Lucy Kaplansky Album

Written by Lucy Kaplanski, Richard Litvin

In night inside at night
No whispers no worries no words
Just light fills the corner of your eye
Take me in take me in
Cold sky dark Montanta long road
Running fence radio trucks blow by
Up high no air big dreams
Take me back take me back
I want to show you everything everything
I want to give you everything everything
There's a chance now and then now and then
No more cut and run no more cut and run
Blue night blue world tracking you
I'm a scorpion coming after you
Running out of darkness and time
Looking for you looking for you
Gonna sting you with a kiss from my lips
Gonna sting you with a piece of my mind
Gonna sting you with a taste of my skin
Then you're mine then you're mine
I want to show you everything everything
I want to give you everything everything
There's a chance now and then now and then

written by Nick Lowe

As I walk through this wicked world
Searching for light in the darkness of insanity
I ask myself is all hope lost
Is there only pain and hatred and misery
And each time I feel like this inside
Just one thing I wanna know
What's So Funny bout Peace, Love, and Understanding oh
What's So Funny bout Peace, Love, and Understanding

As I walk on through troubled times
My spirit gets so down hearted sometimes
So where are the strong who are the trusted
And where is the harmony sweet harmony
Cause each time I feel it slippin' away
Just makes me want to cry
What's So Funny bout Peace, Love, and Understanding oh
What's So Funny bout Peace, Love, and Understanding

So where are the strong who are the trusted
And where is the harmony sweet harmony
Cause each time I feel it slippin' away
Just makes me want to cry
What's So Funny bout Peace, Love, and Understanding oh
What's So Funny bout Peace, Love, and Understanding

Written by Lucy Kaplansky, Richard Litvin

I have words in me
That I need to tell you
There are times in my life
When I know what I want
I walked away once before
I won't walk away again
There are promises you keep
Because you mean them
I'm a world away from you tonight
But I feel you all around me
You'd find the colors of this world in you
If you could see what I can see
If you could see what I can see

I know it's hard
To believe in what you see
When no one else
Seems to see it all
But when I look at you I see
All this light that comes to me
Just wait it will all come back to you
I'm a world away from you tonight
But I feel you all around me
You'd find the colors of this world in you
If you could see what I can see
If you could see what I can see
You'd find the colors of this world in you
If you could see what I can see

Written by Richard Thompson

Remember when we were hand in hand
Remember, we sealed it with a golden band
Now your eyes don't meet mine
You've got a pulse like fever
Do I take you for a lover
Or just a deceiver
Simple is simple, Plain is plain
If you leave me now, You won't come back again
Don't give up
Don't renege on our love
Don't renege on our love
Give me just an ounce of sympathy
Give me my chains of liberty
There's a rope that binds us
And I don't want to break it
If love is a healing
Why should we forsake it
Hunger is hunger, Need is need
Am I just another mouth to feed
When the game is up
Don't renege on our love
Don't renege on our love

Remember when we were hand in hand
Remember, we sealed it with a golden band
Now your eyes don't meet mine
You've got a pulse like fever
Do I take you for a lover
Or just a deceiver
When my heart breaks
It breaks like the weather
If you leave me now
It'll thunder forever
Oh don't give it up
Don't renege on our love.
Don't renege on our love.

Sadness is a little boy looking
Out the window high above the city,
Counting statues of people on the buildings,
Thinking that the people are forever,

He wants his father to be a statue,
On the rooftop of his fatherless home,
So that he can always see him,
So that he will never leave him,

Late at night in the darkness of his dreaming,
His father's words fall down in a rainstorm,
And the words become hands that will guide him,
Through his life in the world just beginning.


You cannot live in bronze or stone,
Make your life in flesh and bone.


Stranded is a man no longer searching
For the life he had hoped for and imagined
Courting fear instead of a woman,
Holding sorrow as his only companion

Counting days like his money in the markets,
And watching life from the window in his office,
Maybe one day I'll have the courage,
Maybe one day I'll sail across the ocean.

But I feel safe in the light of my computer,
This is how I choose to live,
Fixed in stone a man will wither,
Running waters are the life of the river.

You cannot live in bronze or stone,
Make your life in flesh and bone
Remember me...

Frightened is an old man limping
Through the park on a dark December day,
He stands frozen at the base of a statue,
And he hopes for a warm hand to help him,

Tonight he will dream that he is flying,
Over banks of a river he remembers
His father's voice will echo all around him,
His father's hands will hold him in the sky,

Now I can sail across the ocean,
Now I will sail across the ocean,
Now I am sailing across the ocean.

I cannot live in bronze or stone,
I must live as flesh and bone.

Written by Lucy Kaplansky, Richard Litvin

I can bend back
And reach the days
When everything was new
When witches were birds that lived in trees
When dreams were movies God made for me
I talked to dogs
I knew why trees and kids cried
Why snow was white why people died
In show and tell
I talked about the shapes of clouds
And all the schoolyard angels who protected me
I am here and this is mine
I'm everywhere flying in line
Always looking for a place to rest
I hid in trees and built my nest
I made my nest of buried things
And the roots ran like secrets
Through six year rings
I found that secret places were better places
Nicer places that villains could not find
I do not lie
These places are mine
Now I lean and bend
To where I begin and end
I am here and this is mine
I'm everywhere flying in line
I am here and this is mine

Traditional, arranged by Paul Brady

Come all ye lads of high reknown
That would hear of a fair young maiden
And she rode out of a summer's day
For to view the soldiers parading
They marches so bold and they looked so gay
The colors flying and the bands did play
And it caused young Mary for to say
I'll wed you my gallant soldier

