"Eureka" Album Lyrics
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- Eureka
- Is It A Crime?
- Destiny
- God Only Knows
- Nothing There But Good-Bye
- Cowgirl's Lament
- Kankakee
- A Harder Thing
- I Wanna See You
- Mighty Rivers
- Goodnight My Love
Music and lyrics by Martha White, copyright 2007 Cowhand Music (BMI). All rights reserved.
Vocals and Guitars: Martha White
Bass: Joe Barry
Congas (track 5): Doug Johnson
Recorded at The Floating Dog Studio, Holualoa, HI
Mitch Myers, engineer.
Mixed and mastered by Charles Michael Brotman at Lava Tracks Recording Studio, Kamuela, HI - www.lavatracks.com
Eureka
Eureka, Topeka! A cowboy might say
Riding out on the Kansas plains
Grieve me, but don’t you leave me
A lover might choose
Who spent all of those days and those nights with you
Salina, I’m doing fine now
And halfway to hell
Lord it’s been such a long dry spell
Regret me, but don’t forget me,
There’s still one more dance
I keep blowing my days down this lost romance
Chorus: But I dreamed I was Annie Oakley
And I dreamed you were Buffalo Bill
And I dreamed we would find on some prairie
A white clapboard house on a hill
With some good bottom land and the will
In the long silent night while the starts shine so bright and the moon going down by the mill
The Llano Estacado is haunted by day
With the millions of bison that ran ‘thataway’
But the highways and the byways
An occasional song
Are all we have left, didn’t take too long
Laredo, I’d better stay low
And don’t leave a trail
If he loved me right now Lord
I’d surely fail
But traces of the races I thought we could win
They crisscross my maps now
I’m lost again
Chorus
Eureka, Topeka! A cowboy might say…
Is It a Crime?
Wake in the sun, day has just begun
And you’re lying next to the one that you love
The breezes blow sweet from the lips that you meet
And the silence completes all your unfinished dreams
Chorus: is it a crime to be happy?
Is it a crime to be loved?
Is it a crime to forget about the misery and reach—for once?
Meet up at three, when have you seen
So many bright eyes, and red shoes, and red lips, and trees
Across from your place there’s a beautiful face
Holding your heart in that little café
Run to the park, yeah well we’re racing the dark
Then rush to the market, dinner at eight
The evening is stretched, and she’s wearing her best
And you find your rest in those clear starry eyes.
Chorus:
Sleep comes too fast but you’ve spent your last
Now the fire you started will watch the night pass
There might be days when the darkness will stay
And maybe you will lose your way, and maybe you will cry
Chorus: But its no crime to be happy
And its no crime to be loved
And its no crime to forget about the misery and reach, for once.
Reach.
Destiny
It comes creeping when you look away
The change you owe you forgot to pay
The lucky star that fell in your grass
Kiss your lips and bet your ass
Chorus: It’s Destiny
God knows it’s a mystery
Maybe it’s history written on a vanishing line
It’s destiny
Unraveling inside of me
Blowing it out to sea, reel it in
To see what we find… this time
Without a husband, no visible means
She could not stay, a broken dream
But strangers still saving face
Found her there, so full of grace…
Chorus:
He puts an ad in the classified
I need some help with my problem child
She walks right past the smoke and ash
Tames the child and drives him wild
Chorus:
So you think you want it to stay
Hold on tight, it slips away,
Then let it go and watch it crash
Sometimes too slow then way too fast
Chorus
God Only Knows
God only knows, it’s what God does best
All of the time, for all of the rest
There’s nothing to take, and nothing to choose,
And nothing to break, and nothing to fake, and nothing to lose
Just some ramblin’ around…ramblin’ around
Ramblin round ain’t you sick of the sound of that ramblin’ around
When you were a child, burning up the miles
Scrambling into the trees, did you ever dream
You’d be so far from home with nobody known?
And how hard it stings when you cut all the strings and got nothing to show.
Just your rambling around, ramblin around
Ramblin round I’m so sick of the sound of your ramblin around
Sometimes it seems nothings ever complete
Leave you hanging in love, leave you down on your feet
Well I’m beginning to think there’s something I need
Someone to hold and someone to scold and someone to mean
More than ramblin around, ramblin around
Ramblin round I’m so sick of the sound of my ramblin around
Ramblin around, ramblin around, ramblin round I’m so sick of the sound of my ramblin around
God only knows, it’s what God does best
All of the time for all of the rest….
Nothing There But Good-bye
Sometimes there’s nothing there but good-bye
Sometimes there’s nothing to say but “I Lied.”
Mom and Joey’s out in the car
Send me something that says where you are…
Nothing there but good…bye Nothing there but good…bye
It’s hard to remember what it was like
Holding on to you for sweet life
Starlight, tumbling down in the grass
I’m glad I got some photographs
Nothing there but good….bye Nothing there but good….bye
Someday we will probably meet
I wonder what the weather will be?
I’ll have raindrops under my eyes
You’ll be looking down in disguise
Nothing there but good…bye Nothing there but good…bye
Ain’t it strange to finally agree
You take the bed and I’ll take the sheet
You’ll float gently into the past
I’ll make wings and fly through the facts
Nothing there but good…bye
Nothing there but good…bye…Good…bye…good…bye…
Cowgirl’s Lament
Send me a cowboy, deal me a hand
Long in the legs, short in attention span
Send me somebody who rides on the range
Who can lift up my forelegs, rub all of my aches and my pains away….away…
Send me a cowboy, tall in the saddle
Short on the willpower rounding up cattle
Just send me somebody who’ll brand me with stars
That he caught in the brush by the trail that he must keep on blazing away…away…
Send me a cowboy,sweet of voice
Eyes of blue, brown, green, do I have a choice?
