Recorded by Ethan Allen and Jim Watts
Mixed by Ethan Allen
Mastered at Sterling Sound by Will Gunell
Additional production credits:
“All I want” produced, recorded and mixed by John Baxter
String arrangement and direction: Greg Fulton
Musicians:
Acoustic Piano & Guitars, electric keyboard, Vocals: Jill Cohn
Drums: Michael Barsimanto
Bass: Todd O’Keiff
Electric & acoustic guitars, drum loops & programing,
Keyboards, Mellotron, percussion, Bk Voice: Ethan Allen
additional electric guitars, Ebow, percussion and Bk Voice: Jim Watts
Violin: Bill Boyd
Viola: Mike Watson
Celo: Barbra Salkin
Acoustic Guitar & Bk. Voice on “All I want”: John Baxter
Art Direction: Brian Lasley
Photography: Eniac Martenez, Mexico City D.F.
Liner notes & editing: Thane Tierney and David Baker
All songs written by Jill Cohn 2007 BMI
except: “Mexico City” and “All I want”
written by Jill Cohn & John Baxter
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MY SKY
Drive your car
Park it far in the middle of nowhere
Spill your heart to the sky
‘Cause it don’t care
It won’t ask you why
In the wide wide land of nowhere
the wide wide land of all you could be
it’s the wide ideas and questioning
It’s the wide wide love of you and me
Do you know why you are my sky
Planes may leave
time to grieve
And it still burns
your cold words do not hurt
‘cause I know more this time
Fly free and take your prayer to the sky
fly free and tell him you’re willing to try
fly free and tell him you’re still wandering
Set your sites on the impossible
trust is so full
all you need, all you need is me
and know why you’re my sky
BLESSING MOON Torre Latinoamericana 9/19/2005
No need for words
No need for talk
I’ve said enough
And I need some silence
We all need kindness, gather while we can
I’m strong in your arms
Your lights they give me, they give me calm
Come close and take me, take me into your ruin
Under your blessing moon
Can I make you proud
in thy name all over, all over this town
I’ll accept my position
please take me, and make me, give me a mission
I’ll loose my opinions
your lights they illuminate, illuminate and listen
come close and take me, take me into your ruin
Under your blessing moon
Let me be love
let me be peace
let me be everything, everything you know I could be
We play with stars
the wind blows cold, I close my heart
if this gate was wider
I’d slip right through and soar from the tower
I lost my music
it lies in bruises longing for my hands
Come close, and understand, understand it’s come to ruin
Under your blessing moon
GOOD MAN
On this Sunday, I hope you’re with your daughter
You’re so lucky you get to be a father
‘Cause there’s so many men who might turn and walk away
I know she won your heart, but some point you chose to stay and
Teach your child
What a good man looks like
If you stay with her she will have a good life
On this Sunday, I buy myself some candy
Wonder what it would be like to be part of your family
Would we play some games and would she grow to love me?
Would she think I’m funny writing words while I’m driving?
Show your child
What a good man looks like
If you stay with her
she will have a good life
Show your child what a good man looks like
Maybe it’s wasting time
Lamenting all that’s left behind
One more night alone, one ear, one city, it’s all one tone
If I could push my wish aside and realize my good, good life
But the family time is slipping to the sublime
If you’re going back I will try to understand
If you’re going back, well, I know I could let you go if you
Show your child
If you stay with her
she will have a better life
MEXICO CITY
I’m at my best when I’m in a new place
and I dream of flying only with you
I get more patient
filled full of wonder
I got new faces
new people
then you smile, and I listen
Buy yourself a hat when you visit the city
Buy yourself some flowers for the love that you bring
Sing out your joy, if it rains in the city
and always give thanks to a love that’s guiding
So I land on your sea of lights
I know the name of every street inside of you
I don’t speak your language, but I understand what you say
and I’m so sure we all come from this place
come from this place
I can tell the taxi directions to my house
even though I‘ve never ever been here before
I don’t know a single soul, but I remember what I was told
I remember what I was told
MARSHMALLOW CHAIRS
I think I’m looking for you in these streets
just another chance to find me peace
to break the spell you placed on me
it’s always me who tries too hard
it’s not really all-important
it’s just another hard
If I had known the wreckage you would cause
I’d read the book and find a higher law
but it’s always me to rush the gate
when something special comes too late
it’s really not a big deal
it’s just another hard
I think I saw our son today
in a beautiful park an innocent child’s play
I was biting my lip and smiling at his parents
wondering if you ever went
to the marshmallow chairs in the forest
in the middle of the city and all you’ll forget
and it’s really not important
and I know you never want to offend
I know it’s not just what you meant
there’s nothing left for me to pretend
it’s just another hard
WHAT YOU’VE WON from Ute Mountain to Miraflores
One hundred miles an hour
Fast as fiction says you have her
From another continent
Turn your head and your confidence around
to the other cheek, and know you’re not the only link
In your own defense, you find a presence
Do you love all that you’re not
Do you love all that you’ve got to give
Challenge the stones falling from the sun
