Randolph Thompson
A Unique, Original Jazz/Blues
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LET'S GET CONNECTED
Music and Lyrics by Randolph Thompson
(Vocals by Randolph Thompson, soprano sax by Jimmy Calire)


day, we don't always talk, but I know what you'd say
There are those times when we don't get to touch, but I still feel you that way.
You're everything I ever expected, So let's get connected.

Ups and downs, yah we got those too, but for us on a much higher scale
When I don't get a chance to hold you, I still know, I still know, we'll never fail.
We're the ones that have been selected, so let's get connected.

You and me, forever that way, and I know you'll always be there.
Our passion bonds us as one, so you're with me everywhere.
You're everything I ever expected, so let's get connected.

Let's get connected.
Let's get connected.
Let's get connected.

DANCE WITH DESTINY
Music and Lyrics by Randolph Thompson
(Vocals by Lynn Rose)

Make a move and don't worry baby, there's nothing to fear
Take a chance in this instant we've captured, right now, right here.
There's nothing to hurt you, It's alright if you fall,
'Cause no matter what happens, you'll be the belle of the ball.
What you get is what you see, You're at the Dance with Destiny.

Take that step and move forward, ooh, ooh, It's not gonna hurt.
Go embrace every moment that you've got, don't be late for your fate.
You can't wait to be asked, just go out on that limb.
You know it's not gonna snap, throw some caution to the wind.
What you do is what you'll be, You're at the Dance with Destiny.

Go on, move it.  I'll bet you're light on your feet.

Keep it safe and you don't win, uh, uh, You're just outta touch.
Stick your head out the window and feel it, just go that much.
Dress up for the big day, you don't shoot, you don't score.
So prepare for your big feast, taste the world, you'll want more.
Have some bisquits with your tea, You're at the Dance with Destiny.

Let yourself go, cut loose and you'll fly away.

THAT PIECE OF ME
Music and Lyrics by Randolph Thompson
(Vocal by Randolph Thompson, trombone solo by Matt Finders)


Every part has a purpose, as it works with the whole.
And if I let it go, I might lose control.
You've got to understand, I can't give you That Piece of Me.

There's a place deep inside me, where no one ever goes
And if I let you in, there goes my soul.
So you've just got to know, I can't give you That Piece of Me.

I share most of my secrets, that you ask for from me
But now I plead with you, just let me be.
Here's what I say to you, I just can't give you That Piece of Me

Oh, no Baby.  I just can't let you in.

 

WHAT YOU TRYIN' TO DO TO ME
Music and Lyrics by Randolph Thompson
(Vocal by Lynn Rose, Tenor Sax solo by Gary Rautenberg)


I don't like the way you talk to me, anymore, I don't like the things you do to me.
You're walking down the road to loneliness, you better make a U-turn soon.
What you, what you, tryin' to do to me.  Don't you, don't you ever treat me that way, or I'll be gone.

It's not the same the way you  treat me, nowadays.  You've forgotten all we had before
It's like you turned the power switch right off, you're gonna stay out in the dark.
What you, what you tryin' to do to me, Don't you, don't you ever treat me that way, or say Good-bye.

I deserve to get the best from you, everyday.  At least you've got to show you'll try.
We can't build a house of harmony if you refuse to live inside.
What you, what you tryin' to do to me, Don't you, don't you ever treat me that way, I won't be there.


THIS TIME IS THE FIRST TIME
Music and Lyrics by Randolph Thompson
(Vocals by Lynn Rose and Randolph Thompson)


I've never been touched like this, didn't know it could feel this way
I looked through my eyes to see what I've never seen.
It's all so different now, I found you somehow, you're so perfect for me, you and I just had to be
This time is the first time, it's never been like this before
This time is the first time that you and I have been in Love.

I feel a new excitement and a calm that's never been.
I thought I'd heard it all until I heard you speak
And then you were there with all your heart to share.  I'm just like you, you're just like me, too
This time is the first time, for my heart to feel this way,
This time is the first time that you and I have been in love.

Now I can cry with a smile and laugh with a tear, 'cause we're one.
We can share all our dreams and our feelings with what we've become.
There's no more questions or doubts when you know it, you know it
No need to figure it out when you feel it, you feel it.

This time is the first time, it's never been like this before
This time is the first time, for my heart to feel this way.
This time is the first time, I'm so sure of how I feel
This time is the first time and the last time and the only time.

This time is the first time.
This time is the first time.
This time is the first time.
This time is the first time that we have ever been in Love.

