ITUNES: https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/alone-on-the-world-stage/id962510798

BANDCAMP: https://cameronblake.bandcamp.com/album/alone-on-the-world-stage

WEBSITE: http://www.cameronblakemusic.com

This one’s for the broken hearted few
Like Melinda who forgot how to refuse
The offer of a twin bed in a hotel room
Where the curtains float like ghosts in front of you

This one’s for the butcher on the row
Who always wipes his chop board twice as slow
When the angel with the pipe and the high cheekbones  
Presses her face against the glass of his shop window  

This one’s for the felon who was free
Until he dropped the bag when he was 17
Before a Detroit city police near the Packard building
And tried to hop the fence that sent him to his knees

In all the storefront churches hear them liftin’ up your name
Drive the Greyhound to St. Ignace and get the hell out of my veins

Oh, will your lover come home?
Will your lover ever need you?
Oh, will your lover come home?
Will your lover ever need you again?

This one’s written on the walls of fragile souls 
Where years are soaked to the bottom of the pillows
Lying on the locker floor drippin’ cold      
Melinda’s singing softly to her plastic comb

This one’s for the lion in the round
Cornered in this circus of a town
People hold up signs to try to shut you down
But the bones are buried six feet underground

Oh, will your lover come home? 
Will your lover ever need you?
Oh, will your lover come home?
Will your lover ever need you again?

There are many out here among us 
In the city of October 
Where the auto plants sit heavy in the rain

There are many out here among us
Railroad ties and engines 
Aged like rusted out reminders of the Corktown trains 

In all the storefront churches hear them liftin’ up your name
Drive the Greyhound to St. Ignace and kick the hell out of my veins

Oh, will your lover come home?
Will your lover ever need you?
Oh, will your lover come home?
Will your lover ever need you again?


Detroit

Kabuki Theatre

Sandtown

Moonlight On A String

Old Red Barn

Tiananmen Square

Queen Bee

Fool's Gold

The Only Diamond

Monterey Bay

From the album Fear Not (Available November 17)

Digital: smarturl.it/CameronBlakeFearNot
Physical: http://www.storenvy.com/products/20591042-fear-not-album-pre-order

LYRICS:
The breakroom’s finally empty
Put your feet up and get some rest
Let your hair down slow and gently
Feel it fall upon your chest
For you’ve tried on every uniform
For the one that fits the best
And you don’t recognize yourself at all

You don’t know how to cry yourself to sleep my love
You don’t know how to stand when you are weak
And you can’t pretend the loneliness is gone
So you take a seat beneath your wailing wall

Everybody seems so happy
And I hope that it is true
‘Cause when the world starts lookin’ ugly
I’ll need a different point of view
My daughter’s on my shoulders
I’ve got so much more to lose
So I keep workin’ hard so I don’t drop the ball

I don’t know how to cry myself to sleep my love
I don’t know how to stand when I am weak
And I take no comfort in this place at all
So I take a seat beneath my wailing wall

Wailing wall
Wailing wall
Where God and man can speak about the weight of it all
Brick by brick and stone by stone
You build your private altars
When you can’t seem to make it on your own

I don’t know how to call another’s bluff my love
I don’t know how to play when it gets rough
And I can’t pretend the loneliness is gone
So I take a seat beneath my wailing wall

Wailing wall
Wailing wall
Where God and man can speak about the weight of it all
Brick by brick and stone by stone
You build your private altars
When you can’t seem to make it on your own

Zachary Kolkman: piano
Nick Bracewell: drums
Gene Hahn and Christopher Martin: violins
Barbara Corbato: viola
Jeremy Crosmer and Jill Collier Warne: cellos
Gerald Torres: upright bass
Rockford High School Chamber Singers
String arrangement by Zachary Kolkman
Choral arrangement by Jennifer Fortosis

Fear Not

Wailing Wall

From the upcoming album Fear Not (Available November 17)

Music Video: https://youtu.be/XwEYXORtSOg
Digital: http://smarturl.it/CameronBlakeFearNot
Physical: http://www.storenvy.com/products/20591042-fear-not-album-pre-order

Lyrics:
Oh the stars they look like pinholes in the sky
Threading light into the black veil of the night			
Where Orion kneels on bended knee and the Magi feel eternity
When the withered hand and the clenching teeth are opened

We are broken for the need of light to shine  
We are broken for that sacred gift inside 
We are broken for the honeymoon   
Broken for the inner room     
We are broken for that open wound to bind

Fear not
Fear not
Fear not
For I am with thee

Fear not
Fear not
Fear not
For I am with thee and you are mine

Did you see me when I hid behind my shame?
Did you see me when the garden was inflamed?
Did you see me slipping through your hands?
Did you see me leave the promise land?
Did you see me when it got carried away?

You were brave today to walk out in your skin
You were brave today to find the strength within
You were brave to do the askin’
You were brave to turn your mask in
You were brave to stay and take it on the chin

It is not without some pain that we are born
It is not without some cracks that we are torn
It is not without some feeling 
It is not without some healing
It is not without some beauty we’re adored

Fear not (you are opened for the need of light to shine) 
Fear not  
Fear not  (you are opened for the sacred gift inside)
For I am with thee

Fear not (you are opened for the honeymoon)   
Fear not (opened for the inner room)   
Fear not (you are opened for that open wound to bind)
For I am with thee and you are mine

www.cameronblakemusic.com

Cameron Blake: piano
Gene Hahn and Christopher Martin: violins
Barbara Corbato: viola
Jeremy Crosmer: cello
Gerald Torres: upright bass
Rockford High School Chamber Singers
String arrangement by Zachary Kolkman
Choral arrangement by Jennifer Fortosis

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