What A Difference A Melody Makes (2014)

The Art of Missing You

Music and Lyrics by Thu Tran

I’m getting quite good at
Missing you dear
Waiting and wishing
Wanting you near

I’ve got a talent
For what I do
I’ve got it down
Down to an art of missing you

I’m quite the Monet at the “art of missing”
A regular Rembrandt of reminiscing
And just like good ol’
Picasso, I’m so
Blue over you

I’m going crazy
Waiting for you
What can I do
But master the art of missing you?

Homebody

Music and Lyrics by Thu Tran

Some folks go out drinking
Hop around the bars downtown
But, me, I’m just thinking
About hanging around

‘Cuz I’d rather be reading
Cozy in my bed at home
Maybe that’s the reason
Why I’m here all alone

‘Cuz ain’t nobody
Wants a homebody
So nobody’s
Home but me

So go out to your fancy dinners
Pour expensive wine in your glass
I’ll be right here
With my arts and crafts
You can go to your parties
Go ahead and paint the town red
But if you come on over, I bet you I can show you
A good time instead

Cuz ain’t nobody
Wants a homebody
So nobody’s
Home but me

Ain’t nobody
Just a homebody
So won’t somebody
Please stay home with me

Old Fashioned

Music and Lyrics by Rachel Garcia and Thu Tran

I don’t want love that’s old fashioned
I want a modern romance

Don’t want no courting suitors knocking at my door
Don’t want no Romeo to make me wonder wherefore
I want you to love me, honey, and move in with me
Save up a little money, find ourselves a place by the sea

I ain’t got the time to be wined and dined
I'm tired of lovin' you in ol' black and white

Not saying we oughta get married or settle down
But we’ve got a good thing going, why mess it up now?
Why make the same decisions our parents made?
These times they are a-changing, let’s make our own mistakes

Who’s got the time nowadays?
Let’s bring our love into the modern age
I don’t want love that’s old fashioned
Give me a modern romance

I don’t want love that’s old fashioned
Give me a modern romance

Dry Spell

Music and Lyrics by Rachel Garcia and Thu Tran

It’s been a long
Seven months and 16 days
Since my fields
Have felt a drop of rain

This barren land
Is gonna wilt and turn to dust
The crops won’t yield
And there ain’t nothin’ left for us

So I get down on my knees
I say, Lord, pretty please
Let this dry spell end

God knows I try
I try most every night
But we fight,
You turn over on your side
And I’m lonely, lonely, lonely, lonely
Lonely, lonely, lonely again tonight

So I get down on my knees
I say, Lord, pretty please
Let this dry spell…

…end up
Bringing a downpour tonight
I need a flash flood
To drown this heavy heart of mine…

So I pray
For the rain
And I’ll wait
I’ll wait for the lord to make
This dry spell end

Out of the Fog

Music and Lyrics by Rachel Garcia and Thu Tran

Out of the fog
Into the sunshine
Out of the darkness
And into the light

Like two little birds
We’ll migrate south for the winter
Tired of cold, foggy weather
Freezing our poor little feathers

Out of the fog
Into the sunshine
Out of the darkness
And into the light

Fly down Interstate 5
One hundred, two hundred,
Three hundred, four hundred miles…

Out of the fog
Into the sunshine
Out of the darkness
And into the light

So…
Away we go
Out of the fog
We’ll find a new home

Half the Week

Music and Lyrics by Rachel Garcia and Thu Tran

Half the week, half the week at my place
Half the week waking up to your face
Ain’t it sweet to see your toothbrush on my sink?
Come and go as you please; what will the neighbors think?

Kick off your dancing shoes
Put up your feet
Come and play house with me
Half the week

Half the week, other half at your place
I’m off to work, been wearing your shirt three days straight
Ain’t it sweet how this feels just like new?
Call in sick and we can sleep in ‘til noon

Kick off your dancing shoes
Put up your feet
Come and play house with me
Half the week

Kick off your dancing shoes
Put up your feet
Come and play house with me,
Come and go as you please,
We’ll feign domesticity
Half the week

Over the Town

Music and Lyrics by Rachel Garcia and Thu Tran

Over the town
Over the town
Suddenly we’re lifted off the ground
Floating somewhere over the town

Over the town
Over the town
Darling, look from here I see our house
I see it from over the town

