Mojave

Music & Lyrics by Allison Sounds

Arranged and Co-Composed by Mike Dubois

Juniper seed, if the cactus was sweet

The fruit on the tree would make everything go slowly

The sugar got low, when the valley got cold

Yet I was so happy to get out of that high heat

Where you collected bumblebees

Think you thought of it in your sleep

You said the stings would be healing me

While we watched the rain become steam

I thought you would turn the Mojave green

While, Yuma stood there like a beauty queen

And I’d never seen a land without trees

Yet she spoke to me with some secret she was holding

You collected bumblebees, think you thought of it in your sleep

The Mojave never looked so green

You said you loved the land because it was clean

You said the mountain looked like a person

Reaching up to the sky to make a sound

you are New Mexico

you are my minor note

you are the winter snow in the high desert

Dressed in calico

you are New Mexico

you are my minor note

you are the winter snow in the high desert

Dressed in calico

Stretched in calico

Stretched in calico

Calico

I Was Born in Color

Music & Lyrics by Allison Sounds

I was born in color/ they caught me near December / and I saw life in the winter / still like bees in amber

She was born in roses / distracted by the noises / and they parted the waters / just like in the springtime

When you speak soft, you can hear the heart beating

When you speak soft, you can hear the heart beating

Dream a little grander / (I) wanted to pull over / and I made that grove my paradise, and all I saw were the blue skies

Let me live on summer / and when you love another / I will make you like a paragraph, a still-life painting, a photograph

She answered there to no one/ she harbored nothing, just love/ and she spoke just like a dancer, the way she let go of her name there

She was born in roses/ distracted by the noises/ and I think I knew the harbor, I think I swam inside the waters

Won’t you please tell me of the wild? / won’t you please tell me I’m tame? / won’t you please give me back my medals? / or call me a lady?

Except I’m brooding by the lake / Got to jump to cleanse my own skin

And my soul’s open / and everything just comes crashing in

I was born in color/ they caught me near December / and I saw life in the winter / still like bees in amber

She was born in roses / distracted by the noises / and I think I knew the harbor/ I think I swam inside the waters

When you speak soft you can hear the heart beating

When you speak soft you can hear the heart beating

When you speak soft you can hear the heart beating

When you speak soft you can hear the heart beating

Infinite

Music & Lyrics by Allison Sounds

Breathe into your higher mind

Constant constellation, the obstruction of time

She can show you everything, the mother earth

The heaven queen

Yet it is inside your heart you will learn to sing

They were like caged butterflies

Inside their shells they thought they’d died

And the acid rain, the roaring waves

Their broken bones and tiny caves

Then they broke free and they flew away

Infinite poetry, lightning bug symphony

When our souls met, they said, “finally!”

A blink of an eye, the talk of the times

Today you forgot everything inside your mind

Blessed are the human hearts

The sycamores, the universe

My eyes are bright, your eyes are bright

You’re learning how to break until you’re alright

So you can see the light

Infinite poetry, lightning bug symphony

When our souls met, they said, “finally!”

A blink of an eye, the talk of the times

Today you forgot everything inside your mind

They were like caged butterflies

Inside their shells they thought they’d died

And the acid rain, the roaring waves

Their broken bones and tiny caves

Then they broke free and they flew away

They flew away to brighter days

To brighter days

And I’ve changed, and you’ve changed

And they looked around and saw your face

And they said you’ve changed

You flew away

You flew away

To brighter days

To brighter days

Gardener

Music & Lyrics by Allison Sounds

When I first saw you, I was an open tomb

I had no flavor for the fruit

Oh how you healed me, brought me back on my feet

You are the planter, I’m the tree

Chorus

You called my name (x3)

You took that blame and you broke the shame

And you left it in the cold

And you brought me home

And you brought me home

When I first saw you, you were there standing, too

You were something I could choose

Oh how you filled the wind underneath your feet

I’d thought you’d climb from that tree

Chorus

All of these emotions, motions finally let me go

All of those emotions, motions finally let me go

Well they let me go

Because you’re all I know

When I first saw you

I was an open tomb

You were something I could choose

Closer

Music & Lyrics by Allison Sounds

Look at the sun, shines so bright

Even in the night time, the morning’s close behind

And the fear might fake you and your heart my shake you

Though you’re closer to the music

And it came like a raging fire, while plague famed the USA

Sister sun, aren’t you impressionable?

