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You Be My Heart: A Benefit for 826 Valencia

by Various Artists

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1.
O, the weapon you bear The armor you wear Is hardly required Just take as your shield The letter I sealed Those words you inspired Go, be bold, be unmoored Push off from the shore And untie your knots And I'll help you see It's not quite as deep As you might have thought CHORUS You be my door, I'll be your lock You be my dove, I'll be your hawk You be my soul, I'll be the body that you sought You be my heart, I'll be your rock Let the stars be your guide The sun in the sky Canopus and more But if those lights dim Remember this hymn And let these lines soar Yes go as far as you please O'er mountains and seas For days upon days But know that I'll be The light that you see That's leading your way REPEAT CHORUS You be the one that I wanted to be And I'll be the one that you are You be the promise I said I would keep Through it all and no matter how hard You be the fire that burns through the night And me, I won't sound the alarm You be the vision I needed to see Incandescent and bright in the dark You draw your map, I'll mark the spot You cast a line, I'll keep it taut You spread your wings, I'll be the air that keeps you aloft You be my heart, I'll be your rock
2.
I've got it together, so I was believing But all of that changed when I saw you leaving Now I'm not the type just to sit around grieving I set my sights on what you'd want me achieving CHORUS There's one thing I've got to do I've got to prove myself to you So stack up the odds against me, I'll beat them Show me your list of demands and I'll meet them Stumble when speaking your thoughts I'll complete them Show me the hurt in your heart and I'll heal it REPEAT CHORUS You say that we all pick our own road, I'm listening Well maybe you're whole and there's nothing you're missing But now that we've met I can't honestly say the same I'll make it my mission if someone comes near you Kindly inquiring who is your hero The first sound out of your mouth will be my name REPEAT CHORUS
3.
I've seen seven wonders but two were your eyes I've been torn asunder by all your goodbyes Cause you went and plundered the sun and the skies for your song Then you played my heartstrings like they were a lyre And you spread apart wings that fueled my desire Yes you always start things you knew would catch fire all along I wanna love your esotericism forever Your velvet glove, your funny voice, your stormy weather I'll spin above you on a silky flaxen tether Each orbit drawing me deep inside Cause you filled my sails With all your tales And dextrous feats of phrasing Come sleet or hail Monsoon or gale Infernos and lightning blazing Cut to the quick now my wounds I will lick I'll be tasting my blood as I ride out this flood The tides are ineffably drawing you near The curtains have cleft all the others from here
4.
You bent yourself down to adjust a crimson heel But when you grabbed my arm I knew it was for real So I asked you 'bout your dreams and you made a list for me Then I set my sails and the rest is history Now take this my letterman It's not much but it's better than Those frilly things that never kept you quite warm CHORUS Christen my ship Swing your bottle, don't miss I'll return bearing gifts by and by Blow me a kiss Wave your white handkerchief In a year I will sit by your side Soon I will sail for Greece but hide from you my fears And every day that passes by will seem like years But I will warm myself with knowledge that you're mine And likewise I am yours and thus we are entwined So keep lit a flame for me And I'll do the same for thee They're symbols but see how they shine REPEAT CHORUS One, two, three, four dozen moons worth of time I will still hear the lilt in your voice Five, six, eight, nine magic mountains I'll climb There will be just one flag I will hoist REPEAT CHORUS
5.
You caught my glance and you quickly construed Given half a chance that I'd always be true If you gave me a rope then for you I would lasso the moon But for all my acts of valor and daring It's just no use in even comparing To feelings I get at the moment you come into view CHORUS: You don't need me half as much as I need you Lord knows, you don't need me half as much as I need you Well I brought some notes and you gave me a tune And I planted seeds but they never did bloom Til the day that you came and you bathed them in light that you shoot It's a mystery how you do what you do Making two from one and a handful from two You're a Christmas morning, a stocking that's forever full REPEAT CHORUS Well you passed my way and you left me tossing in your wake Now I got this thirst, but that don't mean I want it slaked Cause my heart may hurt, but I like the way you make it ache
6.
