SKIN AND WIND

Credits and Lyrics

Jan 15, 2021

Skin and Wind is a Mind Bend
Call It Destiny
Sing It Blue
Waiting is the Plan
Even When You’re Not
Is There Anything
Never Be Another One
24 Hour Parade
The Captain
Faith, Hope & Love

A special thanks to those who helped make this release possible, including Brent Bourgeois, Leslie Barton, Richie Biggs, Ciel Eckard-Lee, and Soojung Kwack from the Facebook Music Initiative.

Thank you to John Thompson for encouragement and valuable advice. Dave Trout and Larry Stephan, I so appreciate the two of you stepping in with timely and enthusiastic help.

All songs written and produced by Charlie Peacock
It’s Time to Art (BMI)
©Facebook, Inc. 2020

Engineered by Charlie Peacock, Richie Biggs, and Sam Ashworth
Mixed and Mastered by Richie Biggs
A&R: Brent Bourgeois
Executive Producer: Leslie Barton
Charlie Peacock: lead vocal, piano, Rhodes and Wurlitzer electric piano. drums, bass, acoustic and electric guitar, percussion

Featuring -
Sam Ashworth: acoustic guitar, background vocals
Ruby Amanfu: background vocals
Bridget Ashworth: background vocals
Jerry McPherson: electric and acoustic guitars, ukelele
Andy Leftwich: fiddle and mandolin
Dan Dugmore: pedal and lap steel

Additional performances -
Sing It Blue: Jeff King (electric guitar), Sam Ashworth (drums and bass)
Call It Destiny: Sam Ashworth (drums)
Faith, Hope & Love: Mark Hill (bass), Nir Z (drums)
The Captain: Mark Hill (bass), Steve Brewster (drums), Jeff Taylor (accordion, whistle), Bryan Sutton (acoustic guitar)
Is There Anything: Matt Slocum (cello)

Skin and Wind is a Mind Bend
Written by Charlie Peacock ©2020 Facebook, Inc.

Let’s see where the water goes
What the flow knows about getting wet
A rainstorm of righteousness
Is dripping from the ceiling, yet
Do not fix that leak
It’s all we have to quench the thirst
Of the need to be known
The need to be heard
Sunshine is a fine wine
When the heart is full and beautiful
But hey now, not every soul on earth
Knows the cloudless sky
I say to myself, don’t you dare ever think
What you see will always be
As it is even now in the summer of ‘20
When you’ve still got more than plenty
Time to listen, time to follow
Time to not tread lightly, every night we
Pray and walk the floor
In a vision we see
A hammer and a helping hand
To break the chain, heal the land
And for rain and sun upon good seed
Every one of them a hope
Every one of them a need
There is a wind an untitled wind
A friend to every color of skin
A life-giving hurricane
A just and holy rain
Let’s see where the water goes
What the wind knows
I have lived to see every dream
I ever had when young and full of promise
No clever scheme, no sleight of hand
No well thought out plan
Grace you say, okay
But skin and wind is a mind-bend
Skin and wind is a mind bend
Skin and wind is a mind bend
Skin and wind is a mind bend
Truth and consequence
A boxer in the ring
A prophet and poet
A fundamental thing
History and mystery
A woman at the well
A stranger, no danger
Now go, this time you can tell

Call It Destiny
Written by Charlie Peacock ©2020 Facebook, Inc.

Here I am a man of quiet demeanor
No more lust for spinning plates
Happy heart and happy shoes
Helping me lose these walking blues
Hallelujah in the sandbox
Hallelujah I’m at play
There’s no reason to think this season
Is anything but a gift, not a battle hard won
I got strong ties to the summertime
Where the sun don’t set till almost nine
Every day is a homily
To why I live the mystery
Of young love perfection
A cosmic connection, call it destiny
Both of us so ready to be rescued
It was written in our copy of the script
Every word, both hers and mine
Some sort of temporary lifeline if you get my drift
I got strong ties to the summertime
Where the sun don’t set till almost nine
Every day is a homily
To why I live the mystery
Of young love perfection
A cosmic connection, call it destiny
Amazing grace and love so true
Will get the last word when we are through
No amount of imagination
Can prepare one for the patience
Of young love perfection
A cosmic connection, one long case of miraculous
Providential, destiny

Sing It Blue
Written by Charlie Peacock ©2020 Facebook, Inc.

