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Bartered Time
05:02
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It's too late to be singing a lullaby
I'd wake the whole house and it's too early to rise
And it's too late to call you and besides
Last time we spoke you sounded so sad
And the wind whispers when she wanders through my doorway saying yes you too child are human through and through
And people are just people you once said to me
Each us of us just trying, trying to make do
There's a beautiful woman painting a picture of a wilting rose the flower struggles to hold her pose
And everyone around her is whispering and moving slow because they know the work is fragile and on bartered time
The Christian hymns of my childhood sing a little softer everyday
And they still bring me comfort but they don't bring me home
No no no, home is somewhere far away
And people are just people you once said to me
Oh we don't deserve each other but we don't deserve to be along
People are just people you once said to me
Each of us just trying, trying to get home
And I don't like the idea of you living out there in LA
In a little room by yourself
And I'd go to you if I could I dream on it sometimes
Oh What can I say I can't help myself
And people are just people you once said to me
Each of us just a little lost
People are just people you once said to me
We gotta decide when the love's not worth the cost
And every song I sing is a cup I get to fill
I just bring it to my lips and let it spill spill spill
Cause music is communion it's bread and life and blood
I just don't know if I've been ready, ready for the flood...
And there's a beautiful woman painting a picture of a wilting rose the flower struggles to hold her pose
And everyone around her is whispering and moving slow because they know the work is fragile and on bartered time
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Brambles
04:00
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Rain barrels full, the gardens wild with brambles
Kettles on, the stories we tell ramble on and on
On your feet there’s so much to unravel
On your feet, there's so much to unravel
Salted streets and skin heads with their bibles
Water’s rising, and the houses and rivers are rivals
January come and gone
Up north our neighbors are burying their stillborns
The air is dirty and the land is torn
But we’re still breathing so we’re stitching up a love song
Stiching up a love song
Help me to believe that we’re the ones we’ve been waiting for
Smoky skies bring me to my knees
The orchards filled with apple trees
Go down to the river, thank you please
I’m scared I don’t know what this means
What this means
I've been asleep but morning is breaking into dawn
No time to weep, all of us broken still belong
Grave Digger, Oil tanker
Law Maker, heart breaker
Aren’t you tired of selling this as dignity?
Aren't you tired of selling this as dignity?
Air is dirty and the land is torn
But we’re still breathing so we’re stitching up a love song
Air is dirty and the land is torn
But we’re still breathing so we’re stitching up a love song
Rain barrels full, the gardens wild with brambles
Kettles on, the stories we tell ramble on and on
and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on
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3. |
Boom Town
04:09
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Make up your mind
To treat this land kindly
It’s not a curse some Ursula
Unwound around ‘ya
I’m not a child, yet I feel younger
Than a babe who cried
When first heard a mighty clap of thunder
Boom chucka boom town x2
Ah ah ah ya ya ya
Boom chucka boom town x2
Ah ah ah ya ya ya
Is it yours? This crystal china
Or just passed down from some fine soul
Who lived behind ya?
Is it mine? The undertoe of the Columbia
Or on loan from creatures livin’ down the line
Down the line
and the oil slick on the surface,
of a joy near done running
Is that mine too?
Oh I gotta cop to my role in this
Boom chucka boom chucka boom town
Ah ha ha ya ya
Ah ha ha ya ya ya
Boom chucka boom chucka boom
I lent you my love
Four years this October
in return you gave your heart
your soft & supple shoulder
And whose to say, what is yours and what is mine now
in the artful unwinding
bartered time traveling
Tide that is rising (x6)
Boom chuck boom
Boom chuck boom
Boom chuck boom
Make up your mind
To treat this land kindly
It’s not a curse some Ursula
Unwound around ‘ya
I’m not a child, yet I feel younger
Than a babe who cried
When first heard a mighty clap of thunder
Ay ya ya ya
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Mercy
02:30
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If you go home love
Pray you have mercy on your family
Draw water from your history
Daughter sense the mysteries
That lie behind the stone
A round robin of song
cacophony of home
I was always slow to catch on the the sermon
Songbirds and the city rustling
Hustling souls on second avenue
Oregon to Oklahoma
Trace the spiral line
Ineffably designed
Soldier in a civil war
Fought from the losing side
Blood of me and mine
Blood of me and mine
Blood of me and mine
Blood of me and mine
Cacophony of skin and bone
Seeds as they were sewn
Daughter sense the mysteries
That lie behind the stone
When my reckless body
Wings to a southern bird becomes
Births from a bell still waiting to be rung
I was always slow to catch on the the sermon
Songbirds and the city rustling
Hustling souls on second avenue
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Savaged Beauty
06:32
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Savaged beauty
Will you comfort me?
With your tambourine you can part the seas
singing strange and soulful melodies...melodies
Oh the nature of this land
Is lost in my hand, I'm holding greens and thistles, Wishing they would grow again...
I've forgotten how to read, spell the changing of the seasons
the bird call in the fall means little to me
The trees tower over cant discern the day or hour
Illuminate this Forest with me
Illuminate this language of green
Illuminate this forest with me
Illuminate this language of green...
This Heather is a hospital where I go to heal my wounds
I wish you would come by sometime
Tough the buds before they bloom
Touch the buds before they bloom
Just leaving this city is an act of civil disobedience
Only trust the civilized world as much as you must
Just leaving this city is an act of civil disobedience
Only trust the civilized world as much as you must
And you know I need my hammer, I need my ink and pen
I love my lover with his gentleness within
I need to be quiet and then I need to be heard
The nature of this land is a wild bird
Is a wild bird..is a wild bird..is a wild bird..is a wild bird
Oh the nature of this land is lost in my hand
I'm holding greens and thistles wishing they would grow again
I'm holding greens and thistles wishing they would grow again
I've forgotten how to read, spell the changing of the seasons
The bird call in the fall means little to me.
Oh the bird call in the fall means little to me
The bird call in the fall the bird call in fall means little to me
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Yes I Will
04:12
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Do you need to walk your own path?
Do you need to study the anger in your breath?
Do you need to carry your buckets up the hill?
Yes I will, Yes I will, Yes I will, Yes I will
Do you hold the shivering song bird in your hand?
Did you sing the psalms that ring from childhood?
Did you drink the wetting water until you had your fill?
Yes I will, Yes I will, Yes I will, Yes I will
Did you open up the ocean and look deep in?
Did you dip your bucket in and then again and again?
Did the salt start to ring around the edge where all was still?
Yes it will, yes It will, yes It will, yes It will
Did you sit all alone and start crying?
Did you face the truths that you have been denyin’?
Did you sit there so long, that your thoughts began to spill
Yes they will, yes they will, yes they will, yes they will
Open, yes they will open.
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7. |
Commonwealth
02:22
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Tell the coroner that I died
working for the commonwealth
Tell the coroner that I worked hard
and I went to hell
Oh heaven it's all the same
What's the lens you train your eye to see...
May we see thoroughly
See thoroughly
I keep a prayer shawl in the left pocket
Of my leather jacket my mother gave it to me
Hold it tight between my thumb and my two fingers on the long long walk to the ferry...
And may we each
See thoroughly
See thoroughly
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