(What Is) A Vote of Confidence? 
Copyright C. Aiken and Gitarretaga Shorndorf, 
Germany Songwriting Class of '07
lyrics
What is, what it is, what is? 
Tell me what is… 
A vote of confidence 
vote of confidence 
vote of confidence 

It isn't ignorance, isn't impotence 
nor is it prudence 
We're still on the road 
we're still on the fence 
Blind trust, it isn't blind trust 

What is, what it is, what is? 
Tell me what is… 
A vote of confidence 
vote of confidence 
vote of confidence 

It isn't tainted by ambivalence 
it isn't under the influence 
Suspicion steals away our innocence 
So take care, beware 
of the 'trust me' calls from everywhere 

What is, what it is, what is? 
Tell me what is… 
A vote of confidence 
vote of confidence 
vote of confidence 

Where I can stand tall and strong 
where I know where I belong 
Cast that vote, sleep at night 
a vote of confidence will feel alright 

What is, what it is, what is? 
Tell me what is… 
A vote of confidence 
vote of confidence 
vote of confidence!

Recorded Live at Eddie's Attic, Decatur, GA
Shalom Aberle - Engineer Live Mix
Rich L'Hommedieu - Final Mix and Mastering
Photo Credits - Rhiannon Bradley, Ingrid Lyndon 
c. and p. 2010 Glutton for PuBlishment
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released 30 May 2010
Caroline Aiken: 6/12 String Acoustic Guitars, Piano, Vocal
Charlie Wooton: Bass, Arrangement, Band Leader
Yonrico Scott: Drums, Percussion
Tomi Martin: Electric Guitar

Vote of Confidence

Recorded Live at Eddie's Attic, Decatur, GA
Shalom Aberle - Engineer Live Mix
Rich L'Hommedieu - Final Mix and Mastering
Photo Credits - Rhiannon Bradley, Ingrid Lyndon 
c. and p. 2010 Glutton for PuBlishment
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released 30 May 2010
Caroline Aiken: 6/12 String Acoustic Guitars, Piano, Vocal
Charlie Wooton: Bass, Arrangement, Band Leader
Yonrico Scott: Drums, Percussion
Tomi Martin: Electric Guitar

Popcorn Sonata

Hello Cruel World 
c. C. Aiken 2010
lyrics
Hello cruel world 
I'm not your average lemming 
and I know when we're near the edge 
That mental pit of madness 
the pivotal ledge 

When we're filled with emotion 
over some pie in the sky 
When the real deal 
is right here, right now 

Hello cruel world 

Where omission's the accepted sin 
to overlook ill deed spells disaster 
"The whole world's on a paperchase to heaven" 
she says in laughter 

When we're filled with emotion 
over some pie in the sky 
When the real deal 
is right here, right now 

Hello cruel world

Recorded Live at Eddie's Attic, Decatur, GA
Shalom Aberle - Engineer Live Mix
Rich L'Hommedieu - Final Mix and Mastering
Photo Credits - Rhiannon Bradley, Ingrid Lyndon 
c. and p. 2010 Glutton for PuBlishment
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released 30 May 2010
Caroline Aiken: 6/12 String Acoustic Guitars, Piano, Vocal
Charlie Wooton: Bass, Arrangement, Band Leader
Yonrico Scott: Drums, Percussion
Tomi Martin: Electric Guitar

Hello Cruel World

Tower of Babel 
c. C. Aiken 2010
lyrics
We never left, we never learned 
a universal language 
before the code book burned 

I see lips move, but nothing is said 
'cept politics mean money mean power 
so say the talking heads 

All we have is gossip of the ages 
history and it's rewritten pages 
are we safe in our mental cages? 

On the tower of Babel 
who wants to know 
how high we built this tower 
and how far down left to go 

Keep me in the dark, I wanna stay asleep 
Silence is golden and talk is cheap 

How many masters, how many lives 
does it take to feed the monster 
before it's satisfied? 

