Below are the lyrics for all songs on the album Between Us.
Between Us
© 2005 Philip Maffetone
Walkin’ on the sand the moon pauses at the ocean’s edge
If the moon is full will it overflow like a heartbeat wedged between us
Unseen we must
Between us, is you and me
Between us, just you and me
Sleepin’ in day, I’m sneakin’ in your dream ‘cause we’re alone
Peekin’ at your soul, for a look a feel it’s all so real between us
Unseen we must
Between us, is you and me
Between us, just you and me
Rise and fall, our names we call
It’s hard to love in a world so full of hate
Rise and fall, no time to stall
It’s hard to love when no one knows what is fate
Comin’ back together, we just had to wait at the ocean’s edge
For the weather, we twisted fate that’s the pledge between us
Little Bit of Ramblin’
© 2007 Philip Maffetone
Little bit of ramblin’ on the side
Little bit of ramblin’ on the other side
A bit of little ramblin’ here
Little bit of ramblin’ there
I’ll ramble all the way to my grave
And wave as I wander on by
Ramble as a way to be saved
And stray from the corner of my eye
Little bit of ramblin’ outside
Little bit of ramblin’ on the inside
A bit of little ramblin’ here
Little bit of ramblin’ there
I’ll ramble so I never have to choose
To lose as I wander on by
Ramble far away without my shoes
Then stray from corner of my eye
Little bit of ramblin’ today
Little bit of ramblin’ every day
A bit of little ramblin’ here
Little bit of ramblin’ there
Little bit of ramblin’ on the side
Little bit of ramblin’ on the other side
A bit of little ramblin’ here
Little bit of ramblin’ there
Little bit of ramblin’
Little bit of ramblin’
Little bit of ramblin’
Just Be Me
© 2007 Philip Maffetone
I’m a shoe-in for shut-in of the year
I’m a master of all the things we fear
I was tortured long before my days
I was torn between my many different ways
Forsake me somewhere else to pasture
Take my hand so I can see
Make me be your guide
So I can just be free
Wake me by your side
Wake me by your side and just be me
I was running ran into my fears
Goin’ faster passing up the years
Forsake me somewhere else to pasture
Take my hand so I can see
Make me be your guide
So I can just be free
Wake me by your side
Wake me by your side and just be me
I was dreamin’ of being here with you
It was pleasin’ having me here too
Forsake me somewhere else to pasture
Take my hand so I can see
Make me be your guide
So I can just be free
Wake me by your side
Wake me by your side
Wake me, wake me
Wake me by your side and just be me
Get Ready for the Night
© 2007 Philip Maffetone
Get ready for the night
Out of trouble out of daylight
Get ready for the night
The bad days turn to beautiful nights
It’s only grey between the black and light
Get ready for the night
Out of trouble out of daylight
Get ready for the night
The day is black and you start to feel
Don’t look back for another deal
Get ready for the night
Out of trouble out of daylight
Get ready for the night
The day is dead you can’t be wrong
In a different head where you belong
Get ready for the night
Get ready for the night
Get ready for the night
The night, the night, the night
Whiskey Bay
© 2006 Philip Maffetone
I’m comin’ home
Comin’ back home
When the time comes
That’s the right time for comin’ home
That’s the right time for comin’ home
Comin’ home again
When the time comes
I’m comin’ home
But it ain’t the right time for comin’ home
It ain’t the right time for comin’ home
When the rain comes I’ll be clean
If the rain comes you know what I mean
Until then I’ll be here at Whiskey Bay
There’s no closin’ time, that’s the right time, at Whiskey Bay
I’m comin’ home
At the right time
When the rain comes
That’s the right time for comin’ home
That’s the right time for comin’ home
When the rain comes I’ll be clean
If the rain comes you know what I mean
Until then I’ll be here at Whiskey Bay
There’s no closin’ time, that’s the right time, at Whiskey Bay
There’s no closin’ time, that’s the right time, at Whiskey Bay
One On One
© 2008 Philip Maffetone
He sits and waits so quietly
For his other side of Eden, his other side
Like a broken weighted sacred stone
He looks inside he’s screamin’
Here she comes all or none
There she runs one on one, one on one
He finds another future rhyme
Relieves the past beside him, the past beside
A broken line in time to see
Where all but one resides
Here she comes all or none
There she runs one on one, one on one
The fate of space so far apart
Among his sacrifices, one more sacrifice
The sacred song of time within
His power his paradise
Here she comes all or none
There she runs one on one, one on one
One on one, one on one
Middleman
2004 Philip Maffetone
We claim the past can never last, but why?
