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Paled by dimmer light

by Melanie

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Elements 02:41
ELEMENTS Writer: Melanie Safka Publishers: Songs of Melanie (ASCAP) From the album PALED BY DIMMER LIGHT (2004) Trouble me to tell your secret Crouch down low and whisper why Turn the lights down Close the window It’s wild out there tonight Come in from the storm and thunder Wait it out ‘til the coast is clear Such a heavy cloud we’re under I thought I was alone in this Alone in a room with your kiss Alone in a room with your kiss Further down the road I wander leaving what I know behind Gather me to roam beyond where Protected from the winds and mist Alone in a room with your kiss Twisted branch cold and splinter Devastating possibility Flotsam, jetsam, muck wash over How I long for clear, clean water Bone and feather on the altar Elemental weave and wander Expectations spark to fly Several ways with no direction Missed its mark, made the hit Deafening sound of nothingness Alone in a room with your kiss Alone in a room with your kiss
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TO BE THE ONE Writer: Melanie Safka Publishers: Songs of Melanie (ASCAP) From the album PALED BY DIMMER LIGHT (2004) The song that kills me is playing lowly Plays in my heart when you turn to go Lights dim to black Lets light candles only It's only me in an afterglow But to be the one You turn to in the night To be the one Riding your shadow light To be the one I would believe again To be the one I would give anything I remember a dawn coming through the window And the black lines of a window frame And you riding toward the old inn doorway Leading to no more remembering But to be the one Right in this hear and now To be the one Who could live in your heart To be the one It would be real to dream To be the one I would give anything It's my heart in these words And there's truth in forever Forever I'll love you Beyond my time The body of the song it goes on a journey Only the singer can breathe it to life But to be the one Sharing your life and breath To be the one Filling your emptiness One leap toward heaven Please be my song to sing To be the one I would give anything To be the one Sharing your life and breath To be the one Filling your emptiness One leap toward heaven Please be my song To be the one I would give anything
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JAMMIN’ ALONE Writer: Melanie Safka Publishers: Songs of Melanie (ASCAP) Originally recorded for the album VICTIM OF THE MOON (2002) You’d think I was doing good With this smile upon my face My rent is overdue I leave here in disgrace I know nobody loves me And no one rings my phone I’m gonna get real good at, jammin’ alone Jammin’ alone, jammin’ alone… There’s a woman on my corner With her rags, bags and wine She’s laughing with nobody Beating out the time She sees me and she’s smiling ’Cause she knows I’m coming home I recognize my sister, jammin’ alone Jammin’ alone, jammin’ alone… Living well is the best revenge Take pleasure where you can Don’t be too hard on yourself Or your fellow man And wear a smile upon your face Till it becomes your own And love your own sweet music When you’re jammin’ alone Jammin’ alone, jammin’ alone…
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CRAZY LOVE (THE BALLAD OF) Writers: Words by Melanie Safka, Music by Melanie Safka and Beau Jarred Schekeryk Then in a quiet room Apart from the everyday Far from the in and out of breathing I turn down the noise in my head Counter clockwise the life I live And face a glimmer of my longing What a crazy love On the wild ride dove It’s my heart grown strong From too many loves gone wrong On those wild ride nights With the sad, sad song What a crazy love We live in There is no emptiness Here in my emptiness Where I drink my fill and I take it in I turn the handle of the door Outward And “Hello everyone” I’m fine And how are you My desperation What a crazy love On the wild ride dove It’s a heart grown strong From too many loves gone wrong On those wild ride nights With the sad, sad song What a crazy love We live in
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HEARING THE NEWS Writer: Melanie Safka Hearing the news ain't like being there Nothin's like feeling it when it's happening to you Don't you know that hearing the news makes it easier Nothing is real unless it's happening to you Don't you know that, hearing the news ain't like being there Nothin's like feeling it when it's happening to you Don't you know that hearing the news makes it easier, Nothing is real unless it's happening to you And because we don't know We're trying to understand And because we don't know We hurt our fellow man And because we don't know We're fitting in the plan Everybody's hurting There's a hurt in the land, don't you know, don't you know Nothin's like feeling it when it's happening to you Don't you know that hearing the news makes it easier, nothing is real unless it's happening to you And because we don't know We're trying to understand And because we don't know We hurt our fellow man An' because we don't know We're fitting in the plan There are people who are living on the death in the land, oh no Nothin's like feeling it When it's happening to you Don't you know that hearing the news makes it easier Nothing is real unless it's happening to you
