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Elements
02:41
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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
04:02
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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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3. |
Jammin' Alone
04:02
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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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4. |
The Ballad of Crazy Love
04:31
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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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5. |
Nothing is real
03:25
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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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6. |
Smile
04:45
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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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7. |
I tried to die young
04:31
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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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8. |
Make it work for me
03:32
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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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10. |
Love of my friend
03:41
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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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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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