Elements

from Paled by dimmer light by Melanie

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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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from Paled by dimmer light, released January 27, 2018

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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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