promiseland by The Dangers

"The Dangers album #12 rolls through this year like a train in flames, carrying memories and rock resolve." G.Thomas

LYRICS:
FIRE NEXT TIME
When I was a lonely child
I’d sit beneath the tree
I’d watch the clouds
Float away from me
Dreams I held so close inside
Drifting to the sky
God bless the child
Who ever wondered why?

The Fire Next Time
It’s the Fire Next Time
It’s Fire Next Time

If I was meant to burn for you
And you to burn for me
Are we just smoke through all eternity?
Or is there something deeper still
To keep this love alive
The Lord he gave us
A hard rain tonight (lie, lie, lies)

When I was a lonely child
I’d sit beneath the sky
I’d watch the clouds
See them pass me by (bye, bye, bye)

The Fire Next Time
It’s the Fire Next Time
Fire Next Time
Come on and give me a sign
It’s not the rain this time

PROMISELAND
If you held a notebook of protest songs
From Greenwich Village to the White House lawn
You’d hold the story of how a river ran
Past broken fences on a promise,
Promiseland

We’d stay forever, in cafes we’d stand
In fields and farmlands, dead flower hands
Stoned and naked, just past Duluth
Like freedom was a highway
I wish that was true
Just an endless journey
Where the river ran
Through broken fences on a promise,
Promiseland

We gathered our singers, we lashed them to songs
Said you’re doomed to repeat them
So please move along
And If time was a river, like a river they ran
Words are broken fences on a promise
Promiseland

So where went the questions
They drift like the songs
They drift like the singers
In a current so strong
Can we call you back?
Heads in our hands
Dream of a river over promiseland?

Can we call you back?
Hearts in our hands
Start mending fences
On a promise, on a promise
Promiseland

SUDDENLY
Suddenly
My rough design was given to the sky
Suddenly
Your silent smile was all that met my eye
Suddenly
Against the clouds
I spoke this word out loud
Oh, I spoke this word out loud

But would you turn
And could you hear
The weakest voice
That called you near
The fleeting time
That brought us here
Oh, I love that story

Suddenly
The careful words will sure escape me then
Suddenly
I lost my place, could not tell why or when
Suddenly
Against the clouds I spoke this word out loud
Oh, I spoke this word out loud

But would you turn
And could you hear
The weakest voice
That called you near
The fleeting time
That brought us here
Oh, I love that story

Suddenly
I as luck would be, I’m not a lucky soul
Suddenly
My better angels waltzed into this world
Suddenly
Despite myself I spoke this word out loud
Oh, I spoke this word out loud

And as you turned
My words to hear
The weakest voice
That called you near
The floating hour
That dropped us here
Oh, I love that story

Suddenly
If all goes well in time, we’ll meet again
Suddenly
Your silent smile might be smiling then
Suddenly
And this time round
I’ll say these words out loud
Oh, I’ll say these words out loud
I’ll say these words out loud
I’ll say these words out loud
I’ll say these words out loud
Lights out


MINE TO LOSE
Lightning in the distance
Thunder coming too
I can feel the cold wind
Rain will follow through
Like to hold together
Against the winter gloom
Sweet the heart that wasn’t mine
She wasn’t really true
Sweet the heart that wasn’t mine
She wasn’t mine
She wasn’t mine to lose

I remember places
Sunday afternoons
Memory erases
Filling up the room
Like to be together
Like we wanted to
Sweet the heart that wasn’t mine
She wasn’t really true
Sweet the heart that wasn’t mine
She wasn’t mine
She wasn’t mine to lose

Words I never live by
Chords I wouldn’t choose
Stories by the roadside
Words I wouldn’t use
But I’d love to be together
Against the winter gloom
Sweet the heart that wasn’t mine
She wasn’t really true
Sweet the heart that wasn’t mine
She wasn’t really true
Sweet the heart that wasn’t mine
She wasn’t mine
She wasn’t mine
She wasn’t mine
She wasn’t mine
She wasn’t mine
She wasn’t mine to lose

GRADUATION DAY
I played American high school
The way I played my guitar
I never knew how to hold on
It never got me too far
I never hung with the right crowd
I never got in their way
But I came back to tell you all
On Graduation Day

I could have carried your books home
If I was given a chance
I might have loved you forever
We could have danced at the dance
We press our hearts between pages
And then we throw them away
But I came back to have my say
On Graduation Day

She said she’s somewhere
But the lights go out
She’s set for sequence
But the lights go out
I reach to touch her
But the lights go out
Reach her potential
But the lights go out
I can’t go easy
When I want to shout
This place is killing me
Beyond a shadow of a doubt
I can’t get out anymore

