A LITTLE TOO FAR


It would ease my mind
To hear you say it just one more time.
Baby, baby, I'm so in love
The clouds should clear
Blue skies suddenly reappear
Baby, baby, fits like a glove

Honey, honey, we've been up all night,
We took it just a little too far.
It doesn't matter who's wrong or right,
We took it just a little too far, Took it just a little too far.

So if you dream of me,
Say, that I acted unfaithfully,
Baby, baby, don't you hold no grudge.
'Cause I'm a one woman man,
I'll come a runnin' just as fast as I can.


(Chorus)
Crime of passion?
I was dreaming the night away
Next to you, baby,
And that's never gonna change,
Unless you can imagine throwing,
Throwing it all away
(Chorus)

SECOND CHANCE


I took a walk to a wishing well,
Brought a jug for the wine,
A tablecloth for the good green earth,
An umbrella for the sky.

A flower child near a cedar grove
Lured me in with her song.
Her calico had a river's flow
As it fell to the ground.

She said, "We may never get a second chance,
These moments of our circumstance
Are more fregile than a spider's web;
Won't you take my hand,
We may not get a second chance,
Get a second chance."

She rises early her fingers are bright,
A shock of red in her hair;
Like the sun is to candlelight
That's her share.

Once we took our eggs to the marketplace,
Spent the day at the fair;
We danced circles in the harvest light,
All that music in the air.

"We may never get a second chance,
These moments are not happenstance;
There's more fire than a burning bed,
Won't you take my hand,
We're not there yet.
We may never get a second chance,
These moments of our circumstance
Are more fragile than a spider's web;
Won't you take my hand,
We may not get a second chance,
Get a second chance."

CAKEWALK


I'm out on a cakewalk
And it sure tastes sweet!
I don't like to make much talk
I process information
On the people I meet,
When I take their hands.

(You better watch out!)

I'm out on a cakewalk,
Won't you come along?
Take your best shot,
Leave your worries at home.
(You better watch out!)

I'm out on a cakewalk
And it sure tastes sweet.
Take your best shot,
Leave your worries to me,
Oh, leave your worries to me.

(You better watch out!)


ECHOKLALIA - instrumental



THE KING WHO KNEW EVERYTHING

There once was a King
Who seemed to know everything.
And so, all the people would bring
Their questions and schemes;
Little children found their wildest dreams
At the foot of the King who knew everything.

So went His reign,
But less and less the same,
For no problem ever made its escape
From his blue-blooded brain.
Imagine His imperial face
When the day finally came
No one needed His Grace.

Before morning broke,
He left the palace alone
And vanished. Since nothing was wrong
No one noticed he'd gone.
To this day the people still carry on.
Hooray, for the King who knows everything!

YOUNG, YOUNG MAN


When I was just a young, young man,
I roamed along the banks of Newfoundland
I'd ride high, swing low,
Everywhere I'd go
When I was just a young, young man.

But 1914 was a winter of little hope,
And though my love said I should fear to go,
We were daring lads, the best of lads,
Drawn from Doting Cove
To the seal hunt ice flows
South of L'anse-aux-Meadows.

(Fortune cast her crooked die,
Two stowaways were found;
Omens ripple deep down in the hole.)

The ice was tight and our
Ship would soon be trapped.
We were never once to
Burn down in the fat;
Near a dozen days locked in wait
And then off to the Stephano
On a dead man's hike across the
Jagged, rafted flows.

By mid-morn mare's tails
Were lashing off our backs,
Sun dogs licked the blood up off the sky...

I said, "Skipper George, we'll rue this more,
More than the great Greenland
When you were just a young and strapping man
I'll have no more, the devil's storm
Is brewing for these pans,"
And I turned my back on those poor, poor lads.

By nightfall the crack and howl
Of the banshee on the sea
Tore at every man who
Turned to the ship with me,
For there were fourscore nevermore
Lost from the Newfoundland
When I was just a young, young man.
I was just a young, young man.


ARABELLA


Primroses, I swear,
Catch the morning sunlight.
Petals reel and break in brilliant hues
The many and the One...

Arabella, please, come to me tomorrow,
Step into my room
With your flashing eyes.
Feel again your strength,
I might shine in your light.

Arabella, please, don't speak to me in silence.
Your laughter is a jewel in the cup of love;
Drinki it to the lees.

Arabella, please, let nothing lie between us.
It's the only chance that I could come undone;
How I'm better in this world for your love.

Arabella, please, come to me tomorrow
And step into my room with your flashing eyes.
Feel again your strength,
I might shine in your light.

Primroses, I swear,
Catch the morning sunlight.

LOVE AND SORROW - instrumental


WHILE THE RIVER'S ROLLING

Wintertime has come and gone,
April's sweeping through the air into June,
When you and I will join as one
The spirit we both share in our lives.

While the river's rolling, mountain's climb,
I will always be by your side.
I will always love you.
'Till the day I die
I will always be by your side.

You're sound asleep in my bed;
I hope I'm in your dreams, you're in mine.
And when you sense my day is winding down
You pull into my arms for the night.

