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“MY WHOLE LIFE” (Gary Pickus)
DO YOU REMEMBER
WE USED TO LET THE PHONE JUST RING
WHEN WE WERE HERE
WE TOUCHED FOREVER
NOW EVEN THE SPECK OF A SILHOUETTE COULD INTERFERE
BEFORE WE SLIP INTO AN AVALANCHE OF DUST
HERE’S MY HEART HERE’S MY SOUL
I’LL GIVE UP EVERYTHING FOR US
LIKE MY WHOLE LIFE DEPENDED ON IT
MY WHOLE LIFE DEPENDED ON IT
EVERY DAY AND NIGHT DEFENDED BY IT
TO BRING US BACK TO LOVE
LIKE MY WHOLE LIFE DEPENDED ON IT
MY WHOLE LIFE DEPENDED ON IT
AND ALL THE PAIN I CAUSED WAS ENDED BY IT
IT’S GOT TO BE ENOUGH
DIE IF WE STAY STILL
WE’VE RUN OUT OF WATER TO TREAD FOR SAVING YOU AND ME
I PROMISE I WILL
DELIVER YOUR DREAMS LIKE A GIFT YOU GAVE TO ME
DON’T WANNA LOOK BACK AT THE LIFE I COULD HAVE LIVED
THE ONLY FIGHT I NEED TO FIGHT IS FOR OUR FUTURE TO EXIST
LIKE MY WHOLE LIFE DEPENDED ON IT
MY WHOLE LIFE DEPENDED ON IT
EVERY DAY AND NIGHT DEFENDED BY IT
TO BRING US BACK TO LOVE
LIKE MY WHOLE LIFE DEPENDED ON IT
MY WHOLE LIFE DEPENDED ON IT
AND ALL THE PAIN I CAUSED WAS ENDED BY IT
IT’S GOT TO BE ENOUGH
DON’T WANNA LOOK BACK AT THE LIFE I COULD HAVE LIVED
THE ONLY FIGHT I NEED TO FIGHT IS FOR OUR FUTURE TO EXIST
©Pick-Us Music (BMI)
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“A MAN NEEDS TO BE ALONE” (Pickus-Himelstein)
Here I am
Pushin’ zero in a traffic jam
Worked all day
People pullin’ on me every which way
Don’t have to tell you that I’ve been through a war
Just be on my side when I open the door
A MAN NEEDS TO BE ALONE
SOMETIMES, A MAN NEEDS TO BE ALONE
WHEN THE DAY IS THROUGH FOR AN HOUR OR TWO
A MAN NEEDS TO BE ALONE
WITH A WOMAN LIKE YOU
Open up
Pour some wine into my coffee cup
Pull the shade
Kindly cancel all the plans that we made
Last thing I need’s another night on the town
Let’s hold each other, let the world spin around
CHORUS
Last thing I need’s another night on the town
Let’s hold each other, let the world spin around
CHORUS
©SIXTEEN STARS (BMI), AVODAH MUSIC (ASCAP)
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SAME PLANE (pop)
03:19
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“SAME PLANE” 2016 rap version (Gary Pickus)
WE’RE FLYIN’ ON THE SAME PLANE
WE’RE ROWIN IN THE SAME BOAT
WE’RE RIDIN’ ON THE SAME TRAIN MY FRIEND
WE’RE WALKIN’ DOWN THE SAME ROAD
WE’RE FIGHTIN’ ALL THE SAME FEARS
CRYIN’ OUT THE SAME TEARS
UNDERNEATH THE SAME RAIN
WE’RE FLYIN ON THE SAME PLANE
We are no longer separate eject the septic rhetoric of race baiters nature traitors draftdodger warmongers drug price gougers pounding their chests like Tarzan and Jane swinging brandname shame of bankrupt pride that divides the world cuts up the blue pearl… we gotta clear the debris from the earth sky and sea no boundaries to blame
CHORUS
Blip’ blip, the indicator light flashes red drip drip
the water goes lead Snip snip baby chick slaughter devuelvete the border daughter, but we pump the gas full blast quote jackass the movie blackin out Selma Nagasaki Mussolini the nature earth spirit too myopic to hear it rather kill our way out of problems
Dear world let love go viral in one planetary lot, the only one we got with the three new r’s: rise to the occasion raise the expectation rally in the valley for the congregation
Rise raise rally
CHORUS
Togetherness will be our strength
Togetherness will be our hope
Togetherness will bring us out of the wilderness
This I know
CHORUS
Ration the multi-bilionaires
Share the rest to save us
The only war left to fight for is war against war
Change the insane to sane
Change the insane to sane
Change the insane to sane
Togetherness
