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SONG LYRICS - TAKEWEST MUSIC PROJECTS &

KIRBY RECORDS/ KIRBY PUBLISHING

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Voice Of Love

Kenneth Ray West

2-14-93

11:35pm

 

Leaves blowing in the wind

I feel the sun against my skin

I know somethings gonna change

See blue skys up above 

It was you I was thinking of

 

Then you hear the voice of love

And I hear the voice of love

 

There is music in the city 

There is laughter  in the country

I know somethings pleasing my heart

I can hear the voice of love 

funny but I don't even know who you are

 

I can hear the voice of love

Dancing all around,  Walls falling down

Somebody's playing a game

Precious time is lost don't you see the cost

If you lose it you'll have only you to blame

I can hear the voice of love I can hear the voice of love

I can't get enough It's you I was thinking of

When I hear the voice of love

When I hear the voice of Love calling me

When I hear the voice of Love calling me

 

Thought I heard a distant sound Then I stopped and turned around

And there you stood in the light

Though I know I had never seen you

But as if I had dreamed you

took my hand and I felt alright alright

Under The Bridge

Brian West 

 

Well I need a new mattress, this ones kinda getting flat

> Said I need a new mattress this ones kinda getting flat.

> But I’ll do OK.. Cause One day

> Things aint’t gone be so bad

>  

> I got the best roof in the world, man she’s finest you

> can see

> I got the best roof in the wolrd, man she’s the finest

> you can see

> Cause I live here under this bridge, that goes into the Big

> City.

>  >  

> You know it stays cool down here all the time

> You know it stays cool down here all the time…

> I got my own scenic river view, to go with my bottle of

> wine…

>  >  

> And it ain’t so lonely, all sorts of people come and go

> Yeah it ain’t so lonely all sorts of people come and go..

> They come down here all the time, with they fishin pole..

>  

> They watch me sing and play my guitar, singing about you

> Watch me sing and ply my guitar, singing about losing you..

> Called the Under The Bridge Blues

> Under The Bridge Blues

> Under the Bridge Blues..

>  >  

> Lead

>  >  

> Cheap whiskey soothes the pain..

> Cigarettes numb me too…

> A little bit of weed

> Makes me forget I got the blues..

>  

> But you know I used to have it all..

> Yes, I used to have it all..

> Til I dog gone it

> Gone and lost you too…. 

REd Sun

Kenneth RAy West

 

A red Sun setting in a western sky

A blue heart beating but I don't know why

Feel I want to cry, Feel I want to die

So I say Goodbye

 

This lonely road reaches into the distant Horizon so far away

Broken lines run together in my mind and become a vision

Thinking of another day, The life I knew so long ago

But that was another time

 

Was it you or was it me that said

Our Love would grow

And the light would shine until the end of time

and we were both very old

But I guess nothing ever lives in the icy chills 

of a winter so cold.

 

And the dreams we shared and the things we dared

Adn the secrets we spoke in the night

Are in the rearview mirror, inthe past far away out of sight

The sun is gone darkness all around me now

The gentle glow of the next little town

Wish I could stop and turn my life around

But I know I'm bound

 

The Day I Left Memphis

Brian West

 

7/28/2014

 

The Day I left Memphis

Was the day I got the Blues

Yeah The day I left Memphis,

was the Day I got the Blues,

Now I'm back Home,

I get the same thing from you..

 

and it keeps on raining

everyday, Misery

Yeah it keeps on raining

pouring down misery

If you don't love me or want me around

tell me now and I'll

sure be happy to leave.

