The HEART And SOUL GOSPEL CHOIR
featuring:
Leisa Hart,
LaTanya Carter,
Sean L. Holmes - Background Vocals (6)
Marilyn Scott - Background Vocals (8)
Lisa Fischer - Background Vocals (8)
Maxayn Lewis - Background Vocals (8)
Alfie Silas - Background Vocals (8)
Lori Leiberman - Background Vocals (9-11)
Doug Parry - Background Vocals (12)
Julia Tillman Waters - Background Vocals (12, 13), Vocals (13)
Stephanie Spruill - Background Vocals (12, 13)
Maxine Willard Waters - Vocals (13), Background Vocals (12, 13)
Victor Feldman - Background Vocals (13)
Lani Hall - Vocals (14), Background Vocals (14)
Produced and Arranged by Gino Vannelli and Rok Goiob
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Produced and Arranged by Gino Vannelli and Ross Vannelli
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Produced and Arranged by Gino Vannelli and Joe Vannelli
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Produced and Arranged by Gino Vannelli, Rok Golob and David Goldblatt
Rick Duncan - Engineer (1, 2, 5, 6)
Nick Moon - Engineer (1, 2, 6, 7), Mixing (1-3, 5-7)
David Goldblatt - Additional Arrangement (3)
Garnet Armstrong - Art Direction
Susan Michalek - Design
Margaret Malandruccolo - Photography
All Songs Mastered by Chris Bellman at GRUNDMAN MASTERING
Executive Producer: Randy Lennox
Recorded and Mixed at INKA STUDIO, Ptl Oregon (1-7)
Wahida was Recorded at MELUSINE STUDIO, France by M. Moore Belhad)
Thanks To Jason Koones, Rick McMillan, Kurt Bevers and David Wiederman
for coming to my equipment resque.
Love and Thanks To BAREND AND TREES.
My Thanks To YAMAHA, GENERAL MUSIC, DAD, CAD, and BASIX.
Bernard Purdies Thanks for the HAND, amico.
Tom Berry and DJ McLachlan, for your FRIENDSHIP and STEADY GUIDANCE.
Andrew Stokes and Dan Erison for BEING THERE.
To Jess Rossen, The SWINGINGEST SPIELER NEATH THE SUN.
Tom Blaylock for your
instrument knowldge of the VOICE (and the temperament behind it).
My Thoughts Go To You, Dear Friend Poonce, wherever you have landed.
Merci, Shawn.Paul, Scott, Steve, Garnet, et tous A UNIVERSAL,
to The HEP CHIEF EXEC.
Randy Lennox Thank You for your DELICATE HANDS on approach.
I have truely enjoyed (and benefited from) our music conversations.
Allan Reid, you have restored A&R of its original honor.
Tricia and Anton, love you for many reasons,
Not the least of which is for boring a few
holes in this thick skull to let out some trapped
air once in while.
Management:
McLACHLAN / BERRY INT'L: W. Tom Berry: contact@alertmusic.com
DJ McLachlan: DJMGT@aoi.com
T H E R I D D L E O F T H E R I V E R
THOUGHTS UPON LOOKING ACROSS THE COLUMBIA
There is a great river that runs through this land
Between two rims of sharp rock and sand
Waters deep and dark, with currents strong
In its depths lying many a voyager gone.
One day, on one bank facing the other
I wondered, to set foot, what would I discover
For since long ago I have hungered knowing
What lies across these rough waters flowing
Whereupon there drifts many a shattered sad
Moldering wood spiked with rusted nail
Proof of struggle to span opposites together
All ending in thrashing and collapse.
Whether By war of the elements or shadowy force
Lying in wait beneath the angry course,
Whatever made wreckage of many a command
In one held breath I came to understand:
The river defies crossing by material designs
Of wood, metal, anything of the kind,
But begs to be met by more delicate means
Beyond the province of cables and machines.
Upon following the drift of many a shattered sail
Hoping to sucteed where many more will fail
I was struck by a vision of two made one,
As I stared long into the winding oblivion.
For suddenly was the wdy to the other side
Across the mighty river, this hopeless divide:
The wind, the rain, the thunder overhead
The spillway of the heavens racing over the dead,
The hissing of alders by the riverside,
The spit and spew far and wide,
The black pools whirling, the white caps roar.
In a moment of clarity daunted me no more.
As if the world had suddenly broken its spin
Ending the illusion I had been living in.
