The Lion

I ran my fastest
He nipped my heals
I heard him roaring
My lungs were filled
But with exhaustion
And fear at best
Will I awake to find a lion on my chest?

He hides behind my pillow at night
What a fright, at the sight
How I wish that I could put up a fight
Can't escape, so I wake up

I started screaming
Conscious at last
The point evades
These visions past
Knowing I had to
Drift back to dream
I resolved to ask the lion what he means

He hides behind my pillow at night
What a fright, at the sight
How I wish that I could put up a fight
Can't escape, I won't wake up

Who do you think you are?
Do you know me?
How can I stop you from haunting all of my dreams?
Who do you think you are?
Do you know me?
Where do you come from?
How can I be rid of you?

I'm the strength that you've been waiting to find
Not a fright, in the slight
I'm the courage that you needed to fight
Why are you running away from me?

Love For Where You Are (Double Single)

Track 1: Love For Where You Are

Verse 1:
Over it, can I get over it?
If you ever find yourself wondering
Do I have what it takes for this?
Can I get over it? If I do then what's next?
If you ever find yourself wondering
Do I have what it takes for this?
Do I have what it takes for this?
Even if it takes some time It matters that you realize

Chorus:
There is love for where you are
There is love for where you've been
There is love for where you're going
And with all my heart Even if my voice runs out
I will find a way to sing it

Verse 2:
Over it, now that I'm over it, If you ever find yourself wondering
Did I make some mistakes back then?
Yeah, you made some mistakes back then
Even if it takes some time It matters that you realize

Bridge:
And even if it takes some time
Even if it takes your life
You were made to realize
That you were made for love
And even if it takes some time
Even if it takes your life

With all my heart, even if my voice runs out, I will find a way to sing it

Track 2: What It Was Like

Verse 1:
Hold on, I'm coming home
When we were younger this was so much easier than we'd known
Look out the window, see the snow
If it is gone before I pack my bags and hit the road

Chorus:
Remember what it was like
When I held
Your cold hands
When he left you
All alone
In a bitter storm
By your house
You saved some from that night

Verse 2:
Ooh, I'll bring some home
I heard that a storm is brewing through the pass that keeps me gone
Never to leave you
Again what's more
I bought us a little house three miles from the ocean shore

Chorus 2:
We'll remember what it was like
When I held Your cold hands
When he left you
All alone
In a bitter storm
By your house
You saved some from that night

Chorus 3:
We'll remember what it was like
When I held our children
And we showed them
All the snow
That kept me from home
In our house
I saved some from that night

Everything About This Feels Temporary

Track 1: Everything About This Feels Temporary

If I could turn back time I don't know what I'd do would you?
They say that when you look back it's easier to know what's true
I don't know about that, 'cause I don't even have a clue
Everything about this year has left me speechless
Everything about this feels temporary

I feel the winds of change taking over all I do
Instead of changing me, really they're just blowing through
We've been stuck for a while, maybe you can feel it too
Everything about this year has left me speechless
Everything about this feels temporary

I don't have an antidote for all this pain I see
But I don't have to look far to see that it's not just me
If you don't know when change will come
Then I'm right there with you
Everything about this year has left me speechless
Everything about this feels temporary

Track 2: Of The Ohio

He said I like it but I think I really miss your edge, As we listened to my songs on his TV set, we drank a couple beers and then I went to bed, I couldn’t sleep and thought about the thing he’d said.

It’s true that I’ve been struggling since the band broke up, been looking for the melody in milder stuff, do i have to sing at the top of my lungs to be heard?

I made a decent record but it didn’t sell, I promised lot’s of money to the guys who helped, then I moved across the country and my voice gave out, I saw a bunch of doctors and they all found…..

Different things, the first was sure that it was allergies, and the second specialist said he did agree, four months, a routine and some pills a day later, and i really wasn’t getting any better

it’s gone, it’s gone and I wondered if it’s time to move on. It’s gone, it’s gone, well I had a good run and I think it might be time to sing another song….

I decided that I couldn’t throw the towel in yet, so I saw a different doctor and you’d never guess, that the thief in the night was a meal that I ate before bed mixed with stress it was eating me alive

I started on some medicine to neutralize, all the acid in my stomach, and I learned not to eat after seven….. what am I, fifty-five?

