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L.A.
03:55
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I came back from LA choking on a flood of ancient memories
But not one had a thing to do with you
All about my life ago when I was at my loneliest
But nothing about all that we’ve been through
But LA was my growing up and LA was my mentoring
And all my pain and all my sweat and tears
But more than that the way I made my way into this world
And all that I have carried through the years
CHORUS: My life has walked a wayward path, a woman from a girl
The way I’ve learned to love and to care
The yearnings of a child into a woman of the world
It’s strange it’s not about the life we shared
With you it was about the rain, with you about the road
With you about the longing and the lean
But now I walk another path, I’m carried as I go
And all this life is but a bigger dream
Bigger than all we’ve lost
Bigger than all we’ve gained
Bigger than all the love we hold to heart
Bigger than all we know
Bigger than all we name
Bigger than all we’ve torn apart
And as I look in front of me as I have looked behind
I see there is a light on down the road
If 20 years is but a drop with 40 up ahead
Then 50 was the perfect time to go
CHORUS:
Sometimes we get so wrapped up in who we are together
We forget that all this life is but alone
We come into this world screaming, we go out another door
And somewhere in the middle we find home
CHORUS:
Bigger than all we’ve lost
Bigger than all we’ve gained
Bigger than all the love we hold to heart
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My Shoes
05:12
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My Shoes
Have you ever had to walk away
From someone you had promised your whole life to
Have you ever had to face your fears, bear the tears
And wonder how you’d ever get it right
Have you ever had to close your eyes
Have you ever had to realize
That nothing lasts forever and a day
Well I’ve done what must be done
I’ve chased the moon and sun
Have you ever had to do what I’ve done
Did you ever have to hold your ears
Pretending that the cries you hear were always there
Have you ever had to re-explain, take the blame
And wonder how you’d ever get it right
Have you ever had to justify
Look that person in the eye
That someone you had promised everyday
Well I’ve done what must be done
I’ve chased the moon and sun
Have you ever had to do what I’ve done
CHORUS: Everybody has an answer
Everybody takes a side
Everybody has a ticket
On that never-ending ride
And the old adage is true
Until you’ve walked a mile in my shoes
(you don’t know) Well I do
Did you ever feel the finger point
At everything you felt was meant to happen
Did you ever have to close the door on what went before
And wonder how you’d ever get it right
Did you ever tear your heart in half
Did you ever forget how to laugh
Cause nothing lasts forever and a day
Well I’ve done what must be done
I’ve chased the moon and sun
Have you ever had to do what I’ve done
CHORUS
Until you’ve walked a mile in my shoes
You don’t know just what it’s like
You might call it indiscretion
You might think you’ve got it right
You can draw your own conclusions
Every situation’s new
And no one really knows what I’ve been through
But I do
Did you ever have to sacrifice
The safety of a home you worked so hard for
Did you ever have to pack it in, start again
And wonder if you’d ever get it right
Did you ever have to exit blind
Did you ever have to leave behind
The treasures you had gathered everyday
Well I’ve done what must be done
I’ve chased the moon and sun
Have you ever have to do what I’ve done
Cause no one really knows what I’ve been through
But I do
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The Wedding Song
03:04
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Love is something none of us
Should ever take for granted
Love is something that we often do
It can shake you to the core
And it can turn the planet
Or it can sneak up in an old soft shoe
In the moments that we’re hardest hit
When life gets in the way
Always keep in mind the vows we vow to keep
I will love you in the waking hours,
The hours of the day
I will love you more each night we fall asleep
CHORUS: Don’t lose sight
Don’t feel bound
Just give thanks for the love we’ve found
Take my hand
Take my heart
And I will keep the prayer to never walk apart
Love is how you say my name
The secrets that we share
Love is how you see into my soul
The way you smile, the way you stand
The color of your hair
Most of all the way our lives unfold
Through the years we grow together
Tried and tried to true
I will strive to keep you safe in every way
I will love you like I’ve never loved, tender only you
I will love you each and every single day
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The Apartment
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They were 3 in a tiny room
3 in an apartment
A young girl older than her age
By poverty and need
A mother clinging closely to
The daughter of the tragic
While the husband stares remotely
Past his hungry family
The subway rattles overhead
Neon flashing loudly
The heat of summer blisters
Faded paper from the walls
Dressed in Sunday finery
Waiting for some magic
The mother turns her head to hear
The neighbors down the hall
CHORUS: Will they go on living broken lives beside each other
Will they perish from each other’s sight, each other’s mind
Starved in their indifference and empty in the cupboard
They will go on beating back the tears
And running for their lives
