FINER LINES FOR YOU 

What if it all leads back to you
After years of knowing what I thought I knew
To my heart I’ve been true 
All my leaving and my coming back too

If I serve a high high truth
If I’ve learned from decades of being a fool
It’s that I’ll walk finer lines for you
I’ll walk finer lines for you

And what if god won’t tell me how it ends
And the stars, they won’t tell me when 
What if it’s not even up to the wind
And it’s all in my hands
To act or not to act
Again and again
Again and again 
The lines are getting thin

When I don’t know what to choose
And the universe won’t tell me what to do
Doesn’t it always lead right back to you
Always leaving and coming back to you

And I serve a high high truth
I have learned from decades of being a fool
It’s that I’ll walk finer lines for you
I’ll walk finer lines for you

 © Chelsea Coleman 2018

Finer Lines For You

Let My Heart be Broken 

Let my heart be broken
By all the love 
That wants to break free
Let no  stream  be damned up 
By the locks within me 

Falling like a river
On its way out to the sea
Finding all the cracked open stones
That make a way for me

And let my heart be broken
For all the walls between you and me
Let no chance be squandered
To set each other free

Flowing like a river 
On its way out to the sea
Carving out the valleys
Where I can rest with thee
Carving out the valleys
Where I can rest with thee

Let my heart be broken
By all the love 
That wants to break free
Let no  stream  be damned up 
By the locks within me

Let My Heart Be Broken

Manzanita

CAMELOT

No one’s gonna build me a great house down by the riverside
All my life I knew that, and I thought I wouldn’t mind
I thought I was the one forsaking the story by choice 

Jesus I don’t 
hear your voice in my head
I am jaded
There’s no olive branch in the beak 
of my long suffering 

Camelot,
It was not
what they promised me

They say everything will be okay in the end
If it’s not okay, then it’s not the end
Tell that to the Palestinians
And mothers of children lost to gun violence 
Was it okay for them?

Mary I won’t 
Pretend I believe
But I’m asking 
For an olive branch in the beak
Of our long suffering

Camelot,
it was not
what they promised me
Camelot,
it was not
What they promised me

Camelot

PLATES

I unceremoniously left the plates on the side of the street 
My parents wedding plates they let me keep 
Those were the ones that you threw at me
When I was twenty-three 

I had a fantasy of breaking them in some cathartic way
While I am young and brave
To even out all of the times
I have behaved 

But I’ve been lying
All I’ve got left is crying 
For the ways we’ll never change 
For the time forgiveness takes

I held on for ten years 
Turning plates into symbols of my grace 
How I’d weathered so much change 
Just like the five plates that did not break

I had imagined
I could go back in time and know my strength
Right the wrongs that were hurled
Stand up for that girl
And never be afraid 

But I’ve been lying
All I’ve got left is crying 
For the ways we’ll never change 
For the time forgiveness takes
For the patterns we won’t break
For the generations healing takes
For the time forgiveness takes
For the time forgiveness takes

Plates

The Great Mother

All The Right Ways

Now We Know the Dark

Oklahoma grown singing-songwriting powerhouse, Chelsea Coleman, creates sanctuaries out of songs, wherein her audience is moved, humbled, and exalted. A courageous and vulnerable storyteller, she invites you to endure open heart surgery, skillfully mending your heartache with strands of golden thread. Each listener leaves more integrally woven in to the tapestry of humanity. 

Chelsea Coleman has released two solo EPs: "Lullabies and Leavin' Songs", recorded in Tulsa, OK in 2010; and "Until We Can Rest" recorded all over California in 2011.  Chelsea and fellow SF Bay Area songstress, Madeline Tasquin, crafted a  delightful album of holiday music in 2012 entitled "The Merry Innocents".  In 2014 she released a full length album with songwriter, instrumentalist, and vocalist, Graham Patzner, as a part of their duo called The Gospel Flats.  

Chelsea is always writing many more songs than she can keep up with, and her performances are filled will gems you have never heard, and might have to bribe her to ever hear again.  Her concerts are one-of-a-kind experiences that cannot be repeated.

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