Redwing

Redwing (4:15)

Sarah Sample & Paul Jacobsen

(Ramona PQ Records/ASCAP/Madison Arm Music/ASCAP)

I met God in a high desert sunrise

Neither of us said a word

I found God in the quiet of the golden plains

on the red, red wings of blackbirds

I saw a stag in the shade of a cottonwood

He looked my way but didn’t stir

He held his ground, now I’ll hold mine

with the red, red wings of blackbirds

Past the pavement, past the road

Past a world that I used to know

That’s where I want to go

I took my daughters to the woods

Where their hearts would not be cursed

Where they could sail above the trees

on the red, red wings of blackbirds

Regret, regret I've had my share

So many, they all just blur

But I'll burn them bright, I’ll burn them fast

like red, red wings on blackbirds

Past the pavement, past the road

Past a world that I used to know

That’s where I want to go

There's hope in the newborn baby

And in the driver of the hearse

In prayers, in dares, subway fares,

and on the red wings of blackbirds

Someday soon my life will pass

But I've got some living to do first

Still, when it's my time to go

Take me on the red, red wings of blackbirds


Love ain’t enough anymore

Love Ain’t Enough Anymore (4:04)

Sarah Sample & Dustin Christensen

(Ramona PQ Records/ASCAP/Carnival Music Publishing/ASCAP)

I don’t look at the pictures hanging in our hall

‘Cause they all tell the story of when we had it all

Kids out of college, on a little church lawn                                     

And I can’t you when, or how it wrong

I thought it’d better this way

Pretending that nothing had changed

What is a life, when you’re living is a lie?

What is a life, when you can’t change your mind?                  

When you’re bound to the old you, then you’re waging a war

Honey I love you, but love ain’t enough anymore

I tried to tell you but I lost all the words

I hated to show you, ‘cause I knew it would hurt

I couldn’t be like you, a constant bright star

‘Cause burning out trying, leaves you lost in the dark

What is a life, when you’re living is a lie?

What is a life, when you can’t change your mind?                  

When you’re bound to the old you, then you’re waging a war

Honey I love you, but love ain’t enough anymore

I thought better this way

But I know now it can’t stay the same

What is a life, when you’re living is a lie?

What is a life, when you can’t change your mind?                  

When you’re bound to the old you, then you’re waging a war

Honey I love you, but love ain’t enough anymore


Love Who you love

Love Who You Love (3:15)

Sarah Sample & Kate Graves

(Ramona PQ Records/ASCAP/Catherine Christensen Graves/ASCAP)

Well I once had a mother too

She said things like mothers do

But mothers can be wrong sometimes

Like back in 1959

She said he was no good for me

She didn’t say but I could see 

Her reasons fell on color lines

His skin was not the same as mine

  

It is simple, it isn’t hard

Ain’t no rhyme or reason to a heart 

Ain’t no should have, could have, would have part

You just love who you love

You just love who you love         

You just love love love who you love

I hear your mom’s been down on you

I once came down hard on her too

But mothers can be wrong sometimes

I hope she’ll come around with time

Two girls can love as big and true

As any man and woman do

Love doesn’t draw in colored lines

No pink or blue, no black or white

It is simple, it isn’t hard

Ain’t no rhyme or reason to a heart 

Ain’t no should have, could have, would have part

You just love who you love

You just love who you love         

You just love love love who you love

You just love who you love

You just love who you love         

You just love love love who you love

You just love who you love

You just love who you love         

You just love love love who you love

give a little

Sarah Sample

It won’t always be simple

Though, you’re so sure at the start

Love’s a drug that goes down easy

So you promise away your hearts

If you feel you got nothing left

Baby please, take one more step

Give a little time

Give a little love

Let the sun warm us from above                            

I will meet you in the middle

All we’ve got to give is little

When it starts to wear off

spit no longer makes love shine

Between work and school and carpool

We just stopped putting in the time


If you feel you got nothing left

Baby please, take one more step

Give a little time

Give a little love

Let the sun warm us from above                            

I will meet you in the middle

All we’ve got to give is little

We cannot slow the pace

Or roll to a jumpstart

So put your arms around my waist

We can slow dance through the hard parts

If you feel you got nothing left

Baby please, take one more step

Give a little time

Give a little love

Let the sun warm us from above                            

I will meet you in the middle

All we’ve got to give is little


the dance

Sarah Sample & Kate Graves

(Ramona PQ Records/ASCAP/Catherine Christensen Graves/ASCAP)

You come to town

A few times a year

I marked a heart on my calendar

For the day you’re getting here

I had it planned 

A big surprise

Mom said you’d pick me at six

I’m still waiting here at nine

 

But I can see it all in my mind                                             

I’d be twirling in your arms, I’d be flyin’

I would feel your love with every glance

That’s how it’s supposed to go

At the Daddy Daughter Dance

 

My wedding day

Guests sit and smile

You’re finally by my side

To walk me down the aisle

We celebrate

They start our song

But you’re too boozed up to walk

You’ve been drinking all day long

I can see it all in my mind

I’d be twirling in your arms, I’d be flyin’

I would feel your love with every glance

That’s how it’s supposed to go

For the Daddy Daughter Dance

We never got our song

We never learned the moves

We never got to dance around

With me standing on your shoes

I thought I was to blame

‘Til I finally figured out

I could choose a different partner

I could fill my dance card out

 

He is home at five

For dinner time

He coaches all her softball games

And tucks her in at night

                  

She picks her dress

It’s pink chiffon                                   

When she walks down those stairs

I watch him pin the corsage on

I can see it all, in my mind

She’ll be twirling in his arms, she’ll be flyin’