Put on those fancy shades, the pair you bought for two ninety-nine As cool as you look, there's nothing cooler than you being mine And put on that song you like, with all the "hey"s and "sha-la-la"s It not really 'bout anything, but that never seemed to give you pause Singing do-be-do Singing oo-we-oo Singing just for me For me For me and me for you Put on your Pavement shirt, wowee zowee it fits so fine It never did take much more when you wanted to catch my eye Put on your worn out jeans with patches and stains of grass You never got the green out from that crazy day we missed class Singing do-be-do Singing oo-we-oo Singing just for me For me For me and me for - You never needed the lyrics - you just made up your own I said, "I'm not quite so free" - you told me that it really showed I asked you, "Well what's your secret?" - You replied, "Go with the flow" So put on your sneakers, love, and I'll grab the guitar We're going where the roads don't go, you know a car only goes so far And put on that hat of yours, so the sun don't hurt your eyes As I lay you down and whisper all of my made-up lines Singing do-be-do Singing oo-we-oo Singing just for you For you For you
7.
I think I'll while away an hour Picking you the perfect flower And set it sweetly in your hair And then I'll while away the day Thinking of words that I will say And all the feelings I'll declare And then I'll while away the week Studying songs of the cacique And at your window call their tune But after June has passed on by I think I'll while away July Just howling your name at the moon Some call me aimless, some they say I'm slow Some wonder if I've anywhere to go Some tell me time is money Well they can count their pay I'll take my day And while it all away on you And after summer's taken flight I'll while away those winter nights Building fires to keep you warm And then when January's here With you I'll while away the year One resolution I have sworn Some say I'm wandering, some they say I'm lost Some say I'm free but wonder at what cost Some trade their days for coinage Well they can stack their dimes I'll take my time And while it all away on you
8.
I've got a sixty-four Chevrolet With no warmth of which to speak The damn thing, well it's still under loan I've got house that looks real nice But it's lacking central heat But that ain't what chilled me to the bone CHORUS Nine fifths of zero still is nil Some nights it seems the cold could kill You've got a fire and it's been on my mind So please, just melt this heart of mine I've been telling the tallest tales Of how life it done me wrong I've been setting all of my spite to song But I've lately come around And said my silent thanks For having this old heart that still can break REPEAT CHORUS
9.
There's so many things I've yet to do There's so many words unsaid There's so many plans I've yet to put to bed And I do not know who put these visions Deep inside my head Though I tried to lead them now I find I'm led But I'm nothing if not patient Yes I faced each test I met And I take it on the chin if not the head And through all my toil and trouble There's a single prayer I send Just take me somewhere feet have never tread Now I'm grateful for the souls I've met I know how to treat a friend Though it's such a busy world to which we're wed And I'm sure that there are more like me So my hand I will extend To the dreamers and the dreams they left for dead 'Cause we're hungry for some mission We can't live alone on bread So on struggle shall we sate ourselves instead You can tell us from the others We're the ones who daily pled Just take us somewhere feet have never tread
10.
I found a blue in your eyes A shade so crystal the skies Turned into green when they knew That they were bested by you I found a light in your heart The sun could not even start To shine with rays so intense Your love is too tall a fence I found a home in your arms To keep me safe from all harm I'm lost inside your embrace I see my life in your face I found a dream in your mind And it was one of a kind You deal your castles of sand With every move of your hand CHORUS Sing with me Or am I moving too fast love? Dance with me O but that came out so crass love Breathe with me I need this moment to last love Feel with me I need a touch of your class love I know you don't mean to flaunt it But your beauty's a gauntlet And I'm dodging the whips With every swing of your hips And building on the analogy I'm up on the gallows, see From the nape of your neck The way your cape swept the deck I'm sure I'll be on the rack Just from the small of your back And then my bones'll be creaking From the one tiny peek So Mrs. Marquis de Sade Grant me a wink or a nod Some morsels I can accrue Until you tighten the screw REPEAT CHORUS But O this bittersweet Midas touch When everything glitters it ain't worth much And all my rocks and gems and jewels Summon up flocks of freaks and ghouls I tried to turn them with my cross But why should I spurn the lame and lost? Because this undead zombie sea They're just like me! They're just like me! I practiced Perseus And preyed for mercy but You petrified my bones You turned my skin to stone And from a stony scabbard Though I pulled a dagger All I found was jail Inside your holy grail
11.
