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Sunflower
04:33
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Once I knew this girl
All barefeet and curls
She reached out to touch the face of a Sunflower
Under a summer sky turning
Suddenly without warning
A bumblebee hidden there taught her to fear
What she couldn't see
And time could stand still
She's never be that girl again
Cause it hurts to learn, it hurts to learn
But she turns toward the light
With a few more years
Prom night chandeliers
He reached out with a bright bouquet of Sunflowers
Under the blue moon yearning
Oh the first kiss burning
But after graduation she never saw him again
And time could stand still
And she'll never feel that thrill again
Cause it hurts to burn it hurts to burn
but you turn toward the light
If you could just stop thinking that you're ordinary
The world ain't gonna pop if you fill it with your dreams baby
And gravity's not gonna turn your face to the ground
Life is love or no life at all so start living
A few more turns of the world
Crow's feet and silver curls
Unwritten poetry falling like the petals of a Sunflower
But even on a cloudy morning
Sunflower still turning
And in it's face she finds a grace that she's always known.
And suddenly time stands still
And it's all so beautiful
Cause it hurts to learn, it hurts to burn
But we turn toward the light
We turn
Oh we turn
Yes we turn toward the light
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3. |
Why Not?
03:51
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WHY NOT?
I was trying so hard to lose myself today
Tore up my ticket for my return destination
One seat left beside you,
One smile and I just knew
I was headed in the wrong direction,
Til I looked your way
I must be some kinda fool
For telling you how I feel
But that look in your eye,
Can’t let it pass by if it’s for real
I fell for you instantaneously
Our hearts combusted spontaneously
I know it’s a long shot
But baby what have I got left to lose
So tell me why not?
You took me out on a Cinderella fling
One Gucci shoe in the ditch as we were walking home I think
Waltz me in the wrong direction
Take me any which way.
Why should I wait
For destiny to find it’s way to me
Cause you are all I need
So I’ve got nothing to lose…
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4. |
Halfway To Love
03:30
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Halfway To Love
Out the fire escape
No one to find me unless you
Trip the alarm coming back home
Out on the fire escape I'm fine
Listening to the last train punch a hole in the night
I guess you won't be coming back home
All our secret little jokes
Don't seem so funny - like some elaborate hoax
But I believed it all the way
We were once so close
Yeah we were halfway to love
we were halfway to love
halfway to love
yeah only halfway to love
Oh, we're getting closer
Hit the bar at closing time
Lush life regulars singing their hearts out high
Who can remember all the words
Thought I knew you by heart
Now I only remember the good parts
We were halfway to love
Just halfway to love
Halfway to love
We're all just halfway to love
I know there's someone like me out there
Staring at the city lights
Singing some 1/2 remembered prayer
1/2 believing it'll be alright
And every night without you I’m getting closer
Halfway to love
We're all just halfway to love
It's not that hard just give it all, give it up
We'are all havlfway to love
Half-hearted denials won't cover it up
Halfway just isn't good enough
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5. |
Redeye Lullabye
04:12
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I never could sleep on the red-eye
Think I'm the only one, watching the sun rise
Cloud mountain waves frozen in wonder
Baby, you wouldn't believe your eyes
But you're sleeping off that midnight coffee
Clutching airline blankets in a dream
The winds of change, little hurricanes
Oh, how they blow
You're gone so far away, so close to me
Dream on baby dream on,
So long as you're bedside me
Dream on baby dream on
Lullaby for parts of you I'll never see
I put my chair back into the night before
Bags are packed angry by the door
Misunderstandings never are simply put
Never say the right thing when I should
So we slid down with our backs agains the wall
Holding hands all night there in the hall
And what you say and where you stand
I come to understand
Though we said nothing at all
I know you could be happy without me
It's a choice you make to stay with me
And you stay and you stay
Dream on baby dream on
A lullaby...
