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If I Wake
03:40
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If I Wake by Craig Durgy
If I wake before I die,
I’ll give this heart just one more try
To watch Park Avenue pass by,
If I should wake before I die
And if I wander down the block,
Along the way we used to walk
To where we kissed in Central Park,
If I wander down the block
And if I stop to linger there,
To feel her laughter in the air
I’ll wonder why, and how, and where,
If I should stop to linger there
[chorus]
There was a cold breeze, grey was the color
Over gold leaves, as we held each other
Yellow taxis, Lord how I loved her, then
And when December beckons me,
I'll mingle jingle silently
With crowds at Rockefeller's tree,
When December beckons me
And if the Lord should hear my prayer,
My eyes would open, she'd be there
To touch her cheek and stroke her hair,
If only God might hear my prayer
[chorus]
So if I wake before I die,
I'll thank you Lord for love that I
Once knew, that grew and passed me by,
If I should wake before I die.
Before I die, Before I die
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2. |
So Far
03:25
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"So Far" by Craig Durgy
So many years before you found me
And yet there’s nowhere here to stay
Reaching beyond most every boundary
Close never felt so far away
Shouldn’t I shout like Christmas morning
So the whole wide world would know
That my heart is finally soaring
Like it never has before
But what have we done,
What have we gained
Why does the song just fade away in a refrain
Gone are the leaves, we are the trees
And naked to the world I freeze
Love is such a cold disease, but you
You are like a gentle summer rain
But as I shout, so many doubt me
They want the fettered man they knew
They’d have to face themselves without me
They’d rather look for faults in you
And for a moment I was hopeless
Thinking that love could never be
But in your smile I finally focused
On believing you love me
But what have we done,
What have we gained
Why does the song just fade away in a refrain
Gone are the leaves, we are the trees
And naked to the world I freeze
Love is such a cold disease, but you
You are like a gentle summer rain
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3. |
Summer Rain
02:49
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Summer Rain by Craig Durgy
Time slowed down to greet me, to carry out my light
You caressed me sweetly, always there right by my side
And as my eyes conceded, that leaving you I must
Despite your tears that pleaded, I just rose out into dust
I became an angel, you held to my sleeve
Now the summer rain will
Let you know I’ll never leave
Yes, I became an angel, the moment that we kissed
Through all the years of loving you
That brought me here like this
Now the dust has settled, life and love go on
Raindrops on a petal, and you know that I’m not gone
In this life we’re flowers, but it’s only life’s cocoon
As fresh as summer showers, forever love can bloom
And, I became an angel, you held to my sleeve
Now the summer rain will
Let you know I’ll never leave
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Song In A Shell
03:26
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Song In A Shell by Craig Durgy
Got home from a party and sat for a spell
The night made a sound like you hear in a shell
The moon filled the window, electric and white
A message from you, in the blue of the night
Searching for photos, looking for you
So many shuffled from coming unglued
Staring into your image till you come half alive
But half of you's all that can ever survive.
These are the moments, hollow and grey
Where I've been going, to end every day
I'll spend a lifetime feeling this way
I know you'd want me, to move along
Stop holding on
To the memories that haunt me
And the life that is gone
I know it's wrong
But this is my home now, where you still dwell
I am alone now, a song in a shell
I see your light shine, what can I do
But spend a lifetime still missing you
Still missing you
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5. |
Take It All Away
02:38
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Take It All Away by Craig Durgy
Just take it all away, can't listen anymore
What made you choose to stay, when love became a chore
At best I'm in the way, that's all there is to say
You’re just running up the score
Please take it far away, can't hear a single word
No matter what we say, we both sound so absurd
No love, then no obey, I've paid all I can pay
Just take it all away
How long can it rain, before you see the clouds
This weather is insane, we just have to end it now
When everything's gone grey, I never thought I'd say
Just take it all away,
Ohhhhhhh, just take it all away
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6. |
Doris
05:07
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Doris by Craig Durgy
Black and white, shades of brown
From the old photo album handed down
There's a face, that I'm told
Was my grandmother, 23 years old
Timid smile, far off gaze
Did she see something coming in her numbered days
My dad was 3, Aunt Jean was 2,
Then the baby Barbara, that she never knew
(chorus)
And I cannot lose her now,
This will be my solemn vow
To raise up her memory like this stone
As I stand above this grave
Living proof of what she gave
I believe, that Doris she, is a part of me
Married young, just 19
Isaac Lester, and his high school queen
Was she quiet, in the rain
Did she fight for her life in her final pain
Did she grieve, did she laugh
Why did she leave, no epitaph
Does she know, that I got
This gravestone, placed for her alone
In the family plot
(chorus)
Photos few, and far between
Wish I knew, just what they mean
Did Maude and Pa, ever dread
When Doris Terrill Warner was so quickly wed
Still I know, in the end
Where I go, is simply where she's been
Just a face, in a wooden frame
And a trace of her warm embrace
When I say her name
(chorus)
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7. |
Annmarie
03:27
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Annmarie by Craig Durgy
Annmarie, oh Annmarie
Her name is like a falling autumn leaf
She made me laugh, till I could see
That loneliness is at its best
Whenever she’s not here with me
Annmarie
When I was up, when I was down
I’d call on Annie, and she’d come around
No matter what, no matter when
She’d be sure to see that you’re
Supported by your very best friend
Annmarie
The only time she ever let me down, let me down
Was when she wouldn’t help herself come round, come around
When the days, took her away
The silence fell like secrets in the rain
She held me up, I let her fall
As the world got heavier
The only thing I said to her caused pain
Annmarie, my Annmarie
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8. |
Lilies Of The Valley
05:01
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Lilies of the Valley by Craig Durgy
May of 1968, she never would forget that date
She came in from the garden for the phone
And oh the news, that awful sound about her son in Viet Nam
Another MIA or dead and gone
The days went by so very slow, her husband and her waiting for
Their son to just come bounding through the door
She tended to her garden, and she put her soul and heart in
To the hope that she would see her son once more
And when the spring returned in ‘69, still nothing had been learned
Sally raked the garden bed with care
Along the old stone wall she saw, out of New England’s winter thaw
The lilies of the valley growing there
And oh what bittersweet, just filled her eyes as she could see
Her little boy as he would wonder at the sight
He’d smile and touch those little bells and leaned in close so he could smell the lilies of the valley, green and white.
Oh the lilies of the valley were in a ring that Sally wore
Around her neck, fastened by a string
The only thing that came back in the spring
Summers came and autumns went, the lilies they would lose their scent
And little bells like tear drops they would fall
And each year as the snow lay heaping blanketing the garden sleeping
Sally would just look out at the wall
December 1993, her husband was a casualty
Of all those unfilled promises of spring
So Sally tended to his grave, and with the flowers there displayed
Were lilies of the valley she would bring
Twenty lonely years went on, spent only waiting for her son
To come on home and visit Daddy’s grave
But getting old can be unkind, so many ghosts that filled her mind
Her garden was the only thing to save
The neighbors checked in every day, to see if Sally was okay
But still one night she wandered none the less
They found her lying in the snow where her garden used to grow
And dried out from the book where they were pressed
There were lilies of the valley on her chest
Oh the lilies of the valley were in a ring that Sally wore
Around her neck, fastened by a string
They were the only thing that came back in the spring
Oh the lilies of the valley were in a ring that Sally wore
Around her neck, fastened by a string
They are the only thing that comes back every spring
And every year the wind will sing, the valley still remembering with
Lilies of the valley in the spring
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Craig Durgy Connecticut
A few miles on me.
Family man with a lifetime of songs coming out of every orifice.
Rarely perform live these days, prefer recording for now.
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