Lyrics 01. Smooth Me Over 02. Your Side 03. Love is a Dream 04. Here's to Me 05. Can’t There be Enough Love 06. Moving to Florida 07. Riptide 08. Right for Me 09. Find Me 10. One Day Back (Instrumental) All words and music © 2006 Rene Shaw Erickson. All rights reserved. Smooth Me Over I thought I had my life all figured out Thought I knew what I was all about Turns out you had other plans for me With a simple touch of your hand I've become such a different man A better man than I was ever meant to be Spin me around Push me down Smooth me over Hold me under your spell Your charms took hold so quickly To my surprise they overwhelmed me Now it's clear that you are my destiny Spin me around Push me down Smooth me over Hold me under your spell I never had a chance From your first glance You held me in your trance And from our first kiss I only exist For your command is my wish We just feel so right You are the time of my life Spin me around Push me down Smooth me over Hold me under your spell back to top Your Side I spend my days dealing with the criminals And the superheroes There's no space for the middle ground Just bad clichés So much easier when it's black and white And night and day Sometimes hard to remember That we're all just shades of gray I'm on your side, I'm on your side I spend my nights Sleeping with the enemy, but it's just me Sometimes I don't know who's right or wrong Or who's on my team There's no race toward the common good Just petty fights The only thing that matters is for me to know That you're all right I'm on your side, I'm on your side Whatever you need just come to me I'm on your side, I'm on your side Whatever you need just come to me I spend my days dealing with the criminals And the superheroes back to top Love is a Dream Dawn breaks much too soon Try my best not to wake you If I had my way, you could just sleep all day Lie still, and listen to you breathe If I don't go now, I'll never leave Just stay here and watch you sleep for eternity Forever asleep Love is a dream And I never want to wake up I never want to wake up Sleep walk through my afternoon Counting seconds till I'm back to you If I could you know I would never leave you alone Forever asleep Love is a dream And I never want to wake up I never want to wake up And I never want to wake up without you Don't wake me, don't wake me if I'm dreaming The day fades, the stars come out to play Finally home, and I'm here to stay If we had our way night would never spin into day Forever asleep Love is a dream And I never want to wake up I never want to wake up And I never want to wake up without you back to top Here’s to Me I study your face Like a living photograph I love you so much I just have to laugh Whisper that I love you As you're drifting off to sleep I live for when you smile just for me Here's to me, I am the only one Here's to me, I am the lucky one Here's to me, I am the only one Who gets to know you I want to know what you know And feel what you feel I can't believe that you are really real Here's to me, I am the only one Here's to me, I am the lucky one Here's to me, I am the only one Who gets to know you Why don't you come away with me There's so much to explore Why don't you have your way with me I've never said no before Here's to me, I am the only one Here's to me, I am the lucky one Here's to me, I am the only one Who gets to know you back to top Can’t There be Enough Love A homeless family Rousted out of their concrete bed By those charged to protect and to serve Wonder who Can put a roof over their heads If you don't have money you get what you deserve Can't there be enough love for everyone? A young unwed mother With an even younger child She'll take any job just to buy food The scornful politician Says she shouldn't have been so wild But he’s just a self-centered fool Can't there be enough love for everyone? A young man Lies dying in his bed For the want of a three dollar pill But the drug companies Say he's better off dead If he can't pay their outrageous bills Can't there be enough love for everyone? back to top Moving to Florida She says "I don't see myself here, I don't know myself here, I've got to find myself somewhere else" She says she's moving to Florida That's where she will be found She says she's moving to Florida With a wink says “I'll see you around” So she wraps herself in steel And wonders how she feels As she flies away So she's moving to Florida That's where she will be found She's moving to Florida With a wave said “I'll see you around” So she found herself in Florida She was right, she was down there all along So she found herself in Florida So like me, I miss her now that she's gone back to top Riptide Pulls the rental car into the lot outside the bar Lets the engine idle, but he's already come too far Goes inside, finds her familiar face She greets him with a strong embrace that feels like yesterday A warm smile and an ice-cold beer Can almost imagine it's been a happier year He's got no one but himself to blame Some things never change but nothing is the same Riptide pulls him out to sea He swims for the shore but she's not there to see As the riptide pulls him out to sea Lets the waves wash away the man he used to be Small talk turns to the weather He wonders when the common ground fell away beneath them He's been away so long She doesn't even love the man he was, the man he will become Riptide pulls him out to sea He swims for the shore but she's not there to see As the riptide pulls him out to sea Lets the waves wash away the man he used to be Time for good-bye, he starts to ask the question That he came so far to ask, but instead he just drives She's moved on while he’s still standing still In the crashing waves until… Riptide pulls him out to sea He swims for the shore but she's not there to see As the riptide pulls him out to sea Lets the waves wash away the man he used to be back to top Right for Me There was a time you called me baby Now you call me friend, but you never call me lately Maybe I was never right for you Maybe I was never right for you There was a time I could do no wrong But you know those days are gone, gone, gone Maybe I was never right for you You were right for me You were right for me You will always be the only one who is Right for me There was a time I couldn't take my eyes off you Couldn't take your eyes off me, love is blind and I'm a fool Maybe I was never right for you You were right for me You were right for me You will always be the only one who is Right for me There was a time all we had was fun Now you even ask me "What did we have in common?" Well, I loved you And you loved me If there was anything else we needed Don't know what it would be You were right for me You were right for me You will always be the only one who is Right for me Maybe I was never right for you back to top Find Me If you find me Here with you I will always be Who I am And who you need If you find me If you find me, don't ever let me go If you find me, don't ever let me go If you find me, don't ever let me go There is no place Where you end And I begin We will find That we are one When we look within If you find me, don't ever let me go If you find me, don't ever let me go If you find me, don't ever let me go If you find me... back to top One Day Back Instrumental with the Atlantic Ocean back to top
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