DON'T TURN BACK

There are some people in this world
They want to bring us down
And there’s some trouble in this world
That we cannot turn round
Say what you say about it
Or doubt the love we found

But don’t turn back
If you turn back you turn away
Hear me say
If you turn back you turn away

There are so many kinds of fools
And lies they tell about us
They’d like to tell us that we’re through
And swear it never was
Say what you say about me
But don’t you doubt my love

But don’t turn back
If you turn back you turn away
Hear me say
If you turn back you turn away

Say what you say about us
But don’t you doubt our love

But don’t turn back
If you turn back you turn away
Hear me say
If you turn back you turn away

Chris LeRoy
1998 © and Published New West Crash Music

MY SOMEDAY

Before I make it home

Traveling on a road

Before the rising moon explodes

Before that shooting star

Could tell me where you are

Or tell me where you go

And just before the dreaming

Before I close my eyes, my

Someday

My someday

My someday will shine

My mind is driving slow

I really want to know

The how we got so high then low

And though I've come this far

A windshield falling star

Won't tell me where to go

I'm just before the dreaming

Before I close my eyes, my

Someday

My someday

My someday will shine

Someday

My someday

My someday this time

If your kitchen's cold and dark

And no light where you are

Well you can watch the morning star

The same way as before

The key unlocks the door

Someday there you are

It was just before the morning

You opened up my eyes, my

Someday

My someday

My someday will shine

Chris LeRoy  2/13/2012

Published by New West Crash Music/ASCAP

YEARS

Lost my spirit and the friends 

who came to see me

Lost a good song when the spirit left me here

And I can’t imagine what went right

The voice that was calling me near

“You’ve been lost for years and years.”

Take no questions, talk to no one 

when the night falls

Shut your eyes out, and you pray, day appears

And I can’t imagine what went right

And who made the night disappear

“You’ve been lost for years and years.”

In the midnight hour a spirit came softly 

Crossed our music for a while 

And we would smile

I’ve been waiting for a long time just to tell you

I’m a new song

May this new song 

Ring so clear, clear, clear

And I dare not wonder what goes right

The spirit can bring us here 

I’ve been lost for years and years

You’ve been lost for years and years

We’ve been lost for years and years

We’ve been lost

"Hey what did you learn in the midnight hour?

A little bit of love is the brand new flower."

© 2013 Chris LeRoy 

Published by New West Crash Music/ ASCAP

FLOWERS and TREES

I took your picture when I left 

I held it by my heart

I held it closer when I fell

A sacred work of art

I held your image in my mind

And I could hardly tell

When I was better heart and soul

We'd find each other well

The blooming of flowers and trees

But what of the days you're far from me

Hope they never come

When you've been low it's natural 

To see the deeper side

I see the colors in this world  

I see your brightest eyes

I hold this camera like a snare

To pull you to my side

Now I'm better heart and soul

Let's watch the evening rise

CHORUS

I'm sorting out our pictures here

Like paper memories

I'm sorting out our moments here

Against the falling leaves

I'm sorry for the empty days 

Before I held you near

I can't be sorry anymore

The picture came so clear

The blooming of flowers and trees

But what of the days you're far from me

Hope they never come

© 2013 Chris LeRoy 

Published by New West Crash Music/ASCAP

MARY ANNE

You know I'm not made of stone

But I'm not of those who looks around

Keep both my feet on solid ground

But I’ve been bit tonight

Burned by the fire that's lighting up your eyes

Making me feel like I’m just made of ice

Now I'm waiting right here for you

Mary Anne

Waiting right here for you

Mary Anne

Just wanna be with you

Mary Anne

Lipstick and powder

A flower in your hair to keep you free

A diamond in your nose and you're complete

Would you like to go out dancing?

Would you like to just go walking down the street?

I got no use for other girls I meet

CHORUS

© 2013 Robert Vennum 

Published by T-Dog/BMI

PEACE SIGN

I was siting up deep in my room

Deep in my heart

Deep in my gloom (hoping soon)

I was coming up short on feeling

Stared at the ceiling

For something to believe in 

From the time that I dropped the needle down

And I heard that cool - blue - sound

Peace Sign

You're mine

I loved your song

We went along

Peace Sign

You're mine

You wrote my song

I was sitting on the edge of my bed

Edge of my feelings

Hole in my head

I was grasping at a space in time

Hand to my heart

Hole in my mind

From the time that I dropped the needle down

And I heard that hot - true - sound

Peace Sign

You're mine

I loved your song

We went along

Peace Sign

You're mine 

You're my song 

Now I'm far from those day-glow days 

I'm wide awake

But dark in the same place (In a different way)

I'm still dreaming when I think of you

Chords won't move 

What would you do?  (& I'm coming though)

