Lois Mahalia

Lyrics

Build Me A Window

Build Me a Window
– Petry, Mahalia, Dinning, Madden

Make a little puzzle With my heart
Our fingers weave together At the start

Build a little fire In your soul
I’ll come warm myself When I’m cold

Pre-chorus
Yeah bring me peace In a package with string
And give my heart A little room to sing

Chorus
Build me a window Where I can see (I can see)
All the world’s troubles dancing
Like leaves on the trees

Bridge
Let’s put it all together one piece at a time
Like an epic story line by line
Let it play along a comfort to my mind
Yeah, let’s let it take it’s own time

Break

Let me know your Every truth and every lie
I want to feel Your reasons why (oh, why)

Pre-chorus

Chorus

You Are Mine

You Are Mine
– Petry, Dinning, Madden, Mahalia

Do you breathe me like you breathe the air?
Am I the color of your hair?
Am I the skin that you live in?
Am I the dream where you swim?

Am I the diamond in your ring?
Do you rise when the telephone rings?
Am I your sky where it meets the sea?
Am I the feeling you feel when you are free?

Chorus
Do you want me? Do you care?
Do you see me everywhere?
Do you drink me in your wine?
Am I the watch that keeps your time?
For you are mine

When you open a book do you find me there?
A hero on the movie screen that meets your stare?
Am I your dark of night, your candle in the gloom?
Am I in all the corners of your lonely room?

Chorus

You are the shining, you are the sun
You are my heart, the only one
You make the world, you make it mine
You are the ticking of the time

Chorus

Come Down From The Mountain

Come Down from the Mountain
– Petry, Dinning, Mahalia, Madden

You walk the ridges Keep a sharp eye on the borders
With your spies and soldiers From high in your fortress

But even during a war There’s a time for peace
There’s a letting go There’s a place where we can meet

So why don’t you…

Chorus
Come down from the mountain Come in beside me
Love is blindness That’s all we really see
Let the worries have their way Let the sun fall in the sea
And all the rivers melt away Come down, come down, to me

You’ve seen the wars And all the hardest times
Advanced and retreated You have drawn the lines

But down below the ramparts Is a fire apart
Where the sparks dance And you can rest your heart

So why don’t you…

Chorus

Bridge
You live in your aloofness like an eagle in his aerie
Always hunting for the weakness of your enemy
You’re stripped of fat and hope and luxury and love
Sometimes you gotta get down low and quiet, to be above

Chorus

Outro
Come down, come down, to me…

Lightning Bolt

Lightning Bolt
-Petry, Mahalia, Dinning, Madden

Chorus
Lightning bolt in the middle of the night
Lightning bolt … man alive

I’ve done things I know are wrong
Last night it struck me Lord so strong
I’ve gotta leave this old road
I’m traveling on
Find a new band, sing a new song

Chorus

I see the other side of the river
Cold and wide and lost
You can tie me down with every arrow
In your quiver
But I will still carry myself across

Chorus

I tell you nothing’s going to keep me
From my destiny
Cause my heart is flying free
And darling it turns out to be
Here and now and every thing

Chorus

Let Me Sing To You Tonight

Let Me Sing to You Tonight
– Petry, Mahalia, Dinning, Madden

 

Intro
This is my sweet dream
Just to sing to you
This is our everything
This is our through and through

Verse1
The future seems to lie in wait
Sometimes we drag our heels in the face of fate
It’s not too late

Chorus
Let me sing to you tonight
You lift my melancholy
Let your worries slide
Pierce the shell of all my folly
You never know what you will find
Pulled the roots and set me free
When you leave it all behind
To float away on melody

Verse2
Not a thing to do about tomorrow
Get up and dance with all your sorrows
Eat and drink and dance and learn to love

Chorus

Bridge
Sometimes our dreams are turned to dust
We watch as they are swept away from us

Solo break

Chorus x2
Let me sing to you tonight x2