Lydia Adams Davis

Stuck on the Losing Side of Love
©Lydia Adams Davis

Now I'm stuck on the losing side of love again
In a game only losing teams can win
It's the same thing I'm so tired of again
Getting stuck here . . .on the losing side of love

I can't understand
How it happens every time
I pick a man who lures me with his charm
And later down the line
He's leaving me behind.
I'm hanging on too much
Crying for his touch.

And now I'm stuck . .

Maybe you don't know
You're hiding deep inside
The kind of love
No one can satisfy
And you can't help but show,
What you're trying to deny
You say you're on your own,
But you're staying by the phone

When you're still stuck . .

Lake Erie
©Lydia Adams Davis

It's a lazy day in August, it is quiet all around.
Nobody's calling me up with worries, nobody's talking me down.
There aren't any street noises this far from the road,
And all the people I'm looking at, are the people I love to hold.

Chorus: And I always knew life could be
Like a red sail sailing on Lake Erie;
And I only hope life will stay
Like a day on Lake Erie.

I have always thought that life could be happy;
I never believed it could only be bad.
Somehow, the people who talked above me,
Never convinced me of that.

Swimming in blue waters so much cleaner
Than they were last time I was here;
Swimming in Lake Erie, I'm a believer,
People will do what they need to here.

Chorus: And I always........

See how the trees look, the wind is blowing!
I can hear voices from history past.
This house is older than all of my memories;
All of my memories go back.

People who lived in the last century,
Wouldn't believe in the world we know.
It was much quieter, was it better?
Somehow I think we know.

Chorus: And I always knew....

Take Me Back
©Lydia Adams Davis

Take me back, take me back
To the mountains
There is nothing here
Reminding me of home,

But I’ll dream of the time,
When I was young and fine
Can I trade this body in
And keep my memories?

Take me back to the day
In our brand new seventh grade
When I fell in love
For the first time

And I’d read out of books
How to dress and walk and look
Can I trade this body in
And keep my memories?

Through the middle years
When I changed careers
I couldn’t get enough
I loved it all!

Though the years ebbed and flowed
I never thought of getting old
Can I trade this body in
And keep my memories?

But my mind these days
Just wanders in a haze
I can’t get out to walk
I feel confused

And I dream of the time
When the choices still were mine
Can I trade this body in
And keep my memories?

Before the Damage is Done
©Lydia Adams Davis

Reno
©Lydia Adams Davis

For a time, I’ve been living without you
I walked out one night, in the rain
Arranged for the children be cared for
And boarded a Western-bound train.

Chorus:
How I tried, how I tried, to be equal to you
But, in your mind, a wife is a slave
I’m a shifty-eyed stranger in Reno
Trying to buy back my life and my name.

The lonely, dark days that I traveled,
Kept me sleepless, with doubt, and with pain
I know I can make it with out you
But, worrying how haunts my brain.

Chorus

So, tomorrow, or maybe day after,
I’ll go back, a free woman again,
Won’t beg, borrow, or rob
I’m gonna find me a job
And I know I’ll be happier then.

Chorus

Peace, the river finds the winding shore,
Peace, the clouds drift grey and blue,
Peace, the evening gathers round,
Peace, I knew with you.

Peace, the lazy days along the trail
Peace, the leaves run in the wind,
Peace, the quiet of an evening sail,
Peace, yu feel within.

CHORUS
Peace, the moment just before dawn,
Peace, we're living for,
Peace, I hold it in my arms so warm,
When you walk through my door.
Please bring peace home again,
Like you always did before.
Please don't turn your back on me,
I need you more and more.
Please come home, please come home.

Peace, the morning when we stretch and sing,
Peace, when birds announce the day,
Peace, the harmony of many things,
We share in our own way.

Peace is calling on the distant wind,
Peace is living day to day,
Peace is reaching out to trust again,
When love feels this way.

CHORUS

Please come home, please come home.

There’s a Moon Out Talking to You
©Lydia Adams Davis

Chorus:
There’s a moon out talking to you
There’s a moon out talking to me
There’s a moon out talking you
Into loving me . . .

He’s wearing his face for the occasion
‘Cause Cupid’s just been by
And if you give him just a few minutes
He’ll shine that old love beam
In your eye.

Open your heart to hearing
All the reasons why
Love is there for the believing
Like the moon in the sky.
Ohhh . . .

Chorus

These stressed out & cynical days
Everyone’s working so hard
Everyone’s trying to get their share
and nobody knows where they are.

Falling in love’s not easy
When you’re self-directed and small
So, look up and let that old moon
Talk you into it all.
Ohhh . . .

Chorus

Song of Life
©Lydia Adams Davis I am tree I speak for earth
Wind, rain, joy, and birth
Ages past, all to be
Timeless branches, I am tree
Sprouting small, through years unplanned
I join a canopy of hands
From other trees like me,
If you crane your head you'll see . . . I am ground, I hold you fast
Free to grow, your roots will last
Through lives of women and men
Generations of children,
Fallen logs, lichen and moss
Make my bed from boughs
of needles, soft . . . Chorus: I am here of life I sing
Sense and savor everything
Air to breathe in, all around
Song of Life, resound! All the forest has a hum
Smallest bugs and crickets drum
Hawk aloft on distant glide
Locusts' whining sounds collide.
Lake aglow as daylight fades
Sky is streaked with
Purple, hazy indigo . . . When we visit here, we reap
Morning's quiet, evening's sleep,
Sky so black, the stars shine bright,
Through the trees, our firelight
Warms our voices, locked in song,
Telling tales of friends
And days, long gone . . . Chorus

Why, oh why, oh why should it be?
Love just makes a fool of me.

You kept me goin’ on a big fat lie
I kept on growin’ but you hated to try
You locked me up in a world of your own
Kept me lonely, disconnected the phone

Why, oh why, oh why should it be?
Love just makes a fool of me.

CHORUS: Oooh ? oooh ? oooh What am I to do?
Oooh ? oooh Why can’t I see you are no damn good!

I got two legs, but I forgot how to walk
I got a mouth but I forgot how to talk back
Maybe I’m crazy or misunderstood
Don’t understand why I don’t leave you for good

Why, oh why, oh why should it be?
Love just makes a fool of me.

CHORUS

I got two legs, but I forgot how to walk
I got a mouth but I forgot how to talk back
Maybe I’m crazy or misunderstood
Don’t understand why I don’t leave you for good

Why, oh why, oh why should it be?
Love just makes a fool of me.

Why, oh why, oh why should it be?
Love just makes a fool of me.