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from Denison Witmer - Are You A Dreamer? (2005)
How you found me out I still never understand,
Thoughts you can't take with you when you go. You were waving flags that bare the colors Of your love I didn't know: Orange for the vineyards, Blue is for the rivers, Green goes like a hillside covered now, White is not surrender Despite what you've been told; It's clouds of hope That fall on you now, save you now. Fall on you, fall on you now, save you now. One time we met, you were outside Floating in the forest. I placed my stigmata On your hands. Little flowers that you have sown Show people you have known that I am love and Fall on you now, save you now. Fall on you, fall on you now, save you now. And fall on you now, save you now. Fall on you, fall on you now, save you now. Fall on you now, save you now. Fall on you, fall on you now, save you now. |
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from Denison Witmer - Are You A Dreamer? (2005)
My room has a big white bed
Pictures on the mirrors Books that last a year Everything but sleep Don't you know? Nothing won't fit under there The Dowmaker's ghost A heavenly host Everything but sleep Don't you know? Everything but sleep Where does it go? Everything but sleep On it goes... If it weren't for you I could be anywhere I'd rather be here Don't you know? Now that I know I'll never feel the same way Everything but sleep Don't you know? Everything but sleep On it goes On it goes... |
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from Denison Witmer - Are You A Dreamer? (2005)
Can you hear the ringing of the bell tower
Counting off the days we can't replace I would like to think it's not that way All the songs that find you in the city Pull you from your bedroom to the streets Pushing all your sadness underneath There's a song I've been singing All these years as they pass There's a lot of big questions I never ask There's a lot of questions never asked Consider the lillies of the valleys Neither do they toil or they spin Still a quiet hand is watching over them I became a prodigal and left here My petals out like windmills in the air Waiting for a breese For any sign of care There's a song I've been singing All these years as they pass There's a lot of big questions I never ask There's a lot of questions never asked |
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from Denison Witmer - Are You A Dreamer? (2005)
Dream, are you a dreamer?
Are you a dreamer? Do you dream? Sleep, are you a sleeper? Are you a sleeper? Do you sleep? When your brown eyes close Do blue skies open up? When your breathing slows Your mind run fast and free? Will you sleep and dream with me? Love, are you my lover? Are you my lover? Do you love me? Save, are you a savior? Are you a savior? Will you save? When my blue eyes close Will white clouds lift me up? When my body slows My mind run fast and free? Do you hold me when I sleep? Do you hold me when I sleep? When your brown eyes close Do blue skies open up? When your breathing slows Your mind run fast and free? Will you sleep and dream with me? Will you sleep and dream with me? Water, I?m walking on water Walking on water for you. |
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from Denison Witmer - Are You A Dreamer? (2005)
Skipping like a stone,
across the bluest pools of what I know. Don't know where to go. Each one leaves a mark, circles through the dark and sinks into the place I need you most. As far as the east from the west they say. I should know my east from west I know. As far as the east from the west they say. And I am only human anyway. Now for all your cares, Put them in the air that I breathe in until you tell me "no". And for the smallest hands, Put them in my hand and I walk on until you say "let go". As far as the east from the west they say. I should know my east from west I know. As far as the east from the west they say. And I am only human anyway. I am only human anyway. |
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from Denison Witmer - Are You A Dreamer? (2005)
She's the kind of girl that tends to brown
freckles on her elbows and her knees And I'm the boy that passes through these towns I leave before we find out what it means I'll send a letter addressed to you it says you're my California brown and blue Another chorus line gives into waves it fades away So I push through another hotel door and I pull back the bed sheets till they break and I sleep so hard I don't even dream weightless in the arms of Golden Gate The only music I want to hear is the sound of the last light left dissapears Another songbird gives up it's wings it fades away dada dada dada dada dada dada I'll send a letter addressed to you it says you're my California brown and blue Another chorus line gives in to waves it says your my California Golden Gate The only music I want to hear is the sound of the last light that disapears Another songbird gives up it's wings it fades away Another songbird gives up it's wings it fades away |
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from Denison Witmer - Are You A Dreamer? (2005)
There's a dream I have,
it comes back when all the days turn into one. I'm in a coat and hat, and I'm standing on the coast of England. With a castle and cathedral on the sand, I reached down to touch the water with my hand. Then you turn and say to me, "You've been talking in your sleep, What did you see? What does it mean?" I was a photograph of our daytrip from the window of a train. The one we cut in half. I kept mine and made a bookmark on a page. It fell out today as I was getting packed. Have I left you here more times than I've come back? Like that snowfall out of reach, we kept our details underneath, once made of stone, we went for broke. I didn't know. Are you a dreamer? |
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from Denison Witmer - Are You A Dreamer? (2005)
Lately I been waking to
The bluest stars that I once slept through The morning hangs like open chords That I fill in with my own thoughts and words I used to worry all the time But I slowed down to live my life To live my life now College campus and warmest grass We sit and watch the poeple rush to class When did we to decide that life had to be All fasts and cheques, that we lost mystery We used to worry all the time But we slowed down to live our lives To live our lives now We used to worry all the time But we slowed down to live our lives To live our lives now |
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from Denison Witmer - Are You A Dreamer? (2005)
Mary, you are the bird inside the hand
of St. Francis in the garden where he stands. Handwriting, a birth mark, and a quilt, mother to my mother and to me. And to me. Mary, you are the mason jars in spring, the kitchen with the view across a hill. First memory is a Bible verse in song, the organ while my family sings along. We sing along. And on the calendar when I leave a little note for you, so you see when I'm gone, I never go too far. Your heart is my heart, your blood, my blood. When I'm gone, I never get too far. Mother to my mother and to me. |
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from Denison Witmer - Are You A Dreamer? (2005)
this is what it's like
finding your feet again the part of you that couldn't finally thinks you can you're taking off some time to do this a small apartment bedroom rearranged to know that you are loved you're finding your feet again the part of you that couldn't finally thinks you can a brownstone on a street in brooklyn the light tier flash from temperature to time and people do the same you're falling alseep again part of you a dreamer and part of you is dreamt and you said... go now in the light of your god go now in the love of your god go now in the peace of your god go now in the joy of your god |
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from Denison Witmer - Safe Away (2006)
This was the first year of our years together
