The Wild Places 02 | Dan Fogelberg

THE WILD PLACES

Released August 1990 by Epic Records.

All compositions by Dan Fogelberg (© 1990/EMI April Music/Hickory Grove Music - ASCAP) except "Lovers In A Dangerous Time"(B. Cockburn) and "Rhythm Of The Rain" (J. Gummoe; © Warner-Tamerlane Publishing Corp -BMI)/"Rain" (Lennon/McCartney; © ATV Tunes - ASCAP)

Aurora Nova

The Wild Places

Forefathers

Song Of The Sea

Anastasia's Eyes

Blind To The Truth

Lovers In A Dangerous Time

Rhythm Of The Rain

Bones In The Sky

The Spirit Trail

Ever On

Credits

Aurora Nova

Dan Fogelberg - piano, synthesizer

Russ Kunkel - drums, percussion

The Wild Places

Dan Fogelberg - piano, keyboards, synthesizers, drum program, electric lead and rhythm guitars, vocals

Russ Kunkel - drums

Bob Glaub - bass

Timothy B Schmit - background vocals

Forefathers

Dan Fogelberg - acoustic guitars, electric guitar, high string guitar, keyboards, synthesizers, drum program, vocals

Russ Kunkel - drums

Bob Glaub - bass

Song Of The Sea

Dan Fogelberg - piano, keyboards, synthesizers, acoustic guitar, drum program, ambience, vocals

Russ Kunkel - drums

Bob Glaub - Whale bass

Al Garth - soprano sax

Michael Landau - electric guitar

David Crosby - harmony vocals

Timothy B. Schmit - harmony vocals

Anastasia's Eyes

Dan Fogelberg - piano, synthesizers, string arrangement, synth woodwinds, vocals

Blind To The Truth

Dan Fogelberg - piano, keyboards, synthesizers, drum program, vocals

Russ Kunkel - drums

Michael Landau - electric guitar

George Hawkins - bass

Orin, Julia and Maxine Waters - harmony vocals

Lenny Castro - congas, timbales, percussion

Jerry Hey - trumpet

Lovers In A Dangerous Time

Dan Fogelberg - electric rhythm and lead guitars, bass, drum program, percussion, keyboards, synthesizers, vocals

Sara K - background vocals

Rhythm Of The Rain

Dan Fogelberg - electric piano, electric guitar, synthesizers, drum program, vocals

Russ Kunkel - drums

Bob Glaub - bass

Al Garth - tenor sax

The Waters - harmony vocals with Heart Attack Horns

Bones In The Sky

Dan Fogelberg - piano, synthesizers, classical guitar, string arrangement, vocals

The Spirit Trail

Dan Fogelberg - electric guitars, keyboards, drum program, peyote drum, percussion, slide guitar, vocals

Russ Kunkel - drums, percussion

Bob Glaub - bass

Mike Finnigan - organ

Timothy B. Schmit - harmony vocals

Ever On

Dan Fogelberg - acoustic guitar, Roland synth guitar, keyboards, synth drum program, vocals

Russ Kunkel - drums, percussion

Bob Glaub - Fretless bass

Lenny Castro - percussion

Produced by Dan Fogelberg for Full Moon Productions

Recorded at - Mountain Bird Studio,Colorado (at the Ranch); Lahaina Sound, Maui, Hawaii; Sunset Sound, L.A.

Lyrics

Aurora Nova

(Instrumental)

