Album: List of Wishes
Angel of Dreams  *  Dream and Drive  *  List of Wishes  *  Madonna of the Trail  *  My Impatient Heart  *  Spinning  *  Square One  *  Waiting for Elena  *  We're So Close  *  Weathervane

Angel of Dreams

I’ve been wearing a long face
Feeling wrong and out of place
Trying to find some higher ground
But this dark cloud keeps coming down
Wraps itself around me
Can’t set this longing free

Angel of dreams, lost in flight
Angel of darkness, blind to your own light
Looking for a harbor, none in sight
Homeless heart

The moon shows no mercy
The tide just pulls inside of me
Peacefulness speaks in a whisper
Running constant like a river
So close I’ve missed it
Close my eyes and see

Angel of dreams, lost in flight
Angel of darkness, blind to your own light
Looking for a harbor, none in sight
Homeless heart

And I can check in with the oracles, ask them to guide me
Buy up all the miracles they can provide me

Or I can open my window
Put my tongue up to the screen
If I invite all the light in
I might taste the blue and green

Angel of dreams, lost in flight
Angel of darkness, blind to your own light
Looking for a harbor, none in sight
Homeless heart
© Jane Gillman    ^ top ^

Dream and Drive

You washed up on this shore
Ragged and restless, unmoored
Held you to my ear, heard the ocean roar

Your love came in like a slow moving wave
Like the wind that brings the smell of rain
Like the far off cry of a passing train

And the shadows swallow the room
And spin over my head
And the moonlight stretches catlike on my bed

And I think of that moment in time
When your path crossed mine
You held my heart, you made it shine

I saw a balloon escape from the zoo
A little girl waved as it flew
Into that sea, that sea of blue

I think of you, I do

And the road, you can count on the road
To bend and divide
And all you can do is dream and drive
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List of Wishes

Everybody here must’ve come from the same school
Play it cool
Ooh
I never learned that rule

Everybody here comes up with the same plan
Don’t show your hand
Ooh
There’s one thing they don’t understand

Oh it’s you and all your kisses
You and all your kisses
All I’ve got on my list of wishes
Baby is you you you

I’m gonna take a walk to the end of town
Till I come around
Ooh
Feeling like I’m upside down

All these thoughts spinning round my head
I turn instead
Ooh
To what my heart says

Oh it’s you and all your kisses
You and all your kisses
All I’ve got on my list of wishes
Baby is you you you

It’s so hard to know what to believe
Hide your heart or wear it on your sleeve
Everybody here must’ve come from the same school
Play it cool
Ooh
I just want to be with you

You hoo hoo and all your kisses..
© Jane Gillman    ^ top ^

Madonna of the Trail

The sun goes down at three o’clock
Behind the buildings on this block
Row after row
Up they go
The old houses are all torn down
In my hometown

Oh Madonna of the Trail
Your sisters crossed this nation
Full of brave determination
Looking for the land of their dreams
But the dream comes up empty
In this land of plenty
In my hometown

I remember
through the bare trees of November
A sky so blue you could drink it
And you had all day to think it
And the silver dollar moon was the brightest thing around

Oh Madonna of the Trail...

The birds that float against the clouds
What do they see when they look down

There among the neon and name brands
and traffic jams
Reflected in the glass
A monument from the past
The Madonna of the Trail stares down

Oh Madonna of the Trail...
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My Impatient Heart

Saw you drive right by my door
Baby what’d you do that for
When you gonna come inside
Come and take me for a ride

My impatient heart
My impatient heart
My impatient heart
Tell me is it fact or fiction
Or just my addiction
Oh baby don’t make me wait
Oh baby don’t make me wait

I want to rise like the moon, fall like a star
Burn a path across your backyard
Shift the ground beneath your bed
Tell you all the things I wish I’d said

My impatient heart...

I lie alone in the dark
Curled up like a question mark
When you held me close you didn’t speak
Baby could you feel my heart beat

My impatient heart...
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Spinning

So you’re talking about love
And the lack thereof
All the faith in you heart has eroded

Yeah, you’re talking about trust
A pile of dreams gone bust
Every mine in the field has exploded

Sure as the winter sun fades pale into the night
Somewhere a distant star is shining bright
End becomes beginning
Keeps on spinning

The streets lie silent
Snow shining brilliant
Like a new coat of paint on the new year

Don’t hang up, hang on
As the days grow long
The path to follow will be more clear

Sure as the winter sun fades pale into the night
Somewhere a distant star is shining bright
End becomes beginning
Keeps on spinning
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Square One

I thought I’d left well enough alone
Now you’re back, back on the phone
Talking about leaving

All this heartbreak makes me sick
No matter how we do the arithmetic
We could never break even

The world spun
We came undone
The dream broke down
I won’t see you now
Back to square one

You change your mind in a second flat
Give your heart, take it back
But now that’s history

Cause this time I can feel the change
This time I’ll let you remain
My unsolved mystery

The world spun...

Sorry, I was always sorry for
But I’m not anymore

I thought I’d left well enough alone
Now you’re back, back on the phone
Talking about leaving

The world spun...
© Jane Gillman    ^ top ^

Waiting For Elena

You might take him for a lucky man
Laying out his life according to his plans
But if you watch his face
When he thinks no one’s aware
You can catch a trace of his despair

He’s waiting for Elena
He’s waiting for Elena

He’d say he had to walk away from that scene
Make a clean break from what never could have been
But there’s a little thread hanging from his heart
Pull it and it all falls apart

He’s waiting for Elena
He’s waiting for Elena

And she’s crossing over one more bridge
She’s turning over one more stone
She’s looking over one more hill
She calls him on the phone

Who’s to say what makes a heart hesitate
He’s not the kind of guy to lay the blame on fate
So he tells himself
She’s used up her last chance
But in the end there’s just one thing he wants

He’s waiting for Elena
He’s waiting for Elena
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We’re So Close

We’re so close
But still this distance
We’re so close
Still this resistance
Today
I want to throw it all away
But we’re so close

You’re so cool
But still this sweetness
You’re so cool
Runs underneath us
I want to live there
Forever
But you’re so cool

Wrap around me round me like a river
Take me down down down under
Wrap around me round me like a river
Take me down down down under

You make me fly
You make me fly
Today
I want to throw it all away
You make me cry

Wrap around me round me like a river
Take me down down down under
Wrap around me round me like a river
Take me down down down under

Wrap around me round me like a river
Take me down down under
Wrap around me round me like a river
Take me down down under
© Jane Gillman    ^ top ^

Weathervane

Thought you had the key
in your pocket
Went to her door
Couldn’t unlock it
She talks the talk
but ask her to walk it
She’ll leave you standing

The closer you come
The faster you will have to run
You’ll never win this game
She keeps you spinning like a weathervane
Take off your brave face
I’ll be your safe place

You jump headlong
So headstrong
But your rights can’t keep up
with your wrongs
I’ve been here all along
From where I’m standing...

The closer you come...

Step outside this storm
Find the calm in my arms

You take a little trust
An open heart
You put them together
She pulls them apart
Life’s too short
To be this hard
Hear what I’m saying

And the closer you come...
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