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San
Francisco (2005)
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lyrics.
1.
San Francisco
2. Song No One Knows
3. Fairy Tale Story
4. Don't Know How
5. This Time
6. By the River
7. Fess Up
8. Up Side of Let Down
9. Blue Again
10. Dig Deep
San
Francisco
(written by Elizabeth Foster and
Duff James)
San
Francisco, safe and sound
To my love I am bound
Smokey figures, stained in grey
A thousand miles in my way
I don't want to be alone tonight
I give myself to the passing shadows 'til the morning light
And I know this train has got me working overtime
Just to be alone tonight
Work the cadence, steel and stone
Work the fire, feed the glow
Town to town, old and new
But every station, I dream of you
I don't want to be alone tonight
I give myself to the passing shadows 'til the morning light
And I know this train has got me working overtime
Just to be alone tonight
Some
may say another dollar, another day
But my heart wants something more to call its own
And I've been told that my story has grown old
And my only home is be alone
I don't
want to be alone tonight,
I give myself to the passing shadows 'til the morning light.
And I know this train has got me working overtime,
just to be alone tonight.
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Song No One Knows
(written by Elizabeth Foster and
Mitch Dane)
There's
a mocking bird outside my door
And I can hear him singing from the bedroom floor
He starts out sweet, he starts out low
He's making it up as he goes
Sweet
inspiration
Where you come from God only knows
Won't you come and stay a while
Wipe the sleep out of my eyes
Sing to me a song no one knows
Wind comes knocking at my window pane
It rocks with the trees in the April rain
It starts out whispering a lullaby
Singing me to sleep all through the night
Sweet inspiration
Where you come from God only knows
Won't you come and stay a while
Wipe the sleep out of my eyes
Sing to me a song no one knows
I heard your song on the radio
It tore me up, oh bless my soul
'Cause you made me weep playing that guitar
Strumming every string upon my heart
Sweet
inspiration
Where you come from God only knows
Won't you come and stay a while
Wipe the sleep out of my eyes
Sing to me a song no one knows
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Fairy
Tale Story
(written by Elizabeth Foster)
I have
stood outside the window of your heart looking in
I have knocked upon the threshold and I was not taken in
I have buried you in moonlight so many times before,
but you always tend to surface in the waking light of morn'
Could
you love me, love me like a fairy tale story
Could you save me, save me like a modern day hero
or will you keep on running and take my heart like a villian
and steal it all away
Steal my heart away
I know
that I still love you and I'm hoping you still do
but you can't chase down the demons that have plagued and haunted
you
And I've felt the strength of your love like a blanket or a knife
and I fall upon the blade without struggle or a fight
Could
you love me, love me like a fairy tale story
Could you save me, save me like a modern day hero
Or will you keep on running and take my heart like a villian
And steal it all away
Steal my heart away
Maybe you're the one looking for salvation
Maybe you're just hanging on to see how long I'd be waiting
Could
you love me, love me like a fairy tale story
Could you save me, save me like a modern day hero
Or will you keep on running and take my heart like a villian
And steal it all away
Steal my heart away
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Don't
Know How [click
for handwritten lyrics]
(written by Elizabeth Foster)
I've
got to go home soon
Don't want to go home now
I have to leave you
I just don't know how
You hold my heart
Hold my attention
You say the words
That I can't mention
Oh, the light within your eyes
Shines as bright as sunday morning skies
Oh, your voice I know so well
It calls to me like a mission bell
Your love, the springtime
Your touch, the moonlight
Your face, the angel
That gave my heart flight
I'll never leave you
Never forsake you
I'll guard with my life
This vow I'll make you
Oh, the light within your eyes
Shines as bright as sunday morning skies
Oh, your voice I know so well
It calls to me like a mission bell
Your heart wrapped around me like a ribbon
Holding everything together with a single strand
My heart has grown around yours like a vine clings to something
strong that stands
Let's hold this moment
Captive 'til morning
And let it rest there
Our spell unbroken
But
I've got to go home soon
Don't want to go home now
I have to leave you
I just don't know how
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This
Time
(written by Elizabeth Foster)
I was
asleep when we pulled into Watertown
You said it was late and we got turned around
Now you want to stop for coffee, you want to stop for gas
Want to stop the trees from flying by too fast
And everything flies by too fast
When the lights go out
When the night won't pass you by
When the road runs out
Who will we run to this time
Clouds line up like run-on sentences
Ancient conversations that we never had
Now I want to stop for pictures, I want to stop for Texas
Want to stop tomorrow if it ever tries to catch us
When the lights go out
When the night won't pass you by
When the road runs out
Who will we run to this time
We've
been driving so long
Do we even know where we started from?
When
the lights go out
When the night won't pass you by
When the road runs out
Who will we run to this time
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By the River
(written by Elizabeth Foster)
A reckless
love left you lost and lonely
Now you're looking at me like I am your only friend
I'll take your hand but I can't be the one to save you in the end,
you got to jump in
You got to take it to the river
It will wash you 'til you walk out clean
When you dive into the water you got to let it all go
It only takes a little faith to be delivered by the river
Now I've been wrong ever since I can remember
I've lived a life of the wild and selfish kind
Now my knees are shaking underneath the weight of this troubled
world I've got strapped on my back
I'm gonna to take it to the river
I'm gonna wash until I walk out clean
When I dive into the water I'm gonna let it all go
It only takes a little faith to be delivered by the river
One of these days when they call my name from glory
I'm going to swim right through clear to the other side
But until that day I'm casting out my worries
Let the water carry them away
I'm
gonna to take it to the river
I'm gonna wash until I walk out clean
When I dive into the water I'm gonna let it all go
It only takes a little faith to be delivered by the river
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Fess Up
(written by Elizabeth Foster and
Sam Mizell)
That
is the oldest excuse in the book
Don't even try
I heard it from Anna who heard it from Mary
That you lied
And I never would expect it from you
Are you ever going to tell me the truth?
