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Happy Thanksgiving
02:55
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Back up against the grey again
Back with my noonday enchanter
I’m looking through things I’d forgotten were there
Hoping for old ways to come back and see me
Then you appeared and said,
"So many times have I wanted to tell you
That things are still beautiful, life is worth living"
Spinning in circles around our routines
Covering ground while the birthdays get bigger
Countdown to keep me in check
Is it a matter of time?
If there’s a weight on my back
Then why is it easier to climb?
Lend me decision for two more years
Lend me the power to move more deliberately
I will return it with twice what it’s worth
Time is escaping and that’s why I need it
Or if it isn’t true
Full of last chances with each waking day
Taking up hands, arm in arm, it’s not too late
For having you over and sharing a meal
Warming the room, stay as long as you want to
Countdown to keep me in check
Is it a matter of time?
If there’s a weight on my back
Then why is it easier to climb?
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Promise me this
You won’t tell anyone
I covered my tracks
There was no one around
Did you earn this?
Did you follow up with them?
What did I tell you about people like that
I wasn’t guilty, I was just naive
But they never noticed, they never consulted me
Now I’m at the spot where we used to meet
Covering up carved initials on branches I made
You are a lockbox, you are a safe
You are the go between
Something for me to erase
If I’m not sorry
It’s just practicing
It’s hard for a rich man to enter the kingdom of god
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I had a dream I climbed up on
The roof of the Morton Salt factory on Elston
The slanted part with the picture
Of the girl with the umbrella
I wanted to climb on the roof and walk around
To see how it felt and to see what the picture
Looked like up close, would it be what I
Imagined from when I was little, from when I was
Ten years old in my childhood home
Laying in my bed at night
Trying to fall asleep and listening
To rain on the roof
Gentle and steady, drop by drop
Hitting the gutters and running off
Steady and soft, eyes start to close
Falling asleep
And I thought the drops of rain sounded like footsteps
Pacing around on the roof right above me
I knew who it was, turned and saw
Her face in the window
If the things I love lose their taste, can I just do what you’re doing
If the things I love lose their taste, can I just do what you’re doing
If the things I love lose their taste, can I just do what you’re doing
If the things I love lose their taste, then I’ll just do what you’re doing
I’ll just do what you’re doing
Back on the roof of the factory I could
Hear the noise of the rooms right beneath me
Conveyor belts, pencils on clipboards,
Large machines running and co-worker smalltalk:
“How have you been,” “How are you doing,”
“How are your kids,” and “How was the weekend,”
“Did you see the game,” “Do you have the time,”
“No thanks I’m fine”
And I thought of you when you’d work the nightshift
Getting up late, sitting in trailers
Climbing up ladders and checking on temperatures
Staying awake
If the things I love lose their taste, can I just do what you’re doing
If the things I love lose their taste, can I just do what you’re doing
If the things I love lose their taste, can I just do what you’re doing
If the things I love lose their taste, then I’ll just do what you’re doing
I’ll just do what you’re doing
When it rains it pours they say
But I don’t think that’s true
Sometimes the rain comes slow and steady
Sometimes the sun shines clear and true
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Tree of Though
07:12
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Is there anyone new again in this world?
I’ll never trust a handle that won’t turn
What was familiar became estranged
What we loved so well we gave away
Knocking on the door again
We never will answer, when we will answer
I know who will be there
Rather than being owed
A new idea could come
A Gratefulness, a Tiredness, a Want To
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Only for a chance at reaching a joy
So incomplete, so common, and so wide
Will we go deeper into the song we learned too soon
Riding into the morning light
And running between us, holding us closer
Don’t need to know where we are
Running out in the morning
I know we’ll never go back
No we never will
Tree of life
Tree of joy
Tree of thought
Tree of sigh
Tree of roots
Tree of leaves
Tree of end
Tree of need
Tree of days
Tree of ours
Tree of though
Tree of forward
Tree of one
Tree of death
Tree of all
Tree of all
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Tree of life
Tree of all
Tree of one, Tree of though
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Birds fly where they want to
Blinds open and close
Lights go on in the evening
Companions come and go
Tables shelter their chairs in
Shoes get worn out and lost
Little ones hide their faces away
And why did Jesus die on the cross?
Dishes get dirty and done
Announcements go out to everyone
Getting in and out of their cars
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I turned myself in
Did you cover the cost?
