Stoneground Words: lyrics
TOGETHER ALONE
We'll grow old, we'll take care of each other
I'll be your sister, your mother, your lover
We'll be friends during changes of weather
Let's be together on our own
Let's be together alone
We're believers, we've been hurt by believing
Needing people, we know looking's not seeing
I see needs that might be answered by forever
Together on our own
Let's be together alone
We'll learn living, like the words of a good song
We'll learn timing, balance and rhythm
We'll make it music
I don't want to sing it on my own
Let's be together, let's be together alone
Let's be together alone
Repeat
We'll grow old, we'll take care of each other
I'll be sister, mother and lover
We'll be friends
I'm tired of singing it alone
Let's be together alone
BETWEEN THE ROAD SIGNS
Never been to Cleveland when the sun was shining
Even when it shines it looks like rain
Oh, God, on the road again
People say that I've adjusted well to traveling
Still I'm feeling homesick now and then
Oh, God, on the road again
In between the road signs and the white lines
And all of the comforts of home
In between the road signs and the white lines
I'm singing the road sign, white line song
I'm singing, won't you sing along
I'm singing, won't you sing along
I'm singing, won't you sing along
Never been to Cleveland when the sun was shining
Even when it shines it looks like rain
Oh, God, on the road again
I don't live in New York city anymore
But it's still close enough to be a friend
Oh, God, on the road again
In between the road signs and the white lines
And all of the comforts of home
In between the road signs and the sad rhymes
And all of the comforts of home
All of the comforts of home
SUMMER WEAVING
And when it comes right down to it
We're really all alone
Unless we want someone to own
And run the life we live, oh me
To write a lonely night into a poem
Weave me a summer flight into a music
That I've loved and haven't known
Weave me a summer night into a winter fire
For I'm very far from warm
And when it comes right down to it
I'm happily alone
'Cause I don't want someone to own
And run the life I live, oh me
To walk a night into a day that has no reason
Walking past the house of someone else's season
Gazing at the light on the rim of a tightly closed door
Weave me inside before the winter and I wouldn't ask for more
And when it comes right down to it
We're really quite alone
Unless we want someone to own
And run the life we live
Repeat
MY RAINBOW RACE
One blue sky above us,
One ocean, lapping all our shores.
One earth so green and round,
Who could ask for more?
And because I love you
I'll give it one more try
To show my rainbow race
It's too soon to die.
Some folks want to be like an ostrich;
Bury their heads in the sand
Some hope for plastic dreams
To unclench all those greedy hands.
Some want to take the easy way:
Poisons, bombs! They think we need 'em.
Don't they know you can't kill all the unbelievers.
There's no shortcut to freedom
One blue sky above us,
One ocean, lapping all our shores.
One earth so green and round,
Who could ask for more?
And because I love you
I'll give it one more try.
To show my rainbow race
It's too soon to die.
Go tell, go tell all the little children!
Go tell mothers and fathers, too:
Now's our last chance to learn to share
What's been given to me and you
One blue sky above us,
One ocean, lapping all our shores.
One earth so green and round,
Who could ask for more?
