Kristi Rae - lyrics

Time, be lit. By Kristi Rae Fable Born in fables, raised in life. Left on doorsteps, dark with night. Where the weeds grow, and streets aren’t safe. They sing the same verses in different keys. Ahh, ahh. Ahh. Dreams get big, on streets unsafe. With so little, hope runs free. Pack your suitcase, leave your loss. Lift your head, lift your voice. Ahh, ahh. Ahh. Born in stables, raised in strife. Left in shame, left with night. I know, I come from there, too. Lost my way, lived my heart. In the rain, I saw light. You know, you come from there, too. Science Little hearts and talking mouths push me in I am all alone I’m lying naked in some grass walk over me Just like you walked on them La, da, da da La, da, da, da And little lives and little worlds were born again Right beneath your feet And every universe is a big black hole it’s just the same Where we sit right now La, da, da da La, da, da, da Religion is not a comfort for me, like I wish it was. Oh, I wish it was. And science is in debt to dreams that probably came from God I hope they came from God La, da, da da La, da, da, da And the sky it carries every sound we ever made But we’re all alone And the sound is bearing on some path it never dies Like my body will La, da, da da La, da, da, da With such little time I cannot find the world. I’m born again. Right beneath your feet. I’m a distant sound up on some path that never dies, Like my body will La, da, da da La, da, da, da Religion is not a comfort for me, like I wish it was. Oh, I wish it was. Science is in debt to dreams that probably came from God I hope they came from God La, da, da da La, da, da, da La, da, da, da La, da, da, da If Sunrise Was Future Time, be lit by Eastern skies So I’ll still have time, to go Grace, be lit by Western skies So that it can’t let me go Heart, be filled with forgiveness So the light don’t set on me Drink, make me feel warm and blessed So that I may drink you down Head, be lost on hard, hard times So that heart can pump and beat Heart, be filled with forgiveness So the light, don’t set on me Life, be more be warm and blessed So that you may fill me up Heart be full, be full of life So the light won’t let me go Time, be lit by Eastern skies So that I won’t have to go, Too soon Depart Bitter cold becomes me As your life gently lifts away I think of airplanes that men built With none of the grace of birds The bitter smell becomes me A plume of nothing I am left The tiniest breeze could free me But it’s not a good night for wind I’ve captured bugs in bottles I’ve punctured lids for air I’ve thought it would prepare me I’d see a better way to live The cold of glass becomes me My mind gently lifts away And mankind’s imposition Is mine to hold and to be I’ve felt the Star of David I’ve been a bug in a jar I feel happy at ending As I lift graceful as birds I’ve captured bugs in bottles I’ve punctured lids for air I’ve thought it would prepare me I’d see a better way to live I’d see a better way to live Safe and Sound The cottonwood, spread her seeds They pierce my skin, I am open now I feel my mouth, grow a mind of its own Oh, watch my heart, spin away in words And, I want my heart back in I want my heart back in I want my heart back inside And, I want my heart back in I want my heart back in I want my heart back inside Caged in ribs Safe and sound My words take flight, on the wind You stop to breathe, we fill your lungs Your masonry, is not compromised It pierced my skin, I am open now And, I want my heart back in I want my heart back in I want my heart back inside And, I want my heart back in I want my heart back in I want my heart back inside Caged in ribs Safe and sound And I want my ( ) back in ( ) Night, this song, my bridge, the light, some stars, my head, the road, my youth, the wind, my sails, my blood, some dreams, some time, our light, our road, our love And love. Love. The Observer (instrumental with “mmms and ohhhs and ahhs”) Villain Show me the right way to go We sing it out into the night But the wind is so strong No sound can survive And the reins are so tight That we just stand still We carry on with grips in our hearts And bedding down no sound in our ears Because the wind is so strong No sound can survive With my hand on your heart You sleep so sound Morning comes in her best disguise Leaving us to fend for ourselves If I had me some children I’d pull them so tight What we have is a villain To slowly bring down, down And we’re sitting on the right words to say Sitting on the right time to leave My people don’t go Until they’re ready to leave My people don’t leave Until you go Another Song About the Road Everyone knows this, that the road is so useless It will not take you where you want to go So if you can hear this, would you please get beside me I’m ready to take off from the road Oh- Everyone says this, that their life is so useless It will not take them where they want to go I cannot be this, and I do not believe it