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Older Songs

by Peter LaQuerre

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Minor Crime 02:46
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One day a neighbor found A perfect rose Growing in a garden down the road It was reaching up Through a split-rail fence Swaying gently in the summer breeze She was feeling bold So she snipped that bud Now it’s on her window sill And now she feels A smile creep Upon her when she looks upon that rose You never know What you might find When you perpetrate A minor crime Commit an act out of character Something no one ever thought they’d see you do And even I Had a Rolex crush So I bought one in a store in Curacao It was fabricated In a shady shop Likely in the city of Tapei I bet it’s hidden Down an alleyway Some Taiwanese woman Slaving every day But I have to say A smile creeps Upon me when I look upon that dial You never know What you might find When you perpetrate A minor crime Commit an act out of character Something no one ever thought they’d see you do
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Weight on the Pedal 03:17
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I was driving home I was changing lanes I like to put some weight on the pedal I like to feel the strength of the engine I'm no Mario Andretti I'm no Ricky Craven But I'm willing to give you a ride All the way to New Haven As long as I can drive Now we're on the street Outside the Harkness Tower I don't want to leave you here So we talk for an hour [CHORUS] And now I have to drive It's funny how things can go wrong When you're trying to be strong [instrumental] [Verse1] As long as I can drive As long as I have some control As long as I can drive [outro]
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Spin Around Slowly 04:14
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Every single day I wander away Along an old stone wall Until I feel okay There's a noise in the attic It won't go away It ticks at my brain Till my nerves are frayed Wake up, wake up There's a light outside There's an easy feeling Like an ocean tide Spin around slowly With your arms out wide Throw back your head You're on the other side On the table's a lamp It's got a dimmer switch You turned it down low And then you clenched your fist I can barely see What you've got in your hand There's a click and a stumble Was that part of the plan? [CHORUS] I'll wait for you Never mind the date The year's almost over And I can wait Every single night As the sun goes down I'll sit on my porch Watch over this town
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Down a Notch 03:16
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Every moment that you spend Away from me Makes me think that you don’t care For me However irrational or strange That seems There’s no denying that it’s real To me I’ve got to take it all down A notch I sit around here all day Paranoid The kind of person every One tries to avoid I want to wake up someday Break out of this cell Show the world that I can Show and tell I gotta take it all down A notch I’m driven, I’m driven I’ll take it from you
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Dangerous Wonderings 03:30
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From high up on the mountain A heavy fog came settling down Woke me up from a musical dream Orchestral strings and crash of thunder From the source of that distant reservoir I built a city of happy inhabitants They roam about and deal with life Until they start to wonder (Dangerous wonderings) Point it out to me one more time I didn’t hear you the first time You’ve got that megaphone in your hand But it doesn’t help me understand High up on the mountain I felt the wind and the sun in my face If only you could stand here with me And feel the wind and the sun the way I do
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Every Time I Try To Understand 03:58
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Sometimes it really isn’t clear Who’s the hero and the victim You think you’ve got it all figured out That’s the time you better get out Cause when you think know the answer Identified the better dancer You could be wrong And every time I try to understand All the sweet things that she’s done for me I try to place them in an envelope And send them somewhere ‘cross the sea To me I thought I found my tiny dancer Bernie Taupin’s Mona Lisa I want to throw my arms around her Like she’s always done for me But I am the man who’s kind and loyal Always there in times of need Or am I weak? And every time I try to understand All the sweet things that she’s done for me I try to place them in an envelope And send them somewhere ‘cross the sea To me
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Fayetteville 03:26
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Fayetteville Drinking beer with Eddie Trashing people on the news Eddie’s telling jokes He’s got a great one about Ted Cruz Suddenly he notices A ticker ‘cross the screen Now we’re headed down to Fayetteville To be part of the scene People say we don’t care And we don’t see We’re on the wrong side of history But we’ve got these glasses on No color in the lense All we see is black and white Outside the coliseum Eddie’s almost drunk Just one more round of Maker’s Mark And he’ll get out of his funk Inside, the noise is crazy Eddie’s hootin’ at the press He’s leaning on the banister And beating on his chest And people say we don’t care And we don’t see We’re on the wrong side of history But we’re the ones Who line up out the door We're not losing anymore The banister it breaks in two And Eddie starts to fall His body bounces down the stairs I make the 911 call At the hospital ER The triage nurse just sighs ‘Cause Eddie’s got an insurance card From 1995 And people say we don’t care And we don’t see We’re on the wrong side of history We've got these glasses on No color in the lense All we see is black and white
