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Lyrics to Bob’s 2012 album Finding You Again


SONGS

  1. How Dare You Love Me
  2. Maybe It’s the Rain
  3. Exeter (The Wedding Waltz)
  4. Finding You Again
  5. Somebody’s Angel
  6. The Thunder of Goodbye
  7. The Gravity of the World
  8. Somewhere in this City
  9. How the Nights Can Fly
  10. May
  11. Someone to Adore
  12. Let It Go
  13. Perspective

HOW DARE YOU LOVE ME?
Words & Music by Bob Lind

There’s a bulldog growling at the gates of my heart
But he doesn’t scare you at all.
There’s a cold steel lock on a cast-iron door
But you’re wearing away the wall.

How dare you love me like this?
How dare you love me like this?
I just push back and resist.
My pride is tight in my fist.
But you endure and persist.
How dare you love me like this?
How dare you love me?
Don’t you care how your fingers are torn,
As you reach through these brambles and thorns?

There’s a long list of women who built me this shield
And I hold it to guard me from harm.
But lifting it keeps getting harder to do
With the tug of your hand on my arm.

How dare you love me so bold?
How dare you love me so tough?
When will the struggle get old?
When will enough be enough?
How dare you love me so brave?
What is there in me to save?
How dare you love me?

Behind my back they call me Jericho
And I know you know why they do.
I feel the cracks. I hear the trumpets blow
As a brand-new world rumbles through.

And you love me! You love me!
I can’t believe you love me.

I just can’t understand
Why you reach and reach again
For the battle-weary hands
Of this dark and damaged man
But take me if you can.

And dare to love me.


MAYBE IT’S THE RAIN
Words and Music by Bob Lind

Maybe it’s the rain
Maybe it’s the hole I just now noticed in the screen
Or the thought I might not love you anymore
Or that the car needs gasoline

Maybe it’s just Sunday
Or the way the shadows fall like concrete at this hour
Or the thought I might not love you anymore
Or that this milk is going sour

It’s the strangest mood
It just keeps clutching.
It could be anything or nothing

Maybe it’s the rain
Maybe that I didn’t hit the Lotto yesterday
Or the thought I might not love you anymore
Or that the weekend feels so far away

Or maybe it’s the rain


EXETER
(The Wedding Waltz)
Words and Music: Bob Lind

Dreaming tonight of a little hotel back in England
I married you there, sure as the moon pulls the tide
And all that I was; all that I am
Sank in your body like seeds
And I grow there trusting always where it leads

Love drifting down over that ancient cathedral
Love through the window over those cobblestone roads
Years will go by miles will be traveled
Ice will melt into the sea
Still I keep you now and always there with me

On through the night on through eternity dancing
Out through the sky on past the limits of time
And all that you are; all you will be
Is strung through my heartline like beads
And this wedding still continues endlessly


FINDING YOU AGAIN
Words and Music: Bob Lind

I know you know
The things I never have to tell you
But even so
I’m in this avalanche of words
I feel the glow
And taste the flavor of your loyalty
My mind is turning now to Panama
Your kiss good morning in the locks
And from Gatun down to Balboa
Across the jungle on that train
I was finding you again

I close my eyes
And see the sun caress your balcony
Such sweet surprise
To sense your shadow on the chair
I catch my breath
And feel my heart embrace the memory
But it isn’t quite a memory
Because it changes like the galaxy
The steady stars and moving planets
I find stranger and a friend
In finding you again

Your life and mine
A shifting landscape in the
Strong winds of time
You are my constant
You’re my unbroken line
Every day as best I can
I’m finding you again

Tonight I dream
About the Eastern Caribbean
Somewhere between
Two island nations in the sun
So clear and clean
Across the deck I watch you move to me
I hear the steel band in the background
Your smile so bright
You can’t contain it all
It warms and lightens everyone
I have no better time to spend
Than in finding you again


SOMEBODY’S ANGEL
Words and Music: Peter Allen and David Lasley

Everybody’s been taken.
My poor heart is breaking.
It’s so hard believing that life is worth living.
But now that I’ve found you,
I see the chance that you might come through.
So don’t let me down. Right now I stand,
My heart in my hand. So please…

Don’t you want to be somebody’s angel
Just for tonight?
Only you can save me. Only you do it right.

