Say your vows backwards – to have and to hold  
Hold to and have to (hold to what we each know to be true for us right now)  
Say your vows backwards – for richer or for poorer  
Poorer for, richer for (it and all that this has been) 
 
Forward day this from (what we say) – undo  
Cherish to and (end)  love  
  
Say your vows backwards – in sickness and in health  
Health in and sickness in (this, it got unwell, and recognizing that is health)  
Say your vows backwards – til death to us part  
Part us do death til (we meet again or not)   

Forward day this from (what we say) – undo  
Cherish to and (end) Love  

Undo Undo Undo

Caylie Staples - Undo (Marriage Vows) (SO = Amicable Parting)

Nothing is good for something…  I am the keeper, the keeper

All the rubble in the garage is useful
I’m an artist, I create things, ‘oh this is useful!’
‘Order a skip…I’ll throw this out!’ How could you?
Yes, I keep things ‘I’m no hoarder!!” HOW DARE YOU!

I’M LOOKING FOR those 40-year-old t-shirts
‘Frankie says RELAX!’ and Wham! said ‘CHOOSE LIFE!” 
They’ll be handy for a 1980’s par ty
I’ll be authentic cos I keep things and I’m ‘arty!’
…There’s nothing nicer knowing somewhere HIDDEN I have…

“EVERYTHING I EVER WANTED… a voice inside my head says…
THROW it all away (whisper under) … NO!!!!!!! I will keep everything”

‘There’s a void in your REAL life’ don’t you talk so stupid
Well my parents split when I was 5, yes they did
What if all this stuff just somehow, someway, soothes me?
From my issues of abandonment, I’m loosely…
CRUMBLING inside, I must KEEP all this round me
Cos without it where’s my PAST gone, surely you see?

Now the garage has no WALK-WAY – it’s a danger
I could trip over one of the 3 lawnmowers
I won’t ever, never, throw that dishwasher away
Though it’s six years old, I might LIST it on eBay!

I live in hope that someday you’ll STOP NAGGING, will you?
I’m KEEPING everything, for now, AND that INCLUDES you
Cos you’re ‘A KEEPER’ and I simply DO love you 
Remember getting THIS house, Our first together… 
‘TRIPPLE garage?!!?’ … ‘NO WAAAAY!!!’ - ‘WeeHOOO!’

Nothing is good for something…  I am the keeper, the keeper

Paul Sanders - The Keeper (SO = celebration of hoarding)

Turn off your screens
Set down your phone
Take your melatonin
Listen to me drone...

Peg Cloonan - Lullaby For Teenager (acapella) (SO = lullaby)

I don’t want you to call me in the middle of the night Don’t call me up when you’re bored
Don’t call me after a big fight
Or when you’re not in rehab anymore
I don’t want you to call me at all....
....Aw that’s alright You weren’t that bad You’re the best friend I ever had
Welcome back Welcome back Welcome back Welcome back Welcome back Welcome back
Don’t call me when you break up with buddy
And you don’t know where you are
Definitely don’t call me when you’re getting low on money Or you’re in trouble with the law
I don’t want to talk to you at all....
....Aw that’s alright You weren’t that bad You’re the best friend I ever had
Welcome back Welcome back Welcome back Welcome back Welcome back Welcome back
Then one day, an apology
Striking simplicity sincerity
Feels real
Unlike the previous five hundred and fifty three...
....Aw that’s alright
You weren’t that bad
You’re the best friend I ever had
Welcome back Welcome back Welcome back
Welcome back
Glad you’re back Welcome back You’re back on track That’s a fact You’re all that Welcome back

Judy Margaree Tobin - Welcome Back (SO = sobriety)

The Speckless Sky

One More Colour

When I’m With You
									By Karen Jonsson
										May 2020
							
When I’m with you      I feel so free.     
It’s like magic
You take me where I want to be

When I’m holding you     
So close 
I feel so high        ( Or —-   feel so alive )

Chorus: 
               Every time we’re together      
               You never let me down
               You (always) lift my spirits.     
               Bring me around

              Im riding on a  wave of love.     
              soaring so high
               I feel so close 
              Never want to come down

(Guitar solo)

Verse 2 When I’m with you     I feel so free.     
It’s like magic
You take me where I want to be

When I’m holding you     
So close 
I feel so high

                Every time we’re together      
               You never let me down
               You (always) lift my spirits.     
               Bring me around

              Im riding on a  wave of love.     
              soaring so high
               I feel so close 
              Never want to come down

Breathing Room

Karen Jonsson - When I'm With You

Caylie Staples – Mutual Parting
Draft version 2020

For the occasion of a mutual ending of a relationship/partnership in an amicable and graceful way. To be sung at a gathering by the community that the couple has invited to support them in honouring their parting: 


VERSE: 
[D] We stand here to [B-] honour and [F-] witness [A]
[D] A love and two [B-] lives that are [F-] changing [A]
[D] a union that [B-] brought so many [F-] gifts [A]
[D] And now as you [B-] choose new [F-] directions [A]/Today marks a new direction 

CHORUS: 
[G] We are [D] gathered [F-] here this [B-] day/We gather here this day 
[G] As you [D] choose [B-] different [F-] paths/a new path 
[G] We honour [D] every [F-] step of the [B-] way 
[G] And we are [A] here for [B-] you

BRIDGE: 
[A] Life’s beau- [B-] ty   [G] comes [A] In    [D] so          [F-] many [A] ways
[A] Beau-        [B-] ty in  [G] choice [A] and [D] beauty [F-] in       [A] change
[A] When one [B-] thing [G] ends [A] and [D] Something [F-] else [A] starts
[A] We ho- [B-] nour life’s/it’s [G] beau-[A] ty [D] Here in [F-] our [A] hearts

VERSE: 
[D] As we stand here to [B-] honour and [F-] witness [A]
[D] A love and two [B-] lives that are [F-] changing [A]
[D] a union that [B-] brought so many [F-] gifts [A]
[D] And now as you [B-] choose new [F-] directions [A]/Today marks a new direction 

CHORUS:  
[G] We are [D] gathered [F-] here this [B-] day 
[G] As you [D] choose [B-] different [F-] paths 
[G] We honour [D] every [F-] step of the [B-] way 
[G] And we are [A] here for [B-] you

Arrangement ideas: 

Beautiful guitar part that has arpeggios.

jane siberry

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