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WHEN I’M AN ANGEL lyrics by LAURIA
1 Homeland
I can see my Homeland from here
when I close my eyes and I sit real still
I can see my homeland from here, always could and I always will
Even when the smell of danger is near
and the fire is on the hill
I can see my homeland from here, always could and I always will
I can feel my family from here
When I close my eyes and I sit real still
I can feel my family from here, I always could and I always will
Even when fear finds a hole in my heart
And I become a stranger to my will
I can feel my family from here, I always could and I always will
I can reach all I need from here
When I close my eyes and I sit real still
I can reach all I need from here
I always could and I always will
Even when hunger is haunting me
And there’s nothing but wind in the till
I can reach all I need from here, always could and I always will
I can touch the truth from here
When I close my eyes and I sit real still
I can touch the truth from here, always could, always will
Even when darkness devours me
And there’s no holy grail to fill
I can touch the truth from here, always could and I always will
I can sense all the sadness in the world
When I close my eyes and I sit real still
I can sense all the sadness in the world
Always could and I always will
Even when a baby laughs and enemies forgive
I can celebrate until
I can sense all the sadness in the world, always could and I always will
I can lean on love from here
When I close my eyes and I sit real still
I can lean on love from here, I always could and I always will
Even when stillness is shattered by rage, I can refuse to kill
I can lean on love from here, I always could and I always will
2 Heaven By Water
Bright stars, dark trees, and clear water
The time traveler’s wife is dancing on stones
Barbarians to angels, under the bridge of sighs
The man who stopped time sleeps alone
Won’t you walk the blue fields with me
Through shadow county
And if we get to Heaven By Water, Never let me go
No heart of lies, no twisted tree
Will ever again speak the quiet word
As lords of the silent dream songs in ordinary time
the book of air and shadows shuns the absurd
The tipping point of the lost symbol blinks in the second brain
The Children of the storm dance
Where the god of love hangs out
If you taste the history of wine and
Toast the mistress of the sun
The ground beneath her feet will shatter all doubt
3 When I’m An Angel
When I grow up I want to be an angel
I want to fly away
I want to watch over every little baby
When I grow up someday
When I get weary, and I feel so small
I can barely stand on my own
When I’m An Angel I promise I will carry
All the troubles of the world away
Until then I’m gonna walk by the river
Knowing my thirst for You will be broken
Oh, When I’m An Angel
I’ve been living for a long long time
Battered by rage and warmed by your love
I want to rest easy in the shelter from the storm
Before my wings carry me away
When I grow up I want to be an angel
And leave my bones by the old oak tree
You’ll know I’m gone when the rain starts a comin’
Water like promises over the ground
4 Simple as the Sun
Jump into me swim to the back of my heart,
Where the beat drills deeper and the blood is red hot
Where the sound of the moon is the sound of the stars,
And everything is simple as the sun, as the sun
Everything is Simple As The Sun
If to you I seem distant I am not the only one,
Sometimes I feel like I am coming undone
But I don’t want you to worry, I love you too much,
All I need is something simple
Like the warmth of your touch, So won’t you jump into me….
Heaven is the place where the color of fear
Is the color of me wanting you to be near
If I opened up my heart enough to let you inside,
Would it feel like something in me had just folded up and died?
I’d have to jump into me….
What would I do with an open heart?
How would I pretend to falter
How could I pretend to fall apart?
