Her fifth CD, “What The Heart Knows”, is the work of a seasoned musician and artist with its lush production and insightful songwriting. Sticking to her alt country, folk and rock roots, Toni takes you on a ride through an emotional landscape through her powerful and intimate style of songwriting. Long term co-writer and producer Tim Ellis and Toni Land have created “a unique and timeless record that only happens with years of collaboration between artists”. Ellis and Land understand the alchemy of creating beautiful music.
Unwilling to settle, Toni is an artist who is on the move into new territory. She is crossing the bridge into a new land, a new Toni Land. The path to transformation is not for the weak at heart but required to birth a song like Brand New World, a glimpse at the dark night of the soul reported by spiritual seekers. Land is an artist that knows this kind of process, can report back about it and yet truly knows the joy of life and it’s celebration as in the raucous Doin’ All I Can Do. The whole album reveals movement and change from Land’s last CD, “Lucky Cat”. This Town Don’t Keep It’s People is adventurous and engaging as it turns a single spark into a blazing forest fire demonstrating an artist that is on an adventure and committed to engaging her listeners. Toni does what Toni does best….creates simply and heartfully and keeps you coming back for more.
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Brand new world (©2011T. Land & T. Ellis)
Powers out, the wind is loud
Birds have found their caves
Count the candles, pile the wood
Chant nothing or everything be saved
Time for a priest, time for a prayer
The dark is wide as I see
the ground’s the ceiling , it’s comin’ down
This world don’t come with no guarantee
Chorus
(It’s a brand new world) but the sun ain’t shinin’ yet, it ain’t shining yet
(It’s a brand new world) just about to happen
Call me young, call me old
What you say, don’t matter none
Been through the alleys, been basement deep
Seen things you can’t kill with a gun
Flown blind, through the trees,
Been buried in the dirt
Passed through the gate and back again
Just to stay on top of this earth
(It’s a brand new world) but the sun aint shinin’, it aint shining yet
(It’s a brand new world) just about to happen
Bridge (chant) This is the night god talked to me outloud
This is the night I was lost and I was found
This is the night god talked to me outloud
This is the night I was lost and I was found
(It’s a brand new world) but the sun ain’t shinin’ yet, it ain’t shining yet
(It’s a brand new world) just about to happen It’s a brand new world but the sun aint shinin’ yet, it aint shining yet
(It’s a brand new world) just about to happen It’s a brand new world but the sun aint shinin’ yet, it aint shining yet
(It’s a brand new world) just about to happen
This is the night god talked to me outloud It’s a brand new world just about to happen
This is the night god talked to me outloud
Stagework Music
252 Del Norte Lane Brookings, OR 97415
ph: 541 469-5450 email: info@stagework.com
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No More (©2011 T. Land & T. Ellis)
I’m not paying no middle man no more
Done bribing the guard at the gate
Won’t try to get you to love me no more
I’m creating my own fate
Not waiting for that shoe to fall no more
I won’t hold my breath till you’ll agree
Used to love to love you, don’t feel good no more
Can’t be what you want me to be
You can leave
You can stay
Either way will be ok
You can yell
You can cry
You won’t stop me no more
Things aren’t black, white, right or wrong no more
We each got a dark side to face
Not a cruel word left for me to say no more
Hey blaming you just a waste
Won’t write a new ending for us no more
That plan always falls flat
Don’t want to have to change my ways no more
I’ve lost my taste for that
You can leave
you can stay
Either way will be OK
You can yell
You can cry
You won’t stop me from changing my life
you can beg
You can lie
Do what you feel like you
You can dance
You can cheer you won’t stop me, nothing’s gonna stop me no more
Contact: Stagework Music
Toni Land (541) 469 5450 info@stagework.com
252 Del Norte Lane
Brookings, OR 97415
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Stay in the Car
(©2011 T. Land & T. Ellis)
Let me drive this ole car, for awhile or so
I won’t go too fast, I won’t go too slow
Take your hands off the wheel
I’ll be just fine
You took us this far, just let me drive
Staaay, stay in the car
I don’t wanna go home and be alone
It’s time for a rest, we’ve been through too much
Put your gloves down, there’s no fight in us
Leave the hurt behind.
