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I’m handed some stipulation
Tellin’ me the score
Just one quick glance clues me in
There must be more
It seems to me there’s more to Life
Than killing time or earnin’ a dime
Trying to keep up the the Jones’
And stayin’ alive
Chorus
I could be wrong
But somethin’ deep down in me is comin’ on strong
Fillin’ my head with song - won’t be long
Until I find out just what it means
Life’s not what it seems - so hold on to your dreams
Strugglin’ to find our way
within this
Twisting maze
Hung up at the crossroads reading
Passion plays
We can’t turn back we must move on
Until we find our peace of mind
We must keep believin’ true Love
Won’t leave us blind
Chorus
Copyright 1990 Chris Van
Cleave
CHRIS VAN CLEAVE: Drum program,
keyboards,
acoustic guitar, bass, vocals
DESTINY
Slowly she lowers her head to the deep
And she wonders how long we’ll sleep
One final plea seeks to jar memory
Before time leaves us too late to be
Behold how our Earth-Mother’s weeping
Why is it so hard to see?
We hold her Life within our keeping
While we decide our Destiny
Sand shifting down through the hourglass of Now
Marking time before all souls bow
Stirring in the wings wakes a jester who sings
For the rising of Love-lit Kings
Behold the way the world is turning
The time has come for all to see
We all are born to lives of learning
While we decide our Destiny
Copyright 1990 Chris Van Cleave
CHRIS VAN CLEAVE: Drum program, acoustic
guitar,
keyboards, vocals, whistle!
Whistling pines, that wind’s been blowin’
for ages
But the sun’s risin’ over the ridge
Of the wilderness I’ve often mistaken
Moving lines, I’ve watched you fill up
my pages
While I’ve listened to melodies leading my soul
To heal another heart break-in
I’ve held my ear to walls - in hopes I
could see through
But sometimes I can’t see for myself just what I’m facin’
Chorus
Love of mine, I’m takin’ this time to know you
From the first to the last
You remain through every memory - still ringin’ true
I’ve kept in mind, I’d see you sooner
or later
But lately I’ve come to find
What I’ve been missin’ has never been taken
Like doin’ time, imprisoned by our own
waiter
Who serves up a feast fit for Kings and Queens
While we play dead Jesters fakin’
I’ve finally found that time is much too
precious for wastin’
So why save the best for last just to keep us waitin’
Chorus
Oh, Love of mine, I’m takin’ this time to know you
Now when the future’s all gone past
You remain through every memory - still ringin’ true
I’ve come to find, throughout my inner-most
spaces
You may be changin’ your point of view
To leave behind some more indelible traces
Through my mind, you’ve worn your various
face
More often familiar
But sometimes from strange and far away places
The dye’s forever cast with infinite colour
Then reconditioned through our roles in social graces
Chorus
Oh, Love of mine, I’m takin’ this time to know you
From the first to the last,
Now, when the future’s all gone past
You remain through every memory - still ringin true.
Copyright 1991 Chris Van Cleave
JEREMY OWEN: Drums
IAIN RAE: Keyboards
CHRIS VAN CLEAVE: Acoustic & electric guitars,
bass, vocals
Just Don’t Hang Up
A storm just blew over, leaving the waste
Of scattered dreams which seem to be
Just more cosmic debris.
Something still unsettled, words have been misplaced
And when all is said and done
How can something lost be won?
When the battle lines drawn have all been crossed
And you’re face to face with the same disgrace
Now that you’ve got my number, it can never be lost
So feel free to call - just don’t hang up, that’s all.
After so many times of feeling so right
That we just can’t go wrong
Why do we stop the song?
We can blame it on our timing and swear it’s
not our fault
Or once more turn our heads away
Pretending nothing more to say.
But when you just can’t hang up anymore
I’m still on the line, making up my mind
That I always will love you, and that’s for sure
So feel free to call - just don’t hang up , that’s all.
