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Don't Ask Me Why

by Bert Jerred

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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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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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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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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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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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In the Middle of the Night 04:08
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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released January 3, 2023

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Bert Jerred Oswego, New York

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