SLOW RECOVERY
I do look back in anger
And you won’t be the one that’s gonna hear me say
“Wish we couldn’t stayed with what we threw away”
‘Cause you ain’t ever gonna be the one
Bury the past in volcanic ash
So take it to your heart or leave it in the past
Cause there’s no running or hiding or me coming back
I ain’t here to haunt you
And it’s been a slow recovery over time
The wounds are gonna heal so I’m gonna be alright
And there’s nothing you could ever say to change my mind
Or make me want to run to you
Never gonna long for whatever went wrong
Not a body left standing when the smoke is gone And I took some hits but I will live on
Believe in what you hear from me
And it’s been slow recovery over time
The wounds are gonna heal so I’m going to be alright
Nothing you can ever say to change my mind
Or make me want to run to you
Relief in its final stages
Mending the scars and the fears that are all caused by
Too many tears and I feel I’ve been shot
But I took out the bullet myself
For lack of anyone else
Like I ever needed your help, anyway
A love has faded just short of hatred
It’s been broke down, and it’s been degraded
Explained by words like “It’s complicated”
And “I don’t wanna be with you.”
And it’s been a slow recovery over time
The wounds are gonna heal so I’m going to be alright
Nothing you can ever say to change my mind
Or make me want to run to you
Songwriters: Baldrachi, Peter/Rand, Gary
Published by Crash Boom Bam Music (ASCAP)/Gleason Rand Music (ASCAP)
PEOPLE DON’T CHANGE
People don’t change, they always stay the same
People don’t change, they always stay the same
And where are you my love, when I need you the most
You turned and left me here, in a place I’ve never known
Yet If I run to you, through cold and wind and rain
I may be warm and dry, but always wondering
Will you leave me again?
People don’t change, they always stay the same
Tell me now or tell me when, confusion ever ends
Yet if I hide from you, what shape does this life take
Far away from you, alone
With this aching heart
To make it through it all, without a bitter end
I’ve no intention dear of leaving here your friend
Yet if I stay with you, which seems to bare no choice
And lose myself in you, if just to hear your voice
Saying goodbye
People don’t change, they always stay the same
Songwriters: Baldrachi, Peter/Rand, Gary
Published by Crash Boom Bam Music (ASCAP)/Gleason Rand Music (ASCAP)
SEASONS
Living through springtime haze
The frozen winter slips away
Reminded now of longer days in time
Summer passed, we built a wall
Left untended through the fall
The barriers were way too tall to climb
I think when you wrote to me
And told about the ocean breeze
And how it always made you feel alive
And how you wished that I was there
To see your smile, to touch your hair
Or maybe just to stand and stare at the sky
Sad farewells have all been said
It never means goodbye unless
The memories and seasons have all died
Now and then I see your face
A picture hidden in a dusty frame
A summer day forgotten forever more
And moments when I thought of you
When all the hurt has been removed
By seasons past I sigh and let it go
Sad farewells have all been said
It never means goodbye unless
The memories and seasons have all died
Songwriters: Baldrachi, Peter/Rand, Gary
Published by Crash Boom Bam Music (ASCAP)/Gleason Rand Music (ASCAP)
IN MY HEART
I would be there in your arms
I would be there by your side
Let me back into your heart
Staring out a window you and I
Gaze into the wintry evening sky
We see our dreams come into light
The things that mean so much to me in my heart
No longer mean that much to you
I never left my heart in doubt
My faith in you is still devout
And love you ‘til the end of time
Dark is earth, dark is the sky
The hurt and sadness in your eyes
Yet there’s a light still shining bright
I take a breath and I’ve made my vow
To all the love upon me now
We see our dreams fade into night
I would be there in your arms
I would be there by your side
Let me back into your heart
Songwriters: Baldrachi, Peter/Rand, Gary
Published by Crash Boom Bam Music (ASCAP)/Gleason Rand Music (ASCAP)
SIDE BY SIDE
Well I know I’ll never be the same again
‘Cause I realized I’ve loved you from the first day that we met
And there’s gotta be a pathway we can follow
So that standin’ side by side we maybe cast the same shadow
Rightly guided from the heavens
Living a life of forever
I waited all my life, I’ve waited my
And I listen to every little thing you say
Shattered dreams and visions slowly faded from my memory
Making sense of what’s forbidden
Can’t pull away from your kisses
I waited all my life, I’ve waited my
Weary of disaster
Something’s never meant to last
But, I’m throwing it all in now
Just to take another chance
Not anyone, hiding, on the run
So love stayed on in time to see the sun again
And I’ve heard most everything you say
In a voice that seems it must’ve been here from the first beginning
And I search for confirmation in your eyes
So that standin’ side by side we make the ordinary so surprising
I waited all my life, I’ve waited my
Weary of disaster
Something’s never meant to last
So, I’m throwing it all in now
Just to take another chance
Not anyone, hiding, on the run
And love stayed on in time to see the sun again
And love stayed on in time to see the sun again
And love stayed on, And love stayed on
Songwriters: Baldrachi, Peter/Rand, Gary
Published by Crash Boom Bam Music (ASCAP)/Gleason Rand Music (ASCAP)
THE SWEEPING HAND OF LOVE
There’s a face that I love
When I hold in my hands
Your sweet gentle lips
Then I look into your eyes
Hold you tightly in my arms
