1. |
Time to Listen
02:47
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Time to Listen
So many choices and so little time
There’re moments I could lose my mind.
Too many options from which to choose
To be accepted or to be refused.
We make our choices and we move along
Some tear us apart and some make us strong
But deep within there’s a little voice
To help us make most any choice...
So I need time to listen to my heart
I need a place where I can be apart
I want space to breathe,
I want some time to leave,
I want only what is right,
I need time to listen to my heart
I need a place where I can be apart
I want space to breathe,
I want some time to leave,
I want only what is right, tonight...
This world is surely a crazy place,
A wild ride, a hectic pace.
But through it all we must carry on
Until the day when we are gone.
But as crazy as this life might be
We all possess the light to see.
To look within and to realize
That we have power is no surprise...
(Chorus...
... in life...)
Time to Listen
©1994 Jerry Mills
Boom Zing
Reprinted with permission
www.jerrymills.com
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2. |
The Real You
04:37
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The Real You
You are the only one who knows the real you, that’s how it goes.
This person who you’re learnin’ to be
No one but you will ever see...
When you see yourself through your own eyes
Do you see someone with no disguise?
Cuz you can’t disguise yourself, it’s true,
Or you’ll never become the real you...
Chorus:
So do not be afraid when you have a choice to make
Trust yourself enough to let you learn from your mistakes.
Your life can be a bumpy ride
when you have the power to decide
But believe in all you say and do
And you’ll become the real you!
You are the only you you’ve got,
You cannot be who you are not.
And you must live life to figure out
What your life is all about...
What you like and what you don’t...
What you’ll do and what you won’t...
Cuz the one thing you are here to do
Is to become the real you!:
Bridge:
How can anyone but you claim to know
Which choice that you should make,
Or which way you should go?
So when someone tries to tell you what to do...
Remember, they don’t know the real you!
Chorus...
Tag:
You are the only one who knows...
The real you, that’s how it goes!
The Real You
©1995 Jerry Mills
Boom Zing
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3. |
One Sure Thing
04:18
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One Sure Thing
If there’s one sure thing in life that can really get to me
It’s that energy I often feel runnin through me!
I was just a little kid when I first learned about it
But once I did I knew... I’d never live without it
A thing called love... and I just love it!
There’s nothing else I’ve ever known
that could ever rise above it...
And even when I broke my heart my broken heart was mended
By the one sure thing on which my life depended..
On a thing called LOVE
One sure thing called love!
I spent a lot of my time in life searchin for hidden treasure.
Along the way I’d have to say I found both pain and pleasure
But I never knew
what the search for hidden treasure would bring
Until I learned to treasure that one sure thing...
Chorus:
A thing called love...
And I just love it!
There’s nothing else I’ve ever known
that could ever rise above it...
And even when I broke my heart my broken heart was mended
By the one sure thing on which my life depended...
On a thing called LOVE
One sure thing called love!
Cuz love is one of those words you hear a lot of people using...
But when you see what people do it sure can seem confusing...
Cuz love is one sure thing that’ll never, ever, ever come true
Until it’s something we both say and do...
A thing called love...
And I just love it!
There’s nothing else I’ve ever known
that could ever rise above it...
And even when I broke my heart my broken heart was mended
By the one sure thing on which my life depended...
On a thing called LOVE
One sure thing called love!
One Sure Thing
©1995 Jerry Mills
Boom Zing
Reprinted with permission
www.jerrymills.com
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4. |
The Lookin Out for Us
03:55
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The Lookin Out for Us
Could someone answer my question please
I'm askin now on bended knees
Is there some secret that we don't know...
Some key to really makin love grow?
Chorus:
It seems so often that what starts as love
Turns into a matter of push and shove
I don't want our love to end that way
So I guess there's something my heart’s gotta say...
If you're lookin’ out for you,
While I'm lookin’ out for me
Who's lookin’ out for us?
Cuz it just might be...
The looking out for us ... that's the key!
How is it I can be so dense,
Cuz now it seems to make real good sense.
We get so busy with what we must do
That we spend too much time on me and on you
It seems so often that what starts as love
Turns into a matter of push and shove
I don't want our love to end that way
So I guess there's something my heart’s gotta say...
Chorus...
So I’m askin you to tell me now,
What can I do? Would you show me how?
Let’s take a chance and let ouselves go
So we together can make our love grow...
Chorus...
The Lookin Out for Us
©1996 Jerry Mills
Boom Zing
Reprinted with permission
www.jerrymills.com
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5. |
Send Help in a Hurry
03:36
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Send Help in a Hurry
I want peace... I want some sweet relief
from all these troubles and worries...
Send help in a hurry!
I want hope...
I don’t want the end of a rope
I wanna be optimistic,
not just some statistic!
