Across the prairie plains come wild and free I am swifter than the summer breeze Open the floodgates to old memories There's a wrinkle in time where we used to be

Light up, light up, light up your lazy blue eyes Moon's up, night's up, takin' this town by surprise Night time, night time, the day left an hour ago City light time, must you get ready so slow? There are places to come from and places to go Night in the city looks pretty to me Night in the city looks fine Music comes spillin' out in to the streets Colours go flashin' in time Take off, take off, take off your stay at home shoes Break off, shake off, chase off those stay at home blues Stairway, stairway down to the crowds in the street They go their way, looking for faces to greet But we run on laughing, with no one to meet Night in the city looks pretty to me Night in the city looks fine Music comes spillin' out in to the streets Colours go waltzin' in time Night in the city looks pretty to me Night in the city looks fine Music comes spillin' out in to the streets Colours go waltzin' in time

Once I fell in love in the Qu'appelle Valley Had his arms draped like a blanket around my body And in no time at all, he became my sheath We were both young and incomplete We were searching naive for a certain kind of peace And when it arrived, it wasn't everything we hoped it would be I guess that's on me And the skies were alive, full of colours and lights A web of stars align Strangers call out into the night, unanswered in the moonlight My lover left behind Now, in your jade lakes I see I am one, lone, reflected silhouette Starting back into the depths of memory Sing your sweet refrain across the prairies May your voice echo and fly like a meadowlark To find me in the midst of my silent reverie When the skies were alive, full of colours and lights A web of stars align Strangers call out into the night, unanswered in the moonlight My lover left behind

Rows and floes of angel hair And ice cream castles in the air And feather canyons everywhere I've looked at clouds that way But now they only block the sun They rain and snow on everyone So many things I would have done But clouds got in my way I've looked at clouds from both sides now From up and down, and still somehow It's cloud illusions I recall I really don't know clouds at all Moons and Junes and Ferris wheels The dizzy dancing way you feel As every fairy tale comes real I've looked at love that way But now it's just another show You leave 'em laughing when you go And if you care, don't let them know Don't give yourself away I've looked at love from both sides now From give and take, and still somehow It's love's illusions I recall I really don't know love at all Tears and fears and feeling proud To say "I love you" right out loud Dreams and schemes and circus crowds I've looked at life that way Now old friends are acting strange They shake their heads, they say I've changed Well something's lost, but something's gained In living every day I've looked at life from both sides now From win and lose and still somehow It's life's illusions I recall I really don't know life at all

I am on a lonely road and I am traveling Traveling, traveling, traveling Looking for something, what can it be Oh I hate you some, I hate you some, I love you some Oh I love you when I forget about me I want to be strong I want to laugh along I want to belong to the living Alive, alive, I want to get up and jive I want to wreck my stockings in some juke box dive Do you want - do you want - do you want to dance with me baby Do you want to take a chance On maybe finding some sweet romance with me baby Well, come on All I really really want our love to do Is to bring out the best in me and in you too All I really really want our love to do Is to bring out the best in me and in you I want to talk to you, I want to shampoo you I want to renew you again and again Applause, applause - Life is our cause When I think of your kisses my mind see-saws Do you see - do you see - do you see how you hurt me baby So I hurt you too Then we both get so blue I am on a lonely road and I am traveling Looking for the key to set me free Oh the jealousy, the greed is the unraveling It's the unraveling And it undoes all the joy that could be I want to have fun, I want to shine like the sun I want to be the one that you want to see I want to knit you a sweater Want to write you a love letter I want to make you feel better I want to make you feel free I want to make you feel free

Picture a girl with straw yellow hair Looking down, she's self aware Nothing to fear but what's inside her head And all those outcomes left unsaid And she'd love to know what lies beyond the beyond Somebody tell her what is going, going on Seafoam walls, the scent of sadness consumes Takes us hostage, slaves to the gloom Sleepless nights with hearts on false alarm We're hoping for signs of health and never harm Well, what do you say when no one knows how long you've really got before you're gone? Away from the ones you love, from the ones you need And everyone's counting every breath you breathe And we'd love to know what lies beyond the beyond Somebody tell us what is going, going on When the weight of the world is on your shoulders And you don't really know just what is wrong May you find beauty in the eye of the beholder May you find solace in the depth of your song Well maybe I don't wanna know what lies beyond the beyond But we don't have a way to make this make sense at all I guess that all we can do is keep going, going on

