THE BELL

There's a mission
Without a mission bell
She's cracked and rusted
In the lake she fell --
The air is humming
Yellow orchids swell
Is that my lover
Down the wishing well?--

If you answer
I'd want to ask why
Are we getting high?
Or we gonna cry?

Was a devil
Was was an angry man
She bought a ticket
On the rails she ran--
When she came  here 
She wouldn't sing or tell
Then she went walking
By the wishing well--

If you call me
I'd want to ask you why
Are we getting high?
Or we gonna cry?

Hold your arms out
Fingers touching souls
I almost held you
It was time to let go--
The air is heavy
Like a mission bell
I heard you singing
Down the wishing well--

If you're  here now
You could tell me why
Are we getting high?
Or we gonna cry?

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

NOW

Went to the coffee bar almost alone
Someone got lost in this phone
Went to the post office under the moon
Streetlight and static I'm half the way home
Went to the super mart cold coming on
Went for a serious song
Sat in the parking lot almost alone
Click the locks slowly bang the drum home
there's no mountain higher
than we're together, now
no river stronger
than we're together, now
I lay me down

Lost my connection - the freeway sign
Went back to get back in line
Went for the mirror I'm almost alone
Not quite the right words - bang the drum home
there's no mountain higher
than we're together, now
no river stronger
than we're together, now
I lay me down

Someone I think about flashed through my head
Gone like the battery's dead
"Drive"someone tells me I'm almost alone
Think the words slowly and bang the drum home
Some kind of feeling occurs to me now
Something from out of a dream
Song of the headlights is calling me home
Speak the words slowly, I'm almost alone
there's no mountain higher
than we're together, now
no river stronger
than we're together, now
I lay me down

© Chris LeRoy  November 2011  Published by New West Crash Music/ASCAP