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Seasick Sailors
03:43
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all the seasick sailors are all heading home
to find some stable ground there that they’ve once known
reset the idle
find the floor
start again off from the shore
all this talk as a fix to ignore what’s true
all the big ideas that just won’t be used
but inching toes we can afford
we’re slowly creeping off the shore
and all the ideas that we here but are gone
all of the time spent lingering on
all of the love that you claim to be for
can be yours
take the classroom walls to that big blue bin
trade them for some clues to the place we’re in
the winter’s freeze and summer’s melt
can teach you how to teach yourself
and all the ideas that were here but are gone…
and like a garden seems to know
you can’t help growing where you grow
and if ever love has a mind to unfold
say hello
hello
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2. |
Tire Track
03:16
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crazy as I come
let me out
let me see the sun
let these words fall on anyone
who may be near
just get us through the day
let me in
teach me to stay
cut the sails of my getaway
that claims it’s here
I’m not falling back
but I’m alone on this tire track
but all these homes that have come to pass
are still in gear
just like the oceans and the breeze
and the fortunes and the needs
and the love among
all the friends I hope to see
I’m not falling back…
I’m not falling back
not with soil for my soul to grab
lighter grips on the fading past
stuck on my wheels
crazy as I come
let me out and on the run
let these words fall on anyone
who may be near
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3. |
Same Story
02:51
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it’s the same old story again
our eyes are way too big for our hands
desire seems like a wanderer’s friend
but she’ll get you in trouble
it’s the same old lingering tale
we’re living up ahead of ourselves
we’re missing on the cards that are dealt
right here on the table
oh it seems
the water is changing scenes
circling everything it sees
and a notion to pretend
loses steam and dies again
tries to surface just right when
the guard went a wandering
and it only goes to show
that we know not what we know
we just keep on moving slow
low to the grindstone
oh it seems…
and the moments that we’re facing
come in every other size
and the endless options trying
pulling wool over our eyes
it’s the same old story again
our eyes are way too big for our hands
desire seems like a wanderer’s friend
but she’ll get you in trouble
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4. |
Take Me Talking
03:41
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your past is pounding at your door
all the effort you cannot afford
maybe you can take me talking
and we can tidy up the load
but I got my troubles in my suitcase
I got the dangers I cannot escape
maybe you can take me talking
and we can lay them all to waste
Cupid don’t lay down your weary bow
the fighter is getting off the ground
there are more rounds left to go
Paul started painting after 30 years
to show the colors just as they appear
so has our buried seed the future hold
with only room to grow
and all the reasons for us not to find
whatever happens when we cross the line
let’s take them out on the Thursday street
so we never see
Cupid don’t lay down your weary bow…
and if love may be near
the obligation is clear
Cupid don’t lay down your weary bow…
Cupid don’t lay down your weary bow
there might be fire in this fight
and we’d sure like to know
so let your history lessons hit the ground
I won’t go running where I can’t be found
maybe you can take me talking
we can try to work it out
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5. |
A Ground
03:40
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hearts of scattered bones
sucked by currents
crashed out on the stones
you hung me out to dry
with a phosphorescent twinkle in your eyes
this love it needs a ground
there’s no way standing on a cloud
there’s no way when the lines are down
like a hound dog chases prey
you were moved to run away
I just hope you’re not too far
and I pray that in your heart
that you know love it needs a ground
and you can’t stand up on a cloud
and you can’t hold on to a sound
when it comes back around
with the credit page
on the cutting room ground
we’ll be better off to see
the hope inside this old mystery
and we’ll know love it needs a ground
the reasons and the answers found
and love knows to be true
and all of mine is for you
all of mine is for you
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6. |
The Horse's Course
03:17
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I was fine when I was shown
that hearts will surely grow with the light
with the passengers in tow
the caravan is holding to its stride
you take away what you pay for
we’re spending all that we got
to put the cart behind the horse
to have the horse run through its course in time
however barren be the road
however tied or overgrown be the vines
you’re still gonna run with your arms down
you still find quarters in trees
tied at the hands we wrestle the wind
and we circle the answers but they don’t let us in
and we’re holding our court in a quieter town
with the food from the garden
and the feet from the ground
and then a motor came along
with a motorcade of songs for you to write
but the oil is a ticking bomb
and the soil is a balance beam we must stand on
you take away what you pay for
we’re spending all that we got
tied at the hands…
I was fine when I was shown
that hearts will surely grow with the light
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7. |
Something New
02:29
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an open post in the marketplace
to get on board
there’s a diner on the train
we spend our days here sifting through
some memories and some things yet left to do
and if it’s ever to be something new
we’d like to see what it can do
and all of the simple words appear
to posture is not but mud inside the gears
and as the tumbling river flows
lies everything we’d ever need to know
but if you hear it and you can’t approve
step aside and let it move
cause there’s a time for paying dues
and there’s a time for peeking through
and if it’s ever to be something new
we’ll stick around and see it through
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8. |
For to Give Away
03:15
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stuck inside a twist of fading plans
dreaming for a cure
and the love light lacking in a man
is but traffic and a thorn
for to give away
is to let it stay
to give away
you came by my door with a basket of words
every day for six weeks more
and the sounds they made were maybe heard
but the feeling wasn’t sure
for to give away
I know your rainbow is black and white
I know you save yours out of sight
for to give away…
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9. |
No Sweeter Sound
03:25
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wait with me baby if we lose the way
for the haul is long and steep
if ever plans could be made
it’s these that I’d save
but there just aint no telling the sea
we’ll hunker down through the storm
as our strides retake form
the sky always turns back to blue
and upon a clean slate
we will carve out the phrase
“forever each other renew”
I could go for days having only but a clue
looking for this love I’d found
and if it’s coming back my way
tried, tested and true
there just aint no sweeter sound
we’re bound to get up and roll
with a sieve for a soul
hanging on the good parts to save
stick it out to the end and to come back again
just to see all the progress we made
and as these seasons change
lights strengthen and fade
and in all of our chapters through
with each break or bend
and in each subtle blend
forever each other renew
I could go for days having only but a clue…
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10. |
Everything We Have
03:09
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do not greet the postman
if the box is made of gold
share a smile and cup of tea
if on a weathered wooden pole
everything we have is gonna go
in a lifetime more like lightening
just a flicker in the clouds
from a scale to see relations
don’t go let it bring you down
cause everything we have we have it now
and now all the kings study the spade
as he’s staring into outer space
even with the books they read
they cannot understand the things he sees
and misunderstanding they throw him away
intimidated they throw him away
and now slowly lodging in your brain
the only way they’ll say to play this game
but as long as birds recreate
we’ll always have a clue out of this place
which is changing but will always be this way
it’s changing but the roles remain the same
the walls rearrange but it’s still a maze
and now you and I are like the tides
we’re down and waves rise and collide
then it’s up and so are we
we finally get up on our feet and ride
and never have we felt so alive
never have we felt so alive
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11. |
Names of Ghosts
06:41
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in the later hours you call the names of ghosts
to bring you back to days of old
just a little scared to move forward
tree to branch and limb to limb
eyes closed
pray to fall upon a foothold
you can find one here you know
it’s past the time for you to turn again
at least you have a season’s end
to help you on your way
to let your feelings change
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