Written, arranged and performed by Lawrence Saklad

(except where noted)


1)  All I Can Do

                                              ©2006 by Lar Saklad

I dragged me back up to the road toward free

And reclaim the lost soul who I set out to be

The wind at my back blowin changes in me

Direction is set far past where my eyes can see


With faith ever strong, the calling is true

To tell me I'm wrong is like the sky isn't blue

Either trust me or not, why try to convince you

I am whole and I'm sure this is what I must do

It's all I can do, all I can do


I know where I've been, some you'd never believe

Every moment, joy and pain, I wear on my sleeve

I am not proud, not ashamed, not decieved

No time to waste, I will not grieve

It's all I can do, all I can do


There'll be time again for our company

And I'm not alone, He's always with me

I listen to everyone, whole heartedly

Know how much you care, and the worry I'm so sorry

But it's all I can do, all I can do


2)  B-E-A-Utiful

                                           ©2006 by Lar Saklad

I cry so easily when I feel this so deeply

So lookin' to freein' me I know gettin' close to my destiny


And it blows me away Ain't it be-a-utiful today

wishing well on your way B-E-A-Utiful


I laugh so instantly like a little kid all full of glee

Come on now everybody laughin' together oh so happy

And it blows me away�


I love so totally drink avery last drop of your seven seas

I believe in you completely and caution ain't in my vocabulary

And it blows me away...


I walk this earth humbly and I don't dwell on who I be

I appreciate all the beauty and all I can give - I give you me

And it blows me away...


3)  Born of Love

                                               ©2006 by Lar Saklad

You were born of love

When two become one is what you're made of

whispering your name

it's one and the same, that eternal flame


Oh my baby, do you know what I see

A million pictures, the stars in your galaxy

All in a moment, what a beautiful lady

How could I be that lucky to be your daddy


You were born of love

My angel rising with the sun, surely blessed from above

Always in my heart

Holding a miracle right from the start,

nothing could ever pull us apart


Oh my daughter dear, our songs still ringing in my ear

Laughing together, a goodnight kiss to dream without fear

And I was your rock, counting on me to be there

to comfort every tear year after year

You were born of love

Have I done enough, with the world  being so rough

Now with all we've learned

Keep letting Love's fires burn, circle of life has already turned


We're gathered here today, I proudly offer your hand away

United, now all one family believe your love is here to stay

Excited, the future is calling, now together you'll find your way

I bow my head to pray for both of you, come what may

You were born of love

It's the one thing I'm sure of and that is enough

He must have realized

something so special inside so let love be your guide


And now I know, I'm not really letting go

All those times when I let you down and worried everybody so

You found me on the wrong side of town, you helped me to come around

Nobody else was getting through, thank God for you

and I'm back too


You were born of love

I can't say it enough, It's what you're made of


Always my baby, you mean so much to me

A million and one pictures, now two stars we all can see

and in this moment such a wonderful he and she

How could I be that lucky to be both your Daddy


4)  Christmas On The Block

                               ©1984 by Alan Mann

                                              Tom Basmajian- drums, engineer

                                  recorded 1992 at AIPH

There's a streetlight that sits above the night

And it shines it's gray light on the midnight air

And the houses twinkle on the block

But there's one house that shines a special way out there


It's Christmas in the city and the trees are lighted pretty

But the prettiest Christmas tree of all

They can see all the colors that we can not

And theirs is the most beautiful Christmas on the block


Though they cannot see the light of day

And their night is forever the fact still remains

In this world of confusion there is peace

There is hope in despair sometimes the beauty is a beast


They cannot see the lightning and they cannot see the thunder

But they know what no one understands

The beauty is a blessing love is all we got

And theirs is the most beautiful Christmas on the block


In the darkest corner of the night

Only dreams illuminate their eyes

They can see all the colors that we can not

And theirs is the most beautiful Christmas on the block


They cannot see the lightning ...

Christmas on the block


5)  Circus Child

                                                    ©2006 by Lar Saklad

                                           lyrics- Jan Saklad

Flashing neon signs, strung taught against my spine

Glittering hungry and wet, tents drip with tears unwept

Faces peer through sullen cages, crazy men on shallow stages

flaunting black, echoes loud, mocking laughter from the crowd


Circus child, lost in clouds of people

laughing ,screaming loud

seeking the known disciple


Hazy red smiles, learning the way of innocent child

Seeping slowly through the smoke, dissolves the mask of older folk

Programmed clowns beg denial, no name for the circus child

Circus child...

    seeking the known disciple


Acrobats challenge their Lords, fire eaters douse their swords

Ringmasters lash out their whips, scarring words on human lips

Animals run in fury escaping chains of their lost history

Escaping chains like the circus child, like the circus child

Circus child...


