| scroll to browse lyrics alphabetically ---------------------------------------------- "Ain't That Good News" from the album "Going Somewhere Soon" Traditional Arrangement by Jodie Manross One of my favorite spirituals. I lost my voice right before a high school chorus concert where I was supposed to sing a solo on this song -it was the only time I was ever asked to sing a solo. I never got to sing the song, so I sing it all the time now. I got a robe in that kingdom, ain't that good news I got a robe in that kingdom, ain't that good news I'm gonna lay down this world, I'm gonna shoulder up my cross I'm gonna take it home to my Jesus Ain't that good news. I've got a crown in that kingdom, ain't that good news I got a crown in that kingdom, ain't that good news I'm gonna lay down this world, I'm gonna shoulder up my cross I'm gonna take it home to my Jesus Ain't that good news. I've got shoes in that kingdom, ain't that good news I got shows in that kingdom, ain't that good news I'm gonna lay down this world, I'm gonna shoulder up my cross I'm gonna take it home to my Jesus Ain't that good news My Lord, ain't that good news. ---------------------------------------------------- "Ayappa" from the album "Going Somewhere Soon" lyrics by Jodie Manross music by Laith Keilany Ayappa is one my best friends and one of the kindest souls you will ever meet. Counting waves over miles of sea and the skies were completely clear as my first love and other disasters for awhile slowly disappear Chorus: There's a kind of light that shines off you and I'm going to the sun for answers it's as if the world was made for you and all the light contained within I'm always revising like memory a map drawn in the deepest shades and I'm trying to put all the past behind me and let the good days carry me away The edges of life were my coastlines, a contest between ocean and shore And if you said that we have plenty, I couldn't agree with you more Chorus: There's a kind of light that shines off you and I'm going to the sun for answers it's as if the world was made for you and all the light contained within (Break) I'm trying to shape this rough stuff into a life looking for a home, a perfect place to be a slant of sun, an even level of light and you stumbled onto where life holds me Chorus: There's a kind of light that shines off you and I'm going to the sun for answers it's as if the world was made for you and all the light contained within (repeat) ---------------------------------------------- Beautifully From the EP, "Don't Save the Kisses" 2004 This song wrote itself one fall evening. Woodie Gutherie, I think it was, said that there are songs just floating in the clouds and if you're lucky enough, you grab one and write it one day. I was the lucky one that day. All streams lead to the river and course down in these waves, follows where the river bends and it takes you away here I'd travel with you forever and all those cliches they ring true for once they ring true for me Chorus: You complete this day You complete this day You complete this day beautifully My morning is slow and darkness on the way home wishing I was as calm as sea and sand 'cause so much slips through these hands until I remember what matters and it colors these my words and it brings a lost relief that fills and overflows Chorus: You complete this day You complete this day You complete this day beautifully And here I'd travel with you forever and all those cliches because they ring true for once They ring true for me. -------------------------------------------------------- "Daydream in Color" from the album "Going Somewhere Soon" lyrics by Jodie Manross music by Laith Keilany I love the feel of this song-it was one of the easiest songs for me to write because it just flows. I love writing about light, color and ideas of home. I've got unrequited dreams of an unrequited love I've got longings I'll keep until the real thing comes along I've got dreams that I hope will come my way but whatever may come I know that I can say I'll keep trying I'll keep trying Wherever home begins I know you're in it Have a steady joy I think we'd build it Sometimes going milestones sometimes just miles But I know we'll get there May take awhile Chorus: Unrequited dreams of an unrequited love I've got longings I'll keep until the real thing comes along I've got dreams that I hope will come my way but whatever may come I know that I can say I'll keep trying I'll keep trying I remember how the sun set on that cold December even if the days get warmer they won't glow like that one A setting so real, I can see the scenes clearer A backdrop for all my dreams Many years later Bridge: Daydream in color Laughter drifting Life feels easy (repeat three more times) Chorus: Unrequited dreams of an unrequited love I've got longings I'll keep until the real thing comes along I've got dreams that I hope will come my way but whatever may come I know that I can say I'll keep trying I'll keep trying (repeat) ---------------------------------------------------- "Echoes" from the album "Going Somewhere Soon" lyrics by Jodie Manross music by Laith Keilany