Released May, 2014
Songs written by Queen Esther (Queen Hadassah's Music/BMI) except where indicated
Music publishing information: BMG Rights Mgmt US LLC DBA BMG Bumblebee.

Produced by Queen Esther
Engineered by Jason Candler
Recorded at The Maid's Room -- New York, NY
Mixed by Jorg Mohr, Roadhouse Productions -- Bremen, Germany
Mastered by Rolf Kirschbaum, Alien Style -- Bremen, Germany

Musicians
Queen Esther, vocals
Charles Burnham, violin
Jon Diaz, acoustic/electric guitar
Ronny Drayton, electric guitar
Michael Duhnfort, electric guitar
Bruce Edwards, acoustic guitar
Sir G. Earl Grice, drums
Bob Hoffnar, pedal steel guitar
Jon Loyd, piano and back up vocals
Raphael McGregor, lap steel guitar
Marvin Sewell, electric guitar
Naisha Walton, bass
Ralph White, electric guitar and back up vocals

Track Listing
1. Sunnyland 02:53
2. I've Come Undone Again 05:06
3. Jet Airliner (Paul Pena) 05:04
4. Oh, Sun 04:03
5. Sadness Everlasting 04:43
6. Somebody Else's Baby 04:34
7. Will You Or Won't You 02:56
8. My Big Iron Skillet (Bryan/Creswell) 02:09
9. The Other Side 03:59
10. Love Is A Wrecking Ball 03:04
11. I Feel Like Going Home (McKinley Morganfield) 04:54

Sunnyland

Someday, someday, somehow, someway
I’m going to Sunnyland

Someday, someday, somehow, someway
I’m going to Sunnyland

Sunnyland is where I belong
Sunnyland is what makes me strong
Sunnyland, take my hand
Won’t do what you tell me
I’m meant for Sunnyland

Someday, someday, somehow, someway
I’m going to Sunnyland

Someday, someday, somehow, someway
I’m going to Sunnyland

Sunnyland -- my people wait for me
Sunnyland, that’s where I’ll be truly free
Sunnyland, take my hand
This place don’t know me
I’m meant for Sunnyland

SOLO

Sunnyland, my soul is in the sky
Sunnyland – He’s there and so am I
Sunnyland, take my hand
Sweet dirt can’t hold me
I’m bound for Sunnyland

Sunnyland, take my hand
Sweet dirt can’t hold me
I’m bound for Sunnyland

I've Come Undone Again

I’ve come undone again and I’m so blue
I’ve come undone again because of you
It’s not what I said or what you didn’t do
You didn’t hurt me/I didn’t lie to you
I can feel my heart break with all the love I have for you

I’ve come undone again and I’m so blue
I’ve come undone again -- What can I do?
It’s not the way you were or what you didn’t say
That makes me wish that I could walk away/from you
I can feel my heart break with all the love I have for you

It hurts to know you won’t believe me
I’m right here but you can’t see me
You don’t know that I love you so
You won’t love me until I’m gone

I’ve come undone again and I’m so blue
I’ve come undone again so what’s the use
Of saying what I feel when all you’re gonna do
Is push yourself away and say it isn’t true
That I can feel my heart break with all the love I have for you?

SOLO

I’ve come undone again and I’m so blue
I’ve come undone again so what’s the use
Of saying what I feel when all you’re gonna do
Is push yourself away and say it isn’t true
That I can feel my heart break with all the love I have for you
I can feel my heart break with all the love I have for you
I can feel my heart break with all the love I have for you

Oh, Sun

He’s living fast/He’s flying high/Into the sun
His time is now/His heart is there/His game is on
Oh, sun/Don’t take this one/When he falls free
When he falls down/upon the ground/send him to me

He’s on a tear/and he don’t care/who’s right or wrong
‘Cause he’s so high/up in the sky/where he belongs
Oh, sun/Don’t take this one/just let him be
He has it all/but he might fall/into the sea

