TRACK LIST
01 – Follow Your Heart
02 – House Of Cards
03 – Minding My Own
04 – Black Swan
05 – Fractions Of Love
06 – Late In The Game
07 – Life Lessons
08 – Bedside Story
09 – Stars Of Stardust
10 – Lonely Years Ago
11 – Almost To The End
12 – As Real As Wonders Can Be
LYRICS
FOLLOW YOUR HEART
Follow your heart, she said, go on, let the road choose you
You’ve gotta play your part, leaving behind what you’re used to
There will be miles ahead, lonely miles for you to walk through
Try to be smart, she said, but don’t let me lose you – now go!
Life is an art, indeed, to begin with nothing but an empty canvas
And then you start, you feed and you sin, you do what a man does
Take things for what they mean, go as they might unlike planned out
Remember my words, she said, all there’s to fight is your own doubt
It was a long, long time ago
Now he is old and he should know
Follow your heart, my son, see where it guides you
Now we depart, you run, don’t look back, luck will find you
There will be miles ahead, lonely miles for you to walk through
Remember my words, she said, and don’t let me lose you
HOUSE OF CARDS
In the search for a queen of hearts a man will turn into a gambler
And every time when a new round starts he may win her heart or damn her
Round the table the bets are raised, the fools are fooled by cheating
You should know all the one’s you’ve faced, ooh, how hard your heart is beating
Hold – all cards on the table
You know she’s willing and she’s able
Fold – you’re putting it all in
Your house of cards is falling
And in no time the stakes are high, those who loose their nerve start folding
No matter how hard you think you try you can never stop the dice from rolling
Then you see that the time has come, you’ve got to make a raise or call it
Count the odds as you count the sum – way past the point to stall it
MINDING MY OWN
Something catches my eye in her smile
We’ve been exchanging looks for a while
And I know this old feeling from being alone
So Lord keep me straight, I’m just minding my own
I was leaving and yet here I am
One more, then some, hey I’m just a man
It’s a one-minded thing, like a dog with a bone
So Lord keep me straight, I’m just minding my own
She leans in close with her legs crossed
Mindlessly twirling a strand round her finger
Slowly stroking the stem of her wine glass
And twisting her ring – yes, I see her
I’m just minding my own
Being old as I am, know the drill
Waitress, please, would you bring me the bill
And the young man I once was would stay, but I’m grown
So Lord keep me straight, I’m just minding my own
FRACTIONS OF LOVE
Fractions of love combined make a full picture
Assembled in ways you’d never have thought of before
Colors are full and bright, words as in scripture
While taken apart they may have no meaning at all
Fractions of love are found in the strangest of places
Scattered all over the path that is known as our life
Hiding away in all of the moments and faces
That pass on the way as we wander and roam over time
But it dawns on me now that droplets make oceans
And I guess that I always knew
As at last I see how the dots will connect
And the shape they form is that of you
BLACK SWAN
She turns you on like no one’s ever done before
You get to be with her and all you ask is more
Her moves are mesmerizing as she takes the floor
Listen to me – I have been there, know the score
She will haunt you ‘til the break of dawn
Then she walks away – you find the magic’s gone
And you will just keep on yearning on and on
For the poison of the one and only black swan
Feeling cold and warm and all things in between
Your mind is hazy, kind of dirty, kind of clean
Trying to settle for the good or for the mean
Inhaling vapors of the uncontested queen
Her feathers are covering a skin made of ice
Her smiles are disguising a mouth full of lies
A beautiful creature, as high as she flies
Her laughter will echo your desperate cries
BEDSIDE STORY
You may lay your head down, I can see you’re weary
I’ll stay by your bed now for a bedside story
It may sound familiar, but don’t assume you know the storyline
For they always change
Once upon a time there was this fair young lady
She would laugh and cry and find her life amazing
One day along the way she found herself all grown and felt that now
She would need to know the road to choose
As if somehow this would be a point of no returning
Even though they always change
And the storyline now would go:
Singing fauns and unicorns are dancing in the misty fog
Wedding gowns and silver horns, prince handsome turned into a frog
All your dreams come true when you just wish upon a star
Now the storyline will take a turn, but who knows where it leads
