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Acoustically Yours 1996​-​2012

by Stephen Berg

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1.
Now the time has come and gone for us to say goodbye I know I'll miss you, but I don't know why You fill my thoughts most all the time. Yet I know I've never ever fallen this hard I'd like to change, but the path is barred Lost in confusion all because of you My friends tell me that I'm a fool That I never really should have fallen for you Friends shouldn't say goodbye they should only go away I know I'll miss you but there's nothing more to say I only wish that you would stay
2.
Explain it to me She did nothing wrong Eplain it to me It seems unreal she's gone It's been some years I know And still I cannot find The peace to let her go I'm grieving all the time Explain it to me I keep hoping there's some purpose That I don't understand Some higher good that's served Some holy mighty plan Explain it to me Not a day goes by She doesn't cross my mind Things still left undone But now we're out of time Explain it to me I can no longer pray It seems to do no good I look in vain for answers I'd find them if I could Explain it to me
3.
The simple truth lies beyond These well constructed walls These barriers hide the me inside Waiting for a fall And I will hope and I will run And I will see my way through And I will always love you My feelings remain complex And they've never gone away Years have passed - The pain holds fast As the opportunity fades
4.
Inventory 02:21
I'm taking inventory I'm taking stock Of all the things That you have got Because you know it all Should be mine some day Writing it down Taking photographs too Put it on the ledger To me from you I just want to let it be known I've staked my claim When you've left this mortla coil I'm there with my trailer to get my spoils Load it up and away I go! Look at me go! Don't ask me why You'll never understand To show I love you I need everything, man Because as far as I can see This is all about me!
5.
Misty winter's afternoon Doing what I want to do Staring out through my window Seeing things I've never noticed Cold, gray, and lonely sky Bothers everyone but I The bare trees hold my fascination As wild runs my imagination It may be cold but I don't mind As I leave all my troubles behind.
6.
Monkey see...monkey do And still I wonder what ever happened to you You put your brain on vacation Get caught up in all the fear And the over stimulation And I know it may be just a phase But I think your'e insane And I think you know you are too You know, I think you know Your hate knows no bounds And yet you justify it with patriotic sounds You pray to God, to the Constitution Thinking the answer lies in some sort of violent solution You worship two gods And they both are often at odds You take the worst from each diety And claim oppression and you claim tyranny
7.
All the Same 04:37
I ask how you are You say that you're doing fine What can I do? You say nothing this time We go on and on but nothing changes We think time heals, it only re-arranges 'Cause deep in my heart I want to believe you Something inside me tells me I need you But all the same, I know that it's over Somehow I know you won't be denied Somewhere, somehow you feel justified But all the same I know that it's over I fall into the slipstream where I can do no wrong Still you seem distant, you're just playing along I try to crash through your facade of ill will But still I'm unable to fathom you still I don't know what you want from me Pulling away makes you think that you're free
8.
It's funny to think how we subtlely change Until we don't know each other at all Simple friendships lose their ease And move in our lives from large to small You know that once I looked at you and I cared But now when I see you there's nothing there So you go your way and I'll go mine And if someday we should meet We'll gloss over the things that have been Stare at the ground and shuffle our feet
9.
Regret 02:16
Life can take you unaware Until you can only stare Back at the might have beens I know I'll never understand Why I lived so long in a life unplanned Just letting it happen over and over again Taking stock is hard to do When the usual is to muddle through Wasted time and wasted days Never poking my head above the fray Some say the end brings only dust But somehow I have to trust Add up to more than that We have our lives here in our hands We can choose to live or choose to stand Indifferently - too scared to act
10.
Here we stand at the end of the road Wondering who is left to carry the load As we arrive at the end of the day And there we go trusting only ourselves Then once again we've gone and put God on our shelf To leave there when we don't want to play It's not up to us To conveniently forget What we should do For those we are to love and protect In every action ask what God wants us to do And in every deed think of a world bigger than you And you will see a life beyond your walls.
11.
Every morning when I see your face I feel I'm in a world of abiding grace You keep me sane even though I'm crazy You put up with so much I know it's true I'd kill me if I were you But I'm glad you won't and I'm glad you love me And you know I love you too But sometimes I don't say the things you want me to So I sing these lines to memorialize Just how much I need you in my life And how much you make my life worth living As men we don't say much I'm sure you know I like to sit back and just go with the flow And I know that sometimes I need forgiving

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This is a collection of what I feel are the best acoustic songs from the albums Independence Av (1997), End of the Day (1998), Extended Play (2000), The Left is Right (2002), Stephen Berg (2005) and Offending Instruments (2012). These were recorded in varous formats from 4-track cassette to multi-track digital.

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released August 1, 2022

All songs written by Stephen Berg

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Stephen Berg Minneapolis, Minnesota

Stephen is a singer, songwriter, and recording artist from Minnesota, He has been active since the early 1990's as a solo artist. Stephen's acoustically driven songs explore the themes of toil, mortality, loss, politics, greed, nature, regrets, faith, and love. He's also a pretty swell guy! ... more

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