GYPSY - Rob Wesley (1/26/2002)
Key = C#m
VERSE 1:
Gypsy stands askance, watching the others as they carry on romance,
Forming the bonds that cause our lonely lives to dance.
Watching from afar, safely from a distance,
She'd rather fear alone, than risk offered assistance.
CHORUS 1:
No one to hold, no one can touch me,
No one to hug, no one to heal me.
Sitting all alone, imprisoned all around me,
Sit in my own world, that I form around me.
VERSE 2:
One single heart, she lets inside her own world,
Seeking it out, surprised that in its arms she now unfolds.
Then left to her own, she finds herself retreating,
Yet in its presence, she finds her own heart beating.
CHORUS 2:
One single heart, sharing and willing,
Two sharing hearts, but then she finds this chilling,
Lashing about, destroying the other,
Too proud to feel, too fearful to bother.
BREAK
CHORUS 1
(pause)
CHORUS 2
CHORUS 1
And she lives her life alone.
BREAK to end
And she lives her life alone.
Copyright (C) 2002 R W Schellhaas All Rights Reserved Creative Alternatives Music (ASCAP)
PULLING IT DOWN - Rob Wesley (9/9/2002 at home)
Key = G
VERSE 1:
We're pulling it down now, we're pulling it down.
We're pulling it down now, we're pulling it down.
Pulling, pulling, pulling, pulling,
pulling, pulling, pulling, pulling,
CHORUS:
Why do you pull me down?
Doo-doo-doo, doo-doo-doo, doo-doo-doo, doo-doo-doo,
Doo-doo-doo, doo-doo-doo, doo-doo-doo, doo-doo-doo.
VERSE 2:
You're pulling me down now, you're pulling me down.
You're pulling me down now, you're pulling me down.
Copyright (C) 2002 R W Schellhaas All Rights Reserved Creative Alternatives Music (ASCAP)
OUTSIDE MY WINDOW - Rob Wesley 2/7/2002
Key = A
VERSE 1:
Here, in the dark, I look outside my window and I see,
You, in my dreams, of thirty, forty years ago, it seems.
Fields, fragrant meadows lined with trees.
Fields, fragrant meadows in the breeze.
VERSE 2:
One broken heart, I look inside my window and I see,
Pain and tragedy, a broken promise, scorn, hostility.
Frost and frozen mem'ries now, it seems.
Frost and frozen mem'ries of my dreams.
REFRAIN:
How long? How long? How long?
How long? How long? How long?
LEAD BREAK
How long? How long? How long?
VERSE 3:
Come to my dream, I see you at my window, smiling at me.
You share this dream, I want to know the secret of your dreams.
Open wide your heart and find your dreams,
Open wide your heart and live your dreams.
Open wide your heart and find your dreams,
Open wide your heart into your dreams.
REFRAIN
LEAD BREAK, then with REFRAIN to END
Copyright (C) 2002 R W Schellhaas All Rights Reserved Creative Alternatives Music (ASCAP)
AGAIN AND AGAIN Rob Wesley 1/6/1989
Key = D
D Bm G F#m Em G A
I look to your heart, again and again, again and again,
I look to your mind, I want to be in, want to be in it,
G F#m Em F#m
I look not to change, but to explore-the-world,
G A
I find in it,
G F#m Em F#m G A
I'm looking for you, and for our love, where, to begin it.
I look to my heart, again and again, again and again,
I find what I need, is missing until, your love is in it,
If you find the time, to feel like I feel, then,
Please admit it,
If you're looking to find, some other one, I, can't admit it.
BREAK:
D//// //// G// F#M// Em// A//
G//// D//// G// F#m// Em// A//
Deep in my heart, I know there's a space,
reserved for our love,
And it's in your heart, though in your mind,
it seems far and distant,
I'm looking to find, deep in your mind,
the, key to ignite it,
So please understand, when I take your hand,
F#m G A D F#m Em
I'm, searchin' again and again, and again, and again,
G A D F#m Em
I'm searchin' again and again, and again, and again,
Girl I'm searchin' again and again, and again,
So please don't fight it (again and again, and again,)
I'm searchin' again and again.
Copyright (C) 1989 R W Schellhaas, Words and Music, ALL RIGHTS RESERVED
08/09/1989 PAU1-327-656 Bridges To Cross
IN TIME Rob Wesley 9/17/89
KEY = D
In time, all that we wanted to be, we will be;
In time, all that we thought that we ever could be or see, we'll see.
In time.
REFRAIN:
Nothing will stand in our way permanently.
All that beshackles and binds will be freed,
In time, in time.
Our mind, questing to find what to be, will be.
Our kind, not giving in to the structures of greed-will-be-freed,
We won't concede,
In time.
In time (repeat in ending)
Copyright (C) 2001 R W Schellhaas, Words and Music, ALL RIGHTS RESERVED
EVERY TIME I SEE YOU SMILE Rob Wesley 7/20/2001
Key = A
VERSE 1
I don't know your name, but I recognize your smile.
It would be a shame, not to see you once in a while.
Do you ever wonder who I am?
