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..