And "Beautiful Sunshine" / “The Visitors” (double album) is about the rollercoaster of love and our predilection to conflict and need to reconcile.
1 BEAUTIFUL SUNSHINE
Paul Toshner
B B/Ab Ebm Ebm/Ab
B F# x B Db
Db/Bb Ebm Db/F F# Eb/G Absus-Ab Absus-Ab
I wake up in the morning, beautiful sunshine
I wake up in the morning all I see is you
At the end of a day of marked success
I take out my cufflinks as I get undressed
I thought of you as I climbed the stairs
Acutely aware I was glad you were there
And even though you’re asleep and unaware
I’m happy that I have someone who cares
The words flow easy
That's also your doing
But lets not get carried away though
I'm afraid of approving
And I wake up in the morning,
beautiful sunshine
I wake up in the morning
all I see is you
Shall I compare thee to a summer's day
You're more beautiful
Than anything Shakespeare could say
Shall I compare thee to a starry starry night
You’re more dazzling
than anything Vincent tried to hold in sight
אִשָּׁה יִרְאַת יְיָ Isho yiras Hashem
2. AN ARTIST
Paul Toshner
Cm/C-/B-/Bb Gm Fm G x: C
Caug Gaug/B C Fm/Eb C Fm - G - C x 2
Eb Bb
Finally letting go,
finally sitting down,
finally what I know
laughing a clown in town
An artist has to make some room
in everything he seems
taking that the higher lines are free
he doesn’t care about the surreptitious,
he’s into helping you get rid of the delicious,
junkie and monkey on your back
He cares about the sense of it,
He’s into the defence of it,
but not with violence, or silence,
is he free
He doesn’t care
about the critical,
it’s way too political,
just his spiritual, visible, lyrical melody
An artist has to make some room
in everything he scenes
taking that the higher lines are free
and so we sang together,
we sang together, we sang alone
An artist has to make some room
in everything he seems
taking that the higher lines are free
An artist has to make some room
in everything he seems
3. YOU AND YOUR OWN
Music: Paul Toshner
Words: Paul Toshner and Max Witreol
Ebm F# B Db
B Em B Em B Abm
It’s such a shame when we complain
About our nearest and dearest
About the ones we need the most,
who give us all we are
And yes I know your not alone
it’s not just you, I know it’s everyone
We pass it off, in saying
we always hurt the ones we love
You and your own, it just makes sense
In the battle zone, not sitting on the fence
If you go I will test you right away,
I will test you right away, if you go
I'm grateful for your friendship
your troubles are also mine
as you say there’s no space between us
I say "in time"
You and your own, it just makes sense
In the battle zone, not sitting on the fence
If you go I will test you right away,
I will test you right away, if you go
4. NORWEGIAN POSTSCRIPT
Paul Toshner
Melody line: The Beatles
How easy to do
when you know that you loose
how easy to try
when you don’t know why
how easy to call me now,
but your always gone!
how easy to tell you
you’re the one
who really shouldn't take it wrong
but you me tell me that
every dog has his day
dog gone clever of you to say
how easy to be absurd,
how easy to be overheard
how easy to be undertaken
as the dead man waking just for you
how easy to do,
how easy to call me now,
but everyone’s always gone!
How easy to say I think I heard this
how easy to tell hold your breath
till the end of this
…..song
5. THE VISITORS
Paul Toshner
Bb Dm Eb
What brings you to these parts my friend
Is their something you’ve lost
Has the wind been strong
Did you not belong
Was the ground awash with frost
Come in I say
Warm those feet of clay
We’re not all Vincent Van Gogh
Its been foretold
That a colour less sold
(a colourless soul)
or the not so bolden rainbow
Gets to re-engage
Even centre stage
And somehow comes to pass
Or at very lease
doth find some peace
in what’s left of his ass
People die
things do change
if this is goodbye
it’s not so strange
not so strange at all
In the summer
my father comes south
to visit the visitors
in the visitors windows
6. SHE’S LIKE A FLOWER
Paul Toshner
F# B
She’s like a flower
standing so proud
She’s like a flower silent but loud
she doesn’t need to say
everything in her way gets out of it
she just fits
She’s like a flower blazing red
She’s like a flower as she goes to bed
she keeps me right through the darkest night
She’s like a rose from her hair to her toes
She’s like the light everything’s so bright
And I don’t realize what she needs from me inside
but she holds me in esteem
I was such a fool to make her scream
She’s like a flower
closing up in the right hour
just so u cant c
she needs u to be
right there - light there - don’t beware
the secret is eating flowers
as the hours disappear
She’s like a flower she considers every hour
she thinks about the day as she lets slip away
she doesn’t hold on
she realises, when the day has gone
She’s like a flower
in this song she gave herself away
there’s nothing she needs to say
as we fade away
7. IN LOVE AGAIN
Paul Toshner
Tonight when we see we want to be
under the stars and the moonlight
we can be lovers, undiscovered
to the whole world, beautiful girl
I’ve never before
than when you’re with me
I wont let yougo, forever I see
you for me
for you
or any two lovers who
just like me
just like you
oh oh oh
Ohhhh I’m in love again
3rd time today
with you
if one of my dreams
came true to me
then holding my hand
we’d reach for
our own better day
where we went our way
to the whole world
beautiful girl
you for me
for you
like any two lovers who
like me
like you
oh oh oh
Ohhhh I’m in love again
3rd time today
with you
8. HEY YOU
Paul Toshner
F Bb/G F/A Bb
I’m sorry that I came
around and yelled at you
without a sound
From the dark to the dark
My journey it seems
Wherefore art thou
in my dreams
When will you see me
Where are you now
My future is darker somehow
I’m sorry that I came
around and yelled at you
without a sound, hey you
What did you speak of
What was at stake
Reality, duality
My friend you’re a fake
What can be borne
when it’s torn!?