Wonder if my name is Bill or Sam?
Can you see inside my heart, every time I see you smile?
REFRAIN:
I'd like to know you, but I know you
Don't need me to complicate your life.
I'd like to know you thought of me some
day and that my mem'ry brought a smile.
VERSE 2
So it is to be, just a passing memory,
If the time were right, then I wonder what could be?
But I see reality strike again,
There's only today and nothing then,
(but ) can you see inside my heart, every time I see you smile?
INSTRUMENTAL LEAD
REFRAIN
VERSE 1
I don't know your name, but I recognize your smile.
It will be a shame, not to see you once in a while.
Did you ever wonder who I am?
Wonder if my name is Steve or Dan?
Will you recognize my smile, if I see you once in a while?
CODA
Could your name be Liz or Pam?
Or maybe Jean or Sharon Anne?
How about Elizabeth? Diane?
Tammy, Lynn or Jennifer, Suzanne?
Copyright (C) 2001 Robert W Schellhaas All Rights Reserved
THE TIDE - Rob Wesley (7/31/2001 chords, 8/18/2001 lyrics)
Key = D
VERSE 1
Don't you wonder where the tide goes,
Does it have a face, a mouth and nose?
Can it come and go at whim,
Like the light, does it have bright and dim?
CHORUS:
Don't you wonder where the tide goes?
Is it passing time in how it flows?
If you ask it will it stay a while?
Or does it punch the clock and go in style?
Don't you wonder where the tide goes,
Don't you wonder where the tide goes?
VERSE 2
Can you make a date and have it show,
Does it have its own, bungalow,
Does it check the clock and come as planned,
Or get too busy and insult the sand?
CHORUS
VERSE 3
In this world of change one thing is sure,
When the tide is low no plea adjure,
When the tide is up the waves will churn,
Just as surely as the earth will turn.
CHORUS
Don't you wonder where the tide goes,
Don't you wonder where the tide goes?
INSTRUMENTAL LEAD TO END
Copyright (C) 2001 Robert W Schellhaas All Rights Reserved
Grow Where You Go - Rob Wesley (7/22/2002 at home)
VERSE 1:
I wanted to wish you, a Happy Birthday,
I hope it is happy, I hope it is "your day,"
Now that I've said that, I want you to know that,
I'm thankful to know you, and give you this blessing,
CHORUS 1:
Grow where you go, Grow where you go.
May the road rise, under your feet,
May you be carried by angels so sweet.
Grow where you go.
(Grow where you go.)
VERSE 2:
And now that I've said that, I see there is more that,
I wanted to say but, I didn't have time so,
Please let me take this brief moment to say to you,
I think I see so much goodness in you, and I bless you too, with this, ohhh,
CHORUS 2:
Grow where you go, Grow where you go.
Be all your days, full and complete.
Be all your dreams, blessed and sweet.
Grow where you go.
(Grow where you go.)
REFRAIN:
I want you to show the world, I want you to show the world,
Come to center-stage, it's your life, and it's your time so now then,
CHORUS 3:
Grow where you go, Grow where you go.
Be all you are, let your light show.
May all you are, light up the show.
Grow where you go.
(Grow where you go.)
INSTRUMENTAL LEAD
CHORUS 2
INSTRUMENTAL BRIDGE
Grow where you go, Grow where you go.
Be all you are, let your light show.
Grow where you go, Grow where you go (in round al fini)
Copyright (C) 2002 R W Schellhaas All Rights Reserved Creative Alternatives Music (ASCAP)
LOVE LIFTS THE DAY - Rob Wesley
Key = G
(oooh-waahh)
Love lifts the day.
(various vocal harmonizing doobie doo-wah, ooh-aah etc.)
Copyright (C) 2002 R W Schellhaas All Rights Reserved Creative Alternatives Music (ASCAP)
STANDING IN THE RAIN - Rob Wesley (song 7/29/2002; lyrics 8/5/2002 at home)
Key = A
VERSE 1:
Here I am hold it all inside of me (standing in the rain).
Here I am others' pains along side of me (standing in the rain).
Then I see, gentle falling rain, cleansing me.
A//// (standing in the rain). x 2
Now I see, gentle as the rain, I am free.
CHORUS:
Standing, Standing, Standing.
Standing, Standing, Standing, in the rain.
BREAK (A//// F#m // E// x 4)
VERSE 2:
Crying out at the very thought of you (standing in the rain).
All these days you were right in front of me (standing in the rain).
And the sun, bursts out of the clouds, through the rain.
(A//// F#m // E// x 2)
VERSE 3:
Lonely days, digging deep inside of me (standing in the rain).
All the pain, washes out in tears from me (standing in the rain).
And I've found, solace in the fall-, falling rain.
CHORUS
(8-beat rest)
A//// (standing in the rain). x 4
(A//// F#m // E// x 2)
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WAITING (FOR YOU) - Rob Wesley (10/17/2002 music & intro lyrics at home; 10/22/2002 lyrics Somerset NJ Marriott)
(Waiting, waiting, waiting, I've been waiting.)
