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Lyrics of Kathy Kallick songs from Reason & Rhyme All credits: Kathy Kallick (Red Shirt Pub. Co./BMI), except as noted. ============== I Once Loved I once loved a cowboy, not a lot to say Alone on the range for most of the day Then he’d jump on his horse and just ride away Leave all questions and answers dangling I once loved a diplomat, he had a way with words He’d listen real hard and repeat all that he’d heard With a passion for gossip and all things absurd And a talent for side-step angling CHORUS: Love is a challenge, love is a test I once loved a dancer, graceful and slim Smooth and romantic, everybody loved him Best in the spotlight with all other lights dim And the crowds and the music jangling CHORUS Now I love the silence and I love the light The sound of my heartbeat alone in the night I love the way music and food and dance are just right With the absence of all that entangling ’cause love is possessive, love is unkind CHORUS ============== Coastal Fog The moon’s gonna rise in the east tonight Just a thumbnail sketch but oh so bright I’m gonna hold myself real tight ’Til I rock these blues away CHORUS: And the coastal fog’s gonna roll in tonight Some things change, some stay the same Some folks never take the blame We can talk about the weather instead of the pain If you ain’t got nothin’ to say CHORUS You always fight ’til you think you’ve won Sometimes I think you fight for fun We can fight all day ’til you think we’re done And leave me shattered and scared, but hey CHORUS Things aren’t as simple as they seem at first Hard feelings build ’til I think I’ll burst And that’s too bad but the thing that’s worse Is this sense that you’re slipping away ==================== The Words You Don’t Say [Kathy Kallick (Red Shirt Pub. Co./BMI, James Leva (North Buffalo Music/BMI; Carol Elizabeth Jones (BMI)] No bitter cryin’, no bitter tears No bitter thoughts of wasted years Hard feelings stay, won’t go away More time goes by, ’til there’s nothing to say You could have spoken right from the start And said those words that tore my world apart I could have cried then, ’til the pain washed away But I’m left full of silence from the words you don’t say CHORUS: It’s not what you have done, it’s what you don’t say There is a place inside the heart That waits for words that are unsaid There is a place that once loved a friend There is a place where love never ends ==================== Good To Me I’ve walked away from you at least a hundred times The last one was the keeper, this I know That love was killing me in a way no one could see I moved away so slowly on broken bones Forget about the healing because the hollow place inside Is a reservoir of sadness where a cold wind blows Now every chance I get I think of how it used to be Now I can hold my head up high or I can crawl away and die There’s just no victory in being right All the wrong you did to me, all the crazy deals we made These are the things I cherish in the dead of night I’ve got a blind spot looking back, can’t feel the knife held to my back Heart pounding out of my chest I think of going back Now every chance I get I think of how it used to be ==================== You Took Me Away Even though I told you to stay away and to do the honorable thing You listened to the words behind my words And you came and you took me away I never will forget the look of the sky I never will forget the day You packed two bags and you got in the car And you came and you took me away CHORUS: You took me away, you took me away Now, I had thought that love could ask me to crawl over broken glass But love is so forgiving And love never makes me ask Now, there may not be an answer for every time that we cry But we’ll never cry alone and Barely breathe and sit and wonder why CHORUS The steam lies on the window And the moon is bright outside I hear your voice in the other room Where the fire is burning bright There’s books and flowers and a big yellow dog Red berries in a big blue bowl And I just rock and smile because I’m so happy in my soul CHORUS ================ Just A Song It won’t win a Nobel prize Or even open someone’s eyes It can’t feed a hungry child or Keep the forests free and wild It’s all right, there’s nothing wrong It’s just a song A song will never win a friend A heart must to that deed attend And heart and mind together all along Can find the soul that lives inside a song A song can only lift your voice Make a noise, give a choice To pierce the silence of a lonely night Sometimes I take myself for granted Small and worthless as a grain of sand Still part of something grand, there’s nothing wrong I’ve got a song It’ll never win a Nobel prize Or even open someone’s eyes It’s all right, there’s nothing wrong It’s just a song =================== Love You On A Train(Kathy Kallick & Scott Nygaard, Red Shirt Pub. Co./BMI) I got on the train in Barcelona Cried all the