We’re flyin’ on the same plane © PICK-US MUSIC (BMI)
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BABY WHY
03:26
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EVERYNIGHT (country)
03:30
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“EVERYNIGHT” (Gary Pickus-Kim Silva)
I’m a speck of humanity
On a sidewalk tryin’ to’ advance
I am not who I want to be
A fallen grain in the hourglass
Til I run and I jump in your arms
And the moon just smiles upon our lives
EVERYNIGHT
YOU SET MY DREAMS FREE
I LET THE WAVES OF YOUR HEART TAKE ME
NEVER KNOWIN’ WHERE WE”LL GO
EVERYNIGHT
BRINGS MYSTERIOUS BLESSINGS
SHOWIN’ ME WHERE ON EARTH IS MY HEAVEN
IT’S OUR MOMENT EVERYNIGHT
A billion eyes go buzzing by
Fleeting words with nothin’ much to say
Your smile changes the scenery
In a whisper the world goes away
And I’ve learned how to give you my trust
Something I’d never thought I’d find
Bridge:
It’s like the secret of life has been revealed
To finally know how love’s supposed to feel
CHORUS
© PICK-US MUSIC (BMI)
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“SHINE UPON MY HEART” (Gary Pickus)
Before I turn my back on this mountain
And find my feet a less jagged path
I stare at the top I don’t want to stop
But the wind’s howlin’ in and the sun’s fadin fast, so
SHINE UPON MY HEART
WITH LOVE YOU BRING TO ME
SHINE UPON MY HEART
WITH LIGHT TOO BRIGHT TO SEE
YOU SHINE UPON MY HEART
WITH LOVE YOU BRING TO ME
YOU SHINE UPON MY HEART
WITH LIGHT TOO BRIGHT TO SEE
LET ME FEEL IT
LET ME FEEL IT
Now all my weight is cradled by angels
And your flame illuminates the unseen
Now my pain’s just a sign between your will and mine
So I know where to go for my soul to redeem, so
CHORUS
Woh, I feel it
Woe, yeah
Sanctify my fervent prayer
May your will be done
Under the stars and sun
Together forever as one
O
C Pick-Us Music (BMI)
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SMALL SPACES (alt rock)
03:18
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“SMALL SPACES” (Pickus-Meholick)
I exist in small spaces
Just an echo of all that I am
The stars are a rumor and the nights they come and go
The fading sunlight is just enough to show
I’m holding in and I’m holding out
Backstage, I see the curtain rise and fall
I have my faith and I have my doubts
But no time to answer my own call
I EXIST IN SMALL SPACES
HIDE MY HEART INSIDE MY HEAD WHERE NO ONE SEES
THE OPEN SKY SHINES AN OASIS
IT SHOWS ME WHERE I NEED TO BE
Once I was drawn to bigger places
Some too close and some too far away
Tried for something more, something better to live for
When I go back, I go back to stay
I EXIST IN SMALL SPACES
HIDE MY HEART INSIDE MY HEAD WHERE NO ONE SEES
THE OPEN SKY SHINES AN OASIS
IT SHOWS ME WHERE I NEED TO BE
Don’t try to put me in these small spaces
As if you never heard a word I said
All I really want is to look and the find places
Where the horizon has no end
I EXIST IN SMALL SPACES
HIDE MY HEART INSIDE MY HEAD WHERE NO ONE SEES
THE OPEN SKY SHINES AN OASIS
IT SHOWS ME WHERE I NEED TO BE
©Pick-Us Music (BMI)
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“KEEP THE MUSIC PLAYIN” (Gary Pickus)
We’re not ready yet to hit the road, would ya
Keep the music playin’
I wanna see where this night can go, so could ya
Keep the music playin
Keep the music playin’
Keep….the music playin
The beat is givin’ us wings tonight
Flyin’ us higher than we ever might
We’re almost gone beyond our imagination
My body’s starting to feel the heat, you need ya
Keep the music playin’
A little more may be all we need, so would ya’
Keep the music playin’
Keep the music playin
