Been Lonely
Music/Lyrics by: Crystal Dawn Ⓒ2012/2020
If you're out there, 
I need your fingers fumblin' through my hair,
need you to light a fire in me with your stare, 
a gaze that's just for me

I've been lonely for too long, 
forgive me for feelin' sorry for myself
I've been lonely for so long, 
Can you hear me? 
Just need you near me

I've been lost dear, 
lost inside of aching endlessly,
lost forgotten seed that's planted down so deep,
rainwater cannot reach

I've been longing for your song, 
that sweet voice to chase this bitterness away
I've been let down, done so wrong- Can you feel me?
Need you to heal me.

I've been lonesome for so long, 
forgive me for feelin' sorry for myself
Your soul against mine is so warm 
Can you feel me?
Just need you near me.

Been Lonely

Not A Day

Better Listen to what I say
Might happen to you one day
Better listen to all I say
For that man might happen to you one day
Better listen to all I say It might happen to you
Now listen to what I say for that man I got happen to you one day

I’m singing…

Lord not a day go by
When that man ain’t on my mind
Lord not a day go by
when that man ain’t on mind
Lord not a day go by
When that man ain’t on my mind
Lord not a day go by
when that man he just ain’t on my mind

I’m singing

He was the only man (x7)

from Of Emotion, released June 13, 2022
Written and performed by Crystal Dawn
©1998/2022
all rights reserved

Of Emotion

Not A Day

Simple

Tell me hey can you remember when
Things were simple
Can’t say that I really wasn’t too aware
Of falling in love with

Blue skies in my automobile
The sky above me opening
Now I have to try so hard
to recognize these simple things

Sometimes I think I’m slipping over these edges
Still I’m pretty sure I’ve always been aware
I’ll always wonder if our lives are just some pages
Written down in a book I cant look
See it passing you

I want to say that I remember when
Time wasn’t something
that kept me bound and gagged
Won’t live my life living up to your standards
Please say that you remember

Please say that you remember when
Please say that you remember when
Please say that you remember me
Someday I’ll make myself remember how
To fall in love with

Airplanes and someone I’ll never fail to mention
The road beneath us crumbling
Now I have to try so hard to recognize these simple
Blue skies in my automobile
The road beneath us crumbling
Now I have to try so hard
To recognize these simple things
These simple things
These simple things
These simple things
These simple things

from Of Emotion, released June 13, 2022
Written and performed by Crystal Dawn
©1998/2022
all rights reserved

Simple

Drive

Black wheels on blacker pavement
Some people understand it
Frustrated with just getting by
There’s nothin better than
Better than a drive

When are we goin to get there?
In this car I don’t care
Just goin to keep on keep on driving
Yes
Behind the wheel
Behind the wheel
I’ll find it

Drive (x6)
Drive, now

There’s nothin to do in this town
Nowhere to go in this town
I don’t fit in in this town
Maybe I’ll drive
To the next town

Drive

Spend my life searching for answers
Answers are around every corner
Escape is easier to find
When I forget about lookin
Forget lookin
And just drive

Drive (x6)
Drive now

There’s nothin to do in this town
Nowhere to go in this town
I don’t fit in in this town
Maybe I’ll drive

Nothin to do in this town
Nowhere to go
I don’t fit in in this town
Maybe I’ll drive
To the next town
Town
Town no hey

Drive (x4)
Drive now

Black wheels on blacker pavement
Some people understand it
Escape is easier to find
Behind the wheel (x12)

Behind the wheel
Drive (x3)

from Of Emotion, released June 13, 2022
Written and performed by Crystal Dawn
©1998/2022
all rights reserved

Drive

Approach

Approaching you yet you ignore me
Approach myself I scare the shit out of me
Frying an egg I testify I deny I deny
Approaching you I feel the need to explain and complain
So I scare you away away away

Protecting you I’ve sacrificed myself
Protecting me I don’t attempt to
I get wounded again and again
This fattening rain completely sympathizes with my mental planes
Protecting you I would die
So I try and I try
There’s nothin left for me here
There’s nothin left for me here
Ah-

from Of Emotion, released June 13, 2022
Written and performed by Crystal Dawn
©1998/2022
all rights reserved

Approach

Only One

People riding on the tide
Are quickly pulled down by the undertow
Lovers come and lovers go

But even if you had been the only one
Well I’d still be floating on this breeze
No even if you had been the only one
Well you’d understand that I am free

And Some people live their lives tied down
I’d rather keep my roots away from the ground
Lovers come and lovers stay

But Even if you had been the only one
I’d still be building my dreams
No, I’ve worn a sleeve with my heart attached
But I wore it before you were here

And I would swim down to his depth
If he would fly away with me
Cuz lovers come and lovers know

That even if you had been the only one
I’d still be floating on this breeze
I’ve got a life with my name on it
It’s easier said than lived

Even if you had been the
Even if you had been the
Even if you had been the
Even if you had been the
Even if you had been the
Even if you had been the only one
You’d realize that I am me

from Of Emotion, released June 13, 2022
Written and performed by Crystal Dawn
©1998/2022
all rights reserved

Only One

Filter

Please say anything could lift
Off of your lips
And take me willing or not
Up over beyond
This bad star.