Excuse me, I know that it may be bold, but there was something in the way that you just wiggled your nose That got me, a little out of control, and I've been counting in the corner for to settle my soul Well I know, though the time may be short, before I'm fending off another on his own approach I'll go slow, but I don't mean to impose, so if you heard this before, just say so CHORUS Now I can see that you shine, sh-shine, sh-shine I'm not just giving you a line, l-line, l-line So if you give me some time, t-time, t-time I'm gonna make you mine, m-mine, m-mine Excuse me, now but you look a bit bored, and so I'm guessing what you're getting out of life could be more So let's see, now it's a quarter to four, you hit the floor I'll get the door and we can make it for sure To this place, I know a ways up the shore, it never closes and who knows it may be faces galore I'll go slow, but if you need to take hold, just wrap your arms tight around my torso REPEAT CHORUS Excuse me, but really who is he? Draw the curtain on that person, there's not room for three. Excuse me, but is your calendar free? Because I'm thinking that there's somewhere else you'd rather be. Excuse me, but here's an idea, take a seat right here and you just wait and see, uh! Excuse me, but do you feel what I feel? I know it's seeming that I'm being extreme... REPEAT CHORUS
12.
Well I built this house on silt and salt and sand And I guessed it would pass the test and it would stand On a window shopping spree But it's just so hard to see Through the fire this desire of hers has fanned Cause that seraph burns her paraffin all night Hear the cries of all the flies drawn to the light See the shapeless shifting swarm It's a buzzing bumbling form Well suppose now that I chose to stay and fight I could floor 'em with some lorum ipsum junk Swing a blackjack, throw the sack smack in the trunk Drive 'em to the edge of town Put 'em six feet underground At the bottom is the spot they'll hit kerplunk Yes my thumping chest is stumping for her vote And failing this I'll sail across her moat Cause the raging, restless sea Oh it just don't bother me Though rancored I am anchored to this boat CHORUS Oh, she's like a hologram A balled-up, canned-up bucket of white light And if I took her hand And took a stand Then these plans I just might right She's a gut shot but the cut clots awful slow Ring the church bells, watch my blood cells there they go Oh I'm fine just let me be Pay no mind don't bother me Down the gutter, left to shudder in the snow Yes she sliced my skin and spiced the wound with salt And she maimed me then she claimed it's all my fault Drinking wine from a carafe Down the neck of that giraffe Does she mind or is she blind to her assault? Yes they slaughtered then they brought her ivory tusks And the bums, well they just hum and sing and busk Cause the deep red frequency Of the satin, sequined sheet That she dons well they all fawn upon till dusk What a silly billy thinking she'd be mine She don't willy nilly wed men of my kind She's an island off the map But there's strength I've yet to tap So don't dilly dally boy there's no more time REPEAT CHORUS
13.
I know I barely know you We've only said hello And this, some silent greeting I thought I saw you throw I know I'm rather quiet Whenever you're around I choke on all my words I hardly make a sound I know I must seem silly Just staring at my feet In some dim and dusty corner Where I'm swaying to the beat I know it's kinda crazy The way you make me feel Turning shades of grey to color You make the common so surreal Yes I know you barely know me So there's no way that you could tell That you were summoned from my dreams You're a wish called down a well And I know that you may doubt me When I say that you're the one I've been waiting all my life for And now it's only just begun But I know you might not want me All the ways I'm wanting you So I try to shut such thoughts out And I pray this isn't true Because I know that in your absence The hole that would remain Would swallow me completely How could you make me feel such pain? And I know I seem dramatic But you've really no idea Of how bleak it'd be without you Of how dark the night would seem Yes I know there's nothing colder Than somewhere without your fire And without the breath you bring me I would hastily expire And yet the hearth I thought your heart was I mustn't on its warmth depend And the air that I've been breathing I shouldn't think I'll ne'er expend Because I know this song I'm singing Doesn't mean a goddamn thing For if you love me then you love me And if you don't, you don't - the end
14.
