Take A Chance

Words, Music Gerry Segal © 2021 

Verse 1
Take A Chance, Take A Chance
Wake up from a trance
Step outside, be a guide to circumstance
Reach out and don't hide
Take the side of friendship and love

Verse 2
Take the time take the time 
Till you realize
Life is filled with  surprise and some compromise
We've been so far apart 
It's time to restart the road to love

Chorus
Half the world crave apocalyptic myths and abusive power
Half the world is pushing seismic shifts  and laws to devour
Where do you stand where do you go
Half the country's at you nail and tooth
Look them up, look them down, look them straight in the eye
And always tell the truth

Verse 3
Take the time take the time 
Till you realize
Life is filled with  surprise and some compromise
We've been so far apart 
It's time to restart the road to love
 
Chorus
Where do you stand where do you go
Half the country's at you nail and tooth
Look them up, look them down, look them straight in the eye
And always tell the truth

Outgo
Take A Chance, Take A Chance
Wake up from a trance
Step outside, be a guide to circumstance
Reach out and don't hide
Take the side of friendship and love

Take A Chance

“The Mountain Stands Alone and Lovers Are Possessed”
                                 (Gerry Segal)
I.
Would you climb a mountain if I said I love you?
She asked the man who rarely spoke
Tacking love is tough in this modern day ocean when the world is truly woke
They started out at the slippery river bed 
3 hours to climb to the crest
The mountain stands alone and lovers are possessed

II
The mountain comes with it's own love stories and legends from other days
There's the saga of the big elm tree lovers
French soldiers and local maids
There was a wedding at the top during ante bellum 
A brass band once played at the crest
the mountain stands alone and lovers are possessed

 Chorus
At the top you can see all the way to Boston
Open Space, what a sight, so far and so clear
With A question that she asked him so boldly
Opened time and the future appeared

III
She didn't take a knee, she didn't have a ring, She proposed with style and grace
He didn't know what to say
This was not the standard play
He got taken back a pace
He said of course I do you know I love you
And I guess we all know the rest
the mountain stands alone and lovers are possessed

Outgo
In a world evolving social norms styles  always change
But a mountain and young love still remains

The Mountain Stands Alone

Seven Thirty Copenhagen  
Words and music: Gerry Segal
© 1972
I.
Seven Thirty, summer evening, Copenhagen
Sun still shining, Anna's walking alone.
With a letter that was written to someone
Who'll never read it cause she will never let go
Seven thirty's long ago

II.
North in Europe by the ocean is the Summer
Night is daylight, bright as midnight, dark as day.
Motion's color, bleached in darkness, holds no answer
Will dancing help us and tell us what we must do
When the summertime is through.

III
Softly dreaming Anna's dancing by the window.
Of the chamber where she's sleeping alone.
With her partner of a life time the winter.
The quit sadness just brings the madness back home
Anna's dancing all alone

Repeat verse I

Seven Thirty Copenhagen

“Now and Then”
                                 (Lyrics, Music  Gerry Segal        ©2022 )

Now and Then
A new song will just knock me over
Ear candy for the heart and masses just amazes me

It's just like Zen
In the present and in a billion places
What's in a song that's so strong and can set us free

Lord. Set me straight 
I've listened to songs on a million playlists
From artists who put in their soul and output quality
Those songs must vibrate
with people's needs and private places
To endear the public ear
Is the sweet sweet place to be

Now And Then

“Taking Up All the Space”
                                 (Lyrics, Music  Gerry Segal        ©2022 )

Turning around the corner I can see his smiling face
Little Henry's running, running with style and grace
Running to school on a wind and a promise
I was working hard keeping pace
City filled with wonder and Henry's taking up all the space


Running up the sidewalk he shines up those cobblestones
Sleepwalking people passing, in their comfort zone
Detached, sulky people and he flips them a mood swing 
And I just rest my case
The city filled with wonder and Henry's taking up all the Space

Chorus

The City is quite a carnival the rousties wait to get paid
Henry turns on the Fairway lights and he’s busting through the stockade

Taking Up All The Space

“Taking Up All the Space”
                                 (Lyrics, Music  Gerry Segal        ©2022 )

Turning around the corner I can see his smiling face
Little Henry's running, running with style and grace
Running to school on a wind and a promise
I was working hard keeping pace
The city's filled with wonder and Henry's taking up all the space


Running up the sidewalk he shines up those cobblestones
Sleepwalking people passing, in their comfort zone
Detached, sulky people and he flips them a mood swing 
And I just rest my case
The city's filled with wonder and Henry's taking up all the Space

Chorus
The City's like a big box of Legos
A place he just loves to play
I see the city now in those bright Lego colors
When I only used to see gray.