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Visiting Detroit 04:14
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Visiting Detroit I told my teammates I was busy I ended up at a dive called Uncle Edsel's I saw you at the bar You weren't that far So I walked across the room That was the end of my doldrums That was the end of my wait Everything you saw in me It was true all along Hold on to your dream Then let it go Release the hounds into the yard There's a fence to keep them in They're not going anywhere I got a job out in Lansing Building Chevy SUVs But every night I return to the city "Cause I only want to be with you Across the river In Windsor Bicycles line the shore Norwegian tourists They rent them And they wave as they ride by
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Bowstring Lake 03:12
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My fiancé She’s got a father in Tapei Her mother’s down in Bangalore Trying to find a way To get back to the city Where she met her husband first When he leaned across the table And he said, “I like your purse.” All she could do Was to keep from falling through And when they got together The end result was you I found the secret to this life I found that everything's all right When I found you They moved to Minnesota Making angels in the snow He dragged her out to Bowstring Lake With ice skates in tow Blinded by the midnight moon She held his hand so tight He couldn’t feel his fingers As they glided through the night All she could do Was to keep from falling through And when they got together The end result was you I found the secret to this life I found that everything's all right When I found you
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Passion of a Passerby 03:29
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Strolling round this town again It’s almost quarter after ten And I’ve yet to find An old friend Seems no matter how I try I can’t find them all this time They’ve moved on And why can’t I Maybe it’s time I shed my skin Dug myself out Of this hole I’m in Throw me a shovel And crack the whip Maybe this time I won’t trip Peggy called me on the phone Her breathy voice is all her own She brings me back to where I don’t belong I met her by the five and dime I bought her flowers; they looked fine She smiled sadly And untied the twine CHORUS I woke up one day and the sheets were tangled All night long my throat was strangled By the thought that it might pass me by With all the passion of a passerby
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New York City 02:58
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She rolled into the city in a Cadillac She couldn’t find a parking space She sent it back Now she rides the cabbies ’bout their foreign names They think she’s kidding, but it’s all the same I ride my bicycle down her street Past her apartment, try to take a peek Through her open window, she sings a song I have to listen, gotta sing along New York City’s big (Like Cannonball Adderley) From the subway down below (Rumble of a downtown train) To the skyscrapers above I’m almost falling in love She likes the jazz, she likes the prose She reads about it while I paint her toes I didn’t plan to stay this long Can’t shake the feeling that it all seems wrong At Yankee Stadium, beneath the lights I had an epiphany that set me right I’d stay a little longer ’til the crowd wound down Then hit Penn Station for a train northbound New York City’s big (Like Cannonball Adderley) From the subway down below (Rumble of a downtown train) To the skyscrapers above I’m almost falling in love
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Bit of a Stretch 03:14
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It’s a bit of a stretch A bit of a circus act on ice To say that I know what I’m doing Even half the time And yet here I am I’m singing this song I’m dancing a dance That’s supposed to save you A security guard Shuffles his feet outside the door A photograph on the table Drops to the floor And here I am I’m singing this song I’m dancing a dance That’s supposed to save you Sometimes I have to wonder How I ever got into this situation Maybe if I'd been more successful Had a 911 instead of a boxster Or maybe even better if I stuck to the plan And became a rock star
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Sixty Years 03:17
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For more than sixty years You’ve been telling me I’ve got to take it slow I’m not that kind of man There’s no way that I can Take it slow Nobody knows that like you Nobody knows what to do When I get this way Nobody but you For more than sixty years We set the table for two And friends that came by Now the kids set their own We often talk on the phone And the years roll by CHORUS When I learned to fly First rumbled into the sky It was a solo flight The engine clear and bright And up above the clouds Beneath the stratosphere I could hear A future clear and bright Leading me on my flight Through the years

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Collection of songs I've written over the years, organized for easy streaming.

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released March 29, 2022

All songs written, performed, recorded, and mixed by Peter LaQuerre, except where noted.

Copyright (c) 2022 by Peter LaQuerre. All rights reserved.

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Peter LaQuerre Nashua, New Hampshire

Singer-songwriter from Nashua, NH, USA.

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