1. |
Branch I Bend
03:15
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Hold on, day, don’t cut me loose
Wash my hands, thin my blues
Contemplate the passing through
All in a day’s work
Hold on, light, don’t beam away
Never saw you quite the same
This spinning world got sick and frayed
All in day’s work
Hold on, decade, don’t decay
Everything I know rests in your shade
Child that I was, birth remains
All in day’s work
Hold on, goodness, don’t escape
A little less certainty these days
My love for you drove me insane
All in a day’s work
Hold on, babe, don’t drive away
Picking up the dust specks in your wake
Love is a home that I build and I break
All in a day’s work
Hold on, day, don’t drown away
The sound I love, the life I’ve made
The branch I bend, but do not break
It’s all in a day’s work
The branch I bend, I do not break
It’s all in day’s work
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2. |
No One Is Missing
04:03
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Tell me
People make you angry
People are your puzzle
Trouble begets trouble
Drive me past the checkpoints
To Salvation Mountain
Icing in your footsteps
Walk me into being
Sing me into time
What about being alive
What about a
Person you love
A multitude wrapped into one
There’s always singing
But trouble needs a border line
Eating at its mind
Love is over
Taking me
It’s taken me too long now
Bell songs ring out
Telling me it’s too late
Shadowlands of grace
Bird songs sang too
I’m making my way to you
Today is the day
Is the day
That you were born so wild
Two thousand miles
Been traveling for three decades
I missed you
Missed you on your birthday
Time slips away
I see friends do too
One more falling through
The day keeps ending
The day in me is missing
Days not yet beginning
Still could not deny
The light from the glinting
No one is ever
Missing
Tell me
Who did you do good now
Driving up and down
These dirty interstates
Human for my namesake
Human in a crowded room
What did I have to say
Human how my need for you
Keeps growing every day
No one is ever
Good that way
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3. |
Pine Trees
03:03
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I’d run around the world
To catch back up
I was grinning at you
Through an empty cup
It was a brand new day
I couldn’t get up
Thinking it through now
Get unstuck
I would paint the day new
If I had one choice
I would sing two songs
If I had one voice
If I could just set sail
For wherever I please
No land calm breeze
Not the pine trees
Now the pine trees
Most of my life
I was swimming through green
With a name on my mind
I try to return
I just retire
Family tree is on fire
Smoke in my lungs
It won’t clear out
I could find my place
In any town
It was reunion day
I tried to be seen
Covered in fabric mysteries
Like you and me
You and me I guess
Is that what we say
With a hand in my hand
A word of exchange
I think of it now
It was a blameless day
Beside myself
I give you praise
Now one of these days
I’m gonna get back up
I’m gonna shake my shoes
And scrape my rust
These nights of wonder
These days of pain
They fall into
They feel the same
They only change
Changing my life
Burning my knees
Running through the pine trees
I was a child in my mind
I was feeling it out
Everlasting
Come on down
See you around
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4. |
Instrument
03:09
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Make me an instrument
When I wander around with my mind turned down
I’m just a drop in a cloud
My feet hit the ground
And I become the sound of the future
I am not a person
I called you from Berlin
Hanging on your life
I woke up the timeline
Just to say
You’ve got it alright
What kind of night could leave you no pain
What kind of light gives feet to the flame
I’ll be alive in it ringing
Always the same
Alive to the sound of the rain
Taking pleasure in words
Chasing my claim into the distance
My resistance that we could remain
Make me an instrument
When the long dark cloud puts its feet on the ground
I’m just hanging around
In love with the sound
Digging the ground
If only to hit a firm foundation
A new day escaping
Circling your life
I woke up the timeline
Just to say
You’ve got it alright
What kind of night could leave you no pain
What kind of light gives feet to the flame
I’ll be alive in it now and always the same
Bird songs, spitting rain
Altar calls, making a claim into the distance
The insistence that we would remain
You’ve got it alright
What kind of night could leave you no pain
You’ve got it alright
Some kind of instrument following the name of the
Night songs, earthquakes, water rise
Sinking a claim into the distance
The insistence that we could remain
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5. |
Mockingbird
05:54
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Where it came from I don’t know
Fog burns the day unrolls
I walk the dog and coast
I could not admit my ghost
When I met you I caved in
