“Beyond” (Track #1)
(lyrics & music by Steve DeDoes, 2020)
recorded by Steve DeDoes & the Helmholtz Project
* dedicated to Carl Sagan, Neil deGrasse Tyson,
& the "Cosmos" legacy *
If we could see beyond the stars
Into the corners of the mind
Then the world alone would not begin to hold the answers we would find
So many things that we could see
So many things that we could be
If we could open all the doors and understand the mysteries
If we could travel on a beam
Of purely mental energy
Then we could take a ride to look inside potentialities
And we could differentiate
Between the things we choose to hate
And take the measure of the things we love and try to contemplate
And we must go - beyond the grand illusion
We've got to pay - the price for all our temporary dreams
'Cause now we know - the cost of our confusion
Is there a way - to move beyond the life we chose to be ?
(Instrumental solos: flugelhorn, elec.piano)
And we must reach - beyond the next horizon
(Background: "We must reach - far beyond")
We've got to face - a future that is not the one we dreamed
(Background: "We must go")
We're out of time - to balance the equation
(Background: "We can take - tomorrow on")
But we can know -
(Background: "We can know")
Tomorrow as the time we came together -
for a life that made it better -
in a world to last forever, with a place for you and me
copyright 2020 S.DeDoes / Full Score & 7 Music, Inc. (BMI)
all rights reserved.
“(On Some) Blue Planet” (Track #2)
(lyrics & music by Steve DeDoes, 2011)
recorded by Steve DeDoes & the Helmholtz Project
Is it too much to ask for a place I can bask
In the glow of a natural high ?
'Cause we all need to dream in a place where it seems
That the world isn't passin' us by
You leave me no choice but to say
That the world I have known is goin' away
Is it gonna be something we change
Is it too late to find what we hoped to arrange
What's it gonna be like for the rest of our lives
On a planet that's not like my own - ?
You keep sayin' that I have no reason to cry
and that troubles are all in my mind
And despite what's been said, there's no cause for regrets
The solutions will find us in time
I don't understand when you say
That our lives will be fine - we should live for today
Is it gonna be something we change
Is it too late to find what we hoped to arrange
What's it gonna be like for the rest of our lives
On a planet that's not even home - ?
You tell me, "don't be afraid of the dark"
You tell me, "look to the future, with vision and heart
"And we can find a new place in the sun
"With a new point of view, now that the damage is done -
(Instrumental solo: alto sax)
Now the future is here, and it's perfectly clear
That my nature is lost to the past
I remember the time; was it all in my mind ?
When it looked like forever would last -
Now we have to go on and survive
But we can never go back to where our love came alive
Is it gonna be something we change
Is it too late to find what we hoped to arrange
What's it gonna be like for the rest of our lives
On a planet that's far from my home - ?
copyright 2011 S.DeDoes / Full Score & 7 Music, Inc. (BMI)
all rights reserved.
“Frozen In Ice” (Track #3)
(lyrics & music by Steve DeDoes, 2018)
sung by Emma Aboukasm (with Steve DeDoes & the Helmholtz Project)
It's as if -
You don't even know where I am
You're stopped on a trip through time
(…the longer phrase is played on piano here…)
And I try
To make you aware of my eyes
Staring at you through a kind of kaleidoscope of the mind where I hope to define
But you're Frozen In Ice
Frozen in time to me
A mirror of ice
It doesn't allow you to see
When I think
Of all of the things we could be
The reasons are there to believe in a ray of hope where I stay and cope with a dream -
But you hold
Illusions you pull from the air
Ideas you've taken from where you're inventing things and imagining what's not there
And you're Frozen In Ice
Frozen in time to me
A river of ice
It keeps you away from the dream
And as time follows down that line, all our lives will appear
Through the eye of a looking glass that's not clear -
We're Frozen In Ice -
(Instrumental solos: alto sax)
I can want what's true as I reach for you
In a place where I thought we could be
Are we Frozen In Ice ?
And am I just a memory ?
Is the river of ice
Melting away to the sea ?
You're Frozen In Ice; Frozen in time to me
Frozen In Ice; you're frozen in time to me
You're Frozen In Ice; frozen in time; frozen to me -
You're Frozen In Ice -
copyright 2018 S.DeDoes / Full Score & 7 Music, Inc. (BMI)
all rights reserved.
“Is There Time ?” (Track #5)
(lyrics & music by Steve DeDoes, 2015)
recorded by Steve DeDoes & the Helmholtz Project
You don't - know the cost
Of the innocence that you lost
You don't - feel the pain - of the past
You can't - get your mind
Around a fantasy that you are dyin' to find
And you hope - to the last - if there's time
Keep it all to yourself as you reach for the door
Make a name for yourself for the fans to adore
Take a look at yourself as you try to ignore all the signs
You're runnin' behind
At the end - of the day
All your dreams are a tired cliche
At the end - we can see - who we are
All you have - all your wealth
You can count it and then keep it all to yourself
You can be - all alone - with your time
So you've made all your millions in fortune and fame
And you've paid every price just to win at the game
Now you're left to believe we'll remember your name - in your mind
But is there still time ?
(Instrumental solo: trumpet)
Now you've come to the place where you see all the signs
Of the multidimensional maze where you hide
Can you reach a conclusion that you'll be contented to find -
And have you got the time ?
copyright 2015 S.DeDoes / Full Score & 7 Music, Inc.
all rights reserved.
“(The More I) Need To Know” (Track #7)
(lyrics & music by Steve DeDoes, 2001)
sung by April Tini with the Future Voices of Change
I would like to know
The reasons why
The seasons change, as time goes by
And I need to see the places I can go
‘Cause the more I know
The more it seems
That bigger things are in my dreams
And the more that I dream, the more I need to know
If we take a look around, and believe in what we see
We can make a better world, because it’s home to you and me
‘Cause the more I know
The more it seems
There’s more to life than I first believed
And the more I believe – the more I need to know
(Instrumental break: sitar, orchestra)
If we keep on finding out, and believe in what we see
There might be a better world to be passed along to me
‘Cause the more I know
And the more you teach
The whole wide world’s within my reach
And the more that I reach, the more that I can be
copyright 2001, 2016 S.DeDoes / Full Score & 7 Music, Inc. (BMI)
all rights reserved.