They were 3 in a tiny room
3 in an apartment
One room and a kitchenette
3 plates and a pan
Not a chance of privacy
Not a day that’s easy
The sober girl, the sorry mom
And the steel-eye of the man
CHORUS:
The clock keeps time with heartbreak, the ticking tricks temptation
You wind it hoping hands will move the night into the day
You rise before the sunlight to test imagination
To see if maybe this time you will find a better way
And if the girl is lucky
If she can find the nerve
There’s still a chance that she might move
Beyond the bitter fray
But only if she looks outside
The shattered, smoky windows
Only if she bravely bolds the door
And walks away
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Bigger Than I
04:02
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Washington this time of year is so dreary
It rains and it’s dark and it’s hard to stay cheerful
But each time I come here, the sun is so shiny
As if it were trying to prove that I’m wrong
And I’ve traveled so wide, I’ve traveled so far
And I’m looking for something outside this car
And it’s all about music, it’s all about time
And it’s more about something much Bigger than I
Kentucky is blistering hot in the summer
You barely can move, so you lie around naked
It’s slow as molasses, that’s how they tell it
But I’ve always managed to get up and be gone
And I’ve pushed through the heat and I’ve plowed through the snow
And I’ve fought off my demons each place I go
And it’s all about poetry all about rhyme
But it’s more about something much Bigger than I
Sweet understanding, I’m standing on nothing
Holding the thinnest line
Here as I’m falling, I’m calling of something or someone to keep me
Keep me in time
New Hampshire is pretty when the leaves turn to gold
You can drive there for hours and never get tired
Of the colors of autumn before it turns brittle
But watch out for winter, she’ll lock you up tight
And I’m off again Monday and home again May
It may be for the weekend or only a day
And sometimes it’s tiring, sometimes so high
But it’s still about something much Bigger than I
And Texas is hungry and trying to grow bigger
By pushing up derricks and stretching for miles
And remember the Alamo, sweet San Antonio
Driving through Houston can take you all night
And it’s east and it’s west and it’s north for the frosting
70 shows and a hundred ten crossings
And it’s all about beauty, it’s all about ties
It’s more about something much Bigger than I
And Michigan’s home for a couple of weekends
Wisconsin is all that I hoped it would be
But I’m hardly at home and I’m hardly with family
But this is the life that is chosen for me
And I’ve pushed through the heat…
And I’ve traveled so wide…
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I Choose You
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Come hold me hand, come hold me tight
Lose that feeling that you can’t do it right
I may seem distant, I may look blue
It’s just something that I’m still going through
But I chose you, I choose you still
I always did and I ever will
It was a risk that I would once again choose
You are the love I can’t live to lose
Come here and put your arms around me
There’s a world here together we’re just learning to see
Though I tend to go away, it’s never that far
I come back every time to where you are
Cause I chose you, I choose you still
I always did and I ever will
It was a risk that I would once again choose
You are the love I can’t live to lose
All these apologies we’ve been making
All these nights spent so cold and shaking
All I mean to say and haven’t still
Give me time I will, I will
All these fences we’ve been trying to mend
All these days together we spend
All I mean to do and haven’t still
Give me time I will, I will, I will, I will
So don’t get scared, don’t get that look in your eye
We’ve found ourselves together and we both know why
There’s still some changes we’ll both go through
But it’s about me and it’s all about you
Cause I chose you, I choose you still
I always did and I ever will
It was a risk that I would once again choose
You are the love I can’t live to lose
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Hawk and the Dove
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How many people
How many lives
How many times
Humanity dies
Where lies compassion
Where lies the love
We run in fear
As the Hawk devours the Dove
Nothing prepares us
Nothing we’ve seen
Our wars are fought abroad
And on the big screen
We let the darkness in
Let out the love
And run in fear
As the Hawk devours the Dove
Half mast we fly through the time that tears apart
Once more we cry for the beating of the heart
And if hatred took the time for letting go
We just might find that lost rainbow
So many families
So many lost
We fight these senseless wars
At any cost
We pay the most though
For the loss of love
And run in fear
As the Hawk devours the Dove
Chorus:
Let out the mourning wails
Let go the rage
The only way to win
Is to turn the page
And find a million ways for showing love
And run now more
Till the Hawk becomes the Dove
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How in the World
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I was walking down the road one day
I spied a little girl and she was looking my way
And I caught her by the eye and said "how do you do”
She said “much better no that I am talking to you”
So I followed her right down the street
She didn’t seem to mind and she was looking so sweet
And I asked her “if you please where are you walking to?”