Want to be love
Want to be a friend
Project a masterpiece
Go and plant my favorite tree
Sit for a while and watch it grow
Part of life remains unknown
Part of me is being sold
Where it started I don’t know
Where it ends I cannot tell
In a home in a wishing well
My sister’s on the phone
How did I remain unknown
New town a new degree
Cut up my masterpiece
Me and the dog sleep in
When life is in your hands
Yeah I know the road ain’t free
Still want to know
Want to make believe
We’re talking weak again
News on the president
Ain’t no love in the land we break
Ain’t no love on this interstate
Part of me wants to be amazed
Part of me remains unchanged
Deep inside is a holy ghost
I knew you that long ago
Where it came from I don’t know
I could never shed my soul
Ain’t no love in the land we break
Ain’t no love on the interstate
Always can start again, I know
Wonder to see the years go
Children will judge us then
Part of life is an accident
We watch the day grow dim
How it tries to start again
We walk the dog in tune
Part of me is alive in you
Babe I know your favorite time
Went and signed on the dotted line
Gonna be your mockingbird
Part of life remains absurd
New town a sharp relief
Stitched up my masterpiece
Could you still abide within
When it’s over it begins
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6. |
Aberration
03:51
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Knots in my spine
Sheets to the wind
I stayed up all night
To meet you again
Aberration
A cold-blooded weight
I could not begin
To take this life straight
Light, old light
Where have you been
Alive, alive
Weighed all my sins
Again, arise
Where did you go
Alright, it’s fine
Nobody knows
Reconcile
The horsehair wind
Lost where I’m going
Forgot where I’ve been
You in a vision
I know my friend
I drew a line
That I meant to extend
It comes and it goes
I wore myself down
A worn-out game
Resenting your health
Night, old night
Where have you been
Alive, alive
Try to begin
Again, arrive
Where did you go
A line in mind
A watering hose
What do we do
With the mad that won’t end
A bruise on my heel
A bird in the wind
Aberration
A wave on its weight
I could not pretend
To take this life straight
Light, old light
Where have you been
A line in time
Still growing thin
Again, arise
What do we know
A line in mind
It comes and it goes
Comes and it goes
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7. |
Voice Inside The Well
03:46
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Sometimes grieving
Most days vacant
58 dead in Las Vegas
We’re hanging on by a thread now, baby
Ain’t we now, ain’t we now
I must be alive
To give you something true
Of myself when I’m inclined
To be a wreck but lately you don’t mind
You hold me now anyhow
Days get shorter
Rain keeps breathing down my neck
I know the line is thin
I know the test is yet to come
Baby, be at rest, be at rest
I must be alive
To catch the wind
To step outside
To come back in
To recognize my oldest friend
It is alive inside my life
Well it’s all on time
Yeah it’s always on time
Waiting on the night wine to bloom
The moon don’t hang right
The dog shakes at night
There’s a way I meet with you
Moonshine on the waves this evening
The rage inside the overheating
On a night walk
I’m gonna meet freedom
With the night hawks
And the street preachers
Don’t mind, baby, don’t mind
I must be alive
Inside the chaos
Ugliness can find it’s day off
Wheeling motel reconciled
The river is my only child
Denied
Baby swing wide
Well it’s all on time
Yeah it’s always on time
Waiting on the night wine to bloom
The moon don’t hang right
The dog shakes at night
There’s a way I meet with you
God is love
Still getting even
Lamb’s blood
On my door this evening
I rest inside the horse’s teething
Peace is on the rise, believe it
Most nights
I must be alive
To be the voice inside
The well
The harm I’ve done
I could not tell
You are the vine
I am the shell
I could not find
What’s good about me
Without you setting that free
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8. |
On A Revelation
04:47
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On a revelation
I was riding
Feeling patient
So I waded in the blue
Now the revelator
Undulated
And we landed
On a different kind of view
The passing trees
Don’t add up
I’m alive to my love
I thought you’d sing
Cypress knees
The talking breeze
It’s about nine
The time we need to feel at ease
It’s about time
Made up my mind
To come back down
To be aligned with my blues
On around time
I gave you mine
We drew a line
Against the wide concentric rings
Well I’m missing you half the time
And I’m missing them half the time
And I’m missing what’s left of my life
And I’m missing what’s left behind
On a revelation
Wheels turning
We were aging
In the movement of the steel
Now the revelator
Came crashing
Down in Minneapolis
I thought you’d kneel
Hold your head
Catch my breath
Kiss your lips
Be the death of my youth
On a revelation
Nothing wasted
Relocated
What we knew
Well I’m missing you all the time
