Trinity River Love Song
Here on the river things don’t change too much
Winter storms bring up the water
In late spring the miners return to their dredges
Followed by steelhead and otter
Tourists are smiling and taking the pictures
of daring young white water rafters
while rapids respond with the same ancient language
a mixture of angers and laughter’s
Chorus
It isn’t that I don’t love you now
And it isn’t that you don’t love me
It’s just that your like this bank of the river
And I’m flowing on to the sea
Remember the summer we lived in the Chevy
Camped by the edge of the river
We ate the berries that grew in he tailings
And took what the spirit delivered
River provider and river denier
The parables told and we listened
We swam in the dark pools surrounded by morning
And naked on black rocks we glistened.
Chorus
I used to sit with my toes in the water
Watching it swirling and flowing
Following eddies and hearing the music
Wondering where it was going
I used to throw sticks for the big germen shepherd
She’d chase them and bring them back to me
But some times she’d just let them go with the river
And one day her reasons came to me
Wait a Million Years for Me
Going down to the gravel bar going to find a new way to see
Rocks come down from the mountain tops they wait a million years for me
I wish I were a mountain side and I Wish I were a river deep I would
Watch the epochs roll on by Asleep but not asleep
Going down to the ocean side going to find a new way to see
Water turns the rocks to sand they wait a million years for me
I wish I were a molecule rising to the golden sun
Making oceans in the sky pouring back to where I’m from
Going out to the open hill going to find a new ay to see
Rocks come out of the universe wait a million years for me
and I wish I were a meteor empty space so free to roam
never feel the desolation only know that I am home
Going out to the edge of time going to find a new way to see
Watch reality expand Wait a billion years for me
I wish I were a speck of dust and I wish I were the eye of God
I would watch the universe unfold from the never ending pod
If I Were You
If I were you I’d take the dishes from the shelf
Pulverize them by myself into a pile of broken shards
Then I’d pick up every piece and I’d call up the police
And I’d park a pickup truck out in the yard
Then I would go up to the North I would be there by the fourth
Just in time to watch the rockets from the farm
Then I would sleep out in the hay with the pictures of the day
Tattooed in a cartoon sequence on my arm.
Chorus:
If I were you, If I were you
I wouldn’t listen to a single thing I’m telling you to do
My advice is always good but the fact is that I should
Just shut up and let you do the things you do.
If I were you I’d pet the dog, take her for a morning jog
Talk to God, talk to nothing, talk to Me
If I were you I’d take my life send it to my former wife
With a stamp upon the package COD
For there is nothing sacrosanct but the money in the bank
And the money isn’t speakin’ like it should
If I were you I’d take what’s left report it as a theft
And make certain it is only used for good.
Chorus
If I were you, I’d tell them all to go to hell
Get some potion cast a spell get a doll and get some pins
Cause in the long run if you’re breathing and your temper isn’t seething
It is generally accepted that you win
I would wait ‘til after dark move into a trailer park
Change my name change my number change my hair
And then if the doorbell rings I would take my precious things
And climb out through the bedroom window out of there.
Chorus
If I were you I’d have a beer think it out and get it clear
Climb that mountain to the west, right to the top
When I get there I’d keep going never mind if it is snowing
Just keep moving to the west and never stop
Because mountains are for sport and life is way too short
If I were you I wouldn’t let them slow me down
And then 50 years from now you can ask exactly how
It is possible that you are still around.
Chorus
Hell’s Bell’s Loretta
I’m going down to the laundry mat
I’m gonna take my new blue jeans
Im gonna wash them till they turn to dust
and smell like gasoline, and smell like gasoline
Lets go down to the rail road tracks
And wait for the number 9
And when it comes around the bend
We’ll hear the whistle whine, we’ll hear the whistle whine
Hells Bells Loretta Why don’t you come too
I always do feel better When I’m out with you
I want to take you dancing Like my mama said
Swing you round in the moonlight
And wake up in your bed, and wake up in your bed
I got a dog named Nicky, I got a cat named Jake
I got a raven, I got a pig, I got a rattle snake, I got a rattle snake
Chorus
Will you be my lover? Will you be my friend?
