first time again
Best Movie Ever
First Time Again
Greg H., Gary Straub
After You
Let it Blow
the beginning was the clincher hooked me from the start like my favourite song but better and you gave me a part a little drama and adventure seems to have it all I’m so glad you’re my director and I came to the casting call it’s like the best movie ever this life I live with you I wanna see it last forever like a dream I hope is true because the best movies ever we wish that they won’t end so many scenes that I remember I’d like to see again is it a romance or a thriller? i’m up too close to know we’re just like Scarlett, Kate, or Stiller here in our own show there’s no need to know the ending cause we can’t write how it does every day’s a new beginning i’m gonna watch again because
I saw you again for the first time this morning you glanced from a frame, I passed in the hall the years might have changed me, outside but not in some days time hasn’t changed me at all and you’re still the one, my eyes came to life for and I’m still the one, who just stood at your door there’s nothing so different, as it’s ever been here we are for the first time again around and around, and back here by tonight we can’t get away, can’t let ourselves go what would we see different, in some other light till we’re there, there’s just no need to know
A couple little kids, I asked you on a dare can’t remember what I did, only you and I were there on a bike or from a tree, you might have fallen on your head Who was it going to be, I remember what you said after you let me see what you can do after you if you survive, then I will too that doesn’t look so tough, if you’re strong enough I know that I am too i’ll do whatever you can do, after you was a long long time, till we were face to face again in the ticket line, at the fair out in the rain and getting soaking wet, running for a tent would you remember when? and I hope you did, cause this is what I said when you yelled let’s get in after you this time it’s only fair after you I knew I’d go anywhere did I say too much, or know you long enough? it sure feels like I will follow wherever you go too after you
the wind out of the south is getting stronger different kinds of birds are moving in every night the days keep lasting longer but I know that’s the way it’s always been so let it blow, let the warm wind blow you can’t say winter’s done till it’s all over cause mother natures’ going to have her say I know every day it’s getting closer but I know it’s wrong to wish the time away so let it blow, let the warm wind blow some stick it out and some go south spring can’t come on soon enough up here for all the rest i’m gonna stick it out till I feel the sun there’s more to do than I’ll get done I guess The moon seems to sit there on the river bank I feel the wind come creeping up my sleeve you never know when old man winters’ coming back i’ve never been so glad to see him leave so let it blow, let the warm wind blow Time to let us go, let the warm wind blow
Diamonds
on a night that’s filled with diamonds, they don’t seem so far away they still the time, I feel their shine, more than I can say and while I stand out in the dark, myself but not alone they seem so much brighter, on a night the moon won’t show now the Earth has fell so silent, I can almost feel it turn steady, slow, reflections show, the biggest star still burns white and silver up above, green off the North Pole A light for everyone we love, a star for every soul staring straight up in the night, I almost see a face we know someone, then they’re gone they can never be replaced souls are stars that glow inside our minds like diamonds I don’t know the constellations, I don’t know much at all but an empty moon, will fill up soon I turn to watch one fall a star I might not see again streaks around the sun to have you here with me again i’d wish on every one
To Do List
1935
second street, 1935 33 years before, i came alive a picture of black and gray and white i wonder what it looked like to be here, in 1935 i look at the way it looked back then things still the same but different some folks remember when the highway rolled right through downtown i wish i'd asked more questions when some of them were still around i wonder how it was back then so much has changed since way back when i wonder how it was back then when the old things looked brand new so much left to do second street, 1935 i heard things were hard to come by just to stay alive a picture of black and gray and white i wonder what it looked like, to be here in 1935 a picture is more than meets the eye i wonder what it looked like to be here in 1935
there’s 99 things here on my to do list and I could start another, with the things that I missed I don’t fix what ain’t broke, can’t fix what I do and the fix that I’m in, it just ain’t nothing new i’m still gonna do this, still gonna do that don’t know where to start but right here where I’m at there ain’t nobody doing, what I ain’t getting done so the next thing on my to do lists’ number one there’s a crack in the wall, and a creak in the floor my wife’s at the mall and the wolfs’ at the door but here I am at the counter, just trying to think clicking my pen, to the drip in the sink now the wind keeps a tapping, that branch on the eave and meanwhile, here back at the ranch when I leave The fall and the winter, and the weather won’t wait and you think I’d know better, than to procrastinate still gonna do this, been gonna do that don’t know where to start but right here where I’m at there ain’t nobody doing, what I ain’t getting done so the next thing on my to do lists’ number one yeah, the next thing on my to do lists’ number one
Leave Me Alone
from when i wake until the morning comes there's no question that you are the one and even though it's great to be together, leave me alone some days you'll argue that the sky's not blue there must be something that you need to do absence might make our hearts grow fonder leave me alone and when you get home we'll compare our notes you don't have to tell me everywhere you go later on i know i'll like you better, leave me alone you got a way of seeing things i'll never see and i'm still learning what you want from me and even though it's great to be together, leave me alone it's so good to know i'm yours, and you are mine but you drive me crazy, hanging around here all the time and even though it's great to be together, leave me alone i want you to stay with me forever, but leave me alone i'm not sure what i'll do if you ever, leave me alone
Yellow House
Greg H., Mike Page
there was a yellow house out on the prairie so long ago, not far away where a kind young man his wife and baby made their home, and made their way before the road, before the wires horse and wagon, and a dream struggled through the cold, the droughts and fires then came the year, 1918 when a stranger came, no word no warning unheard unseen, nowhere to run left him there to deal, there alone and mourning no doctor's cure, no struggle won no money only time to mourn boards and nails, from buildings worn no hearse no funeral in town i hear the buggy wheels see him looking down i've read their names, i've dreamed their faces found no trace, of life they knew i've only seen, their resting places their time is gone, their stories too he left this home, so sad and broken and by 22, he'd passed their way are their souls, whose time was stolen left to wander, to this day where the coyotes howl, their mournful way i found their place, one cold November took so long, to find where they lay no sound no sign, i can remember just a shiver, as i walked away to those two souls, i spoke one name
Can't Take it With You
he was sharp and always steady always strong and i'm just a dreamer searching for a song when this morning broke across those river banks what i saw reminds me that i'm only here by chance every plank and every post, and every nail he left them here and left us not to fail what he always said will always still be true you'll never change the weather and you can't take it with you now i'm going through his tools and things he said and i still try to hear those lessons in my head talk and think about him like he's just outside cause what he kept was so much less than what he left behind i see his hands on every gate, and every wire he could not say quit he wouldn't say retire till the end i asked him what he would have done his frame grew weary but the spirit left is strong every plank and every post, every nail he left them here and he left us not to fail what he always said will always still be true you'll never change the weather and you can't take it with you try to leave it better ain't you got something to do we'll try to leave it better and we'll never change your view
Don't Mind if You Do
fly us to France teach me to dance dine and parlez vous hold my hand in Mazatlan i don't mind if you do book us a plane a boat or train from here to Timbuktu let's go to Spain you know i'm game i don't mind if you do and if your plans include a man i'd like to be that guy that's how i feel don't turn a wheel without me by your side if i get home to find you bought new blinds chairs and table too if you take a mind to redesign i don't mind if you do if you jump at the chance to dance with anyone who asks you to before we go if we dance slow i don't mind if you do i'm for it all it's been a ball won't you keep me around especially when you ask me to lay this guitar down so fly us to France teach me to dance dine and Parlez vous work on your tan in Mazatlan i don't mind if you do book us a plane a boat or train from here to Timbuktu let's go to Spain you know i'm game i don't mind if you do