John Denver Album

Lost in a boat on the ocean, lost in a ship out at sea.
Lost in the dark of misfortune, where is a light I can see?
Where is the highway to heaven, where is the love we all need?
Where is the peace that we long for, where is the man who is free?
Here in the heart there is freedom, here in the heart there is peace.
Here in the heart is the answer to questions much deeper than these.
You've got to hold on tightly, let go lightly. It's only surrender, it's all in the game.
If you just hold on tightly, let go lightly, there's always forgiveness and no one to blame.

Some will take fame over fortune, some will take love over gold.
Some will pray only for power, some never want to grow old.
Some see the day that is coming, some only see what has passed.
Someone will always be first in line, someone will always be last.
Here in the heart there is freedom, here in the heart there is peace.
Here in the heart is the answer to questions much deeper than these.
You've got to hold on tightly, let go lightly. It's only surrender, it's all in the game.
If you just hold on tightly, let go lightly, there's always forgiveness and no one to blame.
You've got to hold on tightly, let go lightly. It's only surrender, it's all in the game.
If you just hold on tightly, let go lightly, there's always forgiveness and no one to blame.

This song appears on two albums, and was first released on the It's About Time Album. It has also been released on the Country Classics album.


It's been almost a year since that beautiful weekend
It was more than a lifetime ago
How it happens to mind after all of this time
And brings tears to my eyes I don't know

It's the thought of you
And the way that it hurts to be so much in love
The thought of you
Brings it all my way

I know that it's late, I'm sorry I called
I'm surprised to have found you at home
It's just once in awhile I remember your number
I was hoping that you'd be alone

For I thought of you
And the way you can turn it around with a smile
The thought of you
Brings it all my way

I know that it's over, but I can't discover a way to erase how I feel
I remember the nights and the passionate fights and I know that I love you and I always will

And I want you to know that I'm always here for you
Any day, any night, any time
It happened before, it could happen once more
There's a chance that you might change your mind

For I thought of you
And the way that it feels to be safe in your arms
The thought of you
Brings it all my way

I know that it's over, but I can't discover a way to erase how I feel
I remember the nights and the passionate fights
And I know that I love you and I always will
It's been almost a year since that beautiful weekend
It was more than a lifetime ago

Words and music by John Denver

There's somethin' about the ocean rising up to meet the shoreline.
Somethin' about a river the way it runs to meet the sea.
There's somethin' about a rainfall and it's like the gift of living.
There's somethin' about the water that makes me sing.
Oh, somethin' about the mountains rising right straight up to heaven.
And somethin' about a canyon in the shade of a cottonwood tree.
Somethin' about the desert in the afterglow of evening.
There's somethin' about the west that makes me sing.
There's somethin' about the way you love me baby.
There's somethin' about the way your lips meet mine.
There's somethin' about the way you like to touch me.
It really turns me on and makes my little light shine.


There's somethin' about the way you love me baby.
There's somethin' about the way your lips meet mine.
There's somethin' about the way you like to touch me.
It really turns me on and makes this little light shine.
There's somethin' about the forest in the latter days of August.
There's somethin' about the country on the very first day of springtime.
There's somethin' about a wheatfield, oh you know I love the prairie.
There's somethin' about the land that makes me sing.

Artist: John Denver
Album: The Best of John Denver
Song: On The Wings Of A Dream

Yesterday I had a dream about dying
About laying to rest and then flying
How the moment at hand is the only thing
We really own

And I lay in my bed and I wonder
After all has been said and is done for
Why is it thus we are here
And so soon we are gone

Is this life just a path to the place
That we all have come from
Does the heart know the way
And if not, can it ever be found
In a smile or a tear or a prayer
Or a sigh or a song


And if so, then I sing for my father
And in truth you must know I would rather
He were here by my side
We could fly on the wings of a dream
To a place where the spirit would find us
And the joy and surrender would bind us
We are one anyway
Anyway we are more than we seem

There are those who will lead us
Protect us each step of the way
From beginning to end
For each moment forever each day
Such a gift has been given
It can never be taken away

(Instrumental)


Though the body in passing must leave us
There is one who remains to receive us
There are those in this life
Who are friends from our heavenly home
So I listen to the voices inside me
For I know they are there just to guide me
And my faith will proclaim it is so
We are never alone

From the life to the light
From the dark of the night to the dawn
He is so in my heart
He is here he could never be gone
Though the singer is silent
There still is the truth of the song
In the song


Yesterday I had a dream about dying
About laying to rest and then flying
How the moment at hand is the only thing
We really own

And I lay in my bed and I wonder
After all has been said and is done for
Why is it thus we are here
And so soon we are gone
Oh, why is it thus we are here
And so soon we are gone

This song was first released on the it's about time album. it is the only album it has been released on.

Oh, I have slipped the surly bonds of earth
And danced the sky on laughter silvered wings
Sunward I've climbed and joined the tumbling mirth
Of sun-split clouds and done a hundred things
I've wheeled and soared and swung high in the sunlit silence
Hovering there I've chased the shouting winds aloft
And flung my eager craft through footless halls of air

The higher we fly, the farther we go
The closer we are to each other
The darker the night, the brighter the star
In peace go my sisters and brothers


Up, up, the long delirious burning blue
I've topped the wind-swept heights with easy grace
Where never lark nor even eagle flew
And while with silent lifting mind I trod
The high untresspassed sanctity of space
Put out my hand and touched the face of god

The higher we fly, the farther we go
The closer we are to each other
The darker the night, the brighter the star
In peace go my sisters and brothers

Words by gillespie magee jr., john denver and joe henry
Music by lee holdridge
Adopted from the poem by john gillespie magee jr.

This song appears on three albums, and was first released on the It's About Time Album, and has also been released on The Country Roads Collection. A live version also appears on The Wildlife Concert Album.


