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Little By Little
03:50
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LITTLE BY LITTLE Maureen Paraventi Copyright 2010 All Rights Reserved
Happily ever after ended on a Thursday morning
Forever and a day just didn’t last
I don’t know when I noticed and I don’t know if I care
It feels like what we had’s already passed
CHORUS:
We got lost, we got lost in the day to day
Didn’t feel, didn’t feel it slipping away
Just a little by little is how love goes, and where it went nobody knows
A little by little and it’s all gone, and it’s too late to fix what’s wrong
To fix what’s wrong
It’s much too late, to fix what’s wrong
It’s hard to call it over but it’s harder to ignore
The cold and empty feeling in the room
We’re going through the motions and I wonder what it’s for
We’re gonna have to talk about it soon
CHORUS
I hope that you’ll be happy but I wish that you would go
We both deserve a better time than this
I just want to move forward, want to take it nice and slow
So many things about you I will miss.
CHORUS
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2. |
Something Inside
03:13
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Something Inside Tina Paraventi
copyright 2006 all rights reserved
I am afraid my longtime dream is slipping away.
I see it fade under the glare of grinding routine.
I call it back for if I don’t, and give it up for lost.
If I let go and let it cross the unforgiving street.
Something inside that is fragile and precious will die.
When dreams were young I knew it all would fall into place.
And even now I know it waits, impatient for me.
And in the end this is the key, it runs too deep to change
The sunny side the half that’s full, the hopes that can’t be dashed.
Something inside that is stubborn and constant and sure.
Repeat second chorus.
When dreams were young I knew it all would fall into place.
And even now I know it waits, impatient for me.
And in the end this is the key, it runs too deep to change
The sunny side the half that’s full, the hopes that can’t be dashed.
Something inside that is stubborn and constant and sure.
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Blackberry Wine
02:32
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Blackberry Wine by Maureen Paraventi Copyright 2010 All Rights Reserved
So many pages written on.
I thought I’d have a better story by now.
So many dreams have come and gone.
I thought I’d have some fame and glory by now.
But I have blackberry wine, intermittent sunshine.
A hammock under a sycamore tree.
And I have paperbacks to read. A garden to weed.
Good friends and good times, and I have you.
So many days have rolled along.
I thought I’d have some questions answered by now.
But all those things that I thought were wrong.
When you’re with me don’t matter much at all.
Chorus
But all those things that I thought were wrong
When you’re with me don’t matter much at all.
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When I Can't Sleep
03:23
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When I Can’t Sleep by Maureen Paraventi
Verse 1
I wonder where you are tonight, I wonder if you’re happy?
Did things work out OK for you, is life the way it should be?
Or do you sometimes feel you’re drowning in an ocean of regret?
In the silence of the nighttime are there things you can’t forget? Too many things ~ You can’t forget
Chorus
But if you lose your way, you know there’ll be another day
All the mistakes you made in time are gonna fade away
With every breath you take you get a second chance
At least that’s what I tell myself when I can’t sleep.
Verse 2
I always thought the road I chose would take me some place better
It got me lost and turned around, I ended up untethered.
And now I sometimes feel if I could only start over again
I would see the signs that warned me about what was ‘round the bend - I’d see the signs ~ in time
CHORUS Instrumental CHORUS
Outro
At least that’s what I tell myself when I can’t sleep
Copyright 2010 All Rights Reserved
STS Productions LLC & The McLaughlins
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5. |
What You Choose
03:08
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What You Choose Tina Paraventi copyright 2008 all rights reserved
You can do what you want, with your body and your money
You can go where you want for salvation of your soul
You can give who you want all the power of your ballot
What you use, what you lose, what you choose to believe
What you cherish and let perish, what remains when you leave
I know the fire that burns deep inside. I know the hunger to change what I see.
I know the comfort of knowing I tried. I know the heartbreak of what still will be.
I want the ones who think they know the only way to live
And the ones who will try to deny another choice
And the ones who will care only if I see things their way
To shut up and give up and get out of my way
I will find my own mind and the course I will stay
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Lingers On
03:07
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Lingers On by Maureen Paraventi Copyright 2010 All Rights Reserved
Chasing illusions is my talent
I’m so good at seeing things that are not there
In his silences I heard all those reassuring words
Thought that maybe I could make them be true
It’s just another dead end, another empty night
Just an idea that won’t survive the daylight
What I fool I feel, thinking that it could be real
Took me so long to get it, but I did, yes I did, oh, yes I do
I’m gonna leave it alone, I’m gonna move on
Turn memory to stone till all traces are gone
Another lesson I learned, a pain that lingers on, lingers on, lingers on
Maybe this time I’ll learn from my adventures
Maybe next time I’ll know it’s a fantasy
Just a story in my head. It’s a book I haven’t read.
