Song: 'Heart Like a Wheel' by Anna Mcgarrigle.

All other songs: Words/music by Heidi Berry 1993. © Universal Music Publishing Group. 

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MERCURY

 

I walk through the graveyard

And a late snow is on the ground

The bones lying underneath the ivy

Black crow he flies

His shadow moves across the stones

The snow that holds my footprint melts away

 

I turn from the West Gate and I look to the East

I will await the coming dawn

To welcome the traveller home

 

I wonder do you hear me

Singing softly to myself

And I wonder do you recognise the tune

And times I’ve been so lonesome for another human sound

I have cried and I have shouted to myself

 

I turn from the West gate and I look to the East

I will await the coming dawn

To welcome the traveller home

 

Dawn to dusk and dust to dust

And days of mercury

In mind’s eye the time gone by

Is set like crystal

At end of year the days grow dim

You feel the time gone by

But you can’t hold on to Mercury

 

I turn from the West gate and I look to the East

While Earth awaits with opened arms

To welcome all travellers home

 

LITTLE FOX

 

If I had the time to live over
Would I find the way to get it right

Would I say the words I really are meant to say
Would I change the things that I'd done

The voice calls
Come, come away little fox, little bird
Run away into the night
You will burn your eyes, you will burn your wings
If you go into the light

If I had the strength to begin again
Can I find which way to go
If my legs stay steady and my heart stays strong
Can I bend the road my own way

The voice calls
Come, come away little fox, little bird
Run away into the night
You will burn your eyes, you will burn your wings
If you go into the light

If I give the very best part of me
Will I have enough left for myself
And will I change when I turn around
Will I recognize my own name

 

 

THE MOON AND THE SUN

 

She’s ever rising, ever falling

The moon and the sun

Made of water, made of sand

Running right through your hands

And it’s only, only for a little while

Only, only for a little while

 

She will be there for you

Be the one that is yours

You’ll accept nothing less

And expect nothing more

And only, only for a little while

Only, only for a little while

 

See the face that she’s wearing today

Turn around when she’s dreaming tonight

To become something more when she wakes

What you offer to her she will take

 

She will be there for you

Be the one that is yours

You’ll accept nothing less

And expect nothing more

And only, only for a little while

Only, only for a little while

 

She’s the mother and then she’s the child

She’s the daughter, the sister to some

She’s your lover and then she’s your friend

She’s the night and the day

Moon and sun

 

She is many and one

She is more than you know

You’ll accept nothing less

And expect nothing more

And only, only for a little while

Only, only for a little while

 

She will be there for you

Be the one that is yours

You’ll accept nothing less

And expect nothing more

And only, only for a little while

Only, only for a little while

Only, only for a little while

Only, only for a little while

Only, only for a little while

 

 

ONE STRING VIOLIN

 

Come, here the call, feel the beat

Of the shuffling drummer

And move, you will sway, you will dance

Though you feel like you’re dying

For these are the songs and they ways of the world

All that is lost can never be regained

The way that it is and the way it shall be

You will dance

 

And turn slowly turn, make an arc, to the one string violin

Your face is the mask that you’re broken inside

For these are the songs and they ways of the world

The stillborn loves and never-shall-bes

When trying sometimes is it’s only reward

You will turn

 

And hope is a word that you use when all hope has departed

And dreams – the country where your fears

For these are the songs and they ways of the world

With broken hearts with empty eyes

The weak and the strong will all join in the song

And will dance

 

 

DARLING COMPANION

 

You were the best friend I ever knew

There was nothing I had to pretend

And nothing to prove

You gave a love that came to me

So strong and so free

And now that you are gone

You have left me life’s legacy

 

But it’s so hard to live on your own 

And it’s so hard to live without

My darling companion

 

Nothing can last forever, this much I know

So sad and so sorry we came to the end

And nothing in this whole wide world

Can compare to your smile

And I count myself lucky 

That I had your love for awhile

 

But it’s so hard to live on your own 

And it’s so hard to live without

My darling companion

 

It was you who showed me there’s no way

Of getting love from a stone

And those whose love don’t come easy

You just leave them alone 

You leave them alone

 

If there’s a shadow on the sun today

And the moon is hiding behind the cloud

It’s because I’ve been thinking of you

And your sweet, sweet way

It’s because I’ve been thinking 

Of the debt I’ll never repay

 