Those thoughts have subsided, I’m beyond repair Oh- I cannot, break this stride (Everyone knows this, that the road is so useless) And I will not, bleed for that (It will not take you where you want to go) Because I listened long, and I listened well (So if you can hear this, would you please get beside me) And I changed your world, to fill my heart (I’m ready to take off from the road) Up (Road) So greet the enchanted, but forgive our behavior Our feet no longer reach the ground When we leave them in silence, it will only take a moment They’ll turn and get back, on the- Road Oh- Stories to Tell The whipping of the wind has more stories to tell Than from anything that bended in a well-fed white mouth The writhing of some ponies ‘neath a bend of hot iron Rivals all a man can muster for a healthy crowd’s reward And the Earth has more beauty than me And in my final breath I’ll see That blathering of the currents do speak That the hated songs of pigeons do weep And that every sound that’s bending notes Is hiding other sounds with leading tones And the Earth has more beauty than we And in our final breath we’ll see All the healthy clouds ascended to a silence or a sound But the wealthy men now own it, all the pretty paths it took But the pretty pause of Earth sounded pardoning and loud As it spoke in tiny whispers to the listeners of Man The Earth has more beauty than thee And in your final breath, you’ll see The Earth has more beauty than thee And in your final breath, you’ll see The Song I Want to Write The song I want to write, has already been written The notes I want to sing, have long ago been heard Uh-huh The sky I cannot reach, holds up many secrets I’m earthed beneath a dust, of cells that once were life Uh-huh The one who led my feet, has already been lifted To somewhere above, earthed beneath the surface Uh-huh The life I’m going to live, already was decided Years of being things, compressed beneath the surface Uh-huh The song I’m going to write, already it was written When I was just some cells, compressed beneath the surface Uh-huh Copyright 2008 by Kristi Rae
Right Back To You All we want here is the quickest Ride that’s leading Right back to you And I know your habits And if I were there it would Be time, for sleep In that bed beside you My older sister has some children In a house that makes a circle Around more children In there houses With there mothers Without my blood With no words from me Because I ain’t there sister But it wouldn’t matter Because if they called me When they really needed And I went to find them But then I couldn’t Because every house Looks the same It makes me think that My older sister She never calls me When she really needs it Because we seem to thrive on Early instincts of not Opening up to say What hurts, or what loves So, all we want here is the quickest Ride that’s leading Right back to you And I know your habits And if I were there it would Be time, for sleep In that bed beside you No sun today Pull down the shade There will be no sun today I think they heard us fighting And don’t you say a word But here on this mountain We don’t fight at all We never even talk about it We watch it go away And I sent you letters The ones you gave to God The ones he never answered But you sent them anyway And heaven can help you Even though I always tried Next time you hear me asking Please just look away The Ballad of Cherokee Bill You were a great cowboy I was the Great Divide You had your guns and stories I had my pride And you had yours, too. Set out on a dirty trail The moon never saw such a fuss You and me, we didn’t pack light It would’ve been a Great, great picture that night Whoopty-doo and a big yeehaw Met trouble near the Rio Grande But your words were good Ended up trading pony for drink And so we slept real sound that night Whoopty-doo and a big yeehaw About the time we hit the Davis Mountains I saw your light You summed it with a fire and stories And you sang lullabyes to me and moon Whoopty-doo and a big yeehaw Me and you The big yeehaw O, White Bird O, white bird You’re stealing all my slumber I watch your phrasing Wrap around my dream I hope, to hear you when I wake All my life Is summed in just one sentence Hearing birds That are gone when you wake I hope, to see before you go Every time I hide beneath my lids I Borrow dreams I learned from your sweet song I hope, I remember when I wake Springtime lifts And drives you from the village Every bird Has a long way home I hope, to hear you in my dreams I hope, your song steals all my dreams All The Paths You bury autumn in your mind You never were one for the way The sun beats down The grass, the trees The man who’s hungry On the corner of All the paths he thought he never would be We prime our comfort with a sense Of purpose we were Taught was put in place for us If we just believed it But the grass, the trees, the man who’s hungry On the corner of That same path he might just disagree Until we