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The Finest Adventure
03:50
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The Finest Adventure (E. Delaney)
Once I met a Frenchman who gave me half his pie
I don’t speak any French
He didn’t speak any English
We shared a laugh and a pie and the beauty of the day
The beauty of the mountains
At a café in Amsterdam
It was a sit-down kind of show
I saw a dancer in the back smiling through her tears
She looked like a rainbow that had stepped out of the sky to dance
Everyone else was facing me
Was she real? Or was she make believe?
But I talked to her after the show
She said, “Life goes faster than you know when you are young.”
“You must dance and sing every chance you get.
Meet your life every day like you are in love.”
“Be in love with your life, child.”
In my pocket there’s a map, well really it’s a blank piece of paper
Let’s take a walk, let’s wander together
While there is still time
Before the sun goes down
The sun always goes down
Surely you and I can have the finest adventure
You have a map in your pocket, I have a map
You have a dream if you want it, I have a dream too
Let’s share our dreams
Let’s dance and sing together
This is our life, the sun is rising, before the night comes
I want to love you better and better and better and better
I want to love
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2. |
I Think About You
03:05
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I Think About You (E. Delaney, T. Delaney)
One Saturday our daughter made a cafe in our house
She made up the menus and drew a sign that said; “Cafe Open Now”
The neighbors came over and we served homemade pie
I was thinking about you smiling, looking down, with shiny eyes
I think about you when the weather gets cold
I think about you watching my daughter grow
I think about you as time keeps rolling on like a river flows
I think about you when the tide comes in, when it pulls back,
Leaving more room for walking, on a million grains of sand
I think about you again and again
I think about you
I keep looking for a way to get around what’s in the background
The truth of losing you and living on has got me turning inside out
I keep my head up, looking to the sky
Thinking if I let myself fall into grief, I’ll cry an ocean and die
I think about you when the weather gets cold
I think about you watching my daughter grow
I think about you as time keeps rolling on like a river flows
I think about you when the tide comes in, when it pulls back,
Leaving more room for walking, on a million grains of sand
I think about you again and again
I think about you
One Saturday, the Sunshine Cafe warmed our house
I was thinking of you and wishing you could stop by
The cafe is open now
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3. |
Ordinary Love
03:24
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Ordinary Love (E. Delaney)
Love, ordinary love
Love, this is the time of our lives
We are watching the tide
Come in and go out again
Love, it’s such a beautiful night
Walking here by your side
There is nothing else I’d rather do
Love, ordinary love
Sticking it out when the going gets tough
I keep coming home to you
Love, ordinary love
Seeing the best and giving no less
Working hard to be good for you
I got a feeling, things are only getting brighter
We are stopping all that shadow boxing
Seeing more light
We have made a decision
To make our love better
Every moment is a chance to turn whatever’s wrong right
We are magic in the making
We are making magic happen…
Love, ordinary love
(Don’t you know I want you)
Love, we just get better with time
Keeping each other in mind
We got an everyday joy attitude
Love, every day I’ll be
Sticking it out when the going gets tough
I keep coming home to you
Love, I’ll keep my eyes on the truth
Seeing the best and giving no less
Doin’ what I can do
Everyday love
Steal the show love
We don’t need fancy stuff
To make our dreams come true
I got a feeling things will keep getting brighter
Love, ordinary love
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4. |
Bird On A Wire
02:57
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Bird on a wire (E. Delaney, T. Delaney)
I can’t believe we’re in this situation. My heart breaks thinking it’s too late.
We draw lines, the temperature’s rising. The ocean doesn’t care what land it takes
How did we get so disconnected? I’m plugged in, but I’m out of touch
Can I find my way back to the garden? Break the spell that’s got a hold on us
There’s a bird on a wire
In between the ground and sky
I can hear the song she’s singing
I can hear holy joy ringing
Like a prayer on the wind
A touch of grace, hearing it
The love and peace we think is missing
Is right here all the time
I keep thinking I am one person
Ice is melting, what can I do?
