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Chasing Angels
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Chasing Angels
©2022 Steve Robinson (BMI/Across The Water Music) & Ed Woltil (ASCAP/Schmoopleton Heights Music)
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July to June
same old tune
never played to win
Sang my song
what went wrong?
Where do I begin...
Here I go
Chasing shadows of myself
Here I go
Chasing angels
Precious blame
same old game
running on the spot
Screams and shouts
from roundabouts
we never could get off
Here we go
Chasing shadows of ourselves
Here we go
We’re chasing angels
So we begin to swim against the tide
knee deep in nostalgia
We’ll be up to our necks in it in no time
with our dotted T’s and crossed eyes
memories hypnotize
Old friends pull
colours dull
to a mesmerizing grey
I muddle through
and just like you
I get in my own way
Here we go
Chasing shadows of ourselves
Here we go
We’re chasing angels
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Kickstart
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Kickstart
©2022 Ed Woltil (ASCAP/Schmoopleton Heights Music) & Steve Robinson (BMI/Across The Water Music)
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When I’ve almost given up
and the will to fight still isn’t quite enough
and Plan Z just isn’t working.
Is enough ever enough
when the going’s gone but I’m not getting tough.
On the ropes, knockout is lurking.
I need a kickstart,
don’t let me fall apart.
Give me the chance, I need a soul transplant.
Grant me a change of heart.
If I could fake it
then I might make it.
Oh, but I just can’t take it
‘Cause if this is livin’ then I just might give in.
There’s still room left on my list
between chances missed and problems that don’t exist
for one more breakdown in progress.
‘Cause I’m not quite finished yet
with this one man patched-up symphony of regret.
There’s still time for me to regress.
I need a kickstart,
give me your whole heart.
I’m stuck in orbit out here in the void,
show me a little spark.
If I’m not quite myself
but I’m nobody else
I need a little help
and I think it’s high time that you throw me a lifeline.
Stranded in a deep, dark hole
Isolation now is takin’ its toll
Fingers of a fist so cold
Tighten their grip down upon my soul.
I need a kickstart,
I just can’t play the part.
I’ve tried and I just can’t do it on my own,
this is my flare in the dark.
Looking for light above
show me some sign of love
It’s down to push or shove
But this fog’s not lifting, and this pain’s not shifting
and if this is livin’ then I just might give in.
If you start to thinkin’ that I’m almost sinkin’
then I think it’s high time that you throw me a lifeline.
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Life On a Trampoline
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Life on a Trampoline
©2022 Steve Robinson (BMI/Across The Water Music) & Ed Woltil (ASCAP/Schmoopleton Heights Music)
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Ups and downs
smiles and frowns
fluffy horizon views
going underground
Higher now
new sights and sounds
full of the joys of spring
‘til you come back down
Sunny-faced people
raining on down
wondering what it all means
Life on a trampoline
Urge to soar
stuck on the floor
you want to take on the world
with your mousy roar
You snipped the cord
now you're unmoored
Reaching up for the stars
is its own reward
Up on high wire
with heavenly choir
lacking in self-esteem
Life on a trampoline
Here comes another last chance
Tried saving the last dance for you
Caught the elastic of my big-boy pants
Now we’re stuck in a free fall for two
(What you are, you say you are, you get
to fall in love without a safety net)
As hard as you push
it’s never enough
You never quite make the scene
Life on a trampoline
Here comes another fat chance
Had the world in our hands but it slipped through
On the way up it’s all romance
but when gravity calls your fall comes due
It’s a scream
Life on a trampoline.
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Ultramarine
04:51
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Ultramarine
©2022 Ed Woltil (ASCAP/Schmoopleton Heights Music) & Steve Robinson (BMI/Across The Water Music)
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I see where the wind blows but I have never seen the wind.
I know what my heart knows, that it can break but it can never bend.
Ultramarine
Thoroughly green and completely blue
Whatever can we do for
Ultramarine
she's coming clean, not coming through.
We never really knew you.
Somehow overnight
you're no longer black and white
and I see that I can't hold you
I can't pin you down
I can't hold you
I can't pin you down.
Time's an endless river crossing the desert in an hourglass.
You were someone else now you're someone else now
you're future's past.
