Shooting Stars

Wide open spaces

We’re lucky we didn’t burn Wyoming down

When we

Danced with the wind

Found ourselves again

Said "I love you" without saying a word

Clouds are sailing

Over our heads

I can see a hundred miles away

I could get used to this kind of living

I could get used to your smile every day

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I was struck by

Shards of shooting stars

I turned my face into the rain

Masterpiece of moonlight and magic

All I learned that night remains

This world can leave you

Feeling small and tired

It can leave you wondering why

But being out here and

Sharing this with you

I think I’m ok for at least a while

Could Not Have Known

Watch the sun out on the sea

Watch it disappear

I could not have known back then

That you’d mean this much to me

I could only stare

You were my first friend

The first one who could see

Everything I am

And everything that I could be

You were always there for me

When I would call and cry

You never ran

And no matter what it was

You always had the words

To ease my mind

But you’re so far away from me

And it feels like it’s been years

I wish that you were here right now

So I could tell you how I feel

Tell you how I feel

You make me glad to be alive

Your kindness gives me hope

Your courage gives me strength

And your ideas set me free

To open up my mind

They show me what could be

You gave the greatest gift to me

I ever could receive

When you showed me all that life can be

You showed me how to love

You showed me how to care

South Pass

Bright eyes and secret smile

We were late

No time to waste

To make the pass by dark

What we had what we shared we suspected

But we did not know

We would find out

A little further down the road

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It was a windy night on south pass

A high and lonely road

You took my hand in your hand

And we had time

To fall in love

This is real

This is right

This is true

This is love

Please don’t let it slip away

This is you

This is me

This is us

This is what we need

Please don’t go

What is love

To have or to be

I got my answer that night

To be the one you run to

To be the one you need

That’s what it means to me

But now you say you want the best for us

And I think I know

You say move on

Get around

Find new love

I’ve tried but I can’t

There’s no one else

Not for me

Not this time

I’m too far gone

There’s no one else

With your laugh

With your smile

With your eyes

No one else with your

Love

(repeat chorus)

Now out on that pass

There is a sacred place

That awaits our return

Take my hand

Take me back there again

Please trust this love

Please trust this love

Feel Like This

How being up here can make me feel

That life is something to be explored

There’s something new behind every door

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I want to feel like this forever

I want to see things like a child

I want to feel a sense of wonder

In everything I do

New love in the spring

It doesn’t get any better than that

Except for old love that still feels brand new

Bound together by the things we’ve been through

(repeat chorus)

Sometimes I wish I could know

What lies ahead at the end of this road

But looking back I think I see

The only thing that keeps me going is my curiosity

(repeat chorus)

Where This River Runs

Gets hard to read

Down her where the shadows grow

There’s no telling what the water might do

You’ve got to trust the boat

The old timers

They say

The water’s got its different moods

Fighting only drags you down

The secret’s staying loose

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And there’s

No sense in worrying

About where this river runs

Just fill your days with what you love

And let it go

And there’s

No easy answers

And no way to know

What tomorrow might bring

So just let it go

Ride the river

Don’t fight the flow

There’s banks

Along both sides

Where you can sit and watch

All that water flowing by

Afraid it’s going to stop

Well it’s true

It may dry up

The water will find somewhere else to run

That’s why you’ve got to jump in now

Don’t waste a single drop

(repeat chorus)

Some rivers

Are short and fast

And some are long and wide

But in the end

They’ve all got the same goal

They’ve all got the same thing inside

(repeat chorus)

Under Your Wing

Because you came down here

And if I get lucky it looks like you might

Stay for a while

(chorus)

I don’t know why you’re standing here

If I were you, I’d be gone

I know I’m not easy to love

I’m no good at this sort of thing

Unless you take me under your wing

It’s been a while

Since I’ve felt this way

Maybe never

Until today

But I think that I could learn to like

The way it feels standing in your light

(repeat chorus)

Since you’ve come

Everything is new

I don’t look at things the same

I never thought that love could last forever

But even that’s begun to change

(repeat chorus)