So don’t tell me I’m crazy,
If I say forever is not far away.
Just close your eyes, repeat after me.
Hold on. Say “I love you.”

Don’t you want to be somebody’s angel
Just for tonight?
Only you can save me. Only you do it right.


THE THUNDER OF GOODBYE
Words & Music: Bob Lind

When she’s gone
Before it reaches your awareness
You maybe cavalier and careless
But at the folding of the day
That brittle pride will break away
And at night when the rain is at your window
You will finally begin to
Know the thunder of goodbye

When she leaves
The things you didn’t say will haunt you
Watching the days she used to want you
Drifting out beyond your reach
Like the sunset from the beach
In every room, there’ll be regrets and empty spaces
There will be no sheltered places
From the thunder of goodbye

Fools can never see it when it’s there
And then they find a strand of hair
A trace of perfume in the air
The indentation in a chair

Fools don’t see the constant and the true
Don’t see the sunlight shining through
Don’t feel the storm begin to brew
Until there’s nothing they can do

When she goes
You’ll know how much is gone forever
Stitches that held your heart together
The very sun that lit your sky
Has left the best of you to die
Through the night
The kitchen light will just keep burning
As if to guide her safe returning
But when the morning meets your eyes
You’ll have to face yourself and try
To take the thunder of goodbye


THE GRAVITY OF THE WORLD
Words and Music: Bob Lind

I was reading about the astronauts
They were weightless out in space
Like floating flecks of dust they soared and swirled
But when they got back home
They had to teach their legs to walk again
Crippled by the gravity of the world
And for no reason I know of I thought about lies

The lies that protect our money
The lies that guard our pride
The lies that keep our trigger fingers curled
The necessary lies that keep our loved ones safe from pain
Keep us tethered to the gravity of the world

I can still remember the lightness that I knew
How joyously this heart of mine
Protected what I knew was true

They say every baby born is like a brand-new empty bottle
And that coffins close those bottles when they fill
And the only thing that matters
Is the substance we’ve contained
And the precious drops of truth we don’t let spill

And I can’t call back the moment
When the world came breaking through
The carelessness and compromise
The things I thought I had to do

The lies that protect our money
The lies that guard our pride
The lies that keep our trigger fingers curled
The necessary lies that keep our loved ones safe from pain
Keep us tethered to the gravity of the world


SOMEWHERE IN THIS CITY
Words and Music: Bob Lind

The setting sunlight turns the streets to gold.
I feel a song rising out of the gutters and filling the air.
This town is singing to me, promising someone to hold.
I can’t quite see her but I know she’s there.

And I know that somewhere in this city
Somebody’s looking for me.
Someone knows this longing deep in the core.
Somewhere in this city I’m going to find her tonight
Around this next corner or behind this door.

Radios blast from the windows of passing cars.
But under the noise I feel somebody’s heart beating tender and strong.
Above the heat and the traffic, over the alleys and bars
These breezes whisper that it won’t be long.

And I know that somewhere in this city
Somebody’s out there tonight
Walking west on Lincoln or parking on Main.
Somewhere in this city somebody’s reaching for me.
Tonight she’ll know she wasn’t reaching in vain.

Don’t ask my mind for reasons
For what my heart’s believing.
But I can feel her breathing
Close and real.
The very thought is thrilling.
These malls and office buildings
Hold someone warm and willing.
I can feel it.

Somewhere in this city somebody’s yearning for me,
Someone I’ve spent all my life yearning for.
Somewhere in this city somebody’s waiting for me
Around this next corner or behind this door.


