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To Live By The Ocean
03:52
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A scene awakes on an ocean rising
My love is floating out upon the swelling sea
She’s in her element and loves it dearly
She’s out of body and her smile is easy to see
Now paddle faster in the swift dark current
The waves a comin’ and I see you on the surf
The day is waning and the sun has gone now
The top was spinning now it’s slowing down again
So now we wander on the aging boardwalk
You hold my hand and it’s chilled down to the bone
We talk about the day and all it’s wonder
Someday we’ll move and we’ll do this everyday
Mysteriously are these dreams unveiling
Along the years, it’s clearer all the time
A sweet breeze in the bright full moonlight
A part of me is always here with you
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Break Em Right
04:07
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I was curled on the couch
A burning rage
Undercover
And unexplained
My blood boiling
Crushing the will
Gotta learn the rules
To break 'em right
You know it when you trip, misstep and land hard
At least my own head
breaks my falls
I need to find the rhythm
The beat to play with
To dance on and on
Manipulate it
Gotta learn the rules
To break 'em right
Gotta learn my own rules
To break 'em right
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Rambler
04:25
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Patience is
The most difficult virtue
Picking the fruit
before it’s ripened
Oh I know
It’s painful in this time and age
Oh I know
Keeping it underground
He follows ghostly voices
He calls on other spirits
Round and round and round and round
Spinning 'round my head
Walk to the local station
Dollar bills and stained old faces
His shoes are rotted out, oh
Can all I give you all I want to?
What’s inside your shell
Who’s got you under spells
What’s in your fading mind
Who are we to leave you behind
Can I give you all I want to?
(All I wanna know)
Can I give you all I want to?
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Not Nothing
04:13
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Does she feel
Does she feel like she is nothing?
Brush her hair
Dress herself
Is it all nothing?
Your eyes, your lovely eyes
When the darkness settles in
Your movements, you’re labored words
Where do we begin?
Can I take some weight
And bear it for you for you
Can I hold your hand
I’ll do my best to understand
Listen, dear
I gotta tell you: you’re not nothing
Believe me life is darkness without you
Remember our love, the memories we share
Remember the vow, the binding of our lives
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Blake's Door
04:38
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My brother has known
That inch of light
The gate of our passing
My grandfather's bed
At his very end
He called to his family
I wanna know how I die
And see my own ending
I wanna crack Blake's great black door and watch
The scene in full
Jonathan sees
It everyday
His father is smiling
And time is a bitch
And she won't quit
The clock is unwinding
I wanna know how I die
And see my own ending
I wanna crack Blake's great black door and watch
The scene in full
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David
05:38
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You watch the storm
You see it from your cave
No chariots of fire
Come swinging down your way
You cry in pain
Lick dust and call for rain
You had him in your sights
But kept your hands from sin
Your blood
Your son
Your call
Your throne
He's on your heels
To take what he can steal
They're shaking their heads
And bending their bows
It's a perfect plan
For the cunning man
Don't lay your son down
It's just a piece of that crooked crown
Your dogs could bring him home
But you don't cast a violent word
Your blood
Your son
Your call
Your throne
He's on your heels
To take what he can steal
Like the hem of that garment
From the king before me
My sin is in front me of me
Ever haunting me, daunting me
My blade has painted
The hills of my enemies
But who saw this treachery
My home, my own legacy
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Winged Joy
04:51
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I've been water under bridges: flowing, flowing
Washed to mouths of seas and ditches: growing, growing
Bearing countless soaking pictures: so deep, so deep
Warped and pale in time's swift river: fading
In my rushing raging waters I see, I see
Stones would drop, erode in pieces, crumbling, crumbling
From the bridge they all stay with me, time, time
Deep inside my memory's tissue buried, buried
In a dream I caught a winged joy so sweet, so sweet
Snatched him while he fell for my ploy singing, singing
By love I claimed him for the keeping, keeping
By love I claimed him for myself
Watch the joy within the bird cage die, die
Crash and shake, and mourn for good days, weeping, weeping
Uncage the bird and let that joy fly high, high
Kiss its wings and live in sunrise
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Trap Door
04:20
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It ain’t the same anymore
I’m undercover of night
And how I dream
Of faces forgotten
Maybe someday I’ll find
A song upon your mind
In the quiet of my days
In the paint that I will scrape
Live alone in brick and stone
Won’t live on a telephone
You’re near in the hardest parts
With me in the heart of hearts
How it burns, Lord
To see them unravel
How it sears the heart
The road less traveled
Free me to sing your praise
Unlock my lips to pray
Pour out your spirit lord
Teach me your holy sword
For I am weary God
Of fear and self-concern
Give me your staff and rod
And words to make my soul burn
Like a rainstorm falling
I ain’t running away
Clean me with solace
You’re peace, For the lonely-hearted
Like trap-door fallin’
In a narrow walkway
Swallow my heart and
Lead me in the way everlasting
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Juniper
04:35
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We kick our heels up off the dust
Sweet wonder, darkness from the dusk
The fire quivers in their breath
My sons are talking, glowing red
She'd built a castle out of stone
The doors of Juniper and bone
She'd built a home with calloused hands
She'd only bed me off the sand
Cold morning
Sun ain't up yet
Her face was white and lovely
Tread light
The ropes grow thin dear
Don't cross the bridge without me
She would say the water's running
They would run and jump and fall in
The pictures curling in green flame
Sweet Dorothy, my golden braid
We toss them one by one in shame
Just like she told us in her pain
The Colorado's flowing strong
Only her ashes left to go
The boys found a steep and rocky wall
They held her up and let her fall
Now from the deck the yellow coast
All blown and rugged, blue and gold
My boys are stronger everyday
They'll come around again someday
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Eric Lawrence North Fort Collins, Colorado
Eric writes and records in his studio in Fort Collins, Colorado.
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