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Mona Lisa and the Jigsaw Man

They told that little girl to be quiet, hush her mouth
They said the priest was doing God's work in God's House
They said if she zipped it up, she'd get a big reward
when she got to heaven, yeah, praise the Lord

They told her not to tell it
They said no one would care
She didn't listen very well
She told 'em go to hell
And then she figured out
it's just a freaking movie
so she threw out all the scripts
‘cause they were stupid
and now

She doesn’t need anything from you
She doesn’t need your love
She doesn't need you to approve
Revenge is not her goal
She doesn't need a role
The stories are not holy, and
She's not her story

One time she had a shrink who said he'd never let her go
He said he'd be her boyfriend just before he locked the door
One day when she was ten years old, an uncle touched her there
but he was drunk, it doesn't count, come on now, be fair

They told her not to tell it
They said no one would care
She didn't listen very well
She told 'em go to hell
And then she figured out
it's just a freaking movie
so she threw out all the scripts
‘cause they were stupid
and now

She doesn’t need anything from you
She doesn’t need your love
She doesn't need you to approve
Revenge is not her goal
She doesn't need a role
The stories are not holy, and
She's not her story

It took her years to fully grasp
the meaning of this truth
And if she’s not her story
neither are you

She doesn’t need anything from you
She doesn’t need your love
She doesn't need you to approve
Revenge is not her goal
She doesn't need a role
The stories are not holy, and
She's not her story

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2023

SHE'S NOT HER STORY

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I saw you from a distance
A force pushed me to get close
One moment my heart was still my own
The next I looked at you
and I knew

You will be the one
who picks wildflowers
running in the sun
We'll talk for hours
You will free me
You will heal me
You will be the one
I love forever
Dancing on the rug
all crazy sexy
You and me, yeah
You will be, yeah
You will be the one

The world became our own production
The night created us a moon
The instant that you touched me
the light was shining down on you 
and I knew

You will be the one
who picks wildflowers
running in the sun
We'll talk for hours
You will free me
You will heal me
You will be the one
I love forever
Dancing on the rug
all crazy sexy
You and me, yeah
You will be, yeah
You will be the one

Oh my my, my life was in your eye-eye-eyes
and oh my my, it was done by sunrise
Yeah, I knew

You will be the one
who picks wildflowers
running in the sun
We'll talk for hours
You will free me
You will heal me
You will be the one
I love forever
Dancing on the rug
all crazy sexy
You and me, yeah
You will be, yeah
You will be the one
You will be the one

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Background vocals by Nekane

YOU WILL BE THE ONE

NOTHING CHANGES

The boy and his father were driving through
a winter's storm
His mother had died just a 
few months before
They couldn't bear the Christmas songs on the radio
so they turned it off and just stared
The wipers couldn’t keep up with the snow
He heard his father swear

Straining to see through the windshield
The boy was confused
There was something out there
and it was coming into view
His father slammed the brakes
A woman on the road
The car slid to a bank
Her hair was wet with snow
She smiled like an angel
She didn't seem cold

Tears in her eyes, she stood right there
in the headlights on such a dark night
she said

I really miss you, I love you so much
that God created this whole storm for me to get in touch
Please, don't worry, I'm just a breath away
I hear the words you say and all the prayers you pray
You can never lose me
You always could see through me
So nothing's changed, I never left
and I'll be with you every moment, step by step
Love is all there is, love still leads me home
and that's what I wanted you to know

Father and son were healed
on that night
Forty years later, in December
the father died
The last thing he saw in this temporary life
was his son hanging the Christmas tree lights
And with his last breath, he rose, hand in hand
with his wife 

Love is all there is
Love will lead us home
and that's what I wanted you to know

WHAT I WANTED YOU TO KNOW

Golden child, you held my heart and how you made me laugh
Two years old, dancing by the stereo to Fleetwood Mac
When you were ten, you begged me to buy your friend's old used guitar
and damn, son, you played that thing with so much heart

At seventeen, you played in tiny dives
You had to do it cause it made you feel alive

You'd fly, fly, fly on
with your song
You'd fly all night
Lost track
of time

Music was how you reached inside, and how you felt your soul
And you tried so hard, but it couldn't make you feel all the way whole
When you took that first sip, the pain went away
Your relief was strong, so the battle began
and the battle was long

