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Some people don’t know how to love
They fight they push and they shove
Their tongues cut like a knife
They’ll take over your life
Some people don’t know how to love.
I feel just like a helpless pawn
In a game of chess that’s gone wrong
The man is changing the rules
Gaslighting to be cruel
Some people don’t know how to love.
chorus
Some people hang on to their possessions
Hold onto power its their obsession
He told me lies over and over
Crushed me like a bull dozer
Some people don’t know how to love.
Chorus
Someday I hope Karma gonna get you
God knows I need to forget you
Let you squirm with regret
Because you left me a mess
Some people don’t know how to love.
Chorus to end
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2. |
Darlin' You Are the One
03:04
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Chorus:
When we first met, seems a lifetime ago
you and I were like fresh flowers that almost glow
we were both so young, you shone like the sun
Darlin you are the one, darlin you are the one.
Verse 1:
Many years we've spent together
and time drifts by like a sigh
It hasn't been all easy,
Still your love has been my guide.
Repeat Chorus.
Verse 2:
We've weathered bad storms
pushed through life's rocky roads
Stay with me now, give me a kiss
and a promise I can hold.
Repeat Chorus.
Under a velvet starlit sky
Lets sing another song
sit by a campfire burning bright
we are right where we belong.
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I DON’T KNOW IF I WANT TO GO TO HEAVEN
DEPENDS ON WHO WILL BE THERE
WILL I SEE GRUMPY GRANDPA
WILL I SEE MY DEAR MOMMA
WILL THEY JUDGE MY TATTOOS AND MY HAIR?
I DON’T KNOW IF I WANT TO GO TO HEAVEN
WILL BAKKER SOON BE PREACHIN UP THERE?
THE NUN WHO RAPPED KNUCKLES
PREACHER LOOSENIN BELT BUCKLE
IF JONES REPENTED, WILL I RUN INTO HIM THERE?
BRIDGE:
REALLY, WHAT IS HEAVEN?
IS IT FLUFFY CLOUDS, ANGEL WINGS
WANDERING FOR MILES WITH A PLACID SMILE
PLAYING HARPS WITH GOLDEN STRINGS?
I DON’T KNOW IF I WANNA GO TO HEAVEN
WILL I HAVE MANY FRIENDS UP THERE?
WISH I COULD BRING MY MARTIN
WILL JESUS TEND AN OPEN BAR IN
A CONTINUOUS PARTY UNDER A SKY SO FAIR?
BRIDGE
I’M NOT SURE IF THERE’S A HEAVEN
I’M NOT SURE IF THERE’S A HELL
OR REINCARNATION, A RAINBOW BRIDGE
OR NOTHIN FAR AS I CAN TELL.
SO I’LL HANG OUT IN THE COUNTRY
IN A LITTLE CABIN IN THE WOODS
TRY NOT TO HURT NO ONE
JUST SING SOME SONGS
MAKE SURE I DO THE WORLD SOME GOOD.
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The 13th floor is often neglected
Shunned, stigmatized, and rejected.
Number thirteen, hormones and puberty
Bah mitzvah, coming of age,
A time of responsibility.
Chorus:
Luck is just a gamble
13 only a number
A bump in the road
For fortune hunters
Is it unlucky or lucky 13?
Verse 2:
Number thirteen has connotations
Bad luck, misfortune,
A cause of nefarious reputation.
Perhaps 13 gets a bad rap
May be for me
I’ll get a lucky 13!
Repeat chorus to end.
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5. |
Only Good News Today
02:48
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I WOKE UP THIS MORNING, ROLLED OUT OF BED
TURNED ON THE NEWS WITH TREPIDATION AND DREAD
I WAS SURPRISED WHEN I REALIZED
THERE’S ONLY GOOD NEWS TODAY G
MAJOR – C A D G
ONLY GOOD NEWS, ONLY GOOD NEWS,
OUT CAME THE SUN, AWAY FLEW THE BLUES
IT’S HARD TO BELIEVE, I JUST CAN’T CONCEIVE
ONLY GOOD NEWS TODAY.
A KITTEN RESCUED FROM A BIG OAK TREE
A LOST CHILD WAS FOUND UNHARMED GLORY BE
THEY STOPPED THE WARS, GAVE MONEY TO THE POOR
ONLY GOOD NEWS TODAY.
Chorus
MY GOOD NEWS MAY NOT BE YOURS TOO,
MAYBE YOU GOT A DIFFERENT POINT OF VIEW
LIKE THE FOLKS IN DC, WE’LL COMPROMISE AND SEE
IF WE CAN HAVE ONLY GOOD NEWS TODAY.
chorus
SUDDENLY A MYSTERIOUS SOUND
BEGAN A RINGIN IN MY EARS.
LOUDER AND LOUDER MY ALARM CLOCK BLARED
IT WAS A DREAM JUST AS I FEARED.
