About Songwriting:

Song: The World is Better Dreaming
Year: 2009
Written by: Jeff Silverman and Anthony Snape
Performed: All instruments by JS except acoustic guitars by AS
Produced, Engineered, Mixed and Mastered by:
Jeff Silverman, Palette Music Studio Productions (MSP)
Nashville, TN
Vocals: Anthony Snape
Artist: Jeff Silverman

Notes From Jeff:
Dedicated to my Mum, Barbara L. Silverman
Dec. 28, 1926 - July 31, 2011.
Her place of peace was and will always be in her dreams.

VERSE 1:
Haunted by a whisper
Heavy with the news
Iron gates are closing down
Everything to lose

VERSE 2:
The cell confides solutions
Secrets answers inter wound
You’re a soldier in a war zone
A million miles from home

Try not to talk about it
This running out of time

CHORUS 1:
The world is better dreaming
Smiling when you’re sleeping
When you’re cold and bleeding
The world, the world is
Better dreaming (Amen)
Better dreaming (Amen)

VERSE 3:
You will find no shelter
In a valley forged of tears
And when all that you have to turn to
Has been lost, you disappear

It’s hard to talk about it,
You’re running out of time

CHORUS 2:
The world is better dreaming
Smiling when you’re sleeping
When you’re cold and bleeding
The world, the world is
Better dreaming (Amen)
Better dreaming (Amen)

It’s too much to talk about it
When your running out of time.

CHORUS 3:
The world is better dreaming
Smiling when you’re sleeping
When you’re cold and bleeding
The world, the world is
Better dreaming (Amen)
Better dreaming (Amen)
Better dreaming (Amen)

Song: Wallflower
Year: 2016
Written by: Jeff Silverman and Niclas Lundin
Performed by JS: Drums, Bass, Acoustic Guitars, Electric Guitars, Keyboards, Background Vocals
Produced, Engineered, Mixed and Mastered by:
Jeff Silverman, Palette Music Studio Productions (MSP),
Nashville, TN
Vocals by: Troy Johnson
Fiddle and Ganjo by: Steve Stokes
Artist: Jeff Silverman

Notes From Jeff:
*2017 - HMMA Nominated for Best Producer / Production - Jeff Silverman
*2017 - HMMA Nominated for Best Country Song - Jeff Silverman / Niclas Lundin

For more information: click here

VERSE 1A:
I met this girl, she was kind of like a wallflower
Didn't seem to notice but she carried the world
She was down right beautiful but hid it really well
She was used to getting hurt

She had this inner little voice but she shut it right down
From the lies that put her on a merry go round

VERSE 1B:
She was broken hearted - with her back against the wall
But now she’s gettin’ ready - to be a woman standing tall

CHORUS 1:
She’s that wallflower
Something wild about her
Rising from the past let the rubble fall
That beautiful you, hear the miracles call
All ya gotta do is just keep on being you
Be that wallflower

VERSE 2A:
Now this big little girl is a little big woman
Who dared to keep believin’ dreamin’ on her own
She’s ridin’ on a prayer and a cloud made of heaven
And never lookin’ back alone

It’s not like looking for a grain of sand
The answers always sitting in the palm of your hand

VERSE 2B:
She had 10,000 hours - in someone else’s shoes.
But now she’s singing country - out of living the blues

CHORUS: 2 / 3
She’s that wallflower
Something wild about her
Rising from the past rise above it all
2 – Each step closer to the miracles call
3- And then you’ll understand how you’re making me fall
All ya gotta do is just keep on being you
You’re my wallflower

BRIDGE:
I’ll hold your hand as your heart grows stronger
But just take your time , I can wait a little longer

TAG:
My Wallflower
(Now that wallflower)
You’re my wallflower
(Is my wallflower)
My wallflower
(She's that wallflower)
You’re my wallflower
(My wallflower)

