"Something to Say" Songbook
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"SOMETHING to SAY" Songbook
(Steven Kalas)
"Something to Say" CD Lyrics
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Boredom
I think boredom is a sin
It's stupid
Like a man who starves to death
Near the food
When I'm there I can be sure
I've missed some chance to feel real good
What's your point, don't waste my time
I'm made of flesh, are you surprised
I don't run the race to find
A way to make you proud
More and more my friends are those
Who tell the joke by wearing clothes
You know good and well the man inside
I gave up piety for Lent
It's stupid
I'd rather be a human being
Than be good
I thank God for all of it
By enjoying chocolate
chorus
I see my friends and enemies
Are both right
I don't have the energy
For a fight
I'd tell you to get a life
But maybe the life you live is right
Chorus
I think boredom is a sin
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Maze of Glass
You and I stand oh so near
In a maze made of glass love wanders in fear
So close, yet so far, I see where you stand
Yet when I reach to touch you, the glass stays my hand
How could we be so careless with the gift we’d received
Touched by love, second chances, and still we deceived
My friend, oh my love, look at what we have done
See the colors swirl softly in our setting sun
In a maze made of glass
We lost our way
Look around, what happened?
What can I say
Once I wrote you a love song but it wouldn’t play
The words, they fell empty, our joy slipped away
Not once, but now twice I’ve said goodbye to you
How strange, I still love you and you love me too
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Outa Nowhere
Life upon a potter’s wheel
Spin it round ‘n round
Shaping things just how I want
Not just how I found
Plan your work and work your plan
Take another hill
I used to know a lot about the future
My imagination saw just how life ought to be
Never dawned that someone else had first imagined me
I chose my destination and I claimed my destiny
And that’s when you appeared from outa nowhere
Hey surprise! You just thought you knew
What was best for you
What you were gonna do
Now you know how little you decide
The best laid plans of mice and men
Are still just plans of mice and men
The finest dreams are ones too big for me to dream at all
But there’s another Dreamer, see
Who loves to dream sweet dreams for me
Who caters in surprises great and small
I plundered all the classrooms, drew maps from A to Z
Didn’t see that all I saw was all that I could see
I wrapped my future tidy and I stashed it up ahead
And then she just blew in from outa nowhere
Hey surprise! You just thought you knew
What was best for you
What you were gonna do
Then She just blew in from outa nowhere
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You and Casper
You have a lot in common with Casper
You are both really well drawn cartoons
Your animation is complete illusion
Each frame is still, you only seem to move
Neither of you is content with graveyards
You both insist on always haunting me
But one thing does distinguish you from Casper
The difference is that Casper is friendly
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Boo, here’s a news flash
You don’t like me at all
I say, Boo, it’s a clear glass just waiting to fall
Hope you understand, I don’t talk to walls
I imagine that you see yourself as subtle
A cheerful Buddha with a surgeons knife
But just like Casper, I can see right through you
A disembodied echo of real life
Can you be the only living, breathing person
Who can’t smell your baking bread hostility
If you’ve managed to convince yourself you love me
Then you are even more dangerous to me
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You have a lot in common with Casper
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Little Boy
Little boy, I hear you calling
And I’m hoping to find you
Little boy, you’re so alone and angry
Because no one’s there for you
Little boy, you hide your needs and fears from me
Because I’m ashamed of you
I cannot let them see that you live in me
Your pleas simply must be stilled
But you, little boy, you keep on calling
Because you believe in me
Little boy, you drove your daddy crazy
With your curiosity
Little boy, no one came to save you
When his rage crushed your spontaneity
Little boy, I sacrificed my love for you
To learn to be and feel properly
I learned to live as if you were a shameful part of me
Preferred the mask of grandiosity
But without you, little boy, my life is empty
So you keep on haunting me
Live, little boy, live, I will try to love you now
Teach me little boy, teach me, to heal my wounded soul
Be, little boy, be, be a child, be yourself, be free
I will give to you the love I want for me
In loving you I help myself to be
My little boy, he waited patiently
For years until I heard his cries to me
My little boy, I denied him
But he kept on loving me faithfully
My little boy learned that our survival
Demands not betraying our reality
He knows me well, yes, he can always tell
When I lie about his needs and gifts and dreams
We’re old friends, you see – this child and I
The little boy I sing to lives in me
The little boy I reach for once was me
God says the little boy deserves to be
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Free Fall
Shifting scenes on the back roads
Of a lonely place in your mind
Deep, deep inside of you something’s born
And something else must die
You’re in for a big surprise
(All you know are)
Pristine scenes on the highways
Of a life you’ve made out of mirrors
Can this be you with the hammer raised
To smash all you hold dear
Or thought that you held dear
You stand at the edge looking down into nowhere
And then you hear the call
Something inside of you says to jump
And build your wings as you fall
Sad to leave so many good friends wondering why
Glad to know that you can finally fly
Watch you fly
So here you are in a free fall
Dazed and feeling insane
A moment of thought and you’d’ve stepped right back
And stayed forever the same
Life in a picture frame
You risk hell to be saved
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Meet You Again
While I was loving you, your life arrived
Asking you for something that made you cry
And suddenly I find myself in need of introductions again
The reason we're colliding is we both are changed
Grief has license to rearrange
And the only way we make it is for me to meet you again
By my watch time is coming unwound
I've been watching life take my lover down
But what kind of hero just stands here watching you cry
You bear the weight I don’t know how
The metal stressed, you’re different now
You’re different now
I must say I miss the way it was
Before tears poured and had their way with us
Move carefully now, lest the tears wash the whole thing away
So tell me of your travels in the emptiness
Together we can say goodbye to innocence
