1. |
Another Day
03:29
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ANOTHER DAY
Some days, nothing goes right
You fight the good fight and get nowhere
This is one of those days
You trusted the magic that wasn’t there
Chin up, the sun is
Coming ‘round again tomorrow
This is not your last chance
It’s only one dance
You can’t always choose what the music is
If it’s not how you planned it
And you don’t understand it
Just wait awhile you’ll find that this, was just another day
When things fall into place
That smile on your face says you feel like
The view from the top of the world
Is gonna be yours forever
Watch out, the sun’s gonna
Disappear before tomorrow
This is not your last chance
It’s only one dance
You can’t always choose what the music is
If it’s not how you planned it
And you don’t understand it
Just wait awhile you’ll find that this, was just another day
Each day, add to your book
One in a lifetime of pages
You have the power to write
A story of scoundrels or sages
Somewhere the sun is
Rising on a new tomorrow
This is not your last chance
It’s only one dance
You can’t always choose what the music is
If it’s not how you planned it
And you don’t understand it
Just wait awhile you’ll find that this, was just another day
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2. |
You Gotta Move
03:35
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YOU GOTTA MOVE
There was a man who died in the California fires
Nothing ever kept him from possessing his desires
Standing on his mansion, screaming at the night
Couldn’t bear the thought that he could lose a fight
You gotta move, sometimes you gotta move
There’s a family of miners stretching back a hundred years
Built this might nation with courage, sweat and tears
The mines are closing, the kids dig drugs
Some still believe it can be just like it was
You gotta move, sometimes you gotta move
You gotta move
You can tell the messenger to disappear
You gotta move
When the sky starts falling and the voice of fear
Is yelling something you’ve been trying not to hear
Just move
Those people in Waco and Jonestown
Held onto the wheel as the ship was going down
They bathed in fire, drank the cool aid
Could you turn and run when all your best friends stayed?
You gotta move, sometimes you gotta move
I keep my head down, and I always work hard
Family in a house with a fence around the yard
Now I’m sitting out back, worried look on my face
Wonderin if I’m gonna have to leave this place
You gotta move, sometimes you gotta move
sometimes you gotta move, sometimes you gotta move
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3. |
The Perfect Life
04:42
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THE PERFECT LIFE
From far away, They had the perfect life
We always looked to them whenever we needed a quick reminder
Of how life might be, If we ever got it right
Now suddenly they are no longer together
How could this happen?
Love is a ghost, love is a spirit
And if this ghost, lets you get near it
Just hold it gently, don’t close your hand
For if you think you made it stay
You’ll only watch it drift away
From far away, They seemed to have everything
What was so hard for us to them it came easy, that was a problem
For when bad times came, As bad times always do
They couldn’t build a bridge for love to cross over
They didn’t want to
Love, like a fire, wants to burn hotter
But pure desire, can’t stop the water
That’s always falling onto the flame
And so the perfect man and wife
Could not ignite the perfect life
Perfect life, It was a beautiful dream, Perfect life
Love is a ghost, love is a spirit,
It seeks a host, that will revere it
Don’t think that love is, in love with you
That’s how our perfect man and wife
Just chased away the perfect life
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4. |
With You
03:58
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So you think you gotta feel bad again
Once I saw a guy at the Vatican
He grew about a foot of hair
After he was buried there
Now I’m sure he heard, when someone said
“Rest In Peace you’ve joined the dead”
But the message never made it to the top of his happy head
Morning brings the paper, I read it, maybe overnight
Someone changed the world
But everyday’s the same
People think theirs answers, are better than anybody else’s
Although, we’ll never really know
They’ll always disagree
It doesn’t bother me because I get to be with you
I come home every evening, another day when I know the sun
Must have crossed the sky
But it didn’t shine on me
I’m too busy working, chasing a dream that keeps holding on
Although I woke up long ago
My lunch is still not free, it doesn’t bother me
Because I get to be with you
Blue stained tears, once knocked at my door
But not anymore since you’ve been here with me
We’re gone eventually, but it won’t bother me
Because I got to be with you
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5. |
When I See You
02:54
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Everyday so much to carry
Go to work and pay my bills
Times flying like I’m just standing still
I’m not sure if I’m chasing something
Or maybe something is chasing me
When I see you
It’s like a summer’s day
All my cares, frozen like ice melt away
I’m where I want to be
Life’s just right, everything I want
Is all for free, When I see you
There are times when I can’t be with you
And I start to wonder where you are
But you’re always in my heart and so
You’re never very far
When I see you
It’s like a summer’s day
All my cares, frozen like ice melt away
I’m where I want to be
Life’s just right, everything I want
Is all for free, When I see you
Every time I see you, When I see you
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6. |
Small Things
03:31
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SMALL THINGS
This old picture of Mary, holding my hand
The look on her face, I now understand
That is the smile, comes with the joy
A mother with her boy
It’s the small things, they sneak up behind you
Small things, open your eyes
It’s the small things, whenever you’re ready
There’s a small thing
I came factory wired to make it alone
Till I reached a line I couldn’t cross on my own
Then your point of view gave the answer to me
Like trigonometry
It’s the small things, they sneak up behind you
Small things, open your eyes
It’s the small things, whenever you’re ready
There’s a small thing
Like a pencil on paper,
Leaves a history of where it has gone
Look back, follow your line, see a design
Pilgrims travel to something that’s true
I was just standing contemplating my shoe
A speck of dust fell into my ear
I turned and you were here
It’s the small things, they sneak up behind you
Small things, open your eyes
It’s the small things, whenever you’re ready
There’s a small thing
There’s a million small things
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7. |
Party Tonight
03:15
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I got some money gonna shoot out the light.
