Don't Take It Away

© 2011 Mark Cote

sun on my face wakes me up
hearing the robin's sing
dew on my tongue tastes so sweet
with the love mother nature brings

stream of life wanders through a quiet country knoll
lie before me the colors I see as leisurely I stroll
what flows to the sea
eventually
will be our reality

(chorus) Don't take
                  don't take
                  take it away
                  Don't take
                  don't take
                  take it away
                  let's live for tomorrow and not for today
                  and don't take
                  take it away

slimy seas are not for me
echoes from the deep
all we do is wonder why
as the octopus he sleeps

swim with the fishes you know them all
it makes you feel big
it makes me feel small

(chorus)

(instrumental)

manmade air
manmade food
manmade me
manmade you

(chorus)

I'll Try Anyway

© 2011 Mark Cote

I work the nights and sleep the days
work the weekends no holidays
but it won't get me down
I'll try anyway

the ones I knew now are gone
the love I find is in a song
carried away on a melody
I'll try anyway

(chorus) Try, when hearts are grey
                   Try, when words are hard to say
                   Try, when they put you down
                   I'll try anyway

small talk loves smaller minds
if you dare to care you're left behind
save it for a rainy day
I'll try anyway

to eat the fear and be alone
a path of life some have chose
while no arms reach to me
I'll try anyway

(bridge) The road is longer if you don't try
                    a tear weighs more if you don't cry

(chorus)

paint a Picasso in the dark
is it seen without a spark
but I will never know
I'll try anyway

Pillow Wonderland

© 2011 Mark Cote

baby when you're all alone
also when nobody's home
it's so sweet you think of me

girl don't be shy about it
I know we don't talk about it
but you know I feel it too

I know I can't be there in your arms
But I'm in your pillow wonderland

a world nobody knows
a place where we can go
babe we are just locked in time

I know I can't be there in your arms
But I'm in your pillow wonderland

(chorus) right there in your arms
                  we can be just who we are
                  dancing in the clouds
                  or beneath the summer stars
                  I know it is just a dream
                  and you know the man I am
                  my heart has found the treasure of
                  your pillow wonderland

when you close your eyes tonight
I'll be there holding you so tight
for right now I'm in your dreams

I know I'm not in your arms
But I'm in your pillow wonderland

(chorus)

A Clothes Optional Weekend

© 2011 Mark Cote

Been tied up all week in this monkey suit
and all this chaos feels like a zoo
sure would be nice if we could get away
let's call in sick, call it a holiday

(chorus) go with me to someplace warm
                  where we can kick off our heels
                  and we can feel reborn
                  the neighbors, well they might stare
                  but baby we don't care
                  it's a clothes optional weekend

I hope it don't rain when I clock out tonight
'cause the thought I have is holding you so tight
with all these feelings drifting in the wind
we're looking forward for this to begin

(chorus)

(bridge) with some sand in our toes
                 a tan on our nose
                 and a drink in our hand
                let's step into this dream
                red blue and green
                and a steel drum band

(chorus)

Champagne Raindrop

© 2011 Mark Cote

she's the smile on the moon
that midnight surprise
the pink sunrise
that colors every day
her bubbles never stop
she's a champagne raindrop

upside down
the world that we're in
she spins me round
when she's give me that grin
just another day with my
champagne raindrop

(chorus) she's a champagne raindrop
                  a diamond in a teardrop
                  champagne raindrop
                  her bubbles never stop
                  champagne raindrop
                  washing over me
                  sparkly, cuddly, bubbly
                  champagne raindrop

and when the days go North
we'll go south
dancing in a dream
is what it's all about
I never had a doubt about
my champagne raindrop

(chorus)

Images Within My Mind

© 2012 Mark Cote

second hand dancing fast
like it might be her last
vestige in this place and time
youthful fountain she won't find

lines are drawn upon my face
charcoal and crayon cannot erase
the good the bad my soul entwined
the images within my mind

(chorus) Images
                one of a kind
                images that I find
                images
                sweet or unkind
                these images within my mind

we see the world a different way
some see tomorrow some see today
when we face mortality
what really is reality

with each year a pictograph
the old man cries a baby laughs
on this road we can't rewind
the images within our mind

(chorus)

liquid diamonds in the sand
as they pass from hand to hand
won't be with you when you're gone
just a whisper in a song

pools of fools swimming down
the whirlpool doesn't make a sound
until the stone they're enshrined
now images within my mind

(chorus)

I Fall Into Your Love

© 2011 Mark Cote

the summer clones your inner glow
the sky mirrors your gemstone eyes
you're the laughter inside me when I smile
you're the only girl for me

The gentle brush of an angel's wings
kiss the face of the ones who feel the breeze
I feel that I should know
I fall into your love

(chorus) deeper and deeper
                  and deeper and deeper
                  a freefall in this waterfall
                  maybe I'll drown
                  when you and I is all I see
                  you are the girl for me

I didn't say but you still know
the tears I cry are your summer rain
you know more of me each and every day
it scares me to show the pain

you think I live in a sheltered world
when a world of your love is what I deserve
I thought that you should know
I fall into your love

(chorus)
(instrumental)

The gentle brush of an angel's wings
kiss the face of the ones who feel the breeze
I feel that I should know

(chorus)