understand the weight The craft of strings The ones we work to keep as whole Are tiny parts of The grass, the trees, the man who’s hungry On the corner of All the paths you likely never will see Shiner Head of laughter Head of tears Wore her long sleeves To hide her wrists Did they tell you What to do When they pulled you From the ranks The girl that I see Became a woman Before that child Prepared to go Head of secrets Full of shame Wore her dark shades To hide her eyes Did he tell you What to do When he pulled you From the ranks The girl that I see Became a woman Before that child Prepared to go Morning Song If in the glow, before the sun When trees are barely trees And lights on poles That kept you safe at night At dawn they make you cold If every song your window sings Is made of the saddest birds And if every sun That waits to rise Is where you see the light If it’s in the glow If it’s in the song If every bird is right If every silence To you has sound I think you will find Me there Any Life at All They drew a straight line before me That’s the first time I showed any life at all Give a brain some wheels and You might be surprised to find Your left with the walls The young girl left her training For the first time She felt her mind held more In a life so lucid It feels so strange to start painting your lines The homeless man on the corner He says hello when I catch his eye Million dollar ballpark They might as well build it right where he stands But I don’t know much about business And I tried to sit still for a while I think they must be joking Because all the while they’re forcing a smile City, state and country Stop that fighting or I’ll stop this car Each year the money gets tighter Do you think it’s the same for the suits up there I think rich and poor become more defined every single year But I don’t know much about business And I tried to sit still for a while I think they must be joking Because all the while they are forcing a smile They drew a straight line before me That’s the first time I showed any life at all Give a brain some wheels and You might be surprised to find Your left with the walls The young girl left her training For the first time She felt her life held more Your Song If I was a wooden boat I would find my way To the harbor That sad, dark harbor Where you left your song I’d listen up note for note Tuck it in my bow Sing along for miles and miles As it pulls me back to you If I was a stronger voice I would sing up high Larger vessels would hear your song And they would take heed, too If the ocean was full of boats Singing your sweet song Would you lift your window up So it could make its way back home? Things we had to let go We arrived At the meadow After years and years Of wrong ways and Heavy loads Of things we had to let go To move at all And on the way we Looked back and Remembered all that we had seen It squeezed our hearts we Felt the pain of Things we had to let go To move at all The trees were sad The birds they cried The sky was full of rain We joined the movement Became the choir Of things we had to let go To move at all The trees were sad The birds they cried The sky was full of rain We joined the movement Became the choir Of things we had to let go To move at all All songs copyright by Kristi Rae 2006
Out of time She came about on tighter times A blessing it was bittersweet Her dad he had another plan He hit the road, he headed out Her mother, she was ill-prepared But never one to run away But runnin’ runnin’ out of time It takes your breath it steals your mind She raised her up the best she could On ground up beef and lots of bread Stories, laughter fill her head Of days gone by, of times more hard She grew up fast as children to And buried mom into the ground Says come on world I’m dying too She hit the road, she hit the ground I’m runnin’ runnin’ out of time It takes my breath, it takes my mind Stories laughter fill my head Of days gone by, of better times Dry, dry, dry When the world is through with you When the seas aren’t rough and they’re just dry And they’re dry dry dry When twice ripe fruit begins to rot Or you forgot to lick your lips And they’re dry dry dry I guess all that I’m saying is that I won’t disappear And I’ll repeat myself if you forget to hear When broken down cars forget to rust or You finally remember the words to that rhyme When the air is to thin for breathing in and The world don’t change at all they just lie And they lie lie lie I guess all that I’m saying is that I won’t disappear And I’ll repeat myself if you forget to hear When the storm clouds don’t bring magic and The cease fire don’t bring peace Don’t ask why, why why why When I begin making sense or You begin making sense of me My my my I guess all that I’m saying is that My love won’t disappear And I’ll repeat myself if you forget to hear Blue Jay Sun i left chicago, six years ago nothing in my pockets, a big weight in my head it’s in my head, in my head landed in