She said, “I was just listening to the feel of the morning

How it brings a new day.”

Now you’re closer to the music

“Watch what you pray for,” that’s what I heard that day

I was 10 feet under water, hoping to have it made

“Watch what you pray for,” that’s what I heard that night

I could feel it all come closer and this time it finally feels right

They said David learned how to play

Saul learned how to stay

When they heard the news, I was caving

with the melody

Now you’re closer to the music

Roses

Music & Lyrics by Allison Sounds

Roses are blooming up from underneath your cheekbones

With nowhere to go except to grow

And I can see clearly now that I know what’s going on

Now that I know what’s going on

You kept loving through

You kept loving through

Talking those dreams up you said

You’ll talk your dreams up until the breaking of the day

And in the morning, you’ll write symphonies

And I’ll construct those melodies

By the afternoon, you won’t say anything

Because it’s spring

Spring

You’ll plant all those simple seeds and pray that you’ll reap blessings for the harvesting

And the giving of the spring

Here’s to a whole new way of thinking

Drop all the programming, drop all the inhibition

Behind the vision, beyond the waves

There’s something out there for all today

Keep moving that way

Beyond the vision, beyond the dream

I’m looking for divinity

Now I can feel it all the time

It’s inside your bones beyond your mind

Roses are blooming

Blooming

Gypsies

Music & Lyrics by Allison Sounds

This house was built a century ago

These walls are thin, and everything echos

I feel sometimes, I’ve achieved something sublime

Then I’m out there chasing time, trying to get you off my mind

I don’t want to fight no more, I don’t want to go to war

I just want to live like I have days and days to travel north

I know there are open fields of lilies and daffodils

He said that’s where he rests his heels and where the gypsies leave their wheels

The farm in the morning was drenched in open dew

And the tulsi was in bloom, the camomile was too

And the basil was sprouting and the birds were flying

That’s when I chose to love again and let the garden win

Where I don’t need barter, where I do not need to buy

When I grow I feel all right, it’s like all I need is light

I don’t want to fight no more, I don’t want to go to war

I just want to live like I have days and days to travel north

I know there are open fields of lilies and daffodils

He said that’s where he rests his heels and where the gypsies leave their wheels

Leave that weeping alone

You know your direction home

Even the cactus grows

In sand reaping nothing, yet it glows

I don’t want to fight no more, I don’t want to go to war

I just want to live like I have days and days to travel north

I know there are open fields of lilies and daffodils

He said that’s where he rests his heels and where the gypsies leave their wheels

Be

Music & Lyrics by Allison Sounds

Fascination with the relation of the moon

I caught you staring up into the sky

You said you liked the view

You drink your coffee on Sunday

At that diner on market street

You like your coffee like your lover

So sweet, so sweet

Hold on tight, you’ve got that crazy look inside your eyes

And I’m that kind of woman with surprises

With surprises

I got lost in the city

Tracing fault lines in your hand

Strangers laughing while we’re talking

I don’t think they understand

Now I’m drunk on sweet nothings

And I’m watching the lights go spinning while you’re standing there

Hold on tight, you’ve got that crazy look inside your eye

And I’m that kind of woman with surprises

With surprises

Summertime

Music & Lyrics by Allison Sounds

Summertime kissed the light of the forest

It brought you love

Calmed you like a miracle

There was life before this,

I found you in the darkness

And brought you out to the sun

And you said, “don’t you run” (you run, you run, you run)