Flashing neon signs, strung taught against my spine

Glittering hungry and wet, tents drip with tears unwept

Faces peer through sullen cages, crazy men on shallow stages

flaunting black, echoes loud, mocking laughter from the crowd

Circus child�


6) Fill My Sails     

                                              ©2006 by Lar Saklad

Once as a boy, made paper airplanes to fly

and somebody showed me this new design could go so far and high

Coming home on the bus, I folded up a new one to try

Jumped off and launched it up, up to the sky and clear out of sight


Inspiration awaken, fill my sails with your wind

Each moment a perfect creation, feels like new life about to begin


And When I was thirteen, I think it was a Jim Morrison song

We got lost on the improvisation, My notes were twisted, I was all gone


Inspiration awaken, fill my sails with your wind

Gettin better in tune with vibration, and this little kid grin within


Inspiration awaken, fill my sails with your wind

Climbin to a higher elevation, so familiar where it's always been

Take me to my true destination


Twice when I was grown, I faced death eye to eye

But he told me turn around son, it's not your time to die

Left me with this thought, something meant for me to still try


Inspiration awaken, fill my sails with your wind

Each moment a perfect creation, feels like new life about to begin

Gettin better in tune with vibration, and this little kid grin within


Now all these years later, family grown, in a dead-end job

Tossed around and about, my compass spinning like a top

Only one way to find direction, connection to where there is no start and no stop


Inspiration awaken, fill my sails with your wind

Gettin better in tune with vibration, and this little kid grin within

Take me to my true destination, the communication of co-operation

Once again and again and again


7) Forgiveness

                                            ©2006 by Lar Saklad

All I ever wanted was your happiness

gladly giving you my all we found this bliss

Always believed our dreams were possible

Then the in betweens and now am I able


Forgiveness, I know

Just follow your heart

Forgiveness, was this the gift,

the lesson from the start


This road we're driving is a two way street

Leaving and arriving and on time we meet

Traveling together letting the love grow

We can make it better, can we come to know


Forgiveness...


Going round and round this rotary

getting all green lights and then I get to me

Looking in the mirror with high regard

Summon all my strength, why is it so hard


Forgiveness�


8)  Giving

                                                      ©2006 by Lar Saklad

All my life I was waiting for someone

To help me feel natural and good

So I went about my business and play

The way they all said I should

But I was lost in the confusion forgetting who I am

Then you appeared the solution, made me a man


Giving, I give my heart to you

Dreaming, I give my dreams to you

Living, I give my life to you

And all I ask is we keep it true


The other day going through some things

I found a card you gave to me

Though our sights were set maybe a bit to high

We dared them with blind naivety

And in those words that held such meaning and open truth

Relived each feeling on that evening of our youth

Giving�


And that summer we packed our things

Together we hit the open road

Played the circuit, the fate of those that sing

Daring anyone to carry our load

All those who said we couldn't do it, so much resistance

After 90,000 miles we got through it, that's persistence

Giving, ...


Giving�

...and all I ask, and all I pray

And all I ever wanted any day was you

I give my heart to you...

Giving�


9)  Here We Are

                                                   ©2006 By Lar Saklad

And here we are, guess it only took us just this far

And who we are, surely healing all the open scars

And where we go, only know I gotta take it slow

I've been so low, hesitate at what the future holds

what the future holds


Got to be a way to carry on

this night has been so long before the dawn

for all that's lost, for all there's nothing won

the chance to look back see where we came from

One and only won, two have come undone

And here we are...


When I wake up in the restless night

confused and bruised and fumbling for a light

face to face with every ghost in sight

So real the dream and maybe nothing's right

How to make it right, how to feel alright

And here we are�


Out my window look tonight's so still

Who can I call need to be hugged until

the new sunrise with a stronger will

a chance to shine and to be fulfilled

need to be fulfilled, need to be fulfilled

And here we are...

what the future holds


1) Invincible

                                              ©2006 by Lar Saklad

An undying dream and a love of the sport

A little bit of moxie and a whole lot of heart

A chance drivin' this team that needs a jumpstart

On the road so rocky you ignite that spark

toward Invincible

Almost Invincible

Make us believe Invincible


With all of the heartache in the world every day

To cheer on a hero is way more than O.K.

