Monday, April 23, 2012

HELLO DAY SLEEPER




HELLO DAY SLEEPER

Hello day sleeper
Where are you now?
Birds have gone leaping
From branch to the ground
Sure as your beauty's infallible now
Embrace the light outside

Hey there you dreamer
Don't dream of me now
Your dreams aren't in color
Since I took a bow
Spring has been calling if time will allow
Embrace the light outside

Someday...grass will grow higher
You might require me
Someday...if I start a fire
In time you'll admire me

Hey pick your head up
Stop wasting the light
Stop throwing the hours
Then hide for spite
Sure as your beauty's reserved for the night
Embrace the light outside
Come embrace the light outside

Someday... grass will grow high
And you may require me
Someday... if you're not retired
In time you'll admire me

Hey there day sleeper
Where are you now?
Perhaps I've gone leaping
(A bird on a bough)
Sure as your beauty's infallible now
Embrace the light outside
Come embrace the light outside
(Come embrace, it's night outside)

© Chris LeRoy  April 19, 2011 
Published by New West Crash Music/ASCAP

Monday, April 2, 2012

RECORD SQUARE


RECORD SQUARE

Sunday morning Record Square
I found the worn out edges of an old affair
Across the cover where your hair
Would gather to the side when you were sleeping there
Maybe you weren't sleeping
But waiting to begin...

Came a song that set me reeling
Came a song where I was then
Came a song, came a  song

Turned the cardboard front to back
Remembered every picture and every line
& how you bought it for yourself
& when you left, decided it was mine
Maybe you were touch and go
With no place to begin...

Came a song that set me reeling
Came a song where I was when
Came a song, came a  song
Let it spin

Sunday morning Record Square
I walked the worn out edges of an old affair
I lost that album long ago
But sometimes songs will take you
Where you wouldn't go
Looking close your tiny message
Where you squeezed it in...

Came a song that set me reeling
Came a song that did me in
Came a song, came a  song
Came a song that set me reeling
Came a song that did me in
Came a song, came a  song
Let it spin

© Chris LeRoy March 29, 2012
Published by New West Crash Music/ASCAP