1. Bring the Music [2:04]

Lyrics by Marguerite Conti
Music by Marguerite Conti and Ed Corey
© 2008

Black gold reigns like a black plague over my country
First a father, then a brother, then a son
Then a daughter, then a sister, then a mother
Lost to the sands of burning land I don't understand

Meanwhile I watch the bodies of elders wash
through the gutters of New Orleans
Flirst a mother, then a daughter, then a sister
Then a son, then a father, then a brother
Stranded in a land I struggle to understand

Bring the heart back, bring the soul back
Bring the soul back, bring the heart back
Bring the music, bring the soul back to the land
Bring the music, bring the heart back to the land
Bring the soul back
Bring the music
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Marguerite Conti: Vocal
Ed Corey: Electric Guitar
Hans Halt: Bass
Will Dowd: Drums
Nova Karina Devonie: Accordion

2. When It's Too Far [2:52]

Lyrics by Marguerite Conti
Music by Marguerite Conti and Ed Corey
© 2008

To practice dying all alone
To tear the sun up for the cold
Beneath the brambles of her soul
That's where she said she often goes to be free
To feel the flipside of the sweet
To swallow thorns to taste the bleed
Invite these tyrants I unrobe
That's where she said she has to go to be whole

Make no mistake that the hands of a devil
Knock upon my back door
Clothed in the shadows and laughing
when it all seems to sure

To lay my lips upon my love
To know the softness in a touch
Release this anchor to the sea
That's how she said she wants to be to go on

To sing the magic of the heart
To know the deepness of the dark
Shake down the autumn from the trees
Let all the seasons color me on my way
Make no mistake that the eyes of any angel
Watch over my back road
Winged well with wisdom
And catching when it's too far to fall

Catching when it's too far
Catching when it's too far to fall
Catching when it's too far
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Marguerite Conti: Vocal
Ed Corey: Electric Guitar
Hans Halt: Bass, Piano
Will Dowd: Drums

3. Luna Light [2:54]

Lyrics by Marguerite Conti and Donna Berry
Music by Marguerite Conti and Ed Corey
© 2008

Tonight on all that is ordinary
On all that's exotic too
Luna light draws our love forward

Angels teach me touch
Near shimmering swells of sea
My mother moon smiles tenderly
She whispers wise to me

Speak all that I've longed to hear
That only you can say
Luna light be the love that lights my way

Angels teach me touch
Near shimmering swells of sea
My mother moon smiles tenderly
She whispers wise to me

Speak all that I've longed to hear
That only you can say
Luna light be the love that lights my way
Luna light be the love that lights my way
Luna light be the love that lights my way
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Marguerite Conti: Vocal
Ed Corey: Electric Guitar
Hans Halt: Bass, Piano
Will Dowd: Drums

4. Big Sky [3:38]

Lyrics by Marguerite Conti
Music by Marguerite Conti and Ed Corey
© 2008

I fell in love with you
in California's January sun
I fell in love with you
before I could escape the passion in your eyes
If all in love is true
This could explain why I still hunger for you
For your touch
And it's been years since when I made you cry
You went to be in your Montana

Big Sky keeps calling to me of tears
A river of ice frozen in torrents of exile

In all this time I knew this was a place
that I need follow far within
And in this time it's true
I would collide inside the hollow of the den
But it was right, I grew
I could befriend my own surrender

Big Sky keeps calling to me of fear
Stickers of fire catching on old bones of bygone

I had a dream I stood out on the moon
Its light repelled the darness all around me
And silence spilled my inner-waking showers
And I could cry into forever like a child
And it was time, I knew
I went to see you in Montana

Big Sky keeps calling to me of years
A flicker of time melting this winter of longing
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Marguerite Conti: Vocal
Ed Corey: Electric Guitar
Hans Halt: Bass, Piano
Will Dowd: Drums
Jackie Robbins: Cello

5. Leaves and Roses [4:05]

Music and Lyrics by Marguerite Conti
In loving memory of Anna Maria Maranche Conti
(June 3, 1920-April 3, 2008)
© 2008

I can't say how much I'll miss you
For it could never be enough
But in the lines of leaves in roses
It all will come to me
It all will come to me

I didn't do all that I could have
So there is something left undone
But there is so much more to do here
I will learn to let it be
I will let it be

For all that I could have
For all that I did not
I know sometimes
You felt the same
But you did your best by me

I didn't say all that I'd wanted
The words never would have come
But in my every act of kindness
It all will help me see
It will help me see

For all that was precious
For the moments that we had
I will love the leaves and roses
Until I join you there
Until I join you there
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Marguerite Conti: Vocal, Piano
Jackie Robbins: Cello

6. In Costa Rica [4:27]

Music and Lyrics by Marguerite Conti
© 2008

I started home tonight along the Sound
La Luna lit the water with a corridor of diamonds
Seattle lights are glowing on
the words your wrote in Barva
You spoke of Volcan Arenal in Costa Rica
How its fire had carved a barren pass
Once a garden land had flourished there in Costa Rica
Summer rains fall harder for the ash

The night has settled now here in the west
The city noise had faded
The moon is full and wanting
And I reach out to the night
And call the four directions here beside me

