The Lyrics

Baby Dear (words: Michael McClure/music: Stephen Ehret

Vision blouse branch honey lip
Down inside that glowing slip
Baby Dear I love your boots
Lace beam space and turquoise ear
Rainbow neon toes in there
Down inside your leather boots
Baby Dear
And there’s nothing there to fear
And there’s nothing there to fear

Wind Dream (words & music: Stephen Ehret)

Once she loved me
And as I stood by her
I felt the ground laughing
The warmness inside her
Was mine
Once it was mine

I loved her more gently
Than raindrops touch flowers
But the pit of my mind
Spat a pain to untie her
From me
And it was mine

She left as the wind
Blowing through treetops so I could not catch her
Not wanting to see me
Faster and faster
She blows
She left as the wind
Leaving a record spinning an echo of leaves briskly blowing
Where did she go?
My mind
Once it was mine

She lived in a dream world
Of books and of children
Her mind was of spirits
And then she let me in
Her mind
Once it was mine

Once she loved me
And as I stood by her
I felt the ground laughing
The warmness inside her
Was mine
Once it was mine
Once it was mine
Once it was mine
Once it was mine
Once it was mine

Coffee Cup (words: Tom Ellis/music: Stephen Ehret

The mountains calling, whispering
Draw back the silver veils
Seen through the mirror of my soul
And knowing comes with silence

A cloud bursts in peaceful thundering
And birds find shelter in there own kind
But a small man knows he’s only human
For his refuge is his own mind

But you don’t know who I am
The one being that cries to my brothers
And out of the darkness I’m wondering
Does one soul know all others
And shouting once a crashing tree falls
And rocks sing to the sky
The harmonies within life’s world blend
“Till no man need ask why

The evening droning endlessly
Lights quickly inner thoughts to laugh
Running dancing unto the four corners
And believing is the essence

Jump In (words: Michael McCausland/music: Stephen Ehret

Rain on
There are rules on the way you can slide
Smile on
Take a walk on the opposite side
You better watch yourself as the sidewalks can be icily thin
Any time now, baby
Is the time for you to jump in

The sky is falling, Chicken Little was ahead of his time
They’re replacing the desert with a slow motion camera and a sign
There’s a new hand lotion for the third degree burns on your skin
Any time now, baby
Is the time for you to jump in

Take turns
Flying can be fun for us all
Butter churns
There’s another side to the wall
There’s a man outside who said his answers blew away in the wind
While the radio’s playing
There recording how well you fit in

There’s a sitar player in the corner with his pinochle deck
He’s a blackjack player and he’s faster than the fastest fan jet
He’ll go out of his way to help you out of a mandolin
Any time now, baby
Is the time for you to jump in

There’s a part time prophet
In the singer of your sewing machine
He’s forgotten the words
And misplaced all the in betweens
He’s got the inside skinny but his chances seem unbearably thin
Any time now, baby
Is the time for you to jump in

Of Planets, Mirrors and Man
(words:  Michael McCausland/music: Stephen Ehret)

Inside these eyes the tides flow soft and golden
When gently left alone upon the sand
Of memories of broken glass and silver
Of city lights, of bridges, streams and man

For days on end where dreams were often spoken
As nights were spent from heights of upside down
I’d see my life in shades of oak leaf tokens
And bend each branch as shadows touched the ground

Where in each tree the wind on leaf lined fingers
Pictures painted there like cobweb strands
Of memories of broken glass and silver
Of thoughts upon each throbbing, untouched hand

Signatures on walls of great proportion
Promises of jade like Caesars bed
Often hides the sound of love’s distortion
Beliefs that lifeless lies control each man

If ever I should speak these words in laughter
When at the time my mind behind me cries
It might be just the moment that I’m after
It might be that I long to be inside

What Once Was
(words: John Jennings/music: John Jennings/Stephen Ehret)

Baby
I hear your breathing filtered through the thick, cold, damp
I hear you coming blindly towards me
Through the empty black of night
The starless sky as if forewarned
Keeps me from seeing your mocking smile
You don’t know I share your secret
You can’t see my silent tears
And this pain in my heart
Keeps reminding me of a love that was good
And this pain in my heart
Won’t let me forget that you were untrue
My prides been ripped from me
There’s laughter behind me
You made a joke of
What once was a man
Baby
I hear your breathing fading in the thick, cold, damp
I hear you hollow footsteps leaving
Through the empty black of night
The starless sky as if forewarned
Keeps me from seeing your mocking smile
You don’t know I share your secret
You can’t see my silent tears
And this pain in my heart
Keeps reminding me of a love that was good
And this pain in my heart
Won’t let me forget that you were untrue
My prides been ripped from me
There’s laughter behind me
You made a joke of
What once was a man
And this pain in my heart
Won’t let me forget
And this pain in my heart
Reminds me of you…

How Fast You Got To Go When You Got No Place To Run (words: Michael McCausland/music: Stephen Ehret)

How fast you got to go when you got no place to run
How wide will you be smilin’ in the early morning dawn
I guess there’s no sense talking don’t look back what’s done is done
How fast you got to go when you got no place to run

No tellin’ what the weather when all around looks grey
No tellin’ what the morning brings about the break of day
No tellin’ what the outcome of a story just begun
How fast you got to go when you got no place to run

