You think you know where you're going
And you've got your plans
But you've got no way of knowing
They hold your life in their hands

And you think you can hold all of the cards
While hiding your head in the sand
You never thought your life would be so hard
And so you're trying to understand

CHORUS:
Why it is that people treat you this way
When you've never had anything bad to say
Maybe things will be different some day
When we reach the promised land
Take a stand

You're tired of being known as a racist
Before you even speak
Color is all that matters to someone
Who's just too blind to see

And you can all just sit there and try to tell me
Just how and what I think
And why it is I do the things I do
All the way into next week

(CHORUS)

Maybe things aren't quite as bad as you think
Life's going by too fast
And you don't even have time to blink
How can you make it last

Still, people find the time to criticize
They look at you and laugh
They need to take a good look at their own lives
And calculate the math

(CHORUS)

c 1995 Joan Morbée

I can see the light come into the sky
And still nothing has changed
Soon you will begin a new day in your life
And just turn another page

CHORUS:
I can sense your reluctance
In continuing this journey
Of that which remains unknown
Just take my hand
And I will lead you through these fields unsown
Although I have never walked there
I just seem somehow to know
We can find what we are after
Though just a flake
Within the snow

Can you give me the love
That I so badly need
And will you give it for free
Cause' I can only wonder
What is to be
While on my flesh these vultures feed

(CHORUS)

I have just heard the four bells
Calling to me
Still I can't seem to put to rest
This torment which seems
To darken the day
And continues to fill my head

And I have tried so hard
To focus on
The light instead
Hoping I will not need
To wait to find the peace
Said to come to one in death

(CHORUS)

c 1995 Joan Morbée

in light of the moon/
reflection/high tide

high tide

Do not fear I could never let you down
Although you're too blind to see
And you know that I would never let you drown
The only one I could let down is me

(CHORUS:)
High tide
Don't get taken in
You can wash your dreams away
I'm too tired
Of trying to fight the waves
And tomorrow's another day

Be careful not to tread too long
'Cause you'll need to surface for air
And though you're feeling like you don't belong
Still you know your place must be there

(CHORUS)

Tears that fall like the rain
But who can really tell
Are they from laughter or from pain
Or from some unknown form of hell

(CHORUS)

c 1994 Joan Morbée Completed 11-8-94

under the weight of the rain  

We were living with the premise
Of how we thought your life had been
When the others tried to tell us
Of the things we hadn't seen
You had to learn to be resilient
Oh was it all in vain
Bending in like a leaf
Under the weight of the rain

You were taken on the wind
We were taken on a ride
All the while keeping your feelings hidden deep inside
And in the final moments
While you were struggling with the pain
Bending in like a leaf
Under the weight of the rain

c 1994 Joan Morbée
Completed 11-9-94

I've been starving for love
Please feed me
Your words just aren't enough
I need you to release
What you've been holding on to
Deep Inside
And the feelings you've tried so hard to hide

(CHORUS:)
I don't know how to take it
I tried so hard to fake it
There's nothing left for me to show
Tryin' to make up for the time that I've blown
My mind has gone to places unknown
And so what have I found
I'm gonna burn this candle down

Maybe we should just leave it alone
And go on as friends
Is there any truth at all
In the messages that you send
We tried for so long to deny
The sparks that continue to fly
And now we need to decide
Do we want it to end

(CHORUS)

c 1994 Joan Morbée
Completed 11-29-94

You've tried to mold me
'Cause you can't hold me
Sooner or later I'll be walking out the door
You're trying to get me to believe
But I know what you've got up your sleeve
You see I've been there
Once or twice before

CHORUS:
And you're free to choose your life
Free to be the same
Free to see the light
Or free to look the other way
Free to analyze
And free to feel the pain
Free to sympathize
Or free to go the other way

People are not the same
They need to live life their own way
But you seem to feel the need
To label and to store
You like forcing your convictions
And inflicting your afflictions
Til' I just can't take it anymore

(CHORUS)

c 1994 Joan Morbée
Completed 10-26-94

Piano Instrumental

c 1995 Joan Morbée

in a sense  

Piano Instrumental

c 1994 Joan Morbée