Play Audio or Download MP3:
If I Could Go Anywhere

LYRICS – WE ARE THE PEOPLE (OF AMERICA)

After all this time
After all we’ve been through side by side
We’re still standing strong
Holding on to the love deep inside
And I wouldn’t trade it for the world

CHORUS
If I could go anywhere
Anywhere in the universe
And if I could have anything
That my heart desired
I know where I’d want to be
And I know what I’d want to have
If I could go anywhere, have anything
I’d be here with you

I can cry a tear
And you’ll always be there holding me tight
So I’ll take a chance
And wear my heart on my sleeve
By letting you know
Just a bit of how I really feel

CHORUS

There may be other places more beautiful than this
But they’re not the same without you by my side
There may be other people who try to catch my eye
But they don’t know anything about what moves me

CHORUS

***********

Cherish Whisner was a young female singer from Victorville, CA and I was asked to write a song for her voice. “If I Could Go Anywhere” was the song I wrote for her.

I try to write all my music from a place of sincerity and personal experience if I can. This song is a love song but I actually wrote it about a church that I worked at. In the time I wrote this song I played music for a very small church in Southern California and was getting offers from a larger church. But I liked that small church very much – and this is the song I wrote about that. The lyrics were written to convey that it was a love song between two people.

This was a demo recording – I would love to hear what it would sound like with a full dedicated production. I think it could be very powerful.

When running my recording studio for so many years I would often write music for people for free if they recorded at my studio. It was a great way for me to compose a wide variety of material, have demo recordings of those songs and still retain ownership. It was a work of love and still is.

Play Audio or Download MP3:
I’m Alright – New Faces Vol. 4

LYRICS – I’M ALRIGHT

I keep waking up each day
The moments draggin’ on this way
Living through my biggest fear
Then I turn and find out I’m still here
It can’t hurt his long

CHORUS
I’m alright
But every day I want to disappear
Tired of trying hard to keep it real
Hanging onto hope with all my might
To convince myself
That I’m alright

***********

This is a shortened excerpt of the original song. You can purchase Carlotta’s full CD online. The full CD I produced for her has a combination of hip hop, classical and R&B textures. Carlotta has been one of my best friends for many, many years and it was so much fun to work with her.

Play Audio or Download MP3:
Angel – New Faces Vol. 4

LYRICS – ANGEL

The moon is full
And I can see you lyin’ there
Soft in light
You reach upon your long blonde hair
To see your eyes
The warmest blue I’ve ever seen

CHORUS
My angel
Sent from heaven just for me

And I wait to find
The sun has risen once again
And there you are
You’re my angel in disguise

CHORUS
My sweet angel
Goddess of love (?) for me
My sweet angel
I feel wings all around me

****************************

This is a shortened version of the original song.

Play Audio or Download MP3:
Amnesia – New Faces Vol. 4

LYRICS – AMNESIA

Sometimes lovely words
Seem to lose their meaning
I’ve found truth endures
Painful black and screaming

Every now and then I fall apart
And I remember everything
Remember everything…

Sounds so wonderful
But now my hearing’s fading
I can hear your voice
But words are complicating

I have to give you my apologies
Because I don’t think I heard a thing
Didn’t need to hear it anyway

Pain is always
Pain remembers you

****************************

This song was recored with just the acoustic guitar and vocal first – then all the other parts were overdubbed and orchestrated to the original take. Charlie Freak was the artist’s stage name pseudonym so I won’t post their name unless I get permission.

Play Audio or Download MP3:
I Don’t Want To Let You Go – New Faces Vol. 3

LYRICS – I DON’T WANT TO LET YOU GO

Not a day goes by I don’t think of you and cry
And wonder why you’re not here
Alone at night awake with a heart too proud to break
Holding letters from you

CHORUS
I don’t want to let you go
I don’t want to say goodbye
Though I know it’s not forever
It’s time enough to make me cry
I always thought that you’d be back
I’d hear your voice, I’d hear your laugh
See the twinkle in your eyes
I realize I don’t want to let you go

A sensation that you’re here
Softly whispers in my ear
But I can’t be where you are
As memories of you
Drift in silence round the room
I am lost in yesterday

(Instrumental Solo)

CHORUS
I don’t want to let you go
I don’t want to say goodbye
Though I know it’s not forever
It’s time enough to make me cry
Always thought that you’d be back
I’d hear your voice I’d hear your laugh
See the twinkle in your eyes
I realize I don’t want to let you go
Though I know it’s not forever
I don’t want to let you go

******************

Play Audio or Download MP3:
If This Love Came True – New Faces Vol. 3

LYRICS – IF THIS LOVE CAME TRUE

I’ve spent my life chasing rainbows
Trying to find my pot of gold
And even though I’ve never found a treasure that was true
I think that I could believe in you

