Hey Mavis

Say Hello to Paris

Say Hello to Paris written by Laurie Michelle Caner 2013 Stellada Music

Got your postcard the other day
About your walk along the River Seine
Sent my mind a’spinning
So many places I have never been
Do I sink or do I swim?

Chorus:
So say hello to Paris
For me, for me
Ain't getting' there anytime soon
With theses three babes rambling' round my feet
Maybe someday I'll get away...
Until then say hello to Paris for me

The coffee in my cold kitchen, dear
Well, it's bitter, but it's sweet
Love to be right next to you
Drink in your company
Do just as I please

Bridge:
I must trust that for me
There will come a time
Cause there's music in the rhythm and there's
Reason in the rhyme
And the beauty that I need
Is right, right in front of me
 

Honey Man

Honey Man by Laurie Michelle Caner 2013 Stellada Music

Verse 1:
My baby likes it sweet nearly everyday
My baby likes it sticky in every way
Now I’m in deep
Yes, I’m in way over my head
You know I owe my soul to the Honey man
To the Honey man

Verse 2:
I take Ninth Avenue, though Main Street's the best way
Got to avoid that honeyman when I'm working my day
He'd take my house
You know he'd take my babychild
To satisfy my debt for that honeywild
For that honeywild

Chorus:
He's my honey man
Aww, he's my honey man
He's my honey man
You know I owe my soul
To that honey man
To that honey man

Bridge:
King of the bees
Yes, he's got what I need
Aww don't you ever take my sweet

Verse 3:
I got an old jar
Collect all that I can
I'm saving real hard to pay back that honeyman
Counted ten, now it counts twenty-five
Still I feel like I'm drowning in his honey hive
In his honey hive

Already Down

Already Down  written by Laurie Michelle Caner 2013 Stellada Music
(music arranged by Brent Kirby and Hey Mavis)

Step away from the edge now, baby
Don’t lean over too far
It’s a long way down now, baby
You might not survive the fall

Pick yourself up by the bootstraps, baby
What you got to be stressed about
Everybody’s got worries now, baby
That’s what this life’s about

I’m already down
Done smacked the ground

Dust in my eye
Face flat on the ground
Now where to go but up
'Cause I'm...already down

It’s gonna be a long hard crawl back up
Don’t know if I got what it takes
It’d be easier to turn my back than face up
To all the things that are at stake

I’m already down
Done smacked the ground
Landed face down

Dust in my eye
Face flat on the ground
Now where to go but up
'Cause I'm...already down

Song for Suitors

Song for Suitors written by Laurie Michelle Caner 2013 Stellada Music

Build her up
You, can build her up
Don’t you ever let her down
Call her queen
You, can call her queen
Don’t you ever take her crown
Sing her your love, sing her you love
But she’ll always be my melody

Take her hand
You, can take her hand
Don’t you lead her astray
Calm her fears
You, can calm her fears
Don’t you leave her afraid
Cherish her love, cherish her love
But she’ll always be my baby

Hold her close
You, can hold her close
Don’t you squeeze her too tight
Be her star
You, can be her star
But you’ll never outshine her light
Grow with her love, grow with her love
But her heart grew inside of me

Red Hot

Red Hot by Laurie Michelle Caner 2013 Stellada Music

I’ve seen the color of sunset
The color of rising dawn
But my god damn favorite
Is the color of you gone

It shine just like silver
Glows just like gold
But I miss that red hot
When our bodies enfold
Our bodies enfold…yeah!

I have seen your kind before
Felt the touch of your hand
Feels real good at midnight
But in the morning you’re just a man

Once you get the fire burning
You got to blow on them coals
If the flame it goes out
You’re going to get cold
Going to get cold…yeah!

My sweet little sister
Listen to what mama preach
Dig a hole down in the earth
Pray that hole your heart to keep

Do not walk the path I have
Nor give away what I gave
Live with both wings outstretched
Not one foot in the grave
One foot in the grave…yeah!

