One by One Lyrics
ONE BY ONE
(Chris Dedrick/The Lamplighter Publishing Company/SOCAN)
One by one
People come
Give your name
Lose your pain
Sing together
Come to me gently
for I want you to join me for a song or two
I’ve traveled through a lot of time and space just to share a feeling
True songs are often sad these days and yet I’ll sing for you
Voices raised in song are meant for healing
The world in pain is more than I can deal with
but people one by one is a different thing
Songs are all I have to try to heal with
Thoughts of peace and love I’ll truly sing
One by one
People come
Give your name
Lose your pain
Sing together
Ever since I was born, just like you I want to live that’s all
Live on my own in a world away from hatred
Wars and greed and guns won’t feed the hungry children all;
Look what is happening to the life that we call sacred.
The world in pain is more than I can deal with
but people one by one is a different thing
Songs are all I have to try to heal with
Thoughts of peace and love I’ll truly sing.
One by one
People come
Give your name
Lose your pain
Sing together.
FELT SO GOOD
(Chris Dedrick/The Lamplighter Publishing Company/SOCAN)
Our love happened today
You started to say no
but I did anyway
Love made it right to happen
on this very day
No, it won’t go away
this smile on my face
It’s comin’ from every cell inside my body at play
cause our love came today
Felt so good
knew it would
felt so good
knew it would
you make love sounds all I hear
you made my year
You gave me such a high
I started to fly
Don’t ask me to tell you
why love made me feel so happy
I thought I would cry
no, I can’t let you go
I’m breathing your soul
and it is warm inside my lungs
it makes me know how your face can glow
Felt so good
knew it would
felt so good
knew it would
you make love sounds all I hear
you made my year
Our love happened today
You started to say no
but I did anyway
Love made it right to happen
on this very day
No, it won’t go away
this smile on my face
It’s comin’ from every cell inside my body at play
cause our love came today
if we do it again
I promise to lend you
all of my hard earned love thing
and you will be my friend
our love will never end.
Felt so good
knew it would
felt so good
knew it would
you make love sounds all I hear
you made my year.
FRIENDLY MAN
(Chris Dedrick/The Lamplighter Publishing Company/SOCAN)
Friendly man, friendly man
Friendly man na na na na
A Friendly man, friendly man
Friendly person…
A friendly man is hard to find
A lot of life is so unkind
Life makes too many people cold
It makes them sad when they grow old.
Friendly man, friendly man
Friendly man, na na na na
A friendly man, friendly man
Friendly person…
Earth is sweet, sun is warm
How did man’s society get deformed?
Was it the money we got and spent?
It hasn’t seemed hard to love prevent.
Friendly man, friendly man
Friendly man na na na na
A friendly man, friendly man
Friendly person…
A friendly man is hard to find
A lot of life is so unkind
Life makes too many people cold
It makes them sad when they grow old.
Friendly man, friendly man
Friendly man na na na na
A friendly man, friendly man
Friendly person
LIKE TO LOVE
(Chris Dedrick/The Lamplighter Publishing Company/SOCAN)
Like to sing about sunshine, like to sing about rain,
Like to sing about good times, like to sing about pain;
Like to think about friendship, like to think about skin
Like to think about Jesus, like to think about sin.
Like to talk about horses, and the way they run;
Like to talk to robins in the morning sun.
Like to take some chances, like to play some ball
Like to play with you girl, if you’re not too tall.
Like to love my brother, like to love your wife
Like to love the peace time, like to love my life.
GO LEAN ON A RIVER
(Chris Dedrick/The Lamplighter Publishing Company/SOCAN)
Go lean on a river
you old master trouble giver
You’re just another mother fake
so go lean over on a lake
When your baby says she loves you
never do you any wrong
Then she puts herself above you
you just sing to her this song
Go lean on a river
you old master trouble giver
You’re just another mother fake
so go lean over on a lake
Who’s that man saying he wants me
to walk in line, do as I am told?
I’ll do what my mind says to me;
Let’s all tell him where to go.
Go lean on a river
you old master trouble giver
You’re just another mother fake
so go lean over on a lake.
GOING BACK
(Chris Dedrick/The Lamplighter Publishing Company/SOCAN)
Going back to simple livin’
Going back to whatever I was before
Gonna play some ball, some music
Ain’t gonna rush no more-
‘Cause I’m fond of the fun that I now lack;
I’m going back.
Why should I become a servant
Doin’ work that I never did like no how.
This is a dream that someone else had,
I never dreamed ‘til now.
and I’m scheming to get what I now lack…
I’m going back
Where love was made outdoors
and the summer time was fruitful
Gonna sell my car, and ride a horse
and leave the crowds, I knew it full well…
Going back to simple livin’
Going back to whatever I was before
Gonna play some ball, some music
Ain’t gonna rush no more
No, I ain’t gonna rush no more.
LOVE ME
(Chris Dedrick and Sandra Dedrick Zynczak /The Lamplighter Publishing Company/SOCAN/J.A. Zynczak, Inc./ASCAP)
Come away with me and love again
Once more try to be my friend and lover.
Love me.
If I could take you to another world
where just you and I could learn to live together
We could leave behind the memories of
how our love was lost like hidden treasure
to be found again in some forgotten place
Where we learn again to read each other’s faces
Come away with me and love again
Once more try to be my friend and lover
Love me.
If we could free ourselves from all the petty things of life
I think we could learn to love
And when you think of how we spent the time so wrong before
it has to be our turn to love
If we really live to love each other more
We can learn again about what love is for.
Come away with me and love again
Once more, try to be my friend and lover
Love me.
Love me.
FRIENDS [THANK YOU ALL]
(Chris Dedrick/The Lamplighter Publishing Company/SOCAN)
I’d like to thank my friends
for being my friends
It means a lot more to me than you’ll ever know
Think how different life would be
If none of you were around to see me through
Bad as we all are, we’re good enough to show
it when we can and not worry when we don’t
I hope you have that same different feeling in your chest
from friendly favors done.
Communion time with smoke and wine
Make you want to listen, take for all is given
Think and dream and share your mental wealth
The world is out to get us, but it can’t
Because we’re friends,
and because we had a picnic.
And while we helped each other carry weight,
The storm, it went away.
And every time I think of it
Oh, God, I love you all
Love you all.
I’d like to thank my friends
for being my friends
It means a lot more to me than you’ll ever know
Think how different life would be
If none of you were around to see me through
Bad as we all are, we’re good enough to show
it when we can and not worry when we don’t
I hope you have that same different feeling at your chest
from friendly favors done.
Thank you all
Love you all
Thank you all.