The Secret Sun

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Verve/Blue Thumb Records
catalog #B000026502
Release date 5/20/2003

Produced by Jesse Harris and Tony Scherr. Featuring Tony Scherr, Kenny Wollesen, Tim Luntzel, Norah Jones, and other special guests. Recorde at the Magic Shop in NYC. Mixed at Javis Studios in NYC. Mastered by Gene Paul at DBPlus in NYC.

01. Just A Photograph
02. The Secret Sun
03. Long Way From Home
04. All My Life
05. What Makes You
06. How?
07. You Were On My Mind
08. If You Won’t
09. The Other Road
10. The Midnight Bell
11. Roberta (Traditional)
12. You, The Queen

JUST A PHOTOGRAPH

You were other people I’m never gonna see
I’m never gonna see
The way you used to be
And I was other people
You’re never gonna know
You’re never gonna know
The way I was before
Look down at the picture
And you just have to laugh
It isn’t meIt’s just a photograph
We’ve been other places
I never wanna go
I never wanna go
And feel again so low
Look down at the postcard
And you just have to laugh
That isn’t the West Coast
It’s just a photograph
Look down at the picture
And you just have to laugh
It isn’t me
It’s just a photograph

THE SECRET SUN

Meet me by the sea again
Past the point the shoreline bends
Where the sand is soft and warm
And hangs upon your golden arm
And time won’t move at all
We were once the only ones
Who knew of the secret sun
Shining down where no one goes
In a place that no one knows
And time won’t move at all
And time won’t move at all
Many lives have come between
You and me, the secret scene
But back there in the orange light
There’ll be no fear of the night
And time won’t move at all
And time won’t move at all

LONG WAY FROM HOME

In a mirror stop and stare
But it’s a stranger’s face in there
Rake my hair back with a plastic comb
Where’d I go?
I’m feeling like I’m a long way from home
You were sweet to care for me
And gently stroke my hair for me
Put me on a mattress made of foam
And whisper low
But I’m feeling like I’m a long way from home
I don’t know where I’m going
I don’t know what I’m doing
Sleep again won’t come to me
I walk outside, the galaxies
And stars surround the whole world like a dome
I’m still alone
And I’m feeling like I’m a long, long way from home

ALL MY LIFE

Once in a while I think about it
Think about what you said
Late in haze of night into morning
With eyes turning to red
All my life I waited to see an omen of the good kind
All my life I listened and heard the thunder as it rose behind
Now even a smile, even the sunshine
Don’t cease to seem unreal
But with a kiss late in the darkness
I know how I used to feel
All my life I waited to see an omen of the good kind
All my life I listened and heard the thunder as it rose behind
On you and I
I don’t see any reason to stay here
I don’t see any way out right now
When can a smile, when will the sunshine
Not cease to seem unreal?
It’s with a kiss late in the darkness
You feel how you used to feel
All my life I waited to see an omen of the good kind
All my life I listened and heard the thunder as it rose behind
On you and I

WHAT MAKES YOU

What makes you think you’re so smart?
What makes you think that you’re not part of this?
Long ago you were fooled into thinking
You were removed from this life
But if you feel
The way that I feel
Don’t hide it
Don’t conceal it from me

HOW?

How can you leave?
How can you stay?
Now that your hope
Has faded away
Nothing is here
Nothing is there
Caught between nothing
Is something to bear
And if you had some dream
Do you remember?
Do you recall?
You dreamed alone
If you dreamed at all
So how can you stay here?
But how can you go?
If there’s an answer
You’ll never know
And if you had some dream
Do you remember?
Do you recall?
You dreamed alone
If you dreamed at all
If you dreamed at all

YOU WERE ON MY MIND

I was wrong to believe
I could go and be free
You were on my mind
Way out there on my own
I was cold like a stone
You were on my mind
You were on my mind
In the dark rented rooms
Scented in cheap perfume
You were on my mind
You were on my mind
Come on back to me now
I won’t ever let you down
You were on my mind
You were on my mind
You were on my mind

IF YOU WON’T

Nobody ever stays someplace for long
Everyone leaves at the end of the song
But I won’t if you won’t
I won’t if you won’t
I won’t if you won’t
If you won’t go
Wanting to know the thing that we don’t know
Wanting to own the thing that we don’t own
But I won’t if you won’t
I won’t if you won’t
I won’t if you won’t
If you won’t go
I won’t if you won’t
I won’t if you won’t
I won’t if you won’t
If you won’t go

THE OTHER ROAD

Gazing out into space
We spend the endless day
When wine like water flows
And light falls on the rose
Clouds rushing in now
Wash us with rain
So we go
Out sailing on the other road
Clouds block the stars now
We can’t remain
So we go
Out sailing on the other road
The other road
The other road

THE MIDNIGHT BELL

It’s been one year I know well
Since I heard the midnight bell
From your window on the square
Open to the midnight air
My home far away
I’ll go back someday
When there’s nothing I can hold
When the rainy sky turns cold
My home far away
I’ll go back someday
My home far away
I’ll go back to stay
Why I left the wishing well
Is a thing I’ll never tell
My home far away
I’ll go back someday
My home far away
I’ll go back to stay

YOU, THE QUEEN

You are the queen of stone and ice
You are the bird of paradise
On a gale at dawn
Just floating on
You don’t know the dream I had
You don’t know I feel so bad
I can see you, girl
With your eyes like pearls
Come on out and see the sights
You won’t be alone tonight
Look at the walls you’ve built
Look at the time you’ve killed
There is a price for mystery
There is a world that you never see
There is a seed we sow
With just a weed that grows
These are the plans of yesterday
This is the love that will never go away