This song was the first that came to me after we launched the Avenue B project, and the first that we worked on together. The realization that friends, family, and the music we share can bring the past to life while making life in the present moment more meaningful just jumped out of my brain and on to the page.

Looking back, can't decide what to show, what to hide

Oh I've learned so well what to feel

Wanna go back then; life was simpler when we were young

We were free didn't know how to be any more than that; it was enough

Now it's not so clear- sometimes I let fear hide the way I feel; who I am.

Back to passion

To that place before

What I know replaced what I feel, oh

Take me back to passion.

Time goes by in a haze and I walk through the maze

All the choices made where I've been

Blessings all around; still I miss the sound of that time

When I heard every note, every word I could feel my life in the song

There is no regret; still I can't forget how it felt in that simpler time.

Back to passion

To that place before

What I know replaced what I feel, oh

Take me back to passion.

Life with no regret doesn't mean forget

Now the past has met who we are now. 

This song is for my 2 children – they are my heart. As I have watched them grow up and become young adults, moving into their independent lives, I have shared the age old bittersweet moment of generations of parents over millions of years as I watched my children leave their childhood home and felt my heart both weep and soar – a fullness of feeling that is universal not only to children and parents, but to all human beings as we evolve through the many hellos and goodbyes of the human experience. Dominic and Micaela – I love you. You amaze me.

Time moves on; people change

Busy lives; we rearrange our days so they make sense

Or we hope they do

Can’t stop time but I want to.

But looking at you I can find my own way

Looking at you finding your own

I don’t pretend to know what the future holds

It’ll be alright; my heart won’t break.

I just need one more day looking at you.

Little thoughts I hold inside

So many laughs; and all the tears I’ve cried along the way

I’m not sure what to say, but my heart knows

We’ll be ok.

Cause looking at you I can find my own way

Looking at you finding your own.

I don’t pretend to know what the future holds

It’ll be alright; my heart won’t break –

I just need one more day looking at you.

If everything fell away tomorrow

A quiet peace would follow -

If for just one day I was loved by you.

This song came after a weekend spent rehearsing during the actual blood moon cycle. The cycle doesn’t happen often, the world felt somehow different, and these lyrics and the blues just dropped into my head in one big piece; like I remembered it all of a sudden. The blues was one of the first song forms I learned, and it just seemed to fit the mood of the blood moon. This is what happened.

I want to know the truth of it

Do you know – do you know what I mean?

You’re not the first to turn your back on me, or the last, well – probably.

You want me to stay; say we can work it out

Uh-Huh – what is that about?

If you want me to stay

Why’d you do me that way?

And the blood moon rises

On the same tired path as before.

And here I am again -

Just begging for more.

Daddy taught me the Blues – I didn’t understand them at all;

But I liked that sound.

He said a strange thing – he hoped I’d never figure them out.

But now I know how it feels to fall.

How life can make you feel so small;

And now those blues don’t seem

Confusing at all.

And the blood moon rises

On the same tired path as before.

And here I am again –

Just begging for more.

Again – ah, not again

I just can’t do this all over again.

I wrote this song after a conversation with a dear friend who at the time saw herself and her life in a light that was so much darker than she could ever be. Her light has always shone so brightly, and I wanted to remind her of that. She just shines, and loves with an open heart -  all the time. And like me, she loves the sun!

I get sad at the end of summer

So I think of the end of the winter

When the sun gets to start all over again.

Mem’ries push at my mind; cruel failures

It’s so hard to forget the betrayals

Wish our hearts could just start all over again.

It can come at a cost when you open your heart

But the world needs you just as you are -

You shine like the sun.

As the night closes in; you’re weeping

Seems the rest of the world is sleeping

When will you heart rest again?

It can come at a cost when you open your heart

But the world needs you just as you are –

You shine like the sun.

Life bends your knees; it can break your heart

But winter fades; night becomes dawn.

The title says it all – sometimes we need a pep talk! Children seem to just get up after a fall without thinking about whether or not they can or will, but sometimes as adults we need friends to remind us that we can and must get up – just one more time! C’mon! You can do it:’)

Children seem in motion even when they dream.

Moments, and they’re growing – life can bring anything.

First one step, then another; falls along the way

They dance to the sound of their feet on the ground!

One more in me

Think I have one more in me

It’ll take a little time – need to find some piece of mind

Not if but when; carpe diem.

One more in me!

Straight and narrow pathways leave no room for friends

I’ll take my roads wider, with lots of dips and bends.

The sound of single footsteps makes a lonely dance

Friends dancing with me, I’ll take one more chance.

One more in me

Think I have one more in me

It’ll take a little time till I find some piece of mind

Not if but when; carpe diem.

One more in me!