About trying so hard to make changes in who you are to get to a better, happier place in your life. She's been sitting here for hours A warm cup heating in her hands Quiet surfaces turned slowly As the warmth transforms her within She says for a moment I felt like when I first met him It was the most honest place I'd found and it leads me back from where I started So long I hardly recognize Chorus: It echoes another life She wants to have and she wants to hold That's the way to her heart That right now has no where to go She says "I've got a lifetime of regret that's just sitting on these shoulders So much I haven't said and I'm not getting any younger. But are the reasons we were together better than the ones that we're apart now. Or was it just the bad choices we made that were hidden at the time?" Chorus: Echoes another life She wants to have and she wants to hold That's the way to her heart That right now has no where to go Bridge: But I come away stronger I come away I come away stronger, I come away But I come away stronger I come away But I come away stronger I come away Stumbling over and over where life has left me hoping what I'm leaving is more than what I will have lost Because in this give and receive, it's love that has often failed me Then to reach for the beauty that was hidden at the time Chorus: Echoes another life She wants to have and she wants to hold That's the way to her heart That right now has no where to go But I come away stronger I come away I come away stronger, I come away But I come away stronger I come away -------------------------------------------------------------------- "Given" from the album "Going Somewhere Soon" lyrics by Jodie Manross music by Laith Keilany Inspired by my favorite author, Zora Neal Hurston and my favorite book, Hurston's Their Eyes Were Watching God. We recorded it live in Boone, NC, not knowing the recording would even turn out. I'm still here And I'm still waiting for unsung words and for what I'm not saying And though I see another cast into a shallow grave Lord, I know the time will not come when I go the same way (repeat) Chorus: Find solace in love and not lose in fear I begin to know what we have here 'cause my soul has been pushed and I have been driven but I begin to know what we have been given So I buried my hate and I searched for another feeling Oh my soul was so tired and tired of hating Words waited on lips and refused its gift and gave to another voice what to be has been given No peace in a life with silence alone I cannot leave it unsung I've got to make it my own Chorus: Find solace in love and not lose in fear I begin to know what we have here 'cause my soul has been pushed and I have been driven but I begin to know what we have been given Guitar solo and vocal ad lib I'm still here And I'm still waiting for unsung words and for what I'm not saying And though I see another cast into a shallow grave Lord, I know the time will not come when I go the same way --------------------------------------------------------- "Going Somewhere Soon" from the album "Going Somewhere Soon" lyrics by Jodie Manross music by Laith Keilany I love gardening and decorating books (though I can barely keep my three plants alive). This song was inspired by reading a gardening book about nature, sundials and maps. I saw a weathervane skyline, sundial catches shadows on stone marks time that has past. A tree signed and dated "Until we meet again," These names of ours etched I visit again and again. A gazing ball bounces this old light and reflects it back up to the sky. I move to catch the brightest rays and not find this life just pass me on by. Chorus: Satellites bring distance into our lives the roads we travel are fast and long but they don't seem to connect us closer You could compass the heavens I'd still be gone I'd still be gone. Make amends and change direction I can't remember when this life didn't feel like such a crazy dream To rise up so early in a pattern so deep sleep remains a persistent memory As shades block this new light and reflects it back up to sky I move to catch the brightest rays and not find this life just pass me on by Chorus: Satellites bring distance into our lives the roads we travel are fast and long but they don't seem to connect us closer You could compass the heavens I'd still be gone I'd still be gone. Bridge: I'm going somewhere, I'm going somewhere soon. I'm going somewhere, I'm going somewhere soon. Chorus: Satellites bring distance into our lives the roads we travel are fast and long but they don't seem to connect us closer You could compass the heavens I'd still be gone I'd still be gone. I'll still be gone Still be gone. --------------------------------------------------------------------- "Hardway" from the albums "Still" & "Going Somewhere Soon" lyrics by Jodie Manross music by Laith Keilany I wrote "Hard Way" after living with my two best friends who had been dating each other since high school. They fought non-stop which was tiring, but made for great song material! After they heard it, I was worried they would never talk to me again, but they agreed with the