Tomorrow is calling but history has me in chains
It seems to deny all these present day claims
And I'm torn in three
Each tense tugs at me

Granted a freedom that I haven't yet learned
Got key to the Kingdom that I never could earn
Not that I didn't try
But my resolve was as weak as I

CHORUS:
So please raise your glass
Drink to the future, drown out the past
'Tis the season for moving on
Yesterday is dead and gone

One lost little girl, she was was searching for truth
But she was too bound by the pain of her youth
Now she hides behind
The wall of her pride

Scraping and stumbling as she tried to walk free
She said, "I see redemption but it don't see me"
Now she dwells in scenes
Kept alive by memories

So please...

CHORUS

Walking the line, the direction of time as it moves
The clock doesn't wait or erase my mistakes, but I choose
How much time I'm gonna lose

So please raise your glass
Drink to the future, drown out the past
'Tis the season for moving on
Yesterday has gone away

From the album, "Altases & Astronauts," © 2010
Written by Mali Korsten © 2010
Available for download at http://cdbaby.com/cd/malikorsten

Raise Your Glass

LYRICS

High as the moon
Then low as the stupid things I've done
And I feel like I'm rising and falling with the sun

And you, you say
I was bound to turn out this way
And if I'm not crazy yet, well I'd say I came close today

CHORUS:
So where's my mind?
I seem to've left it far behind
So lead me home
I'm tired

Tides, they go
Up and down, high and low
Well I can relate, I can't seem to stay tame for very long

And so, it seems
I am living to extremes
The middle ground seems to have disappeared from under my feet

CHORUS

CHORUS 2:
So where's my mind?
I seem to've left it far behind
So lead me home
I just can't do it on my own
So where's my mind?
I seem to've left it far behind
So lead me home
I'm tired

From the album, "Altases & Astronauts," © 2010
Written by Mali Korsten © 2010
Available for download at http://cdbaby.com/cd/malikorsten

Lead Me Home

LYRICS

All rise to sing a song that brings comfort to us all
But I feel the cold coming from these four walls
And people talk, they say that you are not that far
But how can they claim to know where you are?

CHORUS
So tell me you're awake
Or tell me you're just sleeping now
Sit up and break the silence some how

Your little sister, she gets more beautiful each day
You'd be so proud, if you were here today
And I often think that I should have been the one
But I guess God knows when we've had our run

CHORUS

It's almost February, and then I'll say
Happy birthday, you'd be twenty today

CHORUS


From the album, "Altases & Astronauts," © 2010
Written by Mali Korsten © 2010
Available for download at http://cdbaby.com/cd/malikorsten

Just Sleeping

LYRICS

Leave the ground at old Heathrow
Kiss goodbye the life I've known so long
Will it miss me when I'm gone?

Where's the place that I'll call home?
Where I've been or where I'm going now?
Is it north, or down in the south?

I walk on this atlas and try to find the spot
Where my heart rests

CHORUS:
And the sun may rise at a different time
But the same moon sleeps in the same sky
It still bends down to kiss me goodnight
And the waves may crash a little more
But it's the same salt water rolling on the shore
The earth's still green and blue from wherever I look

So I sing...

Got my daddy on the line
My words flying back in time
And I thank the Lord for this design

And no more cold on Christmas day
Sunburnt skin brought home the change
It's strange - never thought I'd miss the rain

But life is a story and scenes ever-change
Till we reach the last page

CHORUS

The world is a waiting room
Home is what comes after
Life is a tragedy, a comedy
Tears and laughter
I'm just a player, I'll take a chance and run past go
I move round and round the board
I move round and round the board.


From the album, "Altases & Astronauts," © 2010
Written by Mali Korsten © 2010
Available for download at http://cdbaby.com/cd/malikorsten

Move

I wrote this song especially for some friends of mine who recently got married. 

LYRICS

It starts today
I've been waiting so long to stand here and say
That my love will hold
Through the seasons ahead, while we're young and when we are old
Through hot and through cold

And take my hand
Yeah, we don't need to run to some far away land
'Cause when you're with me
This battered and broken old world's good enough for me
The good's all I see

CHORUS
And the words that are said here today
Mark the start of the journey we'll make
And of all God's people it's you that I take
Starting today

We're not the same
Oh, I am like fire and you are like rain
But we're one today
We are melded together, with no room for guilt or for blame
Only grace

CHORUS
And the words that are said here today
Mark the start of the journey we'll make
And of all God's people it's you that I take
Starting...

Today the vows that we give
Mark the start of the promise we'll live
And I'll love, hope, trust and always forgive

CHORUS

Written by Mali Korsten © 2012
All rights reserved.

Starting Today

Melodic, story-telling songs, featuring bluesy slide guitar, set against a folk-rock backdrop. 