Recorded in Corvallis, OR in summer of 2013. All songs by Laura Meyer. Engineered & mixed by Brady Greig. Mastered by JJ Golden at Golden Mastering. 

Laura Meyer - guitars & vocals 
Brady Greig - bass, keys & drums
Anna Tivel - violin

© 2013 Laura Meyer/Final Press Publishing. All rights reserved.
www.laurameyer.net

Too Good To Be True

Little White Dress

Dungeon of Love

Hold Onto Me

Made To Fly

She Don't Belong To Anyone

Back East they want to make money 
Out West they just want to get high 
In between everybody wants Jesus 
Like a big slab of cheese upon rye 

We’re living in a Jesus sandwich 
Open your mouth real wide 
They say open your heart as they show their teeth 
Take a bite, take a bite, take a bite 

We’re living in a Jesus sandwich 
Most don’t even know what’s inside 
They just swallow whatever they’re handed 
And pray the maker makes things right 

Back East they ask you for your money 
Out West they ask you for a light 
In between they tell you that he’s coming 
Like a big slab of cheese from the sky 

The mill of god grinds slowly but it grinds so so fine 
Kill your hunger with this nice white bread and wash it back with wine 

We’re living in a Jesus sandwich 
The more we eat the more we multiply 
The preacher says to keep on feeding 
And one day maybe we’ll be satisfied 

© Laura Meyer, August 2011.

Jesus Sandwich

MILES FROM NOWHERE
Words and Music by Laura Katherine Meyer

50 miles from water
40 miles from wood
30 miles from nowhere
And I gone there for good

A bird in a cage ain’t a bird at all
It sure ain’t safe to breathe in all this smog

You can stay in your city
You can have your sirens
You can keep your bright lights
Just leave me out in the sky

A bird in a cage ain’t a bird at all
A girl’s gotta fly where a man must fall

I know you tried to love me
And I know you thought you did
But I know a heart’s not a locket
On a chain around the neck    

A bird in a cage ain’t a bird at all
A girl can’t be blamed for what is not her fault
No, a bird in a cage ain’t a bird at all
Now watch me fly - I’m gotta sing my song

50 miles from water
40 miles from wood
30 miles from nowhere
And I gone there for good

© Laura Katherine Meyer, November 2008

Miles From Nowhere

THIS LAND
Words and Music by Laura Katherine Meyer

Don’t know if this land was made for you and me
In the night sky of New York shines the torchlight of Lady Liberty
Of course I can’t see through the orange of the high rises lining every street
But I believe she’s watching over all of us tossing in our sleep

Don’t know if this land was made for you and me
So I set out on this great blue highway trying to see
Sunrise pours out on the horizon like a Georgia peach
When the juice of the fruit and your dry tongue finally meet
And in the rearview mirror, the skyline’s swallowed by the trees

Don’t know if this land was made for you and me
As I glide through the high ground and the grassland of Tennessee
The low fog left from nightfall starts to lift as I leave her soggy peaks
With the sunlight behind me I follow shadows cast from back east
What’s left of buffalo roam the pastures like a passing dream

Don’t know if this land was made for you and me
In the flatlands of Nebraska I can feel my whole body breathe
The wind moves like water through the prairies painting pictures in the wheat
Like sand along the shorelines, the switch grass is dragged out to sea
The sweet warble of a meadowlark fades in the breeze

Don’t know if this land was made for you and me
Across the Rockies, further west, and in the desert I hear the silence speak
High noon in Nevada and the sand dunes listen as they gleam 
Not a movement as they heed the hush and I wonder why can’t we
Dust spirals on the highway then scatters like a laugh that’s free

Don’t know if this land was made for you and me
As I reach California the sun leads me straight to the beach 
And the Pacific’s like a skillet as the light sizzles out of my reach
The stars rise like steam in the twilight between redwood leaves
I’ve searched for answers in this land from sea to shining sea
I watch the water take the sand and bury my two feet

© Laura Katherine Meyer, January 2009


This Land

THE OCEAN

My heart was once a stone that could not be broken
Locked in a shell I vowed never to expose it
But then like the ocean he came to me, hoping
With persistence, he could help me open

He came back like the tide again and again
And took a little sediment each time he went
Yeah, all this sand on which I’d been choking
Could not withstand the strength of the ocean

Like the sea in the shell I can hear him approaching
The sound of his breath sends my heartbeat exploding
Love is a poem that can’t be spoken 
I thought it was something else; now it’s time I rewrote it 

Because it turns out that love is not just some emotion
I know this feeling doesn’t come from outside only
Love was always here but I needed him to show me
That all of my fear ain’t as deep as the ocean

The shells from the reef settle at my feet
I used to take them home; now I leave them at the beach
They don’t belong to me and I’ve spent too much time holding 
Onto bones of the past – I throw them back so that they can keep growing 

Sitting on the shore I finally see
That it’s not the man, but everything
That brings me love – you can’t separate what’s flowing
And each of us is a wave in this great big ocean 

The wind that’s blowing, the sea as it’s foaming
The face that’s glowing, the embrace of unknowing 
Love’s always growing, each and every moment, no matter if we don’t notice
Because a heart, once it opens, never closes

Love is a shipwreck that needs a little probing
Swim past the jewels and gems because when love’s genuine it needs no token
Deep into his eyes I dive and I am beholden
When I return to the surface a whole new world has awoken

Love is the sun as it paints the blue sky golden
It’s the kiss of the current as the mist turns the surf into a rainbow 
It’s the trust that’s more real than the dust on my heels from all of this roaming 
It’s the breeze in the sail of the boat that’s so frail but it keeps coasting

The love he gave me is as great as the ocean
No longer am I afraid to swim
The love he gave me is as great as the ocean 
I discovered what love is inside of him

© Laura Katherine Meyer, October 2008

The Ocean

NIGHT DRIVE

The moon rises like a ripe peach
I'd like to taste it, but it's out of my reach
I shoot for the stars, but I mean no harm
I just want to be where they are

The air is heavy like a sigh
And it grows stronger the faster I drive
I stick my hand out and try to catch it 
But like anything else, it just passes 

And the beauty of the evening makes me think of you
’Cause summer evenings make the winter worth living through

I can't help wondering where you are
So many nights I have wished on these stars
Connected them like lines between dots
I have sketched out your face with my thoughts

And the beauty of the evening makes me think of you
’Cause summer evenings make the winter worth living through

And I trust the universe takes care of me
But sometimes my trust is just so hard to believe

I don't want to be where I'm leaving
I don't want to be where I am going, either
Right now I just feel kind of open
Soaking up the present moment

I trust that the universe takes care of me
But sometimes my trust is just so hard to believe

The moon rises like a ripe peach
I'd like to taste it, but it's out of my reach
I shoot for the stars - I mean no harm
I just want to be where they are
I just want to be where they are
I just want to be where you are 

© Laura Katherine Meyer 2006


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