SEAMLESS

©1993 Mary Elaine Mahon

Harmony Vocals: Elaine Mahon, Josh Greenbaum, Pat Koch

Guitar: Bob McPeek

Bass: Alan Hill

Viola: Tim Hankins

How I love the sunlight on a clear autumn day

When the night sky grows so dark the stars simply blaze

And each time I look into your eyes I can see the signs of rain

And I know this garden of our love will come to bloom again

For that’s the nature of love, that’s the way of our love

I’m a leaf on a river, a cloud in the sky

I’m a dancer unfettered in a dream so alive

And each time I look into your heart I can see the signs of rain

And I know this garden of our love will surely bloom again

For that’s the nature of love, that’s the way of our love

It’s a wildness that’s calling our spirits home

It speaks to our hearts, renews its hold

And each time I look into your heart I can see the signs of rain

And I know this garden of our love will always bloom again

For that’s the nature of love, that’s the way of our love

How I love the sunlight on clear autumn days

©1992 Mary Elaine Mahon

Guitar: Bob McPeek

Bass: Alan Hill

Percussion: Josh Greenbaum, Kenny Greenbaum (congas)

Keyboards: Tracy Collins

He came sailing on a ship of dreams

Lost winds prevailing over all his schemes

When he looks at me I wonder

Just what is it that he sees?

Is he really filled with wonder,

Or just his longing to be free?

Sailing around this room he’s a tethered bird in flight

A prophet of eternal doom and my impending flight

When I look at him I wonder

Just what is it that he seeks?

Is he really filled with wonder,

or just his longing to be free?

Claiming he speaks the truth in symbology divine

His train of thought is so obtuse I think he’s lost his mind

When he speaks to me I wonder

Just what is it in his words?

Is he really filled with wonder,

or just his longing to be heard?

©1993 Mary Elaine Mahon

Guitar: Bob McPeek

Bass: Eric Steinberg

Harmony Vocals: Elaine Mahon, Josh Greenbaum, Pat Koch

Percussion: Josh Greenbaum

When I came home tonight I had a cloud over my head

Couldn’t even find my point of view

Guess that I could live with it but decided that instead

I would tell you what I really want to do

Chorus

I want to take a night drive over to the ocean

Just to watch the waves as they come pounding in

I want to take the lid off my pent up emotions

Want to free my spirit to the wind

Vocal Interlude

When you came home tonight you had a frown upon your face

In a mood that could eclipse the moon

I think it’d do us both some good to get out of this place

I tell you what I think we ought to do

Chorus

We ought to take a night drive over to the ocean

Just to watch the tide as it comes rolling in

We can strip our clothes off and swim beneath the moonlight

Catch the waves and ride them in

Coda

You can take me home just before the dawn

When the morning light is sweeping across dewy lawns

©1992 Mary Elaine Mahon

Guitar: Bob McPeek, Elaine Mahon, Pat Koch

Bass: Ali Che’ree

Harmony Vocals: Elaine Mahon, Josh Greenbaum, Pat Koch

Percussion: Josh Greenbaum

Sometimes when you find

Your life dangles undefined

No longer can you walk the line

You’ve stumbled one too many times

Wings of dreams lift you

Over casualties that miss you

But your sea of sorrow grows

Don’t wallow in sentiment

Your desires won’t be heaven sent

I thought that you had learned that long ago

But now, when your friends walk out when you walk in

You find that you’ve got no place left to go

Wings of dreams lift you

Over casualties that miss you

But your sea of sorrow grows

Smoke rises dark on the horizon

It is the bridges you have burned?

Your eyes sting as the smoke rises

From the anger and the hurt

Wings of dreams lift you

Over casualties that miss you

But your sea of sorrow grows

©1994 Mary Elaine Mahon

Guitar: Bob McPeek

Slide Guitar: Ryan Newell

Bass: Eric Steinberg

Harmonica: Rob Peck

Harmony Vocals: Pat Koch, Josh Greenbaum

Percussion: Josh Greenbaum

From out of my mind a cold wind blows

From out of the places I’m afraid to go

Into the darkness I sometimes feel

Oh what’s imagined, what is real?

