LYRICS for the CD “LONG TIME COMING” (* in album order)
All songs written by Jeff Kloetzel © Blue
Distance Music LLC.
(except “Come Back To Me” written by Bud
Cerio © administered by Blue Distance Music LLC)
* CAROLINA
I’ve been
turning over rocks and leaves, and looking up in trees
searching on
the internet, and climbing balconies
reading
papers late at night, and sifting through debris
but I’ve
only found a clue or two, to where you just might be…
carolina…
I gotta find ya
caro-lina…
I can’t find ya… (repeat)
you left
your scent upon the air, and it’s driving me insane
you’re deep
inside my DNA, and I just can’t break this chain
I thought I
had you just this year, but you fled from my domain
and now I’m
on this hunt again, so that I can attain…
carolina… I gotta find ya
caro-lina…
I can’t find ya… (repeat)
everything
was sharper, when I stood by your side
so much joy
just fades away, when you disappear and hide
now I’m not
big on searching, for too much on my path
but you are
worth the trouble, and I can do the math…
carolina…
I gotta find ya
caro-lina…
I can’t find ya… (repeat)
* SAN DIEGO
postmark on
the letter said “California”…
San Diego,
9-2-1 it read…
she says
she’s doing fine, and loving all the sunshine
and to her
the past is just hanging by a thread
well I’m
tired of living this big city life…
back here…
where the clouds, they hang so low
I wanna see
a slice of sky, every day with my own eyes
wanna find a
piece of California gold
so
you know I’m heading out to San Diego
to
find my slice of California sky
to
be with my sweet baby, in the sunshine going crazy
but
I’m gonna drive ‘cuz I can’t stand to fly
you know I
saw it in some coffee table book
with the
ocean, and the hills a distant blue…
and I won’t
be coming back, gonna get myself on track
gonna make a
new beginning, I’m overdue…
so
you know I’m heading out to San Diego
to
find my slice of California sky
to
be with my sweet baby, in the sunshine going crazy
but
I’m gonna drive ‘cuz I can’t stand to fly
I’ll be livin’ and lovin’, not pushin’ and
shovin’
sleepin’ and dreamin’, not whinin’ and
schemin’…
laughin’ and drinking, not sittin’ and
thinking…
whoa c’mon, let’s all go, on out to, San Diego
so
you know I’m heading out to San Diego
to
find my slice of California sky
to
be with my sweet baby, in the sunshine going crazy
but
I’m gonna drive ‘cuz I can’t stand to fly
oh
now I’m gona drive ‘cuz I can’t stand to fly
I said I’m gonna drive ‘cuz I can’t get that
high…
postmark on
the letter said “California”…
* COME BACK TO ME
baby… haven’t see you in so long
months are
rolling into years
and the
feeling still ain’t gone…
I’ve been hoping…
you come back to me…
I’ve been hoping that you come
back to me
baby… do you
ever think of me at all?
I’ve been
stuck inside of this winter
since our
last fall…
I’ve been hoping…
you come back to me…
I’ve been hoping that you come back to me
baby… haven’t touched you in so long
months are
rolling into years
and the
feeling still ain’t gone
I’ve been hoping…
you come back to me…
I’ve been hoping that you come back to me
come back to me… come back to me… Ohh…
come back to me…
* HONEY BEE
mercury is
moving up, I can smell those buttercups
so much
buzzing everywhere, so much pollen in the air
all over my
hands and toes, nectar is where nectar goes
bring it all
back to the hive, work it with your honey-jive…
come
on baby, you got to be - gotta be my honey bee
oh-oh
baby, you just gotta be - gotta be my honey bee
we’ll
make our own colony, buzzin’ round in harmony
come
on baby, you got to be - gotta be my honey, honey bee
you got the
buzz, you got the shake, I got the need, I got the ache
I know I
gotta watch your sting, but you still make me wanna cling
tasty sugar
golden brew, you know I got it bad for you
I need you
to fly me home, right back to that honey honey-comb…
come
on baby, you got to be - gotta be my honey bee
oh-oh
baby, you just gotta be - gotta be my honey bee
we’ll
make our own colony, buzzin’ round in harmony
come
on baby, you got to be - gotta be my honey, honey bee
I’m not just
another drone & you’re not just a queen
I can’t
leave you all alone, let’s you and I … convene…
come
on baby, you got to be - gotta be my honey bee
oh-oh
baby, you just gotta be - gotta be my honey bee
we’ll
make our own colony, buzzin’ round in harmony
come
on baby, you got to be - gotta be my honey, honey bee
lemme share your energy…
c’mon, baby you gotta be
gotta
be my honey, honey bee…
* FLY ON
sitting in
the airport, man-slaughtering time
looking for
a couple words that wanted to rhyme
over in the
corner, at Gate 81
now I’m
working on something that never seems “done”
making my
way back over the miles - I’ll be there to see you smile…
you got to fly, fly on… ohhh, fly on
you got to get me on up in the air, put me
back on the ground
don’t you
know, baby, the line’s getting long
all of these
people, who wanna be gone
but now
we’re stuck here with the time getting tight
and our
final arrival slips into the night
making my
way back over the miles - I’ll be there to see you smile…
you got to fly, fly on… ohhh, fly on
you got to get me on up in the air, put me
back on the ground (repeat)
captain,
take this bird in the air
through the
turbulence, wing and a prayer
keep burning
up all of the miles
I’ll be
there to see you – SMILE….
