These Are the Things
for voice and guitar with additional accompaniment.
music and poem by Helen Avakian and Terry Champlin
The cracks on your pavement face
Melting in the time
The persistence of our hiding place
The rhythm of our rhyme
Clatter of the endless race
Ring of distant chimes
These are the things
I sing
These are the things
I sing to you
Flowers on the city street
Light upon the stairs
The places that we used to meet
The tables and the chairs
Sentences we don’t complete
That song we heard somewhere
These are the things
I bring
These are the things
I bring to you
From places that we’ve been
To places that we’ve seen
Moments that we’re living in
To moments in between
We glow like dawning day
Flow into night’s darker stream
These are the things
I sing
These are the things
I sing to you
Reach out your hand to draw them near
Those stars behind the tree
Whispers we can almost hear
Light we almost see
Visions that are almost clear
People we can almost be
These are the things
That ring
These are the things
That ring true
These are the things
I sing
These are the things
I sing to you
These are the things that I sing that I bring
To you
performed by:
- Chris Carey, drums
- Helen Avakian, guitar, voice
- Marc Shulman, electric guitars
- Scott Petito, organ, bass, piano
- recorded by Scott Petito at NRS Studios.
- produced by Scott Petito and Helen Avakian.
- mixed by Scott Petito.
- mastered by Scott Petito.
from the album I Love the Moon