am I am

When you hit a dry spot
You don’t feel too hot
But you gotta move, shake it up, wake it up, quake it up
Never lose your creative soul (keep it whole)
Think, drink something pink
But don’t let your dreams sink

Creativity is like a bird, not always heard
Fragile when it lands, out of reach of your hands
Taking off to foreign lands

Refrain
Listen to the child within
Be kind to her or him
Listen to the child within
Stay in your skin

A friend of mine kept changing all the time
Going everywhere and going nowhere
Then her soul came ’round
When she finally sat down

You may go very far
Just hang on to that lucky star

You gotta intervene (keep it green)
Find it, feed it, love it, shape it,
Be true to the real you

Refrain

Am I am, I am what I am
Am I am, I am what I am

Blue Boots

With my blue boots on
I can’t go wrong
With my blue boots on
I’ll get along
With my blue boots on
I’ll sing this song
With my blue boots on
I can’t go wrong

Bottes bleues, bottes bleues
Bottes bleues, bottes bleues – j’adore !

Stivali azzurri, stivali azzurri
Stivali azzurri, stivali azzurri

Blaue Stiefel, blaue Stiefel
Blaue Stiefel, i mog moane blaue Stiefel

Friends Old and New

With you, I speak of secret things
With you, I sigh at days gone by
Just a song or sound or word
Nobody else has heard
We laugh until we cry

Defenses down and masks aside
I’m lifted up as we turn the world away
Driving all night in an old and rusty car
Healing the hurt and then the scar

No dream’s too small, no tale too tall
My ears and eyes will blend your world with mine

Driving all night in an old and rusty car
Healing the hurt and then the scar

No dream’s too small, no tale too tall
My ears and eyes will blend your world with mine
And whether we’re here or there
The days we dared
Will stand straight, still in time

Guys With Ties

Refrain 3x
Better watch out for guys with ties
Telling lies
Swatting little guys like flies

Why should your shoes
Determine whether you win or lose?

Classy dressy sassy messy
What you wear is who you are
Hurry worry blurry scurry
High heels bring you closer to the stars
Can’t we give the boot
To the power suit?
Got to give up your jeans
If you want to play mean now

Hunky junky funky monkey
They say jump, you say how high?
Easy honey sleazy money
Isn’t there a better way to fly?
Would we be so rude if we were in the nude?
Gotta wear Hugo’s clothes if you wanna be Boss, you know

Refrain

Classy dressy sassy messy
What you wear is who you are
Hurry worry blurry scurry
High heels bring you closer to the stars
Ooh…
Can’t we give the boot
To the power suit?
Ooh…
Got to give up your jeans
If you want to play mean now

Refrain

Home Is Inside

When I think of the lives I’ve led
How can I choose one?
Places, faces, all change
How can I remain the same?
When they ask me, “Where’re you from,
Where’s your home?” I smile awhile
Home is inside, I find
It’s where you are

In this world there are colors deep
Souls and smiles and suns,
Years of falling in love,
Living, leaving, getting by.
Do these lives seem strange to you,
Far away? I’ve got to say
They are you and you are them
No matter where

A part of me is here, a part of me is there,
A part of me could live anywhere
My friends are dear
They’re near and far
It’s where you are that’s home to you.

Sometimes I’ve tried to curl and hide
Is change the only way to happiness?
Experience the outside
And you’ll find home inside

Island of Nowhere

Through a rain-spotted window is a cast-iron gate
You can see the world beyond but can’t participate
When the words turn to music, but the meaning goes
It’s your own special film, with a private show

The uphill battle can get too steep
You can play on the surface but not dive too deep

Refrain
‘Cause you’re living on the Island of Nowhere
It’s pretty nice, but neither here nor there
A place of rest for those who roam
So try and make yourself at home

Through a rain-spotted window is a cast-iron fence
You can see the world beyond but cannot comprehend
And translation’s a tapestry hung inside out
You can recognize the scene, but not without a doubt

As time goes by, are you one of them?
And if you go back – what then?

Refrain

As time goes by, are you one of them?
And if you go back – what then?

Refrain

Italy Blues

Oh Mamma
I got the Italy blues
Oh Mamma, Mamma Mia
Got it bad, and that’s bad news
Feeling mixed up like fettuccine
With expensive leather shoes.

Oh, my lover’s dark and handsome
Calls me his bellissima
Oh, he says he’ll take me boating
In a cozy gondola
But he’s got thirteen kids with fourteen women
And that’s bad parma karma.

Well, drown me in olive oil
With a parmesan-basil blend
I can’t think about the past unless I put an “a” on the end,
Oh Mamma Mia
I got the Italy blues
Feeling mixed up like tagliatelle
Gotta pay those bel canto dues.

One day my lover asked me
If he could have a little Fell–ini
Said he’d love me forever
Said he’d never be a meanie
I said, “Bello, you go change some diapers
I’ll go home and Mastr–oianni!”

Oh Mamma
I got the Italy blues
Oh Mamma, Mamma Mia
Got it bad, and that’s bad news
Feeling helpless as a gnocchi
But he’s got a panino – I just can’t bear to lose

Love Day

Refrain
Let’s have a love day
Break down the barriers that we’ve built
It’s you I’m thinking of day
Celebrate our precious private world
Don’t think about tomorrow
We’ll wake up with the dawn, so
Let’s have a love day, you and I

Every day we’re going astray
Can’t do what we feel, or feel what we do
So let’s try to find the purity
Go back to simplicity

Refrain

As time goes by, the well runs dry
Leaves fall off the trees, and we freeze
So let’s take the time to hibernate
And let the mood resonate

Refrain