Song: One Day from Someday
Year: 2009
Written by: Jeff Silverman, Michael Peterson and Paul Rucker
Performed by JS: Bass, Percussion
Vocals & Acoustics by: Michael Peterson
Produced, Engineered, Mixed and Mastered by: Jeff Silverman
Palette Music Studio Productions (MSP), Nashville, TN
Additional Production by: Michael Peterson

Notes From Jeff: For more info, click here

VERSE 1:
Starin’ at a calendar
Where’d the years go, it’s a blur
Wasn’t it just yesterday?
When I’d hear my Mama say

30 days - has September
April, June and November
All the rest have 31
Except when February’s done

That memory
Feels good to me
Her hand in my hand
Sitting by my bed
Whisperin’ to me
Prayin’ I’d remember what she said

CHORUS 1:
We’re only one day from someday
That day is closer than it seems
(And Son) (Then) when someday comes one day
I hope you wake and find your dreams
So live to live love to love
Somehow that will be enough
Never turn a good chance down
We’re only one day from someday
Go on, don’t wait and take it
Just make it someday right now

VERSE 2:
Now 50 years ain’t middle aged
It’s more like 30’s, it’s what they say
If that’s true then I’m inclined
To wink and say I’m twenty nine
I told her that she started laughin’
Handed me a photograph and
Said here’s me at twenty eight
Full of dreams I thought would wait

Son, take your wife to Rome
Stop bringin’ your work home
And read the Sunday funnies, skip the news
Go ride that motorbike
Across the country like you always said you’d do

BRIDGE:
If you’re not afraid to try
WHAT WOULD YOU DO TODAY?
Would you look fear in the eye
IF YOU WERE FEELIN’ BRAVE
When doubt or question why
OH DON’T COUNT THE DAYS
Live each one - like each one’s the last

VERSE 3:
Mom it’s funny now I’m by your side
Holdin’ your hand in mine
Giving you your own advice

VAMP:
YOU’RE ONLY ONE DAY FROM SOMEDAY
30 days - has September
April, June, I remember
ONE DAY, FROM SOMEDAY
Thanks Mama, I ain’t missin’
ONE DAY FROM SOMEDAY
You’re only one day.

Song: Anniversary of A Broken Heart
Year: 2009
Written by: Jeff Silverman, Michael Peterson and Scott English
Performed: All instruments by: Jeff Silverman
Vocals by: Michael Peterson
Produced, Engineered, Mixed and Mastered by:
Jeff Silverman, Palette Music Studio Productions (MSP)
Nashville, TN

VERSE 1:
Ah, starin’ at the water in these dancin’ lights
Oh I remember yesterday like it’s tonight
You’re the rags to riches story in my life
Promised me forever but you said goodbye

I went back to the diner where we used to go
Hopin’ I would see you but you never showed
While laughter turned to cryin’ now I just don’t know
The only thing for certain, tonight I’ll sleep alone

CHORUS:
One more year apart
The anniversary of a broken heart brings a teardrop
In the dark, on the anniversary, of a broken heart

Hiden’ from the shadows in the pourin’ rain
Oh I don’t think a love like ours will come again
Helplessly I watched you as you walked away
Wishin’ I had heard you turn around and say that

You could live forever wrapped up in my arms
You and me together, that’s why I was born
I should just forget you but
I’m not that strong. I’m not that strong

BRIDGE:
That song keeps on playin’
Time and time, time again
As the morning fog descends

VAMP:
Oh Yea, Oh Yea
Hidin’ from the shadows in the pourin’ rain
(On the anniversary of a broken heart)
Helplessly I watched you as you walked away
Oh you come back to me
(On the anniversary)
Starin’ at the water in these dancin’ lights
(On the anniversary of a broken heart)
You’re the rags to riches story in my life
Then you said goodbye

