KNEWFOLKE SONG LIST A:
VERSE 1:
My love I have come to you in a dream.
Realer than you could ever believe.
My love I must warn you of danger.
Instead I watch. For a while. And learn nothing at all.
My love I have loved you so long.
There was nothing I thought could go wrong.
My thoughts are so quiet inside.
I can’t decide, what to do, over you.
BRIDGE:
Everybody lies, someday.
To save their skin. But not today.
CHORUS:
You will find. I’m so out of time.
And if I could find a way. To sweep it all away.
And you’re not so blind. And I’m not so kind.
To see the world inside. That we both denied.
Forever more.
VERSE 2:
The hour is much too late it’s time for sleep.
No more work for the weary man.
He shall be like a tree planted by the waters edge.
Or that was his plan. What happened?
To the man I wanted to be?
My love I’m sorry for the paths I’ve chosen.
And I will now pay in time.
My Lord I have drank from this well.
Once too often. Now and then. Lord, save me tonight.
BRIDGE:
Everybody walks a very wide road.
So very few get the chance to be told.
CHORUS:
They can live. And the only thing they need to give.
Is their faith and their love. What were you thinking of?
And you will know. There’s no place left to go.
Everything outside your body. Is just an illusion.
And we can’t find a way.
ENDING:
A way. We can’t find a way, away, away.
A way. A way, a way, go away go away.
Created: 1992
Performers: Demo version destroyed by my son Eddie (oh well)
Information: Also goes by the names 'My love' & just 'Dream'. Another strongly religious based tune, but not part of the 'Hell on Earth' pieces. Right & wrong, and the wide road. Most of the lyrics were fleshed out while doing my route in Springfield PA. Written with Psalms 1:1-3 in mind, esp 1:3 "he shall be like a tree planted by the rivers edge..." It's also my wife's favorite.
Created: 1990
Performers: No final version Recorded yet & none expected in future
Information: Very cool song, (long but cool) performed out only once. Makes references to points of light and the gulf war. Vince hates this song, I mean he really hates this song!
VERSE 1:
And still we sail on through these waters
even though we know how dangerous they be
Who knows what lurks under the sea.
And I tried to turn the ship around,
but I could not find any common ground.
So we sailed away into the storm.
CHORUS:
And I know that we’ve sailed so far
Halfway around the world and back that’s where we are
But every journey that begins must end
And I think we’re sinking again
BRIDGE:
Please don’t desert me
Abandon the sinking. Abandon the sinking
Please don’t desert me.
Take to higher. Take to higher
Please don’t leave me for lost this way
VERSE 2:
The waves of heartache and frustration wash up upon my shoreline
And with them the debris of a thousand sunken ships, that he sabotaged himself
He turns his back on his beach and makes his way further in shore
Not so sure that all the ships had to be sunk to insure his own oneness.
VERSE 3:
I told her to go but she would not leave.
So I set her adrift on the open sea.
The tide will take her where she can be free. Of me.
All I was was an anchor, dragging on the bottom never letting her go.
But now she’s free to dance with the wind where they may.
Created: 1991
Performers: Ned Park: lead guitar, Phil Cassidy: bass, Carl: everything else
Information: Taken from lines right out of my diary re-worked and performed for the first time at the 23 East Cabaret for the Marboro Music Roundup (yee-haa!!) much too slowly. This is my Uncle Dick's favorite song off our first album. This is the first track off of our album. If we had a hit with our fans, this would probably be it. I've played it probably 500 times and still enjoy it, no easy task.
Created: 1991, June 5th
Performers: Phil Cassidy: bass, Carl: guitar & vocals.
Information: The original tune was written in my bass player Phil's room the day he ran head on into a telephone pole with a postal jeep whilst leaning over to get his spilled coffee. (at which time it was called telephone poll song) But was re-done later in my mom's livingroom mere hours before we were scheduled to perform over at the University of Penn Campus. It has a line referring to the old west, this was kinda a tribute to Steve Minnerick and his song 'Outlaws on the Trail'. It was in Steve's apartment that I first realized that I wanted to do the music thing.
VERSE 1:
without any sign or word from above or beyond
without meaning or understanding
my past, at long last, has shaken my foundations
and brought me face to face to place the blame
I am full of stories of betrayal and long lost
of crucial mistakes and future misunderstandings
of all this, I can only say, at last, at last
VERSE 2:
for far too long the cliché went on
my point of view was perverted, interpreted incorrectly
by my friends, by my love, by myself I stand above and beyond it all
so cold in my memory, so lost in my chase
no rhyme to match this treason, no calm to slow this haste
no sense in leaving things half undone
no sense in at last
CHORUS:
at last...
BRIDGE:
the window was open looking out into the September air
and with the breeze blew in stagnation, disruption, alienation
I never meant it to be this way
I never do
I never do what need be done to, at last
enjoy the view
VERSE 3:
so on autumn nights I remember you
I forgive all parties involved and wave my rights to trial
but my time is short and the past is at long last over
I have new loves to sort and sing to
IOU everything, and yet nothing at all
at last I can admit that to myself to my unconscious
at last I am somewhat free of your gravity
Created: 1996, April 20th
Performers: Carl
Information: From a poem first written the previous year for entry into the National Poets Writing Contest. Turned into a song after a Saturday Jam session at Chuckies in Media. It was mailed to a producer the day after it was written. the response was, 'why is the verse so much stronger than the chorus?' The answer of course was, 'cos I wanted it to be!'