So I run, and I ran, but came back

Oh I run, and I ran, but came back

Something about the way you smile

Makes me forget my troubles for a while

Cleared out my senses, sharp and wild

Wild

Wild

You said my troubles will go on there

They’ll go on there until the daylight

So just go on, go on, go on until you get it right

When I move out of my own way

I see all my dreams create

Flipping to a brand new page

Listen to the melody

It brings me home

Home, home

make me something new

Home, home,

Make me something new

home, home

Summertime, it’s got me feeling so right in the noon light

In the light

Light

Cedar falling, falling from the trees There's an old man walking miles on his knees He's a healer, teacher, clearing up the weeds Waiting for a clearing, goes and plants the seeds He's singing, "Season, season, come back to me... Give me some reason blooming at my feet; I've got that snow fear, iced and cold Here nothing blooms, year long, you know Year long, you know."

Healing in the north woods, giving thanks to the seeds then heading towards the harbor on the first breath of spring Taking time for the new bloom, for the opening Then comes the harvest, leaves falling from the trees Love will always find, always find a way Seasons change

Sadie's in the back room on the full moon It was the kind of light that she wanted I was in the kitchen, waiting on a vision for some higher calling that I needed

You took my name down, I did not notice I yearned for choirs of angels Then later when the phone rang there could be no string that would loose the tangle

Later in the summertime Lydie's drinking bottled wine She said, "everyone's got a dime, back in Paris" Lost it to ignition I danced before I listened; he said, "answer the storyline" then he did it

You took my name down, I did not notice I yearned for choirs of angels and later when the phone rang, there could be no string that would loose the tangle

Then I saw a white light then I heard a gentle sigh and I told God a storyline, like I believed it Then I felt a mercy like water to the thirsting, and He said, "wait, until the morning comes" And He said, "wait until the morning comes"

You took my name down, I did not notice I yearned for choirs of angels and later when the phone rang there could be no string that would loose the tangle You took my name down, I did not notice I yearned for choirs of angels

Seven seconds away from that leap of faith few more moments of waiting before that space between opens up from below

They all called you superman catching the rays of sun in your hand you left New York for the road to open up, open up, open your soul to the river it runs it flows

Are you love sick, are you selfish treasure harvest before you plant it do you feel it heal the surface before the roots grow and make you nervous can you see it can you feel it love to love but fear to lose it you love to love but you fear to lose it it comes back, if you choose it say so

The river it runs it flows

You're seven seconds away you're seven seconds away from your leap of faith your leap of faith

Open up open your soul

I'm waking up in the morning out from the dead I'm waking up to all the strange things in my head Talking so loud, I can't understand talking so loud, I can't understand Talking so loud...

I'm waking up ...

They said, "go down south instead" “go down south where the mountains are so bright red" "go down south," they said, "clear your head..."

You're waking up in the morning you feel new Nothing left to fear you just want someone to talk to

Someone told me that you would be there writing stories into the air Someone told me that you would be there and you were there We thought the morning would never come and now the sunlight's in our eyes like a beating drum now you feel like you can be someone Go be someone Run

You're waking up, you're waking up, you're waking up We're waking up, we're waking up, we're waking up We're waking up

Apples that fall from trees, he wants the best for me Said there’s a hidden sea, and “that’s where I’m going” Now I’m pacing by the county line, counting paces just to keep in time Said there’s a human, kind way to the garden

See the desert kind of had that glow, when the sun went down and the light was low And the embers kind of had that show, in the melody, where I could go where I was weightless, weightless in my dreams See I’m weightless, weightless in my dreams

Sister’s under mind control; said, “let the good times roll” She seems to find the well, and she’s taking the water Now she’s pacing by the county line, escaping just to keep her rhyme Oh she’s a human kind, and she’s back in the garden

See the desert kind of had that glow, when the sun went down and the light was low And the embers kind of had that show, in the melody, where I could go where I was weightless, weightless in my dreams See I’m weightless, weightless in my dreams