Elisheva beyond these hours
I've known your love and felt its power
And through your eyes I can clearly see
This life of mine's the painting of a dream
Elisheva beyond these nights
I've known your love my guiding light
And through your ears I can clearly hear
The beating of a heart that holds me dear

Restless thoughts that stir my mind
They fade me to another life
Since I was young I always marveled how my
Dreams of you the palest blue
A fairy ring beneath the moon
Where all that was is yet to be
and pantomimes
The ghosts of space and time
Are laid to rest by my angel's smile
Elisheva beyond these years
I've known your love and lost my fear
The pain of this division all too real
The joy of our reunion is my zeal

Elisheva beyond this dawn
I've known you're love and heard your song
The faithless find no solace for their grief
For reason hides its pride by disbelief

Words & Music ©Gregary Douglas Stalnaker. Published by Voice Ranch Music, BMI Work Numbers 23460494 (Elisheva/Desolation Angel) and 23460489 (Allihies.) Home demo recorded using Audacity. Vocals with acoustic and electric six string guitars and an acoustic twelve string guitar.

Elisheva (Desolation Angel) and Allihies (Instrumental)

I have seen the skies
of Heaven in her eyes
Blues that made me cry
Oh, my I'm 

Seeing what she saw
Before I woke
Hearing what she said
Before she spoke
of a timeless love
Older than the stars
that shine above
Years I thought were haunted
There was nothing to fear
Our angels only speak
When we are ready
to heed their words
She's waiting for me there
Behind the Risen Son

I have seen these trees
Years before in dreams
Columns forever green

I have seen the clouds
Whitsun eiderdown
Silence was my shroud

Words and Music ©Gregary Douglas Stalnaker. Published by Voice Ranch Music, BMI Work Number 18747675. Home demo recorded using Audacity. Vocals with an acoustic six string guitar.

Cassandra

This is a cover version by the fabulous Rorie Kelly of my original song that I wrote in May of 2012. Please check out Rorie's music on Bandcamp https://roriekelly.bandcamp.com/ and be sure to follow her on Twitter  @roriekelly

Lyrics:

Filling in the minutes
with those long lost hours
Turning to stone
shadowed in the bower
Touching the wound
to free the hidden pain
Breaking the bonds
that forged a gilded chain

A world waits beyond your window
Those Morning Glories patched in blue
As nighttimes go these days will show
A life so beautiful for you
Beautiful for you
Beautiful for you

Passing the time
Without a tell-tale trace
Feeling the eyes
empty of all grace
Wishing on stars
seen falling through the air
Slipping the pale
with decades left to spare

Words and Music ©Gregary Douglas Stalnaker. Published by Voice Ranch Music, BMI Work Number 14927070.

Beautiful For You - Rorie Kelly covers my original song

As morning sought me sleeping in my bed
Did evening see her hanging by a thread?

Finding I'd lost my way
Monday the last in May
I begin again

Marietta now the time has come
I'll finish where I chose to start
Marietta you're the only one
I'll sing the secret of our hearts
Knowing we'll never be apart again

Did morning hear her prayers betray despair?
As evening breathless caught me unaware

Gilded the crown that's parted from its queen
Her dreams defy the myths of gravity

Words and Music ©Gregary Douglas Stalnaker. Published by Voice Ranch Music, BMI work number 24716800. Home demo recorded with Audacity. Vocals with acoustic six and twelve string guitars and an electric guitar.

Marietta

She colours everything I see
and fills uneven memories 
Fallen the scales have
from my eyes
She makes me want to live
Again

She colours everything I hear
Once opaque growing ever clear
Broken the chains that
bound my heart
She makes me want to 
Oh, how I need to live
Again

Sorrows of precious kind
Borne by the silent night
Heaven untouched by time
I have seen through her eyes

She colours everything I feel
Touching wounds ready to be healed
Parted the clouds that
shroud the sun
She makes me want to
Oh, how I need to live
Again

Words and music ©Gregary Douglas Stalnaker. Published by Voice Ranch Music, BMI work number 25979054. Home demo recorded using Audacity. Vocals with an acoustic six-string guitar.

