1. |
Each Hidden Joy
04:24
|
|||
Give me all the joys, each hidden joy
Your secret doors, your happy noise
For if not told, how will we know?
Give me every hope, I will transform
As your love becomes mine
And all you know will live in me
Don’t pass me by
For I am seed carried on your breeze, carried on your breeze
Let not these scatter like the leaves, scatter like the leaves
|
||||
2. |
Hello Morning
03:50
|
|||
Hello morning, how do you do?
Please give me another minute or two.
The dream I had is still coming through
and I could use some time to get it out of my mind.
I’ll change the sheets and open up the doors,
breathe the air we left from the night before.
I think I’ll tell you now: I can’t give anymore
and I could use some space to confess my mistakes.
Oh, for once to be ready, knowing the rules before I break them!
Oh, to be set free from the in-between,
to wake up wiser and on the other side of things!
I used to know the words that could change your heart.
Now I talk to an empty room while sunlight fills it
|
||||
3. |
||||
We traced the stars ‘til dawn
truth-or-daring away our heart and our pride
down monkey trails and merry-go-rounds
past the old folks’ home and the magasin général
and chased each other through cedar trees
and made make-believe and shared dreams and enemies
and tested our wits by the fire at night
and around boys we liked
and made a backyard paradise.
So why can’t you follow my dreams
and make me the one who makes you believe in love?
I think we want all the same things;
if you would open your eyes and remember when…
You opened your mouth to share the secrets of you -
there was a time when I was the only one in the room.
And yes, we fought, but we forced ourselves to be kind,
just two silly girls learning how to be human over time.
And now, two empty chairs on a porch in spring
remind me of the days when we had everything.
And now, I see a rose-coloured hope in these things,
though the soft blooms of youth have long withered and changed.
Now the cedar trees have grown in at the knees and beg me to see that
it’s not meant to be - you and me on a porch in spring.
|
||||
4. |
Farther On
04:17
|
|||
I drive all the way to Shoal
Leave a trail of coloured stones
Pass old Husky, their tobacco is sweet but thick as skin
Covers me from within
I’m a cloud of smoke by the shore
Where grasses sing through peace and war
When I leave, I slam the door
Pass the cowboy at the gate
He’s watching me run away
Maybe farther on, every stone I throw will be an altar we build on
Maybe farther on, I’ll turn around to find something, something to build on
Don’t call home; let him lie in wait
Won’t give in or take the bait
If love’s a freedom, why do we stay?
After all these years
Feels like freedom disappears
Pass the cowboy at the gate
Soft, the open door awaits
May we sing through peace and war
If there’s room for our mistakes
Forgiveness leaves no price to pay
|
||||
5. |
Recomecar
03:47
|
|||
He said, “what you say is what I will say,
and this is how we shall begin”
He said, “what you love is what I will love,
and this is why we’ll never end”
So mean what you say and love who you love.
And I will know when you step on my shores.
This will be your land, here’s an open door.
So go where you go, ‘cause we are your home.
We’ll always sing the songs you know.
|
||||
6. |
The Light
04:11
|
|||
Like a saint I raise my hands: a witness in a foreign land.
I will be the one blinded by the rising sun.
If you can change your mind, you’ll change your heart, so I offer up my darkest parts,
‘cause you don’t know how dark you’ve been ‘til you let the light creep in.
He said, “Who do you come from? Where do you belong?
I don’t remember you without your greys and your blues”.
I said, “Things change! You won’t find me sitting in the back row watching time go.”
‘Cause you don’t know how dark you’ve been ‘til you let the light creep in.
It’s my Damascus road; it’s everything I’ve known.
You won’t remember me when the light comes in.
|
||||
7. |
Give Me More
04:19
|
|||
Give me more, for that is what I want -
More to be, more to breathe.
Ever felt the need for air? Like there has to be more someplace, somewhere.
Maybe in another house, or another town, or another year?
Give me more of anything you’ve got, more than what I find right here
in the house I meant to build with rooms I hoped to fill.
Love me more; I think it’s what I want.
Come fill my cup.
I’m full of love and full of fear; the oil and water of our years.
I look to where I’ve been but I don’t know where I went.
Come on over and live a little come on over and give
Come on over and give a little come on over and live
Show me more of everything I’m not,
everything I could be.
Lover, Fighter, dancing in the ring. New words, new songs to sing.
That’s fire, that’s fire in his eyes; he’s on fire from the inside.
Living in freedom, there’s nothing he can’t take,
with too big a heart for you to break.