When everything I thought I knew
Fell right through
And left us wide open, all alone – with the truth
Absolutely
5 Moon In The Morning
Don’t ever take your eyes off of me
I am becoming so very hard to see
In your eyes is where I long to be
So don't take your eyes off of me
Any minute I might disappear
Unless I know you can see me right here
Don’t fall asleep or I may fall free of you
When you take your eyes off of me
Like the Moon In The Morning
fades into blue,
I am in danger
of fading into you
So if you would, if you will
Keep this in mind and keep watching me until
You see me break free of the fear of loving you,
Promise you won’t take your eyes off of me
Say you wouldn’t think of taking your eyes off of me,
Tell me you just can’t take your eyes off of me
6 All Night Rain
Hearts wounded and wild
No angel could tame
Stumble towards heaven
In a tag-you’re-it game
Then you come on like a dream
A slow turn of the wheel
Remembering how to breathe
And learning how to feel
Is love worth the trouble
Does wind blow on the plain
Does a seed ever long for
an All Night Rain
All Night Rain
You are sinking into me
like an All Night Rain
Oh an All night Rain
Random puzzle pieces
We’re just raindrops and stars
Until we fall into each other
And discover who we are
I can sense a storm coming
You won’t hear me complain
It’s an answer to a prayer
For an All Night Rain
Out here in the highlands
The Rockies kiss the Rio Grande
Whatever doesn’t happen often
Happens when it can
At first just a whisper
Familiar yet strange
It still feels like the first time
Whenever love calls my name
Like an All Night Rain
7 Digital Radio
I can wrap your skin in rays of the sun
As soon as every day has begun
To remind you you’re not the only one
Oh yeah I’ve been a fool like you
I can slip the song my raven sings
onto your finger as a friendship ring
To remind you that courage is a sacred thing
for far too long it’s been taboo
I can turn the Digital Radio on
To prove to you all the static is gone
And sweep the dust off the path you’re on
This is all I can do for you my love
This is all I can do for you
I can ask the stars in your eyes at night
To reveal the moon who sometimes hides her light
So you can see yourself through your second sight
What your heart has always known
Round the turning and through the fire
We meet again and again in a squall of desire
Love will find a way as it will surely tire
of these endless fields of snow
I can simmer shadows of the afternoon
And steep them in the mystery of the simplest tune
To quench the thirst that always hunts for you
Every where you go
We three will melt like ice in July
Oh you haven’t till now and neither have I
For you’ve been promised to fear and I to the lie
The war is over, we’ve made it through
Can you hear me now, can you dial me in
Am I loud & clear or is the signal too thin
With reception so good why don’t you pull me through,
You got your eye on me and I got nothing on you
8 Drop
There’s a darkness coming, my dreams are getting cold
Something’s dancing in the distance and it’s losing all control
I’m a melted Drop of matter, a tear that never fell
When darkness comes to get me, you can find me in the well
Down in the well, we all are water
Can’t tell a son from a daughter
Am I kissing you or are you kissing me
It’s dark in here and I can’t see
There’s a darkness coming, slashing through the light
With a momentary nature and an unforgivable fight
How can you say you love me, when to love me is to drown
I’ve never see you near the water
Beyond the crowds, the noise, the town
Solid things are liars, they trick me with their weight
They speak of all their permanence
They blink and breathe too late
So I’m going to be a drop of melted matter
A tear that never fell
If you want me,
Bring your emptiness,
and join me in the well
I have been fresh air, I have been bad weather
I have been the thing that makes you hide and seek
I’ve been lifting your cries all the way to the moon
I’ve been the thing that makes you weak
So snap out of your stupor, till you learn to say please
I am the reason why you came,
I’m the reason you have knees
The clouds were thick last evening,
Today the skies are blue
I’ve been the thing that crawls inside and gives all this to you
So are you ready for the union,
are you ready for the heat
Are you ready for the end of the game
that makes your heart compete
I’m asking ‘cause you’d want me to
To believe you had a choice
I’ve been living I the breath of you
I’m the thing that makes your voice
So give it up, your sleep is done
Give it up, it’s the ringing of the bell
Give it up, you’ll never know what hit you
And I’m never going to tell
I’m always going to be a Drop of melted matter
A tear that never fell,
So if you want me, bring your emptiness
and join me in the well
9 Please Don’t
Heaven happened to me when I held your hand in mine
Even when you’re not here I got you with me all the time
I don’t need no blackberry, iPhone or Bluetooth
I got your voice in my head when I’m looking for the truth
My bag of tricks is empty I need something to believe
Got a cool cool head but I’m steamy underneath
Got a dream I am dreamin and I wanna make it stick
your heart has been my compass
through the forest and the brick
so please don’t take it with you when you go
You are pushin my button and pulling my string
you seem to be connected to my everything
I thought I could get by without letting you know
My heart is hiding but it cannot hide the glow
There’s an angel singing in the wide open blue
Saying stop wasting time girl, you know what to do
A star was born on the day that we me
That means we got a good love we are not finished loving yet
so Please don’t take it with you when you go
I am handing you a wish as you’re walking through the door
I need you with me like the ocean needs the floor
I am not playing around no I haven’t lost my mind
I am not a beggar I am not the beggin kind
The sky is cracking open and the ground is falling in
The sun is throwing rainbows all over our skin
I know you like to gamble, how much you wanna bet
we have got a good love we’re not finished loving yet
Be careful not to do something that you might regret
‘cause We have got a good love
we’re not finished loving yet
Please don’t take it with you when you go
10 Teardrop Song
All the tears you never cry,
Sit it the dark and wonder why
They’re just dying to fall,
For the thrill of it all
From a heavy heart
Every tear that you deny,
Becomes a tiny little lie
Why not let the truth fall,
For the thrill of it all
From a heavy heart
Y’know a teardrop has no shame
Every sunbeam feels the same
A heavy heart is like a sun
Who won’t shine for anyone
You never see a heavy sun
Rain or shine it’s all for fun
Why not let the tears fall
For the thrill of it all
Making light a heavy heart
And It’s a perfect day
When a teardrop gets its way
And like a sunbeam gets to fall
For the thrill of it all
Making light a heavy heart
So let the teardrops fall
For the thrill of it all
Making light a heavy heart
11 Trouble
Trouble is just tenderness of the heart
Held hostage in a troubled mind
Trouble will always see you through
That forest that keeps the light from finding you
I came to you in Trouble,
you’d had enough of Trouble
I didn’t mean to Trouble you
You said it was no Trouble at all
Then Trouble surrounded me
and Trouble surrounded you too
I wasn’t looking for Trouble,
Trouble found me anyway
You thought I was giving you Trouble
When I was just trying to stay out of Trouble’s way
Oh how we Troubled each other
And Trouble gave way to more Trouble
The next time you’re in Trouble
Take the Trouble to stop Troubling yourself
Ask Trouble say Hey what’s the Trouble?