 

Now I done left my home

working three jobs too

bought all that you asked for

now you wanna sell my guitar too

 

 

 

 

20 Mile Bottom

words & music by Brian F. West 3/09/2002

 

There's a barefooted black boy

runnin cross 20 mile bottom

There's a barefooted black boy

runnin cross 20 mile bottom

Hounds of Hell are on his trail

and Lord knows the poor boy ain't done nothing

 

With that sheriffs jail you'd run yourself

if you were in his shoes

With that sheriffs jail you'd run yourself

if you were in his shoes

Cause Life ain't long

with the Parchman Prison blues

 

and That blistering heat is burning deep down

that blistering heat is burnign deep down

way the grounds cracked open

devil can't be too far under now

 

Lord have mercy on the ones that ain't done no wrong

Lord have mercy on the one's that ain't done no wrong

free them so they don't need to sing these old blues songs

But don't worry friend, He's all you need

cause He's the only one only one

will ever set you free

Too Many Tears In Mississippi

By James Pirkle & Kenneth Ray West

Kirby Publishing (BMI)

© 2016

 

Lost  my woman in Mississippi

Down around Tupeloå

Broke my heart in so many pieces

Didn't know a man could sink so low

 

Followed her up to Memphis

Tears Fallin everyday

By the time I got to Clarksdale

They said son, go another way

 

You Cried so much in Mississippi

You probably didn't even know

Donn around Greenville, son

The river done over flowed

 

Too many tears in Mississippi

Too many tears in Mississippi son

Too many tears in Mississippi

Don't you come around here no more

 

 

 

 

Shake Rag

by Brian West

 

Hey Boy, Down Yonder

What we used to call Shake Rag

Hey Boy, Down Yonder

What We used to call Shake Rag

Well I guess you don't remember

and son you sure better be glad.

 

Cause a row of Shotgun houses

is all that used to stand

and everyone was called trash on the 

east side of the track

that was was Ok, we had each other

and our Bible's in our hands..

 

Ain't done no wrong at all, 

but they treated us like dogs

when you down in Shake Rag

you ain't got no chance at all.

 

(repeat 1st vs)

(harmonica lead)

 

Burnin in the summer

winter time freezin

got to hold on tight in shotgun house

when it come tornado season

 

1st verse

 

Well, the Houses done blown away

but people still talking bout it today

where ol EP got his blues

King of Rock n Rolls still making the news

 

d Be

 

Time For One More Song

Kenneth RAy West

Time, For One More Song, Before We are gone,

While we are Strong, 

And there's Time for one more Dream

we can float it up stream

if you know what I mean.. 

 

 

Done Told You blues

Brian West 2014

 

I Done Told You 

To Leave My Woman Alone

I done Told you 

To Leave My little girl Alone

Reason Why 

Cause I done told you

She is Mine

 

I tried to be nice

I'll give any man a runnin chance

but No not twice

I tried to be nice,

I'll give anyman a runnin chance

no but not twice

Ain't gonna kill you

but you gonna learn

to never look at 

another man's wife

 

YOu'll be able to crawl

yeah I'll leave you, so you'll be able to crawl

and whats left of you

back into the hole 

that you came from

 

 

 

Girl from Iloilo

by Brian F. West

(c) 2014, TakeWest Music (ASCAP) 

 

 

The girl from Iloilo is so beautiful

The girl from Iloilo is so beautiful

The girl from Iloilo is so beautiful

 

From California to the Carolinas

Chicago, Memphis Tennessee

New York to Texas

I followed her all the Mississippi 

 

San Francisco

to San Jose

Barcelona

All the way to Spain

 

The girl from Iloilo is so beautiful

The girl from Iloilo is so beautiful

The girl from Iloilo is so beautiful

 

I’m waiting for her now everyday,

Playing guitar till the sun goes away

by the side of the road, Silver Moon Cafe

I pray she hears me sing and play

 

I’m here in Kalibo

cause she ran away

One thousand tears,

But I know she hears me

cause she rides by everyday

 

She’s just afraid of love,

of being hurt,

happy and lonely,

what words of love can say

 

The girl from Iloilo is so beautiful

The girl from Iloilo is so beautiful

The girl from Iloilo is so beautiful 

 

(lead)

 

She’s got a basket of flowers

I got my guitar

She knows she’s got my heart

how this old world 

could be our start

 

Underneath these mountains and sunsets

blue, green, purple and pink

she wonders,

what a life of love could bring

 

and I said beautiful girl underneath the stars

which ones the most

you know I think you are

 

beautiful girl underneath the stars

which ones the most

you know I think you are

 