Fess up, fess up
You run around, you run around, you run around
Fess up, fess up
You run around, you run around, I've had enough
Don't look at me with your helpless stare
'Cause i won't give in
You had your chance with the summer skies
And you chose the winter wind
You'll be colder than you ever have known
Without the fire of my love holding you close
Fess up, fess up
You run around, you run around, you run around
Fess up, fess up
You run around, you run around, I've had enough
I know
you did, I know you did
Don't tell me that you love me still
I'm not the one who's going somewhere else
And I never would expect it from you
Are you ever going to tell me the truth?
Fess up, fess up
You run around, you run around, you run around
Fess up, fess up
You run around, you run around, I've had enough
Don't
look at me with your helpless stare
'Cause I won't give in
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Upside
of a Let Down
(written by Elizabeth Foster)
I was
just in time to miss that plane
With my bags in the air and my feet on the ground as the tail-lights
pulled away
And just when all my world was crashing down
I saw you and your baby blues
Baby you're the sun on a rainy day turning everything
around
Just when I had thought that I'd lost it all you're the upside of
a let down
It's funny how those years can take their toll
With lines on my face and a head full of gray, hard times without
parole
Just when all my beauty dissappeared
you see me and you're still you're still here
Baby you're the sun on a rainy day turning everything
around
Just when I had thought that I'd lost it all you're the upside of
a letdown
Baby
you're the one turning everything around
Just when I had thought that I'd lost it all you're the upside of
a let down
Upside of a let down, cool side of a melt down, upside of a let
down
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Blue Again [click
for handwritten lyrics]
(written by Elizabeth Foster,
Sam Mizell, and Greg Hagen)
The
sun is lazy as it makes its way acress the sky
Birds are singing trees are photosynthesizing in the light
And I feel the breeze and suddenly
Waltzing in the clouds begin to rain on my parade
All the green and golden dreams have muddied into gray
And I know you will keep me 'til the skies are blue again
Now I lay me down to sleep underneath the stars
The moon is playing hide and seek with a hundred million fireflies
And I know you will keep me 'til the skies are blue again
My
love I give it all to you
Your love you will keep me 'til the skies are blue again
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Dig
Deep
(written by Elizabeth Foster)
Dig
deep girl, dig deep girl
For there's more below the surface than what you see girl
Too many people need your help to keep your eyes upon yourself
So dig deep, dig deep, dig deep
Build high girl to the sky girl
For there's more to this life than getting by girl
Too many people need to see the rock supporting thee
So build high, build high, build high
Reach farther, reach farther
For the one who made those arms can stretch them wider
Too many people need the touch of a purpose kind of love
So reach far, reach far, reach far
And
dig deep, dig deep, dig deep
Thank
You
Henry,
Marshall, and Margaret Foster. All the wonderful musicians who played
on this recording. My amazing Tues. Night BS girls. Ashley, Jett,
Hannah Dixon and The Traylors, Andy Newby, Billy Cervery, Andy Hubbard,
Audrey Hatcher, Lucy, Joseph Richardson, Sarah Freeman, Amma and
Granddaddy Guy, Jeff Savage, Ken & Jeanette Leggett. Thank you
so much Lauren Froggatte, Ryan Booth, and Mitch Dane for your patience
and for being a great producer! Psalm 103.
Musicians
Elizabeth
Foster: vocals and acoustic guitar
Mitch Dane: piano, Wurlitzer, Hammond organ
Andy Osenga: electric guitar
Aaron Sands: upright/electric bass
Bryan Sutton: mandolin, banjo, acoustic guitar
Amanda Larson-Wells: violin
Gabe Scott: accordian
Ryan Booth: acoustic guitar on "Blue Again"
Matthew Perryman Jones: vocals
Andy Hubbard: drums and percussion
Recorded
at Sputnik Sound, Nashville, TN
Produced, Engineered, and Mixed by Mitch
Dane
Second Engineer: Ryan Booth
Photography: Christiana Kartsonakis
Graphic Design: Susannah Parrish
Artwork: Elizabeth Foster
Web Site Design: Daniel Magnolia, Magnolia
Design
All songs written by Elizabeth Foster (ASCAP) except
"San Francisco" by Elizabeth Foster and Duff James, "Song
No One Knows" by Elizabeth Foster and Mitch Dane-Rotten Bananna
Music/Brentwood Benson Publishing (ASCAP), "Fess Up" by
Elizabeth Foster and Sam Mizell-BMG Songs, Inc. (ASCAP), "Blue
Again" by Elizabeth Foster, Sam Mizell-BMG Songs, Inc. (ASCAP),
and Greg Hagen.
Produced,
recorded, and mixed by Mitch Dane
© 2005 Elizabeth Foster
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