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BEN KYLE

by Ben Kyle

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1.
Don't Settle 03:46
DON'T SETTLE Whatever you do, don't settle Please don't settle I've been looking for the truth Since I left it in my youth But if you seek it you will find There's a holy light that shines Through the troubles in our minds Through the rubble in our lives There's a spirit in the air Moving gently through your hair Like a song or a prayer For everybody, everywhere Whatever you do, you gotta be true To whatever's in the heart of you I know the night will blind your eyes and you won't see But soon the morning sun will shine and set you free I know the winter will send a shiver through your bones and a quiver through your knees But soon the spring, will be blowing easy So please don't settle Promise me you won't settle Whatever you do Don't settle Please don't settle If it isn't in the heart of you Is it good, is it beautiful, is it true? Was it made to be meaningful Does it flow like a river from the soul in you Is it good, is it beautiful, is it true? Does it spring up like a fountain grows In the heart from the deepest part in you? And then flow like a waterfall Over the roots and the rocks in your soul? Is it good, is it beautiful, is it true? Then don't settle Promise me you won't settle Whatever you do Don't settle Please don't settle If it isn't in the heart of you
2.
Trust 03:32
TRUST Everybody needs to find someone Everybody needs to find someone they can believe Everybody needs somebody they can trust Everybody needs somebody they can trust Everybody needs to find someone Where they can run when the darkness comes Everybody needs to know where to go When the moon don't shine and the sun don't show Everybody needs to find somebody they can trust Everybody needs to find someone Everybody needs to find someone they can believe Everybody needs somebody they can trust Have you found somebody you can trust Everybody needs to find someone Where they can run when the darkness comes Everybody needs to know where to go When the moon don't shine and the sun don't show You and I gonna find someone Where we can run when the kingdom comes You and me gonna find somebody we can trust
3.
HILLS OF ENGLAND I wanna get lost in the hills of England I wanna go wherever she wills the wind and Lay down in the grass And watch the hours pass Until at last my spirit will go free O England England old and true So green and gray and red and blue What's a boy supposed to do Dearest England When I think of you I wanna get lost in the hills of England I wanna go wherever she wills the wind and Lay down in the grass And watch the hours pass Until at last my spirit will go free O England England made of stone, You are such a heavy home O England England cold and grey I got nothing, left to say I wanna get lost in the hills of England I wanna go wherever she wills the wind and Lay down in the grass And watch the hours pass Until at last my spirit will go free Stone over stone, hand over hand Year over year, the man on the land Lay down your wreath upon the feet Of heavy ancient royal feet Beneath the thrones and stones and hollow homes The grass, and the moss, and the peat I wanna get lost in the hills of England I wanna go wherever she wills the wind and Lay down in the grass And watch the hours pass Until at last my spirit will go free
4.
Simple Life 03:54
SIMPLE LIFE Lord, Lord I need the simple life Lord, Lord I need the simple life Everything is in flux That's why I don't say much If I should say something now I'll be wrong later somehow Lord I need the simple life A healthy son, a holy wife, I'll go and work out in the fields And come home to my baby's meal This loaf of bread and butter knife This could get me through this life Lord, Lord I need the simple life How can we know what it means When it means so much? How can we love what we don't see When all we need is to touch? Lord I need the simple life A healthy son, a holy wife, I'll go and work out in the fields And come home to my baby's meal This loaf of bread and butter knife This could get me through this life Lord, Lord I need the simple life Let's take this river and ride Over to the other side Let's take this rhythm and roll Back before the things that we know
5.
Mercy 03:54
