ALBUM LYRICS:

FORTUNE
Sit here I’ll tell you a story
Of how you can dream it away
& how you can wait to be sorry
& waiting can last to this day
She read the faint lines in my hands
That fortune teller saw
That I prepared to marry you
On a cloudy Sunday morn

She saw the moments of anger
She saw the lines on my face
She saw the eminent danger
She saw no moments of grace
Then she looked into my eyes
& clouds of gathering storm
If I was going to marry you
If I was going to marry you
On a cloudy Sunday morn

Outside the hurdy gurdy
The curtains that swayed in her room
The memories lost in a whirlwind
Rising up to the moon
It was then I knew that the gypsy lied
Our hearts were there forsworn
But I was going to marry you
But I was going to marry you
But I was going to marry you
Next cloudy Sunday morn
Next cloudy Sunday morn

IF NOT FOR MY TRUE LOVE
Summer nights ecstatic give to
Winter nights so manic
I could feel it
From walls and from the attic
I knew when I first saw you
That I could never leave you
I had answers
Before they asked the questions
What was I thinking of?
I swear to the lord above
If not for my true love
Not for my true love

Purple flower springtime
When you open up your window
Do you hear it?
Walls with distant voices
Do words to you come flooding back
Like the song about the rain
Into a paper cup
On a Sunday?
If not for my true love
Not for my true love

Comes a Sunday morning
They was shouting Hallelujah
You could feel it
In a church in West Virginia
I can’t name this feeling
But I’m emptied out and reeling
Can you answer
Before I beg the question?
If not for my true love
Not for my true love
My true love, my true love

IMAGINATION
Imagination
Not running away with me
It’s your imagination
Just running away with me

The day arrives without invitation
With clouds that drift against the sky
You might write out your own true love
The ink will never dry
I read a poem about birds of prey
The poet built his house of stone
He wonders why he’s all alone

Imagination
Not running away with me
It’s your imagination
Just running away with me

Reality is stars at night
That fade into another day
We think we write our own true words
But hearts get in the way
If love is just a fleeting line
Close that book
Birds fly south
The truth is we’re not getting out

Imagination
Not running away with me
Running away

Imagination
Not running away with me
It’s your imagination
Just running away with me

HORIZON (for Kay LeBoeuf)
5 o’clock pacific time
With time running out
I took a picture with you
You and I standing there
Sun climbing down
Breaks the horizon in two
These are the days
That I wish I had said
& I wish I had spoken my mind
These are the words
I wish I had said
Has anyone noticed the time?

6 o’clock pacific time
Crowd rolling out
A picture with John & with you
Here we are standing here
Friends walk away
Break the horizon in two
These are the days
That I wish I had said
& I wish I had spoken my mind
These are the words
I wish I had said
Has anyone noticed the time?

12 o’clock, day is done
Years roll along
I put up a picture for you
You and I standing there
Sun climbing down
Hearts sail into the blue
These are the days
That I wish I had said
& I wish I had spoken my mind
These are the words
That I wish I had said
Anyone notice the time?

LOVE SONG NUMBER 9
I keep trying to get you back
But its a waste time
Every single letter back
Its just a waste of time
And no one’s writing letters anyway

I keep stopping every place
But it’s a waste time
Every window, see your face
But it’s a waste time
And they should clean these windows anyway

Don’t cry
You’re in my eye
Don’t cry
You’re in my eye

Every clock has turned its face
It’s just a waste of time
Every ticking time and place
Is just a waste of time
And no one stops to give the time of day
On second thought…
You’re giving it all away

Don’t cry
Cause you’re in my eyes
Don’t cry
Cause you’re in my eye


WORLDS FAIR
Round in circles
White City night
Kicking off our shoes
A million feet high
Sky wide open
Here come the stars
Down below us
Crashing cars
Round in circles
On the Ferris machine
Gaslights flicker
Sepia dream
Hearts wide open
Top of the fair
A disregard for everywhere
Close eyes/ learn to fly
My secret’s safe with you
Close eyes/ feel the sky
It’s blue, deep blue

White City living for the century
Hope rising up over gravity
Never look back is what the people say
So we look the other way
Round in circles on the Ferris wheel
High as a cloud, all is revealed
Hearts wide open, top of the fair
Disregard for everywhere —
Close eyes/ learn to fly
A secret safe with you
Close eyes/ feel the sky
It’s blue, deep blue

Top of the circle
Float through the air
High on living
Clouds everywhere
Hard to remember
The trouble down there
That’s how we found the world is fair
Close eyes/ learn to fly
A secret safe with you
Close eyes/ feel the sky
It’s blue, deep blue
Close eyes/ learn to fly
A secret safe with you
Dark sky / I see your eyes
They’re blue, deep blue, so blue

PLAY IT BACK
This is the way
Goes without saying
I’m so afraid
Mistakes I’m making
If heaven is above
Why on earth you let us
Find true love?
Play it back
Won’t you play it back?
Take a little more time
Sort the good and bad

This is the time
Goes without saying
Made up my mind
The light is fading
If heaven is above
Why on earth you let us
Lose true love?
Play it back
Won’t you play it back?
Need a little more time
To take the good and the bad

This is the hour
Goes without saying
Make up your mind
I’m down and patiently waiting?
If heaven is above
Why on earth you let us
Feel true love?
Play it back
Won’t you play it back?
Take a little more time
Sort the good and bad
Play it back
Won’t you play it back?
Need a little more time
To take the good and the bad
Play it back


WHERE WE GO
Due to unknown LIFE constraints
She smashed kitchen door
Then she kicked her box of paints
Across the kitchen floor
And we can just confuse the news
And what we came here for
The second hand’s at 4
Take a number
Enter slumber
Careful, lord knows
Might be better times
Where we go

Came a celebration on
A celebration day
Through the dancing celebrants
The shooter got away
If you choose, confuse the news
And turn the other way
The evening starts at 8
Take a number
Enter slumber
Careful, lord knows
Might be better times
Where we go

I wish that I could grow up on
The dark side of the moon
I could walk in darkest night
And head back to my room
And l could say my bedside prayer
Without the rage and ruin
Morning comes at noon
Take a number
Enter slumber
Careful, drive slow
Might be better times
Where we go


FOR YOU FOR ME
Well I wish that I could stop to know the answer
Or at least could stop and keep the question straight
I think, my friend, you found yourself a reason
I guess this time the answer came too late
For you and me
For you… For me

Well I wish that I could stop to know tI’m dreaming
At least could stop and keep my dreaming straight
I think, my friend, we found yourselves a reason
I guess this time the answer came too late
For you and me
For you… For me

I see you in these pictures you’re so far away
You’d think we’d given up or gone astray
But somewhere in this space between the seasons
We found that we can never be too late
too late
too late
too late
too late
For you and me
For you… For me

© ALL SONGS Chris LeRoy 2023
Published by New West Crash Music/ASCAP