Matter to You by Gail Swanson ©

Matter to You
by Gail Swanson © 2009
Sea Note Music/BMI

It’s not the end of the world you forgot my birthday
But I stayed up all night in case you called
I worked up my nerve to hear your latest alibi
And I dialed your number, I got your number
You weren’t even home to lie.

I just wanna matter to you Baby
No one likes to feel invisible
And I don’t think you’ve seen me for a long time
I just wanna matter to you Baby
No one likes to count for nothing
From now on the heart I count on in mine.

I keep on trying but deep down I know
There’s no sense in crying on a shoulder so cold
One day you’ll wonder after I’m gone
Why you feel a hunger, yeah love is a hunger
To mean everything to someone

Tell me what changed inside your heart
Don’t leave me guessing, its tearing me apart
I’m not gonna stay here forever
Just waiting to feel like you care
I’m bearing my heart here.

Missing You
by John Cruz and Mathhew Herschler
Lilikoi Music/BMI

Lying all alone late at night in my bed
I was all full of feelings
Had pictures of you in my head
I was thinking about the springtime
You and me on the beach
My heart was open
I held out my hand
But you didn't even reach

Last time I saw you
I was so confused
Things that I thought I had
I found out I could lose
But I don't want to be demanding
I wouldn't do that to you
I won't be waiting outside your window
Watching you at a quarter past two

I'm all dressed up, nowhere to go
I go to the movies but the theater is so cold
I sit there by myself, sipping on my Coke
Movie stars are making love and
My heart is broken
I've been missing you

The One That Got Away
by Gail Swanson and Cris Sommer Simmons © 2008
Sea Note Music/BMI, Wild Wahine Music/ASCAP

Sometimes I wonder Baby, Where are you now?
We never said goodbye, We didn’t know how
Maybe I crazy, maybe I think too much
But there is a corner of my heart that you can still touch

And after all these years, I wonder what you’d say
If I asked you, “Am I the one that got away?”

I hung a picture of you inside my mind
And all of my memories come through frozen in time
I’d like to think that I was the one you loved most
Cause I am here all alone, in love with your ghost

And after all these years, I wonder what you’d say
If I asked you, “Am I the one that got away?”

You couldn’t keep me, you couldn’t hold me way back then
I would have stayed if If I’d only known how it would end
I walked away before I knew I’d never hold you again

Then thousand sunsets faded into the dawn
And I think of you every morning since you’ve been gone

And after all these I wonder what you’d say
If I asked you, “Am I the one? Baby am I the one?”
Or if I told you, that you’re the one that got away.

End of the World
by Sylvia Dee and Arthur Kent
Music Sales Corporation/ASCAP

Why does the sun go on shining?
Why does the sea rush to shore?
Don't they know it's the end of the world,
'Cause you don't love me any more?

Why do the birds go on singing?
Why do the stars glow above?
Don't they know it's the end of the world.
It ended when I lost your love.

I wake up in the morning and I wonder,
Why everything's the same as it was.
I can't understand. No, I can't understand,
How life goes on the way it does.

Why does my heart go on beating?
Why do these eyes of mine cry?
Don't they know it's the end of the world.
It ended when you said goodbye.

Why does my heart go on beating?
Why do these eyes of mine cry?
Don't they know it's the end of the world.
It ended when you said goodbye.

Here to There
by Gail Swanson © 2009
Sea Note Music/BMI

Chorus
How do I get from here to there
Does it have to so damn hard in the middle, so damn hard
How do I get there, where do I turn
How do I learn what I got to learn.
How do I learn what I got to learn.

I know where I wanna be and the time has come
Its right there in front of me, but I don’t want to hurt no one
If it don't break me, its gonna make me tough
Why does movin’ on have to be so rough?

Chorus

If I take the wrong way, make me stumble
I’m keeping the faith, stayin’ humble
If I go the right way and follow this heart of mine
I’ll learn to live with what I leave behind

Chorus

Beautiful Again (Do Do Song)
by Gail Swanson © 2009
Sea Note Music/BMI

We’re dancing on a wire
Trying to keep our balance
Like an accident waiting to happen
Twenty feet in the air
One minute we’re on, the next minute we’re over
And just when you give in, I give up and I get scared.

Chorus:
So you call me up and talk me down from my ledge
Baby I’m hanging from my heartstrings
You pull me in yeah, you turn me around
And everything is beautiful again.