What’s that you sayin’
What’s the thought behind your love
How far your leaning on the dreams your thinkin’ of
No longer can I see you
Slender thoughts upon your tongue
How fast you got to go when you got no place to run

How fast you got to go when you got no place to run
How wide will you be smilin’ in the early morning dawn
I guess there’s no sense talking don’t look back what’s done is done
How fast you got to go when you got no place to run

Across the Aging Sea (words & music: Michael McCausland)

I don’t wanna be just
One of the many ones
Who comes to call on you both day and night
I want to be
The one you want to walk with
In the moonlight
Come ride with me
Across the aging sea

We’ll be as free as the sky
That holds the sun
That shines on the clouds
That cups the rain
That falls on the water
That slaps the rocky shoreline
Where I sit thinkin’ all about you
I can’t help dreamin’ all around you

Well I’ve been out on the highway
Up on the mountain
Down by the river
Under the waterfall
And in all my days of travelin’
I have loved and shared and cherished
Many things truly wonderful
But I never met you
And I want your love
Honey you know I do

And I’m just goin’ with the carpet wind
One of the angels of time
Come ride with me
Across the aging sea

Poorboy (words & music: Stephen Ehret)

I’m just a poorboy whose out upon his own
Wanderin’ through this space in time
I’ve got no connections
There’s no place I have to go
I’m just a wanderin’ through my mind
I’ve got no money and I’ve got no job
There’s no thing I have to do
I’m just a wanderin’ and I’m searchin’ for a home
I’m just like you

I’m sick and tired and I’m stuck upon the road
And I’m tryin’ to read this letter from my friend
There’s somethin’ out here that I know I’m gonna find
Perhaps it’s just around this other bend
I’m just a poorboy whose stuck upon the road
There’s no plays I have to do
I’m just a wanderin’ and I’m searchin’ for a home
I’m just like you

Everything is going wrong think I’m gonna sing a song
Sit right down beneath this tree
Everybody knows just the way it goes
How the wind blows
But they don’t know me
Everytime I turn around everybody wears a frown
Nobody’s got any smiles today
I’m out on the road and my mind is blowed
And I got my load
And I’m on my way

I count good fortune when it comes my way
And I try to roll around when it gets bad
I’m just a searchin’ in my simple way
And I hope that I might find a simple path
I greet each morning with a smile
And I try to make my changes everyday
If there is something more that you need to hear
There’s really not much more that I can say
Everything is going wrong I think I’m gonna sing a song
There’s really not much more that I can say
Everything is going wrong I think I’m gonna sing a song
There’s really not much more that I can say

On Even Red
(words: Michael McCausland/music: Stephen Ehret)

Very near exhaustion finds his bootstraps
Very near description squares his heels
She’ll wait until the sun turns even red
She dances very close to where he feels

Could I count the lines, I’ve rearranged my hands
Could I leave another breath behind
Faith is often longing to be time found
So near and often soft along this line

Friends have been the source of my arrival
Patience is the sound of my return
Never have I held such light before me
Missing is the road
This much I’ve learned
This much I’ve learned

Please Come Home
 (words: Michael McCausland/music: Stephen Ehret)

Where is all this summer sunshine coming from?
Where’s the winter wind I’m dreamin’ of
From the fire and ashes of another day
I’ve driven from my mind
I’m all alone
And I’m cryin’ in the background
Please Come Home

Seven empty seasons in the background
Summer days and one act plays
Of never ending charm and promise too
Were all for you
And I’m cryin’ in the background
All alone
And I’m cryin’ I’ve been brought down
Please Come Home

Remember all the words you gave to me
I remember all the nights you sent for me
Now in my room there’s no light there
I’m chasin’ shadows in the dust
If leave you will then leave
I guess you must
And I’m cryin’ in the background
All alone
And I’m cryin’ I’ve been brought down
Please Come Home

Over By The Courthouse
(words: Michael McCausland/music: Stephen Ehret)

Over by the courthouse
Just across the tracks
There’s a whole gang of people
Tryin’ to get back
Some are quite excitable
Some are ill at ease
Some are just as quiet
Just as quiet as you please

But there are those thoughts came slow
Thought through there eyes did shine
Another accidental death
This truth they could not find
A lady in a midnight slip
Did understand them all
And she did speak to everyone
In crowds both large and small

“No need to be confused” she said
“By the cannon and the drum
It’s just a democratic rhythm
From the barrel of a gun
Come mother father sister brother
And all souls who sank
It’s a double cross
I came in peace
Was the poison that he drank

You can rock and roll
And kill for peace
But don’t you burn the bank”.

The Ship
(words: Michael McCausland/music: Michael Brown/Stephen Ehret)

Can’t make you believe
Why should I try to
Sure hate to see you leave
But if you do
Take care of yourself and all possessions
There’ll be times I’ll think of you

Castles made of sand were meant to tumble
And be swept back into the sea
The sky like an iron blanket
Concealed the paper ship from Galilee

Mother please don’t cry
I must go home
You must try to understand
We’re not alone
I can feel  I can feel  I can feel
I can feel  but I cannot see
The ship from Galilee
And the iron skies
Did break apart
And the pieces fell as hard as snow
And the paper ship
It did slip
Under