Replenish out faith when hope's in disarray

And dreams of tomorrow will pave our way

toward Invincible

Almost Invincible

Make us believe Invincible

And he's real people, just like you and me

That Vince Papale, get some respect for Philly


An undying dream...

...toward Invincible

Almost Invincible

Make us believe Invincible

And he's real people, just like you and me

That Vince Papale, a little respect for Philly

Invincible


11)  Keep Asking Why

                                                  ©2006  by Lar Saklad

I'm just a guy keeps asking why

No matter how I try to let it go by

Till the day I die with my last sigh

It'll read "Here I Lie, Kept Asking Why..."


I look to the sky, see all our spirits fly

And I hear us cry, keep asking why

I get no reply, look far and wide

Look low and high, look me in the eye

I'm just a guy keeps asking why

Umm  my oh my, keep asking why

Keep asking why�


12)  Last Harvest

                                           ©2006 by Lar Saklad

Don't try to tame the changing of seasons

Quick lay your claim before the land's barren and freezin


Capture a seed of hope and bury it deep

There'll be times when the well runs dry, the hill seems too steep

There on the sun-cracked slope, alone in the stone

Blooms a flower where all else would die, but she calls it home

Don't try to tame�


We mold our world out of clay, what will tomorrow's headlines say?

Nature goes astray, man and machine carve her away


Gather your rays of sun, to light up your soul,

There's dark caverns with no end in sight, fear grabs a hold

As you gasp for each breath remember the shrine

Inside flowing with eternal strength, you come out just fine

Don't try to tame�


We mold our world out of clay...

Automation's satellites at play, the last harvest nearer every day

last harvest nearer every day


Don't try to tame the changing of seasons...


13)  Lately Girl

                                            ©2006 by Lar Saklad

Sometimes it seems like I been lookin for trouble

Sometimes it seems turn my back on my dreams

and sometimes it seems my eyes see the world double


but lately I just haven't the time

'cause lately girl You been on my mind


Sometimes it feels I been walkin with danger

Sometimes it feels like I'd lie, cheat or steal

and sometimes it feels in the mirror's this stranger


but lately he's  been harder to find

'cause lately girl You been on my mind

lately girl You been on my mind

'cause lately girl You been on my mind

girl You been on my mind


Sometimes in haste I betray my emotions

Sometimes in haste sorta sidetrack the chase

and sometimes in haste I ignore love's erosion


but lately leaving all that behind

'cause lately girl You been on my mind

lately girl You been on my mind

'cause lately girl You been on my mind

girl You been on my mind


14)  Life's Been

                                          ©2006 by Lar Saklad

My stereo's broke, my car it just croaked

I can't take a toke on no smoke, I'm flat broke

And the only thing left in my life is my love

But even you ain't with me, far across the sea


Well, life's been pushing me around

A little too much

I think it's high time

I gave life a push, gave life a push


I been sent to school, it's almost the rule

They give you the tools for the jewels I'm a fool

And with one foot out the door, so easy to leave

But everybody paid good money, so go head educate me

Well, life's been...