From out of the dark its swing is sure and slow

The pendulum arcs from high to low

From what I believe to what I know

Oh no now, suddenly I feel a stranger

Walking down the avenue

Things they couldn’t be much plainer,

Or more obscured from view

I’m needing your love but I’m feeling so bad

My mind’s wracked with pain and I’m making you sad

Maybe your arms could ease my heart’s despair

Oh but sometimes love seems tenuous as air

The abyss yawns while the sleeper dreams

The silent night pierced by my own screams

Ah but things are never really as they seem

Oh no now, suddenly I feel a stranger

Walking down the avenue

Things they couldn’t be much plainer

Or more obscured from view

From out of my mind

©1995 Mary Elaine Mahon

Guitar: Bob McPeek

Bass: Eric Steinberg

Harmony vocals: Elaine Mahon, Josh Greenbaum, Pat Koch

Percussion: Josh Greenbaum

Viola: Tim Hankins

Keyboards: Tracy Collins

Walking down the avenue composing views of life

Of dark contrasts and light in vivid hues

The more I try to understand the less I seem to know

Unceasing winds of change indifferent blow

So seamless

So dreamlessly falling

So seamlessly falling awake

Your life was like a meteor streaking ‘cross the night

A brief but brilliant flight then you were gone

So I assume an attitude to fight my fall in faith

I stall in fear, I wait ‘till it moves on

So seamless

So dreamlessly falling

So seamlessly falling away

Ah when the day breaks and the light comes shining in

The substance of dreams starts assuming form

You stave off the panic that rises with the wind

Of your spirit rushing out to be reborn

Ah when the day breaks and the light comes shining in

The substance of dreams starts assuming form

You stave off the panic that rises with the wind

Of your spirit rushing out to be reborn

Rushing out to be reborn

So seamless

So dreamlessly falling

So seamlessly falling awake

©1992 Mary Elaine Mahon

Guitar: Bob McPeek

Bass: Ali Che’ree

Harmony vocals: Elaine Mahon, Josh Greenbaum, Bob McPeek

Percussion: Josh Greenbaum

Viola: Tim Hankins

It’s maybe better left unsaid

You should give it time

This confusion in your head

Doesn’t mean that you are blind

Your voice is sounding strangled

That’s the way it shows

How did your life get so damn tangled

Like the vines of a climbing rose?

I called you just the other night

And caught you crying all alone

Through all the sorrows of your life

You have always stood alone

Your heart is full of sadness

Your voice is full of pain

You tell me, “If this isn’t madness,

Then the whole world has just gone insane.”

