Pick up a picture that’s rushing on past
Pick up a dream to come true
Coming on line together we’ll make it last
Every connection brings me back to you
Crawl down the freeway
don’t want to be late
Welcome to reality
Blazing a trail for the others to wait
Every connection brings you back to me
My love will be strong enough you will be my energy
My love will run long enough over the mountain over the sea
Working a circuit to make it complete
It’s maybe the best I can do
If you believe in the word on the street
Every connection brings me back to you
My love will be strong enough
to be your relativity
My love will run long enough over the mountain over the sea
Working a circuit to make it complete
Where it is leading me to
If you believe in the word on the street
Every connection brings me back to you
Every connection brings me back to you

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Melody knows harmony will keep the beat
That’s the way these friends know the score
Let ‘em dance wherever there’s
a pair of feet
One will help the other to be more
Carry this tune
- won’t you and lighten up your day
Over a gift to lift your spirit like a balloon
So very soon
- don’t you remember me this way
And how we used to play carry this tune
Comedy knows tragedy from long ago
That’s the way our story got a start
When we get together we’ll put on a show
One will help the other play a part
Carry this tune
- won’t you and lighten up your day
Telling a joke pig in a poke like a buffoon
So very soon
- don’t you remember me this way
And how we used to play carry this tune
Fantasy reality they made a deal
Secrets they will keep from me and you
Never mind your make believe
or how you feel
One will help the other to be true
Carry this tune
- won’t you and lighten up your day
Never too late to resonate like a bassoon
With this balloon
- don’t you remember me this way
And how we used to play carry this tune

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May your way guide my way
Our hearts one and the same
May it be your voice across this emptiness that calls my very name
Forgiveness assurance and
healing from within
All I really want is here beside you
– commune with you again
May your truth guide my truth
And clearer will I find
I will have your word - in my search you will draw nearer in my mind
We break bread together and
feel a change begin
All I really want is here beside you
– commune with you again
Commune with you
– rescue my restless soul
Commune with you
– I’m calling, I’m calling
May your life guide my life
And so eternally
May it be your help for the helpless that you’ll abide with me
I’m longing to taste this cup and
turn away from sin
All I really want is here beside you
– commune with you again

© Brian Peterson

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I couldn’t take another heartbreak
Please treat me tenderly
I couldn’t take another heartbreak
Will this turn out to be another
heartbreak for me
I couldn’t take another heartbreak
I need security
I couldn’t take another heartbreak
Will this turn out to be
another heartbreak for me
As I look into your eyes
You’re trying to deceive
As I listen to your lies
I’m trying to believe
I couldn’t take another heartbreak
I’ll tell you trustingly
I couldn’t take another heartbreak
Will this turn out to be
another heartbreak for me
Our love could be a sure thing
It’s why I’m hanging on
Our love could be a pure thing
Until my hope is gone
I couldn’t take another heartbreak
Please treat me tenderly
I couldn’t take another heartbreak
Will this turn out to be
another heartbreak for me

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I heard about the people far off in a
distant land
They follow a shadowy life I don’t understand
For way up in the mountains they made caves where they could hide
They’re on the other side - the other side of the world
This woman keeps her secrets she never will read a book
She covers over her face and no one will look
She wouldn’t laugh she wouldn’t sing for it is undignified
She’s on the other side
- the other side of the world
Things have sure been different from the way they were before
The ground we found we’re losing track of people by the score
The little boy is hungry the little girl is cold
The older brother remembers things
he was told
For when you have no future you think
about suicide
You’re on the other side
- the other side of the world
Things have sure been different from the way they were before
We want to be at the battle but from some other war
The man mounts up the minaret the people hear his cry
They bow down now to raise their praises
on high
And they may care to say a prayer for innocent people who died
They’re on the other side
- the other side of the world

© Brian Peterson

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Wasn’t it your voice I could hear - hear in a crowded place in town
Didn’t I hang on to the moment only to listen to the sound
Yes I know what you’re thinking over what I’ve been waiting for
But the time and space between us I just don’t want to measure it out anymore
Kidding myself - I couldn’t help
It’s the easy thing to do
One more moment to live through believing I’ll get over you
But any fool could tell I’m kidding myself
I can imagine people go I can imagine people know
Then I begin to think about you under
a new scenario
Yes I know what you’re feeling and I know what you would say
Through the echoes and the shadows I just don’t want to know they’re fading away
Kidding myself - I couldn’t help
It’s the easy thing to do
One more hour to live through believing
I’ll get over you
But any fool could tell I’m kidding myself
Out in the stillness of the evening into the silence of the dawn
I can remember you here with me and I forget that you’re gone
Yes I know what you’re wishing and I know what ought to be
With the hurting and the healing I wonder what will ever become of me
Kidding myself - I couldn’t help
It’s the easy thing to do
One more day to live through believing
I’ll get over you
But any fool could tell I’m kidding myself

