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Ever Since You Never Heard Of Me

by Melanie

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    According to her website, 2010's "Ever Since You Never Heard of Me" is Melanie's newest CD. The folk-popper who captured so many fans with her hit "Brand New Key," her appearance at the legendary Woodstock concert and her early recordings on Buddha has continued to work as an independent artist. This set is another strong offering produced by her son Beau Jarred Schekeryk and her husband-producer Peter.

    "There is a thread that joins each to the other, brother to the sister, sister to the brother, and it's almost like being in love," Melanie sings on her opening anthem "Angel Watching."

    "A Kiss from the Heart" slows the pace with a lovely melody and a sentimental treatise on love.

    "I Tried to Die Young" is a wry look back on the vagaries of youth,
    "My heart kept on breaking in the cracks of the edge where the hand of a shadow grabbed the hand in my head; There were demons I know there & they still come back, but we've become friends, my demons and I."

    Beth Nielsen Chapman joins a chorus of background vocals on the African-folk-flavored "Motherhood of Love," "Are we all on our own island struggling with our broken dream, searching for the healing spring?"

    "Hushabye" is an emotional heartbreaker about a military widow comforting her son.

    "Deserts of Blue" is a gorgeous instrumental composed by Beau Jarred.

    "Big Big Bear" is a silly two-minute track that that puts a smile on your face.

