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True Compass

by Tret Fure

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1.
Look What Love Has Given Me 04:14
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Warm bodies roll together Skin on skin and heart to heart A cat on my head and dogs at my feet Nothing can pull us apart The sun comes through the morning blinds The light draws lines on pastel dreams I wake and turn and move the cat Look what love has given me So I lift one eye to see you dressing Off to work and in the car I rise to make you lunch and say “I wish you didn’t go so far” But as the daylight turns to powder Turns the world to ebony I race to find you coming home Look what love has given me Love makes love and laughter suits us Music fills our heads with sound You, the dogs and the cat that’s purring I got it right this time around So I walk the dogs down by the lake The moonlight shimmers through the reeds I breathe the air that warms my soul I turn to find you next to me Back at home the fire started Red and gold of autumn leaves I hold you fast I kiss you harder Look what love has given me Chorus: Back at home the fire’s burning Red and gold of autumn leaves I hold you fast I kiss you harder Look what love has given me
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True Compass 05:08
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I would have missed you I would have never known your name I would have missed out, afraid to play the game If I hadn’t taken this one chance This chance to find romance This romance where I dance my way to you Then I wouldn’t be here Will you share the things I love Will you bear the push and shove Will you cherish me as much as I will cherish you North and South, East and West I promise you my best I promise you are my One True Compass You are my One True Compass You are my steady course I didn’t know where I was going When I chose to make that drive When I took the plunge and let fate have its way If I hadn’t looked into your eyes Those eyes that held surprise Surprised by all this sudden inspiration Then I wouldn’t be here Chorus: Now I know what true love really means I see my future clearer than my dreams And I can’t wait to see it all come true with you Chorus:
3.
Summer To Me 03:07
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We caught lightning bugs Put ‘em in a jar Poked a few holes in the lid Took ‘em to the yard Watched them through the glass The way they’d glow That was summer to me Under the big elm trees That was summer to me Standing in the moonlight Feeling the breeze Playing kick the can Out in the streets We rode our bikes hard ‘Til we had to come in That was summer to me Under the big elm trees That was summer to me We slept with all the windows wide Trying to stay cool The nights were hot and sticky And the days spent at the pool And I could hear my mom and dad With the TV turned way down But the feel of the sheets And the sweat on my brow Are all that I am left with right now We listened to the cubbies On the radio waves Trying to hit a home run Playing against the Braves When they were in Milwaukee And that was long ago But that was summer to me Under the big elm trees That was summer to me
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Six Beers 04:40
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It’s ten after one, the jukebox still playing The crowd’s thinning out, no one is staying But I’ll be here, I’ll be here until closing There’s nowhere to go, no one to go home to The house is so empty, cold rooms to roam through So I’ll be here, I’ll be here until closing If six beers won’t do it, Twelve won’t either The nights just get longer and The loneliness wider But I just didn’t have the nerve Now that it’s over Now that you’re gone I just don’t know how I’ll move on Well, the bartender’s mad, says I should get on Get off of my butt, and try to be strong But he don’t know, he don’t know what it feels like We all make mistakes, but this one was tragic A chance to find happiness, a chance to find magic Now I don’t know, I don’t know what it feels like Chorus: Ooh, these lonesome days Building a life through a desperate haze What’s a woman to do But children and comfort and work made me stay But mostly I couldn’t get out of my way And you were, you were all that I thought of I just couldn’t manage to let myself go Stuck in a life where I’d rarely show And you were, you were all that I thought of Chorus:
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The Storm 05:46
