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Long Way From Home

Nocturnal Daze

Woke up this morning
A song was playing in my head
Pulled the blankets closer
Hunkered down into the bed

Fragments of dreams
Swam hazily inside my mind
Mixed up patchwork images
Form hidden meanings left to find

If I get up to start my day
Before the mysteries revealed
I’ll go round feeling haunted
By this secret that’s been sealed away

Why do these people follow me
Through my nocturnal daze?
Mix up the year, mix up the place
Mix up the name and face

Rode the train this morning
To the end of the line
Forgot where I was going
Seems I lost all track of time

That same old song was playing
Looping endless in my brain
While dream sequences flooded in
More real than the rain outside

If I get up to start my day
Before the mysteries revealed
I’ll go round feeling haunted
By this secret that’s been sealed away

Why do these people follow me
Through my nocturnal daze?
Mix up the year, mix up the place
Mix up the name and face

Lovers I forgot about
Places that I’ve never been
Jobs that I quit years ago
Younger than I’ll ever be again

— Anji Bee (BMI)

Long Way From Home

Motherless Child

Sometimes I feel like a motherless child
Sometimes I feel like a motherless child
Sometimes I feel like a motherless child
A long, long ways from home
A long, long way from home

Sometimes I feel like I’m almost gone
Sometimes I feel like I’m almost gone
Sometimes I feel like I’m almost gone
A long, long ways from home
A long, long way from home

True believer, a long way from home
A long, long way from my home
A long, long way from my home

— Anonymous American spiritual arranged by Anji Bee (BMI)

Long Way From Home

Lazy Love Days

The touch of your hands
Soothing my soul
With your caress
I am made whole
Just couldn’t ask
For anything more
Lazy love days
Meant to explore

The smell of your skin
Familiar and warm
Rustle of sheets
Outlining your form
You pull me close
Make me your own
Here in your arms
I’ve found my home

Oh, I could never go back again
No, not since I’ve found you, dear
No, I could never return to him
Oh, how I long to stay here
Here with you

— By Anji Bee (BMI)

Long Way From Home

Empty Universe

Wonderin’ why you’re all alone again
Feel as if you haven’t got a friend in this world
But I’m here

Even if we were the only two left on this star
Think of all the things that we could do; we could go far

Singing songs to the empty universe
Sowing seeds through the empty universe
And you never know what might grow

Singing songs to the empty universe
Sowing seeds through the empty universe
And you never know what might grow

Oh, oh, oh empty universe (x3)

Wonderin’ why you’re all alone again

— By Anji Bee (BMI)

Long Way From Home

Caught in the Groove

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Only so many ways one
Can play that same ole damn song
Only so many phrasings and so many tunings
Before the whole thing just sounds wrong

Have we reached the end of the record?
Is the needle just caught in the groove?
But I’m too tired to get up
I’m too tired to pick up and move

Tell me, what am I to do?

Only so many ways one
Can say those old words “good bye”
Only so many phrasings and so many gestures
Before you just break down and cry

Have we reached the end of the record?
Is the needle just caught in the groove?
But we’re too tired to get up
We’re too tired to pick up and move

Tell me whatcha gonna do?
Hey hey
Hey now, whatcha gonna do?
Whatcha gonna do?

— By Anji Bee (BMI)

Free & Easy

Walk Away

I’ve felt the dizzy heights
Don’t wanna take the fall
Well, I’ve climbed and seen the sights
Just wanna take it all in
Then walk away

I’ve come close to the fire
Nearly burned my hands
I won’t be lifted higher
To be dropped to the sands
No

I’ll walk away
Find my own space
I’ll hide away
Til I feel safe again

(solo)

Maybe I’m acting scared
See, I been hurt before
And my old heart just ain’t prepared
To take a chance any more
No

I’ll walk away
Find my own space
I’ll hide away
‘Til I feel safe again

I’ll walk, I’ll walk away
Find my own space
I’ll hide away, til I feel safe again
I’ll walk, I’ll walk away
Ooh

I’ll walk away
Find my own space

— By Anji Bee (BMI)

Free & Easy

Trouble

You catch my eye
It’s pretty clear what you are thinking
I don’t know why
But I can feel my stomach sinking

Though now we’re only friends
I sense what this is headed for
And just how it would end
That’s why I’m heading for the door
I said I’m headed for the door