Now or never never seemed so urgent
I worry bout the weather, I never used to
I think of all plastic in the ocean
It’s part of nearly everything I buy
How do I change it? All the habits
It’s hard to see we’re running out of time
We can’t buy more time
There’s a bird on a wire
In between the ground and sky
I can hear the song she’s singing
I can hear holy joy ringing
Like a prayer on the wind
A touch of grace, hearing it
The love and peace we think is missing
Is right here all the time
somewhere inside you and I there’s a bird on a wire
Maybe if we heal our deepest wounds
Generations of carried pain
I care about our children’s children
It’s time to do something
Oh can we do something?!
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5. |
Start Where You Are
03:56
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Start where you are (E. Delaney)
Start where you are
Head in your hands
Cotton in your ears
Stone in your heart
Start where you are
Ocean in your eyes
Tears are like rain
Inside a bigger sky
There is a change coming on
There is a chance to wake up
To what is going on
Start where you are
Thinking you know
Falling on your face
You can see the road
Start where you are
Wherever it is
Loving can break your heart
But fear will do you in
There is a change coming on
There is a chance to wake up
To what is going on
Start where you are
I say to myself
Telling the truth is loving
Even when it's hell
Start where you are
Stretch open your mind
That's how we'll come together
Can we come together?
There is a change coming on
There is a chance to wake up
To what is going on
Start where you are
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6. |
Pie For Breakfast
03:27
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Pie For Breakfast (E. Delaney)
Sometimes you have Pie for Breakfast
Sometimes you gotta bend the rules
Maybe you laugh when it’s time to cry
Maybe you cry when things are good
It’s alright if you wanna dance
And if you don’t that’s alright too
You can do right by the world
And still be true to you
Strange days we’re living in
Like some kinda dream
We got the world in our pockets
Popping up on a little screen
I’ve got a distracted mind wrapped up in a restless heart
How do we break free, to see the lighter side, of the way things are?
Maybe a little Pie For Breakfast
Well, I’ve been around a little while
Had a few ups and downs
felt like I’m running in place
Trying to find steady ground
There must be a reason why shadows follow the sun
Shadow at my back, I look ahead, for that light to lead me on
There are so many troubles in this world
I want to do my part to help the bigger picture
What do I want to teach my little girl
The golden rule, respect is love, and to remember
Sometimes you have Pie For Breakfast….
Sing a long oh yeah
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7. |
You Got This
03:36
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You Got This (E. Delaney, T. Delaney)
I remember the day we met
You changed my whole world
Like you knew right from the start
you were my little girl
Your heart, beat next to mine
I felt so much love
when you looked into my eyes
I knew I could trust
You got this, you can do it
This is your journey and I’ll be right here
Trust yourself there’s no need to worry
I see your strength, this is just the beginning
Training wheels off to the side
You’re helmet was just right
You were ready but hesitant
You said, “Mama, hold on tight”
I ran beside you, then I let go
you were riding all by yourself
Laughing out loud you yelled, “I’m doing it!”
