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Music and lyrics by Steve Leonard
At first it’s announced
And then you make plans
Taking time off
To dig in the sands
Booking your flight
A thief in the night
Slipping through a portal
Hiding in plain sight
A future lies before you
Culminating once and for all
But as you approach it
It curves into nothing at all
Nothing at all
Released on the album SYZYGY (2020)
Music: Steve Leonard
Words: JP Garwood
Sometimes skies are aging
like the hair upon my head
Opening like time machines
to reveal what I said
But I do not care for conflict
between the skies and me
So blow it out, my darling
do your worst and set me free
Even days like Tuesday
are enough to wear me out
Always dragging Wednesdays in
increasing Monday’s doubt
So if Karin lights a candle
on some dark Tuesday night
Blow it out, my darling
or one day she just might
All these days I’m dreaming
of colors I can’t see
They steals my waking hours
and my desire to be free
So whenever you are breathing
take my colors from the air
Then blow them out, my darling
painting murals everywhere
And my love is stupid for you
and my life is hatred and glue
I find I can’t fill my shoes
I find I can’t see the clues
Blow out what you can’t use
Blow out what you can’t use
Blow out what you can’t use
Blow out what you can’t use
From the album SYZYGY (2020)
Music and lyrics by Steve Leonard
The map we know is useless on this floor
We’re blindly searching for an open door
There is no hand that will come to our rescue
It’s up to me, it’s up to you too
We are the angel’s of the earth
Lifting up ourselves
Sounding in the dark
Only now
Feel it in your skin
Reaction from within
Love never was a sin
Let it flow
You’ll make it out alive
Savior of you own mind
Become one with time
Let it flow
Waves of sound shake the bones inside your head
You can sit there or you can dance around
Take a chance, if you have nothing left to lose
Love or fear, which will you choose?
You are an angel of the earth
Do what angels do
Resonate with me
Forever more
Feel it in your skin
Reaction from within
Love never was a sin
Let it flow
You’ll make it out alive
Savior of you own mind
Become one with time
Let it flow
From the album SYZYGY (2020)
Music and lyrics by Steve Leonard
You’ve been busy chopping wood doing everything you should
But the work isn’t finished ’til it’s done
Where the trees once stood there’s a clearing in the wood
You’ve only just begun
Hacking from the dawn, stacking ’til it’s gone
Through the wind and the rain and the snow
And anything can hinder dragging the timber
From here to Idaho (From here to Idaho)
Got more wood than anybody should
Ever could or would chop down
No matter what you intend, the days never end
and there’s no one else around
Constant sound of the axe, no time to relax
you never had to work so hard
When it gets too much and it’s all piled up
drop it off at the lumber yard
Take your time lumber man You’re hauling a heavy load
Take your time lumber man There’s a lot more to be towed
Stack it in the bed, move it to the shead
that you built with a leftover pile
Build with the best, burn all the rest
it’s going to take a while
Watch your lane, the traffic’s insane
They’ll run you off the road
If you ever arrive, once you revive
you’ll be hauling another load (you’ll be hauling another load)
Take your time lumber man
You’re hauling a heavy load
Take your time lumber man
Now they’re choppin’ down the grove
Take your time lumber man
The jungle won’t cease to grow
Take your time lumber man
How much more can you tow?
When the sun come out, and you want a hideout
where will you find shade?
You though you were in the driver’s seat
you thought you had it made
Once they all fall the meaning of it all, will finally become quite clear
and now’s you chance, to take a stance, choose love instead of fear
Take your time lumber man
You’re hauling a precious load
Take your time lumber man
You’re flyin’ off the road
Take your time lumber man
The jungle might cease to grow
Take your time lumber man
There’s a lot more to be towed
Take your time lumber man!
Take your time lumber man!
Take your time lumber man!
Take your time lumber man!
From the album SYZYGY (2020)
Music and lyrics by Steve Leonard
Rain was comin’ down when you arrived;
every inch and pound
While the years seem to multiply
we still get around
Around a star that keep us wondering
in the light of doubt
through a world that we’re plundering
ah, but we’ll figure it out
Get up on your bike
and ride it all around
remember what it’s like
to be closer to the ground
Fireflies lighting up your eyes
still learning how to talk
what’s the word for this feeling that I’m feeling
just gonna take a walk
In the morning I hear you singin’
I want to know your song
but the time between day and night
just won’t last that long
Rolling down a hill
everything a thrill
take another spill
an empty glass to fill
Hide or join the chase
Determining your pace
Dance and state your case
Gazing into space
Breathing the air
Becoming more aware
a circle, or a square?