Your mother got sick and your sister got married This was the first year of our songs together Simple chords are lovely Simple words are heartfelt It's the best friends that need you In my case, believe you It's the best friend's lives' kiss you In my case, I'll miss you You were there on Queen Street when I was feeling down When every word I said felt like it meant nothing The only one I had that understands my blues Is making big predictions of life on the west coast soon It's the best friends that make you Sometimes they break you It's the best friends that move you In my case, see through you It's the best friends that need you Sometimes they leave you It's the best friend's lives' kiss you In my case, I'll miss you It's the best friends that make you Sometimes they break you It's the best friends that move you In my case, see through you It's the best friends that need you In my case, believe you It's the best friend's lives' kiss you In my case, I'll miss you |
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from Denison Witmer - Safe Away (2006)
I hear you calling me by name
You come around the corner smiling again And I know you're feeling better And so the sun might turn to rain The clouds will come together over us again And they will soak us to our bone Comfort our thoughts when we're feeling down Say what we need until we come around As a matter of fact As a matter of these times When we're all feeling It's getting hard to breathe in this life I'm going back now to the time When we sat out all night and looked to the sky And dreamed it would be our escape And so that night did turn to day The sun so bright and warm would make its way inside of me Send a shiver through my bone Comfort my thoughts when I'm feeling down Say what I need until I come around It's the matter of fact that A matter of these times When we're all feeling It's getting hard to breathe in this life I don't know what I'm doing now I don't know what I'm doing now I make myself so sick inside my bones Comfort my thoughts when I'm feeling down Say what I need until I come around You're the matter of fact that A matter of these times When we're all feeling It's getting hard to breathe in this life |
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from Denison Witmer - Safe Away (2006)
Taking myself back to the time
We were in your room You looked straight through the life that I've lead The things that I've said Made you tired You could always find the best in me You can always sense the times that I'd been Falling apart, the shape of my heart Shows its marks It's a lonely life and we both know that Things are gonna change You're over my head, over my mind Walk with my face down and my eyes Over my head, over my mind Walk with my face down Walk with my head down Going on two weeks since I last saw The smile that depended on my life The things that she needs I just called to see if you're fine It's a lonely life and we both know that Are you safe away? You're over my head, over my mind Walk with my face down and my eyes Over my head, over my life Walk with my face down Walk with my head down |
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from Denison Witmer - Safe Away (2006)
All of the words keep coming
For me to settle down But I think I heard us falling Before we hit the ground So much for my dark takes Of how we got this far It's funny that we can make a thing Of what we really are She sits on the bed She's so beautiful She thinks I'll be scared Of what she's feeling It's time you oughta know It's time you had the facts I'm feeling like this If you can live with that I don't believe some things Like living for myself And I don't believe in loving Unless there's someone else |
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from Denison Witmer - Safe Away (2006)
Downtown in the fall
Across the sidewalks Leaves will all make fossils left behind Balancing your life This way against mine I know you're in me somewhere I have the marks to prove of this Closer to the sun Out in the open farm To the reason of this growing I will come And you will be near And I am not old When we are close together, we are young If I had no arms to fold into If I had joys to breathe back to you Surely this would slow the life of mine Surely this could stop the love of mine Far from everyone Down where the river runs To the reason for this valley I will come And wash myself there Of all of my cares Through mystery and water there is love There is love If I had no arms to fold into If I had joys to breathe back to you Surely this would slow the life of mine Surely this could stop the love of mine If I had no arms to fold into If I had joy to breathe back to you Surely this would slow the life of mine Surely this could stop the love of mine |
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from Denison Witmer - Safe Away (2006)
What will stay
When everything is going, what remains When everything is leaving, when all has slipped away What will stay What will change When everything is different, what's the same When everything is leaving, when all has slipped away What will change Am I safe When everything is going, I'm afraid When everything is changing, if nothing good has stayed Am I safe |
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from Denison Witmer - Safe Away (2006)
We'll get in my car around 10:30 at night
For the New York City skyline destination of our sight It's the biggest healing session that I've had for some years The laughter and the driving and the letting go of She seems to have a way of making me feel You always have a way of keeping me real Hold me, my world is closing Help me to keep it open We stand in the parking lot in late afternoon Talking of the ways we pray for healing of wounds She seems to have a way of bringing me down You always had a way of bringing me out Hold me, my world is closing Help me to keep it open And we feel the push of the love directed life for us And we feel the push of the Christ directed life The love directed life Hold me, my world is closing Help me to keep it open |
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from Denison Witmer - Safe Away (2006)
I look out my window
I'm catching the view Where Queen Streets meets Chestnut One block west of you The strange conversations will set your heart free Our strange conversations lift burdens from me My friend Come back again Now we're back in my place With Morsey on play And you missed your riddlin You're truest when Our strange conversations will leave us amused You're faster and clearer, you seem less confused My friend What you're impressed by I get depressed by What we rely on Is our strength we get by on |
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from Denison Witmer - Safe Away (2006)
I remember thinking
That you'd never leave Praying in your bedroom Before I fell asleep I still feel the moment When you came alive Like a poem about springtime Nothing to hide All of these homes Are lined up so straight But here on the inside It's not that way I gave you my life and more From sadness to sunshine, I'm yours, I'm your lost happiness Up in your Los Angeles sky Lately I've been thinking That you'll never know If you don't mark the way back The further you go Lately I've been feeling Like I'm the bright star That fell behind the mountain of feeling you are |
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from Denison Witmer - Safe Away (2006)
I need to take a look before you go away
Before I spend my time with what I need to say But you're so free around everyone but me It's the city lights, and it's a New York sky You don't want to hear, 'cause I'm not ever right You should be with anyone but me Then we talk around everything We talk, talk, talk around everything I need to hear a word before you go away I need to hear a word before you go away You're so free around everyone but me And then we talk around everything We talk, talk, talk around everything We talk around everything We talk, talk, talk around everything Talk around everything You talk, talk, talk around everything |
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from Denison Witmer - Safe Away (2006)
This cannot be real
Looking out into the cold This window holds a view Of you and I and growing old I would call you now If i had strength on telephones I would call you now And say the words to bring you home This cannot be real Looking out into the rain This window holds a view Of you and I and how things change I would call you now If you weren't sleeping three hours from here I would call you now And sing the words that bring you near I would call you now If you weren't sleeping three hours from here So lay your sweet head down And dream of me So far yet near |
