A THOUSAND TRUE STORIEs
Dreamers at heart
Music by Silje Nergaard
Lyrics by Mike McGurk & Jeff Wassermann
I’m back to chasing light
must be sure I keep in sight
how to change my lows to highs
and how to make my sunsets rise
you help that spark to glow
but if it fades well you just know
when to bide your time and when
to breathe it back to life again
...
follow
those dreams that seem so very far
still a lot of good ones in the jar
we were always dreamers at heart
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so safe within our walls
we stay although the highway calls
round and round in circle dance
with nothing ever left to chance
Love and Life and music’s fine
this dance is ours, yours and mine
step by step we’ll find our feet
hoping hearts will skip a beat ...and
...
follow
those dreams that seem so very far
still a lot of good ones in the jar
we were always dreamers at heart
you don’t have to tell me where you’re going
ifsomething’s wrong you know you’ve got a friend
I´lll learn to live with never-knowing
when or if our roads will cross again
...
so below the stars above
falling in and out of love
letting go of shattered dreams
knowing all’s not what it seems
taking turns at being wrong
based on A thousand true stories
Music by Silje Nergaard
Lyrics by Mike McGurk
I believed that starry skies
would always dim our carefree days to night
and would guide us she said
that we would fear nothing
but now I see the flawless heart
whose only wish is to be right
feels how it’s beating for nothing
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she told him everything got out of hand
and she lost touch with moments
they had planned
tried to make herself believe
she ’d never cared
but none of this is written there in stone...she said
it’s based on a thousand true stories
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I can see that all the signs
I made myself believe I hadn’t seen
are what hurt us he said
there was no way of knowing
I wrote a play to fit the screen
put our love and names up there in lights
but the gap went on growing
...
he told her everything just fell apart
so he had done his best to
fool his heart
tried to make himself believe
he was alive
but none of this has come from me alone...he said
it’s based on a thousand true stories
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we hoped that life would just stay in our hands
that doubts would disappear
and we would find
our way back to the love
that we had left behind
but none of this can happen on its own.. they said
Frozen
Music by Silje Nergaard
Lyrics by Mike McGurk
I know by heart each paving-stone on every street
and that the eyes of strangers are not mine to meet
the night is young and I have countless miles to trawl
but the glare of headlights shows me there is nothing there at all
neon signs can’t ever light the sadness at my heels
nor empty voices make amends for all the joy that living steals
and though the night is warm...it is the coldness that I feel
...
what can be done to warm a frozen heart
what does it take to make the loving start
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I dreamed of love...that I would find it by and by
that luck would change and like an eagle I would fly
high above the city lights we’d circle there
that you and I would float as one upon the summer air
with nothing left to weigh us down..nothing to explain
that you would ask me where I hurt and soothe away the pain
please let it happen now so I can start to live again
...
what can be done to warm a frozen heart
what does it take to make the loving start
...
how to keep the dream alive
to watch another night retreat
another day arrive
and by the light of morning still believe that love survives
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what can be done to warm a frozen heart
what does it take to make the loving start
...
tell me now how to keep the dream alive
to watch another night retreat
another day arrive
and by the light of morning still believe that love survives
...
what can be done to warm a frozen heart
what does it take to make the loving start
Come in from the garden
Music by Silje Nergaard
Lyrics by Mike McGurk
Come in from the garden
if there were a way of reaching you again I would
I’d put my arms around you never to let go
show you all the things I’ve understood
about the careless plans you laid
so caringly so I could shine
when you’re no longer here
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while I danced and played
you held the weeds at bay
gave me a chance to win
but calmed my fear of losing
showed me where
to search and find
what I had been given
gave me dreams that I could hold
or leave behind
as I pleased
....
but that’s all past and gone
come in from the garden
and the glare of the light
come in from the garden, daddy, the world’s alright
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you stand guard in case some hidden fear should come to call
ask for one of us by name
then wait there by the wall
I see you moving in between the days you long for
and those that leave no mark upon your mind
you’re fumbling in the dark
...
