1. THE VISITORS - interlude
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
2. IT’S EASY NOW
Paul Toshner
you can give it all up, throw it away
“it doesn’t matter - so what” I hear you say
what about a part in the play
but you think it's all gone,
so you sing along
you remember the words,
but it’s absurd!
coz you keep them inside
to protect your pride
it’s easy now
if you're in love
but you keep what you got
you keep moving on
you keep it in style,
it may take a while,
you may have to loose
to know how to win!
you can give it all up
throw it away
“it doesn’t matter
- so what” I hear you say
but you've got
a part in the play
you think it's all gone,
so you sing along
you remember the words,
it’s a little absurd!
coz you keep it inside
to protect your pride
it’s easy now
coz you're in love
who wrote the book how did it sell
who are you now
you’ve drunk from the well
of bugles and passing phases
newsreels and carbon sages
we all turn a page
but it matters what you read
and who you know,
not who might tell you
you could have had a part
in the show
you started to cry
it seemed for no reason why
so you wrote down a song,
but its taking too long
so get up on your feet again,
where you belong
3. YOU MAKE ME ROCK N’ ROLL
Paul Toshner
F# F#/Bb B Db
G G/B C D
You make me rock n roll
you make me take the can
you make me roll
what did I to deserve someone like you
what do I say when you say that the things I do
make you wanna go away
I didn't meant to hurt you that way
Like you don’t mean all the things you say
You say too true,
You say sometimes we say
the things we really don't want to do
You say we can understand
when we lend a hand,
when we stay for the fight if we hang in there tonight
You make me rock n roll
you make me take the can
you make me roll
what do we do!?
we stick at it for what we knew
but the situation’s hanging on the brink
How do we mend this parting
Tell you what, this is how I’m starting
Tellin you now that I’m in for keeps
You make me rock n roll
you make me take the can
you make me roll
4. BURNED
Paul Toshner
Dd F F#
Take me away for days on end
take me out of myself
Take me away I pray this will end
can’t say I’m myself
Nothing I’ve told you was written down,
still doesn’t mean I’ve come around
I’m still the same as I used to be,
If I could only hear your hope and faith in me
it makes me try,
but then I don’t know why,
I’d say I do
Oh, I’m sure it pleases you
hold me closer to your ideal
tell me how it feels
hold me closer, hi, so hi...
and then we say goodbye.
When things get a little tight
I never said I could should
I never said I should
I only said I would
tell you “let me go away”
tell me you’d rather I stay
One more try, one more faith
one more heart in it, one more gate
one more lesson in what I always learn
stand apart and get burned
If numbers are what are strong
Bo you belong, heart beats!?
Doubt reins hi when tears fall for nothing
20. IT AIN’T EASY
Paul Toshner
it ain’t easy being green
it ain’t easy being seen
it ain’t easy being colour blind
it ain’t easy beein too kind
so I wont be too kind
it ain’t easy being over done
it ain’t easy being undersold
it ain’t easy being left out
in the cold....
it ain’t easy living for a living
but it ain’t easy dying in your
spare time either
and it ain’t easy loving you
coz it’s so easy loving you
it ain’t easy at all
it ain’t easy being part of a crowd
that you don’t feel
it ain’t easy being part
of something that’s
not so real,
not so real
not so real,
it ain’t easy
coz its so easy
like choosing what
you want for dinner
5. YOUR ALURE
Paul Toshner
C F G Dm
I know this touches your soul
I know you want to know more about me
so here goes
I’m a little bit sore from taste
of your beauty - in my face
how can I tell u how I feel
when I can not think
coz I can not see
u’r truly beautiful - beautiful to me
confused though yours truly
it might take a min
until you let me in
like I would sing in my youth
what’s best, help me decide
plz don’t see my pride
help me know for sure
your allure
help me know for sure
your allure
6. HOPE IN THE DARK
Music: Paul Toshner
Words: Yoshua Widlen
You move and you struggle you double your trouble
I’m bursting your bubble, you’re stuck in a boat
Or the water you’re soaked
How do you float in your life
7. PHENOMENAL HEART
Paul Toshner
Sometimes you look you fall
but you find sometimes you fall
And you don’t
It’s the world you put in you that you bring out,
it’s the world without you that your in
To culminate phenomenal heart
“You move and you struggle you double your trouble
I’m bursting your bubble, you’re stuck in a boat
Or the water you’re soaked
How do you float in your life” Yoshua Widlen
Sometimes you look you fall
but you find phenomenal heart
Sometimes you fall
And you don’t
To culminate phenomenal heart
let it out and bring it to the surface
get it over, the surface x
There, it’s there yeh yeh
To culminate phenomenal heart
8. FAREWELL TO A FEELING
Paul Toshner
This is a farewell to a feeling
This is a farewell to the moment
this is goodbye for now
I’m afraid that’s how it’s got to be
I did now sail well
I did feel the wind
I didn’t care
if I loose or win
but soon I have to face
what’s waiting for me
and I really don’t want to go at all
This is farewell to a feeling
This is farewell to a moment
this is goodbye for now
I’m afraid that’s how it’s got to be
Theirs is only one place for me
as far as I can see
what will be
I’d like to be
but doesn’t seem .... yet
and I find myself elsewhere,
“all is fair in love and war”
This is farewell to a feeling
This is farewell to the moment
this is goodbye for now
I’m afraid that’s how it’s got to be
9. LOST FOR WORDS
Paul Toshner
C F G F
Ab Bb/G
I’m lost forwards
I’m lost forwards
I’m lost four words
I’m lost for words
I’m part of the hurt
I’m lost for sight
I lost foresight
no one can see me or you tonight
I’m lost for truth
I lost a tooth
I want to find my own proof
I’m lost for hope
it’s really a bad joke
I’m lost for a reason why I need to tug on this rope
I’ve been trying for so long
to get away from where
I dont belong I’m lost forwards
all the people they make me feel fine
some of them make me mad
some of them make me glad
and the ones that make me curse
- make me worse
but just like me, their finding some kind of time
I’m out of my head
spend to much time in bed
I’m out of my tree
somebody please pick me
I’m out of my gate
before it’s too late
Been trying for so long
to get away from where
I dont belong I’m lost forwards
I’m lost for sight
no one can see me tonight
10. THE VISITORS
Paul Toshner
Ab Cm Db x
Bb Dm Eb Eb x
Eb Bb/D Eb/C x3
Bb Dm Eb Eb x
D Db x2 B Bbm x3
B Ebm E E x
D Db x2 B Bbm x3
C Em F F
“I make a blessing over tea
He looks at me incredulously
I talk to him, he talks to me,
hate to agree to disagree
I crack a joke, I force a smile,
carry a burden mile after mile
we used to talk about....love,
but now he says what’s it got to with
below or above” Jonathon Rosen Webb & Paul Toshner
In the summer my father comes south.
