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When I Met Susie
03:37
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When I met Susie I was seventeen, it felt like heaven smiled at me
Crystal eyes that you could die for, our hearts were innocent and free
Yeah, we kissed until the sun rose, and fell across the door
We danced into the evening, and we kissed a little more
We made each other promise we’d be there, through rich and poor
I wish that I had Susie back again
When I met Susie I was so naive, I didn’t know how love could be
I fell in love so fast, I lost myself, and she was all that I could see
Well, we talked until the sun fell, and sank beneath the sea
We talked about the good times, and what she meant to me
We talked about the future, but we couldn’t quite agree
I wish that I had Susie back, right here next to me
I wish that I had Susie back with me
Susie back, Susie back, Susie back with me
I wish that I had Susie back with me
When I lost Susie I was on my knees, I was so blind I could not see
If I could turn the clock back, make her understand,
She meant the world, and more, to me
Well, I cried until the sun rose, and I got down on the floor
I thought about the good times, and I cried a little more
But I just can’t face the future, since she walked out that door
I wish that I had Susie back, right here next to me
I wish that I had Susie back, she meant so much to me
I wish that I had Susie back with me
When I met Susie I was seventeen, it felt like heaven smiled at me
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Lower Than the Angels
04:27
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What is man that You regard him?
What am I that You should care?
A few more years will pass me by and
We'll all vanish in the air
Because we're lower than the angels
But only for a time
Guess I'll always wonder
At Your redemptive design
And it's clear as I look around me
How Your grace has been revealed
And I choke sometimes to say it
But it's how I really feel
Because we're lower than the angels
But only for a time
Guess I'll always wonder
At Your redemptive design
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Beautiful
04:33
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Beautiful. Pure desire
Honey hair around you neck, and lips like fire
Hungry eyes, that don't quite see
Trying hard to notice anyone but me
Well you really think you're something as you cross the killing floor
The way you play the game and never seem to fall
Showing just enough to reel 'em in you leave them wanting more
But underneath it you don't care at all
Beautiful. Painted lies
Just a touch of azure blue above the eyes
Deadly charm, and perfumed hair
My resolve just melts away before her stare
Well you really think you're something as you cross the killing floor
The way you play the game and never seem to fall
Showing just enough to reel 'em in you leave them wanting more
But underneath it you don't care at all
I won't back down. I won't give in
Won't wear your crown, no I won't let you win
But something's wrong. I'm not that strong
All I hear inside my head (is) your siren song
Well you really think you're something as you cross the killing floor
The way you play the game and never seem to fall
Showing just enough to reel 'em in you leave them wanting more
But underneath it you don't care at all
Beautiful
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The Story Of You and Me
03:47
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Saw you in town; you were crossing at a stop light
With your hair pulled down, and a shirt that was too tight
I have this dream that we meet, and you tell me you love me
At the Five and Dime, you’re in line just a ahead of me
You ask me the time, as I’m choking on my coffee
I have this dream that we meet, and you tell me you love me
It’s the story of you and me
I don’t know if it’s true, we’ll se
With an ending I write, all alone every night
It’s the story of you and me
Late for the train, see you sitting in your same place
I run for the door, but it closes right in my face
I have this dream that we meet, and you tell me you love me
It’s the story of you and me
I don’t know if it’s true, we’ll se
With an ending I write, all alone every night
It’s the story of you and me
Oh, we’d be so good together
Oh, but you don’t even know I’m alive
Caught in the rain, see you walking right towards me
I call your name, as you’re climbing in your taxi
I have this dream that we meet, and you tell me you love me
It’s the story of you and me
I don’t know if it’s true, we’ll se
With an ending I write, all alone every night
It’s the story of you and me
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Eli
04:10
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Drove till dawn down a highway I didn't know
But it was enough just to bask in her glow
It was okay not to know
Well the sun rose to reveal the sea
She showed me her smile‹
This is where she'd led me
Eli, don’t you wonder why, you’d wait your whole life to stand in these shoes
The tea lights were glowing so bright, a constellation leading back to her room
This is the letter I wrote you from edge of the world
That place out there where I finally got my fist uncurled
It’s here I chased her eyes; fled my cage
Tossed out my organ grinder and chump change
I’m sittin’ down to start a new page
Eli, don’t wait your whole life, to be the man who stands in those shoes
The tea lights were shining so bright, a constellation leading back to her room
What secret will she teach you, what riddle will you learn?
If you swim out past the markers, or speed through every winding turn
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Autumn Gone
03:54
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Take a right then a left down autumn road
I'm sorry you believed what you were told
That I'd be so quick to stab your back
That I'd rather take love than give it back
I'd stash it in a paper sack
She's sleeping in the place where heaven kissed the ground
And more leaves have fallen down
Frost on my window; I can see it in the dawn
Finally I can see winter's here
And autumn's gone
I never saw the gift that fate had delivered
That I could turn an end into a start
Well, I thought I should get on living
Stop staring at the hole left in my heart
My whole world blown apart
She's sleeping in the place where heaven kissed the ground
And more leaves have fallen down
Frost is busy making crystals in the dawn
Finally I can see winter's here
And autumn's gone
You said "trust was a dead end road
That it's hard to believe in what you can't hold
I never saw the gift that fate had delivered
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Tony Lechner Northampton, Massachusetts
Tony Lechner is a songwriter and producer who lives in western Massachusetts. He is also the founder and director of Rock Voices, a non-audition rock chorus for adults.
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