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Cerulean Blue: LaurieLeeC sings michael hermiston

by ...a Nova Scotia / California collaboration of delight

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1.
i won't see you i don't need to dream of worlds you'd lead me pleased through graceful worlds true sparkling brand new hope and inspiration grew too faded strangled as you flew through leave me tangled thoughts of just you taunt those lonely memories i knew haunt me with needs now you eschew haunt me now as once i needed you find a space within your gaze that glows with a light that will amaze offer glimpses in a phrase but let your ego not be praised and journey toward those simple ways learn to reach through darks and greys and pull yourself up climb and raise your sights your heart, your heart it stays your heart is smart , it know your ways as it hangs within your grasp you reach with hope that doesn't last you reach with faith as in your past forgetful consciousness you clasp and fall asunder met by blasts of cold indifference and that nasti- ness of futile celebrations of the past declarations innocence it was a mask empty towns and empty rooms like empty sounds of phoney tunes stirring calls of lonely loons across the lake lit by moon your fall from grace it came to soon and so you found yourself in ruin your pieces scattered, visions pruned scoop some gems in all that has been strewn recoup and then you hum the same old tune i won't see you i don't need to dream of worlds you'd lead me pleased through graceful worlds true sparkling brand new hope and inspiration grew too faded strangled as you flew through leave me tangled thoughts of just you taunt those lonely memories i knew haunt me with my need now you renew haunt me as i need you …. yes i do
2.
The speeding monster, dangerous bears down with a roar a gasp of fear and self survival echoes from your core flowers grow beside the road blue sky high above the hush of breath, then chaos and death then through it all… you just feel love i feel tragic seduction growing lust with more and more saucy taste and flash of skin hors d'oeuvres once you'd ignore real tears of devotion licked but candy sweet you'll shove only when dissolved with grace you'd taste that meal you love a fire raged, lit by your brothers' wild and selfish fashions the pleasures of their clarities big hearted powered passions your winds blow strong, thus fan the flames you swing glowing, leather gloves that space you made the chance to pause to remember words, words you love why climb trees and cliffs why swim in the deep cold sea why watch the bees that kiss the flowers why read Kant and Nietszche we play, and work, and eat, and drink weep, smile, and laugh, and think dream, and love, and share a cry always wondering 'why' that marvellous, subtle swagger of thought ostentation... ego's gall conceptual mirror, that third temptation hubris, the text of your fall such fallacy you scrape away or blow off dusty pages comes to rest inside your heart love of wisdom transcends the ages
3.
right before my eyes the truth is very clear i read the writing on your wall my cheek feels falling tear you have that look those flickering eyes that cannot hold my gaze your feet are inching toward the door while mine both stay in place right down deep in my heart the truth is very clear i see you dancing joyously as you leave me sitting here you could have left me a parting gift a sign of your regret instead your smile is beaming wide but my grimace is hard and set why don't you love me why do ya shove me out the door and down the stairs why don't you care why don't you care for me why don't you want me why do ya haunt me in my sleep and through the days why don't you stay why don't you say you are mine right before my eyes you're walking hand in hand two pairs of eyes are sparkling four steps are oh so grand you look like king and queen ah the royalty of love while i live in memories and wear my peasant gloves
4.
sublimation 02:36
you lie still on the cold hard ground your heart is frozen, indifference blows around above, the grey skies hide the sun's happy slide i marvel at your stoic stubborn pride while many smile with melting hearts that trickle into spring sparkling gurling rivulets that sun and warmth will bring you still resist that warm seduction and with a shrug you lie so still and cold and yet with a certain magic science you find a way to love, and join us in the skies your depth and breadth from clouds to seabed i marvel at your knowing heart so wise
5.
