The Next Step
The Next Step is a release by Silvergate Music. Stream it on every major platform or read the story behind the song on silvergatemusic.com.
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Lyrics
Next Step
You can call up when you just want to talk all night
Write the feed down on a napkin, fold it small and let it rest
Buy a ticket for the morning, put some courage in your chest
Don't you think it's time to meet your futurized eyes
Cause you're a woman now, and you're beautiful
You've got a little money saved up, and it's time for the next step
So let's get ready, ready for the next step
It's time to get ready for the next step
Change the lock on old excuses, open windows, clear the air
Learn to tell a gentle no, now save a fearless yes to it
Pack the lessons, leave the shadows, keep the light that made you strong
Call your name the way you mean it, walk the path you've wanted long
Don't you feel that pull, that steady rhythm saying go
Cause you're a woman now, and you're beautiful
You've got a little money saved up, and it's time for the next step
So let's get ready, ready for the next step
It's time to get ready for the next step
Set your watch to brave a clock, leave the doubts to yesterday
Every door they used to block feels like dancing out of the way
Breathe once, breathe twice, feel your heart beat keeping tight
Cause you're a woman now, and you're beautiful
You've got a little money saved up, and it's time for the next step
So let's get ready, ready for the next step
It's time to get ready for the next step
Cause you're a woman now, and you're beautiful
You've got a little money saved up, and it's time for the next step
So let's get ready, ready for the next step
It's time to get ready for the next step
It's time to get ready for the next step
It's time to get ready for the next step
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Love this World Tonight
Ooh, tonight, tonight
Hands up, voices up
Take the higher line
Let the groove say we'll be fine
Love this world tonight
I'm in, I'm in
Let's color it with light
If the dark leans hard, we won't fold
We'll clap on two and four, stay bold
Little sparks collect and glow
That's the light we choose to grow
Love this world tonight
Turn the corner, go to the other side
Love this world tonight
Turn the corner, go to make the shadows light
Ooh, tonight, tonight
Hands up, voices up
Take the higher line
Let the groove say we'll be fine
Love this world tonight
I'm in, I'm in
Let's color it with light
Ooh, love this world tonight
Ooh, tonight
On my way Home
Oh, it's a long day out on the road, Looking for my way back to where I call home
Out here in the desert with no shade, Somebody tell me how I got this way
But I know I'll be alright, If I can just get home tonight
On my way home
Oh, oh, oh, oh
I got a wild look in my eye
You'd think I've been lost out here my whole life
And you say you're gonna save my soul
But I know the way if I can just get home
Well, I know I'll be all right
If I can just get home tonight
On my way home
Oh, oh, oh, oh
On my way home
Oh, oh, oh, oh
On my way home
Oh, oh, oh, oh
On my way home
Oh, oh, oh, oh
Oh, oh, oh, oh
Oh, oh, oh, oh
Oh, oh, oh, oh
Oh, oh, oh, oh
Oh, oh, oh, oh
Oh, oh, oh, oh
Oh
Own the Morning
Kitchen radio and whisper city yawns, Shoes on the floor keep time to soft guitar
Clouds might gather, that's just scenery above, I've got a pocket full of choruses of love
I don't wait for gold to find me, I paint the frame with light
On the morning, wake up, smile and set it free, No one writes this song but me
On the morning, choose the shine I wanna see, I decide the key I'm in, I choose the melody
On the morning, choose the shine I wanna see, I decide the key I'm in, I choose the melody
On the morning, choose the shine I wanna see, I decide the key I'm in, I choose the melody
Instrumental
When shadows try to lean across my door, I tap a rim and shift the groove once more
A little breath, a brighter chord I rise, The chorus blooming right before my eyes
On the morning, wake up, smile and set it free, No one writes this song but me
On the morning, choose the shine I wanna see, I decide the key I'm in, I choose the melody
Instrumental
On the morning, everyday begins with me
Instrumental
On the morning, everyday begins with me
Instrumental
Never Break Up
You're taking your time, I'm watching the clock
And I'm wondering why you wanna break up I am missing the part where you had a point
If you think that it's smart, I am begging you to rejoin
You can say that you're done, I will say you are not
If you're thinking of running, just put down your socks
Cause I'm making a promise, one that I will keep
I'll never break up with you, so you better just break it with me
I know I can be a lot, I'm hot
But that is something you knew when you walked through the door
It's not my fault, it's all your fault
You took on this job and I know you want more
So go take a walk if you're sure
You can say that you're done, I will say you are not
If you're thinking of running, just put down your socks
Cause I'm making a promise, one that I will keep
I'll never break up with you, so you better just break it with me
I know I can be a lot, I'm hot
But that is something you knew when you walked through the door
It's not my fault, it's all your fault
You took on this job and I know you want more
So go take a walk if you're sure
You can say that you're done, I will say you are not
If you're thinking of running, just put down your socks
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Greener where we Water
Or trade our quiet porch light for a perfect line
Some mornings spill their coffee on the page
But love learns rhythm beat by beat, not stage
I won't measure us by passing glare
Or count the waters hanging in the air
Cause it's green where we water
Where patient hands make hearts grow taller
We mend the seams, we plant the seeds
We keep the promise that we need
It's green where we water
I'm here, I'm yours
I won't let colors falter
Let highlight reels keep running wild
I'll take our kitchen laughter and the unreviled
We'll keep the jokes that only we can read