Oh, sun/shining down on me
Oh, sun/just let him be

SOLO

He’s on the ground/spinning around/can’t last for long
Problems collide/the sea inside/feathers all gone
Oh, sun/you took this one/so quietly
Everything’s done/and now he’s gone/so far from me
Everything’s done/and now he’s gone/so far from me

Sadness Everlasting

There are aches that never leave you
That never fail to grieve you
‘cause you couldn’t let it go
you’ll never know what could have been

So now you’re doing hard time
Lying to yourself about the past
And all the ways you’re sure that you will mend

You’re the victim/victimizing
Constantly antagonizing
You pull them chose as you shove them all away

And yet you hope for true love
It’s all that you can think of
But true love doesn’t want to come your way.

You kiss your love and feel sorrow ever flowing
Hold her close and call her what you will
You give your heart and get sadness everlasting
What you refuse to see your soul will surely feel

It was you that brought your ruin
You did your own undoing
You closed your eyes ignored the signs and let it roll along

And when it ran you over
You realized you didn’t know her
How could you stay when it was all so wrong

But when you know as much as you do
When you think people are see-through
You overthink your way on through another day

And when all is said and done
When you’ve lost another one
You get back up on your high horse and walk away

You kiss your love and feel sorrow ever flowing
Hold her close and call her what you will
You give your heart and get sadness everlasting
What you refuse to see your soul will surely feel

Somebody Else's Baby

You know who you live with/you know who you love
Got a handle on him/like a fist in a glove
Well, that fist is gonna swing hard enough to make you sit and cry
And wonder why/you didn’t know
you couldn’t see how much it showed
You didn’t care/when you were told
your love was bought/your heart got sold

CHORUS
You know it won’t be too long before he’s somebody else’s baby
Yeah, it won’t be too long before he’s somebody else’s baby
Don’t listen to me/Just wait and see
That it won’t be too long before he’s somebody else’s baby

He knows who he lives with/he knows what he’s got
Got his world on a rope and it’s tied with a knot
Well that rope is a leash with a handle on either side
It opens wide/to let him in
and once inside/the games begin
The good times roll/they take their toll
That’s when you know/ who’s in control

CHORUS

It’s always the same/someone else is to blame when your good thing goes wrong
The next thing you know he’s still hanging around but he’s already gone

Will You Or Won't You

So many things in life aren’t certain
There is one thing that I know is true
Though you’re gone and my broken heart is hurting
The love I have still lingers just for you

Come back or stay gone/it doesn’t matter
Time will always set things right for me
Even though you felt you did just what you had to
Your guilty heart won’t ever let you be

CHORUS:
Will you or won’t you want my true love?
Will you let me go and pine forever more?
Will your heart stay on a string
Dangling away from everything
And anyone that only wants to love you so?

Will I or won’t I wait for you, love?
Will I watch you go and see you nevermore?
Will my heart ache oh so true
With so much love I have for you?
Will you or won’t you?
Oh, maybe we’ll never know

(Instrumental)

Heartbeats are fleeting/time is passing
Sometimes what we feel gets in the way
Real love is sure and everlasting
No matter what I do or what you say

The Other Side

When the time to go has come/And you’re standing at the door
And you’re thinking of everyone here
Please remember that I loved you/And I always will
Until this old world disappears

CHORUS:
I’m not alone/never alone/For He keeps you right here in my heart
And that is where you’ll stay/no matter where I go
‘Til the Lord comes to carry me home

Through the troubles and the strain/and the heartaches and the pain
and the cruel things they do and they say
There is love enough to cover/all your hurt and all your fears
and keep all your demons away

I’m not alone/never alone/You know I loved you right from the start
And the love will stay between us/Though we’re far apart, I know
“Til the Lord comes to carry me home

SOLO

I’m not alone/never alone/Even though when Death comes we will part
I will see you again on the other side,
When the Lord comes to carry me home