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from Denison Witmer - Safe Away (2006)
Today my thoughts were watered down
Beneath the flood of London sounds At Lester Square, the underground pulled me below I wish that I could be the sun I'd shine all languages at once I wish that I could be the one you wake up to In a world, that's easy It's so easy on my eyes It's easy, it's so easy for me It's easy, it's so easy on my eyes There is a postcard I will send I will make a skyline sketch Of the bridge and river, cathedrals and all the people here It's as much mine as it is yours Especially our soul's heavy doors That song of our soul's heavy doors we wake up to In a world, that's easy It's so easy on my eyes It's easy, it's so easy for me It's easy, it's so easy on my eyes So if I only live a day If I come back with nothing If I only live a day What should I be In a world, that's easy It's so easy on my eyes It's easy, it's so easy for me It's easy, it's so easy on my eyes |
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from Denison Witmer - Safe Away (2006)
I'm not questioning the way I move
I left here for Wisconsin on a Sunday With practiced inability Together what comes close to me I always choose to leave Dreaming but indifferent at best I laid down in the kitchen With the pain across my chest Desire to be simplified The way your stoneholds heat at night There's nothing left to prove And this is how I learn to be alone Story of my life is yours to share A pendulum that swings Across so many things So I will always be first to leave I'm not questioning the things you do Go out all night with strangers on a Friday My practiced insecurity Put prison walls around you So I know you had to leave Proud and independent at your best You curled up with a novel And a sweater on your chest Desire to be rectified The footend of your bed replies, "There's space for you to move" And this is how you learn to be alone Story of your life is mine to share A pendulum that swings You lost so many things So you will always be the first to leave And this is how we learn to be alone The story of our lives is ours to share A pendulum that swings We love so many things So we will always be the first to leave We will always be the first to leave |
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from Denison Witmer - Safe Away (2006)
How you found me out I still never understand,
Thoughts you can't take with you when you go. You were waving flags that bare the colors Of your love I didn't know: Orange for the vineyards, Blue is for the rivers, Green goes like a hillside covered now, White is not surrender Despite what you've been told; It's clouds of hope That fall on you now, save you now. Fall on you, fall on you now, save you now. One time we met, you were outside Floating in the forest. I placed my stigmata On your hands. Little flowers that you have sown Show people you have known that I am love and Fall on you now, save you now. Fall on you, fall on you now, save you now. And fall on you now, save you now. Fall on you, fall on you now, save you now. Fall on you now, save you now. Fall on you, fall on you now, save you now. |
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from Denison Witmer - Safe Away (2006)
There's a dream I have,
it comes back when all the days turn into one. I'm in a coat and hat, and I'm standing on the coast of England. With a castle and cathedral on the sand, I reached down to touch the water with my hand. Then you turn and say to me, "You've been talking in your sleep, What did you see? What does it mean?" I was a photograph of our daytrip from the window of a train. The one we cut in half. I kept mine and made a bookmark on a page. It fell out today as I was getting packed. Have I left you here more times than I've come back? Like that snowfall out of reach, we kept our details underneath, once made of stone, we went for broke. I didn't know. Are you a dreamer? |
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from Denison Witmer - Safe Away (2006)
Mary, you are the bird inside the hand
of St. Francis in the garden where he stands. Handwriting, a birth mark, and a quilt, mother to my mother and to me. And to me. Mary, you are the mason jars in spring, the kitchen with the view across a hill. First memory is a Bible verse in song, the organ while my family sings along. We sing along. And on the calendar when I leave a little note for you, so you see when I'm gone, I never go too far. Your heart is my heart, your blood, my blood. When I'm gone, I never get too far. Mother to my mother and to me. |
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from Denison Witmer - Safe Away (2006)
I remember thinking
That you'd never leave Praying in your bedroom Before I fell asleep I still feel the moment When you came alive Like a poem about springtime Nothing to hide All of these homes Are lined up so straight But here on the inside It's not that way I gave you my life and more From sadness to sunshine, I'm yours, I'm your lost happiness Up in your Los Angeles sky Lately I've been thinking That you'll never know If you don't mark the way back The further you go Lately I've been feeling Like I'm the bright star That fell behind the mountain of feeling you are |
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from Denison Witmer - Safe Away (2006)
And the furniture was painted
Natural wood color, I miss you And the bedroom was done over To keep up with the fashion of the time Through the doorway there's a couch where We killed the afternoon without a try Through the doorway there's a couch where We killed the afternoon I was pulled for conversation On a payphone at the place downtown you were I heard traffic in the background Hear it all the time Love you by association Tell myself that I will look ahead But I will see and hear and smell things I cannot forget And it was clearly never meant to be It was clearly never meant to be It was clearly never meant to be It was clearly never meant to be |
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from Denison Witmer - Philadelphia Songs (2007)
I believe when we were younger
We thought that we deserved the sun I met you when you were 18 I was pushing 21 The sentiment, the twists and turns begun Living close to Philadelphia We would go there now and then I liked all the different restaurants, Neighborhoods, and river bends Together we made plans that went I wound move there first In a year you'd come down And i'd keep my place here You'd find yours across town Sharing sets of keys To our rooms and bigger things We would write our names on this place In a way that could not be erased |
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from Denison Witmer - Philadelphia Songs (2007)
6 floors up and 2 doors down again
She misses her family in Japan The window stand in silence in the all The side of the Drake Tower say it all Place all that wait on me And i won't let you down I won't lets you down I see it gets hard to stay around You and i are like this fallen leaves Let go by the streets named after trees We circle people we do and don't know It's so hard to never feel alone Place all that wait on me And i won't let you down I won't lets you down I see it gets hard to stay around place all that wait on me And i won't let you down I see it get hard to stay around |
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from Denison Witmer - Philadelphia Songs (2007)
I see you two times a month
At the bar or around town We have lots of common friends But we don't talk too much of them At your apartment it gets late The bus is gone but the taxi waits Should we go down to 2nd street Or just stay here because that scene is beat When 24 turned 25 There's so much pressure in these times To be something that you don't When 24 turned 25 Just try to hold your head up high Why... I don't really know When 24 turned 25 Make this the best time in your life Why... I don't really know |
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from Denison Witmer - Philadelphia Songs (2007)
Light another candle in my room
