Lifelines 4:56
Such a Fool 3:31
Tears of a Thousand Years 5:05
Walk With You By & By 3:46
Domino's Piano 4:52
Storm Comes 6:45
Love is Here to Stay 4:00
Apparition 4:16
Long Time Ago 5:04
Imagine Me Home 3:54

Click HERE for a PDF file of credits and all LYRICS w/ chords

Session photos...

Lifelines now available at iTunes. If you have the iTunes program on your computer click HERE to go to the iTunes Store. (If you have trouble getting connected, simply open your iTunes program, go to the store, and search on "Bradstreet". Thanks.)

See a live performance of the Release Show at Hugh's Room, June 27, 2006

Lifelines gets some press...

All songs ©David Bradstreet - Subterranean Music (SOCAN) except:
“Lifelines”
-----David Bradstreet - Subterranean Music (SOCAN)
-----Rob Lamothe - Nettwerk Songs Publishing Ltd. (ASCAP)
“Such a Fool”
-----Billie Hughes - Glass Sea Music (ASCAP)
“Domino’s Piano”
-----David Bradstreet - Subterranean Music (SOCAN)
-----Jason Fowler - Great Big Music (SOCAN)
-----Robert Priest - (SOCAN)
“Imagine Me Home”&“Walk With You By and By”
-----David Bradstreet - Subterranean Music (SOCAN)
-----Robert Priest - (SOCAN)

Produced by: Jason Fowler
w/ David Woodhead & David Bradstreet

Engineered and Mixed by Ray Montford at Soundhole Studio, Toronto, Canada
Mastered by George Seara at High Impact
Art direction and layout by LUMA
Front cover painting “Selbstbildnis” © Alan Magee www.alanmagee.com
All photography by Jesse Bradstreet www.jessebradstreet.com

We recorded this CD live-off-the-floor (vocal, guitars and bass) in three days, January 26 - 28, 2006 at Ray's cool loft studio in Toronto. We added only some guitar overdubs and background vocals. A huge thanks to Jason Fowler, David Woodhead and Ray Montford for sharing this vision and for helping me to reach for it. Many thanks also to Jesse Bradstreet for the photographs and the Martin, Wamego, Robert Priest, Rob Lamothe, Billie Hughes, George Seara, Alan and Monika Magee, my sister Jan, my musical and hiking buddies - and to my darling wife Brenda.

This CD is dedicated to my children Alice and Jesse - my lifelines.

**NOTE** For Lyrics with Chords, download this PDF

LIFELINES
©David Bradstreet / Subterranean Music / SOCAN
- Rob Lamothe / Nettwerk Songs Publishing Ltd. / ASCAP

When there’s no sign of wisdom in the big white house
no sign of answers in the wind
The times they are a-changin’ but we can’t see too clearly
if it turns out any better in the end
Family, faith in someone
a soothing voice when you’re lost
It’s hard to be coming of age in this time
These are your lifelines...

No sign of laughter in the dark school yard
no sign of wishing in the street
But a lonely voice of reason shouts out above the boulevard
these times have made the heart obsolete
Home and hearth, faith in someone
a soothing voice when you’re lost
It’s hard to be coming of age in this time
These are your lifelines,
these are your lifelines

And if you find yourself at a crossroads
The future hiding on the blind side
Don’t forget the rear view mirror
‘cause these are your lifelines.
Repeat Verse 1
Repeat Chorus

SUCH A FOOL
© Billie Hughes / Glass Sea Music / ASCAP

I’ve been such a fool
to love you this way
I treated you fine
was always kind
But it’s sad - it’s sad to say
I’ve been such a fool

The stars up in the sky
will shine - shine for me tonight
But they are real
unlike the ones you steal
to put into your eyes
into your eyes

If you could take, take these blues
take them away
You’re the only one who could
ever make them stay

So now it’s up to you
to say no more, or to start anew
It sure would be fine,
we’d have the best of times
but it’s sad - it’s sad to say
I’d be such a fool...
Yeah it’s sad - it’s sad to say
I’d be such a fool
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Talking to children
they can hardly speak
Their eyes as deep as oceans
their hearts like mountain peaks

