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©Peter Lehndorff
Chorus: Well, Don’t be discouraged, when the future is not bright.
And don’t be discouraged when nothin’ turns out right.
Don’t be discouraged if things look bad at first
No, don’t be discouraged It’ll bound to get worse.
Well your pipes seem to leak a lot. Your plumber’s name is Ray.
Your wife seems to call him over, whenever you’re away.
Your kid pulled off her braces, She wants a new tattoo.
Your in-laws just sold their house and they're moving in with you.
But they said
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They’re cuttin' back your hours at work. There's rumors going ‘round.
Everything keeps going up. While yours keep going down.
You’re angry at your bank again. You call to let them know.
they raise their rates while you wait to their music on hold.
they’re singing.
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Well you saved up for a vacation. To go off to Italy.
You ended up on a camping trip with your plumber’s family.
And folks ask “Hows’it goin’?” (You always say it’s just fine.)
Well two can live as cheaply as one for about half the time.
Two can live as cheaply as one for about half the time.
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©Peter Lehndorff
Some people wonder what they coulda been
If they could go back and start over again.
But nothing could change my love for you.
I wish our life could’ve been a little easier,
A little more fun — a little less theater.
But, nothing could change my love for you.
I suppose I could have worked a little harder,
Been a little smarter. Been a little richer.
For richer or poorer, good times or bad,
I wouldn’t trade places for the love we’ve had...
And nothing could change my love for you.
No, nothing could change my love for you.
We’ve had more ups, than we’ve had downs.
You pick me up when I’m on the ground.
And nothing could change my love for you.
Well, I love you a bushel and a peck.
Sometimes, I know I’m a pain in the neck.
But, nothing could change my love for you.
Sometimes you don’t. Sometimes you do.
Sometimes I get a little confused.
Sometimes I get a little bit flustered —
Sorry 'bout your cat, and the dust buster.
But, nothing could change my love for you.
No nothing could change my love for you.
Break verse
Roses are red. Violets are blue.
Half the time I don't have a clue.
“Happiness” they say, “can’t buy money.”
And, “Hindsight's always twenty/twenty...”
But, nothing could change my love for you.
No, nothing could change my love for you.
No, nothing could change my love for you.
No, nothing could change my love for you.
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So Far, So Good (demo)
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©Peter Lehndorff
So far so good. I'm doin' okay. I'm doin' pretty good.
So far so good. I can't complain, knock on wood.
People think what they want to think.
They hear what we want to hear.
Some of them are prayin' that they're goin' up to heaven.
But most of us will end up right down here.
Don’t look too far forward. Don’t look too far back.
If I lose track of where I'm at, I’ll end up flat on my ass.
I used to think too much about our bucket list.
Was the glass half empty? Or was the glass just too damned big?
Woke up each morning. You were smiling at me.
When I looked in to your eyes, you were all I need.
Chorus: So far. So good. I'm doin' okay. I'm doin' pretty good.
I can't complain, knock on wood. So far. So good.
When we were fifty, things were a little iffy.
When we turned sixty I just said, “Oh what the hell.”
Things are what they were. They will be what they are.
People said we were goin' places. And we did... Just not far.
Chorus:
After every rainstorm. After that hurricane.
After it snowed like hell, the sun always comes out again.
I wish you were with me, I wish you were near.
I wish I could tell you that I'm doin' okay right here.
Chorus
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It Just Depends (demo)
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It just depends ©Peter Lehndorff
There's a coat in the closet. There’s a purse by the door.
There’s still a box, of your stuff, up on the second floor.
I still live in the same old house. I still have your old hound.
Every day he walks in here, to see if you’re around.
But I still have a sense of humor. I still have a few good friends
And I’m still easy going. But sometimes it just depends.
I can laugh about the good times. And wonder 'bout the bad.
What is my next chapter. It's two years since you passed.
I tried to join a dating site, but I quit partway through
They kept asking what I want? I kept describing you.
I wrote:
I’ve got a sense of humor. I've got some real good friends
I’m easy going. But sometimes it just depends.
I’m easy going. But sometimes it just depends.
We both came with lots of baggage. We unpacked it over time
Now it fits, in one suitcase, what was ours is just mine.
The sun came through the curtains, onto your side of the bed.
I was drinking my first cup of coffee, I thought about what you said...
You said: “You’ve got a sense of humor.
We’ve got a bunch of friends
And you’re easy going.
Although sometimes it just depends.
But sometimes it just depends.
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When my dad got sick I guess I was nine
We walked on eggshells. He was mad all the time
He fell down a lot. Slurred when he talked
Looked like a drunkard. But never touched a drop.
He went to his doctor / He went to a shrink.
Even that med school didn't know what to think.
But no one looked back at his family tree.
How his mom and his granddad had that same malady.
If I knew then / What I know now
I couldn't change much /of anything /Anyhow.
It was 50/50. Life's a coin toss
When you have to dance the Huntington's Waltz
When you have to dance the Huntington's Waltz
They had him committed back in '83
Some brothers and cousins had the same disease
A ticking time bomb began to go off
And we all started dancing the Huntington's Waltz.
When I turned forty, more or less
The Huntington's woke up. My life was a mess
Cobwebs of proteins / started killing my brain
I pushed you away. Somehow you remain.