I will see you again on the other side,
When the Lord comes to carry me home

Love Is A Wrecking Ball

Love is a weapon that is pointed right at me
Love makes me naked for all the world to see
Love is a long-time ex that thinks he knows it all
Love is a raging fire
Love is a wrecking ball

Love is an ocean in my teacup so sublime
Love is a funhouse ride that scares me all the time
Love is the ache I feel when I swoon and fall
Love is a hand grenade
Love is a wrecking ball

You wrecked me
You wrecked me
You said things you never should have
Didn't do all that you could have

You wrecked me
You wrecked me
Then I let you call me friend
To remind me once again
That

Love is so easy but it’s so hard on me
Love leaves me longing for what can never be
Love makes me so sad that I can't cry at all
Love is an air raid bomb
Love is a wrecking ball

SOLO

You wrecked me
You wrecked me
You said things you never should have
Didn't do all that you could have

You wrecked me
You wrecked me
Left me wallowing in pain
To remind me once again
That

Love is a wonder that washes over me
Love is a flower that blooms eternally
Love is so simple it makes no sense at all
Love is a thing divine
Love is a wrecking ball
Mmm-hmm
Love is a wrecking ball

Released September 30, 2004

Songs written by Queen Esther (Queen Hadassah's Music/BMI) except where indicated
Music publishing information: BMG Rights Mgmt US LLC DBA BMG Bumblebee.

Jack Sprat, producer

Musicians
Queen Esther, vocals
Jack Sprat, percussion and guitar
David Lee, percussion and guitar
Marvin Sewell, guitar
Kelvyn Bell, guitar
Josh Roy Brown, lap steel guitar
Boo Reiners, bass and tic tac bass and guitar (acoustic/electric)
Tom Rickell, bass
Booker King, bass
Robert Warren, bass
Sebastican Steinberg, bass
Andy Sanesi, drums
Glenn Reynolds, drums
Clayton Craddock, drums
Craig Dreyer, flute
Ron Sunshine, harmonica
Sylvia MacCalla, background vocals

Track Listing

1. Promise Me 3:43
2. Shine 3:19
3. Talkin' Fishbowl Blues (D. Pattillo) 3:34
4. Taster's Choice 4:13
5. Love 3:58
6. So Real 4:27
7. New York City 3:27
8. Leave Me Alone 4:12
9. Get It Right This Time 4:04
10. The Way of the World 4:01
11. Help Me 3:20
12. Stand By Your Man (Wynette/Sherill) 3:01

Promise Me

Could you promise me a little more time
To turn the clock back in my mind
‘Til the spring collapses and you are mine
And the world disappears/and everything’s fine

The pretty flowers sing to me
They grow inside me carefully
You put them there so I could see
Everything you promised me

CHORUS:
Until your voice stops ringing/in my head
Until I stop feeling close to you/for what’s unsaid
Until there’s no more reasons/to remember somethning you’d say
Until there’s no more yesterdays/That’s when you’ll go away

BRIDGE:
Until/Until
Until I see you again
Until/Until
Until that great getting up morning again

Could you promise me another way
To see you again without delay
I fall asleep to get to you right away
But could you promise me another way

Shine

All I want to do is shine for You
And live my life underneath Your sun
You know that my heart is true
But there are moments when I come undone

I tend to fall down under the weight
When they ride on my mistakes
They can say what they will
They can do what they may

CHORUS:
But I'm gonna shine/shine
Shine all the time
I shine because You are mine
Sometimes I don't know what I'm gonna do

And I don't know what I'm gonna say
But You love me and I love You, too
So it doesn't matter anyway
When I fall down in Your arms
I don't care who's right or wrong
When I'm with You I know that's where I belong

BRIDGE:
Since I don't know when
It's always been You and me
I guess that means that we're just meant to be
Just You and me