song. Both are now happily married - to other people than each other. **The guys loved this song so much and had fun doing a full-band version, so we put it on both albums. I recored the vocals right after a scary lightning storm. You came over with flowers What an odd way to start a war But one is fought with words unspoken The moment you walk through that door. I wear one face for you I wear one for me I don't want to live like this But baby just let me be. Chorus: We keep doing this the hard way Doing this the hard way Doing this the hard way But we do it so well. When I want you to leave, you turn back around. I'm tired, worn and talked to the ground. But when I need you most, you're nowhere to be found Except this sad, sad state that's keeping us down. Alternate Chorus: I sure am better, but I'm not well 'Cause being with you is like welding metal and hammering nails. Higher we'll build these fences, deeper we'll build these wells. Before we can't get out, only time will tell. Bridge: All you give is coolness, while I favor fire The way you keep stringing me along, I'm feeling so tired I favor fire when all you give is coolness The way we keep carrying on, I'm feeling so foolish But I like a little clutter, things messed a bit I'm not thrilled with this life, but at least it feels lived in I could put life into place, but it just takes too much time With all that we do, I'm just not satisfied. Chorus (repeated twice) ------------------------------------------------- "Hold" from the album "Going Somewhere Soon" lyrics by Jodie Manross music by Laith Keilany Happy song! Stop to think of a pattern of life why some people are traced in why some people aren't you're the only person who read my soul, lost in my troubles and feeling alone A colorful reflection of a life that's lived someone who has said for all i've lost, i have lost nothing today i found an unexpected embrace some people never leave you the same Chorus: Hold out your hands so I can give you now all the love this life will allow Hold out your hands so I can give you now all the love this life will allow Well, you can twist my feelings into gold as you came into my world you lift my soul I give you breath and you find release exchange a breath, so now I breathe Our love could hold up any day and with our love, all doubts erase and with all of my worries, you have no blame 'cause you never leave me the same Chorus: Hold out your hands so I can give you now all the love this life will allow Hold out your hands so I can give you now all the love this life will allow Bridge: That is why I love you more That's the difference from being alone that is why I love you more you make all the difference Chorus: So hold out your hands so I can give you now all the love this life will allow Hold out your hands so I can give you now all the love this life will allow Will allow, will allow ------------------------------------------------------------------- "Hope Against History" from the album "Going Somewhere Soon" lyrics by Jodie Manross music by Laith Keilany Realizing that you are fully aware of your history or battles with someone you love, but you keep hoping things will improve, change, or be overcome despite the fact you keep repeating the past. Search for right and a reason and a good frame of mind Some things just can't be reconciled Right now feels justified We're coming at it from the wrong place that's where you'll always be Passion centered somewhere else for you'll never see I think I lost you before we even met with my shy smile trying to play it safe and after all this time it's love gained and love lost and try as we may hope against the history of us PreChorus: trying to find strenth trying to lift your spirits been getting so tired I haven't been listening (repeat) Chorus: Act as if you just don't know Act as if you just don't care Baby it's been so been so long since we've ever gone anywhere (repeat) These are grievances I keep when I don't hold back Take to heartbreaking limits I can't let go and I can't shake all this retaliation under a surface of regret and the ice keeps getting thinner and I think it's about to break PreChorus: trying to find strenth trying to lift your spirits been getting so tired I haven't been listening (repeat) Chorus: Act as if you just don't know Act as if you just don't care Baby it's been so been so long since we've ever gone anywhere (repeat) Instrumental break Chorus: Act as if you just don't know Act as if you just don't care Baby it's been so been so long since we've ever gone anywhere so long so long so long ----------------------------------------------------- "How Do You" from the album "Still" lyrics by Jodie Manross music by Laith Keilany I love the fiddle part Greg Horne, our producer of Still, wrote for "How Do You." It changes the whole feel the song. I love it! I wrote the music except the bridge which was written by Laith and completed the song for me. You can't see into darkness if standing in the light but I've lived my life a shadow and left you in the dark I can't survive in these shallow waters but deeper I sure may drown Am I too much in