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Home... If You Were Here - single released March 2012
Copyright © 2012 Kelli Caldwell
Produced by Anne Weiss. Featuring Anne Weiss on piano, Julio Appling on bass & Spank Hopkins on drums. Sound by Adam Sweeney.
The roof gets hot in the summer
No place else to escape
And me and myself
Listen to the world race by—below
Little do they know
Up here—we're conquering our fears—
In one more day I plan to say
I'm over you
Chorus:
But if you were here
Here could be anywhere
If you were here
Here could be here
And I'd like it
No, I'd love it
I'd want to make it my home—
The concrete stretches forever
Grey on grey getting old
And me and head
Scouring the steeled and stoned—for more
It may be for the hundredth time
But I’m making up my mind—
In one more day I plan to say
I’m over you
Chorus:
But if you were here
Here could be anywhere
If you were here
Here could be here
And I'd like it
No, I'd love it
I'd want to make it my home—
Bridge:
I could sleep on cold, hard granite
And I could live on a distant planet
And I would love it all
If you were here—
Chorus:
But if you were here
Here could be anywhere
If you were here
Here could be here
And I'd like it
No, I'd love it
I'd want to make it my home—
Home if you were here
Chorus:
Oh if you were here
Here could be anywhere
If you were here
Here could be here
And I'd like it
No, I'd love it
I'd want to make it my home—
Home if you were here
If you were here
Lyric notes: I started writing this song sitting on my rooftop in the East Village in New York in the middle of August...
The Future Will Repay - Single Released Jan 2012
Copyright © 2012 Kelli Caldwell
Cello: Gideon Freudmann
Seagulls (at the end): Gideon Freudmann on cello
Recorded at Fresh Tracks Studio in Portland, OR
He’s a sailor
Stuck in a factory
Never been to the ocean
But he lives in the sea——
Swimming in Familiar
And drinking day-to-day
Floating on a promise
The future will repay—
Hey——hey———hey——
He's a father
If he remembers right
Never seen his little daughter
But he does mean to write——
To tell her he's a champion
A hero on his way
With his head above this water
The future will repay—
Hey, hey——hey——
He’s an island
In the river wide—— of his life
No way to ride, no way to roam
He’s a goner
If they explained it right
30 years in a bottle
He never could seem to fight——
He’s waiting for the whistle
To send him on his way
A journey for redemption/To make his reparations
The future will repay—
Hey, hey——hey——
He’s an island
In the briny deep—— of his life
No way to ride and no way to roam
He’s an island
In the briny deep——
Floating empties on the waves
With a prayer inside
Lyric notes: Driving in my old white Bronco II, I saw a beaten-down looking guy on the side of the road, waiting for someone or something...
songs in progress | by genre
- The Future Will Repay
- Figuring It Out
- Dirty Summer
- I Can Make It Alright
- A Bleecker Man
- Destiny Cried
- I Need a Little More
- Killing Time
- My Dream Come True
- Serenity
- She's So Bright
- Shine Bright, Girl
- You Were There
- A Certain Sorrow
- A Hopeless Impatient
- Another Day With You
- Big Wood River Valley
- Butterfly on the Wind
This section is still in progress...more songs will be added soon.
- Will the New Year Bring You?
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- A Datsun's Not Romantic
- A Little Better Acquainted
- The Lipstick Lesson
- Do What You Do
- Eventually Never Comes
- Honor Their Memory
- Momma, Only Momma and I
- She Outlived Them All
- Want to Rise in Your Eyes
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- Here Could Be Anywhere
- Was it Love in Your Eyes?
- Fly Away
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- Baby Grace
- Being a Believer
- Beside He Stands
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- Baby Grace
- Bikes & Bugs
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- Will the New Year Bring You?
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Lyrics alone or lyrics with their melodies sung a cappella... some nearly finished, most in part, works in progress.
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- The Future Will Repay
- Will the New Year Bring You?
- You Were There
- Home...If You Were Here
- Was it Love in Your Eyes?
- I Can Make It Alright
- Wasn't My Window
- Want to Rise in Your Eyes
- What's Wrong With You?
- Figuring It Out
- Fly Away
- My Dream Come True
- Killing Time
- I Need a Little More
- Dirty Summer
- I Found Love Today
- Momma, Only Momma and I
- Barking at a Deaf Girl
- A Datsun's Not Romantic
- Do What You Do
- Honor Their Memory
- Sally Be Free
- Serenity
- She Outlived Them All
- A Bleecker Man
- She's So Bright
- Shine Bright, Girl
- Floating
- Hello Hurt
- Good Wife Material
- Home Going
- A Bleecker Man
- A Certain Sorrow
- A Datsun's Not Romantic
- A Grain of Happiness
- A Fish Out of Water
- A Hopeless Impatient
- A Little Better Acquainted
- A More Important Man
- Afraid to Live
- Alone with You
- Always with You
- Amarillo
- America 2000
- Angel on a Cell Phone
- Another Day, Another Little White Lie
- Another Day With You
- Another Gray Day
- As Often As My Heart Beats
- At the Top of My Game
- Away My Heart
- Baby Grace
- Barking at a Deaf Girl
- Being a Believer
- Beside He Stands
- Big Wood River Valley
- Bikes & Bugs
- Black and White
- Blind Pass By
- But I Did Love
- Butterfly on the Wind
- Can't Hear
- Catch My Heart
- Chasing a Firefly
- Chatty on a Cell Phone
- Chilly Girl
- Cleaning My Infection
- Coincidentally
- Cold Soul Residue
- Commander of the Space Patrol
- Concentration of Beautiful People
- Could He Love Me Too?
