Now Is The Time

Look to the future

Look to the past

Look to your mama

She’ll have the answer fast

Oh but we forgot something, baby

We forgot something so good

We got to hold the present time

A gift God understood

Can’t forget now, what’s here and how

Looking at the signs, can’t forget this time

Can’t forget this time

Now is the time 

Dreamed all day long

Waiting for what’s to come

And now that I’m looking back

I wonder what I have done

Don’t seem to remember, spring into September

Sleeping through my life, can’t forget this time

Can’t forget this time

Now is the time 

He told me I was special

That I had work to do

One day when we would meet

I would know what I’ve gone through

Faces in the mirror, lines becoming clearer

Don’t know where they’re from, they cannot be undone

Can’t forget this time

Can’t forget this time

Now is the time

Now is the time

(Said) now is the time

©2004 owm/sperling lieder, bmi

Under the Stars

 The nice thing about sleeping under the stars is that one does fully connect with God and the universe —as it is apparently infinite while you look at them and they back at you. A moment perhaps of trepidation, but trust that God only opens the door wider if you hear the Holy Spirit. I was reminded of that not only yesterday after your ceremony, but also while I gazed into the window of the universe  and Milky Way in my small eyes that kept with the dark of night. God is everywhere and in everything. 

What About You

I’ve gone on and on about what’s wrong

And saying what I’m thinking

Tried to get you to open up

But you’d rather keep me guessing

Well, I’m obviously none to happy

With this current situation

So how are we to decide responsibly

How to handle the complication?

What about you

What about you

It took years and years of built up tears

To break down our communication

All the passive snides and little white lies

Were turned into altercations

What about you

What about you

So come on baby you got to tell me

What’s going on in your mind

We can’t solve anything if we’re being

Distant and wasting time

Let’s work this out before it’s too late

And too much damage has been done

Time has gone by ‘tween you and I

That cannot be undone

©2008 OWM/Sperling Lieder, BMI

Put It In God's Hands

Put it in God’s hands

Put it in God’s hands

Oh, put it in God’s hands

One at a time, man

One at a time, man

Can’t take but one at a time

Want to believe it

Want to believe it

Can’t come without believing

Put it in God’s hands

Put it in God’s hands

Oh, put it in God’s hands

Come into being

Come into being

No more competing

Babe, it’s a feeling

A wonderful feeling

No more resisting

Put it in God’s hands

Put it in God’s hands

Oh, put it in God’s hands

One of a kind, yeah

One of the mind, yeah

Said law of the divine

Two into three then

Is one harmony and

Know it’s in God’s hands

Put it in God’s hands

Put it in God’s hands

Oh, put it in God’s hands.

(C)2021 OWM/Sperling Lieder, BMI

This Precious Early Dawn

Shall we run away at sunrise?

Follow where the wild geese play

Until they take flight

It would be sweet to stay

Embrace our beating hearts

We could learn to love again

You with me and I with you

Not to give away it

And I don’t want to say it

Though I secretly crave it

And that much is true

My heart is in a frenzy

‘Cause my soul can somehow sense 

Meaningful and crazy

I cannot decide what is next

And I love to feel you near me

I’m on your side o’the bed

This morning is all I need

To fall outside my head

You’ve made coffee, watching me sleep

Deeper into the sheets

Pray forever this keeps

This precious early dawn

Breathing glimmers on the snow.

(C)2020 OWM/Sperling Lieder, BMI

Messages to Myself

Little thoughts and bits of script

Left in spaces, some secret places

Just for cases like this

Should I ever find time

Needing music or rhyme

Right here left behind

Messages to myself.

Some tales are real, some a steal

Others don’t even make sense

A few bars or quotes, musical notes

To finish someday past tense

Messages to myself.

Young me to old me

What I knew now of when

What I didn’t care of then

And yet it all for reason now

I’d relearn the dream somehow

The clues are all around

Waiting to be found

Messages to myself. 

(C)2021 OWM/Sperling Lieder, BMI

How Did That Go?

I remember not too long ago 

Took my hand, said where do you want to go?

We were young want to, run the age together

Thought the time was on our side forever

(Chorus)

How did that go?

How did that song go? 

