Music Lessons

Hold The Rain

On “Hold the Rain”, Pura Fe puts aside her role as an activist and delivers a very personal album featuring her powerful voice and slide guitar skills. She is joined by one of Seattle’s finest guitarists, Danny Godinez. The whole album is infused with Danny’s heavy, melodic acoustic guitar picking. It is an interactive CD with exclusive video content.

Each track shows Pura Fe’s passion for life and her dedication to following her heart. Her version of Summertime, dedicated to her mother, is sweet and reflective of her childhood when she was introduced to the song. If I was Your Guitar was inspired by Kelly Joe Phelps whose lap slide led Pura Fe into falling in love with music all over again. Also included is an anthem written to unite the tribes of the Carolinas and Virginia, a traditional piece recorded with Native singers and instrumentalists surrounding Pura Fe’s ethereal lead vocals.

Pura Fe & Eric Bibb – People You Love

 

 

Lyrics:

if I Was Your Guitar

If I was your guitar, I’d be the happiest woman alive Lay me down across your lap dear papa Slide steel upon me and fly Travel up and down my frets caressing the magic note The way you get up all inside you work my heart strings to no control!

You hurt me wound me mess my strings up and tune me My acoustics’ wired up to your electric touch My heart beats for you that I want you too much… I want you too much!

Imagine being your woman… Home without you all the time, But if I was your guitar, I’d be the loving of your traveling life. The first man you tell me secrets and feelings to be faithful and treat me right, Round the world, sing me God’s praise in the morning And your blue lullaby drinking nights.

Bury me when you die, wants to be played on the other side, You can pluck my harp, my strumming angel above Cause you’re heaven on earth, and you’re out of this world… Out of this world!

Dance your fingers weaving guitar twine Pulling honey from the sweetest vine Bent over singing soft whiskey breath Intoxicating melodies that sigh upon my neck You know that I would drink you up But I don’t know if I can get enough of your stuff.

 

Let Heaven Show

Here’s my big heart, hiding from you so small I watch time guide me like a fly stuck to the wall. And I wonder… I wonder… Who’s to say what is right and what is so wrong?

What is to be… The hands of kind loving souls Will do the best to take on a lover’s load But how far to go? Is it only heaven knows What is the cost that no one falls or takes the blow!

There’s a place and time will show What is meant for yours to hold Is there any reason to guess what is known in time? Is there any reason to say you just know in your heart And let it go and let heaven show

I reach for the light that exists with self sacrifice To free expectation is the only advice There will come an answer that loneliness will find When the door opens to your own loving kind.

There’s a place and time will show What is meant for yours to hold…

 

Little Girl Dreaming

How does she sit still with a man that travels beyond her reality When the only sense she knows is chaos and insanity She keeps trying to create oever and over… Hoping one day she will find The perfect innocence taken as a child

Little girl dreaming dancing wild A place to hide a trashed body behind Painting pretty pictures, shower love and kisses Leave the nightmare man shamed by molesting hands A place to hide, a place to fly

What happens to a girl that she becomes so disconnected Forward crash dive manic depressive When all her relations never last unfinished business Try to get even try to fix the past Speaking too much too big too fast, she wakes from her fall again Off in a mad dish Out in a world of her own, out on a limb Alone in this fight, how’s she ever gonna win?

 

Follow Your Heart’s Desire

Jaded by all the loves that I once had Stripped of my spirit, I walk alone. While picking up pieces of my heart, I find something new. Is it right to be so lost in love with you?

Who can you be that you’re in my every dream? Night’s echo your voice through my soul. Captured by thoughts not knowing how I can let you go. Is it worth it in letting you know?

Follow Your Heart’s Desire Light up the sky on fire Hold on tightly to your dreams Not knowing when and where to go Your heart will take you there Not knowing what to expect You hope for no despair

There’s no regret if destiny says there’s no use I speak from a breeze to a strong wind Your road has it’s reason to be free Like the seasons change But there’s no wrong in good loving now and then.

What does it take to make you see I believe in you A man I can trust in my life Where do you go when a woman calls out the need in you? Where is the love that you hide?

 

People You Love

The people you love pass on But they’re not gone. The ones you love Stay by your side They watch, they pray, they show us the way Everyday, they bring heaven closer to me and you

The people we love go back home Still, they’re not alone Somehow they’re with us For love never dies They watch, they pray, they show us the way Everyday, they bring heaven closer to me and you

The people we love grow old and die But death can’t deny The love that’s eternal Inside their hearts They watch, they pray, they show us the way Everyday, they bring heaven closer to me and you

 

Hold The Rain

Hold the rain, hold the pain Time doesn’t measure the miles of change When the sun comes down Look to the stars and I’ll be there

The breath of life is what we share Trust your heart that faith is in the air Distance has no limit on how small a prayer

Hold the rain, hold the pain Together we will be again No need for promises Our hearts are wrapped as one across the skies of time

Never left you or broke freedom’s paradigm Separate lives is not a lovers crime This souls connection is a love that never dies

The loss of tears and the pain we bare Cause I am here and you are there Dreams to hold you close But nothing your touch compares

Hold the rain…

 

Home

In these hard times I pray

This is the last time I come back to this here earth place Peace and purpose you got to draw from within Connects me to other worlds where I begin

Pulling me adorn a familiar light Reminds me that love is not far from sight Where are you in all this chaos and human pain Relieve me from what feels so insane

Love well I’m dreaming your way When my time is up I’ll be coming home with you to stay Love here on earth and on the other side It’s where your family awaits for our loved ones to arrive

You gone… Sun would never meet the dawn Like a shadow in the endless night Find me don’t you leave this earth without thee Like a ghost chasing you through time

Roaming searching yearning longing for loving you Don’t care what galaxy this time I’m coming through I know your spirit and in every way that you move Cause you’re my soulmate and I’m calling home to you

Your eyes I do recognize It’s a familiar joy Your eyes from another life and time Yes, it’s a familiar joy

 

Quiet Moments

When you get to the end of whatever it is You are trying to say or to do With words Some will have already heard Some will forever be changed That fate We never do know going in All I want you to know All I want you to know Remember we all Want to be heard above all Of the rest of the noise In quiet moments In quiet moments Eyes wide around us Waiting and wanting to hear what It is We have to say In quiet moments In quiet moments Above all the rest of the noise