    The set concludes with the electric rocker "My Surprise," "It's my love & I'll do what I want when I want to with it; It's my love & I'll wear it like a flag." This is a delightful set by one of our master musicians, well worth the search! Enjoy!
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1.
ANGEL WATCHING OVER YOU Writer: Melanie Safka Publishers: Songs of Melanie (ASCAP) From the album EVER SINCE YOU NEVER HEARD OF ME (2010) There’s an angel watching over you There’s an angel watching over you In the daytime and the night time too There’s an angel watching over you There is a thread That joins each to the other Brother to the sister Sister to the brother There’s a thread, yeah That joins each to the other And it’s almost like being in love There’s an angel watching over you There’s an angel watching over you In the daytime and the night time too There’s an angel watching over you There is a thread That joins each to the other Brother to the sister Sister to the brother There’s a thread, yeah That joins each to the other And it’s almost like being in love There’s an angel watching over you Watching over, watching over you In the daytime and the night time too There’s an angel watching over you There’s an angel watching over you It’s in your head That there’s nobody, nothing ‘Cause you know that there’s something As your heart keeps a thumping There’s an angel There is a thread That joins each to the other Brother to the sister Sister to the brother There’s a thread, yeah That joins each to the other And it’s almost like being in love There’s an angel watching over you There’s an angel watching over you In the daytime and the night time too There’s an angel watching over you There is an angel watching over you Watching over, watching over you In the daytime and the night time too There’s an angel watching, watching over you There’s an angel watching over you There’s an angel watching over you There’s a smile on my face for whole human race And it’s almost like being in love
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A KISS FROM THE HEART Writer: Melanie Safka Publisher: Songs of Melanie (ASCAP) From the album EVER SINCE YOU NEVER HEARD OF ME (2010) A kiss that is sent from the hand through the air To the one who is leaving from here to God knows where Is millions of light years from where it all starts When a kiss on the lips was a kiss from the heart When you went from someone I knew To the someone I loved All the signs led to dreams coming true And the message rang clear that we’d never part When a kiss on the lips was a kiss, a kiss from the heart A kiss from the heart A kiss from goodbye Is the hardest of words When all hardest of words get spoken And kisses are token Of warmer nights and longing days Who could have thought it would all fade away To a kiss that is sent from the hand through the air To a love who is leaving, forever I guess May it fly with my wish on the night of the stars A kiss on the lips, may it bring you a kiss from the heart May it bring you a kiss from the heart A kiss from the heart A kiss from the heart May it bring you a kiss from the heart
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I tried to die young Really I tried But the voice deep inside would not let me succumb I laugh at the things I’ve done When I tried to die young I took a plane through the dawn Threw myself on the tracks But the train didn’t come and I had to walk back I jumped into the whirlpool thought I get sucked in I just kept spinning around ‘til I learned how to swim I tried to die young Boy, did I tried But the voice deep inside would not let me succumb And I laugh at the things that I’ve done When I tried to die young My heart kept on breaking And the crack sought the edge Where the hand of a shadow grabbed the hand in my head There where demons, I know them And they still come by But we’ve become friends, my demons and I I tried to die young Really I tried But the voice deep inside would not let me succumb And I laugh at the things that I’ve done When I tried to die young I took a razor to the wrist of reality Hell bent on my way toward futility I got a reason to believe that it won’t go on forever But reason to the heart is a message undelivered I tried to die young Really, really I tried But the voice deep inside would not let me succumb And I laugh at the things I’ve done When I tried to die young Now I’m the old girl I never thought I’d become Does it get any better asks the little girl in my song I’m still learning the answers so I make up things, you see She laughs, you’re still the same and you never kill me I tried to die young Really I tried But the voice deep inside would not let me succumb And I laugh at the things I’ve done When I tried to die young Oh, I laugh at the things I’ve done Oh, I laugh at the things I’ve done I laugh at the things I’ve done When I tried to die young I tried to die young…
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People woke to another day It had rained throughout the night Ate breakfast went to church and Did the things that people do With no let up in sight Just an ordinary rain Ordinary rain Who could have thought, such a drowning flood In an ordinary rain Ooh ooh ooh ooh ooh ooh ooh ooh Ooh ooh ooh ooh ooh ooh ooh ooh When the rains came down in Nashville And the Dam was compromised Rivers rose and all hell broke loose Hit the people by surprise Just an ordinary rain Ordinary rain Who could have thought, such a drowning flood In an ordinary rain Ooh ooh ooh ooh ooh ooh ooh ooh Ooh ooh ooh ooh ooh ooh ooh ooh To some it is a blessing, But what I've come to know, Is the same rain that drowns one world Helps another to grow. Ordinary Rain Ordinary Rain Ordinary Rain
5.
He is just a working legend And it takes up all his nights He’s given up on happy endings But not without a fight He propped himself up on gagged edges Fell into the dark abyss And he lived for love He cried for love He died for love and lived Yes, he lived for love He cried for love And died for love and lived He loved with wild abandon He was careless with his life He had to lose more than one heartache If he was to survive On that night he stood stage centre He still had it all to give And he lived for love He cried for love And died for love and lived Yes, he lived for love He cried for love He died for love and lived He’s the hero in this song Gives us strength to carry on He died for love and he’s still here He the proof, pass it on Got to get through before you’re done He lived for love and lived On that night he played The Ryman When everyone but me had gone In that darkened room I heard him sing When he thought he was alone He sang don’t you be afraid to love Don’t you be afraid to give ‘Cause first you live for love You cry for love You die for love and live Yes, he lived for love He cried for love He died for love and lived And I lived for love Lived for love Cried for love I died for love and lived I’m still here