From the time that I dropped the needle down

And I heard that sky - blue - sound

Peace Sign

You're mine

I loved your song

We went along

Peace Sign

You're mine

You wrote my song

And you were gone

© 2013 Chris LeRoy 

Published by New West Crash Music ASCAP 

WATERLOO EVENING

Julie waived her ticket 

She tried to flag me down

She was clear across the station

I was near the lost and found

She called through swarms of people

To turn my head around

And her words were broken pieces

Scattered underground

Then we turned right

Over the city lights

Into the cool blue night 

Straight out of paradise

Never good with good intentions 

Moved quickly through the crowd

With my dizzy desperation 

My head up in the clouds 

When I heard her near the city

Slowly stopped to turn around

And her voice broke into diamonds

Sparkled words that cut me down

CHORUS

Cool blue diamonds in the sky

Cool blue diamonds - hey

Better find our way 

When we crossed the flowing river

Holding safe to higher ground

A stranger from his window

Took his pen to write us down

And he found the perfect melody 

He gazed back into town

As the sun set on our Waterloo

We never turned around

Then we went high

Over the city lights

Into the cool blue night 

Straight out of paradise 

(Cool blue diamonds in the sky)

Waterloo evening

Waterloo night

(Into the light) 

© 2013 Chris LeRoy 

Published by New West Crash Music ASCAP 

EVERYBODY IN

I watched A Night To Remember

Sank like the Titanic in a sofa sea

Anything to leave you behind

Anything to ease my mind

Sometimes our lives have been scripted

Shipped out by committee with no heart for the scene

Anything to move it along

Anything but not too strong

Everybody Everybody in this time

Setting free can't be easy

Casting out a rope into eternity

Anything to pull you near

Anywhere is better than here

Everybody Everybody in this time

Holding hands at the bracing

Will you hit the water with your eyes on me?

Anything beyond the pale

Water coming over the rail

There went a night to remember

Reached to turn the light back on reality

You don't have a place for me

I shouldn't watch so much TV

Everybody Everybody in this time

© 2013 Chris LeRoy 

Published by New West Crash Music ASCAP 

ISLAND OF LOST SOULS

The size of the sun

The time we've been given

A handful of sand 

When our lives touched the shore

Gone were the bells 

Only smoke from the mission

Off in the distance 

The lamb and the lion 

The soft birds are crying

We're only an island of souls, lost souls 

Clearing the vines

The low lying branches

Into the heart and can't be consoled

Gone was the feeling

That went with the flowers

Off in the distance

The calls and the pleading

The broken and bleeding

Deep in an island of souls, lost souls 

Why would we come here

Sure as the morning

Turning our hearts from what we've been told

Gone were the senses

Despite all the warnings

Down in the distance 

The sound of our laughter

In love ever after 

Deep in our island of souls, lost souls

© 2013 Chris LeRoy 

Published by New West Crash Music/ ASCAP

BLUE RIDE HOME

Comes a night to ride without you

Making time to find you near the train

Station lights burn yellow

Yellow marigolds lay soaking in the rain, blue rain

The steam that holds my memories

Is rising to the lights and calls your name

I saw a ...

Clear star, you are, higher than I cared to go

You've come and gone again

I took a hard right, tonight, higher than you'll ever know

Taking a blue ride, a blue ride home

Said in time your memory fades

Washes out like hours in the rain, 

And yellow burn the station lights

Marigolds lay soaking in the rain, blue rain

The darkest hour's the wordless hour

You're standing there and words get in the way

CHORUS

Picture late, an empty station

Headlights staring straight into the rain,

And I turned on my radio

The car is filled with marigolds, and rain, blue rain

And time is just a wave of flowers

Flowers waving, flowers waving

There goes a...

Cold star, you are, higher than I cared to go

Come and gone again

I took a hard right, moonlight, higher than you'll ever know

Taking a blue ride, taking a blue ride home 

© 2013 Chris LeRoy 

Published by New West Crash Music ASCAP 

PSYCHEDELIA

She's a cloud whispered loud
In a gingham dress and shroud
She's a bell, in heaven's swell
In those yellow days I fell for
Psychedelia

When she  walked like a child
Past the grasses green and wild
Past the colors of my days
When I wished it all away---
Psychedelia

She's a name carved in wood
For a hundred years she stood
Search through time for Cupid's bow
Through the wind and through the snow
Psychedelia

PSYCHEDELIA


I let the cold light shine me through
Let my eyes obscure my view
Lost the music lost the tune
Fell from cloudland when I lost you
Psychedelia

PSYCHEDELIA

She's a cloud whispered loud
From the forest to the crowd
In my mind the faintest bell
Oh the golden days I fell for
Psychedelia

If I held you in my arms
Could I pull us both from harm?
Wear it well my sleeper cell
They say only time will tell
Psychedelia

PSYCHEDELIA

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