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Bird Song
05:14
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Sunlight keeps on a-changing
Pollen coats the windowsill
All around the birds call
Melodies great and small
That flew right over our heads
Songs of the whippoorwill
Flew right over our heads
Songs of the whippoorwill
On another ordinary day
Dog walking in the woods
When suddenly a bird of prey
Came swooping through the trees our way
And flew right over our heads
Gave us a thrill
Flew right over our heads
Gave us a thrill
Plants appear out of nowhere
Suddenly the scenery changes
Everyday the birds came and went
And ate the fruit heaven sent
And flew right over our heads
You know time don’t stand still
Flew right over our heads
You know time don’t stand still
Flew right over our heads
Flew right over
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2. |
After Midnight (again)
04:50
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Left the room to play guitar
Soon after you fell asleep
Picked up guitar despite the hour
I couldn’t fall asleep -
After my words
Spilled out wrong
You’re making me right
Proving me wrong again
Lord knows I got a simple way
A can of beer and a melody
Lord knows I got a simple way
Of getting to the point -
There’ll always be room
For us to share the bed
And ample legroom
We can rest our weary heads again
Sleep deprived for years and years
Following my dream again
My wife prefers to sleep at night
Resting ain’t enough -
For the cricket chorus
They can really shine
Even inside
I can hear them through the pine again
Shut the shades, close the screen
Turn on the fan the noise the breeze
It’ll wash away the day to dream
The sweetest melody -
With my one and only
In my site
And I won’t be lonely
Not after midnight again
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3. |
Space Mine
03:37
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Bound to be
A thrift store find
One day of mine
Recorded today
And mined in space
A thrift store find
One day of mine
Bound to be
A short story
Somewhere
Burned onto something
Somewhere out there
Burned onto something
Bound to be
A record of
Past thoughts
Post memory
Burned onto song
And passed along
Ought to be
A mine in space
Ought to be
A space mine
Ought to be
One day of mine
Ought to be
A mine in space
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4. |
Flood and Shine
04:21
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In the news I read
Of a sorrow
Of people dismissing people again
It seemed so commonplace
In the news I read
Of a protest
Only reading lines in faces
It seemed so obvious
When you dehumanized another person
You’re less a person
More a human tragedy
I read the news and shook
Didn’t take a second look
I read their faces that day
The pages they turned the way
I understood them completely
And with hardly even reading
I knew what side I was on
And with hardly even reading
I knew it well
I knew it well
When you dehumanized another person
You’re less a person
More a human tragedy
When you felt good about yourself
You could be good to other selves too
You could be good to other selves too
If you were good to yourself too
If you were good to yourself too
You would be good to other selves too
You would be good to other selves too
If you were good to yourself too
If you were good to yourself
It wouldn’t be you and nobody else
If you were good to yourself
When you dehumanized another person
You’re less a person
More a human tragedy
With all eyes on the solar eclipse
My heart was in Charlottesville
Then the rains came flooding down
In Houston, Texas
These natural distractions
Hardly lose their meaning
These natural signs
Flood and shine
Flood and shine
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*Based on the short story “The Warrior and the Captive” by Jorge Luis Borges
There was a man
An innocent man
From a primitive land
He worshipped the earth
In the forests of the north
Mother came first
He left magic
For eternal arches
And open spaces
He left magic
To fight in the south
For civilized Rome
Call him a traitor
For deserting his people’s cause
Was it something written in unknown symbols
That turned him against his Gods
Fast forward
thirteen hundred years
And a few thousand miles
A grey eyed
Blonde haired English woman
In Argentina
She left comfort
For feasts of scorched meat
To plunder and to scream
She left comfort
To walk barefoot
In the wilderness
Call her a captive
For not choosing this way of life
Her parents killed in an Indian raid
Today she is the chieftain’s wife
Well I don’t understand
Anthropology
All apologies
But them two people
They’re one in the same
They’re on the same plain
They let themselves
Free from reason
To feel an impulse
They let themselves
See the other side
Despite the recourse
Others may judge
What they can’t understand
Each flip of the coin
Is the same
Don’t you understand
The traitor and the captive
The traitor and the captive
The traitor and the captive
The traitor and the captive
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6. |
Tributary
04:26
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Tributary
Take me to big river
Tributary
Time now to deliver
I'm yours
Now make me a believer
I'm all ears
Run big river
Take me on your course
Run big river
To sea from mountain source
I'm yours
Don't forsake me at your mouth
After all we've seen
Hungry ocean
Powered by the moon
Hungry ocean
Riptide ate the dune
I'm yours
A current to the wind
I'm all in
So take me to big river
Time now to deliver
Rain clouds gather
Water from the sea
Rain clouds gather
And rain on hills and trees
I'm yours
I'm beginning to believe
I been reborn
So take me to big river
Time now to deliver
You’re gonna make me a believer
Yeah make me a believer
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7. |
Everybody Counts
05:22
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Everybody sees you, as you see everybody
Before you put faith in anyone else, you gotta put faith in yourself
If only to be simple, and never mind what day of the week you’re on
To something good, to embrace the new days ahead
When everybody counts, no one's left out
Including yourself
Boy you could of been a, been a contender
If only this new millennium, would not play tricks on your good sense
If only to be open, 24-7, that's all of the time
And sometimes you get there, you pick up something else
Like everybody counts, no one's left out
Including yourself
Including yourself
Everybody counts, nobody's left out
Including yourself
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8. |
Tunnel
02:36
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Don’t go on adventures to forget your past
Unless that path you’re on be well lit
Forget about that light at the end of the tunnel
Less you be in a tunnel of love
Forget about that light at the end of the tunnel
Less you be in a tunnel of love
When there’s light all around
When there’s light all around
When there’s light all around
When there’s light all around
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9. |
Dignity Augusta
03:44
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Is it a business or is it family?