Then the bike fell down
You got this, you can do it
This is your journey and I’ll be right here
Trust yourself mistakes come with learning
I see your strength, this is just the beginning
The last bag is your dorm, and I’m closing the trunk
I can’t believe you won’t be coming back home
Until Thanksgiving comes
I look at you and you look at me
It’s time for goodbye
Before you head off with your friends
I hug you one last time…
You got this, you can do it
This is your journey and I’ll be right here
Trust yourself, there’s no need to worry
I see your strength, this is just the beginning
I get in the car and turn the key
It is so hard to leave…
There’s a waterfall in my eyes
As I say to me…
You got this, you can do it
This is her journey, she knows you’re right here
Trust yourself, it’s normal to worry
We both have strength, and this is just the beginning
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8. |
Happy Life
03:10
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Happy Life (E. Delaney, Barris
)
You don’t need much for a happy life
You just need hope and peace of mind
A whole lot of loving and a little time
Can make your whole world go around
A friend to call on a Saturday
A quiet walk in the summer rain
The simple things in our everyday
Can bring us back to here, and now
Happiness Happiness Happiness
Right here Right at my finger tips
Happiness
You don’t need bait and a fishing line
When you got the catch of a lifetime
Everybody’s looking for a better find
Maybe that’s because they don’t have you
You help me smile when I’m sideways
We laugh out loud at the smallest things
And when this old world’s getting heavy
You bring me back to what is true
Happiness Happiness Happiness
Right here Right at my finger tips
Happiness
Take a good look at the sky, nature shows us
Weather and seasons bring change
I want to live my whole life from right now
Like this time means everything
You don’t need much for a happy life
Some letting go and being kind
And when your heart breaks open wide
Feeling the tender joy in you
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9. |
Paper Wings
03:32
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Paper Wings (E. Delaney)
I woke up with the weight of the world in my heart
So I went outside to sit on the ground
The day had clouds and sun and rain
And all the stars were falling down
You and I were born in a world of light
And we live in the shadow of grief
How fast the ride can seem slow at times
When we’re carried on our paper wings
Love, I met you in the first of spring
I loved you in the fall
But in the winter’s frosty breath
I couldn’t feel you at all
I looked and waited for centuries
Feeling like I was alone
Today I see that you are here
That you have never been gone
Love, oh love, how you come and go
Like breath, like a beating heart
I wish that I could hold on to you
But that’s not the way things are
You and I were born in a world of light
And we live in the shadow of grief
How fast the ride can seem slow at times
When we’re carried on our paper wings
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10. |
Somebody Misses You
03:26
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Somebody Misses You (E. Delaney, Barris
)
When you leave for a time
Won’t be long, a short goodbye
Look up! We’re under the same sky
You’re a gypsy wandering
Till you come back home again
Until you are laying by my side
Somebody waits for you
Somebody prays for you
Think of me as you close your eyes
When you sleep under the stars
I’ll hold you in my heart
Somebody misses you tonight
Our love has found a home
We take it with us wherever we go
Together or apart, we both know
There’s a treasure we keep safe
It brings us back to a tender place
(and) you and I are never alone
Somebody waits for you
Somebody prays for you
Think of me as you close your eyes
When you sleep under the stars
I’ll hold you in my heart
Somebody misses you tonight
like the steady river flows
like the constant wind gentle as it blows
Somebody waits for you
Somebody prays for you
Think of me as you close your eyes
When you sleep under the stars
I’ll hold you in my heart
Somebody misses you tonight
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11. |
Now Is The Time
03:14
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Now is the time (E. Delaney, T. Delaney)
Is this the time for hopes and wishes?
Is it naive to think we could all be safe?
Can we find our feet and stand up for our children?
Can we learn to feel the grief and take action so this will change
Who matters more? And who’s freedom?
Do we have the right to know we’ll be okay?
In a movie theater, in a schoolhouse
In a place of worship, we are now afraid
We’ve seen manifestos and copycats
repeat this scene and we call them “lone wolf”
But it is hate, and our children are watching
While we look away, they ask why don’t we do something?
Is this the time for hopes and wishes?
Is it naive to think we could all be safe?
Can we find our feet and stand up for our children?
Can we learn to feel the grief and take action so this will change
Are we helpless against big money?
Would the sportsman… really suffer more?
These are not the guns that are used for hunting
These are the weapons made and used for war
It’s not enough to watch with horror
We must stand up and speak the truth
Our kids are taught to be silent when hiding
Wondering if the next shooting will be at their school
Is this the time for hopes and wishes?
now is the time to act
yes it is
yes the time is now
yes it is
yes the time is now
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12. |
Better Angels
02:46
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Better Angels (E. Delaney)
Like the stars reflect the sun
Maybe we are part reflection
Maybe we begin somewhere along a never ending chain of light
repeat, reflect, repeat
Here, right now can we hope to find the truth
The Better Angels of our nature
Like the dark before the dawn
Can we see all we’ve become becoming
Do we have to run from what is true that hurts, can we let it land?
repeat, reflect, repeat
Here, right now can we hope to find the truth
The Better Angels of our nature
Here, right now can I let go of what I once knew
I don’t have to have the answers
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Ellis Delaney Minneapolis, Minnesota
Uplifting and wise folk/Americana that will uplift you and soothe your broken heart!
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