I got dead presidents for my posse tonight
We gonna saddle up and tame this town
Unless I I decide we oughta burn it down
Everywhere I go, There’s gonna be a party tonight
Hey all you rookies , who always say
I’ll never get anywhere but in your way
You’ll be making, the sign of the cross
When you taste, your humble pie with sufferin’ sauce
Everywhere I go, There’s gonna be a party tonight
Ah ooo we, I’m gonna turn the night into day
Ah ooo we, Gonna hit the wall before I hit the hay
I’m gonna need love but love but I’ll find it fast
I never worry that it might not last
So what, if she only wants me, for my money
Long as she kisses me and calls me honey
Everywhere I go, There’s gonna be a party tonight
Ah ooo we, When you see how amazing a man can be
Ah ooo we, You’re gonna wish that you were me
When I walk into the bar gonna draw me a crowd
I’m a Harley Davidson my pipes get loud
Hey mama look at your baby boy
All growed up and spreadin’ love and joy
Everywhere I go, There’s gonna be a party tonight
There’s gonna be a party tonight
Everywhere I go, There’s gonna be a party tonight
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8. |
Room For Two
03:23
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If you never want to listen
Or try and understand her point of view
If your troubles are never because of you
If you can’t make room for love
Big enough for two
She won’t be your dream come true
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9. |
Box Of Memories
03:26
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It will come back to me
I always think of it eventually
I must concentrate
Something tells me that it just can’t wait
Exactly what did you say
That made me so damn angry that day
I recall you owe me a debt
That I swore I would never forget
It’s getting harder, to keep everything perfectly organized
So I must carry, this box full of memories from a long time ago
Maybe I should let one go, But you never really know
They say “Try to forget”
I haven’t figured out the secret yet
I can’t open that gate
All my animals are lying in wait
Sometimes I wake up at night
Cos I sense something just isn’t right
All those things left unsaid
Come marching like the living dead
It’s getting harder, to keep everything perfectly organized
So I must carry, this box full of memories from a long time ago
Maybe I should let one go, But you never really know
One laugh, one tear, You’d think that one would disappear
But not for me, The King of Memory
I have this dream where, An angel comes to lighten my heavy load
Then I wake up to this box full of memories from a long time ago
Right out of Edgar Allen Poe
Why don’t I just let them go, Cos you never really know
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10. |
I Am Just Me
02:57
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You might think I’m still temperamental
Funny what time can do for a fella
Now I live every day with magnanimity
Gracious me
You might think the change was monumental
Like the great flood that knocked down the levee
But little waves carve this shore incrementally
Endlessly
I tried to be a million ways
People said I should be
But in the end they only helped me see
They are’t me
A lotta things that seem accidental
Are actually signs that lead to tomorrow
Now I follow my path transcendentally
Finally, I am just me
I thought that I could change this world
It wasn’t meant to be
But in the end this ever changing world
Couldn’t change me.
One day life got so complicated
I gave up my quest for the magical doorway
That was the day it appeared most miraculously.
Like a prayer parts the sea
I always, had the key
Finally, I am just me
I am just me
Quite simply
I am just me
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11. |
The Love I Couldn't Give
03:25
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THE LOVE I COULDN’T GIVE
Heartbreak hotel where I thought I would never be
Now has an empty bed waiting just for me
Because today, you chose to walk away.
