Pangaea (Pan-Jay'-Uh): A vast continental area or supercontinent comprising all of the continental crust of the earth which is postulated to have existed in last Palaeozoic or Mesozoic times before breaking up into Gondwananland and Laurasia . . . (from the back cover of Pangaea)

1. All Our Lives
2. Anyway
3. Whenever Time Will Come
4. Nelson
5. Bang Bang
6. I'm A Givin' Way
7. Hey That's No Way To Say Goodbye
8. If You Leave Me (Now)
9. Less is More
10. This Place I Love
11. In a Heartbeat
12. Take a Ride
13. Voices
14. I Know
- Liner Notes -

“All Our Lives”

A raggedy house a comfy couch, a window made of glass
A calico cat a Frigidair, a lawn that’s full of grass
A mantel place a chandelier on a 8 by 20 deck
A boss that lies, a kid that cries and then a weekly check

A minute a minute a minute a minute a second an hour
Are made of these
Life a life a life a life forever and ever are
Made of these

A pitiful cry an alibi a world that’s gone awry
A dwindling brook a banished book a pray to the sky
A weakening stance a short romance a wealth of partial truth
Aspiring judge who fails to budge rejoices -- skin of tooth

A fellow a fellow a fellow a fellow a fellow a fellow
Is made of these
A women a women a women a women a women a women
Is made of these

All our lives
All our lives

A capital gain a tired refrain -- recalling sunken ships
Bringing to mind an invitation -- reading loosened lips
A stumble a fall a basketball -- a momentary laps
A magical man who think he can and mightn’t he perhaps?

A leader a leader a leader a leader a leader a follower
Is made of these
A city a city a city a nation a nation
Is made of these

“Anyway”

Saturday’s the last I saw of what I got on Friday
And tomorrow I will crawl on back and stand in line
If I can I’ll borrow some to make it through a while
Hand me down and run me ‘round until I’m back again
All the livelong day -- anyway

So you say a few of us will not be coming back
Who among you will not mind and who is looking slack
Did I hear an angry word from one of you sometime
Did you know the gravy train can stop upon a dime
All the livelong day -- anyway

Yauxdel

When I find my hat I’m gone away . . . anyway

Trick down until the rain had finally reached my shoes
Would that I could play guitar and this could be my dues
Thought about that little engine -- tried to say I can
I’m so broke I cannot pay attention to the man

“Whenever Time Will Come”

There’ll be peace for the strong
Peace for the suffering
peace for the least among us
Peace for the poor and peace for the weakest
Peace for the stranger to us

I don’t know whenever time will come when there’ll
be peace for me and you
I don’t know whenever time will come when there’ll
be peace for me and you

They’ll be care for the hungry -- car for the cold
Power to the few
Care for the sick and care for the smallest
Care for the oldest too

I don’t know whenever time will come when there’ll
be care for me and you
I don’t know whenever time will come when there’ll
be care for me and you
Over and over time going over time and time again
Springing forward falling backwards time and time again
Over and over time going over time and time again
Springing forward falling backward time and time again

There’ll be hope for the lost and hope for the found
Hope for the weary too
Hope for the land and hope for the air
Hope for the water too

I don’t know whenever time will come when there’ll
be hope for me and you
I don’t know whenever time will come when there’ll
be hope for me and you

There’ll be love for the people love for the animals
Love for the loving too
Love for the life that brings us together
Ever kind of hue
I don’t know whenever time will come when there’ll
be love for me and you
I don’t know whenever time will come when there’ll
be love for me and you

There will be peace
There will be care
There will be hope
There will be love

“Nelson”

Nelson is back home again
Nelson is back home again
But that’s not enough
That’s not enough
Nelson’s back home again

(Hey Hey Mandela)

The Berlin Wall come a tumblin’ down
The Berlin Wall come a tumblin’ down
But that’s not enough
That’s not enough
The Berlin Wall come a tumblin’ down

(Hey hey one Germany)

Sixty-three cents to every man’s dollar
Sixty-three cents to every man’s dollar
That’s not enough
That’s not enough
Sixty-three cents to every man’s dollar

(Hey hey my fair share)

Peace on Earth every day
Equality for every one in every way
That’ll be enough
That’ll be enough
Peace on Earth every day

“Bang Bang”

I got you last -- you missed me
Then we ran and climbed a tree
You said you’d always like me
Longer than eternity

We walked backward ‘til we fell
Ran for buses -- made the last bell
Took our bows and gave our thanks
Then we fell into the ranks

