Lyrics for Blooming

A new CD by Kate MacLeod, produced by Tim O'Brien

The Day is Mine
Blooming
Where the Magic Happens
Riding the White Horse Home
Road to Heaven
Branded Heart
Something Left You Living
My Teton Home
Return to Rawlins
The Inner Man
A Smile Worth a Million
As Far as the Heart Can See

The Day is Mine

I was born on a spring day
The wind was howling change
Through the lovers' lives
A crocus was peaking through the snow
The moment met
With the opening of my eyes

Now every step I take
Is a wild one
That I make willingly
I cannot leave without accounting
For my stay
And my dancing feet

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What I do with a minute or two
How I raise my stakes
A little higher
Who I love when the sun goes down
How I hope
To wake inspired

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Blooming

On the side of a hill
I see in blazing colors
What was not here yesterday
And may not be tomorrow
Someone to love
The evening primrose
An apple blossom
A wild bush and a sparrow
All have risked the frost
To find their place in the sunshine
A promise or a loss
With the coming of the springtime
And everything is blooming
Blooming, don't go

From the highway
The hills are glowing
To be so bold
To think that this is true love
We’ll drive for miles
For a smile in the morning
And then imagine
Where we are going
I have risked the frost
To find my place in the sunshine
I have loved and lost before
But still believe in springtime
Everything is blooming,
Blooming, don't go

And if we have
Fresh air
Longer days
And room for growing
We could buy an acre
And set it free
See a fawn
And love that newborn feeling
And feel the frost
To know the warmth of the sunshine
I will love and lose myself
To wear the colors of the springtime
Everything is blooming
Blooming, don't go

Where the Magic Happens

I want to go where the magic happens
Where the future smiles on me
I learned a lesson hard
When one day I let it go
It fell glistening through my hands
From my sparkling hands

I want to go where the shining is endless
And the innocent decree
I've had enough of that serious stuff
That's been laid on me
And on hard working hands
And on my sparkling mind

Sometimes it's where I least expect it
Where 1 a.m. is breathing
Anywhere that a miracle can happen
Is somewhere that I want to be
And anywhere that we are
I don't need a falling star

Riding the White Horse Home

Based on book of same name, by Teresa Jordan
Copyright 2009, Kate MacLeod, Courier Music, ASCAP

This story is tryin' to make me cry
Or is this the chinook wind in my eye?
Was it the father's fighting sons
The Iron Mountain mortgage
Or the passing on that won?

Oh the people buried there
Their silver spurs were always passed down to someone
They fixed the old corral
They saved the orphan calf
They built the hall where we had fun

Oh well, the ladies moved away
The local store and the station, they burned down
My Daddy broke another leg
I had my graduation day
Yet only the hogback hills will stay here

A drifting soul I did become
Until I wrote down my (the) memories of my loved ones
Now my new love, he's sure the one
He knows where I come from
And we ride horses when we’re near some

I remember baking with my Mom
And the little stone under my tongue
How they kept thirst away when I was young
Now I love the life I have
And I've plenty of days to face
But I sure miss the old home place

Road to Heaven

Road to heaven
Where are you taking me today
The past is waning
And I wake to turn another page
I see the sun rise
Every morning through the glass
Some days are easy
Some days they take all that I have

I've learned a few things
I've learned to let go of the time
Letting go is faith
Light snow that falls forever from the sky
Going up hill may be hard
But the view is worth the climb
And the more that I can give away
The lighter is this load of mine

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(Bridge)
I've got to mend my coat and make it ready for the day
Day of ice, made of fire, made of hope, made of clay

Any minute
I could be taken away
I hope to see you my friend
Before the closing of the day

Branded Heart

I thought I knew us well
Baby Face and Angel
But the lawlessness of loveliness
Took us by the halo

I loved your hair cascading
And I remember times of waiting
But now I feel the burning seal
From the last thing that you gave me

(Bridge)
I bought a car
And I tried roam
I tried to move my heart
Alone
But I discovered time
And collected mine
Maybe this small town
Can help me

