chasing Happy
Verse 1
Time marches on now, you wish you knew just what was on your plate,
You eat it anyway
You march to a different tune, if only you knew what would become your fate,
Still you march along
Chorus
Before you know it you’re no longer free,
For all you know you’ve reached your destiny,
Before you know it hits you in the face,
Before you know it, it all falls into place.
Verse 2
With so many wrong notes played, maybe my life is just cacophony, I can barely hear it,
Who says that they’re wrong anyway, maybe I’m inventing harmonies that only I can hear.
Bridge
You know I always go the way the wind blows
But you can never stop the wind from making it blow again.
Verse 3
What does being happy mean? Can I be happy just where I am?
I am right here now.
‘Cause I’ve been chasing happy, chasing happy so it can’t keep up with me,
I’m right where I should be (Chorus)
©2017 Lisa Jeanette
Safer when it rains
I feel much safer when it rains
I like to feel it pouring on my skin, my pores let it seep in,
You won’t hear me complain,
I feel much safer when it rains
Verse 2
Where I come from the sky is small
Sometimes you can’t see it at all unless you’re tall
I know the sky will never fall,
Where I come from the sky is small
Chorus
It’s hard to know who’s good who’s cruel,
And someone always sends me back to school, back to school,
To learn the lesson again.
Verse 3
I know what’s right from what is wrong,
Might not be tough but I am strong, so strong.
You might be here, you might be gone,
But I know what’s right from what is wrong.
Chorus
It’s hard to know who’s good who’s cruel,
And someone always sends me back to school, back to school,
To learn the lesson again.
Repeat Verse 1
I feel much safer when it rains
I like to feel it pouring on my skin, my pores let it seep in,
You won’t hear me complain,
I feel much safer when it rains (3x)
©2017 Lisa Jeanette
Lansdowne
Verse 1
Places never stay the same,
I never fell in love with a place or its name
But if there were one that I would choose
It’s a place that I would never want to lose.
Chorus
Lansdowne, a pretty little town
All kinds of people there to show you around and it’s
Hands down, the place I wanna go
It’s my home and I’m never gonna roam from Lansdowne
Verse 2
They hang flowers in the air,
You can walk along the streets without a care,
Musicians in the square, you won’t want to leave and you won’t know how you got there
Bridge
Remember how I met you there? Remember it was on a dare
I dared you to meet me there three times
The music store had closed too fast
We pressed our noses to the glass
I knew we wanted more beneath the sycamore
It only took one time
It only took one time
It only took one time (Chorus)
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Somebody come for me now
Chorus
Somebody come for me now
I can’t find my way home again
Somebody come for me now
I’m lost, forsaken
Verse 1
Used to be I’d drive around and I’d purposely lose the road
Mostly I’m driven by sound, and the sound told me which way to go
I can’t hear you now, I can’t hear you now (Chorus)
Verse 2
Mostly thought I’m where I need to be, the universe, the Lord’s in control.
Some people follow their heart, but I’ve always followed my soul
I can’t feel you now, I can’t feel you now. (Chorus)
Verse 3
I try to be like a sunflower raising my face to the sun,
Focusing my energy from morning ‘till day is done.
I can’t see you know, I can’t see you now. (Chorus)
©2017 Lisa Jeanette
Marie Laure
Chorus:
Marie Laure faces each day with a cane in her hand
With each step a plan
Counting the drains that lead to the baker
Are you brave, Marie Laure?
Verse 1
Who would have guessed you carried a message
To send through the airwaves that no one can see?
What do they see? Only a bakery, you see, Marie Laure.
Verse 2
A barnacle grows, and there on the barnacle snails trail along
And there on the snail, a barnacle grows, and so much we all grow,
So must we all trail along
Verse 3
He said “you’re brave”
That’s what they all say, but she disagreed, “I just live, c’est la vie.
Don’t you do the same?”, “Maybe today you’ve made me brave, Marie Laure.”
Verse 4
And so what is love, but moments we share when our time is at hand,
And hands intertwine,
A moment ago you soared through my soul,
But you’re gone now, Marie Laure.
©2017 Lisa Jeanette
Kensington Blues
Verse 1
I was dead just seven minutes ago, I can’t even die when I say so
They brought me back, I would jump off a bridge you know
They brought me back, I would jump, but I don’t have the nerve
Verse 2
Every day I take my life in my hands, it’s my choice to stay in this situation
That’s not the way it started long ago, a man shot me up while I slept on a cold borrowed floor.
