Jason Kalman Band performing Daylie live in May 2013 at the Green Lizard, Tumon, Guam, USA

Daylie (Performed live May 2013 in Guam, USA at the Green Lizard)

The Island (alternate mix)

Written, recorded, mixed by Jason Kalman
Mastered by Metropolis Studios
©2022 Jason Kalman Music

Beautiful Crazy

Razorblade

And I can see you seethe
Over satellite feed
One-inch resolution of your face
I’ll call the bomb strike in
Before the counterstrike begins
When winning is the last thing that I need

What caused this fight to start?
Diplomacy fall apart
Was it the embargo of your touch?
Reasoning fading fast
Starving until my last breath
And I declared war

Razorblade love cuts me down
And I feel the blood run down my chest
From a Razorblade love

I sit here in my war room
Alone to find the one move
With maps and charts of targets that would hurt
But I can see your face
Remember your embrace
How could I destroy the one I love?

If there was one last chance
To call a truce that’d last
I’d declare a ceasefire right now
But I know you too well
It wouldn't last to tell
How my love for you will carry on
Till my last breath

Chorus

Razorblade

South Pacific Love
Written and performed by Jason Kalman
Backing Vocals, Lead and Rhythm Guitar: Lance Duncan

You and me and me with you
And love will be all we need
Every day I wake up 
I’m so lucky I am here
Every day I pinch myself
Cause love is love is 
There’s no reason to leave
There’s no reason to go
Cause everything I’ll ever need
Is right here right here

You and me and me with you
And love will be all we need and
You and me and me with you
And love will be all we need and 
South Pacific love
That’s what I want is some
South Pacific love

There’s no time to be sad
There’s no time to cry
Dry your little eyes now child
And smile, smile, smile 
Life is oh so precious
Life is oh so grand
And though our time is short here 
Love is Love is

Guitar Solo

Chorus

South Pacific Love

Best Intentions

Lyrics by John Kaniecki
Music by Jason Kalman
©2023

Sophie
 
Verse 1
Sophie sings the upper middle-class blues                             
Boredom is the villain paying her dues                                  
Not a child not an adult in between                                        
Living the hell you knew well called a teen                           
 
Verse 2
Lots of information nothing to learn
In my mind I find a quiet concern
So much potential dead on the inside
I recall the days I wanted to hide

Chorus 1
And I say Sophie what are your dreams?
What will you give away what will you keep?
I ask Sophie what are your dreams?
And Sophie sighs I wanna sleep
 
Verse 3
She’ll have a vacation jetting away
Her parents have money they’re willing to pay
Run away close by or flee really far
But you can never ever leave what you are

Verse 4
And all my peers grew up to be old
And all my peers their soul is sold
Looking back through the years I know why
Living the truth is harder than living a lie
  
Chorus 2
 
Bridge
War rumbles life stumbles things looking black
After you grow up some days you’ll look back
Sophie I tried to warn you it’s red alert
I wrote this with love so child don’t be hurt
 
Chorus 3

Sophie

Movement I

Movement II

Cover of Philip Glass' Opening from the album "Glassworks"

Philip Glass "Opening" Cover

Written by Claude Debussy
Performed by Jason Kalman

Clair de lune

The Island
Written and performed by Jason Kalman

Run to where the water meets a setting sun
I’ll meet you there and pray we’ll be as one
Cause there’s no way I’d ever leave you stranded here alone
Upon this rock that lives and calls the South Pacific home

A million miles away from home and somehow you are here
There is no place on earth I would not go to have you near
I’m trapped inside this love that runs so deep and keeps me blind 
To know that you will leave me and this paradise behind

Run to me with arms so wide
And love will keep my dreams alive
We made it through this life as friends
We’ll make it through rough times again
 
The city is awake at night and battered from this storm
The wind so strong and rain so hard the island will transform
And so our fate is bracing from the tide that’s rising fast
A flood of hope is racing that our love will somehow last

The Island

LET ME IN

This is my dream
It's just you and me
It’s not reality
Cause you actually hate me
The air that I breath in 
The words that come seethin’
It’s you that I’m feelin’
Inside I am reelin’
Cause you’re not believin’

Let me in 
Why won’t you let me in?
Let me in 
Why won’t you let me in?

