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The one who survives by making the lives
Of others worthwhile She's coming apart Right before my eyes The one who depends on the services she renders To those who come knocking She's seeing too clearly what she can't be What understanding defies She says I need not to need Or else a love with intuition Someone who reaches out to my weakness and won't let go I need not to need I've always been the tower But now I feel like I'm the flower trying to bloom in snow She turns out the light, anticipating night Falling tenderly around her Watches the dusk The words won't come She carries the act so convincingly The fact is sometimes she believes it She can be happy the way things are Be happy with the things she's done And yet I need not to need Or else a love with intuition Someone who reaches out to my weakness and won't let go I need not to need I've always been the tower But now I feel like I'm the flower trying to bloom in snow Reach out, hold back Where is safety Reach out and hold back Where is the one who can change me Where is the one The one Reach out, hold back Where is safety Reach out and hold back Where is the one who can save me Where is the one The one I need not to need Or else a love with intuition Someone who reaches out to my weakness and won't let go I need not to need I've always been the tower But now I feel like I'm the flower trying to bloom in snow I feel like I'm the flower trying to bloom in snow The danger and the power, the friend and the foe |
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| 2. |
| 5:23 |
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Why am I walking barefoot
Upon this road with no one around I close my eyes to this decision The night's like coffee to my tongue Like waking up without a sound I map the words out Maybe you will say them Would you help me rise up Touch my face and watch me try to breathe again Would you let me do this Burn down the final wall Overcome me baby Overcome me baby Overcome me baby Overcome me yeah All I'm asking is to be alive for once Always I am mistaken I look for love, I find a storm Of all the seasons, winter befriends me I come to you in friendship And hold my breath against the snow What are you thinking as I gaze into you Forgive me the confusion Forgive me as I realize my thoughts betrayed You are the answer Cry and smile the same Overcome me, baby Overcome me, baby Overcome me, baby Overcome, yeah All I'm asking is to be All I'm asking is to be alive Overcome me (overcome me baby), baby (x2) Overcome me (overcome me baby), baby (overcome me) (x2) Overcome (x4) All I'm asking is to be alive |
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| 3:40 |
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Hey love
Is that the name you're meant to have For me to call Look love They've given up believing They've turned aside our stories of the gentle fall But don't you believe them Don't you drink their poison too These are the scars that words have carved On me Hey love That's the name we've long held back From the core of truth So don't turn away now I am turning in revolution These are the scars that silence carved On me This is the same place No not the same place This is the same place, love No not the same place we've been before Hey love I am a constant satellite Of your blazing sun My love I obey your law of gravity This is the fate you've carved on me This law of gravity This is the fate you've carved on me On me |
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| 4. |
| 3:15 |
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Well it's you and it's me
Me with a drink in my hand The ice is tinkling like a wind chime And late afternoon settles over the land And you're talking about things Interesting just slightly And things that matter too much To say any way but lightly Did you know you're so beautiful On the edge of summer That years from now I'll cry to remember How very close you were Knowing this will I reach for you Knowing this will I reach for you The way you want me to Well it's time to be wise Wise in the ways of the heart To come out from under the covers This voluntary state of apart From the faces Oasis In this Sahara of sorrow These graces that hold me It's from you that I borrow Did you know you're so beautiful On the edge of summer That years from now I'll cry to remember How very close you were Knowing this will I reach for you Knowing this will I reach for you The way you want me to |
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| 5. |
| 3:35 |
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We are not together here
Though we lie entwined To make room for the other presence We both draw back in our minds I have a prophecy Threatening to spill into words This growing certainty Of Over There once was a time I was sure of the bond When my hands and my tongue and my thoughts were enough We are the same but our lives move along And the third one between replaces what once was love Freedom is being alone I fear liberation But something more alive than silence Swallows conversation No pleasing drama In subtle averted eyes The swelling fermata As the chord dies There once was a time I was sure of the bond When my hands and my tongue and my thoughts were enough We are the same but our lives move along And the third one between replaces what once was love There's no denying we feel the third one We do I'm tired of hiding and so are you There once was a time I was sure of the bond When my hands and my tongue and my thoughts were enough We are the same but our lives move along And the third one between replaces what once was love |
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| 6. |
| 5:27 |
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Everyone agrees it came too soon
It was only meant to be an intersection You kept fear of death in a a back pocket of your jeans In the palm of your hand affection It came like a sudden gust of wind Leaving them, bewildered, to ask how I recall last time we met you said we'd meet again The irony is only bitter now These days everyone cries, "say uncle" They want to touch your spirit lest it die For this your sons and widow gather with us at the table To form a healing circle for our new demise These days everyone cries, "say uncle" I retrieve the memories quickly as I can Add them to the portrait we all draw in our minds Your body gone, we shall keep the man I close my eyes and hope they do not fade These remnants of a voice and of a smile Images of landscape cloaked in forest green Like your life unfolding mile by mile A fierce embrace, a word of thanks A cheerful whistle and hours in a van Somehow these pieces must bring back the man you were Though the ocean claims your ashes on the sand These days everyone cries, "say uncle" They want to touch your spirit lest it die For this your sons and widow gather with us at the table To form a healing circle for our new demise These days everyone cries, "say uncle" I retrieve the memories quickly as I can Add them to the portrait we all draw in our minds Your body gone, we shall keep the man (x2) |