And hear the whisper of your sighs
Oh you, the sweeping hand of love
In the dress you wore for me
The sound of my name on your lips
The way your neck and chest
Frame a fragile amulet
And your breasts rise and fall
As your sweet breath meets mine
My dear, the sweeping hand of love
Here with the wildflowers
A field of peonies
We surrender to our love
To each other
The touch of your hand
The curve of your hips
Skin like still waters
Eyes of obsidian
Into the abyss of my heart, my heart
Shed the weight of your pain
As I lay softly at your side
Push the hair out of your eyes
I’ll dry every tear you cry
And that’s my love for you
Through the days and the nights
Oh babe, the sweeping hand of love
Oh babe, the sweeping hand of love
Oh babe, the sweeping hand of love
Oh babe, the sweeping hand of love
Songwriters: Baldrachi, Peter
Published by Crash Boom Bam Music (ASCAP)
KILLING TIME
Here with you, for what I don’t know why
‘Things turn out the same most every time
Still I try, to see behind your eyes
Swimming in a green and hopeless tide
Well I heard you say, there ain’t no boy gonna treat me the same
Or give the love I need for all time
But it’s your life, you can play it like a game
I couldn’t change it even though I tried
Well I walk, I walk alone, the path of the unknown
Missing you and wishing you were here
Now I don’t know why, you wear your vague disguise
And play me for the fool that I’ve become
Dreams of mine, have all but up and died
Feeling right and being so wrong
Well I walk, I walk alone, the path of the unknown
Missing you and wishing you were here
Be careful dear, don’t become like the ones you once despised
Who’ll fill your mind with fairytales and lies
Who make the rules as you blindly comply
And, one more thing,
I don’t know why I care
When the love I gave was left so unreturned
So I say good night, yeah I’ve said my last goodbye
To a lesson that I wish I’d never learned
Well I walk, I walk alone, the path of the unknown
Missing you and wishing you were here
And I’ll try to move along till the day your memory’s gone
Missing you and wishing you
Wishing you and missing you
Missing you and wishing you were here
Songwriters: Baldrachi, Peter/Rand, Gary
Published by Crash Boom Bam Music (ASCAP)/Gleason Rand Music (ASCAP)
BITTER PILL
I keep a garden here, tending it through time
But soil and sweat could never seem take you from my mind
And like it all I can only try to turn our fate
Dreams I planted dying in your wake
It’s a bitter pill to take
And it’s a similar reaction that there’s no hiding from
Seasons change and come around, we learn from this my love
Shake the chains of compromise for both of our sakes
But it doesn’t really matter what I say
It’s a bitter pill to take
If you’ll come back to me this time, babe
To share what we both miss
I need your love here and I miss your tender kisses baby so bad
Though you ain’t here by my side the part of you remains
That didn’t leave me all alone, standing in the rain
That didn’t follow when you finally closed the garden gate
It’s a bitter pill to take
You departed just before the winds began to change
Ain’t you lived enough to know things never stay the same
Thinking love would stand up to all things in its wake
I extend an invitation anyway
It’s a bitter pill to take
Wrap your arms around me once again
To share in this embrace
Try one more time to love me, if it’s not too late
And you know it ain’t
I keep a garden here, tending it through time
But soil and sweat could never seem take you from my mind
You turn your eyes away from me, I try to save face
The dreams I planted dying in your wake
It’s a bitter pill to take
Loneliness
A bitter pill to take
Songwriters: Baldrachi, Peter/Rand, Gary
Published by Crash Boom Bam Music (ASCAP)/Gleason Rand Music (ASCAP)
NEVER GO AWAY
You ran across my mind as the leaves fell down
Reminding me it’s been a year since you left town
Thinking things to tell you that’ll never get said
Like the letters I have written that’ll never be sent
Once there was a time when you were everything to me
But what I meant to you was something I couldn’t see
Someone who was there for just a moment in time
To leave me standing, wondering just like everything you ever left behind
It’s all right, it’s okay
We all done things that’ll cost us one day
All we can do is learn from our mistakes
And never let it go away
There’s a story that you told me once when we were all alone
You were dancin’ like a fire, you were howlin’ at the moon
I could almost see your skin shining under its light
Moving to the rhythm of another life
And I knew as you spoke that I was not really there
Your eyes were looking through me in a far away stare
And I reached out to touch you, you were standing so near
But it was like it is now, you weren’t there and you’re not here
It’s all right, it’s okay
We all done things that’ll cost us one day
All we can do is learn from our mistakes
And never let it go away
Go away
Sometimes it takes a little while for things to be clear
And there’s been a lotta changes in the passing year
In the end you chose a life that did NOT include me
And then act like it was nothing just as long as you were free
So that’s enough thinking about the days gone by
And that’s enough wondering about “why, oh why”
You ran through my life like I was standing still
And I thought I could forget you, but I guess I never will
It’s all right, it’s okay
We all done things that’ll cost us one day
All we can do is give whatever it takes
And never let it go away
Never go away
Go Away
Go Away
Go Away
Songwriters: Baldrachi, Peter/Rand, Gary
Published by Crash Boom Bam Music (ASCAP)/Gleason Rand Music (ASCAP)