In the HEART of Now
Tracks / Lyrics
It ain’t easy speaking your truth
Struggling since the days of my youth
Getting in touch with how you feel
Gotta dig deep it sure is real
CH
Speak easy
Hard as hell
Outta the way
I wish you well
Getting in touch with your heart inside
It wants to meet you enjoy the ride
If you do this got it made
Your heart cries out time to play
CH
It ain’t easy speaking your truth
Struggled since the days of my youth
Getting in touch with where you’re at
Gotta move on ain’t coming back
CH
TAG Outta the way I wish you well
David McLachlan
© Handy Publ SOCAN/ASCAP2016
A whistle echo…listen…where
Hanging like a mystery there
Feel the night train coming
On the tracks out there
Feel the night train coming
On the tracks out there
Feel a heartbeat in the night
Stop and close your eyes
Night train is rumbling
Thunder in the skies
Night train is rumbling
Thunder in the skies
Now the earth is shaking
A memory as a child
Race from bed to window
Watch the train float by
Race from bed to window
Watch the train float by
See the light of morning break
On the new dawn
Feel the life in you
Dancing on and on
A whistle cries…listen…where
Crying like a mystery there
Felt the night train leaving
On the tracks out there
Felt the night train leaving
On the tracks out there
David McLachlan
© 2019 Handy Publ SOCAN
Mother dear time is near
For you to move on
Kids have grown empty home
It’s hard on your own
Mama things will change
One thing you will find
You won’t leave behind
What the heart wouldn’t let go
Border scenes passport dreams
Searching for home
Had to flee refugee
Feel so alone
Mama things will change
One thing you will find
You won’t leave behind
What the heart wouldn’t let go
BR
Memories hopes and dreams
Wishing wells fantasy scenes
We would walk hand in hand
One heart the same
But we lost what we had
No one to blame
Mama things did change
One thing we did find
You won’t leave behind
What the heart wouldn’t let go
TAG
You can’t deny What the heart wouldn’t let go
You cannot hide What the heart wouldn’t let go
You will always have What the heart wouldn’t let go
Harpin Norm Lucien/David McLachlan
© Onpointe Publ/ Handy Publ SOCAN 2019
Everything is changing
So fast these days
Is that a flash of light I see
In the distant haze
All I hear is thunder
Then so quiet too
Before you know its come and gone
It’s blown right past you
Was that a roaring hurricane
Why am I so blue
The wind will blow you over
If you‘re not on alert
Hanging on so tight no fun
When all you taste is dirt
Let it rumble let it roar
Let it fade on out
Do you change with the times
Or do you get left out
The futures full of memories
The past is full of doubt
CH
I’m just living right here
Where I find the time
I don’t wear a watch that screams
You better get it right
Pulled my heart off of my sleeve
Now it’s somewhere in the night
I’m not here to prophesy
What the future holds in store
Who’s to say what comes to be
Until you walk that door
I can feel a rumble
Building from the floor
Do I dig in or let go
Like the wind before
You know the more that we see change
Everything stays the same
CH: David McLachlan
© Handy Publ SOCAN 2018
A girl on the eastern shore
Has got a hold on me
What’s a little distance
When you’re trying to break free
I hear a song that I can sing
An echo in my soul
I sing this song but I don’t know
Where my heart will go
CH
Send it up let go boy
Send it up let go
Find her heart give my love (i/ii)
Fill her heart with all my love (iii)
That’s where my heart will go
Got a ticket in my hand
To fly out to the coast
I leave with an open mind
Sip wine and raise a toast
Fly there on a wing and prayer
She’ll have me in her home
I sing this song but I don’t know
Where my heart will go
CH
Who knows where this song will fly
For two hearts locked in time
One can feel the other
A rhythm that’s so fine
Like a poet writing
To find the words a home
I sing this song and now I know
Where my heart will go
CH
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A girl on the eastern shore
Has got a hold on me
David McLachlan
© Handy Publ 2019 SOCAN
David McLachlan, Paul Gallagher
Sitting in the drive thru
Going nowhere fast
Noticed a sign outside
With a careless glance
Broke in to a laugh
Sign said eat here get gas
Sorry we are closed
You must come inside
Said a voice on the line
Went in to The Pit Stop
Line up way too long
No time now let’s get going
Didn’t eat there
Didn’t get gas
My cousin and I
All we could do was laugh
Headed up the high-way
Saw Bateman’s furniture
Gourmet meals to go
Didn’t take the bait
Starting to wise up
Together we said hit the road
Didn’t eat there
Didn’t get gas
My cousin and I
Had another laugh
Here in the car
In the middle of nowhere
Wondering if I’m
Still on your radar
Might get a speeding ticket
On the way back to you
On my way back to you
Next time you are stuck
In a slow drive thru
Going nowhere fast
Your tummy’s got the growl
Your fuel tank is low
Remember eat here get gas