Send me somebody who’ll just call me honey
Who’ll call me for supper, who’s working for money, and stashed some away…away..for a rainy day
But he doesn’t have to be James Dean, Robert Redford, Paul Newman
Maybe an old cowhand…from the Rio Grande
But I don’t want no flea bitten, horse thievin'’ mother
Who’ll steal all my kisses, then sleep with my brother
I just want somebody who’ll call out my name
Right before drifting off on the wild windy plain where we’re riding away…away..maybe today..
Send me a cowboy…
Kankakee
From South Bend to Momense, from the St. Joe to the Illinois
Runs a willing child of men too wild and too free
Missing link from great Lake Michigan to the Mississippi
Racing river never finding the sea….Oh Kankakee
Friend to the Red Man, sacred keeper of his bones
She fed them and led them far from home
Pushed from their wigwams by the strangers with fire arms
Buried their arrows in her streams….Aakiikii
Chorus: A river never tells what a river always knows
Just watch the way she bends, feel the way that she flows
Hot fever for new land, for New Spain, for New France
Fur traders, trappers hunted beaver and muskrat, deer elk and pheasant
Bright silver and blood running free…in the Kankakee
Came the farmers and settlers, from New York, Ohio’
On horseback, never turned back
They burned her, and drained her, and farmed her and tamed her
Oh Kankakee never says a thing…until the spring…
A river never tells what a river always knows
Just watch the way she bends feels the way that she flows
From South Bend to Momence, from the St. Joe to the Illinois
From the St. Joe to the Illinois…….
A Harder Thing
Sometimes it’s a harder thing to forget than forgive
When your failure follows you like a barking dog on the street you live
Standing on the highway, your dreams already turned back
Just a light beyond your trail, clickin’ down that lonesome track
Sometimes it’s a harder thing to give up than knuckle down
When your sweat won’t gain you nothin’ only cools your fevered brow
Standing at your trail you could only pray for grace
When it comes, a mystery, never in time to save your face
Sometimes it’s a harder thing to walk away than rescue
With a thousand silent voices whispering what you should do
Standing at your mirror, you only get one break
Who do you rely upon, what cannot be replaced?
Sometimes it’s a hard hard thing just to close your eyes and fall asleep
To let your dreams remind you of the treasures you can keep
Standing at the crossroads, I will wait for you each night
And I won’t go until I see your signal fire so bright
Sometimes it’s a harder thing to forget than forgive
When your failure follows you like a barking dog on the street you live
On the street you live, on the street we live
On the street. We live on the street, we live on the street. We live.
We live. We live. We live. We live.
I Wanna See You
Baby I wanna see you loose and laughing out loud
Baby I wanna see you running with your white Arab in the clouds
I wanna see you burning up the starry night
Baby I wanna see you turning on your bright bright light
I wanna see you…I wanna look, I wanna watch…
I wanna free you…I wanna touch, I wanna talk
Darkness draggin’ you down so long
I cannot go underground
Baby it’s only these waves inside of me… that crashing sound
Spooked so sudden motion got you jumping at the sight
Hallelujah baby we’re gonna ride you right out of your fright
I wanna see you…I wanna look, I wanna watch…
I wanna free you…I wanna touch, I wanna talk
I wanna take you naked in blue water so deep
I wanna take you slow dancing in your sleep
I wanna take you flying up inside your crazy machine
I wanna make you remember all of your small kid time dreams
I wanna see you…I wanna look, I wanna watch…
I wanna free you…I wanna touch, I wanna talk
Ooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo
Blackness pulled you apart, your life went rolling away
Baby it’s just the shadow of a skeleton in your way
Shut up so long it’s got you tearing at the light
Hold my hand I’ll take you up so high, escape by night
I wanna see you…I wanna look, I wanna watch…
I wanna free you…I wanna touch, I wanna talk
Don’t wanna be you…I wanna jump, I wanna dive
I wanna see you and me get out of here alive ! I wanna see you, I really wanna see you,
I really wanna see you, I wanna see you I really wanna see you, I wanna see you, hmmm you…only you….
Mighty Rivers
The mighty rivers of my love send the storms to rage
Out on the open bays of your eyes
The mighty rivers of my love start meteor showers of
Trembling stars in the middle of the night sky
The mighty rivers of my love shoot through your purple mouth
Rushing streams of sweet clean water out
The mighty rivers of my love ignite the flames of forest fires
Across cold moons in winter towns
The mighty rivers of my love come in waterfalls
Cascade over cliffs in rocking waves
The mighty rivers of my love flood the high plains up above
Making wilderness of civilized ways
The mighty rivers of my love can’t be damned or drained
Tainted or turned back or tamed
Fish the mighty river, swim the mighty river
Sail the mighty river, chart the mighty river my love there is no end to this river of love
Drink the mighty river, dive the mighty river
Sink in the river, ford the mighty river my love there is no end to this river of love
The mighty rivers of my love…
Goodnight My Love
If you let me go, I won’t take it
If you tell me “no” I won’t break it:
Your heart, my heart, whose speaks louder too
Heaven knows how hard it is to be true to form
Mine and yours
Ideas of what love can bring us
Rely on where the winds will lead us
There’s such a storm…I hear it coming
Still waters crash through mountain boulders in streams so soft
Dreams we lost
You and I could take a different part
Damn the distance and find a new start
Though tears fall down on both sides of the world
Now and then, well I’m just a girl and you’re just a star
Clear and far….
Goodnight my love, goodnight
Shine bright my love, shine bright
Goodnight my love, goodnight my love
Sleep well my love, goodnight my love, hmmmmmm