Set Fire To The Third Bar
written by Snow Patrol

I find the map and draw a straight line
Over rivers farms and state lines
The distance from a to where you'd b
It's only finger lengths that I see

I touch the place
Where I'd find your face
My fingers in creases
Of distant dark places

I hang my coat up in the first bar
There is no peace that I've found so far
The laughter penetrates my silence
As drunken men find flaws in science

Their words mostly noises
Ghosts with just voices
Your words in my memory
Are like music to me

And miles from where you are
I lay down on the cold ground and I
Pray that something picks me up
And sets me down in your warm arms

After I have travelled so far
We'd set the fire to the third bar
We'd share each other like an island
Until exhausted close our eyelids

And dreaming pick up from
The last place we left off
Your soft skin is weeping
A joy you can't keep in


Set Fire To The Third Bar

Just Give Me A Reason

Written by: Pink, Nate Rues and Jeff Bhasker
© Intro and Outro samples taken from original

Right from the start you were a thief
you stole my heart
and I your willing victim
I let you see the parts of me
that weren´t all that pretty
and with every touch you fixed them

now you´ve been talking in your sleep, oh oh
things you never say to me, oh oh
tell me that you´ve had enough
of our love, our love

just give me a reason
just a little bit´s enough
just a second we´re not broken
just bent and we can learn to love again
it´s in the stars
it´s been written in the scars on our hearts
we´re not broken just bent
and we can learn to love again

i am sorry i don´t understand
where all of this is coming from
i thought that we were fine
(oh we had everything)
your head is running wild again
my dear we still have everything
and it´s all in your mind.
(yeah but this is happening)

you´ve been having real bad dreams, uh oh
you used to lie so close to me, oh oh
there is nothing more than empty sheets
between our love, our love,
oh our love, our love

just give me a reason
just a little bit´s enough
just a second we´re not broken
just bent and we can learn to love again
i never stopped
you´re still written in the scars on my heart
you´re not broken just bent
and we can learn to love again

oh tears ducts and rust
i´ll fix it for us
we´re collecting dust
but our love´s enough
you´re holding it in
you´re pouring a drink
no nothing is as bad as it seems

we´ll come clean

just give me a reason
just a little bit´s enough
just a second we´re not broken
just bent and we can learn to love again
it´s in the stars
it´s been written in the scars on our hearts
we´re not broken just bent
and we can learn to love again

just give me a reason
just a little bit´s enough
just a second we´re not broken
just bent and we can learn to love again
it´s in the stars
it´s been written in the scars on our hearts
we´re not broken just bent
and we can learn to love again

oh we can learn to love again (X2)
that we´re not broken just bent
and we can learn to love again


Just Give Me A Reason

All We Do – Oh Wonder
written by: Josephine Vander Gucht and Anthony West

All we do is hide away
All we do is, all we do is hide away
All we do is chase the day
All we do is, all we do is chase the day

All we do is lie and wait
All we do is, all we do is lie and wait
All we do is feel the fade
All we do is, all we do is feel the fade

I've been upside down
I don't wanna be the right way round
Can't find paradise on the ground

All we do is hide away
All we do is, all we do is hide away
All we do is chase the day
All we do is, all we do is chase the day

All we do is play it safe
All we do is live inside a cage
All we do is play it safe
All we do, all we do

I've been upside down
I don't wanna be the right way round
Can't find paradise on the ground

All we do is hide away
All we do is, all we do is hide away
All we do is chase the day
All we do is, all we do is chase the day

All I did was fail today
All I wanna be is whites in waves
All I did was fail today
All we do, all we do

Vacancy

All We Do

Calm After The Storm

Driving in a fast lane
Counting mile marker signs
The empty seat beside me
Keeps you on my mind
Living in a heartache
Was never something I pursued
I can't keep on chasing
What I can be for you

Ooooh skies are black and blue
Thinking about you
Here in the calm after the storm

Tears on a highway
Water in my eyes
This rain ain't gonna change us
So what's the use to cry
I can say I'm sorry
But I don't wanna lie
I just wanna know if staying
Is better than goodbye

