LOVE IT up Lyric Book-1

Love

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BRINDL.com MOXYMUSIC.org 1 Love It Up i forgive but don’t forget / i ain’t seen nothing yet to shake me from this world i wear my heart on my sleeve and if you don’t believe, won’t you listen to these words or better yet the music you take it and you use it anyway you need it’s over now, all the pain and suffering don’t be tempted by the dark resentments of all the fear seekers in their fear based worlds all the haters and the naysayers / don’t let them phase you, let it raise you high above you meet fear with love / you’re the brightest star in the sky above you’re a constellation of light and patience and you shine on, you shine on...you shine... love it up, your cup runneth over, your heart is opening look around and see what’s found, it’s better than you think it moves me, let it in and it will set you free hot damn, what a lovely man, i saw him standing tall, and all in all i saw it coming all the strength i could summon couldn’t save me, i let it change me i may fall and stumble but i’m only humble/ in the face of it i won’t forsaken it all love it up, your cup runneth over, your heart is opening look around and see what’s found, it’s better than you think

2 just What I Need come clean you know what i mean when i say the things i say you’re so mean you just leave me hanging all alone and out to dry sometimes you make me beg for it when the world feels not enough what i won’t do or say for it but underneath i just want love you may be just what i need now and all the while i may come out of hiding just to see you smile i played you all my favorite songs i ripped you pages from my book i thought i thought of everything now i take another look here we are in the thick of it, from the angles and the sides i’m still nowhere near sick of it and i take that as a good sign you may be just what i need now and all the while i may come out of hiding just to see you smile

brindl :: love it up :: page 2 3 understand sharpest blade won’t cut this mane, i let it grow too long again people i see i call my friends, but i’m still holding back from way back when trying to sort thru last nights dreams, all these broken shells of faded scenes you like to say i’m too good for you, but i can’t find it i never could it’s not a lie to say i’m fine, it’s just a blessing to wake up in time to see the light slip through the blinds, but it finds me along everytime all the past i forgave all the love i lost and the love i made i think i left myself out cold, like a wandering stranger in this world and i know it’s not all you cause every story i find myself hooked into it’s just the rising of some older tide but i’m old enough now to let it slide and there are days i do pretend, you will find me here and then i’ll play this song and you’ll understand, i’ll play this song... and you’ll understand what i’m trying to say, i will pick these words out, i will sing my way back to the faith that i thought i had, i will gather up my rosebuds, i will gather up my strength now it’s getting late again, i’m still awake and thinking in this mind turns and spins your name, we’re all at fault but no one’s to blame there are days i truly send you all this love and hope in the end i’ll play this song and you’ll understand, i’ll play this song... and you’ll understand what i’m trying to say, i will pick these words out, i will sing my way back to the faith that i thought i had, i will gather up my rosebuds, i will gather up my strength i will gather up my rosebuds, i will gather up my strength

4 Walk Alone feels so nice, i can’t ignore, you might be different from the ones before but i’m getting tired of the kiss and tell, i know you all but nobody well and you can take my hand but not for long, ‘cause you know baby i walk alone

i may have said i wanted it too, i may have begged from the comfort of you but that dream is like a shape in the sky, the wind comes up and blows it high and wide and i may put your name in a song, but oh you know baby i walk alone

i walk along under these serious skies, truth tucked away in this pretty disguise and i...i’ll bravely face the great unknown, but oh you know baby i walk alone

you may know you look so good, you may catch me looking when i know i should not dream of you when i fantasize, i lose myself when i get that high and i may call your name to come, but you know baby i walk alone

i walk along under these serious skies, truth tucked away in this pretty disguise and i...i’ll bravely face the great unknown, but oh you know baby i walk alone i walk alone, i...walk alone

brindl :: love it up :: page 3 5 Space & Time there were no guarantees i was happy just to please you and treat you kind now i’m lost in this sense of an overwhelming sadness of all this space & time don’t judge me if i hang my dirty laundry out to dry it’s not as bad as it sounds the way i throw my heart around and watch it fall from the sky all this certainty and this calmness escapes me / we always hold too hard when things are falling apart all that hope i had now turns sadness my savior / i know i leaned too far to watch our star burn out sweet memory there you go and try to tempt me to go back in time there was always the sense you were free of your regrets, if only i was free of mine it’s always something to see when people go and leave their hearts now i am down on my knees if only i could see how to get back to mine all this certainty and this calmness escapes me / we always hold too hard when things are falling apart all that hope i had now turns sadness my savior / i know i leaned too far to watch our star burn out

there were no guarantees, i was happy just to please you and treat you kind

Unfolding don’t ask me for the answers, the hand 6i’m playing or i’m holding i can’t see into the future my life is still unfolding, but you, you got it all

don’t ask me for directions, they’ve got these hedges growing high i’m just one foot than the other, there’s ground and then there’s sky, above it all

and i know, that it’s all before me now and i hope, that i’m through with wading out too far, till i can’t see, no i can’t see at all i will go where my heart sings, where my heart sings....

