"So Far From Here" is the latest recording by Paul Weisenburger and will be available for purchase October 2014.
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Discography:
A Joyful Noise - Paul Weisenburger 1999
Mary Had a Baby - Paul Weisenburger 2002
The Coming Of The King - Paul Weisenburger 2009
So Far From Here - Paul Weisenburger 2014
Some Christmas/Advent offerings from previous discs.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nc6g7obmrQU O Come O Come Emmanuel (The Coming of The King)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EBpdlc6-w3A Away in a Manger (A Joyful Noise)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LOt4OkwFGjA Mary Had A Baby (Mary Had a Baby)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PkMOpk5XbEs The Coming Of The King (original composition from The Coming of The King)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S3blW6pi7YI Rite of Passage (original composition from Mary Had a Baby )
LYRICS- (CD-SO FAR FROM HERE)
Calling You Out
Where are we going now and what have we become?
Is it fair to have the children now?
So much rain has fallen
My skin was so thin then
It’s all part of the landscape now
Part of the landscape now
Steal away, I’m a nautilus
Browning I leave the vine now
Cast away on my own accord
A fixture on the mantle
A book that hasn’t yet been read
Is the time right to follow through?
Yes, time for us to follow through
Will we ever be more free than this now?
Will we ever be more free than this?
Will we ever be more free than this now-than this now?
This is me calling you out
This is me calling you out
Windows blown wide open
The thrill of truths finally spoken
My heart races
Then your head against my breast
Will we ever be more free than this now?
Will we ever be more free than this?
Will we ever be more free than this now-than this now?
This is me calling you out
This is me calling you out
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Painted Boy
“Captain, my captain,”
He said, “Come and see”
On his perch above the crew
“The hunt due South, this compass reads”
Out of thirty caught one stood out
He wore the colors of fire, trimmed with gold
The dress would match his angry eyes
A tough price for those, if he is sold
This painted boy from overseas, with his shackles and gown
This painted boy he once was king - now a slave to bow down
Bow down
The rain poured down on that angry night
No star of hope to guide me
The exposed only held their heads and prayed to a god unseen
It was then that the storm overtook me
and dragged me from the wooden wheel
It was by chance my eyes looked up into the ones that I did steal
This painted boy from overseas with compassion-no bounds
This painted boy he rescued me. No more slaves to bow down
This painted boy from overseas with compassion-no bounds
This painted boy he rescued me. No more slaves to bow down
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Never Safe
She doesn’t speak in the same place that she lives, loves and breathes
We amble below her
And I can proclaim her to be the finest specimen of ardor today
Flowers bow down before her
Even if I could keep her close at hand-
all my life I could never understand
No I’ve not been her first
Her tongue’s in the heads of men she’ll outlive and never to fade
Power gathers behind her
And so, I concede
My defeat-it’s so empowering
Succumb to her grace
The songs spill out to please her
Some will triumph-some falter
this gilded curse
Music serving only her claim to birth
She’s the one who drives the pen
Leads me on...
I try to pretend I’m free but freedom’s never safe
Even if I could keep her close at hand-
all my life I could never understand
She’s the one who drives the pen
Leads me on...
I try to pretend I’m free but freedom’s never safe
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So Far From Here
Sittin’ at the train stop
focused on the raindrops
drumming on my skin
In my mind there’s our steam trunk
The ferry leaves - for just once
you’re with me and we’re miles away
so far from here
so far from here
T.V. murder mystery
Fashion mogul - must see,
but you know that there’s more
Sittin’ here beside you I know the thoughts inside
You’re with me and we’re miles away
so far from here
so far from here
And I know that there will be questions
and they’ll want to know just where we’ve been
But please, dear
Tell me that you’ll keep our secret
so that we can still get miles away
so far from here
so far from here
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Lie To Me
Up all night, oh... that talk again
Oh moon, I only see one of her faces
A skeptic and pathetic troubadour at best
I allow my self to be put through her paces
Then why must you lie to me?
You put on that face and you lie to me
A bed of thorns is mine tonight
and with each stinging prick
I grow more sensitive
to my senseless cowering
from your searing lips
The cruelties unceasing
Then why must you lie to me?
You put on that face and you lie to me
As you fall from grace this is goodbye you see
Damn you, you lied to me
Please, lie to me
I need to believe it
Oh please, lie to me
Just like you’ve done before
Oh I’m damned you see - need you to lie to me
Come on
Lie to me
I need to believe it
Ooh please, lie to me
just like you’ve done before
Oh I’m damned you see - need you to lie me
Lie to me.
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Once There Was This Girl
Once there was this girl
who knew just when they started going out
When holding hands
made her feel like she just swallowed sunshine
Then there was this boy-
always forgetting plans they’d made
He found himself this day
contemplating just how he’d tell her
that he’d rather be someone else’s
With high school far behind
this girl had written books that took her
far across the world
Paris was where she took root
and resigned to figure out
just where it was she’d gone wrong with him
With that one young boy, she’d never learned to
let go and enjoy the fruits of young love
and it’s holding her heart back now
If there were a time to learn from life’s stumbles and falls
it is now, can you hear me?
Won’t you please just let go
Just let go
Remembering the boy
who’d been the one to change the plot line
no malice in his choice
just following what his young heart told him
Now a dad of five
beautiful portraits of himself and his supportive wife
They’d moved on from love’s first movement back then
and learned to enjoy the fruits of young love
never looking back-
no reason to challenge what’s already done
Don’t hold your heart back
Don’t hold your heart back now
Once there was this this girl
Still there is this boy
Let go
Go on and let go