The Wild Places

I was walking alone through the lofty San Juans

With a heart full of light and a head full of songs

I was thinking of time and how much it will cost

To recapture the souls that we surely have lost

In the cities and towns there are millions who dream

But the traffic's so loud that you can't hear them scream

There's a heaven on earth that so few ever find

Though the map's in your soul and the road's in your mind

So many mountains before us, so many rivers to cross

Where is the wisdom to bring back the vision we've lost

Can we gaze with the wonder of children

Into the deafening night

Has it gotten so dark that we cannot remember the light

When you sleep on the ground with the stars in your face

You can feel the full length of the beauty and grace

In the wild places man is an unwelcome guest

But it's here that I'm found and it's here I feel blessed

Forefathers

They came from Scandinavia, the land of midnight sun

And crossed the North Atlantic when this century was young

They'd heard that in America every man was free

To live the way he chose to live and be who he could be

Some of them were farmers there and tilled the frozen soil

But all they got was poverty for all their earnest toil

They say one was a sailor who sailed the wide world round

Made home port, got drunk one night, walked off the pier and drowned

My mother was of Scottish blood, it's there that she was born

They brought her to America in 1924

They left behind the highlands and the heather-covered hills

And came to find America with broad expectant dreams and iron wills

My granddad worked the steel mills of central Illinois

His daughter was his jewel, his son was just his boy

For thirty years he worked the mills and stoked the coke-fed fires

And looked toward the day when he'd at last turn 65 and could retire

(Chorus)

And the sons become the fathers and their daughters will be wives

As the torch is passed from hand to hand

And we struggle through our lives

Though the generations wander, the lineage survives

And all of us, from dust to dust, we all become forefathers by and by

The woman and the man were wed just after the war

And they settled in this river town and three fine sons she bore

One became a lawyer and one fine pictures drew

And one became this lonely soul who sits here now

And sings this song to you

(Chorus)

By and By By and By

Song Of The Sea

Broken clouds along the blue horizon

The sun is setting and the wind is dying down

Outward bound, there is music all around

Can you hear it...it's the song of the sea

Soundings taken at the edge of darkness

The widest silences the heart can ever hear

You can steer to the stars along your lee

Set you bearings to the song of the sea

Oh and the song is as ancient as the days

And the winds upon the waves

Let it carry you away, so far away

Trim my sails to greet the breaking morning

Past the headlands to the rolling open sea

And it comes to me, I have never felt so free

As when I'm listening to the song of the sea

Oh and the song is as ancient as the days

And the winds upon the waves

Let it carry me away, so far away

Some were meant to watch the world from windows

And never look beyond the road beneath their feet

But for me, I was always meant to be

One forever chasing the song of the sea

The song of the sea...the song of the sea

Anastasia's Eyes

There's thorns on the cactus tree, there's thorns on the rose

There's thorns in the heart of me that nobody knows

They tear at the flesh until the tears start to rise

They form in my heart but they fall from Anastasia's eyes

And I was lost in the wilderness without courage or hope

I was setting my signal fires and watching the smoke

When out of the smoke appeared the sweetest surprise

And I knew I'd been found when first I looked into Anastasia's eyes

There's thorns on the cactus tree, there's thorns on the rose

There's thorns in the heart of me, that nobody knows

But finally I've found out where my salvation lies

It lies in the love that lives in Anastasia's eyes

Blind To The Truth

In the overcrowded cities where the nights are bright as day

You spend your weekly paycheck and turn your eyes away

From the crisis we've created with our self-indulgent ways

Living like there's no tomorrow, well that just might be the case

Now they're tearing down the forests and the jungles of Brazil

Without a second thought about the species that they kill

But extinction is forever and still the forests fall

And push it ever closer to extinction for us all

But you're so...

Blind to the truth, blind to the truth

And you can't see nothin'

'Cause you're so blind to the truth, blind to the truth

And the judgment day is coming

Now the politicians bicker on the early evening news

Pledging their allegiance to whoever they can use

The corporate bosses snicker as they watch the profits soar

They don't care what they make next month just as long as it is more

They take our farms and marshlands, drive nature to the wall

Just so they can build another Goddamn shopping mall

And it doesn't seem to matter if they cannot see the stars

As long as they can keep on building obsolescent cars

They're so...

Blind to the truth, blind to the truth

No they can't see nothin'

They're so blind to the truth, blind to the truth

But the judgment day is coming

Now you cannot drink the water and you cannot breathe the air

The sky is ripping open and you still don't seem to care

The soil is tired and toxic and unable to provide

The clock is running out and there is nowhere left to hide

Now there's laws that we must live by and they're not the laws of man

Can't you see the shadow that moves across this land

The future is upon us and there's so much we must do

And you know I can't ignore it and my friend neither can you

Unless you're...

