What Summer Brings
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| CD 2013 | |
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| Track list (Click on a song title to see its lyrics.) | ||||
| Disc 1 | ||||
| 1. | What's Done Is Done | 2:44 |  |
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| 2. | Forever | 4:06 | |
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| 3. | Chemistry | 5:05 | |
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| 4. | She's Gonna Be The One | 5:13 | |
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| 5. | Hold Me | 4:45 | |
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| 6. | Shake It Up | 3:56 | |
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| 7. | A Thing About Love | 3:59 | |
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| 8. | The Point | 4:07 | |
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| 9. | When I'm Gone | 4:51 | |
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| 10. | What Summer Brings | 3:10 | |
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| Disc 2 | ||||
| 1. | It's Time | 5:53 | |
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| 2. | When I Come Back (The Hummingbird Song) | 4:41 | |
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| 3. | Mi Casa Es Su Casa | 3:44 | |
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| 4. | Things That Always Make Me Think Of You | 2:31 | |
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| 5. | It's Gonna Be Right | 4:09 | |
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| 6. | Isabelle | 2:52 | |
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| 7. | Don't Give Up On Me | 4:28 | |
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| 8. | The Way That I See You | 4:28 | |
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| 9. | The Go To Guy | 4:29 | |
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| 10. | High So High | 4:44 | |
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| Total Time: | 83:27 | |||
Album Credits
- Produced, Engineered and Mixed by Michael Lennon
- Mastered by Moshe Shabah - SignalTouch Mastering
- Recorded at Lennon Music Studios, Mar Vista, CA USA
- Executive Producer Marcel Albers Associate Producer Dick Scheepbouwer
- All vocals by Venice
- Artwork concept and drawings by Kipp Lennon
- Album graphic design and layout by Dustin Stanton
- Photo by Harma VanDerKolk
- Additional Mixing, advice and general guru-ing by Rob Jacobs
- Heartfelt advice, hard work and brutal honesty by "General" Matt Levitz & Dick Scheepbouwer
WHAT’S DONE IS DONE
(Kipp Lennon, Michael Lennon, Pat Lennon, Mark Lennon)
Drove by your house the other day
Like I’ve done a million times before
I told myself you’re never coming back
Like I’ve done a million times before
But I know I will return
To feel that haunting ache
The second guessing soul regret
That only you can make
What was the right choice?
Does anybody ever know?
I never could have understood
How much I’d miss you so
What’s done is done
What’s true is true
I can only hope that you are happy
As each day is through
The road not taken
Is a road no more
Now I’ll never know just how it feels
To walk back through your door
A new life has begun
What’s done is done
I looked at your profile the other day
I know I shouldn’t do that but I do
And I asked myself “What if...what if...what if?”
I know I shouldn’t do that but I do
And I know I will return
To feel that haunting ache
The second guessing soul regret
That only you can make
What was the right choice?
Does anybody ever know?
I never could have understood
How much I’d miss you so
What’s done is done
What’s true is true
I can only hope that you are happy
As each day is through
The road not taken
Is a road no more
Now I’ll never know just how it feels
To walk back through your door
A new life has begun
What’s done is done
FOREVER
(Mark Lennon, Michael Lennon)
Well we met in the park after dark
And we kissed, yeah we kissed, how we kissed
We walked to our favorite restaurant
And we talked, yeah we talked, how we talked
I wanna feel this feeling
Forever and ever and ever
I gotta keep this feeling
Forever and ever and ever
We stood in the back at the bar
And we danced, yeah we danced, how we danced
We ran through the raindrops to the car
And we laughed, till we cried, how we laughed
I wanna feel this feeling
Forever and ever and ever
I gotta keep this feeling
Forever and ever and ever
How did you know that it would grow?
And how did I know that you’d steal my heart and take it?
I wanna feel this feeling
Forever and ever and ever
I gotta keep this feeling
Forever and ever and ever
CHEMISTRY
(Kipp Lennon, Charlie Vaughn, Michael Lennon, Mark Lennon)
Let me start by saying I’ve loved every minute
My life would be much less without you in it
If I had to write down all the qualities
Of a woman I believe I would like to be in love with
Well it ain’t you and it ain’t me
And it ain’t what we want it to be
And I wonder, yeah, I wonder
Who’s to say why some things last so long
And some can never be?
Can it be it really all comes down
To chemistry?
You know it’s hard for me to say
And I know it’s hard to listen
Maybe it’s not about what we’ve got
But what we’re missing
I don’t mean to sound bitter or cynical
By talking ‘bout love so clinical
But baby...maybe
It ain’t you and it ain’t me
And it ain’t what we want it to be
So I wonder, can’t help but wonder
Who’s to say why some things last so long
And some can never be?