Fade in on a pair of brethren hearts without a care They were made to stay together and I'm sure you'd say the same And the day when the game they played was in major need of repair Arm in arm they swayed and ne'er to part they made this fateful claim Singing, "Oh this can be our reconciliation song We'll save it for a day when everything goes wrong Yes this will our reconciliation song But pray that such a day will never come along" Now maybe it's plain to see for those of you who have shared A life, a place, and time and space with one and became the same That the rains never failed to fall and a haze often hung in the air But they'd not complain of life unfair or try to place the blame They'd sing, "Oh this now is our reconciliation song We saved it for some day when everything goes wrong Yes this is now our reconciliation song We pray that such a day will never come along" But then a storm appeared and laid their plans to waste A bolt crashed from the sky, with blackness was it laced They reached out for their song with hurried, hopeful haste And soon they found the song had vanished without a trace "The song, the song," they cried, "oh where could it be placed?" They cast their eyes aloft at the storm that would have to be faced And lo, a light broke through, and gave this tempest a chase When from within they summoned the chorus And sang, "Now listen to our reconciliation song We saved it for this time when everything went wrong Yes listen to our reconciliation song Let other days like this one never come along Let other days like this one never come along"
15.
If I had more than just one lifetime Oh, the things I'd do I'd spend a century as a voyager And sail the ocean blue I'd spend another as a scientist There's theorems yet to prove And when I'd proven all those theorems Well I'd prove my love to you If I had more than just one lifetime I'd start each one anew In this I'd be a wise man In that I'd play the fool If I had more than just one lifetime Those hearts they may accrue But I just wouldn't pay them any mind 'Cause I'm a fool for you You gave me more than just one lifetime One sunlit afternoon In the casual way you tossed your hair And the sideways glance you threw You give me more than just one lifetime If you only even knew How each touch is worth a decade And each kiss is worth a few Now I may never be a rockstar Those dreams they may be through I may never be a rockstar But I'll be one for this tune And just like every other rockstar This rockstar needs a muse So it should come as no surprise to you That you're the one I choose
16.
We met on an evening such as this, such bliss Leading you home past the fountain where I made my wish Granted so soon by the step which helped align our lips But with these words by a day I did forestall that kiss "Please consider my chariot, the shotgun seat is free The radio reads kilohertz, but girl that's all we'll need The taillight's busted, the fender's rusted, the gears they number three But though this carriage is old it's built to last just wait and see" And you then became to my surprise, my prize And for a while we then tried each other on for size And then the moon, and the sun, the trees, the air, the skies The world entire, given life anew seen through your eyes So tell me truly now Judas, Jesus which one do I see? Cause though we've conjured a thousand children you're still news to me You showed me all the vicissitudes you'd hidden lock and key But still this puzzle is missing one important corner piece So when you pasted all our photos in a birthday card collage Well I'm sure you had your reasons but you only broke my heart Oh and when our palms were pressing you gave me quite a start Could you feel my heart confessing to the way it fell apart? And then you drew a rainbow in the frost from words we spoke And although I couldn't say so, my heart it swiftly broke And then you danced the can can just to bring my face a smile But my heart it had its own damn plans and was breaking all the while Cause you keep ringing my bell But I just can't tell For whom'd you aim that spell? And you'll be blowin' my mind But often I find You're not even tryin' So keep on rockin' my world With every twirl You maniac girl And I'll keep saving my cents And some season hence I'll swing for the fence And when you look at my librettos and declare, "Such rain, such clouds" I'll reply, "Well I just like sad songs, but I like to play them loud"
17.
That summer when we took a ferry out to see Capri The moment when you jumped off of a cliff into the sea The play of light upon your skin as you napped beneath a tree Those visions really made their mark, they've stuck around with me You gave me more than a photograph You gave me more than a dream You gave me more than some story that I'll share in my twilight years You gave me more than a postcard note Or some silly souvenir You gave me more than a memory, love You gave me a reason to see That evening when my window sounded out from the pebble you threw Your silhoetted form alighted bright by the silvery moon I'd never had a serenader; I've never had one since Who made me feel the way you did with each clumsy note that you picked But you gave me more than a tone or two And more than a melody You gave me more than some song to whistle along a rain-soaked street You gave me more than a forty-five And more than an MP3 You gave me more than a memory, love You gave me a reason to sing A reason to leave the porch light on And to keep the fire alive A reason to pick myself back up When times are getting tryin' A reason to take this heart of mine And lay it on the line A reason to keep you always on my mind But you gave me much more than all of that Yeah more than you could believe You gave me more than some shoulder on which in troubled times I'd lean You gave me more than a hand to hold Or one to take hold of me You gave me more than a memory, love You gave me a reason You gave me a reason to be You gave me a reason to be

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