It was one of those starry nights
Could’ve made Sappho take up her lyre
Stopped by the library
For a book on Juvenal’s satires
Then I saw her, I saw her
She was solving a triple integral while listening to a lesson in
Cantonese
In a NASA t-shirt
And I fell to my knees
Your mind makes me, makes me feel like I’m losing mine
I am sapiosexual and I think you’re so fine
Girl, let me know if I can take you to
The perfumed garden of sensual delights
Can we lie in each other’s arms
Talk about philosophy all night
I’d love to study your geography
All the way down to Challenger Deep
Get the hot blood pumping
Through your Circle of Willis, Circle of Willis
Your mind makes me, makes me feel like I’m losing mine
I am sapiosexual and I think you’re so fine
Not to wax all grandiloquent, but lady, you abound in acumen. I
experience such amorousness when I’m in your proximity. I ardently
hope you reciprocate, don’t obfuscate. Yeah. Inform me
expeditiously.
Voulez-vous penser avec moi, ce soir?
Credits:
Wendy Hearl – Vocals, guitars, keyboards, bass
Kirk Roberts – Drums, tambourine
Ann Johnson – Backing vocals
Rosemary Kleske – Backing vocals
“Girl meets boy,” that’s what they say
And some think that’s the only way
That romance blooms
Under a winking moon
But I know that the moon still shines
When girl meets girl and the stars align
They’re swept away
It’s nature’s way
A heart is a heart is a heart, and…
Woman to woman
I think it’s beautiful
Anytime two people
Fall in love
Woman to woman
A gentle touch, and the chill bumps rise
A rush of blush and bottomless eyes
She falls right in
The mystery begins
A heart is a heart is a heart, and…
Woman to woman
I think it’s beautiful
Anytime two people
Fall in love
Woman to woman
I think it’s beautiful
Anytime two people
Fall in love
Woman to woman
I think you’re beautiful…
Credits:
Wendy Hearl – Vocals, guitars, electric sitar, bass
To survive you must make sure no one else knows
The walk, the talk, the cut of your clothes
Awake in the darkness and put on your face
Erase the story, you mustn’t leave a trace
Ooh, losing even your name
Learn how to play the imitation game
You knew it when the revolution turned back again
Nowhere was safe, not even inside your skin
Now you do your work behind enemy lines
You’re on the team that you try to undermine
Ooh, who can be blamed?
Survival by playing the imitation game
You’re an enigma, they say
But you’re only a whisper away
From an exposé
Who knows if this war can ever be won?
Will you be in the street or the upper echelons?
If we meet while we’re cleaning up debris
Will I know you, and will you recognize me?
Ooh, can we regain
What’s lost by playing the imitation game?
Credits:
Wendy Hearl – Vocals, guitars, keyboards, Irish bouzouki, bass
Kirk Roberts – Shaker, shekere, vibraslap, woodblocks
I need to see your soulshine
I need to believe that you’re still there
Heartlessness seems to be the baseline
I need to see your soulshine
When justice is beaten to the ground
And nightmares invade the dreamland
I can’t cry the whole world’s tears
And I can’t hold it up in my hands
Though I wish I had the magic
Sometimes I can barely stand
(Chorus)
When gray dread rolls in like fog
Shadows float on the river of time
When swagger menaces the weak
And silence seems like a crime
When lies seems to glitter like gold
And midnight bells begin to chime
(Chorus)
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Credits:
Wendy Hearl – Vocals, guitars, keyboards, bass
Ann Johnson – Backing vocals
Rosemary Kleske – Backing vocals
You, you’re on fire
All you have
Never keeps up with your desire
Give with your left hand
Take with your right
Live off the fat of the lambs
Grandstand, sleight-of-hand, promised land
You say you built this all by yourself
So who are these people?
Dance upon the lives you never knew
Your skeleton crew
Squeezing out so much more from the few
Your skeleton crew
It’s the new deal
Changing rules
A set-up for a legal steal
Cruel games
You can’t lose
It’s easy when you have no shame
Champagne, gravy train, acid rain
All this time you’re fooling yourself
If you think they don’t see you
Dance upon the lives you never knew
Your skeleton crew
Squeezing out so much more from the few
Your skeleton crew
Dance upon the lives you never knew
Your skeleton crew
Squeezing out so much more from the few
Your skeleton crew
I saw a valley littered with dry bones
They began to assemble
Sinew, flesh, and bone were soon regrown
You’d better tremble
The skeleton crew
What ya gonna do?