Do you have twenty dollars
That you would like to lend, that you would like to lend?
In the winter time its cold out side In the summer time its hot
Maybe its my brilliant mind, maybe it is not, no maybe it is not
Chorus
I’m going down to the gro-cer-ey store Gonna buy me a great big steak
Gonna wash it down with a bottle of beer and a piece of chocolate cake, and a piece of chocolate cake
If I were the king of France and I had all the gold
I’d hide it in the furnace room and spend it when I’m old, yea spend it when I’m old
Chorus
There’s thunder in the atmosphere, there’s earth quakes in the ground
I always get the vertigo whenever you’re around, whenever you’re around
Where have you been my whole life where will you go today/
What’s in store tomorrow? There’s nothing else to say
Someone’s in the River
Monday morning 9 AM everything seems normal here
October sky is cool.. the air is clear
But there’s 1, 2, 3, 4, cop cars on the bridge
The ambulance is down below a helicopter hovers low
And someone’s in the river ,someone’s in the river
someone’s in the river and the world is changing here and now.
Here comes another search and rescue fire truck with sirens on
Passerby’s are watching while the heroes put their dry suits on
Its hard to miss the urgency of al those lights a tale to tell
A morbid curiosity this kind of thing does not end well
When someone’s in the river, someone’s in the river
someone’s in the river and the world is changing here and now.
How did they come to be there did they overshoot the guardrail?
Did they fall or jump or try to swim or did their judgment just fail?
It’s a crazy world we’re living in this morning in October
When you wind up in the river, does it matter if your sober?
Local shopping center ladies push their carts around
Tire store is opening book seller turns her sign around
And everything seems normal here the cotton woods obscure the view
Everyone just carried on as if there’s nothing else to do
But someone’s in the river, someone’s in the river
someone’s in the river and the world is changing here and now.
Someone’s in the river and the world is changing here and now.
Strength of a Circle
This ring that I give you is simple and round
No beginning is on it no end can be found
it will roll through the days of the life the we share
and the strength of the circle
will always be there
In beauty of nature in each lasting thing
Is strengthened by roundness by circles and rings
the life of a human conception to birth
in living and dying return to the Earth
CHORUS
Love is a spinning thing love it is round
Where the strength of a circle can always be found
Love is a spinning thing love it is round
Where the strength of a circle can always be found
The globe of the planet the orb of the sun
Rotations and spinning make seasons pass on
The nest of a raven the shape of a face
The wheel of the seasons put stars in their place
The power of the water returning in rain
A cycloid so giant or tiny and plain
In each there is reason in each there is love
We are all the same thing that a circles made of
Chorus
This ring that I give you is simple and round
It is part of the rhythm returning the sound
The strength of the ring it is our unity
A garland a halo our tonicity
Chorus
This ring that I give you is simple and round
No beginning is on it no end can be found
It will roll through the days of the life that we share
And the strength of the circle will always be there
And the strength of the circle will always be there.
Antiquarians Lament
I miss the old days, wagon roads in muddy clay and
Night with the stare forever…all gone returning never and
I miss the hand hewn wood, doors built strong and good
Houses stood for generations, God and gold and venerations and
Oh how those times are gone, now the light bulbs are going on
There’s a car coming down the drive
I guess I’m a live – now – but I miss how
(Whistle)
How the world was endless, the wilderness was so green and vast and
How the sky was a mystery, nothing else could ever be and
They lived in a ruthless cloud, where the flowers sang out loud
Every thing that came to pass would be laid to rest beneath the grass and
Oh how those times are gone we touch the Earth when we mow the lawn
There’s a problem with my hard drive
I guess I’m a live – now – but I miss how
(Whistle)
How the snow fell and fell and how the uncles helped dig the well and
How they worked to harvest grain, cursed the dust and prayed for rain and
We still can’t see what’s coming, through the static and through the humming but
I would trade this modern science, for a life of self reliance and
Oh how those times are gone, I want a non-fat latte with no whipped cream on.