Let Trouble have its way for a while
Then trouble’s gonna work it out and
Trouble will melt into no Trouble at all
12 Fire Like You
Burn you Fire, speak to me now
Crackle your way to my ear
Leave nothing behind but the echo of light
Leave nothing to prove you were here
Won’t you dance with me every evening
Trading poems for pieces of wood
I won’t refuse you though I know you might
Burn me down if you thought that you could
Do you know what it’s like to be drawn to you
Not too close and never too far
Oh Love, please don’t go out on me now
Stay with me in the dark where we are
Teach me to tell ancient stories
Weaving moments into lifetimes of gold
To harness the heat, To signal the sea
Teach me to banish the cold
Oh Fire, you and I were born in a star
We’re no strangers to the way that we live
Blazing a trail through the wilderness
Burning till there’s nothing to give
I have loved many Fires Like You
There are some who have dared to love me
Tell me, oh tell me what it’s like to be brief
To go out, to be gone, to be free
copyright and publishing 2017 BMI Laurianne Fiorentino
1 Homeland
I can see my Homeland from here
when I close my eyes and I sit real still
I can see my homeland from here, always could and I always will
Even when the smell of danger is near
and the fire is on the hill
I can see my homeland from here, always could and I always will
I can feel my family from here
When I close my eyes and I sit real still
I can feel my family from here, I always could and I always will
Even when fear finds a hole in my heart
And I become a stranger to my will
I can feel my family from here, I always could and I always will
I can reach all I need from here
When I close my eyes and I sit real still
I can reach all I need from here
I always could and I always will
Even when hunger is haunting me
And there’s nothing but wind in the till
I can reach all I need from here, always could and I always will
I can touch the truth from here
When I close my eyes and I sit real still
I can touch the truth from here, always could, always will
Even when darkness devours me
And there’s no holy grail to fill
I can touch the truth from here, always could and I always will
I can sense all the sadness in the world
When I close my eyes and I sit real still
I can sense all the sadness in the world
Always could and I always will
Even when a baby laughs and enemies forgive
I can celebrate until
I can sense all the sadness in the world, always could and I always will
I can lean on love from here
When I close my eyes and I sit real still
I can lean on love from here, I always could and I always will
Even when stillness is shattered by rage, I can refuse to kill
I can lean on love from here, I always could and I always will
2 Heaven By Water
Bright stars, dark trees, and clear water
The time traveler’s wife is dancing on stones
Barbarians to angels, under the bridge of sighs
The man who stopped time sleeps alone
Won’t you walk the blue fields with me
Through shadow county
And if we get to Heaven By Water, Never let me go
No heart of lies, no twisted tree
Will ever again speak the quiet word
As lords of the silent dream songs in ordinary time
the book of air and shadows shuns the absurd
The tipping point of the lost symbol blinks in the second brain
The Children of the storm dance
Where the god of love hangs out
If you taste the history of wine and
Toast the mistress of the sun
The ground beneath her feet will shatter all doubt
3 When I’m An Angel
When I grow up I want to be an angel
I want to fly away
I want to watch over every little baby
When I grow up someday
When I get weary, and I feel so small
I can barely stand on my own
When I’m An Angel I promise I will carry
All the troubles of the world away
Until then I’m gonna walk by the river
Knowing my thirst for You will be broken
Oh, When I’m An Angel
I’ve been living for a long long time
Battered by rage and warmed by your love
I want to rest easy in the shelter from the storm
Before my wings carry me away
When I grow up I want to be an angel
And leave my bones by the old oak tree
You’ll know I’m gone when the rain starts a comin’
Water like promises over the ground
4 Simple as the Sun
Jump into me swim to the back of my heart,
Where the beat drills deeper and the blood is red hot
Where the sound of the moon is the sound of the stars,
And everything is simple as the sun, as the sun
Everything is Simple As The Sun
If to you I seem distant I am not the only one,
Sometimes I feel like I am coming undone
But I don’t want you to worry, I love you too much,
All I need is something simple
Like the warmth of your touch, So won’t you jump into me….