And say to me, you’re breaking free
From this prison I have built for you
CHORUS
Every lie needs a place to hide
A room I don’t want to look inside
I locked you in a world where all my lies could live
With the love I couldn’t give
I pictured fancy cars, houses and a diamond ring
When I said I could give you everything
You only asked for me to unlock my heart
Where was the key, I couldn’t see
Even what I should be looking for
CHORUS
So unexpected, how you rejected
My old apologies as just a bluff
Wall tied to rafter, to last for ever after
Came tumblin’ down when you said “Sorry’s not enough”.
If luck is preparation meeting opportunity
Should love reappear eventually
I won’t be the fool who disobeys the golden rule
And tells a lie, so carelessly
It feels no different than honesty
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12. |
No Tomorrow
03:09
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I got this friend who’s had About a thousand girlfriends
He proudly wears a string of broken hearts
Life of the party with his funny old stories
Never a word of all the tragic parts
Who would he, want to be
If he thought he would not see tomorrow
Now there’s this guy who says He’s made a billion dollars
Almost a buck for every lie he’s told
King of the tribe that always blindly worships
Shiny idols that are made of gold
Chorus
Give or take, Life is just all the decisions
You must make.
When your last day’s upon you
We will see what you were worth?
Did you bring a piece of heaven or hell onto this earth?
Do you think you’ll be standing at the head of the line
When God’s handing out his forgiveness?
This morning’s sun awakened 7 billion people
All hoping there’d be no more shades of gray
Just simple black and white, everybody saw the light
I guess this isn’t going to be that day
Chorus
Fill your days with love and laughter
Don’t wait for some ever after
Live like there’s no second chances
And you know your final dance is
Going to begin right now
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13. |
You're A Lot Like Me
04:18
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You're A Lot Like Me
I think I know why, I can’t find you
I’m guessing you ran away from home just like I once did
Thinking you can fly, that you know better
You and your friends every day, nothing in your way
You can’t stop, your heart’s on fire, engine’s running on pure desire
On your own and headed for a new way
We’re all ridin’ on the hands of time
No one gets to leave the past behind
Though the road looks straight, it’s mostly circles
You think you are free, You’re a lot like me
I tried to be a man, you could live up to
Did my best to hide the parts of me I wasn’t proud of
I knew someday you’d see, I am not a king
Now that I lost my crown, You think I let you down
Chorus
Now you only see, nothing but blue skies
I only pray I gave you good directions
I can guarantee, that sky gonna rain on you
If you are drowning in fear, and your so-called friends disappear
I will be here
We’re all ridin on the hands of time, no one gets to leave the past bhnd
Though the road looks straight it’s mostly circles
You think you are free
We all chase history
You’re a lot like me
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14. |
Long Road To Happiness
03:59
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Long Road To Happiness
Some babies get all the luck, born into a family
Full house, kings and queens of hearts that beat so true
There was no luck left for you, just a hand of jokers
Who tried to make you feel
There was something wrong with you
It’s gonna be a long road to happiness
But you’re gonna get there, I know you’re gonna get there
It’s gonna be a long road to happiness,
But you’re gonna get there some day
You have every reason to, blame it all on bad luck
But it never crossed your mind
To quit before you start
There’s a light that burns inside of you
A beacon in the darkness
Leading you away from those who want to break your heart
Chorus
Rivers, winds and mountains
Send you the wrong direction
But you trust your compass
That finds north, whenever you are lost
So keep keep following all the love, you find in your future
I know it can’t erase all the pain
You have ever known
One day you’ll look up and see
A world of friends and family, in a flash you’ll realize
You have made it home
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15. |
Hello My Friend
02:14
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Hello my friend hello
I don’t want you to go
I know goodbye will make me cry
So I’ll just say hello
I won’t turn out the light
Or wish you a goodnight
I’ll stop the things that darkness brings
I won’t turn out the light
I used to think tomorrow meant forever
At least when I imagined you and me
I dreamed a thousand futures
Friends might disappear
I never did imagine, you might not be here
Hello my friend hello
I don’t want you to go
I know you’d hate to see me cry
So I won’t say goodbye
Hello my friend hello
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Steve Wood Laguna Beach, California
Steve is probably best known for scoring IMAX documentary films allowing him to work with Sting, George Harrison, Paul
McCartney, The Moody Blues, Dave Matthews Band and Brian May of Queen along with a host of others.
Steve was a founding member of the iconic SoCal band “Honk” and continues to perform with his wife Beth Fitchet Wood. He hopes to one day get good at this. stevewoodmusic.com
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