Even harder to mourn
impossible to hold
breaking the mould
Excuse me my rhyme
It’s how I now spend my time
I’m sure I’d feel a bit better
If I could refine
I’m sorry that I came
around and yelled at you
without a sound, hey you
The future’s unknown
But it prays on my mind
if it’s the present I own
What’s the closing line
Lifting things
we can not carry
Diamonds and rings
do not always marry
I’m sorry that I came
around and yelled at you
without a sound, hey you
9. THE WAITING LEAVES
Paul Toshner
And the moment’s gone
and the moments go
and things you believe
even the things you know
and the feelings come
and the feelings stay
it’s just the way it goes every day
and the feeling grows
for the love u know
and the waiting leaves
in the wind they blow
and the waitingleaves
in the wind it blows
and the waiting leaves
in the wind it blows
everybody knows
everybody knows
Sorry for not being what u need
the most
Sorry not for being what you see
when you toast
sorry for the times I yelled
even though it was only once
sorry for how I made you feel
always and forever
Sorry that we never forgot
Sorry that we never forgot
stay with me
sing with me
and the moment’s gone
moments go
the things you believe
and the things you know
and the feelings come
and the feelings stay
and the feeling grows
I love you
and the waiting leaves
and the waiting leaves
and the waiting leaves
and the wedding leaves
everybody knows
Sorry for not being what u need
when you needed the most
Sorry not for being what you say
when you raise a toast
sorry for the times I yelled
even though it was only once
always and forever
Sorry that I never thought
Sorry that we never forgot
10. THE TIME
Paul Toshner
she said I’ll give you the time to let you know
I see the river flowing in you’re soul
she said I’ll give you the time if
you need to go my love for you
is changing, I love you more
and I will give you the time of your life
something in the way you stand - she said
you look awful funny tonight
there’s something I understand - she said
when you look at me in that light
I call you my man - she said
I’ll call on you tonight and all of my life
she said I’ll give you the time to let you know
give you the time if you need to go
I see the river flowing in you’re soul
I’ll give you the time
my love for you is changing I love you more
As I stand alone in this crazy world she’s given me
I still make my home at the piano keys
but I know when I’m home,
coz she knows what I mean!
and I heard her when she said
all the things a woman’s fighting for
are all the things that I believe are yours
so I’ll give you the time to let you know
I see a river flowing in you’re soul, in your song
I’d give you the time if
you need to go my love for you
is changing, I love you more
if you dont go you wont come back
this river doesn’t let you step in the same place twice
there’s something in the way you stand - she said
you look awful funny tonight
there’s something I understand - she said
when you look at me in that light
call you my man - she said
I’ll call on you tonight and all of my life
11. WHO KNOWS WHY
Paul Toshner
Who knows just why
We turn around and hide when reminded of love
Why did I try to pretend it’s not there
When I recognise real love
And inspiration leads to love
I can wait for you everything that you do
When exaggeration leads to hope
I can afford to dream if I know you know what I mean
12. ALL MY LOVE
Paul Toshner
(or should I say)
Bb C
more than you had me
All my love is your love,
when I love someone like you.
For death is different
for a man than a woman
For she never was alive
except for within him
And he for she, well that is a given.
So what do I speak of,
what is the mark?
Tis a thing of time
and a thing of a spark
The former everlasting
The latter in the dark
Profound and enlightening
The difference is stark
All my love is your love,
when I love someone like you.
All my life is your life,
it’s how it turned out
in the end
Sorry if I offend
Sorry if I had any doubt
my friend
now I see
the best part of me
it had to be
Your life is my life, no doubt.
But now I see I did have you,
more than I had me.
Or should I say
I did have you
Or should I say
more than you had me
more than you had me
All my life is your life,
when I live someone like you
What should I say!?
Or should I say?
What should I?
"All my love"
What should I say,
or should I say
"What should I say!?"