Live another season straight through You're the one that makes me feel nice From all the things you said tonight Early in the morning the streets Run across the shadows of trees But we just stayed inside and lost time We talked until we lost track of time Even in the songs that I sing Do you fear the history they bring? Sleeping with my head in your arms You're the one that keeps me from harm Early in December this year The biggest moon fell broken and clear West of where our city lies still Over there on Chestnut Hill Philadelphia streets turned to ice And my bed felt empty those nights Sleeping with my head on your chest You're the one that knew me the best You were there so long You were there for so long Will you come back? Maybe it's in you that I saw All the hope I thought I had lost Sleeping with my head in your arms You're the one that kept me from harm |
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from Denison Witmer - Philadelphia Songs (2007)
I'll be waiting on your train
When you come back Through the western state Where I left you on the platform Life gets so hard But I know that you'll be fine Stations make me think of my own travels All the people The places I've been through And when you find out they're the same thing As the people the places where you grew Can you promise me you still love What you loved when you left? Will you promise me you still have What you had when you left? All I want is to be honest Like the season As talk about that slows... But there's compassion that holds no words It holds no words I feel it as you go Can you promise me you still love What you loved when you left? Will you promise me you still have What you had when you left? |
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from Denison Witmer - Philadelphia Songs (2007)
Center City on a bus
Feelings change from want to must So I pushed the meaning to it all I carry you from place to place said, "This is how I spend my days, Do you understand my shape, my form?" Do I really have to let you go Not if I don't want to Last night spent on the couch Felt your heartbeat pounding out Sounds like someone's footsteps on the floor I dreamt we walked from room to room Opened doors into those parts of you All the memories that I have of us before Do I really have to let you go Do I really have to When someone you love dies You never question where they've gone Like landscapes under snow They're blocks you build more life upon They're the corner of your eye Their quiet arms still comfort you Do I really have to Do I really have to let you go Do I really have to |
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from Denison Witmer - Philadelphia Songs (2007)
Day after Day
Buildings that stretch Only hope can touch that high Streets that Divide Treetops that line How I tried Remember the things you have seen The sun that shines down on the world so still Think of the places you'll go Somewhere the language sounds like music to your ears. I took off a year I put into words Only hurt and how that feels Changed by a friend Shining a light Only joy and what that yields Remember the things you have seen The way her head felt on your arm that night Think of the places you'll go Somewhere the music sounds like language to your ears. |
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from Denison Witmer - Philadelphia Songs (2007)
Daniel and for everything this year
I never meant to pull your strings so hard In a room with just a door to where you slept If you only heard the secrets that i kept I'm sorry things i said, hurt you bad I'm sorry things i've did, made you sad Do you think i'll be forgiven? Do you think i'll be forgiven? And it shouldn't have to be so hard to say And i know that i don't have to use big words And the longer i wait it gets hard to say And i know that i don't have to use big words I thought about the day when we first me I knew from there on out you'd be my friend Do you think i'll be forgiven? Do you think i'll be forgiven? I'm sorry things i said, hurt you bad I'm sorry things i've did, made you sad Do you think i'll be forgiven? Do you think i'll be forgiven? |
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from Denison Witmer - The River Bends...and Flows Into The Sea (2007)
It doesn't matter which way you face me
North, east, west, or south Put your hands in my two hands Your mouth against my mouth We will lean into the sun Drive without your seatbelt on Come on This city's made of beer These streets are made of wine Her bed is whiskey And her pillow out of grey The smoke that moves across her eyes Like clouds go through the skies I lay down I've been looking for you I've been wandering through the dark I've been looking for you I've been looking for you Where the train breaks from the ground Just north of Second Street Can't watch it seated down I stand on my two feet I like the light there through the window The light goes over me And around I've been looking for you I've been wandering through the dark I've been looking for you I've been wandering through the dark I've been looking for you I've been looking for you It's not so easy if you want to disappear If you don't believe me, stop Ask anybody here How this city has a way Trying to kick you when you're down I got out I've been looking for you I've been wandering through the dark I've been looking for you I've been wandering through the dark I've been looking for you I've been looking for you |
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from Denison Witmer - The River Bends...and Flows Into The Sea (2007)
Read the letter that you sent, but I can't
I was talking to our friends, but I'm stressed Give me back a day, I know which one Where the pink light of your room Matched the pink light of the summer Are you lonely, 'cause I've been lonely Are you tired, 'cause I've been tired Another late night on the phone To remind you just how close we've grown The drive to Michigan holds weight in me Thought of someplace I could be myself Though the Midwest feels so tired and scattered We were hurt before, but that doesn't matter anymore, now Are you lonely, 'cause I've been lonely Are you tired, 'cause I've been tired Another late night in the car To remind you just how close we are Since you've been away Every day's a phone call, it's an exit sign How long will you stay? How long will it be until you come back again? Are you lonely, 'cause I've been lonely Are you tired, 'cause I've been tired Another late night in your room To remind you of the lengths gone to |
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from Denison Witmer - The River Bends...and Flows Into The Sea (2007)
Light another candle
In my room Live another season Straight through You're the one that makes me Feel nice From all the things you said tonight Early in the morning The streets Run across the shadows Of trees But we just stayed inside and Lost time We talk til we lose track of time Even in the songs that I sing Do you fear the history They bring? Sleeping with my head in Your arms You're the one that keeps me From harm Early in December Last year The biggest moon fell broken and clear West of where our city Lies still Over there on Chestnut Hill Philadelphia Streets turned To ice And my bed felt empty Those nights Sleeping with my head on Your chest You're the one that knew me The best And you were there so long You were there for so long Will you come back? Maybe it's in you that I saw All the hope I thought I Had lost Sleeping with my head on Your chest You're the one that knew me The best |
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from Denison Witmer - The River Bends...and Flows Into The Sea (2007)
You're my friend in the afternoon
Evening comes I don't know what to do You're my friend in the evening Morning comes I don't know what to do Been spending nights with a burned out crowd Dead end bar in a no-name town Been spending days listing my regrets Quit smoking after each cigarette You're the hit on the radio New hits come I don't know what to do Graduate from college I'm 22, I don't know what to do Been working nights on a different job Just count the minutes til sunrise Been spending days sleeping til supper Just don't ask me what day it is You're the talk of the town tonight When the talk is gone I don't know what to do You're the woman I dream of When the dream is gone I don't know what to do Been spending nights on a different bed Alarm goes off in the morning Been spending days wondering just what I've said Keeps me wandering around Been spending years trying to figure you out Same old face in the mirror Always hanging on with the same old crowd No name bar in a dead end town |
