1. |
The Turning
05:05
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Early morning sky
You and I could track the phases of our lives
Across the riverside
Chasing, churning
Something caught our eye
Turing over stones
Pouring over time to find the hidden words
To find a space to fit
Pieces, passing
Years rolling by
And you slow it down to breathe
But the movement brings relief
When it all turns wrong
But you’re still all right
When the roads long gone
But you still got light to drive on ahead
And the turning feels like breathing
But the stillness can’t provide any peace of mind
Early evening sky
You and I have passed those phases of our lives
We’ve seen the other side
Of hurting, healing
So much we’ve left behind
And you slow it down to grieve
But the movement brings relief
When it all turns wrong
But you’re still all right
When the roads long gone
But you still got light to drive on ahead
And the turning feels like breathing
But the stillness can’t provide any peace of mind
And the turning feels like flying
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2. |
Feet of Crows
05:22
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Oldies moan on the radio
And I’m feeling past my age
And the mirror shows the feet of crows
And my drum beat sounds like fools on parade
Well she shines from bed like the rising sun
And she burns for the stage to play
And a fathers love, and the contradictions
To stay in the moment, not to wish the days away
It’s hard to show a smiling face
When the world is falling apart
And I know she sees the smallest trace
Of sadness in my heart
Cold wind blows on a dreary day
And I’m feeling past my age
And the winter slows a distant glow
Of a new hope rising, or an asteroid on the way
It’s hard to show a smiling face
When the world is falling apart
And I know she sees the smallest trace
Of sadness in my heart
And the slowness of it all
And the simple and the small
Is all we ever wanted this to be
But the pressures built too tall
Became the prison walls
And we just can’t push through it
But our prison’s a fortress too
It’s hard to show a smiling face
When the world is falling apart
And I know she sees the smallest trace
Of sadness in my heart
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3. |
I Got My Guns
04:49
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I got my guns, I got my guns
I got my guns, I got lots of guns
Down in my bunker, I got boxes of food
I got cans on the shelf until 2062
And all of these things that I wanted to do
But I’m stuck underground, until we make it through
I got my guns, I got my guns
I got my guns, I got lots of guns
Down in my bunker, got a black bugout bag
And a riffle on my shoulder just in case we’re attacked
So many things that I wanna get back
But we just have to wait until the systems intact
I used to feel the sun and hear the sound of happiness
I used to feel a part of the world
spinning around this emptiness
I was finding my place until the world started tumbling
down in loneliness
Now I’m turning it over and over and over again
Now I’m older and older
And colder and colder underground
I got my guns, I got my guns
I got my guns, I got lots of guns
Big ones, small ones
Short ones, tall ones, I got my guns
Down in my bunker, got a wood burning stove
I got cases filled with ammo when there’s fire in the hole
So many places that I wanted to go
But the voices they tell me survival’s my goal
If there’s ever a problem
I got a place to go
But since there’s always a problem
At least I got something to show for it
If there’s ever a problem
Or some face that I don’t know
I got a lifeboat ready to sail
But nobody wants to go with me
I used to feel the sun and hear the sound of happiness
I used to feel a part of the world
spinning around this emptiness
I was finding my place until the world started tumbling
down in loneliness
Now I’m turning it over and over and over again
Now I’m older and older
And colder and colder underground
A crack in the tooth
The rot in the root
The things that you fear
Are the things you can’t shoot
But you got a gun
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4. |
Known You Better
05:52
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We were born in love then shattered
I never knew this could matter so much
All the times we were torn and tattered together
Still, I wish I had known you better
I don’t know when we first met
But I know you were there
In the cradle where I slept forming promises
In the err of my youth, when the games were already set
I held to those promises, I hoped we could make them true
At the time it seemed so easy
But looking back we were already caught in the storm
