horizon line / sept ’02/aug 3 ‘06 montréal there’s more miles behind me now than are left up the road no amount of worn leather seem to lessen the load I haven’t gathered much except a limp along the way is it all meant to be so hard well it’s just so hard to say horizon line this morning still so far away doesn’t make much difference if you leave or stay more often than not well it’s just plain hard to tell no matter the town you show me I’ll show you hell horizon line you keep running away I got nowhere else to go I promise not to stay horizon line you keep running away why can’t you wait? see the man with the map’s the one who’s really lost got one foot tangled in the grave each step it costs he went & forgot to look around along the way & all that time that he spent well that’s just how he pay horizon line you keep running away I got nowhere else to go I promise not to stay horizon line you keep running away why can’t you wait? now she say please come back when you can stay a while I’d really love to girl but it’s just not my style & then she turn around to find me fade away to a dot I just never been very good at being what I’m not horizon line you keep running away I got nowhere else to go I promise not to stay horizon line you keep running away why can’t you wait? why can’t you wait? © michael reinhart 2006 [h]and’sum music socan

& you said yes / Jan–Apr 2005 montréal [for Fiona] she loved me for one single day she loved me the way a holy man he pray was a dark spring & the dark room was raining dark tears her simple prayer’s still echoing in my ear [repeat x 1] there’s faces laughing at me on the ceiling in these morphine eyes you put your hand to my forehead & to my surprise there was barely the breath of a sparrow left in my chest I was wondering to myself should I bother to breathe & you said yes [repeat x 1] oh love takes many forms & one of them is you you took me in out of the storm whatever can I do for you [instrumental break] & now I’m bent & broken just like everything else still scrounging for little bits of heaven in this ordinary hell when you whispered those three words to me I quickly understood love’s not only for lovers & this one’s for good Love’s not only for lovers & this one’s for good love’s not only for lovers & this one’s for good © michael reinhart 2005 [h]and’sum music socan

bide my time / june 12 2009 so much beauty in this world out there just waiting to be found there’s something in the air don’t know what it is that’s been going around just waiting patiently for all this tension to come unwound gonna land right on my feet one day soon bend down kiss the ground I heard something crazy on the wind oh baby what’s that sound? big blue beautiful planet still spinning round & round cold clear water like a mother’s soft arms surrounds & sunset without any camera well it never ceases to astound the closer you get to heaven seems that hell’s never too far behind there’s darkness enough to take the place where the light it once did shine spaghetti interstate turnpike toll road 94 no time to stop & stare just too darn much metal & flesh whizzing by in a blur so fast out there everyone else’s thoughts & opinions all tangled up in my hair & Chicago skyscrapers at dusk are all but lost in the glare can’t help but count every single mile I just got to make my daily quota & this road’s as straight as a novice priest’s got nowhere else but heaven to go to asphalt snake chasing its own tail all the way right out of Minnesota & then it’s raining some sad salt tears in southern North Dakota the future may seem bright but its light can often be unkind you just might find your big old dream’s gone rotten on the vine I’m going to bide my time I’m going to bide my time I know that it won’t be too long I’m going to bide my time I’m going to bide my time there’s nothing particularly wrong I’m going to bide my time I’m going to bide my time this is surely the time to be strong I’m going to bide my time I’m going to bide my time maybe these are the words to a song sky frays to dirty edges lacerated by the light hungry horizon swallows the whole sun down out of sight drive right through that jagged tear between the day & the night to where there’s not even one single star light star bright speeding semis spitting up stones white lines fly by all neat in a row going like hell like the devil with an angry archangel in tow small talk with myself gets lost behind me & the engine’s drone moonless slate black highway too damn lonely to feel alone someone please change the station ain’t we already heard enough about Jesus bad bad bad vibrations classic rock it never ceases Saskatoon glows pink ahead on the underbelly of the clouds rubber on the rainy road plus the radio well it’s all much too loud for a moment my breath coats the windshield with a sparkling shroud panic crack the window slightly onto the storm to let the bad air out magpie falling from the sky reminds me of a broken paper airplane white hot sun bearing down on the lookout for someone else to blame seems most of this afternoon has already gone right up in flames & on the highway it’s just business as usual by any other name big sky on the road I don’t think I’ve ever felt so small big sky overload I can’t wait for the veil of night to fall I’m going to bide my time I’m going to bide my time I know that it won’t be too long I’m going to bide my time I’m going to bide my time there’s nothing particularly wrong I’m going to bide my time I’m going to bide my time this is surely the time to be strong I’m going to bide my time I’m going to bide my time maybe these are the words to a song maybe these are the words to a song maybe these are the words to a song © michael reinhart 2009 [h]and’sum music socan

