CHRISTOPHER PARKER SMITH
MUSIC ARTIST
MUSIC
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Welcome to the music of Christopher Parker Smith, where sound is an escape for the soul. His first full length album, tiled "Love Hides Within," is being leased in the Spring of 2024. Listen to his latest album. Experience the magic of his music.
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LOVE HIDES WITH
Love Hides Within is the debut album by American composer, multi-instrumentalist Christopher Parker Smith. Recorded in San Francisco, Paris, and New York. Final mixing and mastering was completed at London's Abbey Road Studios in 2023.
LYRICS
Your Last Lover
such a long road
a winding road
11 hours up the coast
a haunting
that still moves in me
I’m still swaying
still swaying
slowly, with your ghost
can I come back
come back for your summer
I would spend my time
being
your last lover
the winter sun it embers here the ending of your summer to catch and carry you my dear
if you would, please if you would please
please, just please pull under
can I come back
come back for your summer
I would spend my time
being
your last lover
thoughts of you are every here
like the birds that soar above
on gilded wings
I was just once
did you ever know
know you were so loved
can I come back
come back for your summer
I would spend my time
being
your last lover
On and On
oh now little lover
take me home
pull me under your covers
and in the morning
when you are gone
I’ll linger on
from the days
when we first met
long road, turning rivulets,
slow train out to Montreal
I loved it all
somewhere beneath the skies
you turned around, love
you passed us by
oh, lover, what can I do
waiting for you
this goes
on and on and on and on
on and on and on and on
on and on and on and on
and on
from my mansard window
a harper’s song
she sings to me,
“where have all
these lovers gone?”
I’d tell her, lor, if I knew
but I’m waiting for you
I go
on and on and on and on
on and on and on and on
on and on and on and on
and on
so, oh now little lover
take me home
pull me under your covers
in the morning
when you are gone
I’ll linger on
I go
on and on and on and on
on and on and on and on
on and on and on and on
and on
Love Hides Within
the long road is warming under
the morning sun
the fields always cresting
over furrows deep within
i’m moving always
westward now
to the wheel, she endless spin
reminds me of
the things i’ve lost
the shadows i have been
can you tell me
- tell me all i’ve seen
she pours the drink
ever slowing says,
“Honey, how have you been?”
as beautiful as a sunrise and
i know she has a man
he works down
in the mill all day
pitching slag and rock
and most nights
he’s so damn tired
he’s broken from within
and she loves him so
- by God, she loves him so
well the night moves too swiftly though
the lights they burn within
we praise the bones
of love we lost and
friends we found again
stories deep in our memories
things we’d seen
the heartbreak of love long lost
the nights of feckless sin
and the morning
- too soon she moves on in
the long road is warming under
the morning sun
the fields always cresting
all the furrows deep within
i’m calling
always westward now
to the wheel, she endless spin
reminds me of
the things i’ve lost
and the love
- i hide within
love hides within...
On Paris Streets
I walked along Paris streets
Smile came across your face
Never has a charming man
so much
Want to see your place
And the cafes,
are they in bloom
Don’t they blossom for us
on these days
Are you still around
Just waiting
Are you waiting for me
Or have you found
some other town
To go and stagger 'round
Wandering like me
I walked alone Paris streets
Shadow fell upon our old place
Never has a drunken man
so much
Want to see your face
And the cafes,
are they in bloom
Do they blossom for us
on these days
Are you still around
Just waiting
Are you waiting over me
Have you found
some other town
Go and stagger 'round
Wandering like me
Are you now like me
Silent, is Unfound
A house that’s
on the hill
The lights off
The halls still
Have you long
Have you long gone
The floors there are worn from my year
Roaming wild,
I was so untamed
But, in you, I found a love
That I never named
Wish these words were spoken
Wish my voice
a strength so profound
In turn of phrase
where beauty is broken
And my love
Silent, it is unfound
There is a house that is
on the hill
The lights are off
The halls they are still
Somehow I know
You have long gone
Still, at night, don’t I drive
Just to slow
I slow past your lane.
Are you somewhere
Tracing the letters
Of my name
Wish these words were spoken
Wish my voice
a strength so profound
A turn of phrase
and beauty is broken
And my love
Silent, it is unfound
Emma
let your coffee warm
rest my dear
it won’t be long
lay down
your dreams
take you from here
last time i saw you i wept
fell to my knees pleading
“heaven or hell you can take my soul”
it’s my love that is leaving
Emma, dearest Emma,
Emma, my dearest Emma
i’ll stay until you are fast asleep
until your sobs turn soft breathing
and leave behind all I have ever know,
all the love that was worth keeping
Emma, dearest Emma
Emma, dearest Emma
Emma, my dearest Emma
[Goodbye]
Into the Wild, Again
but, in the rear view
those mountains are like Zion
they are calling me
so drive on, lover
drive on
you don’t have to see me go
into the wild again
i’m into the wild again
i know it is over
sunlight falling in
like a lost, distant, lover
i know it is over
and with your morning done
why would you just go on?
because in the rear view
the mountains are like Zion
they are calling me
drive on, lover
drive on
you don’t have to see me go
into the wild again
i’m into the wild again
i know that it is over
sunlight falling in
like a lost, distant, lover
i know it is over
but in the morning dawn
couldn't you just drive on
because, in the rear view
the mountains are like Zion
they are leading me
so drive on, lover
drive on
you don't have to see me go
into the wild, again
i'm into the wild, again
my dear, such lovely, quiet grace
took time to find you here
a sea of roses in bloom
long before i wake
a perfume that haunts me
when you're not near
Dear Wallflower
Cobblestones on your
big city streets
Your heels slow echo my pattered heart beat
To slow to see you blossom
in every lover’s kiss
It always ends in rivulets
On rose
On rose petal lips
See you standing
ah, away from the stage lights
Just swaying to the music,
you move to the rhythm
of the night
But when the evenings gone and you have taken to your bed
Do my notes echo
Like slow kisses
In your hands
Wallflower
Dear Wallflower
Maybe I’m nothing without you
Are you nothing without me
I’m nothing without you
It's painful for me to sing
I am
Nothing without you
Wallflower, I am just like you
Desperately wanting to get closer to
the moment I would step out of the lights,
to sway with you in my arms,
to go gently
unto the good night.
Wallflower
Dear Wallflower
Wallflower
Dear Wallflower