WE HAD TO MIND

 

WE HAD TO MIND

 

WRITTEN BY

JEFF R HILTON

2022

 

 I SEE US SO OFTEN

 

WHEN I LOOK INTO THE PAST

 

SO OFTEN TRYING

 

TO CATCH THE SUN

 

CLIMBING EVER HIGHER

 

ABOVE THE TREES

 

SLIPPING AWAY

 

LIKE SO MANY DAYS

 

WE THOUGHT WE WERE TASTING

 

ALL THE LIFE WE NEEDED

 

FAR FROM JADED

 

PASSIVE INNOCENCE

 

COLOURED AND SHADED

 

CURIOSITY

 

ALWAYS WON

 

ADD MORE THING

 

THAT WE HAVE DONE

 

IT MADE US SMILE

 

IT WAS FUN

 

 

TEARING DOWN THE WALLS

 

ONE BY ONE

 

SEARCHING FOR NEW HORIZONS 

 

TOOK ALL OUR TIME

 

WE HAD TO MIND

 

WE HAD TO KEEP OUR HEADS

 

REMEMBER FAIRY TALES

 

ARE SELDOM SEEN

 

OUTSIDE BOOK COVERS

 

AND THE SILVER SCREEN

 

THE MOMENTS 

 

THAT CAME AND WENT 

 

PASSED ME BY

 

WONDERING IF I SHOULD SAY

 

TELL YOU WHAT I FEEL

 

SHOW YOU WHERE YOU ARE 

 

CLOSER TO MY HEART

 

 

HOW COULD YOU

 

NOT SEE ME

 

 HANGING ON YOUR WORDS

 

EACH ONE LIKE

 

CATCHING THE SUN

 

YOU COULD OF BEEN THE ONLY ONE

 

BUT YOU SLIPPED AWAY

 

WHILE WE WERE CHASING THE SUN

 

SOMETIMES I WONDER IF YOU WON 

 

FOUND ALL THAT YOU NEEDED

 

SURE WE HAD TO MIND

 

KEEP OUR HEADS

 

REMEMBER FAIRY TALES

 

ARE SELDOM SEEN

 

OUTSIDE BOOK COVERS

 

AND THE SILVER SCREEN 

CROSS ROAD

 

CROSS ROAD

 

WRITTEN BY

JEFF R HILTON

2022

 

THE LAUGHS THE LIFE

 

THE TIMES WE HAD TO SEE

 

WAITING INSIDE

 

A FAVOURABLE LIGHT

 

AT A PLACE

 

WE COULD OWN OUR TIME

 

SEE GOOD RISE

 

WITHOUT DECLINE

 

I DON'T MISS A THING

 

I LEFT BEHIND

 

 

 A NEW MOON

 

A NEW YEAR

 

A NEW DAY

 

WITH YOU NEAR

 

WE ALWAYS KNEW

 

SOMEHOW WE'D FIND A WAY

 

SHOULD WE SAY IT'S LOVE

 

OR SOMETHING MORE

 

 

WE'RE COMING TO A CROSS ROAD

 

ONE LEADS TO THE SHORE

 

THE OTHER CLIMBS UP TO THE SKY

 

TAKE A BOAT

 

FLOAT BENEATH THE STARS

 

DRIFTING

 

THE WINDS ARE SHIFTING

 

CHANGING SIDES

 

OR TAKE REFUGE IN THE TREES

 

WHERE THE AIR STARTS TO THIN

 

IT'S EITHER OF THESE 

THE CHOICES THAT WE MAKE

ARE ALL CHANCES

AND LEAPS OF FAITH

WHEN THE HARSH WINDS

ARE BLOWING COLD

THE SUMMERS A MEMORY

FADING INTO GLOOM

I HOPE TIMES LEAVES US

SOME ROOM

TO GET THERE BEFORE

WE GET OLD

STILL SEARCHING FOR

THE ONE ANSWER

THAT TURNS IT ALL AROUND

LOVE DOESN'T MAKE

SO MUCH A SOUND

AS A FEELING

 