Chorus
I wasn’t raised like this, I didn’t plan for this
Still the voices scream in my head, you asked for it, you asked for it, you asked for it
Verse 3
If you could understand the things that I’ve done,
It’s my choice to stay in this situation,
I have a daughter, she’s ten years old, she lives with my family that loves me, but I clipped the cord. (Chorus)
Coda
They’ll never pay for what they’ve done, but they’ll pay for what I do,
Walk seven minutes in my shoes, but for the grace of God go you, but for the grace of God. (Repeat 3x)
©2017 Lisa Jeanette
New Year’s Night
Verse 1
Icy windows at night
Reflecting candles and dancing firelight
Everyone’s gone to the New Year; everyone’s on their way
That’s how we celebrate the holidays
Verse 2
A thousand pieces all fit; cardboard pieces are easier to grip,
Pieces of life are a puzzle, some are hard to find,
Some just slip away over time
Chorus
For all the most important things, it easy to forget
This world will stand you on your head, you’ll ask the mirror “have we met?”
Searching for home remedies, for feeling all alone
The only remedy I need is home
Verse 3
Will we have many more, this time next year, will you walk through the door?
Will we sing songs to remember, drink to everyone, will we live to see the next one?
Verse 4
Memories that won’t fade, Mummers strut in the New Year’s Day parade,
And when they are done, we are dancing, with candles and firelight,
That’s how we end New Year’s Night.
©2017 Lisa Jeanette
Pearl
Verse 1
If you had told that little girl
A grain of sand becomes a pearl
Life wouldn’t always be so rough
You don’t have to be so tough
And you would be enough
Verse 2
If you had told her she was fine
And that it was good to be kind
And that love was truly blind, love was truly blind
And true love you will find
Chorus
What a difference it would make
It’s okay, make your mistakes
There’s something that’s called grace, it comes along
Right when you feel done
Verse 3
I wish I could go back in time
And have the confidence I’ve yet to find
I’d be wiser, I’d be bolder, I’d be brave just like a soldier
Probably wishing I was older
Verse 4
If I have only one regret
It would be where I placed my bets
I’d be the longshot I’m behind, I’d vote for me every time
And pray that I was right (Chorus)
Verse 5
By the grace of God I am not done
And in some ways I’ve just begun
And I want to be someone touched by the sun
Long before I’m gone
©2017 Lisa Jeanette
Like you’ve never gone
Verse 1
It would take a song to bring you back to me
When everything seems wrong, a song can set you free
Nothing in this world can change what came to be
But if I sing it in a song, it’s like you’ve never gone
Verse 2
And on the radio a song begins to play
A song you used to love when it was often played
The world spins back in time and there I am with you
And as I hum along it’s like you’ve never gone
Verse 3
You said “I hope you dance”, it’s never been my thing
So when it’s time to dance, I’d really rather sing
But lately I give in and dance around the room
And as I sing along, it’s like you’ve never gone
Chorus
Oh I never want to lose my sense of you
And with everything, I think “what would you do”
Oh the places that you occupy, my heart my mind my soul
Still music can remember things that I forget I know
Verse 4
They say time heals all wounds, it’s something I dispute
If there’s one thing I’ve learned it’s nothing’s absolute
My wounded heart won’t heal although time passes on
I catch a glimpse of you, it’s like you’ve never gone
You’re dancing in my heart, it’s like you’ve never gone.
©2017 Lisa Jeanette
I got it right with you
Verse 1
Let’s just say mistakes were made, I got it wrong, so wrong
I didn’t know just how these games were played,
Or even that the games were on
Nobody hands you the rules, nobody tells you the score,
It left me playing the fool, until your shadow darkened my door,
Chorus
I got it right this time around, head in the clouds feet on the ground
Good times or bad we see it through
If there’s one thing I know for sure, I got it right with you.
Verse 2
I don’t know just how it happened, I looked for you so long
And everyone I met I searched their eyes, for something I could recognize.
I knew it straight from the start, the way you held out your hand.
You reached right into my heart, you hold my love, and I understand (Chorus)
Bridge
I’d given up, given up on love
I gave it out, gave it out too much,
You came along, came along at the right time
It’s been a long time and we’re doing fine. (Chorus)
©2017 Lisa Jeanette