I want space... I want a quiet place
with room to live and to grow, to come and to go...
I want time... I don’t wanna waste what is mine
I wanna use what I’m given and really start livin!
Is it any wonder that we wonder what went wrong?
Is there any way we can make it right?
Is there any reason that it has to take so long
to get along and give up the fight?
I want health... I don’t want no riches or wealth
I want the wages I’ll earn and the lessons I’ll learn...
I want strength... I wanna go the length
to do whatever I can to lend a hand...
Chorus
I want peace... I want some sweet relief
from all these troubles and worries...
Send help in a hurry!
I want hope...
I don’t want the end of a rope
I wanna be optimistic,
not just some statistic!
I want peace...
I want peace...
Send Help in a Hurry
©1995 Jerry Mills
Boom Zing
Reprinted with permission
www.jerrymills.com
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6. |
Spinnin
03:32
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Spinnin
My mind keeps spinnin’ around and round and round
Thoughts keep on talkin,
although my voice doesn’t make a sound.
Is there no escapin it? There’s no escape I ever found!
As my mind keeps spinnin,
around and round and round...
With the best intentions, and new inventions,
I cannot seem to get a grip
on my thoughts so quick to slip...
Away I’m thinkin, but pretty soon I’m sinkin
back again into despair, like a bird shot from the air.
My thoughts go racin off into the great unknown.
Spinnin at the speed of thought
sends fire racin through my bones.
These mental odysseys I don’t know if I condone...
as my thoughts go racin off into the great unknown...
Chorus:
There’s work to be done... and work should be fun.
Too often works is hard to do
when my mind won’t see me through.
I get distracted! My thoughts refracted
like a light’s rays through the lens,
never to be the same again!
My mind keeps spinnin’ around and round and round
Thoughts keep on talkin,
although my voice doesn’t make a sound.
Is there no escapin it? There’s no escape I ever found!
As my mind keeps spinnin,
around and round and round...
Spinnin
©1993 Jerry Mills
Boom Zing
Reprinted with permission
www.jerrymills.com
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7. |
The Puzzle
03:58
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The Puzzle
Look within and you will see
the puzzle of identity.
Each piece of the puzzle is designed to fit
Should you choose to assemble it...
Your puzzle pieces are scattered about
for you alone to figure out.
So many colors, edges and curves
What pattern does your mind observe?
Chorus:
When the pieces to the puzzle
start fitting into place...
When you start to make connections
that can fill the empty space...
I do believe that when you do
the puzzle will make more sense to you. \
And the more of the puzzle that you figure out
the more of you you’ll learn about.
An awesome task, quite a challenge you face
to fit life’s pieces in their place.
Each piece of the puzzle is a part of the sum
of all your life will ever become...
And so you ponder, you twist and you turn
until an image you discern.
You sort through the pieces and, as you do,
the puzzle makes more sense to you...
Chorus...
Learn about what makes you whole.
Learn to live with self control.
Learn respect for others views,
and learn to be whoever you choose.
Learn about what you desire.
Learn what’ll set your soul on fire.
And learn about what you can do
to make the world’s dreams come true!
Look within and you will see the puzzle of identity.
Each piece of the puzzle is designed to fit,
should you choose to assemble it!
The Puzzle
©1995 Jerry Mills
Boom Zing
Reprinted with permission
www.jerrymills.com
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8. |
Street People
05:11
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Street People
In a hot summer city where the sidewalks are gritty
And some faces aren't pretty to see,
In a spot that was shady I met an old lady who asked,
“Would you like to share my tree?"
So I sat for awhile, as she waved, winked and smiled
At the people who all filed by,
She said, “Boy, what's their hurry?
They all look so worried!"
I just sat there without a reply.
As I listened to the stories of her failures and glories
I was sorry that she felt old and gray
And when I walked away too, somehow I knew
I'd be singin about her today...
She goes down to the paper stand to visit with the kind old man
Who told her she reminded him
of younger days, his wife named Kim
Who used to tell him funny jokes
that she had heard from both her folks
Who lived up in Sault Ste. Marie
and kept them in their memory...
She's got a sister and a grandmother, grandfather, big brother,
A father and a mother as well,
But for all that she knew, they'd pass her by too,
She hadn't seen ‘em in so long she couldn't tell.
Tell me, why are there street people
When there are church steeples only a block away?
Are they there by their choice, or can we even hear their voice
When they've got something to say?
Just think of this lady whose life seems so shady
And maybe she'll help you to see
That she's alive too, just like me and you
But she's living in her memory...
She wakes up on the city street
with hopes she'll find someone to meet,
Who'll stop awhile and set a spell, and hear the tales she has to tell
Of people that she used to know and places that she used to go,
These things that she wants you to see,
The portraits in her memory...