Heaven is the place where the color of fear
Is the color of me wanting you to be near
If I opened up my heart enough to let you inside,
Would it feel like something in me had just folded up and died?
I’d have to jump into me….
What would I do with an open heart?
How would I pretend to falter
How could I pretend to fall apart?
When everything I thought I knew
Fell right through
And left us wide open, all alone – with the truth
Absolutely
5 Moon In The Morning
Don’t ever take your eyes off of me
I am becoming so very hard to see
In your eyes is where I long to be
So don't take your eyes off of me
Any minute I might disappear
Unless I know you can see me right here
Don’t fall asleep or I may fall free of you
When you take your eyes off of me
Like the Moon In The Morning
fades into blue,
I am in danger
of fading into you
So if you would, if you will
Keep this in mind and keep watching me until
You see me break free of the fear of loving you,
Promise you won’t take your eyes off of me
Say you wouldn’t think of taking your eyes off of me,
Tell me you just can’t take your eyes off of me
6 All Night Rain
Hearts wounded and wild
No angel could tame
Stumble towards heaven
In a tag-you’re-it game
Then you come on like a dream
A slow turn of the wheel
Remembering how to breathe
And learning how to feel
Is love worth the trouble
Does wind blow on the plain
Does a seed ever long for
an All Night Rain
All Night Rain
You are sinking into me
like an All Night Rain
Oh an All night Rain
Random puzzle pieces
We’re just raindrops and stars
Until we fall into each other
And discover who we are
I can sense a storm coming
You won’t hear me complain
It’s an answer to a prayer
For an All Night Rain
Out here in the highlands
The Rockies kiss the Rio Grande
Whatever doesn’t happen often
Happens when it can
At first just a whisper
Familiar yet strange
It still feels like the first time
Whenever love calls my name
Like an All Night Rain
7 Digital Radio
I can wrap your skin in rays of the sun
As soon as every day has begun
To remind you you’re not the only one
Oh yeah I’ve been a fool like you
I can slip the song my raven sings
onto your finger as a friendship ring
To remind you that courage is a sacred thing
for far too long it’s been taboo
I can turn the Digital Radio on
To prove to you all the static is gone
And sweep the dust off the path you’re on
This is all I can do for you my love
This is all I can do for you
I can ask the stars in your eyes at night
To reveal the moon who sometimes hides her light
So you can see yourself through your second sight
What your heart has always known
Round the turning and through the fire
We meet again and again in a squall of desire
Love will find a way as it will surely tire
of these endless fields of snow
I can simmer shadows of the afternoon
And steep them in the mystery of the simplest tune
To quench the thirst that always hunts for you
Every where you go
We three will melt like ice in July
Oh you haven’t till now and neither have I
For you’ve been promised to fear and I to the lie
The war is over, we’ve made it through
Can you hear me now, can you dial me in
Am I loud & clear or is the signal too thin
With reception so good why don’t you pull me through,
You got your eye on me and I got nothing on you
8 Drop
There’s a darkness coming, my dreams are getting cold
Something’s dancing in the distance and it’s losing all control
I’m a melted Drop of matter, a tear that never fell
When darkness comes to get me, you can find me in the well
Down in the well, we all are water
Can’t tell a son from a daughter
Am I kissing you or are you kissing me
It’s dark in here and I can’t see
There’s a darkness coming, slashing through the light
With a momentary nature and an unforgivable fight
How can you say you love me, when to love me is to drown
I’ve never see you near the water
Beyond the crowds, the noise, the town
Solid things are liars, they trick me with their weight
They speak of all their permanence
They blink and breathe too late
So I’m going to be a drop of melted matter
A tear that never fell
If you want me,
Bring your emptiness,
and join me in the well
I have been fresh air, I have been bad weather
I have been the thing that makes you hide and seek
I’ve been lifting your cries all the way to the moon
I’ve been the thing that makes you weak
So snap out of your stupor, till you learn to say please
I am the reason why you came,
I’m the reason you have knees
The clouds were thick last evening,
Today the skies are blue
I’ve been the thing that crawls inside and gives all this to you
