Passing Places – Micah Gilbert

Micah’s third CD was recorded, mixed, and mastered on the Isle of Skye, Scotland, in 2024.

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Watch the video for “Another Stand“.

Album notes:

All songs written, produced, recorded, and mastered in 2024 by Micah Gilbert, Isle of Skye, Scotland.

Micah Gilbert – Vocals and instruments (acoustic and electric guitars; piano and keys; bass; drums; percussion; banjo; other misc.).

Megan Sahara – Background vocals on “Long Time Coming Home”.

Paul Syme – Bass on “Easy That Way”, “Not So Far Away”; banjo on “Stay Another Day”.

The lyrics:

Another Stand

Chapters end and stories do begin
A chance to make the endings right
When the world is busting at the seams
And nothing stands the light

There’s no way that takes you back
The road behind is closed
The way ahead unfolds
Standing on the shifting sand
With nothing in your hand
You make another stand

Broken pieces each reveals a whole
Another step to make it through
A million things can always fall apart
But you can see the truth

There’s no way that takes you back
The road behind is closed
The way ahead unfolds
Standing on the shifting sand
With nothing in your hand
You make another stand

Looking over your shoulder
At the cracks deep in the wall
Will only serve to make you feel so cold
If you think you had it all

There’s no way that takes you back
The road behind is closed
The way ahead unfolds
Standing on the shifting sand
With nothing in your hand
You make another stand

Once Before

Through the haze, the golden lace
The walls were high
I tried to climb them to show you to the sky
These opposites we feel, two sides of a coin
Tossed in the air
Look around to see it fall anywhere

I saw you in your dream, I knew you once before
In your ragged youth, stepping through your door
When I stumbled in, you took me by the coat
Held me till I didn’t feel the cold

Answers wait while we pass the day
Stoking the flames
Breathing life in from the thunder and rain
Hear the echoes bouncing off the walls
I am, I am
It’s here we started, it’s here we’ll be again

I saw you in your dream, I knew you once before
In your ragged youth, stepping through your door
When I stumbled in, you took me by the coat
Held me till I didn’t feel the cold

Running through our veins a part remains
Of what we were
Runs like water to the earth

I saw you in your dream, I knew you once before
In your ragged youth, stepping through your door
When I stumbled in, you took me by the coat
Held me till I didn’t feel the cold

Destiny

Stars aligning, planets guiding destiny
Luck has landed on your side or so it seems
A new direction changed your fading tune
Sometimes things just change to soon

Are you ready for your moment now
It’s not far away
Are you looking for your destiny
While you’re standing in the rain

Fortune’s smiling, eyes beguiling locked on you
Luck would have it you’d be sailing into blue
A tip of the scales looks to favour you
Offering up something that’s new

Are you ready for your moment now
It’s not far away
Are you looking for your destiny
While you’re standing in the rain

A patch of blue over you
Look at you now
Shining through the dark clouds

Are you ready for your moment now
It’s not far away
Are you looking for your destiny
While you’re standing in the rain

Long Time Coming Home

Knock on my door
Come and wake me from my sleep
Your yellow roses have haunted my dreams
It’s been too long for those memories to keep
They’ve been weighing down on me

Blow those cobwebs away
Pack that traveling case
It’s time to chase those blues away

The winds will always blow
Rivers still will flow
But for now you know
You’ve been a long time coming home

So long ago
Underneath the evening sky
We stood watching for those northern lights
Paints a picture in my memory
Bring those nights on home to me

Shake the dust from my dreams
Send the moon on a chase
It’s time to wash those blues away

The winds will always blow
Rivers still will flow
But for now you know
You’ve been a long time coming home

Safe Harbour

Turn around, walk away
You’ve got your memories
You’ve got your saving grace
No one can take that away
No one can know the things we save

There’s a light upon the bay
Guiding ships across the way
There’s a place you’ve known before
Let me offer up to you
Safe harbour

Hear the sound of the falling leaves
Feel the wind on your face
Changing your shape
We learn from mistakes
But can’t know the hearts we take

There’s a light upon the bay
Guiding ships across the way
There’s a place you’ve known before
Let me offer up to you
Safe harbour

Feel the rising of the tide
See the clearing of the skies
Feel me standing by your side
By your side

Turn around, hear the sound of the rain
Hear the refrain
There’s more now to this game
We’ll give the best of ourselves
When we’ve given all away

There’s a light upon the bay
Guiding ships across the way
There’s a place you’ve known before
Let me offer up to you
Safe harbour
Safe harbour

Some Say Goodbye

When you see them walking down the street
Those people that you never meet
Do you wonder what they know
Think of where they go
Or what they do

And all the people you’ve known
Who have come and then gone
Will move along their way

Some say goodbye and turn away
Some you’ll admire
Some walk a line, they never stray
Some play with fire

If you ask me what I miss the most
It’s the innocence that I have known
But expectations cost more than I have lost
And it’s hard to pay

And all the people I’ve known
Who have come and then gone
Will move along their way

Some say goodbye and turn away
Some you’ll admire
Some walk a line, they never stray
Some play with fire

