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Words and Music: KJ Denhert © 2002

That place where I used to stay
In the swell of Sunday papers
That place where we danced that day
When the call came through
I knew it’d be outrageous
For part of the time
I thought I was courageous
Until you crossed the line
The highway is steeper now
Downshift it for the climb
The silence was deafening
In the place where I used to stay
Was I under some influence?
That was unbeknownst to me
It makes a real big difference
What you know and what you see
There’s no sense in the pregnant pause
Just get it out is what I say
That place that I call my home
Is just the place I used to stay
The highway is steeper now
Downshift it for the climb
The silence was deafening
In the place where I used to stay
The silence was deafening
The silence was deafening
The silence was deafening
In the place that I used to stay

KJ Denhert
Whynot Jansveld
Peter Vitalone
Ned Mann
Ray Levier
Sue Hadjopoulos
David Mann

acoustic guitar, vocals
bass
piano, keyboards
drum loops & programming
drums
congas, percussion
keyboards

Words and Music: KJ Denhert © 2002

Someone come and wake me up
In my Lakewood home
You’re as sweet as coffee in the cup
And you warmed me down to my soul
Times got hard and we messed up
Where was I to go
Seems the harder that I try
The more that I feel alone
You’re just like some,
Oleander, over on the left
My heart is aching to do what’s best
Had a plan then, I made up the rest
Oleander my old friend
Seems my friends don’t call as much
And I think they all know
You’ve grown colder for my touch
And you’re working me down to the bone
You’re just like some,
Oleander, over on the left
My heart is aching to do what’s best
Had a plan then, I made up the rest
Oleander my old friend
If we can’t start a better life
Where am I to go
There’ll be peace on someone’s street
There’ll be hearts of gold
There’ll be someone else’s feet
Leaving footprints in the snow
Seems that I believed in something better
No one else I know could love you more
Seems that I believed in something better
But I did not want to let go
No I did not want to let go
Oleander…

KJ Denhert
Phil Gaita
Anthony Robustelli

Ray Levier
Sue Hadjopoulos

acoustic guitar, vocals
bass
Rhodes, Wurlitzer, bk. vocals,
drum programming
drums
percussio

Words and Music: KJ Denhert © 2002

Little Mary stays up late at night
The clock keeps ticking but she’s putting up a real good fight
Don’t trust the mirror if it don’t feel good
Nobody knows you in this neighborhood
Little Mary don’t you be afraid
There are a million of us feeling this way
You may be cryin’ when the moon is full
But tomorrow could be a damn nice day
Little Mary she’s the lonesome type
She don’t see too much as black or white
Give her a chance to walk and she won’t fight
Cuz’ little Mary wants to do what’s right
Little Mary don’t you be afraid…
Oh little Mary did you check your stars today
Who said Mercury is in retrograde?
Oh little Mary is that old bed made?
She likes a lot of sugar in her lemonade
Little Mary you’re the best when you’re a little bit afraid
Poor little Mary let alone she wants a life
She’s expected in the morning with a gig at night
She’s thinking about her job, her life
Allons nous dansons, chantons
This is not your swan song girl
Little Mary stays up late at night
The clock keeps ticking but she’s putting up a real good fight
Don’t trust the mirror if it don’t feel good
Nobody knows you in this neighborhood
Little Mary don’t you be afraid…

KJ Denhert
Whynot Jansveld
Peter Vitalone
Ned Mann
Sue Hadjopoulos

acoustic guitars,
electric guitars, vocals
bass
Rhodes, keyboards
drum loops and programming
congas, percussion

Words and Music: KJ Denhert © 2002

She’s waiting and she’s fighting for things beyond her reach
She’s walking in the wind upon a beach
She says wash away these footprints, take them out to sea
Gather up my fondest and my hard-earned memories
Oh Violet
Do you have a song for me
I’ve been feeling so much better can’t you see
Be my pilot
Show me all that’s left to see
I’ll be by your side
Steady like the tide
Waiting for your company
We wanted to be lovers like sunrise and the sea
We waded in like infants undressed but with dignity
In the swells we swam
Splashing with our feet ’til the waves came crashing
We were wild but we were free
Oh Violet
Do you have a song for me
I’ve been feeling so much better can’t you see
Be my pilot
Show me all that’s left to see
I’ll be by your side
Steady like the tide
Waiting for your company
I’ve been waiting, waiting, waiting for your company

Words and Music: KJ Denhert
Additional Lyrics: Jennifer Levy
© 2002 KJ Denhert

I’ve been listening for hours
I’ve been staying up way past ten
I have cast away the flowers
They don’t speak of now they speak of then
Honestly, you don’t play hide and seek
When a girl like me comes knocking at your door
Can’t you see the obvious before you
With a girl like me you know you won’t get bored
Why am I listening for hours?
While you talk and talk and tell me how I feel
You’re such an expert but where you fail
Is in telling me what for you is real
Honestly, you don’t play hide and seek…
I can see it, clear as daylight
Clear as words and you know that I don’t lie
I don’t settle, and yes you know that I mean it
Did you say I should be yours and you, mine?
It’s really simple as one, two, three
You don’t go messing with a girl like me
No need to worry if it don’t feel right
I’ll call somebody else some other night
It’s really simple as one, two, three
You don’t go messing with a girl like me
I tell you honestly it don’t seem right
I’ll call somebody else some other night
I’ve been listening for hours
Now I’m ready to claim what’s mine
I have cast away the flowers
I’m just making room for the next in line
Honestly, you don’t play hide and seek…
It’s really simple as one, two, three…

KJ Denhert
Octavio Kotan
Mamadou Ba
Peter Vitalone
Maria Breyer
Ray Levier
David Mann

nylon acoustic guitar, vocals
steel string acoustic guitar
bass
piano
percussion, percussion arrangement
drums
flute, Rhodes, keyboards

