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Connections

by Karyn Michaelson

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1.
So you’ve come here to condemn me Well take that beam out of your eye Real love is hard to come by And it’s between my god and my You tell me I’ve got it wrong You tell me I don’t belong Focusing on my salvation While your own heart grows cold As I make my way to heaven I will answer for my soul You know vengeance is not yours for the bible tells you so To thine own self be true I owe no homage to you No I can’t live that lie and it’s between my god and my Love sweet love love sweet love Help us all rise above and keep the focus on ourselves War drugs crime disease pollution The world is screaming to be saved But you set your sights on my world And who is sleeping in my bed Well I ain’t hurting anyone Consenting adults deep in love And real love is hard to come by And it’s between my god and my Love sweet love love sweet love Help us all rise above And keep the focus on ourselves It’s between my god and my love
2.
I used to hide when I was just a child Behind my Momma’s knees And every time I’d feel I was gonna cry When a stranger looked at me There still are days when I don’t wanna play It’s easier to stay at home and hide I tell myself it’s gonna be o.k Come on give it one more try And look how far you’ve come Stepping out the door and having fun Look how far you’ve come able to say hi to everyone For several years I listened to my fears They told me not to go But staying here I quickly disappear Deeper within my hole I cannot lie I’m petrified just two days before the show What have I done too late to run come on baby just let go And look how far you’ve come Stepping out the door and having fun Look how far you’ve come able to say no to anyone Am I crazy will there ever be a time I’m not afraid Yes this will change me If I lose myself I trust that I will find me again And look how far you’ve come Stepping out the door and having fun Look how far you’ve come able to say hi to everyone Look how far you’ve come Standing on the stage and having fun Look how far you’ve come ya your life has just begun I used to hide when I was just a child Behind my Momma’s knees
3.
Superhero 03:24
Once upon a time I used to be a superhero Trying to save my baby from the storm But I was busy cause my baby didn’t like the sun and chased down every cloud she came upon All of those years I spent wasting my life thinking things would change Well I lost myself bad I finally had to be the one I had to save Now I’m doing what’s right for me you’re doing what’s right for you Now here we are together and the skies so blue Your doing what’s right for you I’m doing what’s right for me Ain’t it sweet to be happy Well you had visions of your own With the love you knew back then Trying to save them from their storm But we finally let them go Watched them drifting out to sea Happy in their misery When we finally turned around and discovered each other we could see That we didn’t have to lose ourselves to save the world so we could feel complete Now I’m doing what’s right for me You’re doing what’s right for you And here we are together and the skies so blue Your doing what’s right for you I’m doing what’s right for me Ain’t it sweet to be happy
4.
Lone Rider 04:18
Driving down this road again with a screen of dust behind me I’ll keep running ’til no one ever finds me My heart is trailing a few paces back And it can stay there ’til it don’t feel no more The Lone Rider slowly makes his way through town Everybody stares at him as he smoothly looks around They all have visions of being free and being wild As they go back to their warm homes with their loved ones I don’t wanna be a desperado I don’t wanna make it alone Camouflage my heart and be someone that nobody knows All your life you fight your way to the top One day you look down and everybody’s looking up They all adore you even though they do not know you Your intimacy staggers You’re a misfit in your personal matters I don’t wanna be a desperado I don’t wanna make it alone Camouflage my heart and be someone that nobody knows I stop and look back as the dust settles down I see my beaten heart laying on the ground A trail of pieces as far as I can see I pick it up and hold it close to me I’m going back to the ones that love me “Cause I don’t wanna be a desperado I don’t wanna make it alone Camouflage my heart and be someone that nobody knows I don’t wanna be a causeless rebel I don’t wanna make it alone Cauterize my heart and be someone I don’t even know
5.
It’s never too late to do what you love I was thinking that life caught me blinking And passed me right on by Too many years accumulated too late why even try Downhearted and nearly departed a vision came to me It was a beautiful wise old woman as gentle as can be She said “The deeper you knows what to do” And it’s never too late to do what you love It’s never too late to do what you love Now I’ve been riding my pony for so long I lost my way I kept passing the same disasters out of tune and out of play The wise old lady said loosen up the reins It sounds strange but give your pony his head He knows where to go he’ll take you all the way home Be his partner instead The deeper you knows what to do and it’s never too late to do what you love It’s never too late to do what you love Pick up your staff get yourself on the move Look to your dreams find what you want to do It’s never too late to do what you love Hell ya I’m fifty eight and ready to participate I ain’t no fool I know I’m late But I stumbled at the starting gate Early years plagued by fear The last seventeen I’ve been a caregiver A butt load of therapy I’m finally doing what’s right by me Oh ya I’m like a tortoise many many years from rigor mortis Taking it slow watching it flow I found my porpoise No justifying my existence A whole lotta fun and a little persistence All I really gotta do is do what I love The deeper you knows what to do Look to your dreams find what you wanna do If it don’t work try trying something new It’s never too late to do what you love