VERSE 1:
All day, all night, I've got dreams that are upon my mind.
Will I, meet you? Will you want me as a part of your life?
CHORUS:
Day after night, all of my might,
All of this time.
(Waiting, waiting, waiting, I've been waiting.)
VERSE 2:
One day, I meet you, I really think I've lost my mind.
It seems that, you know me, then you say I'm really not your kind.
CHORUS
All of this time, time after time,
Day after night, all of my might
REFRAIN:
Will you find your dream, too?
Will you find me with you?
Will you see your dream, too?
Will you see me with you?
BREAK
Waiting, waiting, waiting, I've been waiting.
VERSE 3:
Love turns, to sorrow, not a reason given up by you.
Tonight, tomorrow, I keep hopin' that you'll see this through.
CHORUS 2:
Out of my mind, day after night,
How will I know, you'll make this right?
REPRISE:
Will you need me? (Waiting)
Will you miss me? (Waiting)
Waiting, I've been waiting.
Waiting, waiting for you.
Copyright (C) 2002 R W Schellhaas All Rights Reserved Creative Alternatives Music (ASCAP)
WHY - Rob Wesley (8/26/2002 at home)
VERSE 1:
Why can't you see that it's true?
Oh I'd spend my whole life with you.
Oh why can't this moment be true?
With you.
VERSE 2:
Why, is my sorrow so blue,
Why, is my heartache still new,
Oh why, does my soul ache for you,
VERSE 3:
How, can you go on this way?
Why, did you throw it away?
Oh how, can you say what we had
Wasn't true?
VERSE 1 (repeat)
Why can't you see that what we had was true?
Oh I would have spent my whole lifetime with you.
Oh how can you say what we shared wasn't true?
Oh, Why?
O-oh, why?
Oh, Why?
Copyright (C) 2002 R W Schellhaas All Rights Reserved Creative Alternatives Music (ASCAP)
SOME DAY - Rob Wesley (music & Verse 1 6/20/2002 Ohio Turnpike enroute home from
Ashland OH; remaining verses 7/15/2002)
VERSE 1:
Some day, when the skies are blue,
Some day, when the flowers bloom.
Some day, in the fields of green,
I'll reach, for your hand my Queen.
REFRAIN 1:
Some way, far beyond our means,
Some day, rooted in our teens,
We'll walk, hand in hand as one,
Revealed, in its time begun.
VERSE 2:
And you, now so far away,
You'll yearn, for that time one day.
Once seen, in my days of youth,
Your eyes, opened, see the truth.
REFRAIN 2:
Some day, when the skies are blue,
Some day, when the flowers bloom.
Some day, in the fields of green,
I'll reach, for your hand my Queen.
BREAK
VERSE 3:
For now, far estranged am I,
For now, torn by painful lies.
But you, deep within you know,
One day, love from your heart flows.
REFRAIN 3:
Some day, when the skies are blue,
Some day, when the flowers bloom.
Some day, in the fields of green,
I'll reach, for your hand my Queen.
BREAK to END
Copyright (C) 2002 R W Schellhaas All Rights Reserved Creative Alternatives Music (ASCAP)
Song For Emmy - Rob Wesley (2/21/2003 Ashland OH)
VERSE:
Time to rise, another day,
Push the cobwebs far away,
Find the strength to carry on,
Restless sleep turns into dawn.
Pack their lunches, send them off,
Soon they're home, sore throat and cough,
Clear the dishes, stop the fray,
Tuck them in, now starts her day.
And the months turn into years,
Mother smiles, but hides the tears.
CHORUS:
Find the strength to carry on,
Lonely nights turn into dawn.
How can I face another day?
When will this loneliness, go away?
REFRAIN 1:
How can I face another day?
When will this loneliness, go away?
Emmy cries out, "Oh Lord I pray!"
"Spare me this pain, in your light I pray."
REFRAIN 2:
"Hear my despair, Oh Lord be true.
Who do I seek, if I don't seek You?"
And the heavens reach down, wrap her in its arms,
"Emmy, my child, rest far from harm."
Copyright (C) 2003 R W Schellhaas All Rights Reserved Creative Alternatives Music (ASCAP)
CLOSING OUTRO - Rob Wesley
"And now... for our closing number.... Rob Wesley and the Benny Hill Revival Tribute Band............."
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THE ONLY ONE (I'VE BEEN DREAMING OF) - Rob Wesley (11/08/03 at home)
Key = D
VERSE 1:
How many times it happens,
How many tears go by.
So buried in the past, now,
It somehow still survives.
I never thought it would happen,
Unseen and yet so true,
That if I ever found you,
I'd find your love so true.
CHORUS:
You're the only one, I've been dreaming of,
You're the only one, I see.
You're the only one, and it's been so long,
Since into your eyes, I've seen.
VERSE 2:
How many times our nights went on,
And I still hear the laughter.
Yet now so many others see,
Your laughter, all but me.
CHORUS
REFRAIN: (softly)
I look around this lonely place,
I've managed to survive.
In hope I open up my eyes,
But I'm the only one I see.
CHORUS
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