1. |
Didn't Know Better
04:00
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If I didn’t know better
I’d say you were gone tonight
I’d slam the front door one last time
I’d disconnect the light
If I didn’t know better
I’d say we’d fade to black
But I know, I know better
And you’re coming back
If I didn’t know better
I’d say you were looking around
I’d bet you’d take an earthquake
For old familiar ground
If I didn’t know better
I’d say you’d let me down
But I know, I know better
And you’ll come around
Better is better, and that’s what we expected
Better is better, and the best is ours for free
Better is better, and neither one suspected
You could get so far away from me
If I didn’t know better
I’d say that this was the end
But I know, I know better
I remember when…
Better is better, and that’s what we expected
Better is better, and the best is yet to be
Better is better, and neither one suspected
You could get so far away from me
So far away, yeah
You could get so far away from me…
If I didn’t know better
I’d say that this was the end
But I know, I know better
It’s coming back again,
Yes I know.
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2. |
You Don't Say
03:49
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You looked pretty nervous when I met you at the door
Fumbling your flowers and then dropping to the floor
You tried to look confident, you tried to stay composed
You don't say you love me, but it shows
You may not think anyone could recognize the signs
The ever slightest tremble when you poured my glass of wine
But I've got news for you now buddy, everybody knows
You don't say you love me, but it shows
As for me I'd like to hide myself from the curious world
As for me I'd rather be a dark mysterious girl
But I tip my hat, I show my hand, I give away
more than I planned
So don't you try to fool the one who knows
You don't say you love me but it shows
Now people say that you can fool some people all the time
But now I've got your number and I hope that you've got mine
I've got x-ray vision through the emperor's new clothes
If you were pinocchio I'd see it in your nose
You don't say you love me, you don't say you love me,
You don't say you love me...
Cause you tipped your hat, you showed your hand
You gave away more than you planned
and now your deepest secret is exposed
You don't say you love me, you don't say you love me yet
You don't say you love me,
But it shows...
Music and Lyrics - Lynn Harrison
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Fortune tellers tell their lies
Like your zodiac sign
Put more faith in your own eyes
Put your hand in mine
If you don’t believe in angels
How about a love divine?
Cause when you wish upon my heart
Good fortune will follow you…
Pennies fly into the pools
Birthday candles are blown
Let’s not be two hopeful fools
Let’s not choose life alone
If you had a million dollars, Darling
Nothing you could buy would do
But when you wish upon my heart
Good fortune will follow you
Like stars aligning in the dark
My love is true, my love is true…
You can buy your ticket at the corner store
Say a prayer at midnight for something more
Everything I hope for, all I believe
I’m handing to you Darling, here on my sleeve
When you wish upon my heart
Good fortune will follow you
Like stars aligning in the dark
My love is true, my love is true…
(repeat chorus)
- Lyrics and Music - Lynn Harrison (2000)
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4. |
Complicated Things
03:25
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Sometimes I want to be a streetcar driver
Carry the people all over town
All I would have to know are red lights and green lights
When to speed up and when to slow down
Sometimes I want to be an outside postal worker
Deliver the mail through the slush and snow
When I’d get home from work I’d write my own short letters
Spell out “goodbye” or maybe “hello”
But all of my life I’ve done
Complicated things
Made complicated phone calls
With complicated rings
I know it’s time I took some time away.
Sometimes I want to make a good strong cup of coffee
Serve it for breakfast to someone I know
I’d run a café with chrome and vinyl barstools
Put out a sign that says “open” or “closed”
But all of my life I’ve done
Complicated things
Made complicated money
With complicated strings
I know it’s time I took some time away…
Sometimes I want to move away from this big city
Live in the open, no-one nearby
When I’d look at my life I wouldn’t see what I am missing
Only see earth and I’d only see sky
But all of my life I’ve done
Complicated things
Had the kind of life that
Complication brings
And I know I know it’s time I took some time away
I know it’s time I took some time away, time away
I know I know it’s time I took some time away
Time away…
Sometimes I want to be a streetcar driver…
Music & Lyrics - Lynn Harrison
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5. |
My Messy House
03:45
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Before my friends come over I rush around and clean
I stash away my dirty clothes and stack my magazines
Throw the dishes in the sink, put on a pot of tea
Why don’t you come and live in my messy house with me
Why don’t you come and live in my messy house
Does everybody do this, put on such a show
Are their places always neat, I guess I’ll never know
Maybe they have Molly Maid, a clean conspiracy
Why don’t you come and live in my messy house with me
Why don’t you come and live in my messy house
We can sail around the lawn sales, we can waste precious time
We can marry our mess together, yours and mine, yours and mine
We can dream about tomorrow, we can read Metropolitan Home
We can leave our bed unmade in the morning, and lose our cellular phone…
So overlook the laundry, ignore the pizza crust
If something’s moving by the couch don’t worry, it’s just dust
It’s summer now so you can help take down my Christmas tree
Why don’t you come and live in my messy house with me
Why don’t you come and live in my messy house…
Why don’t you come and live in my messy house with me
Why don’t you come and live in my messy house
Why don’t you come and live with me
Why don’t you come and live with me
Why don’t you come and live in my messy house with me?