I WISH- ONLY GOOD NEWS, ONLY GOOD NEWS,
AWAY WENT THE SUN, IN CAME THE BLUES
IT’S HARD TO BELIEVE, I JUST CAN’T CONCEIVE
ONLY GOOD NEWS TODAY …. Only good news today …only good news today…..
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6. |
Paint and Paper
03:07
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Paint and paper
Brushes and ink
Color my way through this day
Make each sunset pink
I never thought
I could spend an amount of hours
Putting paint on paper
And creating flowers.
Perhaps today
It’ll be the ocean
Paint it furious and raging
Or placid glimmering motion
Choices are endless
I’m in charge finally
This paint and paper
Gift of lasting revery.
Just a doodler
Since a toddler
My canvas was the walls
And books in the cellar.
Though it made mom scream
It never really stopped me
Now I’m a painting on paper
Living a dream.
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Send me a text from Texas
Or chat from Chattanooga, Tennessee
Send me a check from Prague
Or a door dash from Hungary.
Show me you love me
From theater row , Broadway.
Or come and roam with me
Through the streets of Italy.
I could Surprise you in New York State
I’m Missing you In Mississippi
Let me know you’re OK in Oklahoma
Or will we bid Farewell, in Missouri.
We could rise from the flames in Phoenix
We could meet for a hamburg in Germany
Our story could Finnish in Finland
End in Hell, Michigan, end of story.
Will we travel through this life together
Draw a map of our lives from now on
Give me a sign, that you will be mine
No more to guess your GPS when I’m alone.
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8. |
Stranger Tides
03:36
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Verse 1:
Stranger tides
Washing over the earth
With islands of plastic
Swallowing surf
Stranger tides
Dolphins breathe a last sigh
Swirling waters roar
speak a last goodbye
Chorus:
There’s a ship wreck, the sharks are swarming
Tides a pulling wash over a warning
Moon watches indifferent and cool
While we wander disbelieving like fools.
Verse 2:
The coral reef
The Waters too warm
Brittle and bleached
Now empty and forlorn.
Longing for company
Angels and anemone
They are ghostly and ghastly
Skeletons grieving.
Repeat
Verse 3:
Stranger tides
The ocean rising rising
Glaciers wealth flows
The moon pulls, disguising
Low or high
Stranger tides
Never idle
stranger tides.
Repeat chorus
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9. |
The Dance of Denial
02:12
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Won’t you dance with me
We can disbelieve together
Just you and me
The world can swirl around us
And I will trust
Nothing will ever change.
Verse 2
There’s nothin goin on
There’s nothing wrong
The weather can be strange
And politicians aren’t more deranged
It’s just the way it is.
There’s no more violence.
Chorus:
Oh the dance of denial
If you close your eyes
There’s no troubles
Nothin to be worried about.
The moves are simple- just close your eyes your ears and your rational thought
Don’t use you voice though it’s all you got.
Verse 3:
Dance slow
Turn around and around
But don’t let go Of the remote.
Quick Scroll through
Everyone and everything
That don’t agree with you.
Repeat chorus to end and deny.
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10. |
Turtle Dove
01:50
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Oh you are my dear heart G
My one and only C
You are the moon and stars G
I’m never lonely D
The thought of you G
Just makes me smile C
You're the cup in my cake G
You’re the grout in my tile. D G
Chorus:
Will ya be my valentine C
Will ya be mine G
Give me a sign G7
You feel the same. D
You put foot in my locker C
Your the fast I’m the talker G
You hit the ball out of the park G
The light in the dark D
top score in the game. G
Verse 2:
You’re the one for me G
If you’re lookin for love C
Then ill be the turtle G
You can be my dove. D
You’re the hum G
I’m the dinger C
I want to place G
A pretty ring on your finger. D G
Repeat chorus
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11. |
Unexpected Time
02:51
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Unexpected pleasure
can be the gift sublime
when appointments get cancelled
a blank canvas of time
how i fill the hours
is really up to me
but deciding what to do
can be hard when time is free.
chorus:
unexpected,
I could pratice guitar
unexpected
play an open mic at a bar
unexpected
go for a hike
or do yoga, take a nap,
just do what i like.
bridge
unexpected time
is now on my hands
cancelled appointment,
cancelled plans.
verse 2
an unexpected hour
to get done some chores
go shopping, clean up
cook dinner and more
but why spend this time
irreverently
when i could enjoy myself
unexpectedly.
repeat chorus
there's an unexpected call
comin in now
suddenly i have no time
anymore anyhow.
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Fretbenders - Bob & Diane Kordas New Hampshire
The Fretbenders is our pandemic project that turned into a recording project, that turned into our band. We recorded 12 of
Diane's originals, added 12 guest backing musicians and came up with our Long Overdue album.
We also have some tracks here from our old band, Late Night Radio.
Our new project is "Some People", an album recorded on the fly (& our iPhones). A fun collection of originals.
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