MERCY May every word be spoken, and every truth be told May every promise be unbroken, and every gift turned into gold And let there be mercy, mercy, mercy Let there be mercy, mercy, mercy May every curse be broken, and every hope revealed May every blessing be unbroken, and every broken heart be healed And let there be mercy, mercy, mercy Let there be mercy, mercy, mercy Let the water flow, let the light shine Let the blood go through me like a river winds Through the valley, through the meadow Through my spirit and my soul just like a river goes Through the mountain, under the moonlight Let the blood go through me till I truly see the light And let there be mercy Lord, Oh, let there be mercy Lord. Thy Kingdom come, thy will be done, forgive us all the things we've done Leave the writing on the wall, but don't let it fall, don't let it fall And let there be mercy, mercy, mercy Let there be mercy, mercy, mercy Let there be mercy for my brother and sister, my mother, my family Let there be mercy for my friends and lovers, my foes and enemies Let there be mercy for my words and wars, deeds and deeds I didn't do Let there be mercy for every soul in this city may the Lord have pity over you Let the water flow, let the light shine Let the blood go through me like a river winds Through the valley, through the meadow Through my spirit and my soul just like a river goes Over the mountain, under the moonlight Let the blood go through me till I truly see the light And let there be mercy Lord, Oh, let there be mercy Lord Jesus build a ship, Let us sing a song Let the spirit on the face of the water be the wind in the sail that carries us home.
6.
Minneapolis 04:19
MINNEAPOLIS Oh Minneapolis, I saw you and Saint Paul kiss Neath the moonlight in a Mississippi mist Never saw a thing as beautiful as this Oh Minneapolis Oh Minneapolis, City on the water where the angels walk O Saint Paul, city of peace and righteousness City where the Lord and the angels talk Oh Minneapolis, I saw you and Saint Paul kiss Neath the moonlight in a Mississippi mist Never saw a thing as beautiful as this Oh Minneapolis Rain down, purple rain (I wanna hear the sound) I wanna feel the royal rain on me I wanna feel the holy water running like a holy stream I wanna be baptized in the city in the Mississippi I wanna be baptized in the city in the Mississippi O Minneapolis, I saw you and Saint Paul kiss Neath the moonlight in a Mississippi mist Never saw a thing as beautiful as this Oh Minneapolis
7.
The Dark 03:52
THE DARK I don't wanna go out tonight, if you're staying at home I don't wanna go out in the dark of the night and leave you alone The air is getting heavy, I feel like a rolling stone Weighing me down like the memory of a Minnesota winter when I'm far from home The dark is getting deeper, I feel so far from home Pulling me in like the memory of the feeling of the fear of being all alone I don't wanna go out tonight, if you're staying at home I don't wanna go out in the dark of the night and leave you alone The rain is getting heavy, falling like a waterfall Filling my shoes with the memories of me and you in Belfast in the fall The rain is beating harder, here comes a cannonball Flooding my veins, but the feeling is the same, being without you after all I don't wanna go out tonight, if you're staying at home I don't wanna go out in the dark of the night and leave you alone If I gotta be alone tonight, I'll be praying for the morning light I don't wanna be a moon in the sky where the sun don't shine And the rain ain't nothing but the tears we cry tonight
8.
THE TURF CLUB One more night under the city lights I've got my jacket and I'm ready to go Into the heat of a St Paul street Summer in the city below The Broadway lights, they treat me right And watch me when I'm going home One more kiss, before we do this And take it on down to the show Everybody's at the Turf Club Over in Saint Paul Dancing underneath the bar light To the sound of Rock 'n' Roll A local band is playing country songs Everybody wants to sing along One more drink before the moonlight sinks Into the belly of a beautiful sky It's cold out there in the Saint Paul air And baby I've had too much to drive Well take my hand, I'll be your man You can be my baby tonight One last dance for an old romance Before somebody turns on the light Everybody's at the Turf Club Over in Saint Paul Dancing underneath the bar light To the sound of Rock 'n' Roll A local band is playing country songs Everybody wants to sing along These Saint Paul city lights Are just the angels that are watching over you tonight These beautiful country songs Another way of saying that we wanna belong
9.
