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.

The Bronx River Song
Music and Lyrics Gerry Segal © 2008

1) For anything in New York City
There’s something else that’s more pretty
More expensive, more pretentious, more effete.
I grew up way outside that box,
Living uptown, north in the Bronx
Like a moth I was drawn to the flame of city glitter
But I left something so unique

Chorus
I’m the kid in the old picture
Standing down by the city’s only fresh water river
In the Bronx with my cowboy hat on

2) Biking down the river run
My boys were free out in the sun
No cops, no cars just me and my blue Schwinn
French Charley’s Field to Kensico
From broad estates to El Barrio
We rode fifteen miles along that dirty, murky river
Only scared that we’d fall in

Chorus

3) As my older age keep coming fast
I find the future tense cannot match the past
And the banks of the river where I lived seemed much more green.
I took a ride to the river in my beat up Dodge
I saw herring in the water and a beaver lodge
It’s greener then it was before
Cleaner then it was before
Better then it’s ever been

Chorus

If they made it cleaner and greener in the Bronx
We can make it better anywhere

Chorus

The Bronx River Song

When Memories Grow More Than Dreams
Music and Lyrics Gerry Segal © 2023

verse1
I Swear I've been here before this place was  something else
it was long long ago and I was something else
I stayed in the city for years but everything has changed

verse 2
my ride was four on the floor
all power and steel
These new cars are just
Laptops on wheels
I needed a reason to drive and find myself again.

Chorus
I've been up I've been down
I've been driving myself passed my might have beens
Trying to keep my soul out of a cave
I've been lost I've been found
I've been trying to stand on some solid ground
the Shadow self comes, the lady is so sly
But there's a chance I can still be saved

Outgo

When memories grow more than my dreams
When dreams just seem to fade away
Memories are what you borrow
Banking on choices for tomorrow
My memories are strong and they're my own
I'll drive around the block one more time and go back home

When Memories Grow More Than Dreams

7 30 Copenhagen

Love Facebook

Words and Music: Gerry Segal c 2014

Verse 1

People come, people go in this world its true

This song is more about me and less about you

We never met and yet

You just floated on my facebook wall.

Verse 2

Yes people come, people go on my facebook page

As a rule I keep my cool, it must be my age

All my friends hold a lens on my ego float parade

Chorus 1

I love Facebook 

I love Facebook 

On my Pod, on my Pad on my screen and my Iphone

I love  Facebook

I love Facebook

I got a million friends and I'm still on my own

Bridge

Yesterday was throw back Thursday

I love your pretty picture of a pooch named pookie

When you were one

You share so much of your life with me

Truth is I don't know you

Makes me think I don't need to know anyone.

Bridge

I got my BFF and we LOL

at my sweet pic selfie that you knpw so well

I only text and drive when the traffic is light

I pay close attention to my smart phone

I keep my eye contact down when the kids are at home

I'm a face gawking geez and my fingers are cramped up tight

Chorus

I love Facebook   (My fingers tend to linger) 

I love Facebook (My digits are so rigid) 

Think of all the friends to invite

I love  Facebook (My thumb is getting number)

I love Facebook

I can text all day and avoid my wife at night
Outro

Repeat last chorus and fade.

I Love Facebook

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

Lucid Dreams        Words and Music Gerry Segal © 2016

1) I was walking down the road next to Bleeker Street
It was a cold day in December, I had chilly feet
This might sound crazy, but my feet were three feet off the ground

2) You see, I was in a dream, I was self aware
I could make myself fly and float anywhere
I was in a place supreme, a lucid dream

Chorus
Lucid dreams can redeem any theme that you think is funny
I was singing backup with Aretha Franklin when she was young
We sleep one third of our lives on hold
One third our lives we are out dead cold
With a lucid dream you can change that scheme tonight

3) Many people claim a prophetic reverie
Their dead Uncle Albert changed their reality
For me I’m not so sure this that holds true

4) You see, I know of a man and his name is Sigmund Freud
He must have been important, he was self-employed
He said anyone in your dream is only you

Chorus

5) I was walking down a street in South Soho
I saw my good buddy Hugo who died eight years ago
If I was awake that take would seem rather strange

6) But, I was in a dream, I said Hugo I implore
You to tell me what part of me do you stand for?
He looked me in the eye and sighed...Change

Chorus





Lucid Dreams

Going Halfway Takes Me Nowhere
Words, Music Gerry Segal © 2017
 
Verse 1
I wrote this message to tell you exactly how I feel.
We’ve been friends since grade school, and what I feel for you is real.
In these times of trouble you’ve made my heart turn to steel
Going halfway takes me nowhere
 
Verse 2
 I see your friendly face and the warmth that you share
I see the monster you’ve embraced and it fills me with despair
The country flag is upside down  and we have no time to spare
Going halfway takes me nowhere.
 
Bridge
Are you a racist.? Is it the truth that you reject?
This is more than politics. It’s about values and respect.
 
Verse 3
Values versus friendship is a coin that has two sides
bloated bubble battle lines or the truth as an inner guide
The truth ends our friendship. It's my only path to the other side
Going halfway takes me nowhere
Going halfway takes us nowhere

Going Halfway Takes Me Nowhere

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:

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

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