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SSkye Years

by Sher Vadinska

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1.
I will tell on myself I have been thinking of you I got this stupid smile the same place I got this stupid dance Only you can make me the woman I am I'm lonely sometimes There's danger in too serious, foolishness in too much fun, but I'll take my chance with you I'll take the long long way home Only you can make me the woman I am I'm lonely sometimes I love everyone forget it if they don't love me, 'cause I have seen the light, and baby this lunch ain't for free Only you can make me the woman I am I'm lonely sometimes
2.
Fireflies 03:11
She rode in on her mare last night, the old woman came for me, she said that she's done everything and now it's up to me, she led me to a ledge of rock where a raven called me name, she flew me to a mountain top where I heard the weeping land In my dreams you held my hand and gave to me a jar of fireflies to light my way, find my way, light my way to the meadow of the dark damp night of Kali Ma I asked to see my history to find where I went wrong, she said wrong is right in different time but I'll show you where you're from, I saw a queen upon her throne and she ordered me to live, she said little girls who hear my song must find a way to sing Wrapped around a tree trunk in hurricane rain, what's keeping me from letting go is keeping you from me In my dreams you held my hand and gave to me a jar of fireflies to light my way, find my way, light my way to the meadow of the dark damp night of Kali Ma The old woman gave me one last look before turning towards the moon, I noticed there upon the ground lay a feather from her hair, she held it high above her head and it grew into a wing, she sang into the sea of stars and her song became the wind In my dreams you held my hand and gave to me a jar of fireflies to light my way, find my way, light my way to the meadow of the dark damp night of Kali Ma
3.
Ripple 04:35
Waiting, always waiting, to get somewhere, to be something for you Listening for the right word that says exactly how I feel, who I really am, but most times it's the wrong word I settle for, like wine on lips it rhymes my name I know myself, and weeping in the middle of the night is a telephone wire to a holy life, I tell myself if it's love I seek than it's love I'll find in the space of you in between the moving lines, so hold me high to your sacred sun and bless my soul with your shine Can't you tell by the look in my eyes for the sake of you I'd leave this behind, there's something to be said for the way of love I am dancing on your heart You corner me within your wailing walls and force upon me the truth of stone, that even though its nature is to sit and wait, all it wants to do is fly away, so cast me out like that little stone and on my sweet way down I pray to make a ripple on your heart and the song inside to tear me apart, I think I understand what it's all about, I pray to make a ripple on your heart and the song inside to tear me apart, there's something to be said for the way of love I am dancing on your heart
4.
I Believe 04:07
I saw you lookin' when I got into my car, the second-floor shade came down before I could wave Was it just coincidence playing with my lonely heart I see no reason to play this game safe, 'cause I believe that one day I will walk with you I've got to tell you, you really got me in a mess Everywhere I go I see you, hear you, smell you I confess, so get your socks and shoes on, baby, we're going for a ride you've got to explain to me what this fire is inside, 'cause I believe that one day I will walk with you I don't know whether I should take you home, or take you 'cross country or in the shed next door See I've got this brick in my gut, I've got to speak I'm hot, no I'm cold, if I don't kiss you now I'll explode, 'cause I believe that one day I will walk with you
5.
Make it Good 03:24
If you have just one wish to make today make it small, make it big, but make it with you're heart If you have someone who really loves you let them give you everything, everything they can If I could be anything in this room right now I would be that dandelion in your hair If I could be anything in the sky tonight I'd still be that dandelion in your hair Everything is happening all at one time If you want to see take your hands, take them from your eyes You know the line that says life's too short you better live it Well how 'bout this, maybe life is only relative Don't you know you're beautiful to me Don't you know you keep me in flight Don't you know the world would stop spinning, stop spinning without you I'm gone When they gave me your wedding ring in a plastic bag I understood what it means to come home So if you have someone you really love Make it short, make it long, but make it good
6.