Ooooh skies are black and blue
Thinking about you
Here in the calm after the storm
Ooooh after all that we've been through
There ain't nothin' new
Here in the calm after the storm

Maybe I can find you
Down this broken line
Maybe you can find me
I guess we'll know in time

Ooooh skies are black and blue
Thinking about you
Here in the calm after the storm
Ooooh after all that we've been through
There ain't nothin' new
Here in the calm after the storm
There ain't nothin new
Here in the calm after the storm

Calm After The Storm

All the Queen’s men
(written by Leo Gstrein)

You've been tossing and turning all night
Though you're looking like a fountain, sparkling
You look better when your heart’s alight
Your beauty is mysterious besides

I wanna control all the Queen’s men,
But I don’t want you to know,
I wanna tie all the loose ends,
Without you knowing I suppose

I’ve been tossing and turning all night,
Maybe it’s better just to try and change things,
It may be better, but is it worth the try?
It feels like, like rolling a dice,

I wanna control all the Queen’s men,
But I don’t want you to know,
I wanna tie all the loose ends,
Without you knowing I suppose

Bridge:	Don’t wanna see it changing, 
		Gambling to be strangers,
		Rolling the dice under the table

Tossing and turning all night
Your beauty is mysterious besides
Though you're looking like a fountain, sparkling
You look better when your heart’s alight
You are looking like a fountain, sparkling
You are looking like a fountain

I wanna control all the Queen’s men,
But I don’t want you to know,
I wanna tie all the loose ends,
Without you knowing I suppose

All The Queen's Men

Bed Of Roses

Written by: Jon Bon Jovi
All Instruments: Leo Gstrein
Vocals: Leo Gstrein
Backing Vocals: Belinda Gstrein

Sitting here wasted and wounded
At this old piano
Trying hard to capture
The moment this morning I don't know
'Cause a bottle of vodka
Is still lodged in my head
And some blond gave me nightmares
I think she is still in my bed
As I dream about movies
They won't make of me when I'm dead

With an ironclad fist I wake up and
French kiss the morning
While some marching band keeps
Its own beat in my head
While we're talking
About all of the things that I long to believe
About love and the truth and
What you mean to me
And the truth is baby you're all that I need

I want to lay you down on a bed of roses
For tonight I sleep on a bed on nails
I want to be just as close as the Holy Ghost is
And lay you down on bed of roses

Well I'm so far away
That each step that I take is on my way home
A king's ransom in dimes I'd given each night
Just to see through this payphone
Still I run out of time
Or it's hard to get through
Till the bird on the wire flies me back to you
I'll just close my eyes and whisper,
Baby blind love is true

I want to lay you down on a bed of roses
For tonight I sleep on a bed on nails
I want to be just as close as the Holy Ghost is
And lay you down on bed of roses

The hotel bar hangover whiskey's gone dry
The barkeeper's wig's crooked
And she's giving me the eye
I might have said yeah
But I laughed so hard I think I died

When you close your eyes
Know I'll be thinking about you
While my mistress she calls me
To stand in her spotlight again
Tonight I won't be alone
But you know that don't mean I'm not lonely 
I've got nothing to prove
For it's you that I'd die to defend

I want to lay you down on a bed of roses
For tonight I sleep on a bed on nails
I want to be just as close as the Holy Ghost is
And lay you down on bed of roses

Bed Of Roses

Home

written by Leo Gstrein
all instruments by Leo Gstrein

At home with you, some said it wouldn’t pay
And we are trying to prove them wrong in a way

And eyes were staring in a disbelieving way
No great divide, we have turned this into our domain
We surely made this home!

Here we are, the world is in full delay
He was proud, didn’t see it as a mistake, oh no way

And eyes were staring in a disbelieving way
No great divide, we have turned this into our domain
We surely made this home!

O home is fine, created by two souls anyway (and I love you still)
And I’m glad that we made such a lovely place (after 30 years)
O home is fine, created with love, time and again (and I love you still)
And I enjoy this place each and every day
This is our precious home!