If tomorrow was right now, would you want what you’ve won
Leave the car in the desert with your fear
Walk the sand till you can’t hear
all the voices on your shoulder, the lies you told her
and the thing she chose to believe
Tear your heart from her sleeve
and wash it clean till it can bleed off your vengefulness
Do you love all that you’re not
Do you love all that you’ve got to give
Challenge the stones falling from the sun
If tomorrow was right now, would you want what you’ve won
Love all that you’re living
Give more than your giving
Challenge the love coming from your soul
If tomorrow was right now, would you be letting us go
ISRAEL
All the way to Israel
My body warms and the rain is still
I can tell there is no middle
In desert arms I am fulfilled
You are the end of my earth
My feet I use for you I search and search and search
I will go all the way to Israel
All the way to destiny
Taste a tear in solo dreams
Your memory is an island that rescues me
I can sense that this might be an end
but I will try and try and try again
If all we can be is just good friends, then
your wish is my will
All the way to Israel
All the way
Don’t need to find a Holy Grail
Or set my journey out on the ocean
The seed you have planted in this desolate place
will grow without water through thy grace
All the way to Israel
So many thoughts no need to tell
I can say everything in a dream
And everyone will know how you fell back to me
No expectation just a house of peace
For you I save a place where only you can be
We can go anytime you feel
All the way to Israel
RESCUE DOG for Tosca
Sick of writing sad sad songs of silly stories and life lived wrong
You say that I am not that strong
Well, I know, I’m in a rut
Sometimes you forget that staying in your own shoes might be the best bet for you
Perhaps I’m just the animal that you lack in your life
So I went to the pound
To see if he was back around
Because I still believe in round trip tickets and the promises
Or maybe he chose not to be
No more humane society
But I believe he’s coming back for me
My rescue dog
Seems to me that he left the scene
he’s now the Chihuahua of the beauty queen
she’s everywhere I wanna be
man, she’s living well
With designer shoes and designer dogs
Fame’s become a favorite god
Play that card with all your heart
I just want a Saint Bernard
Lassie and my lassitude
Save myself, no time to brood
My lack of courage and changing mood just gives you more fuel
Well, now my inspiration is lacking and all the dogs are snapping snapping
So sick of writing sad sad songs
of silly stories and life lived wrong
Well maybe I am growing strong, and I just fail to see
The beauty of this funk I’m in
I’ll just break my case like Rin Tin Tin
Understand I’m not a sin, I just need a dog
SEVEN YEAR SURRENDER for my family
It was a seven year surrender
It wasn’t easy to remember
How everything is perfect and everything is heaven sent
And I can see the miracles stretch out for miles and miles and miles
It was a seven year surrender
It wasn’t easy to protect her from all the burdens of proof
Never knew I’d feel this good
It was just a matter of meeting you and doing what I could
It was a seven year surrender
Driving high and sick down a lonely mountain road
Oh, the Devil, he tried to take me down
I held the wheel I stood my ground
I didn’t know it was there that I would be found
I didn’t know I’d be found
It was a seven year surrender
And all I have to do is hold her
And have the lips to say yes with
Have the heart to say I love my family with
In your eyes, you made it all make sense
Finally making sense
It was a seven year surrender
MISS THE MOUNTAINS
Leaving, staying
Packed a bag in case
Trying, quitting
Just need space
Take my heart and buy a ticket
somewhere I can’t be found
And truth always finds me
no matter where I run to
truth be told I miss the mountains
as much as I miss you
Forward, backwards
Caving in down here
Started on Monday
living through my fear
Take my things and search for sun
Somewhere from every one
Surrender, fighting
Mistrust could mean faith
All words change meanings
when you give more than you take
Why guard everything you own
we begin and end alone
ALL I WANT
I’ve got your picture, your scent in my hair
and a hope that this month could end right
This city’s deserted and the only ones left
are the lonely one ones for this night
You know I’m always all right on my own
but tonight, this girl is a little too alone
Oh, baby
All I want for New Years is to be in your arms
To be in your arms and feel safe
Could this be the year we find a clearer vision
A clearer vision and your grace, some grace, your grace
There are no presents
or celebrations that could cloud my thoughts of you
because I could never forget those nights we spent
The imprint is lovely, yes it’s permanent
Baby you are my future, my happily ever after, grow old together
Live everybody’s dream, yes, that’s you and me
SEE ME AGAIN
How I love our circle
Perfect, crooked and incomplete
And just to hear you’re coming around again
It does something for me
So, take me in your arms
You’re my closest thing to home
And, baby, when you have to go
Please know, I’ll always be your home
Well, I could play your music
if I could teach myself not to loose it anymore
But when you find someone who’s special and they let you love them to pieces
Well, it’s good enough for me
So, take me in your arms
You’re my closest thing to home
Baby, I know you need to go
Please know, it doesn’t have to end
Just say you’ll see me again