© Brian Peterson

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It went on sale and it looked so nice
I got one more for half price
Bought it for half price
Everyone shopping
Commercial said they were just my style
Terrific values in every aisle
Values in every aisle
Everyone shopping
Everyone shopping - I turned around and all my dreams came true
Only a boomer consumer
- so what else could I do
Located so conveniently
Low price and the best quality
I found the best quality
Everyone shopping
Everyone shopping - I turned around and I was in a wonderland
Any direction selection - and they had my favorite brand
Those specials that I could not resist
Specials I know I might have missed
Specials I might have missed
Everyone shopping
Specials I might have missed
Everyone shopping

© Brian Peterson

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You are here we are now
You’re down on the ground and not high in the atmosphere
I’ll be near you’ll see how
How I would love you to discover
you are here
You are here we are now
The fifteen minutes fame you claim
may never reappear
I’ll be near you’ll see how
How I would love you to discover
you are here
In a land that hands out possibility
So fast - we’ve lost our way
But out of random accessibility
Our paths crossed today
You are here we are now
Tomorrow what you fear is merely
one more new frontier
I’ll be near you’ll see how
How I would love you to discover
you are here
How I would love you to discover
You are here

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Remembering a dream as if I always knew
The moment when I first saw you
As love would have it we found
we were searching
As love would have it coincidentally
I know that one life is precious
in that we all agree
As love would have it you shared
your life with me
Remembering a dream I may not understand
The moment when I touched your hand
As love would have it we felt the same feeling
As love would have it like synchronicity
I know that one life is precious one more could set me free
As love would have it you shared
your life with me
Remembering a dream it may
not be the same
The moment when I spoke your name
As love would have it two hearts
would beat together
As love would have it extraordinarily
I know that one life is precious
the best is yet to be
As love would have it you shared
your life with me
As love would have it you shared
your life with me

© Brian Peterson

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(Mike Tenhoff, cornet)

© Brian Peterson

There’s a river that crosses the prairie
And a river that winds through the trees
And above all the treasures I’ll carry
Minnesota you’ve given me these
May the lake be a heavenly mirror
To the bluest sky I’ll ever see
The horizon is rippling nearer
Minnesota your waves cradle me
I’ve known the only star in that northern sky
And I’ve known the only star I’ll be guided by
Pray the rains to restore and renew you
As they baptize the children your own
Those Ojibiway waters flow through you
Minnesota your son has come home
Those Ojibiway waters flow through you
Minnesota your son has come home

© Brian Peterson

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Is it just me or has it grown colder in this place
Have you been feeling any differently
Or could it be the distant look that steals across your face
I want to know tell me darling is it just me
Is it just me there are words you no longer care to say
Those little words I fill in silently
Or can’t you see one broken heart as your thoughts slip away
I want to know tell me darling is it just me
There has to be a reason I guess I should
have known
There has to be a reason why I feel so alone
Is it just me the last one who would ever
have a clue
Of somebody somewhere waiting secretly
And could it mean it’s cold because you’re holding someone new
I want to know tell me darling is it just me
I want to know tell me darling is it just me
Is it just me

© Brian Peterson

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That look your eyes a deep shimmering green
They cast a spell over me
Like a panther prowls in the night gliding in and out of my sight
Moving on those legs so lightly long and lean
My Maxine
Black hair extremely smooth and sleek
I’m drawing close as can be
Then you purr as if to say you know that you will capture your prey
In a game you play so heartlessly and mean
My Maxine
Maxine you are running such a high velocity
Maxine you are stunning but you’re way too much for me
Because those claws were hidden away
It was so easy to see
Though I can’t get you out of my mind always knew you would leave me behind
As you climb in and you drive off in your machine
My Maxine

© Brian Peterson

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Thank you for believing in me
now I won’t disappear
I love to tell my story and
I really do like it here
I am sure you’ll be counting on me
to deliver confidently
May this be your good fortune
Thank you for believing in me
You’ve been my inspiration and
turned my life around
Said you’d never give up on me
how could I let you down
(Chorus)
There’s one thing I’ve decided
about this light of mine
No longer can I hide it I’m gonna
let this little light shine
(Chorus)

© Brian Peterson

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