My boss let me go, the business was slow

Us part timers know we're the lowest on the totem pole

Now the only thing left in my heart is a song

So in the streets when you see me, toss a nickel and sing along


Well, life's been pushing us around

A little too much

I think it's high time

we gave life a push, gave life a push

C'mon and give life a push

Well, life's been��Just a little push


15)  Lost My Way

                                                 ©2006 By Lar Saklad

Every day I pray and pray I haven't lost my way


I failed you, you failed me

that's one thing we agree

don't ask why, I cry and cry

can't change reality

I run around, act like a clown

a butterfly carefree

in leaps and bounds, just don't look down

then there's no misery

and every day I pray and pray I haven't lost my way


I'm looking for and open door

walked by any times before

now so confused which one to choose

no delay and can't ignore

It seems brand new, a different hue

this time means so much more

I'm just not sure and there's no cure

and no one's keeping score

and every day I pray and pray I haven't lost my way


I need you, you need me

to admit it finally

That's true friends, it never ends

no shroud of mystery

The only sin trying to win

control is slavery

Break outta the chains, let go the reigns

You'll never feel more free

and every day I pray and pray I haven't lost my way


16)  Lullaby

                                           ©2006 by Lar Saklad

Star of perception drifting

From candle light to music flight

And back to your warmth so close tonight


Ponder direction lifting

In spiral thought our live are caught

Enwrapped in this web we both have sought


And sleep is beckoning

Her peaceful angels sing

Our cupid's arrows bring sweet dreams


17)  My Manns-n-me

                                          ©2006 By Lar Saklad

If I would pray a thousand times a day

would it make any difference, with you, for you

Just one more time, hear me once again

seems I just learned what it means true friend would you,

will you and what can I do

Need just a little more time playing this tune


If I would sing all summer, fall, winter and spring

would it make any difference, with you, for you

pull out all the stops, live and breath rolling this rock

would you slow the hands on this grand cuckoo clock,

what's the fee

for more than memories, Lord let it be

Havin such a special time, havin such a special time

My Manns-n-me, with my Manns-n-me


Been talkin 'bout the past, present and Yet2B

Been walkin in an everlasting reverie

Been laughing havin such a blast

My Manns-n-me, with my Manns-n-me


In vivid recall, blasting the local music show

When Street Beat stalled, Cindi broke onto the radio

Oh my God, no,  sad news I just been told

I had to pull over the side of the road

The lump in my throat about to explode

I just saw you, we made more plans too

Suddenly I flew, blind, out of my mind

But I couldn't find you, no I wouldn't find you


If I would pray a thousand times a day

would it make any difference, with you, for you

Just one more time, hear me once again

seems I just learned what it means true friend

Been talkin ...

My Manns-n-me, with my Manns-n-me

Can I get an Amen for my Manns-n-me


18)  Natural Rhythms

                                        © 2006  by Lar Saklad,

                                        lyrics- Jan & Lar Saklad

Touching mirrors upon silken shields

Chariots race through those stained glass fields

Crystal teardrops wept from the sky

Forsaken slaves born to cry

Stay here and we'll listen

Together we can feel those

Natural rhythms


Watercolors capsized in peace

Bewilderment echoes in man and beast

Overturned in nature's woven creation

Rainbows designed in kismet sensation

So stay here and we'll listen

Together we can see those

Natural rhythms


Listen to the scholars of hidden stars

Melodies sung voiced through outer mars

Wandering the mission of a distant plight

Whispering through measures of a velvet flight

So stay here and we'll listen

Together we can hear those

Natural rhythms


Mountain breeze dust swept the floor of valleys

Staring upwards wall of seagull pleas

Sonnets climaxed through caverns of pantomime

Varnished moments of natural time

Natural rhythms

   

19)  New Love

                                           ©2006 by Lar Saklad

We always lived our life one eye on our dreams

Transforming  dreams into our realities

We laughed and cried shared the years side by side

Only to find that now my love is denied

A restless man strikes blind in all directions

One burning thought in mind, hold on to this connection

The endless questions and vacant suggestions

You turn away again a polite rejection


How can that new love compare to true love

How can that high love fly above my love?


I'm not myself these days don't know who that is

Hearts 'pon the shelf delays realizing the myths

I can't forget and I'm loosing this bet

With all regrets I walk into the sunset alone

How can that new love�


20) No

                                        ©2006 by Lar Saklad

No, I'm not gonna cry, No, not gonna let the tears well up inside

No, cause I'm a happy guy, No, so many much worse off than I

No, I'm not felling sad, No, not anything gonna make me mad,

No, yesterday I was so glad, No, looking back on all that I had,

No, no, no.


Watch in horror this evening news,

the few will win when so many loose

Just keep repeating "it's ours to choose"

but it's all of us being abused

No, I'm not gonna cry�


Like a moth drawn to the fire, sacrifice our souls for this empire

And who plays God with the world entire

Our blind support of their power acquired

No, I'm not feelin sad�


We watched when protest didn't work,

the weak up rise and they get hurt, so hurt

all the tears been cried for what it's worth

But our poor children inherit this earth


No, I'm not gonna cry...No, looking back on all that I had,

No, no, no.