Ultramarine
Thoroughly green and completely blue
Whatever can we do for
Ultramarine
she's coming clean, not coming through.
We never really knew you.
Somehow overnight
you're no longer black and white
and I see that I can't hold you
I can't pin you down
I can't hold you
I can't pin you down.
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5. |
The Way You Love Him
03:24
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The Way You Love Him
©2022 Steve Robinson (BMI/Across The Water Music) & Ed Woltil (ASCAP/Schmoopleton Heights Music)
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If I cut my hair and I wore nice clothes
had a royal air and a regal nose
would there be a chance
that you would let me in?
If I made you laugh, if I made more sense,
if I made you graphs of my pounds and pence
do you think you could love me
just the way you love him?
If I could be taller, If I could be good,
If I could get a credit line.
I would if I could, if you would say the chances are
that I could make you mine.
If I had degrees, if I had a clue
or a little respect from those who do
would I catch your eye?
Would I fuel that spark within?
The way that you love him.
If I could be smarter, If I could be suave,
If I could stand the test of time.
I would if I could but all I have is love
I’d give it all to make you mine.
If I changed the world or changed my ways
If I brought you tea on silver trays
would it fill your cup
right up to the brim?
If I knew my role, stayed in the wings
If I sold my soul and I bought you things
Would you ever love me?
Could you ever love me?
If we close our eyes
and for just once pretend—
The way that you love him.
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One Day Never
02:26
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One Day Never
©2022 Ed Woltil (ASCAP/Schmoopleton Heights Music) & Steve Robinson (BMI/Across The Water Music)
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One day we will get away
from the pain and the struggle and heartache
but if one day never comes,
you and I still share each rising sun.
One day we will understand
all the stray puzzle pieces will fall into our hands
the big picture will be clear,
until then it’s you and me, my dear.
Souls who stay bent upon days already spent
sacrifice the element of surprise.
I prefer to spend tonight in the light of your eyes
reflecting the moonrise
as it echoes the hiding sun as advertised
in the songs and sonnets we devise
to invite another sun to rise.
I prefer to spend tonight in the light of your eyes
reflecting the moonrise
as it echoes the hiding sun as advertised
in the songs and sonnets we devise
to invite another rising
still so surprising sun.
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Vulgar Tongue
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Vulgar Tongue
©2022 Steve Robinson (BMI/Across The Water Music) & Ed Woltil (ASCAP/Schmoopleton Heights Music)
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We rage, we churn
We never learn
We’re in deep, we’re in deep. The beds we make
The vows we break
Spin in deep, spin in deep.
Armed to the teeth with nothing much underneath
Primed for the kill from afar.
With vulgar tongue you cheer the damage done
This is who we are.
We’re hooked, we’re led
We’re gold spoon fed
Dig in deep, dig in deep.
The prayers we howl will fail us now
We’re in deep, we’re in deep.
[Love the lie and live the lie
Rise to lie then lay low.]
Armed with fear, your favorite sloganeer
sneers at your life from afar
and with vulgar tongue cheers the damage done
This is who we are
who we are
who we are.
This is who we are.
This is who we are.
[Love the lie and live the lie
Rise to lie then lay low.]
All hail King Liar and his post-truth choir
with the hijacked flags and the books on fire.
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On the Way to My Appointment With Death
©2022 Ed Woltil (ASCAP/Schmoopleton Heights Music) & Steve Robinson (BMI/Across The Water Music)
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On the way to my appointment with Death
I picked up my paycheck and spent a week in a tent
and I stopped to raise a daughter or two
with my wife—that was the best
then came the accident
and I thought I saw Him smiling
and checking His watch
as it swung at the end of its fob
hypnotizing me
but then I came to
and remembered all the things
that I had still left to do
so I jumped into a cab
and I made it just in time
to piano recitals
and family reunions
and mornings at the zoo
Then I came to a mountain
and wondered if I’d found Him
as I gazed all around
to distant horizons
but my phone began to ring
excuse me while I get this
it’s my daughter, she says
she’s moving to Wisconsin
Yes, of course I’ll be there
I just can’t wait to see you
on the way to my appointment with Death.
On the way to my appointment with Death.