Despite our friendship
We don’t always agree
We could quarble over the littlest things
And walk on not be walked on
Dignity how are you?
Are you under attack
Have the ones you love come at you?
Is the wall at your back?
You get on your hands and knees
And you scrub the floors
All to walk on not be walked on
All to walk on not be walked on
It ain’t easy to walk against the wind
When the wind is like a river refusing to quit
But it’s all worth it to give all you cannot afford to lose
All to walk on not be walked on
Trying so very hard not to seem power hungry
And walk on not be walked on
Doing almost anything you would scrub the floors
All to walk on not be walked on
We could argue over anything
And walk on not be walked on
And walk on not be walked on
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10. |
Living in that Fog
04:49
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Finally through the fog
I saw my love
I was all screwed up
And I acted a fool
Oh, to see my love again
Just like the way things used to be
I’d sing an ode to see my love again
Ever since that lonely day
When I saw her there
When I caught that lonely glimpse
Staring right at me
I felt so shameful and sad
Wondering how things coulda been
How could I ever do a woman like her wrong?
How could I ever do that?
Ever since that lonely day
When I caught that glimpse
When I caught that lonely glimpse
Staring right at me
Living in that fog
That’s what it was
All the things that I missed when I was living in that fog
That’s what it was
All the things that I missed
When I was living in that fog
Sometimes feels like I can’t see a foot in front of me
Sometimes feels like I can’t see a foot in front of me
Sometimes feels like I can’t see a foot in front of me
Sometimes feels like I can’t see a foot in front of me
Living in that fog
Living in that fog
Living in that fog
Living in that fog
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These photographs of my memories
Imprinted like bloodlines
Come to haunt me
Come to the surface trigger melancholy
For the springtime of my youth
The springtime of my life twice removed
Silly me these memories
Clouded my judgement of how things ought to be
Pre Colombians remember a time
Before we got caught in a web
We might as well be dead
Cause nowadays, these memories
Take on new life with technology
Separation anxiety
Happens away from a personal screen
I’m just learning to pace myself
Place myself in the running
As my younger days memories
Slowly faded away
Yesterday’s a day away
Cause nowadays, these memories
Take on new life with technology
Separation anxiety
Happens away from a personal screen
Once again we come alive
Modern love and remembrance
It’s happening before our eyes
Modern love and remembrance
Just gonna keep on changing
The way we remember things
Just gonna keep on changing
The way we remember things
Just gonna keep on changing
The way we remember things
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12. |
If Tempered
05:43
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Call my number, call my name, and I'll be there
Any time, no questions asked, at the drop of a hat
No matter time of day,
Or after so many years,
Know that I will be right there
No matter time of day or year
If tempered
Call me once and I'll be there, like I said I would
Even feeling feeling tempered
Like only an oak tree could
Believe you me
I see the forest through the trees
Way up on the hill, the oak trees might
Give solace to my soul, give me sight
If tempered
If I'm different from the way I was before
I'm still here
And if I seem different from the way I was before
I'm somewhere
Feeling mellower and stoned
In the cold winter snow
Listening to the wind outside your front window
Frosty moonlight indigo
If tempered
Call my number call my name and I'll be there
Any time at all, all you gotta do is call, and I'll be there
No matter time of sunset
Or cycle of the moon
Know that I will be there soon
No matter time of night or in the afternoon
If tempered
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