Book Of Love
© 2011 by Eric Carl Dahl

You better tell yourself
if you want to fall in love
Tell yourself, “I want the right kind of love.”
Don’t have to say why.
Just say, “I wanna fall in love,
don’t know how or when,
maybe a few years from now,
maybe tonight.

Faith, hope and falling for someone, chapter 23,
No map on the road to happiness—it’s a mystery.

How can I believe when I feel this way?
How can anything change what I face day by day?
That’s a fair question,
let’s look it up in the book of love.
Believin’ is a deep-down obligation.
Without it there’s no opening up, no revelation.
You gotta believe. I believe.
I believe you’re headed for a transformation.

Faith, hope and fallin for someone, chapter 33,
no map on the road to happiness, it’s a mystery

When things been going wrong,
got you down on your knees
There’s a one-word song, sing it: Mercy.
Remember how they sing it now,
Mercy, mercy, mercy, mercy, mercy.

Faith hope and fallin for someone, chapter 43,
no map on the road to happiness, it’s a mystery.

What are the odds that love’s gonna come?
Maybe you heard five million to one.
If you ask the sibylline oracle or the trinity,
Look em right back in the face and say,
It’s gonna happen to me, it’s gonna happen to me,
It’s gonna happen, yeah, yeah.

Faith, hope and falling for someone, chapter 53,
No map on the road to happiness—it’s a mystery.

Faith, hope and falling for someone, chapter 93,
No map on the road to happiness—it’s a mystery.

Live By Your Word

Book Of Love

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The Dumbest Game
© 2011 by Eric Carl Dahl

You look beat down taking it hard
Hoping it changes on the very next card
Deuce or double, it’s all the same.
I might not play the smartest hand
But I win sometimes because I understand
How to find that table with the dumbest game.

Was a time I said I’ll take the world
Line up the drinks, bring me the girl,
Give me the front page. I need the fame.
Kept coming back getting hit in the head
Till the father of one of my best friends said,
“Son, you better find the dumbest game.”

I lost time and I lost good money
Lost some friends but you know it’s funny
I won it back in the dumbest game.
I might not play the smartest hand
But I win sometimes because I understand
How to find that table with the dumbest game.

The Dumbest Game

One Step Up
© 2011 by Eric Carl Dahl

I

Disappointment wearing
Worn-out shoes,
You’re not talking
But it’s on the news.
Someone’s gotta pay,
Heads are gonna roll,
Even the sacrificial victim
can’t save a soul.

Why don’t you trust me tonight
To know what’s wrong and do what’s right?
You don’t have to fight it,
You can rise up some other day.

It’s one step up, two steps back
After love knocks you down
Like a heart attack.
What lifts us up
Is the selfishness and sorrow
Falling away.

II

This neon night is real, now is now,
Show you how to walk
If you wanna know how.
There’s a doorway round the corner
Where I fell on my face,
You know I never think about it
When I walk past that place.

Why don’t you trust me tonight
To know what’s wrong and do what’s right?
The scene running through your head
Is one you never play.

One step up, two steps back
After love knocks you down
Like a heart attack.
What lifts us up
Is the selfishness and sorrow
Falling away.

One step up, two steps back
After love knocks you down
Like a heart attack.
What lifts us up
Is the selfishness and sorrow
Falling away.

It’s one step up,
One step up,
Take one step up,
One step up.

One Step Up

Live By Your Word
© 2011 by Eric Carl Dahl

Got a friend, he’s a car mechanic
Says fixing broke-down cars is not his niche
There are so many mechanics
and he’s not trying to get rich.
He’s an honest man, that’s a lifelong position
His niche is being an honest mechanic
He says there’s no competition.

These are some broke-down days
In case you haven’t heard.
Gonna get confused and lost in the maze
Unless you live by your word.

Came here looking for a job,
stranger said she’d get me on track.
When she called with work, I was so grateful and surprised
She said, “Did you think
I wouldn’t call back?”
I said, “Maybe I’m not used to
people doing what they say.”
She said, “In these parts
you better do what you promise
Or you have to move away.”

These are some broke-down days —

The way you waited to attack
until I’d given all I’ve given
And the way you went blank
as you knifed me in the back
Are the true signs of the times we live in.

These are some broke-down days
In case you haven’t heard.
Gonna get confused and lost in the maze
Unless you live by your word.

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Eric Dahl is a songwriter with ties to the state of Washington on both sides of the Cascade mountains. He was born in Colville in the northeastern corner of the state. His father was a teacher from Spokane who soon moved with his family to western Washington. Dahl’s mother is a native of Leavenworth with relatives in the Wenatchee Valley. Eric grew up in Kent and south Seattle, but thanks to his maternal grandfather and uncles, he worked in the Leavenworth fruit orchards and hiked from an early age in the Cascade Mountains to the high lakes. Later he studied and published poetry at Whitman College in Walla Walla, the University of Washington in Seattle, and at Oxford University where he was awarded the Isis Poetry Prize.

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