All words and music © Kyle Fiske 

Love Will Give You the World 

Through the waiting days, all the colors fall 
They fall and rise again 
Like the rocking horse riding across the open fields 

Now there’s a big parade and I can see you in the crowd 
The new wine flows until the twilight comes again 
There’s a blue star, and your hands are warm 
Do you remember the words you said to me? 

Love will give you the world, and take it away 
Love will give you the world, and take it all away 
And round and back again 

 

New Bright Way 

You got me spinning round from the words that you said to me 
As we walked out of the restaurant and down the old side street 
It was almost like a dream where the lost are all found 
Faces shining in the sun, friendly voices all around 

Oh, it’s a new bright way stretching out ahead 

A town called Penitence on the map that we’ve got inside 
No deceivers are allowed, no shadowlands of Roman pride 
Did you hear that song that the busker played as we walked on by? 
How on earth did he know your name in this air electrified? 

I’m still spinning round, from the words that you said to me 
You showed me a world that I had to see, you showed me the strangest town 
I could almost hear those ghosts from the music hall 
As we got back to the interstate and headed south from Montreal 

Oh, It’s a new bright way stretching out ahead 


A New Star 

Well time and tide have come together now 
And these black waves come crashing on your bow 
Well it’s funny how these things come to pass 
And tomorrow is so long ago 

You call out as the rain and thunder wails 
I don’t know what’s true in your fairy tales 
But I can see something in your crying eyes 
And you say “Won’t you take me home?” 

Now I thought that I had seen them all 
And then I saw your new star 
Instead of watching them fall 
It’s good to have a new star in the sky 

Lost in your dreams I can’t say no to you 
We drank the wine but we’re still wrapped in blue 
Two riders at night, we push on to the dawn 
And you say “won’t you take me home?” 


One Day in the Sun 

I started on the wrong foot, the old folks said to me 
Born under the wrong sign, my father lost at sea 
My mother left when I was ten, I never had a home 
I had to make it by myself, cause I was all alone. 

Funny how it comes around, rising up and falling down 
You never know what kind of race you’re gonna have to run 
I got the hand I’m gonna play, I’ll never throw my cards away 
Cause I know I’m gonna have my one day in the sun 

I grew up sad and lonely, in trouble all the time 
But still I was an honest man—I never stole a dime 
I found out for myself what it was to be a man 
I went to sea, I traveled far, I saw the foreign lands 

After that I came back, but I was still alone 
Got a job down on the docks and worked my fingers to the bone 
“Money can’t buy happiness,” someone said to me 
And that sounds pretty good until you try to live on your dreams 

Then out of the blue I met her as she tried to wave a cab 
We struck a conversation and I guess I made her laugh 
She took my hand and we walked through Boston in the snow 
And on that very day she said “I’ll never let you go.” 

My cards all came up lucky, and fortune smiled on me 
And since that moment I’ve had every day in the sun. 


Ovation 

When the crowd leaves you behind 
I’m gonna give you your ovation 
When the world won’t look twice 
I’m gonna give you your ovation 

When the light comes through the trees 
I’m gonna give you your ovation 
In a town at the edge of the sea 
I’m gonna give you your ovation 


Phantom Town 

You know they still talk about the day 
That he came driving into town 
They said “Son, when you moving on?” 
But he just turned away and said 
“I’m right where I belong” 

In a phantom town 
Where the ghosts of dreams walk everywhere 
In a phantom town 
Where a friendly word is kind of rare 
In a phantom town 
Are you going to stand up or fade away? 
In a phantom town 
As the iron rust turns to silver gray 

They made their plans to get him out of the way 
Some wires pulled, sand in the engine case 
They found his car by the railroad tracks 
An old man smiled and said “he’s gone, but I think he’s coming back” 

To a phantom town…… 


A Rare Thing 

Called away by some war or another 
Just the same as it was for the others 
The reasons don’t matter now 
I’m just torn away from this rare thing I found 

It was the last dance before we go away 
It was the last time I could gaze at your face 
It was a rare thing that we had found 
It was a rare thing that we had found 

I couldn’t give you a ring of gold 
But I held you close when you were cold 
We read aloud by the firelight 
I treasured every moment you were in my sight 

It was the last dance before we go away 
It was the last time I could gaze at your face 
It was a rare thing that we had found 
It was a rare thing that we had found 
An ocean away I’m going 
Leaving you was not my choice 
An ocean away I’m going 
Away from the sound of your gentle voice 

I remember the dress you’d wear 
And the black ribbon tied up in your hair 
Your strange smile at everything 
And that caoineadh song you’d always sing 


The Refraction Point of Waves 

Through the forest in wintertime 
Past the windmills, by the old county line 

To the ocean, syncopate and rhyme 
Where the waves break over the waterline