Faded Songs
Words and Music by Gerry Segal ©2009 BMI
1.
Remember that crazy weekend
Mom was gone and you were sleeping on the road on the way to Dorney Park
You were seven and I was fatter
We road the log flume and watched it splatter
We got soaked to the bone and laughed until dark.
2.
Made it through the teenage blender
tough and tight and not too tender
strong and proud and you never lost your soul
You had your own bands and friends to jam
A Tribe Called Quest and Woo Tang Clan
I just don't get it but I accept my role

Chorus
Faded Songs 
That’s all that I can give you from
Faded dreams so it seems
I can digitize, equalize, quantize them
They're so clear and yet they're bound
to the songs that I sang when I was 21
to this song that I’m singing to my only son.
to the sounds that I heard and played when I was young
When I was young
When I was young


Faded Songs

Gonna Go, Gonna Stay
Words, music Gerry Segal  © 2009 BMI
1.
First you tell me that you really want to tell me something,
then you tell me daddy everything is just OK,
Putting on your pretty pretty prom dress for your friends,
Girl this isn't playing dress up it's the end.
 2.
Uncle Robert took your picture it was in blurry, blurry motion,
He captured everything about your life when you were just a girl was 10,
Blurry, blurry motion turns to beauty and grace.
Fuzzy fuzzy logic keeps my mind in constant motion keeps my sentimental heart in place.
3.
I know I know there are 1 or 2 things that I know about leaving.
Everybody has to leave their home in their own sweet way.
I'm so glad my baby has a life and love of her own.
But anyhow and anyway you're gonna go and I'm gonna stay,
I love you and when I hug you you'll be home.
I said...
Anyhow and anyway you're gonna go and I'm gonna stay,
I love you and when I hug you you'll be home.

Gonna Go, Gonna Stay

Faded Songs 
words and music - Gerry Segal
1.
Remember that crazy weekend
Mom was gone and you were sleeping on the road on the way to Dorney Park
You were seven and I was fatter
We road the log flume and watched it splatter
We got soaked to the bone and laughed until dark

2.
You made it through the teenage blender
tough and tight and not too tender
strong and proud and you never lost your soul
You had your own bands and friends to jam
A Tribe Called Quest and Woo Tang Clan
I just don't get it but I accept my role

Chorus
Faded Songs 
Thats all that I can give you from
Faded dreams so it seems
I can digitize, equalize, quantize them
They're so clear and yet they're bound
to the sound that I found
When I was young
When I was young
When I was young


Entwined
Words and Music by Gerry Segal  2016

verse 1
If I could hold one thought I would remember
It's the day we met in late September
On the Quad, on the lawn near the wall of Ivy Vine.
Our lives move like the river bends
The best antiques are good old friends
I know, I care that our lives will stay entwined

verse 2
Our place in time cannot be denied
Our lives unfold untold in ways that we will define
In this space and place in the school of Ivy vines
The campus glows in the morning sun
Where we create what we will become
And I know as we grow we will all stay entwined
chorus
Cast a giant shadow, for each one around us
Yes and cast a light for those to come
Harmonize, enterprise and combine them
It's so free and yet so bound
To our brothers and our sisters that we hold so dear
To the past generations who have brought us here
To our lives going forward we will always stay entwined


Entwined

Young Children Are Falling
Words and Music: Gerry Segal  © 2016

Young children are falling like leaves in the autumn sun
On your towns and turf, schools and churches
Next to Daddy’s loaded gun
Young Children Are Falling in the towns of the travelling gun
Look at their chubby cheeks and sweet eyed faces
Tell them nothing can be done

Chorus
News cycles move so fast, politicians move so slow
Parents with their lives torn apart left standing with a hole in their heart
No one to turn to, nowhere to go

Young Children Are Falling what the hell have we done?
Passed bad laws with greed and children bleed
And their bloods on everyone

Young Children Are Falling

Old Friends Matter
Words and Music: Gerry Segal  © 2017 
Bob Rose Guitar

Old friends matter
Keep them close to your heart  
They can light up the cave of your life's journey

Old friends scatter
Life can push them apart
They might be gone but not forgotten

Old folks like songs about the past
That's just what old folks like to do
Dreams are like old songs they can bring back the past
The days we shared comes shining through

One thing is certain
One thing holds true
I'm gonna hold on to those shiny days with you

Old Friends Matter

Vienna

        Words and Music Gerry Segal © 2018

When I was nine I watched black and white movies

Repeated on tv every day

The lights and shadows, the music stayed with me

The stories seem to fade away

Now when you’re nine and watching black and while movies

Images burn deep to your core

There was a film with sweet zither music 

Vienna after the war.