Well the symptoms eased up and the pain regressed, and a good friend’s teaching me how to deal with the stress, In the word’s of john mayer I’m In repair, And I think that the worst is behind me…

It’s gone, I think it’s gone, and I’m glad that I don’t have to move on, it’s gone, it’s gone, and I’m learning how to sing again I hope that i can write you a million songs….

When things settled down and I had a mo, to miss all my family and my friends back home, just a boy and girl of the ohio, trying to make it out on the west coast

Been asking the Lord what it all means, been writing lots of songs about my feelings, and I’m making progress in therapy, trying to make sense of why it feels so hard

to be gone, I’m gone, and I’m finding it hard to move on. I’m gone, I’m gone, when will this place feel like home I don’t know, but I’m gone, I’m gone, and I’m finding it hard to move on, I’m gone, I’m gone, do you always have to leave just to figure out where you belong?

Track 3: Another Chance

Evan Way, frontman of The Parson Redheads wrote this one. It’s a beauty and you should hear the original.

It Did Me Well

Side A

1. It Did Me Well [lyrics]

Why can't you see, it's been a long night for me
I got a reason for it all right now, don't even try to talk me down
They always told me that it all works out, 
they always tell me but I know
I simply know it isn't so

My earthly dad he passed away when I was 12
Then cancer came took my health, but i wouldn't let it wear me down
So I did those drugs and I gave'em hell, I got the best of them
I learned of God, It did me well
Yea it did me well.

Why can't you see, it's been a long time for me.
I got a reason for it all right now, don't even try to talk me out
of packing up and getting out of here, away from everything i'm told
I'll venture into the unknown

They said there's a place for me here, should I return
They washed my feet, and shared my tears,
But I didn't let them change my mind
So I hit the road ready to unlearn
The garbage I'd been taught for years
And Oh my God, it did me well, yea it did me well

The pain returned to my stomach, like I remembered it.
3000 miles away from home, the doctor seemed to change my mind
So I flew straight back to the table, they said that It was just a fright
And Oh my God, you brought me back, I think I'll stay a while
But things can never be the same

2. Not Ready [lyrics]

Talk is cheap, you know you're weak
You move along, you move along.
Though I weep, you can's see
That you're wrong, maybe you're wrong.

You're not ready. You’re not ready
I’ve been driving through the night
To tell you baby
You’re not ready. You’re not ready
And when you think you are
You're most likely not

Oh, remember when I found you all alone
Shivering, begging for someone to hold.
I stood you on your feet
And I became a blanket you could keep
Oh remember when you threw it all away
You told me that you couldn’t stay
After all that we’ve been through
I know that I knew you

You're not ready. You’re not ready
I’ve been driving through the night
To tell you baby
You’re not ready. You’re not ready
And when you think you are
You're most likely not

3. Sad Songs and Waltzes [lyrics]

( 1973 Willie Nelson - Tree Publishing, BMI)

4. Leaving For Good [lyrics]

You were like a brother, 
And at times i called your mom my mother
life here left you wanting, had your bags
In your doorway 

When I heard you were leaving with a one way pass
I tied myself to the railroad track
I've done everything I could
'Cause I heard that you were leaving for good

To my disappointment
They said you hitched a free ride to Portland
There's no use in crying
As they handed me your note.

It read: I've gone westward. Moved on.
My heart to find, you'll see in time.

When I heard you were leaving with a one way pass
I tied myself to the railroad track
I've done everything I could
'Cause I heard that you were leaving

When I heard you were leaving with a one way pass
I tied myself to the railroad track
I did everything I could
When I heard that you were leaving for good.

Sickness brought you homeward, 
And my wedding was moving forward
Doctors said you're fine but, 
You just stayed in bed and slept

5. Only Begun [lyrics]

Take your time, if you want to
I don’t mind, I don’t mind
Take your time, you were meant to
You’ll be mine, you are mine

Just know that we’ve won
 ‘Cause we’ve only begun
Just know that we’ve won
And If you ever start to slip
Or the bucket comes up dry

Times are hard, but I’m with you,
Meet my eyes, we’ll be fine.
We could last for a lifetime,
If you’re mine, if you’re mine.

…And the moment that you slip
When you’re tempted not to try
I won’t leave your side

Take our time, we were meant to,
Meet my eyes, we’ll be fine. *

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Side B

6. Her Name Was Grace [lyrics]

Her Name Was Grace
I met her in first grade
I was nervous to approach her but my mother,
Said “Son just say hello, you’ll be okay.”