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from Denison Witmer - Carry The Weight (2009)
Sense of home is all of this and more
Voice of love flies just beyond the door Contemplating, I no longer change Built my hope according to the day Beautiful boys and girls Beautiful broken world Beautiful boys and girls God if I pray, so long so loud It's that most days you don't make a sound Sense of home was lost along the way Naked bodies buried in my veins Nations rise and buckle in the weight Homesick for the words I couldn't place Beautiful boys and girls Beautiful broken world Beautiful boys and girls God if I pray, so long so hard It's that most days you don't make a sound When you find me at the well Will you comfort me until Will you recognize my face And replace, change Beautiful boys and girls Beautiful broken world |
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from Denison Witmer - Carry The Weight (2009)
I've got more important things
Than shiny diamond rings And modern furniture Life before aesthetics was A nail hole in a wall A borrowed comforter Now I wait until the sound As if I never drowned in my addition I'm not saying that it's right But waking through the night I felt it coming And it crossed my heart When did all this start Stand together, fall apart And it crossed my heart Hear the oceans as they sing The mountains and the spring And all it means to me Life before aesthetics is A mindset that imparts impossibilities Still I waste the chance to give As if I've never lived throughout deletion (?) I'm not telling you it's right But waking through the night I felt it happen And it crossed my heart When did all this start Fall together, stand apart And it crossed my heart And it crossed my heart I've got more important things Than shiny diamond rings And modern furniture. When did all this start Life before aesthetics was A nail hole in a wall A borrowed comforter Stand together, fall apart Hear the oceans as they sing The mountains and the spring And all it means to me And it crossed my heart Life before aesthetics is A mindset that imparts impossibilities |
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from Denison Witmer - Carry The Weight (2009)
Carry the weight of your brother
Carry the weight of your sister I'm not afraid to say I don't know Carry the weight of your father Carry the weight of your mother I'm not ashamed to say I don't know, anymore Carry the weight of your neighbor Carry the weight of a stranger I'm not afraid to say I don't know what to do And so I carry the weight Carry the weight Carry the weight Carry the weight Carry the weight of each other Carry the weight of another I'm not afraid to say I don't know |
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from Denison Witmer - Carry The Weight (2009)
Isn't it poetry
Isn't it poetry Words forces into space I finally know the way I follow works most days Hazel Avenue If lies are blue The truth feels grey Isn't it poetry Singing a harmony Singing a harmony To words that I misplace Strawberry blond and free To follow words away Hazel Avenue The lines were true Somehow erased Isn't it poetry Isn't it poetry Turn your leaves towards heaven Trap your blooms It's a sign the flood is coming soon Our eyes filled with water to, back to I hope someone saves you, saves me too From all of this poetry Isn't it poetry Isn't it poetry Isn't it poetry When you think you've had too much There's still more to come It all keeps adding up When you think you've had too much There's still more to come Keep your heart full of love |
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from Denison Witmer - Carry The Weight (2009)
There's a war inside
Lighting up my sky There's a war inside And a Catholic girl With and Irish curl She's a Catholic girl How am I gonna know you If I never show you How am I gonna know you, now How am I gonna show you If I never know you How am I gonna show you now Another tree I climb Another song I write You're the tree I climb And I'm the flannel shirt I've got a tag that hurts I'm the flannel shirt How am I supposed to If I never go through How am I supposed to, now How am I gonna go through If I'm not supposed to How am I gonna go through, now How am I gonna know you How am I gonna know you If I never know you How am I gonna know you, now How am I gonna show you If I never know you? How am I gonna show you how And a Catholic girl With and Irish curl She's a Catholic girl And a Catholic girl With and Irish curl She's a Catholic girl |
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from Denison Witmer - Carry The Weight (2009)
Now, there is a voice inside the air
Words come down They haunt me Hands move from a small back onto A collarbone is bending From the bed at night I called you All the wrongs went right We both knew Should I Lose my way Through the streets Of my city My soul Searches everywhere for you Every close And alley Garden of my bride Pomegranate eyes Blossoms in the vines My city Sea salt in the wine Day breathes in and sighs Every mountain high And valley From the bed at night I called you All the wrongs went right I showed you Show me, show me... |
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from Denison Witmer - Carry The Weight (2009)
Are you walking with your eyes closed
No, I'm wide awake Are you sorry for the others I'm carrying the weight I was hoping that you'd turn around And you'd show me the way Are you walking with your eyes closed No, I feel wide awake By the time I reached the gateway Nothing felt as right I see oil in the water Darkness in the light Though I know the time is only time A place is just a place And A body just a body A face only it's face If you are the water, I am the waves If you are the writer, I am the page If you are the fire, I am the rage You left a light on, in the back of my mistakes If you are the water, I am the waves If you are the writer, I am the page If you are the fire, I am the rage You left a light on, in the back of my mistakes |
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from Denison Witmer - Carry The Weight (2009)
What if I was wiser
Wouldn't this be easier What I had to do Stung like truth on my tongue I woke up in the city Somehow it got away from me I am one of you You are one of me He was one of us One more day to offer you my love One more day to write it for you Patches on the elbows of my eyes Can't you see how much this hurts me Seven stories high The lifetime hanging over me How was I to know Where there's sense, where there's stars Seven stories high I planted a book of stars How was I to know they'd root in your heart One more day to know the will of God One more day to write it for myself Patches on the elbows of my eyes Can't you see how much I'm trying |
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from Denison Witmer - Carry The Weight (2009)
Follow the river sound
Taking the words from our mouths We have a long way to go We both know You'll be alright You'll be alright Chesapeake watershed Blue tower overhead Cul-de-sac road My father's home Awake through the night Awake through the night Linens and cedar chests Notepads and instruments Weeks in a row I stayed alone I'll be alright I'll be alright |
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from Denison Witmer - Carry The Weight (2009)
Carry the weight of your brother
Carry the weight of your sister I'm not afraid to say I don't know Carry the weight of your father Carry the weight of your mother I'm not ashamed to say I don't know, anymore Carry the weight of your neighbor Carry the weight of a stranger I'm not afraid to say I don't know what to do And so I carry the weight Carry the weight Carry the weight Carry the weight Carry the weight of each other Carry the weight of another I'm not afraid to say I don't know |
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from Denison Witmer - Carry The Weight (2009)
How many special people change?