She Colours

Once upon a little while
I'll awaken by your side
Once upon a little while
Morning's pale perfection beguiles
for I am yours and you are mine

Once upon a little while
We'll remember all of our lives
Once upon a little while
We'll see the stars from where they shine
for I am yours and you are mine

Once upon a little while
The last to fall are first to fly
Once upon a little while
Our song is born where angels sigh
for I am yours and you are mine

"Muckross Abbey' (Instrumental)

Words and Music ©Gregary Douglas Stalnaker. Published by Voice Ranch Music, BMI work numbers 24716819 ('Once Upon a Little While') and 25979038 ('Muckross Abbey'.) Home demo recorded with Audacity. Vocals with an electric six-string guitar and acoustic six and twelve string guitars.

Once Upon A Little While & Muckross Abbey

She shines for me brighter than the star
I wished upon when knelt before the czar

Lavender skies best define her eyes
Emily knows but loves it when I

Sing to her of the rain
I tasted in a dream of Spain

She speaks to me in colours and their rhymes
To calm the stormy mourning of my mind

Lavender skies best define her eyes
Emily knows but loves it when I

Sing to her of the Queen
The Spirit chose for our King
Down on me
Heaven tumbles blue
Down on me

She shows from where the heather and the sky
Spy the Gates of Eden for auld lang syne

Lavender skies best define her eyes
Emily knows but loves it when I

Sing to her of The Vine
Who willed the water into wine

Words and Music ©Gregary Douglas Stalnaker. Published by Voice Ranch Music, BMI Work Number 28881797. Home demo recorded using Audacity. Vocals and a six-string acoustic guitar.

Emily Knows

We are here to grow
We are here to shine 
We are here to share 
Her Abiding Light

So far beyond 
Yet
I've known once or thrice
Love that breaks the heart
Then 
Gently blows the mind
Like a Dandelion
   
We are here to mend
We are here in kind
We are here to wear
Her abiding Light

Words & Music ©Gregary Douglas Stalnaker. Published by Voice Ranch Music, BMI work number 30658698. Home demo recorded with Audacity. Vocals and an acoustic six-string guitar.

Conceivably Blue

Once upon another place and time
I woke to find I'd lost the very life
I chose for her just as much as me
Pardon me I beg your leave to
Close my mind's eye around the girl
Not a thought or care for this spare world

When her summer fell before my spring
That shade of blue I'm sure was never seen
Before the sky first beheld the sea
Pardon me I beg your leave to
Close my mind's eye around the girl
Not a thought or care for this spare world

Ohio will you ever change your ways
I won't forget the promise that was made
For her by Our Lady I perceive
Pardon me I beg your leave to
Close my mind's eye around the girl
Not a thought or care for this spare world

Words and Music ©Gregary Douglas Stalnaker. Published by Voice Ranch Music, BMI work number 30658723.  Home demo recorded using Audacity. Vocals with acoustic six and twelve-string guitars and an electric six-string guitar. Many thanks to Joan Schmidt for allowing me to use her beautiful painting for the song's image.

Muskingum Blues

Never Would I Ever
Think to forget her face
No matter what her name
Never would I ever
She's the one that holds the line and for that time
the reason why
I'm flying
There's nothing new here nor there
everywhere the sun has shone
and is bound to again
here she comes with when
Never would I ever
Leave it to chance or fate
Twenty-five years too late
Never would I ever
Never would I ever
Ask for another life
Circumscribed by their eyes
Never would I ever

Words & music ©Gregary D. Stalnaker. Published by Voice Ranch Music, BMI work number 41218993. Home demo recorded using Audacity. Vocals with an acoustic six-string and Rickenbacker 350V63.

Never Would I Ever

Autist songwriter of Psychedelic Folk (BMI)

Doug Stalnaker