Friends help friends in times of need
So why did Jesus die on the cross?
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When I hold you in my heart
Love stays like an ember
Burning in the deepest place
Then it starts to fly from the center
Moving past reunion towns
Moving over highways
And streetlights stretching over our heads
Ever like a family tree
With its branches growing
You’re the one I run to
Even when we don’t know where we’re going
Looking for a gap to fill
Looking for conclusion
And streetlights stretching over our heads
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Lostant Wings
05:54
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Show me how a little doubt can spread
Show me how a little doubt spreads its wings
Branches over the pavement
Feathers over the wound
Show me what a wing stretched out can mend
Show me how protection forms
When you say clearly what mean
Say clearly what you want
Say clearly what you mean
Say clearly what you need
Say clearly what you are
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Lostant might receive us in the day
Take me to the path along the backroads
Sign to point us forward
Making room for something new
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Turn of the Head
05:51
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Turn of the head and you’re ready to go
Wave of the hand and you know where you’re needed
Fall into place in a beautiful way
Following now you don’t know where you’re going
Following anyone with a light
Light we received that night on the water
Where will you go to follow the sound?
Never allowing and never allowed
How is it that you always speak your mind?
I believe that we came from the same place
Did you take after a more rooted side?
One with a clear mind and looking for answers
I never wanted to learn all the words
I never wanted to learn all their meanings
If you understand then you need to decide
If you are clear then you’ve made up your mind
Turn of the head
Wave of the hand
Fall into place
Following now
Where will you go
Never allowed
Learn all the words
Need to decide
You understand
Made up your mind
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I saw you floating on top of the corn
Brushing the tips with your fingers and singing
Two sisters walking, I made out the song
One who fell in and one who got lost
Wave of the hand and I’m ready to leave
Wish in the well, we threw in our earnings
Crack in the wall we stared at for hours
Ring of the bell would bring us back out
Driving for miles looking for new life
Ask me to pull my weight and I will
Passing the exits, passing the signs
I saw the eyes lit up in the headlights
I saw the wind turbines moving so fast
Blinking their lights and waving their hands
I saw a highway laid out like a line
Never arriving and ever alive
Turn of the head
Wave of the hand
Fall into place
Following now
Where will you go
Never allowed
Wave of the hand
Ring of the bell
Crack in the wall
Wish in the well
Turn of the head
Face me instead
Awake in the night
Dark in the womb
Fed at the breast
Edge of the room
Where will you go?
Do you want to?
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The Day You Visited Me
02:38
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Are you from another world
The one I see in my dreams
Letters and eyes and wings
Let me set down the picture you put inside
I know the sisters agree
We will go on
Memory of memory
The day you visited me
Turning again, turning
Til we can turn no more
Tracing our skirts on the floor
Then when the era began, the meetinghouse door
Fell away like sand through a sieve
Mary comforted Eve
And I awoke with my sisters and rushed down
Recalling what we had seen
Letters and lines
Manifestation
The day you visited me
We will go on
Memory of memory
The day you visited me
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Continual Memory
06:28
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What more could you ask for?
What more could you want?
The cup we measure with is full
The string gets tighter as it pulls
I wish that I was stronger
A little less naive
A little sharper focus
More able to disagree
Hope for more to give you
Hope for desire
Days that blend together
Now we’re weaving in and out of thresholds, brushing shoulders, checking clocks, collecting hours, still uncovering our new ways
I am singing order
I am singing greed
I am singing abundance
I am singing no need
Sing your strong conviction
Sing intrusive thought
Sing continual memory
Sing what you forgot, sing your weight, sing your carelessness, your shape, sing the people that you lost, sing the present, sing the words that your relations formed, the ones that you are not
You who saw our faces
Rocks between the lake
You who formed a pattern on the face
Oh you who gave me everything, you old at heart, you silver tree, horizon, Illinois, rows of soybeans linking arms, shadows cast on the ceiling, spinning fans, circling hands, feathered wings
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What more could you ask for
What more could you want
The evening sets itself aright
The dread increases with the last light
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11. |
Permission
05:06
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Out of innocence
Months don’t pass without their weeks
Can I love you more than I love me?
Out of innocence
Leaves can’t fall without their trees
Can I love you more than I love me?
Out of innocence
If we choose to disagree
Can I love you more than I love me?
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