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Every Little Bird
05:29
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Every Little Bird
Every cloud began as mist that rose from ocean waves
Every little bird crawled out from a broken egg
Every redwood tree came from a seed among the ferns
And every kind of snake that crawls the earth was born a worm
Every chardonnay started out as pinot gris
And every waterbed was once a corduroy settee
Every leather mask came from a steer out on the range
And all my love for you, it started out as something strange
All my love for you, it started out as something strange
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2. |
Back in the Canyon
03:38
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Back in the Canyon
Way back in the canyon, where we built our home
Out among the falcons, rabbits, and the voles
On the day that Helena came to cut our hair
From the porch, we saw fire rising through the air
But the trees, they were not burning
And no smoke billowed forth
The flames towered above us, at least five stories high
And melded with the clouds in the evening sky
We heard far off drumming, drawing ever near
Then crashing through the bushes, came about a hundred deer
The light went orange and purple, and then twisted into rings
The children came running out, but they saw nothing
They only jumped off a chair and ran off with our phones
Then we heard speaking coming from the ground
The earth began to tremble and groan beneath the sound
It said “Though you loathe your body, it is who you are”
Helena said “OK, whatever” and ashed into the yard
We went back in the house and poured out some rosé
The voice kept talking out there, but we weren’t listening
The hills were full of the sound, but we didn’t care
We turned on the news; a catfishing scheme went wrong
The lights outside slowly faded, the canyon shadows grew long
And all that went away, all that went away
I held you in my arms, and all that went away
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3. |
I'll Go With You
03:29
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I’ll Go With You
Hold a fire up to my heart
Light up every hidden part
Show me what you love in me
Burn the rest away
Let me gaze into your eyes
Let our two lives harmonize
Make me into something new
Someone more like you
You hold me
I melt into your rough embrace
I live
To look into your face
I’ll go with you
Wherever you want me to
I’ll run to hell
Just to be with you
Save me from my darkened soul
Make my broken body whole
I need you
Like a bird needs the sky
Touch me, touch me everywhere
Softly on my neck and hair
Sing to me the whole night through
With each note the world is new
You breathed
The breath of life into my heart
Without you
My light goes dark
I’ll go with you
Wherever you want me to
I’ll run to hell
Just to be with you
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4. |
Never Call Me Again
02:07
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Never Call Me Again
Never call me again
Keep away from my house
Don’t get near my kids
The cup of my mind is full
Don’t talk to my friends
Don’t come to my work
Don’t leave notes on my car
The world is turning away
Leave me alone
Never call me again
Don’t talk to my friends
The cup of my mind is full
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5. |
Trust Your Love
02:56
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Trust Your Love
Trust your love
Trust your love
Fall and fold back into the center
When we’re together we are both together
Trust your love
Trust your love
My heart still beats
My mind still pictures you asleep beside me
My mouth still lies and says “I’m fine, I’m fine”
My eyes still cry
My blood still fills me
My lips still kiss your mother’s, and we whisper
My fingers still take the tears from off her cheeks
My heart still beats
My mind remembers
Imagining you looking like her
And she is almost what I would have grown to know
My eyes still cry
Now we’re on the other side of a lot of things
But it reaches right across, it reaches right across
Always, we keep making that one mistake
That one mistake
Making that one mistake
Trust your love
Trust your love
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6. |
Say Goodnight
04:17
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Say Goodnight
Oh, say goodnight
Hop from the top of the jeep and say goodnight
Oh, say goodnight
Jump in the river, look up and say goodnight
Tonight, tonight
Oh, say goodnight
Crawl from the mall while the teardrops fall tonight
Oh, say goodnight
Blaze in a haze at the end of days tonight
Come, take my hand
Let’s figure out a way to keep on living
Tonight, tonight
Oh, say goodnight
Hop from the top of the jeep and say goodnight
Oh, say goodnight
Jump in the river, look up and say goodnight
Oh, say goodnight
Sway to the sleighbells darling say goodnight
Oh, say goodnight
Wake and bake in the pumpkin patch tonight
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7. |
Far, Far Away
03:26
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Far, Far Away
Far, far away
We could hear all the guys
The bloodhounds and trucks