Remember not to stare
Fly me all around
Listen for the sound
Curiosity abound
Closer to the ground
Closer to the ground
Closer to the ground
Closer to the ground
Music by Steve Leonard
Lyrics by JP Garwood
Where Gardens Grew
Tiger stripes and leopard spots
Designer jeans on astronauts
Germs that live up in your bones
Weaving through some orange cones
Camp out in a plastic tent
open top for air to vent
The twilight sky is full of holes
patch them up with honest soles
Plant the flag where gardens grew
Time is made of glass and glue
Flowers grow in rewind
Ivy grows on idol’s head
colors bleed from green to red
a trumpet to announce the king
swallow fast your diamond ring
Big foam hand on broken wrist
mother’s milk with a lemon twist
and there goes Davey Crocket’s brain
back up on it’s feet again
Plant the flag where gardens grew
Time is made of glass and glue
Flowers grow in rewind
Two knocked down one standing up
rain storms from a paper cup
Yaks fall out in revue
like the way good soldiers do
the comet tail is hot and bright
shirtless on a moonlight night
and if you could have a trap door
you’d put it on the ocean floor
Plant the flag where gardens grew
Time is made of glass and glue
Flowers grow in rewind
Music and lyrics by Steve Leonard
Stuck in the middle of the same old situation
same old song starts the same way every time
sometimes you get to thinking about changing it all
but you can’t find courage to flip over to the other side
Why, oh why, I’ve ask myself a few times
Why, oh why, don’t we learn from our mistakes
Why, oh why, can’t we solve each others problems
Why, oh why, I don’t believe it’s just too late
What is the meaning of the question?
does it even matter, is there an answer to be found?
what is the meaning of the question?
will we ever get there, or should we just turn around?
Turn around, Turn around, Turn around
Turn around, Turn around, Turn around
The numbers say that we’re getting closer
but do they really mean anything at all?
You’re always on your way, but we already made it
I hung up the phone before you made the call
My oh my, all the signs are pointing backwards
My oh my, I must be livin’ upside down
My oh my, we can solve each others problems
My oh my, if only we’d get out of our way
What is the meaning of the question?
does it even matter? is there an answer to be found?
what is the meaning of the question?
will we ever get there, or should we just turn around?
will we ever get there, or should we just turn around?
will we ever get there, or should we just turn around?
will we ever get there, or should we just turn around?
will we ever get there, or should we just turn around?
Turn around, Turn around, Turn around
Turn around, Turn around, Turn around
Released on the album Break The Code (2018)
Music and lyrics by Steve Leonard
You looked away, it happened when you looked away
The clouds blew out to reveal sun
You looked away, it happened when you looked away
The kids were all having fun
while you began to come undone
know you’re not the only one
So get behind your plow; Cultivate your land any way you can
And when you’re hangin’ around; Bring it into focus when the words disintegrate to sound
You looked away, it happened when you looked away
The walls of time began to fall
You looked away, it happened when you looked away
The kids are no longer small
What once was false, now is true
What you did, isn’t what you do
Solo
So you put up a fight; Keep on pushin’ hard just to lose another yard
Just grab hold of now; yeah, it’s the only time that matters when the ladder’s only running out
Don’t look away, it happened when you looked away
a star was falling in the sky
Don’t look away, it happened when you looked away
The Royal Guard blinked an eye
The future has become the past
It once was slow but now it’s fast
No matter how the die is cast
Lightning wasn’t made to last
Music by Steve Leonard
Lyrics by JP Garwood
Steve Leonard – Guitars/Vocals
Don Frio – Piano/Organ/Vocals
Steve Leroy – Bass
Michael Parillo – Drums
Steve Graham – Vocals
Lizzy Kates – Vocals
Lyrics
There’s a boy on a girl’s bike
riding up and down the street
He’s wearing a striped shirt
two different shades of blue
Although the sun is setting
sliding down the rooftops
For this certain moment
he’s got nothing else to do
There’s streamers from a party
stranded on a lamp post
At the end of celebration
they belong now to the breeze
And with darkness taking over
smudging out their color
They can take to dreaming of
the days when they were trees
Night falls down or up
Like coffee in a sideways cup
There’s nothin’ that it needs
and nothing it’s owed, on Seneca Road
Night falls down or up
Black coffee in a sideways cup
there’s nothin’ that it needs
and nothing it’s owed, on Seneca Road
There’s a dog chewing grass blades
tied up on a front lawn
He’s ignoring the noises
of the others who are free
And without the sun to see him
eating imagination
He is free to ponder
what it’s like just to be
Night falls down or up
Like coffee in a sideways cup
There’s nothin’ that it needs
and nothing it’s owed, on Seneca Road
Night falls down or up
Black coffee in a sideways cup
there’s nothin’ that it needs
and nothing it’s owed, on Seneca Road
Night falls down or up
Night falls down or up
Night falls down or up
Night falls down or up
Music and lyrics by Steve Leonard
Lyrics:
Alligators, masqueraders
Cars out of control
Navigating a wooden ship
inside a salad bowl
Running from an avalanche
while you disappear
as the black tornado hits
I’m unawake in fear
I’m drowning in a dream
Severed my head but wasn’t dead
saw doctor of guitars
he said it didn’t look too good
but had seen worse by far
All the other patients
were disgusted by my sight
he put me back together
in the middle of the night
I’m drowning in a dream
Deep inside the war room
searching for some clues
some say the answer’s hidden
in the dresser full of shoes
I ducked around the corner
to find where it was at
a figure in the darkness said
“I wouldn’t open that”
Levitating in a trance
as voices scream in pain
They will not take your life
just the power of your brain
(the power of your brain)
Plug me in and take my blood
I know it can’t be clean
Drank water from the tap
washed my body in the stream
As the master crumbles
the computer’s telling lies
I don’t have a witness
or any alibis
I’m drowning in a dream
in a dream
in a dream