Inspiration

When will you pay me a visit... Inspiration
Why won’t you come over and see me... Inspiration
You haven’t been ‘round here in quite a while
This disappearing act is not your style
You should try on my shoes and walk a mile

Chorus
I gotta loose this feud
Between my head and my heart
Cause they’re just drifting apart
And I can’t stop it
And if I choose one
The other will turn and run... and then
Everything I sing will feel like a lie
It just gets harder the harder I try
But one of these days I'll be high
On Inspiration

Well I jumped out of bed
Cause I thought I had something to say
But it just sounded like everything I said yesterday
Well it comes and it goes but ya never know when
The page is wide open but I can’t get in
I guess I'll go listen to Dylan again... and again

Chorus
I gotta loose this feud
Between my head and my heart
Cause they’re just drifting apart
And I can’t stop it
And if I choose one
The other will turn and run... and then
I’ll try to get up but it just gets me down
I already wrote about this one horse town
But one of these days I will drown
In Inspiration

Interlude:
I think I’m drowning
One of these – one of these days

Chorus
I gotta loose this feud
Between my head and my heart
Cause they’re just drifting apart
And I can’t stop it
And If I choose one
The other will turn and run... and then
I'll say nothing that I’ve not said before
I’ll throw my ideas on this killing floor
But one of these days they will soar
With Inspiration

Carry On

I’ve been down, down like rain
It came upon me like a big ball & chain
But I told myself, don’t be sad
Why so blue
I always knew that day would come
When I’d have you

Chorus:
Anytime you fall just get on up
Whenever you hit the ground just get on up
Happiness, go and get it
Life can change if you let it
Baby, get on up and carry on

You found me like you always did before
One day you came up a knocking on my front door
Well I opened up – let you in
Like anybody would
And then I loved you better than
Anybody ever could

Chorus:
Anytime you fall just get on up
Whenever you hit the ground just get on up
Happiness, go and get it
Life can change if you let it
Baby, get on up and carry on

Happiness, go and get it
Life can change if you let it
Baby... yeah get on up
Umm get on up
Get on up – and carry on
Carry on... carry on

Hopeville

This old town seen better days
I see boards like band-aids on window panes
Stores on Main Street look betrayed
And the for sale signs have all begun to fade
Folks out here live on faith
You can almost see it flow like water
Keepin dreams alive day after day
Here in Hopeville
There's no talk of givin up
Here in Hopeville

No one here sings leavin songs
They don't wanna dwell on the things gone wrong
They'll shake your hand and leave no doubt
If you choose to stay they'll always help you out

Folks out here live on faith
You can almost see it flow like water
Keepin dreams alive day after day
Here in Hopeville
There's no talk of givin up
Here in Hopeville
Just no talk of giving up
Here in Hopeville
BRIDGE:
When the sun went down tonight,
I knew somehow it would be alright
I called to say I’m comin home to stay

Folks out here live on faith
You can almost see it flow like water
Keepin dreams alive day after day
Yeah Yeah... yeah
Folks out here live on faith
You can almost see it flow like water
Keepin dreams alive day after day
Here in Hopeville
There's no talk of givin up
Just no talk of givin in
No one’s talking ‘bout givin up
Just no talking about givin in, or givin up
Here in Hopeville
Here in Hopeville – in Hopeville
Well there’s just no talk of givin up
Ain’t no talk of givin’ in
No talk of givin’ up,,,givin’ in,,,givin’ up
Ah give it up now
Faith just flows like water
Faith flows like water
Faith just keeps on flowing and flowing and flowing and flowing
Just like water
Faith – oh faith
Keeps on flowing
Flowing and flowing (just like water)
I’m gonna wade in that water
Now there ain’t nobody giving up
Ain’t nobody giving in,,,,no no
Nobody giving up – (nobody)
Nobody giving in
Everybody round here
Everybody (keep on living)
Gotta keep living (living on)
Faith (faith) 
yeah yeah (everybody)
everybody (round here)
keep on – keep on (keep on living)
Living on Faith
Talkin bout faith
Everybody’s talking bout it
Way down here in hopeville
Way down here in Hopeville
Way down here in Hopeville

Montreal

Well I boarded a train out of Montreal
I was running after you
And I was thinking this city
Could tell me what I had to do
But all I see
Staring back at me
Is one more lonely mile

Chorus:
So I’m hanging on to this photograph
And I hope you have one of me
Sunday coffee’s on St Denis
We were never better
When we were loosing ourselves
In Montreal
In Montreal

Well I think it’s time I loose these blues
If this train I’m on is gonna bring you back
We’ve burned a lot of bridges
And tonight we might burn this track
But all I see
Is you and me
Killing every mile

Chorus:
So I’m hanging on to this photograph
And I hope you have one of me
Sunday coffee’s on St Denis
And we were never better
Loosing ourselves...

Bridge chorus:
Central station
The Belvedere on Mount Royal
Jazz in July
Hanging on to this photograph
We were never better...
We were never better...
We were never better...

When we were loosing ourselves...
With open hearts
Little did we know
That we were drifting apart
In Montreal
In Montreal
In Montreal

Day By Day

In a mile or a minute everything can change

When your heading on down this troubled road

I can see you’re weary by the distance in your smile

For a little while I will carry your load

So let Me help you, help you understand

That everybody’s got a cross to bear

I have heard of a chosen few

Who don’t need a helping hand

But I don’t see them anywhere

CHORUS

Day by day we get up

Little by little we go on

We get stronger, we get stronger

You might have to pay some dues

But you can’t win if you’re afraid to loose

I won’t let that happen

Now

Solo:

CHORUS:

Day by day we get up

Little by little we go on

We get stronger, we get stronger

You might have to pay some dues

But you can’t win if you’re afraid to loose

I won’t let that happen

We won’t let that happen

Now

Carry me - I’ll carry you

We can do this together

Doesn’t matter how much those troubles weigh

I know they get heavy

Anyone can plainly see

But you and me

We’ll just take it

Day by day

I know they get heavy

Anyone can plainly see

But you and me

We’ll just take it

Day by day

Day By Day Reprise

In a minute everything can change

When you’re walking down this troubled road

When your body is tired and the spirit is weary

I will carry your load

Day by day, little by little

We get up and we get stronger

When you get down pray

Troubles wash away

Day by day, Day by day, Day by day

When you get down pray

Troubles wash away

Day by day, Day by day, Day by day

Little by little

Day by day

Little by little

Day by day

Letting Go (For Mom & Dad)

Autumn Leaves get to me
They always seem to know
How to show their beauty
Just before they go
I know it’s time to leave now
But this is not the end
They always find their way back here again

Seasons come and go
We hardly question why
But the sun seems to know
A little lower in the sky
And as the leaves fell to earth
I was sure I heard one cry
Letting go

Things can happen
Inside a broken heart
When something on the mind
Keeps ripping it apart
On the day you slipped away
You never said a word
Silence was the last thing I heard

Underneath rags of snow
Lie bare and broken trees
And joy of spring and summers possibilities
Until now I can’t believe
How little I thought of things like these
Letting go

Letting go but wishing you could stay
What I’d give
To have it any other way
But a piece of you left the room
In everybody there that day…
Letting go

Reprise 1st verse

Autumn Leaves get to me
They always seem to know
How to show their beauty
Just before they go