoke
there are many here among us
who feel that life is but a joke
but you and I we've been through that
and this is not our fate
so let us not speak softly now
the hour is getting late All along the watchtower
the princes kept the view
and all the women came and went
barefoot servants too
outside in the distance
a wildcat did growl
two riders were approaching Top
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