Talkin' Fishbowl Blues

I left my fishbowl in the hands of so-called friends
And when I returned, I found all of my goldfish drowned
New York City stress level don’t turn me into what I hate the most

I been running around, I been chasing the sky
Ducking the clouds trying to stay dry
I been laughing at fate, trying to stay awake
Trying to get some sleep on a sleepless street

Oh, my loveless landlord says that all my neighbors complain
And the walls of ears have been hearing it all for years
New York City, mind your business
Next time I will smash your stereo

I’m a blooming weed from an ugly seed
Sprung out of the mouth of a careless freak
I’m the sensitive kind, need my peace of mind
And my real estate is blown sky high

After forty hours you can barely keep your wit
It’s a party town but the wake up times ain’t it
New York City money magnet
Send your sacred cash cow to the slaughterhouse

I been out in the world I been up in the sky
I was riding on clouds just to keep alive
And you’re laughing at me trying to stay awake
Do you get some sleep on a sleepless street?

Taster's Choice

We used to turn on a dime
And then you’d turn on
And then you’d fall into me
I used to hold you in my arms
And wish that we were meant to be

You used to dance with me slow
in the kitchen with your wake-up
When you knew I had to go
You had to turn on turn on turn on/to live

Do you remember when we’d sleep the time away
We’d talk all night and then you’d say
We could sit and talk forever/and never see the light of day
I used to wonder if you would ever find a way
Not to turn on turn on turn on
Turn on turn on turn on
Turn on turn on turn on/to live

We were going nowhere and we were happy when we got there
Because we both really wanted to stay
But when I finally wanted to get somewhere and you could not be moved
I knew I’d have to be the one to walk away

You looked so happy to see me, I could hardly tell
You’d been gone so long and been through so much hell
And you said you could feel things you never thought you’d say
But there are moments when you turn and taste again

You have to turn on turn on turn on
Turn on turn on turn on
Turn on turn on turn on/to live

You have to turn on turn on turn on
Turn on turn on turn on
Turn on turn on turn on/to live

Love

Love’s a funny thing/that can make you feel so high
Love’s an awakening/that can make you live or die
Love can make you sing the saddest goodbye
Why I’ll never know but I know you know it’s so

Love, love me do/but don’t make me wait too long
You might miss the moment that could last our whole life long
Love disappears/and you don’t know what’s wrong
Why, you never say does it have to be this way

Oh, love goes and love comes again
Love finds a way/you never know when
When love passes by/Say hey love
Love, love, love

Love will live between us/until our dying day
Real love never dies/no matter what we say
No matter what you think/your heart wants you to stay
Why does what I say make you want to run away?

Love can really break you until you start to bend
When it finally shakes you/you never really mend
Shows you what you’re made of/until you depend
On love to make you over until the very end

Oh, love goes and love comes again
Love finds a way/you never know when
When love passes by/Say hey love
Love, love, love

So Real

I’m gonna get a gun to kill my pride
Tell my feass to step aside
Let my anger take a backseat to what I really feel
Because my love is you is so real

I’m gonna sink the past into a sea of regret
"Watch it drown in the waves of a revierie
I’m gonna hold on to all the good things I remember best
Because my love for you is so real

It’s real/So real
My love for you is so real
Some day later on/when all the hurt is all gone
You’ll know my love for you is so real

Tomorrow is another day
That’s always on it’s way
Back to you/Back to me/Back to love

I know someday you’ll try to say
All the things you can’t conceal
They’ll be buried alive in the blues you’ll sing
Because my love for you is so real

New York City

I danced with a day-job demon/so pleased to see me
Then I jumped through hoops and rings/Just trying to do the right thing
I couldn’t see it for the hell it was/when I got here and that’s because
My heart was open and my eyes were closed/to the stench coming down the road

Sleep-walking sister slinging
salutations in a blue hue singing
Wha’cha gonna do/if it’s
Too wrong to be all bad for you
Too right to be good all the way through
Too soon to be what you thought you knew
Wha’cha gonna do