Song: Knockin on Your Own Front Door
Year: 2009
Written by: Jeff Silverman and Michael Peterson
Performed: All Instruments by Jeff Silverman
Produced, Engineered, Mixed and Mastered by:
Jeff Silverman, Palette Music Studio Productions (MSP)
Nashville, TN
Vocals by: Michael Peterson

VERSE 1:

In my duplex at 601
New Start Avenue
They built these walls so paper thin…
Without trying ya can almost see through.
The next door neighbors are fightin’ again.
Its like reality T.V.
The only difference is I can’t change the channel
That’s tough for me
Cause I know what’s gonna happen…

CHORUS:

First there’s a slammin door then
Here comes the sound of silence
Followed by hurtin’ and the words
That’ll take you - further than you want to go
Longer than you want to stay
Until one day, you’ll find your anger betrays you
Standing where you’ve never been before
Knockin’ on your own front door

VERSE 2:

“How long have we’ve been separated?” she says,
“That’s hard to figure out
Could be hours or weeks even years
All dependin’ on which way you count”

She says “my left hand keeps hoping we’ll make it
And he’ll sweep me off my feet
Then in my right mind, it’s over
He’ll never recover me
You know how it happens

BRIDGE:

Regret’s a tricky kind of emotion
It can make you reach for less than love
I won’t swear I’ll always make good choices
But there’s one mistake I won’t make

CHORUS 2:

Don’t want those slammin doors
That deafening sound of silence
Followed by hurtin’ and the words
That’ll take me further than I want to go
Longer than I want to stay
No way in hell will I let my heart betray me
Leave me standing where I was before
Knockin’ my own front door

No never again

Song: Just Us 2
Artist Elisa Fiorillo
Year: 2009
Written by: Jeff Silverman, Elisa Fiorillo, Derek "D.Q." Sanders
Performed: Acoustic Rhythm & Lead Guitars
Produced, Engineered, Mixed and Mastered by:
Jeff Silverman, Palette Music Studio Productions (MSP)
Nashville, TN
Keyboard Arrangement by: Derek "D.Q." Sanders
Vocals by: Elisa Fiorillo

VERSE 1:
Like a star shooting through a midnight sky
The breeze caressed my cheek as u came walking right on by
Funny i …really wasn’t lookin' at all
But isn’t that when it’s supposed to happen?
I can’t help but take the fall…cuz

CHORUS:
Something happened on my way to your heart
I didn’t believe not for a single moment
How could this…be so true… so magnetic
Just us two…
Something happened and there's no looking back
Nothing can stop the kind of love we have
A nice equation, me plus you…
Something happened just us two

VERSE 2:
The world makes it so easy to judge
They’re always ready to shout out
That love just ain’t enough
People frown so much more than they smile
But I’m not the one who’s gonna miss out
I’m here ready for the ride…cuz

CHORUS: (repeat)

BRIDGE:
I know that it sounds so typical
Like a dream or a made up fairytale
Believe me when i tell u …yeah
I never thought i’d feel this way
I’ll treasure this love…with every step we take….

Something happens on the way to your heart
Something happens

Song: Fishin' Instead
Year: 2009
Written by: Jeff Silverman and Debra Lyn
Performed: All instruments by JS except Steel Guitar (by Troy Klontz)
Produced, Engineered, Mixed and Mastered by:
Jeff Silverman, Palette Music Studio Productions (MSP)
Nashville, TN

Notes From Jeff: We were very fortunate to have had Craig Campbell sing the lead on this before he became a Nashville Icon! This is a good example of how important it is to have the right singer to interpret your song.