Copyright 1985 Chris Van Cleave
JEREMY OWEN: Drums, percussion
IAIN RAE: Piano
ROGER CAREY: Bass
TIM WHEATER: Flute
CHRIS VAN CLEAVE: Acoustic guitar, keyboards, vocals
We’re on a roll - it’s an all time
high situation
Feels like the moment I have waited for
For all of my life
Isn’t it time that we threw a prime celebration
I’d love nothin’ more than to have you close
With me by my side
Chorus
Oh, I wanna laugh with you Baby
And then afterwards maybe
We can get down to some foolin’ around
With all that love we’ve found
Oh, I wanna laugh with you Baby
And then afterwards maybe
We can be much more serious
About movin’ to higher ground
Don’t be dismayed ‘bout the dues
we have paid
For our dreams Babe
Just hold me tight and with all of your might
Make sweet love with me
Then when we’re done we can have some more fun
Startin’ over
Let’s do it again - we can’t help but win
Losin’ hesitancy
Chorus
Bridge
Can’t you feel it
Somethin’ funny’s come between us
What can I say?
Chorus
Copyright 1990 Chris Van Cleave
JEREMY OWEN: Drums
IAIN RAE: Keyboards
FRANK MEAD: Saxophone
SHIRLIE RODEN: Harmony vocal
CHRIS VAN CLEAVE: Acoustic guitar, bass, vocals
Every
Now And Then
Hanging on a memory of you with me
Your ghost has come to visit me again
And though I’d love to see you now
I know I face a dream
That comes to haunt me every now and then
No matter how I’d really love to hold you
I know the time has passed to let you go
But still I hold the hope that you’ll be coming home again
And you’ll stay with me when it won’t just be
Every now and then
Chorus
Still now and then
I’ll go back when this life was yours and mine
Wandering so freely through the wonder of it all
And though your life is gone
I won’t be all alone
‘Cause now and then
Some place we’ve been takes me back to our time
When you were always here with me
Instead of just a memory
Coming every now and then
Guess I’m learning time will wait for no
one
But time can take forever from an end
And though I go on living taking one day at a time
How long the pain will last will just depend
Depending on how long I’m going to miss
you
And every little care we ever shared
And if I hold regrets about the way things might have been
It’s ‘cause my Love won’t die and it makes me
cry
Every now and then
Chorus
‘Cause now and then
I’ll go back when this life was yours and mine
Wandering so freely through the wonder of it all
And though your life is gone
I won’t be all alone
‘Cause now and then
Some place we’ve been takes me back to our time
When you were always here with me
Instead of just a memory
Coming every now and then
Copyright 1988 Peter Mason (music)
Copyright 1988 Chris Van Cleave (lyrics)
Peter Mason Music Ltd/Carlin Music Corporation/
Chris Van Cleave Music (BMI)
JEREMY OWEN: Drums
IAIN RAE: Piano
TIM WHEATER: Flute
CHRIS VAN CLEAVE: Acoustic guitar, bass, vocals
Sleepwalker
Love, I tried to track you down
Wandering on a hillside next to my hometown
Love, I was looking for clues
Searching through the “want ads” to find you, front
page news
Chorus
Gently wake, sleepwalker
For Love’s sake sleepwalker
Dreams, can carry you away
Following a rainbow to the end someday
Dreams, as much as we recall
We either fell asleep or in Love, that’s all
Chorus
Climb each stair, sleepwalker
But take good care, sleepwalker
One fine day, somewhere along the Way
You’re bound to see
When you stumble on a clearing
Within the forest of your fearing
And find the Key
Life, a rhyme deems it “... but a dream”
However it appears to be, any way it may seem
Life, to some people is a game
But win, lose, or draw, we may all wind up the same
Chorus
Gently wake, sleepwalker
For Love’s sake, sleepwalker
Climb each stair, sleepwalker
But take good care, sleepwalker
Sleepwalker ... sleepwalker ...
Copyright 1982 Chris Van Cleave
JEREMY OWEN: Drums
ROGER CAREY: Bass
CHRIS VAN CLEAVE: Acoustic & electric guitars,
keyboards, vocals
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