Maybe the deal went down/the day before yesterday
Maybe it’ll all fall over/no matter what I do or say
Maybe if I last a little longer/there’ll be hell to pay
Maybe if this don’t break me/I need to be on my way

Sweet swinging sounds of suffering
And I’m suffocating as I’m slipping and sliding
Wha’cha gonna do/if it’s
Too wrong to be all bad for you
Too right to be good all the way through
Too soon to be what you thought you knew
Wha’cha gonna do

Sleep-walking sister slinging
salutations in a blue hue singing
Wha’cha gonna do/if it’s
Too wrong to be all bad for you
Too right to be good all the way through
Too soon to be what you thought you knew
Wha’cha gonna do

Leave Me Alone

You say you wanna stay/wait and see what happens
Countin' on fate to fix all our problems
Whatever's wrong will disappear like magic
In a pink cloud of happiness

But I won't live in a fantasyland
Where everything is fine 'cause you ain't got a plan
You should have done way more than try to understand

Leave me alone/leave me alone/why you messin' with me?
Leave me alone/leave me alone/go on, I’m setting you free
Leave me alone/leave me alone/we weren't meant to be
Leave me alone

I ain't got the time to sacrifice myself
To your heap of problems and your nonsense
Whatever's right disappeared like magic
In a black cloud of funkiness

What we had could only stop and start
'Cause when things went wrong it wasn’t ever your fault
You couldn’t recognize and do way more than talk and grandstand

Leave me alone/leave me alone/why you messin' with me?
Leave me alone/leave me alone/go on, I’m setting you free
Leave me alone/leave me alone/we weren't meant to be
Leave me alone

Understand/my love life is not a rinse cycle
This back and forth has caused a big wrinkle I can't ignore
I need a man like a fish needs a bicycle
Put a flounder on a tricycle and watch her go
Go ‘head and leave me alone

Leave me alone/leave me alone/why you messin' with me?
Leave me alone/leave me alone/go on, I’m setting you free
Leave me alone/leave me alone/we weren't meant to be
Leave me alone

Get It Right This Time

I thought about what we were
And all of what we thought we had
I thought about the things we did
The way we hung on ‘til it all went bad
I thought about the ties that bind us
How they tried to rip right through us
Nothing was enough to kill
This feeling in my heart/breaking

I think about the friends we lost
And found and lost again
I think I’m glad I never
Gave way and fell off the deep end
I think I’m happy knowing
Time ain’t showing on me
But what I got to give
Lives in me forever
And keeps me free

Time won’t hold up for you
Better try to keep up before you get left behind
Time won’t slow up for you
Better not wait and see
Do what you gotta do to get it right this time

SOLO

I think about the friends we lost
And found and lost again
I think I’m glad I never
Gave way and fell off the deep end
I think I’m happy knowing
Time ain’t showing on me
But what I got to give
Lives in me forever
And keeps me free

Time won’t hold up for you
Better try to keep up before you get left behind
Time won’t slow up for you
Better not wait and see
Do what you gotta do to get it right this time

Help Me

I know how to swim but I’m drowning
Can’t seem to help what I’m feeling
Everyone sees me free-falling
Watches me crash through the ceiling

Up through the ground I am soaring
Everything in me is roaring
Twisting into me so sweetly
Breaking my heart so completely

Help me to say no
Help me not to want more
Help me to let go
Help me to walk out that door

Day break and night time is falling
Comes to me without any warning
Punch-drunk enough to contain me
My hopes can never sustain me

Feeling the weight of confusion
Happiness is an illusion
Smiling to keep on romancing
The danger I keep second-chancing

Help me to say no
Help me not to want more
Help me to let go
Help me to walk out that door

I’m too numb to care for you
I’m too cold to feel what you do
It’s too late to face the truth between us
What we had won’t see us through

Help me to say no
Help me not to want more
Help me to let go
Help me to walk out that door