perhaps what will be left is the space where new love begins...

When an old stranger dies with a smile, his echo lingers in every bird, bone, and breath. You can tell from the look in his eyes.  Memory is never alone—because nothing ever really is.  

THE LOOK IN MY EYES              

The first of June I saw a man pen in hand lying still
He looked at me through ancient eyes and he saw I was afraid
He could not speak but he smiled and he wrote these words to me

"Don't mind me I'm only dying
Just remember my face
The look in my eyes
You'll see them again someplace."

On August eighth I heard the news from a friend the man had died
They say he sang all alone but his song had harmony
His final words were "Tell the birds I'm ready now to fly some more

"Don't mind me I'm only dying
Just remember my face
The look in my eyes
You'll see them again and again and again some place."

I'm not alone within my bones, all my lives are living there
I'm not alone within my bones, all my lives are living there
I'm not alone within my bones, all my lives are living there
I'm not alone within my bones, all my lives are living there


Co-produced, engineering, and recorded at Theta Sound Studio in Burbank, CA, by Randall Michael Tobin.  

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THE LOOK IN MY EYES

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Time marches on and tomorrow is a wish.  
The beginning of a breakthrough on the brink of disaster
The Promised Land      is in your heart
	It's not a tract of real estate.

Creation is mutation.
Innovation is destruction.  
Optimism is no delusion.  
	Trees live mostly in a state of slumber
 	Fantasy doesn't come cheaply anymore

     Uproar precedes me
Everyone around me is distracted as I pass    
         I become invisible
         I remain invisible.

     Life in a box
Routines and rituals
	I don’t mind waiting
My roots go deep
Gives me time to be alone
So I can plagiarize the future.

Seeing with the eye of reason 
Seeing with the eye of wisdom
Your guru is looking out of your eyes right now
      To live in fun
	To let your fun be in the open
	TO LAUGH FOR NO REASON
TO LAUGH FOR NO REASON
TO LAUGH FOR NO REASON
      No Reason

copyright 2025 by Stephen Sharp

Recorded at Theta Sound Studio, Burbank, CA

TO LAUGH FOR NO REASON

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The world is out of focus
The world is out of tune
The world is out of sync
The world is out to get me
The world is full of hate
The world is full of lies
The world is full of options
Each of us is all alone.

The world is out of focus
The world is out of tune
The world is out of sync
The world is out to get me
The world is full of hate
The world is full of lies
The world is full of love
All we have is each other.

copyright 2025 by Stephen K. Sharp
Recorded at Theta Sound Studio, Burbank, CA

ZAP THE WORLD

Consciousness has the same standing in my mind as do Space and Time.  SpaceTimeConsciousness.
And Love is a healing force in the continuum.

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SOME DAY the sky will fall, SOME DAY
SOME DAY the mountains will burn
SOME DAY the seas will dry, SOME DAY
Or maybe SOME DAY we’ll learn that
	Love is not just a fairytale
	To keep children from despair
	But love is the touch that heals a heart
	If only we take time to care.

SOME DAY the car will crash, SOME DAY
SOME DAY some madman will kill
SOME DAY that bomb will flash, SOME DAY
Or maybe SOME DAY we will learn that
	Love is not just a fairytale
	To keep children from despair
	But love is the touch that heals the heart
	If only we take time to care.

SOME DAY the earth will die, SOME DAY
SOME DAY the sun will explode
Who knows where we may be that day
Or just how far science can go
	With love in control of the merry-go-round
	Rising and falling in time
	No, love is not just a fairytale
	The love that blends reason and rhyme
	The love that blends reason and rhyme

No, love is not just a fairytale
It’s as real as space and time.

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THANKS TO THE COLLABORATORS
Dan Bridston                    Vocal coach 
Randall Michael Tobin     Producer, Engineer, Musician. etc/
Amy Wolfsohn                  Vocals

Recorded at Theta Sound Studio in Burbank, CA

PEACE   
Steve   
                                     Copyright by Stephen Sharp 2014

MESSAGES

Some Day (Love is not just a fairytale)

SOME DAY (Love is not just a fairytale)

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I go to see the Rich Man. ’cause I need money
For an operation for my honey,
He say, "Times are hard, life makes you bleed,
But I'll bet anything it's not what you need.
	IT'S ONLY MONEY, it'll never take you home."

I say, my credit is good. I work full time.
My bills are paid. I don't owe a dime.
But the surgeon fee is out of sight.
I pay you back, man, I do you right.   After all
	IT'S ONLY MONEY, but it gets you where you go.
	IT'S ONLY MONEY, but it gets you where you go.

He say, "We make a deal.  You just sign
On the bottom page on the dotted line.
	IT'S ONLY MONEY and interest rates are low."