Tell me what I need to be the one who gets to meet you again
By my watch time is coming unwound
I've been watching life take my lover down
But what kind of hero just stands here watching you cry
You bear the weight I don’t know how
The metal stressed, you’re different now
You’re different now
While I was loving you, your life arrived
Asking you for something that made you cry
And suddenly I find myself in need of introductions again
So tell me of your travels in the emptiness
Together we can say goodbye to innocence
Tell me what I need to be the one who gets to meet you again
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Late For Work
The radio says that it’s time to rise
Says we both have things to do
But we tell ourselves in each other’s arms
That we’ll lie here a moment or two
Perhaps we should kiss just once or twice
Is there time for a gentle caress
Then I look at you, and you look at me
And we both know what happens next
We’re gonna be late for work
We’re gonna be careless with time
I see that smile, see that look in your eye
Let the morning wait impatient by the window
So off you go, put your feet on the floor
We simply must start our day
Let the shower warm, I will break my fast
Bring you coffee if I may
In a happy glow, I come to you
With a cup of morning zest
Some soft words pass and I tarry there
Even though we try our best
Chorus
This is just crazy
Why can’t we let go
The bills must be paid
And the bank doesn’t care if I love you so
The radio says that it’s time to rise
Says we both have things to do
But we tell ourselves in each other’s arms
That we’ll lie here a moment or two
Perhaps we should kiss just once or twice
Is there time for a gentle caress
Then I look at you, and you look at me
And we both know what happens next
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SOMETHING TO SAY
I have something to say to you
I wish it was more fun to say
I have searched for alternatives
Some other way to explain
This empty space, this tortured place
The rending of my broken heart
You can’t know how it kills me to say
That I don’t respect you any more
All of my friends are blind and lame
Pretty much just like me
It’s not the flaws that turn me away
It’s what you pretend to be
Faithful and good, misunderstood
The keeper of Jesus dreams
Even if what you think is right
I don’t respect you anymore
No I don’t respect you any more I find
I don’t have the time to spend with folks
Who smile and not and talk to me like my brain is broke
Perhaps a good boy would go along
And sing beloved pretending songs
I have something to say to you
I bet I don’t get to first base
I predict the next thing you’ll do
Is whatever helps you save face
Questions like mine are surely a sign
That you walk the one true way
Do what you want, say what you will
I don’t respect you any more
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Breathing You
I always have a little trouble breathing
Whenever I first see you in the room
It's like I have to choose between what I'm feeling
And the everyday breathing I have to do
You'd think that I might step out on the front porch
To find myself and taste the night's fresh air
Instead I lay my cheek against your temple
And take a dizzy breath of you standing there
Breathing you, it takes me to the place where I feel everything
Breathing you, I think I could do anything life asked of me
See you now, gasp for air
Bury my face in your hair
Breathing you, I breathe again
You turn your head to offer invitation
I wonder where you've hidden the perfume
Moving down your neck across your shoulder
Take another sweet, deep breath of you
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So Happy
I’m so happy that you’re mine
And that you love me all the time
And that your standing here in blue jeans looking fine
And I’m so happy when you come to me
You toss your head and look to see
If I can be distracted by your smile
Yes I’m so happy when you take my hand
You touch my face, your lips demand
Attention that you will not be denied
Hey lady - angels dancing in your hair
I’m so happy when we touch
When your gentle hands I love so much
Explore the mystery of passions dare
And I’m so happy when the suitors loom
You flash a look across the room
I know you’re going home with me tonight
And I’m so happy when the bright full moon
Illuminates the dark bedroom
And there you are still sleeping by my side
Hey lady – angels dancing in your hair
Hey lady – lift your dreams into the air
Some clouds will come our way
As we face each day together
But I’ll wait patiently
For our love to burn the clouds away
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Dreams and Feathers
Soft on the breeze flies a feather
And the little boy gives chase on little feet
Just like my dreams is the feather
Floating slowly just beyond my reach
Yet reaching has so many things to teach
And I've reached for so many dreams it seems
That dance and laugh just ahead of me
And after a while the temptation comes
To let those dreams just fly by
So you sit with what you know
And call it life
Such a tiny life
Something happens to a man who wakes up
And reaches for a dream he's got no chance of catching
His soul, it stretches as he leaps the hedges
Of the tiny yard that he calls home
And though he may never catch the dancing feather
It will lead him to other dreams he's never dreamed before
A brand new place
The gift of the dream is the chase
Out of breath the little boy comes running
Back from his adventures in the wind
He dared to chase his dreams and now he's humming
His smile leads his face to where I stand
I'll be damned he's got a feather in his hand
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FAIL FORWARD
And so your life went sprawling. Everybody saw
You win the prize for “Not So Bright.” Maybe broke the law
You couldn’t keep your promise. Betrayed what you believed
You have aced the college course in fallibility
So fail forward. You won’t break
Fail forward. Crash and burn ‘til it aches
Fail forward As many times as it takes
Always try to make some new mistakes
The crowd was screaming adoration. You dropped the ball
You chose your mate unwisely. That lawyer’s got some gall
The curtain raised on your big scene. You forgot your lines
You tell the friendly officer you didn’t see the sign
So fail forward. You won’t break
Fail forward. Crash and burn ‘til it aches
Fail forward As many times as it takes
Always try to make some new mistakes
So you’re a failure. At least you’re not insane
Crazy is returning to the things that caused you pain
You’re the only one surprised to find you’re human too
But if you’re gonna screw things up, the least that you could do…
So fail forward. You won’t break
Fail forward. Crash and burn ‘til it aches
Fail forward As many times as it takes
Always try to make some new mistakes
Do something wrong different |
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