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Chant: Lokah Samasta Sukhino Bhavantu** Lokah Samasta Sukhino Bhavantu Lokah Samasta Sukhino Bhavantu Lokah Samasta Sukhino Bhavantu Is it me or one of the children Struggling with a broken heart Struggling with a broken heart Struggling with a broken heart Are we all on our own island Struggling with a broken dream Searching for the healing spring Struggling with a broken dream Chant repeat Aren’t we all in this together? Struggling with a broken heart Searching for the missing part Struggling with a broken heart Aren’t we all one of her children? Struggling with a heart and soul Embrace the world and make us whole Struggling with a heart and soul Chant repeat Heal the heart that is broken In a Motherhood of Love Peace will guide or planet In a Motherhood of Love Heal the heart that is broken In a Motherhood of Love Peace will guide our planet In a Motherhood of Love Chant Repeat **(May all the worlds and their inhabitants become happy.)
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Hush-a-bye 03:26
Hush-a-bye Hush-a-bye baby Hush-a-bye Don’t you cry Hush-a-bye Hush-a-bye baby Hush-a-bye Don’t you cry After all is said and done Daddy’s a hero You are a widow’s son And after all the fighting’s done Life will take over No one will have won, so Hush-a-bye Hush-a-bye baby Hush-a-bye Don’t you cry Hush-a-bye Hush-a-bye baby Hush-a-bye Don’t you cry And after all the fighting’s done Life will take over No one will have won And when this world’s gone on to long Life will take over There will be more to come, so Hush-a-bye Hush-a-bye baby Hush-a-bye Don’t you cry Hush-a-bye Hush-a-bye baby Hush-a-bye Hush-a-bye baby bye-bye Hush-a-bye baby bye-bye Baby Hush-a-bye Hush-a-bye baby bye-bye Hush-a-bye baby bye-bye Hush-a-bye baby bye-bye Baby Hush-a-bye Hush-a-bye baby bye-bye Hush-a-bye baby bye-bye Hush-a-bye baby bye-bye Baby Hush-a-bye Hush-a-bye baby bye-bye Hush-a-bye baby bye-bye Baby bye-bye Hush-a-bye baby bye-bye Hush-a-bye baby bye-bye
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Big Big Bear 02:08
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Smile 04:48
Take no prisoner, leave no trace, make no wave Freedom’s illusion, home of the rich and the slave Cynics and critics, making the news, creating a scene Destiny lies in the fools who refuse to give up on a dream And I love people who smile If everybody smiles, we’ll have a hometown all over the world I love people who smile If everybody smiles, we’ll have a hometown all over the world Wear it well and it could appear in your heart Indelibly printed on someone a world apart Lights in the window all through our darkest day Human kindness outdistances being afraid And I love people who smile If everybody smiles, we’ll have a hometown all over the world I love people who smile If everybody smiles, we’ll have a hometown all over the world “I don’t trust the American smile. They smile for nothing. I think it’s to disarm you or something.” ”No, I don’t think so. I smile because I want to make some kind of a connection. I look at someone and I think… we’re connected” I love people who smile If everybody smiles, we’ll have a hometown all over the world I love people who smile If everybody smiles, we’ll have a hometown all over the world (you sing) I love people who smile… (me) If everybody smiles, we’ll have a hometown all over the world What a wonderful world.
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I'm with you every breath of the way Every move you make, every step you take, yeah Oh babe, I'm with you And I'm with you even if you fall And if they break your heart and you lose it all Oh babe, I'm with you And I'm with you every breath, every breath of the way I'm with you every breath, every breath of the way And I honestly think I wish you well Besides a heart full of love when loves not enough And I want you to know When the sheets get rough I'm with you And I'm with you high or low When the moneys good or when things get slow When the cupboards bare You'll always know I'm with you And I'm with you every breath, every breath of the way I'm with you every breath, every breath of the way And when the clock strikes twelve And your still at the ball With no magic spell or charms The slipper you so careless lost Will be waiting here in my heart I wish you happiness, every breath of the way I'm with you every breath, every breath of the way Every breath I take, every breath of the way Every breath I take, every breath of the way Sha, la la la la la, yeah Sha, la la la la la, yeah I'm with you every breath of the way Every move you make, every step you take, yeah Oh babe, I'm with you 'Cause I got something to pull us through When this old world gets hard on you Oh not to worry, 'cause you know who is with you And I’m I with you every breath, every breath of the way I'm with you every breath, every breath of the way Every breath I take, every breath of the way Every breath I take, every breath of the way Every breath, every, every and every breath of the way I'm with high or low, every breath of the way You know I'm with you and if you fall, every breath of the way Sha, la la la la la, yeah Sha la, Sha la, la la la, yeah
12.
My Surprise 03:58
Who put the smile on my face Somebody sound an alarm I go to sleep now with one eye open And dream with the one light on I'm gonna figure it out later on I want to see if I shouldn't or should But I can't seem to follow the reasons Or love for my own damn good But it's my love And I'll do what I want when I want to with it It's my love And I'll wear it like a flag It's my heart But I'll break it to pieces Before it breaks me down Who put the smile on my face Somebody sound an alarm I go to sleep now with one eye open And dream with the one light on Who's sneakin' up from behind Who's gonna cover my eyes Whose gonna be the first one to hear The scream of my surprise But it's my love And I'll do what I want when I want to with it It's my love And I'll wear it like a flag It's my heart But I'll break it to pieces Before it breaks me down Who put the smile on my face Somebody sound an alarm I go to sleep now with one eye open And dream with the one light on I'm gonna call you back later for sure But I do what I do when I can I'm gonna love you to death and if that don't kill ya Wait 'til I catch my second wind But it's my love And I'll do what I want when I want to with it It's my love And I'll wear it like a flag It's my heart But I'll break it to pieces Before it breaks me down Who put the smile on my face Somebody sound an alarm I go to sleep now with one eye open And dream with the one light on

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CD contains
Angel Watching,
A Kiss From The Heart,
I Tried To Die Young,
Ordinary Rain ,
Working Legend,
Motherhood Of Love,
Hushabye,
Deserts Of Blue,
Big Big Bear,
Smile,
When The Clock Strikes Twelve
My Surprise

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released October 25, 2010

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Melanie Nashville, Tennessee

Pieces of a career, scattered by the winds of experience and assembled again by the force of love into the most personal and brilliant moments of her musical journey. Melanie is poised to enlighten new generations about what it means to sing with both passion and eloquence, to write at once with intelligence and emotion, and to inspire through song. Nobody does this better.
(Robert L. Doerschuk)
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