Listen to Songs by Don Whitaker

Listen to Music by Anastasia

Listen to Music by Joan in the Fires

  Bottle Angel


  Fly’n Train


  Mind To Get Free


  Our Dead Are Not Dead


  Time, Time


  Finish Line


  Peals of Learning


  Random Details of Love


  Man of Clay


  Love is a Naming


  Middles


  More Clever Ways


  No Law For the Human Heart


  Doc Holliday


  Jesus & the Buddha


  Matt Groves & Rich Jane


  Contessa of the Willows


  She Wrestled An Angel


  Temple in the Path of Xerxes


  Time & Love Whisper Together


  High Tide of Love


  Daughters


  The Gypsy's Daughter Enters the Third Reich


  Low Tides


  Dancing in the Plague


  Gnarled Bones


  Jesus & the Buddha


  Variations on Emily


  I Need the Beauty of You


  Death Does Not Come Humble


  Temple in the Path of Xerxes


  Mind To Get Free


  Canterbury Meditations


  Puma Lyrics


  It's Not a Heart


  One More Crime


  Impractical


  Devil Came For a Visit


  More Clever Ways


  Touched of Outlaw


  Mind to Get Free


  Americana


  Starting Over (Without Someone)


  Wild Mouse Lyrics


  Folds


  Sylvia’s Slender, Pale Hand


  Variations on Emily Lyrics


  Primal Peals of Learning


  Joan in the Fires


  Song For the Morning


  Make Me a Home


  This Love


  Cicero Thrusts His Head


  Centurion Hesitates at the Lake


  For You


  The Secret of Life


  Everywhere I've Been

Time, Time
This song is an examination of the concept of Time, it influences on us, our hopes to influence it, and how are modern strategies are basically the same as our cave dwelling ancestors.

Time, Time Lyrics
(Gibson/Carpenter/Kelley 2017)

Verse 1
Time, Time, one thing is surely true
about Time: it will always morph
into something quite different,
to a giant star or a dwarf.

Verse 2
Time, Time, one thing about your heart,
it retains a special enzyme
to learn to love what Time gave you
as a gift so oddly sublime.

Chorus
Time, Time,
you think you can change it,
or maybe rearrange it,
but just when you’ve exchanged it,
for what you want or said,
you see it rearranged
you instead.

Bridge
The eons of humans
on our little planet,
all seem to have proven
our usual gambit:
we’re still only hunting,
we’re still just gathering
through all our modern days . . .
just in more clever ways.

Instrumental

Chorus
Time, Time,
you think you can change it,
or maybe rearrange it,
but just when you’ve exchanged it,
for what you want or said,
you see it rearranged
you instead.

Bridge
The eons of humans
on our little planet,
all seem to have proven
our usual gambit:
we’re still only hunting,
we’re still just gathering
through all our modern days . . .
just in more clever ways.

Finish Line

This song started with the feeling of never attaining all you want to achieve in life. It led to the realization you never get across the goal line, never get to spike the ball; or at least you rarely do.

Finish Line

(Gibson/Kelley 2017)

Verse 1

I’ve been struggling,

I’ve been struggling

so many years,

whistling past

life’s many fears,

doing anything

for my family.

Freedom has nothing

Freedom has nothing

to do with being free;

to free my children

means struggle for me.

Chorus

I try and try and try and try,

don’t deny my fate, only defy.

Things never turn out just fine.

When do I cross the finish line?

Oh, when do I cross the finish line?

Short Instrumental

Verse 2

I’ve always heard,

I’ve always heard

if you love someone,

someone, you should

someone you should

set them free,

never made

any sense to me.

Freedom has nothing,

Freedom has nothing

to do with being free;

to free my wife

means struggle for me.

Bridge

Oh, Oh, Oh

Oh, Oh, Oh

Oh, Oh, Oh

Oh, Oh, Oh

Freedom has nothing,

Freedom has nothing

to do with being free;

to free myself

means struggle for me.

Chorus

I try and try and try and try,

don’t deny my fate, only defy.

Things never turn out just fine.

When do I cross that finish line?

Oh, when do I cross the finish line?

Bridge

Oh, Oh, Oh

Oh, Oh, Oh

Oh, Oh, Oh

Oh, Oh, Oh

Finish Line