1.Potter's Wheel
Lyrics:Bill Danoff
Music:Bill Danoff
The world is fast becoming younger
The news is all they've ever known
They've seen the wars, the hurt, the hunger
How will they choose when they are grown
What do you tell forever's children
When it's their turn to hurt and heal
Whatever spins a grim tornado
Can also turn a potter's wheel
Chorus:
Take a little clay
Put it on a wheel
Get a little hint
How God must feel
Give a little turn
Listen to it spin
Make it into the shape
You want it in
Tell with your life the bloody story
Teach to they're dreams not burning steel
It's not in bombs where lies the glory
But in what's shattered on the field
The potter's wheel takes love and caring
Skill and patience fast and slow
The works it makes are easily broken
Once they survive the potter's throw
(Chorus)
Some day some children will be digging
In some long forgotten ground
And they'll find our civilization
Or what's left of it to be found
They'll find the weapons of destruction
But buried deeper in the hole
They'll find a message and a promise
In the sand, the potter's bowl
(Chorus)
Earth and water and wind conspire
With human hands, and love, and fire
2.Ponies
Lyrics:Jeffrey Bullock
Music:Jeffrey Bullock
Somewhere out on the prairie
Is the greatest cowboy that's ever been
And when he lays his hands upon the ponies
They shudder with an understanding skin
And he says ponies
Now ponies don't you worry
I have not come to steal your fire away
I want to fly with you across the sunrise
Discover what begins each shining day
When the storm clouds in the west
Are quickly gathering
The ponies they run wild there
Before it rains
You'll see their sleek dark bodies
Brightly gleaming
You know the fire is flying through
Their brains
And he says ponies
Now ponies don't you worry
I have not come to steal your fire away
I want to fly with you across the sunrise
Discover what begins each shining day
3.The Foxfire Suite
Lyrics:John Denver
Music:John Denver
Spring is Alive
Spring is Alive
In Carolina
Deep in the forest
Where the foxfire glows
High on a mountain
Down in a holler
Thunder and lighting
So it goes
Over a hundred years ago
We came to Carolina
Far across the water
It's a long hard road
With little more than courage
We came seeking independence
A little less then nothin'
Is a heavy load
From the heather to the highlands
We have found the Smokie Mountains
Hard work and simple ways
And life is good
life is good
Spring is alive
In Carolina
Deep in the forest
Where the foxfire glows
High on a mountain
Down in a holler
Thunder and lighting
So it goes
You Are...
You are every morning sunrise
You are every rain
You are every peal of laughter
You are every cry of pain
You are all the summer flowers
You are all the falling leaves
You are everyone who grieves
You are all my unknown secrets
You are all my hidden fears
You are known in lover's kisses
You are seen in childhood tears
You are where the stars are shining
You are where the rainbow ends
You are why the war is over
You are how the peace begins
Whisper the Wind
Whisper the wind
over the water
Whisper the wind
All through the night
Whisper the wind
along the canyon
Whisper the wind
into the light
Whisper the wind
Brothers and sisters
Whisper the wind
All the same
Whisper the wind
Love on another
Whisper the wind
Your precious name
Spring is Alive(Reprise)
Spring is Alive
In Carolina
Deep in the forest
Where the foxfire glows
High on a mountain
Down in a holler
Thunder and lighting
So it goes
Over a hundred years ago
We came to Carolina
Far across the water
It's a long hard road
With little more than courage
We came seeking independence
A little less then nothin'
Is a heavy load
From the heather to the highlands
We have found the Smokie Mountains
Hard work and simple ways
And life is good
life is good
Spring is alive
In Carolina
Deep in the forest
Where the foxfire glows
High on a mountain
Down in a holler
Thunder and lighting
So it goes
4.Chained To the Wheel
Lyrics:Nick Smith
Music:Joe Camilleri
Know what you really need
You can't get enough
Too many mouths to feed
Ain't life tough
Call this survival
Don't pray for a sign
Know what you rally want
You can't get it back
Down on the water front
Better watch out jack
Nights on the mainline
Rust on the rail
I've seen 'em tumble it down
I've seen red rivers, fire and steel
I've felt the thunder chained to the wheel
Know what you mean to me
Goes deeper then that
Can't fight your destiny
Don't know where it's at
Don't look for light'n
Or pray for a sign
I've heard the legends
I've watched the skies
I feel the power
The flame in your eyes
I've seen 'em swindle this town
I've seen 'em tumble it down
I've seen red rivers, fire and steel
I've felt the thunder chained to the wheel
5.Two Different Directions
Lyrics:John Denver
Music:John Denver
