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Better Things to Do
03:47
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Better things to do @Connie Kaldor
We're through those two little words can bulldoze through a life
There's someone new those three cut through like a ragged knife
And there's no use spending your days fixing something that broken
So you drag your heart out of the blaze but its still smokin'
Not what you expected,
Not what you deserve
Not the straight and narrow
But the mighty curve
You found out just a little too late
Some folks have a best before date
Chorus
You've got better things to do
You've got better things to do
You've got better things to do .
Than cryin for love
Sometimes youve got to get in the car fill it up and drive away
Sometimes you've got to not listen to a single thing they say
Sometime s you win
Sometimes you lose
It's your life
You get to choose
you don't know where you're goin but you don't care
Cause anyplace is better than back there
Chorus
You've got to dream dream dream dream
You've got to dream dream dream dream
And any way
You've got better things to do
You've got better things to do
You've got better things to do
THan Cryin for love
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2. |
All up to You
03:14
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There’ll comes a time when nobody needs you
That’s when you need yourself
To remember all the things you've forgotten
the bounty that’s up on your shelf
You are the one with more on the table
More than the sum of your parts
Needs come and go just like directions
Sometimes in fits and in starts
But there comes a time , there comes a time
Time when it’s all up to you
There’ll come a time when nobody loves you
And that job is left up to you
To love yourself no matter the timing
And that love must last and be true
Love that takes you through all of your living
Love that helps you to stand
Love that knows and is always forgiving
Knows you’re doing the best that you can
There’ll comes a time there’ll comes a time
Time when Its all up to you
There’ll come a time when nobody wants you
That’s a hard place to be
You’ve got to want to hold your head high
As you're walking out leaving the key
You’ve got to want the best for yourself
And to bring it out every day
You’ve got to want to make sure that the people
around you feel the same way
There’ll come a time, there’ll come a time
Time when its all up to you .
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3. |
Everyday Moments
04:04
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Everyday Moments Connie Kaldor @Word of Mouth Music SOCAN
A thousand meals, a thousand dishes
how many Birthday Cakes?
A thousand hugs a thousand kisses
A thousand small mistakes
A thousand wiping down the tables
and pushing in the chairs
A thousand baskets barely carried heavy up the stairs
God knows how many washes and folds
and picking ups and tucking ins and colds
Chorus
Not the things that make you money
Or a household name.
Not the kind of things that get you
Ahead in the game
They are the everyday moments, the ones that scatter
But they’re the ones that matter
A thousand “you can do its”
A thousand “don't do thats
A thousand take your boots off and
don't forget your hats
A thousand picking ups and dropping offs and cheering when they play
A thousand getting back from work and getting groceries on the way
God knows how many legos and blocks
And playing catch and matching up socks
CHORUS
Bridge
All the weary times,middle of the night bleary wiping tears from your eyes
All the early morning alarms with their annoying ring
All the moments that you watch them smile and you realise
That you love them more than any song could ever sing
CHORUS
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Breathe
02:51
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You’ve got to breathe, you’ve got to breathe
You’ve got to let the good air in, then let it go
You’ve got to breathe, you’ve got to breathe
Breathe in deep and then let it go
Breathe, you’ve got to breathe
Every living thing beneath the sky
Breathe, you’ve got to breathe
From the day you’re born until the day you die
You’ve got to breathe, you’ve got to breathe
You’ve got to let the good air in, then let it go
You’ve got to breathe, you’ve got to breathe
Breathe in deep and then let it go
Breathe, we’ve all got to breathe
That’s the start of everything
Breathe, we’ve all got to breathe
Breathe in deep then start to sing
We’ve got to breathe, we’ve got to breathe
We’ve got to let the good air in, then let it go
We’ve got to breathe, We’ve all got to breathe
Breathe in deep then let it go
Breath you better breath
That’s the one thing that we share
We’ve got to breath We’Ve all got to breath
We’re all breathing in the same air
We’ve got to breathe, we’ve got to breathe
We’ve got to let the good air in, then let it go
We’ve got to breathe, We’ve all got to breathe
Breathe in deep then let it go
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5. |
Four in the Morning
03:52
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Four in the morning Connie Kaldor
Make the lunches in the morning fill the tupperware with pie
Get the kids off to school with a kiss goodby
All day long I'm working
God knows I try
When its four in the morning I cry
I don't want the kids to worry
Not their fault this you and I
Get the groceries, rent a movie
Tell My friends I'm getting by
Read the bedtime story, comfort with a lullaby
when its four in the morning I cry
Chorus
That's when I miss you
When my heart breaks away
That's when the strong woman leaves me
And the weak woman stays
It's when the night is darkest not a star in the sky
When its four in the morning I cry
I put away the memories in the attic way up high.
