"Meet Me On The Far Side Of A Star"
Produced, recorded and mixed by Christine Smith at Shire Recorders, Austin, TX
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Trumpet recorded by Howie Beno at Ruffian Recorders, Brooklyn, NY
Mastered by Mark Hallman at Congress House Studio, Austin, TX
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Words and Music by Christine Smith (BMI/Rabble Rouser Music) and Victor Camozzi (ASCAP) except “You Can’t Hurt Me Anymore” written by Smith
Guest Players: Tommy Stinson, Jeff Brown, Nabate Isles, Jenny De Wulf Smith, Alex Moralez, Sonoma Camozzi
Guest Singers: Victor Camozzi, Mike McCoy, Alva Sim, Kat Neko, Brandon Burke
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Cover photo: Lee Heath. Cover design: Roger Wuthrich. Art design: Karen Justl
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Special thanks to Mick Flowers and Brandt Gassman
This love lies beside me till the dawn
This love lifts me up just like a song
This love is a sonnet whispered on and on and on
And for all of history, when the people long to see
Just how sweet a love can be, they'll look back to you and me
And this love
This love touches lightly on my sleeve
This love burns bright as autumn leaves
This love blows around me like a warm and bashful breeze
And for all of history, when the people long to see
Just how sweet a love can be, they'll look back to you and me
And this love
Oh, I don't know how it ever came to be
Like stars above and earth below, you're my eternity
This love kisses all my broken ways
This love glows through all my darkest days
This love falls upon me like sunshine's sweetest rays
And for all of history, when the people long to see
Just how sweet a love can be, they'll look back to you and me
And this love
Yes this love
Oh, this love
This love
This love
Now that I've made myself comfortably numb
It's plain as the nose on my face what you've done
And you can't hurt me anymore
I don't subscribe to your ludicrous ways
I'm disconnected from your childlike days
I'm over it
I'm over the moon
Cause you can't hurt me anymore
The trees know, the sky knows
It's all in the clouds, time to say it out loud
I'm homeward bound, and feeling proud
That you can't hurt me anymore
I don't have no help for nobody who
Don't have no help for me, ain't it true
It's obvious
Time to have a good time
Cause you can't hurt me anymore
Please don't smile your smile quite like that
Please don't look so dapper with your dimples as we chat
Please refrain from glowing like an angel descended from above
I'm trying not to fall in love
Please abstain from accidentally brushing my hand
Please withhold the urge to look quite so grand
Please don't make it so painfully clear we'd fit together like a glove
I'm trying not to fall in love
Your cooperation would be most appreciated
If you'd ignore that the stars seem to know that we're fated
Please resist my eyes calling you close
Please pretend we're not dancing nose to nose
Please forebear from feeling my heart flutter like the wings of a dove
I'm trying not to fall in love
Forgive my insistence, thanks for your sincere assistance
But you impair my resistance and I'm trying
Well, I'm trying not to fall in love
Happily never after, you and me
Never knew such love, such laughter, falling free
Daring to dream till we had to wake
My heart on a string till it had to break
Now it's oh, so plain to see
Happily never after was all we could be
Happily never after, where did you go?
My wondrous wildflower pasture, now covered in snow
I couldn't believe it would ever end
I shouldn't grieve but I can't pretend
Now it's oh, so plain to see
Happily never after was all we could be
Some loves were never meant to last
Sometimes forever has a funny way of falling into the past
Happily never after, it's all that I know
I'm oh, so lost without you, but still love you so
Happy halcyon days, sinful and sublime
Your sun's sweet rays, dappled and divine
These memories won't set me free
Cause happily never after was all we could be
Happily never after, you and me
In just one night you showed me the light
And made me realize how life could be
In just one day you showed me the way
You lifted me up and then you set me free
Just yesterday, you passed my way
And I know you know
I'll be all right, come what may
If there is no tomorrow
With just one kiss, you taught me such bliss
Then shoved it all deep down inside
Such love and light, and feeling so right
Now a heart I have to hide
Just yesterday, you passed my way
And I know you know
We'll be all right, come what may
if there is no tomorrow
Oh, bring back yesterday
If there is no tomorrow
Oh, bring back yesterday
And take away all this sorrow
Yes, I just want yesterday
Cause I know there's no tomorrow
You know if feels like yesterday
If I know there's no tomorrow
Meet me on the far side of a star
Dream away from wherever you are
And dance across the heavens in my arms
Oh, meet me on the far side of a star
Meet me on the far side of a star
Where no one knows who we are
In a constellation of kisses, never to part
Oh, meet me on the far side of a star
Such a quivering quasar curiousity
The astounding astronomy between you and me
Copernicus bliss and Galileo romance-osity
But it wasn't to be...
So meet me on the far side of a star
My eyes twinkling in the sky from afar
Calling you to me wherever you are
Yes, meet me on the far side of a star
In a constellation of kisses, never to part
Oh, meet me on the far side of a star
(Spoken)
So this is what it sounds like on the far side of a star?
You told me to meet you here, I don't know why you're not here
Wait, did I get off on the wrong star?
Is this the wrong stop? Did I go the right way?
Oh wait, someone's coming
Could it be you? Is it you?
I think it's you
It is you!
And I've got my eyes wide open
And my arms are wide open
And this whole wide world is just starting to open
I know this moon, I felt his gaze before
With your hands in my hands, our feet on your front porch
Feeling so uncertain, but certain it was love for sure
I know this moon, I felt his gaze before
I know this moon, I heard him catch his breath
As his beams broke through your blinds, as I slipped from my dress
As your hands found my hips, and your lips found my chest
I know this moon, I heard him catch his breath
I know this moon, I saw him turn away
On the darkest of nights, in my darkest of days
The last words that you wrote, leaving nothing more to say
I know this moon, I saw him turn away
Let the stars laugh at my tears, I don't care anyway
Me and this moon got no more games to play
Cause I know this moon, I felt his gaze before
With your hands in my hands, our feet on your front porch
Feeling so uncertain, but certain it was love for sure
I know this moon, I felt his gaze before
Yes, I know this moon
I know this moon
Well, well, who's this I see?
Yes, yes, I know it's hard to believe
No, no, this never happens to me
I find you so very, very
You make me so very, very
It would be very, very tonight
No my dear, let's not tarry
When this is so very, very
Let's be very, very tonight
Ha, ha, I know the joke is on me
But tsk, tsk, it'd be a shame not to see
My, my, how can it be
I find you so very, very
You make me so very, very
It would be very, very tonight
No my dear, let's not tarry
When this is so very, very
Let's be very, very tonight
You and me
Very, very tonight
Lost in sweet very, very tonight
We're never going to make love again
Or float down the Guadalupe, holding hands
Never make eggs for each other in the morning
Never share croissant walking down the streets of Amsterdam
Nor see the Rockefeller Christmas Tree
No wineries or eateries
No reason to believe
No dancing, no fantasies
No smiling in public, please
We're never going to have the chance
To love through the winter's night, in the darkness as we dance
I'll never know what makes a brave man so fearful
Never taking his turn, to turn mistakes into joy
Never knowing what could be
Never turn away from she
Never turning to me
Oh please, oh lover, please
Our love is sacred, and something I would fight for
Of course I would, of course I would
But love, not war, is the way for me
Fighting's never good
Even when right
It's never good
I'm never going to forget you're the one
Who can make my nightmares stop, and bring back the sun
My heart will never stop
Relentless, repentless, regardless, we're fools
To let love linger on with no apparent rules
We're never going to make love again