I can feel you inside like your body is mine Where do I end and you begin I can hear you in my mind laughing boldly like a child purity of heart can never hide I wanna know you, wanna know you like the bottle knows the wine I wanna know you, wanna know you like the silver knows the dime I wanna know you, wanna know you like the phases of the moon knows time Fleeting things come and go Words and breath we try to hold Memories of hunger, days of gold I’m not one for steel and stone Give me love, I’ll make a home Better to feel cold than not at all I wanna know you, wanna know you like the bottle knows the wine. I wanna know you, wanna know you like the silver knows the dime. I wanna know you, wanna know you like the phases of the moon knows Time, time, is on our side Time is now, now is whatcha got for a life We’re livin’ on love babe We must be doing something’ right There is more than we know If we want to we can go further than, deeper than the river flows Throw yourself to the sea Drown your fear and agony Let it be me, let it be me you dream I wanna know you, wanna know you like the bottle knows the wine I wanna know you, wanna know you like the silver knows the dime I wanna know you, wanna know you like the phases of the moon knows time
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Freedom Ride 04:23
I've been afraid of flying too far I've been afraid of diving too deep where shadows hold the fragile truth of my soul If I were a bridge I'd have burned myself down, if I were a door I'd be locked in between my room and your room unable to move And I'd give everything just to have my little freedom ride tonight If I had my way I'd find me some sun, and fill in the holes, the deepest one that drains the joy I've been putting away And I'd give everything just to have my little freedom ride tonight If you have to you can hide your eyes, but I won't take you anywhere you won't want to smile You gotta trust the road, you gotta let me take you on this freedom ride tonight I'm not afraid of dying too young I'm just afraid of missing you more than I could ever love another world But I gave everything just to stand in line for this freedom ride tonight
8.
Every Night 04:01
It's two a.m. again and there's a lonely neon sign blinking out of time with my life Whenever I think this hard the longest mile from home is the one before I see the hall light on I ought to know by now that you are my every night I ought to know by now to know the rope you gotta be tied Is this the forest and the tree again and I'm still blind You keep me alive I know I'm swerving but I'm much too tired to care I trust the center line to get me there Wrong turns and u-turns make me wonder where I am I long to see that storm come 'round the bend I ought to know by now that you are my every night I ought to know by now to know the rope you gotta be tied Is this the forest and the tree again and I'm still blind You keep me alive There's nothing greater for a warrior than a war A healer, a dying man in pain So I'm begging for five minutes in the shade, and a word or two that will do somebody some good I ought to know by now that you are my every night I ought to know by now to know the rope you gotta be tied Is this the forest and the tree again and I'm still blind You keep me alive
9.
I saw you drive by at quarter after nine Just about the same time she should have been across town I just hope you know exactly how a sticky situation like me will turn your world upside down 'Cause I've been saving up too long Once I start well I'm here for the long haul Just one little touch right here will push it over the edge Love me or leave me now She's onto something, she knows more than we do, she's reading the phone bill, better get me outta here This is not the time and place to be looking at me as if you've got something nasty on your mind 'Cause I've been saving up too long Once I start well I'm here for the long haul Just one little touch right here, oh she'll never know Love me or leave me now There is one thing you should know I've been here five thousand times before But I think you can make it worth my while I don't know know any other way to keep myself from exploding all over my tidy little life So I'm not taking you home, in fact you're here for the long haul Just one little touch right here will push it over the edge Love me or leave me now
10.
If Not You 04:00
Your freedom of speech is hurting me like a flower garden growing on a landfill Sweet honey in the comb but the seagull knows If not you, I suppose, it would be me, me in charge, me in the dark while you inherit the Earth Thank you but I choose me Your right to bear arms is killing me, is it outside or inside that threatens you? Could you give your privilege for a walk in my shoes? If not you, I suppose, it would be me, me in charge, me in the dark while you inherit the Earth Thank you but I choose me How did it ever get this way? Don't you want it to change? My hell is the day I see it your way My heaven is the night I can trust you with my life, like a woman trusts a woman to do what is right If not you, I suppose, it would be me, me in charge, me in the dark while you inherit the Earth Thank you but I choose me
11.
I never said I was good for you I never said I was good for you I never said I was good for you, but you did I never said I was over you I never really got through to you I never felt as though I got quite enough love from you You left in the middle of the night with the rent to pay, to Youngstown in the pouring rain You left in the middle of the night with the rent to pay to Ohio in the pouring rain You never understood my pain I never understood this game, and even now I wish you'd track me down to try to explain I never meant to drag you down I only meant to keep you 'round, just tell me how you got out the door without a sound? You left in the middle of the night with the rent to pay, to Youngstown in the pouring rain You left in the middle of the night with the rent to pay, to Youngstown in the pouring rain You left in the middle of the night with the rent to pay to Ohio in the pouring rain One tail light out and the porch light on
12.