Bang Bang Bang Diddle Dee Dee Bang Bang Bang

Winter come and winter went
How is the hour of our discontent
Off we go comrades in arms
Dared not guess we’d come to such harm

I cradled your head to my chest
Cried to Jesus (please) hear my request
I cannot go back alone
I promised we’d both come back home

I will keep you running
I will take you back home (all the way)
Ran so fast I did not ask
Why anyway

“I’m a Givin’ Way”

I’m a window -- I’m a crutch and I’m a living wage
I’m a coat and I’m a glove and I’m a turning page
I’m a sea wall rising up just to keep your houses dry
But I’m a givin’ way -- oh -- I’m a givin’ way

I’m the lowered eye -- that allows all arrogance to thrive
I’m the point of light -- that excuses all indifference
I’m the cold wind blowin’ hard -- and the shelter warm as well

But I’m a giving way -- oh -- I’m a givin’ way
But I’m a giving way -- oh -- I’m a givin’ way

I’m the only shade -- in a thousand miles of sun
I’m the one left standing up when the battle is won
I’m the cry that reached your ears - just before the deed was done

But I’m a giving way -- oh -- I’m a givin’ way
But I’m a giving way -- oh -- I’m a givin’ way

I’m a givin’ way

"Hey That's No Way to Say Goodbye"

NOTE: The lyrics for this song were not included in the "Pangaea" booklet.

I loved you in the morning
Our kisses deep and warm
Your hair upon the pillow
Like a sleeping golden storm

Many loved before us
I know we're not new
But in city and forest
They love like me and you

Now it's come to distances
And both of us might try
Your eyes fill with sorrow
Hey, that's no way to say good bye

I'm not looking for another
As I wander in my town
Walk me to the corner
Our steps will always rhyme

I know my love goes with you
As your love stays with me
It's just the way life changes
Like the shoreline of the sea

Let's not talk of love or change
Or things we can't untie
Your eyes fill with sorrow
Hey, that's no way to say good bye

I'm not looking for another
As I wander in my town
Walk me to the corner
Our steps will always rhyme

I know my love goes with you
As your love stays with me
It's just the way life changes
Like the shoreline of the sea

Let's not talk of love or change
Or things we can't untie
Your eyes fill with sorrow
Hey, that's no way to say good bye

“If You Leave Me Now”

NOTE: In the lyric book of "Pangaea" this song is listed as "If You Leave Me Now," but on the back of the album it is listed as "If You Leave Me."

If you leave me now my love
I will go away from here you know
I do not intend to be your shoes
So let your conscience to do the walking dear

I don’t want to go and I don’t want to
Say good-bye -- but I have some pride
Much to your surprise

I do love your endless eyes
And I do recall your first reply
But attrition dear our unity
Now you have turned the tide on me

Oh love, that I want you near
To share my life with you
Oh love, consider staying here
With me forevermore

With a leaden heart I do retreat
For I know that I cannot compete
With a mind that’s made against us dear
I do bid thee sad and fond farewell

“Less is More”

I don’t walk bending over
I don’t look down to see high
I don’t name cats with ‘Rover’
I don’t take what I can buy
I don’t walk a mile for a cigarette at the corner store
I don’t fantasize of the happiness in being poor
I d’nuh I d’nuh I do not always think less is more

Come-c come-a down to the town to the town to the place
Where the people say
Tear it tear it down to the ground to the ground on the seventh day
Gimme Gimme joy gimme love gimme peace gimme places without walls

Walla Walla gone ‘cause I cannot find a one who has done a thing to make him stay
Travel to the city where they’re hammering the sound of freedom
Travel to the city where they’re ringing out the bell of love
Travel to the city where they’re singing out the song of justice
I d’nuh I d’nuh I do not always think less is more

I don’t seek tribulation
I don’t dance fast when it’s slow
I weigh the situation
I try to speak what I know
I don’t walk a mile for a cigarette at the corner store
I don’t fantasize of the happiness in being poor
I d’nuh I d’nuh I do not always think less is more

“This Place I Love”

Sister bring my hat and coat and gloves to me
Dear sister bring my hat and coat and gloves to me
For I am going to a place, that knows only of peace
And harmony

Oh brother help me with my traveling case
Oh brother help me with my traveling case
For to this land I now depart
My memory to vanish without trace

And I’ll sing . . .

It is with great despair I leave this place I love
My friend my family have non above
But to stay I fear that I will be called
To take up arms against another’s love

I cannot live this life in misery
I can’t kill for my God and country
So let me go without a tear
And do not judge me harsh for leaving here

And I’ll sing . . .