I played American high school
The way I played my guitar
I never knew how to hold on
It never got me too far
I never hung with the right crowd
I never got in their way
But I came back to tell you all
Hey, I came back to take a bow

On Graduation Day

MORE
There’s a distance, in a lifetime
When we try to walk on our own
And there’s a distance, on a summer night
When we’ve traveled far from home
For it’s easy now
To drift away
But never long alone

Where the moon is always shining
And the sun last touched the shore
Out in the distance
We want it all
And we want it more

There’s a distance, in the twilight
Can’t see the look in your eyes
And what a distance a night can make
Diamonds in the skies
For it’s easy now
To drift away
Blue lights on the rise

Where the moon is always shining
And the sun last touched the shore
Out in the distance
We want it all
And we want it more

If there’s a heaven, and they call you
Please don’t you drift away
Cause I need you, that’s the difference
Tell ‘um you’re gonna stay
For it’s easy now
To drift along
But never far away

When the moon is always shining
And the sun last touched the shore
Here in the distance
We want it now…
Where the moon is always shining
And the sun last touched the shore
Here is the difference
We want it all
And we want it more

AMPLIFY
Can you amplify the children?

We don’t know where we are
Right past nowhere, there we are
Now we’re frightened of each other
I’ve not spoken to my mother
Smoke rise up through our hands
Clouds across the promiseland
Promiseland

Three weeks back she’s got the fever
Now she’s gone, I’d rather be there
Who can breathe so crowded in here?
I’ve not spoken to my mother
Hope rise up through our hands
Clouds across the promiseland

Can we amplify the children?
Can you amplify the children?
One child born on a blue sky morning
One child born to a siren’s warning
No one life is like another
Carry on or duck for cover
Two hearts rise above our hands
Clouds across the promiseland
Promiseland

Can you amplify the children?
Guitars made to cry for children?
Can you amplify the children?
No

FIRST LIGHT
Out in the quiet western sky, a sullen moon
The only light I see tonight, in my hotel room
I was feeling tired and lonely, I opened up my eyes
In the first light
You can cover me
In the first light
Please come to me

Early on across the street, I was a stranger here
Sang my songs to drinking friends, then they disappear
The same mistakes forever can empty out a life
In the first light
You can come to me
In the first light
Right up to me
In the first light
Could you feel the same?
In the first light
I call your name

They say it’s dark before the dawn, I believe that’s true
But lately I keep wondering, will you ever shine through?
So, I walk out in the evening
Out beyond the cars
Out beyond the highway
Out beyond the stars
In the quiet of the moment, I see the other side
In the first light
You came to me
In the first light
You came to me
In the first light
You came to me
In the first light

Out beyond the highway
Out between the stars
Right here for a moment
There you are
There you are
There you are
In the first light

DISAPPEAR
Once I loved a girl
She almost loved me too
One heart passing over, another one passing through
But life would not slow down
Stop to tell us true
Speak to your resistance
Over this noisy avenue
So elegant with words so true
You might just stop to hear

But the night is gone the moon is gone
Time is gone, we’re moving on
Like that we disappear, disappear

A million souvenirs, exchanged where lovers land
A million vacant kisses over the small screens in our hands
But life won’t slow our fingers
Or lips to keep us true
Speak of deep resistance
Over the noisy avenue
So elegant those words could be
You might just stop to hear

But the night is gone the moon is gone
Time is gone, we’re moving on
Like that we disappear, disappear

Once I loved the world
She almost loved me too
One heart passing over, another one passing through
With elegance the words rang true
I might just stop to hear

But the night is gone the moon is gone
And time is gone, we’re moving on
Like that we disappear
But the night is gone the moon is gone
And time is gone, we’re moving on
Like that we disappear
Disappear

SUMMER CHILD
Said I was looking, but I never found me
I wasn’t ready inside
That day you found me, sort of unwound me
I felt the summer wind, rushing through the trees
What do I do with these?

Summer Child
That world that drove me wild
Now I want everything
Was a Summer Child
Threw out the meek and mild
Now I want everything

Even the Cold War, was something to live for
Was looking for shelter from the storm
That’s when you called me
Like I never saw me
I felt the summer nights, rushing through the trees
What do I do with these?

Summer Child
That world that drove me wild
Now I want everything
Was a Summer Child
Stopped living in denial
Now I want everything – OK

Even the best years can give into new fears
You run out of magic inside
So lucky we made time
Still lucky in my mind
I search the summer nights, through the summer leaves
What do I do with these?

Summer Child
That world that drove me wild
Now I want everything
Like a Summer Child
God loves a Summer Child
Now I want everything
Now I love everything
Oh, Summer Child

All songs © 2020 Chris LeRoy/
Published by New West Crash Music /ASCAP

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