The girl from Iloilo is so beautiful

The girl from Iloilo is so beautiful

The girl from Iloilo is so beautiful 

 

 

 

Recovery Room

by Brian West

9-25-2014

 

It's up on Green Street

Up on the hill

Little tiny pool hall

behind lightnin slims

 

A lady behind the bar

finest thang named Daisy Star

Says tell me all yo problems

come to mama child

 

In the Recovery Room

Ain't no tears

That I can't fix for you

In the Recovery Room

Honey I sho can fix the blues

 

(lead)

 

Now I like to see her

a little every now and then

Saturday nights, Tuesdays back on FRiday again

Cause Mondays so hard, Thursdays worse

Wed got no help help from friends

 

And sometimes, on Sunday

Afternoon after church

For chicken and a slice of apple pie, I stop by

I open the door slowly

pitch my hat in

hat didn't come back

that means come on in 

my  friend

 

chorus

keyboard lead

 

Now I'm doing better, doing OK

Just a few long years

to get over you

 

outta here and on my way soon

soon as I, get over this young thang

behind the bar, helping me get over my blues 

 

chorus with lead

 

 

 

Barstool in Barstow

by Brian F. West & Steve Christian

(2000)

 

Chorus

On a Barstool in Barstow

is when I got the call

She wouldn't be common home

and she was gonna leave me all alone

 

I mean I'd just walked out the door

From Bakersfield, just a few hours before

She seemed good to go

with me going for a visit

back home to Tupelo

 

But Just near the pass

started calling and hanging up

I knew she was burning up

and getting some kinda awful mad

 

asked, Do you love me or Music

you gonna have to choose it

Well now hon if that's the case

you're gonna lose it

 

(chorus)

 

Honey you ain't the first

I knew you probably wouldn't be the last

cause love like yours

go through love real fast

 

and I'm OK

lota miles, a few dings, but doin fine today

cigaretts, a cold beer and table of pool ready to play

I'm back in Barstow

where I play, sing and say 

 

(chorus)

 

One More I Love You Dear

by Brian F. West 

2011

 

She drives to work 

every morning with the radio on

and everytime she hears

their favorite song

 

She remembers everything

can see him everywhere

Stil feels him near

like he's standing there

 

chorus

One More hug

Just one more kiss, touch of his hand

touching her hair

To wipe away the tears

Just one more, I love you dear

 

But it's been three years

he never came home

they never found him

all they said is that we just don't know

 

I love you, I'll be back in your arms

In a minute, our loves forever strong

She cries when she tries to sleep

praying one day that phone will ring

that burning feeling

in her heart the pains so deep

 

Where is he, is he ever coming home

the hardest part is when you just don't know

half her heart, could be forever gone

there's always that hope

one day, he'll be coming home

 

chorus 

2x

 

 

Mississippi Man

By Brian F. West

2014

 

 

Now I came on up to Chicago

I heard ya cry and whine, shout and complain on stage

bout some man didn't treat you right

and you upset, up all night 

hungry in the morning cause 

didn't have no love all night..

 

hungry in the morning

cause you didn't have no loving all night

I understand woman.. but what you need

is  Mississippi Man to treat you right.

(lead)

 

See a Mississippi Man

hold you not too soft and not to tight

a spoonful of love

a little at a time all night.

 

That way you won't be lonely 

protected and there'll never be no harm

and nocrying in the morning

cause you'll still be in my arms..

 

and when you wake up..

open those beautiful eyes

honey it's what ever you need

start you with a kiss and hug

and the warmest little squeeze 

 

 

Then what you want

just say the word

cause a woman like you 

anything you deserve

 

You're the kind that makes a man's work day a breeze

bringing you home the money 

with you

Chicago woman you're all that at Mississippi Man needs..

 

Now I liked yo stockings

I liked the way you sing

I loved your music

and the way you shook that thang

 

loved the way you walk

loved the way you talked

but I'm gonna make you change your tune 

and the songs you sing

rock you in my arms

with some loving like you ain't never seen

 

I'm a Mississippi Man

gonna take you in my arms

Chicago woman

gonna love you all day 

and all night long 

 

I'm a Mississippi Man

gonna take you in my arms

Chicago woman

you been hungry too long

never gonna cry again

 

I'm a Mississippi Man

gonna take you back  home

gonna love you Chicago woman

and get the preacher to say Amen

 

Mississippi Man..