21)  North Star

                                             ©2006 by Lar Saklad

The North Star beckoned and at last I joined him

I ventured out unto his own frontier

And met him face to face on the ice mountain

And learned survival as a pioneer

But in the night I'd lie awake and wonder

Where is this someone who'd want this life shared


Another deepfreeze bitter lonely winter

I've grown accustomed to the longest night

Planted each step and climbed into the future

Awaiting spring's first virginal sunlight

Suddenly everything's a whole new picture

And diamonds sparkle everywhere in sight


'cause every time I'm with you dear

Everything is crystal clear

And any time and anywhere

Know how much you care


Let's walk out hand in hand into the morning

Along this winding road of destiny

Your thirsty eyes with curiosity sings

The countless ways you can puzzle me

Now in the night I dream a thousand faces

Of all the people we are yet to be


'cause every time�

'cause every time...

...You answer my prayer, oh�


22)  Pretending It's Alright

                                                  ©2006 by Lar Saklad

Been pushing so hard with all your might

Your goals so clear in sight

Now you're feeling all set for a fight

Just pretending it's alright

Another day turns into night

Standing tall the man ignores his child fright

Don't ask questions about your life

Got now answers no solution no light


All the goodness you been tryin to do

All the talk convincing me and you

All the faith and the tried and true

Well right now feel you haven't got a clue

Once you realize nothing is fair

All you wanna do is share and share

Then you look and your cupboard is bare

And swear up and down "I don't care

It's a beautiful world everywhere"


Yeh, right� not quite

It's hell down here a'ight

And now you're laghin in spite

The round table's dead, brave knight


So give it up, what it is is not

I don't give a shit what you got

Seen the four corners of this earth

They been lyin to us since birth

So fuck it you don't wanna fight

But no more pretendin it's alright

May as well laugh and dance into the night

Yeh, lets laugh and dance all night


23)  Receptivity

                                             ©2006 by Lar Saklad

Trying so hard to always make you laugh

But you flash me that smile lingers like a photograph

All my life aiming at front row seats

But now the surprise, it's the little treats


That come knockin' on my door

Why ask for anything more

And what I'm living for

Receptivity


Out lookin' for love, just feeling more alone

Kept finding a one way ticket right back home

But walkin' thinking' 'bout a song, you come along

I was going about it all wrong

You come knockin' on my door

Who's asking for anyone more

Just who I've been looking for

Receptivity


Pushing so hard to find my way

But now treat it like the sunrise each day

And finding amazement even in the gray

Got the welcome mat out and come what may


Knock knockin' on my door

A mouse or a lion roar

Feels right, right to the core

Receptivity


24)  She Is Not

                                               ©2006 by Lar Saklad

She is not here now to light the way

I thought forever was what we say

And all the time, everything we grew

Do we begin again or is it through

Where are you, how are you


I was mistaken, dreams are what I know

But when I awaken have to let go

She is not sure just how to proceed

To look inside her eyes, see our two hearts bleed

What do you need, who do you need


Each restless night the dream's the same

You reach to comfort my fright but I can't say your name

Some day she's coming home, says that that's for sure

But when the mind is willing, will the heart be pure

So what's the cure, gotta find the cure


If you see me walking out on the street

And you keep watching till our eyes meet

Don't ask me how I am, I'll say things are great

I still have some pride isn't the hour getting late

I just can't wait, can't leave it up to fate

She is not here now,  she is not here now


25)  So You Say

                                                   ©2006 by Lar Saklad

So you say you're from LA

Well tell me now what can you play

We've jammed here the whole night away

You're lost in notes wandered astray

And so I ask what can you play

As my strings bless the newborn day


So you say you're from the west

Well tell me now which music's best

Your strumming chords that show much less

The music you've put to the test

And so I ask which music's best

But still your notes ring like the rest


So you say your six string friend

Has journeyed with your every bend

And tread roads hard to comprehend

While traveling to Long Island's end

And so I ask what's the new trend

My fingers answering just make pretend


So you say you're from LA

Well tell me now what can you play

We've jammed here centuries away

And wasted tunes of poor display

And still I ask what can you play

And still no answer with the day...


27)  The Kids Just Want to Rock & Roll

                                                 ©1978 By Alan Mann

So you start out young and restless and unsure of some things

Unacquainted with the life your success would bring

The house that calls, the girls and more the nights  the fame


Well you start with a spark and it grows to a flame

You better watch that fire don't let it close you in

You don't do it for the money cause you got a lot to say you say


When the house opens up and those fingers catch the light

of the spark that separates us from the night

You best forget your pretensions because

the kids just want to rock and roll tonight


There's a hundred cigarettes that are half burned down

Left by the opening act that's on the stage right now

And I just sit and watch the lines of people from the window

of my dressing room

And there's a pretty girl, I could never approach

With a couple of guys that just flew in from the coast

And they're waiting to get inside looking so good for you


There's a young boy and he's standing in the street

He's tappin his toe and he's singin real sweet

The words to a song that I swear I used to know

But when the house opens up ...


