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

THERE'S A RIVER, SWEET VIRGINIA

You walked the garden wall with me
Walked the garden wall with me
Could have had eternity
And we came upon the secret tree
Turned us out eventually
We took the muddy Euphrates

There's a river, Sweet Virginia
Rolling out, it's like a dream
Join me now, you have it in you
We'll come around

And east became Assyria
And east became Assyria
And trouble found me near to you
You found it hard to hold my hand
You found it hard to hold my hand
We climbed the rocks across the sand

There's a river, Sweet Virginia
Rolling out, it's like a dream
Join me now, you have it in you
We'll come around

And it's all been said and done before
It's all been said and done before
We stayed until the waters pulled us through
I'm waiting for the time
And I am waiting for the time and
I'm prepared to wait a lifetime over you

There's a river, Sweet Virginia
Rolling out, it's like a dream
Hold me now, you have it in you

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

THE NARROW WAY

Hear the sounding of the trumpets
They're taking orders from the mindless brigade
Rolling heads and dice 'til sunset
Put their faces on the coins that they trade
You know Jesus was an outlaw
He roused the rabble in the temple today
You can't buy your way to heaven
It's a narrow way

He heard the thunder in the mountains
He saw the fire called the struggling day
Felt the wind when it changed direction
Bending sycamores along the way
You know Jesus was an outlaw
He stood his word on a mountain of clay
You can't make your way to heaven
It's a narrow way

Garden late past midnight
He calls his friends but they're asleep in the hay
Came an angel soft as satin
She says "The morning gonna bring a new day,
 Jesus you're an outlaw."
He says, "Now, cant you take this cup away?"
She says, "You'll find your place in heaven
It's a narrow way
You gotta open wide the gates
And find the narrow way."

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

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