The south brings all my thoughts of you in Costa Rica
Where the heat of noon touches your core
While you come to know your
passions there in Costa Rica
I begin my sojourn to the North

The night's been longer here than all the rest
By grace the day is rising
The eastern sky is dawning
And the Sound appears again
New unlike I'd ever seen it

How does this day break there for you
In Costa Rica
What has change brought you to brave
While the seasons shape and care for you
In Costa Rica
How I wish us landscapes that will last
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Marguerite Conti: Vocal, Acoustic Guitar
Hans Halt: Bass, Piano
Will Dowd: Drums
Nova Karina Devonie: Accordion
Jackie Robbins: Cello

7. Dance into the Night [2:38]

Lyrics by Marguerite Conti
Music by Marguerite Conti and Ed Corey
© 2008

Soft words oh wrap me
inside your silky satin charms
Crack open all your
pretty glories in my arms
Take me back beside you
come and tell me something good
Call me home to show me
all the love I knew you could

Sunset comes a quarter to nine
Another day is passing by
The stars will shine again like a miracle
So let us dance into the night

Show me slow and hold me
Sing me a song I wanna hear
Take me to tomorrow
Make some magic of the year

Sunset comes a quarter to nine
Another day is passing by
The stars will shine again like a miracle
So let us dance into the night

Show me slow and hold me
Another day is passing by
Take me to tomorrow
Let us dance into the night
Take me to tomorrow
Let us dance into the night
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Marguerite Conti: Lead Vocal, Acoustic Guitar
Ed Corey: Electric Guitar
Hans Halt: Bass
Will Dowd: Drums
Nova Karina Devonie: Accordion
Alicia Healey: Background Vocals and
Background Vocal Arrangements

8. Quilter's Paradise [2:55]

Music and Lyrics by Marguerite Conti
In loving memory of Anna Maria Maranche Conti
(June 3, 1920-April 3, 2008)
© 2008

You left a pearl ring here
in this quilter's treasure chest
among the dusty books and cloth
and cuttings of your best
There are treasures in this treasure
only your eyes could discern
Remnants of your lifetime,
a puzzle left for us to learn

I could see the life and love and light
inside your seasoned eyes
Your careful hands they drew a thread
and fashioned your design
I love to think about you
up in your Quilter's Paradise

When you pointed out the color
and the cloud shapes in the sky
You tried to show what life is like
in all the patterns passing by
That's what I loved the most
how you took some simple thought
and weaved it in a metaphor
to bring perspective to a heart

I could see the life and love and light
inside your seasoned eyes
Your careful hands they drew a thread
and fashioned your design
I love to think about you
up in your quilter's paradise
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Marguerite Conti: Vocal, Acoustic Guitar
Will Dowd: Drums
Jackie Robbins: Cello

9. Twenty-Two [4:03]

Music and Lyrics by Marguerite Conti
Adapted from the poem "22" by Rebecca Calhoun
© 2008

There's a part of her in a green gingham dress
Hands in the sink water pouring out the hour
Kids are out to play she's somewhere in her mind
Starring into time

Fear and love are coursing through her veins
She's silent, feeling, sighing
So much inside
The world has pushed her, the places she's been
Her twenty-two's a thousand plus that again

She isn't bothered in her worn black leather best
Heavy shoes reveal another kind of mother
Walking in the city somewhere talking tough
Don't you know she's rough

There's a part of her in a silk negligé
Perfume bottle, swaying, touching with her lover
Rhythm of romancing, taking her sweet time
Don't you know she's fine

Fear and love are coursing through her veins
She's silent, feeling, sighing
So much inside
The world has pushed her, the places she's been
Her twenty-two's a thousand plus that again

She wears her hair up and a sleek blue navy suit
High heels, power brief case, giving out the orders
She makes decisions, finalizes all the plans
She knows she can
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Marguerite Conti: Lead Vocal, Acoustic Guitar
Will Dowd: Drums, Cajón
Jackie Robbins: Cello
Kym Tuvim: Background Vocal

10. Jigsaw [3:36]

Music and Lyrics by Marguerite Conti
© 2008

Late night talk radio mocks, send the F.E.M.A. down
I want to take them on the town
No more work tomorrow, elude this earthly sorrow
Queer as me they will see life is just a jigsaw

First stop take a photo keepsake, get the media press
Put on the silver shiney best
Story what they're after, fake a toothy laughter
Let 'em guess at the rest
Laying down the jigsaw (puzzle)
Laying down the jigsaw

Second stop we came upon a White House
Marble men and stone
An empty chamber of velvet red
Burley bribes with their scribes
Sketching on the jigsaw

On second look I saw this was my house
That's what the history said
Life and liberty and justice taken down to be drown
Breaking up the jigsaw (puzzle)

Send the F.E.M.A. down
I want to taken them on the town
Get the media press
Put on the silver shiney best

It's just a jigsaw, A jigsaw puzzle
Sketching on the jigsaw, Breaking up the jigsaw
Life is just a jigsaw puzzle
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Marguerite Conti: Lead Vocal
Ed Corey: Electric Guitar
Hans Halt: Bass
Will Dowd: Drums
Nova Karina Devonie: Accordion
Alicia Healey: Background Vocals and
Background Vocal Arrangements