Think I need it just to survive,
I guess I’m a live – now – but I miss how
(Whistle)
How we miss what we’ve never seen, dream about what might have been
When I see the city sprawl, pavement to the sentry wall
The polar bear was safe back then now all we do is to pretend.
Read in books and think about
All that we‘ve been left with out and
Oh how those times are gone, I ‘m standing here with my big shoes on
My plane leaves at quarter to five
I guess I’m a live – now – but I miss how
(Whistle or doot yadoo )
Renegade
There’s no such thing as the third degree
When somebody leaves on the count of three
It’s over now there’s no breath left
Nobody there to feel bereft
Close the door forget the key
Chorus
She was a renegade
didn’t care if it was chocolate or lemonade
she didn’t bother to cry or hesitate
she didn’t take the trade
after all she was a renegade.
If the worlds on fire you better put it out
Pick up the telephone and begin to shout
Strike with towels and close the door
Cut your losses steer toward shore
But she too a different rout.
Chorus
She was a renegade
She wasn’t angry and she was certainly not afraid
she didn’t bother to think or hesitate
she didn’t take the trade
after all she was a renegade.
We all feel better when the morning comes
When the sun comes up and you can feel your thumbs
Didn’t care if the winter came or went
If the stares in the sky were heaven sent
She fed her soul in a warehouse filled with drums.
Chorus
She was a renegade
She was the purest form of the highest grade
she didn’t bother to wonder or hesitate
she didn’t take the trade
after all she was a renegade.
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A Small Café with a Real Steel Drum
Way on out past Jupiter Neptune swings on a giant string
Blue and all alone it goes a beautiful place well I suppose
Just a planet on its own a way out past the inhabited zone
It can sing as it draws near through thick muffled atmosphere;
No one goes there on vacation no one calls it a sovereign nation
No one there breaks the traffic laws and no one waits for Santa Clause
No one sits on white sand beaches drinking Tequila and eating peaches
No one sends a postcard from a small café with a real steal drum.
Far away when you look out into the stars and all about
The darkness is a deep as this the universe is like a kiss.
Its unforgettable deep and true the way I always think of you
alone with me upon the sand it that forgotten distant land.
No one goes there on vacation no one calls it a sovereign nation
No one there breaks the traffic laws and no one waits for Santa Clause
No one sits on white sand beaches wearing bikinis and eating peaches
Love Song in the Winter
I love you more than you will know Though winter winds come down and blow
I love you in the darkest night And when the valley fills with light
I love you when the winter sings And cracks its essence into spring
I love you when I sleep and dream And you are rising in the steam
Refrain
When love is real when love is found It’s roots are deep and tightly bound
In any time in any year I’ll find you in my rolling tear
I wish you with me all my days And call to you across the haze
And when the night falls dark and long I’ll reach for you just like a song
And you’ll respond the way you will And touch the flowers on the hill
Refrain
When love is fine when love is real It rings like blades of tempered steel.
It’s like a robe of Spanish silk The green of grass the white of milk
It covers up your weary skin And warms the places deep with in
And when your breath is not your own And harmony becomes the bone the pieces cleave to form my soul I love you when you make me whole.
Refrain
When love is fine when love is good It’s made of gold and polished wood
And when the night falls dark and long I’ll reach for you just like a song
Songs I Never Wrote Down
I got a lot of children, got a lot of love
got a lot of big wispy clouds floatin’ up above,
got a lot of song birds, they got a of sound
got a lot of songs in me – I never wrote down.
I got a lot of years behind, got a lot to come
got a lot of memories, always making some
got a lot of friends I know all over town
note lines for the songs in me – I never wrote down.
sometimes I’m busy, sometimes I’m sleeping
sometimes I’m laughing, sometimes I’m weeping
Got a lot of rainbows, got a lot of space
got a lot of sunflowers growing up around the place
fish in the fishpond, theater in the round
lyrics for the songs in me – I never wrote down.