Close Enough

Lift me up

Lay me down again

Tell me I’m not dreaming

Walk on air

Across the room to me

I believe you can

When you’re asleep

I listen to you breathe

And wonder if you’re dreaming

If you tell me

There’s nothing I won’t do

To make your dream come true

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I can’t get close enough to you

But I can try

I want to feel

Everything you feel

I want to see

Through your eyes

The moon is full

The tide pulls me to you

With the rhythm of the ocean

I can’t feel anything but you

You are my world now

(repeat chorus)

I Know Why

There’s something I want you to know

It’s not that I’m scared
It’s just that ‘til now so much of life

(chorus)

I have been waiting

Under this sky

But the clouds now are lifting

And I find

I finally can say

I know why

It’s hard to explain

But I have been drifting for so long

Through wind and rain

Searching for some small piece of calm

(repeat chorus)

So much before me

So much that I have left behind

I’m glad that you’re with me

I’m glad that we have so much time

(repeat chorus)

Gold In California

Gold in California

A fortune to be made

With every shovel full of dirt

What was I to do

I was only sixteen

So I packed my bags and left home

To chase my dreams

I was so sure that they would come true

And that I would come back home to you

With all the wealth I’d ever need

And that you’d be here

Waiting for me

But when I arrived

All the claims were taken

So I had no choice

But to go to work for someone else

The things that I have seen

The hardships I have suffered

Deep inside the earth

I’ll not soon forget

Dreams don’t always come true

I found that out too late

Now all that I am left with

Is the pain

Of watching them fall through

At night I sit alone

Up here and I wonder

Just what could have been

If I had stayed at home

Are you still alive?

Did you ever marry?

Do you ever sit like this

Alone and think of me?

I’m sure that there are dreams that come true

But somehow not for me

Now all that I want is to be home

If I were I swear

I’d be there to stay

Wrong

This answer to my pain

But I know

I need this

In spite of the memories that pull

That cause me to retreat

I know that I should

I should not want this

(chorus)

But something pull me in

It’s so familiar

Yet I know that I

I want this for all the wrong reasons

But can I make them right?

Sometimes I see her face

She says it’s all right

And I almost believe her

‘Cause I really want to believe

And I know she needs me

As much as I need her

But does that justify

Justify this love?

(repeat chorus)

When I look back

At what we have begun

I know that I’ll look in sorrow

But I will not regret

What I cannot stop

This love I cannot fight

(repeat chorus)

I cannot make them right.

My Boss Thinks I’m Workin’

But for now it’s not a bad gig

It’s a way of gettin’ out of workin’

That’s superior to callin’ in sick

It’s the new paradigm for slackers

It’s the high-tech way to beat stress

I found a way to give myselft a raise

By getting’ paid the same for workin’ less

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‘Cause when I’m workin’

I might not be workin’

It looks like I’m workin’

But I’m probably not workin’

‘Cause I ain’t no fool

I don’t do more than I have to

My boss thinks I’m workin’

But I’m really just surfin’ the ‘net

The beauty of my scheme lies in the fact

That you use the same computer

That’s the monkey on your back

If your boss can’t be hurt by that which can’t be seen

Then it really doesn’t matter what you’re reading on that screen

It might be a spreadsheet

An analysis of profits

Or just the same a webpage dedicated to the muppets

It really doesn’t matter ‘cause no one can see but you

(repeat chorus)

I don’t understand how they used to get by

With no email jokes to read on the sly

With nothing else to do I guess they just worked

Thanks god those days are over ‘cause now we can surf

If you’ve got a friend in IS there’s no way to be detected

So log on and check out auto parts that are defective

You’ll make the world a safer place just by being informed

Netscape

Escapce

Check my stocks

Look at rocks

Email

Bargain sale

Interface

With outerspace

All of this and so much more

Paid for by your employer

‘Cause I didn’t go to school

To take orders from you

My boss thinks I’m workin’

But I’m really just surfin’ the ‘net

I know I should be workin’

But I can’t stop surfin’ the ‘net