MUSICIAN ROSTER
Mark Elliott - Martin D-35 Guitar (in Dadgad Tuning)
Gary Culley - Santa Cruz F Model Guitar
Dave Spak - Drums and Percussion
Ron de la Vega - Electric Bass
Jon Conlee - James Tyler Line 6 Variax and Spit Shine Electric Guitars
Enrique De Boni - Piano

From The Top Of This Hill
Mark Elliott 

The moon unfolds just like a note
From a lip stick sealed envelope
And spreads like words across the sky
Followed by a shooting star
A comet's tail, a planet far
Miles above a long lost satellite 

  That's the view from the top of this hill
  Takes my breath, makes my heart stand still
  Lying on a blanket and staring off into space
  I like to think of everything I’ve lost
  What I ’ve gained and at what cost
  Where I can see over my troubles and my spills
  From the top of this hill babe - from the top of this hill

A west bound jet flies overhead
But down below everyone’s in bed
Lights go out 'cause the hour ’s getting late
Shadows on the pine trees dance
Just like chance and circumstance
Life never looks the same from day to day 

Repeat Chorus 

I’m a king on a throne
I’m a wild heart, rolling stone
I am strong, I am happy, I am free 

  And that's the view from the top of this hill 
  Takes my breath, makes my heart stand still 
  Lying on a blanket and staring off into space 
  I like to think of everything I’ve lost 
  What I ’ve gained and at what cost 
  Where I can see over my troubles and my spills 
  From the top of this hill babe - from the top of this hill

©2004 Mark Elliott Music, BMI

 It was Mark's birthday, and a bunch of songwriting friends were gathered on the hilltop deck at his folk's place, just above Mark's hollow. Mark was the first to notice the moon rising out of a spectacular pink sunset, high above the songs ringing through the hills west of Nashville. He casually blurted out the first line of the song and then warned all the other songwriter's that it was his birthday, and his line. - so no one better write it first. He loves his friends, but he knew better than to trust them all not to write that song. He wrote it by himself later that night. The song has been the band's show-closing anthem since the beginning.