Keep….the music playin
Gotta’ a new number one on my bucket list
With every song there seems less to risk
A couple more might dance us out your door to forever
Keep the music, keep the music, keep the music playin’
Finally kicked us to the parking lot, how do we
Keep the music playin’
Cool breeze and the moon lit hot, you wanna’
How do we keep the music playin’
My heart is skippin’ it don’t wanna stop
You know my place is just around the block
I wanna’ hold you like you’re all I got
Until the whole wide world is an afterthought
©PICK-US MUSIC (BMI)
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“IF YOU BELIEVE” (Gary Pickus)
Life
The perfect chance
To learn to dance
One song the wind has blown to you alone
Listen you will hear
Guiding you day and night
Shining through wrong from right
It’s your choice
You can hear the voice,
If you believe
That you can change and rearrange
Each tear, each laugh, each day
Unafraid to just let go
Lift the clouds off your mind
Let them drift out of time
You’ve got plans
You can reach them with your hands
If you believe
And we can walk and we can talk
Finding our way to eternity
We’re so young our time has come
Learning to understand learning to see
Love is everywhere
Beyond compare
With any other thing
You’d buy or bring into your world
Where you go let it lead
And just know you’ve got all you need
In your heart feel the fear depart
When you believe
Where you go let it lead
And just know you’ve got all you need
In your heart
Feel the fear depart
When you believe
When you believe
CPICK-US MUSIC (BMI)
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"REMEMBER THE TREES" (Gary Pickus)
TO KEEP THE EARTH GREEN AND LIVING
IN TRUE NATURAL HARMONY
TOGETHER WE MUST ALWAYS REMEMBER THE TREES
All over the world today
In many places faraway
The forest provides such wonderful homes
For millions of living things
With paws and branches claws and wings
And for people who depend on them alone
But when ground is cleared the forest disappears
Mother Nature can’t always recover
Cause floods will wash away the soil
And then seeds will have nowhere to grow, so
CHORUS
In Asia and Africa
And in South America
We can’t let more forests get cut down, oo
Then we lose all their gorgeous views
And plants for medicines we use, and oo
More cures waiting to be found
And when animals are lost
And plants get torn and tossed
It’s a bleak bare future we’ll have to face
Cause if we don’t stop this soon
Our planet Earth is gonna’ look like the moon
CHORUS
Spoken: Please… remember to recycle newspapers, paper bags, cardboard,
and all wood products. Plant trees in your community.We need our trees.
We need them.
LET’S KEEP THE EARTH GREEN AND LIVING
IN TRUE NATURAL HARMONY
TOGETHER WE MUST ALWAYS REMEMBER THE TREES
ALWAYS REMEMBER THE TREES
WE DON’T WANT TO FORGET THEM
REMEMBER THE TREES © PICK-US MUSIC (BMI)
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NAIROBI (alt rock)
04:14
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“NAIROBI” (Donna Ellis- Gary Pickus)
As he’s moving forward
Ponder and cast aside my fear
Withness the silent salutation
Of my assassin’s spear
Clothed in graphic anguish
My head rings fragments, foreign sounds
A touch of tantrum in his eyes
My body hits the ground
FOREVER ETCHED EMBRACED
I AM YOUR CHILD
ETERNALLY RETURN TO NAIROBI
I RUN WILD
I RUN WILD
Sounds of pensive breathing
To the past and to this road
As if I were still living
Hearing message drum and code
Now I’m racing onward
Feel no grass beneath my feet
I watch him drag one life away
The guilt eludes his heart (beat?)