I’ll never have the ending I want for me.
When I see a mirage I’ll know there’s nothing there
Won’t look for meanings in rings around the moon
I’ll only dream when I’m asleep, won’t let feelings run too deep.
I will never chase illusions again, not again, no, not again.
Chorus, rpt.
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The Life That You’re Not Living Maureen Paraventi Copyright 2010 All Rights Reserved
You look but you don’t see. You think but not too much.
You feel it slip away. You miss the human touch.
Although it seems so real. It’s an image on a screen.
A shadow on a wall. A half-remembered dream.
It’s the life that you’re not living, the risks you wouldn’t take.
The roads you did not follow and the love that wouldn’t wait.
There’s still time to leave regret behind, and live and love and lose
There’s still time for you to choose.
To never play it safe. To revel in the pain.
To burn the candle at both ends. To stand out in the rain.
To love in spite of doubt. To laugh when you’re afraid.
To dance when you are tired. To claim what you have made.
It’s the life that you’ll be living. The risks you’re gonna take.
The roads that you will follow and the love that’s not too late.
There’s still time to leave regret behind, and live and love and lose
There’s still time for you to choose.
You know, you need a second chance
When the first one breaks your heart.
And you won’t enjoy the journey if you do not even start.
In a moment, you can leave it all behind.
CHORUS
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8. |
Fade Away
03:26
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Fade Away Tina Paraventi Copyright 5-2-09 All Rights Reserved
I think that, don’t you know? Why is it something I can’t remember?
It was when, I don’t know, there at the place, but I can’t remember.
My mother and me in the kitchen is like a home movie I watch, whenever I want
But yesterday and this morning are shadows that fade away, fade away.
I know you love me, yeah, I love you too. No, I can’t forget that.
Once we were equals in all that we did, and we stood together.
But now I am falling behind you so far, while you keep going forward, forever ahead.
Never again to walk at my side until maybe the next place, we’ll meet up again.
Bedpans and baby dolls, chairs rolling by. Faces lean over me, come, Mary, try.
Time to eat, time to sleep, time to get clean. Patiently locked in the scheduled routine.
Thoughts are unspoken, hidden inside. Words are outcast, an endless divide.
I know you love me, yeah, I love you too. No I can’t forget that.
Once we were equals in all that we did, and we stood together.
But now I am falling behind you so far, while you keep going forward, forever ahead.
Never again to walk at my side until maybe the next place, we’ll meet up again.
Maybe the next place, we’ll meet up again.
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Californo
04:22
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Californo - written by Maureen Paraventi Copyright 2010 All Right Reserved
Well I woke up tired in a cheap motel
On the edge of the desert on the edge of dawn
You were already up and havin’ a smoke
Drinking gas station coffee, ready to move on.
California’s in the rear view mirror
Palm tree pipe dreams, lapping at the shore
The more miles behind us the more it gets clearer
I wanted you, and you wanted more.
Coyotes howl in the Hollywood Hills
Or was that just another bad dream of yours?
And the mud slides tumble down on Mailbu
It’s a postcard paradise, but who’s keeping score?
Hot winds blow through the valley of dreams
But you wiped my margarita tears away
We got lost on the billboard boulevard
Where the seasons don’t change and the players don’t play
California’s in the rear view mirror
Palm tree pipe dreams, lapping at the shore
The more miles behind us the more it gets clearer
I wanted you, and you wanted more.
Stars in the sidewalk and signs in the hill
Dreams by the ocean
Are pulling me underneath the memories
Of who we were
Your features now just a beautiful blur
California’s in the rear view mirror
Palm tree pipe dreams, lapping at the shore
The more miles behind us the more it gets clearer
I wanted you, and you wanted more.
You wanted so much more. You wanted so much more. You wanted so much more
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I’m Doing All Right Without You by Maureen Paraventi Copyright 2010 All Rights Reserved
Rent a movie, eat some takeout. Go to bed a little early.
I’m doing all right without you.
Clean my closet, start that novel. Go off somewhere for the weekend.
I’m doing all right without you.
There’s nobody stealing covers and I’ve got more room in dresser drawers.
Don’t have to argue politics with that one friend of yours.
I’ve got lots of time for my ‘to do’ list, nothing getting in the way.
I never knew there were so many hours in the day.
Answer emails, paint the kitchen. Take your number off my speed dial
I’m doing all right without you.
Go to parties, meet new people. Think about you almost never
I’m doing all right, without you.
Chorus / Instrumental.
I’m doing all right without you.
Rent a movie, eat some takeout. Go to bed a little early.
I’m doing all right without you.
Clean my closet, start that novel. Go off somewhere for the weekend.
I’m doing all right without you. I’m doing all right without you.
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