this world Am I draggin you down I'm trying to reveal the side of me that I know is true Then why do I reveal such weakness to you when I feel the most, I fear the most but I've doubted the loving side of you Chorus: How do you How do you How do you care How do you How do you How do you feel Are your words bolder than your heart How do you, how do you love? Can we grasp in our hearts what our lips won't speak How do you feel this how do you know if you can't even speak softly Now I know I'm stubborn with my last words tendencies But you've reduced life to fixed forms and dying meanings Chorus Bridge: In all the things we choose I struggle against forgetting In all the things we lose when all has been taken In all the things we forgot though we had good intentions This is the way we love when the truths were never mentioned There is strength I can only find in myself That's all I'm expected to gain, it is all that I have This is the gift I give to you, my dear You can take it or continue to leave this life so frighteningly bare Chorus ------------------------------------------------------- "I" from the album "Still" lyrics by Jodie Manross This is one of the most personal songs I will ever write. I'm very proud of it because it is honest, but sometimes hard to sing because of that. Dawn comes first with a shift of light That rests on a shadow that becomes my own What's in my head will not sustain me What's in my heart is not enough to cope. Shed my skin and break free of this In search of something that becomes my own But everthing is just coming at me with no illusion of control. Chorus: I need providence I need guidance But you're not proving that what you're providing. I need confidence I need assurance with the understanding that's all I'm wanting. What happens to us just makes no sense as we try harder and harder to understand We create barriers and then can't bridge them, to try to possess what we can't have. What we've come to believe is so void of hope We make life so serious, and it's still not enough And we do this so well- with what I am told I'm feeling so young, I'm feeling so old. Chorus bridge: and I'm wanting and I'm needing and I'm giving what I'm not receiving and I'm wanting and I'm needing and I'm giving what I'm not receiving I have a mother who can't laugh and I have a father who was afraid to leave I live in a family who was second-guessed with problems that you couldn't always see. So I have shaky faith because things are not that simple. I have doubt because they've always been this way. I have uncertainty because things should be so simple. And because they've got to change. And because they've got to change. I seek to anticipate and to predict to the point where I was sick of it. I'm sorting out what's important to me I'm sorting it out, I'm not calmly looking. Intensity burned out long ago By trying always not to get burned Losing and finding and losing again Cold is a pattern I'm searching for warmth. Chorus ------------------------------------------------------ "Inertia" from the album "Still" lyrics by Jodie Manross music by Laith Keilany About a past relationship. I'm pretty much saying, don't let someone be your whole life. You push away when loves begins to deepen Are you conscious of the panic that comes for no reason We felt love with a delicate ache and lived only for love's sake. Then time moved on, the urge was gone with a whisper left on a bitter tongue Now I'm sated in hunger with my thoughts deep in sound Drowning in laughter, discerned deep and loud. Chorus: The passion's still there though the feelings are removed I taste a soul's desire but desire is my wound Your words became my heaven, thought you were all I had been given But since I'm questioning my religion The clouds may have to come down My past slips in and I cannot sleep Sorrow wells up though I cannot weep And though my slumber deepens I know I am awake consumed by all the things that I never got to say So I grieve for what only time relieves I live in want I wait to dream There's a texture and connection to the lives that we live but life is full and heavy and hard to live in. Chorus Bridge: We are better than this All that moves against the heart We are better than this All that moves against the heart And in my weighted sadness I've learned from what I've lost Your unspoken sins, unforgiving thoughts But in your tired games, you may never know the cost of all this love that we have lost of all this life that we have lost of all this love that we have lost the clouds may have to come down ------------------------------------------------------------ It's My Way From the EP, "Don't Save the Kisses" 2004 For one winter, I sang at a smoky little English pub in Knoxville called Union Jacks every Wednesday. I remembered having a crush on a guy, and I was always looking out the front window to see if he would come to the show. We finally had a date one night to go see Jay Farrar play in town, and I got stood up. Instead of moping, I felt inspired by the show and came home to write this song. I'm singing in another bar I keep looking out the door hope you've come