We say the rest of us are blessed, don’t cry
There’s a middleman, somewhere
A middleman
There’s a middleman, beware
We make our bed until we’re dead but why?
We hide behind the daily grind, and lie
There’s a middleman, inside
A middleman
There’s a middleman, who decides
We see with eyes of many cries, but why?
We make the most of what we boast, then sigh
There’s a middleman, somewhere
A middleman
There’s a middleman, beware
There’s a middleman, inside
A middleman
There’s a middleman, who decides
A History of Secrets
© 2006 Philip Maffetone
Got a history of secrets running through my life
The misty little signatures humming to my strife
The story of these secrets wind blown little seeds
The glory of the undisclosed are privileges indeed
We always have to buy much more than we need
And keep the rest inside, please
We always have to sigh at all the things indeed
This history of secrets must be freed
This history of secrets will be freed
The silly little secrets the grand ones deep inside
The dark ones and those that shine it’s here they all reside
This history of secrets rushing through my life
Unending dedications running with my strife
We always have to buy much more than we need
And keep the rest inside, please
We always have to sigh at all the things indeed
This history of secrets must be freed
This history of secrets will be freed
This history of secrets will now be freed
Every Day
© 2008 Philip Maffetone
Don’t stay in one place for too long
Don’t play in one space for an other song
But show me your face every day
Show me your face every day
So stay here with me for one more song
Play it with me ‘till the sun comes along
Every day, every day
Please say it that way for a long time
Don’t weigh it today like it was wrong
But lay in this space every day
Lay in this space every day
Remain here and see where the next song goes
Explain it to me in the love song I wrote
Every day, every day
Agree it’s not me it’s our own thing we do
Believe what we see and sing like it too
Every day, every day
Every day, every day
Garbage
2004 Philip Maffetone
Oh Lord please get me out of the garbage
Oh Lord don’t forget me make me forage alone
I’ve been around a long time
Is this world really mine
You keep so much inside you
I used to think the sky was blue
Running away in the night can you still see me
Something today is not right can’t you just be me
Oh Lord have you changed do what you do
Oh Lord let it rain if you must be you it’s all the same
Has my will cost too much time
Can I say what’s really mine
There’s nothing left inside me
I can’t feel or hear or see
Running away in the night can you still see me
Something today is not right can’t you just be me
Oh Lord please get me out of the garbage
Play It Again
2004 Philip Maffetone
How many fingers have touched you
How many sad songs my friend
So many good times were heard so true
Play it again, play it again
How many fingers have loved you
How many melodies were broken
So many good sounds of red and blue
Play it again, play it again
You never heard colors of the world today
But black white has all the color locked away
Find some fingers and we’ll hear your symphony
Play it again and be free
Play it again and be me
Play it again
How many fingers have touched you
How many sad songs my friend
So many good times were heard so true
Play it again, play it again
Play it again, play it again
Is It Love If You Fall?
© 2007 Philip Maffetone
Is it love if you fall?
And each day you don’t have it all?
Is it love when you don’t know?
It ain’t love ‘cause you say so
Is it love is there a forever?
Does every day keep getting better?
Is it love just ‘cause you’re beautiful?
It ain’t love if it’s impossible
Love isn’t nothin’, it ain’t even blue
It’s all we can have it’s just me and you
We can reminisce about why or how
But love is not this, love is just now
Is it love if you fall?
And each day you don’t have it all?
Is it love when you don’t know?
It ain’t love ‘cause you say so
It ain’t love ‘cause you say so
It ain’t love ‘cause you say so