 

 

 

 

 

78 Records and The Highway

by Brian F. West

© 1999 TakeWest Music (ASCAP)

 

78 Records and the highway

78 Records and the highway

78 Records and the highway, sure is a thing of the past

and it sure is amazing how the future went by so fast

 

Was the road for, the king of rock n roll

Was the road for, the king of rock n roll

But the road for the gold don’t pass Tupelo, no more

 

78 Records and the Highway

Blues about a brighter day

78 Records and the Highway

Blues about a better day

Singing the blues about how we’re gonna get away

 

Singing out of those Shacks

And out of those fields

Gonna go to Memphis shout it all on Beale

Hold On Woman, Hold my Hand,

Wait a little longer by your loving man

Gonna play this guitar and set us free

And one day we’ll be singing how it used to be

 

(lead)

 

78 Records and the highway

 

78 Records and the highway

 

78 Records and the highway, sure is a thing of the past

and it sure is amazing how the future went by so fast

 

Now if you wanna go back to the past

Only thing you can do

Is close your eyes as you drive down 22

 

 

Abegail

By Brian F. West

© 2012 TakeWest Music (ASCAP)

 

World’s Apart

Across The Sea

Remembering the Day

There became

You and Me

 

Abegail I can never tell

How much you mean to me

How Deep You are In my heart

Girl can’t you see

I’m so happy you love me

 

Where I went I never wanted to go

But if I hadn’t I never would have known

The most beautiful girl in the world

Now sitting in my home

 

A December’s Eve

A lonely winter’s snow

A Call in March

I found you in Spring

 

Abegail I can never tell

How much you mean to mean

How Deep You are In my heart

Girl can’t you see

I’m so happy you love me

 

Now I’m singing this

Cause you asked for a song

But you’re the one

Where the words come from

 

On this Valentines Day

My love you for you

Is more than words can ever say

 

 

Florida Lady

By James Pirkle

© 1994 Takewest Music (ASCAP)

 

Oh Florida lady with your long brown hair

Oh Florida lady want you to know that I care

From Key West to Pensacola and all points in between

My Florida lady prettiest girl I’ve ever seen

 

You came to work down at the factory where I slave

You have to work oh so hard just to earn your wage

Your smile is just as pretty as an oyster’s pearl

Oh Florida Lady won’t you please be my girl

 

OH Florida Lady with your long brown hair

Oh Florida Lady want you to know that I care

From Key West to Pensacola and all points in between

My Florida Lady prettiest girl I ever seen

 

(lead)

 

You must have a heart that’s made of pure gold

And like the Panama City sun your eyes are never cold

You’ve been a friend to me for a long long time

Oh Florida Lady won’t you please be mine

 

Oh Florida lady with your long brown hair

Oh Florida lady want you to know that I care

From Key West to Pensacola and all points in between

My Florida Lady prettiest girl I’ve ever seen

 

My Florida Lady prettiest girl I’ve ever seen

 

 

Happy Road

© 1977 Kirby Publishing (BMI)

by Kenneth Ray West

 

Walking down my happy road

We’ll sing all the songs that we know

I put my arms around you

Whisper in my your ears how much I love you

 

Just walking down my happy road

Just walking down my happy road

 

Pick any flower you happen to see

Lay in the grass if that’s where you want to be

We’ll never have time to feel sad

After all the fun that we have had

 

Just walking down my happy road

Just walking down my happy road

 

And there’s never a cloud in my sky

And you’ll never never have to cry

On my happy road

Just walking down my happy road

 

Just walking down my happy road

 

Now when the night has come along

You can hear the cricket sing a song

And your kisses taste so sweet

When our lips begin to meet

 

Oh my happy happy road

Just walking down my happy road

 

Just walking down my happy road

Just walking down my happy road

 