Don’t ask about the hometown
in the desert here alone
Strange how just a few days
can seem so long ago
In one mad hell they conquered
a symbol disappears...
and on the face of children: tears...
Tears of a thousand years

Babies as soldiers
they have hardly grown
Trained to fight their brothers
they leave with seeds unsown

Don’t ask about the reasons
or call the new recruits
The answer’s not in branches
but hidden in the roots
In one mad rush of history
the dust that never clears...
and on the face of children: tears...
Tears of a thousand years
Tears of a thousand years
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Don’t ask about the reasons
or call the new recruits
The answer’s not in branches
but hidden in the roots
In one mad rush of history
the dust that never clears
and on the face of children: tears...
Tears of a thousand years
Tears of a thousand years...

When the river is a shiver in the sparkle of your eye
and the heart is a cloud in a big blue sky
When the forest is the chorus of a lulla - bye
then I’ll walk with you by and by

When the sun is a thunder of colour in the dew
and the dandelions roar like the real lions do
When the salmon are swimming in tears you cry
then I’ll walk with you by and by

So here I wait
like a meadow before the gate
like hunger on a plate
like a hook without bait
long after it’s too late
await my foolish fate
Like a swallow in the sky
you’ll come to me
and I’ll come to you by and by

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When the maple is poplar in the apple of your eye
and the storm is a calm in a little white lie
When the sun uses dawn as its alibi
I’ll walk with you by and by

Repeat Chorus / Instr. / Verse 1 (in D)

Then I’ll walk with you
Then I’ll walk with you by and by

Instr. Tag

The river ran the wrong way down a one-way street
the water covered walkways by a dozen feet
The levee gave it up here over three weeks ago
but I still haven’t found my love
- still haven’t found my love

Went back there to see it standing in the flood
the doors and windows stained from weeks of Mississippi mud
The deluge hit the high note - the howl of hurricane
They still haven’t found my love
- still haven’t found my love

Warped by water, whipped by wind
Years of music
brought to an end
This elemental reckoning
rolled right over...
Domino’s piano
Domino’s piano

Instr Intro

Jazz is all inverted, land becomes the sea
freedom has a way of turning back to slavery
Wisdom is an idiot when chaos is the plan
and they still haven’t found my love
- still haven’t found my love

And music is the silence, neglect is the relief
Danger is the safety net when law becomes the thief
The wind is wailing lonely jazz on Blueberry Hill
and I still haven’t found my love
- still haven’t found my love

Warped by water, whipped by wind
Years of music brought to an end
This elemental reckoning
rolled right over...
Domino’s piano - Domino’s piano - Domino’s piano - Domino’s piano

Tag:
Old Man River played it upside down on Domino’s piano
Mississippi fingers play the jazz adagio on Domino’s piano
Domino’s piano...

Storm starts easy - the ebb and flow
in a dead calm sea
She’s the marriage of the high and low
with dreams of flying free

All the tension in this world is focussed now this time...

She uses motion to lift her up
it’s a gamble she wins
Broken surface, moving air
the renegade winds

All the tension in this world is focussed now this time...

And on the shore she waits for him
he’s sailing alone
Eyes reflecting horizon dim
no sails returning home

Wall of water over me I think I’m going down
Storm comes and blows it all away
Storm comes and blows it all away
Storm comes she blows it all away, it all away, away...

Upside down boat no-one there
the quiet water shines
Below the surface something there
drifting eyes in time

A world of wonder that could have been
is lost beneath the waves
Storm comes - and blows it all away
storm comes - and blows it all away
storm comes - and blows it all away

Repeat first 2 lines

Most of us start life a little lonely
so we press our face against the warm warm heart
Heaven knows and sometimes heaven’s listening
as we each discover how to do our part

Sometimes you think that life is on a lost road
and all the decent chances slipped away
Heaven knows it’s not for want of trying
you do your level best each day
Heaven knows it’s not for want of trying
we do our level best each day
And I can’t stop marveling that
Love is here to stay

Sometimes when we feel the heart is wounded
if the many shades of love turn grey
Heaven knows it’s not for want of loving you
I watch you moving through your days
And Heaven knows it’s not for want of loving you
I watch you moving through your days
and I can’t stop marveling that
Love is here to stay, love is here to stay

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And now that we are all a little older
with the quiet ones there to show the way
Heaven knows it has it’s share of angels
they whisper in this song’s communiqué
And Heaven knows it has it’s share of angels
they whisper in this song’s communiqué
and I can’t stop marveling that
Love is here and I
can’t stop marveling that
Love is here and I
can’t stop marveling that
Love is here to stay
Love is here to stay
Love is here to stay
Love is here to stay
Love is here to stay...