One day I walked away
She cried as I left her
I tried to act as if I’d never really seen
Her pretty face or tasted her embrace

Her name was grace
She found me in shambles
She washed the blood from off my hands
and wrapped my wounds up
She sang me songs of hope I’ve never known

I will repay you for the years that you have lost
Every dollar, every cent
And when the days aren’t getting easier to bear
I promise I will not forget

I will repay what you have lost

7. Punches [lyrics]

We were as free as we would ever be
Roaming the garden in his company
We were the keepers of our destiny
We watched the story unfold
We ate the fruit of the forbidden tree
I threw you under ‘cause you gave it to me
It’s not the same when you are next to me
Our sons and daughters are cold

I was a lion with a wig for a mane
And it was hardly a cure
You were a fighter throwing punches in vain
Like you had something to prove

There is a garden we can’t see from here
A hope of what is to come
And in the wait we’ll find the courage to
Pick up the pieces or run
And I know that there’s a gardener
He’s waging war against the weeds
They’re set in motion to divide us
Now they’re up above our heads and the trees

Prove, like you had something to prove
Prove, like I had something to prove
Prove, like we had something to prove
Prove, we ain’t got nothing to prove

The sun was setting on our running away
We were facing our fears
I wrestled the gardener til he gave me a name
And you forgave me the years

8. She's Not There [lyrics]

Driving you home for the first time to meet mom and dad
I'm so glad that you came
You ask me how long until we arrive, 10 or 12 minutes
almost in sight

We talked about the weather all the way
And you fumbled with your nails because you're nervous
I'm nervous too, so I turn to look at you
you're not there

She's not there (x2)
She’s not there
She never was
I know in my heart it's the truth
I know in my heart there's no use

Then and there I realized there is a hole in my heart
yet to fill on its own
Dark is that place, filled with echoes it chases again
What it knows I can't have

…Well I'm nervous too, but I won't look at you
you're a thought in my head and we'll leave it unsaid
That you are not coming home with me

I know in my heart it's the truth
I know in my heart there's no use.

9. Mountain Time [lyrics]

Somewhere in Mountain Time I did remember
The promise you said you were keeping
I feel so ashamed of the commotion I made
When I mistook your absence for leaving

Like the wind chimes behind my house making their music
To sing of your love and not falter
But on days like today they’re just begging for notice
Without wind they’ve got nothing to offer

But Sometimes the wind doesn’t blow
And sometimes the sun won’t come out
I know that it’s shining in spite of the clouds
And I long for the strength not to doubt
(Won’t you give me the strength not to doubt)

Take me back quickly for I can’t be trusted
Long in the arms of my memory
Though I’ve heard you whisper it sweetly in my ear
I’m afraid that I still need reminded

You’ve told me that you won’t forget
Like a mother with her child at her breast

But sometimes she will disappoint
And sometimes your voice seems so far
And the words to the love songs you wrote me are fading
How I long to remember them all

But Sometimes the wind doesn’t blow
And sometimes the sun won’t come out
I know that it’s shining in spite of the clouds
Won’t you give me the strength not to doubt

"It Did Me Well" album Notes

Kevin Embleton - Vocals, acoustic guitar, electric guitar
John Finley - Electric guitar, acoustic guitar, background vocals
Jake Yonkers - Electric guitar, background vocals
Brandon Covey - Bass, Upright Bass
Matt Kurtz – Drums, percussion

Additional Musicians: Joe Kurtz (pedal steel), Anya Rose (vocals), Jocelyn Embleton (saxophone, vocals), Ron Flack (hammond, rhodes), Cody J. Martin (Harmonica), Angus Farquharson (Cornet).

Produced by John Finley and Kevin Embleton
Engineered and Mixed by John Finley at the Alta House
Additional Engineering by Kevin Embleton
Mastered by J.J. Golden at Golden Mastering
Printed by Discmakers

Art direction and design - Luke Shuman (www.lukeshuman.com)
Typography – Mark Davis
Photography - John Finley, Matt Kurtz, John King
Drawing - Alex Embleton

All songs written by Kevin Embleton except Sad Songs And Waltzes by Willie Nelson © 1973 Sony/ATV Tree Publishing, Leaving For Good by Kevin Embleton and Joshua Graber, Her Name Was Grace by Kevin Embleton and John Finley, Punches by Kevin Embleton and Mike Barrow.