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A Couple Days
03:39
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Time is just a game I play
It’s written on the ocean’s waves
Circling beyond my brain
Something I could not contain
I know it and I cannot stray
The part of me I cannot break
The loss of you beyond the gray
I’m sticking to the chosen ways
I picture you inside my brain
Reminding me to say my grace
Reminding me to be amazed
I missed you by a couple days
How much of you is who I’ll be
How much of us is in between
What is and what is yet to be
And can I hold the mystery
I cannot hold the mystery
To think that you were once like me
To think that I will be like you
To think that I will be consumed
To know that I remain confused
To always see the world in bloom
To see it like you taught me to
To know that I will be amazed
I missed you by a couple days
Show me how to find my place
To love the world as it remains
I cannot know the time it takes
I missed you by a couple days
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2. |
Light On The Ground
03:17
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Light on the city when I live with you
Moments in my life when I see things through
Well there was a time when I know what I knew
Drop in the glass
A minor truth
Vision of the world as it’s made new
Remnants of a life I was born into
Well there was a love that I know that I knew
All things change
But nothing’s new
Weight on my mind
It starts with you
I’m gone two weeks and I lost my tune
Well there was a time when I saw things through
Moments pass
Clouds roll through
Light on the ground
I’m in love with you
You still my mind
You hold on true
God is a name that I thought that I knew
Found in a place that I fell into
I’m there with you
I’m lost with you
I’m found with you
Be my light
Be my view
Holding on tight
Going to see this through
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3. |
Beautiful Birds Flying
04:02
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4. |
Rise Up
05:35
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Rise Up
Rise up
There was something left to tell you
Rise up
All will be made new
But there’s no clue
There is no vision
Only time now
Only time to listen
Rise up
Days in my wake
Rise up
Haze on my brain
Old as time now
The time that it takes
Just to witness
Just to hear you say
Rise up
I am swinging from the trees
Rise up
I am diving in the sea
Just to find you
To find just what I mean
In my only mind
Now as it turns on me
Oh rise up
Lie down
All is forgiven
Lie down
Nothing left to witness
For the day is spent
But my mind is endless
Old as time
I’m numbered
I am always spinning
Oh lie down
Lie down beside me
Nothing feels right
Quite like the warmth of your body
Oh lie down
The night erasing
Crows in the rain
What did you build your nest in
Go lie down
Rise up
God as my witness
Set my mind on the end
Jesus Christ visits
In a dream I guess
I was five years old
Mumbled little meanings
Doing as I’m told
Now rise up
And was I washed clean
Brought me something
Spirit upon me
Oh rise up
I know you loved me
You tried to feed me but I was not hungry
Oh rise up
Made my peace with the forest
Moments of light are how I know the darkness
Oh rise up
New day is breaking
I hold my lifeline
Giving and taking
Oh rise up
My foolish nation
My fractured mind
No I could not place it
Oh rise up
Rise up
The end is nigh
Rise up
An eye for an eye
Do you see me now
My only vision
Were you keeping count It’s all forgiven
The love I’ve found Hold what I’m given
Will you lie me down
Will you raise me again
Oh rise up
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5. |
Seven Signs
03:13
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Seven signs spelled my name
It’s been a long dive down
With the wind and shakes
Rhododendron in the earthquake
I’d give my life just to keep you safe
Naked light on the interstate
I saw a sign for a house and a lawyer’s face
Gun shops and “are you saved”
Cutting in line for the judgment day
America what do you need to say
What do you need today
Signs I cannot escape
Where am I on the way
Well I’m cutting in line
But I haven’t decided
I’m breaking my mind
No I shouldn’t have tried it
All of my life
Just to be reminded
To wait
Seven signs earth repeats
When birth was the sign to my family
Alive but always in between
The hurricane passed through my sleep
Feel insane with my company
Babylon on the gilded screen
“Everything means everything”
Written on the wall as a sign to leave
Sign of life when you call my name
Take away my mind
Take away my pain
Rhododendron in the mountain shade
I’d give my life just to keep you safe
Seven songs now know our name
What can I mean today
Signs I cannot erase
When did I walk away
Well I’m breaking the line
I already decided
I’m cutting my mind
Now I’m wholly divided
All of my life
Now to be reminded
To wait
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6. |
Be Born Today
03:51
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The sky opens for me
The earth swallows my feet
Blackbird coming down so mean
Bloodstain on the silent street
Well it’s nice to meet you
Strange enough to pass through
Knowledge of a violent deed
Windfall and the roots are weak
Time it only takes away
I give a little more each day
Distance on a crooked plane
Cities never learn my name
Winter day the cold beach