And we’ll love under the star sprinkled sky

And I’ll never never say goodbye

To you my love

Just walking down my happy road

Just walking down my happy road

Just walking down my happy road

Just walking down my happy

road

Hold Me Tight Renee

© 1977 Kenneth Ray West, Kirby Publishing (BMI)

 

I never knew, a girl like you

In all my life until the day I die

 

I never kissed such lips so warm such tender loving arms

I never felt such sweet sensations pulling me beyond

 

In this world please hold me tight Renee

I need you this way

 

Some days seem so hard to face

Living in this world is such a chase

But when troubles close in on me from a thousand different ways

And just when tears begin to fall and everything’s a haze

Please hold me tight Renee

I need you to say, That you love me

 

(lead) 

 

But when troubles close in on me from a thousand different ways

And just when tears begin to fall and everything’s a haze

Please hold me tight Renee

Please hold me tight Renee

Please hold me tight Renee

I need you to stay

 

 

 

Laura Laura

By Kenenth Ray West

© 2016 Kirby Publishing (BMI)

 

Laura Laura

Look at me with those eyes

Laura Laura

You see into my soul

Laura Laura

Don’t say a word

Just touch me and I’ll know

That I’m in love with you so

 

Laura Laura

Take me with the wind

Laura Laura

It’s not a sin

Laura Laura

To fall in love with the right man

You’re looking at him

You’re looking at him

 

Oh the first time we touched

The first time our eyes met

I should’ve known you should’ve known

That this was it

 

Laura Laura, Look at me with those eyes

Laura Laura, You think you know

Laura Laura, Don’t need no words, just touch me and I’ll know

That you love me so

 

Laura Laura

Laura Laura

Laura Laura

 

Miss Torres

By Brian F. West

© 2016 TakeWest Music (ASCAP)

 

What’s her name she said

Miss Torres, Whiskey and Tequila

What’s her name she said

Miss Torres, from MexiCali

 

A brand new Star

And A brand new Start

From the city

And the mountains

So far away

And the valleys

San Francisco Bay

 

What’s her name she said

Miss Torres, Whiskey and Tequila

What’s her name she said

Miss Torres, from MexiCali

 

Sexy Lips

With the Red Lipstick

Smiles a Pearl Necklace

Hair and Skin so Fine

Brown Sugar Body

Blow your mind

 

What’s her name she said

Miss Torres, Whiskey and Tequila

What’s her name she said

Miss Torres, from MexiCali

 

Don’t know you who are

But I love you

Get ya in my car

And every song I sing and play

On my guitar

 

What’s her name she said

Miss Torres, Whiskey and Tequila

What’s her name she said

Miss Torres, from MexiCali

 

My Strawberry Dream

By Kenneth Ray West

© 1977, 2016 Kirby Publishing (BMI)

 

You came to me

With love in your eye

But I never could describe

All the love I felt for you deep inside

 

You put your arms around me, and then you kissed me

Oh woman I love you, woman I need you

My Strawberry Dream

 

But you went away, The very next day

You said you had to return, to your home,

So far away, so far away

 

So I wrote you a letter, Hoping for the better

Hoping you’d come back to stay

My Strawberry Dream

 

You know my hearts, been crying

For such a long time

To be near you

You hold the key, to the treasure

Oh, for the pleasure

You know I still love you

My Strawberry Dream

 

You came to me

With love in your eye

But I never could describe

All the feelings I had for you deep inside

 

But you went away, The very next day

You said you had to return, to your home,

So far away, so far away

 

So I wrote you a letter, Hoping for the better

Hoping you’d come back to stay

My Strawberry Dream

 

Number One

By James Pirkle

© 2001 TakeWest Music (ASCAP)

 

I tried to make you happy

But you just won’t be true
I know you’ll never love me, no matter what I do

So it’s down to deal or no deal

And have I got a deal for you

If I can’t be your number one

 

Then number two on you

 

If I can’t be your number one,  number two on you

You stay out all night long and I don’t know with who?

