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Here and There © 2000 Tim Wilson & Gerry Davenport

After Tim Wilson‘s retirement from teaching, he came to me and asked me to look over his lyrics called “Here and There.” As always, I was impressed by his talents as a lyricist. Though the lyrics needed some rearranging, the ideas and images were there.

After I spent several, to be exact, two months doing other things, I finally looked at “Here and There” again. Well musically nothing came to me real quick, so I put it on the back burner, but I would work with it once in a while.

One evening while I was strumming the guitar, I came across a progression of chords and a melody that I was not able to forget after a week. I then fined tuned it and was ready to commit the lyrics I had, at the time, to paper; when “Here and There” fell onto the floor. I picked it up and read over it, somehow singing it to the melody that I had. I did a complete turn around with everything that I was planning to do. I took Tim‘s lyrics to “Here and There” and I rearranged them in a story form that fit well to all the musical timing, rhythm, and phrasing.

I began to record the instruments; I had a medium production planned for this one: Guitar, Piano, Drums, Bass, Stringed types, and others; when I accidentally hit a few buttons, which left the piano and the mellow pad playing with the vocal. I knew that was the way it should be.

- gerry

Tim Wilson: Lyrics (1999)
Gerry Davenport: Music & Lyrical Arrangement (2000 )



Forgotten the words to my favorite song.
All my rights have gone way wrong.
Full of life but empty inside. Corners so full I can‘t hide.

I reach out to avoid your touch. All we‘ve got don‘t seem like much.
Our times are getting old. Tighten your grip release your hold.
I want to go, I want to stay but I can‘t get there from here, Can‘t get there from here.

There‘s nobody winning my love. I‘m the lowest when the highest above.
No one joining the game. I‘m wild but I want to be tame.

Need time alone to be with crowds. My head‘s asleep on sky blue clouds.
I quickly want to slow the pace. Same old smile on a different face.

Where I am, I can‘t say, but I can‘t get here from there,
Can‘t get here from there.

At a distance you‘ll find me near. Miles from, I don‘t know where.
Can‘t get here from there, Can‘t get here from there.

Heading down hill on an upward climb.
Reach for the summit in my own time.
I see the horizon above my head. View the path that I once tread.

Darkness shows it‘s back to me. Now I know who I can be.
The heavy turns to light. Everything‘s going to be alright.

The odds are in my favor now. I can get here from there.
I can get here from there.

No more do I seek why and how because I am here and there.
I am here and there.