There's a taped up box of photographs labeled you and I
With the kids the work and everything the time just fairly flies
But when Its four in the morning I cry
Chorus
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These prairies
03:01
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THESE PRAIRIES BY CONNIE KALDOR
These prairies hold my childhood in a warm and sweet embrace
You can see it when I get here by the smile upon my face
(the open sky, the kildeer cry have left their tender trace)
These prairies hold my childhood in a warm and sweet embrace
Things moved slower then
I saw the bird foot traces on the trail
how the wind would sometimes eddy
saw the hawk upon the rail
There were cousins and bale stacks to defend
There was driving in a pickup down a road without a bend
These prairies hold my childhood in a warm and sweet embrace
You can see it when I get here by the smile upon my face
the open sky, the kildeer cry have left their tender trace
These prairies hold my childhood in a warm and sweet embrace
The taste of water from a well
drunk from a sealer jar
And the days stretched out forever
like the dust behind the car
There was the prairie grass
the wind my thoughts and me
and the kind of stars that set
a child’s imagination free
These prairies hold my childhood in a warm and sweet embrace
you can see it when I get here by the smile upon my face
The open sky the kildeer cry its left a tender trace
This prairie holds my childhood in a warm and sweet embrace
with gopher holes, and cinnamon rolls and bow your head for grace
This prairie holds my childhood in a warm and sweet embrace.
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7. |
Missing and Gone
02:15
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MISSING AND GONE
1 gone, that’s too many
5 gone, way too many
10 gone, way too many
Too many missing and gone
20 gone, way too many
50 gone, way too many
100 gone, way too many
Too many missing and gone
Did they think you didn’t matter
That you would not be missed
They didn’t see the hearts shatter
As they put you on that list
They didn’t see them wondering
What happened to you?
Well the wind knows and the moon knows
And some son of a bitch knows too
200 gone, way too many
500 gone, way too many
1000 gone, way too many
Too many missing and gone
Somewhere there’s a desk with a pile
And a file with your face
Held back by budget cuts
or the will to act or race
Somewhere’s a detective
that knows someone’s got a clue
Wondering why the story’s on the back page
When another case comes through
1200 gone, way too many
1500, way too many
2000 gone, way too many
Too many missing and gone
How many candles up on the hill
Year after year,
How many people out there on the streets
That are not as they appear
Are the ones who did this
Thinking justice will not come
I hope they wake up screaming after dreaming
of the sound of your mother’s drum
2001, way too many
2002, way too many
2003, way too many
Too many missing and gone
2004, way too many
2005, way too many
When will it stop cause it’s way too many?
Too many missing and gone
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8. |
One of a Kind
02:26
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ONE OF A KIND
You are one of a kind
One of a kind, that’s you
You don’t move through this world
Like most other people do
You think you’re ordinary
You couldn’t be more wrong
You’re kind when others are ruthless
When others are weak you’re strong
You are one of a kind
Precious beyond compare
Those times when I’ve needed you most
Loe and behold you’re there
You think you’re nothing special
You are mistaken my friend
You give when others are greedy
Who others throw out you mend
You say there’s lots of good people out there
I know that it’s true
I wouldn’t trade all of them
For a friend like you
There may be lots that are shiny
But no one replaces your style
You are one of a kind
And I’ve known that for a while.
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9. |
Judge Me
03:37
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JUDGE ME
If you were to judge me , Judge my by my heart
The ones it’s loved and the ones that tore it apart
If you were to judge me, that’s the place I would start
If you were to judge me, Judge me by my heart
If you were to judge me, Judge me by my hands
What they’ve done who they cared for what they played in the band
All the scars and the lines that they drew in the sand
If you were to judge me Judge me by my hands
Cause time gets slower at the speed of light
And beauty’s looking for its own beholder
Someone’s always waiting to put you in your place
It doesn’t matter if you’re younger or you’re older
But if you were to judge me, Judge me by my friends
The ones I care for, the ones i will defend
The ones that keep me strong ,the ones that helped
me to bend
If you were to judge me, Judge me by my friends
If you were to judge me ,Please come take my hand
The moment people touch they begin to understand
That where we started out, May not be where we land
If you were to judge me please come take my hand
Cause you can judge someone by their bank accounts
you can judge someone by their skin
you can judge someone by all the trouble they’ve been in
You can judge someone by their looks
you can judge someone by their clothes
Some will judge you by religion
Heaven only knows.
But if you were to Judge me, Judge me by my song
The ones I make up, the ones I sing along
The ones that keep me dancing when everything goes wrong
Music is the place where I feel like I belong
If you were to Judge me, Judge me by my song.
If you were to judge me,
If you were to judge me …….
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10. |
Travelling
04:08
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Travelling Connie Kaldor
Some day I'm gonna go Traveling
pack my bags and I’m gone
Some day I'm gonna go Traveling
pack my bags and I’m gone
The wind it sometimes calls me
When it does my head becomes a sail
One of these days its gonna catch
and you’ll get that postcard in the mail.
I’ll climb every mountain that’s before me
I’ll swim if the rivers not too wide
I’ll wait by a road that calls me
And be gone when there's something I can ride
Chorus
I want to see where the sun goes when it sets
And where it’s been when it rises
I don’t want to have regrets
I’d rather have surprises
Chorus
The birds come from somewhere every spring
And where do they go every fall
I’m going to follow them some September
And don't expect me back at all
Bridge
Somewhere out there's is a coffee for me on a plaza
I will find that place by and by
I want to see who I think that I am when I get there
Where the stars look different in the sky
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Chorus
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Connie Kaldor Montreal, Québec
Folk icon Connie Kaldor, CM is celebrating 45 years in show business with her upcoming 18th album! Three-time juno-award winner, she began her career in the Canadian wave alongside artists Stan Rogers, Ferron, and Valdy. “A masterful performer, wildly funny one moment, deeply personal the next.”—The Boston Globe ... more
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