Disillusioned little child
lost the magic of your smile
they'll crush the myths of yesterday 
You'll build a rocket and fly away
In space unlike the sky
there's no gravity if you cry
and the tears don't splash and fade
they just fall and float away

But there are giants in the canyon
watching over you 
as you sleep 
There are giants in the canyon 

dreaming of the things 
that cannot be

Disillusioned little child
they'll burn the fairytales in piles
and the unicorns won't run
into the site of someone's gun
Stay and believe in spite
of the ones who fear the night
where the nymphs in shadows play
to a youth too soon away


But there are giants in the canyon
watching over you 
as you sleep 

There are giants in the canyon 
dreaming of the things 
that cannot be

...dreaming of the things 
that cannot be...

05 Giants In The Canyon

A look at the realities of life and love behind the facades of fairytales.

This Aint A Fairytale

A cover of Sarah Mclachlan’s “Sweet Surrender”

Licensed through Easysong

Sweet Surrender

When we were young
the days stretched on forever. 
We thought the light would always shine.
But I moved away
and out of my car window
I swore we'd get together again sometime. 

But some time goes by 
just like all the time.
Those days that seem the same still slip on by
and someday soon won't be there forever. 
It all goes by 
in the blink of an eye.

After so many years
I saw you just the other day.
You told me that the family was doing fine.
As we spoke I realized 
that I had to go
and I said we ought to get together sometime.

But some time goes by 
just like all the time.
Those days that seem the same still slip on by
and someday soon won't be there forever. 
It all goes by 
in the blink of an eye.

I saw you again
at the church we grew up in
after an hour of waiting in a line.
They had you laid out up front
 in your Sunday best
and I'd said we ought to get together sometime. 

But some time goes by 
just like all the time.
Those days that seem the same still slip on by
and someday soon won't be there forever. 
It all goes by 
in the blink of an eye.
It all goes by in the blink of an eye....

2025 Alexander Overman and Christopher Shawn
Overman

Some Time (with Alex Overman)

I dont know who this is anymore
I dont recognize the eyes 
They are glassy and so far away
Just some lighthouse without the light

She flubs her lines
 while we're talking
She often staggers
as we're walking down the lane 
She's not prepared 
for the scenes that we are living
They must have recast Jane

I can't stand how she's so damn 

broken
I can't work in this empty room
She's crashed more times
than the stunt man
A wilted flower that cannot bloom

She flubs her lines
 while we're talking
She often staggers
as we're walking down the lane 
She's not prepared 
for the scenes that we are living
They must have recast Jane

And when we got these roles
It was all just heart and soul

But someone had to score
and I just don't know her anymore

She flubs her lines
 while we're talking
She often staggers
as we're walking down the lane 
She's not prepared 
for the scenes that we are living
They must have recast Jane

I dont know who this is anymore
I dont know who this is anymore 
They must have recast Jane...


They Recast Jane

I was wrapped round your finger I suppose.
With you there I felt so high
dancing for love in the sky
I never would have thought you’d let me go.
I just didn’t know.

And now these strange winds
have pulled me from your hand.
It was hard for you to hold onto me
with your arms wrapped round another man.
Now I whirl and twirl
out into the endless gray
like a kite torn away.

I was just a plaything I suppose.
Was I just there to pass the time?
Did you not see how high I’d climbed?
The thunderhead in the distance only grows.
I just didn’t know.

And now these strange winds
have pulled me from your hand.
It was hard for you to hold onto me
with your arms wrapped round another man.
Now I whirl and twirl
out into the endless gray
like a kite torn away.

just a speck of red unseen
soon ripped apart by envy green.
no one here to save my heart today
like a kite torn away
like a kite torn away...
 
cso 2023


02 Kite Torn Away

I remember driving home
and leaving you crying.
My car full of cigarette smoke
and the poison from all the lying.
Staring out the window here
a part of me is dying.

And late in the night
while I'm tossing and turning
I swear I hear the sound
of a valentine burning.

Still the years go rolling by
There's no joy since I left you.
All the dreams I held so close
I know now will never come true.

It's my own fault for sorrow.
What a river I wade through..

And late in the night
while I'm tossing and turning
I swear I hear the sound
of a valentine burning.

Burn valentine burn
till this world doesn't turn
Burn valentine Burn
cause I showed no concern

And late in the night
those thoughts keep returning
I swear I hear the sound

of a valentine burning.

Repeat..

Christopher Shawn Overman 


02 Valentine Burning (2021)

Things are getting pretty bad 
in here tonight.
Drunken ideals on rubber wings
won't fly.
I'm so far down the line
so far away.
Maybe I've lost the will to fight
and embraced the gray.

I'm driven
driven to dust, my love.
Was I wrong?
Driven
Driven to dust, my love
then I'm gone.

There's still some fire 
in the furnace of my soul...
or maybe now it's just
an orange glow on a coal.
I'm tired of fighting..
tired of fighting for the truth.
I know what I know
leave the battles for the youth.

I'm driven
driven to dust, my love.
Was I wrong?
Driven
Driven to dust, my love
then I'm gone.

(bridge)

I'm driven
driven to dust, my love.
Was I wrong?
Driven
Driven to dust, my love
then I'm gone.

Driven to dust
Driven to dust
Driven to dust.....

CSO 2021


04 Driven To Dust

I stood in the shadows
while you poured your heart out
to some fool who's been in your dreams.
Just like in school where I was insignificant in the "I'm better than you" scene.

I'm always last
last to be chosen
last to be the one that you want
always last in line
behind someone else
who was always in front of me

 I listen to you complaining 
about the jerk you were loving

who just broke you down.
So you pick another jerk
You thinks a "poster boy stud from heaven"
and its an endless merry-go-round 

But I'm always last
last to be chosen
last to be the one that you want
always last in line
behind someone else
who was always in front of me

So don't call when you're old and gray
I'll be too worn out to play.

When no one else wants you then
don't expect to dig up a friend

I'm always last
last to be chosen
last to be the one that you want
always last in line
behind someone else
who was always in front of me

Always last
always last....


01 Always Last (2023 version)

Christopher Shawn

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