VERSE 1:
I thought I heard a back door slam,
looked out the window saw a suitcase in her hand
Our hound dog Frank, he was by her side where he’s been all his life
They climbed up in the old Chevrolet
Lookin’ like it’s gonna be a long, long day
There goes my truck, my dog, there goes my wife
So there goes my life

CHORUS 1:
I guess I should have run out of the door
and begged and pleaded just a little more
But, I think I’ve got to find some time to
clear my head so
I’ll go fishin’ instead
oh…. I’ll go fishin’ instead

VERSE 2:
We had a talk - about priorities,
felt like a deer caught in the headlights please
I said, “Just go to sleep baby in the morning light - you’ll forget tonight.”
If looks could kill I’d be dead today
Instead of lonely with a ton of bills to pay
I have no wife, no dog, have no truck
Now I have no luck

CHORUS 2:
I think I should have run out of the door
and begged and pleaded just a little more
But, I thought I had to find some time to
clear my head so
I went fishin’ instead

BRIDGE:
I’m gonna run out of the door down to her mother’s, beg and plead some more
I’ve sent her flowers, written letters
I don’t know if she’s read
Maybe she’s fishin’ instead
Oh maybe she’s fishin’ instead

VERSE 3:
I still think about the words she said, looked out the window my head is in my hands
Miss our hound dog Frank, I miss her smile, you know I miss our life
I want to climb up in the old Chevrolet
My arms around her after (a) long hard day
I know I want our life, our dog, and our truck,
mostly I just want my wife

CHORUS 3:
I’m wishin’ that I’d run out of that door
And begged and pleaded just a little more
I never thought she’d have to find some time to
clear her head now
She’s gone fishin’ instead

She went fishin’ instead

Well her mamma said
Now ya made your bed
Hope she clears her head
Someday before your dead
She’s gone fishin’ instead

Song: Learn to Love Again
Year: 2009
Written by: Jeff Silverman and Anthony Snape
Performed: All instruments by JS except acoustic guitar by AS
Produced, Engineered, Mixed and Mastered by:
Jeff Silverman, Palette Music Studio Productions (MSP)
Nashville, TN
Arranger: Jeff Silverman

VERSE 1:
The seeds have sprung
All that you’ve sown
But fields are bare
The drought has won
Look what you’ve done
What have you done?

No crowd awaits
This curtain call
The cross is torn down
From off the wall
As you shout and scream
The world away, away

CHORUS 1:
If you could only
Learn to love to love again
You would find your heart again
All I hope is, all I hope is
You wake before the bitter end
And learn - to love – again (and I’ll be waiting)

VERSE 2:
The wind is cold
Upon your hands
As you’re counting your last
Grains of sand
Like the minutes, hours, years
That past you by

In lines drawn,
Into your skin
I see the light
You’ve lost within
I know it’s there so I’ll never give up

BRIDGE:
Beyond this frame
Of flesh and bone, you’re not alone
Take my hand, I’ll lead you home
You’re not alone

Song: Just To Love You
Year: 2009
Written by: Jeff Silverman and Lisa Ashmann
Performed: All instruments by Jeff Silverman
Produced, Engineered, Mixed and Mastered by:
Jeff Silverman, Palette Music Studio Productions (MSP)
Nashville, TN
Additional Keyboards by: Paul Rucker
Vocals by: Luke Brown

VERSE 1:
Baby why should you believe
Maybe other hearts deceive
Everybody wants your love
(But they don’t know you)
Girl I’ve known you from the start
So I’m talkin’ from the heart
(I can show you)

There’ll never be an ocean
Too wide for me to cross
I’d give you my devotion
And never count the cost

Every heartbeat
Is for you
My whole world is yours

CHORUS 1:
If I had a thousand life times
There would never be enough time
Just to love you
(That’s what I’d do)
I’d be killin’ the empty hours
I’d be fillin’ your days with flowers
That’s what I’d do
Just to love you
To love you

VERSE 2:
I’d move heaven and the earth
Cause I know what your love’s worth
Anything I have is yours
(I won’t leave you)
And you’ve given me so much
Every tender hearted touch
(Yeah, I need you)

There’ll never be a mountain
Too high for me to climb
I’d give you your own highway -
To this heart of mine