I got rhythm in my pocket
A place where I can stand
The mind to move away from
A tried and true plan
Who says it is so anyway?
The prophet, the thief?
I’ve no need of your map
To find myself a priest
It’s all been decided
The history of love
The hammer and the nail
The hand in the glove
Lift your voices like sirens
Like echoes in the black night
Of the universe
Do your part to be a heart
That beats in time with the truth
And I will too, sing it blue
Too many beaten down
Ignored or written off
What happened to the gold
In the rule, did it stop?
Not so fast, it’ll outlast
Every tyrant with a stick
There’s help for the helpless
Healing for the sick
The consequence of sitting on our hands is too great
Making plain our conviction isn’t something that can wait
There’s a bell in the distance ringing like a clock
The hand of its melody sweeps the sound of its thought
Can you hear, can you see, can you hear, can you see?
Are you free to believe, free to receive?

Waiting Is the Plan
Written by Charlie Peacock ©2019 Facebook, Inc.

Boat adrift on the water
Wind at the stern, broken sail
Nowhere to go, leave or follow
Stay the course of nowhere now
Take in the view
What else can you do?
It’s out of your hands
‘Cause waiting, oh waiting has never been
The easiest thing for you
But waiting, oh waiting, is the plan
Oh I bet that you were hoping
For a better strategy
One linked to someone’s genius
Not one that leaves you floating at sea
I can understand that
You got every right to be as angry
As you want to be, as you need to be
I’ll be standing on the shore
Waiting to see some history
Watching the sun set in the west
Hoping to God for the best
And waiting, oh waiting
Waiting is the plan
Classic case of paradox
Shipwrecked on the rocks
And holding out hope
That someone will see your fire
‘Cause it’s a long, long story
You gotta keep the fire burning,
Keep the fire burning
Keep the fire burning

Even When You’re Not
Written by Charlie Peacock ©2019 Facebook, Inc.

I think about it all day long you know
Waiting on the evening train to show
‘Cause I know you’ll be on it
No tick tock on my digital clock
On my iPhone looking at a photo of you
Wait, Wait that’s all I can do
Wait, Wait that’s all I can do
Till I see you step down run to me
And I run to you
You got a smile on your face and I hold you
You got a tear in your eye and I hold you
And you whisper and I whisper too
There’s nothing that could ever break apart
What we got when you’re near to me
Even when you’re not
Gotta a little something in my hand for you
I know you’re gonna like it ‘cause it’s baby blue
It’s the one that you wanted
What stop left for the train on the track
To get you back home not a minute too soon
Wait, Wait that’s all I can do
Wait, Wait that’s all I can do
Till I see you step down run to me
And I run to you
You got a smile on your face and I hold you
You got a tear in your eye and I hold you
And you whisper and I whisper too
There’s nothing that could ever break apart
What we got when you’re near to me
Even when you’re not

Is There Anything
Written by Charlie Peacock ©2019 Facebook, Inc.

You know the feeling when you need someone to talk to?
And you know it’s gotta be somebody who will listen and speak truth?
I got a proposition I hope you’re not in opposition to
It’s about me, it’s about you
And the history of the world as we know it
Let me show it
I’ll wrap my heart around you baby
You wrap your heart around me too
Let’s be the answer to the question
Is there anything that love cannot do?
You know the feeling when you can’t stop moving around?
And you know there’s something bringing you down
Everybody needs some help to get to back to
Where we know there’s always hope
Always enough hope that you can’t give it up, let go, no
I’ll wrap my heart around you baby
You wrap your heart around me too
Let’s be the answer to the question
Is there anything that love cannot do?
Is there anything that love cannot do?
I see it in the hands of the ones who break the chains that shackle us
I see it in the stardust greater than moth or rust
I hear it in the music and taste of the righteousness of words so true
And I see it baby, I see it in you
Is there anything that love cannot do?