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| 7. |
| 4:05 |
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Summer move forward and stitch me the fabric of fall
Wrap life in the brilliance of death to humble us all How sweet is the day I'm craving a darkness As I sit tucked away with my back to the wall And the taste of dried-up hopes in my mouth And the landscape of merry and desperate drought How much longer dear angels Let winterlight come And spread your white sheets over my empty house Summer move forward and leave your heat anchored in dust Forgotten him, cheated him, painted illusions of lust Now language escape, fugitive of forgiveness Leaving as trace only circles of rust And the taste of dried-up hopes in my mouth And the landscape of merry and desperate drought How much longer dear angels Come break me with ice Let the water of calm trickle over my doubts Come let me drown Angels no fire no salt on the plow Carry me down Bury me down And the taste of dried-up hopes in my mouth And the landscape of merry and desperate drought Once I knew myself And with knowing came love I would know love again if I had faith enough Too far is next spring and her jubilant shout So angels, inside Is the only way out |
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| 8. |
| 4:19 |
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I'm at your back door
With the earth of a hundred nations in my skin You wouldn't recognize me For the light in my eyes is strange It was years ago, god knows When you strained to tell me your whole truth That you were not mine to save That you could not change Well, would it be enough to go by If we could sail on the wind in the dark Cut those chains in the middle of the night That had you pulled apart Would it be enough to go by If there's moonlight pulling the tide Would it be enough to live on If my love could keep you alive I've built a lot of castles I've built a lot of blazing speed-of-light machines But it doesn't matter, you know They all crumble in the winds of change So I turned back to breathing I learned a few good reasons to cry And I finally called home Praying you weren't out of range Carry the weight I'll carry the weight of you, I swear Carry the weight I'll carry the weight of you Would it be enough to go by If we could sail on the wind in the dark Cut those chains in the middle of the night That had you pulled apart Would it be enough to go by If there's moonlight pulling the tide Would it be enough to live on If my love could keep you alive So will you let me come in The mosquitoes have found me And they're crowding 'round my blood At least offer me a drink Or a breaking of the ice I'm wanting your anger I only want to see if I can shake you out of sleep And bring you out under this flooded sky At any price So carry the weight Carry the weight of me in your heart Carry the weight Carry the weight of me Would it be enough to go by If we could sail on the wind in the dark Cut those chains in the middle of the night That had you pulled apart Would it be enough to go by If there's moonlight pulling the tide Would it be enough to live on If my love could keep you alive If my love could keep you alive |
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| 3:36 | 
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| 10. |
| 5:08 |
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Strange how you know inside me
I measure the time and I stand amazed Strange how I know inside you My hand is outstretched toward the damp of the haze And of course I forgive I've seen how you live Like a phoenix you rise from the ashes You pick up the pieces And the ghosts in the attic They never quite leave And of course I forgive You've seen how I live I've got darkness and fears to appease My voices and analogies Ambitions like ribbons Worn bright on my sleeve Strange how we know each other Strange how I fit into you There's a distance erased with the greatest of ease Strange how you fit into me A gentle warmth filling the deepest of needs And with each passing day The stories we say Draw us tighter into our addiction Confirm our conviction That some kind of miracle Passed on our heads And how I am sure Like never before Of my reasons for defying reason Embracing the seasons We dance through the colors Both followed and led Strange how we fit each other Strange how certain the journey Time unfolds the petals for our eyes to see Strange how this journey's hurting In ways we accept as part of fate's decree So we just hold on fast Acknowledge the past As lessons exquisitely crafted Painstakingly drafted To carve us as instruments That play the music of life For we don't realize Our faith in the prize Unless it's been somehow elusive How swiftly we choose it The sacred simplicity Of you at my side |
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| 4:38 |
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Soon, love, soon
Soon, love, soon Soon, love, soon There'll be a fire burning in the temple of our peace Soon, love, soon There'll be a soaring voice for our silent pleas Soon, love, soon We will hold our broken circle and begin to pray Soon, love, soon We will find a black and white in the gray And we will be as one god And we will be as one people (x3) Soon, love, soon We will find illumination in unnatural light Soon, love, soon You will travel a thousand miles without leaving my sight Soon, love, soon We will find we never knew hatred ran so deep Soon, love, soon Such a wide, wide chasm of faith to leap But we will be as one god And we will be as one people (x3) Soon, love, soon There will be an evolution of the human soul Soon, love, soon We will know that be a part is to be truly whole Soon, love, soon We will know the pattern of centuries rise and fall Soon, love, soon We will know that the fate of one is the fate of all And we will be as one god And we will be as one people (x7) |
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| 3:53 |
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| 13. |
| 4:59 |
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Once when I was thirty-one
I woke in the dead of night And heard the vastness of the snowfall outside Slipped downstairs in my bare feet Soon forgotten freezing And poured a milk glass full To wait out the tide Been a decade and one Been a decade and one my friends A decade and one Since I... As the white went down I thought of the child upstairs I thought of the God upstairs That I couldn't believe I thought of the chosen man Asleep on his side of the bed How green becomes wood In a family tree Been a decade and one Been a decade and one so soon A decade and one Since I stood So proud And so unsure Ebony glowing by the window there As always Fingers kissed the keys oh so tenderly Cool ivory returned in kind I thought of anger and adulation And the taste of dreams realized And the waste dreams realized leave behind A decade and one A decade and one I said out loud A decade and one And I am here And I am here still standing |
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