LYRICS FROM

SHORTS

2013

All Songs P & ©, various years, by Zanindemand Music ASCAP

* Unless otherwise noted

ONE STEP LEFT

One step left - fell to the knee

Need a smoke - and a place to breathe

So unsure - never before

Write this note - slip it under your door

Tell me which way we’re going?

It would be nice to know

Will it be good for you? - I don’t know

Well I hope so

Strange this time - so confused

See my face - lookin’ deep into you

Do not talk - who knows who to trust?

Hide your dreams - someone might crush 'em to dust

Open any door

Blow on dem bones and watch ‘em roll on the floor

Is that the number you were looking for?

Holding fast - ear to the ground

Pray for signs - don that thorn and crown

Love is love - good or bad

You're dead without - So give it all that you have

Written by Zan Burnham, Philip Dessinger, Tom Textor © 2013

ICE DAY

Ice day - I can’t remember when I’ve felt the sun shinedown on me

Ice day - I can't remember where I lost my way, lost what I used to be

I am like a winter tree

You can see through me

I’m like a rock in frozen ground

Like a ship on an ice-bound sea

A summer breeze - moonlight on a lake - a midnight kiss

A thousand smiles - a million miles - beautiful dreams

In ecstasy who would ever dream of this

The price you pay is so much more - more than it seems

I'm holding on I don't know how

I know I don't know why

I took a leap before I looked

And I don't want to die

Ice day - I can’t remember when I’ve felt the sun shinedown on me

Ice day - I can’t remember why I even woke

BAD TIMING

I wish I first saw your face

In a different time and place

Where it didn’t have to hurt to feel

And what you dare to dream is real

I guess I missed again

It was bad bad bad bad timing - we didn’t have a chance

Bad bad bad bad timing - such a short romance

Bad bad bad bad timing - and it hurts (so bad)

I won’t forget your kiss

Your touch I’m always gonna miss

But somebody had to say

In love we just could not stay

Why did things turn out that way?

It was bad bad bad bad timing - we didn’t have a chance

Bad bad bad bad timing - such a short romance

Bad bad bad bad timing - and it hurts (so bad)

Look me up in a couple of years

By then I think I could risk more tears

You never know it might work out

It’s something to think about

'Cause only the timing was off - oh such

Bad bad bad bad timing - we didn’t have a chance

Bad bad bad bad timing - such a short - such a sweet romance

Bad bad bad bad timing - and it hurts - so bad

THE DAYS OF OUR LIVES

I met a man sweet man he lived in strife, had a frustrated wife

Kinda wasted his life

He said “Son I tried to follow my dreams"

But I got lost - it seems

“I'll never know what it all really means...”

He said “I stood up for what I did believe“

And I always figured lady luck was up my sleeve

“I laughed at fear, I was strong and stout“

And now I sit inside, I don’t come out”

I met a girl sweet girl she wanted to be a queen

Live in some kinda royalty scene

Her own grass was never green

She always said “Everything, everything - it’ll all work out”

She didn’t have a clue or a doubt

And now she’s got the gout

But she remembers when times weren't so bad

When the future held the promises it had

“Back then I was happy” she says with half a smile

“I only wish it had lasted a little while"

These are the days sweet days the days of our lives

Don’t get many if you get any

I met a boy sweet boy he sang a good tune,

Howled at the moon

He rode around in a red balloon

Said "All you need is love, give peace a chance somehow

"Chase away those sacred cows, and don’t kowtow to the big bow wows!"

But then he went and he prematurely died

Some crazy sucker shot him right between the eyes

His friends all cried he had so much to live for

I guess you never know what’s behind the next door

These are the days sweet days the days ofour lives

Don’t get many if you get any

I met a man sweet black man from Richmond, C.S.A.

He was a hundred years if he was a day and all those years as a slave

Then one day black soldiers came to his town

He fell to his knees, he fell to the ground - and he said “I hear trumpets sound!

“Well I have waited all my life for this, and nobody’s betrayin’ nothin’ with no kiss!

“Now I can die me a happy man, but please don’t ask me why I don’t understand”

I heard a song sweet song on my radioTook me places I did not know

Watchin’ the river flow

And I have met some kindred spirits here

We share the laughter we share the fear

We break bread and share a beer

And there are things you can’t always explain

So much sufferin’ so much pain

Can’t call it paradise all of the time

But if you learn to live with it

Life can be so fine

These are the days sweet days the days of our lives

You don’t get many if you get any

ONLY THE EARTH ENDURES

A feather lies upon the ground

Down under centuries of dust

It once gleamed golden colors

But long ago all the gold turned to rust

On this land lived good people

Who’d found a place under the sun

But then there came invaders

With their greed and their lies and their guns

It didn’t have to be that way

They both could have shared the land some way

But the invaders wanted (they took) everything

Now it's all legends, dioramas - a song they'd sing

“The old ones say

Only the earth endures

You spoke trulyYou are right”

Isolated in Eden

With no resistance to disease

And those lucky to live through it

They were driven to their wounded knees

And descendants of survivors

In an irony of time

Share addictions with their masters

As they all head for the end of the line

Wi-ca-hca-la kin he yaPe lo ma-ka kin le-ca la

Te han yun-ke-lo, e-ha pe-loe-hanj-ke-con wi-ca ya-ka pe-lo

I'M ON MY WAY

It was one of those very good times

Good music good wine

When, in spite of it all, somebody said -

"What're we gettin' - just a night of forgettin'

That someday we'll all be dead"

A shout-out from the Grim Reaper, a reminder we all know

"Ev'rybody ev'rywhere someday you got to go!"

