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Leaning In
04:01
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I’m on my way in
I’m just arriving
I’m leaning in to
place the sound
I think I hear you
you’re getting closer
You’re leaning in to
reach the sound
Bring all the pieces of the secrets you saved
Fragments of glass, leaves and stones,
The well-worn notebook from under the bed
The memory of light through the trees leaving home
We’re all the way in
Now I see you’re changing
We’re leaning in to
hold the sound
Now you know a place where you can
Bring all the pages of notes that you made
Fragments of colors and tones
The new reflection you see in the glass
The filtering light through the trees on your way home
You’re on your way in
© Michele Gedney 2023
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2. |
A Meadow
03:20
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I think I’ll write a song today
but I don’t have a lot to say
All my words have flown away
As they go down the eastern flyway
I think I’ll paint a picture too
Venetian Red or Prussian Blue
Depending on my point of view
When I come home from walking
Turning out or turning in
The choice each day as I begin
Let all I do and say
A better world tomorrow
The frost came in without a sound
fruit lies fading on the ground
I’ll scatter new seeds all around
A garden to a meadow
A garden feeds but one or two
A meadow feeds all creatures who
can heal the mind and free the soul
Turns me around again
Turning out or turning in
The choice each day as I begin
Let all I do and say
A better world tomorrow
© Rick Gedney 2023
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January Knows
03:40
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January one, listen to the messages I’ve sent to me
January two, take them for a walk into the woods to breathe
Look how beautiful the sun is setting on a frozen day
Look how beautiful the moon is rising up to light the way
I promise you I will see it now
January knows, the time that I have lost to all the worrying
January shows, the price of trying to feel somebody else’s pain
Look how beautiful the snow is covering the fallen leaves
Look how beautiful the night a blanket full of stars to believe
I promise you I will see it now
What about the cold?
What about the ice and snow?
What about the faith that lets me take your open hand?
I’m going with you now
January sees, I’m setting my intention to be listening
January leaves, a map to all the spaces I’m recovering
Look how beautiful the blue reflecting in a cloudless sky
Look how beautiful the wings are showing us the way to fly
I promise you I will see it now.
© Michele Gedney 2023
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4. |
Find Each Other
03:34
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Here we are, turning over pages
We are looking for
the chapter where the good guys will prevail
Wondering who we believe in
Between the evil and the kind
can you tell the difference anymore
Here we go, walking to a place where
there’s a little sun
Standing with the dreamers and the kids
Wondering who they believe in
Between the truth and all the lies
can they tell the difference anymore
Here we are, waiting on the inspiration
We are looking for
The heroes that are right there in the room
Hoping they can all remember
They will answer to us all
There will be no difference anymore
Turn down all the noise
And when we hear
We will find each other
Turn away the lies
And when we sing
We will find each other’s voice
© Michele Gedney 2023
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5. |
Calendars
03:44
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Would you still drive the whole night to get to me
A cup of coffee and a fragment of a verse
would you still check the time and wonder if I’m sleeping
would you still?
Would you still write me letters, prose, and poetry
tell me about your favorite line in every song
would you still check the phone to hear me tell you
We are still
Are we crossing off our calendars everyday?
marking time
are we flipping through photos, nothing left to say?
Missing all the signs
Would you believe I’d drive the whole night to get to you
just to write another fragment of a song
Are we crossing off our calendars everyday
marking time?
are we flipping through photos, nothing left to say?
Missing all the signs
Are we missing all the signs?
© Michele Gedney 2023
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6. |
Your Satellite
04:21
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You were the light in a young girl’s eyes
I keep my dream in a different sky
I tiptoe around, clean up your coffee rings
You’re lost in your world, I’m busy with little things
You showed me the world through a dreamers eyes
I had a wish then I watched it fly
It followed you down and gave in without a fight
surrendered the day into the darkest night
Now you tell me your stars are aligning every day
I’ll tell you I’m here but I’m really far away
We were so alike, but now I’m just your satellite.
I try to forget all of the pain and then
You’re telling me how
Things will be different once again
Now you tell me your stars are aligning every day
I’ll tell you I’m here but I’m really far away
We were so alike, but now I’m just your satellite.
© Michele Gedney 2023
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You Will Be Fine
03:39
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Now tell me I’m wrong
That I never knew you
Your heart is tied with a thread already frayed
Now I know I was right, I’ve been looking through you
Your heart is tied to your dream and it’s wheeling away
I said everything you wanted
You hear anything you like
You will be fine
You will be fine
You will
Now I don't want to hear any more reasons
My heart is tied to a word that isn’t a lie
Now tell me I’m wrong, that things will get better
Well, my heart is tied to my dream and ready to fly.
I gave everything you wanted
You take anything you like
You will be fine
You will be fine
You will
© Michele Gedney 2023
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Windows
04:18
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For all that I don’t know
After searching high and low
What I have found
Is there are places I should never go
I have seen the fire
And I have felt the searing heat
Been in the freezing rain
It can feel so much the same to me
And I came in from a hurricane
Feeling like I lost something in the storm
While I need sheltering
I need the windows
I’ve been in the sun
And I have envied you in your shade
And I’ve been in the dark
Looking for the light that you radiate
I came in from a hurricane
Feeling like I lost something in the storm
While I need sheltering
I need the windows
© Michele Gedney 2023
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9. |
Silver Lining
05:53
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Take this silver lining, keep it in your own sweet head
And shine it when the night is burning red
Shine it in the twilight, shine it on the cold, cold ground
Shine it till these walls come tumbling down
We were born with our eyes wide open
So alive with wild hope now
Can you tell me why
Time after time they drag you down
Down in the darkness deep
Fools and their madness all around
Know that the light don't sleep
Step into the silence, take it in your own two hands
And scatter it like diamonds all across these lands
Blaze it in the morning, wear it like an iron skin
The only things worth living for are innocence and magic, amen
We were born with our eyes wide open
So alive with wild hope now
Can you tell me why
Time after time they drag you down
Down in the darkness deep
Fools and their madness all around
Know that the light don't sleep
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Open Book New York
Rick and Michele Gedney, known as the duo, Open Book, have been writing, recording, and performing
together since
2000. Their original music features melody invention and vocal harmonies backed by a tapestry of interweaving guitars. Sadly, Rick passed away in 2023, Michele released their final album, Leaning In. Michele continues to teach at Dar William's "Writing a Song that Matters" retreat".
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