You ripped my heart right out of my chest

and stomped it with a high heel shoe

Now if I can’t be your number one then number two on you

 

I once felt like a lucky man to have you by my side

Now you say your love for me has shriveled up and died

You left me a broken man with the low down dirty blues

So I can’t be your number one then number two on you

 

Yeah if I can’t be your number one then number two on you

You stay out all night long and I don’t know with who

You ripped my heart right out of my chest and stomped it with a high heel shoe

Now if I can’t be your number one then number two on you

 

(lead)

 

You know that I still love you, but you treat me like a fool

You think that I don’t know what’s going on with you

You make me feel like a big ol pile of steamin doggy doo

So if I can’t be your number one then number two on you

 

Yeah if I can’t be your number one then number two on you

You stay out all night long and I don’t know with who

You ripped my heart right out of my chest and stomped it with a high heel shoe

Now if I can’t be your number one then number two on you

Yeah If I can’t be your number one then number two on you

 

One More I Love You Dear

by Brian F. West 

© 2011 TakeWest Music (ASCAP)

 

She drives to work 

every morning with the radio on

and everytime she hears

their favorite song

 

She remembers everything

can see him everywhere

Stil feels him near

like he's standing there

 

One More hug

Just one more kiss, touch of his hand

touching her hair

To wipe away the tears

Just one more, I love you dear

 

It's been three years

he never came home

they never found him

they said is that we just don't know

 

I love you, I'll be back in your arms

In a minute, our loves forever strong

She cries when she tries to sleep

praying one day that phone will ring

that burning feeling

in her heart the pains so deep

 

Where is he, he never came home

the hardest part is when you just don't know

half her heart, could be forever gone

there's always that hope

one day, he'll be coming home

 

chorus 

2x

 

Recovery Room

by Brian F. West

© 2014

TakeWest Music (ASCAP)

 

Up on Green Street

Up on the hill

Little tiny pool hall

behind lightnin slims

 

 lady behind the bar

finest thing named Daisy Star

Says tell me all yo problems

come to mama child

 

In the Recovery Room

Ain't no tears

that you can't lose

In the Recovery Room

Honey I sho can fix the blues

 

Now I like to see her

a little now and then

Saturday nights and Tuesdays back on Friday again

Cause Mondays so hard, Thursdays are worse

Wednesdays halfway, but it still ain't the weekend

 

And sometimes, on Sunday

I, stop by, for a little while

open the door slowly, pitch my hat in

hat didn't come back

that means, come on in 

my friend

Recovery Room

Ain’t no tears that you can’t lose

Recovery Room

honey I sure can fix the blues

 (lead)

 

Now I'm doing better, doing OK

Just a few long years

to get back on my way

seeing things better

seeing brighter days

with this new young thang

taking the blues away

 

chorus with lead

 

Red Sun

By Kenneth Ray West

© 1991 Kirby Publishing (BMI)

 

A Red Sun, setting in a western sky.. A Blue heart beating but I don’t know why

Feel I want to cry, Feel I want to die

So I just say, Goodbye

 

This lonely road reaches into the distant horizon

Broken lines run together in my mind become a vision

Thinking of another day, the life I knew so far away

But that was another time and no longer mine

 

Was it you or was it me that said our love would grow

And the light would shine until the end of time and we both were very old

Both very old

But I guess love couldn’t live in a winter so cold

 

A Red Sun, setting in a western sky, A Blue Heart beating but I don’t know why

Feel I wanna cry, Feel I wanna die

So I just say goodbye

 

And the dreams we shared and the schemes we dared

And the secrets we spoke in the night

Are all in the rearview mirror far away out of sight

The sun is gone

I’m in the darkness all alone

Heading down the highway to the unknown

 

Now I see the gentle glow, of the next little town

I wish I could stop and turn, my life around, my life around

The Lord knows where I am bound

 

(lead)

 

A Red Sun, setting in a western sky, A Blue Heart beating but I don’t know why

Feel I wanna cry, Feel I wanna die

So I just say goodbye

So I just say goodbye

So I just say goodbye

 

A Red Sun setting in a western sky, Blue heart beating but I don’t know why

A Red Sun setting in a western sky, Red Sun Setting in a western sky

Blue heart beating but I don’t know why

 