 First Chorus

Vienna a city that’s more than

A stop on a train or a picture to show

I have a small pension I hope it grows larger

Let’s wait till we’re older then Molly let’s go


I had a wife and her name was Molly

Oh lord I loved that girl so

We used to walk the streets on upper Broadway 

going to revivals of the picture shows

She left me like the black and while movie

Stayed around till the very last frame

I saw her up in Cavalry Hospital

She walked by didn’t know my name

Second Chorus

Vienna a city that’s more than

A stop on a train or a picture to see

I miss those old theaters my pension is gone now

I stream those old movies and think of Molly and me


Vienna

Vienna

Lyrics
Without A Word
song and lyrics by Gerry Segal
©2019

In between our breakfast conversation
In between all our words
A river flows so deeply between us
and it's splittng into thirds

first, we had our courtship young and wild
second unfolds to four, our family
third, we're left with this precious time together
holding on gratefully

The evening comes so early
quiet and undisturbed
So I hold you close and thank you and tell you I love you
without saying a word

Without Saying A Word

lyrics:

Twenty, July 69, Houston is Calling
Woodstock was coming soon Armstrong walking on the moon
I was walking near and far
Looking for my lost guitar
On a hot Crete afternoon

At small Greek farms and local bars
I followed every lead I could
People glued to their tv
No one was expecting me
They opened up and let me in
This mangy, motely American
I was Looking for my Martin guitar

Friendly eyes, friendly vibes
I met along the way
For all the times that my country’s fallen short
I was proud that day

The first house a young family shared a bottle of Metaxa
That moon walk space mans dignity
Just seems to have rained down on me
A drink or so, I let them know
I took no credit for the glory
I was just looking for my Martin Guitar

At each house I was honored with
Another bottle of Metaxa
As I stumbled from door to door
I forgot what I came there for
In that hazy, happy towns embrace
I took full   credit for the trip in space 
I gave up on my Martin Guitar

Friendly eyes, friendly vibes
I met along the way
For all the times that my country’s fallen short
I was proud that day

Twenty July 69, Houston is Calling
I was looking for my Martin Guitar

Looking For My Martin Guitar

I.
Day. A time of life that has to go away.
The old Italian told me.
Night. A time of life that you can’t hide away.
It comes out while you’re dreaming.
Day to night to months to years are separate points of time with no order.
Still it follows.
Each new day.

II.
Time. A machine that orders life and sorts out days and gives each moment meaning.
Songs. Are stretched like life inside of measured time and caged like daylight savings.
I know there are songs outside of time.
There is life outside of days.
I will show you.
It’s the sunlight of the day.

Day Night

Make it Safe - Gerry Segal Words and Music © 2020
I.
here it is, another show
Another's day older and I'm moving slow
Feels like monday morning but you never know 
everyday just feels the same

 II.
Here it is things moved so fast
I was in the golden city now I'm on my ass
My work and kareoke are all in the past
My aa group meets on Zoom

Chorus
You might say that we're clearly going nowhere
Set apart with fear so uncontrolled
We can slip away now and then 
Think things over and try again
change the way the future might unfold

III
Here it is on my smart tv 
My days dribble down to what I want to see
The world is facing justice and excluding me
And the graphs of the hot zones grow.

IV
 I have a little friend across the hall
He doesn't say much he's very Small
When I'm deep down in my dark withdrawal
His joyful soul breaks through

Outro:   You might say that we're clearly going nowhere
Set apart with fear so uncontrolled
On that day that the masks are shed
I think of that baby and his days ahead
Can the world be a safe place for that black child to grow?
 Make it safe. Make it safe, make it safe

Make It Safe

Sunny Day in Dallas
Words and Music, Gerry Segal © 2010 BMI
1.
A time of day, a time of loss, a time to weep my friends. 
A time of fear, a time of dread, that sometimes never ends. 
Exploding madness fills the light blinding the dark deeds 
of the men who paved the way 
on that sunny sunny day 
on that sunny sunny day 
in Dallas.
2.
A court inquired, ,a text implied,, explaining the dark deeds. 
Quieting the questions why and soothing the stark needs, 
To put in place, to uncrease folds to try to do or die. 
To place the veering facts at the pit of one man's back 
on that sunny sunny day in Dallas.
3.
17 men are dead and gone where no one can say. 
Those 17 men were standing round Dallas town that day. 
Some were dealt by bloodied hand the rest I cannot tell
but if one man fired the gun then I question what was done 
on that sunny sunny day in Dallas.
4.
When Frodo road to Mordor: boldly where the darkness lies. 
The power ring to rule them all the dark high Lord desired. The eye of Mordor is today the ring is in his hand. 
His quest it has been won
By the men who fired their guns 
on that sunny sunny day in Dallas.

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