way to the border of France Pulled myself together as the door slid open When a gentleman offered me a cigarette And the train rolled on and on A sleeper car through Germany I finally slept so gratefully In crisp and lovely linen sheets Along the Rhine at a quarter to three And the train rolled on and on The polished wood, the stainless steel The humming rails, the rolling wheels The eloquent serenity The power and the privacy The rocking, rolling, shrieking, growling, modern, stately magic of a train I want to love you on a train Through majestic Swiss alps scenery Or maybe the shores of Lake Louise Drinking endless silver pots of tea In a long and languid reverie And the train rolls on and on ================== Rustler’s Moon There was a sliver, just a slice Of a waning moon Way out on the west prairie It was a dark so thick You could eat it with a spoon What the cowboys call a rustler’s moon Creeping through the dark One step at a time A thief whose life is on the line What fears and thoughts lurk in the mind Of a rustler watching for some cloudy sign CHORUS: Rustler’s moon, cold and blue Oh, to keep from cryin’ is a dreadful fight Standing alone in the night The dark seeps in, that old moon is mean Just light enough to see but not be seen CHORUS Oh, I may be bad and I may be good I might not live life as I should But the words I heard Under night’s dark hood Cut me like no rustler’s knife ever could CHORUS ======================= Take Care Of Your Little Girls (Kathy Kallick & Nina Gerber, Red Shirt Pub. Co./BMI) Take Care Of Your Little Girls (Kathy Kallick & Nina Gerber, Red Shirt Pub. Co./BMI) I remember when Gramma got married again Mama said, “You’d think she’d had enough of men” That new grandfather really gave me the creeps He come a-tiptoein’ in when I was fast asleep I’ll never remember the worst of it I just remember him sayin’, “This won’t hurt a bit” Take care of your little girls By the time I hit school, I was scared and ashamed I had a secret fear I was somehow to blame There was no one to talk to, nobody to tell At least nobody who would believe it at all I had to tell myself there’d come a day I’d have my own little girl, never treat her this way Take care of your little girls Now I’ve got a lover who’s my own size Got nice little hands that look a lot like mine It took a long, long time to look into those eyes And let the love shine through a little at a time When I finally let go, I got a sweet surprise A tender touch was like the sweetest fruit on the vine Take care of your little girls =================== Hard To Let Go The passing of time Death and loss of what was mine The thing about change, there’s no reason or rhyme If change don’t kill you you’re bound to be fine CHORUS: It’s hard to let go, hard to let go Hard to let go of the past Old photos in a book Time for just one more look Those group shots in plain frames Faces with long forgotten names It’s hard to let go, hard to let go Hard to let go of the past It’s hard to let go when you’re holding fast Hard to let go of the past An old stand of oak With brnaches burnt and bent and broke I’m looking out through the green new growth With hands and heart and eyes wide open CHORUS ================= What A Night Oh, babe, what a night Oh, babe, what a night There was all that action All of that light Oh, babe, what a night I didn’t know what to say All that stuff got in the way There were all those people All of that talk Oh, babe, what a night. After all of this time After all we’ve been through You must know and I know I would do anything Do anything for you When I look at your face Every tear, every trace You’d better know by now I would do anything Do anything for you You’re a beacon in the night You’re a bright and shining light I would do anything for you After all of these years We don’t believe all we hear Do anything Is it money or a place Is it time or all these parts You are still and always will Have to be my favorite way To break my heart Oh, babe, what a night Oh, babe, what a life Got to sing, got to talk Left them laughin’ in the dark Do anything for you Do anything for you I’d do anything for you Ooo, ooo Ooo, ooo Ooo ================= Bring Me Back To You Even when I close my eyes, I can see the towns fly by And the rhythm of the wheels keeps on rolling And I don’t want to lay my head in a solitary bed But I’m away from you, and there is no one I would turn to Time gets all stretched out ‘til my reference points are gone And memory and fantasy get blurry And the crazy ways I feel push the edges of what’s real Until I’m desperate to get somewhere in a hurry CHORUS: Somehow all this brings me back to you When I’m this tired I feel abused by my unforgiving muse Who chooses inconvenient times to bless me And I’ve no choice but to accept all the words and sounds I let Tumble through me, overwhelm me and possess me CHORUS |
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