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07 A Kiss To Build A Dream On - Cover Adaptation

Through the Long Night
Billy Joel

The cold hands
The sad eyes
The dark Irish silence
It's so late
But I'll wait
Through the long night with you
With you

The warm tears
The bad dreams
The soft trembling shoulders
The old fears
But I'm here
Through the long night with you
With you

Oh, what has it cost you
I almost lost you
A long, long time ago
Oh, you should have told me
But you had to bleed to know

All your past sins
Are since past
You should be sleeping
It's all right
Sleep tight
Through the long night with me
With me

No, I didn't start it
You're broken hearted
From a long, long time ago
Oh, the way you hold me
Is all that I need to know

And it's so late
But I'll wait
Through the long night with you
With you

Songwriters: Billy Joel
Through the Long Night lyrics © Universal Music Publishing Group

Through The Long Night (Billy Joel Cover)

Flood
Holly Kirsten 2015

Through the narrows I was drifting
Waves of sandstone towered above me
Isolated in the barren rock formations
I was staring at the sterile stream bed
had I seen a sign was there to warn me
of a deluge that was surging just ahead

CH
I should have run, run, run, run
to save myself from being overcome
I should have run, run, run
this calamity would make me come undone
this enmity would drown me in the flood

Sweeping canyons, years of caving in
what has drawn me to this beauty?
I stepped over boulders in the path that had
fallen from the cliffs that rose above
As the sky began to shift from starker light 
to the grey that only sun-parched lands would love

CH

I stepped over boulders in the path that had
fallen from the cliffs that rose above
As the sky began to shift from starker light 
to the grey that only sun-parched lands would love

Flood

Baby Jean

Baby Jean, sugar crusted blueberry pie
super sweet scoop of vanilla on the side
Baby Jean, don't you know we love to you pieces
so go on and make the world smile

Rosie cheeks and ivory teeth, I don't know how you do it
Turning heads wherever you go
You swing from trees, you scrape your knees, you babbled before we knew it
You've been known to hold your own with your one-girl show (CHORUS)

Push me higher, radio flyer, nothing can be denied you
Look at how you brighten our days
Bows and buttons, all of a sudden, little boys sit beside you
Hoping for the chance to dance the whole night away  (CHORUS)

BR:
One day you'll move away to a life of your own
We'll marvel at how you have grown
I always believed you would follow your dreams
But you will always be my Baby Jean

(inst CH)

CHORUS (x2)

Words:  Holly Kirsten and Jim Newsom
Music: Holly Kirsten
copyright 2016

Baby Jean

Little House
Holly Kirsten and David Milot
copyright 2018

I have a little house I've been saving for
it isn't much to thrill about
It has a battered door and leaky windows
it barely keeps the critters out

But when the storms get wild,
I can shelter there, 
wrapped beneath a pile of blankets, 
I'll be safe from harm
As a little child, I dreamed of here
Longing for a place to call my home. 

I didn't know that you were coming by
but you are more than welcome in
if you wouldn't mind, I'll hand you a hammer
We'll keep the roof from caving in

When the storms get wild,
We can shelter here, 
wrapped up in each other, 
kept safe from harm
Put away our childish notions
that love will be easy, 
laboring to make this life our home

	Dark clouds may smother
	thunder may shake us to the core
	we protect each other
	and embrace the soothing sun once more

As we continue to remodel, 
restoring beauty to this place.
We break down walls and welcome windows, 
and let the sunlight flood our face.

When the storms get wild,
We can shelter here, 
wrapped up in each other, 
kept safe from harm
Put away our childish notions
that love will be easy, 

laboring to make this life our home
laboring to make this life our home
laboring to make this love our home

Little House

Forgive Yourself 
Words and Music by Holly Kirsten, copyright 2019

I'm tired of staring at the face I see in my ball and chain
It haunts me as I lie here trying to fall asleep again
no pillow talk, no reassurance,
just the damn shackle that holds me in
I'm tired of staring at the face I see in my ball and chain

CH:
Forgive yourself, forgive yourself, forgive yourself, forgive
for the things I did not know then
Forgive yourself, forgive yourself, forgive yourself, forgive
for the things I did not know then

It's time for you to go away and let me have my peace
you cannot hold me, I have paid the price, I must be released
I am responsible, I took the bullet,
for what brought you here to me, 
but it's time for you to go away and let me have my peace (CH)

for the things I did not know then
for the things I did not know then

I'm tired of searching for things I left with my ball and chain
I seek freedom to begin my life again
I am separate, liberated
from the guilt that held me in
Still I'm tired of searching for things I left with my ball and chain (CH)

