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The Watchman’s Daughter 

October came upon us 

With an angry sky

 A son of misfortune 

And his child of lullabies

I've found good men are steadfast 

And hard to find

There was never a time 

You broke the line  

Chorus 

Watchman, Watchman 

How sudden the goodbye 

Watchman, Watchman

Walk tall in your light 

V2

I braced for the change 

But lose my strength 

When I trace your face 

On snapshots of golden days

The Watchman’s daughter 

She carries the ghosts

Of Sunday songs 

And ride alongs

Chorus 

Bridge: 

Your summer baby 

Has to turn the page

And leave the season  of 

sorrow

But the love remains 

We laid you down 

In the Autumn light 

A symphony of tears 

A swansong takes flight 

 

The Hurt 

V1

Why didn’t you tell me? 

A storm shook your mind 

And that lately             

You’re pressed on every side 

Vamp 

So when the days knock you down 

And your heart gets turned around  

Chorus            

I know the hurt feels like a drug to us    

Oh the hurt feels like a drug to us 

V2

Why didn’t I tell you?  

That I’m inclined to lie                    

And in this season                     

I’m moody like the autumn sky 

Vamp

So when the days knock me down

And my hearts get turned around 

Chorus                 

I know the hurt feels like a drug to us  

Oh the hurt feels like a drug to us 

Bridge

There are days   

That we don’t recognize 

All the love

That’s dangling on the line 

Throwing words out         

Like punches in the dark 

How did we become

So undone?

V3

Oh the hurt feels like a drug to us 

And the night wind roars right through our blood           

But I know that we’ll be fine        

As we find our way back to love. 

 

Wichita Wind

Verse 1 

I’ve never been to Wichita 

but I hear the winds are fierce 

Just like the words we said today

Full of fury and lacking grace 

Chorus

Oh baby come 

To the seaside 

And we can wrap ourselves in song

Oh baby come

And our hearts can find

A place to say amen and hide from the 

Wichita Wind 

Verse 2

The road seemed like a place to hide 

I dreamed of crossing over state lines 

To twist the thorn deepen inside

Pride and love are often blind 

Chorus 

Bridge: 

Love is wild and full of blame 

Do we know just how to mend?

When the Wichita winds roll in 

SOLO

Chorus 

 

Be Brave When You’re Blue

Chorus                              

Be brave when you're blue             

And you’re feeling worn through

From a past that you can’t seem to shake                      

Watch the morning break 

And see the starling cross the sky 

Then  courage will lead you through another day 

 V1        

Well you burn through the hours

Like the sun in mid-July

Cause the stillness wrecks your mind   

 You live inside your own lies     

 Your fiction hides the shattered truth

Chorus

V2        

Cause when life drags you down

Like a rag doll tossed around

And the true ones have become untrue 

Your north star is still shining bright

There are golden dreams left in you

Bridge

Be brave and thats your part

Be brave in your tender heart

Be brave enough to know

A savior loves you so

Vamp 

Be brave when you’re blue 

And courage will lead you through another day 

Outcasts 

V1

We took to the sea

with a little baby

There was no hope in the land of our past                               

So we made ourselves outcasts

V2

My love, you are my home 

Wherever we find to roam 

I made a vow I’m man enough to keep 

To honor you for eternity…

Chorus

I will never be a whole man

The sting of war tore my youth apart 

 I can love you with a true heart 

So if  that’s good enough 

Let’s make a start  

V3

The season of children came 

And we gave them holy names  

They grew strong within your hands 

While I worked as life demands 

Chorus 

I will never be a whole man

The sting  of war tore my youth apart 

But I can love you with a true heart 

So if that’s good enough 

Let’s make a start  

Bridge 

Your eyes always wreck me

They are the color of the Aegean 

But your eyes always show me 

That love is mine

 

The Sparrow’s Song 

V1

I am not of the chosen kind

Whose hair is long and fine

I was born of the desert sand 

With eyes the color of wine 

V2

I keep the company of noble men 

But live among the discarded 

Everyone says I have a hollow mind 

But my soul is defiant 

Chorus

A scarlet cord hangs in the window 

For the  promise I made

A scarlet cord hangs in the window

For the promise you gave 

A greater love will deliver me 

V3

The gods of every man

They never knew me

Their temples built on fear 

Crumble in the sea

V4

I will trust your God 

With the heart of my family

So, let it be as you say 

Oh, let it be as you say 

Chorus

Bridge 

And the trumpets sound like a jubilee 

And the hope of tomorrow sings in me 

V5

The whole of this land 

Is tied to your hands 

Let me hear the sparrow’s song 

When the walls come down  

 