That's news to no one Mr. Reaper, that information is not so rare

And I feel like livin' right now like I don't care!

I mean whaddaya want me to say

I know! I'm on my way

Do I look worried?

Ev'rybody dreams about fame and fortune, livin' the good life, and

havin' it all

You can audition for the part but never get the call

Some people go for material objects, some people call it all a joke

But who wouldn't gladly be the opposite of broke?

I mean whaddaya want me to say

I know! I'm on my way

Just show me the money!

It's so easy to forget in this life we lead

That ev'rything -ev'rything is such a miracle indeed

But who always sees? Who really knows?

So just try to remember

At least a little wherever you go

Now the next time I go to a party, I'm gonna get that Ol' Reaper to go

'Cause there's so many things that man he just do not know

Like it's wonderful to be here, like we've really got it made

You can follow the sun - oh! - you can follow the shade!

I mean whaddaya want me to say

Now be cool Reaper...

I know! I'm on my way

I'm just not in a rush...

I'm on my way, yeah, yeah

Good God I'm on my way

I COLOR ME BLUE

The green leaves are changing

Another summer is gone

The school bell rings, the robin flies

I see a lot of red, yellow & orange

So many colors, so many hues

But mostly - I color me blue

The world casually takes me to some good places - oh yes it does

But all of these places and faces and traces

Slip away - and it brings me down

I have a part-time lover and old friends

I see all too rarely

It seems these days no one can spare much time - mmmmm dollars & dimes

And so many of the stranger’s faces that I just happen to see

Seem sad and lonely too

With these inspirations - I color me blue

The music plays on the guitar only songs of sadness

The music cries in my soul for the sound of joy

I’ve gotta get out of hereI’ll go anywhere I don’t care where

What do I have here?

What can I be just over there?

And I‘ll throw off all of these chains

I'll take control of the reins

I’ll get away - I’ll be free

The light’s growing dimmer

It’s gettin’ too dark to see all those day dreams

So I guess I’ll pack it in for the night - ooh long lonely night

Trudging along down this twilight avenue

And in the shades left to see - I color me blue

LEARNING HOW TO LOVE

I lost fourteen thousand dollars and let some expectations down

Conscripted party to some sleight-of-hand on the edge of Chinatown

And in a movie Mickey Rourke says “You can fight a thousand years of history...”

But why people steal and kill, do terrible things, ultimately, it’s another mystery

What a way to celebrate my birthday, sometimes it seems it’s hard to survive

Then something made me count up all the time I’ve round up, the days I’ve been alive

And wouldn’t you know I counted about fourteen thousand days I have lived,

And I counted another brother I’ve got to find fourteen thousand ways to forgive

In ev'ry moment, each of us can create

Beauty or pain & hate

Lest we forget, it’s all about

Learning how to love

I had one of those summers where every day was so vital and alive

Hot town, summer in the city, down to the shore and goin’ up the country, and a bit of that old hand jive

But then at the end, the unexpected again, I offended a friend and we parted

Somewhere on the side of the road

A couple of castaways, victims in this life of letting go - letting go

I rode my bicycle down by the Hudson River - like a Hudson River painting where

I had a casual encounter, a conversation with a couple of Canadian geese who were there

In tune, in tune

What do you hold on to?

What can you hold on to?

In ev'ry moment, each of us can create

Beauty or pain & hate

Lest we forget, it’s all about

Learning how to love

And then one day I looked into my baby’s eyes, I saw a baby there

A beautiful beautiful beautiful beautiful boy

And time goes on spinnin’ by - the rivers ebb the rivers rise, last night I said to the wife

It’s a little rough but we’re holdin’ on, hold on to me, hold on to life - hold on hold on

In ev'ry moment, each of us can create

Beauty or pain & hate

Lest we forget, it’s all about Learning how to love

I had a great day just the other day and a bad day the day after it

These things come in cycles, the positive and negative of all of it

FLY AWAY

I can still remember the sound of the jet airplanes

Coming into Westchester and then leaving town again

And Mark and I would watch them come in and out of sight

And we’d talk about the future as the planes took flight

And we’d dream we would fly

We would fly away

Now both of us loved music, and Mark, he was into funky stuff

We sent a million dreams on the wings of those planes

But we never thought it would be so so tough gettin’ one off the ground

‘Cause when you’re young and still unbroken, nothin’ holds you down

And we’d dream we would fly

We would fly away

Been more than twenty years since I’ve seen him - who knows when we were last in touch

You know no one wants to talk about things that ain’t amounted to much

But I'll bet he's still dreamin' and sendin' dreams up in the air

Headed for horizons, that just ain’t always there

Still we dream we can fly

We can fly away

We can fly

We can fly away

There’s strength in their landing’s and majesty as the airplanes go

Yes I still go down to the airport when I'm feeling lost and low

When I need to believe there’s ways to be free

Like you could just get on an airplane

And be where you want to be

Someday I know I will fly

I will fly away

We can fly - We can fly away

We can fly - We can fly away