- All from the Heart
- Angels in the Snow
- Edges of Reality
- Getting Back to the Country
- Love is a Crazy Thing
- No Place to Go
- North Country Nights
- Small Alberta Town
- Together
All from the Heart
Freedom was like a ball and chain
What I'd lost was worth more than the gain
But I know there are things you just can't change
Living my life like there was no tomorrow
I left behind a lot of grief and sorrow
But I've learned hard lessons thro' it all
Chorus: You can take it hard
You can take it easy
Still you find life can drive you crazy
But don't let it blind you or tear you apart
Just do as you will but do it all from the heart
I saw my worst enemy
In the mirror looking back at me
And looking back there things I wish I changed
Fell in love like there was no tomorrow
I used a lot of tricks that I beg stole or borrowed
But I've learned hard lessons thro' those falls
Chorus: You can take it hard
You can take it easy
Still you find love can drive you crazy
But don't let it blind you or tear you apart
Just do as you will but do it all from the heart
Chorus: You can take it hard
You can take it easy
Life and love can drive you crazy
But don't let 'em blind you or tear you apart
Just do as you will but do it all from the heart
© February 2006 Ken Campbell
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Angels in the Snow
Hello old Charley
How's the world been treating you?
I've seen you on the way up and down and I know you thro' and thro'
Did your wine lose its' flavor
I know your song lost its' words
A tired worn old man
Sittin' on a bus stop bench
Right next to the schoolyard
Where kids are making angels in the snow
Wake up little Katie
There's not much left of you
(from) Those men that hung around and bought the beauty of your youth
Sixteen years of living
And you called me your friend
Lonely little dark-haired girl
Walks the streets by the bus stop bench
Right next to the schoolyard
Where kids are making angels in the snow
Instrumental:
Hello ole Charley
How's the world been treating you?
A tired worn old man
Sittin' on a bus stop bench
Right next to the schoolyard
Where kids are making angels in the snow
© February 2006 Ken Campbell
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Edges of Reality
Dust devils dancing in the distance
Heat waves shimmer down the road
Been contemplating my existence
The parts that nobody knows
At times I thought it would last forever
Goes to show how much you know
About how the story of life goes
Ooo ooooo ooo
Muddy waters flowing down the ditches
The little captain sets his boats adrift
Air that's filled with high screamed pitches
Little sisters' in the way again
Those childhood days could last forever
Time I couldn't comprehend
That every story has an end
Ooo ooooo ooo
Instrumental:
Sister passed away last summer
Carved the heart right out of me
Cut by the edges of reality
Ooo ooooo ooo
© February 2006 Ken Campbell
Getting Back to the Country
Walking down the road 'cross the railroad tracks
Releasing my mind, thinking back
In that hot summer sun
To the days that I spent around here
Feeling the wind caressing my brow
Thinking of yesterday in the here and now
Sure makes me feel real good
To come back home again
Chorus: I'm getting back to the country
I'm going back to where living's more my style
Getting back to the country
Think I'm going to stay there awhile
So many things are different now that time has changed
But the heart of the man of the boy remains
Beating strong like the wings of a wild bird over head
I like to come back here every now and then
Just to ease my mind and think about when
I was a carefree kid running wildly
Through these woods
Chorus:
Tag 2x
© February 2006 Ken Campbell
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Love is a Crazy Thing
I've never known
A woman like you
Oh love is a crazy thing
I've never had
A feeling like this
Oh love is a crazy thing
Chorus: The strongest kind of feeling
Can make you feel so weak
A bad state of confusion
Is where I seem to be
I've never had
A feeling so strong
Oh love is a crazy thing
Chorus: The strongest kind of feeling
Can make you feel so weak
A bad state of confusion
Is where I seem to be
I've never had
A feeling like this
Oh love is a crazy thing
Chorus: The strongest kind of feeling
Can make you feel so weak
A bad state of confusion
Is where I seem to be
I've never known
A woman like you
Oh love is a crazy thing
© February 2006 Ken Campbell
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No Place to Go
Lost in the morning
Like the wind in the air
Dreams are only memories
Left on the road somewhere
I 've been damned by the luck
Only losers know
Midnite finds me on the highway
With no place to go
Chorus: It seems like everytime
She made a fool of me
Made my foolish dreams fall thro'
And bend to reality
Was a reason
To be standing on the road
An old flame burning deep inside of me
To keep me from the cold
Images of bitterness
Steal across my soul
Her love for another man is plain
It runs my mind down low
Yesterday's reason for leaving
Only she could know
Midnite finds me on the highway
With no place to go
Chorus:
© February 2006 Ken Campbell
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North Country Nights
Chorus: I miss those north country nights
I miss the lonely sight
Of those mystic lights dancing 'cross a blackened sky
I've got the sound in my mind
Of a night wind as it winds and it whispers softly thro' the pines
Nothing fits so well in my mem'ry
Nothing ever made me feel so whole
Like sitting on a bend of the river
Fishing line on a poplar willow pole
Chorus:
Yesterday keeps hanging onto my shoulder
Moonlit nights made me feel so free
Coyotes howling always sounds so lonely
A wild goose call stirs a part of me
© February 2006 Ken Campbell
Small Alberta Town
Down the streets where we lived
The reflections abound
On big store front windows
That line the streets of your town
It was a ten minute run
From the center of main
To a small road side dugout
Summer's playground
In the heart of the man
From the mind of a child
The mem'ries abound of a small Alberta town
Down an old country road
By the rusty rail tracks
There are footprints in the creek bank
That never turned back
The load that they carried
Got heavy in time
From the lessons of living
That weighed down the mind
In the sound of the breeze
Moving green poplar leaves
The mem'ries abound of a small Alberta town
Past the cold days of winter
Tho' the colors of fall
These things I recall of a small Alberta town
© February 2006 Ken Campbell
Together
Feeling the rain
Fall down on my shoulders
The sky ain't clearing
The day's getting colder
I'm missing you
And the days
We were together
Ain't had the time
To be happy today
Got no time for smilin'
Got nothing to say
I'm missing you
And the days
We were together
Tomorrow's the day
To be leaving the rain
Got to be moving
Moving away
I'm missing you
And the days
We were together
Repeat first verse:
© February 2006 Ken Campbell
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