SYZYGY

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)