I don’t wanna be alone
I don’t wanna feel that way
I don’t wanna trust in luck no
I’m holding on in faith
I got a little bit of love left in me
I got news to be given and it’s good too
No devil in a blue dress waiting
Not when there’s a woman like you
You might be ready to be steady like a rock
You might be happy to be clappin’ to your own beat
I might be right or wrong with not one clue
I wanna talk it all over with you
“Pleased to meet you baby” seems too much too far
When we’ve known each other since that first day in Avalon
Two years back, three times, we both know, it felt right
There will never be another one who can open my door, so wide
Now that’s awhile back
But I don’t see why it can’t be again
I go round and round, try to find a way to say it
Don’t stay outside when I want you in
Two years back, three times, we both know, it felt right
There will never be another one who can open my door, so wide
Next time in the middle of love
Don’t play a trick on me hey
It’s fine if you really don’t wanna be with me
That ain’t true, no way
It might be better if I just take a number
You gotta lotta lovers lining up
But keep in mind that we once had a good time
No reason we can’t have another one

I see the poor boy on the run
No need to fall again I say
Do right, stay true
One life, be you
I see the poetry in tones of blue
Cascading ripple light
That’s right, sublime
True blue, in rhyme
I know this day
Is another 24 hour parade
Of everything I believe
You too can, always be
Ready to be anything you need to be
Or need to do or say
Come what may
I see the lion on the prowl
I drop a knee and say a prayer
Come Light, true Truth
One Life, in You
I seek to live the righteous dream
So deep and wide and beautiful
All faith, this hope
Love first, let’s go
I know this day
Is another 24 hour parade
Of everything I believe
You too can, always be
Ready to be anything you need to be
Or need to do or say
Come what may
It’s all about everybody in the same boat
No kings no queens just everyday people
Like Sly Stone sang about in 1969
We’re all drinkin’ the same wine
Need the same touch, same love

I keep a close watch on how fast I’m sinking
I lose some sleep but that’s alright
I still rise with the sun, pray thy will be done
And navigate the lane between sadness and delight
I’ve got the least amount of time that I’ve ever had
My heart is full, my mind is quick
My body wants to lay it down
I’m a riddle, I’m a puzzle, I’m a quandary all around
I’m the Captain of a ship that’s going down
I’ve got the least amount of time that I’ve ever had
My heart is full, my mind is quick
My body wants to lay it down
I’m a riddle, I’m a puzzle, I’m a quandary all around
I’m the Captain of a ship that’s going down
I keep a close watch on my bow and my stern
I will not rest till waves are stilled
It will take me all night, be the fight of my life
But I will see the sun come up on love, love fulfilled
I’ve got the least amount of time that I’ve ever had
My heart is full, my mind is quick
My body wants to lay it down
I’m a riddle, I’m a puzzle, I’m a quandary all around
I’m the Captain of a ship that’s going down

I won’t break in or climb through a window
I won’t go where there’s no invitation
Every step of mine is marked by the ticking of time
While I do the best to use my imagination
It’s a gift to receive, a means to believe
I hope not to waste, one minute of grace
I am down on my knees
Right where I need to be
There’ll be time enough to do
All I’ve dreamed of
But right now what I really need
Is faith, hope and love
Oh you can position yourself
As almost anything you can think of
Might be a beggar, might be a man of great intellect
Might be a woman of wealth
Well I’ve assumed identities
That were never meant for me
All because I could, then I would
And everything would break into a thousand pieces
Leaving me waiting, waiting, waiting
For the helping hand of love
To lift me up and put me down
On solid ground
I am down on my knees
Right where I need to be
There’ll be time enough to do
All I’ve dreamed of
But right now what I really need
Is faith, hope and love

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