 THAT SURROUNDS YOU

WE'RE TOO FAR IN

TO EVER STOP

SO MANY PLANS

WE COULDN'T DROP

SHOULD WE SAY IT'S LOVE

OR SOMETHING MORE

IT DOESN'T MATTER TO ME

AS LONG AS I'M WITH YOU

IN THE TREES

OR ON THE SHORE

 

 

BURNED FOR LIGHT

BURNED FOR LIGHT

 

WRITTEN BY

JEFF R HILTON

2022

 

NO ONES HAPPY

 

EVERYONE SEEMS SO SAD

 

DETACHED FROM

 

 THE LIFE THEY HAD

 

IS THERE A WAY

 

OUT OF THIS

 

A TIME TO SAY

 

ITS TIME TO GO

 

HURRY HURRY

 

DON'T BE LATE

 

COME ON BEFORE YOU

 

DON'T GET TO TRY

 

I CAN'T GO ON

 

LIVING A LIE

 

 

EXCUSE ME BUT

 

I CAN'T STAY

 

THE MORE DISTANCE

 

THAT I APPLY

 

THE FARTHER I GO

 

AWAY FROM THIS

 

PATHETIC SHOW

 

THE BETTER 

 

EVERYTHING WILL BE  

 

WHERE I CAN'T HEAR

 

THE LIES

 

 

NATURE NOURISHES ME

 

KEEPS ME ALIVE

 

ASLEEP BENEATH A TREE

 

I HAD A DREAM

 

SO CLEARLY DID I SEE

 

EVERYTHING

 

SEEMED LIKE

 

THE SUN WAS GONE

 

THE DARKNESS DEEPENED

 

ENOUGH TO

 

 PENETRATE YOUR SOUL

 

SEEMS LIKE IT ALL LET GO

 

 

ALL THE LIARS

 

 BURNED FOR LIGHT

 

NOW ITS ON

 

AND IT JUST MIGHT

 

KEEP ON BURNING

 

AS LONG AS WE KEEP

 

LEARNING FROM ALL THIS

 

KNOW THAT IGNORANCE

 

IS NOT SOME KIND OF BLISS

 

JUST AS LONG AS WE

 

KEEP ON DANCING

 

ON THE STARS

 

MOVE TO MEET EVIL

 

FACE TO FACE

 

DENY IT TIME AND SPACE 

 

LIARS BURNED FOR LIGHT 

IF YOU SAID IT ALL

 

IF YOU SAID IT ALL

 

WRITTEN BY

JEFF R HILTON

2022

 

WHEN DAYS COME TO PASS

 

NIGHTS GO ON FOREVER

 

HIDING FROM THE DAWN

 

THERE'S  YOU AND I 

 

FROM WAY DOWN LOW

 

TO WAY UP HIGH

 

A SWOLLEN MOON ALMOST FULL

 

HANGS THERE IN THE STARS

 

 

I WILL HOLD YOU UNTIL 

 

THE MORNING LIGHT

 

GETS INSIDE

 

IF YOU SAID IT ALL

 

IT GOES

 

TO STAY IN SILENCE

 

LOOKING FOR

 

SOME OTHER WAY

 

TO SHOW YOU THAT

 

I STILL KEEP YOU

 

IN MY HEART

 

I HATE WHEN WE ARE APART 

 

EACH DAY SO EMPTY

 

CANT SUSTAIN MY SOUL

 

MY GRIP IS SUCH

 

I FEEL LIKE I AM LETTING GO

 

 

CARRIED AWAY ON THE WIND

 

THE DAYS THE TIME WE CANNOT

 

GET BACK AGAIN

 

I CANNOT COME TO TERMS 

 

I DON'T WANT THIS

 

TO EVER END

 

I DON'T WANT  THIS

 

TO EVER END

 

YOU CALL ME AND

 

I AM ALWAYS THERE

 

A FIXED STARE 

 

TO MEET YOUR GAZE 

 

TIME STILL FADES AWAY

 

DOESN'T MATTER

 

WHAT YOU DO OR SAY

 

ITS STILL GONE

 

ITS WHAT I FOUND

 

OH HOW COULD I NOT SEE

 

YOUR LOVE STILL RISING

 

A TIDE IN THE SEA

 

IF YOU SAID IT ALL

 

IT GOES TO STAY IN SILENCE

 