We sang it far, we sang it for 

The song had found an end before 

Now how did that go? 

Summer came then fell so far away

All the same when winter came to stay 

I never left to put the dream aside 

You never stayed to make me your bride 

(Chorus)

Father Time then met Mother Nature 

We arrived to find our kind of maker 

And I sighed for that was all to do 

And you cried for what I meant to you 

(Chorus)

(Bridge)

It is done now we hold the grey 

It is fine now I often pray 

Recalling love that summer day 

A fleeting lifetime had flown away 

(Chorus) 

(Repeat and fade out)

(C)2019/2020 OWM/Sperling Lieder, BMI

There’s More To The Story

There's more to the story

I am told

More to the story of getting old

More to live in every day

More to love in every way

There’s more to the story 

For you for me

More experiences to share between 

Connectivity we have therein

Sensitivity from where we’ve been 

There’s more to the story 

For a heart half full

That is climbing 

Out of an old shell

I can feel it, now what say you?

How deep to speak this 

And have it be true 

There’s so much more 

To lust and love

Much to explore 

Below so above

With each turning sun

A new wish is won

A new tale is spun

And we’ve just begun 

For there’s more to the story 

(c)2021 OWM/Sperling Lieder, BMI

A Leap Of Faith

You can run far away and think no one will see

You can convince yourself you have no feelings for me

I may fly 6 thousand miles and spend my time overseas

But at night you and I always meet up in our dreams

And you know inside your soul...

You can run but you can't hide

The truth is right there by your side

This is the way it's supposed to be

A leap of faith for you and me, you and me. 

You can say that you don't know or you never heard of it before

You can disguise your true heart and pretend there is nothing more

I may laugh away the hours in the company of other friends

But inside there only one true love with whom I want my time spent

And I know inside my soul...

You can run but you can't hide

The truth is right there by your side

This is the way it's supposed to be

A leap of faith for you and me, you and me. 

You know as well as I

It will never be the same with someone else.

You can run but you can't hide

The truth is right there by your side

This is the way it's supposed to be

A leap of faith for you and me, you and me. 

(c)2020 OWM/Sperling Lieder, BMI

Errny Blues&otherstyles: Olga - Blues Babe

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Oh So

Oh so much 

Oh so little 

I fell apart 

Before becoming brittle

And I still stood strong

When I could not

And I still felt arms

When there’d be none

And I felt for thee, for yeah

How’d I’d ever come some 

But forget ye, me 

How’d I’d ever love one

I’d not a hand or pan

On my life nor mine

A simpleton of thine

And I don’t expect 

Any expectancy 

Since I’d n’er be one

Nor any of thee 

And they still don’t like

Any piece of me 

Guess I had and would 

And moments to be ‘stood

And flattened that piece

I’d never had it all of this

I miss you friend of love

I miss you and you were done 

We had a minute, oh sweet it was

We had a quick brush of love 

And you’re gone and so am I

Tides a flowing forthwith of a tithe 

Tides come back on our hides!