Guthrie's Land 

V1

There’s a sky full of stars

A million to dream on 

She made some bad decisions 

That turned her life sideways

That turned her heart to dust

 

Verse 2

You love her spark

Keeps you lit in your dark 

But you cannot hold back 

A soul in full bloom ‘

A sparrow that will fly soon 

 

Chorus: 

She longs to be in Guthrie’s Land 

Where all of nature is a band 

And dreams lay in Oak trees

And her heart can be at ease

V 3

There’s a season for change

Rolls in with heartache

Life is not kind when you 

Neglect the things you love 

Neglect the things you love

Bridge: 

And when the night comes alive 

She walks the yard barefoot 

Lifts her face to the stars 

And finds the strength to be her own 

Chorus

Circle Days 

V1

The circle days were long and full of wonder 

A blue house on a Milford hillside 

Held a family on the edge of time 

 

Chorus

Love stands tall 

When heroes fall 

And Love stands tall 

To heal us all 

V2

Half of you is half of me 

And now you’ve settled five states away 

There is a place within my heart 

Where you showed me how love starts 

I buried it with your goodbye 

Chorus 

Love stands tall 

When heroes fall 

Love stands tall 

To heal 

Bridge: 

A kid heart believes 

Heroes won’t let you down 

But in the end 

The circle unwound 

V3

What I want to remember 

Is the long Sunday dinners 

And barefoot walks on muddy creek beds

And the love, the love, the love of circle days 

 

Stardust Plans 

V1

She is a hot flower

Who lives just to wander

Ride on freight trains

Dig her hands in fields of grain 

V2

She left you her child

On a Sunday morning 

And drove away with a man 

Who had no name just a yearning

To hold her and wander with her 

Into the hurricane of flesh and bone

And madness

The sweet unknown

V3

Are you sleeping under the wide sky?

With the stars staring back at your moody eyes 

Or are you busted down on the I-10?

With your legion of demons closing in      

 

Chorus 

And our stardust plans

Flew from our hands 

And I ring our mother's bell 

To call you home 

And I ring our mother's bell 

To call you home 

Bridge:

Fire words spark from her mouth 

And burn all the love down 

SOLO 

Vamp End

So long sister

The Sunday goodbye

My feet on home ground

Your feet on the run 

 

ALBUM CREDITS

Brave When You’re Blue

Production, Engineering, Programming & Instruments: Joel Ingram 

Songwriters: HeatherGeo, Renea Poole, & Joel Ingram 

Breath of God 

Production & Engineer, Programming & instruments: Joel Ingram 

Viola: Dayari Ingram 

Vocal Recording: HeatherGeo 

Songwriters: Edwin Hatch 

Guthrie’s Land 

Production, Engineering, Programming, & Instruments Lori Chaffer at The Conductor Studio

Songwriters: HeatherGeo , Ashley Sykes

Outcasts

Production, Engineering, Programming, & Instruments Lori Chaffer at The Conductor Studio

Songwriter: HeatherGeo

Circle Days

Production, Engineering, Programming & Instruments: Joel Ingram 

Songwriters: HeatherGeo & Joel Ingram 

The Sparrow Song 

Production, Engineering, Programming, & Instruments Lori Chaffer at The Conductor Studio

Songwriters: HeatherGeo 

Stardust Plans 

Production, Engineering, Programming & Instruments: Joel Ingram 

Songwriter: HeatherGeo 

The Watchman’s Daughter 

Production, Engineering, Programming, & Instruments Lori Chaffer at The Conductor Studio

Songwriter: HeatherGeo 

Wichita Wind 

Production, Engineering, Programming & Instruments: Joel Ingram 

Guitar solo: Julie Oakes 

Songwriters: HeatherGeo, Joel Ingram & Kristen Budde 

The Hurt 

Produced by HeatherGeo & Nicole Witt

Recorded at Sun Drop Sound Florence, Alabama. 

Songwriters: HeatherGeo & Nicole Witt 

Drums: Justin Holder

Bass: Jimbo Hart 

Guitar: Sol Philcox-Littlefield 

Keyboards: Grayson Wright 

Background Vocals: Nicole Witt & Ashley Sykes 

Engineer: Austin 

All songs mixed by Lori Chaffer

*except Wichita Wind - Mixed by Joel Ingram and The Hurt  - Mixed by Austin

Mastering Joe Hutchinson Garage Masters