And so I walked upon the flux and flow
Following where my heart bid me to go
Step by step with every faithful leap
I fell not to the bottom of the raging deep
But stood atop the heaves and swells
My soles and the surges in perfect parallel
Crossing the river upon a dreamy weir
Raised by a voice, that whispered in my ear:
- Beliwinq is seeing, not the other øîö around,
- There are no limits by which spirit is bound
- The river itself existing not
- But as the object of a desired thought.
What I once suspected I now knew to be so
As I smiled and looked across the water flow
For there I stood upon a new frontier
The contrary side of doubt and fear
A long way from the self I left behind.
Soon, with heart at peace and wholeness of mind
Wandering the length of the new found shore,
Strange, I found the trees growing no more
Or less green than they did across the tide
No deeper breath did the air provide
Rocks were rocks, sand, the makeup of sand
Of no unique composition was the land
But oh, such was the great difference to me
Made by crossing the narrow sea.
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When the idea of releasing a
Greatest Hits CD, with the opportunity to personally oversea the modernization of old recordings
rose, I not only was very willing but also very curious as to what some songs, dating back thirty years now (my, my) would sound
like in the process. Needless to say I am pleased as to what technology has afforded. Holding to the that a couple of
new tracks would help smarten the project, I was asked to compose and produce two new songs. After month of head scretching,
wearing a permanent far of look on my face and answering everyone in three-second delays preceded by a, 'huh, I finally decided to pick up the guitar I hadn't touched in years: an old, cracked gut string, (the one I wrote
"People Gotta Move on) that I had put to
rest in a dark closet, thinking to keep it to purely sentimental reasons.
Well the short story is that I was stopped at seven new
songs have tucked away the rest in a shoebox, for another day.
1. It's Only Love
Now just cause the world's come to an end
That's no cause to lose my mind
So the girl went south on me
And left my skivves in a bind
Yeah but we shall overcome somehow
Yea any day now
Fact is I saw my sweetie pie
Of all the indignity
She was doing to some other guy
There were things she's never done for me
Alright, so I've hit a patch of hard luck
But that's life, so suck it up
I keep tellin' myself all will be well
If you just take it like a man
Be brave be big be bold
Go out like a lamb
Well anyway the thing is
Why should I really give a damn
Chorus:
When it's only love
And let's not get too hung about it
It's only love
I can learn to live without it
She only broke my heart in two
Hell if I'm gonna cry
Well now excuse me while I go
off and die
All is fair in love and war
Truth is I oughta thank that young man
For takin' that no good woman
Off of my hands
So glad it's goodbye
Yea so happy I could cry
I keep teltin' myself there are many fish
In the mighty deep blue sea
Just cast my rod and trust in what will be
Anyway the thing is, why take it all so serious)!
Chorus
You watch in a year from now
She'll come running back to me
But until such time won't somebody please
Hand me a rope and point me to the highest tfi
2. Venus Envy
Don't want no marble statue smooth and cold as ice
Not some man-made goddess custom cut and spliced
Don't need no great big set of charms to tempt my heart
Prefer the feel of something real over plastic art
Well Aphrodite's got grace but she ain't the face
I know and I love
'Cause I got blood in these veins while she's some
spooky dame
Lost in the heavens above
Chorus:
Why do you wanna be Venus
When your light shines brighter than the brightest star
Why do you wanna be anyone else other than who you are
Why do you wanna be Venus
When you're so much more than she coutd ever be
Yeah I feel like I'm losing you
Come back to me
Don't want no hand-made inlaid porcelain china doll
Not some babe who comes unstitched before every
mirror on the wall
Yeah DiMilo's some piece but no thanks please
Not my cup of tea
"Cause I want flesh and bone not some block of stone
Lying in bed next to me
Chorus
Blame it on those dippy dreams of beauty queens
Who kowtow to the pressure
Prescribing to the point of view that bigger is better
Yeah those tattooed lips those vacuumed hips this
whole insanity
Remember what you do you do for you and not for me
3. These Are The Days
A man holds up a mirror to his soul
Shocked by what he sees
Reflecting on the life he never planned
And yet his dreams go on inspired by the one
Who understands
Chorus:
These are the wars that we fight
These are the tears that we share
These are the wastelands we cross
To dream the dreams that we dare
This is the worls that we choose
Right or wrong win or lose
These are the days that make up our lives
These are the days that tell us
Love never dies
There are those days I feel to run so far
As to vanish out of sight
Put everything that I belive in to the flame
But then I kiss your wounds knowing that you might
Feel the same