Forget all we said
Just feel the wind blow, lay back your head
Staaay, stay in the car
don’t want to go home and beee alone
B section
And I’ve been there, right where you are
I’ve been down that road you’re traveling.
I’ve gone too far and
If we get lost, then we could be found
So stay on this road, let’s drive right now, right now
Let’s leave this old town just leave it behind
Go make a new start just let me drive
Staaay, stay in the car
don’t want to go home and be alone
Stagework Music
252 Del Norte Lane Brookings, OR 97415
email info@stagework.com (541) 254 0719
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Fooling yourself fooling around (©2008 T. Land)
I hate this state I put you in, again and again
You need to find your joy inside. Don’t let it die
You’re just fooling yourself fooling around with me
Take your memories and leave, that’s all you need
Don’t pack em up like precious cargo, ooo just go
You’re just fooling yourself fooling around with me
(Fooling)
You tried to do it for love
You tried to change your ways
You tried to make it through
All of these hard times
But you’re just fooling yourself fooling around with me
(Fooling)
solo
Don’t give me one more thing, just keep your ring
If you can’t give your love away, I don’t need it anyway
You’re just fooling yourself fooling around with me
(Fooling)
You tried to do it for love
You tried to change your ways
You tried to make it through
All of these hard times (hard times)
You’re just fooling yourself fooling around with me (Fooling)
Fooling yourself fooling around with me (Fooling)
Foolinh yourself fooling around with me
Contact: Stagework Music
Toni Land (541) 469 5450 info@stagework.com
252 Del Norte Lane
Brookings, OR 97415
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Doin all I can do (T. Land ©2008)
Hey hey, What’s got into everyone these days
Like a mazarati on an open highway
I’m slow, slow, slow as an old pick up truck
Kind for sale that cost about 50 bucks
Hey I tell myself a nap is only fair
‘til I get here, I can’t get nowhere
I swear Rome, no Rome wasn’t built in a day
If I could get outta bed, it’ll all be ok , come on
I’m doin’ all that I can do,
Doin’ all that I can do
Doin all that I can do
Getting on over you
When you left, you stopped me in my tracks
even my car gave up and that’s a fact Jack
I’m racing in my head but my feet won’t move
but I’m pretty sure they will, pretty soon Come on!
But I’m doin’ all that I can do,
Doin’ all that I can do
Doin all that I can do
Getting on over you
Ever since our last kiss
Got just one thing left on my list
That’s enough for me right now
Anyhow
Solo
I’m doin’ all that I can do,
Doin’ all that I can do
Doin all that I can do
Getting on over you
I’m doin’ all that I can do,
Doin’ all that I can do
Doin all that I can do
Getting on over you come on
I’m doin’ all that I can do,
Doin’ all that I can do
Doin all that I can do
Getting on over you
Contact: Stagework Music
Toni Land (541) 469 5450 info@stagework.com
252 Del Norte Lane
Brookings, OR 97415
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What the Heart Knows (©2011 T. Land & T. Ellis)
You call me sugar
You call me baby
that’s all fine
I’ll call you sometime
Don’t need to rush this
I’m in no hurry
been there before
I heard the lions roar
Not this time though
I hear my heart beat
It wants to purr
wants be sure
We might last and
Might be special
Gotta good start
Gotta good start so far
Oh when the mouth says what the heart knows
Gonna be gonna be a real somebody
When the mouth says that you’re in love
You’ll be the one for me
Give you my kisses
Tell you my secrets
Let you hear me sing
Show you everything
In time we’ll find out
What people need is
A home for their love
That’s what I’m dreaming of
Oh when the mouth says what the heart knows
Gonna be gonna be a real somebody
When the mouth says that you’re in love
You’ll be the one for me
I’m gonna throw love at you, see if it sticks
Then I’m gonna know baby what makes you tick la, la , la, la, la
solo
Oh when the mouth says what the heart knows
Gonna be gonna be a real somebody
When the mouth says that you’re in love
You’ll be the one for me
Oh when the mouth says what the heart knows
Gonna be gonna be a real somebody
When the mouth says that you’re in love
You’ll be the one for me
Contact: Stagework Music
Toni Land (541) 469 5450 info@stagework.com
252 Del Norte Lane
Brookings, OR 97415
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Down Here In The South (©2011 T. Land & T. Ellis)
She worked for years in a field of weeds
They said mam your job is make em all green
Don’t worry honey,we’ll ship you up north
With your mamma and your baby, just stay on course
When you got nothing
A dollars worth a lot
When you got nothing
Don’t look a gift horse in the mouth.
