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Lyrics and Credits

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1. You Chose Me

You are warm   

In the morning In the dawning In my arms

Only mine

You’ll be waking Here beside me All the time

You here beside me

Love like it’s meant to be

You and I as one

You’re the only one

 

And I love

Knowing I’m the only one who sees what I see

Knowing you save all you’re love for me

Knowing I’m the only one

Only one to share your love

Knowing what I know

It’s hard to believe

You chose me

You chose me

 

You are strong

In the daylight Holding me tight I belong

And You shine

When tell me That It’s never Been so right

You standing over me

And your hands start to cover me

There are no words to describe

Feeling soo alive

 

You are gold

In the evening In the darkness In my soul

And you smile

Coming closer asking what Is on my mind

You coming near me

Only you can here me

Telling the whole /world I’m in /love

With the /on/ly /one

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2. Denim Day

Hang my head back and watch the cloud burst

Bring on the distant summer rain

Things may get better, may get much worse

Chances are they’ll stay the same

Shed my jacket, shed my shoes

Down to my jeans, old, soft and frayed

Rub my worn out baby blues

Just wanna Fade away,

 

 

Cause I’m feeling like a denim day

Oh yeah, I’m feeling like a denim day

Watching the clouds chase the sun away 

Lying around what a lovely waste

Nobody telling me to pick up the pace

Cause I’m Feeling like a denim day

Oh yeah, I’m Feeling like a denim day

 

Hanging out after the short rain

As The park comes back to life

People rushing round like a freight train

But I think I’ll skip this ride

And my toes down in the grass blades

Where is cool, and damp in a nice way

Welcome to soft, faded, Uncomplicated

Denim Day

 

Don’t wanna work, Don’t wanna play

Don’t wanna buy, Don’t wanna trade

Don’t anything at all in the way

 

Hang my head back and watch the cloud burst

Become a distant summer rain

Things may get better, may get much worse

Chances are they’ll stay the same

Melissa Israel
Melissa Israel
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3. Against My Body

My Handshakes were hard

My Words so strong

And My Body like a solid rock

Now my Touch lingers long

My Words are like song

And my body is loving and soft

 

Let me rock you as you lay

Against my body where it is soft and safe

Let me rock you as you lay

Against my body where it is soft and safe

 

Never shed a tear

Never showed any fear

Didn’t celebrate ‘til the deal was done

Now I’m happy and afraid

Laugh and cry most everyday

And everything is a job well done

 

What I worked hard to make hard

I now try to make soft

What I conserved and reserved

Now I daily exhaust  

 

My judgements were harsh

Sentiments were sparce 

My eyes could hold a long steady gaze

Now Perceptions are redraw

Senses are in Aw

And My eyes close with yours as you lay

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4. Fragile Heart

My feelings had been fading  

And All but disappeared

My timing and my phrasing      

Was careless and severe 

Comprehend my blunder

Some things are poorly done

I was the detrimental hunter

You alone: the unsuspecting, wounded one 

 

Why did we come together

If I was only gonna tear it apart

And why was I allowed to play

With such a fragile heart

Why was I so willingly

Deceiving from the start

And why was I allowed to play

With such a fragile heart

 

I lay you down upon the possibilities

And then tore the rug away

I set you up to find everything in me

And offered nothing to replace

Comprehend my failure

To see things through your eyes

Unaware of my behavior

And the depth of your surprise

 

I held on just to hold on

Just to have somebody holding me

I held on just to hold on

Til I no longer was in the need

I held on without mercy

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5. Linear Life

 “How do you see the shape of Time”

Questioned a good friend of mine

Never having thought about it I replied

“It is a straight line, yea

I see time as a straight line”            

She said “no not I, time is alive

seasonal and circular  

With chance to reignite”

 

And I thought I have been living a linear life   

I have been living it straight it straight till I die

I have been living my life the way that I see time

 

 “How do you see the shape of Time”

I questioned two dear friends of mine

“Chaos”…. Was one reply

“Time has no design, no

Time has no design, ”

 

The other said, ‘No not I, time is alive

Like rings within a tree 

Giving birth from inside” 

 

Come with me get outta line  

Shake up the way you live your Life

Come with me

While there’s still time, still time

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6. Telescope

I only know what I know

Until I’m taught something else

Nine planets round the sun

Then ten, eleven, twelve

 

On and on, on and on, It’s gonna go

Adding yet another to what we know

On and on, on and on, its gonna go

All you need is a stronger telescope

(Just you ask Brown and Trujillo)

(Where’d we’d be today without Galilleo)

 

I thought I knew what I knew

Because I read it was so

The one who said it was true

Seemed to be in the know

On and on, on and on, It’s gonna go

Buying what they sell cause they said so

On and on, on and on… Its gonna go

Believing about things we will never know

 

There are things that I know that I know that I know

Love, creation, heavenly hosts

New information will never change those things

Faith and knowledge are the same thing

Melissa Israel
Melissa Israel at piano with guitar
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7. Schizophrenic

