Leslie Costa | Waiting for Summer Preface

Unlike “Invisible Soul”, “Waiting For Summer’s” point of view is less reactive and more philosophical. Both records are about the journey but at different places on the time line. The songs here offer more hope for happiness as the colors and mood are in a dream state awaiting the light. The songs are about life, death and everything inbetween.

This record was also a project I set out to do completely independent of any assistance from other musicians, producers and engineers. I have approached the booklet as I did with “Invisible Soul” in the way that I wanted to include the back story for each song from the songwriter perspective. Waiting For Summer The River I Know You can find the door The sun comes up on this day ahead You can fight this war Where it leads to I don’t know It’s only for a while Here I sit and wonder why You will be alright The river I know is a river that’s dry Voices in despair Wounds can heal but the scars still show “The River” is really This is one of two Echo everywhere You can hide your tears still your sadness flows my soul and spirit. older songs written a Wanting me to know And you’re reaching out when no one’s there I always look at couple of years ago There’s nowhere else to go To catch you falling in mid air every morning as a about depression Waiting for summer, waiting for love Why can’t I break free new opportunity to and anxiety. I observe Waiting for summer, waiting for love From this leach that’s killing me have a good day. so many people in I was writing about I know who you are For holy love on higher ground need of a way to deal the frustration of Hiding in the dark Where’s the river I know with their problems intellectually Whispering my name Cause I need her now that for some people wanting to Begging me to stay Met a broken soul on this road I’m on these conditions are “get over it” but She speaks to me in a voice I know crippling. I felt inspired Waiting for summer, waiting for love emotionally being I share my words to light her day to write a couple Waiting for summer, waiting for love stuck in that same I say the river she needs is just a breath away of songs about this Is there no way out bad place. I also subject no one wants Or no way in Why can’t I break free met a troubled to talk about. This song You don’t know where I’ve been From this leach that’s killing me soul who really offers the hope in For holy love on higher ground struggled deeply You can find the door finding the light Where’s the river I know with depression. You can fight this war during the darker days Cause I need her now I reached out to It’s only for a while and that those feeling her hoping she You will be alright Oh, the north wind’s ripping cold will pass even though And still I plant a rose could hear my they feel permanent. Waiting for summer, waiting for love words of hope. Waiting for summer, waiting for love The sun goes down on this night alone Waiting for summer In these places I don’t want to know Where are the beautiful things Gonna run like hell and set this road on fire Waiting for love Where’s the river I know, cause I need her now Waiting for summer Where’s the river I know, cause I need her now Where are the beautiful things Where’s that river I know, cause I need her now Waiting for love ______Words & music by Words & music by Leslie Costa Leslie Costa Written 11.13.16 Written 3.1.15 Feel The Love The Letting Go I don’t hear them, I don’t hear them There was a moment I knew I just hear myself It was the moment I turned Stolen moments, stolen secrets When I let go of you I will never tell And I let myself learn No one knows me, no one knows you In the calm of the light When the moment comes I could breath in my life I will be there, I will be clear And I knew it was right This is definitely Will we come undone It was the longest goodbye a sad song especially Ever since I wrote I don’t know my name These ghosts don’t cry for anyone who “The Distance” I just feel the road rushing under us They’re just waiting to die remembers the back in 1991, I don’t feel the pain Maybe they’ll follow me to find moment when you I wanted to write I just feel the love The letting go feel like you let go of someone who meant another song with Like an angel, you’re like an angel We’re all broken but alive a lot to you. I am also a seductive and You saved me from myself I know there’s something you hide saying that ghosts Spanish style. The There’s a reason I still go there You hate yourself for being loved hang around and get idea is to say that Believe in all I felt You run from everyone you touch when the heat stuck until they know of the moment I don’t know my name Those ghosts don’t cry where to go to die. strikes, nothing I just feel the road