Lyrics from the CD "On Our Way" by Girls With Guitars

Boogie-Woogie Blues

I know a girl who lives on the edge all the time

Well, livin on the edge for you and me sounds crazy but she just don't agree

That girl I know who lives on the edge all the time

I know a boy who knows about havin fun

But when he plays with all his toys, he shares them with the other boys

That boy I know who knows about havin fun

CHORUS:

You gotta go, go, go til you can't go no more

You gotta show, show, show what livin is for

Never look back or the blues can attack...listen to what I say

Just say no, no, no to the safe and sound

You gotta throw, throw, throw a little risk around

That's how you chase those boogie-woogie blues away

I've got a dog that's got no pedigree

Well, I'll tell you that dog's way more fun than those wimpy, whiny, papered ones

That dog of mine that's got no pedigree

I've got a car that's fast and sleek and cool

So what if I can barely fit myself and one itty-bitty friend in it

That car of mine that's fast and sleek and cool

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Instrumental (verse)

We've got a group of friends that don't let us down

Even though they've heard our songs a thousand times, they still sing along

Those friends of ours that never let us down

CHORUS

The Year Of The Comet

copyright1996 Kelly Wallin & Ferryn Martin

The year was young, our hopes were high

We headed for the mountains where the rain poured from the sky

Celebration to frustration, life turned "truth or dare"

Deep down I guess we knew that change was in the air

New jobs, new homes, new dogs, new cats with stupid names

New cars, new boats, new songs, new people playing those same old games

OId and new friends, strange but true friends, seeing who will stay

Life hangs in the balance, walls or bridges will we make

CHORUS:

It had to be the comet; you know the one with that funny name

The year our lives turned upside down; well, that must be the thing to blame

It's gotta be that comet, causing such celestial change

Mark my words from this year on, our lives will never be the same

Who would've thought that funny girl could be "that way"

(Who would've known ... Ellen showed the way)

Yet a million people shared her laughter and her pain

(Shared her laughter ...)

Coming out or going in or staying just the same

Does it really matter with the shape this old world's in

CHORUS

Instrumental (verse)

A thousand souls arrived this year, some left through Heaven's gate

Is it just the way things go or some predestined fate

Safe in our complacency, denying life's great game:

Just when you think it's all worked out, guess what - it's changed

CHORUS

Get Over Yourself
copyright 1997 Kelly Wallin & Ferryn Martin

You say they're not like us

You say it with such vengeance

That I wonder if the very thing you hate you have become

Blinded to your bias

Justified by your defiance

But what good does it do us to just keep on doing it wrong

CHORUS:

So get over yourself, get over it all

Can't you see the writing on the wall

Get over yourself before it's too late

Think twice before you further separate us

Two wrongs a right don't make, the path to love is not through hate

Get out of your head, get into your heart

Get over yourself

You say that they're to blame

Too bad now, such a shame

You told them so, they should've known, well, that's just how it goes

Standing on the laurels

Of your oh, so holy morals

Well, I'll bet it gets real lonely in your glass house throwing stones

CHORUS

Bridge:

Funny thing about the way we sometimes fail to see

The mirror can reveal the face of our worst enemy

CHORUS

In Its Own Time

I hear the sounds ... of life out there

Filter through this darkened room as I sit here in this chair

I doubt the neighbors even know that you're gone

Who really cares anyway - you know, life really does go on

Somebody's dog is barking ... I don't know whose

Someone else's TV is blaring somebody else's news

I know you're out there somewhere too getting on with your new life

While I just sit here listening to the clock tick off the time

CHORUS:

Well, everything has it's own time

All good poets know to let the poem find its own rhyme

And no matter how we race, life proceeds at its own pace

And this too shall pass ... in its own time

The night is darkest just before the break of dawn

Children have to fall before they ever walk alone

So let me stumble through this dark night on my way to a better place

Redemption isn't free, you've got to pay a price to run the human race

CHORUS

Just You Wait

There they go singing another song about "true love" early on

Gee, what a many splendored thing is newfound love - remember how sweet back (then)

(Then) it was for you and me - you would write such poetry

Baby, I just loved your "way," yet even then I would say

CHORUS:

Just you wait ... to see what time can make

Of love when nothing much is new, yet here I am still loving you

There they go gazing into each other's eyes while the world goes by

Sharing stories one by one ... how hard can it be just to hang up the phone?