Some will catch your eye, and it’s haunting
Half the time you won’t see it coming
With some you’ll find your heart close to breaking
Just when you thought you gave what you’re taking

Some say goodbye and turn away
Some you’ll admire
Some walk a line, they never stray
Some play with fire

Some say goodbye and turn away
Some you’ll admire
Some walk a line, they never stray
Some just get tired

Watch them walk away
Some say goodbye

Easy That Way

It’s a long time back to the golden days
Standing by the ocean waves
Thinking that the world was ours
We could never lose
Made it through the hardest years
Had some laughs and shed some tears
Found the way to what we call our home
We took the long way

Here you are saying troubles don’t last
Take it as it comes
You can leave it for another day
You’re easy that way

We all get tired, all get stuck
Looking for the hand of luck
To take a hold and carry us along
To find the way back
To some place real that feels like home
Where everything’s not come undone
Where nothing ever felt so good
And nothing’s out of time

Here you are saying troubles don’t last
Take it as it comes
You can leave it for another day
You’re easy that way

Everyone gets a little lost
Feeling out of touch
Don’t know how we lost so much
When the wind gets cold and the night remains
And I’m standing in the rain
I can see an open door

Here you are saying troubles don’t last
Take it as it comes
You can leave it for another day
You’re easy that way

Chameleon

Chameleon, blue and green
Aren’t there colours you’ve not seen
Faces you have yet to show yourself

Changeling, red and gold
What is it that you hold
Something you are carrying that weighs you down

It’s you that always held the key
To a door you didn’t see
You’ve begun to set the pace
Look around and find your place

All you ever wanted was to be someone
All you ever needed was to be yourself
You were always looking for someone to show the way
But it was you that always turned the page

Chameleon
Chameleon, dressed in black
There is nothing that you lack
But something here you have been afraid to touch

Chameleon, all your colours
Will not fade away
Even if you’re looking now on shades of grey

It’s you that always held the key
To a door you didn’t see
You’ve begun to set the pace
Look around and find your place

All you ever wanted was to be someone
All you ever needed was to be yourself
You were always looking for someone to show the way
But it was you that always turned the page
Chameleon

Walk Along Your Road

I’ll walk along your road
I’ll follow on your way

Whispering breeze singing through the trees
There’s a turning on the road
Kick up the dust, miles ahead of us
There’s another setting sun

I’ll walk along your road
I’ll follow on your way

I heard your song, I knew it all along
It’s forever to be sung
You climb your ladder to the sky
And I’ll follow every rung

I’ll walk along your road
I’ll follow on your way

A single revolution’s turning
Chasing down the day
Rusted signpost, any highway
We will find our way

I’ll walk along your road
I’ll follow on your way

One Step Closer

Found you knocking on my open door
When the sky was turning grey
Looking like there was no place to go
And nothing more to say

One step further and we can see
One step closer than it seems
Closing in on this waiting dream
One step closer to what we need

Caught up in the tangles that we’ve made
As we feel around the dark
Waiting for the perfect circumstance
So we can make a start

One step further and we can see
One step closer than it seems
Closing in on this waiting dream
One step closer to what we need

Slipping in the door
What we shouldn’t feel no more
Crawling in through all the cracks
Coming through the air
If we leave it hanging there
It can stop us in our tracks

One step further and we can see
One step closer than it seems
Closing in on this waiting dream
One step closer to what we need

Not So Far Away

Hard times, you’ve known a few
Hard to believe what you’ve been through
This time you’ve made your stand
The fall and the rise go hand in hand

Guided by the stars
Headed towards the sun
On these distant shores
A new day has begun

Home is not so far away
It’s the smile on a stranger’s face
Look around you can see this place
It’s where you’re standing now

You set your sails to cross the sea
Found yourself in misery
Hold now to the path with heart
You’ve set your course and that’s the start

Guided by the stars
Headed towards the sun
On these distant shores
A new day has begun

Home is not so far away
It’s the smile on a stranger’s face
Look around you can see this place
It’s where you’re standing now

Hold on till the day is done
Hold them tight if they’re the ones
This time we make our stand
Where we walk hand in hand

Guided by the stars
Headed towards the sun
On these distant shores
A new day has begun

Home is not so far away
It’s the smile on a stranger’s face
Look around you can see this place
It’s where you’re standing now

Stay Another Day

When stars are all that light the sky
And wind is blowing through the night
You can stay another day

When morning comes and the light is low
The first of dawn brings the driving snow
You can stay another day

When everything is quiet beneath the moonless sky
All the songs we sing will be ours
When morning cast its spell to call us somewhere else
We will never say goodbye

When nightshade blooms and the bluebells rise
Underneath these open skies
You can stay another day

When the golden sun peeks through the shade
And wind blows through the summer hay
You can stay another day

When everything is quiet beneath the moonless sky
All the songs we sing will be ours
When morning cast its spell to call us somewhere else
We will never say goodbye

When sunlight shines across the hill
The days are long and the wind is still
You can stay another day
Won’t you stay another day