- Dandy Little Lion
- Destiny Cried
- Did I Say Forever?
- Did I Walk Away Too Fast?
- Dirty Summer
- Do What You Do
- Do You Believe in Love?
- Do You Want to Know?
- Doesn't Take Long in the City
- Don't Call Me Perfect
- Don't Change
- Down the Line
- Down to the Quick
- Draw the Line
- Dumb Girl
- Eventually Never Comes
- Every Day's a Lonely Day
- Everything Good Comes from God
- Face Your Deception
- Fading
- Falling For You
- Father, My Father
- Fearless
- Figuring It Out
- Finally Normal
- Fire Breather
- First to Mexico
- Fix
- Floating
- Fly Away
- Footsteps of the Son
- Free Season
- Get it Right This Time
- Get on with Your Show
- Get You Something to Believe In
- Girl
- God is the Gracious One
- God Takes Care of Me
- Going Down in Flames
- Going Gone
- Good Wife Material
- Good-Life Wife
- Graceful Woman
- Grazing on Reality
- Hate Being with Me
- He's So Near
- He's the Way and the Light
- Heaven Made
- Hello Hurt
- Here Could Be Anywhere
- Histrionic
- Home Going
- Honor Their Memory
- How Do You Live With Yourself, Man?
- How Hard Can it Be?
- I Can Make It Alright
- I Can't Take You Down
- I Do
- I Don't Know How to Pray
- I Followed a Homeless Man
- I Found Love Today
- I Lova You
- I Need a Little More
- I Wander Still
- I Want to Go Back
- I Wanted It All
- I Will Live On
- I'd Say It's Alright
- If I Didn't Know Better
- If You Become Famous
- If You Had to Choose
- I'm Gonna Kiss You Now
- In-between Girl
- In His Light
- In My Dreams
- In the Comfort Zone
- Insanity
- Insignificant Me
- It's No Wonder
- Jesus Lives Within
- Jesus, Take this Heart
- Jesus, Hold Me Like a Child
- Jewel
- Killing Time
- Kiss an Iguana
- Lady at the Sunset Strip
- Lady_Defense
- Leave It to the Son
- Leland's Way
- Liberty Lost
- Little Things
- Living in Love with You
- Long-Distance Love
- Look Closer Hard
- Looking Over My Shoulder
- Lost and Found
- Lost in the Loss of Love
- Love of My Life
- Lucious Lady Lips
- Lucky Me, Your Project
- Luke Warm
- Make Believe
- Make Up Your Mind
- Maybe I'll Remember to Cry
- Me Neither
- Might Want to Take a Lesson
- Miss Body Warm
- Momentary Lapse
- Momma, Only Momma and I
- Momma, They're Playing Our Song
- Money Makes Three
- Mr. White
- My Dream Come True
- My Friend, My Friend
- My Head Gets in the Way
- My Mind is Wandering
- My Soul Outloud
- Natural Beauty
- Not Perfect
- Nothing Else Matters
- Oh My Darling
- On the Edge at Bleecker St.
- One February Night
- One Way to Heaven
- Only the Redeemer
- Painfully Low Levels of Love
- Play Well Together
- Practice Your Assumptions
- Praise to the Lord Above
- Pray
- Pretend Summer
- Pride in My Pocket
- Problem Child
- Put Your Red Dress On
- Reaching Out to the Sunrise
- Reality Choked the Girl
- Reasons for Being Alive
- Recapture
- Red and Blue
- Reminisce
- Rendezvous
- Replay, Rewind
- Revolution Comes
- Right My Ritalin
- Road Rage
- Sally Be Free
- Santa in a Red Sportscar
- Say What You Mean
- Searching the Race
- Senescence
- Serenity
- She Outlived Them All
- She Wears a Helmet
- She's So Bright
- Shine Bright, Girl
- Shy Boy
- Silver Fingernail
- Skinny-Fat Man
- Smokey Lady
- So Many So Little Time
- Spiderman + Radioactive Girl
- Spinning
- Spirit, Fill Me Up Today
- Stop the World
- Strategic Amiguity
- Sugar Sweet + Sunshine
- Sweet Little Somebody
- Tacos, Bananas, & Toy Boats
- Take Me Home to the Peacetime
- Thank You, Jesus
- Thanks for the Flowers
- That Changing Look in Your Eye
- That's Why I Love You
- That'd Be Alright
- That's So Fucking Portland
- The Less You Light Up
- The Lipstick Lesson
- The Lord Will Work Beside You
- The Sell
- The Son as My Wings
- The Unborn Citizen
- Then Who Can?
- There Are Times
- These Wrong Priorities
- They Felt She Felt
- They Never Show the Next Day
- Thieving Your Identity
- This Is Not Me
- Three Holes
- Through Him
- Time Doesn't Fly
- Tired
- To Love As He Loves
- To Love Like a Child
- Today is Your Birthday
- Try to Fly
- Two Lips
- Two People Inside
- Two Wrongs Won't Make it Go Away
This section is still in progress... more songs being added daily
updates
New songs coming early in 2012...
• Home... If You Were Here
Produced by Anne Weiss.
Featuring Anne Weiss, Julio Appling & Spank Hopkins. Engineering by Adam Sweeney.
• Was it Love in Your Eyes?
Featuring Anne Weiss, Adam Sweeney, Julio Appling & Spank Hopkins. Engineering by Adam Sweeney.