Songs from Hindsights & Highlights Vol 1

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I Don't Need You Tonight

Well I saw you just the other night

You asked if I was alright

Well what could I say

So I told a little white lie

I said I was feeling fine

And then you went away

But if I held you tonight like the other night

I’d see you’re still only a girl

Well I open my eyes and I realize

That I don’t need you tonight

Well I saw you with that other guy

It hurt for a little while

Why it hurt I don’t know

Well it’s taken me a little time

But I'm back on the front line

I still got scenes to go

But if I held you tonight like the other night

I’d see you’re still only a girl

Well I open my eyes and I realize

That I don’t need you tonight

Wait What?

Well so what if I gave a sigh

When I saw you with that other guy

Now I laugh it off

I've been seen around with other girls

I've stayed away from your world

Heah, this ain’t so tough

But if I held you tonight like the other night

I’d see you’re still only a girl

Well I open my eyes and I realize

That I don’t need you tonight

And if I held you tonight like the other night

I’d see you’re still only a girl

Well I open my eyes and I realize

That I don’t need you tonight

I don’t need you tonight

What's it about: the first breakup / heartbreak

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Let Your River Run

I don’t know what you need

I don’t know what I am

I don’t know what you see

I don’t know what you plan

For me…

I don’t know where I go

Sometimes I just let flow

I don’t know what to do

Pressured seams all on you

And I

I know my lies

And I

I am not done

Let my river run

I don’t know what to do

I don’t know what to say

Got a dream under way

When I walk it just fades

And you

I just want one

And you

I am not done

Let my river run

Can you hear me

Can you see me

Can you read me

Can you feel me

I got some place to go

running through my own lows

its 4am on my own

another life has begun

let your river run

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Highlights and Hindsights

Hey son, want to get high?

Maybe that’ll loosen me up to share another side

I know, you’re wondering why

You and I are old enough now, to talk about life

And I know, what I’ve said

I got little time to get my soul of my head

This is late time of my life – can’t let it stop and let it go down in the dirt

I’m proud of what I have done

And I got more to share where I come from

Dance if you want to dance

Smile while you take the chance

Highlights and Hindsights

Are all the things on my mind to share tonight

Hands on the water’s edge

Lines on your paper sketch

Highlights and hindsight’s

Don’t you know, you know you know what you gotta know

And maybe I want to know

Hey girls - you got a little time?

Will you help me shape this life with what I got, I gotta get mine

And I hope that you feel a little soul, maybe the words will hit home,

and maybe they’ll last longer than mine

And I know and I’ve seen

the middle of my life, in the middle of the night, there’s a terror awaiting me,

Something so bright yet I can only see

I know when I close my eyes, maybe I’ll see what I hope to see, I see a new life

Dance if you want to dance

Smile while you take the chance

Highlights and Hindsights

Are all the things on my mind to share tonight

Hands on the water’s edge

Lines on your paper sketch

Highlights and hindsight’s

Don’t you know, you know you know what you gotta know

Dance if you want to dance

Smile while you take the chance

Highlights and Hindsights

Are all the things on my mind to share tonight

Hands on the water’s edge

Lines on your paper sketch

Highlights and hindsights

Don’t you know, you know you know what you gotta know

And maybe I gotta know

And maybe I want to know

And definitely I gotta know

What's it about: Your kids becoming adults

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© Brian Chu

Don’t you know why, sitting here

Hold down the wall, closing here

I hold my eyes, baby baby here

You said the words, made my eyes close

Don’t you know why, I see you now

and the world, don’t you go

This is my time

Though I might have known

You are standing here

I close my eyes and sing

and saw the world

You might have known

how I might have felt

until I held your eyes

until I closed..

So I might have gone, on and on

and so I might have gone, on and on

had it not been for you

This is all I know

I close my eyes and sing

Words they come along and the words they sing

I look into your eyes

I’m blinded by the sun

Don’t you know the words are holding on

This is all I know

This is all I’ve said

I noticed all the words

and I ain’t going away

and I am here for you

I know you’re there for me

hey I saw all the words

and I’ve been away holding on tight

don’t you know why holding on so right

I know all the words don’t you know why don’t you know why

Don’t you know why

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The thing that has kept us all apart

has brought us all here to share our hearts

Tears are falling on our masks

but we can’t hold on

The days are alone the days are gone

Holding the memories for so long

I've been searching since you’ve gone

for the words to say

I close my eyes to see your face

Just another day to be with you

Just another song to sing with you

Another game, another play, another home, another place

There's so much more I want to do

I want to have another talk with you

Another show, another sun, another walk, another one

I lay on the floor and look above

I listen the sounds of songs you loved

Loneliness even though I have

family around

Trying to fall asleep at night

Imagine you asleep alone that night

I dream that I was with you when

You closed your eyes

Just another day to be with you

Just another song to sing with you

Another game, another play, another home, another place

There's so much more I want to do

I want to have another talk with you

Another show, another sun, another walk, another one

and I'm holding on, and I'm holding on

and I'm holding on for you

and I'm holding on to see your light

and I'm holding on to say good night

and I'm holding on

Just another day to be with you

Just another song to sing with you

Another game, another play, another home, another place

There’s so much more I want to do

I want to have another talk with you

Another show, another sun, another walk, another one

Epilogue:

Just another day to be with you

A few more words from me to you

Another song, another sun, another walk, another one

And I think of you every day

I tell my kids about your way

I’ll share your words, I’ll share your thoughts,

I’ll share your dreams, I’ll share your love…

Inspiration: Mike's father passed away in 2020. His eulogy stuck with me on my drive home. The words I remembered went from words to lyrics to melody on a voice memo all while driving down 93 south. Other lines come from talks with friends on losing a parent.