(Dream on baby dream on,
So long as you're bedside me
Dream on baby dream on
Lullaby for parts of you I'll never see)
However far you go
On your own
Open your eyes and I'll be there
Come the winds of change
Those little hurricanes
But deep in my soul I know
We belong together
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I’ve never been to Paris, I’ve never seen the seine
Fed the peacocks in the bois de bologne or kissed a lover in the rain
I just sit here and watch the neighbours in my pink house in Scranton PA
Buyt the TV glow I drift away and dream of walking out that door one day
What a story for the local news, what a scandal for the PTA
The authorities would have no leads, I’d vanish on an ordinary day
But I wouldn’t care I’d be at a corner café
I close my eyes and I’m there, sitting in the rain
Smoking a Gauloise, waiting for Jacques or Andre
I’ll go there one day, I’ll go there one ordinary day
In the morning I fold up my dreams in faded flower bedsheets
I slowly and carefully put them away
You laugh at me but still I dream, You’re laughing but still I dream
Page 47 of my yearbook read “Most likely to see the world”
Walmart ladies whisper to be overheard,, “She was a mother while she was still a girl”
But I wouldn’t care I’d be at a corner café
I close my eyes and I’m there, sitting in the rain
Smoking a Gauloise, waiting for Jacques or Andre
I’ll go there one day, I’ll go there one ordinary day
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7. |
Easy Come Easy Go
03:36
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Easy Come Easy Go
Luck leaned out of her limosine
Change thewith her perfume, maybe
And he said look into my eyes I'll take you seven stories high
Come into my room I'll take ya to the moon
I said if it's a game I'm rolling snake eyes again
If it was love
It was love so what give it up let it go
(voisins de zero)
Easy come and easy go
You promised me a kiss for every star
Now I'm counting up the odds on my fingers
When we were sweet-hot in the corner
Were you thinking of another?
Uh-huh that's what I thought
If it's a game I'm rolling snake eyes again
Did you think it was too easy to convince me?
A casual girl's not necessarily a casualty
Can't tell when in all got broken when love went for broke
Like somebody spoke and there was no one listening
If it's a game I'm rolling snake eyes again
If I cared you'll never know
Just play it cool let nothing show
Deal it down I'm going alone
So scared to lose we lost it all
How were we to know that it was just...
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8. |
Just Another Love Story
03:10
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JUST ANOTHER LOVE STORY
I'm sick of writing songs for you
I'm sick of feelings I can't explain to you
Your lips move you say it's getting better
But when I close my eyes it's like kissing a stranger
Chorus:
Oh I'm ready to move on
Oh I'm ready to admit I was wrong
And oh I feel unsteady - but I know I'll get strong
Just not ready to say that you're gone
That it's just another love story gone wrong
I've cried every kinda tear known to a woman
I've gotten drunk and had a one-night stand
Ok I made that up but if it was true
I'd wake up hung over and still in love with you
Chorus:
It's a mystery to me
How something so meant to be
Can rip apart like a parachute in a bad dream...
