Dan Fogelberg

fox69 · 14.06.2016

"Serengeti Moon"

"Serengeti Moon"

The grass is high and the work is done
Send the sun to his sleeping place
Now we'll dance and make love
Beneath the Serengeti moon

The Gods are laughing their twinkling eyes
Shine on us in the clear night sky
Take my hand, let us walk
Beneath the Serengeti moon

Oh, let the music play
"Listen to the melody"
Mamalang melodia yalla
Fill your heart with joy and mirth
"Let your hearts rejoice"
Thabishing pelo tsa lona
Oh, let the rain clouds come
"Listen to the melody"
Mameland melodie yalla
Spill their life upon this earth

Oh, let the music play
"Listen to the melody"
Mamalang melodia yalla
Fill your heart with joy and mirth
"Let your hearts rejoice"
Thabishing pelo tsa lona
Oh, let the rain clouds come
"Listen to the melody"
Mameland melodie yalla
Spill their life upon this earth
The grass is high and the work is done
Send the sun to his sleeping place
Now we'll dance and make love beneath
The Serengeti moon
The Serengeti moon
The Serengeti moon

fox69 · 14.06.2016

"Shallow Rivers"

"Shallow Rivers"

Shallow rivers run between us
Where a stone may never sink.
Though we taste, we are left thirsty
For a deep and soulful drink.

Narrow channels, barely open
Fraught with dangers out of view;
In the current, we are helpless
Still I cling to you.

Grab me woman, take me under,
Till I can't tell up from down.
We have barely got our feet wet
and I want, I want to drown.

Shallow rivers run between us
Never mind the nevermore,
Up ahead the water quickens;
I can hear those rapids roar.

Narrow channels, barely open
Flood the waves with treachery,
Hope I long to see the sunrise
On a peaceful sea.

Grab me woman, take me under,
Till I can't tell up from down.
We have barely got our feet wet
and I want, I want to drown.

fox69 · 14.06.2016

"She Don't Look Back"

"She Don't Look Back"

She's got a way of
Getting so inside you
That you think she's
Gonna steal your soul
She's got a way of making sure
That you can't let go

She's got a trail of
Broken hearts behind her
Like a shadow
Where no shadow's cast
I ain't the first one and
I doubt that I'll be the last

Too long, too late
You're wrong
To ever think she'd wait

She don't look back, oh, oh
She don't look back, oh, oh
She don't look back, oh, oh
The lady don't look back
And when she's gone, she's gone

You can never tell
Just what she's after
You can never read it
In her eyes
And in her laughter
There's no hint of compromise

You can stare
Into the fire forever
You can squeeze a stone
Until it bleeds
But you will never find
The kind of love she needs

Too much, too late
You're such
A fool to think she'd wait

She don't look back, oh, oh
She don't look back, oh, oh
She don't look back, oh, oh
She don't look back, oh, oh
And when she's gone, she's gone

She don't look back
She don't look back
She don't look back
She don't look back
She don't look back

fox69 · 14.06.2016

"Since You've Asked"
(originally by Judy Collins)

"Since You've Asked"
(originally by Judy Collins)

What I'll give you
Since you've asked
Is all my time together
Take the rugged sunny days
The warm and rocky weather
Take the roads that I have walked along
Looking for tomorrow's time
Peace of mind --

As your life spills into mine
Changing with the seasons
Filling up the world with time
Changing time to reasons
I can show you all the songs
That I never sang to someone before.

We have seen a million stars
Lying by the water
You have climbed the hills with me
To the mountain shelter
Taking off the days
One by one
Setting them to breathe
In the sun.

Take the lilies and the Lace
From the days of childhood
All the willow winding paths
Leading up and outward
This is what I give
This is what I ask you for
Nothing more.

fox69 · 14.06.2016

"Sketches"

"Sketches"

Late in the summer
When the cottonwood dies
The fields are on fire
With green bottleflies
And I'm still seeing reflections
Of me in your eyes
And why did you leave
Last summer?

Now, the seasons are changing
From summer to fall
And I've still got that picture
Hung on my wall
And there's so much forgotten
And too much recalled
And why did you leave
At all?

