Save The Day by Kate Campbell

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Save The Day

Artist
Kate Campbell
Released
2008
Genre
Singer-Songwriter

Release Date: October 14, 2008

Save The Day was produced by Walt Aldridge and includes the legendary Spooner Oldham on the To Kill A Mockingbird inspired song “Sorrowfree.”

Features guest vocals by John Prine (“Looking For Jesus”), Nanci Griffith (“Fordlandia”), Mac McAnally (“Falling Out Of Heaven”), and Kate’s New Agrarian pals Pierce Pettis and Tom Kimmel (“Everybody Knows Elvis”).

“It’s all aces.” 
– Jim Musser, Iowa City Press Citizen

Notes Coming Soon!

1. Save The Day

What’s it gonna take to save the day
What you gonna need to feel okay
If you close your eyes what would you pray
What’s it gonna take to save the day

I had a friend who spent his life
Trying to win the lottery
He just knew that a million bucks
Would put an end to his misery
Meanwhile the farmer living down the road
Only wanted a drop of rain

What’s it gonna take to save the day
What you gonna need to feel okay
If you close your eyes what would you pray
What’s it gonna take to save the day

For some people it’s a brand new car
For some it’s just a parking space
A little water in the desert sun
Or champagne by the case
A big mansion in the Hamptons
Or just a warm place to sleep tonight

What’s it gonna take to save the day
What you gonna need to feel okay
If you close your eyes what would you pray
What’s it gonna take to save the day

A Vanderbilt or a worn out van
A cup of soup or Superman

What’s it gonna take to save the day
What you gonna need to feel okay
If you close your eyes what would you pray
What’s it gonna take to save the day

What’s it gonna take to save the day
What you gonna need to feel okay
If you close your eyes what would you pray
What’s it gonna take to save the day

If I ask you now what would you say
What’s it gonna take to save the day

By Kate Campbell & Walt Aldridge
© 2007 Large River Music (BMI) / Sony ATV Music (ASCAP)

2. Welcome To Ray

What makes a town they say
Is it the people
Is it the place
Some things last
Some things fade
Some things you don’t notice
‘Til they’re gone
If you notice them at all

It only took one day
To lose the town of Ray
Bulldozed into clay
The town of Ray

What makes a home they say
Roof overhead
To keep out
All the rain
And everyone feels safe
When it’s bitter
And it’s cold
Home is where you want to go

It only took one day
To lose the town of Ray
Bulldozed into clay
The town of Ray

Trailers line the lane
Mobile homes that came to stay
Now the welcome sign
Is all that’s left of Ray

What really happened
Who can say
Did they up and leave
Or slowly drift away
I don’t know why
I want to know these things
I just know
I like the name

By Kate Campbell & Carl Jones
© 2007 Large River Music (BMI) / Chordwood Music (ASCAP)

3. Fordlandia

One day Henry Ford went down
Built his very own new town
Only one for miles around
In the middle of the Amazon
Hospitals and factories
A quarter-million rubber trees
Gonna beat that European squeeze
And raise his bottom line

Fordlandia still standing there
In the jungle air
In the middle of nowhere
Some dreams die hard
Some notions are
Like the city of Fordlandia

A church, a school and a butcher shop
But they never got a single crop
The whole thing was a giant flop
From the day he thought it up
How could anybody know
You can’t plant rubber trees in a row
They need a little space to grow
If your gonna send some tires back home

Fordlandia still standing there
In the jungle air
In the middle of nowhere
Some dreams die hard
Some notions are
Like the city of Fordlandia

Speaking now in Ford’s defense
Sometimes things make perfect sense
The best laid plans of mice and men
Will often go astray
All of history’s greatest minds
Dared to lay it on the line
They came up short a couple of times
Before they made the Model “T”

Fordlandia still standing there
In the jungle air
In the middle of nowhere
Some dreams die hard
Some notions are
Like the city of Fordlandia

By Kate Campbell & Walt Aldridge
© 2006 Large River Music (BMI) / Sony ATV Music (ASCAP)

4. Dark Night Of The Soul

You can pray with all your might
Til you knuckles all turn white
Or you can look the other way
Hope it’s gone with each new day

You can do your best to hide
You can hold it all inside
You can curse and shake your fist
You can ask why God, why this?