So you take the late nights and the early appointments

The emotions and promotions and you make your choices

'cause the show is everything and everything is the show

Soon you forget about the night before

And the faces in the crowd and the man at the door

But there's still this scene that you can't get out of your head


There's a young boy and he's standing in the street...

When the house opens ...

For tonight, yeh tonight


28) The Voice

                                               ©2006 by Lar Saklad

How can I be the voice rising free when it's last in priority

I shrivel inside with all other worlds denied

the springboard of new reality

But I feel like a louse I'm not one to complain

Do right by my spouse and our family name

But I need to feel the surge the driving creative urge

and I will not be contained, to define me drives me insane

to be a better student, to be a better teacher

to be a better seeker, to be a better leader

to be a better listener, to be better speaker

to be a better healer, to be a better student


the highest flight's the lightest

and weightlessness surely frightens us

but the twinkle of the stars are brightest

got to forge ahead to what excites us most


If this doesn't get right I throw the towel in on this fight

It's high time to go to where it's light

Now with me burning bright, no fog to blur my sight

Never again to wrestle down my fright


When there's only good and better there's never stormy weather

no need to know the forecast

with no worries of the future or the past

To be a better student...

How can I be  ...

Yeh, I need to feel the surge...


29)  This Day Forth

                                              ©2006 by Lar Saklad

From this day forth,

gonna make a difference in my world

From this day forth,

one life purpose worth givin' back to my world

From this day forth


I only take what's freely given,

and stealin to me just can't be livin

and I don't mind raisin my standards,

I'm so tired of bein tired of bein branded

From this day forth...


And givin me crap, what's up with that

I haven't been bad and I don't talk back

and givin me shit, what's up with it

All your life carry that chip on your shoulder

make you sick, just doesn't fit

I'm done with it, I have no regrets


So I got therapy in the hood for a great price

Insanity works really good amongst men and mice

Anxiety from nine-to-fivety, went lookin for advice

'cause all those who I held dearest kept takin their slice

outta' me, can you feel me, It's so time to be free


From this day forth...  this day forth, umm


30)  This Question

                                                  ©2006 by Lar Saklad

I've Been asking this question since so long ago

and the answer's been here ever since I met you

Now I've been so busy and I've been so blind

and kept getting further from what i needed to find


Amused by the shadows of the alley way

aroused by the spirits not the light of day

the thrill of stalking danger, getting play, getting game

that illusive answer kept escaping once again


I've been looking in places that I used to fear

in all the strange faces respect was something to wear

well maybe a part of me was found out there

but what I was asking lead me right back to here


I'm surely not worthy, nothing's been fair

I'm so undeserving and not worth your care

but if you would listen I'm now so aware

and I'd never take you for granted again, hear my prayer

Lord hear my prayer

I've been asking this question since so long ago


31)  What Do I Want?

                                                  ©2006  by Lar Saklad

What do I want, do I have a real choice

Both blessing and curse go along with a voice

I know my way but don't ask me twice

I'd much rather stay with you so warm and nice


What do I want, will it bring happiness

And why must it only be that or this

I've worked my whole life on sharing my soul

as I reach for the light time is taking it's toll

So what do i want, what do i want


What do I want something doesn't feel right

don't think it's the shadows playing tricks tonight

with too many questions or a lack of insight

Too late to surrender and give up this fight

So what do I want, yeh what do I want

What do I want


What do I want asked the wise old sage

Thought it was freedom but could be a cage

And you know that bird who had broken her wing

Might never again be able to sing


What do I want, do I have a real choice...


32)  Why America

                                                     ©2006 by Lar Saklad

                                                  lyrics- Jan Saklad

We're proud yet so unsure friend

On streets of this free homeland

Her kids are told the dangers of them

Young hearts entrusting fate to spare them

Brave minds are forced to understand then


Please teach us how to protect them

Our tears have gone unseen then

Our fears so real, we all ask why now

  Why America must cry now

  Why America must try now


Print black and white reminding us of

Famous faces share the truth of

Our darkest dreams relived each time now

  Why America must cry now

  Why America must try now


Tug of war rips through our souls

Hold them close and let them go

We, America can not ignore this

The future lives in hope, restore us

Keep our children free before us


Please teach us how to protect them...