Can it be it really all comes down
To chemistry?
So is that it? Is it out of our hands?
All the trying and crying and good intentions are nothing
Without that something
Well it ain’t you and it ain’t me
And it ain’t what we want it to be
And I wonder, yeah, I wonder
Who’s to say why some things last so long
And some can never be?
Can it be it really all comes down
To chemistry?
SHE’S GONNA BE THE ONE
(Pat Lennon, Mark Lennon, Kipp Lennon, Michael Lennon)
How many times have I thought maybe
Maybe true love can’t be found
Not the kind I need?
And How many times have I thought maybe
Good enough is good enough
But not enough for me?
She’s gonna be the one to show me otherwise
She’s gonna be the one to make me see
She’s gonna be the one to open up my eyes
Someone I believe I can believe
Showing me the better part of me
Well how many times have I thought maybe
Love is only compromise, alibis and smiles?
And how many times have I thought maybe
Love is just some clothes you wear
Riding out the miles?
She’s gonna be the one to show me otherwise
She’s gonna be the one to make me see
She’s gonna be the one to open up my eyes
Someone I believe I can believe
Showing me the better part of me
She may be different from them all
(Part of me)
Yeah maybe I can have it all...
I know she’s gonna be the one to show me otherwise
She’s gonna be the one to make me see
She’s gonna be the one to open up my eyes
Someone I believe I can believe
Showing me the better part of me
HOLD ME
(Charlie Vaughn, Mark Lennon, Kipp Lennon, Michael Lennon, Pat Lennon, John Vester)
Everyone talking and no one was watching
Somebody fell in the water
Too young to swim so a father jumped in
Thanks to the call of a daughter
Something has begun
To make a walk become a run
And in the moment of the always and the never
The heart arrives before the head
Before a single word is said
Arms are reaching out they come together
Hold me, hold me
I need to feel our connection
Hold me, hold me
Feel the beat of our hearts
One chose the diamond ring, one gave up everything
Neither gave up the relation
One took the high road, the other the low
But both met in time at the station
Something has begun
To make a walk become a run
And in the moment of the always and the never
The heart arrives before the head
Before a single word is said
Arms are reaching out they come together
Hold me, hold me
I need to feel our connection
Hold me, hold me
Feel the beat of our hearts
One Sunday morning, with no sailor’s warning
She lost her one and her only
Making the call, she gathered them all
To hold off the cold and the loneliness...
Hold me, hold me
I need to feel our connection
Hold me, hold me
Feel the beat of our hearts
SHAKE IT UP
(Michael Lennon, Kipp Lennon, Mark Lennon)
Shake it up, I tell myself when I’m down and I gotta find a way
Shake it up, ‘cause holding still, I’m just gonna waste another day
And I don’t know just what I’ll do but it beats doing nothing at all
So shake it up, it up. I tell myself when everything begins to fall
Shake it up, when you’re down
When the blues hang around
You can still go to town
Just shake it up
Drink it up, I tell myself when I’m not being here and now
Drink it up, before it’s gone ‘cause I don’t wanna miss it somehow
Spending time on stupid things is time I can’t afford
So drink it up, it up, I tell myself to look for something more
Drink it up, when you’re down
When the blues hang around
You can still go to town
Drink it up
There’s no remedy, or secret recipe...make it up
There’s no manual, but if you can you will break it up
Shake it up!
Live it up, I tell myself every time I’m in this circumstance
Live it up, if nothing else, you won’t get a second chance
Bridges burn and pages turn, but hey, it’s not too late...
To live it up, it up. I tell myself, day by day by day
Live it up when you’re down
When the blues hang around
It’s the only game in town
Live it up
Shake it up
Drink it up
Live it up
Up!
A THING ABOUT LOVE
(Michael Lennon, Kipp Lennon)
Conversation, celebration
Condensation, exploration of a brand new kiss
Raw emotion, Oxytocin and the notion
That it’s never been better than this
That’s how it starts, full of flowers and hearts
Feeling groovy like a movie
Nothing new beneath the sun but you would never know
I try and I try but I must say that I
Don’t know a thing about love
Don’t know a thing about love
Yeah I’ve come all this way
Just to stand here and say
Don’t know a thing about love
Don’t know a thing about love
And I learn a little less about it every day
Happy endings, letter sendings
And pretendings that you’re everyone they wanna know
Perfect timing, pretty rhyming, bells are chiming
Papers signing and you’re ready to go
Then you’re starting to know, you make it up as you go
Domestication, propagation, no vacation
And you wonder who you were before
It’s all show and no tell, but it’s all good and well
Don’t know a thing about love
Don’t know a thing about love
What is happy? What’s right?