Down here in the South
Her husbands doing time for just speaking out his mind
He believed in liberty, said it’d turn out all fine
He taught her how to read and pledge allegiance to the flag
Now for a buck, she’d give you the one in her bag
When you got nothing
A dollars worth a lot
When you got nothing
Don’t look a gift horse in the mouth.
Down here in the South
Two cops coming down hard on top of tenth
Find an old worn out woman on the brink of death
Strangled with an old flag on the last bus stop
All dirty and crumbled and tied in a knot
When you got nothing
A dollars worth a lot
When you got nothing
Don’t look a gift horse in the mouth.
Down here in the South
Down here in the South
Down here in the South
Stagework Music
252 Del Norte Lane Brookings, OR 97415
ph: 541 254-0719 email: info@stagework.com
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This Town Don’t Keep Its People.
(©2011 T. Land)
A lonely tender heart
Don’t have a chance here
it’s hard to put roots down in this cold cold ground
People pack it up , can’t face another day
broken trailers, rusted cars, signs of a quick get away
This town don’t keep its people ‘round
They all come long enough to find they aint strong enough
This town don’t keep its people ‘round
It a kind of a place that makes you face
Everything gone wrong
You were full of hope
We were a new love
It looked like something bright in this new found light
Blame it on the storms just don’t you blame me
Make another bed, find another town, tell another story
This town don’t keep its people ‘round
They all come long enough to find they aint strong enough
This town don’t keep its people ‘round
It a kind of a place that makes you face
Everything gone wrong
solo
This town don’t keep its people ‘round
They all come long enough to find they aint strong enough
This town don’t keep its people ‘round
It a kind of a place that makes you face
Everything gone wrong
Contact: Stagework Music
Toni Land (541) 469 5450 info@stagework.com
252 Del Norte Lane
Brookings, OR 97415
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Crazy Lilly (T. Land ©2005)
Town people think she’s crazy, I know she’s not
She just loves and hates ya, gives you all she’s got
A little low on courage, kinda hard on herself
But when she gets to dancing, she don’t need no help
All drunk and dizzy
They call her crazy
Crazy Lilly
Lilly knows a secret world, what it’s got to give
Alone up on a mountain top, Lilly learned to live
No one knows what Lilly knows Lilly knows a lot
Of old ways, wise ways that people have forgot
They call her crazy
They call her crazy
Crazy Lilly
In the hills of Jacksonville, about a half days walk from town
Everyone she ever knew is either dead or not around
She been lonely so long
She’s still holding on
Crazy Lilly
Lilly Lay her hands on Lilly raise the dead
Her grandpa was a healer she learned the ways back then
She was never of this world, only of the past
Someone could walk again if they’d only asked
They call her crazy
They call her crazy
Crazy Lilly
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Just A Fool (©05 T. Land & T. Ellis)
You were’t worth 30 cents when I first met you baby
Scribbling schemes talking loud in your worn out shoes
Out of track, out of time until you saw me coming
Flying round the bend right on cue
Love took you by the heart turned your whole life golden
You had everything any man ever needs
Could have planted roses with a little bit of patience
But all you ever grew was a patch of weeds
My love makes you rich like a king
My love makes you lucky even as a fool
Now you’re just a fool
Just a fool
Have you come back to me like a poor hungry begger
Trying to put the pieces back together like they were
It’s too late, you used up all your chances
I found someone new who knows for sure
He knows that my love makes him rich like a king
My love makes him lucky even as a fool
He knows he’s just a fool
A lucky fool 00h00h 0hh
Just a fool 00h00h 0hh
Just a fool
Solo
He knows that my love makes him rich like a king
My love made you lucky even as a fool
Now you’re just a fool
He knows that my love makes him rich like a king
My love made you lucky even as a fool.
Now you’re just a fool
Just a fool 00h00h 0hh Just a fool 00h00h Just a fool.
Contact: Stagework Music
Toni Land (541) 469 5450 info@stagework.com
252 Del Norte Lane
Brookings, OR 97415