By Your Side

By Your Side (Strength and Sword) by Laurie Michelle Caner 2013 Stellada Music

Verse 1:
Tell me a story of long ago
Help me lose my thinking in the blinding white winter snow
I cannot see from where it is I came
Thoughts of where I’m going are the same

Chorus:
Take me by the hand and lead my away from here
Show me the path you walk upon without fear
I want to be the strength and the sword
By your side

Verse 2:
Little boys and girls run free like the wind
Fall down, jump high and circle back again
The weight can be so heavy, a life gone so wrong
Briefly uplifted by a song

Verse 3:
Walking down the avenue I feel you close behind
Take my steps slowly ‘til your gaze meets mine
Sun on our faces, winter wind at our backs
Train at the station waiting on the tracks

Let the Water Do the Work

Let the Water Do the Work written by Brent Kirby  2013 Harvest Town Music

I have roamed and I have traveled
Found my place and let it go
Many things I still don’t know
and I’ll never see 
Sometimes you feel that turn
changing, anticipation
liberating emancipation
begin to grow

Let the Water Do the Work
Let The Water Do the Work
Release and find your peace
Let The Water Do the Work

Forgive your favorite things
You won’t need them anymore
They’ll only weigh you down
As you move along
Time to take your leave
There’s no need to try and believe
That fate will come up faster
The end’s the same

Let the Water Do the Work
Let The Water Do the Work
Release and find your peace
Let The Water Do the Work

Through cracks and breaks, waves and quakes
I’ll float around, Without a sound
It’s part of me, The part that’s free
eternal open wide

Little Lovebird

Little Lovebird written by Laurie Michelle Caner 2013 Stellada Music
Verse 1:
There's a ring around my finger
But it don't mean a thing
'Cause you've been looking elsewhere
Found a little bluebird to sing
Sing you a love song
Much prettier than mine
Now them cold winds are a'comin'
And it's time for you to fly

Chorus:
So fly away my darlin'
Don't want to hear you whispering my name
I'll find me a new little lovebird
To sit upon my windowpane

Verse 2:
When this blind fool rushed right in
Where did my angel go?
Failed to see the consequence
Of the things we do not know
One gets lost in the lonely night
Unable to see
The light that shines from the moon above
The light that shines on me

Verse 3:
How can a man love a woman
With another on his mind
Steal away her confidence
And you steal away her time
But time marches onward
And waits for no one
A new day, it is dawning
A new day has begun


Some Old Day

Some Old Day by Laurie Michelle Caner 2013 Stellada Music

Your footsteps
No longer do they fall
And echo within these four walls
Walked out the door and followed that devil in your mind

Damn that whiskey
And damn that soldier’s joy
Dared to steal a man from his baby boy
Never again to feel the caress of your loving wife

Chorus: 
Some old day
I’ll get you off of my mind
Tear out that damn old kudzu vine
Leave this lonely life and hop on that midnight line

Take this babe
Take this babe from my breast
I can’t get me no good rest
And he looks just like that no good man of mine

Once we burned
With a fire so deep
Kept us warm through our winter’s sleep
Now the wind blows cinder and ash through my life
 

Why Must I

Why Must I by Laurie Michelle Caner 2013 Stellada Music

Verse 1:
Why must I always fly away from you
Leave you to your slumber by the light of the full face moon
Keep my love in secret no, I dare not tell a soul
For what may lie before me is full of heartache and toil

Chorus:
Don’t ask me if I love you
For the answer is in my eyes
And how I always long to
Be by your side

Verse 2:
Slip into my evening clothes
Your sleep not to disturb
Shed the nagging feeling
I am less than you deserve
‘Round every winding turn
With a hesitating feel
Push down the urge to turn around
One more kiss to steal

Verse 3:
Take you with me where I go
Your scent upon my skin
Memories that I can taste
On my tongue like sloe gin
When will this long road lead me
Back to where I belong
Your voice in my ear
Just like heaven-song

Midnight Train

Midnight Train written by Laurie Michelle Caner 2013 Stellada Music

Verse 1:
Son, don't you bother giving me no alibi
Got three white folks who put you at the scene
Though you never been any trouble to me
That jury's gonna hang you good and clean

Chorus:
Now he's runnin'
He’s runnin’
To the rhythm of the midnight Train
Now he’s runnin’
He’s runnin’
Runnin’ to the rhythm of the midnight train

Verse 2:
Father, don't you touch my Mama like that again
Or I'll show you what a brave man I've become
When she awoke and was colored all black and blue
He ran to the cabinet and got that gun

Now he's runnin'...

Lover, I've got some news, my belly is growing hard
We'll have a sweet babe in our arms six months from now
I ain't no family man, got no use for you know
Take this money get the hell out of this town

Now she's runnin'...