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Punctuation
04:28
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I need a break, I need some space
A little time away, for a change of pace
I am seeking some kind of closure now
Now the time has come, won't you show me how
I'm just looking for some punctuation
To help make sense of this unbroken line
Lord, I'm looking for some punctuation
To help me write this story of mine
There are many things that can interrupt
Periods of pain, ellipses of love
Exclamation points should be rarely used
But at turning points, nothing less will do
(Chorus)
It's a crazy life, and it does run on
Through the restless nights, with the dreams soon gone
If a question mark marks the end of days
It'll break my heart and take my breath away
(Chorus)
Music and Lyrics - Lynn Harrison (SOCAN)
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2. |
This Quiet Life
03:36
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A garden grows in my own backyard
It’s where I go now to heal my heart
It’s here among all these roots and stones
I come to hear what I’ve always known, that
All I want is a quiet life
All I seek is peace of mind
All I need in this dimming light
Is your hand in mine
In this quiet life
I used to think that I needed more
Set my sights on what's still in store
But the only thing that cuts through that noise
Is there here and now, and the still small voice, saying...
(Chorus)
There’s a time for grasping and letting go
A time for asking, a time to know...
A time to take and a time to give…
A time to live, simply live, simply live, simply...
(Chorus)
- Music and Lyrics, Lynn Harrison (SOCAN)
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Let's talk to each other like trees
Let's talk to each other like trees
We don't have to use words like these
Let's talk to each other like trees
Let's speak to each other like stones
In their subterranean tones
I can feel it deep in my bones
We could speak together like stones
Let's talk to each other in ways
We don't even know that we knew
In these inconceivable days
I believe it's all we can do
Let's talk to each other like rain
Falling on the thirstiest grain
Let's talk to each other like clouds
High above these clamouring crowds
Let's be with each other like night
Abiding in the absence of light
Let's be with each other like space
And listen with an infinite grace
(Chorus)
If we were together that way
The earth and the stars would be pleased
And now there's no time to delay...
So let's talk to each other like
stones, rain, clouds, night, space...trees.
Music and Lyrics - Lynn Harrison (SOCAN)
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4. |
Every Precious Day
04:11
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Never mind the message
That everything is lost
Focus on the blessings
Bridges we have crossed
Be part of the changes
Getting underway
Come to treasure
every precious day
Loosen up your shoulders
Set your feet on ground
Come back to the moment
Where freedom is found
We can find the courage
For the come what may
As we treasure every precious day
May we treasure every precious day
Behold how the light breaks through
In such surprising rays
Beckoning us into blue
It sends us on our way
Everything is ever new
And nothing's here to stay
May we treasure every precious day
May we treasure every precious day
So lay down all your burdens
all that worldly weight
Open wide the curtains
Do not hesitate
Fill your heart with love, then
Give it all away
As you treasure every precious day
May we treasure every precious day
(Chorus)
Music and Lyrics - Lynn Harrison
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5. |
I Know it When I See It
03:08
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I’ve been searching since early morning
For some worthwhile things to say
Sometimes I think I’m getting somewhere
Then the sense just slips away
I still don’t know how to explain it
What in the world is good and true
But I know it when I see it…
And I see it in you
There’s a spell that still pulls me under
I’m unable to describe
It has something to do with wonder
Everything to do with life
I still don’t know if I believe in
Something beyond this broken blue
But I know it when I see it…
and I see it in you.
There is something deep in the moment
That will never steer you wrong
You'll look for it in every story
Every sermon, every song
I admit I don’t understand it
Even though I pretend I do
But I know it when I see it…
And I see it in you.
It’s a love that has lived forever
Yet it takes us by surprise
And it holds us safe and together
Whether we’re foolish or wise
There are times I cannot receive it
Yet today I pray I do…
Cause I know it when I see it
And I see it in you
I know it when I see it,
and I see it in you.
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Me and My Swinging Mood
02:58
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I’m feeling open-hearted ‘til the walls close in
Getting stuff started 'til I stop again
Looking around and seeing signs of hope
Falling back down because I just can’t cope
Staying far away because we do what’s right
Praying that I’ll get a better sleep tonight
Witnessing the courage before my eyes
Trying not to worry as the numbers rise
I’m swinging from my shadow to my open heart
Holding it together til I fall apart
Singing to the ceiling in my solitude
Me and my swinging mood…
Dancing from the attic to the basement floor
Traveling no further than the day before
Singing to the ceiling in my solitude
Me and my swinging mood
Everything’s rosy til it turns to blue
First I’m all cozy then I’m missing you…
Smiling at strangers like nothing’s wrong…
Feeling endangered, put the mask back on
Looking for meaning, finding something more
Feeling like screaming at the grocery store…
Weeping at the chalk marks on my street…
Up and down, around, and once again repeat
(Chorus)
Everything’s better ‘til it all gets worse
You think it’s all over, but there’s one more verse
We’re all gonna make it until we’re not
All gotta work with what we haven’t got
Rising and falling as the days roll by
Look out the window to the clear grey sky
Days are numbered for you and me
So let's count these blessings, one two three, as we're
Dancing...
Traveling...
Singing...
Me and my swinging mood
Dancing from the attic to the basement floor
Traveling no further than the day before
Singing to the ceiling in my solitude
Me and my swinging mood…
Me and my swinging mood…
Me and my swinging mood.