What is heavy? What’s light?
Don’t know a thing about love
Don’t know a thing about love
And I learn a little less about it every day
Same two people from the steeple
Trying to keep a little something burning on the stove
Watching others being mothers with no druthers
And you wonder ‘bout the web you wove
Then it’s suddenly right and there’s nothing to fight
So mysterious, delirious, my theory is
I’ll never understand the game
Yeah, it’s such a cliche, at the end of the day
Don’t know a thing about love
Don’t know a thing about love
And it’s funny because
I guess nobody does know a thing about love
Don’t know a thing about love
And I learn a little less about it every day
THE POINT
(Kipp Lennon, Pat Lennon)
You take me aside
Your usually bright eyes are the color of worry
You got something heavy on your heart
Burning inside
Yeah, under your big joy is a mind in a hurry
I’ve seen it in you from the start
“What’s the point,” you ask me, “of everything?”
You look to me to see what answers I can bring
My dear boy
The world is full of those who never wonder
And those who wonder how they don’t
And though you try
It’s hard to understand the cloud you’re under
Some days you will and some you won’t
“What’s the point?” you ask me
What can I say?
You ask a question I’m still asking every day
But I still wanna be the man you think I am
And though I don’t know much, I’ll tell you what I can
Maybe the point is not one point at all, per se
Maybe it’s just the little points along the way
We’re on a river running deep and true and strong
And for a while as we float along
We are joined
Maybe that’s the point
“What’s the point?” you ask me
I wish I knew
But I know I felt it on the day that I met you
And I still wanna be the man you think I am
I was a boy just yesterday, and I’m doing the best I can
Maybe the point is not one point at all, per se
Maybe it’s just the little points along the way
You are a river running deep and true and strong
And now and then you’ll find where you belong
And there will be joy
Maybe that’s the point
WHEN I’M GONE
(Mark Harris)
It’s always hard to break up and say goodbye
Even though it feels like I’ve done it ten thousand times
So many bridges burned
When will I ever learn?
I hope you won’t forget me when I’m gone
And I hope I won’t be gone too long
The good times don’t always last
And life goes way too fast
So I hope you won’t forget me when I’m gone
We hit some bumps along the way
I probably said some things I didn’t need to say
It seems I never learn
So many bridges burned
But I hope you won’t forget me when I’m gone
And I hope I won’t be gone too long
Our good times didn’t last
And we shouldn’t stay stuck in the past
So I hope you won’t forget me when I’m gone
It always seems to end this way
Why do me and my big mouth have to have the last say?
So many bridges burned
It seems I’ll never learn
But I hope you won’t forget me when I’m gone
And I hope I won’t be gone too long
Our good times didn’t last
And we shouldn’t stay stuck in the past
But I hope you won’t forget me
I hope you won’t forget me
No, I hope you won’t forget me when I’m gone
WHAT SUMMER BRINGS
(Pat Lennon, Mark Lennon, Kipp Lennon, Michael Lennon)
The sun almost set
Strange color
The day we met
I knew
You knew
We knew
And with the calm it brings
That summer gave us everything
We knew it was our song to sing
And lay awake at dawn
And with these open wings
You only get what summer brings
It told us all the older things
Like I was meant for thee
And with the calm it brings
That summer gave us everything
We knew it was our song to sing
And lay awake at dawn
And with these open wings
You only get what summer brings
It told us all the older things
Like I was meant for thee
IT’S TIME
(Michael Lennon, Kipp Lennon, Mark Lennon, John Vester, Charlie Vaughn)
People say it goes so fast
That it isn’t meant to last
And we get caught up in the moment
In the blinking of an eye
Every season passes by
And we don’t believe it’s gone until it’s going
I try to drink it in every single day
With all the happiness, there comes a little pain
Now it’s time to celebrate
And set aside the plans we made
There’s a time when every train must leave the station
So I’m filling up my heart
For all the days we’ll be apart
But a day will come when we’ll be back together.....home.
All the years with you are coming back to me
And I still can’t believe you’re mine
Just ahead, a golden opportunity
To find the road that you will find
It’s time. I know it’s time.
I wish that I could say, “I am ready”
But to you I cannot lie
It’s hard to let go of such a big part of me
But knowing you, you will be fine
It’s time. I know it’s time.
