1. |
Consumption
03:02
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I have been trying to bring you back
Spells and witchcraft
Chants and curses
Invoking the secret names of powerful persons
Nothing is off limits
And no one is safe
When the wind grabs ahold of your quiet escape
I have been trying to give you life
Poems and refrains
Songs and motions
Drinking the strong juice of powerful potions
Sobering up means
Forgetting your rhythms
And seeing your skin for what it isn't
And what it is
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2. |
The Trail
04:27
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It is well with my soul
Let's take The Trail
It's prettier this time of night
Don't you think?
The way the light settles on the valley floor
Not on the peaks
The entire way back from Calistoga
We drive and sing an old church hymn
Unsure if we believe the words
But it sounds so sweet
Isn't it nice to look to the stars from on top of Howell Mountain
Isn't it nice to look to the stars and still feel so small
I pray that this feeling never starts feeling familiar
For me or for you
Sometimes the moon looks like a place that you can go to
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3. |
201
04:08
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Off the highway at the Motel 6
In your blue dress
The one that always was my favorite
Of all the memories
This is the one I just can't seem to forget
From the parking lot
Up the bright white stairs
Opening up 201
My first and last time there
Held on 'til 3 AM when you had to go
Kissed you on the forehead
Then you drove back home
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4. |
How I Heard It
03:33
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The organ in the chorus is much too loud
The drums in Verse 2 quite the same
The song is of course as good you said
It's just not how I heard it in my head
I meant to bring flowers
I meant to be kind
Sometimes I say things I regret
I don't blame you for leaving after all that I said
I swear it's not how I heard it in my head
Each of one the songs that you sing
Is about me when I'm lonely
Isn't it?
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5. |
Calm Down
01:51
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Why don't you calm down a little
Breathe in and breathe out
If it's as good as you say it is
There's no way you know how
It's not that I don't believe you
It's just that I'm not quite sure why I do
If I took the time to draw the line
Connecting one to two
Would that make it real
Or just something else I learned to do
Why don't you sit down a little
Breathe in and breathe out
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6. |
Empty
03:35
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Empty of all things that you expected
You never thought it could turn out like this
And you never know who you will become
I never told it to anyone
I know your story all too well
But yours is not for me to tell
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7. |
Gold Ridge
03:01
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Right before the moon goes down
Before the day
Before my old tired body
Can wake from where it lay
Before the sun comes over the mountain to stay
A silver frost sits in the grass
And all of my attention is cast
Up on that Golden Ridge
I dug a hole into the earth
To see what lay beneath
Hoping to find some secret
The treasured treasure's key
My hands were stained with topsoil
But still I found no peace
My home is not here on the ground
The song I hear it does resound
Up on that Golden Ridge
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8. |
Doxology
02:28
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On a hot May
Early evening
Up the stairs to the second floor
Up where you forget your manners
Or at least you try
While she shows off what you came for
You will tremble all the same
As she sleeps you swear you hear her
Singing in the name
Crammed under a clean white steeple
Using words misunderstood
At the cross you stare and stare
You stare
What a barren piece of wood
Thought they shout up to the heavens
Though they swear that it's why they came
You are pretty sure that no one there
Is singing in the name
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9. |
Mirror
02:08
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Look at yourself through the eyes of someone who loves you
You are light and love
You are the proof of a dream fulfilled
And a hope maintained
The whole universe is contained in you.
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10. |
Unnamed
02:35
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Is there a word for what I am?
When you love him but you're just sure
If you believe him?
You don't agree with a few things that he says
And you don't agree with a few things that he does
Is there a word for what I am?
When you know nothing
But you can see everything
And it's all confusing
I see my need for a leader
As I'm being led off a cliff
I see my need for a real love
But if
And only if
It overtakes me without taking me over
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11. |
Vocabulary (Pt. 2)
05:03
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There's a melody hanging softly
But far away
I had to strain my ear just to hear it
So I followed it down the road
And on down the highway
Stopping wherever the sound seemed to make sense
In a park in Minnesota
At a desk in Illinois
On a hike in Indiana
I heard a lovely noise
It was a wonderful distraction
But distraction all the same
On the path to where it sings
I shall remain
It seems that I've been singing along to wrong songs
I don't know if you've heard
But I'm learning the words to the right one now
In the morning when you wake up
When you read aloud in bed
When your hands lift up another
I hear it best
Such a delicate position
That I get so confused sometimes
But to the study of your sound
I am resigned
It seems that I've been singing along to wrong songs
I don't know if you've heard
But I'm learning the words to the right one now
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