Ulterior Motive (2001-2009)

Michigan

Ashes Together

Look at What Love Can Do (Parts 1 and 2)

Insomnia

Christmas Without You

Our World

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Michigan

I was feeling like an orphan
With no roots to call my own
While others travel east and west
And migrate to their home
I felt a little left out, you know

Then suddenly it happened
Long lost sister on the phone
She said there was a reason
I no longer was alone
She said "Come on out to Michigan"

It was the journey of a lifetime
With a brother and a friend
To learn about our father
And finally in the end
We learned about our family
We learned about ourselves

It was a special delivery
A message from a dove
It was time to go home again
A time to share his love
It was a time to cry, a time to smile
A time to reconcile

Well, I'm all about the history
I'm all about the love
I'm all about the magic
And the mystery of the dove
And I'm all about Michigan

© 2001 Brad Rosaschi

 

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Ashes Together

How can I show you the strength of my resolve
When all I can give is my word
To some it might seem a little extreme
To others, it might seem absurd

Oh, my...
How I've loved you so long...

Ashes together
So we can be
Holding each other eternally

Ashes together
So in the end
I can be with my true love and very best friend

Tell everybody there is nothing they can do
To keep us from being as one
Some might contend it's a sorrowful end
But this love has only begun

Ashes together
So we can be
Holding each other eternally

Ashes together
So in the end
I can be with my one true love and very best friend

© 2003 Brad Rosaschi

 

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Look at What Love Can Do

In a world of perfect strangers
In a time when no one cared
Left alone in the danger zone
Lost and unprepared

With a picture in his pocket
Of the girl who let him down
Suicide and run-and-hide
Were the only games in town

Ooo, look at what love can do
Ooo, look at what love can do

She was once the perfect angel
With a heart of solid gold
But a girl can choose what she wants to lose
And she let the flame grow cold

Behind doors that never open
By a phone that doesn't ring
There's a lonely man doing what he can
And he's just tried everything

Ooo, look at what love can do
Ooo, look at what love can do

Now in a world with friends and family
Where love is all around
There's a brand new start for an open heart
Who is ready to be found

..And that picture in his pocket
Of the girl he thought he knew
Is a special friend to the very end
Now that's what love can do

Ooo, look at what love can do
Ooo, look at what love can do

© 1983 and 2006 Brad Rosaschi

 

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Insomnia

It isn't quite morning and it isn't last night
It isn't the worst thing, but it sure isn't right

The light from the TV casts a glow on the wall
He covers his face to escape from it all

Insomnia, insomnia, give him a break
He's tired and he's weary and he's still wide awake
For a little more sleep he would give up his world
But there's a hole in his heart
...about the size of a girl

Well the last time he figured, he was doing okay
His friends and his family, they make it that way

But by the end of the day when the light's growing thin
His confidence eludes him and the demons move in

Insomnia, insomnia, give him a break
He's tired and he's weary and he's still wide awake
For a little more sleep he would give up his world
But there's a hole in his heart
...about the size of a girl

Insomnia, insomnia, give him a break
He's tired and he's weary and he's still wide awake
For a little more sleep he would give up his world
But there's a hole in his heart
...about the size of a girl

© 2006 Brad Rosaschi

 

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Christmas Without You

No flocking of the Christmas tree
No stocking on the hearth for me this season
Forget about the eggnog, I'll just drink the rum
I've got my reason

This won't be a very merry Christmas without you
I'm just not in the mood for Jingle Bells
I've lost the yuletide spirit and there is nothing I can do
Maybe next year will be better, time will tell
Maybe next year will be better, timewill tell

No pastries, pies, or pudding-cakes
I guess I've lost my taste for those confections
If I could have a Christmas wish
I'd wish for the return of your affection

This won't be a very merry Christmas without you
I'm just not in the mood for Jingle Bells
I've lost the yuletide spirit and there is nothing I can do
Maybe next year will be better, time will tell
Maybe next year will be better, time will tell

© 2008 Brad Rosaschi

 

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Our World

If you were here in my world
We’d be holding hands
Walking in the sunshine
And making future plans

If only fate would bring you to me
I’d be satisfied
Just to have you by my side

If you were here in my world
We’d be dancing in the rain
Happy just to be alive
Not feeling any pain

If only fate would bring you to me
I’d be satisfied
Just to have you by my side

You were made for me, my love
And I was made for you
This plan's been put in motion
And there is nothing we can do
We might as well surrender now
The time for “us” is overdue

If you were here in my world
It would be like paradise
Tropical martinis
So cold they turn to ice

If only fate would bring you to me
I’d be satisfied
Just to have you by my side

If you were here in my world
It would be your world too
It would be your world too
It would be our world

© 2009 Brad Rosaschi

 

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