rushing under us They’re just waiting to die Same with mourning else matters not I don’t feel the pain Maybe they’ll follow me to find a loss and how even a voice inside I just feel the love The letting go sometimes memories your own head that Where do we go, what should we show There was a moment I knew hang around way warns you NOT to, Who do we want to be It was the moment I turned too long. but you still do. Is there something to say, something to give Was when I let go I knew Somewhere along the way That I let go of you I don’t hear them, I don’t hear them ______Words & music by I just hear myself Leslie Costa If there’s a reason, we will go there Written 8.4.17 To find the wishing well I don’t know my name I just feel the wind rushing through my veins I don’t feel the rain, I just feel the love I don’t feel the pain I just feel the love ______Words & music by Leslie Costa Written 6.17.17 Out Of My Reach Running Blind I was out of my mind, I was out of my skin Down the hill, and around the bend I was so out of love and so lost within Waiting for the sun again Everyone’s world is so far from me I know it’s there at the rainbow’s end You’re into my heart but out of my reach Think of you when the world is bright Some people say that to live you must die Somewhere in the summer night Got to dig down real deep before you reach for the sky There’s a moon in the silver light I wrote this while You’re a flash in the dark, a sweet summer breeze Ah, ah, ah in Oregon in Into my heart, but out of my reach Ooh I’m running blind February 2017. Everything’s changing so fast Ah, ah The main idea is Sometimes you But pain is the one thing you can count on to last Dreams can save the world for me saying that dreams just have to go Into my heart and out of my reach But hope will always set me free can be a good start with your heart. Sometimes I break and can’t hide how I feel It’s somewhere far but not make believe to opening new and follow what Like it’s a crime to be deep, and a crime to be real doors. Sometimes Ah, ah, ah you want. I wanted This stranger can see the goodness in me the reality is still Ooh I’m running blind it to have a catchy Into my heart but out of my reach out of reach but Ah, ah feel and wrote the desire to get Everything changes so fast Don’t want to be a lonely soul it in the mid there is real. It’s But pain is the one thing you can count on to last Don’t want to walk this lonely road summer of 2017. also amazing to Into my heart and out of my reach I want to be a shining star see how strangers Goin nowhere I want to feel a beating heart can identify the Is somebody out there Ah, ah, ah good things about Is it time to be open again a person that are Ooh I’m running blind taken for granted I’m out of my mind, I’m out of my skin Ah, ah, ah by those close by. I’m so out of love and so lost within Ooh I’m running blind... Everyone’s world is so far from me ______Words & music by You’re into my heart but out of my reach Leslie Costa Into my heart, but out of my reach Written 7.15.17 Into my heart and out of my reach ______Words & music by Leslie Costa Written 2.10.17 Go Where The River Flows Any Way If I had the chance Everything’s gonna be alright To make a new plan Everything’s got a changing light With no questions to ask Time to look on the sunny side No blood from the past Like so many People say things are gonna change people, I have Gonna sleep for a while Got to let go of yesterday gotten into Gonna wait for my ride I can’t wait to be on my way binge-watching Gonna dream of a place I want to find that place This was a song on Netflix. I was Where I used to feel safe I want to find that face I wrote to be fun watching ‘Rectify’ Everyone cries I’m gonna find my way to sing and play. and thought the Everyone hurts Any way Most of the music idea of someone Got to look for the light All I know is I believe in love I write is geared on death row Got to plant some new seeds in the sun All I want is that magic touch more towards a doing time for a And go where the river flows I believe that it’s good enough deeper and poetic crime he didn’t mood since I don’t Been walking the line I want to find that place commit was a And doing hard time play that music strong concept. I I want to find that face live in bars. As a People talk about love I’m gonna find my way was also thinking But their words aren’t enough live performer, I about something Any way already sing and someone I trust Everyone cries I can’t keep running play a lot of fun, told me to do, and Everyone hurts I can’t keep hiding upbeat songs, so I that is to “go where Got to look for the light Can’t keep holding on and on am not as inspired the river flows” Got to plant some new seeds in the sun I’ve been dreaming to write songs like and