Saturday, July 24, 2010

COMES A MORNING



Comes the morning
On the highway
There's a low cloud
Drifting our way
The hardest night together
The hardest line that ever
Made it down...
And the wind blows
Across the wasteland
Like the song goes
We got fooled again
And the hardest time's
The time you leave behind
When your heart knows

Comes the morning
Comes the morning
Every time

You seem paler
Than the moonlight
You seem colder
Than the firelight
The hardest night together
Is the hardest line that I ever
Had to rhyme... CHORUS

In cold night
Late December
I held you
Like an ember
Now I flick this cigarette into the night
I remember
I let it fly... CHORUS

Chris LeRoy © April 27, 2010
Published by New West Crash Music/ASCAP

STRANGER



STRANGER

The sun came up this morning
I am fading away
Last night as big as life
Growing faint in the day
Growing faint in the day

I left the window open
Is there a songbird near?
Pretty bird won't you sing for me
Before we disappear? Before we disappear?
And you can be a stranger in your own land
You can be a stranger in your own

When television is hazy
They turn the rabbit ears
They throw the courthouse open wide
They take the souvenirs. They take the souvenirs
And you can be a stranger in your own land
You can be a stranger in your own

I went out to the city square
Amid the boos and cheers
Something wrong about what I said
You know it didn't ring clear
Didn't ring clear
And you can be a stranger in your own land
You can be a stranger on your own

It's when the lights are shining
Cross the night of tears
The wind on the silent streets
Is music to my ears
It's music to my ears
I leave the window open
Is there a songbird near?
Pretty bird won't you sing for me
Before we disappear? Before we disappear?
And you can be a stranger in your own land
You can be a stranger on your own

Chris LeRoy © May 18, 2010
Published by New West Crash Music/ASCAP

BROKEN WING



Look at that road, under the trees
Look at this night and what you've done to me
If I could turn away
If I could turn around
I would rise so high
Right where you put me down

Now I'm flying on a broken wing
Making up miles but I'm suffering
I'm never going back
I never felt so bad

Took my money, took my time
But I can't start to get you off my mind
If I could drive this car
Out to the evening star
I know my heart will take me
Straight back to where you are

Now I'm flying on a broken wing
Making up miles but I'm suffering
I'm never going back
I never felt so bad

The time I loved you you, was long ago
But I came back for the things I had to know about you
If I could turn you round
And you could face the day
Look how I'm talking now
There's nothing left to say

Now I'm flying on a broken wing
Making up miles but I'm suffering
I'm never going back
I never felt so bad

Chris LeRoy © June 30, 2010
Published by New West Crash Music/ASCAP