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What if the Girl?
03:01
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What if the girl I’m looking for’s not looking for someone like me.
I could pretend to be the kind of person she’d want me to be.
Wouldn’t take long ‘til she’d discover I don’t deserve to be her lover.
Here’s hoping love is blind and somehow she won’t see.
What if the girl’s not looking for someone like me?
I’ve been doing some thinking ‘bout where my life is bound.
Wondering what kind of woman could ever make me settle down.
Would she have a face like an angel that could make my heart sing?
I wanna believe she’s out there somewhere, but there’s just one thing.
(chorus)
Always wanted a woman who’d be patient and kind.
And I wanna be the only man that’s on her mind.
Looking for a girl that any man could want,
But that’s where my troubles start.
What makes me think that I could ever win her heart?
‘Cause when I look into the mirror I’m not proud of what I see.
There’s a man who only thinks about himself staring at me.
I want her to believe the best about me, but I know I’ll let her down.
She doesn’t need to have someone like me around...
Last Chorus
So I’m gonna be the kind of guy a girl like her’s been looking for.
May take some time but I know who I am
Was meant for something more.
One day perhaps we’ll both discover
How we were meant for one another.
‘Til then I’ll try to be the man that I should be
And hope that the man that she’s been looking for is me.
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Come On and Dance
03:03
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Round and round the circle goes.
Where it stops nobody knows.
Every step could bring us closer to romance.
Come on and dance.
Tried to get my courage up to talk with you,
But I was sure you’d turn and walk away.
All at once, you came to me
And asked me what my name might be.
That’s when I heard the band begin to play.
‘Said will you dance?
Chorus
Come on and dance, take a chance.
We can’t miss this fine occasion.
Times like this may never come again.
Round and round the circle goes.
Where it stops nobody knows.
Every step could bring us closer to romance.
Come on and dance.
Must have been half crazy thinking I could dance.
There I was with you out on the floor,
Struggling to find the beat
And trying to tame my two left feet
And making moves that I ain’t seen before.
But still we danced!
(chorus)
Sure good things come for those who wait...
But I’m not one to hesitate.
Might not ever be a second chance!
(chorus)
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Kissing You
03:25
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I’ve only got a minute but I want all day.
Ain’t no use in hiding that I’d rather stay.
I should leave for work, but I just might be late.
Kissing you can make it hard to concentrate.
Chorus
(Kissing you.) It’s like the pull of gravity.
(Yes, it’s true.) Your love has got a hold on me.
(What to do?) I fell for you and sealed my fate.
Kissing you can make it hard to concentrate.
Some magic spell can let you take a full-grown man,
wrap him ‘round your finger like your wedding band.
Probably should complain, but I’m in such a state.
Kissing you can make it hard to concentrate.
(chorus)
I watch myself pick up the phone and start to dial.
I try to stop myself, but then I see your smile.
“Won’t be in today boss, I’m not feeling great.
Hopefully tomorrow I can concentrate.”
(chorus)
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4. |
I Think About You
03:56
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As the night slips into dawn,
I watch another day begin
And think about you.
All the colors come to life.
I feel the warmth upon my skin
And think about you.
Chorus
I’m amazed by all this beauty,
But the greatest mystery
Is the wonder that in all the world
You’d love someone like me.
I think about you.
When I hold a newborn baby
Or smell flowers in the spring,
I think about you.
When I see the snow in winter
Or hear songbirds as they sing,
I think about you.
(chorus)
As the red and yellow sunset
Melts to evening blues and grays,
I think about you.
In the stillness of this starry night,
I can almost hear you say...
(chorus)
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You Wouldn't Know Love
02:40
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I talk of love, but you won’t listen,
Like you can’t hear what I say.
If only you knew what you were missing,
You wouldn’t turn love away.
Chorus
But you wouldn’t know love if it fell from the skies.
You can’t see the stars for the tears in your eyes.
You want something real but you settle for lies. ‘
Cause you wouldn’t know love,
No you wouldn’t know love
If it fell from the skies.
Never alone but always lonely.
Still you pretend not to care.
Behind the hurt there is a longing
To know that somebody’s there.
(chorus)
Lips parched for love you hope will satisfy.
You dig for water but the well is dry.
No amount of romance gonna ease the pain.
Your heart needs real love like the ground needs rain.
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Wanting Me
03:55
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Don’t ever think I’d go away.
I promise you I’m here to stay.
But I need room if I’m to grow
to be someone, to be someone you’d want to know.
Chorus
I can’t be the things you want unless you’re wanting me.
Please don’t try to change me into what you’d hope’d I’d be.