YOU DON'T KNOW WHAT YOU'RE MISSIN'
Music and Lyrics by Randolph Thompson
Vocal by Randolph Thompson, Tenor sax solo by Gary Rautenberg, Violin solo by Greg Fried)


I could be the King of England or the Prince of Wales
Satisfy, any white knight fairy tales.
You don't know what you're missin', but baby you're missin' out

I could be the Premier of China, president of G.M.
I could be Dorothy or Toto, the tinman, the strawman or even Auntie Em.
You don't know what you're missin', but baby you're missin' out.

I'm everything a man could be, I'm anything you desire
I can open any lock on any door, and set any world on fire.

I'm the special of the day, the season MVP
I'm the flavor of the month and the playmate of the year.

I could bring mankind happiness, even raise the dead
You start running with me baby, you'll be miles ahead.

You don't know what you're missin', but baby you're missin' out.

 

LUCKY
Music and Lyrics by Randolph Thompson
(Vocal by Lynn Rose)


Each and every day, I remind myself, to count all the blessings that have come my way
I'm fortunate that I know what's important in this world.
You gotta laugh and love and cry, keep that twinkle in your eye
I'm so lucky oh, lucky me

My glass is so full, and my heart is warm, I've got so very much to be happy for
I'm very rich there's nothing else I really need
But, to give and take and take and give, grab a hold of life and live
I'm so lucky, oh, lucky me

I don't know why people don't seem to try, embrace all that's good, imagine if they would
Let's hold each other tight, walk together hand in hand, every day and night then you'll understand
That we're all so lucky

I could change this place, just smile all the time, 'Cause I know what I've got, the blues are erased
I've got everything and I know you've got it too, we could share.
The gift of hope, just feel the pride, oh, it's right there, just inside
I'm so lucky, oh, lucky me.

Not everything is right and it's not always fair, but just close your eyes and dream the dream I share
Blow all dark clouds away, 'cause the sun shines all the time, worries go astray and I'm sure you'll find
That we're all so lucky.

Oh, I'm so lucky, oh lucky me.

BARCELONA
Music and Lyrics by Randolph Thompson
(Vocal by Lynn Rose, guitar solos by Tim Frantz)


Barcelona, please wait for me.  My secret old city by the sea
Merce has graced you, Costa Brava, Pyrenes, Barcelona I hear you call for me
Barri Gotic, Gaudi, La Rambla all beckon me.

Barcelona, don't go away, I miss your charm and your energy
Mar Bella lies there with your boqueria.  Barcelona, you're free to keep me near.
Bario Chino and mi Casa Mila all plea.

Barcelona, Catalonia.  Your old and new spirit capture me.
Donde Picasso and Salvador Dali, my Barcelona rebellious and so sweet.
Miro and Orwell, Columbus, art Nouveau aqui.

Warm and Mysterious, keep me in mind, my old friend, please wait for me.

CALL ME A CAB
Music and Lyrics by Randolph Thompson
(Vocal by Randolph Thompson)


Call me a cab, Mister bartender please, I say that everynight
But, before I go I'll need two more sips, so I know head to toe I'll be on my lips

Call me a cab, Mister bartender please, it's getting awfully late
But what does it matter, I really don't care.  I'm just getting fatter, I'm losing my hair

What happened to me I used to be a star in the sky to admire
But now I'm a star only here in this bar with a drink from a passing buyer.

Call me a cab, Mister bartender please, I should be going home
But I don't know why 'cause there's nothing there, Just my memories how it's all unfair

I don't know why I even try, I find there's just no more fire.
So now I sit here with my tongue in my beer, trying my best to get higher.

Cancel that call, Mister bartender please, I guess I'll have one more
I'll just stick to my stool in my twilight zone and sit here and drool and be all alone.

After this drink when I'm on the brink of my head in the sink I'll just give you a wink.
And then, call me, call me, please Mister batender call me, call me a cab.
(Chorus) You're a cab, You're a cab, You're a cab.  You're a you're a cab
I'm a cab.

ANALOG MAN
Music and Lyrics by Randolph Thompson
(Vocal by Randolph Thompson)


I'm lost in a high tech. world, drowning digitally
I'm too wired to function with all this new technolgy
You might say that I'm an Analog Man

I'm just a mouse click away, from losing my mind
My hard drive's been driven, out my behind
It's only to clear, that I'm an Analog Man

I'm infected with a virus from a megabyte
Gonna blow it all up, way outta sight
You know by now, that I'm an Analog Man

WHO KNOWS
Music and Lyrics by Randolph Thompson
(Vocal by Gary Saxer)

Hear the fable of history, the story of reality.  Some say they've won but then they wrote the tale.
But, few know the truth of just who prevailed.  A web of lies and compromise.  Who Knows. Who Knows

Know the saga, the epic yarn, that only tears us all apart, war is to lose and it's all just a lark.
It only serves to keep us in the dark.  Masses deceived, evil achieved.  Who Knows.  Who Knows.