break me into little pieces september ‘02 break me into little pieces kiss me ‘til I’m falling down I don’t want to end up just like Jesus a sad king in a homemade crown wake me up come early morning I don’t want to miss the sun kiss me real hard without warning then kiss me again when I think we’re done judge me like a vengeful god from up above slap me til I come around I guess one day you’ll have to do without my love well there’s plenty more successful clowns around well there’s plenty more successful clowns around well there’s plenty more successful clowns around around & around & around & around cast me in your silent movie tell me not to talk so loud ain’t nothing ‘bout this script that's groovy can’t hear my lines above the crowd don’t think I’m your alter ego there’s a line I ain’t believing there’s a shadow falls wherever we go now I’m in the dark, must be some heathen strike me like a lightning bolt from up above slap me ‘til I come around I guess one day you’ll have to do without my love well there’s plenty more successful clowns around well there’s plenty more successful clowns around well there’s plenty more successful clowns around around & around & around & around around & around & around & around you drown me in your perfect whim check to see if I’m still breathing oh you’re an ocean that I can’t swim it’s killing me, I guess we’re even strike me like a lightning bolt from up above slap me ‘til I come around I guess one day you’ll have to do without my love well there’s plenty more successful clowns around well there’s plenty more successful clowns around well there’s plenty more successful clowns around around & around & around & around © michael reinhart 2002 [h]and’sum music socan

broken idea october 14. 2003 montréal don’t know how you did it but you got into my heart gonna drive me crazy but then you did right from the start don’t know how you did it but you got into my head keep thinking I might forget you but I keep thinking ‘bout you instead & something keeps on telling me you wouldn’t have to try very hard to have me falling down at your feet but it’s just not in the cards you’re much too beautiful just to be a friend but if I give in to this love girl well it would most probably end & it could only end badly so let’s not even start why’s it always seem to be so goddamned hard & I can only think sadly that we’re better off apart but it’s getting kind of tiresome always being so smart when it comes to the love that might have been the stain of deceit’s upon me just like original sin sometimes it seems like you just can’t win & it’s not for any lack of practising other times it’s very clear that it’s sink or swim once the fire of love love love’s gone touched against your skin lately when I see your beautiful face I could trade this living hell for an even hotter place this broken idea well it’s bleeding all over me & just like a blind man I can finally see please tell me what you’ve been thinking & I’ll likely go & break that too you know how when you’ve been drinking well nothing’s ever really true I know how to get into trouble but not how to make it end don’t need me another lover don’t need to lose another friend don’t need to lose another friend so I hear you’re living with some pain well what can I say do you actually believe it’s any easier for me you’re crying there in the bubble bath trying to wash away the rain but the clouds just keep on coming well that ain’t about to change do you think I’m here in paradise without an original sin just trying not to get too dirty well now I know for sure I’ll never win oh I know for sure I’ll never win this broken idea like a window lets air into the room this broken idea like a song chase away the gloom © michael reinhart 2003 [h]and’sum music socan

echo spring 2009 montréal I see your eyes in mine I know when you’ve been crying echo I know you show me your life I see your eyes in mine I see your eyes in mine I hear your voice in mine I hear all the words between the lines echo I know you tell me your life I hear your voice in mine I hear your voice in mine over & over oh oh oh over & over oh I hear your voice in mine I hear your voice in mine I feel your heartbeat in mine each pulse like a phrase that rhymes echo I know you give me your life I feel your heartbeat in mine I feel your heartbeat in mine over & over a song inside a song inside my ear over & over how could I not realize how dear you have become to me girl I think I finally see you echo I know you give me your life oh I hold your hand in mine I hold your hand in mine I hold your hand in mine © michael reinhart 2009 [h]and’sum music socan

sand inside the pearl jan 7 04 montréal & now I’d give these crooked legs to rest my cheek against your curls finding peace is like straining to hear the grain of sand inside a pearl you think you have it in your hand oh, but it’s only just the world well life was very different once upon a time ago girl doo doo doo won’t you dance with me once more doo doo doo just once around the floor & now I’m in the kind of mood where I just might take a chance wander right up next to you, rub shoulders, & maybe ask you to dance & I would give this one good arm to give these crooked legs a whirl draw your breath into my chest, with one cheek against your curls doo doo doo won’t you dance with me once more doo doo doo just once around the floor & now that note you left me smoulders into a black, slow-motion curl the candle has gone out & the white smoke disappears up in a swirl & here I sit in this silence oh that you left me girl but finding peace is like straining to hear the grain of sand inside a pearl doo doo doo won’t you dance with me once more © michael reinhart 2004 [h]and’sum music socan