These'll be the last words that I write
I got more to say but I gotta stop sometime
Sweet memeories like so much old scar tissue
I'll show them off to the next love of my life after you
Chorus:
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9. |
Chasing Down The Sun
05:14
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Chasing Down The Sun
Verse 1
Something you said's got me thinking
Though I'm not sure it was true
But as the light on your face fades
It's all I got to hold on to
You were telling me young man's story
How you'd chase the sun down the lane
Growing up a hard luck boy
But you kept dreaming of a better day
Chorus
Just keep chasing down the sun
Verse 2
So I tried to be like you
To hang on and see things til their through
But your whiskey chased me down the drain
Now when I sleep I don't dream the same way
Chorus
Verse 3
Something you said's got me thinking
But I'm not sure that I understood
So I call out to to you in the next room
Then I remember
Oh that's right
The sun has smuggled you down into the night
In the end what you said is meaningless
Cause it's not your words but your voice I miss
I'll never catch answers in light that fades
And what does the sun know anyways
Chorus
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10. |
Porchlight
04:40
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I know it's late
You've got pockets full of reasons why you can't stay
That's ok
I've got a heartful of whispers my jaded lips can say
But if you stay - Lean my way -
We'll find a way this maze of constellations - Love's like a wish on some crazy constellation
Cause here we are - I'll take a step your way - We'll find our way
Won't you give this poor boy some consolation?- Somehow we'll find some consollation - We won't mind the complication
Just stay here tonight
We'll hold hands underneath the porchlight
Move to a song if it feels alright
We'll dance in the morning light - The morning will come along just fine - we'll dance as it gets light
Forget about the starlight
Make a moment that's yours and mine
Baby stay here tonight
We'll dance until the morning light- We'll be dancing in the morning light-
There's a chill
Lean in a little closer we'll watch the moon going down
Candle's burnt out
It feels so good to hold you and the last train went an hour ago
In your eyes
All the happy endings that have lost their way
But here with me
All those stained glass stories could throw their light again
Just stay here tonight
We'll hold hands underneath the porchlight
Move to a song if it feels alright
We'll dance in the morning light - The morning will come along just fine - we'll dance as it gets light
Forget about the starlight
Make a moment that's yours and mine
Baby stay here tonight
We'll dance until the morning light- We'll be dancing in the morning light-
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11. |
No Small Miracle
03:48
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I've put on my makeup
To look my best for the breakup
Some so-called love's like a dandelion about to blow
Said no way would I get caught
In a chick flick kind of plot
Hallmark holidays are better on my own
The world is filled with tricks and marvels
Radioactive particles
Just when I thought I'd got it down
A random act of love found me out
The moment we were introduced
Forgot everything I knew
Except that everything everything everything was gonna change
If wishes were airplanes I’d land in your backyard
Like a new world discovered on a map of the human heart
After all that we've been through
This little thing between me and you is
No Small Miracle
You stumbled to your feet
Shook your head in disbelief
You bet all you had on a blue-eyed blonde bombshell dream
So you check your inside pocket
To see if you've still got the joke that broke your heart
The world is filled with tricks and marvels
Radioactive particles
Sometimes it seems so damn hard
To find someone who love you for what you are
If wishes were airplanes I’d land in your backyard
Like new world discovered on a map of the human heart
After all that we've been thorugh
This little thing between me and you is
No small miracle
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12. |
Sparkle And Shine
06:26
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Splashing through the rainbows
in gasoline (oh-oh)
Zippo click I hope I
Never hit nineteen (oh-oh)
Don't ya feel it burning when you close your eyes
Don't you think it's time we sparkle and ...shine
Chorus:
In younger days we set fire
To summer fields under open skies
The smoke rose lazy
as you smiled
Promises and sunburned skin
Threw our hearts to the devil wind
Subtle magic set us alight
We sparkle We shine
Photos in a closet shoebox
It's for the best
Fading flowers pressed in storybooks
Laid to rest
Don't ya feel it burning when you close your eyes
Don't you think it's time we sparkle and ...shine
CHORUS:
Burn the maps
And don't look back
Burn the past away
Half verse: (breakdown)
When I said I'd stay I didn't mean
I'd stay the same
CHORUS:
In younger days oooohhhhh
Set us alight set us alight
And smile that crazy smile for me
Promises and sunburned skin
Threw our hearts to the devil wind
Subtle magic set alight
We sparkle and we shine
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Elle Lewis Los Angeles, California
Elle's songs songs have been featured in prime time TV shows and she has studied and performed with such accomplished musicians as Dorian Holley, Tierney Sutton, Feist, Al Jarreau and others. Elle is planning her 4th European tour for her latest album, We Turn Toward The Light. This time around, Elle will be touring through France, Austria , France, Italy, England and Germany, Spring 2012. ... more
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