What ya gonna do?
One moonlit night they’re coming for you
Credits:
Wendy Hearl – Vocals, guitars, keyboard, percussion
John Franjione - Bass, keyboards, percussion
Here in our town
People work too hard
A tear follows every smile
We all have some scars
But there’s a place called Westwood
Where life is a dream
They’ve got an answer to every problem
Every surface gleams
So come on, babe, jump into the car
We’ll drive all night; we’ll steer by the stars
It don’t matter what gets left behind
We got to keep on movin’; it’s a long, hard climb
Up to Westwood
People in our town
Close and lock their doors
Every face cover secrets
And no one quite knows the score
But they say that in Westwood
The doors are open wide
Each life is written in the public book
There’s no way to hide
So come on, babe, jump into the car
We’ll drive all night; we’ll steer by the stars
It don’t matter what gets left behind
We got to keep on movin’; it’s a long, hard climb
Up to Westwood
Are we ever gonna get there?
Can it be all that they say?
Are we ever gonna make it?
Will we look back, wishing we had stayed?
Here in the shadow
Nightmares come at your call
You can stand in the sunshine
And it don’t feel warm at all
But they say up in Westwood
There’s a pill for every mood
They’re even workin’ on a cure for dyin’
Wouldn’t that be a dream come true?
So come on, babe, jump into the car
We’ll drive all night; we’ll steer by the stars
It don’t matter what gets left behind
We got to keep on movin’; it’s a long, hard climb
Up to Westwood
We’re headed to Westwood
Credits:
Wendy Hearl – Vocals, guitars
John Franjione - Bass, keyboards, backing vocals
It’s the most exclusive affair
The cognoscenti at ease
Exquisite conversation
Fine wine and thunder cheese
I smile
But her eyes only say goodbye
Not here
Not now
3 AM, a knock on the door
Apologies and ardent hugs
Is it her eyes that so bewitch me
Or the awesome Zudokhan love?
Sunrise
And by now it’s not a big surprise
A kiss
She’s gone
Paragon
You’ll be hiding when the lights come on
Can you only be what they expect to see?
What’s behind that perfect mask?
I’ll see her again tomorrow
At her usual table for three
Instead of whispering, “I love you”
I’ll say, “May I take your order, please?”
She’ll dine
And I’ll try not to lose my mind
Two fools
Playing by rules
Paragon
You’ll be hiding when the lights come on
Can you only be what they expect to see?
What’s behind that perfect mask?
Credits:
Wendy Hearl – Vocals, guitars
John Franjione - Bass, keyboards, backing vocals
Without going out of my door
I can know only my inner life
I can shut out the world
The jagged edge of the social knife
I close my eyes
Imagination fills my senses
I go inside
So nothing can disturb my inner life
Without going out of your door
You cannot begin to live
The people that you look for
The living circle takes and gives
You find your thoughts
In the words that flow in ceaseless rain
In the crowd you’re caught
You know little of the inner life
Without understanding each other
We are locked in a futile dance
You with your endless babble
Me in my impenetrable trance
Feel the beat
Fluid movement in harmony
We’re incomplete
Without the outer and the inner lives
Credits:
Wendy Hearl – Vocals, guitars, electric sitar, bowed psaltery,
hammer dulcimer, ashiko
John Franjione - Bass, keyboard
You gaze in the face of evil and feel powerless
You look down to the ground and worry about the mess we're in
But sometimes you glimpse hope for tomorrow
When you help someone, and you know you want to do it again
Is there anything more you can do than what you're doing?
Is there anything more you can say than what's been said?