Covered in the air you breathe
Seagulls flying down so mean H
old on to the love I need
Someone had to be born today
Someone had to learn to walk away
Tell me do you hold the weight
Tell me do you wake up strange
One of these days
Summer day the cemetery
Standing in the weight under the tree
Time moved and the ground gave way
Her name with so many names
Well what can I bring you Everything I was
Everything I knew
Take off in the light of day
Something always left to say
Someone had to be born today
Someone had to learn to walk away
Tell me do you hold the weight of change
Tell me do you wake up feeling strange
One of these days
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7. |
Baby, In Your Kingdom
03:46
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Baby I’m a good man
When I draw the shades
When I pay the rent
This month
It’s all running overdue
Next month
I’m going to make it up to you
In time
Baby in your kingdom
There’s a new wind
But my hand’s been
In the government
Too many years now
Holy prophetess
I’m at the gold cow again
Baby I’m on a good bend
Now I’m three deep
It’s the same sin
My family always had to dive in
My grandfather couldn’t save him
I know
Baby what’s the due date
What’s a family
What’s a home and what’s my name
I want to give my life away this year
Following our friends into the fear
Baby every airplane
Watch my life end
And I know that I’m insane
To ever leave you
Insane to live the life I want to each day
Baby now I’m coming home
Well I dove in
Seven nights in a row again
Where did all my friends go this year
I want to throw my anchor out right here
Baby isn’t life strange
Isn’t god far
Isn’t love right where we are
I know I’m on the way again this time
I’m giving you my name
I’m giving you my life
Baby are you satisfied
Take a decade
Take a lifetime
I know we’re always on a one-way street
Lie down in the light and wait with me
Baby in the next life
I can touch you
I can ride the light
God damn I wasn’t where I thought I’d be
Twenty-nine
Burn the world around me and I hide
Baby in your kingdom
Sink my roots in
I’m a tall tree
I know
Wind is going to blow again
I know
When I am with you I am known
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Can you form the question
Where it starts or where it ends
Can I hold the tension
Within myself within my friends
When I know where I’m living
Lessons come in seasons
Be my only vision
Something like I could offend
Now I want to lie down
Until the sun comes out
Trouble in my mind now
Couldn’t tell you what I’ve found
Planted in the tall weeds
I know not what I’ll be
Hold on don’t leave
Oh my earthly vision
Lightning as it fell on me
Oh the life I’m living
Drifting or awash at sea
Oh the love I’m given
Planted like a native tree
Be my only vision
Something like I could deceive
Now I want to lie down
Until the sun comes out
Trouble in my mind now
Couldn’t tell you what I’ve found
Planted in the tall weeds
I know not who I’ll be
Hold on don’t leave
Climbed the fading mountain
Words came but I could not speak
Now I know your lessons
Without them
Know I would not be
But you hide your presence
In the floating wind
In the falling leaves
Be my only vision
Somewhere down inside of me
What will I be
Hold on don’t leave
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9. |
Wonder
03:24
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Wonder in the night misplaced me
I’m in a strange way with you
Good to feel the wind erasing
Every path I traveled through
I know
It’s a wake staid
I’m awake stay
What is this I’m coming to
On a good day
I can watch the waves
Talking to me like I’m new
Tear another page in two
Wonder if the old times left me
Home is where I call my home
Good to feel the light get heavy
Every single weed I’ve sown
I know
Is a lie lord
I’m alive lord
Trace my hands on the page
On a good day
In between the waves
Wonder is a line I’ll trace
Rust on the garden gates
Wonder in the mountain shading
Light bends the afternoon
Goodness in the timeless aging
Two become one
One became two
In time love
All my time love
Lying on the floor in view
On a good day
At the rusty gates
I’ll take another lap with you
Yes I’ll take another lap with you
Wonder how I met you
Wonder that I met you
It’s a wonder that I met you
It’s a wonder
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10. |
River Bend My Mind
03:42
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Love in time deceives me
I wonder what I could be
I’m drinking from a canyon
I hold you like a lesson
The grip I’m giving lessens
Now it is the season
Good tidings on the pathways
Cold comfort of reflections
Goodness in the ways I strayed
River bend my mind straight
Twenty-nine years now
I met you in the middle
I never could outpace you
Running river tried and true
I only know it with you
An everlasting ocean
On a finite evening
I ran across it with you
We played our bodies in tune
Love in time I find you
Saw you on the mountain
I told you all I’m breathing
But love my holy reason
I do not like the leaving
Stay here for the season
How you help my mind grow
The running river only flows
Into the days I cannot know
When heaven takes me nice and slow
But heaven’s what I do not know
River bend the light enfolds
I know I know I know
I hold I hold I hope
Love in time I know
I know I know I know
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