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Night Walk
03:21
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Night Walk
Let’s go talk to the moon
Let’s walk around the city
After everyone’s gone home.
You’ll talk of your pain
I’ll talk of mine
And we’ll dance
In the neon lights.
Let’s dance as if we’ll never die
Live as if we’ll die tomorrow .
Let’s read Lorca to each other
Poems that make us remember
I quit the cross tops
You cut the blades
Let’s open our chests
And fly away.
Let’s sing as if we’ll never die
Live as if we’ll die tomorrow
Let us speak about love
Shout it out to the moon above
Time is a thief
Who will steal your dreams away
Let’s dance like angels
On our graves.
Let’s love as if we’ll never die
Live as if we’ll die tomorrow . .
Let’s dance like angels on our
graves.
© Rosanne Olson
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Hello Heartache
03:41
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Hello Heartache
Hello heartache
Why’d you come so soon?
I didn’t expect you
‘til afternoon
I’m sitting here with
My morning tea
Memories of us
Washing over me
The cat is sleeping
In your favorite chair
The birds are singing
As if you’re still here
Hello heartache
Why’d you come so soon?
I didn’t expect you
‘til afternoon
I lay out the pieces
Of my broken heart
Like a jig saw puzzle
Where do I start?
I have no name
For life without you
Right now I just
call it blue . . . . . . . .
Hello heartache
Why’d you come so soon?
I didn’t expect you
‘til afternoon
© Rosanne Olson
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3. |
Love in Your Country
04:18
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Love in Your Country
I'm going to travel to your country
To your sweet grassy plains
Gonna lie down in your sunshine
Fall in love with you again.
I don't need a compass
my heart knows the way
I can get there with my eyes closed
To where you wait.
Chorus
Love in your country
my heart leads me to you
love in your country
ohhhhhhh
I'm going to travel to your country
where the sky is always blue
Gonna speak the language
Of love with you
You are my mountains
You are my sea
You are the country
Where I want to be
Chorus
Au revoir I will say
when I kiss you goodbye
let's meet again
in your country
© Rosanne Olson
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4. |
Butterflies
03:11
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Butterflies
I know love when I see it
Though it’s been a long time
I know love when I feel it
Tingling up my spine.
Chorus
Ohh, ohhh, I get butterflies inside
Ohh, ohhh, I get butterflies inside
. . . thinking about you.
I wanna ride on your magic carpet
On the winds of love
Drink the potion
I’ve been dreaming of
Chorus
musical interlude
You can take me to the country
you can take me to town
fly me to the moon
when the sun goes down
You be the king of hearts
I’ll be the queen
I believe that love
is our destiny
Chorus
© Rosanne Olson
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Catalonia Light
03:27
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Catalonia Light
I thought I saw you standing
In Catalunya Square
I cross the street to find you
But you’re not there.
I wander down the Ramblas
To where the sky meets the sea
Hoping to find you
And that you’ll find me
Chorus:
I’ll always see you dancing
In the Catalonia light
I didn’t think I was coming here
To say . . . goodbye
I hear you talking
Right next to me
I turn to see you
But it’s only the trees
Then you’re in the chapel
The one on the hill
I sit down beside you
But it’s someone else
chorus
© Rosanne Olson
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6. |
Little White Lies
03:15
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Little White Lies
He said he lived near Portland
up there by the mountain
alone on a quiet street
with his dog named Boo
What he didn’t tell her
is he lived in a little trailer
his ex-wife got the house
with the scenic view
chorus
Little white lies
little white lies
hide what’s hurting
what’s hurting inside
Little white lies
She said she wasn’t married
but what she didn’t say
is she raised her family
when her mama passed away
And yes, she’d been to Paris
—Paris, Texas.
She didn’t say she’d only seen the world
through other people’s eyes.
chorus
When he told her she was beautiful
she cried ‘cuz she’d never heard
those words, so sweet
in all of her life
They danced in the dim light
in the bar by the highway
two people hiding
what’s hurting inside with
Chorus
Final chorus:
Little white lies
oh the hurt
we carry inside
little white lies.
@ Rosanne Olson
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7. |
Which Way is Love
03:42
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Which way is love?
Intro:
I’m driving this old car all alone
Headlights searching the gravel roads
Gas tank half empty, what can I say
Seems I’ve lost my way
Chorus
I ask the stars above
Which way is love
Which way is lovvvvvve?
Your voice fills my mind
as tears fill my eyes
It’s clear, I don’t know where I’m going
Should I turn around?
