1. |
You Come to Me
03:49
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When the darkness overtakes me
and I can’t get back to sleep
When the right words still evade me
and my dreams have dimmed too deep
When I can’t seem to remember
even one sweet melody,
When I’m feeling tired and tender
That’s when you come to me.
When there’s nothing I can write now
‘Cause I see how much is wrong
When I can’t seem to recall how
to turn sorrow into song
I keep wandering in these patterns
in the shade of your witness tree
and I hear one voice that matters…
That’s how you come to me.
In the falling of my fingers,
the vibrations of these strings
In the calling bell that lingers
in the heart of everything
In the wonder and the aching
of a world so far from free
There is music for the making
every day you come to me
There is music for the making
Every day you come to me.
Music and Lyrics - Lynn Harrison
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2. |
Something More
03:51
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When I think I have no more to give you
When I fear there’s nothing to restore
When I don’t know how I can forgive you
Something tells me there is something more
Even though we can’t see past our sorrow
Even when we’re shaken to the core
Even though there may be no tomorrow
Something tells me there is something more.
Something tells me something I’ve been missing
Something knows what I’ve been praying for
Something talks to me when I am listening
Something tells me there is something more
Something in the way the tide is turning
Something like the opening of a door
Something in the centre of this yearning
Something that’s eluded us before
Something knows this has not been for nothing
Something that’s no longer keeping score
Something knows that love is really something
Something tells me there is something more
(Chorus)
Something knows that love is really something
Something tells me there is something more
Something tells me there is something more
Something tells me there is something more.
Music and Lyrics - Lynn Harrison
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3. |
Pretty It Up
03:42
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I guess we've done it now, my dear
Look at the mess we made...
Trying to make things crystal clear
We pulled down the shade
Shadow-boxing strangers
Still more lost than found...
On brittle, broken ground...
Don't know if I should stick around if
I can't pretty it up...
If all the icebergs break apart
What's the point of this?
A few words cast into the dark
Laments for all we’ll miss
Scrolling feeds of loneliness
A million shades of gray
Now I'm too tired to play...
I'm barely getting through the day, cause
I can't pretty it up...
I’ve been seeking higher ground
I’ve been digging deep
But I’m still making promises
I don’t know how to keep.
I don’t seek the answers now,
No longer wish I knew...
Just pray Love sees us through…
It’s really all that I can do
when I can’t pretty it up…
Music and Lyrics - Lynn Harrison
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4. |
Riddle
03:36
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4. Riddle
Where do we go when we
don’t know where we’re going?
What do we know when we
have no way of knowing?
What do we hear when we
thought we were not listening
What do we find when we
find so much is missing?
Tell me a riddle and tell me again
You’ll stay here beside me as the night’s closing in
When you tell me a riddle, it sounds like a prayer
I don’t need the answers when I know that you’re there
I don’t need the answers when I know that you’re there.
Can we start again
Not knowing what we’ve started?
When we fall apart can
We become wholehearted?
When we turn away,
What will we then turn back to?
When we’re home to stay
What will we have returned to?
Chorus
Mystery and wonder
Earth and sky and ocean
Spell that pulls me under
all the day’s emotion
When our story ends
Not happily, but holy
I’ll call you my friend and
Ask for one thing only…
Chorus
Music and Lyrics - Lynn Harrison
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5. |
Don't Know How It Works
04:12
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I don’t know how to start
I don’t know if I should
begin to try to pull apart
the evil and the good.
I don’t know how it works,
how the pieces fit
This universe of joy of hurt:
What to make of it.
I don’t know how it works
How to make it run
How to make it to the ending
When I’ve just begun
I don’t know how it works
What the song’s made of
I don’t know what to call it, but
today I call it love
I don’t know how this goes,
what to put in place
To turn this anxious overflow
into an easy grace.
I don’t know how it works…
Won’t someone please explain
How there can be such beauty
in the midst of so much pain?
(Chorus)
And I don’t know what to do
When you turn away.
I really never have a clue
If I should run or stay.
I don’t know how it works…
I am not so smart,
Just trying to connect with you
to open up my heart
But I don’t know how it works…
Music and Lyrics - Lynn Harrison
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6. |
Waves
02:30
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Once I was a young woman
with my whole life ahead
I gave birth to my children
and I made the marriage bed.
Now fire is flowing through me
as awareness of the grave…
comes over me in waves
Comes over me,
comes over me….
comes over me in waves. (x2)
No-one talks about this;
It’s something that’s unsaid
There are no poetic verses
for blood no longer shed.
As sweat rises to the surface
the surrender of a slave
comes over me in waves
You could feel it with me,
You could join me there
in the fire and the fury
of the little time to spare.
