[ Peekaboo | Younger Son | McCarran Airport | Destiny | Springtime | Listen | The Hook | Music Room | The Only Treasure | Day Breaks | Perfect Love ]
Peekaboo [ top ]
In your eyes I go sailing On a sea of innocence, a sea of innocence And in my arms you are waking Feeling soul embracing sense I think your favorite word is “best” It sets the tone for all the rest In your eyes life is timeless All you see is treasure trove, treasure trove And I would wish you the kindness Of a world embracing love I think your symbol is the horse You seem intent to know its force It’s a wonder that we meet Life’s a game of hide and seek Much of us is far from view Playing cosmic peekaboo In your eyes I am living In a land of eternity, a land of eternity And if our hearts ache from giving This is love in its purity I think you’ll do alright - with style What joy to have held you for a while In my eyes, in my eyes It’s a wonder that we meet Life’s a game of hide and seek Ten, nine, eight, five, four, three, two - Playing cosmic peekaboo
(Chris Dedrick/Lamplighter Music/SOCAN)Younger Son [ top ]
Goodbye my younger son I’ll miss the spring and summer fun But my final journey has begun And though we part our heart is one The romance and the ecstacy Live on as more than memory Your music lives inside of me And though the image fades, I still can see You are my younger self The witness to the tales I tell You’re the all-star in the wishing well A carefree lover raising hell And now it comes this long goodbye It makes the mother in me cry But all that’s born must surely die You know there’s more than this and so do I And so I say to you goodbye John and Paul will say they don’t know why You’ll be coming through the rye Apple of your father’s eye You’re a bundle of desire Unafraid to take it higher I can say you lit my fire - Light my fire, light my fire You were there with Dolphin Dan You were Wo and Woody’s biggest fan You believe that kites are fun Bear your soul to anyone All that’s born must surely die You know there’s more than this and so do I
(Chris Dedrick/Lamplighter Music/SOCAN)McCarran Airport [ top ]
Fly away to Nevada city, if you can’t go it’ll be a pity Bright lights shining for love or money If I lose it won’t be fun for me You can meet me at the airplane, lay it on the line McCarran Airport, why do you let me down? You playing black jack, me watching baccarat Five dollar minimum all night long Nickel or dime slots, hitting the night spots Trying to decide what’s right or wrong Hughes Air West jet on the runway You go on Thursday and back on Sunday Only four days to win or lose me Don’t let the roulette wheel use me You can meet me at the airplane, lay it on the line McCarran Airport, why do you let me down? Up on Mt. Charleston, Indian lying down Taking some pictures at Boulder Dam Under the big top, riding the bumper cars Rolling like dice - where will we land? Run away from Nevada city With pockets that are full of empty Lucky I had a round trip ticket I played my hand, used every trick It was not meant to be A single coach seat on the airplane, I laid it all on the line McCarran Airport, why is this tear afraid to fall? McCarran Airport, now that I’ve gone and lost it all McCarran Airport, why is this tear afraid to fall? McCarran Airport, fly me from this gambling town
(Bruce Dedrick/Lamplighter Music/SOCAN)Destiny [ top ]
No, we can’t erase what love has traced No, we can’t forget what we have felt For now you are within me, we are the song of blue Our eyes have looked into our souls And seen a love so true Our eyes have seen a love so true Never have I known such sweetness Never have I felt so free Hold me in this moment of completeness You are my life and destiny Yes, you are the love I’m singing of Yes, I am the song within your heart Fate has drawn a circle around your heart and mine And now the story of our lives is one unbroken line Our life is one unbroken line
(Chris Dedrick/Lamplighter Music/SOCAN)Springtime [ top ]
Looking through an open window In the early part of the day Watching the sun come up The treetops play The mood in the air is changing The sky is a bit more blue Somebody said that springtime came today And all I can think of is you Lately I’ve been feeling better The winter was hard to take Long and deep but from our sleep we wake The mood in the air is changing The sky is a bit more blue Somebody said that springtime came today And all I can think of is you As going together we’re safe from harm Leaving nothing more to fear But hearing your lips whisper soft and warm And to have your body near It’s the closeness of you that I’m thinking of And it makes me want to fly But we are so much more than making love That it almost makes me cry Now we need to spend our spring together And our long hot summer too Falling leaves and snowy weather Let them follow me and you The mood in the air is changing The sky is a bit more blue Somebody said that springtime came today And all I can think of is you
(Bruce Dedrick/Lamplighter Music/SOCAN)Listen [ top ]
Hearing, feeling Never knowing who is there inside Showing traces Faces to hide the fear of me Wanting you always here Seeing, being Ever faithful to the unspoken law Making distance Listen: your heart is free of me Wanting you always here Hear
(Chris Dedrick/Lamplighter Music/SOCAN)The Hook [ top ]