Lennon/McCartney GIL MUSIC CORP

© 2002 KJ Denhert
You think you lost your love
Well I saw her yesterday
It’s you she’s thinking of
And she told me what to say
She said she loves you
And you know that can’t be bad
She loves you and you know
You should be glad
Since you went away
She almost lost her mind
Now she says she knows
That you’re not the hurting kind
Because she loves you
And you know that can’t be bad
She loves you and you know
You should be glad
She loves you yeah, yeah, yeah
She loves you yeah, yeah
With a love like that
You know you should be glad
Now it’s up to you
I think it’s only fair
Pride can hurt you too
Apologize to her
Because she loves you
And you know that can’t be bad
She loves you and you know
You should be glad
She loves you yeah, yeah, yeah…

KJ Denhert
Whynot Jansveld
Peter Vitalone
Ray Levier
Sue Hadjopoulos

acoustic guitars, vocals
bass
piano
drums
congas, percussion

© 2002 KJ Denhert

I will feel better
Yes something’s lost
I will feel better
No matter what the cost
You were the one that would challenge my faith
Sargent at arms in a war
We think with our hearts
Then we try to save face
And so I laugh
Comes a time when all things must change
There are things that changed about me
Comes a time when our love feels strange
And the love will lead us free
How many ways can I make this heart better
How many days in the month of July
How many sadly impossible melodies
Run through my head at the look in your eye
And still I try

KJ Denhert
Stephan Crump
Peter Vitalone

acoustic guitar, vocals
acoustic bass
piano

Words and Music: KJ Denhert © 2002

At the turning point of misbegotten love
There’s nowhere else that we could go
I was intoxicated by your simple smile
You touched my hand and I was aglow
We crept like church mice down a corridor
Into an open door and found a place to kiss
No matter how hard I denied it, tried to fight it
I knew we’d end up here like this
Darling let’s be daring, because I’m real scared
To let the pieces fall in place,
I like your face, I like your face
You know I really like your face
Better get ready for a change here
This is no infatuation
If it’s wrong to know I want you like I want you
Then all I know is what I want is really, really wrong
We crept like church mice down a corridor
Into an open door and found a place to kiss
No matter how hard I denied it, tried to fight it
I knew we’d end up here like this
Darling let’s be daring, because I’m real scared…
To let the pieces fall in place,
I like your face, I like your face
You know I really like your face

KJ Denhert
Phil Gaita
Anthony Robustelli

Ray Levier
Sue Hadjopolous

acoustic guitar, vocals
bass
Rhodes, Wurltizer, bk vocals,
electric guitar, drum programming
drums
congas and percussion

Music: KJ Denhert

Lyrics: Kelly Polian
© 2002 KJ Denhert

When I was young I would swing on a swing
My cares would go flying so far and away
The dreams I would dream would come crashing through
And the stars they wold cry for the last red July
Slow as the turtles would crawl the sunset would bleed
And the mountains stood firmly in place
When I was a child and the music was blaring
The angels fled fearing the last red July
The angels fled fearing the last red July
Red July

Words and Music: KJ Denhert © 2002
* additional lyrics: Tara Sullivan

I have lived through trouble in a world that changes always
City streets they tremble, Haiti to South Central always
Headlines of the ages, know a world whose rage is always
Rising from the ashes came a signal for a change
Be not, be not afraid
Take this child into your heart and make her whole again
I know that it is insane
To think that we should fall in love to be whole again
You’ve got to believe like rain
Joy will fall again
* See the sky has opened and the stars are falling always into my eyes
* See the angels racing for to save the nation always
Headlines of the ages, know a world whose rage is always
Rising from the ashes, came a signal for a change
Be not, be not afraid
Take this child into your heart and make her whole again
I know that it is insane
To think that we should fall in love to be whole again
You’ve got to believe like rain
Joy will fall again
I’ve seen the red, seen the Red July
I’ve seen the red seen the Red July

Sting, EMI BLACKWOOD MUSIC INC OBO MAGNETIC PUBLISHING LTD
© 2002 KJ Denhert

Just a cast away
An island lost at sea
Another lonely day
And there’s no one here but me
More loneliness
Than any man could bare
Rescue me before I
Fall into despair
I’ll send an SOS to the world
Send an SOS to the world
I hope that someone gets my
Message in a bottle
A year has past
Since I wrote my note
I should have known this
Right from the start
Only love can keep us together
Love can mend your life
Or love can break your heart
I’ll send an SOS to the world
Send an SOS to the world
I hope that someone gets my
I hope that someone gets my
Message in a bottle
Woke up this morning
Don’t believe what I saw
A hundred, million bottles
Washed up on the shore
Seems I’m not alone in being alone
There’s a hundred, million cast always
Looking for a home
I’ll send an SOS…

KJ Denhert
Sheryl Bailey
Whynot Jansveld
Peter Vitalone
Ray Levier
Maria Breyer
Giovani Arencibia

acoustic guitar, vocals
electric guitar
bass
piano
drums
percussion
congas

Traditional
© 2002 KJ Denhert

Well I come from Alabama
With a banjo on my knee
And I’m bound for Louisiana
My own true love for to see
It rained all night
The day I left
The weather was bone dry
Sun so hot I froze myself
Susannah don’t you cry
Oh Susannah
Don’t you cry for me
Cuz I come from Alabama
With a Banjo on my knee
Oh Susannah
Don’t you cry for me
Cuz I come from New York City
And I brought this old guitar
Some good times and some scars
I brought this old guitar with me

KJ Denhert
Whynot Jansveld
Peter Vitalone
Ray Levier

acoustic guitar, vocals
bass
piano
drums