- Music and Lyrics: Lynn Harrison
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6. |
Room to Love
04:16
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Give me empty space
Don’t want no noisy overcrowded place
Clear out the clutter, make a state of grace
Cause I need room to love
Quiet days
They seem to fill up in so many ways
With all my worries and my power plays
When I just need room to love
Of the many million things we wish for
We only need a precious few
And the many moments in my lifetime
Are empty without you, so
Show your face
Take me away from this old rattlin’ race
Cause all I need is in your warm embrace
When we make room to love.
(break)
Of the many million things we wish for
We only need a precious few
And the many moments in my lifetime
Are empty, empty so…
Show your face
Just let your heartbeat set a steady pace
Cause we can reach beyond the bounds of space
When we make room to love
We can reach beyond the bounds of space
When we make room to love…
Music & Lyrics: Lynn Harrison
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7. |
Stage
04:01
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Just an old wooden platform, battered and brown
An old microphone with a cord hanging down
And a single light shining, to light up the page
It's a stage, just a stage
And she hasn't believed she can do it for long
Her hands are still shaking, her voice is all wrong
And her children are wishing she'd just act her age
It's a stage, just a stage
It's a stage, a stage, of graceful design
Springboard to beauty, to something divine
And it's stable and sturdy
And strengthened by age
It's a stage, just a stage
And there isn't too much he can do very well
So he's playing past midnight, his grades shot to hell
And they're worried about him, he's so full of rage
It's a stage, just a stage
(Chorus)
But they sold out the Skydome in less than a day
Millions are listening when they come to play
There's a standing ovation and lights all ablaze
On the stage, just a stage
(break)
So what are you doing in this time you are here?
To sing down the silence, to hold back the fear
Just look where you're standing, this small patch of grace
It's a stage, just a stage
Music and Lyrics - Lynn Harrison
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8. |
Einstein's Brain
04:25
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Einstein’s brain in the back of a car
Einstein’s brain in a little clear jar
Einstein’s brain is going somewhere
Einstein’s brain already there
Einstein’s brain is on the move
Einstein’s brain with nothing to prove
Einstein’s brain with nothing to do
Einstein’s brain enjoying the view
But I’ve lost my way again
It’s the simple sad refrain
Of a world that’s gone insane
Maybe you could help me,
Einstein’s brain
Einstein’s brain is better than mine
Einstein’s brain all covered in brine
Einstein’s brain got deeper grooves
Einstein’s brain don’t get these blues
As I’ve lost my way again
Just can’t seem to shake this pain
In a world I can’t explain
Maybe you could help me…
Einstein’s brain
Einstein’s brain in time and space
Einstein’s brain in a really good place
Einstein’s brain is headin’ to heaven
Einstein’s brain at the 7-11
As I’ve lost my way again
It’s the simple sweet refrain
Of a world that’s gone insane
If only you could help me…
Einstein’s brain
Einstein’s brain in the back of a car
Wherever you go, there you are.
- Music & Lyrics: Lynn Harrison
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9. |
Anything But Love
04:21
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I’ll write a song about a pair of shoes
I’ll write a song about a glove
I’ll write a song about the evening news
Anything but love
I’ll tell a story ‘bout the earth below
The constellations up above me now
I’ll tell a story ‘bout the falling snow
Anything but love
Anything but love is easier
Anything but love I understand
Anything but love comes faster
And turns out as planned
I’ll tell you all about the world outside
I’ll make you think that it’s enough
Explain the mountains and the ocean wide
Anything but love
But I would sign away my writing hand
My pens and papers I’d give up
I’d give you all the words at my command
All of them for love
Anything but love is easier
Anything but love I understand
Anything but love comes faster
And turns out as planned
Anything but love makes sense to me
Anything but love might stay
Anything but love I know,
Since he let me go, I’d do anything…
So is this a love song, tell me, is that what it was?