How many lives are living strange? Where were you while we were getting high? Slowly walking down the hall Faster than a cannonball Where were you while we were getting high? Someday you will find me Caught beneath the landslide In a champagne supernova in the Sky Some day you will find me Caught beneath the landslide In a champagne supernova A champagne supernova in the sky Wake up the dawn and ask her why A dreamer dreams she never dies Wipe that tear away now from your eye Slowly walking down the hall Faster than a cannonball Where were you while we were getting high? Some day you will find me Caught beneath the landslide In a champagne supernova in the sky Some day you will find me Caught beneath the landslide In a champagne supernova A champagne supernova 'Cause people believe that they're Gonna get away for the summer But you and I, we live and die The world's still spinning round We don't know why Why, why, why, why How many special people change? How many lives are living strange? Where were you while we were getting high? Slowly walking down the hall Faster than a cannonball Where were you while we were getting high? Someday you will find me Caught beneath the landslide In a champagne supernova in the sky Some day you will find me Caught beneath the landslide In a champagne supernova A champagne supernova 'Cause people believe that they're Gonna get away for the summer But you and I, we live and die The world's still spinning round We don't know why Why, why, why, why How many special people change? How many lives are living strange? Where were you while we were getting high? We were getting high We were getting high We were getting high We were getting high ...... 가사입력NAKMUSE |
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from Denison Witmer - Carry The Weight (2009)
I never felt magic crazy as this
I never saw moons knew the meaning of the sea I never held emotion in the palm of my hand Or felt sweet breezes in the top of a tree But now you're here Bright in my northern sky. It's been a long time that I'm waiting Been a long time that I'm blown been a long time that I've wandered Through the people I have known Oh, if you would and you could Straighten my new mind's eye. Would you love me for my money Would you love me for my head Would you love me through the winter Would you love me 'til I'm dead Oh, if you would and you could Come blow your horn on high. I never felt magic crazy as this I never saw moons knew the meaning of the sea I never held emotion in the palm of my hand Or felt sweet breezes in the top of a tree But now you're here Bright in my northern sky. 가사입력NAKMUSE |
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from Denison Witmer - River Bends [ep] (1999)
( River Bends EP )
You don't feel at home Underneath our Pennsylvania sky Covered in guitars Deep inside the music There's a place for you Your parents and your friends You don't think that we know how you feel Waving to your car If we had our choice we'd go along with you We could take a drive Cities and street lights Pass you by We could take a drive You should give your heart Healing time I have been where you are I am well aware that there is hurt That never goes away I have been with you Things I know will not let your hurt carry you Where the river bends I would like to take you there on Sunday I think it would be good For you to watch the quiet water move |
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from Denison Witmer - River Bends [ep] (1999)
I remember thinking
That you'd never leave Praying in your bedroom Before I fell asleep I still feel the moment When you came alive Like a poem about springtime Nothing to hide All of these homes Are lined up so straight But here on the inside It's not that way I gave you my life and more From sadness to sunshine, I'm yours, I'm your lost happiness Up in your Los Angeles sky Lately I've been thinking That you'll never know If you don't mark the way back The further you go Lately I've been feeling Like I'm the bright star That fell behind the mountain of feeling you are |
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from Denison Witmer - River Bends [ep] (1999)
( River Bends EP )
She was born of missionaries somewhere overseas And now it was that she was brought to me Staring from her farmhouse porch and through a heavy rain She says that inside she felt a change The seed is for the field and the trough is for your hand And this is something we can understand The seed is for the field and the trough is for your hand And this is something we can understand But you feel something wrong And you know what it is And your father will never understand But I can I can pull you out I can pull you out Picture of St. Jude is on the candle that i burned Saint of my lost causes and concerns Alone and in my bedroom My guitar and wooden chair Play out all my thoughts until the end The prayers go soft, you can feel them even more As they echo down the hall and hardwood floor The tubes sound warm and the instrument plays well How long I have waited I can't tell How long I have waited I can't tell |
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from Denison Witmer - River Bends [ep] (1999)
This was the first year of our years together
Your mother got sick and your sister got married This was the first year of our songs together Simple chords are lovely Simple words are heartfelt It's the best friends that need you In my case, believe you It's the best friend's lives' kiss you In my case, I'll miss you You were there on Queen Street when I was feeling down When every word I said felt like it meant nothing The only one I had that understands my blues Is making big predictions of life on the west coast soon It's the best friends that make you Sometimes they break you It's the best friends that move you In my case, see through you It's the best friends that need you Sometimes they leave you It's the best friend's lives' kiss you In my case, I'll miss you It's the best friends that make you Sometimes they break you It's the best friends that move you In my case, see through you It's the best friends that need you In my case, believe you It's the best friend's lives' kiss you In my case, I'll miss you |
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from Denison Witmer - River Bends [ep] (1999)
The last thing I heard
Was you're coming back And Didaly's love scene was going black The city of love Was pulling you in 200 miles between me you and him You got me good It's understood you got me good yeah I understand You got me good It's understood how you got me good September 6th back in 94 I watched you walk til I could see you no more Out of the airport All of my love in the form of a 16 year old girl You got me good It's understood You got me good Yeah I understand You got me good It's understood how you got me good Talking to my brother yesterday He said your new boyfriend didnt seem that bad Long blonde hair, pushed gently back The kinda that I had, when you used to love me Hey, you can't push away The sun and stars that way You can't push away The changing of the day You can't push away The sun and stars that way You can't push away The changing of the day You can't push away The sun and stars that way You can't push away The changing of the day You can't push away The sun and stars that way |
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from Denison Witmer - Are You A Dreamer? (2005)
How you found me out I still never understand,
Thoughts you can't take with you when you go. You were waving flags that bare the colors Of your love I didn't know: Orange for the vineyards, Blue is for the rivers, Green goes like a hillside covered now, White is not surrender Despite what you've been told; It's clouds of hope That fall on you now, save you now. Fall on you, fall on you now, save you now. One time we met, you were outside Floating in the forest. I placed my stigmata On your hands. Little flowers that you have sown Show people you have known that I am love and Fall on you now, save you now. Fall on you, fall on you now, save you now. And fall on you now, save you now. Fall on you, fall on you now, save you now. Fall on you now, save you now. Fall on you, fall on you now, save you now. |
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from Denison Witmer - Are You A Dreamer? (2005)
My room has a big white bed
Pictures on the mirrors Books that last a year Everything but sleep Don't you know? Nothing won't fit under there The Dowmaker's ghost A heavenly host Everything but sleep Don't you know? Everything but sleep Where does it go? Everything but sleep On it goes... If it weren't for you I could be anywhere I'd rather be here Don't you know? Now that I know I'll never feel the same way Everything but sleep Don't you know? Everything but sleep On it goes On it goes... |
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from Denison Witmer - Are You A Dreamer? (2005)
Can you hear the ringing of the bell tower
Counting off the days we can't replace I would like to think it's not that way All the songs that find you in the city Pull you from your bedroom to the streets Pushing all your sadness underneath There's a song I've been singing All these years as they pass There's a lot of big questions I never ask There's a lot of questions never asked Consider the lillies of the valleys Neither do they toil or they spin Still a quiet hand is watching over them I became a prodigal and left here My petals out like windmills in the air Waiting for a breese For any sign of care There's a song I've been singing All these years as they pass There's a lot of big questions I never ask There's a lot of questions never asked |
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from Denison Witmer - Are You A Dreamer? (2005)
Dream, are you a dreamer?