Every heartbeat
Is for you
My whole world is yours

CHORUS 2:
If I had a thousand lifetimes
There would never be enough time
Just to love you
(That’s what I’d do)
I’d be wrappin’ you up in moonbeams
I’d be bringin’ you all my sweet dreams
That’s what I’d do
Just to love you
To love you

SOLO/BRIDGE:
Can’t you see
What you mean
What you mean to me

CHORUS 3: (breakdown)
If I had a thousand lifetimes
There would never be enough time
Just to love you
(That’s what I’d do)
These roots are runnin’ deeper
I’d do anything to keep ya
Just to love you

CHORUS 4:
If I had a thousand lifetimes
There would never be enough time
Just to love you
(That’s what I’d do)
We’d be crying
We’d be laughing
We’d be makin’ magic happen
Cause I love to
I love you

I’d be killin’ the empty hours
I’d be fillin’ your days with flowers

I’d be wrappin’ you up in moonbeams
I’d be bringin’ you all my sweet dreams

That’s what I’d do
Just to love you
That’s what I’d do
Just to love you

Song: Goodbye, Hello
Year: 2011
Written by: Jeff Silverman and Lisa Aschmann
Performed: All instruments by JS except banjo and fiddle (by Steve Stokes)
Produced, Engineered, Mixed and Mastered by:
Jeff Silverman, Palette Music Studio Productions (MSP)
Nashville, TN
Vocals by: Luke Brown

VERSE 1
Girl
I felt my world
Slide down and turn around
Tumblin’ off of my shoulders to the hardwood floor

I didn’t know
I carried all that weight
Until you came along and showed me that I

Still can love
Still can feel
Still can trust myself to know when it’s for real

I’ve been sad and self deluded
This time girl, the love’s included

CHORUS
Goodbye heartache
Hello to stumblin’ over my words –I don’t know
How to tell you I’m crazy in love with you

My heart’s hopin’
Your heart’s open
I’m ready to see my past mistakes all go
Goodbye, hello

VERSE 2
Yeah
I know it’s you
‘Cause you’re the only one
Wakin’ me up to see the sunshine when it pours

And now I know
What all my pain was for
Everything I had to go through showed I

Still can love
Still can feel
Still can trust myself to know when it’s for real

I’ve been waiting all my life
There’s no doubt we’ve got it right

CHORUS

SOLO
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Breakdown chorus

Goodbye heartache
Hello to stumblin’ over my words
My heart’s open
I’m ready to say goodbye. hello
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CHORUS (repeat) OUT

Goodbye heartache
Hello to stumblin’ over my words –I don’t know
How to tell you I’m crazy in love with you

Goodbye, hello

Song: Hollywood Road
Year: 2011
Written by: Jeff Silverman, Michael Peterson and Scott English
Performed: All instruments by JS except steel (by Troy Klontz)
Produced, Engineered, Mixed and Mastered by:
Jeff Silverman, Palette Music Studio Productions (MSP)
Nashville, TN
Vocals by: Michael Peterson

VERSE 1:

The key turns the lock
Six o'clock honey I'm home
The walls are bare, I sit and stare
Almost everything is gone

And all you left were pieces of pictures
You tore up and threw away
Straight from the heart
You swore you loved me
The other side of yesterday

Now this bed is empty
And sometimes ghosts
They send me

CHORUS:

Walkin' down Hollywood road
Where those stars don't shine no more
Tears are runnin' out of control
Walkin' down Hollywood road

VERSE 2:

Face down on the bar
Ain't that just how bad I feel
Nothin' but time on my hands
And pain that's too real

Well I've been tarred and feathered by rumors
They know no other way
Every night ain't it peculiar
I know longer care what they say

Now our bed is still empty
And sometimes ghosts
They send me

Vamp:

Wonderin' where you are tonight
Wonderin' who is by your side
I picked the bottle up
Pour another cup
Ah… tickin' of the clock is runnin'
Through my brain and stop the pain
And gotta talk to you again
Oh time I spent away from you
I'm not sure what I ought to do