1. |
Home
03:03
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Life it slips away
Hope I get the chance to live it
‘Stead of pissin it away
Chasing all of the ghosts
From yesterday
I can’t help from thinking
That we lost our way, when searchin'
For, A deeper sense of meaning
Distracted by shining lights
A beacon
But no, I won’t sell my soul for
Diamonds and gold
All the riches found in the world
What’s the point of livin'
But to find our way
Home
Love is all we are
Hope I get the chance to feel it
Breakin’ down the walls
Between my past and future tenses
Still, I can’t help from thinking
That we lost our way, when searchin
For, a deeper sense of meaning
Distracted by shining lights
A beacon
But no, I won’t sell my soul for
Diamonds and gold, all the riches found in the world
Cause what’s the point of living
But to find our way
Home
Now and again
I got lost
In the fight
All the stories
I tell myself
But I won’t go into the light
With a heavy heart
I’m learning
To
Let it go
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2. |
Pray to God
04:38
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I'd be lying if I said
That I knew just what I was doing
Cause we're all fumbling
Falling down
To get back up and start again
But life is much to short to waste it
Chasing ghosts and pleasing fools
We blink and then it's gone
So someone tell me what I should have done
And what else I should know
Like where did it all go?
I would try to pray to god if I
Thought that someone might be listening
I'm lost but know that I will find a way
Cause as far as I can tell
As far as I can tell
We're on our own
So what if I might play the same 3 chords
In almost all my songs?
They're just a vessel for these words
To get them out into the world
And sometimes when we don't get what we want
It's what we really need
I'm trying not to place my worth
And self-esteem on what I'm told
And other people's points of view
Cause none of them are really true
But how are we to know
What to keep and to let go?
So tell me what does this all mean
When bodies start to mutiny?
They're jumping ship
They're leaving town
We're looking up but feeling down
Don't take that anger
Push it back
Into the corners of your mouth
If only we could know the words
Inside our bones could change the world
Cause then we might not hate ourselves
And live our lives for someone else
We're sick and tired of being used
We're drowned in greed and self-abuse
But what if Love's the only way
To pull ourselves back up again
So then what would we do?
When the Love it starts with you?
I would try to pray to God if I
Thought that someone might be listening
I'm lost but know that I will find a way
Cause as far as I can tell
As far as I can tell
We're not alone
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3. |
Clubs & Spades
04:48
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Sometimes the brightest
Brightest of lights
Shine from the darkest
Darkest of roads
So I just keep driving
Make friends with the moon
And hope that the sunlight
Will wake me up soon
This life is a gamble
I’m a old deck of cards
I’ve made some mistakes
Playing clubs and spades
And kept all my heart to myself
With those diamonds and gold
But what good are riches
If you become too old to hold
But how will I know when to hold?
How will I know when to fold?
Ohhh
I have been trying
Trying to hide
All of my secrets
Safe behind my smile
But I think that I’m losing, losing this fight
So I might ask if you would just stay with me
At least for a while
Stay with me just for a while
Would you stay just for awhile?
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4. |
Shades of Blue
05:31
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5. |
Rising Higher
03:40
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I've been worrying again
Hoping for answers to come find me
Like I'm lost in the dark and
Looking for light that's gonna guide me
So I keep fumbling blindly
All the while a light keeps shining
It shows me where I'm going
And I see that it's inside me
I see the light inside me
The lights always inside me
But there's a sadness that I'm hiding
And it's also deep inside me
I can see the storm is coming
It's coming I can feel it all around me
And I know it's always passing
It's passing but the waves they keep on pounding
And still they keep on rising
They're rising but you know I'm rising higher
You know I'm rising higher
My heart's been closed for too long
It's cracked along the seams
It's been trying to tell me something
I don't know just what it means
My brain is wired faulty
And nothing's what it seems
It's been doing too much thinking
Instead of living what it dreams
I'm trying to keep my heart wide open
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6. |
An Ocean, Rising
03:27
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I've been floating around
Getting high, but looking down
To get my feet back on the ground
I've been pushing away
All the love I never show
As above, then so below
I built this fort around my heart
And brick by brick
These walls are coming down
And all at once
I felt an ocean rising up
Like a storm surge in the night
Then all my darkness slipped away
And i turn my face towards the sun
I've been running away
A past I thought I left behind
Old habits die or try to hide
Living blind for most my life
Just fumbling through the dark
To find a spark
Then all at once
The flames went higher
Rising up like a wildfire in the night
Then all my darkness slipped away
Cause sometimes the old has gotta burn
But oh my body, won't you forgive me
Cause I know not what I have done to you
Won't you wait for me
Cause I'm coming home
Yeah, please wait for me
Cause I'm almost home
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7. |
Feet on the Ground
03:22
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Hell’s not a place
You go when you die
It’s that piece of your heart
Where light cannot shine
There’s no need to be harder
Pretend to be tender
Despite what you’re told
There is strength in surrender
No need to be sorry
For keeping us waiting
We’re waiting for something
Just tryna be patient
Don’t know what we’re doing
But our hearts are breaking
Just cracked but not broken
To let all the light in
We've all got our demons
Beliefs that we've borrowed
A past that we keep
Tucked away in the shadows
It's true what they say
That the mind can be clever
But don't fool yourself
It's the heart that remembers
The more I know
The more that I find
I know nothing at all
And we're all the same
Playing the game
Wondering how it all
Turned out this way
We're floating around
Head in the clouds
Trying to get our feet
Back on the ground
We wasted it all
Backs up the wall
Scared to look down
Cause we're too 'fraid to fall
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Lend me your voice if I sing out of tune
Project all the words to the back of the room
Stories I’ve told by the light of the moon
Gone are those days, not a moment too soon
Lend me your ears if I can’t hear the sound
My heartbeat’s a drum and it’s drowning me out
Keeping up time, but it’s counting me down
As life ticks away, got one foot in the ground
I might not seem to mind
But I make a choice to be kind
Life will all be fine
Just take it one day at a time
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9. |
Here, Today
03:47
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Let us start again
Let's begin to live it now
Forget everything
All the things that try to grind you down
And know you'll be okay
if your heart believes in Love
Ohhh
It'll be okay
All we've got to do is find our way
Find our way
So let's not wait another day
To come and go again
Before we start to live it
'Fore we give our Love away
The past is all but gone
And still the futures on the way
We might as well enjoy it here today
Life don’t mean a thing
So it’s up to you to find a way
Find a way to
Make it all okay
Make your heart believe in Love
Mmmm
Ain’t it funny how
Ain’t it funny how
What goes around
Comes around
And what you thought you knew
Still goes deeper
And we’re spiraling round
Up and down
So let’s not wait another day
To come and go again
Before we start to live it
‘Fore we give our Love away
The past is all but gone
And still the future’s on the way
We might as well enjoy it here, today
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10. |
Endings / Beginnings
01:00
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Gordon Caldwell Victoria, British Columbia
"Insightful lyrics with simple yet catchy melodies, Gordon takes you through an intimate exploration of one mans experience
by way of his authentic expression. His acoustically-rooted folk styling blends beautifully with his voice & his relatable messages of humanity. A storyteller of the soul, his songs will satisfy your ears and touch your heart."
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