Standing beside you
Mid-winter day
Hearts beating close
Together.

Wishing that we'd found
Someway to make
That moment last
Forever.

Standing silent-laughing-
Breathing steam
Gazing down into a freezing stream...
I saw the face of a child
I saw the face of a child.

fox69 · 14.06.2016

"So Many Changes"

"So Many Changes"

Do you think that it’s wise
To be cursing the cloudy skies
Don’t come to me with your cries
When the sun’s shining in your eyes

Just zip your coat to the cold
And look again for that hand to hold
I’m sure you must have been told
There’s more than one way of growing old

And there are so many people
Who are caught in a bind
So many people are captives of time
So many changes are waiting in line

[repeat 1st verse]

fox69 · 14.06.2016

"Soft Voice"

"Soft Voice"

There’s a soft voice
That follows me
Everywhere
Everywhere I go
And it whispers
So softly
This time I know
This time I know

Oh, it wasn’t a dream
That follows me
Everywhere.

I wonder
If it’s all right
To call
Call on you today
And I wonder
If it’s all right
To kiss...kiss your tears away

Oh, was it a dream
That followed me
Everywhere?

fox69 · 14.06.2016

"Sometimes A Song"

"Sometimes A Song"

Listen to me and I will try to
Sing you a song that makes you see
How much I long to be beside you
And how much you mean to me

Sometimes a song's the only way to
Show you my heart will never stray
So if I can't find words to tell you
I'll sing what I cannot say

Let me sing you a field full of waving flowers
I'll sing of the sun on the sea
Oh this is the way that you make me feel
Every time you smile at me
Will you only smile for me

At times it must seem I take for granted
All of the little things you do
Know in your heart I'm so enchanted
And still so in love with you
Hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm

Sometimes a song's the only way to
Show you my heart will never stray
So if I can't find words to tell you
I'll sing what I cannot say

Let me sing you a field full of waving flowers
I'll sing of the sun on the sea
Oh this is the way that you make me feel
Every time you smile at me
Will you only smile for me

Listen to me and I will try to
Sing you a song that makes you see
How much I long to be beside you
And how much you mean to me
Yes and how much you mean to me

fox69 · 14.06.2016

"Song For A Carpenter"

"Song For A Carpenter"

Oh, he makes his life as a carpenter
He works his hands in wood
And he lives the way his granddad
Might have liked and understood
He goes to work each morning
And he comes home every night
And the time that passes in between
He knows has been spent right

A child in South Ohio
A man in Northern Maine
He took his dream
To the end of the world
And he brought it home again

Here he met his sweet Rebeckah
Here he came to make his stand
In a house he built in the piney woods
Where the ocean meets the land
And it's hey-ho, steady as you go
Sing for the love of the land
Hey-ho, blessed is the home
Born of the carpenter's hand

Oh, his hair is rough and curly
And his legs they reach the ground
And his eyes are full of living
And his back is broad and brown
And his heart is sure and stubborn
And his pride's too strong to bend
And somewhere in his life
He found the time to be my friend

And it's hey-ho, steady as you go
Sing for the love of the land
Hey-ho, blessed is the home
Born of the carpenter's hand

Oh, he loves his sweet Rebeckah
He'll love her 'til his death
And she gave to him a bonny son
And they named the child Seth
And now they are a family
A community of three
Living in the piney woods
Where the soil meets the sea

And it's hey-ho, steady as you go
Sing for the love of the land
Hey-ho, blessed is the home
Born of the carpenter's hand
Born of the carpenter's hand

fox69 · 14.06.2016

"Song From Half Mountain"

"Song From Half Mountain"

Now the wind is still
In a moment it will be raging
Now my soul is young
In a moment it will be aging.

And high above the pines
I wrote several lines
And left them in a bottle
For you to find.

Now the dream is rising
In a moment it will be past
This breath is my first
It will all too soon be my last.

And on a windy coast
I made several toasts
To you and me and the sea
And no one heard.

Now the wind is still
In a moment it will be raging
Now my soul is young
In a moment it will be aging.

And high above the pines
I wrote several lines
And left them in a bottle
For you to find.