He walked to the ocean’s edge
and caught his reflection in the water
And smiling back at him was his own face,
plus one over his shoulder

She moved to the shadow shade
and blocked out the sun to expose her
He didn’t know if he was blinded or
insane from close exposure

He fought off the trembling shakes
it made him stagger and made him ache
To see her standing in the ocean’s wake
“What’s your name, for heaven’s sake?”
Then he knew her...
the apparition

He said, “Didn’t I see you on the Street of Straight when I fell off my pony
hovering there in the shining mist like a floating testimony?
You held my head in your hands I felt so fragile like a grateful child
Three secrets in a veiled wish from an old, cold fire.”

She said, “I’ve been here only twice before
I showed you vision from an open door
You all thought it was some great mistake
you know I’ll be there when you wake.”
- and then they knew her too -
the apparition - the apparition

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Many years have gone and all she said has turned out to be worthy
he still goes back to the ocean’s edge but only finds the vision blurry
The spell on earth that fooled the acolytes turned out only to be Northern Lights
a cunning trick of some fevered minds
but all the while they kept hoping that they’d see her again
the apparition - the apparition - the apparition ...

By the time I got to this old place,
I was standing by myself,
I’d lost the fortitude of running wild.
And over time I got this face,
the story of my life,
years of solitude, a lonely child
The windows boarded up it seems,
the paint has peeled away,
the gutters filled with years of leaves,
the shutters cracked and grey.
And on the faded porch I see
the chair we sat to learn to read,
but that was such a long long time ago.

I open up the rusty door
the echo room within,
the patches on the walls the ghosts of art.
The sunlight hidden from the floor
the dusty airless dim,
voices in my head and in my heart.
I run outside to catch my breath
the morning glory shines,
I look across the leaves of grass
the winding lane defines.
And then I see your smiling face
your warming touch, your saving grace
Was this such a long long time ago?
Such a long long time ago
Such a long long time ago

The garden has been left alone
with random overgrowth,
the trees are bent from many seasons change.
We dig down deep into the soil
for treasures we had known,
the days of youth that time has rearranged.
We knew just where she’d buried it
our mother’s shining pearl,
it held together through the years
the hearts of boy and girl.
And we hold it up into the sun,
the past, the flash, a childhood bond.
Was this such a long long time ago?

What’s gone is lost to memories past
this lonely world within,
I do remember it this way I know.
I try to see these carefree kids
with dreams beyond the yard,
the fading image just an afterglow.
I’d love to go beyond this now
and sail above it all,
it seems like that for half the time
these days slowed to a crawl.
And then I see your smiling face,
your warming touch, your saving grace.
Was this such a long long time ago?
Such a long long time ago, long ago
Such a long long time ago
Such a long long time ago
Such a long long time ago

Imagine me home, the moon on our skin
The longing dissolved by this love we’re in
Imagine us there in the flickering fire
Of the candle you burn for the one we desire

Imagine me home, in the heart you have kept
As silent as stone, in the tears you have wept
We’ll taste once again those lips that we miss
Oh what could be more forever than this

All our sorrow and elation spinning round in one sensation
One big mist of tears and laughter here right now and here hereafter

And though I am gone like a leaf in the storm
our love will return, tender and warm
We’ll stand on the shore, reach across the abyss
and we’ll never get more forever than this

And freedom is rare and sorrows abound
but love is so fair wherever it’s found
And life is a prayer we weave in the mist
And it doesn’t get more forever than this

All our trials and tribulations whirling round in one sensation
one big mix of tears and sorrow here right now and here tomorrow
All our sorrow and elation spinning round in one sensation
One big mist of tears and laughter here right now and here hereafter

Imagine me home…