Got a lot of bills to pay got a lot to do
got to make it beautiful before I pass it on to you
some times I’m weightless and then I can be found
dancing to the songs in me – I never wrote down.
sometimes I’m busy, sometimes I’m sleeping
sometimes I’m laughing, sometimes I’m weeping
some times I’m weightless and then I can be found
dancing to the songs in me – I never wrote down.
Waterfall Boy
On the morning he was born he said to me
I’m a waterfall boy mama can’t you see
I belong in a place where the water meets the stone
I’m a waterfall boy, way down inside my bones.
Canyons run deep and the rivers run wild
In the splendid heart of a waterfall child
Five years old at the Red Rock falls
Northern Montana where the wild wolf calls
He said oh daddy don’t you take me a way
I’m a waterfall boy this is where I want to stay
Canyons run deep and the rivers run wild
In the splendid heart of a waterfall child
He grew up strong and he grew up tall
With the disposition of a water fall
Whole lot of big and a whole lot of proud
A whole lot of air and a whole lot of loud
Canyons run deep and the rivers run wild
In the splendid heart of a waterfall child
So he went to the Salmon the Snake and the Green
To the deepest canyons he had ever seen
He met the rattle snake, he heard the canyon wren
And he stood up on the sand stone
He watched the storms roll in
Canyons run deep and the rivers run wild
In the splendid heart of a waterfall child
Life is like a river and the rapids are long
They’re gonna make you humble
they’re goanna make you strong.
So he learned to read the water, learned to follow it down
Heard the canyon echo with the waterfall sound
He took the river for a teacher, he took the river for a friend
But he never took for granted, what could be around the bend.
On the Trinity River in the summer time
When the fruit hangs sweet on the tangled vine
There’s a spirit in the river there’s gold in the sand
And the waterfall boy is a waterfall man.
Canyons run deep and the rivers run wild
In the splendid heart of a waterfall child
There’s a spirit in the river, there’s gold in the sand
And there the waterfall boy became a waterfall man
And the waterfall boy became a waterfall man.
Visions
I know a woman she is jolly she is wonderful
She has a crystal spirit she is wise
But sometimes she sees angles as they hover over people
And she knows these are the last hours of their lives
And she said “Oh dear lord Jesus I don’t wish to be your oracle
I do not want these visions take them all away from me.
Why would you give me such a vision?
there is nothing I can do with what I see.”
Once there was a homeless man he saw a train was coming
He saw children dancing sweetly in a beam of liquid light
As he ran to try and save them there were demons in the background
He heard angles in the engines as they swallowed up the night
And he said “Oh dear lord Jesus I don’t wish to be your oracle
I do not want these visions take them all away from me.
Why would you give me such a vision?
there is nothing I can do with what I see.”
Down in Madragori they were staring at the sun
Mary came to see the children there
She came to them in visions and she told them of the future
She spoke of love and asked them to take care
And they said “Oh dear lord Jesus we stand here as your oracle
We do not understand the things that you would have us be
There is love that holds us to the vision.
What would you have us do with what we see?
People see the dark side they also see the brilliance
They break right through the barricade into another plane
Some are children some are seekers some are sleeping some are teachers
Some are holey some are gifted and some are called insane.
And they “Oh dear lord Jesus we don’t wish to be your oracles
We do not want these visions we are asking to be free.
Why would you give us such a vision?
Is there nothing we can do with what we see.”
Tiny Planet
Well the world is running scared and the threat it is real
The people making bombs, I wonder how they feel
Cause were in a tiny planet we’re floating all alone
In 16 billion light years this is our only home
No one ever says thank you, No one ever says thank you, No one ever says thank you.
