HERE I STAND

Maybe you know its true
We could spend a life together
But from our varied points of view
I'll try to be a man about it
All that I ever hoped to be
Exactly who I am
No matter where you run to
Here I stand

Maybe you're a sad one too
We could work it out together
About our varied points of view
I'll try to be a man about it
All that I ever hoped to be
Exactly who I am
No matter where you run to
Here I stand

You've been lonely
You've been lonely
You've been lonely too
And I been thinking about you

Maybe when you hold my hand
Tell me everything about you
And I will try to understand
I'll try to be a man about it
All that I ever hoped to be
Exactly who I am
No matter where you run ta… 
Here I stand

Are we getting high?
Or we gonna cry?

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

LAMP IN THE MIDNIGHT HOUR

This time tomorrow I'm miles away
Miles from my window, this table and flower
This time tomorrow the skies could be gray
I look for the lamp in the midnight hour

Show me your heartaches, show me your tears
Show me the trouble that caused you to cower
I turned a blind eye, in darkness for years
But look for the lamp in the midnight hour

There is a light from a light to a light
Cuts through the darkness, the wind and the showers
There is a light from a light to a light
The lamp from the midnight hour

Here is a story that's just like your story
They scrambled the words like a babylon tower
You found all the struggles but never the glory
Come look for the lamp in the midnight hour

There is a light from a light to a light
Cuts like the darkness, the wind and the showers
There is a light from a light to a light
The lamp from the midnight hour

This time tomorrow we're faded away
Miles from our windows and tables and flowers
Miles ahead looks like skies could be gray
Look for the lamp in the midnight hour

There is a light from a light to a light
Cuts through the darkness,the wind and the showers
There is a light from a light to a light
The lamp in the midnight hour
There is a light from a light to a light
There is a light from a light to a light
There is a light from a light to a light
The lamp from the midnight hour 

© Chris LeRoy May 18, 2012 Published by New West Crash Music/ASCAP

RAPPING TELEPHONE LINE

(meditation for Adam Yauch)

Minds
Like telephone lines
Easy to find
Even in broad daylight
Get High
Like telephone lines
Easy to find our souls...

Find
Your telephone line
Our moment in time
Here in the fine white line
Try
Meditative mind 
It's easy to find our souls...

In Time
You tried to design
A filament so fine
That we could speak our minds
This time
In your decline
You helped us find our souls...

Whipping up this lightning storm

(If you have the)Time
Please get in line
And we'll make it shine
Even in darkest night
Goodbye
Rapping telephone line
From all of our hearts and minds

© Chris LeRoy May 4, 2012 Published by New West Crash Music/ASCAP

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

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

SILENT IS THE FALLING STAR

There's a river rushing cross the road
(How you gonna answer now?)
Here comes the water running through my soul
(How you gonna answer now?)
I had a love she had a heart of coal
(Where's the answer?)
(Where's the answer?)
Came to a place where I could take my chances
(Here's the answer)

Silent as the falling star

Packed my bags to take a morning flight
(Where you gonna run to now?)
I heard your voice before the morning light
(Where you gonna run to now?)
A shooting star out of the middle of the night
(Where's the answer?)
(Where's the answer?)
Down to the water I'll take my chances
(Here's the answer)

Silent as a falling star

I feel the river rushing through my clothes
(Think we got an answer now)
A million stars are fading all alone
(Think we got an answer now)
They say you fall until you're heaven bound
(Gimme the answer)
(Gimme the answer)
River's calling and I took my chances
(Here's the answer)

Silent is the falling star

© Chris LeRoy March 16, 2012 Published by New West Crash Music/ASCAP

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