Are you a dreamer? Do you dream? Sleep, are you a sleeper? Are you a sleeper? Do you sleep? When your brown eyes close Do blue skies open up? When your breathing slows Your mind run fast and free? Will you sleep and dream with me? Love, are you my lover? Are you my lover? Do you love me? Save, are you a savior? Are you a savior? Will you save? When my blue eyes close Will white clouds lift me up? When my body slows My mind run fast and free? Do you hold me when I sleep? Do you hold me when I sleep? When your brown eyes close Do blue skies open up? When your breathing slows Your mind run fast and free? Will you sleep and dream with me? Will you sleep and dream with me? Water, I?m walking on water Walking on water for you. |
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from Denison Witmer - Are You A Dreamer? (2005)
Skipping like a stone,
across the bluest pools of what I know. Don't know where to go. Each one leaves a mark, circles through the dark and sinks into the place I need you most. As far as the east from the west they say. I should know my east from west I know. As far as the east from the west they say. And I am only human anyway. Now for all your cares, Put them in the air that I breathe in until you tell me "no". And for the smallest hands, Put them in my hand and I walk on until you say "let go". As far as the east from the west they say. I should know my east from west I know. As far as the east from the west they say. And I am only human anyway. I am only human anyway. |
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from Denison Witmer - Are You A Dreamer? (2005)
She's the kind of girl that tends to brown
freckles on her elbows and her knees And I'm the boy that passes through these towns I leave before we find out what it means I'll send a letter addressed to you it says you're my California brown and blue Another chorus line gives into waves it fades away So I push through another hotel door and I pull back the bed sheets till they break and I sleep so hard I don't even dream weightless in the arms of Golden Gate The only music I want to hear is the sound of the last light left dissapears Another songbird gives up it's wings it fades away dada dada dada dada dada dada I'll send a letter addressed to you it says you're my California brown and blue Another chorus line gives in to waves it says your my California Golden Gate The only music I want to hear is the sound of the last light that disapears Another songbird gives up it's wings it fades away Another songbird gives up it's wings it fades away |
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from Denison Witmer - Are You A Dreamer? (2005)
There's a dream I have,
it comes back when all the days turn into one. I'm in a coat and hat, and I'm standing on the coast of England. With a castle and cathedral on the sand, I reached down to touch the water with my hand. Then you turn and say to me, "You've been talking in your sleep, What did you see? What does it mean?" I was a photograph of our daytrip from the window of a train. The one we cut in half. I kept mine and made a bookmark on a page. It fell out today as I was getting packed. Have I left you here more times than I've come back? Like that snowfall out of reach, we kept our details underneath, once made of stone, we went for broke. I didn't know. Are you a dreamer? |
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from Denison Witmer - Are You A Dreamer? (2005)
Lately I been waking to
The bluest stars that I once slept through The morning hangs like open chords That I fill in with my own thoughts and words I used to worry all the time But I slowed down to live my life To live my life now College campus and warmest grass We sit and watch the poeple rush to class When did we to decide that life had to be All fasts and cheques, that we lost mystery We used to worry all the time But we slowed down to live our lives To live our lives now We used to worry all the time But we slowed down to live our lives To live our lives now |
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from Denison Witmer - Are You A Dreamer? (2005)
Mary, you are the bird inside the hand
of St. Francis in the garden where he stands. Handwriting, a birth mark, and a quilt, mother to my mother and to me. And to me. Mary, you are the mason jars in spring, the kitchen with the view across a hill. First memory is a Bible verse in song, the organ while my family sings along. We sing along. And on the calendar when I leave a little note for you, so you see when I'm gone, I never go too far. Your heart is my heart, your blood, my blood. When I'm gone, I never get too far. Mother to my mother and to me. |
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from Denison Witmer - Are You A Dreamer? (2005)
this is what it's like
finding your feet again the part of you that couldn't finally thinks you can you're taking off some time to do this a small apartment bedroom rearranged to know that you are loved you're finding your feet again the part of you that couldn't finally thinks you can a brownstone on a street in brooklyn the light tier flash from temperature to time and people do the same you're falling alseep again part of you a dreamer and part of you is dreamt and you said... go now in the light of your god go now in the love of your god go now in the peace of your god go now in the joy of your god |
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from Sing A Simple Song [omnibus] (2010)
> For you, therell be no more crying,
For you, the sun will be shining, And I feel that when Im with you, Its alright, I know its right To you, Ill give the world To you, Ill never be cold cause I feel that when Im with you, Its alright, I know its right. And the songbirds are singing, Like they know the score, And I love you, I love you, I love you, Like never before. And I wish you all the love in the world, But most of all, I wish it from myself. And the songbirds keep singing, Like they know the score, And I love you, I love you, I love you, Like never before, like never before. ------------- Lyrics Powered by LyricFind Written By GORELICK, KENNY <i>Lyrics © EMI Music Publishing, Universal Music Publishing Group</i> |
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from Denison Witmer - Recovered (2009)
I am a simple man
And I sing a simple song I've never been so much in love I've never hurt so bad At the same time I am a simple man And I sing a simple tune I wish that I could see you One more time across the room like the first time I just want to hold you I don't want to hold you down I hear what you're saying And you're spinning my head around And I can't make it alone The ending of the tale Is the singing of the song Make me proud to be your man Only you can make me strong Like the first time I just want to hold you I don't want to hold you down I hear what you're saying And you're spinning my head around I just want to hold you I don't want to hold you down I can't make it alone I can't make it alone |
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from Denison Witmer - Recovered (2009)
> For you, therell be no more crying,
For you, the sun will be shining, And I feel that when Im with you, Its alright, I know its right To you, Ill give the world To you, Ill never be cold cause I feel that when Im with you, Its alright, I know its right. And the songbirds are singing, Like they know the score, And I love you, I love you, I love you, Like never before. And I wish you all the love in the world, But most of all, I wish it from myself. And the songbirds keep singing, Like they know the score, And I love you, I love you, I love you, Like never before, like never before. ------------- Lyrics Powered by LyricFind Written By GORELICK, KENNY <i>Lyrics © EMI Music Publishing, Universal Music Publishing Group</i> |
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from Denison Witmer - Recovered (2009)
(Neil Young)
