We had the pleasure of playing this series in its first year, summer of 2022, and had a wonderful experience! Really happy to return!! A beautiful concert setting in the heart of Norfolk, CT...
Track List:
1- Bad Days 2- Trade Winds 3- High & On Empty 4- A Little Time 5- Lighthouse 6- Last Plea 7- Have it That Way 8- Time & Again 9- My Friend 10- Sunday Morning
Locomotive running hard and shaking up the street
I wish I had a pillow now and one more for my feet
I can’t see the sky it’s black and someone stole the stars
Tried walking on the beaches and left my prints in tar
Chorus:
It’s raining down upon us now like never before
You put one back behind you turn around and there’s one more
I’m too wise to say “why me?”... Been to that rodeo
And it wouldn’t hurt a single bit to see these bad days go
Don’t feed the beast in fact don’t look back it’s not there
But late-night mice run in my mind it’s now beyond repair
Count the good it far out-weighs At times that’s not enough
I aim for the fairways girl and end up in the rough (Chorus)
My bud’s a bust they caught him on the run inside his home
My girl’s a visionary... but then visionaries roam
My car’s got fuel and new rims but someone took the wheel
I may beg and borrow but my sister likes to steal (Chorus)
I tried to cut the phone lines babe but still there was e-mail
My hatchet kissed the cable and my boot heel met the snail
The waters rising steady we no longer see our turf
It’s sink or swim or breathe or die or drown here in the surf (Chorus)
Too many things are changing fast
Just like the trade winds
The old dog’s gone and so is Ma
And it’s hard to lose a friend
It seems my lucky dice are frozen
Trapped inside mid-air
There’s a faint fine line
Between outlook and despair
I’m not sure just how you do it
But sweet music saves my mind
It can keep you cool in the summer sun
And warm in winter time
But like so many other things
We forget to know
And once you think you lost it...
Chorus:
Trade winds blow below the hemisphere
And deal’s going down right now my dear
I can’t count the times I’ve been down
Can you feel the trade winds coming ‘round?
Too many things are spinning out
Spinning out of control
Seems we always buy in bunches babe
Then have to pay for what we owe
When trade winds blow
Ships leave to make their trades
While the rest of us are waking up
With the choices we made
Chorus:
Trade winds blow below the hemisphere
And deal’s going down right now my dear...
I can’t count the times I’ve been down
Can you feel the trade winds coming ‘round?
It was written on the wall
In invisible ink
Trying not to fall
But it gets slippery on the brink
Can anything be done?
Maybe a magic pill to take
Are we having fun?
Are you still awake?
Another tipsy turn
Left rubber on the road
You’d a thought you learned
But nobody knows another’s load
Too many bones in there
Someone’s try and kill the light
We need fresh air
And the sky is white
Chorus:
Flying high and on empty
Someone better bring it down slow, slow
Flying blind and on empty
Haven’t landed since a long time ago
Now that you are gone
And the clouds has cleared
You never know the trip you’re on
Until it disappears
Your dreams were what you wanted
And that’s all you’d let us see
Now those dreams are haunted
I think they’re chasing me (chorus)
So away you go
On a warm spring wind
Next time around skip skid row
You’ve already been
The morning bird’s awoken
Hear her when she sings
Not a word is spoken
It’s worth imagining (chorus)
Now everything has changed
And that’s the way it goes
You know it feels so strange
The rush and chill cuts right down to your toes
That warm spring wind blew quiet
Took you on your way
Like a half-stoned pirate
On the rolling bay (chorus)
It was written so fine you read every line
I need a little time
Now you’re down on your knees like you have a disease
You need a little time
You read every word and thought most were absurd
They said “Babe, I need a little time”
Dumb ones in rows fell like dominos
This will take a little time
The car spit the bit I think I’m gonna lose it
I need a little time
So many parts tell me where do you start
I need a little time
And the pipes froze through, not sure what to do
I need a little time
It’s twenty below and the water won’t flow
This will take a little time
The storm wrecked the road can’t transport the load
I need a little time
The city’s grid-locked and all the exits are blocked
I need a little time
The train engineer said "we're not even near..."
I need a little time
They closed Boston town to let the nuts run around
This will take a little time
The governor was caught doing things that he fought and said
“I need a little time”
He was pro-hanging tree now it’s “anybody but me”
He needs a little time
I heard that you died I did nothing but cry
I need a little time
The worst you can get is to live with regret
Need a little time
Too many days in a mirrored maze
Time for some fun someone call in the sun
But the sun burned a hole right through the North Pole
The weather is weird and all the crops disappeared
I need a little time
Sometimes we get crazy
At times we’re down
You can feel it nearing
Then it comes around
We try to swim beneath
What’s going on above
And there’s no mistaking true love
Can you hear the breeze
Weaving through the trees?
