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In a Minor Key
04:01
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There’s a woman that I know who ran a little bar
In the town where I used to be
She’d seen more in life than anyone could tell
And more than anyone should see
Never pine for a clear day when a rainy one will do
Though I know that others disagree
It's much more than simply making more with few
It's finding joy in a minor key
Living in a minor key is to shape reality
So your will is yours and truly free
Forget bout what you heard
Jump on in and flat the third
And get on living in a minor key
There’s a man lives down the street who speaks obscenities
But his heart knows love and life and all
And he’ll tell you of his life’s fine philosophies
And of every time he came to call
Take the first I’ll take the latter
If you don’t mind it doesn’t matter
A battle cry played out on the marquee
With a twinkle of his eye he says as 40 years go by
When making love in a minor key
What’s the point of living life like the best can never be?
Why not go and live your life like everyday’s a jubilee…
I hope I find a kid (for truly they must be)
Who truly sees the wisdom of my plea
To make a choice instead
As glory’s absentee
Living life in a minor key
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Pulling Nails
04:21
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I've used up all the boxes
I took out all the trash
I'll grab the truck in Brampton
Still save a little cash
I thought I'd have a future
Drywall and driving nails
Still, life thought otherwise
Bad times and falling sales
They say it's so much harder
To try to save a stash
Can't even find your fortune
Digging holes up in the patch
Pastimes will pass the time
Lost moments with the hip
Life is a fulsome journey
This here's a sorry trip
It’s time to leave the line
I’ve had enough of losing
I’ve seen enough of pain
Old plans are worth refusin’
While I try to make amends
You won’t catch me again
'Cause it's only pulling nails
Stuck on the 401
Goin nowhere with no one else
I'm frozen here in time
Still hope my heart can melt
I've laid off my ambitions
I've outsourced my reserve
I've mortgaged all my dreams
And the future I had earned
The past is gone
Why should I mind
My path moves on
I’m doing fine
Your absence shades the presence
Of everything that came before
I knew I paid my penance
When you were standing at my door
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Home
03:43
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What if home is where we cannot go
Because we’re already there
What if we’re so busy trying to find
Something that’s really nowhere
What if love is the thing we want to feel
But we never can find a soul
To give us the things we won’t give ourself
And no one can ever know.
But I know
Every moment on. We get a little closer to home
But I know
Every moment on. It’s just that we’ll never know
What if hope is all we want to find
But we’re standing right over the spot
It may be a crumb, it may be some one
It may be something or not
Wanting more out of life
Expecting and seeing the same
What do you want from your life
Expecting that nobody came
What if sons and daughters go wandering
In deserts devoid of dreams
What if lovers starving of loving
Go saying less than they mean
What if pain is less a default
Than a lazy view of the world
What if falling out of a lifeboat
Is more than anybody could
What if home is where we cannot go
Because we’re already there
What if we’re so busy trying to find
Something that’s really nowhere
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On the Other Side
03:42
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Where, where have the crowds all gone - Am I the only one, left in the sun?
Lost, afraid and alone again - I'll search and I find and then, can't find anyone
Hide, pull all the curtains down - Clean all the space around, make everything clear
Try, try to act normal now - And find all the whys and hows, to make it in here
Take my hand darling, I know the way
(We'll) face the fear coming, day by day
I know we'll be ok
On the other side
Find, find me a trusted voice - Cut on through the noise, make everything right
Light, help me to light the way - And make it out of the darkness, and into the light
Keeping to myself to keep me right
When I just want to come and hold you tight
But on the other side we'll be allright
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Clouds
03:44
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Time flows in ribbons
It frays as it flows
To threads as it falls to the floor
And all is forgiven
Beyond all we know
By the time we walk through the door
There once was a dream
That I had by a stream
Where the stream was calling my name
Too much to believe
Than to think what we see
Can never quite be the same
Can you see like me
That whatever will be
Will be and that’s all there is
And clouds are all that I see
As children we know
All the true can be shown
Regardless, our dreams are what’s true
So staring at clouds
We can still find somehow
What is true for me, and for you
Remember the times when I needed a friend
Over and over and over again
So I look at the clouds in a sky full of blue
And I mull it all over and hope that it’s true
That everyone seems to float through the day
As time moves along and goes drifting away
When the distance is great, but the love still so strong
Don’t be afraid, cause it won’t be so long
Can you see like me
That whatever will be
Will be and that’s all there is
And clouds are all that I see
Time flows in ribbons
It frays as it flows
To threads as it falls to the floor
And all is forgiven
Beyond all we know
By the time we walk through the door
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Chris Steele Boston, Massachusetts
So, I’m a bit of a traveler and a dreamer, an observer of life,
A New Jersey kid who’s lived in New
York and North Carolina before coming to Boston,
And who’s spent a lot of time in Canada.
I play rock – music with roots that come from the 60's, 70’s and 80’s. Rock with some folk, but also a little bit of prog thrown in. And I like to tell stories.
You can reach me at steelch1268@gmail.com.
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