though memories still live on
come in from the garden
and the chill of the night
come in from the garden, daddy, the world’s alright
Nightroad
Music by Silje Nergaard
Lyrics by Mike McGurk & Jeff Wassermann
out on the night road
lost in your thoughts
replay our story and..
you’ll come across
words left unspoken
a hesitant kiss
was I really ever yours at all
how did it ever come to this
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there was a love once
before you and I
a whirlwind that caught me
and swept through my life
a beautiful twister
with pain at its eye
though it left nothing there for me at all
there is a longing that won’t die
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oh what a lie
what a heartless lie
I entered your world
left my heart outside
oh what a dream
thinking time would make it right
I can’t wash my hands
of the tears you cried
this heartless lie
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out on the night road
wherever you roam
and though it be fruitless still
I need you to know
walked all these years with
regret deep within
I was never ever yours at all
how could I let the lie begin
Wayside song
Music by Silje Nergaard
Lyrics by Mike McGurk
come on sun
shine on me
shed a little light so that I get to see
why my will always stays undone
come on rain
pour on me
just cool me down and set my spirit free
soothe away the pain in me
come on wind
scatter me
I’m seeds of grain in your hand
just Iet me land somewhere
far away from dark despair
where I can walk
free of talk
in that fair place I’ll make my stand
and be smaller
than I am
come on rain
pour on me
cool me down…set my spirit free
soothe away the pain in me
While you were gone
Music by Silje Nergaard
Lyrics by Mike McGurk
later, later, later
I’ll start missing that boy
when the moment is right
I’m seeing the house through a new pair of eyes
even though he’s gone everything I see’s a prize
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lazy, lazy, lazy
day after day after day into nights
as mountains of dishes keep growing in size
without his knowing looks to cloud my clear blue skies
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oh.. I’m jumping for joy
I do love that boy
but he seems to disappear
when he’s not here
and I long for nothing at all
at my own beck and call
how brightly I shone
while you were gone
...
no sooner, sooner, sooner
has the echo of the closing door died down
before I start to feel completely at ease
it’s not hard to think straight when there’s no-one to please
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choosing , choosing , choosing
what day after day after day has in store
I’m drifting along on a warm gentle breeze
life is a lock and I’ve just found my keys
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oh.. I’m jumping for joy
I do love that boy
but he seems to disappear
when he’s not here
and I long for nothing at all
at my own beck and call
oh how brightly I shone
while you were gone
Old Madrid
Music by Silje Nergaard
Lyrics by Mike McGurk
when back-to-back sleeping
is cold to the touch
and the silence we’re keeping
doesn’t hold very much
when icey winds chase
every trace of romance
so far out of reach
let’s remember a dance
on an evening when
music captured our hearts
and the moment was ours …and made us a part
...
of you Old Madrid
our love was echoed by your walls
and every street led to us in Old Madrid
now when the city calls
our hearts relive the love and jooooooy
of Old Madrid
we’re back there
and…………..
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live on a memory
and cling to a dream
pretend that our longings
are less than they seem
pine for those summers
when all was unknown
and stay there a while
though we know time has flown
since…. an evening when
music captured our hearts
and the moment was ours …and made us a part
...
of you Old Madrid
our love was echoed by your walls
and every street led to us in Old Madrid
now when the city calls
our hearts relive the love and jooooooy
of Old Madrid
we’re back there once more
Laura
Music by Silje Nergaard
Lyrics by Mike McGurk
cry out, Laura
make me hear
make it clear
all I thought that I knew
with my arms around you, Laura
I stood too close
to see what troubled you
I thought I knew you so well, Laura.....so well
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you must free him
help him see
help him be
all he thought that he could
with his arms around you, Laura
he tried to crush the bad
and make things good
he thought he knew you so well, Laura
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what a loss
what a prize
won’t you open his eyes
then lift up his head
say what has to be said
just put your arms around him, Laura
tell him that there were no signs he should have read
he thought he knew you so well Laura
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hush now, Laura
we’ve let go
now we know
all was misunderstood
what became of it all...it was meant to be good
without our arms around you, Laura
we get to love
you the way we should
you thought you knew yourself so well, Laura