Red Sun

Red Sun

Red Sun

 

The Color Green

By Kenneth Ray West

© 1988 Kirby Publishing (BMI)

 

It all started such a long time ago

When the old world was quite new

One man wants want another mans got

That greedy spirit that lies within you

 

It destroys a family

It can destroy a world

It spreads like the deadliest disease

 

We can not conquer, we can not control

So we justify our reasons

And we satisfy our needs

 

And we kill each other

And wear our medals

We speak great words

And give great honor

Blood flows freely

From the alter

But what is it worth

To sell your brother

 

And The devil’s seed is sown in greed

The jealous hearts desire

To blind the eye

No truth is seen

With the mind under the spell of the Color Green

With the mind under the spell of the Color Green

 

Peace to you my little children

Spoke the voice from the sky

Remember the words of the ancient prophet

Change your ways

Or you will die

 

And the devils seed is sown in greed

Jealous hearts desire

With the mind under the spell of the Color Green

With the mind under the spell of the Color Green

With the mind under the spell of the Color Green

 

Time For One More Song

By Kenneth Ray West

© 1991 Kirby Publishing (BMI)

TakeWest

 

Time

For one more song

Before we are gone, While we are strong

 

And there’s Time, for one more dream

You can float it upstream

Cause you know what I mean

 

And there’s Time

For one more kiss and all the love you miss

And all the love you miss

And there’s Time for one more kiss and all the love you miss

 

Time for live we live

Everything we give, well it’s a such a big deal

And Time, for all we waste

For just one taste, in such a haste

For what’s the worth of all the gold you save

And what’s the worth of losing just one day, just one day

 

Time for one more song, Time to sing along, Time for your freedom, Time to be the very one

Time to walk with me into the shining sun, into the shining sun

Time to walk with me into the shining sun, walk with me

 

(lead)

 

Time for one more song, Time to sing along, Time for your freedom, Time to be the very one

Time to walk with me into the shining sun, into the shining sun

Time to walk with me into the shining sun

 

Into the Shining Sun

Into the Shining Sun

 

 

 

 

Wish I Could Be

By Kenneth Ray West

© 2016 Kirby Publishing (BMI)

 

Wish I could be a mocking bird

I’d sing the song that nobody’s heard

Sing it in the highest tree

But nobody would ever see me

 

In the sun shine

In the sun shine

In the sunshine

In the warm sunshine 

 

Wish I could be a might oak

Or maybe a mountain goat

Then I could stand all alone

I’d stand so firm, I’d stand so strong

 

When the wind blows

When the wind blows

When the wind blows

When the cold wind blows

 

Wish I could be a raging river, that flows on and on forever

Then my life would be as time, all my dreams, they would be mine

There would be no end, There would be no end, There would be no end

There would be no dying end

 

Wish I could be the Stars in Heaven, Make all your wishes come true you’ve been given

I’d shine so bright till there was no night, Chase all your troubles out of sight

When the tears fall, When the tears fall, When the tears

When the sad tears fall

 

 

 

Wish I could be the love in people

Make them forget all the evil

Holding hands with one another

Being like, a brother to brother

 

Being humble as children, being humble as children, being humble as children

Being like little children

 

 

Wish I could be a mocking bird

I’d sing a song that no body’s heard

Sing it in the highest tree

But nobody would ever see

 

 

 

You're The River

by Brian F. West

© 2016 TakeWest Music - ASCAP

 

You're the River

Running Through my heart

and together the future is ours

and you're the river

Running through my heart

 

From Minnesota to the Ohio

On way down south to St. Louis now

your starlit skies staring in my eyes

a river of memories,

home always heals the heart

 

we played in Memphis

Hotels in California

In the rains I'm your umbrella

from the cold and pain,

 

We've gone full circle

around the world now

There's no where else now?

Why do we even wonder how?

 

You're the River

Running Through my heart

and forever,

you'll always be a part

and together,

The Future is ours

and you're the river running through my heart

 

Kirby Publishing (BMI)

TakeWest Music (ASCAP)

Ausbon Publishers (BMI)

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