THE OTHER SIDE

She was on the other side

There was nowhere else to hide away

Quiet in the bunker lights

Smoke was curling in her eyes, they say

There was no sun there was no moon

The faintest trace of stale perfume

A heavy glow, the hours slow

You ask the Lord, you never know

A grain of sand is love to you

And through my hands

You're passing through

This might be the day we die

Oh my darling' don't you cry

She was in a summer fair

Then the brightest wind blew through her hair

Quiet in the bunker lair

Smoke was curling in her eyes, they swear

Was no sun there was no moon

The faintest trace of stale perfume

The heavy glow, the hours slow

You ask the Lord, you never know

This grain of sand is love to you

And through my hands

You're passing through

And this might be the day we die

Oh my darling' don't you cry

Silence on the other side

There was nowhere else to hide away

Silent in the bunker lights

Smoke was curling in her eyes, they say

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

Hurts Me So

Another rise and fall

Another midnight call

Turn on your radio

We got a ways to go, now

You know you made me real

You think it's no big deal

Turn on your radio

I got to let you know

It hurts me so

It hurts me so

It tears my mind

It spills my soul

You want to leave

I can't let go

It hurts my pride

It hurts me so

Every time...

You meant a lot to me

But there's no guarantee

When you're torn inside

You got no place to hide

I'm trying to make you see

You are the heart of me, now

Turn up your radio

We got a ways to go

CHORUS

Don't want to bring you down

If I can't bring you round

Can't face another day

My heart is miles away

If you could see me through

See there's a part of you

Music sad and slow

Turn up your radio

Turn up your radio

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

Happy Man

Used to be a citadel

But now I'm just rolling down the river

Seven sons and daughters

Rocking on their daddy's knee

But the devil and the angel by the jukebox

Laid a wager

I was a happy man

Then they made a mess of me

Used to have my hedges

& my union workers in the fields

Up here came a banker

& he crushed me with a broke back loan

Said the devil to the smiling angel

Get your big spiked heels

Let's take a happy man

Run him out of house and home

Water turns the corner

& the clouds say were in for bad weather

I see rabbits running

As the water laps along the shore

Said the devil to the blue light angel

Don't get any better

Take a happy man

Float him off to Baltimore

Used to have an upright life

But now I'm rushing down the river

Been thinking 'bout my family

& the money & eternity

The devil and the jukebox angel

Heard they moved in together

I am a happy man

Happy as a man can be

There goes a happy man

Rolling out to open sea

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

BIG HEARTED RIVER

Riding on the hood of my car
Someone better get out the way
Straight out to the big hearted river
Straight into the water again

You’d better run now
You’re empty handed
You’d better run now
If you can stand it

Headed to the big hearted river
Straight into the big hearted river
Straight into the big hearted river

Hanging on the side of my window
Feeling like a dog in the rain
Straight out to the big hearted river
In the fast water again

You’d better run now
You’re empty handed
You’d better run now
You’d better stand it

Headed to the big hearted river
Straight into the big hearted river
Straight into the big hearted river
Straight into the big hearted river

Deep into the woods of my memory
Someone set my memory aflame
Straight out to the big hearted river
Never gonna come back again

I’d better run now
I’m empty handed
I’d better run now
I can’t stand it
I’d better run now
I’d better run now

Headed to the big hearted river
Headed to the big hearted river
Straight into the big hearted river
Straight into the big hearted river

© 2009 Chris LeRoy
Published New West Crash Music ASCAP

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