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Smile 04:45
SMILE Writers: Melanie Safka (Lyrics) and Beau Jarred Schekeryk (Music) 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 hometow
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I TRIED TO DIE YOUNG Lyrics by Melanie Safka Music by Melanie Safka and Beau Jarred Schekeryk 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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MAKE IT WORK FOR ME Writer: Melanie Safka And if it's you You're gonna love me And if it's not I'm going to find you But if I don't I’ll have to make it work for me And if it's true I’m gonna follow But if it breaks me Ill go on broken I’ll dream of you I’ve got to make it work for me And when the sun sets upside down And the hands of the clock go the other way ‘round I know that it's not what the others might see But I won't fall down from my vertigo dream I found this way to fly, you see By letting go and then holding on tight to nothing at all And if it's you In your magnificence Or is it me who thinks you're heaven-sent? I'll follow through But I’ve got to make it work for me And if it's you You're gonna love me And if it's not Then I will find you But if I don't I'm going to make it work for me Until the real thing comes along I'm gonna to make it work for me And when the sun sets upside down And the hands of the clock go the other way ‘round I know that it's not what the others might see But I won't fall down from my vertigo dream I found this way to fly, you see It’s by letting go and then holding on tight to nothing at all
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YOU CALL YOURSELF A WRITER Writer: Melanie Safka You told me yourself you were a writer You followed every line and theme right through I never suspected I was a one nighter But there was this line - I'm gonna keep it for you 'Cause you let it go, you let that line go You let it go, and you call yourself a writer You let it go, you let that line go You let it go - I'm gonna keep it for you Some people think you're quite amazing They heard you do your songs on radio But somewhere in that sweet there's bitter tasting 'Cause down; deep inside you know that somebody knows 'Cause you let it go, you let that line go You let it go, and you call yourself a writer You let it go, you let that line go You let it go - I'm gonna keep it for you I'm gonna play it out loud, I'm gonna do it one more time I'm gonna do it my show, I want the world to know It just takes one night to make a reputation It just takes one lie to break a heart And it just takes one line to make a song sing But you let it go, I want the world to know - you let it go So let me pose this question while you're posing Let me wonder why - that's what I do I saw you open your eyes while mine were closing Did you take it all down from your point of view Or did you let it go, you let that line go You let it go, and you call yourself a writer You let it go, you let that line go You let it go - I'm gonna keep it for you I'm gonna play it out loud, I'm gonna do it one more time I'm gonna do it my show, I want the world to know It just takes one night to make a reputation It just takes one lie to break a heart And it just takes one line to make a song sing But you let it go, I want the world to know - you let it go
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LOVER OF MY FRIEND Writer: Melanie Safka Where do I take it Where will it go I’m scared to death of changing what I know for the unknown Where will it lead and how will it end If I become the lover of my friend It’s been a lifetime, maybe more I think we were soldiers It must have been war We stood for something greater than life You took it for me on the day that you died Where will it lead and how will it end If I become the lover of my friend What is a friend What makes a mother, father, husband, wife, sister What makes a brother? We just agree, and that’s what we do You stand by me and I’ll stand by you Where will it lead and how will it end If I become the lover of my friend Where will I take it Where will it go…
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THEY CAN FIND YOU IN YOUR DREAMS Writers: Melanie Safka You got to be careful who you care for Beware the ones you love For it seems even after you’ve said goodbye forever They can find you in your dreams They can find you in your dreams And when the walls around you crumble When your loose ends fly and fray When your reason fails to arm you Then your dreams they have their day So you’ve got to be careful who you care for Beware the ones you love for it seems Even after you’ve said goodbye forever They can find you in your dreams They can find you in your dreams Even the one who never loved you Or the time you didn’t let him know Unfulfilled and unrequited In your dreams you can’t say no So you’ve got to be careful who you care for Beware the ones you love for it seems Even after you’ve said goodbye forever They can find you in your dreams They can find you in your dreams

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released January 27, 2018

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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.
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