I’m old enough to know better
Old enough to know better now
You’re trouble
You’re just trouble

You act so sweet
All of the girls think you’re just charming
They can’t defeat
A predator who’s so disarming

I think I see your game
I know full well what is in store
You’d treat me just the same
That’s why I’m heading for the door
I said I’m headed for the door

-chorus-

Trouble

Though I may seem naive
I’ve seen your kind before
So you better believe
That I’m a-heading for the door
You know I’m heading for the door

-chrous-

Trouble (x4)
You’re just trouble
I’m old enough to know better
Old enough to know better now
Old enough to know better
Trouble (x3)

— Anji Bee (BMI)

Free & Easy

Sandcastles

Come with me and we will fly
We’ll build sandcastles in the sky
Circling above so high
In heaven, where we belong

Dum, da da, da da, da da (x2)
Da da doo da

We’ll build sandcastles in the sky
We’ll build sandcastles in the sky
Never question how or why
Da, da da, da da, da, da

We’ve only one life to live
We’ve only one heart to give
So we must live our lives and loves
To the full else we’re a fool, fool

Dum, da da, da da, da da (x2)
Da da doo da

Build sandcastles in the sky
Build sandcastles in the sky
Never question how or why
Da doo, da doo, da doo da doo dow

We’ll build sandcastles in the sky
We’ll build sandcastles in the sky
Never question how or why

(repeat variants to fade)

— Anji Bee (BMI)

Free & Easy

Love Survives

I’ve tried so many ways to tell you how I feel
You just won’t listen
Many times I’ve tried to explain how it hurts me so
You just don’t care, or so it seems

But even though its eating me alive I still smile
And even though its tearing me apart inside
I know I’ll stay another day
Love survives (x4)

I’ll just wait you out; I think you’ll come around
Can’t go on like this forever
In time I’ll make you see how much it means to me
Can’t keep on telling me “never”

So even though it’s eating me alive I still smile
And even if it’s tearing me apart inside
I know I’ll stay another day
Love survives (x4)

I still believe our love can conquer all
And I have faith you’ll see my view
Deep down inside I know that we’ll work it out
That’s why I’ll stick it out with you

So even though it’s eating me alive I still smile
And even if it’s tearing me apart inside
I know I’ll stay another day
Love survives (x8)

— By Anji Bee (BMI)

Free & Easy

Hand In Hand

Here we are
Face to face
Heart to heart
Hand in hand

We will succeed
When the call of love we heed
Rising to new heights
On wings of love we’re taking flight

Hand in hand
Hand in hand

Here we are
Face to face
Heart to heart
Hand in hand

We have the strength of two
Now there’s nothing that we couldn’t do
We put our minds together
To create something that will last forever

Hand in hand
Hand in hand

— By Anji Bee (BMI)

Free & Easy

Habitual

Our words are made of nothing
Just currents of emptiness
Heart, mind and soul
Habitual

After laughter, our malaise
The constant of sleepwalking days
And nightmarish nights
Habitual

We talk to keep from talking (x2)
We’re free to express our opinions
But have we any to share
We talk to keep from talking (x2)
We may have conversations
But I’ve the feeling you don’t care
You’re not really there

Tragedy or comedy
Pseudo-drama you and me
And what of the end?
Habitual

Day into night we often seem
Somnambulstic, lost in dream
For we have become
Habitual

We talk to keep from talking (x2)
Keeping up pretenses
That things are as before
We talk to keep from talking (x2)
I see your lips are moving
But I don’t hear you anymore
Anymore… anymore

Why must things go on and on this way?
Shouldn’t we have something more to say?

We’ve grown habitual no, no, no
It’s just a ritual, habitual (repeat variants to end)

— By Anji Bee (BMI)

Free & Easy

Free and Easy

When everything seems hopeless
It’s you that gives me strength
To look inside and find
My inner fire

Getting to know myself
And how I feel in my heart
Learning to trust myself
Ain’t a bad place to start

And when I fear I’m drowning
You keep me afloat
You’re like my anchor baby
A rock to moor my boat

Getting to know myself
And how I feel in my heart
Learning to trust myself
Ain’t a bad place to start

Getting to know myself
And just what I wanna do
Learning to love myself
And I owe it all to you

We’re free, we’re free and easy
Taking it slow
We’re free and easy
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah…

— By Anji Bee (BMI)