eight live songs
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NEW!!  |
mighty
ocean |
mp3 (3.4 MB) |
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coffee stained |
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| moonshiner |
mp3 (4.4 MB) | |
| it
was nice |
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| 200
years |
mp3 (3.8 MB) | |
| whats
left |
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| echo |
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| wagon
wheel |
mp3 (3.2 MB) | |
eight
live songs was recorded live at Uncommon Ground in Chicago on September
13, 2005.
Also available @ CDBbaby.com! |
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from where I stand
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If
you are like Sarah, you appreciate when artists make their lyrics available.
Please scroll down to find the words of all 9 tracks on From
Where I Stand. These lyrics
are deeply personal and
Sarah is glad to be able to share them with you. Each song captures
fragments of the struggles, lessons, discovery, experiences and wide ranging
emotions that Sarah has encountered over the past few years.
Preview sound clips of each track at CdBaby.
Cry
No air moves,
as a cry is felt across the sea
Finally forced to search for understanding,
or so we thought
Confronted at last with the dark truth,
In each one of us
That we can’t change the world
Not like some thought
Chorus:
Now I know what it will take for this nation to change
How it’s not just bombs and airplanes
How it takes people around the world
Fighting back with peace and not war
Here we are now
Still trying to speak truth to power
With our thoughts held together
Yet each voice speaking apart their own truth
To this supposed power
Chorus
I know my actions are truth and
I know your words are power
I know my actions are truth and
I know your words are power
So I’ll speak it, I’ll dream it, I’ll do it, I’ll
think it
Cause I know my words are power
Speak your truth to power
Shotgun
Driven 70 down Route 80
With my voice and my anger finally riding shotgun
After too many years riding in the back
It got sick of staring at the back of my head and refused to keep shutting
up
Chorus:
Each breath I’m taken I’ll take you in
And let you and life out in each song again and again
These words make me tremble inside you
Till my mouth opens up and cries our freedom
Rest stop in Youngstown, grab my guitar
Sit on the bumper and sing out a tune
30 degrees and falling doesn’t stop my mind from wandering
Back to this pen and paper to finish this song
Chorus
I know I’ll always struggle with how to find balance
Between this love I got for life and this anger we all got inside
Each voice spoken together or apart
Sharing the voices of those who just won’t be heard
Cause their skins too dark or they share their love outside the box
They can’t speak the language, or they just can’t talk at all
Chorus
Over
In the streets of stone, we danced
till the sky fell
I
looked around and noticed I was not alone
I saw in your eyes the mysteries of a thousand places
And you saw in my eyes the mysteries of a thousand faces
And I see me staring back at me
Inside of you the essence of my thoughts
The reason why I dream, the reason for all our hopes
Between our hands lies the universe
The place where you hold me is deep in a pocket of truth
Lost souls and empty cries
The lonely child from the pain he cries
Black nights the shadows were lost
And when found we felt the cost
Until here becomes the distance
You opened the door and I walked right in
You held out your hand and then walked away
I’m still singing and I’m still standing
I’m still singing and I’m still standing
Still standing
Where
I’m Standin
It’s a Sunday night
You,
me, and some beers
Talking about this crazy friendship we’ve had for years
On a cold night at this corner bar in North Carolina
You screamed and felt connected to me
My heart roared like Jamie says
Something inside me caused a revolution inside you
And something inside you shifted where I’m standin
Chorus:
Just staring at my feet trying to figure out where I stand
Just wanna open up and scream here I am
Come in and catch my voice if you can
Catch me if you can
Driving home talking bar codes and dreams again
I’m talking your ear off and your listening to the stereo
I shared how I always wished I was a bad-ass
You turned to me and said you know Sarah you got nothing to hide girl
You always could see through me
Chorus
Its 2 a.m. just me and a beer
And all those dreams and thoughts I never let you see
Like how I’m always falling in love with women
And how crazy it is this mans love sustains me
My heart and soul, girl
Chorus
Sleepwalker
