The Ship That Sails Today (Rob Lutes)

Across the great emotion of a tantalizing shift
Beyond the murky ocean lies the undecided’s gift
For drifting on an inkling like the chandelier that sways
On the ship that sails today

And for a sailor’s heart that looks out far from the coast
A deeper vision lingers long enough to raise a toast
To all the bravest birds who flew beside you all the way
On the ship that sails today

And with your soul in motion like the wind across your brow
A ripple of devotion to the air that's flowing now
No greater the horizon than the sting of salty spray
On the ship that sails today

BRIDGE
Walking across a parking lot
Lost in thought, you feel a drop of rain
Head turned to the sky tonight
You realize that nothing is quite the same

Another morning silence and another crack of day
Flickers on the water like a fireworks display
Time is moving forwards, there will be no delay
On the ship that sails today



Things We Didn’t Choose (Rob Lutes)

Light it up and let it burn
Put on your party hat
It’s not the time to be concerned
Or measure where we’re at
Let’s build a fire with what you want
And what I’d hate to lose
Cause you know how we find ourselves in the things we didn’t choose

We were born to love and dream
But we had to duke it out
The joy that burst out at our seams
Was paralyzed with doubt
Flat out freedom was the goal
But we learned to love the blues
Well you know how we find ourselves in the things we didn’t choose

BRIDGE
We find ourselves in hell
We find ourselves at home
We find ourselves far off the river we swore would be our own

We find ourselves in love
We find ourselves in loss
We find ourselves amazed at just how strong we were to finally get across

Turn around and look at me
I’m just like way back then
It’s not a trick of memory
This love is happening again
Where it leads we cannot know
We just follow all of the clues
Well you know how we find ourselves in the things we didn’t choose



Take It Nice (Rob Lutes/Monique Riedel)

Take it nice take it slow
Take it just like an evening stroll
Don’t scramble up the ladder everyday
Sometimes you gotta walk on by with no regrets to pay

Show your smile, feel your bones
Treasure things nobody owns
And stretch your mind across the doubts that stay
Teach your heart to dance the dark away

CHORUS
Look up to the mountains where the fire burns at night
Go down where the water runs with ease
Walk in the creaking forest, just beyond your sight
You’re in a world where wonders never cease

Tune your dial to the happy tunes
Bloom your prettiest flower blooms
And lose yourself like a little child at play
You gotta turn your face toward the sun today

CHORUS
Look up to the mountains where the fire burns at night
Go down where the water runs with ease
Walk in the creaking forest, just outside of site
You’re in a world where wonders never cease

We all get a lucky break
Each morning that we’re wide awake
Put your worries down, let it blow a kiss your way
You just might find a little bit of joy today



Still Dark (Rob Lutes)

Awoken by memories that I can’t erase
I know there’s no point but I still state my case
As I pace across the dusty floor of my brain
Still dark, still night I’ll go to bed again

It was a flickering scene that I couldn’t make right
Lost on the trail of your whispering flight
I'm so tired of feeling things I can’t explain
Still dark, still night I’ll go to bed again

You’re something that caught in my heart like a bird
I wish that wind could explain it in words
To the blood that’s howling through my veins
Still dark, still night I’ll go to bed again

And let the cold night pass away
The cold night pass away
The cold night pass away

And in dreams you’ll take me back to the evening
Take me back to the dance and we’ll sway
And hold me like you didn’t mean it, no, no
You didn’t mean to take my heart away

Now I’m living on fumes that I brought from the past
The future’s a shadow I mix in a glass
With a furious mind that writes down these refrains 
It's still dark, it's still night I’ll go to bed again

I'm not sitting waiting for you to arrive
I’m singing this song just to help me survive
Til tomorrow, where the sun already heals your pain
Here it's still dark, it's still night I’ll go to bed again

And in dreams you’ll take me back to the evening
Take me back to the dance and we’ll sway
And hold me like, you didn’t mean it, no
You didn’t mean to take my heart away

Oh, soon there’ll be flickering fire in the east
And even a chance I’ll find me some peace
But right now, I kind of want to let you drive me insane
It's still dark, still night I’ll go to bed again



Floating (Rob Lutes)

She walks down through the shadows just before the sky turns black
Beside the water’s edge she lets the robe fall down her back
Wades into the silky dusk light off the old boat shack

Crawling through the shallows, the earth crumbles in her hands
She cracks the chilly stillness as she glides away from land
Out towards the middle she lets her lungs expand

No burning doubt
No thoughts about
Floating

BRIDGE
Out into the flow
Carried on the sound
Someday she may know
Tonight she is unbound

She listens to the movement deep within the wooded hills
Never felt so alive, never felt so still
She lets her head fall back and the world be what it will

All the weight
Dissipates
Floating

BRIDGE

She walks up through the shadows now, follows the well-worn tracks
Peer in through the kitchen window, feels the water still on her back
A little light spills out the door, she left it open just a crack



