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All the Things That Go Missing

by Myla Smith

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1.
LYRICS ___________________________ Now that the night is rolling in Over the long day of youth It is finally clear now The sun blocked out the truth         And I cry, cry, saying why This shovel I’m holding was my parting gift So I could dig out a space Under this mound I keep time with the hammer Driving your last word in place And I cry, cry, saying why Roll over, roll over Over me, down in the dark I can see the traitor spark You should have stolen all my property You should have broken my arm You should have cut my heart out It isn’t keeping me warm So I cry, cry, saying why Cry, cry, saying why __________________________ Music: Luke Smith and Myla Smith Lyrics: Myla Smith Copyright 2006 Sweeter Green Music
2.
Pin Up Girl 03:56
LYRICS ____________________________ I could fall asleep tonight With you here to hold me tight When I’m pushing you away Promise me you’re gonna stay I know, I know, I already know But you try to love me even though I’m Crazy, just a little crazy Baby, you know there’s only one like me So chase the monsters from my dreams And my memory And I’ll be the pin-up girl of sanity I won’t let you hold my hand You don’t have to understand All you have to do is smile Stay with me a little while I know, I know, I already know But you try to love me even though I’m Crazy, just a little crazy Baby, I know it isn’t easy Just hold me close when I can’t breathe And look at me that way And I’ll be the pin-up girl of sanity       I know, I know, I already know But you try to love me even though I’m Crazy, just a little crazy Baby, you know there’s only one like me So chase the monsters from my dreams And my memory And I’ll be the pin-up girl of sanity _______________________________ Music and Lyrics: Myla Smith (c) 2006 Sweeter Green Music                                                   
3.
Love Song 02:52
LYRICS __________________________ I don’t swoon when you say hello Or fall to pieces whenever you go Don’t need butterflies to let me know that I love you How do others have lives to spend Chasing after a rainbow’s end When more treasure is in the friend that I have in you Sweat has fallen from my brow Onto telling irony ‘Cause now that I have what I want I want it for you instead of me Now the future is open wide But it’s not up to me to decide Rest in knowing that He will provide, and that I love you Sweat has fallen from my brow Onto telling irony ‘Cause, Baby, now that I have what I want I want it for you instead of me Now the future is open wide But it’s not up to me to decide Rest in knowing that He will provide, and that I love you Now and then and on either side, Baby, I love you _____________________________ Music and Lyrics: Myla Smith Copyright 2006 Sweeter Green Music
4.
LYRICS ___________________________ Little Jenny Lyn, you ought to know That the road you’re on is hard and slow It is long, but every valley deep and river wide Has another side, little Jenny Lyn The yellow flowers that are in your hair Will dry and blow away into the air Do not cry.  Everything that's lost unto the wind Will be made new again, little Jenny Lyn What do I tell you, little Jenny Lyn, about the world I’m gonna leave you in ‘Cause I know if I tell you your heart will begin to die inside your skin They will tell you that the heart of love Is written in the stars above That's a lie.  It's beyond the sky and your supply And it will never die, little Jenny Lyn What do I tell you, little Jenny Lyn, about the world I’m gonna leave you in ‘Cause I know if I tell you your eyes will begin to lose the light within What do I tell you, little Jenny Lyn, about the world I’m gonna leave you in All the things that go missing outside and within will all be new again I am floating in the eventide That flows into the other side. I will fly, I will fly away. I must fly But we don't say goodbye, little Jenny Lyn We don’t say goodbye, little Jenny Lyn __________________________________ Music and Lyrics: Myla Smith Copyright 2006 Sweeter Green Music
5.
LYRICS ______________________________ Nobody should be lonely beneath this many lights With their greatest ambitions so nearly in their sights I know what I am meant for, and I’m happy to comply But there’s a lingering desire I’m trying to deny                                           Tonight I’m walking a line A faded line I want to hear you whisper things you try not to show Things that you shouldn’t tell me, things I already know But we will dance in silence and blame it on the beer As the spaces in between us and the faces disappear Tonight I’m walking a line A faded line What now may seem harmless will all start weighing in And my heart will be too heavy to take me here again I’ve got to face a mirror, I’ve got to take a stance But I’ve got another quarter and time for one more dance Tonight I’m walking a line A faded line ___________________________ Music and Lyrics: Myla Smith Copyright 2006 Sweeter Green Music
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LYRICS _________________________ I keep it in the back of my head The first time I saw your face You manage to hide it quite nicely But it’s something I haven’t erased I hear you when you say you love me I smile and look in your eyes I suppose it’s not meant to be funny But it’s hard not to laugh at such obvious lies And I’m not the only one I’m not the only one Who can see through the pictures you’ve painted And can hear over all of the noise Well, you may not remember, but I sure do And I’ll never forget the real you You let me climb out to the edge I’d be all right with you there But you held a sharp blade behind you Now you’re watching me fall through the air I’ll make sure you’re safe in your castle Though I don’t suspect you’ll know But I’m through giving you my treasure I’m not stupid, I’ve seen where they go And I’m not the only one I’m not the only one Who can see through the pictures you’ve painted And can hear over all of the noise Well, you may not remember, but I sure do And I’ll never forget the real you And I’m not the only one I’m not the only one Who can see through the pictures you’ve painted And can hear over all of the noise Well, you may not remember, but I sure do And I’ll never forget, I’ll never forget, I’ll never forget the real you _________________________ Music and Lyrics: Myla Smith Copyright 2006 Sweeter Green Music