nola sep/oct 05 corning ny / montréal qc oh Nola, she’s no stranger to death she’s throwing firecrackers into the hurricane’s breath she wake up tomorrow, & to her surprise she’s black & blue & barely breathing ah but she’s still alive ‘ole man river’s rhythm’s swollen & strong & that old lake’s been holding up her pretty blue dress now far too long the sky’s hell-bent on its own dark shade of the blues living beneath the horizon, you better have a good excuse mother nature’s temper ‘round these parts well it ain’t exactly news yeah living beneath the horizon, one day you going pay your dues oh no oh no oh no oh Nola oh no oh no oh no oh Nola no tradition here of being afraid of the dark it’s the daylight coming’s tinder waiting for a spark now the devil he’s in town & the good lord‘s long gone & a rusty trumpet in the Quarter practise a funeral song Nola why you do those crazy things that you do no sense asking a stupid question just ‘cause something’s true Nola why you singing the blues instead of playing that old-time jazz the whole world miss the way you used to shake your pretty little ass now you’ve always been true to yourself & to nobody else & there’s those folks got it in their little minds you got to do some time in hell you’re just shit out of luck, ain’t no nothing you done wrong even your god-fearing neighbours up north ain’t always been so strong & after all those saints ah they go marching on & on & on a rusty trumpet in the Quarter still play that funeral song oh no oh no oh no oh Nola oh no oh no oh no oh Nola Nola why you do those crazy things that you do no sense asking a stupid question just ‘cause something’s true Nola why you singing the blues instead of playing that old-time jazz the whole world miss the way you used to turn & smile & make a little pass the whole world miss the way you used to shake your pretty little ass oh no oh no oh no oh Nola © michael reinhart 2005 [h]and’sum music socan

take me away jan 31 01 / aug 01 montréal take me away from cold cold hands take me away from this take me away to some foreign land I really don’t think I’d be missed & they’re not about to understand if you see her would you give her a kiss & we’ll leave all the rest up to chance oh we’ll leave all the rest up to chance take me away from all that noise take me away from there take me away from the lack of joy we’ll go to the city if you dare they don’t like the tone in my voice oh, the priest in the pulpit he don’t care oh this time we’re left with no choice oh this time we’re left with no choice tell me a secret that everybody knows you don’t know the half of it I’ll tell you a secret that nobody knows & we’ll be better off for it we won’t have to fight like before we can forget about some things that we did I won’t have to hurt you anymore I won’t have to hurt you anymore oh my words won’t hurt you anymore take me away from this old town take me away from here take me away from feeling let down or drowning in a pitcher of beer I’m not sure these people are my friends oh there’s no end to the jokes & good cheer but they turn out the music before ten oh they turn out the music before ten tell me a secret that everybody knows you don’t know the half of it I’ll tell you a secret that nobody knows & we’ll be better off for it we won’t have to fight like before we can forget about some things that we did & I won’t have to hurt you anymore oh my words won’t hurt you anymore oh you won’t have to hurt me anymore take me away © michael reinhart 2001 [h]and’sum music socan

woman in the window may 20 07 montréal your careless kindness gone left me torn & bruised your careful escape make me wish I could hate you your beauty’s a weakness girl I’m just a human man but my suspicion tells me there’s still some things you don’t understand you give me such an ache girl right down to the bone you got me so that I’m even afraid to be alone we’ve already got what some take many years to find guess I’ll never know just what was yours & how much was mine woman in the window & just this glass between some of your secrets were better left unseen your legs all askew your pale hand against the glass leaving your fingerprints all over what’s now the past now it’s too late to take back the breath of what was said you’re no longer just some fantasy flickering in my head you say you’ve a knack for opening doors in someone else but now that it’s open you won’t step through it yourself woman in the window & just this glass between some of your secrets were better left unseen your legs all askew your pale hand against the glass leaving your fingerprints all over what’s now the past leaving your fingerprints all over my past © michael reinhart 2007 [h]and’sum music socan

you alone sep 2008 montréal now if there’s a shadow of a doubt girl it’s not you if there’s something I could not do without well that would be you too you alone you only you now if there’s a name to say out loud girl it’s you if there’s a taste that I like in my mouth well that would be you too you alone you only you play with fire with desire girl let’s melt the ice play with fire with desire til the flame dies play with fire with desire girl let’s melt the ice play with fire with desire til the flame dies give you my time give you my eyes write you a rhyme give you advice pour you some wine tell you no lies give me a sign girl now if there’s a light out in the dark girl it’s you if there’s a nasty splinter in my heart well that would be you too you alone you only you © michael reinhart 2008 (h)and’sum music socan