Blind to the truth, blind to the truth

And you can't see nothin'

You're so blind to the truth, blind to the truth

But the judgment day is coming

Lovers In A Dangerous Time

Don't the hours grow shorter as the days go by

You never get to stop and open your eyes

One day you're waiting for the sky to fall

The next you're dazzled by the beauty of it all

When you're lovers in a dangerous time

Lovers in a dangerous time

These fragile bodies of touch and taste

This vibrant skin, this hair like lace

Spirits open to the thrust of grace

Never a breath you can afford to waste

When you're lovers in a dangerous time

Lovers in a dangerous time

When you're lovers in a dangerous time

Sometimes you're made to feel as if your love's a crime

But nothing worth having comes without some kind of fight

You got to kick at the darkness 'til it bleeds daylight

When you're lovers in a dangerous time

Lovers in a dangerous time

Oh-oh Lovers in a dangerous time....

Rhythm Of The Rain

Listen to the rhythm of the falling rain

Telling me just what a fool I've been

I wish that it would go and let me cry in vain

And let me be alone again

Now the only girl I've ever loved has gone away

Looking for a brand new start

Little does she know that when she left that day

Along with her she took my heart

Rain please tell me now does that seem fair

For her to steal my heart away when she don't care

I can't love another when my heart's somewhere far away

Listen to the rhythm of the falling rain

Telling me just what a fool I've been

I wish that it would go and let me cry in vain

And let me be alone again

Oh the only girl I've ever loved has gone away

Looking for a brand new start

Little does she know that when she left that day

Along with her she took my heart

Rain won't you tell her that I love her so

Please ask the sun to set her heart aglow

And rain in her heart

And let the love we knew start to grow (whoa-whoa)

Listen to the rhythm of the falling rain

Telling me just what a fool I've been

Oh, I wish that it would go and let me cry in vain

And let me be alone again

When the rain comes they run and hide their heads

They might as well be dead

When the rain comes....

Written by John Claude Gummoe

Warner-Tamerlane Publishing Corp. ( BMI)

"Rain" by John Lennon and Paul McCartney

Bones In The Sky

Up through the branches

The stars shine above on the arroyos and mesas you loved

And as the moon rises, the black mountain mourns

For the old friend he'll look on no more

Jacks-in-the-Pulpit, bones in the sky

Long winding rivers that never ran dry

And the secrets she gathered from the wild blowing sands

Breathed in her heart and her hands

I sing to your spirit where all my dreams dwell

The vision--the freedom, the life lived so well

And I sing in your canyons and the echoes ring clear

And I wish somehow you may still hear

The Spirit Trail

The light is long the sun is low

I'm riding fast across this dusty road

But I don't want to be, no I don't want to be

Above the ridge an eagle flies in lazy circles in the western skies

I want to fly with him I want to walk the spirit trail

I've seen them come I've seen them go off to the oilfields and rodeos

To find a better way, they leave their native soil

But I can hear a different song

The drum within my heart is beating strong

I want to follow it, I've got to walk the spirit trail

(Chorus)

Let every creature I see (whoa) be a brother and a friend to me

Let every step that I take leave the footprints of a warrior

Along the spirit trail...

Heya-heya heya hiyo

They took the land, they took control

They robbed my father of his very soul

To be like one of them, to be like one of them

But I was born a native son

And I will never be another one to give it all away

I've got to walk the spirit trail

(Chorus)

Heya-heya heya hiyo

(Chorus)

Ever On

May the trail rise up to meet you

May your heart rejoice in song

May the skies be fair above you

As you journey ever on

Ever on--ever on

And in this planetary circle

We are but a single stone

Spinning on our fragile axis

Through the endless night alone

Ever on--ever on

Ever on

May your love be there to guide us

May it always keep us strong

May we walk within your footsteps

As you lead us ever on

Ever on--ever on

Ever on

THE WILD PLACES

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