The Launder Sisters …on the verge of a dream
Music and Lyrics
MAGIC FINGERS
Music and Lyrics by Kate Launder & Chery Wiendenbeck 1988
Think, If you can
Don’t loose sight of your dreams
Start making plans
Say, if you will
Don’t be a Jack
Don’t tumble down that hill
Feel, if you must
All the pain and joy of lifes sweet wonderlust
Talk, talk to yourself
Cause you know what you want, nobody else
Reach up and touch the sky with magic fingers
You gotta hold on to the feeling while it lingers
You gotta grab each moment as it passes by
Reach up with magic fingers and touch the sky
Dare you to try
Be, what you want
A small town girl, big city debutant
It’s time for show, show and tell
All the feeling inside you might as well
Do, do what you feel
You got to hold on to the feelings that are real
See, see what you’ll find
The only limits are the limits in your mind
WORK TOGETHER
Music and Lyrics by Kate Launder 1989
We can work together
If you give me your hand
Come on let’s help each other
Across this frozen land
Don’t be afraid to make a stand
I gotta make you understand
Cause I have seen it all before
And I have walked through lonely doors
I have seen the face of pain
And I have stood out in the rain
But I think it is very clear
The reason that we are all here
Take my hand and you will see
The strength you’ll find in unity
If we, can work together, work together
Everybody’s Lonely
But there is no need to live alone
Just open up your heart
That’s all you have to do
And let the love come pouring through
And let it pour out of you
Cause I have heard it all before
And I have walked through lonely doors
I have seen the face of pain
And I have stood out in the rain
But I think it is very clear
The reason that we are all here
Take my hand and you will see
The strength you’ll find in unity
If we, can work together, work together
Lonliness and pride
You bundle up deep inside
You think you can’t reach out for someone else
Fooling yourself
DON’T LET ME BE LONELY TONIGHT
Music and Lyrics by Kate Launder 1989
I can see by the look in your eyes
That you don’t want me to go
I can tell by the sound of your sighs
Your feeling so much more
Pretty baby you know it’s true
I never meant to take advantage of you
Oh, don’t let me be lonely tonight
Don’t let me throw away all these feelings
That I’ve had locked up inside
Oh, baby don’t go
Don’t you know I’ve got more on my mind
Than I am willing to let you see
Can’t you tell that I am needing you baby
Just like you need me
Turn around and let me see your sweet smile
And ask me one more time and I just might change my mind
Don’t you know that love takes time
I’m not trying to take you for granted
Can’t you see I have a lot on my mind
There’s so many dreams,
That I’m still trying to find
ALIBI
Music and Lyrics by Kate Launder 1989
Don’t you want to know what my alibi is
Don’t you want to know just where I’ve been
I’ve been hanging around that place you call home
I’ve been talking a lot to your best friend
Now Randy he says that I’m crazy
For putting up with the things that you do
He says he loves you like a brother
But I shouldn’t be your lover
And your mother is a housewife too
And Randy he told me a secret
And I promised that I wouldn’t let on
But now I know why you play the twenty questions
Everytime that I’ve been gone
Oh I’ve been talking a lot to your best friend
And I’m thinkin’ that maybe this is the end
You know I talked to Randy all of last night
That’s why I didn’t come home until the morning light
You know your always asking me questions
About where I go and what I do
That’s why when I come home so very late last night
It seemed funny that it didn’t bother you
THE WHOLE WORLD IS GOING TO HELL (BUT WE’RE GOING TO NASHVILLE)
Music and Lyrics by Kate Launder 1989
Oh the whole world’s goin’ to hell
But we’re going to Nashville
We’re goin’ to Nashville, Tennessee
I got a deficit as big as the government
More problems than the president
But I’m not gonna let that worry me
Oh yes, the whole world’s goin’ to hell
But we’re goin’ to Nashville
We’re goin’ to Nashville, Tennessee
Oh I’ve been struggling my whole life
And I won’t become no man’s wife
Not until I’ve been to Nashville, Tennessee
Well I been working real hard
I been tring to save some money
I got payments due on everything I own
Oh but that don’t worry me
As long as I can get to Tennessee
I’m bound and determined to make it all my own
We got a gas tank full of dreams
And a guitar that need strings
And a picture of our family
We’re gonna make it I can tell
Because our friends they all
Wish us well
They promised they would write us
Faithfully
Let them try to stop us
See how far they get
We are goin’ to Nashville
The rest of the world can
Sort out it’s own mess
MYSTERY GIRL
Music and Lyrics by Kate Launder 1988
He said he didn’t care about no money
He said he really didn’t care at all
He was only looking for his honey
He said he wanted to give her some silver and gold
He said he was from some where down near mobile
He said it with a sadness in his voice
He showed us a picture of his sweetheart
He said he’s is looking for an angel
That needle in a haystack
But he really didn’t have any choice
Mystery girl, where are you hiding
Where are you now,
Why were you lying
To me
Mystery girl, I carry your photo
I show it to strangers
They tell me they don’t know
No they don’t know
They don’t know what you mean to me
He met her only once
But his heart knew right then
That she was the girl of his dreams
She told him that she lived here in Chicago
Now he’s walking all the streets
And he’s looking high and low
He’s trying to find that sweet angel
I hope you don’t mind me taking
Just a little bit of your time
But I’m so far away from home
And I’m a little bit out of my mind
VERGE OF A DREAM
Music and Lyrics by Kate Launder 1989
Watching, waiting, holding on to the edge
Looking overlife’s uncertain ledge
Crowd below you watches, time passes by
Do you dare now, should you even try
And you don’t know if you want to be
The one to set it free
Cause you don’t know what it’s gonna do
To either you or me
You’re on the verge of a dream
Hopeless victim, reaching out for the light
Reaching up for the pinholes that dot the night
Don’t tell me that your just life’s little pawn
Here comes the sunrise, welcome mystery dawn
You’re on the verge of a dream
"THIS ALBUM IS DEDICATED TO OUR MOM AND DAD FOR ALWAYS BELIEVING IN US AND TEACHING US TO BELIEVE IN OUR DREAMS."