He turn and walk away.  I watch him go.
He don't look behind, but he look below.
I swear I see a pitchfork in his hand.
Yeh, I swear I see a pitchfork in his hand.
	IT'S ONLY MONEY but where else can I go?

I go back home to my honey.
I say, here it is babe, but something funny.
	IT'S ONLY MONEY but it never let you go.
	IT'S ONLY MONEY but it never let you go.
	IT'S ONLY MONEY	IT'S ONLY MONEY.
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THANKS TO THE COLLABORATORS
Dan Bridston                      Vocal coach
Randall Michael Tobin       Producer, Engineer, Musician
Randy Crenshaw                Vocals

Recorded at Theta Sound Studio in Burbank, CA

PEACE   
Steve   
                                     Copyright by Stephen Sharp 1980

IT'S ONLY MONEY

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We only see one side
Teeming millions we never hear from
Everyone has cried
And coped as best we can
WHAT DO YOU BELIEVE?

Everyone alive
Grew up in a different story
By the age of five
A pattern snapped in place
The painting has been framed 
WHAT DO YOU BELIEVE?

How are we different?
How much the same?
Anyone’s blood may save me one day
And there may be no way to say “Thank you”.

So get outside your tribe
Into skin of another color
Feel that human vibe
Watch from a camera in your brain
We’ve seen it all before.
WHAT DO YOU BELIEVE?
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SPECIAL THANKS TO
Dan Bridston                 Vocal Coach
Randall Michael Tobin  Producer, Engineer, Musician

Recorded at Theta Sound Studio in Burbank, CA

PEACE   
Steve   
                                     Copyright by Stephen Sharp 2017

SOME DAY

WHAT DO YOU BELIEVE?

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Floating on the surface of the mighty breathing sea
Flying through the air inside your mind
Flashing here and flashing there
Love is hiding ev'rywhere to find
May your dreams come true tonight.

Cotton balls of karma pad your way
Images of animals at play
Protected by a golden glow
The dream it seems will never go away
May your dreams come true today.

Maybe there's an oracle just around the bend 
Maybe there's a joker make of clay
No one knows just how time flows
We only know it flows one way 
Even if you pray.
	
[Interlude]

Grab it from the outside and pull it into you
Breathing in the air and holding tight
Feel the blood a'pulsing through the temples of your brain	
Goodnight.
May your dreams come true tonight
May your dreams come true tonight.
	
Copyright © 2018 by Stephen Sharp
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THANKS TO:
Randall Michael Tobin   Producer, Arranger, Musician
Amy Wolfsohn                Vocals
Basil Fung                        Guitars
Dan Bridston                   Vocal Coach

Recorded at Theta Sound Studio in Burbank, CA

PEACE   
Steve   
                                     Copyright by Stephen Sharp 2018

TO EMBRY:  May Your Dreams Come True

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ONCE UPON A TIME many years ago
A man in a hat stepped from the shadows
One o’clock chime, the beer joint loud and neon
A baseball bat streaked with someone’s blood

ONCE UPON A TIME long before you knew me
There was this guy, a real piece of work
He committed a crime behind the music blaring
Got scared and ran without a second look
          To this day that man is haunted
          And hungry for a love to heal his heart

Came a time—just watch the hourglass trickle
I guess he was just one of the lucky ones
To stumble upon such a serendipity
Injected with the serum of love
          Every one of us has a sad story
          The hell we’ve been through 
          And where we’re trying to go	
          And you know that
		We’re human, we are love
		All human, we are love
		We’re human, we are love
		We’re all human, and we are 

ONCE UPON A TIME on a far-off planet
Love is there in every breath
Reason and rhyme rule the hearts of every being
Enlightenment has torn the veil of death
          Currents of life moving through you
          Moving from the center of a sphere 
          (we’re all here, and )
		We’re human, we are love
		All human, we are love
		We’re human, we are love
		We’re all human, and we are love
		We’re human, we are love
		All human, we are love
		We’re human, we are love
		We’re all human, and we are 

Got a guitar now, it drips right through his fingers
He’s going far some lucky day
Used to the baggage now, it makes him stronger
Even though he cries along the way

          Good for him that he’s got you there
          Good for him and surely good for you, because
		We’re human, we are love
		All human, we are love
		We’re human, we are love
		We’re all human, and we are love
		We’re human, we are love
		All human, we are love
		We’re human, we are love
		We’re all human, and we are 
 
ONCE UPON A TIME in the distant present
It’s about time don’t you know
ONCE UPON A TIME in the distant present
It’s about time don’t you know

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THANKS TO THE COLLABORATORS
Dan Bridston		        Vocal Coach
Randall Michael Tobin	Producer, Engineer, Electric Bass, etc.
Randy Crenshaw		Vocal arrangement, Vocals
Basil Fung		        Guitars
Sam Flores		        Drums, Percussion

Recorded at Theta Sound Studio in Burbank, CA

PEACE   
Steve   
                                     Copyright by Stephen Sharp 2013

ONCE UPON A TIME

IN MEMORIUM:  Blanche Krammes Sharp  (1917-2013)

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I built a lattice out of lettuce
Let us climb a letter ladder
Let the universe reveal itself to us
Let the whispers of its vespers 
Sing a song we sing along to
With the music of a thousand years of tears
I forgive you, I shall live through 
Many lonely nights without you
And your knowledge of the college of the stars.
There’s a brand new constellation
In the heavens of the heathens
And you never know what stories heathens tell.