I'm really very sorry and I hope it’s not too late
but I’m afraid I have to cancel, I just need another month,
one week, one day…
I’m on the way…
I’m on the way…
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Lifeboat
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Lifeboat
©2022 Steve Robinson (BMI/Across The Water Music) & Ed Woltil (ASCAP/Schmoopleton Heights Music)
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Perfect storm at the center of my universe,
I couldn't stop it if I wanted to
Waves came crashing as if they'd all rehearsed
And the winds whispered secrets as they blew
And the clouds all parted
to let the sunshine in
with a curtsy and a bow
And it made me wonder where the hell you'd been
and where would you be going now?
Well, the calm before the storm
is a good time for some thinking
But the weatherman he let me down again
Third time's a charm (unless of course you're sinking)
We all need a lifeboat now and then
Saved again
please don't ask me how
Cue remorse and solemn vow
And it made me wonder where the hell we’ve been
and where should we be going now?
Who on earth knows where my mind goes?
When we sing it feels
just like I am all the ages I have ever been
Woke up dreaming
Living in slow motion
Staring through the wreckage at the view
No more scheming
just a cork upon the ocean
going where the tide takes me to
Born again
please don't ask me how
wounded horse or sacred cow
And it made me wonder where the hell I've been
and where would I be going now?
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Shadow Wall
04:47
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Shadow Wall
©2022 Ed Woltil (ASCAP/Schmoopleton Heights Music) & Steve Robinson (BMI/Across The Water Music)
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From another lifetime
echoes through the shadow wall
I throw out a lifeline
Can I reach you after all?
Loving you as I do, I miss you
but I can feel you coming through.
I can feel you near me,
can you hear me?
I’ve been trying to get a
message through.
Nothing here can free me,
no one can see me
half as clearly as you do.
Chances that I’m taking
through the mist a distant path.
Choices that I’m making
Well, I suppose they make you laugh.
Speak to me on the breeze, I’m listening
for you whispering through the leaves.
I can feel you near me,
can you hear me?
I’ve been trying to get a
message through.
Nothing here can free me,
no one can see me
half as clearly as you do.
Hear it, spin me far away
Spirit in me here today.
Loving you as I do, I miss you
but I can feel you coming through.
I can feel you near me,
can you hear me?
I’ve been trying to get a
message through.
Nothing here can free me,
no one can see me
half as clearly as you do.
Souls along the timeline,
reach you through the shadow wall.
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On Your Side
02:49
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On Your Side
©2022 Ed Woltil (ASCAP/Schmoopleton Heights Music) & Steve Robinson (BMI/Across The Water Music)
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Give me a sign, give me a season
and I’ll be on your side.
Throw me a line, any old reason why
and I’ll be satisfied that it’s up to me,
I’m the one you need.
Turn to me on any Monday, I’ll clear my schedule for you.
Count on me Tuesday through Sunday
for any little thing you ask me to do.
Heart’s on the ropes, future’s uncertain
but I am on your side.
Dust off your hopes, though you are hurtin’ now
you'll soon be fortified if it's up to me,
I'm the one you need.
Don’t pin your hopes on a maybe,
promises dangling on high.
No lofty promises, baby,
just call for me and to your side I will fly.
Count on me Tuesday through Sunday
for any little thing you ask me to do.
Give me a sign, give me a season
and I’ll be on your side.
Any old time, any old reason why
and I’ll be satisfied that it’s up to me,
I’m the one you need.
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Make Amends
03:23
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Make Amends
©2022 Steve Robinson (BMI/Across The Water Music) & Ed Woltil (ASCAP/Schmoopleton Heights Music)
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Another year to slip behind us
Another fence to mend
A simple song here to remind us
You and I should make amends
The world spins madly on without us
On that we can depend
But if we have our wits about us
You and I will make amends
We don’t have to say we’re sorry
to break this spell
I know we’d like to think that there’s no hurry
but we both know that there’s just no way to tell…
Though hurtful words were tossed between us
I can’t remember them
Let’s leave the whole sad mess behind us
love is real and not pretend
You and I should make amends
You and I should make amends.
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Steve Robinson & Ed Woltil Hendersonville, North Carolina
Ex-Roger McGuinn sideman and award-winning
Ditchflowers singer-songwriter team up to concoct
baroque folk-pop masterwork.
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