Your mountains of fire
Fuel this desire
Your tactics admired
But look who is tired
It’s no use deceivin’ 
I’ll try and come clean then
Obsession is real and
It’s you I am feelin’
You stare disbelievin’

I’m on your side
So I can ease your mind
I’m on your side
Let me in

One day it happened
Your gates are all opened
But why are you’re laughin’?
Cause now I am trapped in
The game you’ve been playin'
You’ve won and I’m stayin'
The player’s been played  
And we both end up winnin'
Now I’m believin'

Backing vocals over last chorus
Outside your fortress I’m defenseless  
Let me in, let me in
You live your life closed tight and restless
Let me in, let me in, let me in, let me in

Let Me In

You Will Always Save Me

South Pacific Love

Intro
You and me and me with you
And love will be all we need  

Verse I
Every day I wake up 
I’m so lucky I am here
Every day I pinch myself
Cause love is love is 
There’s no reason to leave
There’s no reason to go
Cause everything I’ll ever need
Is right here right here

Chorus
You and me and me with you
And love will be all we need and
You and me and me with you
And love will be all we need and 
South Pacific love
That’s what I need is some
South Pacific love

Verse II
There’s no time to be sad
There’s no time to cry
Dry your little eyes now child
And smile, smile, smile 
Life is oh so precious
Life is oh so grand
And though our time is short here 
Love is Love is 

Chorus 

Bridge
Pictures of you
Pictures of me
On this island fantasy
Dancing by the shore
Swimming in the shallows
On this island fantasy 
She runs towards the motion
She runs towards the ocean
I run with arms wide open
I run with love’s emotion

Verse III
As we watch the sun go down
The light is fading fast
And though it’s time to say goodnight
You say you say
Life is oh so precious
Life is oh so grand
And though our time is short here 
Love is Love is 

Chorus 


©2011 jasonkalmanmusic (ASCAP)
All songs written by Jason Kalman

Producers: Jason Kalman and Jim Ebert
Mixing: Jim Ebert
Engineer: Sean Russell
Mastering: Bruce Kane
Art Direction: Eric Townsend
Photography: Emmanuel Gamor
Drums: Tracks 1-8 Andy Hamburger, Track 9 Jason Kalman
Vocals, Acoustic, Electric, Bass Guitars, Keyboards: Jason Kalman
Baritone Guitar, Wurlitzer, Hammond, Effects, Drum Loops: Jim Ebert

Notes: Andy's drums and Jim's instruments were recorded in Cue Recording Studios Ltd on April 2011.  Remaining vocals and instruments were recorded in my home studio between March 2010 and April 2011.

Liberation

BREATHE IN BREATHE OUT

For you the wars were real
Sleepless nights upon the battlefield
Back home so selfishly
They complain about the price of gas and coffee
Your wife left two tours ago
From the meds you took for pain with all the alcohol

It's hard
It's hard

Unwritten Unspoken
This is the peace that is broken
Breathe in Breathe out
This is the message of sending
Breathe in Breathe out
Within without
Love
  
You see no victory
You watched your friends all get blown up or just go crazy
Back home they say we care
But they only give a damn 
When all their bank accounts go bare

It's hard
It's hard

Unwritten Unspoken
This is the peace that is broken
Breathe in Breathe out
This is the message of sending
Breathe in Breathe out
Within without  

Guitar Solo

Life’s too short to throw away
So what if nobody cares about you anyway
Just live your life and live aware
That soon enough we’ll all return to home as heirs 
To Love

Unwritten Unspoken
This is the peace that is broken
Breathe in Breathe out
This is the message of sending
Breathe in Breathe out
Within without  
Love

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