Everything
©2000 Erik Jay
Starshine in the midnight blue,
clouds that float across the sky,
sunsets painted just for you --
come with me and I will give you everything.
Flowers dancing in the sun,
birds that sing in harmony,
forests where the rivers run --
come with me and I will give you everything.
Chorus: Everything your heart desires,
everything that keeps the fire of love alive,
everything that’s good in life.
Open up your heart to me,
open up your eyes and see what love can do,
I’ll be everything to you.
Sunrise on a sea of blue,
laughter in a child’s eyes,
peace and love from me to you --
come with me and I will give you everything.
(Instrumental section)
Repeat Chorus / Verse / Chorus

Falling Into Love
©2000 Erik Jay
Someday, some say very soon, the sky will fall
and all the best laid plans of mice and men won’t do
a single thing for you.
No one, no one knows the day and time, my friend,
that’s why you need to learn to love with all your heart
for when you do you’ll start
falling, falling into love
deeper and deeper.
I can never get enough
(I hunger for your touch).
Ask me what you need to know, my friend.
You know the answer is to find that endless love:
just set your sights above.
Peace and love beyond my power to understand!
And I can’t understand why you won’t make a place
for such amazing grace.
I’m falling, falling into love
deeper and deeper.
I can never get enough
(I hunger for your touch).
Someday, some say very soon, the sky will fall
and all the best laid plans of mice and men won’t do
a single thing for you.
I’m falling, falling into love
deeper and deeper.
I can never get enough
(I hunger for your touch)

Fighting from My Knees
©2000 Erik Jay
On a street in Kosovo dies a son I did not know,
a child yet to grow.
Down a dreary drive-by street strolls a sister I won’t meet,
her address spells defeat.
[Chorus] Don’t you know that I’m fighting from my knees?
You know I’m praying for some peace,
oh, Lord in heaven, please.
Don’t you know that I am called to carry on,
until the night becomes the dawn,
and heaven is my home?
Mothers black and brown and blonde
have their homes and children bombed;
so many families gone.
In the Sudan, that Godless place:
where the innocents are slaves
who have my brother’s face.
[Chorus]
[Instrumental section]
I’m getting tired of keeping score
of all the casualties of war;
I just can’t take no more.
I think the answer’s pretty clear:
look to your heart, it starts right here.
Love casts out hate and fear.
[Chorus]

For the Asking
©1987 Erik Jay
(This song is not on the album HEART & SOUL & MIND)
I was a lonely man living inside a shadow.
There were no sunny days and never a sky of blue.
I spent so many years seeking a change of season.
I found the sun in you and here’s what you promised me --
love that’s everlasting, simply for the asking;
that’s all I have to do to make all my dreams come true.
You changed the rainy night into a starlit evening.
You took me by the hand and led me into the light.
We are as one today and we’ll be as one tomorrow
for time could never change the promise you made to me --
love that’s everlasting, simply for the asking;
that’s all I have to do to make all my dreams come true.
[Instrumental section]
I was a lonely man living inside a shadow.
There were no sunny days and never a sky of blue.
We are as one today and we’ll be as one tomorrow
for time could never change the promise you made to me --
love that’s everlasting, simply for the asking;
that’s all I have to do to make all my dreams come true.

I Know the Way Now
© 1997 Erik A. Johnson
(This song is not on the album HEART & SOUL & MIND)
Living in quiet desperation,
wond'ring if love could ever be true —
that was my life before I found Forevermore.
I know the way now and I start by loving you.
You gave your life and your love to me completely,
it was the job God gave you to do:
To be a light of love, lifting me high above
clouds of dismay now, and I start by loving you,
I know the way now and I start by loving you.
[Chorus] I won’t go back to what I was before
now that I know just what you want me for.
You want me just so you can love me,
your love keeps making me new.
I have your promise of your everlasting love
starting today now, and I start by loving you,
I know the way now and I start by loving you.
[Musical bridge]
[Chorus]