But it’s so hard to live on your own 

And it’s so hard to get through this live on your own

And it’s so hard to live without

My darling companion

 

 

 

DISTANT THUNDER

 

There is a garden that is roofed over in glass and steel

It holds the kind of wonders you only see in dreams

Until it’s time to cross over

And over again I hear the sound of distant thunder

 

I wish that I’d been born in nineteen hundred

And viewing change as positive progression

Instead of always feeling that I’m falling, falling

And waking from my dreams with a start

Every night

 

When ordinary people lose their lives 

While hiding in a hole in the ground

Is anywhere safe anymore on land or sea

Or sailing through the air on silver wings

I think it’s time to call in tide

 

There is a garden that is roofed over in glass and steel

It holds the kind of wonders you only see in dreams

Until it’s time to cross over

And over again I hear the sound of distant thunder

 

 

HEART LIKE A WHEEL

Words/Music: Anna McGarrigle, © Peermusic Publishing

 

Some say the heart is just like a wheel
When you bend it, you can't mend it
But my love for you is like a sinking ship
And my heart is on that ship out in mid-ocean

 

When harm is done no love can be won
I know it happens frequently
What I can't understand oh please God hold my hand
Why it had to happen to me

 

And it's only love and it's only love
That can wreck a human being and turn him inside out

 

Some say the heart is just like a wheel
When you bend it you can't mend it
But my love for you is like a sinking ship
And my heart is on that ship out in mid-ocean

 

And it's only love and it's only love
That can wreck a human being and turn him inside out

 

 

FOR THE ROSE

 

I get up when the sun ray kisses my eyes

I watch it travel high into blue sky

I say a little prayer for a brand-new day

But why do I - do I 

(Do I - do I – do I)

Tremble in the night when I’m all alone

Cry out from a deep oblivion

Then turn my face toward a new horizon

But why do I - do I 

(Do I - do I – do I)

 

Contemplate the fear in a love’s surprise

And try to look behind someone else’s eyes

And when I do I find

It’s just myself I really recognise

But why do I - do I 

(Do I - do I – do I)

(Do I - do I – do I)

 

Feel the rhythm of the train and it’s pulling me

I travel with the sound, travel with the speed

How I wish that I was on that train today

But why do I - do I 

(Do I - do I – do I)

 

I’m looking for the place that my heart calls home

I’m waiting for the time when I look no more

I’m searching for the rose

That has no thorn

But why do I - do I 

(Do I - do I – do I)

(Do I - do I – do I)

(Do I - do I – do I)

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FOLLOW

 

Rain again

Looks like it’ll never end

Looks like this city

Will wash away

Away – to the open sea

Tumble the buildings, bodies and trees

 

You follow (follow, follow)

What your heart says do my friend

You follow (follow follow)

What your heart says do

 

Float away from me (from me from me)

See your face out in the wave

Bow my head to insane circumstance

Open hands – let it all go

 

You follow (follow, follow)

What your heart says do my friend

You follow (follow follow)

What your heart says do

 

You follow (follow, follow)

What your heart says do my friend

You follow (follow follow)

What your heart says do

 

Line on my hand say, “Yes, this is how it shall be”

Read the facts there, the way they stand

Oh, I see your face still in the wave

On you go away from me

 

You follow (follow, follow)

What your heart says do my friend

You follow (follow follow)

What your heart says do

 

You follow (follow, follow)

What your heart says do my friend

You follow -

 

 

ARIEL

 

(Maybe we all can hear what we want to hear)

 

 

DAWN

 

How long before the break of day

How long before the sun rises

I will wait for the morning to come for me

I will wait quietly and still

But that’s not the kind of dawn

That I had hoped to see

Take it – oh take it away

 

I had this dream last night

I saw roses come into bloom

I saw the sky was shining all opal-bright

I saw its light in your eyes

But that’s not the kind of dawn 

That I awoke to see

Take it – oh take it away

 

Feeling alone and unreal

All of the time – this is how I feel

I’ve taken my time and I’ve hoped for the best

But take it – oh take it away

 

Is this real or imagined

Am I still deep in my dream

I will wait for the morning to come around again

I may wait for a long time

 

If it’s not the kind of dawn that

That I had hoped to see

Take it – oh take it away

Oh, and it’s not the kind of dawn

That I will want to see

Take it – oh take it away

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