Forgive Yourself

Bitter
words and music by Holly Bishop
copyright 2017

I’m drinking the poison
and waiting for you to die
I’m drinking the poison
and waiting for you to die
No mercy, no way
I'll wait for my day
Still I’ll remind you
Of the pain left behind you
I’m drinking the poison  
I’m waiting for you to die

I’m cutting off contact
I’m watching you crawl away
I’m cutting off contact
I’m watching you crawl away
I’ve made my point clear
I’ll punish you my dear
You’ll get your due
I’m monitoring you
I’m cutting off contact
I’m watching you crawl away




VERSE -SOLO

I see you move forward
I’m wishing that you would fall
I see you move forward
I’m wishing that you would fall
It doesn’t seem right
You won your fight
I’m stranded here
I’m still seized by fear
I see you move forward
I’m wishing that you would fall

Bitter

Different
written by Holly Kirsten
copyright 2018

brothers dipping toes in the Atlantic shore
marvel at the life that soon will be in store
the California sun has kissed goodbye
now a chance to find a brighter life

father striding proudly to remove the yard sign
a family taking root to let their story unwind
maybe a piano for the child full of dreams
a house of love to mend its broken seems

things are gonna be different now
a light piercing through the parting clouds
to wrap us in a hopeful peace
the trouble of the place we've been
will soon grow faint and thin as we begin a new lease

the Virginia sun begins to take its rest
dread foreboding lands within the family nest
darkness struck with sirens, lights, and fear
an alternate path distinctly all to clear

things are gonna be different now
unable to discern why or how
life has come to taunt and tease
the trouble of the place we've been
has traveled as a distance friend
stealing serenity and peace

the promises we make
reveal the heart's mistake
in the space I hold for you
can I assure your dreams come true?

a mother bends her knee to touch her son's sweet face
a wedding day awaits as they begin a new phase
it isn't clear who needs the comfort most
their days as cloudy as the Tidewater coast

things are gonna be different now
a light piercing through the parting clouds
to wrap us in a hopeful peace
the trouble of the place we've been
will soon grow faint and thin as we begin a new lease
things will be different

things are gonna be different now
a light piercing through the parting clouds
to wrap us in a hopeful peace
the trouble of the place we've been
will soon grow faint and thin as we begin a new lease
things will be different

Different

Kettlefrog
written by Holly Kirsten, Pamela Jo Talley, Jo Talley
copyright 2017

Kettlefrog, why you wanna stay in the heat like that,
The burning fray
Kettlefrog, why you wanna stay in the heat like that,
And burn away

V1
Don’t you know there’s a big world outside that cauldron
You could hop freely girl, don’t you hold it all in

V2
He’s a fire of fury that you can’t refuse
With the mercury rising you’ll be the one to lose

BR
It’s only gonna get harder
To keep your head above the water

-INST-

V3
It isn’t all the promises he’s made it out to be
Muster one giant leap your soul would be free

Kettlefrog

Studying My Reflection  LYRICS
Holly Kirsten 2/28/2018

I walked with a beautiful woman once with starlight in her eyes
silver streaks in her stark black hair, she was unusual and wise

I asked her how she came to be a woman of introspection
she said it's easy, I stopped studying my reflection

I leaned away from elevator walls
I had a little fun with solicitor calls
I listened to babies cry and old men bellow
Saw the sun rise in orange and yellow

Gave my thanks at the end of the day to the best of my recollection
It gets a little easier as I stop studying my reflection

I took a walk, looked away from a screen
I played my piano, let my little girl dream
dug my hands in the dirt, gave good fruit away
I danced with joy as lovers sweetly swayed

I learned that love's not something we attach to a string
and that the mixing of colors makes astonishing, lovely things

Gave my thanks at the end of each day to the best of my recollection
It gets a little easier as I stop studying my reflection

At home I pondered her words so kind
in grateful epiphany
as the wild-eyed woman had faded from mind
In the mirror, I saw me

Gave my thanks at the end of the day to the best of my recollection
It gets a little easier as I stop studying my reflection

Studying My Reflection

Like What I See - LYRICS
Holly Kirsten c.1997, 2017

Can’t keep my eyes inside my head
Always wanderin’ off with my mind instead
Something’s telling me to settle down
Something’s telling me to look around, where I am

Oh, there’s something wrong with my thoughts
They carry me far away to places I know not
If I let their tyranny hold me down
I’ll never see the beauty in the here and now, where I am

CH
Maybe then I’ll find what I seek
Maybe then I’ll receive the treasures of the meek
If it takes forever, I’m gonna like what I see.

V3
Somehow I lost my memory
I forgot the quiet voice inside of me
To sit in stillness, savor wonder
Let the joy I swim in pull me under, where I am (CH)

BR
Oh, the sunrise would inspire me
If I would only open my eyes
Oh heart of creation, desire me
so I can take my place under these skies, where I am

CH

Holly Kirsten

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