She will  feel his love with every glance

That’s how it’s supposed to go

At the Daddy Daughter Dance

Heart that falls apart

Sarah Sample

(Ramona PQ Records/ ASCAP)

My mother has a tender heart 

They say I got the same one, right from the start 

Some people get their daddy’s laugh 

I got a heart that falls apart 

Splits right in half right from the start

I’m not the steady ark 

I’m not the solid ground 

No shoulder to lean on 

But I’ll give a heart that falls apart 

I’ll give a heart that falls apart 

You’ll never cry alone, when I’m around 

I wish I could draw the line 

But it’s not the way this heart was designed 

In joy or sorrow, it acts the same 

I’ve got a heart that falls apart 

In everything 

I’m not the steady ark 

I’m not the solid ground 

No shoulder to lean on 

But, I’ll give a heart that falls apart 

I’ll give a heart that falls apart 

You’ll never cry alone, when I’m around 

I say, “let it come” 

Waves of sorrow, one by one 

I will sink by your side 

Then I’ll pray the moon to change her tides 

So when we feel the sun

Our two hearts will have become one 

I’m not the steady ark 

I’m not the solid ground 

No shoulder to lean on 

But, I’ll give a heart that falls apart 

I’ll give a heart that falls apart 

You’ll never cry alone, when I’m around 


The Walk of moving on

The Walk Of Moving On (4:59)

Sarah Sample & Kate Graves

(Ramona PQ Records/ASCAP/Catherine Christensen Graves/ASCAP)

Your shoes by the bed

Your books piled up too

These scenes in my head

Replayings of you 

And every night whispers

All the love and wine

‘Til the morning delivers

You were just running lines

It’s a long road ahead

It’s a hard road behind

It’s one step at a time

It’s a slow climb        

It’s hard to get moving 

But it’s time to move along

It’s hard to get moving to the walk of moving on

When you blow into town

When you hold me so strong

I always feel found 

‘Til you blow out at dawn

I still answer your calls

I  still open the doors 

It takes all I got 

To stop asking for more

It’s a long road ahead

It’s a hard road behind

It’s one step at a time

It’s a slow climb        

It’s hard to get moving, 

But it’s time to move along

It’s hard to get moving to the walk of moving on

It’s time to quit running, back to a love that’s gone bad

It’s time to quit running for something I never had
It’s time to quit running, it’s time to go slow

It’s time, only this time I know

It’s a long road ahead

It’s a hard road behind

It’s one step at a time

It’s a slow climb        

It’s hard to get moving 

But it’s time to move along

It’s hard to get moving to the walk of moving on


raised that way

Raised That Way (3:25)

Sarah Sample

(Ramona PQ Records/ASCAP)

Looking in the review

At choices we made

We were just kids 

We did what kids did 

When you’re raised that way

We had a wedding

Flowers and cake

That night you took off my dress

We fumbled through the rest

‘Cause we promised we’d wait  

I’m looking at you

You’re looking at me

We are different than what we used to be

So please tell me, what are we gonna do?

We started a family

While you were buried in school

We were just kids

We did what kids did 

When you play by the rules

The baby kept crying

And I cried along too

Put my dream in the drawer

Who could ask for more

Only a fool

I’m looking at you

You’re looking at me

We are different than what we used to be

So please tell me, what are we gonna do?

We grew up together

And we left side by side

No longer children

Now we get to decide

I’m looking at you

You’re looking at me

We are so different than what we used to be

So now luckily, now we get to choose

Baby, I choose you

I choose you

living is hard to do

Living Is Hard To Do (3:28)

Sarah Sample

(Ramona PQ Records/ASCAP)

I was scared they wouldn’t have time to say goodbye

One long night has turned into years that crawl by

                                                          

Dying is easy

Living is hard to do

When a body just ain’t through 

I’ve got my heart in the clouds

My feet shackled to the ground

A shadow of myself

Neither lost or found

Lord, cut me free

‘Cause I’m ready

In my dreams, an old cypress tree, cicadas are singing     

On August nights, I sit in the shade, I hear my children laughing 

Dying is easy

Living is hard to do

When a body just ain’t through 

I’ve got my heart in the clouds

My feet shackled to the ground

A shadow of myself

Neither lost or found

Lord, cut me free

‘Cause I’m ready

I’ve got my heart in the clouds

My feet shackled to the ground

A shadow of myself

Neither lost or found

Lord, cut me free

I’m ready

I’m ready

Lord, I’m ready


a day without you

A Day Without You (3:53)

Sarah Sample

(Ramona PQ Records/ASCAP)

We lost you on Christmas Eve

A cruel, cruel gift to the family

We gathered round your cold body 

On that colder night

A broken heart I already possessed 

But it stopped its beating 

When you took your last breath

And I wanted the world to stop spinning too

For how could the sun rise on a day without you?

I’ve been living in a season of sorrow

The longest winter, no sign of tomorrow 

I’m not sure I want it to end

I feel betrayed by every tick of the clock

I’m jealous of the couple strolling down the block 

I’m angry in the night when you’re not here for me to lean in to

For how could the sun rise on a day without you?

Don’t ask me if I’m ok

Please ask me if I’m ok

Don’t ask me

Please ask me

Don’t tell me I’ll move on

Don’t tell me to just be strong

Don’t tell me

Please tell me

I know how to pretend

But don’t promise I’ll see him again

Don’t tell me

Please tell me

Don’t ask me if I’m ok

Please ask me if I’m ok

Don’t ask me

Please ask me

Please