Bridges

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Tim Harrison - lead vocals, guitar, percussion, background vocals
Nick Naffin - acoustic lead guitar, electric guitar, keyboards
Alyssa Wright - cello, background vocals
Dennis Pendrith - bass
Dee Potter - drums, percussion, background vocals

Bridges is manufactured by Second Avenue Records and was produced in conjunction with Northern Breeze Records.

Special thanks: Lisa Weitz, Nick Naffin, Barbara Allard, FACTOR, Alyssa Wright, Helen LaFountaine, Diann Haist, Don Weitz, Jaoa Carvalho, Ariel Rogers, Hugh Carson, Jim McKay, Mose Scarlett, Eaglewood Folk Festival, Jackie Van Veen, Ognjan Beban, Caroline Harrison, Noah, and my family.

NOT FOR THE LOVE OF MONEY
 
I saw a dancer
Lift his partner in the air
You could see it on his face
And in the Ballerina's stare
Gravity Gave up its charm
It was like Jesus in the Temple
With an angel on his arm

And I heard a piper
Pipe for change out on the street
Playing airs so long and lonely
To the trampling of the feet
Angel drones they call us from despair
From the soldiers of fortune
Marching to nowhere

And it's not for the love of the money
Or those things which tear us apart
It's for the times that we share
And the times we can care
To follow an act of the heart
And it's not for the praise or the glory
Or those things which just fade away
It's for living somehow
In the here and the now
And facing it all day by day

Canvas holds the colours
Sunflowers twisting in the wind
Old women at their labour
Bridges rise and fall again
Stars roll over sleeping towns
The painter finds himself once more
A lifetime given to his god
Has made us care forever more

There may be heroes on the stock exchange
And saviours in the banks
But it's not with these I find my prayers
Or where I give my thanks
It's for all the ones on this planet
Full of pain
For the ones who find the strength
To give back in again

RAINING EXPECTATIONS
 
It's raining expectations
Wishes scattered on the ground
You're drowning in a sea of dreams
Other wish that you had found
So you sit up in all night cafes
And watch the passers-by
And stare into an empty glass
Where oceans have gone dry

And you cry:
Oh my sister let it be
And oh my brother can't you see
The life you choose is not the one for me
Each one has it's one destiny

And you look to find approval
But you find only disdain
The hair is tumbling down your face
In rivulets of shame
But the path that you have chosen
Is not one that they can share
I hope they know you down the road
And see that you did care

And you cry:
Oh my mother let it be
And oh my father can't you see
The life you choose is not the one for me
Each one has it's one destiny

They want you just to fill their shoes
They cannot see the things that you do
But you cannot take on that blame
What you call yours
Is something you must claim

LORD HEAR OUR PRAYER
 
Heroes sleeping in the subway
Show us the common ground
Singers slumping on the curbside
Sing songs of homeward bound

And out on Yonge St.
People seek for change
But nothing in this world
Can make them feel quite whole again

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O Lord hear our prayer
For the ones who are living
O Lord hear our prayer
For the ones who are giving

And somewhere in the darker streets
Hookers sell their skin
One more night of conscious distance
So their babies eat again

Politicians sell their prejudice
To those who would believe
That the lion sleeps for them alone
And the jungle brings relief

O Lord hear our prayer
For the ones who are trying
O Lord hear our prayer
For the ones who are dying

False gods and corporations
Seek souls of those who'll tell
The story of the bottom line
And the poor ones who just fell

The sun, the moon, the stars above
The showers and the dew
The winds of god they hold you
But what do people do

DOWN TO THE RIVER
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Let's go down to the river
You can wash your soul
Sit on the banks and watch it flow by
We all got a reason to go

I went down to the main street
People rushing to and fro
Moving around in a world that keeps them down
They got no one to turn to
They got nowhere to go

I saw a woman staring (at nothing at all)
She'd gone away pretty far
Too scared to talk and too stiff to move
Desperation on her face
And fear in her heart

Let's go down to the river
You can wash your soul
Sit on the banks and watch it flow by
We all got a reason to go

I was talking to some old folks
They say they've got nothing left to give
Swallowed up by some young people's lies
They don't even feel
They've got a reason to live