There's people out there who fear a revolution
And there's other people who want to see it spread
I wanna stand up and be counted
I'm not gonna crawl back into myself
I'm gonna stand up and be counted
If there's a place for change to start
It's gotta be right inside my heart
Just about everyone feels like an outcast sometime
You try and you try but you just don't seem to fit
It's easy to curse and turn your back on the cold, cruel world
But there's more love somewhere, and we've got to find it
I wanna stand up and be counted
I'm not gonna crawl back into myself
I'm gonna stand up and be counted
If there's a place for change to start
It's gotta be right inside my heart
Life isn't easy
If there's one thing we know
But it's twice as hard
When you go it alone
I wanna stand up and be counted
I'm not gonna crawl back into myself
I'm gonna stand up and be counted
If there's a place for change to start
It's gotta be right inside my heart
If there's a place for change to start
It's gotta be right inside my heart
Wendy Hearl – Vocals, guitars
John Franjione - Bass, keyboards, backing vocals
Katie Hoffman - Backing vocals
Pen Seddon - Backing vocals
There’s lots of things they’ll tell you
When you pick up a guitar
And you start to dream you’ll “make it”
That you’ll be a superstar
Everybody wants to get ahead
Till they leave themselves behind
But there’s something got you started
All the rest is in your mind
What’s music
But a way to glimpse
What’s greater than ourselves?
There ain’t much can hold us together
In this world we’ve got today
You feel that someone’s gonna get you
Always one more price to pay
But just one note at the right time
Brings down the walls keeping us apart
It’s more than just the latest thing
It echoes deep within your heart
What’s music
But a way to glimpse
What’s greater than ourselves?
Wendy Hearl – Vocals, guitars
John Franjione - Bass, keyboards, backing vocals
Vibrations in the air
Are all that keep me sane
This thing we call music
Keeps me with the grain
Vibrations in the air
The atoms swirling in my ears
How can it be, those tiny things
Drying up my tears?
Vibrations in the air
Waves rolling from the sea
The sea of all meaning
Where I long to be
Vibrations
Meanwhile, there's a dream growing
I can't say out loud (vibrations)
One day I could be star
Make them all proud, and (vibrations)
Stand up, let the sound caress me
Pull off my shroud
Feel myself rise above the crowd
Wendy Hearl – Vocals, guitars
John Franjione - Bass, keyboards, backing vocals
Katie Hoffman - backing vocals
I walk along the road in sadness and dismay
Looking up to see the mountains in my way
Lie down and look into the sky
Eyes close 'cause I'll never reach that high
There are no mountains
There is no sky
The truth is here
Before our eyes
But we turn away
The past reaches out with tendrils, so slow
Tormenting and soothing us, but never letting go
While the future sings its siren song
Of the wonders and the dangers we will meet before too long
There is no future
There is no past
The truth is here
Before our eyes
But we turn away
When God is divided, there is a need for names
Many fingers pointing, but the moon remains the same
Meanwhile a universe exists behind your eyes
You talk about it, but all I hear are lies
There is no human
And no divine
The truth is here
Before our eyes
But we turn away
There is no woman
There is no man
The truth is here
Before your eyes
Please don't turn away
Wendy Hearl – Vocals, guitars, keyboard
John Franjione - Bass
Hey, all you people with you heads bent low
Break out of your cells, your cells
I was a prisoner, too, not long ago
Until I broke the spell, broke the spell
I've gone beneath the surface of things
I've got the real stuff, the real stuff
I've seen what the future can bring
If we work hard enough, hard enough
I'm a messenger
Messenger of love
A messenger
Messenger of love
See all these people, how they cling to the past
And living in fear, in fear
The past is over and the present won't last
The future is here, it starts here
They may put you down and call you a freak
But don't you hesitate, hesitate
If only they would think before they speak
We've got to set them straight, set them straight
I'm a messenger
Messenger of love
A messenger
Messenger of love
Secret sisters, come and play
Others like you feel this way
Wendy Hearl – Vocals, guitars
John Franjione - Bass, backing vocals
Katie Hoffman - Backing vocals
I’m getting so tired
Of seeing all the winners
Sip their wine
I’m always so tired
Of trying to swim
When I should be
Flying to the moon
And I feel I could leave orbit
Soon, oooh, and I’m so high
And I, I feel
Good, like I should
I feel good like I should
So they tell me
So it must be true
I’m trying so hard
To believe that I am
Worth waiting for
It’s getting so hard
My body is here
While I’m up there
Flying to the moon