As I ran through those years I forgot you were there
I didn’t know what was coming
I didn’t know it wouldn’t last
In those school halls, I wandered around
Aimlessly with nothing to be found
And all of the words in those books that I read
Well they never said the things that I thought they said
And we swam beyond the shallows
Seeking shelter in the shadows together
And the roll of the thunder bound us forever
Still, I wish I had known you better
And we ran through the wild of the nights
And we ran with wild in our eyes
Latch key kids just looking for some light
To fill in the holes with a different kind of life
And as I ran through those years
I forgot you were there
Floodwaters rise and levees overflow
Pulled by the currents into rivers of our own
Around every corner biding my time
Walking it straight, staying out of sight
Under the fluorescent lights, I went looking for the door
Though lost as I was it was you I was looking for
Deep in dreams I still see your face
The missing pieces still so had to replace
And I hope you found a way to stitch things up right
For the pieces that we lost
In the waters, we may never find
May we love this world when we leave it
May we leave it better than we found it together
And the skies could clear for the dreamers who follow us
Still, I wish I had known you better
Still, I wish I had known you better
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5. |
Has a Thawing Come Here
05:40
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Ice encases the field, The dawn reveals its stillness
Crystal to water, Solid to liquid
Has a thawing come here
Gather around my children, Whose sight is too near
Gather around my elders, Whose ears can’t hear
Let me circle around you, Let me hold your fear
Has a thawing come here
Laying fallow my field, Waiting to harvest and reap my yield
Oh youth can be tragic , But aging makes clear
A thawing grows near
Young and old, My center holds
I’ll grow for you to hold onto
And I love you all, And I won’t let go
Even though I shake I will not fall
Stretching warm in the field
Entangled together with dove and deer
Rotting to rising
A numbness to feel,
A heart thaws here, A future thaws here,
Resolution thaws here, Resurrection thaws here
My heart thaws here, My future thaws here
Resolution thaws here, Resurrection thaws here
My heart thaws here, My lungs thaws here
My voice thaws here, My love thaws here
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6. |
Waiting For a Return
05:30
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Everything laid before you, so many stars to follow
Breathing the future through your lungs
And we were all so elated, nothing was faded in our eyes
Soon to be complicated by
Something was forming in the air
Invisible wars that left threadbare
And we were just waiting for it
Ya we were just waiting for it to come
You never asked for anything more
You were just pleased with all the joy
Your world was so uncluttered that
Loneliness didn’t mean a thing
Clear as a bell you could ring
But something was taking over
And we were so brokenhearted that
We stumbled before we started out
And now we’re just waiting for it
Ya we were just waiting for a return
And the hurts that I hide
And the wait of my worried mind
It finds its way to you
Now we’re just playing biding time
Under a different-looking sky
Hoping your future turns out fine
And we were so brokenhearted that
We stumbled before we started out
And now we’re just waiting for it
Ya we were just waiting for a return
Ya I can’t keep waiting for it
I can’t keep waiting for a return
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7. |
Chasing the Sun
04:55
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I remember the days when being poor weren’t nothing
Convenient-store strip-mall dollar shopping
But the love was good so what else were we wanting
Except maybe a little more time
Cheap-rent-life and TV lights over dinner
Middle of the night, highlife twilight benders
And it ended the same in the bed we made was warmer
Than any southern fire
Here we only run in circles chasing the sun
I miss those days, the slow ones we were kicking down
Ya a few bucks from the bank and we could throw it out
With blurry faces rambling through this nothing town
With nothing better to do
And I love the way we kept things real between us
Year after year trouble never found us
And god I love the way that we could steam it up
In the corners of the night
Here we only run in circles chasing the sun
Well I wish I had a better way to say it all
I’m a wordless brain nostalgic lame naiveté
But I’ll play the fool for you if means it’ll make you stay
And play the fool with me
I know that looking back ain’t always easy