you got to fly, fly on… ohhh, fly on
you got to get me on up in the air, put me
back on the ground (repeat)
* CAN’T LET IT END THIS WAY
you and I,
baby, we’ve been...working this so long
and it’s
driving us crazy, that we keep getting it so wrong
we know what
binds us, is emotion undeniably strong
so we can’t
let it go, gotta change the status quo
‘cuz you
know you and I, we belong…
we
can’t let it end this way
we
can’t let it end this way
I’m
begging you baby, please…don’t run away
no
we can’t let it end this way…
it ain’t
gonna be easy, but we have the same dream inside
got a
feeling that maybe, our mountain just ain’t too high
and we know
we can make it, gotta compromise and swallow some pride
so let’s do
what it takes, learn from all of our mistakes
and you and
I together, we’ll ride…
we
can’t let it end this way
we
can’t let it end this way
I’m
begging you baby, please…don’t run away
no
we can’t let it end this way…
I am surely sorry for the hurt I’ve given you
and I wish I never felt all the pain you put
me through
but we can push it all aside, let our love
just override
baby, come on back to me, and I know you will see that….
we
can’t let it end this way
we
can’t let it end this way
I’m
begging you baby, please…don’t run away
no
we can’t let it end this way…
come on
girl, we can find a way - Too many words still left to say
no we can’t
let it end this way…
this ain’t
no time to run away – C’mon drop your things & stay
no we can’t
let it end this way…
* STOPPED LOOKING
stopped
looking for your car in town, the one
that used to drag me around
old dent in
the side of the door, always a mess on
the floor
blue-grey,
with brand new plates, only thing that
changed was the state
just the
same as you always were, you don’t
change it won’t occur
I
don’t care, I don’t see, I don’t feel what you did to me
I
don’t care, I don’t see, I don’t feel what you did to me
...
now i’m free...
stopped
looking at your picture today, frame was
cracked, anyway…
left a spot
there on the desk, put up something more
picturesque
now my
brother & I stand on skis, in the
place where you asked me please
to put the
photo you brought as a gift, I made a
place so the damned thing fit
I
don’t care, I don’t see, I don’t feel what you did to me
I
don’t care, I don’t see, I don’t feel what you did to me
...
now i’m free...
stopped
thinking ‘bout your skin on mine, the
way you arched, so feline
you played
me like an old guitar, I was the
instrument you were the star
but strings
need changing and off you went, continue
on with your descent
another
street, off from Main, rattle someone
else’s chain
I
don’t care, I don’t see, I don’t feel what you did to me
I
don’t care, I don’t see, I don’t feel what you did to me
no more misery..... I don’t care...