Let's go down to the river
You can wash your soul
Sit on the banks and watch it flow by
We all got a reason to go
ALL THE GOODBYES
 
Our pleasure's in ruin
You've made for your bed
The fire is burning low
Limbs fall and pray
In hope that they'll stay
For the morning to be and to warm

Glistening tears
Accompany your fears
Of saying some final farewell
And move to the light
And head for the stars
And the story that noone can tell

But all of the goodbyes
We say in our lives
Fall like silence on a dark midnight street
Wherein quiet longing
The angels are calling
The ones who are left to their sleep

The earth spins around
She nods to the stars
A traveller who seeks for her sun
She longs for the day
When time fades away
And the universe falls back into one

But day follows day
The moon dogs our way
And follows the mystery train
We rise for our time
Seek for a rhyme

And then disappear once again

GOD SENT ME AN ANGEL
 
God sent me an angel
She came down from above
When I really wasn’t looking
I had no use for love

I could not paint a picture
Of what it was like to receive
I'd just been hanging on
To patterns I believed

But then the world was made over
To something I had never seen
And the stars in the heavens
They came shining down on me

Everything looked different
There was no one that I knew
This world will never be the same
Since I met you

You see I thought I knew myself quite well
And I was really satisfied
Because I finally found a path to tread
Which was no longer lies

But then out of a mystery
When I did not seek to find
God sent me an angel
The healing kind

With new love old sorrow is uncovered
Pain you thought you’d left behind
But if it goes on undiscovered
It can rob your soul and steal your mind

But God sent me an angel

CARRICKFERGUS
 
I wish I had you in Carrickfergus
Only for nights in Bally Grand
I’d swim over the deepest ocean
The deepest ocean to be by your side

But the sea is wide and I can’t swim over
Neither have I the wings to fly
I wish that I could find me a handy boatman
To ferry me over to my love and die

My childhood days bring back sad reflection
On happy times spent long ago
My boyhood friends and my own relations
Have all passed on like melting snow

So I’ve spent my days in endless roving
Soft was the grass and my bed was free
Ah to be home now in Carrickfergus
On the long road down to the salty sea

And in Kilkenny it is reported
On marble stone as black as ink
With gold and silver I did support her
But I’ll sing no more till I get a drink

I’m drunk today and I’m rarely sober
A handy rover from town to town
But I’m sick now and my days are numbered
So come all you young lads and lay me down

SHIP TO COME IN
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We're waiting for our ship to come in
Waiting for the tide of healing to begin
We think we see it then it disappears again
Waiting for our ship to come in

We're standing on a long lonesome shore
Hoping for peace but finding only war
As it was in the beginning
And shall be evermore
Standing on a long lonesome shore

And we're waiting for release from the past
Waiting for the time when we feel free at last
Waiting for the time when the anchor chain is cast
Waiting for release from the past...

But don't wait for your ship to come in
Don't wait for the tide of healing to begin
If you can't imagine it will disappear again
Don't wait for your ship to come in

Don't wait for release from the past
Don't wait for the time when you feel free at last
Just cut the lines that have kept your ship held fast
Don't wait for release from the past

VITAL SPARK
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When I walk down the streets and along the avenues
I hear the children shout I think of you
I think of times we've had and the times we'll see soon
How we're drawn together like the earth and the moon

And when the lamps light up the falling snow
My footprints tell me where I need to go
And though the path that's left may wind a time or two
I head straight for the light that leads to you

I can feel your vital spark
And sense a soft glow even in the dark
I feel your warmth when I grow cold
And your youth when I feel old

When I'm out on the street and in the broad daylight
And shadows cross my path before the night
Well though the sun refuse to shine and the clouds roll in
Whenever I see your face it makes me sing

I can feel your vital spark
And sense a soft glow even in the dark
I feel your warmth when I grow cold
And your youth when I feel old

When I walk down the beach along an empty shore
Grey mother sea will roll on evermore
And like a choir the tides run high with their refrain
Like water I return to you again

I can feel your vital spark
And sense a soft glow even in the dark
I feel your warmth when I grow cold
And your youth when I feel old

When I walk down the streets and along the avenues
I hear the children shout I think of you
I think of times we've had and the times we'll see soon
How we're drawn together like the earth and the moon

 
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