Let me drift
Let me hang within the air
Then let me gently down.


Touching is a piece
Of one and another
Briefly making a whole

Touching when we speak
Illuminating emotion like sun’s rays
Filters through the shade


Words just wouldn’t be the same
If they came and washed away
This defiance defiance of time
I should have been Devine
And if Id only persevered
This whole world could fit in here


Touching is a piece
Of one and another
Briefly making a whole

Touching when we speak
Illuminating emotion like sun’s rays
Filters through the shade

from Of Emotion, released June 13, 2022
Written and performed by Crystal Dawn
©1998/2022
all rights reserved

Filter

Again

Do you come here often now?
Yes, I do.
Have you been here before?
Yes, I have.
And do I? Yes, I do.
Yes, I feel it, too.

It wont help to try to push this away
It’ll end up flooding back again
And if I had it all to d over again

And I wonder what’s the point of these things?
They start off so sharp and they grow so dull.
And I wonder why I ever met you
I know now its just the way these things could have been

It won’t help to try to justify
These things happen to people everywhere all of the time
And if I had it all to do over again
Would I Yes I would Feel it again

Do you get the feeling you’ve been here before?
And Although I’ve just met you I swear I know
All the things that it takes to hurt like this.

It wont help to try to push this away
It’ll end up flooding back again
And if I had it all to do over again
Would I? Yes, I would feel it again.

Ohhh…

Do you come here often now
Yes I do
Have you been here before
Yes I have
And do I yes I do
Yes I feel it, too

from Of Emotion, released June 13, 2022
Written and performed by Crystal Dawn
©1998/2022
all rights reserved

Again

Above

He says what he has to get her going get her goin
She plays the role she has to play without knowing never knowing
Why
Why

But I I think I’m going to fly today today yes yes 
I’m going to pick myself off of the ground
Yes yes I don’t know where Im going to go
Underneath above below
But I Im going to fly away
I’m going to fly yes today

A couple of days a month a year
How long will it go on like this
He whispers hollow words into her ear
Meaningless yes
Why 

I said
I know I’m goin to fly today today yes yes
I’m going to lift myself off of the ground Yes yes 
underneath above below
Thats where you’ll find me that’s where I’m going to go

Cuz I’m going to fly away Im going to fly
I’m goin to fly away
Fly High High

I’m goin to fly no fly no fly away
Fly no fly no fly away
Fly no fly no fly away
Today

from Of Emotion, released June 13, 2022
Written and performed by Crystal Dawn
©1998/2022
all rights reserved

Above

The Way You Say My Name

Whatever happened to Sunday mornin’s big, big breakfast
Walkin the dog in the park
Havin yourself a picnic underneath that blue, blue sky
Those big, white, puffy clouds
That always seem to make the right shapes

The way you say my name sticks on my mind

Whatever happened to
Everybody eatin at the dinner table
Havin themselves a grand conversation
About anything, About everything
About anything significant

The way you say my name sticks on my mind

Whatever happened to
Listening to the radio
Singing along to your favorite song
Singing along now just to sing along
Singin along now just to sing

But the way you say my name sticks on my mind

Whatever happened to
Whatever happened to
The hopeless romantic
You win some you lose some
You win some you lose some
You give a little you borrow
You lead now then follow

But the way you say my name
The way you say it
The way you say my name
The way the way the way now
The way you say my name the way no no no no
The way you say my name
Oh the way you say my name sticks on my mind
My mind

Whatever happened to Sunday mornin’s big, big breakfast


from Of Emotion, released June 13, 2022
Written and performed by Crystal Dawn
©1998/2022
all rights reserved

The Way You Say My Name

Music and lyrics written by Crystal Dawn ©2012 & 2020
all rights reserved

Springtime
It could be something, it could be springtime
it should be the very moment each and every star align
Oh, I'm hoping. This woman needs to be surprised
By love that's honest and real this time
He looks in the mirror, readies his disguise,
Waiting for the dance of fear to make this love a lie
Spare me darlin, I don't need to waste my light
Searchin your shadows where no hope can reside
Could've been somethin'
Could've been springtime
I should have been the only woman that was ever on your mind
Tell me darlin where you gonna find
A heart open and willing to tow the line?
Oh, hell, better luck next time
It could be something, it could be springtime
it should be the very moment each and every star align
I'm still hopin' someday I'm gonna be surprised

Springtime

I make songs out of pieces of things that I mostly find lying on the ground. Music is alchemy. Music is the sound of life.

Crystal Dawn

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