The best that I can do is to be myself for you.
But I can’t be the things you want unless you’re wanting me.
Your disappointment I can feel.
I’m made of flesh, not wood or steel.
Now here we are just you and me.
Release the chains, release the chains love. Set me free.
(chorus)
I’ll never meet your expectations,
Satisfy your stipulations.
They’re like a plumb-line on the wall.
Will I stand or will I fall?
(chorus)
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7. |
I Remember
04:52
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Photographs in a picture book.
I can’t believe how young we look.
Do you remember? I remember.
The vows we took so long ago
Have brought us to the love we finally know.
And I remember.
And everything about the past reminds me that true love will last.
I remember.
On every page of history
Are those who died to make men free.
I remember. I remember.
I touch a name engraved in stone.
A soldier never counts his life his own.
And I remember.
The only man who dies in vain is one who lives for his own gain.
I remember.
Every day we live tomorrow’s past.
What of all we do and say will last?
Promises remembered. Keeping to your word.
Actions speaking loudly when no voice is heard.
A table set with only bread and wine.
A stark reminder that the debt He paid was mine.
And so I remember.
He taught me how to live without regret.
To live each day for what I give, not what I get.
And I’ll try to remember.
I give what I can’t keep, it’s mine to choose,
To gain what I can never lose.
I give what I can’t keep, it’s mine to choose,
To gain what I can never lose.
I remember...
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At water’s edge I’ll watch the current carry life away:
The leaves of golden autumn that have nothing left to say.
The barren branches floating that have fallen from their heights Surrender to the river’s flow. They’ll soon be out of sight.
Gentle waters softly flowing,
Will you ease my troubled mind.
Take away all of my burdens,
Leaving none of them behind.
In the stillness I hear whispers as the stream and bank collide.
She wins the weak one over as the earth begins to slide
until at last the soil gives way - a splash made by a stone -
and ripples run to tell the tale of one more finally home.
Gentle waters softly flowing,
Will you ease my troubled mind.
Take away all of my burdens,
Leaving none of them behind.
I will rest down by the water where the river meets the sea.
There’s a ship that sails tomorrow and I know there’s room for me.
When I reach my destination, there I’ll wait for you each day.
At the water’s edge you’ll find me. Let the current show the way.
Gentle waters softly flowing,
Will you ease my troubled mind.
Take away all of my burdens,
Leaving none of them behind.
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I have spoken words in anger that should never have been said.
If my mouth had been a pistol, folks around me’d all be dead.
But those days are gone forever ‘cause I’m giving up my pride.
Goin’ down into the river, comin’ up the other side.
Chorus
Goin’ down into the river where a soul can start again.
Let me feel the water wash away the man that I have been.
Got a need as deep as oceans, and it will not be denied.
Goin’ down into the river, comin’ up the other side.
Well, my mind has been a dark place full of thoughts best left unseen.
Prob’ly put me in the jailhouse if they’d shown them on a screen.
Gonna take more than what I can do to clean the mess I hide.
Goin’ down into the river comin’ up the other side.
(chorus)
I could tell you I’m unselfish, but it’s not polite to lie.
My whole life has been a monument to me, myself and I.
Time to change my way of livin’ at the waters deep and wide.
Goin’ down into the river, comin’ up the other side.
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At water’s edge I’ll watch the current carry life away:
The leaves of golden autumn that have nothing left to say.
The barren branches floating that have fallen from their heights Surrender to the river’s flow. They’ll soon be out of sight.
Gentle waters softly flowing,
Will you ease my troubled mind.
Take away all of my burdens,
Leaving none of them behind.
In the stillness I hear whispers as the stream and bank collide.
She wins the weak one over as the earth begins to slide
until at last the soil gives way - a splash made by a stone -
and ripples run to tell the tale of one more finally home.
Gentle waters softly flowing,
Will you ease my troubled mind.
Take away all of my burdens,
Leaving none of them behind.
I will rest down by the water where the river meets the sea.
There’s a ship that sails tomorrow and I know there’s room for me.
When I reach my destination, there I’ll wait for you each day.
At the water’s edge you’ll find me. Let the current show the way.
Gentle waters softly flowing,
Will you ease my troubled mind.
Take away all of my burdens,
Leaving none of them behind.
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Durand Robinson Birmingham, Alabama
Telling stories is as natural as breathing. Life is full of them. I go by Durand instead of Noel because of a story. I've
moved more than twenty times. There are lots of stories behind that. I've lived around the world, learning stories.
Songwriting isn’t a skill that’s separated from life. Music comes from living and observing life around me. That’s why I keep a blog… breadcrumbs for my memory.
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