And I feel I could leave orbit
Soon, oooh, and I’m so high
And I, I feel
Good, like I should
I feel good like I should
So they tell me
So it must be true
Flying to the moon
And I feel I could leave orbit
Soon, oooh, and I’m so high
And I, I feel
Good, like I should
I feel good like I should
So they tell me
So it must be true
She waits for me in shades of gray
Not for myself do I still wait
She waits for me in shades of gray
It’s up to me
Got one more
Day to live
Can’t look back
I’m rising…
Wendy Hearl – Vocals, electric guitar
Joe Arrington - Acoustic guitar, backing vocals
John Franjione - Bass
Kevin Schama - Drums
Mama says come in, y’know
The rain is falling in my eyes
I squeeze my shirt, but keep on standing
Hoping for a lightning strike
Mama says go out, y’know
The words are crowding in my brain
The book is down, but dreams are fading
And I’m afraid it’s going to rain
I think I’m a winner and I
Could’ve been a contender, but I’m
Sitting here playing guitar with dishpan hands
Dishpan hands
I used to live in the sky, y’know
I used to come down every night
The shadows crawled on the wall behind me
Fed by my own spotlight
Gotta say goodbye, y’know
To all the habits long outgrown
Always wanted to be a star
Always wanted to be alone
I think I’m a winner and I
Could’ve been a contender, but I’m
Sitting here playing guitar with dishpan hands
Dishpan hands
Wendy Hearl – Vocals, electric guitar
Joe Arrington - Electric guitar, backing vocals
John Franjione - Bass
Kevin Schama - Drums
“You can depend on me to lie to you,”
Said the talking head to the sheep
“We’re gathered here to watch the lightning strike
Then you can all go back to sleep.”
He said, “Go on down to the superstore
The Revolution Suits are on sale
Then I will give you this week’s magic phrase
Your refund checks are in the mail.”
How memory does fade away
How the lines do shift and blur
Oh, how I miss the good old days
That never were
“You can depend on me to run your lives,”
Said the madman to the meek
“I am the eagle soaring high and proud
You are the rabbit in my beak.”
He stands surfing on a wave of fear
The lifeguards have all turned loose
The pure and true will all be washed away
While the rest make up some excuse
How memory does fade away
How the lines do shift and blur
Oh, how I miss the good old days
That never were
It’s amnesia…
Wendy Hearl – Vocals, acoustic guitar, harmonica
Joe Arrington - Electric guitar, backing vocals
John Franjione - Bass, backing vocals
Kevin Schama - Drums
Walk around the block
In my brand new shoes
Joy surprises
What have I got to lose, got to lose?
The crown I'm wearing proudly
The carpet all rolled out
The wolves are howling
What is this all about, all about?
How my face has changed
Though thoughts remain the same
All because of a certain girl
I enter a mirror world
Slowly through the glass now
Hoping no one's near
Another step,
I start to disappear, disappear
Climbing up the stairway
Sky's not high at all
Kings don't hear me
And they make me small, make me small
How my face has changed
Though thoughts remain the same
All because my head's a whirl
I enter a mirror world
How my face has changed
Though thoughts remain the same
Inside I found a girl
Inside my mirror world
Wendy Hearl - Vocals, guitars, keyboard, bass
I wanna get closer to you
I wanna get closer to you
I wanna get closer
I wonder if my message made it through?
You’ve got my kind of soul
You’ve got my kind of soul
Just my kind
It’s spilling out like water from a bowl
Why don’t you answer me?
Come on, dance with me
We may find ourselves out on the ledge
Don’t look down
Don’t look down
Don’t look down
There’s a hunger in your eyes
There’s a hunger in your eyes
There’s a hunger
Like angels falling from the skies
Why don’t you answer me?
Come on, dance with me
We may find ourselves out on the ledge
Don’t look down
Don’t look down
Don’t look down
Secret sister, please don’t go
I’ll crawl inside your suitcase
After the show
Wendy Hearl - Vocals, guitars, keyboards, bass
When did you start to fade into a phantom?
Take to the shadows?
Did you notice the symptoms
Coming on?
You once believed nothing could stop you
They beat you down
All your dreams you made untrue
Look what you’ve become
Do you feel young?
Do you feel dumb,
Only because you don’t know the answers?
Do you feel young?
Do you feel young?
You’ve got to claw your way through the madness
Fight for a reason
Lessons learned from the sadness
Take to heart
What made you think you wouldn’t stumble,
Superhero?
That’s what you need to keep you humble
You come undone
Do you feel young?
Do you feel dumb,
Only because you don’t know the answers?
Do you feel young?
Do you feel young?
Tell me you
Remember how it feels to
Remain true
To all your hopes and all your fears and dreams and
Never lose
The strength to keep on running
To a better tomorrow
When will it be tomorrow?
