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The Book of Making / Yesterday Meets Today

by Eric Johnson

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I'm chasing a watermark  That hangs on a window seal  Like a drop of the sun on a trail, alone  I'm searching the afternoon  To visit a flower to bloom   And all of my crosses to bear have gone home    What a romantic am I  But I see that in you  You're full of hope, big as the sky  And it flows through you and I    I go round and round  Sometimes, not a single sound  Though I, put it down to life  And I, I'm just floating through this world    We live with the love we make  But we put the world at stake  Cause why does the truth sometimes just fade?    Now we've got a lovely start  Yet leaving a question mark  To gamble the wind another day (another day)    Not as simple as it seems  What a fool am I  To tend the garden of my dreams  While I'm passing by    And I, I'm between me and you  Separate souls are falling through  All the safety nets, and I  I'm just floating through this world    Like a Mountaineer am I  But I do look back  To bear the tears as we climb by  On our different tracks    And I, I'm in love with where I've come  Cause I, feel the peace that might be ours  In a future day, then I  Won't be floating through this world 
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Love, do you see it in the view?  A fantasy that might come true  Or a mirage that slips away, away    These times, we say hello to say goodbye  We say good morning, say goodnight  But there's a new love we should try    So, when life gets too crazy  We've got soul to take us to love  Oh, my angel, that love will never say goodbye    So, let's take a look inside our hearts  No more together then apart  Oh, could you put that in your view?  Girl, let us make some sky turn blue   Forever, cause I've got so much love  And my heart is set on you, it's true    So, when life gets too crazy  We've got soul to keep us in love  And oh, my darling, that love will never say goodbye    So, when life gets too crazy  We've got soul to take us to love  And oh, my darling, that love will never say goodbye  Second chance girl, we've got our hearts and I want in your life  Oh, my angel, that soul will never say goodbye 
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Deeper than my eyes  It's stronger than my light  It's always to remain  Waiting to begin to keep you    Was there just a time I didn't have to try?  We were something more  There was just my eye light to catch you    After all, it's really like we cant explain  We always hesitate to try to tear down all these walls  Then it follows that we seem to go someplace  Where there is just an empty space a bigger love could fill    It's bigger than my life  It's wider than the key  Opening surprise   That is my disguise to keep you    After all, it's really like, just once again  We learn to walk and heal the place where darkness used to be  Then it follows, all of us will look inside  And see what hides behind the wall of pain everyone has    Deeper than my life  Stronger than my light  Always to remain  I paint it on the way to keep you 
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You, there's only one of you  In the whole wide world  And what they say is true    You find the one and you will see  You're fast asleep and then suddenly  You know you have found  The sweetest love, and that's forever  I am sure that I want just to be with you    Your love, is it as good as it can get  And there's no goodbyes  And now there are no regrets    Close to me you'll hear me say  I am your man and it's going to be alright  I know what we've got, it's kind of rare, and that's forever  I would walk a thousand miles just to be with you, it's true    We're turning all the love lights on   Pinch me so the dream will dawn  Don't it feel so heavenly?  Cause now, in my arms, you're going to stay   Since I found you, I'm complete   With the one, that is only you  It's true what we've got, it is so rare and it's forever  I would climb the endless sky  Just to be with you 
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To Be Alive 04:45
It wasn't all that long ago  Where life was new, not even time was old  So much I didn't know, so much I thought I knew  What I know now, I'll give to you    Before you act, think once or twice  When you are likely wrong  Choose to be nice and don't regret the past  Some good can come from bad  Cause no one's perfect all the time    Cause we're all floating  The sphere in the sky  Don't know where we're going  Figure out why  A little more patience see the other side  What it means to be human  To be alive    Love those who will catch your fall  And bare your soul when others build up walls  Make every moment count, surpass your every doubt  How long we've got, we'll never know    Cause we're all floating  The sphere in the sky  Don't know where we're going  Figure out why  A little more patience see the other side  What it means to be human  To be alive    There's a world you don't understand yet  Where the good hearts die and turn cold  It's a matter of how you perceive it  It's a chance you make or withhold    Cause we're all floating  The sphere in the sky  Don't know where we're going  Figure out why  A little more patience see the other side  What it means to be human    Cause we're all floating  The sphere in the sky  Don't know where we're going  Figure out why  A little more patience see the other side  What it means to be human  To be alive  To be alive 
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Looking back this road of memories  Footprints in the sand remain  The two of us still cast a shadow  That time will never wash away  We laughed and we loved  And fruit fell from the giving tree  Now I fight this hearts temptation  To walk away, throw down the key    It's hard to find the answers in this life  Though I know, plenty days oh  I will have the laughter in the sun  But there won't be another one like you    Who has drawn this arc of arrow that set upon us yesterday?  The reverie gave the impression, we would always be this way  In love, with no end  The hand of fate took that away   Now I find life's destination, there's no other love for me    It's hard to find the answers in this life  Though I know, plenty days  Oh, I will have the laughter in the sun  But there won't be another one like you    Sometimes, I want to break the chains  And turnabout, and love again  But I know no one like you    It's hard to find the answers in this life  Though I know, plenty days  Oh, I will have the laughter in the sun    It's hard to find the answers in this life  Though I know, plenty days  Oh, I will have the laughter in the sun  But there won't be another one like you  There might not be another one like you 