to catch a song or more I'll put your beer on my tab, I'll sing another tune and read this friendship into more than what I'm supposed to Chorus: It's my way to make something out of nothing It's my way to make all this seem fine It's my way to make something out of nothing and feel it way down. The best thing is not knowing what may become but I feel my heart break, and we haven't even begun well nothing's braver than to give this some room but it's making you desperate, making me feel a fool Chorus: It's my way to make something out of nothing It's my way to make all this seem fine It's my way to make something out of nothing and feel it way down. Instrumental Bridge Got my life in order now I got my heart in a bind my thoughts in ruin got to make up my mind well hindsight's a glorious thing but it's not making this any easier and if this is choice, then I've got to learn to choose better Chorus: It's my way to make something out of nothing It's my way to make all this seem fine It's my way to make something out of nothing and feel it way down. And feel it way down. ------------------------------------------------------------ "Manhattan" from the album "Going Somewhere Soon" lyrics by Jodie Manross music by Laith Keilany I sometimes work at the Children's Department of a public library. There's a little children's book called Manhattan about a little prince searching for love. I had never thought of the word "Manhattan" as a person's name and then realized that I wanted to use it as a name in a song. Also, it's partly inspired by a friend's long distance relationship. One of my friends stopped in from a cross country trip to visit Knoxville and said "I forgot that I have to drive through Tennessee to get to the Carolinas." That inspired one of the lines and the ideas about traveling and searching for something or someone. It took some time to cross these mountains driving slow in these summer rains And you forgot Tennessee in all your travels across these states. You and me and love meet up as we drive across these miles And we'd visit again and again because it was worth all of the trouble. Chorus: Hey Manhattan Where are you going? I feel like I'm chasing you down hey Manhattan come a little closer I'd love to see you around. I'm moving my house around this town but it's not getting me anywhere new. There's more than these walls and windows, concrete colors I do not choose. And all this distance helps me feel this out as I make my way, shows me where I long to go and where I plan to stay. Chorus: Hey Manhattan Where are you going? I feel like I'm chasing you down hey Manhattan come a little closer I'd love to see you around. Bridge: We tell the stores that truly fit us These times are the best we'll see like how in all we traveled I am caught up in these as you and me and love meet up as we drive across these miles and we'd visit again and again It was worth all the trouble Chorus: Hey Manhattan Where are you going? I feel like I'm chasing you down hey Manhattan come a little closer I'd love to see you around. Hey Manhattan Where are you going? I feel like I'm chasing you down hey Manhattan come a little closer I'd love to see you around. ----------------------------------------------------- Marie From the EP, "Don't Save the Kisses" 2004 This song was inspired by the small town in Pennsylvania where I was born and raised. I was at a friend's grandfather's funeral and everyone started singing "How Great Thou Art. I remembered singing this hymn in church as a child and started crying. I remembered how my family used to watch fireworks by an old watertower in an abandoned parking lot after going across the Ohio border to get sparklers. I remembered how my grandma said the downtown had the big "B"s -beauty salons, bible stores and bars. I came home from the funeral and wrote this song which is partly about me, partly about my mom, and partly about anyone who was raied in a small bible town and couldn't wait to leave. I love and miss my hometown every day and know you will always be haunted by memories of places and people you loved and lost. The cross on the watertower says "Jesus Saves," and we'd climb up there each Fourth of July Day, buy some brillance across the state line then sit and watch the fireworks display Marie said "First chance I get, I'm gonna clear out of this town except beauty salons and bars, there's nothing around except a whole lot of preachers preaching sin and fear leaving me feel there's not much here Chorus: Oh Marie Oh Marie Oh Marie, leaving won't set you free I said "This town's in our blood, it's in our veins beyond fellowship halls and light displays and try hard, try as you may you can never leave this life you made Chorus: Oh Marie Oh Marie Oh Marie, leaving won't set you free Bridge: She said there's nothing to compare this lonely life to as rain in old bottles, my day draws on I know there's sadness at 6 and 11 on my TV screen but it's still a world for which I long...I long. Clear the weeds for those you remember cry a little and decorate the ground at your funeral today, they sang songs you used to sing and I cried about