Lyrics
LOVE SLEEPS
Love sleeps so deep it cannot wake Like flowers beneath the early snow
Love needs a heart ache to make it strong and let it grow
To last the winter cold and long when the north wind will blow
It never takes too much or gives away too cheap
It’s hard to hold it’s hard to touch it is impossible to keep
It runs too fast it runs too deep it’s hard to grasp or make it last It always runs too sweet
Like the flowers bloom again in the spring
Love awakes a more beautiful thing It fills that dark cold lonely place
With just the memory of your warm bright shining face
Copyright 1994 H. J. Ridley, Jr.
RIVER ROAD
Where I am bound I don’t know where
Should I arrive I will be there
When I am gone will you even care
This road is long and hard and steep
And the valley beyond is wide and deep
And the river that flows there down to the sea
It only goes where it can be free
The ways are many the journeys few
The endings all the same the beginning’s always new
And everything that is is bought and sold
It all passes down by the River Road
And all who’ve come and all who’ve gone
They’ve all stood on those banks at dawn
And all that’s taught or ever been told
I got away when we were caught
We all went down by the River Road
So when we could and when we would
We whispered of things like freedom and brotherhood
Well maybe it is or it ain’t to be but it’s up to us
We all said to set us free
So let it go and grab a hold
It’s up to you to come with me I’m headed down the River Road
Copyright 1994 H. J. Ridley, Jr.
HELLO NICE WEATHER
Hello Nice weather good day
What you know what you say
I ain’t seen you since who knows when
Hello how you doing how you been
We say hello we say good bye we couldn’t make it any simpler if we try
Adios so long see you later I’m gone
Arrivederchi bon voyage now on down the road baby chio
Aufweidersehen till we meet again
We say Hello we say good bye we couldn’t make it any simpler if we try
Au Revoie adios let’s just drink one more good bye toast
To the best poets never read the best music a forgotten sound
Best words never said true mystery never found
Great beauty rarely notices great truth seldom seen
To great meaning everywhere if we only knew what it all could mean
When the best loves go bad and that’s what makes them good
That it could really be that sad it only knows it should
There’s no need to click your heels there’s no need to scoff
We sail around this old world one day we just fall off
So if we should ever pass sailing through our fate
Maybe we should change our course at last before it is too late
To say Hello to say good bye we couldn’t make it any simpler if we try
Aloha Aloha Aloha
Copyright 1994 H. J. Ridley, Jr
A DISTANT LOOK
A distant look a vacant stare they’re like old books those pages tear
And long lost cares and forgotten dreams they’re flowing by like muddy streams
There is no time there is no reason there is no rhyme to the season
And it doesn’t matter what you think you ought to think
When you wander alone out near insanities brink
Out near insanities edge the silence you hear is the only sound
And madmen peak through the hedge at treasures scattered across the ground
So come and go as you will and do as you please still you bow your head and kneel down to your knees
No matter how hard you feel you pray the blind will never see
They dwell in that dark prison thinking they are free and little by little bit by bit
They take each piece of the puzzle and try to find a place for it to fit
And now I often wonder what‘s become of that special one
She loved me so softly when it all had just begun
When time flowed like water rushing over the falls
Or lonely hushing echoes bouncing off the empty walls
There has never been an answer there is just a call
From that lonely dancer at the midnight ball
With a distant look a vacant stare they’re like old books those pages tear
And long lost cares and forgotten dreams they’re flowing by like muddy streams
Copyright 1994 H. J. Ridley, Jr.
Too Simple To Understand
Way back in the past
Was not so long ago
When it will always last
It always seems to grow
It seems it just gets bigger
And we are so small
Everything together
We’re just a little part of it all
Like music is just music
Deep down it all sounds the same
Misery or joy or the pleasure or the pain
There’s no way for us to know
What tomorrow is going to bring
It’s just another song come along for us to sing
When everything seems so confused
An everybody is looking for someone
New to use Tell me who could tell me
What we have to do
To live as we should
An make this world anew
Everything is just too simple
For us to understand
To Love One Another
Is just to simple a command
But it’s never easy
Easy like it seems
When a simple plan
Is always the hardest dream
© Copyright 1994 H. J. Ridley, Jr.