Sophisticated lady of the north I'm here in the crowd watching her sway back and forth in time And I wanna know all the scenes she's seen How I wanna feel all the places she's been Chanteuse of the prairies, troubadour at heart But more content to just play her own part on the stage of life And I wanna see the world through her eyes For when she sings, there's no one she can't beguile Here for your consideration All her loves, lost and found and out of bounds, on display And she's done waiting for your validation Men listening deal in extremes, Saying, "Silly schemes and naive dreams" She is only the lovesick dove, the heartbroken lamb In the eyes of lamb Sister, they see through you like cellophane Sneaking stares through the windowpane of your soul But they don't know how you play the game Protecting the queen, always keep your cards close Warm-hearted woman, giver of pure light I'm fierce, and I'm fearful, and I'm going at it blind (going blind) Learning to fan the flame that burns within To trust my heart's compass when my confidence wears thin Driven like Athena, wearing colours of the sky Marrying insight and intellect, I refuse to comply with what came before I am no reckless daughter, but I too have my power Like my mothers here before me, I'll be here 'til the final hour Here for your consideration All my hurts - raw, the healed, the well concealed on display And we're done waiting for some kind of approval Give us space to reign and rule Let our passion be the fuel to carry on our song Sister, they see through us like cellophane Sneaking stares through the windowpanes of our souls But they don't know how we play the game Protecting the queen, always keep our cards close Doesn't it feel like they're judging you from the inside out? Well, don't be afraid to cry You're the goddess with the artful eye Foreseeing the future long before the change of tides Forever my penny yellow blonde, Let your spirit sing on high Your inspiration won't expire Release the pain and the doubt you've been forced to keep confined Softness is the strength you desire Sister, they see through us like cellophane Sneaking stares through the windowpanes of our souls But they don't know how we play the game Protecting the queen, always keep our cards close You know you're never gonna fold

Blue songs are like tattoos You know I've been to sea before Crown and anchor me Or let me sail away Hey Blue, here is a song for you Ink on a pin Underneath the skin An empty space to fill in Well there're so many sinking now You've got to keep thinking You can make it thru these waves Acid, booze, and ass Needles, guns, and grass Lots of laughs lots of laughs Everybody's saying that hell's the hippest way to go Well I don't think so But I'm gonna take a look around it though Blue I love you Blue here is a shell for you Inside you'll hear a sigh A foggy lullaby There is your song from me

Feel the river flowing Got the urge for going beyond the walls inside my weary mind Familiar feelings hold me, caging and controlling But bathed in sunlight, my fear's painted blind I can hear how the wind calls my name It's time to leave behind these old wounds And finally test my wings Emerging from the deep blue Feeble thoughts I outgrew are rearranged and ever undermined Pure romance with this moment creates a world wide open Where I am free to bloom as a soul unconfined I can hear how the wind calls my name It's time to leave behind these old wounds And finally test my wings A fiery phoenix I rise, unfettered by old disguise With ashes in the river, my eyes to the sky Unfurling petals reveal a beauty grown within I'm like a river rolling forward on a journey with no end I can hear how the wind calls my name It's time to leave behind these old wounds And finally test my wings

We're not so different, you and I Both born under a dancing sky Stretching out far and wide One eye on home, the other on the horizon You're miles ahead, and I'm just learning to leave For the past always makes me pine I'd like to escape what might have been And conjure the courage to leave it all behind Out of fear I know I'm gonna find my way out of here somehow Out of fear I'll calm my urge to hold my tongue or disappear Still not sure how to follow your lead The path is undefined We are women of heart and mind Plumbing the depths of experience and time I'm like a magpie in my memories Looking for something shiny Tell me, were you once like me? Did you ever need someone to show you how to cross that line Out of fear I know I'm gonna find my way out of here somehow Out of fear I'll calm my urge to hold my tongue or disappear Women of wisdom, I call upon you now And if you're listenin', oh won't you show me how I'm gonna get by? Should I turn a blind eye to all the what-if's echoing inside? Could I let these fears just fall upon deaf ears? And finally find, I'm a woman who's wise, wise And rise Out of fear I know I'm gonna find my way out of here somehow Out of fear I'll calm my urge to hold my tongue or disappear

There's a crow flying Black and ragged Tree to tree He's black as the highway that's leading me Now he's diving down To pick up on something shiny I feel like that black crow Flying In a blue sky I took a ferry to the highway Then I drove to a pontoon plane I took a plane to a taxi And a taxi to a train I've been traveling so long How'm I ever going to know my home When I see it again I'm like a black crow flying In a blue blue sky In search of love and music My whole life has been Illumination Corruption And diving diving diving diving Diving down to pick up on every shiny thing Just like that black crow flying In a blue sky I looked at the morning After being up all night I looked at my haggard face in the bathroom light I looked out the window And I saw that ragged soul take flight I saw a back crow flying In a blue sky Oh I'm like a black crow flying In a blue sky

Trina wears her wampum beads She fills her drawing book with line Sewing lace on widows' weeds And filigree on leaf and vine Vine and leaf are filigree And her coat's a secondhand one Trimmed with antique luxury She is a lady of the canyon Annie sits you down to eat She always makes you welcome in Cats and babies 'round her feet And all are fat and none are thin None are thin and all are fat She may bake some brownies today Saying you are welcome back She is another canyon lady Estrella circus girl Comes wrapped in songs and gypsy shawls Songs like tiny hammers hurled At beveled mirrors in empty halls Empty halls and beveled mirrors Sailing seas and climbing banyans Come out for a visit here To be a lady of the canyon Trina takes her paints and her threads And she weaves a pattern all her own Annie bakes her cakes and her breads And she gathers flowers for her home For her home she gathers flowers And Estrella dear companion Colors up the sunshine hours Pouring music down the canyon Coloring the sunshine hours They are the ladies of the canyon