1. |
How We Choose to Hold
03:44
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How We Choose To Hold
(Laura Vecchione)
I don’t know but I’ve been told that money don’t mean a thing
Through the eye of a needle or the eye of a storm the rich won’t hold a key
I don’t know but I’ve been thinking ‘bout the children on the ground
Where the sky is raining what should never be raining
And the deafening dark sound
Chorus:
Well the only thing that’s gold is how we choose to hold
A brother and a sister in the heart of our own soul
I don’t know but I’ve been told that a woman is a sacred thing
She brings life where there once was none, but you tear her down just the same
I don’t know but I’ve been told that the last will be the first
After so much heartache ‘cause they used your body
There’ll be water where you thirst
Chorus
Bridge: I’ve been told that love is patient, I’ve been told love is kind
But on the drunken other side love is cruel and love is blind
I don’t know but I’ve been told old soldiers never die
After so much killing and all the blood spilling
Can a young man’s soul survive?
I don’t know but I’ve been told God walked among men
And we broke Him and we beat Him and we lied and we cheated
And we do it all again
Chorus
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2. |
Better Run
03:44
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Better Run
(Laura Vecchione)
You’re so upstanding but I see what you’re about
You got the key to turn me inside out
Just turn around, you want to keep from doing wrong
To walk the straight and narrow, Boy, you best be gone
Chorus:
You better run/You better hide/’Cause you got me feeling no pride
You better run/You better hide/’Cause I’ll wreck that pretty lie
I see the way that you got everybody fooled
Playing at the game like obey the rules
I feel the thunder when you look me in the eye
I can feel the heat behind your thin disguise
Chorus
Bridge:
You’re coming on like a rainstorm
To wear my resistance till it’s gone
Pass that blame with all of your might
But I don’t cross a line without a strong invite
I’m not the kind to go and betray the sisterhood
But boy you got a smile to turn a bad girl good
Would take a diesel just to turn this thing around
And, Lord, I’m not the one who went and took that vow
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3. |
This Town
04:37
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This Town (Boston)
(Laura Vecchione)
There’s a full moon over Boylston Street
Break lights swim and dance in front of me
Like bright fish in a dark sea
On and off next to the big round T
When it hits me
Chorus:
We fulfilled our promise and the moon still hangs above
The same light it cast upon us
When we were still in love
Well tell that night sky that I already know
Though we fulfilled our promise
This town won’t let me let you go
The moldings on Victorian buildings
Salute wrought iron gates around the gardens
In your plaid wax jacket and your baseball hat
You fit right in to this half England
And I was half your kingdom
Chorus
Bridge:
The sun lit up your eyes when you vowed to have me live my heart’s desire
So it stunned me, your goodbye - I never thought it would be
without you by my side
I drive up Storrow, the river’s racing
And I remember how you held me
How the cars rushed and we barely blushed
And the willows draped a canopy
Around you and me
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Indian Red (Mardi Gras Indian Sacred Song)*
Mighty cooty fiyo
Indian Red
Indian Red
Here comes my Spy Boy, Spy Boy, Spy Boy from the nation
The whole wild creation
He won’t bow down
Not on that ground
You know I love to hear you call
My Indian Red
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5. |
Fly Home Flag Boy
04:33
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Fly Home Flag Boy
My flag boy sitting on the corner
waiting for the wind to blow him home
Your flag boy crying to the water
Why’d you go and take everything I own?
See that child stumble in the dark
Cryin’ for her mamma in the trailer park
See that man in the government suit
He said you better stay calm and you better not loot
Fly Home Flag Boy
Fly Home Flag Boy
Plant your flag back in that town
And we’ll never forget and we won’t bow down
Not on that ground
Not on that ground
Shotgun house in the middle of the road
Whole damn town’s been covered in mold
Soldiers coming home not half way whole
And we can fix those levees with the money we owe
Chorus / Bridge:
Mademoiselle bought for a song
Louisianna what’s gone wrong
We stole every pleasure in the dark
And now we think you’d make a better theme park
Before the coastal land is sinking sand
We’re gonna tell the truth and call it back again
Echos of the past and the voodoo drum
Are gonna rise from the ash til the race is won
Though I know you’re scattered where the wind has blown
No matter where you been, gonna call you home
From the bottom to the top as the river flows
Gonna sing for the earth, Iko, Iko
(Chorus)
Big Queen Fly Home
Big Chief Fly Home
Restore Your Throne
On that ground
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6. |
Don't Come Creepin'
03:42
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Don’t Come Creepin’
(Laura Vecchione)
Don’t come creepin’ round my back stair
One of these days I won’t be there.
With your hot breath freezin’ me in my bed
Closin’ my eyes and praying for death.
Sunlight’s creepin’ and a rainbow’s peepin’ through the window
Folks have been meetin’ ‘round the old barn keeping it a secret
I’m gonna sleep yet
Come to my window pull me out
Drop me into the deep dark well.
Quiet as a mouse but scared as hell
Just remember soon I’ll be sleepin’ well.