(Chorus)

Your love, your love,
Means more than words can say.
Good night, good night...
I will always love you. 'Till the day I die
I will always be by your side.

Wintertime has come and gone,
April's sweeping through the air.

BOOMERANG

Love is like a boomerang,
Live is like a boomerang,
Gotta, gotta get me one.

When you give love,
Well, it comes right back.
And to watch it fly, come full circle,
Well, now there's nothing more
That you can ask.
If you're any kind of fool
And if your aim is true,
It's coming back to you,
Love's gonna find its way home.

(Chorus)

Turning around, turning
Around, turning aournd...

Now, the first time,
Don't you try too hard.
If there's a next time,
Don't you worry,
Oh, darlin', if you go home
With a broken heart.
'Cause it's more than it seems,
More than the stuff of dreams;
There ain't no fantasy,
Love's gonna find its way home.
All right!

(Chorus)

Turning around, turning
Around, turning around.

TAKE LIFE ADAGIO

Light is pouring through my windowpane again.
And through the night your presence
Keeps the darkness far at bay.
Oh, there are the times I don't believe
What's happening to me is by design,
There's someone watching over me
Who knows everywhere I go

To take life adagio
And walk it 'round.
We won't mind the weather,
We'll just sing our song,
Dance our dance,
Get along.

I hope you find everything your
looking for in me.
What a surprise to think that you've
Been looking for me, too.

(Chorus)


IF YOU KEEP ON TELLING ME LIES

If you keep on telling me lies,
You're gonna wake up one morning
And find yourself all alone.
If you keep on telling me lies,
I'm gonna wake up one morning,
Pack my bags and be gone.

I wouldn't lie to you, I wouldn't lie to you,
Or bring you down
I wouldn't lie to you, I wouldn't lie to you,
Or bring you down

If you keep on telling me lies,
I'm gonna wake up one morning
Pack my bags and be gone.

(Chorus)


If you keep on telling me lies,
I'm gonna wake up one morning,
Pack my bags and be gone.
If you keep on telling me lies,
You're gonna wake up one morning
And find yourself all alone.

GRACE - instrumental


SIMON JAMES


Simon James has killed a man.
His hands are wet with blood.
What silent rain or raging flood
Can wash away the stain?

The paranoia in Simon James is overwhelming,
He's an old man for his age.
The hand of money in the money crowd,
The voice of reason as he shuffles about
In certain postures, in certain clothes
That hide the devils slowly ravaging his soul.
Oh no...

If man's a garden, his soil is poor,
Thorns and thistles are gonna
Greet you at his door.

His machinations have a strange design,
He's filled with fire but he's barely alive,

Oh, no, oh, no...

It seems solutions come
A dime a dozen these days;
It breeds confusion running
Rampant over these days.

YOU DO SOMETHING TO ME

Ever since I met you
I've been hanging on your call,
Imagining your body,
Pinned your picture on my wall.
These daydreams and fantasies...
Well, I don't understand
How the scent of your body
Or the wave of your hand

Can do so much to me.
You do something all right,
You do something to me,
You do something all right.

They tell me you're ambitious,
Oh, so resolute inside,
Queen of all your senses,
I know the moon is in your eye.

But even Dian's a wanderer
And she can't shine alone:
The sun is in my shadow,
Oh, for you my love is gold.

(Chorus)

My love is Desdemona,
April is June;
Moonshot, a fool's imbroglio,
Heart-pounded, reckoned in vermillion,
Darlin', you bring me
To my humble knee...

Destiny of karma,
Say it's written in the stars,
You've been in me forever,
Now I know who you are.
Circle me my angel;
Feel the hand behind the glove
In every endless moment
That you hesitate you love -

(Chorus)

LET'S FIND A WAY

Look all around you,
Hold on to this night, love.
The citadel is shining,
The beacon is bright, love.
You never need walk alone,
Together we'll rise above
To the summit of the mountain,
The crest of the night
If you say, love,
Let's find a way.

Well, our road may be troubled,
Our path may be crossed, love,
With shadows and omens
Forebodding the cost should we fail, love.
But far better to fall
Than to just fear the loss, love.
Come on say, love,
"Let's find a way."

However our days will end,
In the darkness our dream will renew:
To the summit of the mountain,
The crest of the night,
If you say, "Love,
Let's find a way."
Come on say, love,
"Let's find a way."

Imagine the morning
When we wake to find, love,
Our brothers and sisters
Seeking in kind, love.
Encircling the mountainside,
Each day is higher,
Spiraling upward the hope and desire,
Gathering together
As the world is tonight.
Can you hear the ten thousand drums?
On the summit of the mountain,
The crest of the night,
Look all around you,
Hold on to the sight
Of the citadel shining,
The beacon is bright-
Wish it well and the time will come.
Come on say, love,
"Let's find a way."

Look all around you,
Hold on to this night, love...


|HOME |MODABO |NOTHING |SEARCH |CANADIANA |LINKS |AWARD PAGE |

© 1998 Ryan