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    Lyrics, Poems & Other Odd Bits: From the Vault Music Series, #3
    Lyrics, Poems & Other Odd Bits: From the Vault Music Series, #3
    Lyrics, Poems & Other Odd Bits: From the Vault Music Series, #3
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    Lyrics, Poems & Other Odd Bits: From the Vault Music Series, #3

    By Chad V. Holtkamp

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    When he was five years old, Chad V. Holtkamp declared he wanted to be a songwriter like John Denver.

    Like many things a child says, it was quickly replaced by some other occupation, like being a pitcher for the St. Louis Cardinals.

    At seventeen, Chad wrote his first song. Over the course of the next dozen years, he went on to write many more sets of lyrics, along with a litany of poems and other ideas.

    From the yearning sadness of "Life is Precious" and "Someday" to the silly fun of "Summer Day" and "The Party," to the sweet seduction of "Blue Dress" and "Desire," Chad's writing explored relateable themes of love and loss, and sometimes, pure happiness.

    Check out Lyrics, Poems & Other Odd Bits, the third and final volume of the From the Vault Music Series, his collected works all in one place.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherBriefcase Media Group
    Release dateOct 13, 2019
    ISBN9781945982446
    Lyrics, Poems & Other Odd Bits: From the Vault Music Series, #3

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      Lyrics, Poems & Other Odd Bits - Chad V. Holtkamp

      1

      Life is Precious

      Taken away one dark afternoon

      We never even said goodbye

      All that I had but it wasn’t to be I dreamed you are back

      It hurt so much to let you go

      I’ve been lost since you’ve been gone

      Lasting friendships suddenly ended

      For you I wrote this song

      Life can seem like a cruel joke

      It is very sad but true

      All the joy can slip away

      As you will probably find out soon

      You missed out in life ‘cause you were robbed of the chance

      I wish you could see today

      That’s because life is different now

      Yet so much is still the same

      Things were so much simpler then I never thought it would end

      But on that fateful day long ago My world crashed down on me

      Life can seem like a cruel joke

      It is very sad but true

      All the joy can slip away

      As you will probably find out all too soon

      Taken away one dark afternoon

      We never even said goodbye

      12 August 1989

      2

      Heaven and Hell

      Heaven is a place

      Eternal land of peace

      Hell is just the opposite

      Eternal land of pain

      We spend all our lives

      Waiting for the moment

      Then one day it happens

      Our time is no more

      Heaven and hell

      Heaven and hell

      Life’s the quest for these

      Everyone chooses their own

      By the lives they lead

      People say they’ve been there

      Then come back alive

      I really don’t believe it

      It’s all a pack of lies

      If you go then there you stay

      Not for just a moment

      But for all eternity

      Heaven and hell

      Heaven and hell

      Life’s the quest for these

      Everyone chooses their own

      By the lives they lead

      There are several ways in

      But no way out

      We have never been through it

      So we don’t know what it’s about

      There we stand in front of Him

      Our judgement we must face

      3 January 1990

      3

      Confusion

      Life is full of confusion

      Where to go and what to do

      To live it up or live it down

      Be a rich man or a poor man

      What to be what not to

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