Woke up this morning With love in mind It was raining outside But my love still shined Kept me warm Until my plane touched the sky And I've seen love make a fool of a man He tried to make a loser win But I've got nothing to lose I can't get back again Man made rules Been holding back my love Can't hold it back no more Churches long preach sex is wrong Jesus where is nature gone What am I doing here What am I doing here What am I doing here |
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from Denison Witmer - Recovered (2009)
(Big Star)
At nightime, I go out and see the people The air goes cool and hurrying on my way And dressing so sweet, all the people to see They're looking at me, all the people to see And when I set my eyes on you You look like a kitty And when you're in the mood Oh, you look so pretty Caught a glance in your eyes And fell through the skies Glance in your eyes And fell through the skies I'm walking down the freezing street Scarf goes out behind You said, "Get them away" Please don't say a word Get me out of here Get me out of here I hate it here Get me out of here At nightime, I go out and see the people The air goes cool and carrying on my way Glance in your eyes And fell through the skies Glance in your eyes And fell through the skies |
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from Denison Witmer - Recovered (2009)
(Jackson Browne)
In my early years I hid my tears And passed my days alone Adrift on an ocean of loneliness My dreams like nets were thrown To catch the love that I'd heard of In books and films and songs There's a world of illusion and fantasy In the place where the real world belongs Now I look for the beauty in songs To fill my head and lead me on Though my dreams have come up torn and empty As many times as love has come and gone To those gentle ones my memory runs To the laughter we shared at the meals I filled their kitchens and living rooms With my dreams and my broken wheels It was never clear how far or near The gates to my citadel lay They were cutting from stone some dreams of their own But they listened to mine anyway I'm not sure what I'm trying to say It could be I've lost my way Though I keep a watch over the distance Heaven's no closer than it was yesterday And the angels are older They know not to wait up for the sun They look over my shoulder At the maps and the drawings of the journey I've begun Now the distance leads me farther on Though the reasons I once had are gone I keep thinking I'll find what I'm looking for In the sand beneath the dawn And the angels are older They can see that the sun's setting fast They look over my shoulder At the vision of paradise Contained in the light of the past And they lay down behind me To sleep beside the road Till the morning has come Where they know they will find me With my maps and my faith in the distance Moving farther on |
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from Denison Witmer - Recovered (2009)
(Gram Parsons)
Brass buttons, green silks and silver shoes Warm evenings, pale mornings, bottle of blues And the tiny golden pins that she wore up in her hair Brass buttons, green silks and silver shoes My mind was young until she grew My secret thoughts known only by the few It was a dream much to real to be leaned against too long All the time I think she knew Her words still dance inside my head Her comb still lies beside my bed And the sun comes up without her It just doesn't know she's gone But I remember everything she said I remember every word she said All the time I think she knew Brass buttons, green silks and silver shoes |
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from Denison Witmer - Recovered (2009)
(Carole King)
So far away Doesn't anybody stay in one place anymore It used to be so fine to see your face at my door Doesn't help to know you're just time away Long ago I reached for you and there you stood Holding you again could only do me good Oh, how I wish I could, you're so far away One more song about moving along down the highway I can't say much of anything that's new If I could only work this life out my way I'd rather spend it close to you But you're so far away Traveling around sure gets me down and lonely Nothing left to do but close my mind I sure hope the road don't come to own me There's so many dreams I've yet to find But you're so far away Doesn't anybody stay in one place anymore It used to be so fine to see your face at my door Doesn't help to know you're so far away You're so far away You're so far away |
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from Denison Witmer - Recovered (2009)
(The Band)
It makes no difference where I turn I can't get over you when the flame still burns It makes no difference night or day The shadow never seems to fade away And the sun don't shine anymore And the rains fall down on my door It makes no difference how far I go Like a scar, the hurt will always show It makes no difference who I meet They're just a face in the crowd on a dead-end street And the sun don't shine anymore And the rains fall down on my door Now there's no love As true as the love That dies untold But the clouds Never hung so low Before Without your love, I'm nothing at all Like an empty hall, it's a lonely fall And the sun don't shine anymore And the rains fall down on my door I love you so much It's all I can do Just to keep myself from telling you That I never felt so alone before That I never felt so alone before |
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from Denison Witmer - Recovered (2009)
(Leonard Cohen)
Suzanne takes you down to her place near the river You can hear the boats go by You can spend the night beside her And you know that she's half crazy But that's why you want to be there And she feeds you tea and oranges That come all the way from China And just when you mean to tell her That you have no love to give her Then she gets you on her wavelength And she lets the river answer That you've always been her lover And you want to travel with her And you want to travel blind And you know that she will trust you For you've touched her perfect body with your mind And Jesus was a sailor When he walked upon the water And he spent a long time watching From his lonely wooden tower And when he knew for certain Only drowning men could see him He said "All men will be sailors then Until the sea shall free them" But he himself was broken Long before the sky would open Forsaken, almost human He sank beneath your wisdom like a stone And you want to travel with him And you want to travel blind And you think maybe you'll trust him For he's touched your perfect body with his mind Now Suzanne takes your hand And she leads you to the river She is wearing rags and feathers From Salvation Army counters And the sun pours down like honey On our lady of the harbour And she shows you where to look Among the garbage and the flowers There are heroes in the seaweed There are children in the morning They are leaning out for love And they will lean that way forever While Suzanne holds the mirror And you want to travel with her And you want to travel blind And you know that you can trust her For she's touched your perfect body with her mind |
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from Denison Witmer - Recovered (2009)
(Jackson Browne)
Well I've been out walking I don't do that much talking these days These days These days I seem to think a lot About the things that I forgot to do for you And all the times I had the chance to And I had a lover But it's so hard to risk another these days These days So if I seem to be afraid To live the life that I have made in song It's just that I've been losing so long So I'll keep on moving Things are bound to be improving these days One of these days These days I'll sit on cornerstones And count the time in quarter tones to ten, my friend Don't confront me with my failures I have not forgotten them |