You'd disappear into the dark for hours
It felt like alcohol and drugs were your superpower

You'd fly, fly, fly on
synthetic joy
You'd fly all night
Lost yourself
my golden boy

Then you kicked it to the curb
You sang your songs
You wrote your words
You were two years clean
but you lost your grip
and I lost you
in one final, accidental slip
and now you

Fly, fly, fly
with your song
And I hear you in my head
You say there's no such thing as dead
You say that what I taught you was right
You gotta ride ride the light and
fly, fly, fly on
with your song
Fly fly fly in
the beyond

For Karen & Joel

FLY FLY FLY

A failure here, a failure there
The desperation sticks
You'll try it once, a thousand times
Until it makes you sick

What's added on you'll cut away
With a blunted surgeon's knife
You've got to dig, you've got to pray
Uncovering your life

You're out upon the dreaded stage
Without your clothes or lines
You'll play your part so unafraid
No need to curse or whine

It calls to you, it pulls you on
Just beyond your sight
You'll go where you have never gone
Uncovering your life

The King of Wands, the Nine of Swords
The blessing and the curse
What defies the expectation
Makes the tragedy much worse

You stand upon the funeral pyre
You kiss it like a wife
You're juggling while you're on the wire
Uncovering your life

It can't be done all at one time
It takes some years to do
You've got to roll the whole thing out
Until it's clear to you

What drives you on, what holds you back
The darkness and the light
Until you've found what's off the map
Uncovering your life

The writing on the wall is yours
You scratch, then cross it out
You worry you have missed the plot
but you know what it's about

The moment you were born, you cried
Where is the peace of mind
You had it, then you lost it
uncovering your life

You're looking up, your arms outstretched
You know you are the cross
And now that you have understood
you are no longer lost

The horizontal holds you down
The vertical is bright
And where they meet is who you are
uncovering your life

The earth is there under your feet
Above the light shines through
You're looking up, your arms outstretched
And now you have found you


(c) O'Hanlon/Wentworth

UNCOVERING YOUR LIFE

I met a girl
She was buying wine
I was shopping at The Fresh Market
Down on Peachtree and Pine

Yeah, she looked up
I had to stare
'Cuz when she smiled, I couldn't see
Anything but her and me

We knew something was happening
In a real big way
But my job made me leave her
The very next day

Left half my heart in Georgia
And I'm functionally impaired
Half a heart
Is rough
If you aren't
Emotionally prepared
Half my heart in Georgia

I've been to Sacramento
And down to San Francisco
Now it's Portland and Seattle
Every mile's an uphill battle

I can't get her off my mind
She's in the traffic lights
And the damn stop signs

Left half my heart in Georgia
And I'm functionally impaired
Half a heart
Is rough
If you aren't
Emotionally prepared
Left half my heart in Georgia

I used to love these trips
Thought I'd conquer the world
But the world ain't what I want
I'm just a boy who wants that girl       

Left half my heart in Georgia
And I'm functionally impaired
Half a heart
Is rough
If you aren't
Emotionally prepared
Left half my heart in Georgia

I'm going back to Georgia
Left half my heart in Georgia

(c) Carlene M Wentworth

HALF MY HEART IN GEORGIA

You left with the angels, you left much too soon
It's Sunday morning quiet in an empty room
Your number's still saved under "Call When You're Bored"
The phone just sits there like an unopened door

But there's no door
For going back to before

It did something to me
The day that you left
I sang at your service
God knew how I felt
About you leaving
It did something to me

I found an old birthday card in my truck the other day
It said, "Tough luck, buddy boy, I didn't get you a cake"
We laughed and we drove with nowhere to go
Singing with Randy Travis on the radio

That was the cure
We loved Country Pure

It did something to me
The day that you left
I sang at your service
God knew how I felt
About you leaving
It did something to me

You always said I should sing
For a living
Said I should go to Music City
Just do it, no kidding

You did something to me
Changed the way that I see
The world and myself
All the shadows I've felt
Yeah, I headed to Nashville
Now I'm here with a head full
Of dreams
'Cause you made me believe
I could do it
Yeah, you did something to me
You did something good
To me

© Carlene M Wentworth

DID SOMETHING TO ME

Flowin' with Vibes

Retired songwriter/musician with time now to write and record music in home studio. Life is good!

Flowin' with Vibes

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