All the pretty young singers with their popular songs Kind of short on meaning but the beat goes on You really have to love them - but not for very long They’d like to thank their managers And fans, and friends and yawn… We all fall asleep unless the chorus is the hook Chorus is the hook, chorus is the hook And the verse is terse and moody But the drum machine can cook Drum machine can cook, the drum machine can cook He who wants to sell a million better have a mill’ to spend - Greenbacks, Euros, Swiss Francs or Yen You could be a genius but you won’t get far If your face is better by the doorway in a jar You really need an earring in your navel or your lip Music, like photography, is art that you can Clip, clip, cut in the digital domain The essence of the thing remains the same We all fall asleep unless the chorus is the hook Chorus is the hook, chorus is the hook And the verse is terse and moody But the drum machine can cook Drum machine can cook, the drum machine can cook He who wants to sell a million better have a mill’ to spend - Greenbacks, Euros, Swiss Francs or Yen. Money makes money in this made-for-T.V. world Creation by committee stunts the growth of boys and girls I miss the live musicians like Ringo Starr and Gadd: Part of a dying race, but their samples can be had We all fall asleep unless the chorus is the hook
(Chris Dedrick/Lamplighter Music/SOCAN)Music Room [ top ]
There’s a railing by the steps which you often ignore As you guide your little body from floor to floor And you hear my music and you ask for more Dancing like a spirit through the open door There’s a feeling to the keys smiling white and black That you play from the bench with a special knack And you won’t play long but you’ll soon be back Sounding out the rhythm of your heart With practice you will fly with ease like a bird There are songs and poems to be heard You are not the kind to sit and rest You will soar beyond your happy nest There’s a beater for the drum that the natives made As they dreamed of the rhythm And the hand that would play When you hold that stick and the beat is laid We are filled with the music that will never fade We are filled with the music that will never fade You will fly with ease like a bird There are songs and poems to be heard You are not the kind to sit and rest You will soar beyond... There’s a railing by the steps which you often ignore As you guide your little body from floor to floor And you hear my music and you ask for more Dancing like a spirit through the open door Dancing like a spirit through the open door
(Chris Dedrick/Lamplighter Music/SOCAN)The Only Treasure [ top ]
In the search for something lasting Something timeless as the sun In the quiet of the late night, asking When the lonely day is done What have we got? Something in a memory Something in a feeling now A hope, a little prayer? What have we got? Can it be a mystery Can it be we’re seeing How the pain is more than we can bear Without each other, a little bit of time And each other, the roses and the wine And our love forever, love is the only treasure When the final chord is ringing And the band is halfway home We’re so tired, we’re almost tired of singing Couldn’t face the night alone What have we got? Something in a memory Something in a feeling now A hope, a little prayer? What have we got? Can it be a mystery Can it be we’re seeing How the pain is more than we can bear Without each other, a little bit of time And each other, the roses and the wine And our love forever, love is the only treasure
(Chris Dedrick/Lamplighter Music/SOCAN)Day Breaks [ top ]
Soft rays of sunlight Gently chase the whippoorwill From my windowsill Sweeping through the meadow, they move in Bringing warming light To kiss the night goodbye Day breaks, heart aches Reality sets in again - What might have been Dreams slip away Like the song you were singing Just yesterday - it lies still today Once fair as a blossom with dew on its petals Where has the melody gone? How do we go on with living and laughing And loving and facing a new breaking dawn? Candle burns low Morning mist is rising now I don’t know how Sorrow descends While the spirit rises up again - It never ends Once fair as a blossom with dew on its petals Why has the curtain been drawn? How do we go on with living and laughing And loving and facing a new breaking dawn? Soft rays of sunlight Gently chase the whippoorwill From my windowsill
(Bruce Dedrick, Chris Dedrick/Lamplighter Music/SOCAN)Perfect Love [ top ]
In this world there’s a mystery, and its name is love There’s no time or place that love cannot be found When we feel what we’re singing of In your heart love is powerful, and it claims its own You and I are embraced within a feeling So beautiful as we’re coming home There’s a choir of angels in the rain A host of poets rhyming There’s a mystery beyond the given name Can you feel the chords aligning? Perfect love is yours, perfect love is ours Perfect love we sing together Perfect love is yours, perfect love is ours Perfect love is all forever In this world we appear as two; this is just for a while In my love for you and in your love for me There’s an innocence undefiled May you carry this sweet refrain every day of your life You are born of its melody Its meaning so beautiful as the sounds unite There’s a choir of angels in the rain A host of poets rhyming There’s a mystery beyond the given name Can you feel the chords aligning? Perfect love is yours, perfect love is ours Perfect love we sing together Perfect love is yours, perfect love is ours Perfect love is all forever
(Chris Dedrick/Lamplighter Music/SOCAN)