As the world burns down to ashes
the belief we could be brave
Comes over me in waves…
Lynn Harrison - Music and Lyrics
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7. |
When I'm On the Water
03:59
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When I’m on the water, I’m above deep blue
When I hold my paddle I can glide on through
Straight into the harbour where I’m safe and sound
When I’m on the water I see where I’m bound
When I’m on the water, in the earth’s embrace
The surface is a mirror where I see my face
I see who I am and who I will become
When I’m on the water, I’m no longer numb.
When I’m on the water, when you’re by my side
I see no more obstacles, no bank too wide
I can see tomorrow from this red canoe
When I’m on the water, I’m above deep blue
When I’m on the water I can take it slow
Take the time to wonder till I come to know
Everything I am and all that I can be
When I’m on the water I can clearly see.
When I’m on the water when it’s lit by stars
I believe it’s possible to heal my scars
I can feel the changes as the waves slip past
When I’m on the water I am safe at last.
(Chorus)
When I’m on the water, I’m above deep blue.
Lynn Harrison - Music and Lyrics
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8. |
Home Away From Home
03:34
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The fragrance of magnolias
The angle of the light
The sound of the cicadas
That helps me sleep at night
Melodies in memory
Ways I understand
They speak directly to me
Telling me I am
Home away from home
Home away from home (I am)
Home away from home
Everybody’s moving
No-one ever stays
Anywhere for long now
Still the roots remain
Deep within the hard ground
Beneath the family trees
If you follow them down
You might come to be
Home away from home…
Maybe we’re all landed
From some star above
Blooming where we’re planted
Loving whom we love
Waking up in places
Where the soul is found
Where the voice of grace says
We are safe and sound
Home away from home…
Music and Lyrics - Lynn Harrison
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9. |
Always Falling in Love
04:18
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I’m always falling in love with something
Some bright shiny thing that’s still in store
But I will not take it home with me this morning
Sometimes that is not what love is for
I’m always falling in love with somewhere
Someplace I believe I should have been
But I will not travel there by air or water
Sometimes love remains a place unseen
Cause I’m always falling in love
Yes I’m always falling in love
I keep calling out to a signal still shining through
Now I want to be following love, and following you
I’m always falling in love with someone
Someone still too far away to see.
I’ve heard it said it takes a fool to know one
You would be a fool to fall for me
(Chorus)
I’m always falling in love with something.
Music and Lyrics - Lynn Harrison
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10. |
Protester
02:36
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I was not a protester
Was not familiar with that word
I wasn’t there that day or night
But I knew something wasn’t right
‘Til I saw what you did, Sir
I was not a protester (x2)
I was not an activist
Never one to raise my fist
In fact I seldom raised my voice
But today I have no choice
(Chorus)
I was not political
Maybe I am typical
You might call me unaware
I was only standing there
(Chorus)
I was not a detainee
But I know they’re just like me
For they carried out no crime
In that place and at that time
(Chorus)
I was not a protester
Of that, you can be assured
But something in me’s changed somehow
I wasn’t then what I am now
(Chorus)
Music and Lyrics - Lynn Harrison
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11. |
Someone To Look Up To
03:48
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In the midst of my hunger
I sat back down and wondered
Why I’m starting to say another prayer.
It’s a longstanding habit
You might say automatic
When I’m down, I put in a call up there.
‘Cause I just need someone to look up to
Lately I’ve been feeling down
I just need someone to look up to
Down here on the ground
I looked in the mirror,
saw what I had been fearing
I am only too human and so small.
I looked in your direction,
saw my wounded reflection
Tell me who is gonna catch us when we fall?
(Chorus)
Some turn to Jesus or
political leaders and we all
seek to find a higher love…
When you get right down to it,
there’s one reason we do it:
everyone wants to be lifted up…
Is anyone out there
Who can take us to somewhere?
Maybe God only knows the overview.
Now whatever’s between us
May it heal and redeem us
May we rise up together, me and you.
Music and Lyrics - Lynn Harrison
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12. |
Whose Idea Was This?
03:35
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So we’re traveling halfway ‘cross the country
in a ’90 Honda with two kids.
We’ll be on the road ‘til Sunday…
Whose idea was this?
Past the rocks and trees and reservations
Over roads too rugged to resist
‘Cross the borders of two nations
Whose idea was this?
Whose idea was this?
Whose sweet romantic notion
That two who are so different could combine?
Whose idea was this?
Who set the wheels in motion?
Whoever thought we’d make it home in time…
We’ll make it home tonight
by the light of the tractor-trailer
We’ll make it home tonight
by the light of the hotel pool,
and it will be alright,
‘cause all those who have come before us,
they say smooth roads
are exceptions to the rule…
(Chorus)
Music and 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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