Chorus
These are the days that rob us of our faith
And shake our will to carry on
The days that break our hearts
But in the end make us twice as strong
4. Rock Me To Heaven
It's always so fine to come home to you
To the healing touch I've grown accustomed to
That small piece of comfort in the last light of the day
I'm a little battle worn, I'm down and out
But you weave a silver lining in every
dark cloud
When you kiss me and you look at me that way
You quite the storm in my mind
Every time we come together
Yeah, you raise me high to the moonlite sky
Above the heavy weather
Chorus:
Yea rock me to all night wrong
Take me away till the hurt is gone
Send me across the night like a shooting star
Yeah, sway me slow and look into my eyes
And open up the gates of paradise
Feel the love that you draw from
heating of my heart
It's been a long hard day
And somtimes I feel like I'm loosing the flight
So darling be an angel and
Rock me to heaven tonight
You go to my head like a very fine wine
Soak up my sorrows like the sunshine
You rush to my paint like a miracle cure
And when I'm driven despair
It's who restores me to health
You give me reason to live
When I'm ready to give up on myself
5. Eastwest World
Hello pretty woman dark as night
Dancing like a flame burning brig
Hiplocks and shimmy,yeah baby gimme
Those water pipe deams
Spin your raven hair round and round
Turn the right side up, up side down
Tap your cymbals and jingle the jangle
Of your magic tambourine
While tomcats on flat tops jet over thi
What say you and me put some love into motions
Chorus:
Eastwest world !
And the walls comei
And the blue eyes turn to brown
Deep in the heartland
Eastwest world ! In a flash yesterday's gone
And the cowboy sings his song
Out in the desert sand
In your eyes I see the rising sun
The crescent moon and the cross as one
The Grand Unified Theory in the golden earing
Of a gipsy girl
So what say you and me set our spirits free !
Sip a little white lighting neath a banyan free
Against the the wind against the grain make a baby make a change
In a big bad world
In the long run this earth with turn into a heaven
By love or by war, baby choose your weapon
6. The Great Divide
In the small time in the morning I saw you by the window
Just waiting for sunrise to light up the dark
I stood by in silence but it felt just like dying
As each fear you shed drove a knife through my heart
And I'm so sorry I've caused you such pain
But your tears are my shame
Tell me how do I reach you when you make me an outsider
Tell me how do I touch you when the valley grows wiger
Chorus:
Tell me, how do I cross this great divide
How do I love you from the other side
And how do I make lonelyness end
And when will you love me again
You have every right to hate me, doubt me, forsake me
Deserve that and more for letting you down
But the silence, the distance this halfway existence
Is killing us slow without making a sound
I'm so sorry you feel all alone
But your tears are my own
And how do I reach you when you make me invisible
And how do I go on in a world that's unlivable
Chorus
I know I've driven you far
I made you feel much less than you are
Have your way with me only give me some sign
It's not a matter of love but just a matter of time
7. Right Where I Am
I have been through the fields of fire and ice
Fought the unthinkable war
Searched the world over for real happiness
From western to far eastern shore
I have crossed over mountains and valleys below
In search of a lost paradise
But I never would find what I was looking for
Till I'd see with a new set of eyes
Chorus:
It's a Sunday walk in the park
The new light of day dawning after the dark
The sound of my new baby's cry
The bright ray of hope looking me in the eye
So much more than the will to survive
It's the glorious feeling of been alive
It's the wonder of knowing that all that I want
Is right in the palm of my hand
Cause everything's right where I am
Right where I am
Yeah right where I am
Well I promise to never desert you again
In body spirit or mind
No more will I knock upon heavens door
Till heaven reveals it's my time
Cause I was taken by an angel who locked
me away
In mansions of dark moons and mist
Only to find myself back in your arms
Seeing life in what it is
8. Wild Horses
As the sun goes down on the arizona plain
and the wind whistles by like a runaway train
hey hey hey it's a beautiful thing
well it's me and you and a flatbed truck
my heart kicking over like a whitetail buck
hey hey hey in the middle of spring
You can cut me deep
you can cut me down
you can cut me loose
don't you know it's okay
you can kick and scream
you can slap my face
you can set my wheels on a high speed chase
hey no matter what you do
Wild horses could not drag me away from you
Wild horses could not drag me away from you
As the sky falls down from the midnight blue
spittin' like bullets on a hot tin roof
hey hey hey it's a beautiful sound
well it's me and you in a flatbed truck
in a foot of mud just my luck
hey hey hey a hundred miles out of town
You can call me a fool
you can call me blind
you can call it quits
can't hear a word you say