Hey now I’m with my buddies
We
have a tacit understanding
When things look down for us
We find solace in our music
What a day for a picnic
Resting by a placid stream
We try to get our ZZZZ and I wish some peaceful dreams
Cause god knows we need umAnd what do you dream
Tell me girl what do you dream at night
Chorus:
Dream of my past life back in Allentown
And how much distance there is between then and now
Wild and crazy we were invincible and loud
Thought the word revolved around that little town
Never hit the ground when your dreaming
Never die when your dreaming
They say to never wake a sleepwalker
And I say never wake me, while I’m dreaming
And what do you dream
Tell me girl what do you dream at night
Chorus
Girl I still sometimes wonder where you are
And what’s happen to all that distance from here to there
And then to now
Do you still dream of your past life in Allentown
Do you still hold it close from then to now and here to there
And back again, back again
India
Can’t shake this need for travel
And
all the perspective and the time for change it gives
So I close my eyes and let my mind go wondering
And I’m right back in this middle of impossibility
We are right here in this middle of impossibility
I am right now in this middle of impossibility
Chorus:
So I’m left humbled by this land and the life I lived
So distant, so real, with only the fading thunder
To draw me near
Thought I was invincible till I met me in a foreign land
There I wrapped myself in fear and waited for this storm to end
Got wrapped up in life far away from home
And let my heart roam free from the one place it felt safe and warm
Chorus
I try to explain this place to myself everyday
And I break it down piece by piece but its still so unrecognizable
Wrap my mind around everything that draws me in
And I am still left overwhelmed by this place that we call India
And I am overwhelmed by this place that I call India
And I am overwhelmed by this place that we call India
Chorus
Oil
in Water
This journey began about four years
ago
When
we played in the moonlight and watched the sun rise
You said I can’t stop this feeling of love
Said I’m falling into you
And I keep on falling all over again
I keep on falling all over again
I keep on falling all over again
Each time I’m held in your arms
Chorus:
You crept in like thunder on a hot summer night
Back to remind me what I left behind
Each time a reminder of things here inside me
That searching for wholeness that calls out your name
Lying beneath this desert sky surrounded by a dome of starlight
Drifting again back together as one
While separately searching for a life of our own
You can’t fall off of a mountain you said
You can’t fall off of a mountain you said
You can’t fall off of a mountain you said
No matter how fast you run
Chorus
Your hands show your spirit so simple and true
They are the essence of everything you
A simple man with a loving heart
A doer a seeker a lover of life
A doer a seeker a lover of life
A doer a seeker a lover of life
A doer a seeker a lover of mine.
Thank
You
I don’t know how to repay you
For
all you’ve done for me
You found that light inside me
And taught me to let it shine
And when that light would flicker and fade
You gave it the spark to glow and grow
Chorus:
Thank you for
Being that ray of sunlight
When my storm cloud gets too gray
Listening to my heart trying to discover what its trying to say
Because of you I think I’ll be all right
Because you give me the strength to fight
Wisdom it breeds peace
And peace it breeds love
Love it breeds hope
And Hope it lives in you and you pass it on
Chorus
You know you changed my life
Taught me to love myself
Gave me my own set of wings then taught me how to fly
So I could fly away
Change
48 hours to go till this madman busts
into your homes
Perched
on this edge of terror
Brought on my his mission to search and destroy
Not hearing, not hearing
We don’t want your blood for oil
Such a strange time to feel so alive
When I know so many will die
So I’m holding them, I’m bracing
Constantly coming together, Holding on to each other
So as not to fall, so as not to fall, apart
Our shared breath opens me up
And I discover my voice in the silence again
Somewhere in between rediscovering my song
And finding my passion through your camera’s eye
My rage and my love came together as one and when together
People change, life changes, I changed, yeah
Sitting on the shores of this river
Checkin the waters once in a while
Till you came along and your faith in my song
Shoved me right into the river of my dreams rushing by
Oh to be the river
But not be swept away by all the fear in its wake
To stop this white-knuckle grip I got on life
And hear…just this just now