FOREVER ETCHED EMBRACED
I AM YOUR CHILD
ETERNALLY RETURN TO NAIROBI
I RUN WILD
I RUN WILD
C PICK-US MUSIC (BMI)
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“MY FAVORITE SONG” (GARY PICKUS)
MY FAVORITE SONG IS THE ONE I’VE NEVER WRITTEN
CAUSE IT WOULD BE THE ONE
THAT WOULD SAY I WAS SITTING WITH YOU
AND YOU WOULD BE MINE
FROM THAT MOMENT IN TIME
LONG PAST INFINITY
WITH LOVE SO TRUE
MY FAVORITE SONG IS THE ONE I HAVEN’T PLAYED YET
CAUSE IT WOULD BE THE ONE
I WOULD PLAY AFTER I VOW TO YOU
TO WEATHER EVERY STORM
THAN I’D TAKE YOU IN MY ARMS
LONG PAST INFINITY
WITH LOVE SO TRUE
MY FAVORITE SONG IS ANY SONG I’D BE SINGIN
WHEN YOU’RE THE MELODY IN THE DREAM
I WAS LIVING WITH YOU
AND WE WOULD BE THERE
FOREVER TO SHARE
LONG PAST INFINITY
WITH LOVE SO TRUE
LONG PAST INFINITY
LOVE SO TRUE
CPICK-US MUSIC (BMI)
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“LONESOME BLUES” (Meholick-Pickus)
It’s couples night out, candlelight glowing
A rose at each table, the music is flowing
There’s a spark in the air, from my microphone
Two people dance their minds running wild
He looks in her eyes, she laughs and he smiles
I wish it was you and me but that bird has flown
I WATCH ‘EM DRINK UP MY MUSIC LIKE A LOVE POTION
WHILE I’M DYIN OF THIRST IN THE MIDDLE OF AN OCEAN
IT’S JUST A MATTER OF MILES FROM YOUR PLACE TO MINE
JUST A MATTER OF MILES MIGHT AS WELL BE A MILLION
YOU’RE NEVER CLOSE ENOUGH TO FEEL THESE THINGS THAT I’M FEELING
YEH, I’M THE GODDESS (MAESTRO) OF LOVE AND SWEET MELODY
BUT EVERY SONG IS JUST ANOTHER LONESOME BLUES TO ME
I’m playin “Stardust” and dreamin’ of slumber
Here comes that nice fella been asking my number
I’m really just not in the mood, so you can turn off the charm
The only man in my book’s a little too distant
And my heart’s holding on to something it’s missin
Deep down I know he’s already gone
CHORUS
YEAH, I POUR OUT MY HEART THEY DRINK UP THE EMOTION
WHILE I’M DYIN OF THIRST IN THE MIDDLE OF AN OCEAN
IT’S JUST A MATTER OF MILES FROM YOUR PLACE TO MINE, YEAH-YEAH
JUST A MATTER OF MILES MIGHT AS WELL BE A MILLION
YOU’RE NEVER CLOSE ENOUGH TO FEEL THESE THINGS THAT I’M FEELIN’
YEH, I’M THE SINGER OF LOVE AND SWEET MELODIES
BUT EVERY SONG, YEAH EVERY SINGLE SONG
IS JUST ANOTHER LONESOME BLUES TO ME
©PICK-US MUSIC (BMI)
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“THEY DON’T MAKE LOVE LIKE THEY USED TO”
(Gary Pickus-K.A. Parker)
You used to see them on the sidewalk
Hand in hand on summer nights
Stealin’ kisses in the shadows
Cast by trees and back porch lights
And you could see them in the malt shop
Makin’ plans over ice cream
Not afraid to say ‘I love you’
Plannin’ futures sharing dreams, but
THEY DON’T MAKE LOVE LIKE THEY USED TO
THEY DON’T MAKE IT LIKE THAT ANYMORE
ROMANCE IS OLD HAT IT’S ONE NIGHT AND THAT’S THAT
ONE IS HEADIN’ RIGHT OUT THE DOOR
IT USED TO LAST TIL FOREVER
IT HAD A LIFETIME GUARANTEE
BUT THEY DON’T MAKE LOVE LIKE THEY USED TO
AND NEITHER DO WE
You used to take all night to tell me
The things that only love can say
But now you’re acting like a stranger
Who only needs a place to stay
Did you forget what I remember
I close my eyes but I can see
This ain’t the way we planned tomorrow
I want the way it used to be, ah, but
CHORUS
SOLO, CHORUS
(lyric alternate) BUT WHY DON’T WE, WHY DON’T WE
C PICK-US MUSIC (BMI)
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PICK Huntington Beach, California
The memorable, distinctive music of versatile recording artist/songwriter/producer/performer Gary Pickus has found its way to all corners of the world. Credits over a multi-decade career include 3 staff songwriting deals, an artist contract with World Disc Music, 15 CDs in numerous genres, 2 network TV themes, a 4-CD children’s educational series, and hundreds of song and instrumental placements. ... more
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