Leaning 04:37
I am leaning in the doorway watching you set the table, pour me the last of the wine I am listening to your day and wondering how I look to you in candlelight I am not my mind if I can tell you what I'm thinking I am not my heart if I can tell you what I'm feeling And I'm feeling nothing tonight I'm always trying to find a word to name myself so there's no secret to who I really am, 'cause sometimes I'm a liar sometimes a beggar and a thief, but mostly though I'm just a fool in love I am not my mind if I can tell you what I'm thinking I am not my heart if I can tell you what I'm feeling And I'm feeling nothing tonight I am dying to kiss the corner of your mouth after dinner, after the dishes are done
13.
Lucky 05:42
I have seen the light a thousand times when you roll into me and whisper sweet dreams I have heard the sound of God in your breath as you fall asleep, but I am much too lost and bound to be found I'm the luckiest duck on the pond, I'm a cat in the window in afternoon sun, I make love in the night, I make friends in the day, but I'm just another diamond in the shade today Amazing grace how sweet you run through my tender veins while I romanticize my uncomplicated leaving My only real solace is lying mute with my own desire, but I won't drag you down my friend, really I'll be fine I'm the luckiest duck on the pond, I'm a cat in the window in afternoon sun, I make love in the night, I make friends in the day, but I'm just another diamond in the shade today I know it's natural to crave what you need, while you lay starving and denying the plate at your feet I cannot resist you, won't you bring me back to myself, and let me love the ones I really love so well There is a rock in the desert where it almost never rains It is beaten by the wind, the sand under merciless sun, and in a crevice on that wall grows a tiny yellow flower And I just wonder how and why it grows though nobody knows I'm the luckiest duck on the pond, I'm a cat in the window in afternoon sun, I make love in the night, I make friends in the day, but I'm just another diamond in the shade today
14.
There was a little girl who didn't believe in anything and everything she was told, she walked her own walk and lifted every rock and followed bunny prints in the snow, the birds and the worms and the bees and the trees and the rocks, oh the rocks, she gave names, she thought one day if everything had its own name, we could all be friends I think that there's a part of me that believes in anything and every thing, I have my own walk but I must admit that footprints in the sand seem to have their way, the birds and the worms and the bees and the trees and the rocks, oh the rocks, they pass me by just one day I'd like to wake and realize I never knew any- thing Don't believe in anything that doesn't feel right to you Don't believe in anything that doesn't feel right to you Don't believe, don't believe Don't believe, don't believe
15.
Lay Down 04:19
Though it was December it felt like mid July the days sun coming off the brick wall behind me it was the first time I held your eyes, it was the first time I saw your fear of going back inside, and you said you didn't know what to believe and you said you didn't know how to be Lay down with me Lay down with me, I could show you how Lay down with me, I'll show you how to be You had the weight of two worlds on you you thought you had to be the one to fix everything her problems, your problems, my problems too all I want to do is make love to you you said you didn't know what to believe you said you didn't know how to leave Lay down with me Lay down with me, I will show you how Lay down with me, I'll show you how to be Walking down a country road all alone sun is teasing me with dreams of home the woman I want to be is so far down this road, the woman I am right now, she has so far to go Do you remember the words, the wall, the sun and the call Do you remember the secret, the song, the touch, the touch and the love Lay down with me Lay down with me, please show me how Lay down with me, show me how to be Lay down with me, please show me how Lay down with me, show me, show me Lay down with me Show me how to be Show me how to be Show me how to be Show me how to be
16.
I want to, I want to say what I mean, I want to, I want to mean what I feel, but they want me, they want me to be what they need, they want me, they want me to quietly leave I want to, I want to, I want to be free, I want to, I want to not be him but me, I want to, I want to marry who I please, I want to, I want to be- lieve in me I am not going in fact, I'm coming in you better batten down your hatches, you can think of me as the wind, you can think of me as the wind I want you, I want you to follow your own lead, I want you, I want you to bring me to my knees, I want you, I want you to know what you need, I want you, I want you to be- lieve in me I want to, I want to say what I mean, I want to, I want to mean what I feel, but they want me, they want me to be what they need, they want me, they want me to quietly leave
17.
Like Stone 03:00
I'm not the one you think I am, I'm tired of trying to make you understand, I don't read poetry, I watch t.v., I'd cut my hair myself but it would look like hell You write me notes in the blood of your love, you change my name and climb into my tub, you wonder why I don't give you my soul, and if I did you'd surely swallow me whole Your judgment falls like stone, your three tiny words break my bones judgment falls like stone your three tiny words break my bones No more mountains to climb, candles to burn in the darkest night no more clove cigarettes legs entwined, I just wanna forget Your judgment falls like stone, your three tiny words break my bones judgment falls like stone your three tiny words break my bones my bones my bones You write me notes in the blood of your love, you change my name and climb into my tub, you wonder why I don't give you my soul, and if I did you'd surely swallow me whole
18.
