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Sunlight
03:48
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my mind is quiet
the ground took back the house
and the landscape keeps pushing out
phoenix family
second life
something we don't know how to describe
everything at once
effortless sunlight
while Mara and his demons hurl boulders at me
I just turn them into flowers gently falling at my feet
and I'm living in a madhouse in the best days of my life
and if it gets invented this is where I'll travel back in time
when I was lost I followed their tracks
troubles will be gone
and find their way back
I'll pull all the water out of the clouds
closer to the thing itself the less gets nailed down
heaven has been tapping on my shoulder
I just had to turn around
While Mara and his demons hurl boulders at me
(while demons hurl boulders at me)
I just turn them into flowers gently falling at my feet
(turn them into flowers at my feet)
and I'm living in a madhouse in the best days of my life
(living in a madhouse)
and if it gets invented this is where I'll travel back in time
(this is where I'll travel back in time)
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2. |
Embers
03:20
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An insect fossilized in the amber
or some kind of clearing where I can roam
blowing on the embers
of the only other thing that's kept me warm
running so far til the light leaks in frame
like I'm grown on the ocean
our insides one in the same
move through the days
like death and I are in a chase
and im not sure if I'm front or behind
my pale pink skin hides in the hundred acre
I die a small death hearing a door lock behind me
a calmness
that seems like the titanic's promise
but between us
I think I'm easily haunted
running so far til the light leaks in frame
like I'm grown on the ocean
our insides one in the same
move through the days
like death and I are in a chase
and I'm not sure if I'm front or behind
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3. |
Vipers
03:19
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my shadow covers and drains the color from the grass
I'll end a diving bird into the glass
sit with the spiders hiding out in me
light is only cast through burning
so let the vipers come
I know what I belong to
stumble when I speak
the mouth of the river does it for me
beautiful and singing low
some kind of magic
quietly makes itself known
can't shake the feeling that this might
matter more than we can tell
falling drops
small ripples that never stop
so let the vipers come
I know what I belong to
stumble when I speak
the mouth of the river does it for me
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4. |
I'll Be Around
04:37
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If you ever need me
I'll be around
no mud no lotus
all I love live in me now
the lightning rarely finds me
but when it does it strikes me down
rain until the rogue waves climb up
high above the seawall
and come down on me
Tran-
-sition
Spent my life hiding like I was two kids in a trench coat
trapped in a line towards some kind of
jaws that swallow all I see
but oh this weird ancient world
is a blooming mystical dream
of never ending ocean waves crashing
and the bits of land inbetween
grace ever unfolding in the morning
or the stillness after all are asleep
grace ever unfolding in your movements
or the light swimming through the tops of trees
If you ever need me
I'll be around
no mud, no lotus
all I love live in me now
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We'll never flip the hourglass
there's alligators in the grass
and you know that I never watch where I land
closing my eyes to help cut through the fog
like I am the ivy
mountain climbing up the wall
you're singing to the ocean
reading every book written under the sun
and I know hope is a door that's hard to open
but can't you hear us
laughing on the other side
my mind is getting slippery I need something to hold to
beautiful architecture only goes so far
lighthouse eyes that see right through me
a thief with crooked teeth never deserved so much love
you're singing to the ocean
reading every book written under the sun
and I know hope is a door that's hard to open
but can't you hear us
laughing on the other side
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6. |
White Flowers
03:50
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I bend and twist just like the winter ground
just trying to stay in the sunlight
as shadows shift with the clouds
I'm walking a disappearing staircase
unless l I just cant fight back
all of the hydras heads
there are angels in the trees
white flowers in the weeds
these freezing days
I am evergreen
I'm quiet here
the thief, the open air
takes back my name
laugh lines archive
a thousand times you couldn't be afraid
wonder if I walked right by you
all those years ago
our old maps all overlap
til a winding path finally circles back
there are angels in the trees
white flowers in the weeds
these freezing days
I am evergreen
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7. |
Tea Leaves
03:29
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tea leaves
autumn now is fast approaching
mystic morning light in golden hour
greeted by a bright white curtain
swaying softly as the sun glows on your back
while you sleep but you've a flight back
to the city that never has
so we'll wake up slow
I'll water the plants so still in my home
like the songbird that never stops just to take a breath
spend all my days wandering a tall hedge maze
god only knows what I'm even looking for
god only knows
tea leaves
autumn now is fast approaching
the only angel in the sky
gold serpent halo
tongue tied
when you speak
your soul can't help but spill out into everything
like the songbird that never stops just to take a breath
spend all my days wandering a tall hedge maze
god only knows what I'm even looking for
god only knows
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8. |
Anything With Wings
04:02
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take the rose out of the glass
this is a castle suspended in air
river of a thousand voices
calling out from everywhere
I try to be lightfast lightfast lightfast
my tide still pulled by the moon
how the ground
just comes to you
once burned at the center
trying to dig all the way through
an ever changing single frame
blind to the whole of the film
and its ending
searching for anything with wings
to lift me up and away
far as love can take me
I know now no one can
ever really save me
oh how love
drops and forsakes me
holds to embrace me
endlessly
back and forth
somehow the scar turns to the bandage
deadwood that we carry holds damage
that's apparent once we manage to let go
feel my center somewhere in that passing afternoon
sometimes time goes on without me
but I'll catch up soon
an ever changing single frame
blind to the whole of the film
and its ending
searching for anything with wings
to lift me up and away
far as love can take me
I know now no one can
ever really save me
oh how love
drops and forsakes me
holds to embrace me
endlessly
back and forth
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9. |
Fingers Crossed
06:38
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tied to the watertower
tethered to the great plains
I grow thin
slipping in the dark corners of old remains
now peering into passing cars for people I once knew
feeling worn and delicate
winds gentle white noise overdue
trying to surface from the unconscious automatic ocean
but still no tandem bikes into the sunset
children playing in the sand
flies buzz around my head
I grow horns and wake the dead
But as bad as it ever gets
each day lays me down
soft, cradled, and easy
and you're off buying sunflowers in wintertime
while this manicured wastelands walls
closing in on all sides
and I'll keep my fingers crossed
and I'll keep the bloodsuckers far from us
trying to surface from the unconscious automatic ocean
but still no tandem bikes into the sunset
Children playing in the sand
flies buzz around my head
I grow horns and wake the dead
But as bad as it ever gets
each day lays me down
soft, cradled, and easy
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10. |
Take Care
04:57
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vicious claws I didn't know were there
the nightmares over
no need to be scared
can't you hear the harp
humming beneath it all
sleep well
regardless, I love you
and take care
dear god we're the lucky ones
being until we've been
trampled on the sacred ground
my saving grace
keep my head down
can't you hear the choir
your kindness extinguished my body on fire
sleep well
regardless, I love you
and take care
dear god we're the lucky ones
being until we've been
to dissolve every other moment
til feeling has no will feel or felt
to step out of my own way
the light always present shows itself
sleep well
regardless, I love you
and take care
dear god we're the lucky ones
being until we've been
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