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Lights On
(words & music by Chris Velan)
© 2002 Chris Velan

Can you see the stars tonight,
And you also looking up thinking that you’re all alone,
In the alabaster light, ya, ya, ya,
It’s the little things that come around,
Hit you when you least expect them,
Your brown, brown skin,
Your sneaky grin,
These are the dots and I must connect them,
And I just want to pretend, that nothing ever ends,
It just keeps going,
On and on and on

Reprise
And I chose,
Time only knows,
Where my minds goes back,
To that place where

Chorus
I’d line up the needle on her favourite song ‘cause,
Yeah she loved the lights on,
And when she sang I would hum along ‘cause,
Oh, she loved the lights on,
It’s not a matter of right or wrong just,
Yeah, she loved the lights on,
Unless we went to the break of dawn then,
Oh, she loved the lights on,

Cruel, it seems cruel but it’s true,
You can’t hurt nobody if you live for you,
But it was my understanding, that I was going to be landing,
For a while with you (and now I just)
Comb down my hair and scrub my face in the morning,
Put my umbrella in the air when it’s storming,
And it’s the best thing I can do,
To stand up and pull me through, pull me through

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Chorus
Bridge
I had a dream and in that dream I asked the question why,
Love is like building up a bridge over the river Quai,
If it crumbles you can never think about the cost,
If it doesn’t then you always have a bridge to cross,
You say go write another song ‘bout,
How you had it all, now you’ve gone and lost it,
Can we forget about the pain and go walking, over who might have caused it,
Take a lesson from the bending tree,
Everybody knows you’re an angel,
But nobody more than me

Reprise
Chorus

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from It's Not What You Think, track released January 1, 2003

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Chris Velan Montréal, Québec

Montreal singer-songwriter and producer, Chris Velan, has always been crossing borders with his brand of world music- influenced, singer-songwriter pop. Drawing comparisons to the smart, genre-mixing writing of Neil Finn, Nick Lowe and Paul Simon, Velan's
latest album, “Amateur Hour”, will be released September 14th with touring to follow.
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