While The Music Lasts

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Verve Records
catalog ##B000219302
Release date 7/13/2004

In addition to the Ferdinandos; Kenny Wollesen, Dan Reiser, Tony Scherr, and Tim Luntzel, the album features guest appearances by Norah Jones, Bill Frisell, Steven Bernstein, Rob Burger & others. Van Dyke Parks contributes string arrangements on four songs that were performed by the Soldier String Quartet. The album was recorded and mixed by the legendary Terry Manning. Click on the mp3 icons to hear the songs.

01. Wild Eyes
02. Wish I Was A Bird
03. I Never Changed My Mind
04. More
05. I Have No Idea
06. While The Music Lasts
07. Gone Gone Gone
08. Forever Nowhere
09. Burn
10. Always Seem To Get Things Wrong
11. Mirror Ball
12. Don’t Need That
13. Open Your Eyes
14. One Day The Dam Will Break

WILD EYES

Remember feeling so alone?
Remember feeling like going home?
You never meant to be so cold
You never meant to let her go
Wild wild wild wild wild wild
Wild wild wild wild eyes
Remember feeling so alive
Waiting for the sun to rise?
Wild wild wild wild wild wild
Wild wild wild wild eyes
The smoke was rising into the air
You took a drag and disappeared
Wild wild wild wild wild wild
Wild wild wild wild eyes

WISH I WAS A BIRD

Blowing through Indian summer night sky
I’d fly straight to nowhere
But I’m grounded down here in the city
With these faces stern and pretty
And in the station where no one says a word
I wish I was a bird
If I listen to somebody speaking
I can only hear waves breaking
Out at the ocean the wind whips every word
I wish I was a bird

I NEVER CHANGED MY MIND

One day you’ll find
I never changed my mind
Just went away
With things I didn’t say
I’d seen the tides drifting by
Beyond the scenes
The distant tambourines
The sky
While I stood waiting there to leave
But why am I still waiting here to leave?
Though you stayed behind
I never changed my mind
I never changed my mind
I never changed my mind

MORE

Don’t cry
I’ll wait
Patient
While we
Pass through
Something
More than you
More than me
Larger than memory
So let go
You must know
One thing
It’s more than you
More than me
Larger than memory

I HAVE NO IDEA

I have no idea, no idea
How you feel, how you feel
But how good just to see you
How good just to feel you
But I have no idea what to do
No idea, only you

WHILE THE MUSIC LASTS

See you out on the floor
Where the speakers blast
Dancing while the music lasts
Up above the stars shine
On the nights you’ve passed
Dancing while the music lasts
Dancing while the music lasts
Teach me I want to know
How you move so fast
Dancing while the music lasts
Dancing while the music lasts
Waking up tomorrow
This will be the past
Dancing while the music lasts
Dancing while the music lasts

GONE GONE GONE

Gone, gone, gone like a wave
Like the time that you gave
Like a bird on the wing
On the first day of spring
So just keep moving on
Cause everything is gone, gone, gone
Like today and tonight
Like the sun out of sight
So just keep moving on
Cause everything is gone, gone, gone
So just keep moving on
Cause everything is gone, gone, gone

FOREVER NOWHERE

One question I’d ask
Since nothing’s gone as planned
Why do I keep running as fast as I can
Down roads that lead to nowhere
I will never understand
I took your warm hand
And led you past fountains
Where men played in string bands
Down from the mountains
We rolled along to nowhere
I will never understand
I will never understand
You long again for foreign lands
The lion’s den and burning sand
One thing I ask
If I may ask something
Give love to somebody
While I keep blowing
Like wind forever nowhere
I will never understand
I will never understand

BURN

Look at the smoke rise higher and higher
Look at the house go down in the fire
Down in the fire, down in the fire
Down in the fire, down in the fire
The flames are hot so you cannot stay
Nothing to do now but turn away
Turn away, turn away
Turn away, turn away
And burn burn burn burn
Burn burn burn burn
Fly through the woods on the wings of desire
You fly from the world but you’re down to the wire
Down to the wire, down to the wire
Down to the wire, down to the wire
So burn burn burn burn
Burn burn burn burn
Burn burn burn burn

ALWAYS SEEM TO GET THINGS WRONG

Always seem to get things wrong
I waited here a bit too long
For you to come along to me
I thought that I would kiss your lips
But the sky went dark and the moon eclipsed
And what I missed is all that I can see
Now I’m stuck here looking back
At where I lost the thread
So ashamed here thinking back
At how I lost my head
Way back when the world was young
Long before this song was sung
I know someone must have hurt like me

MIRROR BALL

Are you gonna live out there by yourself
Out there by yourself alone?
Are you gonna give to no one but yourself
No one but yourself alone?
And keep on spinning through an empty hall
Like relfections from a mirror ball
Round and round going nowhere?
Are you gonna stay up there in the clouds
Up there in the clouds so safe?
And keep on moving through an empty sky
Like a jet plane that’s just passing by
Round and round landing nowhere?
Round and round going nowhere
Are you gonna stay out there by yourself
Out there by yourself alone, alone, alone?

DON’T NEED THAT

I don’t need that
I don’t need that
Keep it under your hat
I don’t know when
And I don’t know how
I don’t need that now
The wind has changed
And turned me round
But didn’t make any sound
I’ve moved ahead
And closed that door
And I don’t need that no more
I took a taste
And lost my sight
There in the blinding light
But it broke me down
And turned me out
And I don’t need that
I don’t need that
I don’t need that now

OPEN YOUR EYES

Treading lightly on the ground
Trying not to make a sound
Tell me which way I should go
Tell me cause I just don’t know
Walking softly through the air
Trying so hard not to care
But I’m failing, failing bad
Feeling like I’ve just been had
What’s this silence from within?
Open the door and let me in
Running on these rolling wheels
Trying so hard not to feel
But the demon seems to know
Follows everywhere I go
What’s this darkness in the sky?
Open the ground and let me die
Sinking in the rolling sea
Waves are crashing over me
To another sea below
Sinking steadily and slow
There’s a current pulling strong
Open your eyes and I’ll be gone

ONE DAY THE DAM WILL BREAK

No matter how long it takes
One day the dam will break
One day the tears will fall
Just like that waterfall
Down, down, falling down
Till the walls are crumbling
How can you be so strong
Tell me I don’t belong
But just like the plans you make
One day the dam will break
Down, down, falling down
Tumbling in the water
There’s no place for you to hide
And no need to be so scared
When you know that I care
Think that you’ll keep your mind
By leaving me behind
But it’s not your mind at stake
And one day the dam will break
One day the dam will break
One day the dam will break