There is peace somewhere I’m told
There’s a fire out in the cold
There are wonders to behold
In the dark night of the soul

You can give in to your doubts
Try to figure it all out
You can fight the fight alone
Or do your best to drink it gone

But there is peace somewhere I’m told
There’s a fire out in the cold
There are wonders to behold
In the dark night of the soul

Trust your spirit to be your guide
You’ll come out on the other side

In the absence of the light
Let the shadows hold you tight
And you can let your fear and pain
Wash over you like rain

But there is peace somewhere I’m told
There’s a fire out in the cold
There are wonders to behold
In the dark night of the soul
In the dark night of the soul

By Kate Campbell & Walt Aldridge
© 2006 Large River Music (BMI) / Sony ATV Music (ASCAP)

5. Color Of Love

Her eyes were Carolina blue
Her hair, golden in the sun
But it was the way she’d look at me
That I knew the color of love

His face would turn a raging blush
That’s when he’d let go a drunken punch
It was the way she’d stand between us
That I knew the color of love

Don’t hate the man
For what the drinking does

She stayed as long as she could
There was just too much to be undone
It was the way she had the courage to run
That I knew the color of love

She met a man she could trust
A black and white predicament
It was the way they believed no matter what
That I knew the color of love

Don’t hate the man
There’s already hate enough

Some things are hard to cover up
When Southern justice ain’t so just
How could she choose between two sons
Oh the color of love

Don’t hate the man
For what he’s become

So many words unspoken
And I can’t forget the way it was
Forgiveness that’s what I’m hoping
And to know the color of love

To know the color of love
To know the color of love

By Kate Campbell
© 2006 Large River Music (BMI)

6. More Than One More Day

People say forever like it’s no big deal
Promise that they’ll never when they probably will
Act as tho’ they’ve got some kind of crystal ball or key
To let them see exactly what the future’s gonna be

Rivers that we thought would always run go dry
Stars burn brightly then they fade away
I don’t know how long this love will be strong
But it’s more than one more day

Kings and ancient empires we thought would always stand
Crumble into nothing under wind and sand
And who can say how long they’re gonna feel the way they feel
All I know is right here by your side I know it’s real

Rivers that we thought would always run go dry
Stars burn brightly then they fade away
I don’t know how long this love will be strong
But it’s more than one more day

Time is just a second hand that ticks away
What is forever but a string of one more days

I don’t know how long our love will be strong
But it’s more than one more day
I know it’s more than one more day

By Kate Campbell & Walt Aldridge
© 2008 Large River Music (BMI) / Sony ATV Music (ASCAP)

7. Looking For Jesus

Saw it on the TV late last night
They’re digging a hole at another site
Trying to get the story just right
Looking for Jesus

Every day the buses roll in
Hoping to re-trace his steps again
They’re all wanting to be where the Savior’s been
Looking for Jesus

Up to the mountain, down to the sea
Climb up the limbs of a Sycamore tree
So we can see
Push our way through a crowd again
Just to get close enough to touch the hem
We all want to believe

Well I heard about a man who saw his face
One morning at breakfast in a bowl of cornflakes
Sold it to another soul on e-Bay
Just looking for Jesus

Up to the mountain, down to the sea
Climb up the limbs of a Sycamore tree
So we can see
Push our way through a crowd again
Just to get close enough to touch the hem
We all want to believe

There’s a picture of the Shepherd hanging there
And all the people who came for prayer
Wore the paint right off his hair
Looking for Jesus

We all want to believe
And so we keep looking for Jesus

By Kate Campbell & Walt Aldridge
© 2008 Large River Music (BMI) / Sony ATV Music (ASCAP)

8. Back To The Moon

We only went to win the race
We never looked around the place
Took a few pictures and picked up some souvenirs
Then it was back onto the ship
To hurry off on another trip
Made a few movies that we haven’t watched in years

Oh it’s time to go back to the moon
I think we left there too soon
I can take off in June
It’s time to go back to the moon

We’ll pack a lunch and take some air
Who knows for sure what’s really there
Take a good book and magazine in case it rains
Now they’ve got a sea of tranquility
So they’re bound to have a timeshare on the beach
Don’t let me leave without the Moon Pies and the Tang

Well it’s time to go back to the moon
I think we left there too soon
I can take off in June
It’s time to go back to the moon

Look at it hanging up there in the sky
Begging for someone like us to stop by
Pulling us both along with the tide
To get away every night and day

Time to go back to the moon
I think we left there too soon
We can take off in June
It’s time to go back to the moon
It’s time to go back to the moon

By Kate Campbell & Walt Aldridge
© 2008 Large River Music (BMI) / Sony ATV Music (ASCAP)

9. Falling Out Of Heaven

The wandering tribe of israel
In the wilderness
Wondering how they managed
To get into this mess
Three days since their food ran out
Moses stood and said
Get your baskets from your tents
And pick up all this bread

Falling seventy times seven
Look what blessings just came down
Falling out of heaven

The farmer stands out in the corn
All dried up from drought
Says oh Lord what can I do
The sun’s gonna burn us out
You’ve been faithful to provide
And I believe you will
Just give me some kind of sacred sign
And I can pay my bills

Falling seventy times seven
One day I’ll see drops of rain
Falling out of heaven

Me and all my family
Have more than we can eat
We’ve had so much rain this month
That we can’t cross the creek
Still I cry out to the Lord
Please hear this prayer I pray
Bring an end to war and strife
On this earth some day

