Brian Dilts Music

Shadow Ball

Shadow, shadow on the wall 

Playing light against the dark 

How have you carried me this far? 

Falling leaves out in the yard 

As the summer changed to fall

Wishing on a firefly in a jar

 
And I’m waiting waiting for your call 

I feel I’m playing shadow ball 

Wondering if my love matters at all 

Shadow ball 

Chorus 1

A circle and a square 

The tortoise and the hare 

No matter where you go I will be there

 
I'm smitten smitten for your love 

I cannot ever get enough 

Like a kitten with an endless ball of yarn

 
Still the same as it was then 

I love you so until the end 

When you’re with me I cannot pretend...

 
Chorus 2

That our love isn’t there 

Despite the differences we share 

You can’t fool me I know you care 

Chorus 1

We’re a circle and a square 

Like the tortoise and the hare 

But no matter where you go I’ll still be there

 
And I’m smitten smitten for your love 

I cannot ever get enough 

Like a kitten with an endless ball of yarn 

But I'm waiting waiting for your call 

Feel I’m playing shadow ball 

Waiting as the winter chases the fall 

Shadow ball 

Shadow ball

Strange New Toy

A clean slate

A twist of fate

Can’t help the feeling

I got here a bit too late

Where will you go

When your time is gone

And the sunlight is no more?

Flying around the lake

Letting go of all your mistakes

Fall into the well

The angels only can tell

Where you will be tonight or tomorrow

Fall into the well

The angels only can tell

Where you will be tonight or tomorrow

Chorus

But around the corner

Closer to the border

You will see a strange new toy

Inside the mirror

A reflection of your face floats to space

You are the one I see

All forgiveness comes back to me

Apples from a tree floating upon the sea

While you’re flirting with disaster

Chorus

And around the corner

Closer to the border

The light reflects on a strange new toy

Daylight ever faster

I blink and it is gone

Until the dawn covers my eyes

Where will you go

When your time is gone

And the sunlight is no more?

Where will you go

When your time is gone

And the sunlight is no more?

Fall into the well

The angels only can tell

Where you will be tonight or tomorrow

Fall into the well

The angels only can tell

Where you will be tonight or tomorrow

Where you will be tonight or tomorrow

Where you will be tonight or tomorrow

Five Minutes Away

Locking up the door 

Five minutes away from anywhere 

Listening through the crack in the floor 

Five minutes away from anywhere

Rich and poor, less and more 

Five minutes away from anywhere 

SUV with too many mouths to feed 

Five minutes away from anywhere 

Five minutes away from anywhere 

Chorus

I can hear you, but I can’t make out the words 

I know that it hurts to let go 

You’ve been to a thousand different places 

It's time to make yourself a better home 

Sidewalk stain, something I can’t explain 

Five minutes away from anywhere 

Crowded streets with too many mouths to feed 

Five minutes away from anywhere

Five minutes away from anywhere 

Chorus

Children ask about the past 

Five minutes away from anywhere 

We can see love grows under a canopy 

Five minutes away from anywhere 

Five minutes away from anywhere

Five minutes away from anywhere

Five minutes away from anywhere

Free

A surrealist painting on an otherwise empty wall 

Tells me the rain’s gonna come, the sky’s gonna fall 

Falling stars are never far away 

Let's wish on them before they all go away

A life that waits and a life that never starts 

A child that plays and an old man throwing darts 

All of this is moving in a straight line 

And where is my inspiration this time?

 
Chorus

I’ve been looking for signs that were there all the time 

For the future, but the past didn’t rhyme 

So I made it fit but they all could see 

I was going the wrong way down a one-way street 

It took so long to realize that life moves 

Moves in a straight line 

The wind picked me up above the street 

And I can’t remember a day when I felt so free 

There's a wishing well that’s covered by a pane of glass 

I wanted all my wishes down there to last 

But they changed to wishes I didn’t recognize 

And where is my inspiration this time? 

Chorus

One day I heard a hand brush across my floor 

The noise grew louder as I opened the door 

But just as soon as I heard it, it was gone 

Like a morning dew disappearing after the dawn 

Chorus

Untitled And Unfinished

Sitting alone, silently wishing

Wishing the sun would come out

And wake up the city

Walking into an endless black tunnel

Where is the light that will lead me,

Lead me to you?

Walking in fields, my feet touching blades of grass

I lay my head on a pillow,

A pillow of leaves

Looking down on an endless white waterfall

Remembering the ages of ancients

The sky was still blue

Chorus

And I could wait here for 500 years

500 winters and falls, summers and springs

Look out the window, the leaves turning blue

The clouds wash the pavement with gray, gray memories

Reading aloud against an aerial background

A tape loops a bird

Flying high up above the earth

She feels her shadow detach itself

The shadow becomes the wing of,

The wing of rebirth

I walk in the street, my eyes darting round

Sometimes I wish it could be like it was in my hometown

Walking into an endless black tunnel

That shines no light

I can’t see, nor hear any sound

Chorus

I could wait here for 500 years

500 winters and falls, summers and springs

Beautiful brown eyes, they break me in two

I run away down the road I will be home soon

I will be home soon...

Sitting alone, silently wishing

Wishing the sun would come out

And wake up the city...