Cock will be crowin’ and I’ll be throwing off the hound dogs
The river is flowing and I’ll be going where the wind blows
Through the wet bogs
If you go hide from the sun
Dark and deadly on the run.
Freedom’s tunnel’s up ahead
Can’t look back from the railroad’s edge.
Mmm-mmm-mmm
Don’t come creepin’/No more weepin’/
My sons and daughters/Will call their daddy, “Father.”
I remember hands both black and tan through my ringlets
Honey voice singing and the church bells ringing on a Sunday
“He’ll make a way”
So don’t come creepin’ ‘round my back stair
Pretty darn soon I won’t be there.
Copyright Selkie Music/ASCAP 2008
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7. |
Magnolia
03:59
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Magnolia
(Laura Vecchione)
In the shadow of St. Mary Street, Tommy falls into the Half Moon
He eyes the tight jeans standing by as he cracks the eight ball into the side
They spill like whiskey onto the street, Crescent City moon sees sins repeat
Under wrought iron lace and Spanish roofs he tries to pick a lilywhite bloom
Chorus:
Oh, Magnolia/You’re too high to reach
Lofty in your truthfulness/And the trust I did breach
Oh, my sweet Magnolia/You have brought me to my knees
And the pain’s too much for me to bear/So I’ll just do as I please
The heavy arm of a stranger wakes him, his fogged mind fumbles for a name
Till the coffee’s brewed and he’s alone again, head pounds hard like a chain gang
On the rooftop late one summertime underneath the honest northern sky
He brushed the strands out of her eyes and he believed each word he spoke that night
Chorus
Bridge:
A heart like the sun glowed through her chest
And it drove away the darkness.
In her arms finally he could rest
From the lies he always hides
He cracked each promise on another’s skin
And then he climbed on down to the city of sin
Closest thing to heaven when you can’t get in
To the favor of the woman you love
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8. |
A Lover Is Forever
03:38
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A Lover Is Forever
(Steve Goodman/J. Fred Knobloch)
I think I understand
The reason you won't stay with me
You think a ring upon your hand
Will solve your insecurity
So go ahead and play your games
If that's what you must do
Nothing here remains the same
But the way I feel for you
I can watch you walk away
And I know that I'll get by
And I know just what to say
But honey I can't tell a lie
Figure out what you must do
Because you think you're so damn clever
You can marry any time you want
But a lover is forever
I can watch you walk away
And I know that I'll get by
And I know just what to say
But honey I can't tell a lie
Figure out what you must do
Because you think you're so damn clever
You can marry any time you want
But a lover is forever
You can marry any time
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9. |
Girl in the Band
05:46
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The Girl in the Band
(Laura Vecchione)
Midnight in Manhattan/Was three hours ago
But you call from California /Just to let me know
About a cute girl who’s waiting, she’s waiting for your kiss
And I don’t want to talk to you like this
But the sound of your voice is like honey from your lips...
That was so long ago
Chorus:
Now I don’t want to be
The Girl in the Band
Baby, I’m not here to take your hand
I don’t want to be the girl in the band
Anymore
And when she left you, you were broken/Face down on the ground
When the wound is raw and open/That’s when you come around
And I promised you’d get through this when all your tears were cried
And you said when you got through I’d be there on the other side
But when your strength returns, you run for another thrilling ride
And I’m left alone again
Chorus
Bridge:
Well, you’ve whispered all your secrets to my heart
And I’ve emptied both my hands of every card
Now our eyes are so full of what we never said
We never said
We never said
One night you played just for me/Notes like crystal in the air
And in the dark you couldn’t see me/Cry with you right there
And every time she leaves you, that same girl with a different name
I’m here to relieve you, so I’ll take half the blame
But time is calling me to find a love that I can claim
I’m finally moving on
Chorus
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10. |
Stone by Stone
04:13
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Stone by Stone
(Laura Vecchione)
Stone by stone you laid it down
And made your way away
From everything your heart desired
And every thing that made you sing
Higher and higher until I could no longer climb
There was no reason, and Lord knows there was no rhyme
Chorus:
But when the wall comes down
When the wall comes down
I want to see your lovely face
I want to be in your embrace
When the wall comes down
I know all the things you’ve done
Every dark and stone cold deed
You think that you can run
But, Honey I know everything
Those demons got you pretty hard
When they took you far from me
Heaven’s gate was in my arms they must held you to the flame
Chorus
Bridge:
There’s a sea that holds all the wrongs
Wash them away, wash them away now
Don’t you know that every song I sing, I sing for you?
It shook down Babylon and it’ll shake you one day, too
Your dark could not destroy what moves a mountain in my soul
So with every breath I have I’m gonna sing that you be whole
Chorus
In the Bye and Bye, in the Bye and Bye my Love
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Laura Vecchione Boston, Massachusetts
Singer and songwriter, Laura Vecchione has captivated audiences nationwide with her soulful convergence of gospel, blues,
folk-pop, country and rock.
See and learn more information about Laura by visiting: www.lauravmusic.com
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