“In a Heartbeat”

In a heartbeat fortunes are won - oh
In a heartbeat worlds collide
I’ve been told if wishes were horses
In a heartbeat beggars would ride

From a steam bed carved a canyon
Footsteps promise to grow into miles
From an arrow an empire begun - oh
First is to stand up and then is to run

Where is the symmetry that I have dreamed bout?
Said to be waiting is the beauty on a distant shore
Idea to moon walking yet people do without
All what for?

Bright star spinning feeding all living things
Eyes holding laughter so soon after tears
Atom splitting harness the universe
Tree falling over does anyone hear?

Earth tone skin writes pages of history
One shot fires reaches everyone’s ears
Jubilations replacing the misery
One holding nothing another held dear

“Take a Ride”

If you come to our town take a ride take a ride
If you come to our town take a ride again with me

If you stop by the place where we lay where we lay
If you stop by the place where we lay

Please forget how I cried how I cried how I cried
Please forget how I cried on that day

And all those who would say who would say who would say
Why they thought you should marry me that day

I’ll try not to think about
How I felt ten years a life ago
How I felt when you left me far behind

If your heart asks you who he or she would have been
If your heart asks you put it out of your mind

If in those you confide there is doubt there is doubt
If in those you confide there is doubt
Explain to them as you did to me did to me
How necessary leaving then would be

Know I’ve mourned quiet enough for myself and for you and
For the one we’ll never come to know

I’ll try not to think
I’ll try I’ll try not to cry
I’ll try
“Voices”

By the time that I was nine
I thought I’d seem ‘most everything
Then a mother hearing voices
Could not tell them from her own

If I had a dime for every time
She thought I heard them too
There would be enough to last
A life of wealth for me and you

Oh madness -- oh mad mad mind
Oh voices -- calling you from your own mind

Run and get the woman upstairs
Scream until she does arrive
Cut her down untie the know
I do believe she’s still alive

I am all of 6 and a half
Did I do alright by her?
Will she ever read to me or laugh again
I am not sure

By who authority we cannot see or hear
By whose authority has her allegiance wandered?
By who authority would she then find herself free to wonder?

Dream is dream and real is real
And dream is real to her sometimes
Waxing moon and waning truth
Ascending into madness climbs

Talk to her when I was three
A visit in the afternoon
She believe she too is three and
Hopes that I will come back soon

“I know”

I know I know I know
I can’t see it not but I just know that it is there
I can’t hear it not but I just know that it is there
I can’t hold it now but I just know
I know

I do I do I do
Maybe I can’t change the world but I do what is right to me
Maybe I can’t walk on water but I do what’s right to me
Maybe I can’t move a mountain but I do
I do

I can’t wait to hold it
I can’t wait to behold it
I can’t wait to hold it
Cause I know

I watch I watch I watch
And I know they don’t always fly right
So I’m watching what they do
And sometimes they don’t know the answer
So I’m watching what they say
And someday there will be not wrong till then I watch

Liner Notes

Laura Love: lead vocal, background vocal, bass guitar

Linda Severt: acoustic rhythm guitar, congras, cabasa, dumbek, tongue drum, bongos, pennywhistle, triangle, background vocals

Rod Cook: acoustic and electric lead and rhythm guitas, National Steel guitar, mandolin, background vocals

Ben Smith: acoustic and electronic drums

Barbara Lamb: fiddle

Orville Johnson: dobro, mandolin, banjo

Doug Miller: bowed upright bass

Vocal arrangements by Laura Love and Linda Severt

Produced by Laura Love with Michael Lord and assistance by Linda Severt, Rod Cook, Ben Smith, and Mary McFaul

Engineer by Michael Lord; mixed by Michael Lord and Laura Love at Michael Lord Production, Seattle

Special thanks for Mary McFaul, Linda Severt, Ed Beeson and the Backstage, Micahel Lord, Barbara Lamb, Orville Johnson, P.J. Newman, Lia G., Keven Davis, Lori Salzarulo, Kim Scanlon, Don Howe, Gigantor, Herculr, Leo-pard, and all the friends, fans, felines, femmes, fellas, flora, fauna, and family who helped me get here.

Photography by Mary McFaul; art and design by Don Howe

All songs written by Laura Love (Laura Love/ Boom Boom Music BMI), except "Hey That No Way To Say Goodbye" by Leonard Cohen (Stranger Music, BMI) and "All Our Lives" by Laura Love, Linda Severt, and Rod Cook (Laura Love/ Boom Boom Music, BMI)

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