GOD ONLY KNOWS I would rather be A lover for my lady A mother for my baby Than a sailor on the sea Underneath the lights We look bigger than we are We look brighter than the falling star Of brief celebrity God only knows how the winds gonna blow And how it all flows together If the words we use or the wars we choose Are gonna change somebody for the better God only knows I know what it's like When you lose your inspiration Blow a fuse to the sensation That you used to feel so bright Many are the things In my mind that I would sing In my soul that I would bring If I could find the words tonight God only knows how the winds gonna blow And how it all flows together If the words we use or the wars we choose Are gonna change somebody for the better God only knows how the winds gonna blow And how it all flows together If the words we use or the wars we choose Are gonna change somebody's life forever God only knows
10.
Thank You 04:31
THANK YOU Thank you for the way you make a feeling real Rolling through my heart like a ferris wheel Thank you for a pretty little laughing heart Thank you from my heart, thank you from my heart Thank you for the way you make your light to shine In between the shadows in the back of my mind Thank you for the children and the love I've found Thank you from my heart, thank you from my heart Let there be light, let there be love, let there be space Let all the water flow together through the ether and gather in a beautiful place Thank you for the way you make the showers fall Like a blanket on the valley when the flowers call Thank you for creating and sustaining it all Thank you from my heart and my soul Thank you from my heart and my soul Thank you for the way you make the music play In between the quiet on a beautiful day Thank you for the meaning in the things we say Thank you from my heart, thank you from my heart Let there be light, let there be love, let there be space Let all the water flow together through the ether and gather in a beautiful place Let there be earth, let there be sea, let there be sky Let all the water flow together through the ether and gather over you and I Thank you for the way you make the flowers grow Up through the cracks in my fractured soul Thank you for the way the healing waters flow Thank you from my heart and my soul Thank you from my heart and my soul Thank you for the way you make the moonlight shine Between me and the horizon there's a perfect line Like a love upon the ocean anybody can find Thank you from my heart and my mind Thank you from my heart and my mind Let there be light, let there be love, let there be grace Let all the water flow together through the ether and gather in a beautiful place Let there be earth, let there be sea, let there be sky Let all the water flow together through the ether and gather over you and I Thank you for the way you make my soul to sing With the feeling there's a meaning here in everything Thank you for giving me the gift I bring Thank you from my heart Thank you from my heart
11.
The Child 04:16
THE CHILD I am not the one, who taught my heart to beat I cannot add a breath, even a step into my feet I could not tell you where all of these thoughts even begin I barely know this body that I'm traveling in But I must use these hands to dig the land that I must sow And feed upon the fruit of my love's labor when it grows And think about a bed to lay my head when day is through Rest this heavy heart, that it may start when tomorrow's new I gave the seed that sprung to feed the soul of my own son But a magic full of mystery grew those legs on which he runs And I'll never know, how grew his soul, so wonderful and wild He's a part of me but mystery, mostly grows the child And the song that I now sing, from whence did spring the melody? I cannot pin the origin, that sang the song to me But I will be an emissary in my life upon the sea Like a gift adrift the ocean, did the notion come to me Like a gift adrift the ocean, did the notion flow to me How can we ever know the way that the spirit flows to the bones In the belly of a lady with a baby that grows even while her momma sleeps Just so, we'll never know the way of the spirit in the river that flows Through the valley in the canyon of the soul it's a secret she keeps

credits

released November 13, 2012

JT BATES drums
RYAN LOVAN drums
MATT WALVATNE drums
TONY ZACCARDI bass
DAVE STRAHAN electric guitar
LUKE JACOBS pedal steel
AARON FABBRINI pedal steel
ERIC HEYWOOD pedal steel
JOE SAVAGE pedal steel
JAYANTHI KYLE harmony vocal
CARRIE RODRIGUEZ strings
JESSY GREENE strings
JULIA STEWART celli
BEN KYLE vocal, guitars, piano, percussion, drums, harmonica, harmony vocals

All songs written by Ben Kyle (Across the Pond Publishihng, ASCAP)
Produced, Engineered and Mixed by Ben Kyle
Mastered by Richard Dodd

Carrie Rodriguez appears courtesy of Ninth Street Opus
Eric Heywood's pedal steel guitar was recorded by Alex Oana in LA, CA
Jessy Greene's strings were recorded by Jessy Greene in LA, CA

Photos by Tony Nelson

Art by Andy Kiekhafer

Management: Patrice Fehlen - patrice @septembergurl.com

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