i know the storms they’re coming, i feel the winds they’re blowing high i’m just out here treading water, trying to survive, survive it all and i hear the fates they’re calling, i hear them screaming in my head i can lead or i can follow, or be dragged along instead, i hear them calling

and i know, that it’s all before me now and i hope, that i’m through with wading out too far, till i can’t see, no i can’t see at all i will go where my heart sings, where my heart sings....

don’t ask me for the answers / the hand i’m playing or i’m holding i can’t see into the future my life is still unfolding

brindl :: love it up :: page 4 7 Angel Hair / Devil’s Twin you saw it all the way the rich get richer and you traded all your bones for break and you bleed and fall and the hard gets harder you’re still waiting for this life to change calling anything in range of this poor heart it’s only parts now scattered to the wind i’m angel hair but i’m devil’s twin, this is where i begin well you heard it all they said you’d suffer for your sins but the truth remains self evident and you love someone, they say you love too much you’re still waiting for this life to change... calling anything in range of this poor heart it’s only parts now scattered to the wind i’m angel hair but i’m devil’s twin, this is where i begin this is where i begin

tired of this town tonight i’m tired of this8 town, all the people milling around this time when i’m lost i don’t want to be found tonight i’m halfway gone out of luck, out of love, out of song everything’s cold and cruel, and everything’s wrong tonight i’m scribbled in pen such a mess by the time they come in they won’t recognize the size or shape that i’m in

i showed you my hillside wanderings i’m just a heart left wondering, and nothing seems real to me

tonight i’m covered in red, so afraid of asking for it just one look in his eyes and enough has been said tonight i’m folded so small, crushed down flat in this pitiful fall i fly, then i run, then i walk, then i drag then i crawl nothing seems real to me, nothing seems real to me... i showed you my hillside wanderings i’m just a heart left wondering, and nothing seems real to me this time when i’m lost i don’t want to be found....

brindl :: love it up :: page 4 9 Siren sick is dull that deadend heart the hardest thing to say you wanted me i wanted to see what would happen if i played now time is cruel it eats away at deep and darkest holes i got no eyes i got no heart, i got no soul the story turned like poetry, alien in it’s majesty stubborn in relentless form the siren singing to the storm sing me back to safety, sing me back to shore sing me back to calm waters, sing things back the way they were now you’ve faded into dreams, your half life burns inside of me was i hasty, selfish, scared to stay, and live the straight and narrow way words they come like shooting stars, i’ll try to sing this song of ours was i stubborn in relentless form the siren singing to the storm... sing me back to safety, sing me back to shore sing me back to calm waters, sing things back the way they were

10 Still feel welcome to my unending dream, you’re in every scene i guess i never learned when done is done, and life goes on and the days lost count the worries mount, like dishes in the sink i can tell you how i feel, you’ll only tell me what you think

I can see you now, writing this down, in your small town by the sea ihow you be so sure you are done with all this love i cannot help but still feel

Ii know that your’e back, i heard from a friend, she wasn’t sure when no you’re just a stranger, but i can’t pretend all those lifetimes, those sure signs, it’s all i seemed to see and i don’t want to learn when done is done and life goes on

I can see you now, writing this down, in your small town by the sea how you be so sure you are done with all this love i cannot help but still feel

i cannot help but still feel

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CREDITS all songs written & performed by brindl produced by brindl & ben bernstein brindl: vocals, acoustic guitar, piano/keys & b-tar (6), baritone ukulele (3) dennis haneda: electric & acoustic guitar (1-7) ben bernstein: electric & stand-up bass (1-8) mike stevens: drums & percussion (1-5, 7, 8) ben hulan: mandolin (3), jon mitguard: pedal steel (3, 6, 7) recorded by ben bernstein at mission recorders, san francisco & at petting zoo studio, oakland, ca (thepettingzoo.com) additional recording by brindl at the cabin, forest knolls, ca mixed by ben bernstein & brindl mastered by matt baxter at baxter’s ranch recording (mattbaxter.com) jacket design by moxy media photos by trevalyan stugard (tenetphoto.com)

thank you to everyone who has given their precious love, faith and support in all its many forms towards the creation of this album! a grateful thank you to the many generous and lovely folks who donated to the indiegogo fundraiser and supported this album from the beginning! full list at brindl.com/loveitup special thanks to ben bernstein • jan markle • bryce alviso • dennis heneda mike stevens • dave garoutte • matt baxter • chris krotky jon mitguard • ben hulan • trev & carissa stugard • jocelyn markle • inigo markle-allen • leif stugard • kendra markle • chris peck kirsten johnson • jakey jestadt • alianna jaqua • rick walt • julie baiocchi david atkin • fitz • gil markle & kathy mueller • halle clarke phillip sargisson • audrey sargission • alex montgomery • dave & ruth hood • bill & julie stalker • jonathan kahn • colin munroe • bodhi setchko tony eckert • matt & mireya quirie • carolyn mccoy • connie, alvar, biji & the ever present ancestors • eric maisel • rilke • emerson (self reliance) and to all artists who bravely create and share their art, and to the higher pattern that keeps me connected, inspired and grounded on this journey…

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