To visit the visitors. In the visitor’s windows
In the summer my father comes south.
To visit the visitors. In the visitor’s windows
The boat pushed out,
the sea was calm he let out his sails,
I held out my arms
always mindful for a storm he’d say
“stay insightful, but keep the ship tight & warm”
In the summer my father comes south.
To visit the visitors. In the visitor’s windows
We see a different world
With a very different view
We’ve only scratched the surface
When we refuse to see through
if u think you cant see-thru
These bitter sweet sensations
whatever we believe
unlocking these reservations
takes a higher key
11. THE VISITORS – reprise II Mesoud Benasully guitar
In the summer my father comes south.
To visit the visitors. In the visitor’s windows
So you know the mitzvah *1 of kibud Av *2. Tough one!
The Frimmer Yidden *3, they chap *4 the matsiv*5
in everything, that in this life, we’re just visitors here.
*1 Commandment
*2 Honoring parents
*3 Observant of the mitzvahs
*4 To understand
*5 The situation at hand
12. COMING HOME
Paul Toshner
C F x Ab Bb C
Cx4 Ab Gm Ab Bb
D F x2 Ab Bb
The Christmas bells are ringing now
I heard u say!
You better get it right now
And how you feel about coming home
Just a little smile
Just a little feeling of what you’ve been
Missing for a while
In every song play
I’m coming home
I’m coming home for Christmas
We light our lamps just 8 days
But ones enough
Coming home for Christmas
The angels cry for what you’ve known
Just close your eyes and just let go
Now close the door
Turn out the light
I’ll tell you more
When I arrive tonight
I’m coming home for Christmas
The atmosphere
The hands are there
So hold them out
For someone you care
And come on home for Christmas
Come la scia di un'elica
I’m coming home for Christmas
You turn and see your life
13. BEAUTIFUL SUNSHINE - reprise
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
Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day
for Thou art more beautiful
than anything Shakespeare could say
אִשָּׁה יִרְאַת יְיָ Isho yiras Hashem
“False is grace, beauty is vain”
you have risen above them all the same
14. TO NONE OTHER THAN ME
Paul Toshner
Am Dm
Here’s a little song
“to none other than me”
Not scared of man;
not scared to be himself
I hear the train in the distance
The world has gone quietly mad
It’s one thirty in the morning
things have never been quite so bad
I feel the hair on the back of my neck
the blood gone from my cheeks
I fear the abyss
I didn’t expect this
The errors I made
Are being seriously paid
I went beyond to admit
So as to excuse all of it
Years of devotion
to none other than me
now I am a prisoner
To none other than me
No reason to lie, no reason to see
the Lord He is good
He wants you to be
Not scared of man
not scared to be himself
I have who to blame
confused by their game
I may even be wrong
But that’s me singing their song
This time it’s through
what must I do
I hope G-d will forgive me
I hope I forgive me too
What a fool I have been
Time and again I think I win
That wherever I am
I think perhaps I can
Scared of man:
scared to be himself
No reason to lie, no reason to see
the Lord He is good
He wants you to be
Not scared of man
not scared to be himself
Sorry, I love you
but you have your issues
so much so what you do
selling hope
strung together with tissues
Hard to live up to
harder to swallow
easily choked on
left feeling hollow
But blame, is a thing of the past
I own my own mess
Like I said at the start
I have what to confess
Too scared of man:
too scared to be himself
No reason to lie, no reason to see
the Lord He is good
He wants you to be
Not scared of man
not scared to be himself
So if you think you're in a hole
or under duress
What will happen now
It’s anyone’s guess
Just don’t creep around in disguise
more and more lies
Till' you can safely say:
That you rue the day
"Perhaps I will change
Though probably not
G-d help me to care
If that’s what I forgot.
I got scared of man
I got scared of myself"
No reason to lie, no reason to see
the Lord He is good
He wants you to be
Not scared of man
not scared to be yourself
Rabbi Elazar ben Azaryah used to say:
Where there is no wisdom there is no fear of G-d,
and where there is no fear of G-d there is no wisdom.
15. AN ARTIST - prologue
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
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 too political,
just his spiritual, lyrical visible
melody
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
And how it feels to be seen and known
For what you have, and what you let go, and let show
But how it feels to be dreaming though,
everything’s quite sad
but I’m glad for what I have
If an artist has to make some room
in everything he seams
tell me really are the higher lines free
so we sang together,
we sang together, we sang alone
In the middle of the noise on a crowded day
I can hear myself and you know I want to say something
singing pianist poetry to music