You can always go
but you never can leave
Buried down below
Is what’s hard to hide
It’s where the true feelings reside
Chorus:
Take it all away
Sail it on the sea
Guide it through the night
Lead it like a lighthouse
Squall upon the shore
Makes you cold and cringe
I tried like hell to reach but
There was too much wind
There’s no other way
When you only know one
And I keep waiting for sun
Sometimes I get honest
And sharper than a tack
Not exactly Romeo
More like some kind of hack
That’s really no excuse
But laughter feels good
And when I told that to the ghost
She understood (chorus)
If I had a nickel
For every time
I thought I walked the moon
Then I’d have a dime
Someone call the doctor
I’ve said enough
And I still don’t know where we got all of this stuff (chorus)
Oh darling, looks like I was wrong
For hoping one of us was strong
You know this valley’s been growing ever wide
And in bad weather you can’t see the other side
So tell me, did you hear me say
Storm clouds are brewing, looks like they’re on their way
Time’s wasting and I’m not sure what to do
Can’t let the darkness fall between me and you
Chorus:
Last plea, can you hear me? We may as well be lost at sea
No one here has the time to burn
Old loon, same tune whistling by the early moon
You can say you know but you may never learn
You can think you know but you may never learn
You believe you know but you may never learn
I’ll set my easel and think I’ll paint a scene
Or a woman but not from some magazine
I tried to reach you, let me guess you lost your phone
I could do worse babe, than being here all alone
We’re no angels, God knows that’s for sure
We’re just surviving and who says what is pure?
We keep believing what we do is right
We’ll go deceiving just to duck another fight (Chorus)
This crazy city has got its hold on me
Its heart is pumping electricity
Can you feel it zap you to the core?
When it gets you girl you wanna beg for more (Chorus)
I was done with love, all disconnected
Man, I had it all down pat
You flew right down and picked me up
And stole my heart just like that
That was then and this is now
It was so many moons ago
And here you still believe in me
I know, I know, I know...
Chorus:
I saw you just once
That was all that it took
You know right away
When you’re caught on the hook
The reason I knew
That was okay
I knew what I wanted
And had to have it that way
Standing on an ocean’s shore
Lighthouse blinking day and night
I don’t even know what I want anymore
I just want everything to be alright
I wake up at night, can’t sleep again
Branches scraping on the window panes
They move and groove with the whims of the wind
And wake the ghosts in my brain (Chorus)
Walking through the morning mist
Waiting on sweet words to sing
There must be a way to say
To me your love means everything
Like the rhythm of the sea
We’re dancing partners you and me
There’s no place else I rather be
No way not possibly (Chorus)
Running fast now
With your hands out
With a broken wing
Still not ready to fly
Take a chance now
Join the dance now
The well is deep
Might as well give it a try
A try, give it a try
Disconnected
Resurrected
Sliding back slow
Running to keep the pace
Every season
Brings a reason
And there’s always
Another waiting to
Take its place
Take its place
Take its place
Running empty
Lost the lone key
Wandering around
Seems we’re at it again
Was it last glance?
Maybe last chance
You thought it before
You thought it time and again
And again and again
Running through the woods bounding down the hill
Into the river dive, no worry of the chill
Swim across the current to the other side
I can see you anytime I close my eyes
We all need a little lovin’ and that’s for sure
And if we ever get it we want a little more
Now gone’s the bond of man’s best friend
I’m wondering if a broken heart can mend
There was no path we’d fail to climb
You would take the lead I’d follow close behind
You’d circle back just to let me know you’re there
Then you’d turn and leap and go running on the air
Out on a stony shore on the Island sound
You made my life boy you never let me down
Every second precious, no sense of time
All the joy that you gave, I keep it in my mind
Chorus:
Ride shotgun now with windows down
Until we meet again
Miss you my friend...
I never really faced it I’m not that strong
I just move around the pieces ‘til the puzzle comes along
But every time I think about the way you’d look at me
A dagger cuts my heart, I smile helplessly
No prints in sand, can’t find them in the snow
I’ll never get used to it, never let you go
I heard you in the room, thought I saw you in the yard
Love is what makes letting go so hard
Chorus:
Go running young through endless fields
We’ll meet around the bend
Miss you my friend
There’s no mistaking loyalty
You gave every second you gave blindly
I never felt worthy I was just a man
Trying to be present while making other plans
You made us safe, you made us whole
You rounded off the edge and you gave us soul
Now gone’s the bond of man’s best friend
I’m wondering if a broken heart can mend
Chorus:
Ride shotgun now with windows down
Until we meet again
Miss you my friend
Go running young through endless fields
We’ll meet around the bend
Miss you my friend...My friend
Sunday morning no one’s up the sun begins to rise
Filling up a coffee cup sifting through last night
Seems so much has disappeared and now my friend you’re gone
It’s a wonder how we made it here from the path we were on
Chorus:
They kicked the door right through and drew
It’s up against the wall
They wanted everything you knew
You stood tall
Went and burned it down
Now it stands again
We may win this war but lose most of our men
I wish you knew to let me know but that we know ain’t you
It’s true I would never let you go and we all do what we must do
I still speak to you sometimes and wonder can you hear?
I may as well have been a mime if my words cannot be clear (Chorus)
We’ve been through this all before now one too many times
Below the surface to the core while crossing every line
Do we need more honesty, hasn’t there been enough?
The sign here says “no vacancy” it’s time to call the bluff (Chorus)
Sunday morning nine o’clock the town is waking up
Are we still as solid as a rock or has it all blown it up?
Is it best just left unsaid and buried in the deep?
Like the book you never read or a memory you can’t keep (Chorus)
We had the pleasure of playing this series in its first year, summer of 2022, and had a wonderful experience! Really happy to return!! A beautiful concert setting in the heart of Norfolk, CT...
We had the pleasure of performing in this wonderful series back in 2019 and cannot wait to return to this perfect (beach) setting!...
The KMB returns to Sturbridge to perform two sets in a wonderful outdoor setting...in the Commons. Bring chairs, blankets etc.