Lyrics from «What’s Keeping Me Going»

Love the Music

Written by Arthur Fowler

We just want to play all night
Oh what better to do with one’s life
Play and play until the day is bright
and love the music
Man says work but I say play
Play at night but work all day
So I will sing and maybe one day
You all can play with me too
It’s so big there’s always room
Come and join us you and you
Please cast off this solitude
And love the music


Splash

Written by Arthur Fowler

I can’t live without your loving
I can’t live at all
Walking down the street on a dark foggy night
Hands in my pockets, I pause under a light
I can see your house from here, and I know you’re home
And yet on I go, I continue to roam.
I can’t live without your loving
I can’t live at all
This night is chill, and my hair is wet;
splashes they accompany every step.
Parting water with each footfall
I still want to part from it all.
All your loving has brought me joy,
and if still I could be like before,
I’d dream of living on in bliss,
but I can’t live when I feel like this!


The New York Song

Written by Arthur Fowler

The time has come
to make that move
the time has come
to make that move
‘cause I’ve got to be alone now
try and find my own groove.

‘Cause I’ve tried so hard
it’s been so long
I’ve tried so hard
it’s been so long
but I will I will I will
forget all about you.

Maybe alone
I can sort my past
find out for myself
really what lasts
things went wrong
but that’s all gone
now I’ve got to got to got to
be alone.

‘Cause I’ve tried so hard
it’s been so long
I’ve tried so hard
it’s been so long
but I will I will I will
learn to live without you.


Please Try

Written by Arthur Fowler

People people people, you put so much energy
into lies and hatred that lead nowhere suddenly
The earth is crying and everyone’s heart bleeds
so why is it so hard for you to sympathize with me?

Please try, to sympathize with me.
Try, try, please try, to sympathize with me.

Our spoken words are different, our cries of love the same
When I laugh you know I laugh, and not one of us will remain
We are much too many, our guns reach across the sky
Tunes are moving much too fast for us not to try and harmonize.

Try, try, please try
to sympathize with me.Our spoken words are different
our cries of love the same
when I laugh you know I laugh
and not one of us will remain.
We are much too many
our guns reach across the sky
tunes are moving much too fast
for us not to try to sympathize.


Here I Am

 
No matter where I go

No matter what I do
There’s always someone with me
Keeps me so in tune with where I am

No matter where I go
No matter what I do
That’s always how it should be,
Keepin’ so in tune with where I am

Funny how hard it is to really really live that way
As if there were no tune to keep at all.

Running, running, running,
running scared running running,
as if there were no place to be at all.

So my friend says,
“Here I am. Here I am. Here I am.
Take me, take me with you.”


Hu

Written by Arthur Fowler

Hu
You are Hu
You and I
Hu we are.

True
What is true?
You are here,
True you are.

Tell me what is true.
True is that you’re here
In my arms
In love
At least
For now.

Hu
You are Hu
You and I
Hu we are.


What’s Keepin’ Me Going

Written by Arthur Fowler

Floating on my bed with another two-chord song,
Wondering about my music and maybe something’s wrong,
But all the time it’s you, girl, defining what I know,
Yes, yes it’s you, woman, and time is going oh so slow.

‘Cause all the time it’s you
All the time it’s you
All the time it’s you
That’s keeping me going going and going and going …

Life can be so empty, so meaningless, so trite.
Ah, but there are moments of such delight.
Wondering when I see you again, now, will things be the same.
You’ll be a gift to me woman, a gift for me that day.
‘Cause …
Countless reminiscences they pass through my mind.
I try to cling to one, but there’s so many, I find.
All our time together and now all this time apart;

To put my arms around you, press my ear against your beating heart.
‘Cause …