I know you’ll be fine – a little princess on a mattress covering the peas
You may lay your head down, I can see you’re weary
I’ll stay by your bed now for a bedside story
Hush little baby, sleep now, soon it will be morning
I will always be here for a bedside story
LATE IN THE GAME
Late in the game, no time to play clean
One mind determined to take all there is to gain
Late in the game, in line and stay mean
Run blind and hard until you fall, endure the pain
Late in the game, others will make way
Some yield and some will fight the space you occupy
Late in the game, in turn each fall prey
And feel your urge to leave no trace of them behind
Not loving victory but hatred of defeat
Will make your destiny and garner up the heat
Once all is said and done you’ll only be as good
As those you’ve met and won, the forces you’ve withstood
Late in the game, but you ain’t done ‘till
The crowd is standing still and winners rise to fame
LIFE LESSONS
Life lessons were learned, you taught me
All we had was time
No bridges were burned behind us
Yours was also mine
Embraced each day, two newborn lovers
Who knew no evil on their way
Time would tell, lightning’s fell
Gates of hell – long lost love
Life lessons were learned as time went by
And winds grew cold
Embraced each day, two newborn lovers
Who knew no evil on their way
Now waste or pray – a man recovers
And wonders if he’ll ever learn
Life has taught me
STARS OF STARDUST
Hand me over all you’ve got
And I will turn you into something new
This he told her, she felt hot
So she chose to think this could be true
There were no signs of hesitation
A man of means, an invitation
Nothing to loose but reputation
And so she put her whole life on the line
Creating stars of stardust, starlets out of blue
World of opportunities, the next one could be you
Creating stars of stardust, on the silver screen
Beyond the bounds of real you know the grass is always green
And then later there’s just
Scatters of a self-esteem that once ran high
While he made her all that mattered was that
Only mean will reach the sky
She was but just another playmate
He took his time and it got too late
She played her cards on merely blind faith
And so she put her whole life on the line
LONELY YEARS AGO
Would you recall the days when love was just a cold dream
Keeping the faith in ailing hopes for each new dawn
Aimlessly strolling through the maze to find our calling
Seeking for shelter, learning the ropes that tied us down
Would you recall the urge to hide away and lay low
We are what made us all those lonely years ago
Now we taste the sweet wine, feel the warm winds blow
See the dark skies meet horizon in the far
It’s such a thin and fine line, it gets blurred in my mind
In this hazy glow of shooting stars
Would you recall the sound of storm and thunder rolling
Rows of abandoned houses, places no one knows
Thinking of all these things and more, I can’t help feeling
We are what made us all those lonely years ago
ALMOST TO THE END
Sky is somehow darker than it used to be
The smell of fallen leaves and boldness of the empty trees
I wonder how we got this far
Who would have thought we’d make it almost to the end
Throughout it all we knew this day would come eventually
And now here we are
Why we chose the things we did – I could not say
I went for black or white while you kept in the shades of grey
I wonder how we got this far
Who would have thought we’d make it almost to the end
Wish there were more to do than just conclude it gracefully
That now here we are
Life gets sometimes harder than it needs to be
And yet the only thing to make some sense was you and me
I wonder how we got this far
Who would have thought we’d make it almost to the end
Here we stand – a woman with her man
Almost to the end
AS REAL AS WONDERS CAN BE
Never had much trust in things beyond the sky
Nor in revelations I could not explain
Like a man I’d carry on and walk the line through days of gray
Seeing this would be the true way to survive
I’d laugh at those who hang their hopes on destiny
Couldn’t care less of the truths in horoscopes
All the while I sometimes found myself entwined in silent hopes
That in fact some things beyond facts could be real
Then I saw her appear all without the angel wings
Just looking at me entirely unassuming
Then I saw her appear
Wasn’t wearing white or playin’ a harp
She was flesh and blood
Truly as real as wonders can be
I wore the mask of cynicism at my will
Using reasoning and logic, staying cool
But I knew there would be always this exception to the rule
As at times two minus one is simply nil
I took the leap of faith as I would touch her face
And I understood that life is not deserved but a grace