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Lyrics of Kathy Kallick songs from Matters Of The Heart All credits: Kathy Kallick (Southern Melody Publishing Co./BMI), except as noted. ============== Radio I recall those thrilling nights Transistor lying under my pillow I harbor still the secret vice Knowing something that nobody knows When did the magic steal your soul Fill your senses and rock your bones Your steadfast lover through the night When did you fall for the radio CHORUS: I miss your laughter, I miss your voice We trace our stories through the time This song’s yours and this one’s mine No one thing can recall a moment Quite like a song from the radio I remember and you do too Where you heard all the fateful news Our heroes died on the radio Where were you when we walked on the moon CHORUS It’s dark, it’s late, I’m all alone Driving down some unknown road Foot on the dashboard, hair blowin’ I got the window rolled down low Straining for familiar tones Here comes your voice on the radio CHORUS ================== Bakery Window Wedding Bakery window wedding, cardboard paste and paint Pretty as a picture, but it ain’t It’s not a movie and it’s not a book This time it’s for real This is how I feel Solid and sad The feelings are bad But they’re mine and now is the time to change It looked so perfect, looked so right, looked so fine and fair Inside only air, nothing there We looked so good together We looked so much alike There must be more to life Like something to share Something small Like walking and talking in the late afternoon How do these things happen, where did the passion die When did I get too busy to love my wife [To be your wife] Guess it’s not easy Guess it’s not free I guess it really takes work That’s what the love is worth More than words The way things were on our very first Valentine’s Day Bakery window wedding Cardboard paste and paint Pretty as a picture But it ain’t ==================== Man In The Moon Someone was sayin’ that they saw you smile It lit up the night just like a neon sign Warmed up my heart to hear about that spark Mystery profile hangin’ in the dark CHORUS: You must be the man in the moon You walk in the room shinin’ like the sun Everybody wishin’ on you, who’ll be the one To wear you like a pearl, one lucky girl You lookin’ down on the whole wide world CHORUS I took a little look late last night The sky was deep purple, it was cool and quiet I saw your smile, it was sweet and white There is not a star that could dim that light CHORUS ==================== It Just Takes Time (Kathy Kallick & Nina Gerber, Southern Melody Publishing Co./BMI) You’re hurting way too much You need somebody’s touch Understanding’s not enough You need love You’ve been dealt the unfair blow The last hit was much too low You’ll get through somehow, but how You just don’t know CHORUS: Everybody says it just takes time Oh, but your faith in life is shot Your friends are all you’ve got And a friend’s kind words don’t hit the spot You need love CHORUS So full of fear you can’t reach out Your mind so full of doubt Better cry for love Better scream and shout for love Sometime’s the anger’s all that’s real And you’re just too numb to feel As the doors slam shut Let your heart steal back to love ==================== Midwestern Boy Come to me, midwestern boy Summer skin, warm as the corn One slow dance on a moonlight beach Dressed in just what you were born in Tall and lanky by the lake Smilin’ sideways, a freckled face Wait for me, midwestern boy And I will meet you in that place Play those songs that tell a story Great beginnings and the end of childhood What a time to come of age Free love and the war a-raging I don’t know the plans you made Gone to college or to dodge the draft I just needed someone to run to Until I finally turned eighteen [Do you remember when ... ] Perhaps the east coast or the west Just anywhere that’s not so in between I’ll see you, midwestern boy There’s still time to have a dream Fireflies light up the dark Skin so brown and hearts so open Now close your eyes, midwestern boy And I will be with you tonight ================== North Star CHORUS: If you look in the sky and you see the north star I’ve been busy barking at the darkness Just howling at the moon I’ve been worried you’re finding me heartless I could leave you to sing this tune CHORUS I wake in the night and know you want me With the silence asking why I’m gone Then I see your face and it haunts me Ain’t no time to wonder where I belong CHORUS ================== You Were In Love(Kathy Kallick & John Reischman, Southern Melody Publishing Co./BMI) I took a minute to think of you before I sailed upon a silent sea I took the time to review the careful kinds of things you always said to me You never said you were in love You only told me just enough You never said you were in love You only said that it was circumstance You didn’t think it wise to take that kind of chance We didn’t have to fly, we only wanted one slow dance Let’s dance It doesn’t always take a fool to ask a simple question give an answer yes or no A fool ain’t gonna see the writing on the wall, hit you on the head, you know-it-all You never said you were in love You talked about a lot of stuff You never said you were in love Did you think you were the only one to ever think of that The man with all the facts Was it a cautious act or was it ceremonial chat Chit-chat If we had never had a single kiss, we wouldn’t find ourselves in a fix like this But when you think of all the empty faces in a single day, too bad you didn’t say You were in love, you never said You only acted so stuck up I should have known You were in love It took the distance of a thousand nights And all the time of space To finally see the brightest light Heart on my sleeve, out on a limb I’m lost at sea, no help in sight I should have known You were in love [Darlin’, you send me ... ] ================== Matters Of The Heart(Kathy Kallick & Todd Phillips, Southern Melody Publishing Co./BMI) I’ve been meaning to talk to you about matters of the heart It never seems so urgent until we’re far apart Then I long to hear your voice, touch you with my hands And I start to worry that you don’t understand CHORUS: If you really need me, I’ll be there There are stories about journeys that separate two hearts The drama is unfolding when the lovers part Sending messages and letters, gathering small tokens When they’re reunited, their hearts are unbroken CHORUS Baby, when I heard your voice on the telephone line Tore me up just to hear how much you’re pinin’ ================== Quake Of ’89(Kathy Kallick & Nina Gerber, Southern Melody Publishing Co./BMI) I got a call from Egypt and another one from Peru Someone called from Belgium and one from Timbuktu Everyone who loved me called except for you I went out and bought a lot of water and flashlight batteries too I bolted my foundation, picked up a lot of clothes and shoes The more I tried to get ready, the more I came unglued CHORUS: The earth went bang, there were two big waves I sat down and read all of my roadmaps, tried to plan alternative routes Everyone was tryin’ to be funny, everyone was tryin’ to be cute When I left my house this morning, I was shakin’ in my boots CHORUS I wish I could go back home now, I wish I could run to you But that never was a real solution, it took this to know what’s true Anyone I could go to would help me more than you CHORUS I been thinkin’ a lot about bridges, I been thinkin’ a lot about time Things shift into focus when your life is on the line To me that was the message in the quake of eighty-nine CHORUS: The earth went bang, there were two big waves That earthquake made a lot of things shake Everyone was saved, had time to thank --- why didn’t you take the time --- To thank God, why didn’t you ================== Save Everything Questions remain unanswered, there’s so much left unsaid So many conversations I’ve had with you inside my head What did you do with the letters, do they lie somewhere still unread What do you do with the pictures still runnin’ around inside your head CHORUS: I’m gonna save everything Some of the gifts you gave still travel around with me They’re tiny precious tokens of a love that used to be What did you do with the gifts I gave, are they somewhere inside a box And how would it be if you and I ever had the time to talk CHORUS I guess most of what we said was always somewhere between the lines Most of what you gave me is still somewhere inside my own mind Now it’s too bad about a new love because there’s still a place inside Where you and I are rockin’ and talkin’ late into the night CHORUS: I’m gonna save everything ’Cause I’ve started to think There might come a day Before I’m old and grey I’m gonna need love letters like that Yeah, I’m gonna need love letters like that ================== See You In Seattle(Kathy Kallick & John Reischman, Southern Melody Publishing Co./BMI) A darkened sky with gorgeous light From the west through the middle of the night The moon is always golden when it’s clearing The cascades tousled, tumbling down To a prism patchwork on the ground The sky is clear, blue-grey just like your eyes While tiny boat masts sway beneath those skies CHORUS: Love you, yes, I always will I see you hitch-hiking in the rain Sleeping on the sand off the coast of Spain Laughing up your sleeve in some cafe in Vienna Me a painter, you a poet Through the years though we don’t show it We’re both afraid we’ve lost track of these talents Yet in each other we find a sense of balance CHORUS Now you say that place is full of ghosts You think you’d like to travel to the other coast I wonder will the distance really maker a difference ’Cause wherever you go, well, there you are And a well of sadness can reach so far If only you could see yourself the way that I do Wherever you go, my heart will be beside you CHORUS ================== Red Shirt I was workin’ overtime in the town of Lorraine Right between Odessa and Abeline Feelin’ like somethin’ that the cat dragged in The whole place looked a little worse than me I left work and walked straight through town With the wind at my back and the sun goin’ down I got home and turned right around My TV chair was no place for me CHORUS: There was a two-bit moon in a ten-cent sky I left home with the screen door slammin’ And I went to a club where the band was jammin’ You know what they say about feast or famine They were all linin’ up just to dance with me I had my red shirt on, I was hot I can tell ya I was just warmin’ up at a quarter to eleven Thought I might have died and gone to heaven How did this happen to a girl like me CHORUS I’m gonna take that moon like a big yellow quarter Gonna put it in the juke box and place my order Dance ’til my feet hurt and kick up my heels Sing y’all a song ’bout the way that it feels CHORUS ================== Wish Me Well You used to need to hold me so tightly I could not breathe The bed got bigger, the space got wider, and we both had to leave Now that all the anger’s done there’s only one thing to tell: Oh, I wish you well Sometimes late at night I lie staring at the moon Or when I’m lying with my sweet lover in the afternoon I may say a million things, I say a grateful prayer I pray you’re happy somewhere CHORUS: Close a heart, close a hand If you could have talked to me and I could have talked to you We would have told the words in our hearts and we would have told the truth But you could barely speak my name and I was much the same Oh, silence was to blame Sometimes when I close my eyes, I can still see your face If I could hold you one more time, I’d hold you in a soft embrace With room to breathe and room to grow without kicking at the door Oh, and room to love you more CHORUS |
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