LOIS HOLT

LYRICS

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Hello Stranger © Lois Holt 2022

 

Hello, Stranger

Do you remember?

I’m the one from

A long ago December

 

Thought you loved me

But it was a show

Now you’re just someone

Who I thought I used to know

 

When you called me

Day and night

And for hours we would talk

And set things right

 

You’re a stranger

Even though

You’re someone who

I thought I used to know

 

Hello Stranger

Goodbye friend

What was real for me

To you was just pretend

 

Thought you loved me

Cause I loved you so

Now you’re just someone who

I thought I used to know

 

Hello Stranger

Goodbye friend

What I thought was the

Beginning was the end

 

Thought you loved me

Cause I loved you so

Now you’re just someone who

I thought I used to know

Hello, Stranger

Goodbye, Friend

 

Blues Away – © Lois Holt 2022

 

I like my mountains high

And my castles higher

Like my chili hot

And my songs on fire

I’m on the road to glory

Gonna sing those blues away

 

When I leave this world behind me

Gonna have no worries to remind me

Travelin’ light, settin’ it right

Gonna sing those blues away

 

Gonna live at least nine lives

See no trouble, have no strife

Sling my banjo on my back

Troubles in a gunny sack

 

Get a dress for each new day

No more bills or debts to pay

No one can get in my way

Gonna  sing those blues a- way

 

When I tell my final story

Like a mystic allegory

There’s no heaven

There’s no hell

Purgatory will suit me well

 

But until that day has come

Gonna keep on lookin’ up at the sun

Warm my bones, calm my head

Gonna sing those blues a- way

 

Gonna live at least nine lives

See no trouble, have no strife

Sling my banjo on my back

Troubles in a gunny sack

 

Get a dress for each new day

No more bills or debts to pay

No one can get in my way

Gonna sing those blues a- way

Gonna sing those blues a- way

Gonna sing those blues a- way

 

I Wonder if God is Alive © Lois Holt 2023

 

Some mornings I wake

And while I’m still in bed

It seems hope can barely survive

With floods and war

Droughts, famine and more I wonder if God is alive

I try to explain

The world’s hunger and pain

But the answers escape my mind

If she were aware

Wouldn’t she care?

And I wonder if God is alive

 

CHORUS

Is God someone?

Is God somewhere?

Is God brutal or kind?

 

Is God almighty

Or is she just flighty

Is she living

Outside of my mind?

 

Each day the sun rises

And then sets at night

And the heavens with stars abound

Someone must be in charge

The job is so large

And I wonder if God is alive

 

I still say my prayers

Like an innocent child

Still want to believe we’ll arrive

In a world without war

Where we’re feeding the poor

And not wondering if God is alive

 

Saying Goodbye © Lois Holt 2023

 

Every Sunday my family took a long, long ride

My brother and me sitting side by side

One Sunday in May our Dodge up and died

When we got a new car I cried and I cried

CHORUS

Well I’ve never been good at saying goodbye 

From when I was born til the moment I die

The tears keep on falling, I cry and I cry

Oh I’ve never been good at saying good- bye.

 

My best friend Jane had curly black hair

We’d ride every ride at the county fair

But then came the part that I just couldn’t bear

Jane’s family packed up and moved away somewhere

 

Oh I know that things change

Now that I’m grown

But I still always fear

That I’ll be a-lone

I cling to the familiar

Turn away from the new

I like my things near me

My friends in clear view

 

I fell overboard, surrendered my heart

Told him and the preacher til death do us part

But he found another and he did depart

I knew that I’d never make a new start

 

My mother lived to be ninety-two

It was then that she died of old age and the flu

Friends and family gathered, filled every pew

Crying and a-singing every hymn we knew

 

Well I’ve never been good at saying goodbye 

From when I was born til the moment I die

The tears keep on falling, I cry and I cry

Oh I’ve never been good at saying good- bye.

The tears keep on falling, I cry and I cry

Oh I’ll never be good at saying good- bye.

 

Evening Song © Lois Holt 2021

 

In the late afternoon

When shadows are long

And the sun starts to set

I sing an evening song

 

I gaze at the sky

A hazy sea of shale

The clouds are layered

The light is lemon pale

 

I sing an evening song

Say goodbye to the sun

I welcome the moon

For the day now is done

I start to close my eyes

And listen to the sound

Of the moon rising up

And the sun going down

 

The sun is sinking

It falls behind the earth

With crimson blazing

It gives the night rebirth

 

And the stars are hiding

They’ll be glimmering soon

And there in the middle

The translucent moon

 

I reach back in time

To the morning’s early light

How quickly it passes

And turns into the night

 

I sing an evening song

Say goodbye to the sun

I welcome the moon

For the day now is done

I start to close my eyes

And listen to the sound

Of the moon rising up

And the sun going down