If I knew then / What I know now
I couldn't change much /of anything /Anyhow.
It was 50/50. Life's a coin toss
When you have to dance the Huntington's Waltz
When you have to dance the Huntington's Waltz
Some brothers and some sisters they have it as well.
Their kids and grandkids, only time will tell.
I guess I'm pretty lucky to know how this ends
Thanks for sticking with me goodbye my good friend.
If I knew then / What I know now
I Wouldn't change much /of anything /Anyhow.
It was 50/50. But I won the coin toss
When you danced with me at the Huntington's Waltz
When you danced with me at the Huntington's Waltz
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Guilty survivor
©Peter Lehndorff
People say that I’m a lucky guy. I should feel lucky and never blue.
But there’s times that I have to wonder, If it could have been me and not you.
I guess I’m a guilty survivor. I should feel lucky, but I don’t know how.
People say I dodged a bullet.
But every silver lining has a cloud.
But every silver lining has a cloud.
When we were kids, you used to say (that)
We’d grow up to be like dad and mom.
You learned to dance. I'd play guitar.
We always really seemed to get along.
Later on when you got home from college,
I remembered how you used to joke.
I’m afraid I’m becoming our mother. How I wish that was never so.
You got her smile. You got her figure.
But you also got that damn disease.
As your mind slipped away, your so-called friends used to say.
“The apple didn’t fall far from that tree.”
I guess I’m a guilty survivor. I should feel lucky, but I don’t know how.
People say I dodged a bullet.
But every silver lining has a cloud.
Every silver lining has a cloud.
Break
(They say) Always try to smile and stop your frowning.
Count your blessings. Stand tall and proud.
Look on the sunny side. Throw your problems to the side
That was then. This is now.
I guess I’m a guilty survivor. I should feel lucky, but I don’t know how.
People say I dodged a bullet.
But every silver lining has a cloud.
Every silver lining has a cloud.
Every silver lining has a cloud.
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Tonight I Wish (demo)
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©Peter Lehndorff
Tonight I wish that I could be with you
And hold you in my arms again
and tell you “I love you.”
To look into your smiling face
And be held in your warm embrace
Tonight I wish that I could be with you
Tonight I wish that we could kiss again
And feel you breathing next to me
and my lips upon your skin.
To run my fingers through your hair
Just to know that you are there
Tonight I wish that I could be with you
“Love is a many splendored thing.”
is on again tonight
Maybe he’ll come back this time
and there’ll be a happy ending.
Or we could write our own movie script
We could do it better than Scarlet and Rhett.
Tonight I wish that I could be with you
Sometimes you and I would go out driving.
Sometimes with no maps or a special place to go
You will always be my destination.
You are all I really need to know.
And I wish I could hear your voice tonight
To hear you softly whisper
that everything’s all right.
I wish that we could talk again
Laugh and cry like two old friends.
Tonight I wish that I could be with you
Remember that old couple at the grocery store
Smiling at each other
as they walked through the door.
You said as they rolled down Aisle two...
“Wait a few years buddy, there goes me and you.”
And tonight I wish that
And hold you in my arms again
and tell you “I love you.”
I wish that we could kiss again
And feel my lips upon your skin.
Tonight I wish that I could be with you
Tonight I wish that I could be with you
Tonight I wish that I could be with you
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Two Cents Worth (demo)
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What goes around
©Pete Lehndorff
Oh the prize patrol drove by my home
During the Super Bowl.
They stopped at the house with the stolen cars
Mr. Smith is on parole.
Mrs. Smith, she fired her handgun
way up in the air
When the Prize Patrol let them know
That they were millionaires.
Mrs. Smith, She’s got two kids
Mr. Smith thinks he’s their dad.
They’re sellin’ booze at their middle school
And business has not been bad.
They’re firin’ off their BB guns
The whole neighborhood is scared
That’s why we can not figure out
Why the Smith’s are millionaires.
Good things happen to bad people
(Some people have all the luck)
Crooks and fakes get all the breaks
And the regular folks don’t get enough.
Chorus
What goes around Comes around
That’s how the saying goes
What goes around, comes around
And hey, you never know.
What goes around, comes around
And hey, you never know.
Buddy Jones owns the land Up on Apple Hill
It was the site, some years ago,
Of a secret toxic spill.
He’s building condominiums, with a swimming pool
And selling them to us seniors
‘cuz we’ve got nothing left to lose.
Lester Franks owns the bank
that funded Mr. Jones.
And all the old folks have to come to him
So they can buy those homes.
Roll-back Rick and the Smiths
All keep their millions there
So there ya go, We’ll never know
Why they’re all millionaires.
“The Early bird gets the worm”
That’s what his ads say.
But if you are the early worm
It’s not your lucky day.
Chorus
What goes around Comes around
That’s how the saying goes
What goes around, comes around
And hey, you never know.
What goes around, comes around
And hey, you never know.
What goes around Comes around
That’s how the saying goes
What goes around, comes around
And hey, you never know.
What goes around, comes around
And hey, you never know.
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Peter Lehndorff Hampden, Massachusetts
Partial proceeds from my bandcamp site will be donated to The Huntington's Disease Program at UConn. To date I have donated over $1000. Huntington's Disease is the genetic brain disease that took the life of Woody Guthrie.
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