Name: Tennessee by Valerie Kramer
Duration: 5 min 36 s
Description: This track is from the album Watch Over Me and is available for purchase on CD Baby here: http://www.cdbaby.com/cd/valeriekramerwithmountai

Excellent production quality on these, very good work!

Wonderful cool sounding classic in the making...

Picture by Mirka 

Winter Crows

Show me a sweetheart deal
the one that can make you feel 
okay...
In the dark shadows
of the street at night.

What made you think
you'd get away with this?

Your heart is made of steel

Fire signals
Loss of anchor
Stormwatch calling
Winter crows

I'll tell you a winter's tale
with snow covered tracks and trails
and bleak expectations.

Let's play a guessing game
to get through these spells of rain
as daylight hours getting shorter...

Winter Crows
in the snow

Winter comes and winter goes
Where the crows fly
no-one knows

Winter Crows



Winter Crows

Happy Christmas, Everyone!

Exile Lounge

Thinkin' Of You

This song was inspired by Irving Berlin's classic 1926 jazz standard, "Blue Skies."   Except "Blue Skies and Happiness" is sort of the other side of the coin - sometimes the outlook is grey skies....

Lyrics:

Blue Skies and Happiness

Blue skies and happiness
Those were your promises
But it’s been raining for days and I’m so sad
Why does it have to be so bad?

Happiness and blue skies
Those were your biggest lies
Everyone told me you’re a prince
The thought of you now just makes me wince

Oh I was blind to all your lies
But now I’m starting to realize
With you it’s all grey skies

Sunshine and crystal streams
Mocking me in my dreams
I wake up to you and my heart sinks
Remembering you’re my everything

Crystal streams and sunshine
Someday they will be mine
But you won’t be there with me no way
No room for you clouds of misery

Oh I was blind to all your lies
But now I’m starting to realize
With you it’s all grey skies

Blue skies and happiness
One thing I must confess:
I never believed that you’re the one
And now I believe that we are done


Blue Skies and Happiness - Remastered 2025

music and lyrics by Anne Pe
art work by Reiner Pfirrmann
recording, mixing by Julius Münnig
produced by Julius & Anne
mastered by: Alex Gordon, Abbey Road Studios, London
guitar, voice, metallophone: Anne
double bass, backing voice: Tobias Hölscher
drums: Julian Braun

Archive of Layers

She writes her lines in layers
of rock and of sediment
Gaia, she talks
she‘s always in her element
Water, Fire, Air
Earth, like the hills here

When you moved on
and left me with my fear
your true reflection threw
light on the land here:

I see two mountain chains
a river running through
rocks that once were one
like me and you

The winding way of love
flows freely when not pressed
into a straightened river course
and in my chest

pulses a steady heart
no matter whether we
are close or apart
`cos
the river is in me

The earthcrust broke open
and gave way to the Rhine
it’s time that we trust
that love is
a mighty river
though I’m not yours
and you‘re not mine

Her story‘s set in stone
600 million years
back goes the Black Forest‘s
archive of layers
She is our solid ground
while creation never stops
to unfold and unfold
and through her rocks

pulses a steady heart
no matter whether we are
aware of it or not
`cos
she always keeps the beat

The earthcrust broke open
and gave way to the Rhine
it‘s time that we trust
that love is
a mighty river
though I‘m not yours
and you‘re not mine

600 million years
back goes the Black Forest‘s
archive of layers
600 million years
back goes the Black Forest‘s
archive of layers
600 million years
back goes the Black Forest‘s
archive of layers

deutsche Übersetzung:
Archiv von Schichten
Sie schreibt ihre Zeilen in Schichten
aus Gestein und Sediment
Gaia, sie redet
Sie ist immer in ihrem Element
Wasser, Feuer, Luft,
Erde - wie die Hügel hier

Als du weitergezogen bist
und mich mit meiner Angst alleine gelassen hast
hat dein wahres Spiegelbild
Licht auf das Land hier geworfen:

Ich sehe zwei Bergketten,
einen Fluss, der durch Felsen fliesst,
die einmal eins waren
so wie ich und du
Der gewundene Weg der Liebe
fliesst frei, wenn er nicht in ein begradigtes Flussbett gepresst wird
und in meiner Brust

schlägt ein stetiges Herz
egal ob wir nah oder weit von einander entfernt sind
weil der Fluss in mir ist

Die Erdkruste brach auf
und hat dem Rhein Platz gemacht
Es ist Zeit, dass wir darauf vertrauen,
dass die Liebe ein mächtiger Fluss ist
obwohl ich nicht dein bin
und du nicht mein bist

Ihre Geschichte wurde in Stein geschrieben
600 Millionen Jahre zurück
reicht das Archiv von Schichten des Schwarzwaldes

Sie ist unser fester Grund
während die Schöpfung nie aufhört
sich immer weiter zu entfalten
und durch ihre Felsen

schlägt ein stetiges Herz
egal ob es uns bewußt ist oder nicht -
sie hält immer den Takt

Die Erdkruste brach auf
und hat dem Rhein Platz gemacht
Es ist Zeit, dass wir darauf vertrauen,
dass die Liebe ein mächtiger Fluss ist
obwohl ich nicht dein bin
und du nicht mein bist

600 Millionen Jahre
zurück reicht das Archiv von Schichten des Schwarzwaldes
600 Millionen Jahre
zurück reicht das Archiv von Schichten des Schwarzwaldes
600 Millionen Jahre
zurück reicht das Archiv von Schichten des Schwarzwaldes

Archive Of Layers

hill country snow

Reflecting on the Future

This track is from the album Watch Over Me and is available for purchase on CD Baby here: http://www.cdbaby.com/cd/valeriekramerwithmountai

Tennessee

For me, writing music is like my soul coming up for air. My body and my conscious mind are, much of the time, held down under society's expectations. When my spirit can't breathe, it bursts forth and takes control. It fights with my conscious mind, and the struggle is exhausting. But, when my soul wins, the feeling of liberty is inexplicable. Singing is like this, too. I am who I am meant to be through music.

Tennessee

Valerie Kramer

Recent comments

Squire Tuck

Daven Tillinghast

Related tracks