So go out on the city streets and wait awhile, you're sure to meet
A person who is looking for a little love, and nothing more,
Who longs to call someone a friend. Someone who's willing to defend
This lonely person's dignity, preserved within their memory...
Street People
©1988 Jerry Mills
Boom Zing
Reprinted with permission
www.jerrymills.com
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9. |
The Best Part of Love
02:52
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Best Part of Love
We swore our love was true...
Now it’s been years since I last saw you.
But we’ve both loved again
since we went our separate ways
And if you wonder how I’ve been
There’s something I’d like to say
Chorus:
Baby, it’s alright! I’m OK...
I’m not the same as I was yesterday...
But that’s alright... our lives can change
Keep a place in your heart
where the best part of love remains.
If the bad times are the first to come to mind,
then take another look you’re sure to find
that long before the bad times
the good times filled our hearts...
Don’t let the good times slip away
cuz they are love’s best part.
Chorus
Bridge:
Cuz love is kind, but love is blind...
Sometimes a lover finds
That the love they make is a chance they take
That’ll sometimes leave you cryin...
Real love leaves nothin to regret
Maybe breakin up is hard but don’t forget
That no love that was real love
Can leave a lasting scar
And all the loves you’ve ever loved
made you who you are...
Chorus
The Best Part of Love
©1990 Jerry Mills
Boom Zing
Reprinted with permission
www.jerrymills.com
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10. |
Victims
03:46
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Victims
I just heard about what happened
and I bet it blew your mind...
Things were goin’ pretty well!
You survived enough hard times!
And you learned your share of lessons
from the choices that you made
til you found your straight and narrow
on the path from which you’ d strayed...
Just when you thought you were on the right track
You became the latest victim of some personal attack...
But don’t you ever give up...cuz we can never give in...
or forever we’ll be victims of the world that we live in!
At first it feels hopeless, your innocence is gone!
You feel so violated... somebody’s done you wrong!
But you start to pick up pieces
and you learn to mend the seams
cuz you still recall the visions
you saw living in your dreams...
Chorus:
Live in peace... or live in pain!
Live with hope... or no hope remains!
Live with trust...or live with fear...
or live life thankful that you are here!
Now there’s the hurt, fear and frustration
with which you have to deal
But there’s no place for the anger
that you’re tempted now to feel.
Cuz once we see ourselves as victims
and we live just to survive,
we lose sight of all our hopes and dreams
and that’s why we’re alive
Victims
©1995 Jerry Mills
Boom Zing
Reprinted with permission
www.jerrymills.com
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11. |
Teacher
03:51
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Teacher
It was later in your lifetime that you decided to teach...
Because you’d learned from your experiences
that you cared enough to reach...
With outstretched arms and an open mind
the wonders you believed you’d find
in the warm glow of a kid’s young heart
whose trust you’d earned since the school year’s start...
Cuz you’re a teacher! A Teacher!
A beseecher, not a preacher!
You’re a reacher for the stars
to share with kids no matter who they are!
You’re a teacher! A Teacher!
You love the job you do!
And if this world needs something real bad right now
it’s teachers like you!
The good times never came easy,
there were sacrifices made...
All the hours you spent still workin
while some others ran off and played.
But your students played with new delight
and rested better through the night,
Because tomorrow in school they wouldn’t be scared
cuz they knew they had a teacher who cared!
You’re a teacher! A Teacher!
A beseecher, not a preacher!
You’re a reacher for the stars
to share with kids no matter who they are!
You’re a teacher! A Teacher
You love the job you do!
And if this world needs something real bad right now
it’s teachers like you!
If these kids need something real bad right now
it’s teachers like you!
Teacher
©1993 Jerry Mills
Boom Zing
Reprinted with permission
www.jerrymills.com
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12. |
Shine
02:40
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Shine
Everybody knows you... but no one knows you well!
What is it that you’re thinkin, or is it kinda hard to tell?
It seems that you have chosen to live life on your own
But I can see no reason
for you to feel like you’re alone...
You’ve got a light inside you cannot hide
no matter what you do...
So let the light in your life come shinin through
And let it shine, shine, shine
Shine in you!
If anyone should ask you,
what reason would you give?
Is this the life you’ve chosen?
or just the life you’re forced to live?
It’s you who has the power to live the life you choose.
But you better make you decision,
there ain’t no time left to lose!
You’ve got a light inside you cannot hide
no matter what you do...
So let the light in your life come shinin through
And let it shine, shine, shine
Shine in you!
You’ve got a light inside you cannot hide
no matter what you do...
So let the light in your life come shinin through
And let it shine, shine, shine
Shine in you!
Shine
©1995 Jerry Mills
Boom Zing
Reprinted with permission
www.jerrymills.com
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