‘Close The Door’ Lyrics

Close the door
Put out the light
Come sleep
Till tomorrow comes creepin’
Talk some more
Till I grow tired don’t leave
Till you know that I’m sleepin’
Don’t say goodnight
Just slide away into the dark
And take with you my heart
Close the door
Put out the light
Come sleep
Till tomorrow comes creepin’
Down the hall they’re talking lies
Don’t speak
Of the troubles you’re keepin’
Don’t fall behind
Just know that everything is fine
Knowin’ that you’re mine
Close the door
Put out the light
This day
Leaves me tired and heavy
Waking hours will always fall away
When you feel that you’re ready
Don’t say goodnight
Just slide away into the dark
And take with you my heart

‘At Seventeen’ Lyrics

I learned the truth at seventeen
That love was meant for beauty queens
And high school girls with clear skinned smiles
Who married young and then retired
The valentines I never knew
The friday night charades of youth
Were spent on one more beautiful
At seventeen I learned the truth

And those of us with ravaged faces
Lacking in the social graces
Desperately remained at home
Inventing lovers on the phone
Who called to say – come dance with me
And murmured vague obscenities
It isn’t all it seems at seventeen

A brown eyed girl in hand me downs
Whose name I never could pronounce
Said – pity please the ones who serve
They only get what they deserve
The rich relationed hometown queen
Marries into what she needs
With a guarantee of company
And haven for the elderly

So remember those who win the game
Lose the love they sought to gain
In debentures of quality and dubious integrity
Their small-town eyes will gape at you
In dull surprise when payment due
Exceeds accounts received at seventeen

To those of us who knew the pain
Of valentines that never came
And those whose names were never called
When choosing sides for basketball
It was long ago and far away
The world was younger than today
When dreams were all they gave for free
To ugly duckling girls like me

We all play the game, and when we dare
We cheat ourselves at solitaire
Inventing lovers on the phone
Repenting other lives unknown
That call and say – come on, dance with me
And murmur vague obscenities
At ugly girls like me, at seventeen

‘Here It Comes Again’ Lyrics

Winter’s light paints a different landscape, grey and brown for brightest gold
Summer paths were happier, now everything’s on hold

Like a woman she’s shed her lover, love is unimaginable, bare branches cannot console, the heart cannot be warmed when the arms cannot hold

There’s a kind of beauty in the stillness of, knowing what was will always bring you back to a place where love can enter the atmosphere of absence and bring you to your knees.

Here it comes again, it’s written on your face, here it comes again, you’re wrapped up in that warm embrace, here it comes again, the secret wheel has turned, here it comes again.

Cold and pure starry night, the mist of breathing goes out to nowhere, futility and awe have always been, almost touching side by side, affection keeps our souls in their abodes . . .

Here it comes again, it’s written on your face, here it comes again, you’re wrapped up in that warm embrace, here it comes again, the secret wheel has turned, here it comes again

‘Sailing’ Lyrics

‘Souvenir’ Lyrics

Look at the sky, Isn’t it bliss
It’s a souvenir of a dreamy little summer of a yesteryear
Down on the sand, Up in my room, It don’t matter where
There’s a shiny thread a running through the atmosphere

And the light ripe, warm and bright and the birds sing, through the night,
Taking flight, Endless happiness here

And it won’t be forgotten for evermore
It won’t be forgotten for ever more
Nothing displaces by reaching the shore
It won’t be forgotten for evermore

Watching the time, Drifting away – into souvenirs
Never ending flicker falling through the atmosphere
Tell me again and again
‘Cos I wanna hear, ‘bout a dreamy little summer of a yesteryear

With the light ripe, warm and bright and the birds sing, through the night
Taking flight, Endless happiness here
And it won’t be forgotten for, evermore, It won’t be forgotten for ever more
Nothing displaces by reaching the shore, It won’t be forgotten for ever more

‘Broken’ Lyrics

‘Love Remains’ Lyrics

‘Tending The Happiness Tree’ Lyrics

Tending the happiness tree
Everything comes down to me
Everything comes down to me, everything yeah

Water the happiness tree, and pull up the poisonous weeds,
give it the space to be free busy bee, yeah

Tending the happiness tree, its like a spiral or a seesaw to infinity
Let your roots go and you’re bound to fall down Jack on his crown in a whirl

Tending the happiness tree,
Now people won’t always agree,
cos everyone has different needs, different speeds yeah

Water the happiness tree and you’ll see it in its blossom and fruit jamboree
Pick an apple cos it’s there to be had
It’s there to be had you know you can be glad of this world

‘What You Do With What You’ve Got’ Lyrics

‘Song To The Siren’ Lyrics

Long afloat on shipless oceans
I did all my best to smile
‘Til your singing eyes and fingers
Drew me loving to your isle
And you sang
Sail to me
Sail to me
Let me enfold you
Here I am
Here I am
Waiting to hold you
Did I dream you dreamed about me?
Were you hare when I was fox?
Now my foolish boat is leaning
Broken lovelorn on your rocks,
For you sing, “Touch me not, touch me not, come back tomorrow:
O my heart, O my heart shies from the sorrow”

I am puzzled as the newborn child
I am troubled at the tide:
Should I stand amid the breakers?
Should I lie with Death my bride?
Hear me sing, “Swim to me, Swim to me, Let me enfold you:
Here I am, Here I am, Waiting to hold you”

‘These Days’ Lyrics