stop wasting And go where the river flows I’ve been feeling this. But, this song time on things and Gonna sleep for a while Anyway is more of a people that are Gonna wait for my ride Everything’s gonna be alright feel-good tune not worth my time I’m walking alone Everything’s got a changing light with a good beat. and effort. Staying Past the faces I’ve known I’ve been thinking the time is right stuck in that place Gonna to look for the light I want to find that place was like being Gonna to plant some new seeds in the sun in a prison. I want to find that face And go where the river flows I’m gonna find my way ______Any way Words & music by Leslie Costa ______Written 6.4.17 Words & music by Leslie Costa Written 3.11.17 Belong Let Me Know This is the oldest one written on this record. Baby, I got this feeling inside me I feel the way I used to feel sometimes I wrote it during a time It’s so big I can barely breath When I’m alone when a lot of contrasting Feeling unsafe again When all the broken things aren’t broken things were going on. It’s like candy For a moment I can hear my thoughts I was engaged, working for An addiction that won’t let go I lost the place I used to go a horrible boss in a Feeling that way again When things were different I could touch the sky horrible company and Will I never be free, and never belong I always thought there was no end to how I felt watching my mother die a about You and I This is the other Just say someday, some way, I will belong very long, and slow death. Cause every time I think a dream is really real I was happy in my home song I wrote along Baby, I got this darkness around me Don’t want to wake up and not touch life at the time and was with “Waiting For It’s so black I can barely see The things I feel not writing much music Summer” about Feeling unsafe again depression and Let me know or let me go which is very unusual for But there’s a flower anxiety. I was Let me know why you go me. I thought maybe all A flash of color that paints my soul the music inside me was feeling very alone No one told me that there’d be a day Feeling that love again dead and I couldn’t write and isolated at the When darkness comes anymore. So I was time and felt Will I never be free, and never belong And how the world is filled with strangers questioning that at the disconnected to Just say someday, some way, I will belong Now it’s up to me to find the light same time as being the world around Everything goes through me Cause every night I dream a dream I think is real afraid of the hard days me like I didn’t Just like the wind around me Don’t want to wake up and not touch belong anywhere. that lied ahead. This song So baby, I got this feeling inside me The things I feel This was definitely along with a few others It’s so big I can barely breath Let me know or let me go a good moment or on this record, were all Feeling that way again Let me know why you go two of songwriting. supposed to be recorded Will I never be free, and never belong I feel the way I used to feel sometimes and released by now. But Just say someday, some way, I will belong When I’m alone they were put on hold Will I never be free When all the broken things aren’t broken due to vendor delays. So, Just say someday, some way, I will belong For a moment I can hear my thoughts I decided to stop wasting more time waiting for ______Let me know or let me go Words & music by something that would Let me know why you go Leslie Costa never happen. So these Written 3.10.15 ______words & music by older songs are included Leslie Costa with the current songs so Written 6.1.11 I could actually get them done and released. *There will be more older songs to come for the same reason in 2018. Like A Runaway Where Poetry Rhymes The poetry here, I follow you anyway All that we know, is all that we see is the awareness Just like a runaway All that we fear, is all that we see of life and death. Surrender up the day Strangers again I have observed To the lost and found Catching a train that most people So I bring in the firewood Tasting the rain get complacent The concept for this And hold on to something good Nothing’s the same after being in a song was trying to Done everything I could relationship or Listen to storms marriage for a long destroy the image To clean this room And the poetry rhymes and perception time. Their rut is The hero’s going down Taking my time preventing them of all the heroes In the shine and the shimmer of a phony crown What will I find that were really from feeling and Yeah the hero’s going down All that we know, is all that we see seeing what is not heroes. To Like a runaway come to terms with All that we fear, is all that we see going on around the truth about Rolling in the changing tide Outsiders pass them. This