cause if I had you once
I'm gonna have you twice
I'm gonna follow my heart instead of good advice
hey no matter what you do
Wild horses could not drag me away from you
Wild horses could not drag me away from you
9. Hurts To Be In Love
More and more
Your kiss is like a half opened door
I can't get in
You stop me just before I begin
And it hurts to be in love
When you never get enough
Oh it hurts to be in love
This endless urge
Keeps my body right on the verge
We touch and then
I wanna do it all over again
And it hurts to be in love
When you only want me half as much
I tell you it hurts to be in love
I'm always worried you think I'm pushing too hard
Oh baby it hurts me when you tell me I'm going to far
We touch and then
I wanna do it all over again
And it hurts to be in love
When you only want me half as much
I tell you it hurts to be in love
It hurts
Baby it hurts
It hurts
10. Black Cars
Under the cover of night
She crawls into sight
Her skin is cold china white
She's a dark angel wearing dark glasses
Dark shadows under long false lashes
The night exposes the cracks
She wears her makeup like wax
To hide every scratch
'Cause she a dark angel riding dark horses
Sitting pretty in her dim lit covers ... I say
Black cars look better in the shade
She smears her lipstick on right before she sleeps
For all those phantom lovers in her dreams
She smokes them french cigarettes
In cocktail gloves and a strapless dress
She cuts a perfect silhouette
But she's a dark angel wearing dark glasses
A fading beauty as the night time passes ... I say
Black cars look better in the shade
Black cars look better in the shade
11. Just A Motion Away
Sometimes you win sometimes you lose
Ain't turnin' back for me and you
Don't look over your shoulder
No time for regrets
You got your demons I got mine
Our paths have crossed at a crucial time
Suddenly we're older
Scared of whats ahead
We were looking for the answers in all the wrong places
But now the chance is knocking on our door
To grab hold of what we been readin' for
It's just a motion away
It's just a motion away
It's just a motion away
No need to wonder where the future lies
It's right before our very eyes
Don't even think it over
Just say yes
We were clinging to some old cliches and old familar faces
But now they're only shattered dreams
So let's dry our eyes and start away clean
It's just a motion away
It's just a motion away
It's just a motion away
We were lookin' for the answers in all the wrong places
But now the chance is knocking on our door
To open up our aliing hearts once more
It's just a motion away
It's just a motion away
It's just a motion away
12. Living Inside Myself
In my life
I've felt so self assured
But suddenly it's all changed
She's a cloud
That hangs above my world
And I find myself wond'ring in the rain
And now I can't go on
'cause I am lost
Living inside myself
Living inside this shell
Living outside your love
I am lost
Somewhere inside my own dreams
Afraid of what life really means
Living without your love
I need a guiding light
To shine on my darkest days
I was young, and time was on my side
But like a fool I let it slip away
And now those days are gone
And I am lost
Living inside myself
Living inside this shell
Living outside your love
I am lost
Somewhere inside my own dreams
Afraid of what life really means
Living without your love
In my life
I've felt so self-assured
But oh how all the seasons change
And now I'm not that strong
'cause I am lost
Living inside myself
Living inside this hell
Living outside your love
I am lost
Somewhere inside my own dreams
Afraid of what life really means
Living without your love
I am lost
Living inside myself
Living inside this shell
Living outside your love
I am lost
13. I Just Wanna Stop
For your love
When I think about those nights in Montreal
I get the sweetest thoughts of you and me
Memories of love above the city lights
Ooh, I tried so hard to take it
But oh Lord my heart won't make it
I just wanna stop
And tell you what I feel about you babe
I just wanna stop
I never wanna live without you babe
I just gotta stop
For your love
When I think about the way the world must turn
I get the saddest thoughts for you and me
Memories of life and times go on and on
Ooh, I've tried hard to forget it
But of Lord my mind won't let it
I just wanna stop
And tell you what I feel about you babe
I just wanna stop
The world ain't right without you babe
I just wanna stop
For your love
Ooo, I've tried so hard to take it
But oh Lord my heart won't make it
I just wanna stop
And tell you what I feel about you babe
I just wanna stop
The world ain't right without you babe
I just wanna stop
For your love
14. People Gotta Move
People come on and do it right
Shake your behinds like dynamite
Chuck all your worries and toss your thighs
To be tame is a pain when you realize
You gotta move...
People gotta move...
Shake all your brains and pump your heart
Show all the world what you are
You come on for right, you come on for wrong, you come on for zeal
'Cause the tones of your bones makes you feel
You gotta groove ....
People gotta move .....
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