Ask yourself what you really know.  What's for real and what's just for show.
Conquer the world, new flags unfurled.  Retain, domaine, bequest the rest.

We owe ourselves a closer look to read between the lines of the book. 
It says this was this and then so that was that, who really got rich and who just got fat.
Conflicts resolved, problems evolved, Who Knows. Who Knows.

Take the day and look for the truth, find your way, discover some proof.
Question the songs, re-right the wrongs.  Regain, refrain,  Who Knows.

ABSTRACTION
Music by Randolph Thompson

EPIPHANY
Music by Randolph Thompson

LEAVING BAGDAD
Music and Lyrics by Randolph Thompson


(Chorus in Farsi)
Hello, Hello God. It's nice to meet you
Hello, Hello God, It's nice to meet you,  Good-bye

TIP TAP
Music by Randolph Thompson

SHADES OF BLUE
Music and Lyrics by Randolph Thompson


(Chorus)
Solemn and slow, turning through the night, heavy and sad hiding from the light
This soul is drenched in sweat in hopes he'll get there yet

Tortured and torn, slient in the pain, useless and worn effortly in vain
His mind knows nothing good, but dreams it some day could.

Drifting and lost, hungry for a stay.  Haunted in need, harmony at bay
To face the morning sun knowing it's just begun.

Ease the pain.


BACK ALLEY
Music by Randolph Thompson


94
Music by Randolph Thompson

MARKET
Music by Randolph Thompson


OLD GUARD
Music by Randolph Thompson


COMMON SENSES
Music by Randolph Thompson
(Tenor Sax by John Goforth)


MUMBAI TEARS
Music by Randolph Thompson
(Instruments - Tablas, shenai, mijwiz, clay flute, bamboo flute, djembe, luan slat, double gourd flute)




HEART DANCE
Music by Randolph Thompson

GODDESS OF VITESSE
Music by Randolph Thompson

ENTRAPMENT
Music by Randolph Thompson

WE JUST KEEP GETTING BETTER
Music, Lyrics and Vocals by Randolph Thompson
Every day that goes by brings another smile. It's a matter of fact, we don't go out of style.
In my heart was a dream waiting there to come true. Your smile woke it up, I found my dream was you.

We just keep getting better, it's so much more since you've been mine, this is how I always thought it should be
We just keep getting better.  We just keep getting more.

I've always know inside that I deserve the best.  It's the same for you, we've said good-bye to all the rest
Known I know for all time that it's me and you, getting deeper and stronger, that's what the great loves do.

We just keep getting better, it's as if we're part of some plan. Through this life we can see just how good it can be
We just keep getting better. We just keep getting more.

I'm with you, you're with me, we can be what we want to be. 
You can vow, I can too, we can have anything we choose.

This love we're living is so full of giving, it's so nice knowing we'll always be growing.

We just keep getting better.  We just keep getting more.
 

ANTHROPOD
Music by Randolph Thompson
(Instruments - Djembe, Dumbek, Clay Flute, Balalaika)

SEURAT
Music by Randolph Thompson

ON THE ROAD
Music by Randolph Thompson
(Keyboards by David Lange)

I KNOW YOU'RE THE ONE
Music, Lyrics and Vocals by Randolph Thompson
Looked up at the bluest skies I've ever seen.  Breathed in the air so fresh and clean
I now know just what it means to have my heart and eyes first opening.

Like our days have just begun, every moment, all the time.
I know You're the one, the one for me.

In a trance of real serenity, there's no one else. a calm, a tranquility, a certainty.
Finding you, you finding me at last.

I know you're the one, the one for me.

Take this journey with me, I'll be there for you

I know you're the one, the one for me.

Soft and warm and safe as you lie next to me, it was first glance, first sound and first touch.

Next to me in my arms, there's no end. Only here and now and us.
We both knew we were out there waitin to meet.

I know you're the one, the one for me.
I know you're the one.

SHORT CURCUIT
Music by Randolph Thompson

STROLLING
Music by Randolph Thompson

PULSE
Music by Randolph Thompson

DAWN
Music by Randolph Thompson

BARCELONA (Instrumental Mix)
Music and Lyrics by Randolph Thompson
(Vocal Mix Featured on "Euphony")

WHO KNOWS (Instrumental Mix)
Music and Lyrics by Randolph Thompson
(Vocal Mix Featured on "Euphony")




                                         INSTRUMENTAL (All Music Written and Performed by Randolph Thompson)

WATERCOLOR DOVE

NATURE'S PROPHET

NEGRIL

DUALITY

YOUNGER        

SURRENDER

TROTSKY'S CAFE

THREE RIVERS

MONET

DISTANT SLUMBER