Tricks of the light and the heart can shade things differently
But chasing you ain’t ever cast shade on anything
It only brings me shine
Here we only run in circles chasing the sun
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8. |
Winter Window
04:32
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Coyote pounces the snow
And swallows it whole
Antlered buck tracks
The white-tails wherever they go
And it makes me feel lucky to be
On the warm side of a winter window with you
Though we’re stony standing still through these stranding winter years
Vulture tree huddles three
Silhouettes against the sky
Sudden freeze, feathered wings
Feeling too cold to fly
And it makes me feel lucky to be
On the warm side of a winter window with you
Though we’re haunted hanging on through these ghosted winter years
From my window I see
Survival drives a hard bargain to keep
From my window I’ll be
Dreaming of the day we too run free
Coyote pounces the snow
And swallows me whole
Running doe jumps the fences
Scattering the crows
And it makes me feel hungry to be
On the cold side of a winter window with you
We could wander through the wild of these wounded
winter years
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9. |
Moan and Wail
05:38
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I’m gonna moan and I’m gonna wail
Send my soul to sink or sail
Climb that mountain too steep to scale
I’m gonna moan and I’m gonna wail
I’m gonna fight and I’m gonna flail
Shout down powers too big to fail
Aim my hammer to sink the nail
I’m gonna moan and I’m gonna wail
Sometimes I feel hazy, a little foggy and crazy
Even worse when I feel too lazy
To keep this big wheel,
Big wheel in spin, spin, spin
I’m gonna moan and I’m gonna wail
Press my body against the rails
Shake my fists at the gates of hell
I’m gonna moan and I’m gonna wail
Sometimes I feel hazy, a little foggy and crazy
Even worse when I feel too lazy
To keep this big wheel,
Big wheel in spin, spin, spin
I’m gonna moan and I’m gonna wail
Scour the earth to find the grail
Pierce through the guise of hidden veil
I’m gonna moan and I’m gonna wail
I’m gonna fight and I’m gonna flail
Press my body against the rails
Shake my fists at the gates of hell
I’m gonna moan and I’m gonna wail
Shake my fists at the gates of hell
I’m gonna moan and I’m gonna wail
And may peace be within you
After all that you’ve been through
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10. |
Massive Stars
05:04
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Me and you
Ignite and combust and launch with escape velocity
Me and you
Blast through the atmosphere but exit oh so quietly
And I do remember the feel of solid ground
And I love the way we launch to orbit around
Massive stars, massive stars, exploding
Massive stars, massive stars, exploding
Me and you
Radio transmit life from the edge of the galaxy
Me and you
Pull at the strings of light and love and honesty
And I do remember the feel of your mouth on mine
And I love the way your breath filled up mine
Massive stars, massive stars, exploding
Past our stars light and dark, unfolding
Me and you, always find our way through the clouds
Me and you, always find our way back to the ground
Massive hearts, massive hearts, enfolding
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11. |
Apocalypse Garden
05:05
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Hey little garden you’ve grown on me
Shown me that time slows down in a seed
Digging through you helps me find part of me
Hey little garden you’ve grown
Row after row of cultivating
Stillness and peace in a world built for speed
Get ourselves back to the garden we need
Hey little garden you’ve shown me
We never fell far from your tree
Homes within homes all integrating
Birds eat the bugs and the bugs eat the leaves
One feeds the other and the other feeds me
Hey little garden you’ve shown me
You never take more than you need
Hey little garden you’ve grown on me
Shown me that time slows down in a seed
Digging through you helps me find part of me
Hey little garden you’ve grown
You can’t smell the earth
when you’re digging through a screen
You can’t feel the wind
when you’re scrolling through a dream
You can’t taste the sun if you can’t stand the heat
You can’t grow your roots if your always moving
Drop after drop of rain falling
Water feeds the soil and soil holds the seed
Faith in a world of things you can’t see
Hey little garden you’ve shown me
The spirit lives under our feet
Hey little garden you’ve grown on me
Shown me that time slows down in a seed
Digging through you helps me find part of me
Hey little garden we’ve grown
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