My dad was a flight nurse in the Air Force. A few years ago he was diagnosed with early onset Alzheimer's. It's been hard in a lot of ways so I wrote this song to tell him it's all ok.

LYRICS
It’s ok if I have to
say some things again
You speak a different way these days 
But I know I can depend
I like watching the same movies and hearing the same jokes 
So you just go right on ahead underneath the old live oak

You were always seeing the good in  simple things 
You used to soar across the sky on million dollar Wings 
Somewhere along the way you looked and couldn’t read the map
The corners started curling/bending in 
Don’t you worry about that 
We’ll walk along the paths you know
The folds in Mother Earth
Look at all the lives you saved if you’re questioning your worth 
The love you have for everyone is still running through your veins
You’re everything you’ve always been 
You’re just flying paper planes 

It’s ok if you put things in a different  place 
It’s ok if you forget my name And remember my face 
you know that you love me and I want you to stay 
Worrying about Anything else is just a damn shame waste 

You were always seeing the good in simple things 
You used to soar across the sky on million dollar Wings 
Somewhere along the way you looked and couldn’t read the map
The corners started curling/bending in 
Don’t you worry about that 
We’ll walk along the paths you know
The folds in Mother Earth
Look at all the lives you saved if you’re questioning your worth 
The love you have for everyone is still running through your veins
You’re everything you’ve always been 
You’re just flying paper planes 

You’re everything you’ve always been 
You’re just flying paper planes 

I’m glad you’re feeling good today 
The stormy clouds have gone away
The sun is out, no more rain
And you’re flying paper planes

Paper Planes

You say it’s water under the bridge 
Well that’s easy to say from way up there
While I’m down here underneath in the trouble
It’s tumbling me
It’s tumbling me

I’ve been building this crumbling wall 
And you’ve been building your tower so tall
I’ve been trying to go back in time (to turn back the dials)
And see you smile 
If felt good for a while 

like a dream that I 
can’t wipe from my eyes 
it’s hurting me now, 
keeping me down/bound
I’ll Take the trouble/water and make it healing
It didn’t numb me, I felt every feeling
The current was crushing, I turned it around 
I Breathed it in and I didn’t drown
Caught in the frenzy
thought it would condemn me
But it smoothed my edges
I let it cleanse me

I laid down my trowel and I took a vow
I picked up a shovel and took to the ground 
I had Started believing the lies 
Making friends with the reaper
So I dug even deeper

like a dream that I 
can’t wipe from my eyes 
it’s hurting me now, 
keeping me down/bound
I’ll Take the trouble/water and make it healing
It didn’t numb me, I felt every feeling
The current was crushing, I turned it around 
I Breathed it in and I didn’t drown
Caught in the frenzy
thought it would condemn me
But it smoothed my edges
I let it cleanse me

Damn Shame Waste

It's Tumbling Me

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"Angels We Have Heard on High" - Aeone and Stephen Melillo 

"Angels We Have Heard on High” is a collaboration with composer Stephen Melillo and Aeone from the “Christmas Passion” album.   The song has been submitted FYC in ‘Arrangement, Instrumental & Vocals’ 
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Music Arranged, Orchestrated & Produced by Stephen Melillo
Vocals - Performed, Produced, Arranged & Recorded by Aeone 
Production Assistance.  Vocals engineered, co-mixed w/Aeone & digitally edited by Jeff Silverman 
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Arranged © Stephen Melillo, IGNA 28 Dec 2017

Angels We Have Heard On High

Transcription by Bach of his Andante for violin, BWV 1003

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