Something Left You Living

Theodore thinks he is a king
No subtle thing
If there are no kings anymore

Heroes rap at my door
They tell me what
They think they can do for me

Watch the romance sting
The costumes bring
A look of grace to the war

Books might tell a tale
Of fame and glory
But they could be all wrong

A mother's super vision
Is sometimes hidden
Behind a skirt too long

Now, you work 'til midnight
You buy the story
The bag of honor is yours

Some might believe
The trees are singing
And some are here for sport

Light can play a trick
You choose you're right
You chose you're wrong and you're bored

Flowers scent the air
The babies stare
The more the beautiful

Please don't tread on me
I mind my business
And I want some more

My Teton Home

Snow drifting across the road
The car is following the taillights
Of the one ahead
There is no scenery through the falling snow
The winter has laid the forest
Into a quiet bed
My friends wait patiently
They just want to see me
Safe and warm
But I can find my way
Through anything
To my Teton home

The mountains break up the messages
But you know I'm still with you
Even out of sight
The weather changed in a minute
They made us stop for an hour
For the dynamite
But an hour is nothing
It's only there to remind us
Of our place in all
And I will make my way
Through anything
To my Teton home

White winter decides to go
The clouds begin to move
The fog to disappear
There the Tetons stand above us all
The cutting edge
Unmistakably severe
They are my northern star
I know where they are
When I am lost
And I will find my way
From anywhere
To my Teton home

Return to Rawlins

I tried to leave it
My truck stop on the highway
My pit stop for the hungry
That high lonesome snow
But I was born here
Beneath the skies of heaven
In a mile markin'
Carbon County home

I know that I'm better
Than the mud on my leather
And I'd like to go traveling
And to give my regards
To a star-lit town
Where I could go far
With my good looks
My wit, and my charm

The Inner Man

By Jack Hardy

I have lost my coat on the road today
Cries the man of constant sorrow
Ruin has him in the wind at last
Cries the wolf of time
Merchant make a cloth for the sinner man
Finer than the one that he lost
But it is nothing to the state of the inner man
Though the wolf goes hungry again
Cries the wolf of time: tomorrow

My house has burned down to the ground
Cries the homeless man of sorrow
Ruin has him in the wind at last
Cries the wolf of time
Build a new house for the man
Stronger than the one that he lost
But it is nothing to the state of the inner man
Though the wolf goes hungry again
Cries the wolf of time: tomorrow

I have lost my gold in the river drowned
Cries the wealthy man of sorrow
Ruin has him in the wind at last
Cries the wolf of time
But the boatman has hope for a sinner man
Says you’ve still got your health
But it is nothing to the state of the inner man
Though the wolf goes hungry again
Cries the wolf of time: tomorrow

I have lost my son my only son
Cries the worldly man of sorrow
Ruin has him in the wind at last
Cries the wolf of time
But he’s gone to the father of all sinner man
In a far far better world
But it is nothing to the state of the inner man
Though the wolf goes hungry again
Cries the wolf of time: tomorrow

I have lost my name my only name
Cries the vagabond of sorrow
Ruin has him in the wind at last
Cries the wolf of time
But the mirror doesn’t frighten this sinner man
Blood blackens on hope’s last door
It is nothing to the state of the inner man
Though the wolf goes hungry again
Cries the wolf of time: tomorrow

A Smile Worth a Million

I've seen the mansions and what a fortune can buy you
But by the time I make a fortune it won't be worth a piece of coal

I've walked a path that I’ve heard leads to wisdom
But by the time I get there I could be tired and old

Well things could be different if I’d made some different plans
Called a different name or had been dealt a different hand

As Far as the Heart Can See

Co-written by Kate MacLeod and Robert K. Wolf

Look at you
So much like me
Yet your time
Is not like mine
As you stare at your horizon
Go untethered
Go undaunted
Know a light will shine

Don't forget
This chain of gold
Wrap it around
Your rear view mirror
Take it now
For luck in leaving
With the money from your summer job
And these words from me

(Bridge)
Regardless of the long and short
The broken hearts
The slamming doors
I hope you will be brave and bold

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