33)  With You

                                               ©2006  by Lar Saklad

All the love that I feel, you're not sure if it's real

I don't know how to deal with you

And your lover at home seems to make your mind roam

Then I feel so alone without you


And I'm so mixed up inside my mind

Like the things that you say make me think you're my kind

And back home I too have a love left behind


All the love that I've sought seems it's only half bought

Though it's great how I talk with you

But you shatter like glass thinkin' back on the past

Then I feel so outcast without you

And I'm so mixed up inside my mind...


Now you've just come and said, it's not love in your head

Just good friends instead, me and you


Well I guess I'll have to let my first glance love slip

And welcome you with open arms in just a close friendship


34)  Would Have Been

                                                  ©2006 by Lar Saklad

It would have been enough

to see your smile each day

Always a different way like each snowflake I see

Just knowing how much you care about this love we share

With it's bold honesty

It would have been enough

how you've made this house our home

Where our emotions freely roam yes a garden fresh to grow

Holding you each night in my arms

Waking each morning to your charms

And our dreams eternal flow


It would have been enough to feel this special love

It would have been enough


It would have been enough sipping wine by candlelight

Hear our poetry sparkle through the night

Each a gift of imageries

When we vowed a life side by side

Knowing it wouldn't always be a downhill slide

Now so strong in memories

It would have been enough

Each time we realize how lucky we are

When so many others are so far from those who they embrace

It would have been enough the moment our child was conceived

How totally we both believe in the future yet to face


It would have been enough for me to feel this special love

It would have been enough


In the hours when we're apart

My mind and heart are still with you

In these moments when my boredom grows so strong

I've waited so long missing you I do, I do


It would have been, it would have been

It would have been enough for me to feel this special love

Each moment's been enough for me to sing about our love


It would have been, it could have been

Each day has been, each hour has been

each second's been, each moment's been

Each instant's been, each kiss�

...has been enough


35)  Yet2B

                                            ©2006 By Lar Saklad

Open our eyes to the greatest surprise

with amazing surprise all the lows turn to highs

Open our hearts, it's like we've known from the start

finally the tears can depart 'cause even the shadows aren't dark

Isolation won't bury me

Got to get out, grab my life and start on the Yet2B

Isolation can't bury me

As I get out, grab this life and start on the Yet2B,

start on the Yet2B


Open our ears, they've been closed all these years

the song reappears, together chase away the fears

and Open our arms without sounding the alarms

Embrace each other's charms, beyond the illusion surely warms

Isolation won't bury me...


Past the intricate chaos of this world

Stands a simple boy and simple girl

Let's start on the Yet2B, the Yet2B


Bio

     Yet2B is the original song project of Larry Saklad, a former member of Alan Mann & the Free Arts Band and David Rowan & Exisdance on keyboards; both bands received widespread airplay and acclaim with live broadcasts.  He began playing piano at age 6 and performed Carnegie Hall at 10.  By 13 Larry was hooked on Rock, songwriting and jamming in Philly local bands to the Doors, the Who, Cream, Beatles and Stones, CSNY and Iron Butterfly.  Guitar became a second instrument and inspired a greater command of original songwriting.  By his HS graduation he had 2 songs aired on radio. In 1992 with the help of Tom Basmajian he recorded Alan Mann's Christmas on the Block which was played on WMMR by Cyndy Drue for Street Beat 2 years.  He has also played with Robert Hazard and Essra Mohawk but now is devoted to Yet2B and his unique talent as singer/songwriter.  Recording round the clock this past year with 35 finished tracks, Lar is performing live solo as he assembles and rehearses a new band.  He first premiered 3 songs at the World Cafe Live on April 16 for the 2nd Annual Alan Mann Tribute to great reception. He's been performing regularly since April at WCL, Fergies, Lickety Split, The Fire, Kaffa Crossing, The Rotunda, The Dive, 5th St. Coffee, Club 218, Abilene's, Azure, Milkboy Coffee, Indie Music Conf, more...

     Look for this truly talented artist to emerge this year.

    You write with a feeling and honesty that is refreshing...and also express a gentleness and positive thought, at the same time letting listeners know you have been around the block.  And I don't get the sad story, woe is me...that seem ever so popular.  [With] determination and heart, you are an inspiration to every musician out there. - Elizabeth Crowley 5-7-06

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