Come Back Blue Skies
1) Horses
2) Bright Lights
3) Come Back Blue Skies
4) Island Heart
5) Will You Ever
6) Black Jade
7) I Once Had A Lover
8) Machinery
9) Roller Coaster
10) Is Anyone Listening
Bonar Hutchison: Acoustic guitar and vocals
Karen Wimhurst: Clarinet on 'Will You Ever'
Jane MacFarlane: 'Cello on 'Horses'
Recorded and engineered by Graeme Taylor
Cover Photograph: Jack Harper
For Malooma
All songs written, composed and arranged by Bonar Hutchison ©1997
www.myspace.com/bonarmusic
Horses
I backed a horse with wild eyes and mystery,
I dreamed that I had won,
but I wasn't there,
I wasn't there, no
She met a boy with bright eyes,
He was juggling with white pigeons for busking change,
busking change,
Her cooking was sweet,
But he'll never stay longer than Saturday
The wild, wild winds never settle down,
and wild horses scatter
when they hear that sound,
Like your heartbeat,
It's a chance we take,
It's a chance we take
Keep very still,
hide away,
Watch out for strangers when they come your way,
Maybe you're better left on your own,
When you need to be on your own
The wild, wild winds never settle down,
and wild horses scatter
when they hear that sound,
Like your heartbeat,
It's a chance we take,
It's a chance we take,
It's a chance we take....
Bright Lights
Bright lights will guide you
to where you want to be,
Changes, you made the changes
to set yourself free
Yes, I know that you've been working hard,
and I know that you're feeling tired,
and I know that you changed your mind
Bright lights attract you
like spinning jewels that hypnotize,
Now you know the dance
so you'll follow,
to win the prize,
My prize beauty
when the stakes are high,
Now I'm losing what I felt inside
all the glory,
It's so inspired,
It's feeling so inspired
Take away ambition,
take away the biting press,
Give to me your body
from your long silk summer dress,
I don't want no stardust,
I just want some peace of mind,
Give to me the best part,
Oh, the part that you've left behind
Bright lights that follow,
show me your perfect side,
From wide screens,
captured in 'Rock Dreams',
Of new design,
It's feeling so inspired,
It's feeling so inspired,
It's feeling so inspired
Come Back Blue Skies
Come back Blue Skies,
Show me the way back home,
My body aches
and my mind gets slow
Won't you open your arms,
and show me the way back home,
Come back Blue Skies
Come back Blue Skies,
Don't leave me here alone,
This road's so wide
now I'm miles from the nearest telephone
Won't you open your arms,
and show me the way back home,
Come back Blue Skies
Come back Blue Skies,
Have I been away too long?
You know it always brings back hope,
When I hear your song
Won't you open your arms,
and show me the way back home,
Come back Blue Skies
Come back Blue Skies....
Island Heart
You took me up,
like the pain of a cut,
To your Island Heart,
and down through the streets,
and through the cold of the rain,
'till you changed my luck,
When I felt so good,
you'd bring me down,
You let no calm waters
cover this Island Heart
You sang your song,
from the rocks
and in the foam
You count every tear,
So he sailed away for a year and a day,
So what keeps you here?
But I might be good,
Oh, but I could be wrong,
You let no calm waters
cover this Island Heart
See the changes you put on me,
You give then you take too easily,
And the promises that you gave,
and the damage and the drink,
and the freedom of the sea,
and the beauty in your dreams,
Changing me,
Always changing me
You took me up,
And with the pain of a cut,
You stole my heart,
I'm looking down on the streets,
and on the people who will greet you,
Then pass you by,
When I felt so good,
you'd bring me down,
You let no calm waters
cover this Island Heart,
You let no calm waters
cover this Island Heart,
You let no calm waters
cover this Island Heart
Will You Ever
Up in the air,
in a tin plane,
ascending through clouds
in the sky
She's got some money,
and her camera,
she'll be looking,
down on the sea,
And will ever come back to me, baby?
Will you ever?
What's it like?
Will you write?
It seems such a long time
since I've seen you baby,
In the night,
In the quiet,
In dreams
And do you ever think of me, baby?
Do you ever?