She said “no where in particular, I was looking for you”
So I asked her “could I maybe take along
I’ll tell you who I am and I will sing you my song”
She said”I wouldn’t mind it very much you see
I was hoping and a wishing you would stop by me”
Chorus:
How in the world do we find each other
How in the world does the world come through
When all around us is some harm or another
How in the world do you do
So we sat and talked for hours by the lake
She told me she loved water and she couldn’t stand snakes
And I told her who I was and how I made my way
She said tell me more I’d like to hear all you’ve got to say
And I told her that could maybe take a spell
I got many songs to sing and many stories to tell
She said, “that’s quite alright I haven’t any plans
Why don’t you sit right here beside me, maybe take my hand”
Chorus
So I told her everything I had to say
By then I was quite smitten and I knew I had to stay
So I asked her “Could 6we maybe try our hand at this”
She put her arms around me and we kissed
How in…
So it’s an awfully long way around this world and back
Hard to keep a focus, harder still to keep on track
But if you find someone to walk beside you everyday
There’s nothing you can’t do and even less that you can’t say
So find someone to love and hold on tight
Talk to her all day and hold her tighter in the night
Cause only love can make the difference in a day
It may not last forever, but it’s worth it in every way
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Noel Evans
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Three Generations
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It slipped from her fingers in a morphine dream
My heart stood still and hers tapped on a screen
How could this happen, this swollen hand
That let go all with this wedding band
For years I thought it was hers, that ring
A vow from my father who’d give her anything
But only in passing did I realize
It was her mother’s ring, her mother’s life
CHORUS
My grandmother’s ring rests on my right hand
Her broken English, her long lost land
And a man who left her far too soon
I wear it proudly
It’s my honeymoon
She missed her mother just like I miss mine
And wore that ring for a long lifetime
Took off her own silver wedding band
To keep her mother closer at hand
CHORUS
We played hide and seek in the ICU
Then I walked away when her time was through
Out of these ashes rises so much love
So below, so much more above
CHORUS
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Fly
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Now you run like the wind and your soar like a bird
And you fly, yes you fly
With your phantom wings beating and your feet off the ground
Go and fly
Ride the rope and ride the rail
Past your fear, beyond the pale
Show us all the way to leave the worries of this world
Run the ring and walk the wire
Blaze a trail and fan the fire
Show us all the way to leave the worries of this world
You’ve been freed from this burden, you’ve been saved from the fight
Now you fly, yes you fly
All lathered and lustered and faster than light
Go and fly
Stand so tall and stand apart
Open eyed and open heart
Show us all the way to leave the worries of this world
Raise your spirit, raise your voice
Sometimes life is not a choice
But you can show us how to leave the worries of this world
Fly away on angel air, I’ll turn and you will not be there
No you won’t be there
You are free to go and you are free to fly
Above the earth and beyond the sky
You are free
So fierce and so gentle, so light on the ground
That you fly, yes you fly
All muscled in mystery, heavenly bound
Go and fly
Turn to fire. turn to light
Lead us all right through the night
Show us all the way to leave the worries of this world
Lose the saddle, lose the reins
Loose the warrior, loose the mane
Show us all the way to leave the worries of this world
Run the ring and walk the wire
Blaze a trail and fan the fire
Show us all the way to leave the worries of this world
Raise your spirit, raise your voice
Sometimes life is not a choice
But you can show us how to leave the worries of this world
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Dream Time
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Minute by Minute
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Fork in the road, right at the crossing
Seventy miles and a hundred to go
Pedal to the metal and four to the floor
The whistling wind and the first real snow
Roping the canyons, snaking the miles
Trying to find food in Idaho
My wheels are spinning, fatigue is winning
But another town waits for the evening show
And I’m standing this side of tomorrow
Shadows long from yesterday
Minute by minute we live our lives
Moment by moment we try
Tired on the highway, watching the signs
Listening to the news on the radio
The sun goes down through another town
Checking the mirror for the afterglow
Well I’m late for this one, early last night
Sitting in the bar at the Indigo
Checking my sound for another round
Late September, four in a row
And I’m standing this side of tomorrow
Shadows long from yesterday
Minute by minute we live our lives
Moment by moment we try
Well the curtain comes down on the very last sound
Standing in the dark at the end of the show
Nobody leaves, another song please
So I’ll sing this last one before I go
And I’m standing this side of tomorrow
Shadows long from yesterday
Minute by minute we live our lives
Moment by moment we try
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Tret Fure Newport News, Virginia
Tret Fure began her career at 16, singing in coffeehouses in the Midwest. At 19 , she moved to LA and within a year was
performing as guitarist and vocalist for Spencer Davis, penning the single for his album “Mousetrap”. In 1973 she recorded her first solo album on MCA/UNI Records, with Lowell George of Little Feat as her producer.
Tret has released 16 acclaimed albums in her long career..
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