Through Us Love Flows
(Jeannie Clark Fisher © 1986)

Now that we are here, our hearts beat as one,
Transcending time and changes, we've come
To an understanding deep within ourselves.
We talk to each other, we hear one another,
Through us love flows.

And we wonder why some people just can't see,
It's opening your heart in common empathy.
What a lonely life they face staring blind.
Let's talk to each other, let's hear one another,
And the feeling grows.

Ah, talk to each other, ah, hear one another,
Ah, let's make the feeling grow.

When all the worldly things we're striving to hold,
Bring us down to being callus and cold,
Make the heart the place you live, let it thrive.
Without love you have nothing.
I will ask of you this one thing,
Learn to let it go.

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Daddy, Why?
(Jeannie Clark Fisher 1998 © 2004)

Daddy, where have you gone to?
Was it something I said?
Was I not what you had hoped I'd be,
Just a slight disgrace to the family?
Well, I'm sorry if I caused your leaving here.
But did you really have to disappear?

Daddy, where are you traveling to?
Can I travel there, too?
Are you searching for a new adventure,
People, places, business ventures,
Topics for the stories that you write?
Will I think about you? Yes, I think I might.

Daddy, when will you call me?
I've been waiting so long
For that letter that you wrote to me
Your beloved daughter, Emily,
Tell me all about my strengths and shortcomings.
Please remember that my birthday's in the spring.

Daddy, why did you leave me?
Have I done something wrong?
Did she want to make it easy
To erase me from your memory
So you could go and make more just like me
Why can't I be part of this family?
Well, the pain is often more than I can bear.
And I have this endless need to know you care.

I've come here to remember you,
Since you're gone now for good.
Not a soul in this place knows I exist,
Like a forgotten dream in the daylight mist.
But, I want to say one thing before it's through;
Though I'm just another face to all of them,
I loved you, too.

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American Dream
(Jeannie Clark Fisher 1990 © 2004)

America, land of the free so they say.
And for two hundred years
We have dreamed of the greatness,
The hope and the promise you've offered.
What has happened to us now?
Is the dream within us gone or just forgotten?

American dream, you're slipping away it seems.
American dream, don't slip away, don't drift away,
Don’t go away, please.

America, your families are drifting away,
While your TVs are blaring
With gun shots and violence,
Nobody's talking together.
They don't know what's right or wrong,
With no values or ideals to hold on to.

American dream, you're drifting away it seems.
American dream, don't drift away, don't slip away,
Don't go away, please.

America, your babies don't know how to love.
Never suckling the breast of a mother who held them
So closely with tender emotion.
They are prisoners to this life,
Never knowing any joy, only sorrow.

American dream, you're coming apart at the seams.
American dream, don't drift away, don't slip away,
Don’t go away, please.

But wait, wait a minute,
It's not too late to begin it.
We're still strong, we can win it,
We can work hard, that's the ticket.
But we've got to get down to the basics,
It's the people who make it
And the people need basics.

American dream, don't be a great memory.
American dream, let's make it right
Let's keep it alive, don't let it die, please.

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Trashing The Planet
(Jeannie Clark Fisher 2002 © 2004)

As I was clearing off the table
At the fast food restaurant,
My tray piled high with paper and trash,
I dumped it in the bin nonchalant.
I thought of just how many people
Were doing the same thing that instant.
In how many cities around the world
This dumping has become persistent.

So where is all this stuff gonna go?
The thought so plainly came to me,
Off to the happy dumping ground
Somewhere out beyond the sea.

We're trashing the planet
And we never really care,
That we're trashing the planet,
Do we ever wonder where
All those plastic cups and plates and forks
And Styrofoam will go?
We're just trashing the planet
And so merrily we go.

People change the world to suit them,
But they're not the only creatures.
Termites, ants, and elephants
All have their destructive features.
Beavers moving earth and logs,
Building dams to make a living,
Wrecking havoc with the land,
Taking more than they are giving.

It's their natural habitat we say
(Environmentally profound!)
What's the difference anyway
From dumping garbage in the ground?

As we're trashing the planet,
Maybe it's our destiny.
While we're trashing the planet
We're evolving gracefully.
But does fate require taking out
The entire atmosphere?
We're just trashing the planet,
Really nothing more to fear.

Plants are hardy, this is true,
They've been here for many eons.
They've survived catastrophe,
Climate change, asteroid collisions.
They'd come up through cracks and fissures,
Up through concrete, roads and buildings.
Til the earth was forest again,
Life would thrive on new beginnings.

But when the human race is gone,
Vanished from our earthly home,
Will the plants adapt and grow
On soil made of Styrofoam?

Since we’ve been trashing the planet,
Is that all we have to show
For our time on the planet,
Was that all there was to know?
That the human mind was smart enough
To make a substance that
Would survive us on the planet,
Plastic! To you I tip my hat!

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So Many Things
(Jeannie Clark Fisher 1972 © 1984)

So many things I want to do
Make me want to stay with you.
And it's the thought of your needing me
That makes me need your company.

And it makes me blue
When I think of leaving you.
It's so hard to decide what to do
When I know that I'm happy with you.

When work is done and I come home
I like to be with you alone.
And talk about the day gone by
As night drifts in close beside you I lie.

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