Falling seventy times seven
We’ll look up and peace will reign
Falling out of heaven

By Kate Campbell & Walt Aldridge
© 2008 Large River Music (BMI) / Sony ATV Music (ASCAP)

10. Everybody Knows Elvis

Everybody knows Elvis
Everybody knows Jesus
Everybody knows you look both ways
Before you cross that road

And there’s nothing new
Under that old sun
Everybody knows Elvis
But you know nobody really does

Did you know him down in Tupelo
Did you know him on that Vegas show
Did you know him when he couldn’t sleep unstoned
Did you know him when he died all alone

Everybody knows Elvis
Everybody knows Jesus
Everybody knows beauty lies
In the eyes that behold

And two things that won’t die
True love and rock and roll
Everybody knows Jesus
But you know nobody really does

Did you know him in that upstairs room
Did you know him when that rooster sang his tune
Did you know him on that hill of doom
Did you know him when they laid him in that tomb

Cause everybody knows Elvis
Everybody knows Jesus
But you know nobody ever really does

By Kate Campbell & Mark Narmore
© 2006 Large River Music (BMI) / Oven Music Inc. (BMI)

11. Shining Like The Sun

Fourth and Walnut
Tenth and Main
Anywhere I’m standing
We are all the same

Every single beat
Every single breath
Every single day
Fades into the west

Shining like the sun
We are all shining like the sun

Earth and heaven
Diamonds and tar
Hold a flower
Touch a star

Sorrow fills my eyes
Tears are gonna fall
Down into the river
Where they will all (be)

Be shining like the sun
We are all shining like the sun

Shining like the sun
We are all shining like the sun

Standing on the corner
Looking on
Just want everyone
To know (they’re)

They’re shining like the sun
We are all shining like the sun

Shining like the sun
We are all shining like the sun

Kingdom come
Love be done
Here on earth
Just like in heaven

Shining, shining
Like the sun
We are all shining like the sun

Shining like the sun
Shining like the sun
Shining like the sun

By Kate Campbell & Kevin Gordon
© 2007 Large River Music (BMI) / Little Rain Music (BMI)

12. Sorrowfree

On the banks of the Alabama
Autumn falls into spring
And a day is always longer than it seems
White camellias, winter blooms
When summer comes I will think of you

There will be a shining river
There for you and there for me
There will be a sweet forever
There we will meet, and we will sing
Glory hallelujahs
Golden bells will ring
There all will be forgiven
In that land called sorrowfree

Dying free is different
For each and every one
Beholdin’ on to nothin’ and no one
Ivanhoe to ease the pain
Birds know where to go when it rains

There will be a shining river
There for you and there for me
There will be a sweet forever
There we will meet, and we will sing
Glory hallelujahs
Golden bells will ring
There all will be forgiven
In that land called sorrowfree

A pair of good luck pennies
A broken watch and chain
Oh the things that neighbors sometimes bring
Food for funerals, flowers for sickness
And all the little things in between

There will be a shining river
There for you and there for me
There will be a sweet forever
There we will meet, and we will sing
Glory hallelujahs
Golden bells will ring
There all will be forgiven
In that land called sorrowfree

By Kate Campbell
© 2008 Large River Music (BMI)

Campbell has created a uniquely literate, 12-album body of work that combines a classic Southern writer’s touch, an exquisite, honey-dipped drawl, love of Elvis, vintage country, gospel and Muscle Shoals soul and an unflagging generosity of spirit…it’s all aces.

– Jim Musser, Iowa City Press Citizen

Contemporaries Emmylou Harris, Mary Chapin Carpenter, Nanci Griffith and Gillian Welch might be better known, but Kate Campbell can hold her own with any of them.

– Jeffrey Sisk, The Daily News

Subjectively and stylistically, this latest Campbell opus amounts to a marriage of the rich American South story songs that suffused her early albums and the spiritual approach adopted on later releases.

– Arthur Wood, Folkwax

Campbell’s ability to be even-handed without sacrificing emotion and passion is one of many rewardingly verifiable reasons her music has such great appeal.

– Rick Allen, Blurt Magazine

Campbell’s lyrics seem infused by a faith that’s never cheap, that feels rooted in this earth and shored up by the touch of other human beings.

– Beth Bevis, Image Journal

…fans of folk based music can’t help but to celebrate this leading light. A first class work throughout.

– Chris Spector, Midwest Record Report

Save The Day boasts more than enough memorable material to make it another warm, wise and compelling addition to Campbell’s catalog.

– Alex Ramon, Wears The Trousers

…gloriously successful songs.

– Jerry Clark, Rambles.net

With such a great musical sound, this album will undoubtedly be enjoyed by many listeners.

–J ennifer Burgess, Feminist Review

Highly rewarding music…and highly recommended.

– Babysue / LMNOP