Our names being called
We gathered our things
And ran through the woods
We stuck to the stream
The searchers could not find our tracks
Far, far away
That night in the cave
With bark for a bed
You woke up to find
Me touching your scars
There were deer all around
Them and the birds
The singers were singing
The background was moving, and then
Our jumpsuits flew off
You’d just changed your face
The swelling was gone
I knew I was in love
I could hardly believe
As we lay in the dark
The path that my life had taken
I looked at my phone
Far, far away
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8. |
The One I Loved Too Much
03:19
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The One I Loved Too Much
We all came up the drive, with duck l’orange in hand
And tanqueray, and ativan
The glasses overflowed, the candles all were lit
Down there in the conversation pit
And while the day, burnt off to dusk
I watched him smile, the one I loved too much
I heard his voice, and had to leave
It filled me with, such heaviness and need
I came out carrying the charcuterie board
Julian was showing off his swords
I had no time for that, and knew I ought to go
I wandered off to find my coat
I slid into a darkened room
And gazed out through a window at the moon
I gathered up my things to go
When muffled giggling came from down below
I raised the dust ruffle and saw him lying there
Bottomless, and holding Claire
I fought back tears, and said “It’s fine, we’re all adults”
They laughed so hard they both convulsed
I flipped the lights off as I left
And slowly walked out to the yard and wept
The lawn was full of sunburnt dudes
In robes, all lying there, too high to move
They all turned their heads
And this is what they sang
“It’s hard to stop loving someone
It’s hard, so hard
When you can love somebody new
Love someone back that loves you, too”
And where I lay, the ground was rough
I longed for him, the one I loved too much
Then the guys rose and sang
“What about one of us?
Could you love one of us?”
And I just sighed and shook my head
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9. |
Women in Love
04:01
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Women in Love
Women in love
They’re just like you and me
Women in love
Under the same sky
Women in love
Looking up at the same moon
I’m saying “Yes” to everything
And life itself, “Yes, Yes, Yes, Yes, Yes”
Women in love
Is this what it’s like?
Women in love
Is this what it’s like?
I hear the sound of two birds flying
I hear the sound of two robes falling to the floor
The light has not gone out
Women in love
Even more than my children
Women in love
They need me like I need you
I’m saying “Yes” to everything
And life itself, “Yes, Yes, Yes, Yes, Yes”
Women in love
Is this what it’s like?
Women in love
Is this what it’s like?
(What it’s like)
Is this what it’s like?
Is this what it’s like?
I hear the sound of two birds flying
I hear the sound of two robes falling to the floor
The light has not gone out
Women in love
The light has not gone out
Women in love
Women in love
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10. |
I Knew Your Brother
02:15
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I Knew Your Brother
I knew your brother so well
And your mother, none could tell
How we’d got to be such friends
Yes, I knew her ’til the end
And your father, he too
Came around there, and I knew
All about him, by and by
And I knew his violent side
And you, oh you
Were the one I hardly knew
Though we’d steal away to get stoned
Still I always felt alone
Near the rocks, where you broke your knee
Was a burning maple tree
And the fledgling minivets
Were all leaping from the nest
Driving in, on that final day
It all seemed so out of place
In the planter by the shed
I saw your tie-neck blouse in shreds
You came running across the sand
With a brick held in each hand
The cabana was in flames
You were screaming out my name
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11. |
Illuminate Yourself
05:25
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Illuminate Yourself
The kids all brought us flowers
When we got out of bed
They were wearing white linen
Garlands covered their heads
We breakfasted in the orchard
There were doves all around
And Francesca, she lay among the leaves
And dew on the ground
She would look up at no one
She would not make a sound
The staff tried to act like everything was fine
Said she was just tightly wound
While they served our frittatas
Worried murmuring began
The dog walked around sniffing her hair
And licked her unmoving hand
Andre crouched down beside her
He put his hand on her head
She reached up and she slapped it away
So we knew she wasn’t dead
In all the commotion
Our chance to get away came
We snuck off through the trees hand in hand
With our stolen champagne
You had brought our dream journals
We did terrible things
At the moment the sun broke through the clouds
We both started to sing
In that cool wooded hollow
On a carpet of moss
For the last time, illuminate yourself
For the last time
For the last time, illuminate yourself
For the last time
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