Rolling Coin 03:42
I live these days like a rolling coin on a hardwood floor, which way will I fall, I've taken to naps in the sun in the afternoon, curled at the end of the bed, and life falls hard when you've done nothing all day but count your faults, there's a tree in the yard that reminds me of you, your ma- jestic strength gently breaking the wind, it's not easy to be so self- absorbed you know, the demons are bigger too, but every night I give it all up just to lie with you completely as one It amazes me how many songs come from the same few chords, isn't love like that, and nothing compares to your smile coming at me and in the palm of your hand the first tomato of the year, but many nights only my gui- tar knows the longing in my heart and soul is the only thing that makes any sense to me, yet I could never explain, but maybe it's the rise in the bread or the shape in the clay, surely it's the work in hands, but maybe it's the sound in the word that I could never hear So turn out the light, open the shade, let the moon reveal\ the contours of our love, I'll close my eyes, for a moment I'll feel as big as the sky, as bright as the sun, and I'll recall what it is I am hoping for and find it already here
19.
There is a little girl She prays to angels She sits by a little creek behind the house and she speaks Please make me beautiful Please make me strong let me be good All I want to be is good Her body says she is ready but the boys they don't call She stays out late in the driveway until she makes 25 in a row Please let me jump real high Please make me the star Let me be good All I want to be is good All I want to be All I want to be, she said All I want to be is good There is a young woman Sometimes she still prays She lies next to her lover and she feels like an angel Please let me be me Please keep me true Let my love be good Let my love be good All I want to be All I want to be is good
20.
I thought you'd be long gone by now but you still hang on your dirty nails in my leg I'm letting you hang, I'm dragging you along Sometimes I think maybe, I just dreamed you Maybe it was my little child imagination But I feel your hand and my soul on fire my soul on fire On fire On fire Did you watch me run through the woods through the field up the hill all the way home I bet you can't recall that very fine, very fine morning the crunch of the leaves, the frost melting, melting beneath me And the knife on your belt that bruised me that bruised me Oh me Oh me Did you watch me run through the woods through the field up the hill all the way home Did you watch me run through the woods through the field up the hill all the way home Home, where they never knew Home, where they never knew Home, where they never knew, no, they never knew, no they never knew no they never knew, no they never knew, they never knew, they never knew, they never knew, be- cause I never told
21.
You hear the calling of a river You spend the night on a ledge above the clouds There's nothin' like a few days alone on the highway trying to figure it all out You've got a secret you can't tell anyone You've got a secret keeping you alone Some people pass right through your life spilling themselves all over your clean floor You've been in my life longer than anyone spilling nothing, giving more You've got a secret you can't tell anyone You've got a secret keeping you alone Welcome to your hopes and fears This love you've been giving for so long now is coming back to you, is coming back to you You wonder why sometimes you just can't cry There's something big inside that shuts you down But that something is nothing to run from It's just you, beautiful you You've got a secret you can't tell anyone You've got a secret keeping you alone You've got a secret you think you can't tell anyone You've got a secret but you know you're not alone, no, no you're not alone
22.
Although it's hard you have to decide Always two sides to the story and two of a kind I guess I wouldn't mind if there was somewhere to hide Drifting politely ain't gonna get me nowhere and sleeping alone is getting me more tired How long must I wait for the storm oh the storm that fills my sails, the storm that carries me along You know I don't think I can tell you how I feel 'cause this was done to me before This debt now forgiven the circle takes so long Drifting politely ain't gonna get me nowhere and sleeping alone is getting me more tired How long must I wait for the storm oh the storm that fills my sails, the storm that carries me along So I must choose my direction This way, that way, what's right and what's wrong pulled by the purity in your eyes Drifting politely ain't gonna get me nowhere and sleeping alone is getting me more damn tired How long must I wait for the storm oh the storm that fills my sails, the storm that carries me along, along to you
23.