There is a road that each of us travels
Don’t know the reason
At times the miles unravel
Call it youth
We never know what days will send us
For ill or better
We only have what time lends us
Now here it comes
I feel young
I feel young
Today the wind is pushing behind me
And I feel love
And I feel love
New eyes to see the world with
New ears to hear the message
New mind to understand you
New heart
New heart
Wendy Hearl - Vocals, guitars, bass
The torch is cast upon the remnants of the life
The bridge will burn unto the ground
The river glowing red
The things that she once said
Lost as before all this was found
The days of joy, ghostly dancing through my mind
The nights of pain no longer lost
I had to stand and turn
A Pyrrhic victory earned
Wonder how dearly it will cost?
I lift the cup and drain the hard and bitter sorrow
And pray for sleep and gentle rain
The fight is over now
Nothing to make me bow
Except the stirring in my brain
Wendy Hearl - Vocals, guitar, keyboards, bass
I’ve been wrong
Wrong, I admit it
I’ve been long
Long coming to this place
I’ve been right
Right in the wrong way
I’ve seen light
Light when the day
Is past and gone
I sit through a movie
And wait for it to start
Thought I was the star
But I don’t understand the part
Meanwhile, a planet
Is dying at its heart
Had in my head
Had in my head I knew you
Had in my head
But I must admit that I was looking through you
Had in my head
Had in my head
Had in my head
I don’t know who
I’ve been gone
Gone though you saw me
I belong
Belong in the places
I’m not supposed to go
Lost girl in the alley
Slept in the cold again
Gold-plated mannequins
Are building garbage bins
Meanwhile, a planet
Is losing its spin
Had in my head
Had in my head I knew you
Had in my head
But I must admit that I was looking through you
Had in my head
Had in my head
Had in my head
I don’t know who
Wendy Hearl - Vocals, guitars, bass
Remnants
Black disk spinning, spinning dreams
Of long dead voices who laugh and scream
Of wondrous thoughts and exotic tastes
Of wise old men with children’s faces
So much magic in the grooves
Power to stop and strength to move
Spinning and spinning until it ends
Then turn it over and do it again
Remnants
Of a distant place
Remnants
A time we can’t escape
Remnants
All that’s gone
Remnants
Got to move on
Keep looking back to see what I missed
Cause up ahead is smoke and black mist
Keep walking over familiar ground
Can’t look around
Faded pictures, faded years
And all the blood and dried-up tears
Bottled and sold for a low, low price
Won’t fill you up, but sure tastes nice
What can we do when it’s all been done
But close our eyes and carry on
Tomorrow, tomorrow still won’t know
Turn off your mind and let it flow
Remnants
Of a distant place
Remnants
A time we can’t escape
Remnants
All that’s gone
Remnants
Got to move on
Keep looking back to see what I missed
Cause up ahead is smoke and black mist
Keep walking over familiar ground
Can’t look around
Wendy Hearl - Vocals, guitars, keyboard, bass
Joe Arrington - Backing vocals
Goodbye, tomorrow
Goodbye, today
There’s no catching what I’m dreaming
As it slowly melts away
You won’t miss me when I’m leaving
You don’t see me when I stay
Forever and forever
I am falling into gray
I’d like to be
Someone like me
But not afraid to fight
I dream of love
What you speak of
In ultraviolet light
You’ve earned to right to see me suffer
You want to feel that I’m afraid to live without you
You’ve got a need to see me through
Don’t you?
