Two Love Songs

(by Amanda Bland, copyright July 2011)

I fell in love with a lonely man

who traveled in a one-man band

that use to play a love song,

a blonde and blue-eyed love song

He followed someone else's dream

so willingly cause he believed

in writing his own love song

a true and loyal love song

BRIDGE:

His fidelity to me

felt too weak in the knees

So I left his 'good intentions' behind in New Orleans...Louisiana

His remaining pride was left for dead

On the side of the road without any bread

that he earned by playing love songs...

A foolish heart in time won't heal

from memories that make it feel

the pain of long-lost love songs

He WAS my one true love song

I Know That My Redeemer Lives

I recorded this piece of music when I was 18 years of age. Also, on the piano, my cousin Rebecca Davis Jones :)

Falling Is Love

(By Amanda Bland and Wanda McCroskey, copyright June 2009)

Enjoying the fruit of our fathers labors

We easily dream of love

White like a dove that favors its’ wings

We think we’ve arrived

Exchange our rings

FALL

Gravity of our choices

MEET

Pain of our progress

Falling in love is falling for sure

This right of passage to freedom

Is changing our dreams

Into wisdom

The garden turns into desolation

Our faults indeed ensue

We cling to the safety of memories past

A portion of joy overdue

Is now dissolving fast

Once effortless love

Now a lover’s lament

By the sweat of our brow

We eat bread

FALL

Gravity of our choices

MEET

Pain of our progress

Falling in love is falling for sure

This right of passage to freedom

Is changing our dreams

Into wisdom

Love Somebody
(copyright 2003, Amanda Bland)

broken cry heard far away
moments not long passed
silence like the break of day
communication crashed


Some say time heals
some say time is money
but I say time is all we have to love somebody
oh, to love somebody

Hole in the wall, mascara stains
on a bedroom pillowcase
souvenirs remember pain
and tears mark up your face

Some say time heals
some say time is money
but I say time is all we have to love somebody
oh, to love somebody


Some say time heals, (yeah)
some say time is money
but I say time is all we have to love somebody
oh,
Some say time heals
some say time is money
but I say time is all we have to love somebody
oh, to love somebody
to love somebody

(copyright Jan 2003, Amanda Bland)


Celebrate My Life

Go ahead and invite me to feel
as low and lost as you do
(yeah)
you said you've seen the road ahead
and that I'd be a fool
but I'd be a bigger fool to follow you

I will celebrate my life
educate my mind
run a race against time
you might say that
I don't need your welcome mats
I can draw my own maps
i don't care what he said, she said, he said, she said

Your bittersweet circles of gossip
don't diagnose my problems
it ain't no mystery that I got 'em
(no)
this pride will eat you up inside
who died and made you queen
you'll never be my queen

I will celebrate my life
educate my mind
run a race against time
you might say that
I don't need your welcome mats
I can draw my own maps
i don't care what he said, she said, he said, she said

you mope around
tell the crowd about your loss
and all the tears it cost you
the years will pass by
you'll still be hiding from the truth
you threw away your youth
(yeah)

I will celebrate my life
educate my mind
run a race against time
you might say that
I don't need your welcome mats
I can draw my own maps
I don't care what he said, she said, he said, she said

My Perennials

A picture on a perfect day

My daughters’ messy hair

A son who looks up at the sky

These are my perennials

Dancing around in playful circles

Crowding my life with love

In my heart when I’m on my knees

These are my perennials

When the world is purchasing their perishables

And gloating in their variables

I breathe in,

And I think of my perennials

Stumbling on the flat earth

And falling on my face

I feel forgiveness as it swells

These are my perennials

Copyright December 2008, Amanda Bland

Written by Amanda Bland, copyright 2005