Back to the hurt I’ve come from?
Or should I drive straight on ‘til morning?
Chorus
There’s no place I’d rather be
than driving this road to set me free
Ohhhh . . . . set me free!
The miles roll on like a ribbon of hope
I turn on the radio . . .
And I . . . start singing!
Oh-oooooo
Chorus
I ask the stars above
Which way is love
This way to love?
I’m on my way to love!
© Rosanne Olson
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8. |
Where Does the Time Go
03:53
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Where Does the Time Go
When I went away in the dark of the moon,
I was still thinking of you,
wishing we had more time, darling.
I heard the gypsy violins,
sad songs on blackbird wings
and I wept for the time that passed by me.
Chorus:
Where does the time go?
Here and gone.
And oh, what about love?
I dreamed of us all through the night,
and in the morning I awoke
like sleeping beauty kissed by her lover.
Amid the clatter of coffee cups,
honking cars and radios,
I wrote a song for you as I wandered.
chorus
I found a jardin of dappled light
where old men sat day ’til night,
speaking a secret language of tears.
They spoke of wars from long ago,
friends they lost and love they’d known
and . . . oh, where do the years go?
Bridge:
I keep coming back to the music again,
gypsy songs that fill my head
and lead me down the river of longing.
And I’m still thinking of you,
standing here the dark of the moon,
wishing we had more time, darling.
Final Chorus:
Where does the time go?
I want to know
And ohh what about love?
© Rosanne Olson
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9. |
Baby Let's Dance
03:28
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Baby Let’s Dance
Baby, I’m comin’ home
Turn down the lights and turn on
the stereo
Let’s dance all night long
Baby did you miss me while I was gone?
Chorus
Let’s dance across the floor
Fall in love like we were before
Baby, oh baby, let’s dance
I’m flying home on the 6:00 plane
Counting time ‘til I see you again
See the yellow taxi, bringing me home
Didn’t know how much I loved you til I was gone
Chorus
Bridge:
Time is a funny thing,
How it heals the heart
I love you more and more
Since we’ve been apart
Do-te-do do do
Do-te-do do do
Oh baby, ooooo let’s dance
There you are standing at the door
Looking lovelier than ever before
Let’s turn down the lights
Turn on the stereo,
Baby, baby let’s dance
Chorus.
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10. |
Glory Be
03:45
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Glory Be
There’s a man playing the cello
As bombs drop all around
Music like sparrows
As buildings tumble down
There’s a woman in line
Waiting to buy bread
Bullets tear through the air
And everyone is dead
Chorus
Glory hallelujah
Glory be, Glory be
There are snipers in the buildings
Rifles at the doors
Babies cry for mother
Mothers cry NO WAR
There’s a hunger for silence
A hunger for peace
The man playing the cello
Begins another piece
Chorus
There’s a man at the crosswalk
His child at his side
When the bullets pause
They run to the other side
There’s them and there’s us
There’s war—is there peace?
The man playing the cello
Begins another piece.
Chorus
Glory hallelujah
Glory be . . . . . eeaa
Glory . . . . be
Glory hallelujah
Glory be . . . . . eeaa
Glory . . . . be
Daddy
I’m going up the country
To see my daddy one more time
sit with him on the front porch
And watch the world go by
We’ll look at old photographs
Mama in her wedding gown
our dog chasing the rabbits
us kids in our little town
Chorus
The wind blows through the birch trees
A song it’s always sung
Life goes by in a moment
Seems like it’s just begun
My daddy used to hold me
In the palm of his hand
I was just a baby and
He was a strong young man
Chorus
I’m going up the country
To see my daddy one more time
put my hand on his hand
and watch the world go by.
Chorus
© Rosanne Olson
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11. |
Daddy
04:16
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Daddy
I’m going up the country
To see my daddy one more time
sit with him on the front porch
And watch the world go by
We’ll look at old photographs
Mama in her wedding gown
our dog chasing the rabbits
us kids in our little town
Chorus
The wind blows through the birch trees
A song it’s always sung
Life goes by in a moment
Seems like it’s just begun
My daddy used to hold me
In the palm of his hand
I was just a baby and
He was a strong young man
Chorus
I’m going up the country
To see my daddy one more time
put my hand on his hand
and watch the world go by.
Chorus
© Rosanne Olson
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Rosanne Olson Seattle, Washington
Rosanne Olson is an artist, photographer and songwriter based in Seattle, WA.
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