Everything brand spanking new - homes and cars and memories, too

As good as they think it is today, looking back now makes me wanna say

CHORUS

Instrumental (2 verses)

Bridge:

Love like a fine wine's gotta mature

You wait a few years - let it endure

The bumps along the road of life

Our love stands the test of time

CHORUS

I Wonder (The Jasper Song)

I wonder could he know that it would end that night

Just walking down that road, hitching that last ride

Just an ordinary man, he played the horn, they say

A man we'd never know but for a wicked twist of fate

I wonder could he know he'd end that way

I wonder could they tell that night they drove, those three

That they would detour into hell to carry out their deed

What could they be thinking as they beat and chained him down

And dragged him til his body torn and bleeding stained the ground

I wonder could they know their night would end that way

(Instrumental)

I wonder who we blame to purge ourselves of rage

The system or the men ... and what part do we all play

Hate is just a symptom born of ignorance and fear

Victimized by narrow minds, our people need to hear

The trumpet call for peace to all this ordinary man has played

I wonder when we'll hear it

I wonder when we'll teach it

I wonder when we'll live it

One Life

Prologue:

A cold day in December down Alabama Way

Her feet were cold from working, so she climbed aboard to stay

When she sat down did she know the ripples this pebble thrown had started

The lives she changed with just one act...just one life

Chorus:

Like the wings of distant butterflies, one life can change it all

Storms are born of just a breeze, single shots bring war

If you believe it matters not the things you do today

Remember those who've gone before, the difference one life made

A woman in Calcutta who feeds the hungry child

She could turn away to pray, but she goes another mile

Through the drive of her devotion to the downtrod, does she see

The difference made by simple acts of kindness, by just one life

CHORUS

Instrumental (Chorus)

Even now, a girl wanders down a highway in her mind

She looks out on this planet and the speed of humankind

She says her life means nothing, that she cannot do a thing

All's not lost if she can see the power of one life ...

CHORUS

Repeat CHORUS (with just "ooh-ooh's")

On Our Way

Used to be life was so simple, looking through the eyes of youth

All the years and the world and the people ... living tangles up the truth

Trying just to do things right, we sometimes do the wrong things well

Avoiding pain to be polite, we undermine and lose our self

This game, it's got no book of rules ... we learn them as we play (but I know we're)

CHORUS:

All ............................................ on our way .............................

We're all ................................. on our way ..............................

Careful now - make good decisions ... remember, though, to seize the day

Life is filled with admonitions, how to be and what to say

Standing here now at this crossroads, find your spirit, heed its call

Anger eats away your soul ... forgiveness spurs your journey on

Fill your sails with reverence for this life, run with the wind (cuz you know)

CHORUS

Instrumental (percussive/slap) of chorus

CHORUS (with counter lines:)

Say you're sorry to your sister

Learn to turn the other cheek

Let your bridges stand behind you

Give your brother one more break

The Best Of Me

Hours ago you left, yet still I feel you here

On the scent of you that lingers, my senses keep you near

I just can't clear you from my head, though, Lord, I know I should

I don't really want to, even if I could

You know it's not the first time I've been this road before

But I feared too many battles, so I guess I left the war

But when I take your hand

How can I deny what my heart demands

CHORUS:

I want to (2. & 3. I'm gonna) love you anyway, no matter what they all (2 & 3. the world) may say

This love has got the power to drive the fears away

Loving you has set me free to reach the woman I was meant to be

Loving you is the best of me

The fears and questions come at me, no answers in their place

And all the walls I thought I'd built are falling from their state of grace

Can I trust this love to last this time

Forever seems a dream, too steep a hill to climb

CHORUS (I'm gonna)

Instrumental (to chords of chorus)

Bridge:

Surrender best laid plans to life's uncertainty

The greatest things in life come from serendipidity

CHORUS (I'm gonna)

The Prayer

Here's a prayer for you from one who

So much wants to help you through

I see the way your heart is torn

Between what is and what could be

I wish I had a crystal ball

Some sage advice ... anything at all

But all I have to offer

Is this steadfast heart and these prayers for you:

I pray the lord your soul to keep safe and strong and true

I pray that courage lifts you past uncertainty and sees you through

I pray that soon you might see the way your heart declares is right for you

(Instrumental)

... And all I have to offer is this steadfast heart and my prayers for you

Unconditionally

A little girl with three big boys ... a princess in a castle of noise

I was born into a home ... where unbounded love was shown

Threaded through my memories ... are all the times you played with me

Yet, also, times you made me cry ... tragic only through child's eyes

CHORUS:

You were bigger than life, running through time

I tried to catch up, but you left me behind

Yet the gift that you left me was of hearts given free

Your love's legacy ... unconditionally

Hiking the football in our front yard ... pumping me on the handle bars

Shooting basketball in our drive ... you kept the ball until I cried

Teaching me the songs you wrote ... frowning when I hit the wrong note

Bringing me candy from the store ... running round and slamming doors

CHORUS (followed by instrumental of verse)

Bridge:

Families grow from peace and strife

Each of us learning our lessons for life

The greatest lesson I have learned

Was of a love you cannot earn

CHORUS