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LET ALONE SEA
All songs by Arrica Rose except If The World Won't Bend and We Made Out Alright by Rose/Garcia, Pot of Gold by Rose/Giles, Everybody by Hogen Rormark (arrangement/additional lyrics by Rose), Video Killed The Radio Star/Wonderful World by Geoff Downes/Trevor Horn/Bruce Woolley(VKTRS) Bob Theile/David George Weiss(WW) (arrangement by Rose and Garcia)

EVERYBODY

In this trench you and I.

Two honeys in the mud that was left behind.

Overwhelmed by the sky.

Lick your wounds and wave goodbye.

Everybody will burn.

Everybody will take their turn.

Everybody will learn that's how it is and always will be.

mm - ah - ah - la - la - la - la

Too much force, too much fright.

Throw yourself at anything money can buy.

Oh the weight of success.

Haven't seen any changes yet.

But we're floating in the darkness all alone.

It's so safe in the womb of the unknown.

mm - ah - ah - la - la - la - la

Everybody will burn.

Everybody will take their turn.

Everybody will learn that's how it is and always will be.

SAIL AWAY

You led me to water but it's the ocean

and I can't drink, no I can't drink, of this water

But I can sail away, sail away, sail away.

I can sail away, sail away.

I can change.

I walk like an elephant on a tightrope.

I fall and you find I'm far away.

Find me and let's sail away, sail away, sail away.

Sail away, sail away.

You can change.

Oh but humans we rely on our past

like the nail looks to the hammer for purpose.

And sometimes I wish I was nothing more than this moment.

So we could be so much more than we were.

We could sail away, sail away, sail away.

We could sail away, sail away

We could change.

WE MADE OUT ALRIGHT

We Made Out.

We Made Out Alright.

And I don't care what you've done.

I don't care what you do.

I don't care where this goes.

Now is all I ask of you.

We Made Out.

We Made Out Alright.

I don't care why you want this.

I don't care what it means.

All I want from you is a moment free

of all you'll someday ask of me.

So lay yourself down.

Let the ceiling be our ground.

Let it go, let it lie.

Let alone sea we sail tonight.

'Cause I don't care what you've done

I don't care what you do.

I don't care where this goes.

Now is all I ask of you.

I don't care why you want this.

I don't care what it means.

All I want from you is a moment free

of all you'll someday ask of me.

We Made Out.

We Made Out Alright.

IF THE WORLD WON'T BEND

When time is like a child sitting on your chest

playing recklessly with moments you have left.

And the sand gets in your eyes, in your ears and your teeth.

It's an aggrievance, not the beauty of the beach.

Well, know I'm here with open arms.

I'll be here as long as you want.

If the world won't bend to your will

If the world won't bend to your will, baby I will.

If the world won't bend to your will, I will.

When your dreams are fast asleep but your mind is wide awake

it's a fine line between giving up and taking a break.

And the strangers on the street they dance to a different beat

and make you long for the solitude that you seek.

Well know I'm here with open arms,

like you've been here all along.

If the world won't bend to your will

If the world won't bend to your will, baby I will.

If the world won't bend to your will, I will.

And if silence is your friend there are no words to make it end.

So you see it in my eyes I'll just whisper in my head over and over again...

If the world won't bend to your will

If the world won't bend to your will, baby I will.

If the world won't bend to your will, I will.

WHEN THE CLOUDS HANG THIS LOW

Open up your eyes an ambulance is parked outside

but it's not your time, it's not your time.

So you take a walk outside and you think of other nights

when we were dreaming, dreaming about you never leaving.

Pay attention to time you crossed the same street twice,

bus coulda hit you that silver car that barely missed you.

And the umbrella you left behind it's been broken a long long time

but it hardly rains here in this part of California.

So you stumble into a bar, singer sings hard times are gonna fall.

She's tone deaf and she knows it but nobody's listening.

They're listening to the sound of empty glasses sitting down,

like kings and queens stripped of their blue blooded nouns.

Ice melts - time for seconds, you, you eye the exit

but there's no where to go when the clouds hang this low.

No, there's no where to go when the clouds hang this low

Telegram came today, you knew what it was gonna say

so you didn't read it, don't need it, you won't believe it.

And ain't that a shame, that's what they're all gonna say

like the fabrics been torn where the tailor can't fix it.