concept people I loved and Melting off the ice Cause they only see black is kind of targeted thought to be kind, Reaching for a higher light Fear their own past to creative people real and loving. I To set me free I look through the glass and “tortured was learning about The hero’s going down artists” who know Throw it away what that feeling is the reality and no In the shine and the shimmer of a phony crown You know you can’t stay longer wanted to Yeah the hero’s going down that inspires them All that I know, is all that I see to create their fight it. I chose to All this time believing in things run as far away All that I fear, is all that I see best work. Most of That were tarnished in time like a broken rhyme the times it seems from those people When hope is gone I need to know what’s going on Strange how the rain as I could get and Turns into white that we have to be follow the hope Still I follow you anyway Changing the sky “tortured artists” to that I could do this Just like a runaway Innocence dies attain that level of even in moments Looking for a better day creativity. So To set me free The desert I know hearing the poetry when I had my Is where poetry rhymes doubts I could The hero’s going down is understanding Strange new designs the awareness of clean up the mess. In the shine and the shimmer of a phony crown What will I find Yeah the hero’s going down being in touch Like a runaway, just like a runaway Throw it away with that inner Just like a runaway, just like a runaway I know I can’t stay life. There is a hint Just like a runaway..... ______of satire in this Words & music by lyrically as well as ______Leslie Costa Words & music by Written 8.24.17 musically. Leslie Costa Written 12.24.16 Northern Lights I Know It’ll Come Someday This song is a spiritual journey Seems to me I know it’ll come someday for me. At the time Something’s changing inside I know it’ll come someday I wrote this, I was And I’m learning about why I know it’ll come someday feeling so let down I can’t wait Don’t know how to make it right by mankind. I still Where’s everyone going Don’t know how to make it real don’t understand Can I catch them tonight Times when I feel this way why people are so This is really a love These are days Are times that I should pray unkind to each song written on my When we’re counting goodbyes I know it’ll come someday other, especially one year wedding So I’ll hold on to you to the people anniversary. At the I know it’ll come someday You never know I know it’ll come someday they claim they time I believed in a When they’ll be coming for you love. Humanity Stairways and windy roads soul mate and So I’m traveling light can be selfish and Are all that I’ve ever known someone I trusted self-serving. It I will wait for you I believe in the good of mankind I would see on shouldn’t matter And the northern lights will guide us through Don’t let me let go this time “the other side”. if someone is All my fears Anyone can say I was watching grieving a death of Find their way to my heart I couldn’t do it any other way people I loved pass someone they love And they want me to be And now I’ve got to let it go away and battle or not, people get I don’t know how Cause tomorrow I’ll be gone... terminal illness. too caught up in To be free but I hope Cause I know The song asks the their own lives That I’ll find my way now question if that really I really want to know and don’t pay happens, or are the I will wait for you Why you broke my soul attention. I felt that moments we are Cause the northern lights will guide us through year, my spirit and living right now the And times when I feel this way If I knew Are the times that I should pray soul were broken. only moments that The worst part was How to get to that gate I know it’ll come someday really count. no one heard me, I’d wait there for you I know it’ll come someday and no one saw Or is this it I know it’ll come someday... me. All anyone All these moments right now ______Got to make them all count Words & music by ever really has, is ______Leslie Costa themselves. And, Words & music by Written 8.6.13 times when I Leslie Costa doubted faith, Written 10.15.12 I have always believed it would come someday. All songs written by Leslie Costa Produced and engineered by Leslie Costa Mastered by Headroom Mastering

ALL SONGS COPYRIGHTED 2016/2017

Leslie Costa: Lead vocals, harmonies, all acoustic and electric guitars, piano, keyboards, bass, shaker, and drum and percussion programming

*Mary O’Hare: Harmony on “Belong” *John Zanella: Bass on “Belong” *Mary O’Hare: Additional vocals on “I Know It’ll Come Someday”

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Photographs: John Jannelle, Trish Szulewski, Lora Mazurak and free public domain images lesliecosta.com