They say they love each other
I've no doubt they do
They say they'll always be together
That may not be true
They come from different places
Different points of view
They find themselves in different spaces
Everything is all brand new
Two different directions
Too many different ways
One always on the road somewhere
The other one always stays too often unhappy
When you are moving in different directions
True love is all alone
Old stories start to surface
Patterns from long ago
And loving quickly turns to anger
For reasons they don't even know
The strongest heart can be broken
With one insensitive word
The deepest feelings remain unspoken
No one is seen and nothing heard
Two different directions
Too many different ways
One always wants to work things out
The other one wants to play
To ready for changes
To much that just can't wait
When you are moving in different directions
True love can turn to hate
If opposites attract each other
What's the reason for
One being like an open window
One just like closing a door
Two different directions
Too many different ways
One likes to see the morning sunrise
The other one sleeps in late
To many tomorrow's
to many times to late
When you are moving in different directions
True love may have to wait
If you are committed to different directions
True love will have to wait
6.Hold On To Me
Lyrics:Nick Smith
Music:Joe Camilleri
We were live on arrival
Safe home at last
No cannon fire dockside
No flags half-mast
We were sold out for silver
And a string of black pearls
On the loneliest island
At the edge of the world
Chorus:
Like destiny's children
Souls lost at sea
No room on the life boat
You can hold on to me
Now the voyage is over
We're back on dry land
In our eyes are the stories
The rope and the brand
Chorus
7.The Chosen Ones
Lyrics:Nick Smith
Music:Joe Camilleri
I heard how all the lights went out in Memphis
On the death night anniversary of the king
The pretenders talking dirty in the palace
But it doesn't have that old familiar ring
I see there's been some changes in the valley
All the renegades have finally settled down
Now they worship in the temples of their rivals
And desecrate the holy heart of town
Can't you hear all those sweet voices singing
Takin care of the chosen ones
Can't you hear all those mission bells ringin'
Say a prayer for the chosen ones
I read they're pourin' oil on troubled waters
Yet they cast a giant shadow on the land
Let's spend another night across the border
And bury all our secrets in the sand
Now they claim there is a message in the Bible
They swear there is no master and his slave
But the futures lookin' dim for the lonesome cowboy
When the hand the rocks the cradle digs the grave
8.Amazon (Let This Be A Voice)
Lyrics:John Denver
Music:John Denver
There is a river that runs from the mountains
That one river is all rivers
All rivers are that one
There I a tree that stands in the forest
That one tree is all forests
All trees are that one
There is a flower that blooms in the desert
That one blossom is all flowers
All flowers are that one
It is the song of life
It is the flower of faith
It is the tree of temptation
It is the river of no regret
There is a child that cries in the ghetto
That one child is all children
All children are that one
There is a vision that shines in the darkness
That one vision is all of our dreams
All of our dreams are that one
It is a vision of heaven
It is a child of promise
It is the song of life
It is the river of no regret
Let this be a voice for the mountains
Let this be a voice for the river
Let this be a voice for the forest
Let this be a voice for the flowers
Let this be a voice for the ocean
Let this be a voice for the desert
Let this be a voice for the children
Let this be a voice for the dreamers
Let this be a voice of no regret
9.Tenderly Calling
Lyrics:Jan Garrett
Music:Jan Garrett
Chorus:
Home, come on home
Ye who are weary come home
Softly and tenderly calling
Home, come on home
Sometimes when I'm feeling lonesome
And no one on earth seems to care
I'm all by myself in the darkness
With no one and nothing to share
Just when it feels like it's hopeless
And I'll never make it alone
I hear the voices of angels
Tenderly calling me home
Chorus:
I try to keep it together
I never let on that I'm scare
Still sometimes I fall to pieces
Scatter and lost everywhere
Just when it feels like there's no one
To mend all my broken down dreams
I hear a voice deep inside me
Tenderly calling to me
Chorus:
So don't be afraid of the darkness
And don't run away from the storm
Stand up and face your reflection
The feelings you try to ignore
After the tempest is over
You've let yourself come on through
You'll hear a voice in the silence
Tenderly calling to you
Chorus:
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