Where else in the world,
can you go?
And doesn't the sun always set in the same sky?
And when you learn to fly,
will you carry me home,
And when you learn to fly,
And when you learn to fly,
And when you learn to fly
Black Jade
Black Jade sparkles like a jewel in the light,
blinking and twinkling
like an eye,
In the forest she is dancing like a pale goddess,
She is a bird of paradise
She picks sweet fruit from the top a tree,
we take a drink from a rainwater leaf,
feeling so cool in green shade,
Curling around a branch like an emerald snake,
I can see it in her eyes,
I can read it in her face,
Tell me, what's so wrong?
She says “White man built a storm
now he's pulling down the trees,
He is building up a world,
with nothing to breath,
We have so little time,
Sweet precious time”
It's in her dreams while you're asleep at night,
Keeps her awake this 'gift' of second sight,
How do you sleep tonight?
We have so little time,
Sweet precious time,
Give me some time,
Sweet precious time
I Once Had A Lover
I once had a lover,
thought I gave her everything that she wanted,
Once I woke up to find she had gone
I'm riding on a slow train,
I watch this world slip past me from my window,
I watch this world in a dream
The nights are getting longer,
These dogs keep howling by my window,
Now you're gone,
Now you're gone
The stars are not for telling,
The sky is not the blue in her eyes,
I'm painting these pictures of you,
And you tell me not to hang on,
And you tell me to stop acting crazy,
But I keep these moments for you
The nights are getting longer,
These dogs keep howling by my window,
Now you're gone,
Now you're gone
This feeling's getting stronger,
I'm not going to hold out any longer,
Now you're gone,
Now you're gone
I once had a lover,
thought I gave her everything that she wanted,
Now you're gone,
Now you're gone,
Machinery
I hear the humming
and the ticking of machinery,
I feel it shaking,
I feel it moving down
deep inside
No heaven,
no hell,
Somewhere else between,
You sense but you can't tell me
what goes on inside,
Just machinery
I watch the traffic,
Take the subway to see a special friend,
We watch the tv,
We've seen that movie maybe,
once or twice
No heaven,
no hell,
Somewhere else between,
You sense but you can't tell me
what goes on inside,
Just machinery
There's a place,
where I go,
Turn the music
way down low,
where we sit and talk,
Until the sun comes up,
'till the sun comes out
I touched the cold, cold night
through a windowpane,
I'm watching the stars explode,
They blew the night away,
They change the scenery,
At least once,
or twice,
a day
Roller Coaster
You take me for a ride on your roller coaster,
First you want to take me up,
then throw me down,
I don't want know if my timing is right,
No need to check out the stars tonight,
And I don't need to know all the secrets of life,
I need no crystal told future,
Just tell me,
Please, just tell me
Eighteen weeks in a room full of monkeys,
The sun is high,
the colours too,
So she opens up a window,
then she falls to the floor,
Crying “I can't take this heat any more”,
So I reached out to lift her,
Just to call her my name,
What have I done now?
Just tell me,
Please, just tell me
I love you and I need you,
I just want you to be,
Waiting feel it coming,
So naturally....
There's a lone wolf lusting lover,
Come chase this thief from your door,
Don't you recognize me by my style,
I have drenched your path with roses,
I will beat you at your game,
Will we always keep on fighting,
'till you surrender me your name,
Will the secret smiles of pleasure,
hold us to the ground,
Will they be diamonds in my poetry?
Just tell me,
Please, just tell me
I love you and I need you,
I just want you to be,
I'm waving,
I'm not drowning
Romantically
No, no, no, no
Just tell me,
Please, just tell me
Is Anyone Listening
I don't know how to treat you right,
Don't know what I should do,
I don't know how to treat you right,
Is there something that I can do
Deep talk,
Small talk,
It's all the same to you,
Is anybody listening at all,
At all?
How I want to love and hold you tight,
and I need to see your smile,
and I need to you to fill my heart,
fulfilling this desire
Tell me,
Let it be,
Don't leave these questions on my mind,
Is anybody listening at all?
Save me,
Won't you pity me,
Come chase these shadows from my door,
Is anybody listening at all,
At all?
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