6.
I remember you When you remembered me You said of course you do Now I always dreamed that I Would come home to see You so proud of me But time had other plans So here I stand on shifting sand Now as you drift away You’re already gone Your way of moving on Yes time slipped through my hands And I still stand on shifting sand I remember when I gave you all my praise You said I made your day So now I’ve changed my plans On shifting sand I’ll make my stand Cause you’re a part of me I’ll carry on your legacy
7.
Outside in my garden lies paradise Nature is singing beating with life All of God’s creatures in wave with the light Sweet harmony so free touches me tonight Out in my garden there lies my plan Sterile symmetry perfect to man But there’s some intruders I must make my stand Weed out the heathens that dare graze my land Man the Manipulator Dropped the reins of co-creator Man the Manipulator Dropped the reins of co-creator And we’re all holding on Until the source inside it sets us free And we’re all holding on to what can be Man the Manipulator Man the Manipulator Dropped the reins of co-creator Deploy the weapons toxic to man Chemical treason carcinogens Dressed to annihilate the enemy Unknowing innocence I never asked them to leave
8.
Are you ready for love It’s ready for you Are you ready for faith It’s shining through Are you lonely I’m lonely too Are you lonely well I feel it’s true So many times i’ve seen loves doubled edge Instead of setting us free It takes hostages I don’t wanna play that If you wanna be free I won’t cage your spirit cause it’s bigger than me Are you ready for love It’s ready for you Are you ready for faith It’s shining through Are you lonely I’m lonely too Are you lonely well I feel it’s true So many times I’ve seen people changing their tune Becoming something their not Til the ones they desire love them too I don’t wanna play that to thine own self be true And the right ones to love will come running to you Are you ready for love
9.
Family Tree 04:36
Tending to the family tree with all it’s roots and all the leaves One by one I try to catch but nothing I do will bring you back I get to see you when I’m gone I’m moving on Too much information passed on through generations I’m shaking down the family tree From the Scottish to the English, Norwegian and the Swedish To the land of opportunity Lifelong loads of memories People, places, travesties Forgotten and time won’t tell Notes from war, notes from Spain Love letters left in vain I’m root bound and overwhelmed I get to see you when I’m gone I’m moving on I keep coming up with questions that beg for your attention They’re reminding me that you’re not here All the things I could of done, I wish I would of should of done Sifting through the wasted years Wandering these empty rooms trying to do what’s right by you Scared of what the future brings staring at the end of things Brave enough to roll the dice all the things they sacrificed I understand your overwhelm one child left to carry on If I could figure all the facts maybe I could have you back The sorrow it comes in waves and I’m way over my head some days Petrified family tree I stopped growing my own leaves Calling on your memory you say to do whats right by me Like the air, the sun, the earth, and the fun I get to see you when I’m gone I’m moving on Worlds will come and worlds will go We’re all here to make it so All the things we’ve learned this life Are not for naught, the knot survives I get to see you when I’m done
10.
Lullahi 02:53
As you fall asleep there’s so much to see On the other side I will be your guide I will see you home you are not alone And you’ve been here before There is so much more Dream within a dream It’s not what it seems Not a lullaby but a lullahi It doesn’t matter anymore Your ship is at the shore She waits for you to be through And when The last grain it leaves your hand You will finally understand That all your fears and worries are not true As you fall asleep You will soon be free On the other side you will feel alive I have died before There is so much more On this other side No longer bound by time Not a lullaby but a lullahi Hi

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Songs about facing fears and connecting to oneself, to nature, and to others, even after death.

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released July 8, 2022

All songs written and performed by Karyn Michaelson, except on tracks noted.
All songs Mixed and Mastered by Matt Taylor at Echo Lake Studios.

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A rootsy, soul-fueled mix of pop-folk/americana

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