Choose honest, slow over a borrowed speed
I won't tally every little score
We're mapping constellations of who we are
Cause it's green where we water
Steady days make roots grow stronger
We mend the seams, we plant the seeds
We grow the hours love really needs
It's green where we water
I'm here, I'm yours
I won't deal no color
Storms will come and seasons turn
But roots remember what they've learned
Hold me close when skies go thin
We'll breathe and water love again
It's green where we water
Morning faith keeps growing taller
We mend the seams, we plant the seeds
And live the love we say we mean
It's green where we water
I'm here, I'm yours
I'm keeping all the color
Greener
Where we water
Greener
Where we water
Greener
Where we water
Greener
Greener
Never to Late to Learn
The chapters I thought were finished and sealed, pages I was certain life had revealed
But here in the quiet, a new mystery, the student in me is still learning to see
I thought I knew love, I thought I knew pain, had all the answers simple and plain
But your laughter is teaching a new melody, and my heart is learning what it means to be free
And it's never too late, no it's never too late, to turn a new page, to change your own fate
To learn how to trust, to learn how to start, to finally listen to your own heart
These hands thought they'd mastered all they could hold, now they're learning new stories yet to be told
Learning old fears like a forgotten tongue, finding the song where my new life's begun
And it's never too late, no it's never too late, to turn a new page, to change your own fate
To learn how to trust, to learn how to start, to finally listen to your own heart
Oh, it's never too late, oh it's never too late, to turn a new page, to change your own fate
To learn how to love, to learn how to start, to finally listen to your own heart
Let the Sun Lead
Crack the window, let the gold find my eyes
Dust turns to diamonds as the city sighs
Kettle sings easy and the day hums along
Sun on the table writes the first line of my song
I could chase the shade and wait for luck to begin
Or turn to the warmth and let the light pour in
Let the sun lead, I'll follow where it shines
Painting all my edges in amber lines
Let the sun lead, I'll turn my face to bright
Step into the day and move with the light
Coffee and laughter on the corner below
Footsteps and rhythm as the sidewalks glow
Clouds drift above me like pages of air
Still the bright refrain keeps ringing, I'm there
I won't count the clocks or bargain with time
I'll breathe with the daylight, fall into its rhyme
Let the sun lead, I'll follow where it shines
Painting all my edges in amber lines
Let the sun lead, I'll turn my face to bright
Step into the day and move with the light
When shadows lean across the door
I lift the melody a little more
A brighter chord, a longer line
The morning opens everything alive
Let the sun lead, I'll follow where it shines
Painting all my edges in amber lines
Let the sun lead, I'll turn my face to bright
Step into the day and move with the light
Let the sun lead, I'll follow where it shines
Carry all this warmth through wintertime
Let the sun lead, today is mine
Let the sun lead, today is mine
Todays Sweet Wine
The morning paper talks of what may be
A forecast of uncertainty
I fold it neatly, let the worries fade away
And pour the coffee for today
We make our list and chart our long-term plans
We're nervous, hopeful, trembling hands
But all those distant, shining shores we cannot see
Are built upon the now you see
So let's drink deeply of this day, this hour
Savor its unique and fragile flavor
For tomorrow's sun is just a promise, not a guarantee
Let today's sweet wine be enough for you and me
That phone call you've been meaning to make for years
The smile to chase away the tears
Don't save your best for some far-off, imagined night
Go on, turn up the living room light
So let's drink deeply of this day, this hour
Savor its unique and fragile flavor
For tomorrow's sun is just a promise, not a guarantee
Let today's sweet wine be enough for you and me
That phone call you've been meaning to make for years
Don't save your best for some far-off, imagined night
Let today be enough
The future can wait
Just let today be enough
The Next Page
The curtain hasn't risen on tomorrow's scene The map is drawn in shades of in-between
I try to read the tea leaves, but they never clearly show Which way this river of our lives is gonna flow
We make our plans in pencil, knowing well what winds can do The future's whispered promise, I'm still learning how to hear it true
It's a novel that I'm writing, but I cannot read the end Just turning one page at a time, my faithful, trembling friend
Oh, the future we don't know about A blank canvas of hope and doubt It's a beautiful, terrifying, wide-open space A question of wonder on time, sign, and face
Maybe there's a storm waiting, maybe sunlight's close ahead Maybe all the words we've left unspoken will be said This unknowing is the lesson, this uncertainty the art To have a curious open and a brave, courageous heart
Oh, the future we don't know about A blank canvas of hope and doubt It's a beautiful, terrifying, wide-open space A question of wonder on time, sign, and face
Oh, the future we don't know about A blank canvas of hope and doubt It's a beautiful, terrifying, wide-open space A question of wonder on time, sign, and face
And I'm learning to love the mystery Just learning to love the mystery
Just learning to love the mystery
After the Summer Comes the Fall
The sun is yawning, stretching wide, golden fields where secrets hide
A bird flies low, it skins the tide
After the summer comes the fall, leaves like whispers answer the call
After the summer comes the fall
Barefoot trails turn cold and brown, the wind hums songs from an old town
Shadows grow long as the days slow down
Time it stumbles yet marches on, a fleeting dance and then it's gone
After the summer comes the fall, crimson curtains start to sprawl
After the summer comes the fall
The air bites sharp, the stars burn bright, lantern moons pierce the night, it's the end
But it feels so right