LOOKING FOR

 

 SOME OTHER WAY  

ONE MORE SUN

 

ONE MORE SUN

 

WRITTEN BY

JEFF R HILTON

2022

 

FOLLOWED THE SUN

 

A LONG LONG WAY

 

WATCHED IT BURN

 

 INTO THE DUSK 

 

OUT HERE IN THE COUNTRY

 

ITS A REQUISITE A MUST

 

FOUND MYSELF IN THE

 

TALL TREES

 

IT SURE FELT LIKE HOME

 

ALWAYS SEEMED A SHAME

 

WHEN I HAD TO LEAVE 

 

 

ALL THE CALLS 

 

I HAD TO MEET

 

STARTED OFF SO GOOD

 

THEN ENDED IN DEFEAT

 

ITS JUST LIFE 

 

PUSHING YOU AROUND 

 

DID I MAKE IT

 

SO IT CAN

 

IS THAT THE ONLY WAY

 

CUT ME DOWN

 

BEFORE I'M DONE

 

 

SO CLOSE TO FREE

 

BUT IT SEEMS SO FAR TO ME

 

ONE MORE SUN

 

BURNS INTO THE DUSK

 

ANOTHER SKY FULL OF STARS

 

A LOVERS MOON

 

COMES AND GOES

 

I THINK I FINALLY UNDERSTAND

 

SOME THINGS I PLANNED

 

HID IN THE SHADOWS

 

TOO LONG

 

WAITING FOR THE SUNLIGHT

 

THAT NEVER CAME

 

RIGHT OR WRONG

 

IT RESTS RIGHT THERE

 

WITH THE FACTS

 

 

BUT TIME IS PASSING BY

 

AND EVERY TIME

 

 I THINK OF US 

 

I KNOW YOU FOLLOWED ME

 

TOOK MY LEAD

 

THAT'S REASON ENOUGH

 

TO BELIEVE

 

WE SHOULD KEEP ON GOING

 

GET THERE PROUD

 

FINISH STRONG

 

ONE MORE SUN BURNS

 

INTO THE DUSK

 

A BEAUTIFUL SKY

 

 

THE BELLS OF FREEDOM

 

THE BELLS OF FREEDOM

 

WRITTEN BY

JEFF R HILTON

2022

 

I FEEL SO HELPLESS LIKE

 

 THERE'S NOTHING I CAN DO 

 

AS MUCH AS THIS FEELING

 

THAT I WANT TO

 

WHERE WOULD I EVEN START

 

IT'S SO FAR APART

 

NO ONE LISTENED

 

TO THE WARNINGS

 

THEY WERE BLIND

 

TO THE SIGNS

 

OBEDIENT TO THE END

 

WOULDN'T CROSS THE LINES

 

 

WE CAN'T MAKE 

 

A STAND FROM HERE

 

THE FIELD OF FIRE 

 

ISN'T CLEAR

 

IN THE MOUNTAINS

 

BY A STREAM

 

HIDDEN IN THE TREES

 

WE'LL BUILD A PLACE

 

YOU AND I

 

WHEN THE SUN GOES DOWN

 

AND OUR WHOLE WORLD IS

 

LOST IN THE STARS

 

PRECARIOUSLY PERCHED

 

FREE IN OUR SOULS

 

 

WE WON'T LET GO

 

SMILE TO THE END

 

I GET THE FEELING

 

I'VE BENT ALL I CAN

 

I'M DONE PRETENDING

 

DEFENDING YOU IS

 

ALL I WANT TO DO

 

I'M MOVING ON

 

I CAN'T FORGET OR FORGIVE

 

ALL WE EVER WANTED

 

WAS TO LIVE

 

THE BELLS OF FREEDOM

 

ARE STARTING TO PEAL

 

ALL TRUST IS GONE

 

NO ONE IS REAL

 

TIME TO STEAL AWAY

 

FADE INTO THE TREES

 

WE WON'T LIVE

 

 ON OUR KNEES 

PRECARIOUSLY PERCHED

FREE IN OUR SOULS

WE WON'T LET GO

SMILE TO THE END

I GET THE FEELING

I'VE BENT ALL I CAN