Every song has to be important
Can’t waste a breath
The mask a smile is breaking
Funny as death
I’d like to be
Someone like me
But not afraid to fight
I dream of love
What you speak of
In ultraviolet light
You make me feel like a new moon
Shadow on my face
You make me feel like a runner
Who’s lost the human race
You make me feel like a monarch
Who cannot rule his fate
You make me feel like being born
And I can’t wait…
Goodbye, tomorrow
Goodbye, today
There’s no catching what I’m dreaming
As it slowly melts away
You won’t miss me when I’m leaving
You don’t see me when I stay
Forever and forever
I am falling into gray
Wendy Hearl - Vocals, guitars, keyboard, bass
Stopped to think about another year
Future bright until I landed here and found that I
Didn’t know the reason why
Now at last I see it coming down
Burying all as it covers the ground below
A lead-gray sky
You’ve got something I need
You’ve got something I need
You’ve got something I need
And I can’t wait until tomorrow
It’s snowing
I saw a hand sticking out of the white
I think it’s mine but it’ll be all right as long as I
Can’t feel the pain
Close your eyes and think about the sun
On a frozen lake we’ll run until the thin ice breaks
I’ll take the blame
You’ve got something I need
You’ve got something I need
You’ve got something I need
And I can’t wait until tomorrow
It’s snowing
I’m the snowman
I don’t go, my
Blank eyes staring in the cold
I’m the snowman
Crumbling now, I
Melt instead of growing old
You’ve got something I need
You’ve got something I need
You’ve got something I need
And I can’t wait until tomorrow
It’s snowing
Wendy Hearl - Vocals, guitars, keyboard, bass
Joe Arrington - Backing vocals
Every day I tell myself that I’m
I’m gonna live, I’m gonna live tomorrow
Today some things don’t seem right and I
Can’t start till everything I just so
The days are gray and that’s okay
‘Cause I’m sure that something soon will come along
And show me the way
And I dream of how happy I will be
Tomorrow
Every night I sit alone
I sit alone, staring at the TV
Sometimes I believe it’s my best friend
At least it’s always there for me
I feel relief when it’s time to sleep
‘Cause then I won’t have to think about anything
And live inside my dreams
Sometimes I almost wish I wouldn’t wake up
Tomorrow
Yesterday still chains me
Memory restrains me
The old war wounds pain me
Chasing my tail day after day
Tomorrow burns so brightly
It has to make things right
But I never reach tomorrow
Somehow I’m always stuck inside today
And nothingness is lying in wait for me
No fears, no tears, just emptiness
Love is all I crave, but I find myself a slave to infinity
So goodbye to all the wheres and whys and alibis
And all the what-ifs that bar my way
‘Cause I’m gonna live
I’m gonna live
I’m living...
I’m gonna live, I’m gonna live today
I’m gonna live, I’m gonna live today
Today, today, today, today
I’m gonna live today
Wendy Hearl - Vocals, guitars, bass
A scream, icy dream, it takes me
High over walls, a mirror
Shoulders sprout wings, if only
My brain could scream
Fall on me
Lunacy
Someday free
You’re making
You’re taking
Everything I want to be
A day, cold and gray, a pale flame
Burns through my hands, consuming
Feelings away, they held me
I’ll float away
Fall on me
Lunacy
Someday free
You’re making
You’re taking
Everything I want to be
A hole, soap bubble soul, the thin air
My gills can’t breathe, gasping
I break the bowl, returning
Assume the role
Fall on me
Lunacy
Someday free...
Wendy Hearl - Vocals, guitars, bass
Black hawk flying in the sky over you today
Should’ve cried out but I didn’t know what to say
Black hawk flying in the sky over you today
Shadow gaining ground, I believe you’ve lost the way
Tried and convicted by a jury of your mind
No laws were broken, but still you’re doing time
Rise up and, uh
Leave your prison
The guard in wait outside is you
Get up and, uh
Give me your lovin’
Reach out—that’s all you have to do
Your picture fell down from the wall in the house of love
Tried to pick it up, but you gave me a shove
Your picture fell down from the wall in the house of love
Tried to take your hand, but you couldn’t find a glove
Tried and convicted by a jury of your mind
No laws were broken, but still you’re doing time
Rise up and, uh
Leave your prison
The guard in wait outside is you
Get up and, uh
Give me your lovin’
Reach out—that’s all you have to do
Wendy Hearl - Vocals, guitars, bass
If I wore dark sunglasses would I be cool?
If I had lots of money would I be better than you? Nah.
If I had golden hair would I have a handsome face
Or be a member of a master race
Or would I still be me?
If I was trapped in amber would I never change?
If I had a rainbow dream would you think that I was strange?
If I showed my thousand faces would you turn and run away
Or try to make me change my ways
Or would you want me?
I’m to old to start all over
Too young for giving up
All this time spent being myself
But being myself’s not really enough
I need to walk around in world-sized shoes
To understand love
If I had a tongue of silver and words like honeydew
Could I make you hear me? Could I speak the truth?
If I tried to touch you would you turn and run away
Or freeze like a winter’s day
Or would you touch me?