And the sweetest, softest whore well she's has sat here all night before.

She's pretty like an old record but nobody's listening.

SUMMER'S GONNA BURN ME (SO ARE YOU)

You hung in the air like a battered piñata

and I left the room like a fallen debutante.

I was counting moments like guests out the door

of a party I've never thrown before.

If you see a race that can't be won

why would turn to me and ask me to run?

I'm still a broken record playing it'll all turn out right,

while these pins and balloons have me pining on the inside.

Summer's gonna burn me so are you.

No one's got a bandaid to hide this wound.

Summer's gonna burn me so are you.

Someone's gonna burn me? So?

La ti da La ti da...

I'll write the ending to this story

'cause stuck in the middle is oh so boring.

I surrender not in the name of defeat.

I surrender as somebody choosing to see that...

Summer's gonna burn me so are you.

No one's got a bandaid to hide this wound.

Summer's gonna burn me so are you.

Someone's gonna burn me? So?

Yeah I know you, you know me, and we know where it hurts

I know you, you know me, and we know where it hurts.

I know, I know. You know, you know.

You know where it hurts.

Summer's gonna burn me so are you.

No one's got a bandaid to hide this wound.

Summer's gonna burn me so are you.

Someone's gonna burn me? So?

La ti da La ti da...

RIVERBED

Toss it out start again.

Find a way change today.

If not the whole wide world then in your head.

Your heart is not a riverbed,

a relic of all it's seen,

of all that falls from its surface unintentionally.

Heavy, heavy heart of mine

helium's light than air and so it flies.

My dear heart you're light than the rest of me.

Could you rise above all that's left of me?

Could you rise above all I've ever seen?

Toss it out start again.

Find a way change today.

Toss it out start again.

Find a way change today.

Oh dear riverbed.

Dear riverbed.

Feet to the ground, hands to the sky.

You could take take take, take all the space you need to fly.

But this hot air balloon gets angrier than you

and you've got all that you need to be the bottom of the sea.

Toss it out start again.

Find a way change today.

Toss it out start again.

Find a way change today.

'Cause where water flows it never knows

'til it gets there and there ain't no longer here.

And here is the change that killed the sameness.

Here it is the change that killed the sameness.

Oh dear riverbed.

Dear riverbed.

NOTHING NADA NOTHING

I like the part where we look back and know that we survived

and nothing nothing nada nothing, nothing's changed

except for you and I.

Waves crash on the shore like they've crashed here before.

A wind-up bird sputters to it's end so we wind him up all over again.

That's right...

I like the part where we look back and know that we survived

and nothing nothing nada nothing, nothing's changed

except for you and I.

Questions still need answers and thoughtfulness takes time -

time takes us all, no pause or rewind.

That's why...

I like the part where we look back and know that we survived

and nothing nothing nada nothing, nothing's changed

except for you and I.

I'm looking out the windshield that looks toward what I left.

Wondering what I'll find and when i'll look back twd that time.

Singing...

I like the part where we look back and know that we survived

and nothing nothing nada nothing, nothing's changed

except for you and I.

If I worry more I'll arrive at daybreak, what a drive.

If I worry less I'll arrive when the sun sets.

I like the part where we look back and know that we survived

and nothing nothing nada nothing, nothing's changed

except for you and I.

POT OF GOLD

Oh pot of gold I really don't know

if the clouds will give way to a rainbow someday.

I'm just here falling fast and wanting less,

taking what I'm getting for granted.

But there's the brighter side, that great divide.

Someone whispering it will all turn out right.

And you will walk in the sunshine again.

So if you're lost and no one else knows the way,

it's hide and seek, you don't dare peek.

Well, maybe found is not what you need.

And now you're wondering if your worry

is nothing more than the bitter taste of time.

What if the shadows of another dawn are second chances,

like wishes granted.

And you will walk in the sunshine again.

Nah - nah - nah...

You will walk in the sunshine again.

Oh pot of gold I just want to know

when the clouds will give way.

What time and what day?

VIDEO KILLED THE RADIO STAR (WONDERFUL WORLD)
I heard you on the wireless back in Fifty Two

Lying awake in bed then tuning in on you.

If I was young it didn't stop you coming through

They took the credit for your second symphony.

Rewritten by machine and new technology,

and now I understand the problems you can see.