So are you ready for the union,
are you ready for the heat
Are you ready for the end of the game
that makes your heart compete
I’m asking ‘cause you’d want me to
To believe you had a choice
I’ve been living I the breath of you
I’m the thing that makes your voice
So give it up, your sleep is done
Give it up, it’s the ringing of the bell
Give it up, you’ll never know what hit you
And I’m never going to tell
I’m always going to be a Drop of melted matter
A tear that never fell,
So if you want me, bring your emptiness
and join me in the well
9 Please Don’t
Heaven happened to me when I held your hand in mine
Even when you’re not here I got you with me all the time
I don’t need no blackberry, iPhone or Bluetooth
I got your voice in my head when I’m looking for the truth
My bag of tricks is empty I need something to believe
Got a cool cool head but I’m steamy underneath
Got a dream I am dreamin and I wanna make it stick
your heart has been my compass
through the forest and the brick
so please don’t take it with you when you go
You are pushin my button and pulling my string
you seem to be connected to my everything
I thought I could get by without letting you know
My heart is hiding but it cannot hide the glow
There’s an angel singing in the wide open blue
Saying stop wasting time girl, you know what to do
A star was born on the day that we me
That means we got a good love we are not finished loving yet
so Please don’t take it with you when you go
I am handing you a wish as you’re walking through the door
I need you with me like the ocean needs the floor
I am not playing around no I haven’t lost my mind
I am not a beggar I am not the beggin kind
The sky is cracking open and the ground is falling in
The sun is throwing rainbows all over our skin
I know you like to gamble, how much you wanna bet
we have got a good love we’re not finished loving yet
Be careful not to do something that you might regret
‘cause We have got a good love
we’re not finished loving yet
Please don’t take it with you when you go
10 Teardrop Song
All the tears you never cry,
Sit it the dark and wonder why
They’re just dying to fall,
For the thrill of it all
From a heavy heart
Every tear that you deny,
Becomes a tiny little lie
Why not let the truth fall,
For the thrill of it all
From a heavy heart
Y’know a teardrop has no shame
Every sunbeam feels the same
A heavy heart is like a sun
Who won’t shine for anyone
You never see a heavy sun
Rain or shine it’s all for fun
Why not let the tears fall
For the thrill of it all
Making light a heavy heart
And It’s a perfect day
When a teardrop gets its way
And like a sunbeam gets to fall
For the thrill of it all
Making light a heavy heart
So let the teardrops fall
For the thrill of it all
Making light a heavy heart
11 Trouble
Trouble is just tenderness of the heart
Held hostage in a troubled mind
Trouble will always see you through
That forest that keeps the light from finding you
I came to you in Trouble,
you’d had enough of Trouble
I didn’t mean to Trouble you
You said it was no Trouble at all
Then Trouble surrounded me
and Trouble surrounded you too
I wasn’t looking for Trouble,
Trouble found me anyway
You thought I was giving you Trouble
When I was just trying to stay out of Trouble’s way
Oh how we Troubled each other
And Trouble gave way to more Trouble
The next time you’re in Trouble
Take the Trouble to stop Troubling yourself
Ask Trouble say Hey what’s the Trouble?
Let Trouble have its way for a while
Then trouble’s gonna work it out and
Trouble will melt into no Trouble at all
12 Fire Like You
Burn you Fire, speak to me now
Crackle your way to my ear
Leave nothing behind but the echo of light
Leave nothing to prove you were here
Won’t you dance with me every evening
Trading poems for pieces of wood
I won’t refuse you though I know you might
Burn me down if you thought that you could
Do you know what it’s like to be drawn to you
Not too close and never too far
Oh Love, please don’t go out on me now
Stay with me in the dark where we are
Teach me to tell ancient stories
Weaving moments into lifetimes of gold
To harness the heat, To signal the sea
Teach me to banish the cold
Oh Fire, you and I were born in a star
We’re no strangers to the way that we live
Blazing a trail through the wilderness
Burning till there’s nothing to give
I have loved many Fires Like You
There are some who have dared to love me
Tell me, oh tell me what it’s like to be brief
To go out, to be gone, to be free
copyright and publishing 2017 BMI Laurianne Fiorentino
