1. |
The Distant Sun
03:51
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Stayed back a pace or more
And let the rhythm blind me
To anything other than the shape
Of mother and child
And when we walk we fly
In the air we're seeing the sky
Fish in the water
And the little ones growing up wild
Tell me there's a fear at all
Of living near a waterfall
Trees stretch up so tall
To the Winter sun
Tried to hard to see it
While I moved on the open trail
Might have strayed longer
But the stronger Summer hand prevails
Tell me there's a fear at all
Of living near a waterfall
Where the trees stretch up so tall
To the distant sun
Oh how the glow lands
Around your head
We can move like mountains
Removed from our sleepy beds
Leave off worrying
And hurry to the riverbed
There we taste the sweetness
Wild air champing on
Somehow someday
Reach our destination
So tell me there's a fear at all
Of living near a waterfall
Where the trees stretch up so tall
To the Winter sun
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2. |
Forecasting
03:57
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It's sixty-five degrees
The last time I asked
I was down on my knees
The last time I heard you speak
You shot ice into my veins
I almost wished it would rain
Now your forecast calls for me
Does the sun go down on the road
Between us
And the world keeps right on spinning
Day by day
I settle my claim
On this wintry way
I ask again for the strength
To believe what you say
Because your forecast calls for me
To shorten all that stands
Between us
The sky's getting low
The last time I heard you
It was ten below
Still your forecast calls for me
If only you could see
The way I see
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3. |
Your Next Move
04:10
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Slumber on in the ticker-tape confusion
There may be days before I wake
Cheering mass into oblivion
The last time was all I could take
Now I move like oil on a turnstile
Smile and wave for the camera crew
How many days and nights await while
I contemplate your next move
I think it was you I saw
I think that time will tell it all
Walk together over the flat stones
Hold our prizes high
Suffer waves on the heels of the unknown
Curved like the ankles of a naked sky
I can only imagine
I can only imagine
I think it was you I saw
I think that time will tell it all
I think it was you I saw
I know that time will tell it all
I can only imagine
How many days and nights await while
I contemplate your next move
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4. |
Try to Listen
03:44
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The heavy heart comes
It comes to chide you on
In your mind made up strong
About the rage in a cradle
And the cradle rolls on
Try to love you but it's over
Try to hear what they told her
And it's a shame the way
The world bends down to you now
I'm gonna show you how
Gonna show you how
Gonna show you how to start again
Because the innocent cry
And this air got cold
And in the story they told
It was all they could do
Try to listen for the flood that's falling
Can't imagine who they think they're calling down
Gonna show you how
Gonna show you how
Gonna show you how to start again
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5. |
Undone
02:46
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We were not alone in the undone room
There was room enough to breathe
And remember you
But I was eight or nine
When I saw Heaven's light shine
And even now it shines so bright and true
As the day we got the news
And still the way it works evades me
Seemed like your land
Could get there and back again
Before I ever saw the same trail twice
I was nine or ten
When we finally went back again
By then we had little else to do
But play nice
I was not alone in the undone room
There was room enough to breathe
And remember you
I was eight or nine
When I saw Heaven's light shine
And even now it shines bright and true
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6. |
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All you crave
Is an empty cave
Sounds like time
To get underground
Because in the middle of the night
You decide to change
It's just a little past the time
To move
And the better that you are
Is the sound of a fall
That you never took alone
Until now
All you say
Is come to me
I want that same
Strange company
All you crave
Is an empty cave
Sounds like time
To get underground
In the middle of the night
You decide to change
It's just a little past the time
To move
And the flutter that you are
Is the sound of a fall
That you never took alone until now
Til now
All you crave
Is an empty cave
All you crave
Is an empty cave
All you crave
Is an empty cave
All you crave
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7. |
This Is Real
03:31
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Breaking from the way you carried on
Breaking down the doors of Babylon
Never let them tell you what to feel
I can only say
This is real
And the ordinary's crushing you
And the chaos that you knew
Never let them tell you what to feel
I can only tell you
This is real
Time to pack a bag and get away
Bring enough for two nights
And one day
Never let them tell you what to feel
I can only say
This is real
This is real
This is real
This is real
This is real
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8. |
The Fall of Berlin
03:33
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You said you walked right into a love tryst
That you saw working in movie last year
And your eyes met like two lovers on the Seine
When there was nothing to fear
Except the fall of Berlin
It's no accident
It's not what I meant to say
You find yourself back home with the same clothes
But the street signs and graffiti have changed
The night sounds so different here
And it's all you got to not cry out in pain
It's no accident
It's not what I meant to say
You thought of taking off
With a suitcase and a flashlight
On a mission to the moon
To disprove the words of the enemies
Of the Kennedys
Who said we got there too soon
It's no accident
It's what I meant to say
It's no accident
It's what I meant to say
It's no accident
It's what I meant to say