And I’m missing them all the time
And I’m missing what’s left of my life
And I’m missing what’s left behind
On a revelation
I was burning
Still turning
Like a gear in the wheel
Then the revelator
Revelated
And we landed
On a different kind of field
These turning wheels
Don’t add up
I’m alive to my love
I thought you’d seen
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9. |
Freedom
03:43
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Way beyond the wayside
The sky is just a screen
Freedom to be
Anything you want to be
Now the days were coming early
The days were staying late
Lay me on the fire, babe
Freedom called my name
Something I could sing
Not something I could touch
Something in the way still
Something’s wrong with love
I’m free to drive that love down
Free to lock my cage
Free to light our candle, babe
Freedom’s on the way
Always on my mind the way
That light on the lake disintegrates
The earth fell out beneath my feet
Love it calls to me
Like to think I knew it
Even in my youth
I could see right through it
As it saw me through
Well goodness is abundant
Darkness on display
The devil laughs it thunders, babe
Freedom’s just his game
A drop into the bucket
A circle around the sun
I sit with your absence
When the day is done
When freedom likes to meet me
Freedom’s having fun
Freedom is the end of times
Freedom’s never done
Always on my mind the way
That light on the lake disintegrates
The earth fell out beneath my feet
I rest in love for all I’ve seen
You won’t let me be
Still won’t set me free
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10. |
Line Erasing
04:18
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One time in a dream
I was glad
That nothing made sense
I sang my head off
There ought to be a law against it
You make me so happy
I take it for granted
The hurricane is coming
I was lighting matches
Off the skin of the tree
In the belly of the beast
I sang my head off
Until I felt the wall against me
You make me so happy
You put me in stitches
How can we be
How can we witness
All the pain in the world
It’s just a partial view
But I have seen enough
I’ve felt the ground fall through
And we could be on the cusp
Of some final revelation
We’re making it up
And the law is vacant
Honest lately
What did the day bring to you
That’s honest lately
A line you drew
And now believe, erasing
I’ve got a mind to
Still unwind through
Whatever palace
That we built inside of you
Borderline names me
Awake into the madness
Borderland blood keeps
Filling up the canyons
Borderlines greet me
At the edge of the palace
The heart is an ocean
But the mind is a magnet
All the pain in the world
It’s just a partial view
But I have seen enough
Of what the line’s drawn through
We could be on the cusp
Of some final ruination
The desert is singing
Its own hole in the nation
Honest lately
What’s in the way
Seems always to evade me
A line you drew
And now receive, erasing
I’ve got a mind to
Still unwind through
Whatever meaning
That we tangled up in you
Honest lately
Where has the mother
Of it all been waiting
A line you drew
And now believe
Erase it
I’ve got a mind to
Still unwind through
One revelation
That I’ve tangled up in you
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11. |
When The Day Leaves
05:29
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I was not prepared for the real, living beauty
Sleeping in everything to wake up and undo me
And I know what I meant, but the meaning kept growing
Into some kind of static, ghost-ridden smokescreen
My mother, my father, though time made us strangers
I’m a child in your house, and I’m grateful for my dinner
And I wait there
Well I cut my teeth, like so many before me
In the pine tree, Bible Belt, purgatory
One picture I’ve held, with so many escaping, is
My grandmother’s vision through a glass dimly
Now I’m walking with you
It’s precisely when the day leaves
And the tops of the trees look frozen in a painting
And I wait there
How could I forget all the colors I’ve seen
That kind of blue that emits off the sound in the spring
And I know where I’ve been
Though I’m now often sinking
Into meaninglessness, stupidity, and grieving
And I thank you for one more day I’ve been given
Just to lie down beside and feel the night erase it
And I wait there
I long for peace and I long to be riven
By the only judgement, love among the living
Now the border checkpoints, the rifles, the politician jackals
Eat themselves, they laugh at forgiveness
Well I was not prepared for your daughter to visit
There’s a strength in her life that defeats all their bullshit
And I wait there
I was not prepared for the real, living beauty
Sleeping in everything to wake up and undo me
With the stars in the sky, when the birds all surround me
In their fractured patterns, they cry while they’re laughing
Now I’m walking with you
It’s precisely when the weight leaves
And I’m floating, knowing the puzzle is not changing
And I wait there
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