She viewed the soldiers on parade
And as they stood at their leisure
And Mary to herself did say
At last I've found my treasure
But oh how cruel my parents must be
To banish my darling so far from me
But I'll leave them all and I'll go with thee
You wild undaunted soldier

Oh Mary dear your parents love
I pray don't be unruly
For when we're in a foreign land
Believe me you'll rue it surely
And if in battle I might fall
By a shot from an angry cannonball
And you so far from your daddy's hall
Be advised by your gallant soldier

I have fifty guineas in bright gold
Likewise a heart that's bolder
And I'll leave them all and I'll go with you
You wild undaunted soldier
So don't say no but let me go
And I will face the daring foe
And we'll march together to and fro
And I'll wed you my gallant soldier

And when he saw her loyalty
And Mary so true hearted
He said then darling married we'll be
And nothing but death will part us
And when we're in a foreign land
I'll guard you darling with my right hand
In the hopes that God might stand a friends
To Mary and her gallant soldier

Rick Litvin and Lucy Kaplansky

Love is fast, love is slow
Love always knows where it wants to go
Love can be old and love can be new
Love is what you make and love is what you do

Love's a roller coaster running on track
Don't look down and never look back
Love is the engine that gets you up the hill
Love is the speed and the noise and the thrill

Chorus
Oh, love is the ride if you're riding with me
Love is the ride if you're riding with me
Love is the ride if you're riding with me
Oh, love's the only ride

Love fights back and love gives in
Love's no saint, sure ain't no sin
Love can be soft and love can be tough
Too much love is never enough

Love is the dance that you stumble through
A little Texas Two Step, a little Tango too
Move with me baby get closer to me
A little dancing and kissing is all we need

Chorus

Love is the ride if you're riding with me
Love is the ride if you're riding with me
Love is the ride if you're riding with me
Oh, love's the only ride
Love's the only ride

We were sitting at a cafe
You were listening like you had nothing better to do
You were feigning interest badly,
I guess interest is too hard for you
So I stopped talking, and just watched you
Watched the way your mouth made faces at me
Watched the way your eyes looked through me
Looking for something new you could take from me...



And I know what you are
You're the thief who steals from your friends
I know what you are and
Everything in the world does not belong to you

Everything you ever gave me
Were just scraps you didn't want anyway
All the people you discarded
Guess you never thought you might want them back some day

I've been loyal, I've been honest
Well, to tell you the truth, I don't know what for
I've knelt down with all the others
But I'm not on my knees anymore...



Last night, in the dark, in my mirror,
I thought I saw you
I threw the mirror on the floor
And it kept breaking and breaking and breaking and breaking...

Tear me out of you, come on try
Tear me out of anything, come on, try
Give me a little light, a mirror and some smoke,


I am an amulet, wish upon me,
If you can find me,
If you can see me, if you can love me, if you can love me

Edges between us join and hold us in place,
With a little glue and a little heat, we make love and separate,
Then we melt, then we go away,
Back to the place, where all the memories go,
Where you go, where I want to be with you,
I am your amulet, wish upon me

There are miles of wreckage on the road, miles of love packed away in bags,
Filled with lies and kerosene and rags, strike a match, strike a match,
Go on, strike a match, to all the cargo buried in the hold,
That keeps you from me and is going up in fires in me,



I am your amulet, wish upon me, if you can find me,

Written by Gram Parsons

Won't you scratch my itch sweet Annie Rich
And welcome me back to town
Come out on your porch or I'll step into your parlor
And I'll tell you how it all went down
Out with the truckers and the kickers and the cowboy angels
And a good saloon in every single town
And I remember something that you once told me
And I'll be damned if it did not come true
Twenty thousand roads I went down, down, down
And they all lead me straight back home to you
Cause I headed West to grow up with the country
Across those prairies with those waves of grain
And I saw my devil, and I saw my deep blue sea
And I thought about a calico bonnet from Cheyenne to Tennessee
We flew straight across that river bridge,
Last night half past two
The switchman waved his lantern goodbye and good day as we
Went rolling through
Billboards and truckstops pass by the grievous angel
And I know just what I have to do

And the man on the radio won't leave me alone
He wants to take my money for something that
I've never been shown
And I saw my devil, and I saw my deep blue see
And I thought about a calico bonnet from Cheyenne to Tennessee
The news I could bring I met up with the king
On his head an amphetamine crown
He talked about unbuckling that old bible belt
And headed out for some desert town
Out with the truckers and the kickers and the cowboy angels
And a good saloon in every single town
And I remember something that you once told me
And I'll be damned if it did not come true
Twenty thousand roads I went down, down, down
And they all lead me straight back home to you
Twenty thousand roads I went down, down, down

Rick Litvin and Lucy Kaplansky

I'm a ruby to someone somewhere
Not a piece of coal
Looking for a lover, looking for a home
Just some peace here in this old world
The sun will melt the glaciers
The mountains turn to dust
The rivers carve the canyons
What I do not live is lost

Chorus
Mother please, protect me
Mother please, defend me
Mother please, don't abandon me

Only half a life has been my own
And half I never knew
Split the atoms of this half life
Let the phoenix rise anew
There's a face of love and kindness
There's a mother deep inside
And she knows a ruby when she sees one
And her arms are open wide

Chorus

Just some peace here in this old world
Just some peace here in this old world
Just some peace here in this old world