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LYRICS _______________________________ On her own, and she’s got a plan And a new man who’s got plans of his own Just a boy, but he thinks he knows How daddies should act when you’re with them alone He watched the mirror go under the door Frowned when his key didn’t work anymore Stared at the mask that was hiding her face Off on his own to a frightening place Town after town Settling down where he first heard his name Giving it a try                        And finding out some things are always the same Second chances come along but once in a while But being a father was cramping his style Proving again there’s only room for one Either your lover, addiction, or son Twenty years going by Really can fly at a hundred and two Shaken out of my dreams Somehow when the phone rang I already knew That’s why I’m headed to Franklin and back That’s why my clothes are unusually black They’ll cry and they’ll say that we’ll see him one day But you don’t know where things go once you’ve thrown them away You never know where things go once you’ve thrown them away _______________________________ music and lyrics: Myla Smith (c) Sweeter Green Music 2006
8.
LYRICS ___________________________ Sarah’s laughter moves down to her legs and renders them useless to stand In slow motion sinks down to the rest and covers the sun with her hand This bittersweetness is easy to hide She keeps it behind her smile She’s watching the moment from the other side Cause it all will be gone in a while Sarah’s turning circles Round and round she goes She keeps looking back, eyes closed Sarah carefully crosses her driveway as the world around her changes its hue Burning leaves freeze her feet to the ground invoking a time she once knew Sarah can’t breathe for the pain in her chest When she thinks of those times in the past Beautiful memories of days she loved best Just remind her that nothing can last Sarah’s turning circles Round and round she goes She keeps looking back, eyes closed Colors of autumn for the leaves that have died She can’t seem to reconcile Watching the moment from the other side It all will be gone in a while Sarah’s turning circles Round and round she goes She keeps looking back Sarah’s turning circles Round and round she goes She keeps looking back, eyes closed, eyes closed ___________________________ Music and Lyrics: Myla Smith Copyright 2006 Sweeter Green Music
9.
Letter 03:53
LYRICS _______________________ There are so many things to say And nowhere left to say them So I talk to my guitar You know he’s never let me down And so it goes another year, Writing songs that you will never hear, ‘Cause you didn’t want a letter You didn’t want a call You didn’t want anything at all Over and over And over again I try to forget But forget to begin I think I could get over you If I only wanted to But you didn’t want a letter You didn’t want a call You didn’t want anything at all Take me to your time machine where I am always twenty-two And fifteen dollar mirror balls feel like a dream come true Before we had to worry about making up my mind Where love and desperation and our arms are intertwined Where people looking everywhere for anything that’s real See something in a pair of eyes They cannot name, but recognize I wish you’d die alone With only me to dream of I wish I’d never known Love isn’t really blind I wish you’d have a better life Than you would have had I been your wife But you didn’t want a letter You didn’t want a call You didn’t want anything at all ___________________________ Music and Lyrics: Myla Smith Copyright 2006 Sweeter Green Music
10.
Goodbye 02:24
11.
LYRICS __________________________ I will live to lift you up With a heart as overflowing as my cup In the haven where my heart is truly free In the arms of my chosen family I will live as I am dead Like the One who turned my frozen heart to red Now that life that was so freely given me I give for my chosen family You are mine, and I am yours While the ebb and flow of this brief life endures By the power of the holy Trinity You are my chosen family You are my chosen family You are my chosen family ______________________________ Music and Lyrics: Myla Smith Copyright 2006 Sweeter Green Music
12.
Deep Magic 03:02
LYRICS ________________________ Through every glass break the golden skies They fill your heart, your head, your eyes Turn your face up to a brilliant Sun And you feel what love has done. Restless heart, why indulge your fears Sleep and dream for a thousand years In the deep magic that you did not choose The love you cannot lose You don’t have to be afraid _________________________ Music and lyrics: Myla Smith Copyright 2006 Sweeter Green Music

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Myla Smith's introspective debut album "All The Things That Go Missing" will sound like home for anyone who has ever known the contradictions of living. From the pain of "I wish you'd die alone with only me to dream of" on "Letter" to the magnificent, simple beauty of "Love Song," Myla's haunting soprano voices the fears and longings that envelop us all, and ultimately provides a message of hope for the restless heart. ("Sleep and dream for a thousand years...you don't have to be afraid")

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released December 21, 2006

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