WHEN I COME BACK (THE HUMMINGBIRD SONG)
(Mark Lennon, John Vester, Michael Lennon, Kipp Lennon, Pat Lennon)
When you’re lost in a garden, wondering where I have gone
I’ll return with a message to help you carry on
I’ll be a hummingbird, you’ll know without a word
That it’s me when you hear me humming
When I appear to you, it will be clear to you
That I’m coming back to tell you something
After I’m gone and you’re still here
That’s how I’ll let you know that I’m near
And you’ll hear me humming this song in your ear
That only you know and only you hear
When I come back
When you’re down in a canyon, or alone on a hill
If I hear you crying, and I know you’re missing me still
I’ll be a hummingbird, you’ll know without a word
That it’s me when you see me flying
When I land on your hand, then you will understand
That I’m coming back to stop your crying
After I’m gone and you’re still here
That’s how I’ll let you know that I’m near
And you’ll hear me humming this song in your ear
That only you know and only you hear
When I come back
I’ll be your hummingbird
MI CASA ES SU CASA
(Kipp Lennon, Michael Lennon, Pat Lennon, Mark Lennon)
I wasn’t looking for somebody
Thought my old heart could use a break
Until the day I turned that corner
To a stroke of luck, a twist of fate
Oooooh, the golden eyes, the auburn hair
Oooooh, I saw you there
I wasn’t looking for somebody
Somebody found me just the same
Now I promise you and your beating heart
For as long as we can be
Yeah mi casa es su casa darling mi amor
You will never want for anything more
What if I’d turned a different corner?
What if I’d looked a different way?
Then I would never know those slow honey kisses
And you would have never come to stay
Oooooh I rescued you, you rescued me
Oooooh It had to be
What if I’d turned a different corner?
I thank God I did not on that day
Now I promise you and your beating heart
For as long as we can be
Yeah mi casa es su casa darling mi amor
You will never want for anything more
Yeah I promise you and your
Beautiful, broken, beating heart
For as long as we can be
Yeah mi casa es su casa darling mi amor
And you will never want for anything more
No, you will never want
I say, you will never want for anything more
THINGS THAT ALWAYS MAKE ME THINK OF YOU
(Michael Lennon, John Vester, Pat Lennon, Mark Lennon, Kipp Lennon)
Finding sea glass on the shore
And notes that you left on the door
Walking in the morning mist, like we used to do
Listening to waves roll in
And your messages I play again
These I’m adding to the list
Of things that always make me think of you
Holding onto my guitar
And an undelivered birthday card
Crossing bridges where we kissed, like we used to do
Breathing in the morning light
And blooming jasmine in the night
These I’m adding to the list
Of things that always make me think of you
Every moment, frame by frame
Brings a whisper of your name
And will always make me feel the same
Counting up these memories
You turn and smile at me
As I’m adding to the list
Of things that always make me think of you
IT’S GONNA BE RIGHT
(Michael Lennon, Mark Lennon, Kipp Lennon, Charlie Vaughn)
We’ve been thinking that the time is right
To ease all the worries of a busy mind
Stars shine brighter away from the city glow
Time to hide away where we always wanna go
We’ve been thinking in stereo
‘Bout the quiet of the mountain where the music grows
What we need is a change of view
Where we all take turns at playing the fool
It’s gonna be right
It’s gonna be right right where we are
It’s gonna be right
It’s gonna be right right where we are
Well we play all night and we work all day
‘Cause our play is work and our work is play
What we need is a different tune
So we’ll pack up a car and throw in a guitar
We can’t leave too soon
It’s gonna be right
It’s gonna be right right where we are
It’s gonna be right
It’s gonna be right right where we are
Feels right, so right,
Feels right, so right now
We’ve been thinking in stereo
‘Bout the quiet of the mountain where the music grows
What we need is a different tune
So we’ll pack up a car and throw in a guitar
And howl at the moon
It’s gonna be right
It’s gonna be right right where we are
It’s gonna be right
It’s gonna be right right where we are
ISABELLE
(Kipp Lennon, Michael Lennon)
Isabelle
Can I tell them all the things you’d never tell?
