Sister Of Yesterday

© 2012 Mark Cote

this isolated sadness
olive branches die
have to do it all again
don't have the strength to try

reaching through the darkness are
temporary words
try to hold me to the dawn
if in my arms they were

(chorus) turn the leaf turn the page
                   and watch it blow away
                   turn the day turn the night
                   know it will never change
                   sister of yesterday
                   when I'm all alone
                   sister of yesterday
                   come and take me home

Sunny in the night I see
midnight every day
reverse the world that you know
you'll know best what to say

In the silence of the moon
I have to walk alone
the ones who I gave my heart
were cold as a stone

(chorus)

Three white horses come for me
three blind mice they cry
melancholy destiny
like a bird I fly

as I'm rising up I hear
as I'm looking down
a lonely whip-poor-will sing
silent in the town

(chorus)

I Missed The Boat

© 2012 Mark Cote

On the page I see your face
little girl dancing out in the sun
but the choices that we made
and the lives that we've become

at the crossroads we were scared
but time kept marching on and on
in the wind there are my words
in my heart there is your song

(chorus) I missed the boat
                now it's gone
                but the memory lingers on
                like a wave in my mind
                comes back to me all the time

as rainy tears wash on by
see the rainbow just out of reach
regrets of yesterday
as I sit out on the beach

when I dream I think of you
do you dream and think of me

(chorus)

I'll Take It On The Chin

© 2011 Mark Cote

This roller coaster ride is a merry go round
sometimes we're up sometimes we're down
my weary tears fall from your sky
but when the magic is there it's the 4th of July

the tide it comes, the tide it goes

the lonely moon can't escape the day
just like us it can't run away
there's something between us we don't know
we sometimes leave but we don't go

the tide it comes the tide it goes

(chorus) it may be a sin from where we've been
                 maybe bizarre from where we are
                what do I do about me and you
                what do I do with a girl like you
                considering where we've been
                I'll take it on the chin

did you dream up me did I dream up you
taken from the best in what we do
see it in your eyes see it in mine
as far and near as the sunshine

the tide it comes the tide it goes

(chorus)

Wherever You Go

© 2011 Mark Cote

(intro)

Wherever you go
no matter how far
my love is around you

(instrumental)

Wherever you go
no matter how far
my love is around you
Wherever you go
no matter how far
my love will surround you

when the day has got you down
feel the world is upside down
when you wanna wear a frown
just look around
the world without a sound
leaves your head spinning round
sometimes this life will
make you feel that way

don't look down
just look up
look inside
don't look down
just look up
look inside

I am there
by your side

drying a blue tear
dance away your fear
whenever you need me
I am with you

drying a blue tear
dance away your fear
whenever you need me
I am with you

Wherever you go
no matter how far
my love will surround you

smiles you thought that you knew
when they walk away from you
and the ones that you loved
leave you astray
memories are rustic blue
thoughts of me thoughts of you
whatever you go through
just tell yourself

don't look down
just look up
look inside

drying a blue tear
dance away your fear
whenever you need me
I am with you

drying a blue tear
dance away your fear
whenever you need me
I am with you

(instrumental)

Wherever you go
no matter how far
my love is around you
Wherever you go
no matter how far
my love will surround you

drying a blue tear
dance away your fear
whenever you need me
I am with you

(repeat to fade)

Carry Me Away

© 2011 Mark Cote

without a dawn, a colorless sky
just a freeze in June
without a flower, just a cold blue sea
under a lonely moon

treading water in a hurricane
I think of you

without a song in our heart
only empty sounds
Love's a forgotten word

when I think I can't pull it through
I think of you

(chorus) I know I'll never see you
                know I'll never reach you
                but you carry me away...
                carry me away

daydreaming boy, with wheels on the road
tomorrow is born
mirrors are gone, the road doesn't end
and this path has been worn

treading water in a hurricane
I think of you

(chorus)

missing a sign on the road
I've got nowhere to go
I've got nowhere to hide

when I think I can't pull it through
I think of you

(chorus)

Don't Go All Hollywood On Me

© 2011 Mark Cote

You wanna sip champagne
while you're tossing big names
in the back of your limousine

a brown bag lunch
may not mean that much
to your French cuisine

Not so long ago
I think you know
where this is gonna go

(chorus) Don't go Hollywood
                Don't go Hollywood
                Don't go all Hollywood on me
                though it feels real good
                like you thought it would
                Don't go all Hollywood on me

we would sit in the sand
laughing hand in hand
while we looked at the stars

the stars in the sky
were the stars in your eyes
and the joke was on me

(chorus)

the lure of the lights
and the big city nights
the honey that drew you in

does it taste so sweet
do they fall at your feet
did you think you'd win

Not so long ago
I think you know
where this is gonna go

(chorus)

Where You Gonna Flow

© 2011 Mark Cote

shiny purple hot wheel
what makes your motor run
shiny purple hot wheel
what really turns you on
I'm hitchin' a ride on your street girl
where you gonna go

tiny little daydream
what makes your colors flow
tiny little daydream
baby you got to know
you're buzzing around me so sweetly
honeybee you get to me

(chorus) Where you gonna go
                where you gonna flow
                when my world hangs in the palm of your hand
                where you gonna flow

my heart is doing cartwheels
everywhere I go
my mind is like a pinwheel
in your breeze is where I blow
colored clouds come around
where you gonna flow

(chorus)