HOW THE NIGHTS CAN FLY
Words and Music: Bob Lind

There was something of the eagle
In the way his voice could rise
And she thought she saw salvation
In the way he closed his eyes

He was turning like the seasons
She was turning toward the sky

How the nights can fly
And how the days can fill you
Years go floating by
The only touch that thrills you

They were only passing passengers
On separate sets of scenes
But there was something of the lifeline
Through the distances between

How the nights can fly
And how the days can fill you
Years that move you on
Memories that still you

Sometimes our needs are most in danger
From the ones we need the most
And there is something of the stranger
In the closest of the close

As he kisses her forever
He is kissing her goodbye

How the nights can fly
And how the days can fill you
And when the chance goes by
How the years can kill you


MAY
Words and Music: Bob Lind

May.
We put at least six months of passion in those thirty days.
We put a lot of miles and memories on that
Shaky Chevrolet.
And though nothing that I was could make you stay,
We had May. We had May.

Free.
This world was open when you nuzzled right up next to me
And made this heart of mine remember all the things
That Spring could be.
And if June rolled in too soon, hey, that’s okay.
We had May. We had May.

These lilac memories will not wither
Like those gardenias in your hands.
I understand I can’t have everything
This greedy heart of mine demands.

May.
It seems so distant and removed from these October days.
And now the Autumn moon invites me to remember you
In easy ways.
And if I long for you sometimes I’ll sigh and say
We had May. We had May.


SOMEONE TO ADORE
Words and Music: Bob Lind

I’m not a complicated man
I’m not that hard to understand
I need what everybody needs
Down in my simple soul I bleed
For what the world is yearning for
Someone to adore.

Someone to adore
The song that swells in every beating human heart
The theme that throbs in every classic work of art.
The drive that draws a man to churches — and to whores
Someone to adore

Somewhere a man is on his knees
His wife is dying by degrees
He calls to God and tries to trust
As another woman stirs his lust
He hates his weakness to the core
For someone to adore

Someone to adore.
He can’t believe his prayers for healing co-exist
With dark desires to feel a stranger’s vibrant kiss
The roots are twisted but the limbs are stretching toward
Someone to adore

Primal and constant the infinite streams find the shore
The source of perfect peace the cause of every savage war
Someone to adore

Last night I woke in the waning moon
I felt my mother in the room
She said the world must hear your voice
Don’t be afraid you have a choice
In how you open up the door
For someone to adore

Someone to adore
And so I sing tonight, my hands are reaching out
Out through the walls and past the jagged rocks of doubt
Beyond my limits I can feel my spirit soar
With someone to adore


LET IT GO
Words and Music: Bob Lind

These are our days and nights.
These times will never come again.
These bright unfolding moments,
Shining like diamonds in our hands.
And they open just like roses
And I feel a voice within me speaking low:
“You are heavy with this anger.
Don’t you think it’s maybe time to let it go?
Let it go. Let it go.
These grudges kill you just as sure as guns and knives.
Let it go.
Let your heart fly free to other hearts and lives.
Let it go.
Another world is waiting, sweeter than you know.
Let it go.”

Three mornings back I woke to find my fist
Was clenching in my sleep.
Something was raging in me,
Some strange resentment, dark and deep.
I could blame it on my father;
I could blame it on a world that moves too slow.
I could blame it on a million things
But something else inside said, “Let it go.
Let it go. Let it go.
Throw these curtains back and step out in the sun.
Let it go.
Blow these fences down and let your stallions run.
Let it go.
There’s a garden in you reaching up to grow.
Let it grow. And let it go.”


PERSPECTIVE
Words and Music: Bob Lind

What if you leave me
The faithful moon will keep on rising
Stars will shimmer birds will fly
The nights will fall, and years will slide
Across me

When you leave me
I’ll still wake up I’ll still grow old
And close the door against the cold
The same red plastic cups will hold
My coffee

The world will still go on
The world won’t know you’re gone

What if you leave me
The setting sun will still be casting
Emerald highlights on the grass
The ordinary days will pass
Without you

When you leave me
Across the world the Chinese rain
Will drop on thirsty fields and plains
And no one there will dream in vain
About you.

The world will still go on.
The world won’t know you’re gone.

What if you leave me
These bolts will hold this chair in place
This soft and silky pillow case
Will yield the imprint of your face
Eventually

When you leave me
The spring will turn the gardens green
I’ll find the time to mend the screens
And no one else will see these dreams
You lent me

The world will not recall.
The world won’t care at all.