Glory (Rob Lutes)

Sun at the bridge as the earliest stars
Dangle their feet on the sand
We’re lined up like holes in a hollow jar
To catch all the night that we can

But these evening breezes that bring us the chills
And the fragrance of fire on the mist
The longing and laughter that breathe in these hills
No one can hold in their fist

Glory glory hallelujah
Glory glory hallelujah Amen

When you’re strong enough, you can leave it alone
And to your own nature confide
Through willows and winters and wanders back home
With the moon and your mind at your side

Glory Glory hallelujah, amen

And then we will take our rest when the scenery shifts
All our stories still float on that sea
They’ll carry us out and we’ll merrily drift
Where it’s just like we dreamed it would be

Glory glory hallelujah Amen



The Tree (Rob Lutes)

You're out in the distance
And I’m the path of least resistance
But I gotta find a better way tell you how I feel
Feelings don’t meet words
On remotely equal terms
One uncovers what the other would conceal

If I could have you near me, well I'd open up my arms
And let my endless words float into space
But since you’re far from me, I'll put them out for you to see
Like a line of stars across the heavens you can trace

There’s a lake out in the woods
About an hour north of here
And a tree that stands at one end on the shore
With two trunks that separate
About halfway up and take
Two different angles outward from the core

But the branches do embrace
At the top they are as one
And I have come to see us in that way
Flying to the moon
Through the giddiness and gloom
To lie together on the dark side of the day

SOLO

So take all the time you need
If your distance will recede
I'll be keeping myself rooted over here
Saving up the steam
From the heat of every dream
So I can show you just how much I love you dear

And if you do decide
That you’ll be here by my side
We embrace the chilly wind and head up north
To that lake out in the woods
You know it would do us good
To watch those tall trees swaying back and forth

To the lake out in the woods
You know it just might do us good
To watch those tall trees swaying back and forth



Ithaca Waterfall (Rob Lutes/Dale Boyle)

Ice recedes, streams give way
Down the Ithaca waterfall

The banks erode, nothing holds
Back the Ithaca waterfall

Climb the rocks, feel the pull
Of the Ithaca waterfall

Some will weep and stand beneath
The Ithaca waterfall


Nothing heals like the constant flow of water on the land
When your heart is almost dry, you’re gonna understand

Why they come and gaze upon
The Ithaca waterfall

Solo

If you cross, don’t look down
The Ithaca Waterfall

Some get lost, some get found
The Ithaca Waterfall

Nothing heals like the constant flow of water on the land
When your heart is almost dry you’re gonna understand

Why they come and gaze upon
The Ithaca waterfall



It’s Not Over (Rob Lutes)

It’s not over ’til it’s over
It’s not even over then
As far as we can travel
Our love will never end

We don’t need a shepherd
To show the way back home
We have a love that follows
Everywhere we roam

To pick us up, when we fall
Soft like sand is the world where we belong
And there’s a cool and healing breeze
Like the touch of your hand
It puts my heart at ease d

You’ve shown me something I did not know
How to find a love and then make it grow
You don’t hold on too tight but you don’t let go
No we don’t let go
Don’t let go

The waves are ever-landing
They crash and disappear
Your brave understanding
Helps me make it through down here

We might cross some raging waters
And struggle on through some gales
But we will feel a calm descending
With a love that will not fail


It picks us up baby when we fall
Soft like sand is the world where we belong
And there’s a cool and healing breeze
The gentle touch of my hand
Will put your heart at ease



As My Heart Will Allow (Rob Lutes)

You got a face that I can’t shake
And I want to understand
Why things are built and laid to waste
And the water shapes the land

Dressed up relic, cold eyes cast
On the dying autumn light
Looking for someone to pass me
Fire in the night

Faded boat lies in that field
Nothing it can tell
About the wounds the water healed
Or the lives that knew it well

And when the land is locked in ice
The whole world waits to play
Just because things don’t feel nice
Does it mean you lost you’ve lost your way

BRIDGE
But I’d sure like to know
Why’s the devil always go
Swinging through my mind
On a rope of jungle vine
There’s better bells to hear
But they don’t ring out so clear
Still I listen everyday

I notice you now that you’re not around
And you will not stop by
And I’m too old to chase you down
Too cold to tell you why

But if things are made to be set free
One day I’ll find out how
To look on as amusedly
As my heart will allow
To look on as amusedly
As my heart will allow



Look Out Boy (Rob Lutes/Dale Boyle)

Look away and you look out far
Look out on a distant star
Look out boy, you’re not even in your head

Your mind is out on the run
Your eyes are burned by the desert sun
Look out boy, you might have been mislead

Look out for your station sign
Look out when you’re in your prime
Look out boy there’s so much left unsaid

You have everything you need
It’s inside you like a seed
Though they tell you that it is not so

Look out far and you look out wide
Look out when you feel your pride
Look out boy, the sky is turning red