Jamie Solow - Lyrics


	1. No Warning 2. Riddles 3. Freeway 4. Passionflower 5. Come Back Home 6. Is It Your Heart 7. Key To Your Door 8. Don’t Go Dirty 9. Joe’s Song 10. Like A Baby 11. Sacred 12. The Softest Hour (Click the earphones to hear a song in lo-fi or hi-fi.)		The ocean is still going on The sun rose with no warning Now you go your way And I’ll go mine This morning So fly away and have no fear There’ll be a time when Where we need to be Will be right here. Rain, rain please go away And come again tomorrow Bring with you your wandering cloud That I may borrow To journey on across the sea I know I will not tire For it only breathes life into me To go to the one I most admire. We all start out little, ready to grow Each with our own riddle, which in time we get to know Asking all the questions we’re wondering about My friend, she’s got a riddle she needs to figure out And this is her riddle: How does she keep her open eyes? This is her riddle, how does she let down her disguise In a world where she’s just a frightened girl She sees the world we’ve made and hides her head Because she’s afraid. We all start out little, ready to grow Each with our own riddle, which in time we get to know He wants to find it fast before his faith turns into doubt My friend, he’s got a riddle he needs to figure out And this is his riddle: How does he keep a soft heart? This is his riddle, how does he not fall apart When it seems that his love’s been lost with his dreams He’s putting up that guard And his heart becomes hard. We all start out little ready to grow Each with our own riddle which in time we get to know Sometimes I stay quiet, sometimes I have to shout Me, I’ve got a riddle I need to figure out And this is my riddle: How do I say goodbye? This is my riddle, how do I keep from crying everyday When a hand I’ve held is sliding away I think love will go on I turn around and it’s gone.


			I never knew With all the loving That maybe I didn’t love you well I never knew That time runs by you Turning around, it’s hard to tell. When you go riding down that freeway Leaving behind your home with me When you go riding down that freeway Right before your eyes, you’re free. I see your face I hear you calling From day to day it’s easy to lose track. Sometimes at night I hear your engine coming down the road Though you’re not coming back. When you go riding down that freeway Leaving behind your love for me Just remember down that freeway Only love can set you free. I used to believe From songs and pictures That when you lose a love, that love is gone. Now I know In its own good time The love you have to give is just passed on. Now when I go riding down that freeway With all this road in front of me When I go riding down this freeway Right before my eyes Right before my eyes Right before my eyes I’m free.

			We’ve got no agenda Nothing particular to do The cow’s in the bathtub And I’m here with you The chicory and the passionflower Are showing their blue All on a ride in the country And I might have made it clearer You’re not only dearer Than the passionflower Or the columbine But it’s just like this I can’t resist your kiss And when I’m gone for just a day I don’t need to say who I miss I might have made it clearer You’re not only dearer Than the passionflower Or the columbine I promise you can still be yours But I was thinking that maybe You could be mine, you could also be mine. Well, the Shakers are all gone now They didn’t have a chance You don’t get new dancers When you’re not allowed to dance There are columns for the houses Suspenders for the pants All on a ride in the country CHORUS Now down the road apiece We find General Store John Runs around town with his straw hat on Talks about the good folks Who’ve come and who’ve gone All on a ride in the country. CHORUS

			Another soldier’s leaving home Turning into stone Standing on his own island Shooting game. He must be tired of being brave Almost in his grave Trying to save himself By taking aim. Where your island turns to ocean Where the water meets the foam Throw down your armor, your excuses too And come back home. Now your boots are almost worn Clouds are being born Ready for the storming Down on you. But there is an open door You’ve stood at before Waiting for an opening Just walk on through.

