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Look Away
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Look Away by Lissa Schneckenburger
On that afternoon the sun was in the sky
It made little sparkling diamonds in the snow
I had a heavy fist of fear that gripped my stomach
And it wouldn’t let me go
I could see the lady’s breath in little clouds in the air
She lead me up the walk and rang the bell
That was the day the fist of fear became an animal
And broke out of it’s shell
CH
I know, you can not fool me
Nobody wants me
And I don’t want you anyhow
I know, you’ll never see me
Nobody sees me
Look away.
I am a stranger in a house that’s full of strangers
I am afraid to turn the lights off in the night
And they say “child don’t you worry” but if you had known what I have known
Then you would worry
Nothing they give me ever tastes right
And their house just doesn’t smell like home to me
And I know that where I came from didn’t feel good but then nothing feels good
Maybe it is me
I am an animal, my name is fear
My teeth are anger, my eyes severe
I am power, I will destroy
So do not look at me like I am just a little boy
And the fire that burns in me will devour me until I fade away
So look away
There was a time in summer I went fishing at the creek
My grandma showed me how to cast a line
We sat together on the bank and let our bare feet dangle
Everything was fine
And now they want to take me out to see the game
They buy me little presents all the time
They say next summer we’ll go fishing, we’ll have fun
But all I want to do is cry
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On My Own
03:46
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On My Own by Lissa Schneckenburger
I used to have a father once
He doesn’t live like me
He’s sitting back where he started
Simple life, simple hearted
He doesn’t live like me, he is primitive
And my mother she stopped coming round
She doesn’t love like me
Always yelling and leaving
Pushing and pleading
She doesn’t love like me, she is venomous
CH
But I have the sky, I have the sky
And I have the earth, I have the earth
And I have tonight, I have tonight
And I have this life, I have life
I used to have a sister once
She doesn’t look like me
You would never know it
Her face doesn’t show it
She doesn’t look like me, she is beautiful
I never liked my face
I am a bastard child
Purely mean on the inside
Blackened, dissatisfied
I’m nothing but a bastard child, I’m not beautiful
CH
In the evening in the summer time
All the sky is an open wound
A car door slams, voices in the distance
I breath beneath the stars
My heart beats, on it’s own
On my own
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Since The Day We Met
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Since the Day We Met, by Lissa Schneckenburger
You can run away, I love you
You can cry all day, I love you
You can kick and scream and shout,
Turn your insides inside out, and I love you
When the night is long, with demons coming on
I can help you find your peace, I will sing you back to sleep
CH
Everybody makes mistakes and
We get up and try again
But make no mistake, you were no mistake
I’ve loved you since the day we met
You can change your name, or you can stay the same
You can be the one you are, I never will be far
You can deviate, stay out way too late
When you’re a rebel with a fight, I’m your anchor in the night
CH
When my footsteps slow, and you are up and grown
Someday when my hair is grey, you will hold my hand and say
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The 11th Labor of Hercules, by Schneckenburger/ Nethercott
I’ve traveled through the wasteland,
slain the hydra and the boar.
For atonement I have labored
and I’m bound to labor more
But what turn of fate confronts me now
this being by my side
I’ll embrace him as he changes
into beasts and brutes and dangers
I pray I’ll make it out alive
oh out alive
You were mothered by the Adriatic Sea
every squall, every storm, troubled through your body
Now you shake and you twist
into talon, fang, and fist.
Do you know what it is to be held
the way I hold you now?
