[ You Could Be Born Again | A Leaf Has Veins | Quartet No 6 in D Minor | I Found Love | Daniel Dolphin | Ivy On A Windy Day | An Elegy ]
Only original Free Design songs are listed. Lyrics kindly provided by Chris and Moira Dedrick.
You Could Be Born Again [ top ]
I’m beginning to get a new kind of feeling, beginning to sing a new kind of song I’m beginning to see that life’s worth the living, beginning to find the right ‘stead of just the wrong. There was a moon last night, a pretty bird in flight and a quiet breeze gliding through the trees. I still can feel the ache in my heart showing my life to be in need of a brand new start. Begin to sing again, I’ll show you how you could be born, born again now. I’m beginning to see that life’s worth the living, beginning to find the right ‘stead of just the wrong. It’s pretty easy to love when love is given back you think it’s something special if you’re white or black but I find all love to be easy once more like a child who does not care who, how, why, what for Begin to sing again, I’ll show you how you could be born, born again now.
(Chris Dedrick/The Lamplighter Publishing Company/SOCAN)A Leaf Has Veins [ top ]
Da Da Da... A leaf has veins Da, da, da Don’t talk, just look Ba Ba Ba... Went for a walk that has no destination It’s much better like this for Ellen, Bruce, Sandy and Chris Da Da Da... Went for a walk that has no destination It’s much better like this for Ellen Bruce, Sandy and Chris Da Da Da... A bunch of words a good excuse to write some music Da Da Da...
(Chris Dedrick/The Lamplighter Publishing Company/SOCAN)Quartet No 6 in D Minor [ top ]
A perfect day for us to use since humans group themselves in two’s The sun burns down there’s no confusin’ the kind you are and what I’m losin’ We’re dancin’, laughin’, feelin’ fine a wild and wailin’ state of mind We’re dancin’ laughin’ you’ll be mine in silvery, golden pantomime We’re dancin’, laughin’, feelin’ fine a wild and wailin’ state of mind We’re dancin’, laughin’, you’ll be mine in silvery, golden pantomime Suddenly I see a stream of virgin light that’s white and softly bright Flow then a greenish blueish night of love naive and fool’s delight I can’t forget the one who was so close to me that I was she and she was me and I was she and I loved her and she loved me and I loved her and she loved me long and innocently. Monstrous clouds come close with lightning Coziness of thunder threatening Let’s go inside before it rains and dampens fun and frolic’s pain.
(Chris Dedrick/The Lamplighter Publishing Company/SOCAN)I Found Love [ top ]
I found love, didn’t even know I needed it But I found love, never even crossed my mind I found love, had a garden never weeded it But I found love, took an apple just in time I found love in the fall and it did not hurt at all I found sunlight and flowers, soft summer showers I can feel my heart touch my Adams apple I can feel the feather in my head There is a lightness, politeness, fingers tingle, tootsies tap ‘till dawn comes and finds me never in my bed I found love, didn’t even know I needed it But I found love, never even crossed my mind I found love in the spring and I did not lose a thing I found love in the fall and it did not hurt at all I found sunlight and flowers, soft summer showers. I can feel my heart touch my Adams apple I can feel the feather in my head There is a lightness, politeness, fingers tingle, tootsies tap ‘till dawn comes and finds me never in my bed Had a garden never weeded it But I found love Took an apple just in time I found love in this world and my heart strings just unfurled I found love in the spring and I did not lose a thing I found love in the fall and it did not hurt at all I found love in this world and my heart strings just unfurled I found love in the spring and I did not lose a thing.
(Chris Dedrick/The Lamplighter Publishing Company/SOCAN)Daniel Dolphin [ top ]
Daniel was a dolphin with wide innocent eyes We met him seven years ago in an island paradise He used to meet us at the shore, and swim with us and laugh And show us games and coral reefs and carry us like a raft Daniel Dolphin was a real friend, he knew more than he said Smart as Daniel was he used his heart before his head No one would believe he was as bright as what we said One day our grampapa was watching us play It hurt him that we ran along and with him did not stay and so he followed us along the sunny, sandy shore He got so far behind us that he couldn’t walk anymore Daniel Dolphin was a real friend, he knew more than he said Smart as Daniel was he used his heart before his head No one would believe he was as bright as what we said No one knew he loved us. There were the young ones playing, there was the old one praying Daniel took our grandpapa away through the waves they couldn’t find him anywhere in the coral reefs or caves But three days later Daniel came, but they killed him angrily But not before he brought to shore a tiny old brand new baby Daniel Dolphin was a real friend, he knew more than he said Smart as Daniel was he used his heart before his head No one would believe he was as bright as what we said No one knew he loved us. No one knew he loved us.
(Chris Dedrick/The Lamplighter Publishing Company/SOCAN)Ivy on a Windy Day [ top ]
Ivy is growing outside the church, the steeple and the cross Cobwebs are growing inside the church the people and the cross Ivy is green and young and growing Churches are white and old and cobwebbing But without the church there’d be no ivy and the ivy is needed inside the church Windy day, windy day dream the best of your life away Dream of an autumn day, dream on the first of May Blow away, windy day Ivy is green and young and its leaves are vain Windy day, windy day Let my dreams scatter where they may Ooh, ooh, blow away, windy day Churches are white and old Let my thoughts all stray until a soft October day Windy day, windy day.
(Sandy Dedrick Zynczak and Chris Dedrick/The Lamplighter Publishing Company/SOCAN)An Elegy [ top ]
For Dwight Arthur Dedrick, killed in Vietnam January 31, 1968 When he went away for the last time it wasn’t so easy, words were hard to find and the cows in the barn knew it was milking time Must of been real hard to leave everything behind, over there a moonless night shivering a secret fright It wasn’t so easy. And how many missions more, where to and what for? Ask the government, tell it to the cows in the barn Then there was the moon, what did the moon see? Saw the blade of grass in one boy’s eye and pain that’ll make you glad you’re dying Hands that dribbled the basketball Voice that sang out of tune Love that ended too soon A nose that bled for better reasons. When he went away for the last time it wasn’t so easy, words were hard to find and the cows in the barn knew it was milking time It was milking time but he was so far away, so far away that even prayers could not reach So he died there. When he came back for the last time it wasn’t so easy, words were hard to find and we buried him before it was milking time The preacher said it was all right, the Lord is my Shepherd but I shall want to know why.
(Chris Dedrick/The Lamplighter Publishing Company/SOCAN)