i see faces in the leaves i hear voices in the wind a cold touch of empty as i stare up into space the night sky reaching down to kiss my lips, make me grin i hear voices from the earth and i see the cracks growing wide i slip and slide inside and peer into the dark i can't recall that voice of love tho' i tried walking the road of lonely your shoes and your friends are worn the blurr of time a passin' each moment dies as it's born you enter a darkened doorway the music inside is loud you figure, smoke and drink will cleanse your wounds but you find yourself more damaged by the crowd angry faces in the leaves lonely voices in the winds a mocking touch of pity as i stare up into space night sky showers chuckles then a nasty laugh begins i feel judgment from the earth a call to relinquish seven lies i choose to peer inside into the dark and still i can't recall that voice of love tho' i tried as i saunter my thoughts roam wildly many worn notions tired and old any comfort offered over long years now weights me down like fool's embedded gold another darkness with air so dank something fresh about the cool echos of a grief so hushed but still ringing i abandon all my choices as a rule peaceful faces in the leaves soothing voices in the winds awe…. i stare up into space silence from the vast feels like a grace i hear voices from that child and feel the cracks growing wide i slip and slide inside and peer into the past i see that flow of love around and inside walking the road of lonely your shoes and your friends are worn the blurr of time a passin' each moment dies as it's born walking the road of lonely your shoes and your friends are worn the blurr of time a passin' each moment dies as it's born
6.
heartbreak 03:29
you won't wonder at the rain your heart's thunder silenced with pain dreams melt and flow from your eyes fall from your face, flowing lies to the earth all turns grey no sky no sun, no place to go or stay no thoughts of tomorrow just weight buried in the night, a kinda wounded hate hope's blood drips to just stay alive all faith in your heart is just contrived you won't even wonder at the light only blindness and hunger and blight to the earth all grows dark no sky, no stars, no signs no marks no vision of clarity just dull no thoughts, or inspirations in your hollow skull you won't marvel at the beauty lost the sense of wonder that was your duty can't drink or taste or hear or see can't grant your heart it's freedom can't feel, through numbness and apathy can't let your heart be free can't feel and can't be can't pour out anymore you're empty
7.
are you full of love are you full of fear is your world of sun are your days of drear do you lie like a rock or dance as a child do your thoughts never change or are they always new and wild can you take the first step or fall back asleep in the grey early morn so you are born ahhhhhhh are you full of sway and light on your feet or stiff from belief do you break with defeat do you close your eyes when the light is bright and close your eyes in the darkness of night and fall back asleep find peace until the end in the grey early morn so you are born again are you rich with dreams do they give you laughs of gold has hope lost it's appeal as it mounts your well built scaffold can you feel the winds of hope's final breath can you see it as a chance to take a test of death can you roll your eyes with a grin and then maybe you'll smile or have you convinced yourself that love is not your style again
8.
how can you leave all the sunny dreams you found in your darkness you loved in your nights buried mountains poured out seas fallen skies your world on it's knees you are dragged into sunrise across your concrete will ego torn and bleeding hope's wound, deeper still you watch now distant dreams fade from your view you sit in your clouds and cold rain is your truth but the rain today makes flowers grow and clouds fly by and feel the winds blow and the sun and the stars'll shine and glow can you use that light to see inside and so you'll find in the dark the love you know ……. is there and help you let those old dreams go….. away somewhere it's hard i know …… do you dare her eyes glare hard the door slams loud you feel a frozen gust across your heart buried years memories poured to grey crumples plans thrown away you're pushed into your hollow self echoing your tears like rain from those clouds a terrible dance of fears you watch now distant hope fade from your view you sit amid your clouds and cold rain's your truth but the rain today makes flowers grow and clouds fly by and feel the winds blow and the sun and the stars'll shine and glow can you use that light to see inside and so and help you let those old dreams go….. away somewhere it's hard i know …… do you dare how can you leave all the memories you made through your life you carry in your heart buried joys and scars that glow stories and dances shared and times only you know you're walk into sunset your will has learned to sigh your world of calm is turning you watch the others cry you watch now distant dreams fade from your view you sit amid your clouds and peace is now your truth but the rain today makes flowers grow and clouds fly by and feel the winds blow and the sun and the stars'll shine and glow can you use that light to see inside and so you'll find in the dark the love you know ……. is there and help you let those old dreams go….. away somewhere it's hard i know …… do you dare
