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Produced, Recorded and Mixed by Daniel Ledwell at Lake Echo, Nova Scotia except “Solitary Sparks” & “The Bliss” mixed by Howie Beck at H Studios, Toronto, Ontario
Mastered by João Carvalho at Carvalho Mastering, Toronto, OntarioPiano recorded at The Echo Chamber, Halifax, Nova Scotia
Horns on “Carry On” recorded by Scott Hammond, St. John’s, Newfoundland
Fortunate Ones are
Catherine Allan • vocals, accordion, keys, mandolin, percussion, guitarAndrew James O’Brien • vocals, guitars, bass, percussion
with
Daniel Ledwell • vocals, keys, bass, horns, percussionKinley Dowling • violin, viola
John Spearns • celloKyle Cunjak • upright bass
Patrick Boyle • french horn, flugelhornKris MacFarlane • drums
Jenn Grant • vocalsDon Brownrigg • vocals
Painting by Mike Gough Photo by Rose Cousins
Lyric Photos by Fortunate Ones Layout by Jud Haynes
All songs written by Fortunate Ones (Fortunate Ones Music Inc./SOCAN) except “Solitary Sparks” “Lay Me Down” and “Someday Love”
written by Fortunate Ones and Murray Foster (SOCAN) “I’d Wait For Anyone Who Would Wait For Me” by M.Davis/E.Kavanagh/M.Neary (SOCAN)
and “Picture In A Frame” by Tom Waits and Kathleen Brennan (Jalma Music/ASCAP)
Contact info at www.fortunateones.ca
Solitary Sparks
Stare into a sinking summer sunTired rays the warmest days are doneFeel the fall come creeping through your bonesAnother year is lost beneath the snowWatch it as it goes
Lines around your eyes betray your agePortraits of the battles you have wagedLet go of all your doubt and all your fear
We will wake up searching in the darkSolitary sparksWe will wake up Only for a nightTaken by the tide of morning light
We are glowing embers in the darkA billion tiny timeless glowing sparksLong to burn but meant to fade awayA lifetime is the passing of a day
Chorus
Where do we go?
We are helpless hopeful scattered seeds
Wherever You Go
Everyone tells you when you’re wrong So you leave to the tune of a wandering songSomeday you’ll see before too longThat they’re gonna miss you when you’re gone
So you get in a car with all your plansYou look down to see a stranger’s handsWherever you go, go with all your heartThe way that you planned it at the start
The way that you planned it at the startTo go all the way with all your heartTo go all the way with your whole heartThe way that you planned it at the start
Everyone says that it’s plain to see That everyone knows myself but meWe try in our own way just to be A shade of the people in our dreams
A shade of the people in our dreamsWe try in our own way just to beWe try in our own way just to beA shade of the people that we see
So sing like a bird or like a kidRemember the days when that’s what you didWhere is that smile that used to break Sunlight in the morning on your face
Live by the choices that you madeDon’t let the light inside you fadeBabe you can burn out when you’re oldLet time take your mind but not your soul
Let time take your mind but not your soulBabe you can burn out when you’re oldBabe you can burn out when you’re oldLet time take your mind but not your soul
Lay Me Down
Brother won’t you lay me down
Brother, oh brother, is there any news todayMy lover he is gone on a ship so far awayHe took with him my heart when he left here on that dayOh brother, is there any news today
Sister, oh sister, you know this to be trueAny word I heard I would surely pass to youTo ease your worried mind there ain’t nothing I won’t doOh sister, don’t you know this to be true
Lay me down by the river to the seaLay me down by the river to the seaLay me down by the river to the seaBrother, won’t you lay me down
Mother, oh mother, is there any news todayI begged, I cried, I pleaded, but I could not make him stayThe memory of his touch still haunts me when in bed I layOh mother, is there any news today
Daughter, oh daughter, I need you to be strongThe crimson skies say he is safe they never will be wrongSoon this war will end and he’ll be back where he belongsOh daughter, now I need you to be strong
Chorus
Father, oh father, is there any news todayMy love is surely gone, my heart has been betrayedWaves of fear are rising, I can’t make them go awayFather, is there any news today
Daughter, oh daughter, I have heard some news todayThe words of this letter, I can’t bring myself to sayYour lover he fought bravely ‘fore he slipped beneath the wavesOh daughter, I have heard some news todayThey laid him down by the river to the sea
Chorus
Without A Name
To hear you sing all night Valerie could save my lifeKick drum hanging on the breezeOh, to be that summer dress hanging ‘round your knees
August takes her final breathThrough the haze of the dog days we wade through it
You tore into town like a hurricane And carried it off like a freight trainWho knew that time would take you awayJust a storm without a nameJust a storm without a name
I’m a torn and tired leaf Pleading for reprieve beneath your feetWinter wields her heavy handToo soon under snow she’ll lay to rest our best laid plans
Chorus
If your eyes had only seen below the maudlin evergreensA sorry fool, a broken heart, with ventricles that tore apartLike ancient art you threw it all away
Chorus
A Light Will Come
Show me the way to get through to youI’m running out of ideas, it’s all I can doI’m trying to prove that my aim is still trueBut my words like old arrows are broken and used
I’ve spent near half my life mining for goldAnd now I’m up to my neck, I’m still digging that holeI’m too deep to hear what you’re trying to sayI’m scared to lose what I got if I got out of your way
And all through the dayWe dream of the words we could sayAnd before too long A light will come
You can’t live for yourself on the far side of goodAnd try to use what you got like you said that you wouldStep back from a forest, all you have is the treesAnd seeds of doubt that you plant float away with the breeze
Chorus