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There’s a storm that cuts across Superior It’s a storm that weathers through time And it breaks all boundaries and borders And it batters the shifting shoreline And the waves come pounding like a heart beat With a rhythm that keeps its own time What I’ve learned from the pull of the tide is that The storm keeps the waters in line Why would we dive into deep waters Why would we risk life and limb If not to experience euphoria And if not to dive right in And isn’t love the same as the storm line Don’t we throw ourselves into that sea But with a hope that the rescue will always be there For you and for me There’s a dark, dark cloud on the horizon And it boils up to the sky And it holds the sea in its strong arms And it rains it down with a cry And I wonder why few seems to notice As the pressure continues to rise That love is the truest barometer And the absence of love our demise So I offer you my warmest And I take you out of the wind And I hold you until you stop shaking And I warm you without and within And the storms are a constant reminder That nothing in life holds still It’s an endless battle of highs and lows It’s a weathered battle of wills Chorus: So I’ll treasure every season Be it winter, fall, summer or spring And I know the heat of the storm front And I feel the cleansing it brings You can always take cover from lightning You can stoke the fire against the cold But to run away from a darkening sky Is to never let love take hold Chorus:
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Small Town 04:50
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Oh the streets are so wide, you can diagonally park In athat small town, a small town Yeah the streets are so wide but the theater has gone dark In the small town. that small town Where your business is everybody’s business And everybody’s nose is in your business And everybody knows more than you wish they did In that small, small town The concrete’s so worn, there are cracks for every year Of that small town, that small town When the mercantile closed, everybody was in tears In that small town, that small town Then our parents grew old and the kids all moved away From that small town, that small town With no prospects in sight athere’s no reason to stay In a small town, a very small town Chorus: My cousin, Kenny owned the pool hall where grandpa cooked each day In that small town, that small town Making breakfast for the farmers and conversation by the way In that small town, that small town And my Grandpa would brag, though bragging’s not the way Of a small town, a small town I’m the oldest man around here and I walk five miles a day In this small town Chorus: Ooh, hear the whistle blow as the train rolls by, as the train rolls by And oh, it never stops here anymore Well it’s a piece of our history, it’s a part of our past The small town, the small town But like all things worth saving, there’s a chance that it won’t last The small town, the very small town
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32 Years 05:50
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32 long years, three girls now grown
 All back to help you get on your way
 A doctor, a teacher with kids of their own
 The last one your baby and always will stay so Time to leave this house that held you so fast
 Time to put behind a lifetime of living
 Take down the pictures that harbor the past
 A time for letting go and forgiving Chorus: All the dreams you’ve dreamed here are wrapped up 
All the years you’ve lived are packed up and moved away
 Memories like boxes folded and filled up
 Tears seal the seams
And tear you away Up to the attic, old Barbie Dolls 
Out on the driveway, the sound of a free throw
 Echoes of yesterday bounce through these halls
 And right now it seems like all that you know Chorus Sometimes moving forward
 Seems like two steps behind
 Sometimes what is best is hardest to find
 Just remember the blessing
 Just remember the grace
 And thank God for daughters like you raised You sit in a circle around a treasure chest 
Laughing and crying at all you remember 
Little time to linger, less time to rest 
But these times will always be marked by September Chorus
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Try 05:02
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Drums and bombs and little children Heading off to war Wired cars and wired martyrs Falling to the sword What in the world has the world come to? What has separated me from you? What the hell are we supposed to do When the heart has lost its way? Holy cities, holy terror Holding out for peace Young men scream and babies wail And war will never cease As long as power is the strongest drug As long as leaders always act so smug As long as we bow and bend and shrug And let hatred have its way Chorus: I can reach another door I can open it We can put an end to war But we must try, try, try, try, try I can see another road I can travel it We can write a better episode But we must try, try, try, try, try Missiles fly and skies turn black And nothing really changes Burning bridges, broken bodies Dodging darkened dangers Helping hands of hypocrisy Who defines what is democracy? Why is peace now a commodity And where is right and truth? Try to see things in another light In the end we’re all just the same Try to put yourself in someone else’s hands Then maybe you can understand, Oh maybe we can understand Oh maybe, oh maybe
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My Love For You 05:13