			You walk right in You sit right down You look at me I look at you How do I know What to believe Is it your teeth You’re talking through Or is it your heart Will you let me Is it your heart Will you let me Is it your heart Will you let me Visit your heart? People move around It’s a party now You play with the dog For a little while I like that You know that I do Is that the way You always smile CHORUS We don’t talk much We’re listening We laugh out loud We look into the eye Is it for me You hold out your hand Is it just the way You say goodbye CHORUS

			Such a fragile face Nimble wisdom What ark can I build for you Emerald eyes Secret window I want to be the one to your rescue Because when I’m feeling weak Don’t know where to go My pain you help undo You know so well how to Come to my rescue Sailors smile Quiet current What wave can I bring to you If this time Is an anthem Let me be the one to walk beside you When the world goes wild The storming starts to storm You and me will be fine Because the key to your door Will be the key to mine.

			Can’t pay the family’s way The children have no dinner Maybe clean some houses in North America Big man with his big cigar Rolls through traffic in his great big car The way you look at me just proves How troubled you are You don’t want to dirty your hand So you go dirty your heart Don’t dirty, don’t dirty Don’t go dirty your heart We think we’ve built a home But we’ve really built a prison Keep our fists neatly clenched Around the bars So many people with their home in their hands We trip right over them across the land The way we stay in our jail just proves How troubled we are We don’t want to dirty our hand So we go dirty our heart Don’t dirty, don’t dirty Don’t go dirty your heart You don’t want to dirty your hand So you go dirty your heart.

			Sailing out on this ocean I say goodbye with all my might So gather up all your angels It’s time to take them home tonight But maybe you could leave just one behind Because I’m too scared to let them all go And holding on to you came so fast Now letting go is so slow. So gather up all your angels It’s time to take them home Sailing out on this ocean We turn your ashes into foam We could fill an ocean with all these tears Even seagulls go wailing How can life like yours not last for years Maybe one day we’ll go sailing. I close my eyes and we’re sailing I’ve only lost you if I stop my memory Or listening to our music Or your angels that keep guiding me Just don’t go gentle voice don’t go eyes Or times we leaned up laughing against the wall I want to remember everything Right now I need to hold on to it all. So gather up all your angels We’re sailing back to shore On the beach sand will shift Though I can’t help wishing you were here some more I’ll keep on dreaming your favorite dreams And pay attention to the sweetness here Believe in life no matter how it seems Let the life you gave us last for years. This song was written for Joe Chadwick, an extraordinary man and beautiful friend who died of AIDS. He was an English literature professor in Hawaii; the memorial service took place on a boat, five miles out to sea.

			There is nothing we can’t do It’s just up to me and you It’s only time we’re passing through. So would you walk this way Because I need you to stay And rock me away Like a baby Sometimes the city gets too cold And the stories you’ve been told Convince you there’s no one to hold you So when you start to stray Just come to me and say Rock me away Like a baby Rock me like a baby There are people all around In the shadows, underground Looking for a home they’ve never found So for the hearts that fray Listen to their eyes say Rock me away, just rock me Like a baby Rock me like a baby Rock me like a baby.

			Far away, truth in sight Winter mountains, deep white Fresh snow, intricate crags Winding from where the city drags Where in Spring water courses Mountains’ blood, river forces Us to softly tread So when the sun begins to go down Hot and shining beach turns copper brown Ripple of clouds go pink and blue My heart beats straight to you Clear away to where your soul yearns Where I am held in the warm returns Thank you for a place in your bed For knowing what is sacred. All with color, all that lights Still days, windy nights Distant lands, endless horizon Mottled sky, steady eyes Scanning across the view All this brings me to you Thank you for this hunger you’ve fed For knowing what is sacred. — for Keneke

			It’s the softest hour I’ve ever known When the world in here is all our own We have held each other some times When the sun began the day It’s as sweet as the saddest song When your hands tell me what you Don’t know how to say When our room is an ocean and We go sailing away when our room Is an ocean we go sailing away. I whisper now into your hair And I can’t believe that you’re right there I have made this song tonight And I play it on your chest We have watched the sun disappear And clouds like angels move in from the West But the only angel I know is here at rest And your hands tell me what you don’t know how to say When our room is an ocean and we go sailing away.