that more than anything else Chorus: Oh Marie Oh Marie Oh Marie, leaving won't set you free The cross on the watertower says "Jesus Saves," and we'd climb up there each Fourth of July Day. ----------------------------------------------------- "Pennsylvania Song" from the album "Still" lyrics by Jodie Manross music by Laith Keilany It's about my growing up in a small Pennsylvanian town in the early 1980s. The biggest industry was building trains. But by the late 80s, trains were not as needed, and the town became very lonely. My family moved to North Carolina to find work. Make mudpies under evergreens Shadow puppets high in the apple trees There I was Karen Carpenter or Princess Leia in the purple-gazed eve. Japanese beatle traps under a Pennsylvania sky hear a zip, zap, buzz florescent kill light A passing impersonator, a soap opera star in a town without street corner magic at all. Chorus: Mythmakers, magicweavers pull these threads together if dreams should fade The colors entwine for I close the fear and loss of change. Catching fire in strawberry-laced shoes I let the beauty I love be what I do in an evening pulled along by firefly light that was ever more brillant than sun and moonlight. A child brilliant to have no adult sensibilities soars on dandelions and dragonfly wings and all I have is all that I need All that I have is all around me. Chorus Bridge: The circles I move grow bigger as I'm drawn inside Make a myth to replace a memory, but one to pacify. The circles I move grow deeper as I'm drawn inside Make a myth to replace a memory, but one to beautify. The town left home without the train rusted wrought-iron left in the rain the people just scattered without the rail yet fixed and tied to boxcar steel. With nothing to build and nothing to gain dreams were lost to brand-new ways and I had to leave where I stood claim as winter snow replaced for winter rain. Chorus -------------------------------------------------------------- "Pull of the Moon" from the album "Still" words and music by Jodie Manross This song was supposed to have accompanying guitar music. I had just finished the lyrics before a show at Knoxville's Borders Books. I did the song accapella as an encore, and my fans and friends at the show insisted that I keep it as is. The moon was high in an autumn sky The light cast down and you came outside And the night filled the dark with a thousand stars proving nothing was better than where we are. Chorus: In the pull of the moon and the weight of the stars, you anchor me with all that you are Like the stemming of the tide, the moon's attraction to the sea, you are, you are all these things. A tea kettle whistle deep within a home As a radio sings a song it's sung countless times before And I step outside with a searching heart to save up wishes as we look above. Chorus So the sky dismissed the stars the night became unseen the sun woke from its slumber and the moon packed up its things saying "The only way to love is to know it might be lost. So take hold lightly, let go lightly, whatever the cost." In the paleness of a porchlight, I became drowsy with all these things As I close my eyes slowly and I sing before we sleep... Chorus ------------------------------------------------------------------- "Riversong" from the album "Going Somewhere Soon" lyrics by Jodie Manross music by Laith Keilany I write a lot of songs about water, which is ironic because I have a phobia of water and the ocean. Go figure. Laith and I wanted to write a blues song on the oud. River, river wash me down river running towards no sound quiet calm could find my way until again I'm washed away Water, water rush me down to a place of higher ground 'cause I need place where I can stand until I'm washed away again (oud instrumental break) Water water rising high Going over, flowing by If I could trace the source where it begins until I'm washed away again Water, water rush me down to a place of higher ground cause I need place where I can stand until I'm washed away again ----------------------------------------------------- "Saving Grace" from the album "Still" lyrics by Jodie Manross We actually recorded this song much faster than intended! We do a much slower, blusier version in concert now. This is still one of my fave songs, and one of the first Laith and I ever wrote. I speak in bits and pieces as if I'm choosing a will to live to compose, create, fix, and join a way to you I give Because I've seen words use lips with heartless untruths and leave behind true love, bitter and used Then to search for something better that was fixed and unfound, To return with apologies, untrue, unkind. Love lingers on lips, but searches in others' eyes, So if I tell you how I feel, please don't deny me. Chorus: I've had moments of happiness, moments of rain But in all the things that matter, you are my saving grace I've had moments of happiness, moments of rain But in all the things that matter, you are my saving grace. You unsettle my thoughts, unimagined and undreamed I don't know where we're headed, don't know where this may lead. So let's tell our lives until morning and if