Live Again by Michael Tomlinson

Texas-born Michael Tomlinson was raised in Amarillo, moving to Austin in his twenties to find a way to begin his recording career. While visiting Seattle in the early 80s, he wrote a song there that was released on local radio without his knowing, becoming the most requested song in the station’s history and opening the door for his move to the Pacific Northwest and the beginning of a concert and recording career.

In the mid-80s he released his first album, Run This Way Forever, which sold over 100,000 units on his own Desert Rain label. He next signed a deal for worldwide distribution and put out his second album, Still Believe, which scored a Top 10 Adult Contemporary hit with the song, Dawning on A New Day.

That album was followed by the recordings, Face Up in the Rain and Living Things, both of which received much radio play on AAA and NAC stations. To the surprise of many listeners and programmers, Michael then left the traditional music business and went back to putting out his own records on his small Deser Rain label. In the years since, he’s continued to play a handful of concerts each year and to write and produce new albums every few years. He is currently working on a new release to be finished summer of 2007.



I used to think I would one day settle down
I don't know what that really means
I'm in a place where the dream
Comes back around
To look me right in the face
I dream of love like it was before but
That kind of love seemed to never stay
Yet it still has a hold on me today

Sometimes I want to lay these troubles down
Turn around and then walk away
But I believe that I know too much now
I can't pretend I'm the same
Some love lives to cut and scrape us
Some love come to help us feel
Some love, so we'll all begin to heal

Whenever I feel alone like this
I lay awake uneasily
I need more than a lover's sweet kiss
Romance will not deliver me
I hear and old and endless song
The words I just keep filling
I keep thinking the love we need
Will live again

There are things when we're young
That we all learn
To grow up and just never ask
How is it that a world that doesn't work
Has ended up on our backs
Sometimes I can see right through this
Sometimes I'm no more than blind
Stumbling in the darkness of my mind

In a world that we don't even
Begin to understand
There's a storm that we're living in
Can we learn to live in trust
Oh I know we must again