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My faith in you   Be it strong and true  Born from the feeling  That the faith comes from you  In the darkest hour  We are blinded with the light  When I remember that your love is in sight    My faith in you  Like a loving child  Born from the waters running deep and wild  Like a bird on a wire  In the unfold of the spring   Through all of these bad times  To the joy life can bring    I don't believe in hate  It takes so long to erase  I don't think anybody would refuse the choice    So, my faith in you  Like a kite in the wind  Waiting for weather   So, the dance can begin  Then whatever may happen  Or the struggles taking place  I'm gonna keep smiling  And I keep up the faith 
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And so I walk A thousand miles with you But it's me you carry When I might fall down
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Move On Over 03:52
Move on over lately  And let the Lord find me   Move on over lately  And let the Lord find me    Cause I can't remember  Where I have been before  I need to remember     Move on over now  And let the Lord have say  I moved on over lately  And let the Lord have say    I can't remember  Where I've been before  I need to remember    So, move on over now  And let the grace touch you   Move on over now  And let the grace touch you    I can't remember  Where I've been before  I need to remember    I can't remember  Where I've been before  I need to remember    Start it right now  I'm going to start it right now  I'm going to move  Start it right now  Start it right now 
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A new beginning Let's talk it on through Can you promise to me? And I'll promise to you Without love, I don't know how we can kick it You got love? Then give it all away You want love? Then at first you've got to give it And every hour will build our way That's cause yesterdays meeting today When we started Our love was supreme These days roll on Let's find what they mean Without love, I don't think that we could make it You got love? Then give it all away You want love? Then at first we've got to give it Every time we love we build our way It's just yesterday meeting today Without love, I don't know how we can kick it You got love? Then give it all away You want love? Then at first you've got to give it Cause every hour will build our way That's cause yesterdays meeting today Without love, I don't think that we could make it You got love? Then give it all away You want love? Then at first we've got to give it Every time we love we build our way It's just yesterday meeting today Movin' on yeah, play by play I'm showing you what words can't say It's because yesterday's meeting today Come on baby Drive it home It will be just what we make it And every hour, we build our way That's cause yesterday's meeting today
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Between worlds  I can hear the sound of a distant life, I once knew  Future knows  It's driven by the why of my past  It's so long ago    So now, I'm needing a place to hide  Cause life, it comes tumbling down  With me   What did you think you'd find?  Inside, it's just the rain  Falls down  I know it's just for now  But now it's just the rain    Under sky  I am standing in the sun of my teens  Reason why  Does one know?  Written in the lines on my hands  Future goes, on    So now, I'm needing a place to hide  Cause life, it comes tumbling down  With me   What did you think you'd find?  Inside, it's just the rain  Falls down  I know it's just for now  But now it's just the rain    So now, I'm making a place to hide  Cause life, came tumbling down  With me   What did you think you'd find?  Inside, it's just the rain  Falls down  I know it's just for now  But now it's just the rain 
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Maha 01:58
Between worlds  I can hear the sound of a distant life, I once knew  Future knows  It's driven by the why of my past  It's so long ago    So now, I'm needing a place to hide  Cause life, it comes tumbling down  With me   What did you think you'd find?  Inside, it's just the rain  Falls down  I know it's just for now  But now it's just the rain    Under sky  I am standing in the sun of my teens  Reason why  Does one know?  Written in the lines on my hands  Future goes, on    So now, I'm needing a place to hide  Cause life, it comes tumbling down  With me   What did you think you'd find?  Inside, it's just the rain  Falls down  I know it's just for now  But now it's just the rain    So now, I'm making a place to hide  Cause life, came tumbling down  With me   What did you think you'd find?  Inside, it's just the rain  Falls down  I know it's just for now  But now it's just the rain 
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Walking back, the years do flow  The time that leads  The hour's not known  Arrow's step will soon arrive  To cast their fate and set their tide once more    (You hold on to love)  Oh, it's what I'm gonna do  (Just hold onto love)    Once the poorest heart did see  The golden chains but chains, still be  Sets off for the glory road  The journey tells a story endlessly    (You hold on to love)  Oh, it's what I'm gonna do  (Just hold onto love)  What I want to do  All I want to do    (You hold on to love)  Oh, it's what I'm gonna do  (Just hold onto love)  What I want to do  All I want to do baby    To leave it all behind now  Inside, the better news  The feelings expound me now    I hold onto love  Hold onto love    (You hold on to love)  Oh, it's what I want to do  (I hold onto love)  What I want to do  All I want to do baby    (You hold on to love)  Oh, it's what I got to do  (I'll hold onto love)  What I want to do  All I want to do baby    Breathing with the candle's flame  When all is lost, the love remains 
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released July 29, 2022

Producer: Eric Johnson

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Eric Johnson Austin, Texas

Among Eric Johnson's many accolades are a Grammy award for "Cliffs of Dover " (a track from his Platinum certified Ah Via Musicom), lifetime induction into the Guitar Player Gallery of Greats, his listing among the "100 Greatest Guitarists of the 20th Century" by Musician. ... more

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