Leo Gstrein - Home

Are You The One That I've Been Waiting For?

Written by: Nicholas Edward Cave
Performed by Secret Motel
Leo Gstrein - Vocals, Guitars, Bass and all other sounds.
Belinda Gstrein - Backing Vocals

I've felt you coming girl, as you drew near
I knew you'd find me, cause I longed you here
Are you my destiny? Is this how you'll appear?
Wrapped in a coat with tears in your eyes?
Well take that coat babe, and throw it on the floor
Are you the one I've been waiting for?

As you've been moving, surely toward me
My soul has comforted and assured me
That in time my heart it will reward me
And that all will be revealed
So I've sat and I've watched an ice-age thaw
Are you the one I've been waiting for?

Out of sorrow entire worlds have been built
Out of longing great wonders have been willed
They're only little tears, darling, let them spill
And lay your head upon my shoulder
Outside my window the world has gone to war
Are you the one I've been waiting for?

O we will know... won't we?
The stars will explode in the sky
But they don't... do they?
Stars have their moment and then they die

There's a man who spoke wonders though I've never met him
He said, "He who seeks finds and who knocks will be let in"
I think of you in motion and just how close you are getting
And how every little thing anticipates you
All down my veins my heart-strings call
Are you the one I've been waiting for?

Are You The One That I've Been Waiting For

Something 

Written by George Harrison
Strings taken from original recording

Recorded for Belinda for our 31st anniversary <3  

Something in the way she moves
Attracts me like no other lover
Something in the way she woos me

I don't want to leave her now
You know I believe and how

Somewhere in her smile she knows
That I don't need no other lover
Something in her style that shows me

I don't want to leave her now
You know I believe and how

You're asking me will my love grow
I don't know, I don't know
You stick around, now it may show
I don't know, I don't know

Something in the way she knows
And all I have to do is think of her
Something in the things she shows me

I don't want to leave her now
You know I believe and how

Something

Written by Glen Hansard

Songs we played in ZOOM concerts for my colleagues during the 2020 Corona Virus Lockdown

The Comfort Sessions

Lay Me Down

Written by Damien Rice

Songs we played in ZOOM concerts for my colleagues during the 2020 Corona Virus Lockdown

Volcano

Star Star

Written by Danny Vera and Mercy John

Songs we played in ZOOM concerts for my colleagues during the 2020 Corona Virus Lockdown

Rollercoaster

Written by Glen Hansard and Markéta Irglová

Songs we played in ZOOM concerts for my colleagues during the 2020 Corona Virus Lockdown

Falling Slowly

River

Original artist: Leon Bridges
Songwriters: Austin Jenkins / Chris Vivion / Joshua Block / Todd Michael Bridges

Been traveling these wide roads for so long
My heart's been far from you
Ten-thousand miles gone

Oh, I wanna come near and give ya
Every part of me
But there's blood on my hands
And my lips aren't clean

In my darkness I remember
Momma's words reoccur to me
"Surrender to the good Lord
And he'll wipe your slate clean"

Take me to your river
I wanna go
Oh, go on
Take me to your river
I wanna know

Tip me in your smooth waters
I go in
As a man with many crimes
Come up for air
As my sins flow down the Jordan

Oh, I wanna come near and give ya
Every part of me
But there's blood on my hands
And my lips aren't clean

Take me to your river
I wanna go
Go on,
Take me to your river
I wanna know

I wanna go, wanna go, wanna go
I wanna know, wanna know, wanna know
Wanna go, wanna go, wanna go
Wanna know, wanna know, wanna know
Wanna go, wanna go, wanna go
Wanna know, wanna know, wanna know

Take me to your river
I wanna go
Lord, please let me know
Take me to your river
I wanna know

River

Project of Home Recordings (my own songs and some covers). Vacancy is a collection of songs I recorded with the support of my wife Belinda. She will feature on some duets and can also be heard as backing vocalist on most of the other tracks. 

This album will be completed in the next couple of months and the idea is to add songs the moment  they are completed. So if you are interested and like the songs please like/share and sing along.

Love,
Leo & Belinda Gstrein


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