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INTERMISSION: SONG LISTING, CREDITS, & LYRICS
SONGS
1. Home is Where
2. If I Sing
3. Daisy
4. Haunted
5. Tricky World
6. Intermission
CREDITS
RS: Vocals, guitars, organ
Jamie Edwards: guitar, keyboards, arranging on Haunted and Tricky World
Jim Haggerty: bass
John Sands: drums
Mike Faughnan: drums on Tricky World
Recorded by Danny Horrid at DLS Mobile except...
Home is Where recorded and mixed by Brian Charles, Zippah Studios, Brookline, MA
Haunted and Tricky World mixed by Danny Horrid
If I Sing, Daisy and Intermission mixed by Pete Weiss and Danny Horrid at Verdant Studio, VT
Mastered by Brian Charles
Thank you to all of the above for lending your amazing talents to these songs. Thank you also to Harv, Jim and Suzanne Weston, Steve Flynn, Andy P., Jill Haggerty, Dan Russell, Matt Pike, Glennis and Otis Russell, and Free and Hazel Hallas (press record).
A Horrid/Silver Production. All songs by Ramona Silver, copyright 2005 Tootsie Music, ASCAP.
LYRICS
1. HOME IS WHERE
Wait a minute, let’s go back to the beginning
To the place where we were talking about our love
And all the things that you and I are made of
Now we’re in it and I know that you are busy
Does it have to take a message from above
For us to take a walk back where we came from?
What about this house we’re building
Wet with sweat and tears
It keeps on hanging over me
Working late at night no sleeping, barely stop to breathe
We’ve got only pennies here but big dreams
There’s a window and your kids are climbing through it
And you gotta help them do it as best you can
It’s done with all the wisdom that we can muster
There’s their future, it’s coming fast inside their faces
Growing tall and going places like new men
Remember when this all began?
What about this earth we’re leaving
Sooner every year
It’s turning right in front of me
Remember how you love the scenery from a Vermont chair?
We’ve got only minutes here
Tender years
Remember dear
I’m counting every scene
Home, home is where the heart is
And oh, they never should be parted
Come home
2. IF I SING
If I sing will you come out, come out from your hiding place
And show your face and everything you are
Will you stand and deliver everything you’re given by grace
And not erase your bright and shining star?
I know it’s cold, you feel alone, but love is all around you (oh I feel it)
Don’t give up now, time will show how the sun is gonna shine through you
There’s a face in the mirror coming ever clearer
Do you see it, too? It’s staring right at you.
Every step that you take, well it could be a mistake
But time will surely show no matter how it breaks or what you blow
Inaction is a waste
I know it’s cold, you feel alone, but love is all around you (oh I feel it)
Don’t give up now, time will show how, the sun is gonna shine through you
Oh my heaven I’m in luck because you haven’t given me up for all I’ve done
Now’s the time to step on up
Cause I could stay stuck under this rock or greet the sun
I know it’s cold, you feel alone, but love is all around you (oh I feel it)
Don’t give up now, time will show how the sun is gonna shine through you (do believe it)
If I sing will you come out, come out from your hiding place
And show your face and everything you are?
3. DAISY
She’s got a gun in her head, makes me hide
She shoot words like lead ‘tween my eyes
And I can’t defend, can’t deny
What it is I am to despise
I don’t know how I should go from here
I’m 10 feet down into the ground in fear
It’s coming down
I’ll make my bed like it’s all I have then I’m dead
But I won’t go where thoughts they grow so deep
I will not fade though each new day she keeps…
…it coming down
Her faded clout is run aground
All of the treasure you told were nothing that I could behold
Yeah and I haven’t got any (3x) of what you said you gave
It’s coming down
Her faded clout
Has run aground
Ooooo I’m out
4. HAUNTED
Haunted, haunted by the weight of loving
You sat grinning at my gate hovering
I walked through you
I’ll find my way but haunted
Tender, tender are the dreams you’re sending
Tokyo cell phones at the window bending my view
I hear your voice, I’m haunted
Haunted by the weight of loving
Haunted by the wait for you
Haunted by the weight of loving you
Haunted, haunted by the dreams unending
I sat out upon the roof there mending my noose
And I hear your voice, I’m haunted
Tell me time will measure and I’ll show you how I’m weathered in the morning
Tell me it’s forever and I’ll show you another storm that we’ve walked through
We’ll find our way but haunted
Haunted by the weight of lovin
Haunted by the wait for you
Haunted by the weight of loving you
It’s not the emptiness that fills my bed
It’s not the tender voice that baits my head
Each time I wake into the day ahead I crawl through
It’s not the measure of the time gone by
It’s not the twinkle of another guy
Just that I feel that I am barely alive without you
Cause I’ve been haunted by the weight of lovin
Haunted by the wait for you
Haunted by the wait for lovin
Haunted by the wait for you
Haunted by the wait for lovin
Haunted by the wait for you
Haunted by the wait for lovin
Haunted by the wait for you
Haunted by the weight of you
Haunted by the wait for
5. TRICKY WORLD
It’s a tricky world you live in
It’s your God-given right to give in and go on and grow
I can tell that you’re hard of hearing
All the things that your heart’s been feeling so long, don’t it show
Tell me in the winter will we be alright
When snow falls down and covers up
Our only light to drive at night?
There are mountains worth the climbing
Then there are times you best see lying down
on the ground
So the road may be long and nameless
Sew a seam of a thousand faces and sounds all around
I tell you in the winter we will be all right
As snow falls down and covers us
We’ll slow the drive
And greet the night
As stars go hide
And everything turns to white, to white
Hand me over the wheel
It will be all right
Climb in back and steal dreams of sweet daylight
Hand me over the wheel
It will be all right
Climb in back and steal dreams so sweet
6. Intermission (Instrumental)
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NEWS
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Artwork
Exercise the Spirit Graphic Design:
Jim Haggerty
RS rainy sky photo: Julia Hoffman