Oh thank and thanks be well

I’ve still lived and I’m still well

And better yet to know of you

And farther than I had wished still 

However this plays our piece 

Granted one grace of this 

(c)OWM/Sperling Lider, BMI

Nothing Could Ever Be This Love

You wanna give with ties that bind

Thinking that I would never find

Your bonds have blues and hues, cues

Had I known, I’d not take it true

I could never quite be of this

But you wanted a shake of it

Nothing that is and nothing can be of

Nothing could ever be this love

There’s no connecting right thereof

Nothing could ever be this love

The tides were tough in your stead

And laying on me was your thread

To explain away your heart

When the discord was your art

And play away at my feet

When I’d never asked your feat

Nor asked any of any your qualms

Nothing could ever be this love

You laid them straight in arms

Nothing could ever be this love

I’d wished for transparency 

For I’d trusted it given me

But I cannot find it now, I cannot find it now

Nothing could ever be this love

Nothing could ever be this love

Nothing could ever be this love

Nothing could ever be this love

(c)2020 OWM/Sperling Lieder, BMI

I Keep Writing Poems

I keep writing poems

You keep placing bombs

I want all my meanings 

To be close to love psalms

You want to fry all

Your cooking pot to roost

You want all the bygones

Keep focus on your roast 

You have no deeper thoughts

Than what you have to boost 

I’d never felt more shambles

Than some offering of the too

When a witness has to ramble

To make sense of the root

And explain away the silliness 

Of grown men for the truth

Who only brags to offer 

When none more is to  boot 

(C)2020 OWM/ Sperling Lieder, BMI 

You Ask a Song

You ask a song 

True of thy fire

Asking of me

If I so desire

And if I could

Or would or should 

If I’d had the passion

Or the desire

You asked of flakes 

A snow that plays

For the break 

Into the haze

A blizzard into

My soul, my face

A storm until

My senses arise

And I can find 

Your breath of mine eyes 

I may recover

A bit of my tithes 

A sanctioned set until

I return to the battle hill

N’er do until thee does

Ne’er for exacting love 

And ne’er to done still

A one act of acting will 

Thy love, thy truth, thy vine 

Thy search of ever-last of mine

I cannot, will not break

I shall not heed not for thy spake

I stand for, to be thy break

The ever-last forsake 

Us all and will be for of

The greatest lord Thereof

He’s her and for us one

The everlasting One

(C)2020 OWM/Sperling Lieder, BMI

Happy Mother's Day! BLESSINGS 🙏🏻 to all the Mom's out there❤️

Two Kinds of Swords

Two kind of swords 

Two swords of none

Two ways to see

Two swords are done 

Why’n offer three

A place to run

Why’n send of thee

A shelter of sun

We break the mark

We break the boughs

Forsake the sake

Our sacred vows

I come to thee for remittance

I plea for the comeuppance 

Shall we stake the heart

Or a fast near be?

Shall we break apart 

This blasphemy?

I will not doubt

Be straightest  of

I will not cower 

The blatancy of 

The truth that deems

The power fold

The truth that feels

Higher than told

I will but seem 

A slayer to 

Souls that we

Are apart thereof 

And so we will and so we will be  

And so we are and so we will for 

(C)2020 OWM/Sperling Lieder, BMI

The Mighty Bens

I can’t help to cower to the nightly clock

That chimes the hour 

Because I have three! 

And they become of me

Each squeaking their voice o’er the others 

Each trying to vie above a hover 

And I’m deciphering their cover

And their time keep but quite right

They have me at all times of life

Where I’d be, where I might

They hold me in their plight

Of who is me and shall exist

And the promises I made to this

And a pledge of a belonging

I am strong but they know me

As a girl who’s governed by thee

Who’d never asked above it 

And lives by the ole tock and tic  

Plainer and stand to with 

A dominating hand width 

On-point and been the power 

The mighty Bens have the hours 

(C)2020 OWM/Sperling Lieder, BMI

How Did That Go?

I remember not too long ago 
Took my hand, said where do you want to go?
We were young want to, run the age together
Thought the time was on our side forever

(Chorus)
How did that go?
How did that song go? 
We sang it far, we sang it for 
The song had found an end before 
Now how did that go? 

Summer came then fell so far away
All the same when winter came to stay 
I never left to put the dream aside 
You never stayed to make me your bride 

(Chorus)


Father Time then met Mother Nature 
We arrived to find our kind of maker 
And I sighed for that was all to do 
And you cried for what I meant to you 

(Chorus)

(Bridge)
It is done now we hold the grey 
It is fine now I often pray 
Recalling love that summer day 
A fleeting lifetime had flown away 

(Chorus) 
(Repeat and fade out)

(C)2019/2020 OWM/Sperling Lieder, BMI

I Keep Writing Poems ...

I keep writing poems
You keep placing bombs
I want all my meanings
To be close to love psalms
You want to fry all
Your cooking pot to roost
You want all the bygones
Keep focus on your roast
Your have no deeper thoughts
Than what you have to boost

I’d never felt more shambles
Than some offering of the too
When a witness has to ramble
To make sense of the root
And explain away the silliness
Of grown men for the truth
Who only brags to offer
When none more is to  boot


(C)2020 OWM/ Sperling Lieder, BMI

Now is The Time -- music video from 2006 album

Filmed entirely in Clarksdale, MS