Maybe there will come a day

When you will see the light

Then you can take a breath and play

All day – into the night

At first you sounded strangled

But the memories start to flow

And soon I find myself entangled

In the vines of your climbing rose

In the vines of your climbing rose

©1993 Mary Elaine Mahon

Guitar: Bob McPeek

Bass: Ali Che’ree

Harmony vocals: Pat Koch

Percussion: Josh Greenbaum

Dobro: Tuck Tucker

Searching out those inner spaces only lovers know

Awkward yet accruing graces as they go

They’re sun struck , they’re golden

They glide along the shore

They’ve just begun to open doors

There’s so much to understand , so little yet is known

Holding in each other’s heart this tender seed love’s sown

They’re love struck, they’re golden

And shining like the sun

For she’s in love and he’s the one

They’ve not known each other long, but each one is sure

That the one for whom they’ve longed is waiting at the door

They’re love struck, they’re golden

Their life has just begun

For she’s in love

For he’s in love

For she’s in love and he’s the one

©1992 Mary Elaine Mahon

Acoustic Guitar: Elaine Mahon

Sing me a song

It’s for melody that my heart longs

It’s such a sweet thing you’d bring to me

Make it simple make it true

Give me words that I can hold onto

It’s such a sweet thing you’d bring to me

When we walk in the dark

I will sing it in my heart

It will rise like the moon overhead

The stars up above

Will shine like crown jewels of our love

Oh what a sweet song you’d sing to me

Sing me a song

It’s for harmony that my heart longs

It’s such a sweet song you’d sing to me

Like a clear stream let it flow

Over every measure we both know

It’s such a sweet song you’d sing to me

At the end of the day

When there’s nothin’ much to say

And the light from the moon fills our heads

We will lie in the dark and rekindle that old spark

Oh what a sweet thing you’d bring to me

Oh what a sweet thing you’d bring to me

©1992 Mary Elaine Mahon

Guitar: Bob McPeek

Harmony vocals: Elaine Mahon, Josh Greenbaum, Pat Koch

Bass: Ali Che’ree

Percussion: Josh Greenbaum

She’s got postcards taped above her sink

She says things that you’re afraid to think

She’s got drawings of the missing link

She asks you what you’d like to drink

She’s got sprays from eucalyptus trees

Christmas wreaths and balsam beads

She’s got strands of multicolored leaves

And baskets full of flower seeds

She’s running with the wind

Her spirit surges from within

Alive she flies, sanctified

She’s got crystals in a shallow bowl

She’s got precious stones you long to hold

She wears amulets about her neck

She passes you the triple sec

You’re running with the wind

Your spirit surges from within

Alive you rise, sanctified

Her laughter sounds just like a thousand bells

She begs you please just one more dream to tell

Now she’s peering down your deepest well

But she’s not asking for your soul to sell

She’s running with the wind

Her spirit surges from within

alive she flies, sanctified

©1994 Mary Elaine Mahon

Guitar: Avi Bortnick

Bass: Eric Steinberg

Percussion: Josh Greenbaum, Eric Steinberg(cowbell & kalimba)

Perpetual motion man you’re never in one place

Long enough for me to talk to you

You’re always on the run

Is this a human race?

Tell me, “Where’re you running to?”

You hide behind a mask of reasons,

Reasons I don’t buy

Can’t you see it’s yourself you are deceiving?

Whoa no, not I

Perpetual motion man, you move me in some way

And I know in some way I move you

So why do you now shut me out and try to run away?

I might as well be shooting at the moon

Don’t you sail on by inside your ship of reasons

Blind to the sight of land

Can’t you see, this kind of love is healing?

Come on, come on, give me your hand

Come on, give me your hand

Perpetual motion man, no matter where you stand

I won’t always share your point of view

I’m not the kind to stand in judgment of a man,

Especially one as kind as you

Don’t you sail on by inside your ship of reasons,

Reasons I won’t buy

Can’t you see this kind of love is healing?

Don’t let it pass you by.

For I believe this kind of love is healing

Don’t let it pass you by

©1992 Mary Elaine Mahon

Guitar: Bob McPeek

Harmony vocals: Elaine Mahon, Josh Greenbaum

Bass: Ali Che’ree

Percussion: Josh Greenbaum

Wooden Flute: George Tortorelli

Keyboards: Tracy Collins

You say you need more space between the lines

You feel she’s trying to rush you, you need more time

She’s laid it all out for you there, right on the table

You’ve countered the urge to run now, as fast as you’re able

As fast as you wanted to

You feel her tugging your heartstrings, she plays too well

Just what you’re afraid of you just can’t tell

You say her love is like a shadow that grows in the dusk

She tells you what she wants to but that’s not enough

That’s not enough

You say you need more space between the lines

You say you need more time to make up your mind

Right now it feels all right but maybe it’s wrong

Even though you still feel unsure now, you play along

You play along

You say you need more space between the lines

To make up your mind,

Make up your mind

Make up your mind

©1994 Mary Elaine Mahon

Guitar: Bob McPeek

Harmony vocals: Elaine Mahon, Josh Greenbaum, Pat Koch

Bass: Ali Che’ree

Percussion: Josh Greenbaum

Summer swept by you trailing soft silken winds

The air’s heavy laden, storms brew within

The gray skies grow misty as the darkness descends

You’ve got to get back some kind of good feeling about him

Before the fall begins

You tell him you love him when he calls you on the phone

Still you ask too many questions: he begs, “Leave me alone”

So you exchange some hard words, that cut right to the bone

They echo loud and hollow, to your child alone

Your gray eyes grow misty as your darkness descends

You’ve got to get back some kind of good feeling about him

You just can’t let it end

Lord its such hard thing not to let it show

That you know your love won’t hold him when he decides to go

So you go on with your life, he follows when he can

The only thing for certain is you love that man

Your gray eyes grow misty as the darkness descends

You’ve got to get back some kind of good feeling about him

You just can’t let it end

©1992 Mary Elaine Mahon

Guitar: Elaine Mahon

Harmony Vocals: Pat Koch

Bass: Ali Che’ree

Your smiles are hard to find when trouble plagues your mind

I don’t know what to say, I always get caught up that way

Tonight we’ll lay in this silent bay

And watch the ripples of emotion turn to waves

We may lie awake for hours

Watching our lives pass us by

I wander why we let them slip away

I can be such a fool when I try to comfort you

It’s all these words I choose when just a warm embrace would do

Tonight we’ll lay in this silent bay

And watch the ripples of emotion turn to waves

We may lie awake for hours

Watching our lives pass us by

I wander why we let them slip away

Now far from this room, you see the dogwoods are in bloom

And yes it’s true that I am still in love with you

I start to fight the tears from last night but

Look how easily the morning light brings me close to you

We may lie awake for hours

Watching our lives pass us by

I wonder why we let them slip away