So hold on if you canCause I’d give my whole heart for the touch of your handA cold silhouette reaching out for the sunA light will come
So what’s there to do when you see what you gotAnd then your mind knocks you out with all the things you have notSuccumb to the light and it’s easy to chooseWhen you learn that the things that you love you can lose
Chorus
I’d Wait For Anyone Who Would Wait For Me
Well I’m not the type to get too boredI can hang around and wonder what’s in storeI’d wait for anyone who would wait for meI’d wait for anyone who would wait for me
I ain’t never counted on no stroke of luckI ain’t never ever tried to pass the buckI’d wait for anyone who would wait for meI’d wait for anyone who would wait for me
Saturday night will come at lastMonday rolls around I’ll be holding fastOh, I’d wait for anyone who would wait for me
Well I won’t complain though I might feel badI won’t be carried off on no silly fadI’d wait for anyone who would wait for meI’d wait for anyone who would wait for me
Well, you can put it off as long as you likeI can ride around on my motor-bikeI’d wait for anyone who would wait for meI’d wait for anyone who would wait for me
I used to think that I was born too lateBut when you said you needed me I knew it was fate
Oh, I’d wait for anyone who would wait for meAnyone who’d wait for meWho’d wait for me
Well I can write a tune if it don’t come too hardI can lay a verse down on your birthday cardI’d wait for anyone who would wait for meI’d wait for anyone who would wait for me
I can spend some time in a rocking chairRocking back and forth until I get nowhereI’d wait for anyone who would wait for meI’d wait for anyone who would wait for me
I can see heaven on the darkest nightI can stumble by with just a miner’s lightOh I’d wait for anyone who’d wait for me
Anyone who’d wait for meAnyone who’d wait for meWho’d wait for me
Picture In A Frame
Sun come up it was blue and goldSun come up it was blue and goldSun come up it was blue and goldEver since I put your picture in a frame
I come calling in my Sunday bestI come calling in my Sunday bestI come calling in my Sunday bestEver since I put your picture in a frame
I’m gonna love you‘Til the wheels come offOh yeah
I love you baby and I always willI love you baby and I always willI love you baby and I always willEver since I put your picture in a frame
Oaks and Willows
Here we stand Oaks and willows hand in handA breath of air, a grain of sandHolding hard to what we have
And if we bendYes, if we breakWe’ll try and fall for something’s sakeIn this game of chance and give and takeTo tempt or choose a borrowed fate
Where all that we are is all that we’ll ever beAnd now it’s so clear to meWe’re hanging on the breeze
And it’s hard to say And it’s harder still to know We knew we’d have to let this goHere and gone before we know
All that we are is all that we’ll ever beAnd now it’s so clear to me We’re hanging on the breeze
We knew it all alongHere and gone
And memories fade like plans we hatched but never laidA summer sun gives way to greyLike words we hide and never say
Like all that we are is all that we’ll ever beAnd now it’s so clear to me We’re hanging on the breeze
Where the weight of your heart could swallow you wholeWe spend our whole lives chasing something we may never know
It’s hard to say And it’s harder still to knowWe knew we’d have to let this go
Someday Love
Suitcase packed underneath the bed For the day you can’t keep heart and head togetherYou’ve got a finger on the mapI got my hands on the clock Can we turn it back forever?
Give me some time to make up my mind
You’ve stopped trying not to let it showThe thought that you should let me go is growing strongerBut I believe we’re all we need So maybe you should let this be a little longer
Give me some time to make up my mind
This someday love you’re longing forYou know it doesn’t really matter
The Bliss
Can’t find a foe or friend to do this darkness inShadows creep and bend, I cannot pretendThat I don’t miss my home or that I’m not aloneNow I must atone for all the time I’ve wasted
But this is what I choseLong nights and endless roadAll this letting go, Who was I to knowI miss my familyIf they could only see All that I’ve becomeAlone and on the run
If this is all there is, maybe that’s okayBelieving in the bliss, wishing my time awayA tender-hearted sadness pulls me through the dayBut that’s alrightMy heart is okay
I am fading under dying lightReaching through the dark for words to say it rightI am restless, I am losing sleepKept up by promises I knew I’d never keep
Chorus
My heart, it’s okayMy heart’s okayMy heart’s okay My heart’s okayOkay, my heart’s okay My heart
Where’s inspirationWhere is urgencyThey are like passing shipsThey keep eluding meI’ve got a good heart and I’ve got able handsGive me back my eyesLead me to the land
Chorus
Carry On
It’s been a hard dayYou woke with a heart but it got lost along the wayIt’s been a cold night Darkness brought you to your kneesNow you’re crawling toward the lightThe light
You gotta carry onCarry onCarry onCarry on
It’s been a long yearFeeling so small you wish that you could disappearSomething’s gotta giveYou swore you’d own your mistakesNow you wonder if you didIf you did
Chorus
These dark days will endEvery corner you’re backed into will have a bendCause in this long life For every wrong that you done, there must surely be a rightA right
Chorus
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Our sincere thanks to Brendan and Renee Paddick. Your friendship,guidance and support have been invaluable and we are incredibly grateful.
And to all of you who have come out to shows,picked up an album or supported us along the way.
Thank you now and always.
We acknowledge the financial support of theGovernment of Canada through the Department of Canadian Heritage
(Canada Music Fund) and of Canada’s Private Radio Broadcasters.
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