I’m to old to start all over
Too young for giving up
All this time spent being myself
But being myself’s not really enough
I need to walk around in world-sized shoes
To understand love
I don’t understand me, how can I understand you?
Wendy Hearl - Vocals, guitars, bass
Let’s slip outside into the gentle night
A quiet walk down a country road
The moonlight illuminates the soul
I’ll tell you secrets never told
In the light
The night can be my truest friend
A cocoon to enfold my wounded brain
The wind whispers my secret name
And I wish the silent blacks and grays
Would never end
Sit here beside me, tell me now
Dreams and hopes still unfulfilled
Desires to which you dare not yield
Fears to make your heartbeat still
Tell me how
In the field where the oak tree stands
Meet me there, meet me there
We will make our pact to join hands
Without hope, without care
We are clad in flowers and grass
On the hill, the barren hill
Watching time so quickly pass
Sitting still, so quiet and still
In the night I saw the door
Open wide, open wide
Through the door the darkness shone
You cannot hide, resist the tide
In the valley the mockingbird calls
Don’t believe the quiet song
The dark valley of the ancient fall
Don’t tarry long, something’s wrong
I want to lie down in the silken river
To drift along with the current’s flow
Until my water spirit grows
I’ve no direction and I never know
I don’t know where to go, I don’t know where to go
Wendy Hearl - Vocals, guitars, keyboards, bass
The fade from blue to black
Has been an easy road
My mind is bent under an imaginary load
It’s much more difficult
To rise up out of bed
Than to lie and let it all pass overhead
And I sit and thumb through my blank pages
Wishing and wondering
And hoping it’s not too late to fill them up
At night I lie awake
And plan to save my soul
But all hope seems to drown in my cereal bowl
Everything I want to do
Everything I mean to say
The sunlight vanishes as my will melt away
And I sit and thumb through my blank pages
Wishing and wondering
And hoping it’s not too late to fill them up
I know it must seem like I’m crazy
To have experienced so many things
And still complain my cup is empty
But there’s a place I’ve never been
The fade from blue to black
Has been an easy road
And the longer I carry it, the heavier the load
But now I can see the dead end
Time for the turning back
To go and find and firmly grasp the things I like
And I sit and thumb through my blank pages
Wishing and wondering
And hoping it’s not too late to fill them up
Wendy Hearl - Vocals, guitars, keyboards, bass
If I can close my eyes
Maybe the night will disappear
If I can close my eyes
Maybe the sun will bring you here
I’ve been alone for so long
My mind is nearly gone
‘Scuse me while I drown in my tears
I’ve been searching for so many years
Searching for you girl to lift me out of this deep dark hole
I’ve been searching, seeking, looking for you baby
You’re the only one who can bring me in from the cold
Can you warm my heart in your hands
It’s cold as ice, but if you can
Set it fire like a lump of coal
I can’t see you in the sky
Even though I know your eyes are there
I can’t see you in the earth now baby
Even though I see the mountains you wear
Every night I lie awake
Thinking of the chance I never take
Hoping one day you’ll appear in the air
Wendy Hearl - Vocals, guitars, keyboards
Heed my words
You don’t know what you’re doing
When you think you got nothing to learn
When you stick your hands in the fire
You’re going to get burned
Pharaoh thought he had it all worked out
When he slammed the door in Moses’ face
Twelve plagues later on the Red Sea shore
He was gone without a trace
Throughout time, always the same
You turn around and find that fate’s calling your name
Throughout time, in every place
Something comes along and wipes the smile from your face
Can’t you see it
Your life’s no more than a toss of the dice
You gotta see it
You’re taking chances but you don’t know the price
Look around
Too many people try to lay some kind of hoodoo down
They scoff but you know they’re buying a ticket
On a fast train underground
Why don’t you think, take a little care
See that you don’t go too far
Don’t be waiting on a crossroads at night
For somebody to tune your guitar
Throughout time, always the same
You turn around and find that fate’s calling your name
Throughout time, in every place
Something comes along and wipes the smile from your face
Can’t you see it
Your life’s no more than a toss of the dice
You gotta see it
You’re taking chances but you don’t know the price
Wendy Hearl - Vocals, guitars, keyboard
All songs written by Wendy Hearl unless otherwise noted. ©1990-2022 Wendy Hearl. All rights reserved.