CHORUS
If this love came true
I could drive the tears from my eyes
If this love came true
There’s nothing in this world I couldn’t do
If this love came true

Do you know what angels when a true heart dies of love?
They cut off both their wings and fall from heaven above
Then they hide their eyes
Ashamed their tears are seen
I know this because they’ve cried for me

CHORUS

There is no pain we haven’t found
And there are people who will try to tear us down
But if we hold on tight
Our hearts could be the light
For our dreams

CHORUS

**************************

Play Audio or Download MP3:
You’re The Best Lie – New Faces Vol. 3

LYRICS – YOU’RE THE BEST LIE

CHORUS
You’re the best lie I ever had

There’s a lot to be said for losing control
But is it worth your whole life?
By now you should know
You thought you were over my head
With all your lofty words

There’s black and there’s white
And there’s grey in all shades
And your bullshit in spades

CHORUS
You’re the best lie I ever had

There’s a lot to be said
For living life in denial
It’s hard to stand up to the trial
It’s hard to think fast when you’re caught in the act
And face the judgement of man

There’s black and there’s white
And there’s grey in all shades
And your bullshit in spades

(Instrumental Solo)

There’s black and there’s white
And there’s grey in all shades
And your bullshit in spades

CHORUS
You’re the best lie I ever had

**************************

I worked with Gailyn Addis in Southern California, Las Vegas, Reno and even Tokyo, Japan with a tribute performance group. We wrote several songs together from about 1996 to 2000.

I love her vocals and her attention to detail. This song was written before, but released after the release of the hit “You’re My Biggest Mistake”.

Play Audio or Download MP3:
Waters of Babylon – New Faces Vol. 2

LYRICS – WATERS OF BABYLON

I’ve climbed a mountain
But how much further
Could you expect me to go?

I’ve toiled and labored
But it’s no use
Casting seeds upon the stone

How can I sing a new song in a strange land?
I’ve wept by the water’s edge
And hung my harp upon the willows
So if you start to sing the blues again
Don’t look for me to find you

CHORUS
Come down to the waters of Babylon
There I will set you free
Come down to the waters of Babylon
Set you free
(2x)

I’ve crossed the desert
But when I finally found you
You were half way cross the sea

I stretched my arms out
To command the roaring waves
But they did not part for me

How can I sing a new song in a strange land?
I’ve wept by the water’s edge
And hung my harp upon the willows
So if you start to sing the blues again
Don’t look for me to find you

CHORUS
Come down to the waters of Babylon
There I will set you free
Come down to the waters of Babylon
Set you free
(2x)

I’ve reached the shoreline
In a ship broken to pieces
To find this place was not for me

CHORUS

**************************

I actually wrote this around 1989 but didn’t get it recorded and released until 1997.

(Two versions of this song)

Play Audio or Download MP3:
Thru Your Love – New Faces Vol. 4

Play Audio or Download MP3:
Thru Your Love – New Faces Vol. 2

LYRICS – THRU YOUR LOVE

The echoes of my restless heart are not easy to recall
Since you came and picked me up and made me to stand tall

CHORUS
Thru the love you gave to me
A whole new life for all to see
Thru your love I’m stronger now
Strong enough to stand my ground
With the strength found thru your love

(You’ve seen my faults with watchful eyes as I looked the other way
You were standing by me all the time just waiting for the day)

CHORUS
When you’re love would draw me near
Your perfect love casts out all fear
Thru your love I’m stronger now
Strong enough to stand my ground
With the strength I have found thru your love

I’ve been captured by a dream from the heavens above
You’ve given me more than I ever thought of

CHORUS

**************************

I would love to hear a modern high quality performance of this song. I really love the song, I just don’t feel it has been captured to it’s full potential yet.

Play Audio or Download MP3:
You Don’t Even Know – New Faces Vol. 2

LYRICS – YOU DON’T EVEN KNOW

Just tell me you want me to stay a couple more hours
And then when that time is through
We’ll take that couple more hours and turn them into a few
But I will lie here silently with my secret blues
‘Cause you don’t even know that I’m in love with you

I want you to tell me you love me too
But I may never ever see that day
So til I hear what I want you to say
Just tell me you want me to stay

CHORUS
And so I lie here silently with my secret blues
‘Cause you don’t even know that I’m in love with you

(Instrumental Solos)

I want you to tell me you love me too
But I may never ever see that day
So til I hear what I want you to say
Just tell me you want me to stay

CHORUS

**************************

I wanted this to sound like it was being played live in 1930 late at night. For the piano I even used an old upright piano so nothing would sound digital.

My grandfather used to play saxophone in the touring big bands and my grandmother also toured playing jazz piano. So sometimes I imagine what that must have been like back then – fun times for musicians.