13. HEY AH!
Words: Paul Toshner
Music: Paul Toshner and Paul Taylor
E F#m x2
C# m B A A
Hey, ahhh!
Life was full of choices
Now my head is full of voices
Things are what they are
Accepting it is hard
If I could change I would
What I want is good
Oh but how I’d undo
I’m talking to me not you
Hey, ahhh!
To upturn the very essence
The requirement is effervescence
Oh what will give me this
must I persist
But failure is not fear
if it’s the only way to travel
If you know the why
The how is easy
Hey, ahhh!
do, not try
or only stop if your feeling queasy
Life was full of choices
Now my head is full of voices
Things are what they are
Accepting it is hard
If I could change I would
What I want is good
Oh but how I’d undo
I’m talking to me not you
Hey, ahhh!
But failure is not fear
if it’s the only way to travel
If you know the why
The how is easy
The journeys always here
If it’s a riddle to unravel
If you know the why
The how may be easy
If you know the why
The how may be easy
But do, not try
or only stop if your feeling queasy
Hey, ahhh!
14. IS SOMETHING FREE
Paul Toshner
Love will always be true
sorry, what I’m doing to you
To sum it up
what we had can not b
something free
not programmed
can u hear me
do u believe me
did I show u
are u near me
are you uneasy
stare into silence and know
if the person your with
is the person your with
stare into silence or go
is the person your with
the person your with
Love will always only be true
I’m sorry for what
I must be doing to you
To sum it up
what can not be:
is something free!
is something free?
is something, free!?
15. ANENU / ANSWER US
(עֲנֵנוּ)
Paul Toshner
Music in part II: Puccini
Weather thing gone
Were the thing gone
Wear the thing gone
F Db
In my dreams we laugh
but I know this can not be
if I ask what’s become of you
you’d ask the same of me
Ribono Shel L’olam
Anenu di padre
di tutto di padre
Adam
Master of forever
answer us
Father of
the fathers of man
In my dreams we laugh...
...easier said than done
be it money, health or love,
or loosing someone
When things seem black
it’s a time to stop
but not look back
a time to rest and see
what tomorrow will be
If you want call it a test
but be assured that
He knows best
His truth abounds
without a sound
even in a mess
If you see the good
you'll see the best
We're not naive
to trust it's just opposite for us
if things seem bad
try emunah (faith) אֱמוּנָה,
a tad
I know it's easier said than done
be it money, health or love,
or loosing someone
Dilegua, o notte
(Vanish, o night)
Tramontate, stelle
(Set your stars)
Tramontate, stelle
(Set your stars)
All'alba
(At daybreak)
HaKodosh Boruch Hu
(The Holy Blessed He
הַקָּדוֹשׁ בָּרוּךְ הוּא
G-d)
Ribono Shel L’olam
(Master of forever)
Anenu di padre
(answer us Father)
di tutto di padre
(of [the] fathers)
Adam
(of man)
Answer us
answer us
Master of forever
answer us
Father of
all fathers of man
The right line
in the right time
with the right face
in right place
Ribono Shel L’olam
(Master of forever)
Anenu di padre
(answer us Father)
di tutto di padre
(of [the] fathers)
Adam
(of man)
16. THE HORSE THAT SPOKE
a story of Emunah told to me by my cousin Ivor Tiefinbrun
Once upon a time my cousin Ivor went into the pub and everyone said “what happened!? Did you loose your
license, are you going to jail?!” He said “The horse spoke”. They said “What d’you mean?”
Well, he’d just come out of court for speeding so fast in a built up area, and the judge didn’t believe you could do that speed in that area. So he let him off with it.
But they all said to him “what d’you mean, the horse spoke!?
He said “let me explain, once upon a time there was a king, and the king had a favourite horse and he looked out the window and he sees the stable boy riding his
favourite horse. And he runs out, sais to the guard “chop his head off”. The stable boy says “wait a minute, I can
see the king every day from my little window, riding his favourite horse and I can see him whispering in the horses ear. I thought if I teach the kings horse to speak and answer him back, he’d be very happy!”
The king goes “Hmmmm!? That would be lovely wouldn’t it! You can really teach my horse to speak?! I tell you what I give you a year.
And if at the end of the year you succeed you’re going to be the richest man in the
kingdom, next to me. But if you fail you’ll wish I’d simply cut your head off coz you’re going to die a slow excruciating death.
He says “fine”
But he goes back to the stables, and the other stable boys say “you’re mad, you’re gonna be awake all year worrying about what he’s gonna do to you, you could have just had your head chopped off and that would have been it:
- “sholom al Yisroel done!”
He said “no you don’t understand. A lot can happen in a year; The king could die, I could die, the horse could die, the horse could speak.
You see the message of the story is that when he went out of court, he should have got a big ticket, lost his driving
license, and he went into the pub, and they all said “what happened”, he said
“the horse spoke”
they said
“What d’you mean!?”
singing pianist poetry to music