I met your children. What did you tell them?

I see trees of green, red roses too.

I see them bloom for me and you.

And now we meet in an abandoned studio.

We hear the playback and it seems so long ago.

And you remember how the jingles used to go.

You were the first one. You'll be the last one.

Video killed the radio star.

Pictures came and broke your heart.

Oh but babies cry, I watch them grow.

They'll learn much more than I'll never know.

And I think to myself what a wonderful world.

I met your children. What did you tell them?

Video killed the radio star.

In my mind and in my car, we can't rewind we've gone to far.

we can't rewind we've gone to far.

(Let Alone Sea B side)

LIONS AND TIGERS AND BEARS

Lions and Tigers and Bears oh my.
Monday is Tuesday is passing us by.

Walking down the street the tapping of feet.

In synch with strangers we might never meet.

War is wondering if the war is meant to end.

If peace was a paycheck might we cash it in?

Oh but boys will be boys and girls will be girls

and our little ones will one day rule the world

or rue the world

or rue the world la la la hey hey...

So don't cling to pain like a cat never fed.

Let your mind tell your body it's all in your head again.

And the walls of the heart are as thin as paper

but we're always making plans for later.

Don't dress wrong in all the right clothes.

She'll still sing a song solemn and slow.

Oh but boys will be boys and girls will be girls

and our little ones will one day rule the world

or rue the world

or rue the world la la la hey hey...

Talk is cheap, don't pay for the truth.

Man is cheaper, don't have to be you.

Oh and fun. It's expensive now a days,

but you don't have to pay.

Maybe God likes his letters lowercase.

Oh but girls will be boys and boys will be girls

and our little ones will one day rule the world

or rue the world

or rue the world la la la hey hey...

Lions & Tigers & Bears oh my.

Monday is Tuesday is passing us by,

bye...bye-bye

PRETEND I’M FUR
All songs by Arrica Rose except Memphis by Rose/Garcia

PILLOW ON THE GROUND

Tick Tock, road block.

Deep breath, too much worry spent.

Black or white, too many shades of gray.

Sun sets on another day.

And I know it ain’t the life you chose.

It’s all you’ve ever known so hold your head up high,

have faith in love. In time, it’ll all come back around.

Find your pillow on the ground ‘cause baby we all fall down

and the world spins round.

Fate rests on a cheap dress.

Dark days turn to darker ways.

Night falls, hope calls.

You don’t pick up

‘cause you think you’ve had enough.

And I know it ain’t the life you chose.

It’s all you’ve ever known so hold your head up high,

have faith in love. In time, it’ll all come back around.

Find your pillow on the ground ‘cause baby we all fall down

and the world spins round.

Round and round…round and round…

And we all fall down.

MEMPHIS

If you come back and I’m not here then I’m gone.

Must be moving on, must be moving on.

If you stay and choose to turn away,

You’ll never know that everything has changed.

If you leave before me don’t look back

‘cause leaving is all I ever planned.

But the summertime in Memphis makes me miss you.

And California sunshine reminds me that time flies.

Autumn leaves in NY leave me wanting more

of that winter in Denver when you finally mentioned forever.

This big old world it won’t stop

not for a broken heart, not for a broken heart.

I know it gets better every day.

These days they wash away just like summer rain.

If you leave before me don’t look back

‘cause leaving is all you really have.

But the summertime in Memphis makes me miss you.

And California sunshine reminds me that time flies.

Autumn leaves in NY leave me wanting more

of that winter in Denver when you finally mentioned forever.

The road is long ‘cause it always bring you back

to another tomorrow and a solid dose of the past

that’s why…

summertime in Memphis makes me miss you.

And California sunshine reminds me that time flies.

Autumn leaves in NY leave me wanting more

of that winter in Denver when you finally mentioned forever.

Open eyes wide to the sunshine,

lift your head up, time to get up.

Another day break just for hope’s sake.

Changes making, chances taking

time to be.

So behold me and all of this beauty.

Behold me and all of this beauty.

Behold me I am free, free to be.

Hold on loosely, let it flow.

Light as a feather, heart that knows.

Take a deep breath then a small step.

Now you’re dreaming, finally seeing

time to be.

So behold me and all of this beauty.

Behold me and all of this beauty.

Behold me I am free, free to be.

SAY GOODBYE