... I don’t, whoa-whoa-whoa,
…
I don’t see... what you did to me
... now i’m free... oh-oh-oh, I’m free…
stopped
looking for your car in town…
* NUMBER ON ME
she did a
number on me when she set me free
I’m just a
number to her, in her diary
left me
alone in my agony…
she did a
number on me, when she set me free
well, once I
was happy but now I’m way down
2 became one
and I just wanna drown
3 times as
lonely as I was before
my heart’s
been cut out and that sure is sore
5 times an hour, I think about her
taking its toll, and my job is a blur
dialing her number 6 times a day
hear the same message, don’t know what to
say…
she did a
number on me when she set me free
I’m just a
number to her, in her diary
left me
alone in my agony…
she did a
number on me, when she set me free
and at 7
tomorrow, I’ll be in my truck
down by the
river feeling down on my luck
8 times
tonite I’ll awake from my sleep
wond’ring
which memories, I wanna keep
9 times tomorrow my phone won’t ring
but her voice in my ear now, could cure
everything
and after 10 times of hearing our song on the
air
I turn ‘em all off, in my depths of despair…
she did a
number on me when she set me free
I’m just a
number to her, in her diary
left me
alone in my agony…
she did a
number on me, when she set me free
I’m just a number to her… she did a number on me
I’m just a number to her, in her diary…
she did a number on me, when she set me
free
* CLEAR MORNING LIGHT
I awoke late
last night, from some kind of dream
everything
was different, or, so it did seem
but you know
how it is, cloudy from sleep
when it all
feels so real, the hill is too steep
feel
better now by the clear morning light
feel
better now, with it all in sight
oh
I know I’ll be alright
feel
better now by the clear, morning light
she thinks
her life would crumble, without him there
but the time
he gave to her was like, playing solitaire
at night,
awake in bed, she’ll toss and turn
but she
knows when the morning comes, she will have learned
feel
better now by the clear morning light
feel
better now, with it all in sight
oh
I know she’ll be alright
feel
better now by the clear, morning light
I awoke
again last night, talking in my sleep
holding
conversations, instead of counting sheep
problems
that I could not solve, eat at my soul
take hold of
my dream existence, out of control
feel better now by the clear morning light
feel
better now, with it all in sight
oh
I know I’ll be alright
feel
better now by the clear, morning light
(repeat)
* SUN I SEE
at times it
just seems easy, to get lost in the
crowds
and the fog
that wraps around us, there among the
clouds
it’s hard to
see the trail, without a guiding light
but you gave
to me a beacon, shining on so bright
oh
the sun breaks free and it makes my day
when
you smile at me in your special way
it’s
the sun I see, when you smile at me
oh you’ve
given me direction, I found my even keel
completed
what was lacking, created something real
I thank you
so for all these things, my problems
seem so small
the way that
you can lift me up, your smile does it
all
oh
the sun breaks free and it makes my day
when
you smile at me in your special way
it’s
the sun I see, when you smile at me
the light that you provide me
shines
out far beyond
together
we can make it
love
our common bond….
reflection
of your spirit, there upon your face
the sunshine
that it brings me, never commonplace
and I wonder
how I ever, made it quite this far
without the
joy you bring to me, shining like a star
oh
the sun breaks free and it makes my day
when
you smile at me in your special way
it’s
the sun I see, when you smile at me
oh the sun breaks free and it makes my day
when you smile at me and the clouds just fade
it’s the sun I see, when you smile at me…
it’s the sun I see, shining down on me
it’s the sun I see, when you smile at me (etc)
* JOURNEY
well I
walked into the mountains, tasting pine upon the wind
I knew if
they would let me, I would lay my roots down in
but the wind
to me did whisper, in his travels he had learned
“you cannot fight your destiny, that is why
you must return…”
so I walked
beside the river, and she sang her lonely song
I cried,
“please take me with you, no one here would know I’m gone…”
but the
river, in her wisdom, told me, “Stay where you belong,
your trials
still await you, that is why you must be strong…”
then I
walked into the ocean, saw horizon all the while
and I
dreamed if tides would take me, that is where I’d go in style
but the
tides obey the moonshine, they refused to hear my plea
and their
rolling motion told me I must make peace within me
ooh-ooh -
that is why we must return…
ooh-ooh -
that is why we must be strong…
ohh-ohh -
give me peace within this song…
* SINGING THE SUN DOWN
sitting at
the water’s edge, sun sinking in the west
…I strum the
strings and watch the scene
heading on
its merry way, a fitting end to another day
how can
beauty be so god-damn lonely…?
singing the sun down, world keeps turning
‘round
it doesn’t stop because I’m blue
singing the sun down, everything comes
around
even though I am here without you - singing
the sun down…
black clouds
in a burning sky, no one here to testify
music seems
to be the only way…
chords
coming from somewhere, I offer up this sunset prayer
raising a
voice in lonesome tones…
singing the sun down, world keeps turning
‘round
it doesn’t stop because I’m blue
singing the sun down, everything comes
around
even though I am here without you -
darkness
looms around the bend
twilight
shadows here again
been the same
since god knows when…
singing the sun down, world keeps turning
‘round
it doesn’t stop because I’m blue
singing the sun down, everything comes
around
even though I am here without you -
singing the sun down, everything comes
around
maybe I’m better off without you…
singing the sun down… singing the sun down…
singing the sun down…