Morning
(c) 2000 Erik Jay
Morning -- I love to see you in the morning.
I’m so glad I’ve got another day.
Going -- don’t know exactly where I’m going.
I’m so glad you’re showing me the way.
Chorus 1: Lead me on, lead me on to tomorrow,
lead me on, lead me through each day;
I’ve got a brand new road before me,
a prayer for luck and I’m on my way.
Singing -- I love to wake up and start singing.
There’s a melody inside my heart.
Ringing -- the entire universe is ringing
with a song that’s been there from the start.
Chorus 1: Lead me on, lead me on to tomorrow,
lead me on, lead me through each day;
I’ve got a brand new road before me,
a prayer for luck and I’m on my way..
Chorus 2: Life is new every morning,
love starts rising with the sun,
life is new every morning
and love is the road I follow. (x2)
(Instrumental sections)
Repeat C1 / Verse / C2

Never Ever
©2000 Erik Jay
You're afraid to love me, you're afraid of love,
although my heart is true.
I'll pass on a promise straight from God above
of things I'll never do.
Chorus: Never ever gonna let you go, and never ever leave you,
never ever make you cry;
never ever gonna come a day when I will not be with you,
never ever say goodbye.
In a world gone crazy I'll be by your side
until the end of time.
Wherever you are heading I will be your guide;
the world will know you're mine.
(Chorus)
You know these promises come straight to you from heaven;
I'm just repeating what I heard.
You know these promises go on and one forever;
you know that you can trust my word.
(Repeat Chorus/Verse/Chorus)

Second Chance
© 2000 Erik Jay
The songs that I never sang,
the lyrics that I wrote to myself,
the music I never played
for anybody else;
the work that I left undone,
and all the smiles that I never shared,
all the times I would turn and run
from anyone who cared.
(CHORUS)
I do believe I’ve had a second chance at life ...
just about a hundred times.
I do believe I’ve got a second chance to love you right
with all my heart and soul and mind.
The stories unwritten still,
the visions that have died in my eyes,
a lifetime of holes to fill --
is trying really wise?
The prayers that I never said,
the feelings that I’m sealing inside,
the tears that I never shed
when my old nature died.
(CH)
(Bridge/Instr Verse)
All the sorrows of yesteryear,
like shadows disappear in the light.
A vivid vision of love so dear,
a second chance at life.
(CH)

I'm Not Superman
(c) 2000 Erik Jay
I'm not Superman
but I sure would like to play him on TV:
super circumstances,
rodomontade reality.
Buffed-up, bullet-proof,
never falls to sinister conspiracy;
launchpad on the roof,
supersonic sandwichboard for liberty.
Don't you tell me how to live my life
and I won't tell you what you gotta do.
Y'know that no one here is qualified
to rule the other members of the zoo.
I'm not Superman,
and I'm not going to fly down to your rescue.
[Chorus] And you don't need no politician
telling you that one size fits all.
You are an individual,
and you've got to answer your own call.
Don't go believing wrong division,
dividing you by schisms and squalls.
You are an individual,
and you've got to answer your own call.
I won't tell you how to live your life
so don't you tell me what I gotta do.
Y'know that no one here is qualified
to rule the other members of the zoo.
[Chorus]
I'm not Superman,
and I'm not going to fly down to your rescue.
I'm not Superman,
you’re looking for the wrong guy to bless you...

Darling Tiana
(c) 2001 Erik Jay
Oh, my darling Tiana,
I've got something to share with you.
Let me warn you about this world;
what I say is true.
Oh, my darling Tiana,
I will speak the truth in love;
when the world starts to bring you down,
you can rise above.
You've landed right smack dab in the middle
of a world that is out of control.
You know that life, it can be a battle --
sometimes the battlefield will be your soul.
So, my darling Tiana,
signs and wonders will point the way.
When you encounter your enemies,
love will save the day.
You've landed right smack dab in the middle
of a world that is falling apart.
Sometimes your life, it will be a battle,
sometimes the battlefield will be your heart.
You've landed right smack dab in the middle
of a world that can be so unkind.
You know that life, it can be a battle --
sometimes the battlefield will be your mind.
Oh, my darling Tiana,
sometimes you're bound to slip and fall;
but I'll be there every single time,
that I hear your call.