we do forget any piece of our memory we'll stay longer yet. We're just trying to find the passion we lost somewhere along the way as we fall in and out of understanding in these passing days. So don't forget what came before But embrace what has been For the past has brought us together So now the story ends. Chorus Instrumental break Bridge: Strong emotion is my only feeling From your affection I am reeling Careening and careless impassioned and reckless I stagger and I stumble Faulter, going under Love in easy spaces coming from unlikely places. Chorus ------------------------------------------------------------ "Sometimes" from the album "Going Somewhere Soon" lyrics by Jodie Manross music by Laith Keilany About friendship and healing. This is the beginning of an end of a long way down and I've come full circle embracing what has been As time changes all that we remember and memory finds a more graceful way to present what once could not be contained Chorus: Sometimes we have something to work through Sometimes with no one to talk to you were my someone when I thought I had no one love reinvents us and ends all the sorrow sometimes Once I felt, I was on fire and I could fly All this love perfecting with unbending pride For I know I'd finally come around from sad partings, old loves, slow longings was all that mattered at the time Chorus: Sometimes we have something to work through Sometimes with no one to talk to you were my someone when I thought I had no one love reinvents us and ends all the sorrow sometimes Bridge: Some griefs do not heal some losses never filled but are you willing to stay in what may not sustain and if it ends poorly, will it cancel out the whole story and would you stay a persistent memory in my mind? Chorus: Sometimes we have something to work through Sometimes with no one to talk to you were my someone when I thought I had no one Love reinvents us and ends all the sorrow sometimes Sometimes. -------------------------------------------------------------- "Still" from the album "Still" lyrics by Jodie Manross music by Laith Keilany (This is the first song Laith and I ever wrote together!) What is your passion when life is unsettled? Where do you go when life is unturned? What do you do when faced with the knowledge? How do you start when you feel so unheard? Hard to search your soul, then find it lacking. Hard to hear your voice, then find it gone. Removing feeling, what do we cherish? I wonder where we've gone. Chorus: Still to feel Still to fall Still to make sense of it all Still to feel I'm scared to fall Still to make sense of it all Do you hold onto your convictions in disbelief? How I must live I feel like distancing I'm so tired of passing strength, but it's the only thing I can give today. Find a place where your voice matters In doing this, bring spirit back to form Shaped by how I must live in this place And still I feel I don't belong. Chorus: Still to feel Still to fall Still to make sense of it all Still to feel I'm scared to fall Still to make sense of it all Bridge: The way we move on when it hurts too much The way we heal when the memories are still strong The way we speak when we can't laugh out loud The way we love when we can't move on Now the strongest thing that I feel is this weakness I shall leave And if nothing else remains it is hope I will believe. Chorus: Still to feel Still to fall Still to make sense of it all Still to feel I'm scared to fall Still to make sense of it all **************************************************************** **Here is the guitar tab for Still--thanks to everyone who has requested it!! The guitar part on "Still" as it is recorded is in an alternate tuning and very difficult (Laith is awesome!)--this is an easier version with standard chords. Still chords (easier verson) chords used are: E minor, C, G, D and A minor STILL (written by Jodie Manross and Laith Keilany publishing Manross Music Emin C G D------------------------------------------------- "To You" from the album "Going Somewhere Soon" lyrics by Jodie Manross music by Laith Keilany The band and I did lots and lots of driving in the past few years. "To You" is about wanting to get back home from a late night drive. Ben Maney's piano part blows me away. Dre, the genious producer he is, made the song's bridge sound like an old, scratchy record. (Also, the word gas-n-sip is the name of the convenience store in my fave movie, Say Anything. I'll be glad when this night is over of lighted highways, of burning dashboard lights but music is taking me right out of these blues The radio stations are fading, the static is taking over but it's bringing me Bringing me on back to you Chorus: Flash my brights at each stoplight just to keep it moving though it doesn't make a difference for the red and green to go. But I have a need for some brillance changing, a quick stoplight, and a fast trip home. Now the signs over high treelines are overgrown and I'm traveling a continent of emotion though I have not far to go But I may have to stop soon, the gas tank reads so low Neon gas'n'sip, coffee bitterness givin' me the energy to keep on