There’s hope in his blue eyes and the faith that we live by...
|
||||
8. |
So Far Away
04:56
|
|||
So far away, doesn’t anybody stay in one place anymore
It would be so fine to see your face at my door
But it doesn’t help to know that you’re just time away
Long ago I reached for you and there you stood
Holding you again would only do me good
Oh, how I wish I could
But you’re so far away
One more song about moving along the highway
Can’t say much of anything that’s new
If I could only work this life out my way
I’d rather spend it being close to you
Traveling around sure gets me down and lonely
Nothing else to do but close my mind
I sure hope the road don’t come to own me
There are so many dreams I’ve yet to find
|
||||
9. |
Tell Him
05:28
|
|||
Let me be patient, let me be kind
Make me unselfish without being blind
Though I may suffer, I’ll envy it not
But endure what comes, ‘cause he’s all that I got
Tell him, tell him I need him, tell him I love him
And it’ll be alright
Now I may have faith to make mountains fall
But if I lack love, then I am nothing at all
I could give away everything that I possess
But if I lack love, then I have no happiness
Now I know that I’m imperfect and that I’m not without sin
But now that I’m older, all childish things end
Now I won’t be jealous and I won’t be too proud
See love is not boastful and love is not loud
Tell him I need him, tell him I love him
And everything’s gonna be alright
Now I may have wisdom and knowledge on earth
But if I speak wrong, what is it worth?
See, what we now know is nothing compared
To the love that was shown when our lives were spared
|
||||
10. |
The Nearness Of You
06:33
|
|||
It’s not the pale moon that excites me
That thrills or delights me
Oh no, it’s just the nearness of you
It’s not your sweet conversation that brings this sensation
Oh no, it’s just the nearness of you
When you’re in my arms and I feel you so close to me
All my wildest dreams come true
I need no soft lights to enchant me
If you would only grant me the right to hold you ever so tight
And to feel in the night
Just the nearness of you
|
||||
11. |
Angels Gather There
04:35
|
|||
One thousand pieces lined up in a row, graciously stepping aside as she goes.
They sent home the army and brought a choir in to sing her to glory.
And they tread softly while you’re unaware that angels gather there -
they’re hedging the yard.
You’ve never heard of a story like this,
where everything stops at the sight of her stillness.
You breathe in the moment and choke on the curse.
And they whisper softly while you’re unaware that angels gather there -
they watch o’er you now.
300 million wake up from a dream!
The red waters part as you walk through the sea
with the law on your shoulders; a hope you weigh over and over and over.
And you tread softly while you’re unaware that angels gather there -
yes, they hold back the tide.
Open Jordan! Find your feet at the shore, sit and weep a while more,
sing the glory once more.
Help her, she’s falling on two tender knees. Kneel there beside her and wallow in mire
for a while ‘til she knows that some things never will go.
And you speak softly while you’re fully aware that angels gather there.
Yes you speak softly while you’re fully aware that angels gather there.
We know that angels gather there…
|
||||
12. |
A La Claire Fontaine
03:44
|
|||
À la claire fontaine, At the clear spring,
m’en allant promener As I was strolling by
J’ai trouvé l’eau si belle I found the water so lovely,
que je m’y suis baigné That I stopped to bathe
Il y a longtemps que je t’aime, Forever have I loved you
jamais je ne t’oublierai Never will I forget you
Sous les feuilles d’un chêne, Under an oak tree’s leaves
je me suis fait sêcher I allowed myself to dry
Sur la plus haute branche And on the highest branch
un rossignol chantait A nightingale sang
Il y a longtemps que je t’aime, Forever have I loved you
jamais je ne t’oublierai Never will I forget you
Chante rossignol, chante, Sing nightingale sing
toi qui à le coeur gai You with a jubilant heart
Tu as le coeur à rire, Your heart brings you to laughter
moi je l’ai à pleurer Mine brings me to tears
Il y a longtemps que je t’aime, Forever have I loved you
jamais je ne t’oublierai Never will I forget you
J’ai perdu mon amie, I lost my beloved
sans l’avoir mérité Without deserving it
Pour un bouquet de roses Over a bouquet of roses
que je lui refusai That I refused to give her
Il y a longtemps que je t’aime, Forever have I loved you
jamais je ne t’oublierai Never will I forget you
Je voudrais que la rose I wished the rose
fût encore au rosier To remain on the rosebush
Et que ma douce amie And that my dearestlove
fût encore à m’aimer Continue to love me
|
If you like Erin Propp & Larry Roy, you may also like:
Bandcamp Daily your guide to the world of Bandcamp