Yes, we love you, far above you
As your memory melts and drifts
In the rifts within the cliffs among the clouds
You were Mommy, Mom, and Mother
Other things for other brothers
And what bothered you will never hurt again
You are dead now, all that’s left, now
Is the vestige of your visage
In an attic filled with images of you.
And the fabric of my mind is torn
But healing as I find
That feeling left behind is GRATITUDE.
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THANKS TO THE COLLABORATORS
Dan Bridston                   Vocal coach
Randall Michael Tobin    Producer, Engineer, Musician
Randy Crenshaw             Vocals

Recorded at Theta Sound Studio in Burbank, CA

PEACE   
Steve   
                                     Copyright by Stephen K. Sharp 2014

THE WRITING ON THE WALL

GRATITUDE

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The knight, he turned to the damsel.
He said, “Milady, be warned.
Ahead there lurks a grave danger.
The dragon should never be scorned.
But there’s no need to be forlorn.
Let play the horn.”    [HORN]

“Soldiers at ready protect you.
Ladies-in-waiting at hand.
The wagons are stocked with provisions.
That dragon can make his demand but
I will never remand you 
To his hand.
No, I will never remand you
To his hand.”  [HORN]

	“Take from my hand this rose of red.
	Place on your pillow at night.
	This scent on my fingertips by your head . . .
	I shall sleep soundly tonight.

“I alone can confront him.
My virtuous life is the key.
My heart of gold to shield me.
My lance and my sword will succeed
And the kingdom will be freed
Of the dragon’s greed.
And the kingdom will be freed
Of the dragon’s greed.
And the kingdom will be freed
Of the dragon’s greed.”  [HORN]

Once and for all, no more dragons.
Tranquility reigns in the land.
Far and wide come together,
Together we work hand-in-hand.
Never a but, only and . . . forever and.
Never a but, only and . . . forever and.
Never a but, only and . . . forever and.   [HORN]
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THANKS TO THE COLLABORATORS
Dan Bridston                        Vocal coach
Randall Michael Tobin         Producer, Engineer, bass
Basil Fung                             Guitars
Randy Crenshaw                  Vocals, vocal arrangement, flugelhorn, recorders
Janis Liebhart                      Vocals

Recorded at Theta Sound Studio, Burbank  CA

PEACE
Steve

Copyright by Stephen K. Sharp  2014

KNIGHT DAMSEL DRAGON KINGDOM

A metaphorical mammalian melodrama in the land of the dinosaurs—a song of angst and despair, and of love and hope.  Followed, millions of years later, by the excited primate calls from the forest canopy.

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     [WHAT WILL THERE BE]

What will there be when our love is over
What will be left after everything’s said and done
When there’s no tomorrow
What will there be?
Pterodactyls perching on the powerlines
How can we puny mammals survive?
Tyrannosaurus mafia and brontosauran law
The scream of death for us from nine to five

What will there be when our love is over
What will be left after everything’s said and done
When there’s no tomorrow
What will there be?
Prehistoric Stockholm, the port of flesh and blood
Is not the sort of place for a love like ours
Extinction is awaiting us beyond the neon bend
We lie alone and die among the flowers
We hold each other in the morning dew
Outside the city of the proud
Our love is something they will never know
Oh, I love you so

What will there be when our love is over
What will be left after everything’s said and done
When there’s no tomorrow
What will there be?
Dinosaurs have given up believing in the sky
They assume that they will always rule the land
We lie alone together, staring at the stars
Knowing we may never understand, so

What will there be?
What will be left?

     [PRIMATE TO DINOSAUR]

Yay for me up in the tree, yay for me.
Boo for you down in the goo, boo for you.

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THANKS TO THE COLLABORATORS
Dan Bridston      	Vocal coach
Randall Michael Tobin  	Producer, engineer, musician. etc.
Basil Fung		Guitars
Recorded at Theta Sound Studio, Burbank  CA

PEACE
Steve

WHAT WILL THERE BE?      ©1990 by Stephen K. Sharp
PRIMATE TO DINOSAUR     ©1981 by Stephen K Sharp

WHAT WILL THERE BE / PRIMATE TO DINOSAUR

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