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9. |
Fly to Me
04:14
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What you want to beg for
What you want is not what you need
Watch and learn the way the
Birds fly to me
To me
You bring up the wrong things
You bring me to the places I left
Singing songs like you're over loving me
Me
Save your breakdown
You never know
This might get stranger
I'll arrange for the sun to beam
I wonder how the years tell
I wonder if you'll see my face
Under cover of deep-drawer photographs you're keeping
Look out the window
Stand in the door
Look out the window
What you want to beg for
What you want to beg for
What you want is not what you need
Watch and learn the way the
Birds fly to me
To me
Watch and learn the way the
Birds fly to me
Watch and learn the way the
Birds fly to me
Watch and learn the way the
Birds fly to me
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10. |
Solar Complication
03:17
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I know there's got to be one
One delicate sun
At the center of this solar complication
An invitation for two
But not me and not you
We're no center of attention
And that won't sit well with you
Try to open your mind
To a greater calculation
Than the sum of hope and wasting time
No nothing's wasted
Nothing's chance and no one dies
It sits there right behind your eyes
I know you see it too
I know you see this is true
I know there's gonna be a war
And we won't win or lose at all
We're the trophies carried
We're the stolen spoils
At the center of this solar complication
An invitation for two
I know you see it too
I know you see this is true
I know there's got to be one
One delicate sun
At the center of this solar complication
An invitation for two
But not me and not you
We're no center of attention
And that won't sit well with you
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11. |
Trailing
03:16
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Trailing lines on your horizon
Angels sing to me again
It's an old-time song
That rings in my mind
And reminds me of my old friends
Trailing echoes in the canyon
The devil's wandering through
When I think of all my wrong turns through the moonlight
I think of you
Don't ask me why I do the things I do
I just want to be real
Tell me one more time that you love me
So I know how it feels
Open wide your country passage
From the front door to the shore
Let's go walking hand-in-hand into the morning
And sleep here on the floor
Thunder rolls across the city
And angels sing to me tonight
I think it's time to move along like voices trailing
Into the starlight
Don't ask me why I do the things I do
I just want to be real
Tell me one more time that you love me
So I know how it feels
Don't ask me why I do the things I do
I just want to be real
Tell me one more time that you love me
So I know how it feels
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12. |
My Pages
05:00
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I am a little voice
And consequently you can't hear me
I sing alone inside
The grandiose and the sprawling near me
I'm not begging you
I'm dying in my victory
I can't keep up with all
All your wants and needs
The band is bare and playing there
For all to see
I'm not trying to change
Though I think it's strange to want
Your sympathy
I used to dream in pain
I used to fight powers in my night
I wrote my pages and my
Shaming heart was brought to light
I'm not looking back
I'm only trying to make it right
Make it right
Make it right
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13. |
What You Have
03:33
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I want to sail my soul on the ocean
I want to set my sun on the notion
Of a made bed but it's over now
And the warm wind blows
I want to slap that window
I want to go where you go
I want to be so so clean
And sleep again
On a made bed but it's unmade now
And this warm wind blows
What you have
What you know
What you have
What you know
On this made bed but it's over now
And this warm wind blows
Across this made bed where it's over now
And a warm wind blows
What you have
What you know
What you have
What you know
What you have
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14. |
One Plus One
02:59
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I don't really care how the road may turn
I'm walking with the peace of having learned
That one plus one is one over again
It all adds up when the day is done
I don't really care if you remember
I know that's got to be so hard to hear
But everything has changed over again
All adds up when the day is clear
I don't really care what time it is
All I know is I just can't sleep
And everything is real
I'm hoping what you feel inside
When the day is done
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15. |
The Golden Mean
03:39
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You
You run your revolution
You spin the things you've done
You climb the houses you own
You try to get yourself known
You chart my fortune
And you read my stars
I'm not where you are
Oh won't you stay
Still I need to dream
I'm younger than I seem
I climb the Golden Mean
But you're holding everything
Out like a light
That covers the ground
Are you waiting around
Wait around for me
I'm climbing the Golden Mean
But you're holding everything
I'm not where you are
I'm not where you are
You chart my fortune
You read my stars
I'm not where you are
I'm not where you are
You
Run your revolution
You spin the things you've done
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16. |
Northbound
03:08
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Willow dance and blue like polished steel
Dry your hands and let youself feel
There's a chance that this might be good
To have to wait and see
We were driving northbound
Crying we were laughing so hard
You look back and watch that old car
Going home
The windows down
The road my own
We were driving northbound
Crying we were laughing so hard
Let's get back to what we used to be
Oh tell me there's a way
Say there's a way
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Bert Jerred Oswego, New York
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