We always go up

And then we always come down  

But We never give up

We’ll keep it going around  

It’s the cycle of  

Be with you, Be with me

Baby now you’re in the way

The Cycle of  

Needing you, Needing Me –

Now I need my space

 

Well It’s a little schizophrenic

And I love you when we’re in it

Then life gets in the way

How close did we come today 

To Throwing, it all away

How close did we come today

To Throwing, it all away

 

Sometimes it seems so right

And then it all goes so wrong

When we’re enjoying the flight

It never lasts very long

The cycle of 

Close enough’s, not enough

But I can’t sleep this way

The cycle of 

Ask of me, anything

Just don’t ask me today  

 

And you’d better believe

I’m in this all the way round

One thing that I’ve learn

The bottom gives you a bounce

Then you’re back in the grove

Baby your back in the mood

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8. Gradual Overdose

You were hard luck personified

A little bit of booze seemed more than justified

Yours was a life I didn’t know, I never tried

Just believed in your way you were getting by

 

I didn’t know, how could I not know

About….

 

When I heard that your world had become unstable

I was mistaken in thinking that you were more able

By the time I did the least I could do

It had already, overtaken you

 

I didn’t know, how could I not know

About

Your gradual overdose

Your gradual overdose

 

You were out of my sight

You had slipped out of my mind

There is no way you could survive

 Once you gave up on life

 

I didn’t know, how could I not know

About

Your gradual overdose

Your gradual overdose

I’m sorry

I’m sorry

That you had to hide it from me

I’m sorry that I didn’t see

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9. Ghost

Quiet as you’re creeping up upon her

Watch with reverence from a distance

Disturb not the night

Silently observe the dancing songbird

And years rolling back

Putting forth a younger life

Oh it’s a ghost

Oh its a ghost

Oh it’s a ghost of the girl

 

Quite if you catch the moment

Do not show your presence 

Do not advance

Silently Catch your breath and hold it

Don’t reach for this pearl

You’ll break the trace

 

Let her have this, let her be

Once again she is Twenty-three

A forest Fairy Dancing alone

And you can never let her know

That you’ve seen, the ghost…Of the girl

 

Let her have this, let her be

Once again she’s is Seventeen

In the moonlight, singing her song

And you can never sing along

Or you’ll alarm the ghost… of the girl

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10. Falling Away

Chasing horizons to keep the sun from going down

Pulling up life by the ROOTS to grow it in another town

The farther we go the harder it is to come back around

Keep me in your prayers and keep a photo of my face

When I’m not there, please, don’t fall away

 

Falling away

Falling away

Everyone needs, a reason to stay

 

Love of the greener green keeps us moving around so fast  

How long is long enough to build something that will last

When everything’s new, Is my whole life in the past 

If all of my efforts are only for today

Will the unfed past, fall, it will fall away

 

Well I should know better, than to call when I’m down and pained 

The voice on the phone, is a little distant and a little strained 

Because you can’t break a fall…from a thousand miles away  

Sometimes I forget, to give, when I take 

Leaving is just as hard… It’s hard on those who stay

Melissa Israel
Melissa Israel and son on beach
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11. Me In a Moment

If you’re afraid and not with me

And I’ve, made the distance, between us

Cold, dark, deep and wide

Then I’m not where I need to be

I should go, go to you leaving our differences behind

 

So you can have me, if you need

Me in a moment

So you can touch me, you can reach 

Me in a moment

So you can see me

You Can Feel Me

Oh…In A Moment

 

Here’s my promise, here’s my rainbow

I will look deeper when there is 

Sadness in your eyes

There’s no need for you to fight your fears alone

I will come I will come and take them on with you from your side

 

If you’re afraid and you’re not with me

Anytime, Anytime that you I know you are in need

Then I should go and be with you

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Credits

Songwriting: all songs by Melissa Israel


Vocals: all songs by Melissa Israel (with additional vocals by Shelley Ryan on Song 1, and Chip Martin on song 3)
Acoustic Guitar: Jamie Moses songs 2, 3, 4, 6, 7 & 8; Jason Ray Song 11; Chip Martin songs 1 & 4; Melissa Israel song 9
Pedal Steel guitar: Melvin Duffy songs 8 & 9
Mandolin: Chip Martin songs 1& 3
Fiddle: Jason Roller song 3
Drums: Derek Mixon Songs 1, 4, 5 and 7


Production: Chip Martin songs 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 & 7; Kevin Poree songs 8 & 9; Michael Edwards Songs 10 & 12
Engineers: Malcom Dixon and Steve Kent
Mixing: Abbey Road Studios London
Mastering: Kevin Poree and Ben Jones
Studios: Chip Martin Studios Nashville; Berry Street Studio London; Tin Pan Alley London; Michael Edwards Studio London; Melissa Israel Home Studio London; Abbey Road Studios London
Photos – Xander Casey
Photos = Ross Perkins

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