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That gravel road won’t lead me home Parades at nightfall since I’ve been gone You know forever’s still far away And I love you more today than yesterday There are no boundaries in this life Contagious heartache, conjunctive strife While in this maze I wander lost I’ll still find you at any cost I’m testifying with this long face I feel I’ve fallen too far from grace But if you will meet me for midnight’s call I’ll dig my way out, I’ll climb that wall I’ve bent the rules, I’ve skimmed the air Across the water, deep in the dare When I come home, it’s none too soon By light of sun, by pull of moon If transportation is all I need The golden chariot, the silver bead Then in stolen moments I’ve traveled far I’m always heading to where you are Inside my pocket, inside my head I’ve got more change, I’ve got more lead I’ve got the secret, love’s boundless ways These are the words of which I’m made Nothing can touch my love for you When in the company of devil’s strangers I dream of you, I’m out of danger I turn a rhythm, tomorrow’s news Visions of love, visions of you All broken hearts will mend the same Whether in forgiveness, whether in blame Remembered harmonies, forgotten sins Open the door, I’m coming in Nothin can touch my love for you Old blind dogs don’t lose their scent Moving in darkness and forward intent Remaining faithful to the last I love you like that, so hard and fast There are no boundaries in my love What lies below us soars above And if you will meet me for midnight’s call I’ll pledge forever, I’ll pledge it all Cause nothing can touch my love for you
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Nothing Can Harm Our Love 03:35
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The sun comes up earlier The light in the room Holds the promise of spring and renewal Though the temperatures plummet And the wind chill is brittle In our house there’s plenty of fuel Nothing can harm our love Nothing can harm our love Like the promise of sunlight That falls from above Nothing can harm our love The world news is bleak The apathy bleaker There’s a promise of peace called war Though the numbers keep climbing And there’s no end in sight In our house we don’t keep score Nothing can harm our love Nothing can harm our love Like a prayer for compassion That falls from above Nothing can harm our love We hope for a miracle That winter just ends That hatred is left at the station And though you can’t stop that train By even pulling the cord At least it shows determination The night throws a blanket Over all the earth’s ills For the comfort and rest that’s required With sleep comes repair The body renewed But these days the world seems so tired Nothing can harm our love Nothing can harm our love Like moonlight on water That falls from above Nothing can harm our love
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Leap of Faith 03:18
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It was a long road It was a long time It was a long way around this stuck mind It was the way that I was looking And the things I couldn’t see And it was the way that you were looking at me It was a late night It was the late fall It was a late hour to make a late call It was the things that I was hearing And the things I couldn’t see And it was the way that you were looking at me Sometimes it takes a miracle Sometimes it takes a stand Sometimes it’s quite empirical And sometimes it’s so grand But most of all it needs to be A sudden leap of faith It’s a leap of faith It was a new dream It was an old car It was a back road And a bright star It was the things that I was feeling And the things I couldn’t see And it was the way that you were looking at me Sometimes it’s rude awakenings Sometimes...it’s about time Sometimes the earth is shaking Sometimes the world is mine But most of all it needs to be A sudden leap of faith It’s a leap of faith It was a lifeline It was a long rest It was a life long dream And a hard test It was the things that I was bearing And the things I couldn’t see And it was the way that you were looking at me Sometimes it takes a miracle Sometimes it takes a stand Sometimes it’s quite empirical And sometimes it’s so grand But most of all it needs to be A sudden leap of faith It’s a leap of faith And this is what I know And this is what I see It was the way that I was looking at me
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Sail Away 02:44
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There’s a longing in my heart To see you in the morning There’s a longing in my heart To rest my face against your check But I guess I’ll have to wait Until that last great dawning When I take that mighty boat across the sea Sail away, I can almost see you smiling Sail away, I can almost hear you breathe Sail away, I will reach out for your hand When I take that mighty boat across the sea I’m staring at the phone Wishing I could call you Like I’ve done so many mornings In the years you’ve been with me But the phone would go unanswered And I would be left hanging Til I take the mighty boat across the sea Chorus:

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released September 29, 2007

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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.. ... more

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