Listen can't you hear the motor humming 
Yea, the countdown is up and running 
chained to the machine we're so so stunning 

On the tower of Babel 
who wants to know 
how high we built this tower 
and how far down left to go
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Recorded Live at Eddie's Attic, Decatur, GA 
Shalom Aberle - Engineer Live Mix 
Rich L'Hommedieu - Final Mix and Mastering 
Photo Credits - Rhiannon Bradley, Ingrid Lyndon 

c. and p. 2010 Glutton for PuBlishment 
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released 30 May 2010 
Caroline Aiken: 6/12 String Acoustic Guitars, Piano, Vocal 
Charlie Wooton: Bass, Arrangement, Band Leader 
Yonrico Scott: Drums, Percussion 
Tomi Martin: Electric Guitar

Tower of Babel

Helium Balloons 
c. C. Aiken 2002
lyrics
To leave this place head up and out 
tethered to the wind, nothing but clouds 
reach the upper sphere 
you burst and you're freer 
than we are down here on Earth 

Every time my heart calls out your name 
it knows to give you back from whence you came 
back into the blue, I'm letting you go 
Helium balloons, somehow they know 

Reach the upper sphere 
you burst and you're freer 
than we are down here on Earth 

Back into the blue, I'm letting you go 
Helium Balloons, somehow they know
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Recorded Live at Eddie's Attic, Decatur, GA
Shalom Aberle - Engineer Live Mix
Rich L'Hommedieu - Final Mix and Mastering
Photo Credits - Rhiannon Bradley, Ingrid Lyndon 
c. and p. 2010 Glutton for PuBlishment
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released 30 May 2010
Caroline Aiken: 6/12 String Acoustic Guitars, Piano, Vocal
Charlie Wooton: Bass, Arrangement, Band Leader
Yonrico Scott: Drums, Percussion
Tomi Martin: Electric Guitar

Helium Balloons

Everything Can Change 
lyrics c. S. Page Dukes 1998 
music c. C. Aiken 2010
lyrics
At one point in life 
I knew what everything was all about 
I didn't worry 'bout the future 
I had it all planned out 
But when I stopped to realize 
That something felt quite strange 
Suddenly I turned around 
And everything had changed 

My here was there 
My which was where 
and I couldn't recognize 
the things I saw as I dropped my jaw 
at what lay before my eyes 

All the things I'd so carefully arranged 
had somehow gotten misplaced 
it was all twisted and deranged 
and laughing in my face 
'Cause everything had changed 

I pushed it aside, started anew 
from my past my future grew 
I gave it strength and from there it flew 
out of the clouds, the sun shown through 

So if you think you've got it planned 
know that life isn't fair 
And when you suddenly turn around 
be ready for what's there 
'cause everything can change 
Everything had changed 
Everything can change 

Lyrics from "Suddenly I Turned Around and Everything had Changed" 
S. Page Dukes 
1998 Teacher's National PTA Association 
3rd Place nationally and 1st Place, Georgia.

Recorded Live at Eddie's Attic, Decatur, GA 
Shalom Aberle - Engineer Live Mix 
Rich L'Hommedieu - Final Mix and Mastering 
Photo Credits - Rhiannon Bradley, Ingrid Lyndon 

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released 30 May 2010 
Caroline Aiken: 6/12 String Acoustic Guitars, Piano, Vocal 
Charlie Wooton: Bass, Arrangement, Band Leader 
Yonrico Scott: Drums, Percussion 
Tomi Martin: Electric Guitar
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Everything Can Change

Recorded Live at Eddie's Attic, Decatur, GA 
Shalom Aberle - Engineer Live Mix 
Rich L'Hommedieu - Final Mix and Mastering 
Photo Credits - Rhiannon Bradley, Ingrid Lyndon 

Copper John 
c. 2010 C. Aiken
lyrics
Head down, he didn't see me stop 
to see his copper laid out on the sidewalk shop 
I pointed and said, "How much for that one?" 
He saw my guitar and said, "Half price for a song." 

One song turned to into four or five 
watching this genius work 
said he was a squatter, staying where he could 
Said they taught him how to steal 
how to lie in his younger days 

Then he figured out how to make 
something outta nothing 
with something they just throw away 

I learned a lesson, I got a song 
from the street scholar handy crafter 
Copper John 

He shoulda asked fifty, thought he'd ask thirty 
said it was twenty and give it to me for ten and a song 
Everyone that passed him knew his name and asked him, 
"Hey, John, how's it going?" 