going. Chorus: Flash my brights at each stoplight just to keep it moving though it doesn't make a difference for the red and green to go. But I have a need for some brillance changing, a quick stoplight, and a fast trip home. Jazz break Chorus: (repeat twice) Flash my brights at each stoplight just to keep it moving though it doesn't make a difference for the red and green to go. But I have a need for some brillance changing, a quick stoplight, and a fast trip home. "Waiting My Whole Life" from the album "Still" lyrics by Jodie Manross music by Laith Keilany I was inspired by a Stevie Wonder Song and wrote the bass line while drying my hair one day. Guess I've been waiting my whole life Guess I've been waiting for a time To live for myself but that life is leaving me behind I know this has not been time spent wasted but it's not been time spent lived I give way to desperation I give more than I can give. Chorus: Guess I've been waiting my whole life guess I've been waiting my whole life guess I've been all my waiting all my waiting all this time Guess I've been waiting my whole life uess I've been waiting my whole life guess i've been waiting all my waiting all my waiting all this time. That's how the cookie crumbles That's just the roll of the dice But I clearly have expected more than my lot so far in life. Can't give way to expectations I won't give up on my dreams But I know I've given more than what I want and what I need. Chorus Bridge: In releasing memories where the mind and heart reside In this space I cannot breathe is where I work and I abide As I get along and get by and struggle to survive I keep looking for piece of mind that I may never find. As I carry on in a mess I see through and persist I resist the remaining notion that there is more than this. As I repeat these days I surely live a lie As I step futher away from peace I may never find. "With All The Words" from the album "Still" lyrics by Jodie Manross This was the first song I wrote on guitar. I wrote it at a car wash after my car flooded with rainwater after a thunderstorm the night before. It was a blessing in disguise! I have an aimless soul, But you give me direction In arms with a gentle hold, you are a divine distraction And if stars could complement, and if moon could claim inspiration, they would call on you With the sweetest intentions. Chorus: With all the words I've thought And for all the times I've said I need, I want, I long, I hope With you this love begins. Within your leaving did night choke my eyes But upon your return, I woke with you in my arms There are truths we know but can't make ourselves see You are my windfall, I'm forever blessed So now I gently breathe. Chorus I recognized myself in you And only truth was found No pretenses, No defenses Only common ground. And we are And we are And we are bound. Chorus (twice) ---------------------------------------------------------- "Wreck" from the album "Going Somewhere Soon" lyrics by Jodie Manross music by Laith Keilany Partly about relationships (boys can be stupid) and partly about the state of the world. A world news headline stuck with me one day. It said something about "if the war ends soon, it will still be years or decades before the wreckage is cleared. That is a powerful statement that can be applied to your own personal emotional life. Nate's percussion is amazing in the song too! Rosy explanations Supers, so verys died on my lips when they met your dark meanings Dear boy, I said, I love you and you said your nevers and I said I'd never love you again There's no easy bow out of what we are ending it's all become excess and overkill and if the fighting ends tomorrow it will be years before the wreckage is cleared Chorus: Push and pull the uneasiness of this day That's ours to experience alone with all the good company that's around there's a place in my heart that's still unknown Soft words give way to sharp sayings I'm measuring the impact of all that you say What comes from the heart will reach it again but you haven't shown me much I wish I take away Scared of feeling when all you've known is failing but what you're handling is not yours to hold The river is higher, I'm counting miles I'm as red as this judgment I've bought and sold Chorus: Push and pull the uneasiness of this day That's ours to experience alone with all the good company that's around there's a place in my heart that's still unknown Bridge: Do I have to prove myself there's more to life that what I can't give you? Do I have to prove myself there's more to life than how I can't please you? Do I have to prove myself there's more to life than we can't get through? Do I have to prove myself there's more to life than we can't get through? We make the myths that would make us better and would not only take away and I hold on not because I want to it's just the pattern I've held on through all these years through all these years and if the fighting ends tomorrow it will be years before the wreckage is cleared and if the fighting ends tomorrow it will be years before the wreckage is cleared |
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