You wont eat here
You won’t get gas
If you’re like us
You will take a pass
You wont eat here
You won’t get gas
All you gotta do
Is drive on past
© Handy Publ SOCAN 2019
See a neon sign flicker all night long
Edge of the highway crackle until dawn
Trucks that pass rumble on endless blacktop
The neon sign beckons may be time to stop
Do you know you’re heading toward a great big lie
A pair of guilty legs and some crying eyes
CH
Soon after I lost you
Wasn’t long before I fell (i/ii)
Now you know that’s when I fell (iii)
In spite of hanging on
To trust all would go well
A ghost who wanders the halls (i/ii)
A ghost who haunts the halls (III)
Of the Heartache Motel
Hear the spinning wheels fade in to the night
Echo down the road as the eyes lose sight
Never hear the stories one room may have told
With a bottle a bullet and a letting go
A time of hope can hold the strength to carry on
And a fleeting chance grasp a heart so strong
CH
BRK For so long now the nights go slipping by
Reasons and stories and alibis
CH
David McLachlan
© Handy Publ SOCAN 2019
A newborn babe will follow the voice
Looking off in to space
Soon after birth all just a blur
Searching for its mama’s face
See an eye spinning spinning in space
With all the wonder and all the grace
We’re so lucky to find this face
When you take a closer look
My dad gave me a bat and a ball
He took me out to the park
He gave me his glove and I would play
With my friends until it got dark
See a ball spinning spinning in space
With all the wonder and all the grace
So so lucky to find that place
When you take a closer look
BDG
Take a closer look at what you don’t see
And you’ll see it for what it is
See your life as an open book
And take a closer look
Stand on the shore gaze out to sea
You will find the horizon
When you see the sun come up
You will find you are riding
A blue dot spinning spinning in space
With all the wonder and all the grace
We’re so lucky to have this place
When you take a closer look
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We’re so lucky to have this place/
If you take a closer look
David McLachlan
© Handy Publ SOCAN 2019
Billy Billy
Sweep with the wind
Billy Billy
Where are your kin
The streets are windy
Still you sweep on
The town folk all know
You’ll do no wrong
Billy Billy
Where are your kin
Billy Billy
Sweep with the wind
Billy Billy
Waiting for fish
Billy Billy
What do you wish
That you could be happy
In a town that is not
Be like everyone
Without getting caught
Billy Billy
What do you wish
Billy Billy
Waiting for fish
Billy Billy
You’re better off Home
Billy Billy
You won’t be alone
The streets are empty
The sky has no moon
Where’s little Billy
In the street lies his broom
Billy Billy
You won’t be alone
Billy Billy
You’re better off Home
David McLachlan
© Handy Publ SOCAN 2019
In a land of quiet home
Native people here
Worship the sun kiss the ground
Dance for heavenly tears
Work the earth fish the stream
Hunt the buffalo
Beware the bear and live
In a land of quiet home
Settlers came in sailing ships
From across the sea
Each new moon saw them stir
Such native misery
Forced to fight for the land
And the life they led
It did come to pass
So much blood was shed
The French and English go to war
How long would it last
The native way will not thrive
And fade in to the past
When it ends in fighting
On the Plains of Abraham
So begins a storyline
For the children of this land
1st VERSE
TAGBeware the bear and live
In a land of quiet home
David McLachlan © Handy Publ SOCAN 2019
You made the tree look pretty
You dressed it up so well
You made a living work of art
Hung with silver bells
I’d watch you sway with a smile
At times I’d jump in
Hang jingle bells here and there
And step back with a grin
CHNow I decorate the tree alone
Your love keeps me going
At Christmas time so special
I wish you were home
Suspend a little drummer boy
Let a ballerina spin
A star on top to show the way
And plug the bright lights in
Now you walk with the Lord
Like an angel you flew
I search for the perfect chord
And ring jingle bells for you
CH
TAG
I ring jingle bells for you
I ring jingle bells for you
David McLachlan
© Handy Publ SOCAN 2017
You can fight back the tears
Won’t do you no good
Lie if you like in your head
Your heart will know if you would
You can fight back the tears
Never could do no good
Gotta let it out
When it wants to come
Let it flow when it wants to come
And let it flow good
Laugh till your belly aches
Sing about rising up
Smile till your body shakes
Like an overflowing cup
Laugh till your belly aches
Always feels so good
Gotta let it out
When it wants to come
Let it flow when it wants to come
And let it flow good
You can fight back the tears
Won’t do you no good
Lie if you like in your head
Your heart will know if you would
Gotta let it out
Always feels so good
Gotta let it out
When it wants to come
Let it flow when it wants to come
And let it flow good
David McLachlan
© Handy Publ SOCAN 2019