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7. |
Love to Meet You There
03:47
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On the stages where we used to play
In the places we were moved to pray
Congregating in the public square
I’d love to meet you there
In the café and the concert hall
Even in that nasty shopping mall
Anywhere we'd gather, I don’t care
I’d love to meet you there
I remember how it used to be
When you were sitting right next to me
I remember I was not so scared
When you and I were there, not here, but there…
Close together on that subway car
Going to work where we all worked too hard
Taking elevators, not the stairs
I’d love to meet you there
Then in lecture halls and libraries
Fine museums and art galleries
We would seek a world more kind and fair
I’d love to meet you there
I remember how it used to feel,
Three dimensional and sweet and real
Nothing special, yet beyond compare
When you and I were there,
not here, but there…there
Yesterday a rocket zoomed to space
Taking people to a different place
Undivided, nothing to declare
I’d love to meet you there
I remember how it used to be
When you were living right next to me
I remember I was not so scared
When you and I were there, not here, but there…
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8. |
Dandelions
02:56
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As far as these dim eyes can see
Stretching out from tree to tree
Blazing under blue-grey skies
Gold that goes unrecognized
When I want to read the signs
I walk the fields of dandelions
The treasures of this life I find
are like a field of dandelions
For they have never steered me wrong
The things I swore did not belong
The things I said did me no good
The lessons long misunderstood
(Chorus)
The children call them wishing weeds
The blossoms dying down to seeds
To scatter in the rising wind
Of all we never could rein in
(Chorus)
The lilies neither toil nor spin
The lilacs they don't lose or win
And roses only stop and stare
Amidst the beauty everywhere
When I want to read the signs
I walk the fields of dandelions
The treasures of this life I find
Are like a field…
When I want to read the signs
I walk the fields of dandelions
The treasures of this life of mine
Are like a field of dandelions
Like a field of dandelions
Like a field…
Music and Lyrics - Lynn Harrison (SOCAN)
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I've been holding it together
I don't want to lose my grip
On what might make me feel better and
Not cause this mask to slip
In the warming of the weather
With my weary woken heart
Holding it together as the world falls apart
I've been holding it together
I've got my brave face on
At the raw end of my tether
Feeling neither safe nor strong
So I need you more than ever
I need love and faith and art...
To hold it all together as the world falls apart.
Hold me, hold me now and
We'll be heading home somehow
In the rising wind, in the falling dark
Holding it together as the world falls apart
Well they say it's now or never
They say it's our last chance
To care for one another
Turn around this circumstance
So I'll meet you at the river
With a brand new course to chart
And I'll love you forever 'til the world falls apart...
(Chorus)
Music and Lyrics - Lynn Harrison (SOCAN)
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Help me, won’t you help me do
The next right thing
Help me put my fingers on
The next bright string
Every day my list grows long
With songs to sing
Help me do the next right thing
Help me put some pieces back
Into their place
I’ve been looking for the ones
That I misplaced
But when I quiet down my mind
And slow my pace
I can put some pieces back in place
What if everyone could do
The next right thing
Like the creatures in the blue
And on the wing
What a change might come around
What brand new spring
Help me do the next right thing
When I do the thing
That brings me close to you
I can find the theme and
I can follow through
It’s an old familiar song
It’s nothing new
The best thing is still
Being here with you
Help me, won’t you help me do
The next right thing
Help me know what step to take
What gift to bring
It might seem like nothing
But it’s everything
Help me do the next right thing
Music and Lyrics - Lynn Harrison (SOCAN)
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11. |
Fine, Not Fine
03:03
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You ask me how I’m doing
and I say “fine, not fine”
Just a little blue and seeking
Some peace of mind
As I’m searching through the ruins
for the reasons and a rhyme
Ask me how I’m doing?
Fine, not fine.
How am I this morning?
Well, I’m well, not well
Another day of mourning’s coming
Far as I can tell
With those madmen across the border
and no safe place to dwell
How am I this morning?
Well, not well.
Yes I'm fine, not fine
Okay, I guess
Trying to find a way
to navigate this blessed mess
Yes I’m fine, not fine…
Considering…
Present circumstances
and the state of everything
As I’m looking in the mirror
and I look good, not good.
Each day it's getting clearer
I've not done all I could
To dismantle all the fences
That built up this neighbourhood…
Lately things have not been looking good
Guess I'm fine not fine
Getting through
Finally realizing
just how much there is to do
Yes I’m fine, not fine…
Considering…
Present circumstances and the
State of everything
(break)
You ask me how I’m feeling
and I say "fine, not fine."
The hurting and the healing
happen to be intertwined
But my life is more worth living
When I hold your hand in mine
So come with me
and we'll be fine not fine…
We'll be fine, not fine…
Okay I guess
Trying to find a way to
Navigate this blessed mess
We'll be fine not fine
Considering…
Present circumstances
and the state of everything…
Present circumstances
and the state of everything.
Music and Lyrics - Lynn Harrison (SOCAN)
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12. |
Good Songs
02:43
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There's a lot of good songs
There's a lot of good songs
There's a lot of good songs there
In the days that go wrong
All the ways we're not strong
In what seems beyond repair
There is something precious
Underneath the wreckage
Wiser ones'll show you where...
There's a lot of good songs
There's a lot of good songs
There's a lot of good songs there
There's a new beginning
After every ending
That's the story I've been told.
When the heart is broken
That's when it breaks open
To become a heart of gold
Even in a place
of trouble and disgrace
I hear a gentle voice declare:
(Chorus)
And there's a lot of space right where you used to be
Above and alongside, around and inside me.
There's a lot of time I'm trying to be strong
and the only way I find to fill it is this song.
There's a lot of sadness
Melancholy, madness,
Many reasons to be scared
There's a lot of worry,
Foolishness and fury
Maybe more than we can bear
But even at the end
I'll listen for the wind
Whistling in the evening air
(Chorus)
Music and Lyrics - Lynn Harrison (SOCAN)
with special thanks to the late Sam Larkin
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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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