9.
morning light, drowns the night leaves my peaceful dreams to fight with daily echoes of my youth frozen rigging, my deepest truth blue, so blue sky of liquid caroline sapphire waters warm to skin i drown blue in cerulean i rise and pull my canvas o'er me paint my beauty so the world sees my child's heart tied with a wrong constricted rhythm same old song my fallen eyelids over haunting stare can't watch them whirl to a windy nowhere all my skin and half my soul stripped to a shivering sigh
10.
oh that muse 03:18
i see her walking in the cold is her glow just my creation in the shadowed streets of this empty town she strides with determination her hair is long and dark i think but her hat is pulled down low her pace and gait unhurried her footprints in the snow i glance across my moonlit room those sheets like a nest or prison that lonely figure i loved so well just smiled at my decision with trepidation in the dark a murder of suitors starved smitten stumbling staggering forth singing of their scars chorus as if she heard my observation she halts and looks my way the gaggle gasps, the flock it falters they stand and stare and sway she turns her head and with a wink she gestures to the famished they shiver, hungry, the desperate ones find all kindness vanished chorus why that smile as she looked my way i'll never understand into the distance of the night her humbleness so grand then the moon behind the clouds leaves her vanished in the dark as she's gone my heart then twists lonely futile stark
11.
Adrift, but a gust A silent moment’s rust Trailing past and falling drips Hope and beauty’s canvas rips Jewels and velvet walls Dreams of smiling dolls Draining away On such a sunny day Greens and blues Paths you choose Yellows, reds so bright I see In your heart, but not with me It’s free for thee, open and true Green and growing, flowing blue Awaken a rival glimpse As she trails her fascination Down it sinks below A moment’s lost elation World fades away Melting shapes of clay Gray and lost and flowing Imagination slowing How the tides of wonder Ebb and flow toward death Brightness smiles at tragedy Gasping for each breath And when my eyelid’s heavy And breadth of vision fades Dream my hero in colour As through the dark waters he wades
12.
in the dark and chill of the morning we rise and light the lamp all but one child still sleeping light the stove against the cold and damp hungry monsters race across the lands we feed them all both steel and bone but it's for my hearts to the depths i go to the grip of these times we're all thrown coal dust black and coating skin in our lungs for all our days changing world to this silent raging glow a death dance in our cells is how it pays those times are buried 'neath the glass and steel they rise, keep our feet high off the earth stories of that darkness lingers memories, precious…. more than all the coal was worth so much of day spent in the depths many dreams so blackened by the glow the warmth of dusk the choices then accepted the miles that passed and now i go
13.
Adrift, but a gust A silent moment’s rust Trailing past and falling drips Hope and beauty’s canvas rips Jewels and velvet walls Dreams of smiling dolls Draining away On such a sunny day Greens and blues Paths you choose Yellows, reds so bright I see In your heart, but not with me It’s free for thee, open and true Green and growing, flowing blue Awaken a rival glimpse As she trails her fascination Down it sinks below A moment’s lost elation World fades away Melting shapes of clay Gray and lost and flowing Imagination slowing
14.
will it turn before i go or just keep on rolling will i open my eyes or keep roaming, in the dark blind i may be, trapped in illusion when will it turn when will it turn when will it turn when will it turn will it turn before i go everything keeps changing a line in every holy book we all walk those words and all the spaces, our silence in between they echo in my mind pages cold and heartless when will it turn when will it turn when will it turn when will it turn will it turn before i go oh it's a hard nut sure don't crack easy in my pocket since i's a boy lost my rusty hammer, running from the rain blind once was, blind i'll remain when will it turn when will it turn when will it turn when will it turn will it turn before i go

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as a songwriter, 'tis such a delight to find a singer, even a singer on the other side of the continent who enjoys my music... and has the heart and voice to express that delight. this is a collection of my original tunes mostly sung by Laurie but with a few duets with me... the instrumentation is mine except for Laurie's lap guitar on the second version of greens and blues ....enjoy

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released March 3, 2014

Laurie Lee Campbell in California is singing tunes written by and accompanied by michael hermiston in Nova Scotia

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