I learned a lesson, I got a song 
from the street scholar handy crafter 
Copper John 

I see him on the street from time to time 
Buy his handworked copper with an honorable shine 
A man hard-pressed to lose still found 
a way to stand his ground 

I learned a lesson, I got a song 
from the street scholar handy crafter 
Copper John
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released 30 May 2010 
Caroline Aiken: 6/12 String Acoustic Guitars, Piano, Vocal 
Charlie Wooton: Bass, Arrangement, Band Leader 
Yonrico Scott: Drums, Percussion 
Tomi Martin: Electric Guitar

Copper John

Recorded Live at Eddie's Attic, Decatur, GA 
Shalom Aberle - Engineer Live Mix 
Rich L'Hommedieu - Final Mix and Mastering 
Photo Credits - Rhiannon Bradley, Ingrid Lyndon 

Between Hello and Goodbye 
c. 2010 C. Aiken, Moses Mo
lyrics
When you want someone you want them to be 
Just like you want them to be, uh huh 
But when you need someone, you'll take them 
Just like they are, hey yea 

Aw, it's a give thing 
If you can learn to live with that 
Yea, you'll know it, yes you will 
and if it's love you gain 
you got to learn to give it back 
Don't step on a crack 
don't expect your money back 

Desire follows need on a trip that never ends, 
Plan and you'll see 

Between Hello and Goodbye 
there's a lot of tears 
There's a whole lot a love 
between hello and goodbye 
There's a lot of tears 
There's a whole lot of love 

When you try too hard it might be 
bad as not trying enough, uh huh 
Keeping up your guard 
trying to roll with the punches 

It's a live thing 
if you can learn to give to that 
Yeah, you'll know it, yes you will 
and if it's love you gain 
you got to learn to give it back 
don't step on a crack 
don't expect your money back 

Desire follows need 
on a trip that never ends 
Plant and you'll seed 

Between hello and goodbye 
there's a lot of tears 
there's a whole lot a love.

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released 30 May 2010 
Caroline Aiken: 6/12 String Acoustic Guitars, Piano, Vocal 
Charlie Wooton: Bass, Arrangement, Band Leader 
Yonrico Scott: Drums, Percussion 
Tomi Martin: Electric Guitar

Between Hello and Goodbye

Recorded Live at Eddie's Attic, Decatur, GA 
Shalom Aberle - Engineer Live Mix 
Rich L'Hommedieu - Final Mix and Mastering 
Photo Credits - Rhiannon Bradley, Ingrid Lyndon 

c. 2010 C. Aiken and Moses Mo
lyrics
Who can admit to their thoughts and their feelings 
and not fade away? 
24 hours of hiding the truth 
is one wasted day - yeah 

Day by day it goes 
Do, do we ever know? 
Don't want to be losing! Oh no no no! 

And this cold steel under my fingers 
how did we ever get this far? 
Ring like a bell, telling me that 
the minutes are wasting 
is the bitter we are tasting 

Day by day it goes 
Do, do we ever know? 
Don't want to be losing time 
Don't want to be losing time 
Don't want to be losing time 
Oh no no no! 

Who can admit to the tick of the clock 
it never stops oh no 
It's time to begin if you're willing my friend 
don't waste your time no more! 

Day by day it goes 
Do, do we ever know? 
Don't want to be losing time 
Don't want to be losing time 
Don't want to be losing time 
Oh no no no!
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Caroline Aiken: 6/12 String Acoustic Guitars, Piano, Vocal 
Charlie Wooton: Bass, Arrangement, Band Leader 
Yonrico Scott: Drums, Percussion 
Tomi Martin: Electric Guitar

Day by Day

Recorded Live at Eddie's Attic, Decatur, GA 
Shalom Aberle - Engineer Live Mix 
Rich L'Hommedieu - Final Mix and Mastering 
Photo Credits - Rhiannon Bradley, Ingrid Lyndon 

From Welcome Home, released 30 May 2010

c. and p. 2010 Glutton for PuBlishment 
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Charlie Wooton: Bass, Arrangement, Band Leader 
Yonrico Scott: Drums, Percussion 
Tomi Martin: Electric Guitar

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