1. |
Window
02:53
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Nowhere to run
No time to hide
Open up your eyes
We will not lie
We do or die
While the world goes by
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2. |
Dust to Dust
03:34
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Hearing by the noise
Singing by the voice
Seeing by the sight
Lightness by the light
Righteousness by right
Power by control
Will by young and old
Power in the tone
Marrow from the bone
Young by being old
This is what we’re told
And this is how we know
And this is what I think
A player and a string
If only I had a diamond ring of my own
I’d take it to market and I’d fly back home
Blow the old house down, build a new in town
Fill a ring shaped hole
oooooo
Ruby in the sun
Planet on the run
Pocket full of ash
Ripping off the mask
Sky that tears in half
Earth that we exhume
Change is coming soon
You howl from your lonely mountain at night
Still penning the secrets I know you’d like
To let go the most give up your ghost
For a brand new life
Hearing by the noise
Singing by the voice
Seeing by the sight
Lightness by the light
Darkness by the night
Calm before the storm
Die ‘fore being born
Power in the tone
Marrow from the bone
Young by being old
This is what we’re told
And this is how we know
And this is what I think
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3. |
Sunnyside
03:59
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Take me mama take me
Could you take me on down?
On down from my rain cloud
When I’m heavy?
Heavy as a rose
Of summer left out in the snow
Take me when I’m heavy
Take me mama-o
Shake me papa shake me
I’m a gambling spade
A gamble and a scramble
Sunny side up some days
But one day papa one day
I will blow this world away
One day papa one day
Blow this world away
Someday brother someday
When the light ain't so low
One day when the storm
Ain’t so heavy
One day we will see
Eye to eye oh you and me
One day we will see
One day you and me
Someday we will see
How bright some light can be
One day we will see
One day you and me
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4. |
Maria
02:16
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If the sun goes dark someday
And all the stars fall out from space, oh
Solace me, my enlightened one
With no stars and with no sun
And if the full moon didn’t come
Wasn’t new, and it wandered on to some
Other earth and some other sun
Would you also go love some other one?
Take me with you, Maria please
I’m so full and I need to empty
I set all my glittering cotton alight on
The bitter chance you’ll restore my sight, why I’d
Leave my body and my blood behind on
Just the faith you’re the one to find
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My mother brought me into this garden first
Taught me to weed by working deep down in the earth
And while I was clutching dirt I was struck I was hurt
All that grows so thirsts
Once my father said he would read me to bed
Worn down from the job he had to keep me fed
But I was too old and I blushing red yelled instead
Never was the same ahead
Now every night I come to town
All I ever think about
Are all the times I let you down
For all the times I let you down
Thank you Derrick Watson in a hundred years you'll be read
For shade 'neath and orange sun with a mighty pen and a level head
And although it may be little praise my friends and I think you're great
For what you've done today
Now I spend most my time in this room writing tunes
Locked up in my point of view feeling blue
But as soon as I put on my shoe and walk outside and I'm with you
That's when I learn something new
Still every morn I stumble through
A silver light so bright and true
'Til it turns a-gray rain coming soon
Yeah turns a-gray rain coming soon
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This morning I dreamt
Forgetting your name
While that of your child
And husband came
I bent close to face
You whispered in song
We barely embrace
And then you were gone
The distance in space
All moving along
Our time and our place
All vanish at dawn
This morning I dreamt
A memory came
The memory went
It started to rain
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n/a
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8. |
Saint Mary
02:41
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All my life
Had my head in my helmet
Right of the road
On the side
Sunlight on the road
Wind in my face
I went high over and under
Woke somewhere else
Woman of grace
Angel of slumber
Lost in space
Nothing but wonder
Empty in I
It took time
To recoup what was taken
Self in remaking
Rethink this life
In my head oh
In our only life cycle
In the blink of an eye I was left
The whole world was ending
But also rebirth
And also pretending
Knowing what life is worth
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9. |
All the Things
02:15
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Sing me out if I'm lonely
breathe me in if I’m blue
Fill me up if I'm hollow
Break me down if I'm through
And if I'm asleep aw
Could you wake me too?
Oh sing me out if I’m lonely
Breathe me in if I’m blue
Oh when those rain clouds
Are rumbling down
You feel your roots all
Flooded in doubt
Oh if it thunders a bit too loud
I’ll sing for you my songbird
Find you some solid ground
Oh if it’s cold
And when we’re gray
Alive as stones
Stuck in some shape
With all our dust, oh
Deep in our shade
I’ll sing for you my songbird
Sing beyond our days
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10. |
Friend You've Been
03:43
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Fish for song
And the crowd will multiply and become strong
Strong like water
Like a hurricane whose name I can’t remember
She was rich and kind
Made of water and of fire at the same time
Thieves and cowards
Who are they to turn away the wolfing hours?
While the deaf and blind
Get healed and scale the mountains in my mind
When it fell to me
Who was I to calm the thunderstorm at sea?
Safe and sound until the next wave
Life until the afterlife, into the turning knife of the lathe
But you’re rich and kind
Don’t you know the kind of friend you’ve been of mine?
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In my life
I’ve grown upside down
Caught my string on the ground
Where the river won’t run
Where the sparrow won’t dive
Where the spirit can’t sing
And the arrow won’t climb
Oh I’ve seen the sun go down
And the moon on the rise
I saw it all once
In my haze
I faced a dream gone gray
Shaken down in the shade
Of a hollow oak tree
Over honey so sweet
Fought a killer queen bee
Brought me to my knee
Oh I’ve seen a cloud rain down
In the flash of a light
I saw it all once
Woah I’ve been a-running wild
Been a fool reconciled
Mmm mm mm
When I die
Take me the long way home
Lay me down in the snow
Where the sparrow might go
Where the hollow oaks fold
Into a cradle in time
To make a nest from bone
Woah I saw but I went blind
Now we know what we know
We’ll see it all go
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