Baby I get so bored, but I want nothing more
Just help me keep this love thing from fading away
Into black and grey, cause that’s when I get blue
And I pack up all my colors and my heart
And I run away.

Chorus

And every time I walk away, you turn my love around
Baby how did you know, I really didn’t want to go?

Chorus

Mid Air
by Gail Swanson © 2009
Sea Note Music/BMI

Something gets lost in the translation
Words fall from my mouth and get twisted in my hair
When they reach your ears you call them accusations
I realize that what I said just changed in mid air
Yeah I realize that what I said just changed in mid air

I try to mean what I say and say what I feel
But sometimes when we talk, its such a big ordeal
And I scratch my head and wonder if its me
Yeah I shake my head and wonder If its me

Chorus:
Hey, it shouldn’t be so complicated
Everything we say shouldn’t have to be translated
We can’t hear each other and it makes me scared
I don’t want to lose you
In mid air, In mid air

Gotta pry my foot out of my mouth
Gotta try to figure this thing out
But the harder we try to listen, The louder we shout

Chorus

I speak in colors
You hear in black and white
I think from the left side
You think, you think you’re always right

Something gets lost in the translation
Words fall from my mouth and get twisted in my hair
When they reach your ears you call them accusations
I realize that what I said just changed in mid air
Yeah I realize that what I said just changed in mid air
Yeah I realize that what I said just changed in mid air

Chorus

Un Richiammo a Madre Terra
by Gail Swanson and Chelsea Hill © 2009
Sea Note Music/BMI

Mamma, madre mia...
Dove sei? Non ti trovo.
Mamma, madre mia...
Non ti vedo più nel cuore di questa gente.

Sei sparita davvero, Mamma?
Oppure ti sei nascosta
Aspettando il momento
che noi ci svegliamo?

Mamma, madre mia...
Sei qui da qualche parte?
Mamma, madre mia...
Sento le tue lacrime
Che cadono dal cielo.

Se promettiamo di stare più attenti
Se promettiamo di andare più piano
Se promettiamo di andare avanti
con gli occhi aperti, Mamma...Ritorneresti?

Mamma Madre Mia
Dove sei ? Non ti trovo.

Richiamo a Madre Terra
By Gail Swanson and Chelsea Hill

English Translation
A prayer for Mother Earth

Mother, mother, where are you?
I cannot find you.
I no longer see you in the hearts of the people.

Have you really gone away?
Or have you just hidden…
Awaiting the moment that we awaken?

Mother, mother
Are you here somewhere?
I can feel your tears falling from the sky.

If we promise to be more careful
If we promise to go more slowly
If we promise to go forward with our eyes open

Mother, would you return?

Mother, mother…where are you?
I cannot find you.

These eggshells are killin my feet
I fall down, my knees bleed
I crawl through your anger
Your ego I tiptoe through
Mood after mood.

So tired of being afraid
Of the next moment you lose control
I hear the bomb tick, but the timer’s corroded
And I never know when you’ll blow

And I’m trying to keep my head down
Cover my vulnerable heart
Trying to cry for help
Why do I put myself Second?

You were the first one to say
I love you, I need you

Adoring that side of you
I looked away when you waved a red flag
Around and around again
Over and over I fear you but I love you
A mouse on a wheel caught in a circle, I don’t know which way to run

Cause you have two faces I see
The one I love captivates me
The other one scares me and literally tears me apart

Chorus:
I close my eyes, and I fly away
Cause this is not love, I will not stay
I Sweep the eggshells away
I’m back on my feet
And my life is starting today

No more half empty glasses that fill one drop at a time
My thirsty soul quenches as the knots in my stomach untie
And my heart that was broken in two
Is now stronger than I ever knew
My spirit is back and its no longer black and blue

Chorus

A love song is just a love song
Until I sing it to you
Then it flies like a bird through my heart
Morning is just a morning
Until I wake up with you
Then its a song
And you're the melody that leads me from the dark

Chorus:
Everybody knows that I am half a heart
Half a heart, half a heart without you
You are the song in me.

There was no beginning
No love at first site
You've just always been here
You are the reason I can dream when I'm asleep at night
You're in my heartbeat keeping me safe inside

Chorus

There was a time I tried to walk away and leave you
The air so cold, I couldn't breathe
But now I know I turned around cause I believe
You are the better half of me

Chorus