Atlanta, and that’s just where you were you said I could crash with you, and crash is what I did it’s what I did, it’s what I do and lifelike, I put on faces I never knew I had and it’s like life, to give me away and you knew just what I said, it’s what I said what I said holding it together, only lasts so long it never remembers, what it’s supposed to be not what it is, what it is left you on a promise, I guess you never heard landed back in texas, and you just disappeared you disappeared, you disappeared and lifelike, I put on faces I never knew I had and it’s like life, to give me away and you knew just what I said, it’s what I said what I said Round and round Saw the flight path A bit too late Not a minute later Round and round I think the spacemen Pulled you in and sucked you up, they sucked you up We don’t expect to hear from you The miles you fly we never knew A bit discouraged by the flash We’ll write it off and lie, besides Those who were present Raised their hands They grabbed their babies Wrapped them up No reason why you Were the one I recall your hair and how it blew We don’t expect to hear from you The miles you fly we never knew A bit discouraged by the flash We’ll write it off and lie, besides I’ll wait for landing Day and night Or my departure Just the same We’ve all discussed it No one cares If they bring you back We’ll take you in We don’t expect to hear from you The miles you fly we never knew A bit discouraged by the flash We’ll write it off and lie, besides Bound to blow Highway two nine zero How have you been? Miles and miles of, empty thoughts Hold me so close Remember when I burned so bright I lit up that road But burning thoughts and burning mind Are bound to blow, are bound to blow Brought you all my secret thoughts To spread through your miles You never were one, to reply I drive, and drive, I drive, and drive Tiny towns and tiny lights Will growth rip your seams? It seems they keep on, moving out To build, and build Highway two nine zero Seems you haven’t changed Wish I could be, strong as you And curve every line Remember when I burned so bright I lit up that road? But burning thoughts and burning mind Are bound to blow, are bound to blow Take a walk Isn’t it a little bit noisy in here I think we should take a walk We’ll take it down Let the lights just fade away Until all the streets Have turned to sand Isn’t it quiet I think we should really talk And just let ourselves get out of hand We’ll take the binding off that book they wrote for us Let all the pages lose their way (chorus)One more chance for you, One more chance for me One more chance for you, One more for me Let’s pack it up and bring it all into the night And you tell your landlord what you’d like ‘cause creeping’ around here man it was never my style but your dad he likes a clean plate chorus they say the angels like to dance in our sleep well I wish they’d dance in my wake ‘cause all the shit it seems to be piling up now but your love is my big break chorus Down, down I, let down at the falls Was, not really in the plan but You, pulled me through the lines You said down, down You really need some work We, pulled back on our line Was, not really in the plan It took, adjustments here and there We went down, down I’ve never been so sad You were standing at the bay Not the kind with crystal waves But the wind she, the wind she played her part We went down, down I’ve never been so sad They made adjustments to our line Was not really in the plan I found the one who made me cry I’m goin’ down, down I really need some work And we hit hard on the line Left you standing at the bay Not the kind with crystal waves You went down, down I’ve never been so sad Little engine If they’d have told me I could get there any faster I would’ve come If they’d have told me not to scream any louder I would’ve screamed Set fire little engine, set fire little engine I’m going home At this point I can’t really do much better than a E B and A If I convince you just to stay a little longer I’ll play it all night Set fire little engine Set fire little engine I’m going home So go ahead and throw our fire out the window Just to see the show I hope there’s no one down there standing below us They’re gonna burn Set fire little engine, set fire little engine I’m going home I’m going home Hey devil, got nothing on me I said my prayers and I’m already singing I’m singing strong Singing, singing along When I go to sleep and I sing the song And I’m beneath the ground and I’m beneath the stone And I’m gone Oh, and I’m gone home And I’ll sing high And I’ll sing low Behind pearly gates Behind big stones And I’m gone, gone I’m gone, I’m already strong I’m going home Golden crowns mean nothing to me I’m fed up with hypocrisy And I’m one to be strong I’m going’ home Hey satan got nothing on me I’m saying my prayers And I’m singing along And when I go beneath the dirt I’ll be strong I’m already strong Repeat chorus Copyright 2005 by Kristi Rae