FADE TO DREAM

 

Words and Music by: Laurie Larson

Lead Guitar: Johnny Echols

All other instruments and vocals: Laurie Larson

 

Am I going through a new phase

Or just trying to see through the haze

What can you do, what can you do

Except fade to dream, fade to dream

 

Solos

What can you do, what can you do 

 

When all hope seems to be lost

When the answers are too high a cost

What can you do

Except fade to dream, fade to dream

 

When your plans take you higher

It’s all coming down to the wire

What can you do, what can you do

Except fade to dream, fade to dream 

 

Help me through this age

Or can we just turn the page

What can you do

Except fade to dream, fade to dream

 

 

DARKNESS, DARKNESS

 

Words and Music by: Jesse Colin Young

Lead Guitar: Johnny Echols

All other instruments and vocals by: Laurie Larson

 

Darkness, darkness, be my pillow 

Take my head and let me sleep

In the coolness of your shadow

In the silence of your dream

 

Darkness, darkness, hide my yearning

For the things that cannot be

Keep my mind from constant turning 

Towards the things I cannot see now 

The things I cannot see now

The things I cannot see

 

Darkness, darkness, long and lonesome

Ease the day that brings me pain

I have felt the edge of sadness

I have known the depth of fear

Darkness, darkness, be my blanket

Cover me with the endless night

Take away, take away the pain of knowing

Fill the emptiness of right now

Emptiness of right now, now, now

Emptiness of right now, now

 

Darkness darkness, be my pillow 

Take my head and let me sleep

In the coolness of my shadow

In the silence of my dream

Darkness, darkness, be my blanket

Cover my with the endless night

Take away away the pain of knowing

Fill the emptiness of right now

Emptiness of right now now now

Emptiness of right

Oh yeah, oh yeah

Emptiness, emptiness

Oh yeah

 

TAKE ME TO WHO I’VE NEVER BEEN BEFORE

 

Words and Music by: Laurie Larson

Lead Guitar: Johnny Echols

All other instruments and vocals by: Laurie Larson

 

How will they know

What’s become of me?

Going with the flow

Or being part of the jubilee

 

Take me to who I’ve never been before

What lies ahead, open the door

Take me to who I’ve never been before, Take me

 

Take me to who I’ve never been before

 

It’s just a stone’s throw away

It’s just in range

A new day

And I’m ready for the change

Take me, take me to who I’ve never been before

Take men to who I’ve never been before

 

For so long I’ve been lost

On a distant shore

Take me to who I’ve never been before

HEAVEN KNOWS

 

Words and music by: Harvey Price & Daniel Walsh

All instruments and vocals by: Laurie Larson

Raven sounds by Grock the raven on my porch

 

With a song in my heart

And a chance to be yours forever

I couldn't feel more secure

I know I couldn't feel any better

 

Oh Lord, Heaven knows

How much I love you and

How much it shows

Oh Lord, Heaven

Heaven knows

 

Every time we're together

Your love is moving like lightning through me

It's such a beautiful feeling

Never hearing good-bye said to me

 

Oh Lord, Heaven knows

How much I love you and

How much it shows

Oh Lord, Heaven

Heaven knows

 

I was living without you

Trying to make it alone

But there is something about you

Now your heart is my home

 

With a song in my heart

And a chance to be yours forever

I couldn't feel more secure

I know I couldn't feel any better

Oh Lord, Heaven knows

How much I love you and

How much it shows

Oh Lord, Heaven

Heaven knows

 

PLACE A CANDLE

 

Words and Music by: Laurie Larson

Lead Guitar: Johnny Echols

All other instruments and vocals by: Laurie Larson

 

What’s the good word

Love is what I’ve heard

I’ve spent so much time on this dream

I’ve waited so long

 

Place a candle here

Hope reigns high

Can we persuade the future

Place a candle there

 

I want to see it

With my own eyes

Crossing this finish line

May it be a wonderful surprise

 

What’s the good word

Love is what I’ve heard, it’s what I’ve heard

 

Place a candle here

Hope lives inside

Can we dance with destiny?

Place a candle there

 

Place a candle there

What’s the good word

Love is what I’ve heard, it’s what I’ve heard

 

Place a candle here

Hope reigns high

Can we persuade the future

Place a candle there

 

 

GYPSY (OF A STRANGE AND DISTANT TIME)

 

Words and Music by: Justin Hayward

Lead Guitar: Johnny Echols

All other instruments and vocals by: Laurie Larson

 

The gypsy of a strange and distant time

Traveling in panic, all directions blind

Aching for the warmth of a burning sun

Freezing in the emptiness of where she’s come from

Left without a hope of coming home

 

Speeding through a shadow of a million years

Darkness is the only sound to reach her ears

Frightening her with visions of eternity

Screaming for a future that can never be

Left without a hope of coming home

 

The gypsy of a strange and distant time

Traveling in panic, all directions blind

Aching for the warmth of a burning sun

Freezing in the emptiness of where she's come from

Left without a hope of coming home

 

 

 

FIRST MAGNITUDE

 

Words and Music by: Laurie Larson

Lead Guitar: Johnny Echols

All other instruments and vocals: Laurie Larson

 

It’s at the center

Where our paths will cross

Right at the heart

We’ll get the point across

 

Loving what you do

You take my mood

You take me

To first magnitude

 

Now I can see

Who I’m supposed to be

The clouds cleared away

It’s the dawn

Of a new day

 

Loving what you do

You take my mood

You take me

To first magnitude

Loving 

 

There’s no turning back

Once you’re on the right track

I love you so

There’s only one way to go

 

The stars in heaven include

My heart shining

At first magnitude

 

 

CAN’T FIND MY WAY HOME

 

Words and music by: Steve Winwood

Instruments and vocals by: Laurie Larson

 

Come down off your throne

And leave your body alone

Somebody must change

You are the reason

I've been waiting so long

Somebody holds the key

 

Well, I'm near the end and I

Just ain't got the time, oh

And I'm wasted and I

Can't find my way home

 

Come down on your own

And leave your money at home

Somebody must change

You are the reason

I've been waiting so long

Somebody holds the key

 

Well, I'm near the end and I

Just ain't got the time, oh

And I'm wasted and I

Can't find my way home

Well, I can't find way home

 

But I can't find my way home

Still I can't find my way home

And I ain't done nothing wrong

But I can't find my way home

 

 

THE NEXT STAGE

 

Words and Music by: Laurie Larson

Lead Guitar: Johnny Echols

All the other instruments and vocals by: Laurie Larson

 

You spoke to me

Through riddles and signs

Making me read between the lines

 

When can I begin

My happily ever after

Start another chapter

Get ready, get ready

For the next stage

 

When can I embark on my dream?

A glorious fairytale it may seem

 

When can I start my 

Once upon a time

A romance so sublime

 

Get ready, get ready

For the next stage

 

 

NATURE’S WAY

 

Words and music by: Randy California

Instruments and vocals by: Laurie Larson

 

It's nature's way of telling you something's wrong

It's nature's way of telling you in a song

It's nature's way of receiving you

It's nature's way of retrieving you

It's nature's way of telling you

Something's wrong

 

It's nature's way of telling you, soon we'll freeze

It's nature's way of telling you, dying trees

It's nature's way of receiving you

It's nature's way of retrieving you

It's nature's way of telling you

Something's wrong

 

It's nature's way, it's nature's way

It's nature's way of telling you

Something's wrong

 

It's nature's way of telling you

It's nature's way of telling you in a song 

It's nature's way of receiving you

It's nature's way of retrieving you

It's nature's way of telling you

Something's wrong