Tell me what matters, if anything matters, if anything does…
Anything but love…
Anything but love makes sense to me
Anything but love might stay
Anything but love I know, but I need you so
If that means anything
If that means anything…
Anything…
Music & Lyrics: Lynn Harrison
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Could it have been the war
That changed your grandpa’s picture
That turned him from a hopeful boy
Into a haunted man?
Could it have been the war
That made his son start drinking
That made him run for shelter
When the storms began?
And could it have been the war
That comes between us?
Could it have been a battle lost before?
Could it have been the war
That made my mom start crying
When she was just a little girl
And Daddy, he was gone
Could it have been the war
That started all her sighing
That made her start believing
Love never lasts for long?
And could it have been the war
That comes between us?
Could it have been a battle lost before?
Could it have been the fighting
That deceives us?
Could it have been, could it have been
The War?
(Bridge)
So we’re watching the parade
out in the rain
And little girls are dropping their batons
down on the street…
And the bagpipes are coming round the corner
Don’t let them see that tear
fall upon your cheek
So we’re standing at attention
there’s a spatter of hands clapping
But my little boy has looked away
now I see him laughing
And I wish I could forget last night
how we were fighting…
Could it have been the war
The war we don’t remember
The war we don’t believe in
The war that we deny
Could it have been the war
The war to end all fighting
For dignity and freedom
For love that never dies
And could it have been the war
That comes between us?
Could it have been a battle lost before?
Could it have been the fighting
That deceives us?
Could it have been, could it have been
The War, the war, oh
Could it have been
Could it have been
The war?
Music & Lyrics - Lynn Harrison,
2000 - Lynoleum Music, SOCAN)
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11. |
Smooth Stones
04:27
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Tonight my child is standing on a lakeside dock
Laughing like the smile up in the sky
Picks up a fragment of dinosaur bone
As we tumble headfirst into life
Make us smooth stones,
Make us smooth stones,
Let this love wash over us
Make us smooth stones
Sometimes I think that I forget how to pray
I think something’s going wrong with my hands
Been pretty long since I fell to my knees
But tonight I lay my body on the sand
(Chorus)
We are bottle caps and pennies, we are broken glass
Precious things just waiting to be found
We are carbon fragments fallen from a far-off sun
We are cast upon the water, cast upon the water
heaven bound…
(Chorus x 2)
Music & Lyrics: Lynn Harrison
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12. |
Don't Listen
04:15
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Don't listen, cause I might say something
I didn't mean to say
Don't listen, you might think
It should be put another way
Don't ask me to get up there
And say the things I know
Cause I really don't know anything
It's only just for show
Don't listen, don't listen
Don't look now, cause I think I just lost
What confidence I had
Don't look now, I know you won't love
Someone who feels so bad
Just go down to the record store
Or turn on the tv
You'll find many much more pretty girls
With better songs than me
Don't listen, don't listen
Don't touch me, cause sometimes I believe
I'm better off alone
Don't touch me, if you can't handle
all this messy flesh and bone
Don't try to crack me open
Don't put me up on top
Don't give me cause for hoping
the joy will never stop,
Don't listen, don't listen, don't listen
Don't listen, cause if you do
I won't have anywhere to hid
Don't listen, cause if you don't
Then I can say "at least I tried"
And if you hear the voices
That call from up above
That give you tougher choices
That teach you how to love
If you're happy sleeping
and it's too hard to wake up
Don't listen, don't listen
Don't listen, cause I might say
Something I didn't mean to say.
- Music & Lyrics: Lynn Harrison
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Lynn Harrison Toronto, Ontario
Performing songwriter Lynn Harrison is known for beautifully memorable songs that celebrate life, love and the human spirit. With a voice that is "right up there with the best ballad singers of the past" (Americana Highways) and sparkling guitar work, Rev. Lynn (also a Unitarian minister) brings warmth and wisdom to every concert stage. www.lynnharrison.ca ... more
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