Drowning 05:19
I wanna get down to the meat of it I wanna strip the bark, split the seam of it There's just so much river to cross in a day and in the fear of drowning another chance lost to playing safe You have to understand my words just fall in the space So disregard the overflow thrown your way It seems more accurate to me I am only what I fee And in the fear of living, hesitation drowns my will I try to see things in a simple way I try to know my push from my pull I try to understand the reap and the sow to live these empty days as full But my voice can't bare the song as the night can't bear the sun, I'm a river of tears with no eyes to cry, a desert of thirst with no clouds in sight so hold my hand On certain Autumn nights when the change winds call by a lake or an ocean where black waters open I feel the universe unfold between our naked soul and in the fear of loving, love finds me anyway I try to see things in a simple way I try to know my push from my pull I try to understand the reap and the sow to live these empty days as full so hold my hand
24.
It's windy out, she said, the branches blow against the house, the rain is coming across the field, how you dried my wanting years I don't know how long my life will be I don't know many more full moons we will see It's snowing out, I said, it's piling up on the back porch, I'll go sweep it off When I get so cold, you wrap around me I don't know how long my life will be I don't know many more full moons we will see The breeze is blowing through the screen, and I smell the turning earth Geese are flying north, oh we'll be planting soon, yes we will I don't know how long my life will be I don't know many more full moons we will see Look at the clouds, she said, like the ones last night in my dreams Oh yes I see them, I said I finally see, yes I see I don't know how long my life will be I don't know many more full moons we will see, but this afternoon is eterni- ty is eternity is eternity
25.
You said you don't know why I'm leaving Your not knowing is half of the reason Now you're left staring at the ceiling, and when I wake to you, you turn your back to me, and I wonder, I wonder how soon is soon? I want you to be that fire coming down the mountain, the lava rolling on over me swallowed by your molten love I said I'd be back in December You thought I meant for good Now I'm left trying not to remember how you came to me, and I turned my back to you, and I wonder, I wonder how soon is soon? I want you to be that fire coming down the mountain, the lava rolling on over me swallowed by your molten love Love, love, love, love I want you to be, I want you to be that fire coming down the mountain of me How soon till a broken heart is healed? How soon till I face you in my mirror? How soon till I recognize my freedom? 'cause when I wake to me, I still send my love to you and I wonder, I wonder how soon is soon? I want you to be that fire coming down the mountain, the lava rolling on over me swallowed by your molten love
26.
There's a forest in your head, a fortune in your hand, you're a half an empty glass of a man, but don't take my word for it listen to your sigh when you find another fault in your friend Your life shouldn't be a death wish, your love shouldn't be so heartless, I don't want to be the one to tell you this, but your days are running out, your days are running out You still forge into your past, you hoard away your cash, that leaves a third of you to love or less than that, but don't take my word for it listen to your friend when she says you're hard to reach and looking sad Your life shouldn't be a death wish, your love shouldn't be so heartless, I don't want to be the one to tell you this, but your days are running out, your days are running out Don't you wanna be the one that saves the world from caving in and out you breathe away your chance to be the lover with- in a way I think you fear that anything thing that feels good is sinister love is in your head You don't like the way I live, the way I go from day to day, if my work is fun then it must be play, but don't take my word for it listen to this song, if it makes you mad then sister you're the one Your life shouldn't be a death wish, your love shouldn't be so heartless, I don't want to be the one to tell you this, but your days are running out, your days are running out
27.
You gotta believe that this is what you are for you gotta believe that there's something more than more you gotta believe that there's knocking on your door you gotta believe that you're fortunately torn between what is and isn't yours Give your heart for love, or give your heart for war, but give it all for good, it's what we're for You better believe that we're all just passing through you better believe what's not proven is what's true you better believe that your love is touching blue you better believe that you're fatally imprisoned by the things you say and do Give your heart for love, or give your heart for war, but give it all for good, it's what we're for You gotta believe we're all helplessly alone you gotta believe that the ruby comes from stone you gotta believe that this world is our home you gotta believe that we're taken to the places that we're too afraid to go

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This album is a compilation of early recordings when I performed under the name, Sheryl Skye. Selected songs originally appeared on Wading the Waters (1994), One Square Mile Community Music Project (1995), Sheryl Skye Band (1996), Ripple (1999), and One Little Life (2002); all Vadimsky Music, ASCAP

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released March 1, 2021

Wading the Waters and One Square Mile Community Music Project was produced by Michael Lozinski (Windmill Studios, Seargeantsville, NJ); Sheryl Skye Band was produced by Gina Balducci (Raspberry Recording, Bethlehem, PA); Ripple was produced by Gina Balducci and engineered by Kent Heckman (Red Rock Recording, Saylorsburg, PA); One Little Life was recorded and produced by Sheryl Skye (Red Mill Recordings, Glen Gardner, NJ).

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