DO YOU BELIEVE
Do you believe it's morning
I'm alive but that's the last thing on my mind
If our nighttime words mean good-bye
Let our morning words be kind
Didn't your eyes say you'd never change your mind
Didn't my eyes say I do believe your eyes
I do believe them, I do believe your eyes
I lose vision once in awhile
We all got grounded at the start
But I still believe in magic
It comes from seeing with the heart
I do believe it, I do believe my eyes
I do believe it, the magic's in our eyes
I went to bed at sunrise
Now I'll sleep the whole day through
My eyes will open to the darkness
And in the darkness will be you
And in the darkness my only light is you
And in the darkness the light is in your eyes
I do believe, I do believe your eyes
I do, the light is in your eyes
Repeat
Do you, do you believe my eyes
I do believe
Do you, do you believe my eyes
I do
I do believe your eyes
I do believe, I do believe your eyes
Repeat
I AM NOT A POET (NIGHT SONG)
I am not a poet, living is the poem
I am not a singer, I am in the song
And I've got a story that I cannot write down
And I'm with you but I'll always be alone
I may not be right, but I don't think I am wrong
Every note's an answer, every word's a sign
Every man's a dancer, following his own time
I've found a tearful language that translates what I am
And I cried out loud, but they didn't understand
I cried so hard I may never try again
I may never try, I may never try again
Cleansing in the water, heal me in the light
Mend you ageless daughter, I've been awake all night
'Cause if your sands are shifting, I'll need to know what I forgot
I don't want much, but I need an awful lot
I've found a tearful language that translates what I am
And I cried out loud, but you didn't understand
I cried so hard I may never try again
I may never try, I may never die again
I may never cry again
I may never try again
I may never die again
STONEGROUND WORDS
Sand me down to the nerve
Made to live on stouneground words
Imagine that, you've done all that
And I come back for more
Imagine that, I lived on that
And I will live for more
I entered dancing and looked for my partner
I thought the path could be a double road
You played my heart like a drum beating warning
Oh, I guess I'm gonna dance this one alone
I'll go to the garden that follows the seasons
Live in the field where the healing grass grows
Go to the mountains where air's clear for breathing
Clear is just another way to see
I feel to know
Cleanse in the ocean, bathe in the power
Live with the sea and I rise for the tide
Go to the place where the water will bring me
I'm the rivers lover, but I'll be the oceans bride
And they sand me down to the nerve
Make me live on stouneground words
Imagine that, you've done all that
And I come back for more
Imagine that, I lived on that
And I will live for more
SONG OF THE SOUTH, BASED ON A THEME FROM
SONG OF THE NORTH ADAPTED FROM THE ORIGINAL
Let it flow
Let it flow
Let it go into the sea with me in it
Let it fly
Let it fly
Let it glide into the sky with me up there
With me, with me up there
With me up there, with me up there
Repeat
Maybe you're hurt, maybe you cried in love
Maybe you're living too rough
Maybe you're giving too much
Maybe the people want more
Maybe you're askin' "what for," "what for"
Oh, do da day
Let it snow
Let it snow
Let it fall unto the ground and cover me
Let it fall unto the ground and cover me
Maybe it's wrong
Maybe it's right tonight
Maybe we'll open the door
Maybe it's opened before
Maybe you're giving too much
Maybe you're living too rough
Oh, do day day
Repeat
Maybe the people want more
Maybe you're asking what for
Oh, do da day
Oh, do da day
MAYBE I WAS (A GOLF BALL)
I'm so tired that I can't sleep,
I already read the Bible inner deep
The preacher keeps me on my knees
To wander and to travel
And to sleep when I am able
Maybe I was an old path
Maybe I was a raincloud
Maybe I was a mountain inside of Russia
Maybe I was a good road
Maybe I was a secret
Maybe I was a river flowing in Russia.
But I'm so tired and I can't sleep,
I already read the Bible inner deep
A preacher keeps me on my knees
To wander and to travel
And to sleep when I am able.
HERE I AM
Here I am, standin' still
Knowin' I'm not goin' nowhere today
And maybe not tomorrow,
No no, maybe not tomorrow
Maybe not tomorrow,
But that's okay.
Here I am, empty head
I'm full of heart with an empty bed,
Knowin' I'm not goin' nowhere, nowhere today
And maybe not tomorrow,
No no, maybe not tomorrow
Maybe not tomorrow,
That's okay.
Here I am, dear I am, standing still
With a lot of time to make a rhyme
And a lot of time to kill
Count the raindrops as they fall
Knowin' that it's rainin'
It's rainin' and that's all
I know that it's just rain
And that is all
La da da, la da da;
La da da, la da da.
Here I am
Nothing left, so here I am
I didn't save for later,
Got nothing in the can
Knowin' I'm not goin' nowhere, nowhere today
And maybe not tomorrow,
No no, maybe not tomorrow
Maybe not tomorrow,
That's okay
That's okay.