One evening when Joey was about 3 months old I noticed a beautiful sunset on the way. I turned off all the lights and took Joey in the rocker by the window. Seth was out at a gig and we were alone in our quiet, with the purple sky - me in the newness of mommyhood - Joey snuggled in a ball on my shoulder. I started singing this song. Most of the first verse came to me then, and I dissolved in a puddle. My wonderful co-writer Tanya helped me carve out the rest.
This song won First Place in the Lady Six String Songwriting competition and was performed my the group "Momsense".
Little Man
(music and lyrics by Liz Queler & Tanya Leah
)
) Little Man
Little man sleeping on my shoulderSoft and warm safe beside my heart
I never dreamed I would someday hold you
But I wished up a sky and I brought down a star
And here you are
Stop the sun - stop the moon
Time is flying by too soon
I watch you grow and now I understand
And I wonder how you hold my whole wide world in your tiny hand
Little man I’m seeing for the first time
Cause through your eyes everything’s brand new
Every cloud and every ray of sunshine
Everyday I learn things I thought I knew
All from you
Stop the sun - stop the moon
Time is flying by too soon
I watch you grow and now I understand
And I wonder how you hold my whole wide world in your tiny hand
Little man
I watch you so proudly
Standing on your own
Soon you’ll take that first big step
And I wonder where you’ll go
Stop the sun - stop the moon
Time is flying by too soon
I watch you grow and now I understand
And I wonder how you hold my whole wide world in your tiny hand
Little man
The great experiment.
Through my mother (opera conductor Eve Queler) I've had a very long relationship with a lot of operatic repertoire. This music swirled around my young life, as I'd come home from school to find rehearsals, and great opera singers in my living room. I also sang in the children's chorus of the New York State Theater for eight years.
I've wondered what it would be like to take some of these beautiful melodies and bring them into the musical environment I've been living in.
Compelling at least.
Through my mother (opera conductor Eve Queler) I've had a very long relationship with a lot of operatic repertoire. This music swirled around my young life, as I'd come home from school to find rehearsals, and great opera singers in my living room. I also sang in the children's chorus of the New York State Theater for eight years.
I've wondered what it would be like to take some of these beautiful melodies and bring them into the musical environment I've been living in.
Compelling at least.
Shakespeare Avenue
(music and lyrics by Liz Queler & Tanya Leah)
) Cry
(words and music by LIz Queler $ Laurie Lewis
)
)
Don’t ask me why I’m sad tongiht
another lie, another fight
A broken dream, a promise bare
A jar of hope with nothing there
I never saw a night looking so dark
I never saw a sky, so torn apart so
Cry, cry, cry
I’ll tell you what I did today
I counted dreams I threw away
Cause I believed you when you said
You’d always stay, but you left instead
I never saw a day looking so dark
I never knew that losing you could be so hard so
Cry, cry, cry tongiht
Cry, cry, cry
another lie, another fight
A broken dream, a promise bare
A jar of hope with nothing there
I never saw a night looking so dark
I never saw a sky, so torn apart so
Cry, cry, cry
I’ll tell you what I did today
I counted dreams I threw away
Cause I believed you when you said
You’d always stay, but you left instead
I never saw a day looking so dark
I never knew that losing you could be so hard so
Cry, cry, cry tongiht
Cry, cry, cry
)