A patch of blue sky and a passing cloud
Called to us from over the town

Over the town
Over the town
Nothing on this earth can bring us down
Can’t reach us while we’re over the town

A Borrowed Room in A Borrowed House

Music and Lyrics by Rachel Garcia and Thu Tran

Didn’t want to stop
Didn’t want to stay
Didn’t mean to stop
We had to wait

In a borrowed room
In a borrowed house
Along the way

And we crossed the bridge
Almost every day
And it took its toll
‘Cuz we had to pay

For that borrowed room
In that borrowed house
Along the way

As we tossed and turned
In that crowded bed
Along the way

And we gave it back
When the air turned cold
Pushed the table back
Where it was meant to go
We were meant to go

From that borrowed room
In that borrowed house
Along the way

From that borrowed street
In that borrowed town
Along the way

Pacific Coast Highway

Music and Lyrics by Rachel Garcia and Thu Tran

We bought a map
And we got excited
A full tank of gas
In our electric hybrid

This winding road
Feels never-ending
It’s such a shame we missed
The rhododendrons

Our love is the open road
Doesn’t matter where we go
Our love is the open road
Oooh…

And it was strange
To see a ship upon the shore
It looked out of place
Like those roadside dinosaurs

Our love is the open road
You and me and the stereo
Our love is the open road
Oooh…

We were stranded on the dunes
We shook the sand from our shoes
And, sure, we’ve taken
Wrong turns and detours darling
But come on, come on, come on,
Just look how far, look how far we’ve come

Our love is the open road
Driving up the pacific coast
Our love is the open road
Oooh…

Unlove You

Music and Lyrics by Rachel Garcia and Thu Tran

I can’t un-think the thought of you
I can’t un-want, I can’t un-need you here with me
I can’t un-lose myself in you
I can’t, I won’t unlove you

I can’t un-kiss you backstage right
I can’t un-call you through the bookcase wall that night
We can’t un-talk the whole night through
I can’t, I won’t unlove you

And I long for the day
When I look at your face
And I won’t feel a thing,
No, I won’t feel a thing,
But ‘till then, ‘till then…

I can’t un-hear, I can’t un-see
I can’t un-care that you’re somewhere unloving me
I try and try, but what’s the use?
I can’t, I won’t unlove you

Someday

Music and Lyrics by Rachel Garcia and Thu Tran

Someday
My darling, someday
The sun will come out and melt
The snow away

Someday
After the winter’s gone
We’ll take a walk around the park
And there we’ll talk of how we knew it all along

That rainbows will follow after the storm
I promise, my darling, you’ll be in my arms

Someday
When we’re old and gray
We’ll hold each other close
And then we’ll start to sway

Someday
The radio will play this song
And you’ll look in my eyes and say
You knew it all along
We knew it all along

Summer Song

Lyrics by Rachel Garcia, Music by Thu Tran

We were birds
We were fish
Earth, sky, earth, sky
Too big for the pond we were swimming in

Come on, come on!
Everybody wants to be in love
Everybody wants to be in love, come on!
For the summer, I was

Let the sunlight shape the day
Ever new each morning light
Growing up and burning bright
I found myself in the tall green grass of Ohio

Come on, come on!
Everybody wants to be in love
Everybody wants to be in love, come on!
For the summer, I was

If you come out, come over
I promise I won’t laugh at you
I’m strange too
I’m strange too…

Tonight I’ll ask my mother
If you can sleepover
We can connect the days
Stay a little longer, walk me home, walk me home

Come on, come on!
Everybody wants to be in love
Everybody wants to be in love, come on!
For the summer, I was

Sleep, hurry sleep
‘Till the blue white light of morning calls again
I’m in love with this summer day
I’m in love with this summer day

A Lullaby (for Malcolm)

Music and Lyrics by Rachel Garcia and Thu Tran

Traveling, traveling across the sky
Across the sky, across the sky
Birds came to sing goodnight
Sing goodnight, sing goodnight

Ooooh…

Galloping, galloping miles and miles
Miles and miles, miles and miles
Horses came to neigh goodnight
Neigh goodnight, neigh goodnight

Neigh…

Splishing, Splashing across the sea
Across the sea, across the sea
Dolphins jump, dolphins leap
Say sweet dreams, say sweet dreams

Eeeeee (shhh)….

Animals, animals gather round
Safe and sound, safe and sound
All is right, tucked in tight,
Nighty night, nighty night

Night… Goodnight