First you become a mighty whale
then you become a shark
as all the violence you’ve endured
turns thunder in my arms
Oh you change into a lion,
a viper, and a ram
but beneath you’re just a child
with your hair grown long and wild
I’ll care for you the best I can
oh best I can
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I Need Us Together
03:28
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I Need Us Together by Lissa Schneckenburger
I can calm my body when I sit beside you
I can calm my body and do like you do
I can calm my body when your body’s calm
Woah, two birds on a wire
CH
I feel fine when you feel fine
I feel strong when you feel strong
I feel love when you feel love
I need us together, to keep it together
I can slow my heart when I sit beside you
I can slow my heart and do like you do
I can slow my heart when your heart beats slow
Woah, two birds fly side by side
CH
Sometimes the colors and sights and sounds they spin around
They wind me up and I can’t wind down
The people and faces and noises and places
All melting together cloud my sight
I need you to help me feel right
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6. |
Feel Better
04:55
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Feel Better by Lissa Schneckenburger
When I am black and blue, and twisted inside
When I am wretched and need a place to hide
I creep into a closet that is dark and cool and quiet
I lie still in the darkness and I breath
CH
Till I feel better, till I feel better
When I am pushed and shoved and hurt in this place
When I blink back the tears and want to hide my face
I need the solace of a womb I seal myself inside a tomb
I sink under a blanket and I breath
CH
When I am troubled by the memories I keep
When the newsreel in my mind will not let me sleep
I think of those that I have lost, the details of my sins
Until I gather up my mind and breath
CH
breath in, breath out
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7. |
They Sent Me a Picture
03:39
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They Sent Me a Picture, by Schneckenburger/ Erelli
They sent me a picture of my little girl the other day
She was so beautiful, she’d grown so tall
She was laughing with her hair brushed from her eyes
She looked right at the camera but she didn’t see me
Her smile went straight through me but she didn’t see me
CH
I’m no good to you, oh honey
I’m no good to me, you know that
I’m no good to anyone at all
I’ll never be around
The day that she was born the heat felt heavy and my body low
The air was steeped with sweet honeysuckle
I held on to the porch railing in the sun
Counting contractions waiting for my little one
Way back when I thought that she would be my little one
CH
They say if you feel sad and low you get to acting bad, I know
That if it’s true then I have plumbed the depths
I can watch myself from far away outside
It wasn’t me that did it, it was someone else
I’d never stoop so very low it must be someone else
CH
And so I tuck her photo back behind the books up on the shelf
Her smile haunts me as I leave the room
I move into the kitchen looking for a place to hide
The light above the sink is glaring at me in the night
I turn my face away and I sink slowly in the night
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8. |
I’ll Stick Around
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I’ll Stick Around by Lissa Schneckenburger
When my mother left me it was for my own good
She knew my father’d raise me just like a father should
A father should, a father should
In the nights that followed I held on to what I could
I wrapped her ghost around me just like a mother would
A mother would, a mother would
I see her from time to time
Peaking out from my son’s eyes
I stick around
In the dead of summer with the twilight coming on
The noise of TV mixing with the thumping of my heart
Thump of my heart, thump of my heart
The heat is suffocating I am standing at the sink
I hear my father calling to bring another drink
Another drink, another drink
I see him from time to time
He hides in my daughter’s smile
I stick around
All is dark now, angels sleep
Breathing quiet memories creep
Kiss them softly on the face
“I will be here when you wake,
I will be here when you wake”
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Blow Out The Candles
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Blow Out The Candles, by Schneckenburger/ March
You flew in on a plane from Korea, to Anchorage, to me
You wore pink and blue elephants, and then you reached out your hands
You left the airport in my arms, snow in the air
That’s the day, that is the way I brought you home
I always knew where I came from, I never had any doubts
We celebrated my coming day with little presents and songs
You’d say “happy adoption Sadie, blow out the candles for another year”
Remember us out on the water in a boat when the wind came up so fast and fierce
I looked at you my little daughter your resolve shone in your eyes, hands on the oars
And even though you were so small we rowed we pulled with all our might right back to shore
That’s the day that is the way you make me proud
You told me once that I had a twin, she didn’t live very long
We were together in the orphanage, she never had a home
You said “Sadie, she’s gone now sweetheart, blow out the candles for another year”
All the things you used to say that made me smile and that brightened up my day
I think of all your little ways now that you’re grown and moved away I think of you
And no matter where you are no matter how near or how far you are
Every day this is the way that I love you
I think of the Alaskan sky in winter, I think of the northern lights
My arm around you, love wrapping us like a blanket in the night
I think of you, daughter, I think of gratitude
I think of the Alaskan sky in winter, I think if you
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10. |
When My Baby Cries
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When My Baby Cries by Lissa Schneckenburger
When my baby cries, I want to hold him, when my baby cries (2x)
When my baby cries, oooh, tears are in his eyes
When my baby cries I’m going to pick him up
When my baby’s sad, I want to sooth him, when my baby’s sad (2x)
When my baby’s sad, oooh, you know it feels so bad
When my baby’s sad I’m going to hold him close
When my baby smiles, the sun is shining, when my baby smiles (2x)
When my baby smiles oooh, I know he is my child
When my baby smiles I give him all my love
When my baby laughs, my world is turning
When my baby laughs, my river’s rolling
When my baby laughs, oooh, I know the joy we have
When my baby laughs I go to hug him tight, I give him all my love, I’ll never let him go
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Lissa Schneckenburger Brattleboro, Vermont
The traditional music of New England can be as warm and comforting as a winter fire or as potent and exhilarating as a summer thunderstorm. Fiddler, singer, and composer Lissa Schneckenburger is a master of both moods, a winsome, sweet-voiced singer who brings new life to old ballads and a skillful, dynamic fiddler who captures the driving rhythm and carefree joy of dance tunes old and new. ... more
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