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I Saw You Off
04:01
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Drawn baby drawn, the curtains to the floor
Sewn like a doll, I'm certain of the floor
Sprawled like a welcome mat, I'm deadbolting the door
I'll hide my love away
I'll hide my love away
I saw you off
Did I not?
I saw you off.
Baby listen, listen so close.
A warm September, I loved you so true
Yes I meant on Stinson Boulevard
Your love its my breath
Your love is in my breath
Well I saw you off
Did I not?
Yes I saw you off.
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2. |
August Water
03:22
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Cry baby cry, why don't you?
Eyes open wide, why won't you?
Why won't you?
Before you park it on the carpet...
Dry dry skeleton
Drive by on Chicago Avenue
Wake wake from a salt flat sleep
Take a break from a sun-dried dream
Shiver shutter sputter straight to the marrow
Tightened talons to the lungs of a sparrow
You can't hold the water
You can't hold the water
Cry baby cry, why don't you?
Tides on the rise, why won't you?
You can't hold the water
You can't hold the water
Skin and bones won't hold the water
You can't hold the water
When you're flying, what use is the ground?
When you're up, what use is the down?
Maybe baby if you squeeze a little harder?
Your pretty palms could hold a bit of water.
Squeeze a little harder.
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Unmade
03:45
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And the greys yield to green.
I open my eyes, curious again
Bed, still warm with vice
Leave it unmade, Leave it behind
Slip out in the night
Watch the sun's rays
Flare to the sound of a flight
Willing to fall, Willing to climb
And the greys yield to green
And the greys yield to green
The present is a cloud, formless and free
The present is a cloud, formless and free
The present is a cloud, formless and free
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4. |
Open Road
03:32
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Time and the open road
Nothing in my bag, nowhere to go
I saw you painting signs, dressed in your fancy clothes
I took another road.
Burning matches, lighting fires
Run into ice water.
My hands aren't tired and your shoes are brand new.
Honestly, I'd honestly be, some place a little more free
Where the old trees grow.
Honest as honest can be, what's a missed opportunity?
Not on the open road.
Take me west where stars can breathe
Take me west where stars can breathe
Oh take me west where stars can breathe
Oh take me west where stars can breathe
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Vision 20/25
03:13
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Shed your tired skin
Begin again
Mountains rise, they're astronauts.
Sister of mine,
Don't you remember the climb
Through our tangled roots?
I was barely two.
Sister of mine,
Don't you remember the crime?
Wasn't it just a flash and a blur?
Vision 20/25
Vision 20/25
Like father, like daughter, no time for another.
A mother, the water, like glass this will shatter.
From ashes to matter, from ashes this matters.
Vision 20/25
Vision 20/25
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6. |
A Furious Something
03:54
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Where have you been?
Do you know what time it is?
409,
On the kitchen counter.
Purple wine,
And a furious something.
In the early light,
O Celeste! What a silhouette!
Had me from the starting pistol
Falling like a breath.
How foolish to believe that the wind it blows against me.
It's aims are just so low as to stop my forward motion.
Come in, anam cara.
The future tense,
What a gift to give!
You weather vanes,
You show direction.
Rusted wings, rested wings.
Ready to take to flight.
How foolish to believe that love would wait until I'm ready.
It's aims would be so high as to stop my forward motion.
Come in, anam cara.
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Wait, so Where's Bhutan?
04:56
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The train the runaway
Waiting for the right of way
Spin the wheels, light the candles.
Waiting for the night you'll stay
Next to me in Winnipeg
Mind a spinning wheel of prayers.
Tell my feet, my brain, my ribs n my lungs, my fingers
Not to stray
Please darling stay.
Bright flags and a breath of air
An offering, my heart I lay
Bright flags catch the breath of her
Standing face to the sun.
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Big Wig
02:38
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Aren't we a fine lot of birds?
Told to flap our feathers as far as they are heard?
Anywhere, anywhere, anywhere where we can go
That's where we will go.
I came, I went, I came and I went,
I came, I went, I came and I went.
Aren't we a fine lot of birds?
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9. |
Run
04:20
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Won't you run so far away?
Won't you run so far away?
Oh run far away
Won't you run so far away?
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