This is what it's like falling out of love
This is the way you lose your very best friend
This is how it feels when it's all over
This is just the way true love ends

First of all there's no one to talk to
When there is they just don't seem to hear
Words don't seem to matter much anyway
They can't describe the pain
They can't explain the fear

Then the nights grow cold and hard to live through
Still you hate to see the morning come
Somehow tomorrow doesn't matter much anymore
The future holds no promise
Your life's already done

This is what it's like falling out of love
This is the way you lose your very best friend
This is how it feels when it's all over
This is just the way true love ends

The you find your heart no longer flutters
You no longer look through a lover's eyes
What's to see when the world falls down around you
You simply can't believe it
But it comes as no surprise

This is what it's like falling out of love
This is the way you lose your very best friend
This is how it feels when it's all over
This is just the way true love ends

What's the sense of failure
It's such an incredible loss
It's all the things you'll never do
And all the dreams that will never come true

This is what it's like falling out of love
This is the way you lose your very best friend
This is how it feels when it's all over
This is just the way true love ends
Oh this is just the way a true love ends
I don't believe a true love ever ends

Words and music by John Denver

I remember romance
Bubblebaths at night
Breakfast in the afternoon
Love by candlelight
Love by candlelight

I remember romance
And lying in her arms
Her hair across my shoulder
Her breast upon my arm
So soft upon my arm

I remember romance
And laughing at the moon
Dancing at the rainbow's end
And losing her too soon
And losing her too soon

I know we both are sorry
I know we both still care
Oh how could we have lost it
A love beyond compare
A love beyond compare

Words and music by John Denver

He was born in the Bitteroot Valley in the early morning rain
Wild geese over the water, heading north and home again
Bringin' a warm wind from the south, bringin' the first taste of the spring
His mother took him to her breast and softly she did sing:

CHORUS:
Oh, Montana, give this child a home
Give him the love of a good family and a woman of his own
Give him a fire in his heart, give him a light in his eyes
Give him the wild wind for a brother and the wild Montana skies

His mother died that summer and he never learned to cry
He never knew his father and he never did ask why
He never knew the answers that would make an easy way
But he learned to know the wilderness and to be a man that way
His mother's brother took him in to his family and his home
Gave him a hand that he could lean on and a strength to call his own
And he learned to be a farmer and he learned to love the land
And he learned to read the seasons and he learned to make a stand

CHORUS

On the eve of his 21st birthday, he set out on his own
He was 30 years and runnin' when he found his way back home
Ridin' a storm across the mountains and an achin' in his heart
Said he came to turn the pages and to make a brand new start
Now he never told the story of the time that he was gone
Some say he was a lawyer, some say he was a john
There was something in the city that he said he couldn't breathe
There was something in the country that he said he couldn't leave

CHORUS

Now some say he was crazy and some are glad he's gone
But some of us will miss him and we'll try to carry on
Giving a voice to the forest, giving a voice to the dawn
Giving a voice to the wilderness and the land that he lived on

CHORUS x2

This song was first released on the It's About Time Album. It is the only album it has been released on.

I want to play in the World Game
I want to make it better it's ever been before
I want to play in the World Game
I want to make sure everybody knows the score
About using less, doing so much more

Everywhere I'm going I see trouble
Everywhere I'm looking I see all kinds of pain
Maybe we can get back on the double
Maybe we can turn around and make it all change
They say it's you against your neighbor
If it gets right down to it, you against your friend
I swear that this is not the answer
As far as I can see it is the way it all ends

I want to play in the World Game
I want to make it better it's ever been before
I want to play in the World Game
I want to make sure everybody knows the score
About using less and doing so much more

Hey man, you know me I don't worry
Hey man, you know me I am never afraid
Only one thing can make me sorry
Something to say and then it never gets said
What kind of man turns on his brother
What kind of man turns his back on a friend
Who has the right to say it's over
Who has the right to see how far it can bend

I want to play in the World Game
I want to make it better it's ever been before
I want to play in the World Game
I want to make sure everybody knows the score
About using less, doing so much more

Yaweh yaweh yaweh jah
Yaweh yaweh yaweh jah
Yaweh yaweh yaweh jah
Yaweh yaweh yaweh jah

You and me you and me
You and me you and me

I and I - I and I
I and I - I and I

I want to play in the World Game
I want to make it better it's ever been before
I want to play in the World Game
I want to make sure everybody knows the score
About using less, doing so much more

Words and music by John Denver

This song appears on two albums, and was first released on the It's About Time album, and has also been released on the Country Classics album.

There's a full moon over India and Gandhi lives again
Who's to say you have to lose for someone else to win
In the eyes of all the people the look is much the same
For the first is just the last one when you play a deadly game

It's about time we realize it we're all in this together
It's about time we find out it's all of us or none
It's about time we recognize it these changes in the weather
It's about time, it's about changes and it's about time

There's a light in the Vatican window for all the world to see
And a voice cries in the wilderness and sometimes he speaks for me
I suppose I love him most of all when he kneels to kiss the land
With his lips upon our Mother's breast he makes his strongest stand

It's about time we start to see it the Earth is our only home
It's about time we start to face it we can't make it here all alone
It's about time we start to listen to the voices in the wind
It's about time, it's about changes and it's about time

There's a man who is my brother, I just don't know his name
But I know his home and family because I know we feel the same
And it hurts me when he's hungry and when his children cry
I too am a father and that little one is mine

It's about time we begin to turn the world around
It's about time we start to make it the dream we've always known
It's about time we start to live the family of man
It's about time, it's about changes and it's about time
It's about peace and it's about plenty and it's about time
It's about you and me together and it's about time

Words by John Denver, music by John Denver and Glen D Hardin