About the pearl that’s hiding there beneath the shell
About the girl who loves the world from deep within a well
So quietly
And though you hardly spoke the words
In everything I heard you say them clearly
Ever there
The first to rise, the last to climb the evening stairs
The last to judge, the first to soothe away my fears
As if I was a bead strung on your evening prayers
So quietly
And though you are no open book
From you I’ve learned to look and read you clearly
So let them say you lack the graces of a queen
And you never trip the light or paint the town, I know it’s true
But you kept a light in the window
And when my days are through
I know love
I am loved
I can love because of you
Isabelle
Those of us who’ve heard you sing know very well
How many times you’ve had to learn to say farewell
The gypsy girl who made a heaven from a hell
So quietly
Isabelle, I need you now
Isabelle
DON’T GIVE UP ON ME
(Michael Lennon, Kipp Lennon, Charlie Vaughn, Mark Lennon)
We’ve made it this far together
And there’s no telling what’s ahead
Divided we fall, so let’s make it through united
Believe in me, ‘cause I believe in you
Forgive me, I have forgiven you
Hey! Don’t you ever give up on me
I’ll never give up on you baby
Hey! Don’t you ever give up on me
There’s still so much here
Don’t give up on me
Looking at us together
I can’t think of us apart
We’ve been through the wars
We’ve healed from our battle scars
Trust in me, ‘cause I put my trust in you
Stay with me, I love you
Hey! Don’t you ever give up on me
I’ll never give up on you baby
Hey! Don’t you ever give up on me
There’s still so much here
Don’t give up on me
Through the high and the low
No, I’m not letting go
Of the promise I keep in my soul
There’s a will, there’s a way
And I always will say
Hey! Don’t you ever give up on me
I’ll never give up on you baby
Hey! Don’t you ever give up on me
There’s still so much here
Don’t give up on
There’s still so much here
Don’t give up on
There is still so much here
Don’t give up on me
THE WAY THAT I SEE YOU
(John Vester, Kipp Lennon, Michael Lennon, Mark Lennon, Pat Lennon)
I have seen you in the morning
Looking like a million bucks
And I have seen you in the evening
Looking like you just woke up
You always look so fine to me
But you don’t always see it like I do
I see beautiful
But you don’t know it’s true
I wish you could let it go
And see yourself the way that I see you
I have watched you from a distance,
Looking like a movie star
And when you’re lying by my side, late at night
The sleeping beauty that you are
You know it’s all the same to me
But you don’t always see it like I do
I see beautiful
But you don’t know it’s true
I see beautiful
Wish you could let it go
And see yourself the way that I see you
You always look so fine to me
But you don’t always see it like I do
‘Cause I see beautiful
But you don’t know it’s true
I see beautiful
Wish you could let it go
And see yourself the way that I see you
Looking like a million bucks
Or like you just woke up
Like a movie star
Or the sleeping beauty that you are
How I wish you could let it go
And see yourself the way that I see you
THE GO TO GUY
(Michael Lennon, Mark Lennon, Kipp Lennon, Charlie Vaughn)
4am the phone rings
Here we go again
Time to help a person place or thing
I don’t have all the answers
But ‘round the block I’ve been
So I’ll just bring what I can bring
Throw me your impossible
I’ll catch it if I can
I’ve learned to juggle with one hand
Every little problem just needs a little plan
I’ll be there at your command
Every time it starts to fly
I will be your go to guy
Now I ain’t complaining
It’s just my lot in life
I wear it like a medal on my chest
Sometimes it kinda gets to me
You can ask my wife
When I’m dead I’ll get my rest
Every time it starts to fly
I will be your go to guy
The go to guy is a medicine man
Fix your broken, hold your hand
Make you laugh and let you cry
Just call on the go to guy
Every time it starts to fly
I will be your go to guy
HIGH SO HIGH
(Kipp Lennon, Michael Lennon, Charlie Vaughn, Mark Lennon, Pat Lennon, Jamie Wollam, Mark Harris)
I see you’re back in my old Mighty Mouse t-shirt again
After everybody and my mother said
“You’ll never see her again.”
How can it be that I’m so glad
When you’re the one who made me feel so bad
To begin with? (To begin with)
I have no pride, no self defense
Next to your loveliness
You put your mouth against mine
And I taste the sweet, sweet wine
A high so high
And it hurts when you go
But it’s worth every low
Any thoughts that I could quit you
Have gone right out the back door
But when you’re gone so long
I think maybe you don’t remember me
Baby, anymore
But when I’m standing in your light
All’s forgiven, all is right
And nothing else matters, only you
So kiss me quick before I think, think too much
You put your mouth against mine
And I taste the sweet, sweet wine
A high so high
And it hurts when you go
But it’s worth every low
You put your mouth against mine
And I taste the sweet, sweet wine
A high so high
And it hurts when you go
But it’s worth every low
Yeah it hurts when you go
But it’s worth every low
Yeah it hurts when you go
But it’s worth every low