Well we take this little planet, she is mothers milk indeed
And with irresponsibility we stricken her with greed
We make poisons she can’t swallow, divide her up for money
Spill blood on her for power then ask for milk and honey
No one ever says thank you, No one ever says thank you, No one ever says thank you
Well the bombs of Hiroshima will echo on forever
And the sirens of Chernobyl will stop their wailing never
And the doors to Three Mile Island for ever shall be closed
We must make restitution for what has been imposed
We must learn to say thank you, We must learn to say thank you, We must learn to say thank you
We can’t believe the leaders we can’t believe the lies
and we can’t believe the people with the power in their eyes
but we can believe in love and trust we can believe in sharing
we can believe this little Earth
is worthy of our caring
(x 4) and we can learn to say thank you
Marshall Parker’s Quarry
Lets go swimming down in Marshall Parkers quarry
Where they used to get the gravel before the roads were paved
Where the alders and the willows and the rushes grow like pillows
And the dragon flies are daring and the damsel flies are brave
There are turtles on the ledges down in Marshall Parkers Quarry
Their ancestors discovered this one hundred years ago
They’re content to live their lives out a sleeping in he shadows
Dive for safety find some shelter it is all they ever know
All my life you have lingered here I and I have lingered with you
When the road was hard to see
You have graced me in the fluid of your deepness
Hold my grateful tears forever always keep a place for me.
The water is deep I never found the bottom
When I’d throw in a cobble it never would return
Though we don’t know the distance to the bottom
But those rings across the surface give me other things to learn
Chorus
So good bye to Marshall Parkers quarry
you have been a destination when the circumstances turn
I am leaving I am walking from this mountain
But the rings across the surface give me other things to learn
Limited Edition Ninja
It’s a Limited Edition Ninja down the river down
Upon the little ninja, blond hair blue eyes and brown
She says she likes the water, ‘specially when its white
In a Limited Edition Ninja she is gonna be alright.
Float along little ninja, float along float along
Float along little ninja, float along
The Limited Edition Ninja is a genuine type 3
Coast guard approved life jacket AKA PFD
Red white and blue and tailored she can wear it every day
In the Limited Edition Ninja she’ll be stylin’ all the way.
Float along little ninja, float along float along
Float along little ninja, float along
2-3 and get your paddled high never will be dry
Your gonna miss the eddy yer gonn float right bywaaaaheee
She was going down the canyon the water it was big
She looked a bit like Dolly Parton but she didn’t have a wig
She blew right through the rapids with the water in her face
In her Limited Edition Ninja she was gonna win the race.
Float along little ninja, float along float along
Float along little ninja, float along
Oh the Limited Edition Ninja keeps y’all afloat
When the guide just didn’t see the rock and you’re out of the boat
You might see blue bubbles when you are way down there
But your Limited Edition Ninja will get you to the air.
Float along little ninja, float along float along
Float along little ninja, float along
2-3 and get your paddled high never will be dry
Your gonna miss the eddy your gonna float right by whaaaaa heeee
Oh the Limited Edition Ninja is on my baby girl
She’s sixteen and she’s burley, a genuine river pearl
It just might be that she will float on to the sea
In the Limited Edition Ninja anything can be.
Particle Waves
I don’t know who you are I don’t know what I am
I want to dance with you I want to hold your hand
But we are particle waves. oh oh o o oh
We are only particle waves
Particle waves ..oh oh o o oh
We are only particle waves
You are the morning sun you are the melon sweet
Somehow there’s solidness between the sand and feet
But we are particle waves. oh oh o o oh
We are only particle waves
Particle waves ..oh oh o o oh
We are only particle waves
This one dimension is not alone
It blurs the ragged edge between blood and bone
What is it I must do when you sit next to me?
We fade but do not fade from this reality
But we are particle waves ..oh oh o o oh
We are only particle waves
Particle waves ..oh oh o o oh
We are only particle waves
There is a universe between each sun
That spins and shimmers in everyone What is it I must know God has allowed us sight
As we evolve and change it come down to space and light
But we are particle waves ..oh oh o o oh
We are only particle waves
Particle waves ..oh oh o o oh
We are only particle waves
We are only particle waves
All lyrics and Music By Sara Crandell Hoxie
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