1. |
solid wood
05:13
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Solid Wood
You hush my baby
You are my lady
Forgive my failure
You are my savior
Looks like-had enough
My fault-falling down
Sounds like-mockingbird
Calling-from above
Some days my head is solid wood
I wish my boat was solid wood
Too much belabor
Do us a favor-darlin' please
Forgive your failure
My heart enslaver
Looks like-in for love
My cup- filling up
Sounds like-katydid
Singing-like she was
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2. |
muddy waters
06:27
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Muddy Waters
Don’t it take you back
Don’t it take a shine
Would that we could ride
Into better climes
I don’t feel no shame
I am just the same as anyone
Up in this town
Holding on to something
That I only hope
Doesn’t take anyone down
We be not afraid
It is but the same
We all have our feet on the ground
Try and take the bad time-flip it into good
Tell me now how does it sound
Oh muddy waters
Stayin’ on lo-fi
Oh muddy waters
Free Friday nights
Bake another bread
Make just what you like
Mix it up with salt
Leaven it with right
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3. |
on the ocean
04:14
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On The Ocean
The light diffused through the trees
Remembering me I should wait
And always was a goal
And always was a lie
My soul belongs to the ground that I roll on
And the sun-always struck me dumb
Always stuck
These are the days-waning on the ocean
Blinded by hours-waning on the ocean
Your tone entirely beneath
What I would call brotherman
And I can’t let it in
And I can’t let it out
Shown up and do what you will
Been a long time so it was
Everything I broke was everything
It’s coming through like a sound
Pulling me up from a dream
And it was all the same
And it was something new
I chose a path of my own
Couldn’t have been any worse
Had it chose me instead
It chose me
It showed me
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4. |
easier now
04:14
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Easier Now
It’s easier now by the hour
As I lay down low into the sea
As hard as we try middling
Couldn’t get around wanting you so
Something you said resonated
Life until now-was it real
Our middle name by persuasion
Is diamond in the rough
Won’t you agree
Can you imagine where it’s at
We couldn’t be much closer now
Truth droppin’ in our loving cup
Baby fill me up-if you please
Can’t tell you enough I’m about
Holding it up for you can see
When I can walk into my own
I’m staying here where I’m to be
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5. |
the sick & the righteous
05:33
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The Sick & The Righteous
Please don’t leave
Gone like everyday
My disease is a game in a way
They-they’d do anything until
When you really need
You wont remember
The sick and the righteous
We're getting better
And we forget
They wont stay-high like everyday
My own way-is a man in a frame
Fear-take me by the hand
And show-show me how to lead
You won't remember
Breathe low and sideways
This world is so righteous
This here is our sick world
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6. |
holler
04:21
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Holler
Got a mindful-mindful
And I can save it-save it
I can do no worse
I can holler-holler
And there’s a siren calling
Claiming Imma burst
Gotta move a mountain and it’s me
And I’m tellin’-tellin’ you
This I will do first
Now I gotta holler-holler
I’m in need of all my forces gathering
Enemies-my eyes they surely work
And I can see lord-honestly
Am I hotter-hotter
And I can taste it-taste it
I can take your worst
I’m a voodoo chile
Come cast your spell and I believe it
Leave it-you know there’s nothing
Here to sell
Now I gotta holler-holler
Like Vesuvius
Once a king-I’ve fallen to my knees
And I’m in need lord-honestly
Hotter-hotter
There’s a siren calling-evermore
Holler-holler
I can take it-take it nevermore
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7. |
blues for bricktop
04:56
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Blues For Bricktop
I watched the sunflower sleeping
I knew that you were keeping
Light upon the maze surrounding
High above it all she's dreaming of
Hallelujahs
You knew just how to turn
A thorn into a rose
Pixie stick to your sweetness
Fill it within complete this
Work ourselves around assumption
Surely it will bring us something good
All is as it should
You knew...
A minute more a million less
And what now is is not
A southern squall-a northern gust
High above it all
High above
Show me the word namaste
Practice what I try to say
Roundabout if nothing else dear
Let it be if something is enough
Whistle while our love
You knew...
Come on-yeah
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8. |
little tighter
05:28
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Little Tighter
Once in awhile-you can turn a page
And it falls away
There you were all the time
Come up for air and get serious
About not drowning
What will you find-with an open eye
When it’s turned inside
It should happen to us
Get back and check it when it’s coming on
High in the night
Roll a little tighter
You control the ends and the means to say
Mad at it all I’m enabling why you be that way
Was it something I thought
Hey love I’m certainly weary of trouble and I’m
In on the tide of a mercy moon
In the month of may
Would you marry the same
This life ain’t nothin’ if it isn’t as
Deep as it’s wide
Once in a while-you can hear the call
You can let it all-mean whatever you want
So you’re prayed up
But can you take it with you
Or do you send it along
Roll a little tighter
Say what you mean
You got the means to say
You control the ends
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9. |
flagstaff
04:47
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Flagstaff
If I was a fisherman
I sure need the water
Isn’t it only right
If I was a carpenter
I sure need the mortar
Isn’t it...
If I was a guitar man
I sure need a preacher
Isn’t…
If I was your lover baby
I sure need the cover
Isn’t…
Could we be something so fine
Something we could wave
Up high
And yet still be free
And I can count on a single hand
Everything I’m sure of
Isn’t…
And I can’t give you an answer when
You know what you’re made of
Isn’t…
I’m living up to the better man
I know that I’m able
Isn’t…
And we are all deserving of
Our seat at the table
Isn’t it only right
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10. |
be the mother
04:40
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Be The Mother
Suit yourself-I know to some extent we’re
On a shelf- adrift like continental
Little else-can come from he said she said
I need help-and who was listening at all
Send out your residue
It’s on you
Tick and talk-about the same old story
Goldilock-she always liked the middle
Path to pen-cil in another answer
You can’t win
And that’s one we can live without
You can be the mother that you are
You can be the father of them all
Send out your sunlight-you ain’t right
Ditch the air-for being so damn agreeable
If we dared-we wouldn’t be with it at all
Give out the giving in-all I’m sayin’
Keep it strong
Natural
You can be
What you are
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11. |
you ain't changed
03:50
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You Ain’t Changed
It’s a bitter fruit
A benefactor of
and it’s apples and oranges
Not still life
I cauterized-what could’ve
Gone insane
And I stumbled into a man who said
There’s a condition
There’s always conditions
(chant a psalm a day)
The game plays on
And you ain’t changed
Now consider this considerately more
In a word I can sum it up just fine
There’s a turnaround
And there we are again
And the world is alright just jump right in
There’s a dimension
To add to my tension
Ain’t no silver lining
All we have is what we do and say
Ain’t too proud to need you
Ain’t enough to pick it up
And do it over again
Feel myself surrounded
Turn it off so I can go some more
Does it have to be so fleeting
Now it’s back to pick it up
And do it over again
Does it coincide or correlate with you
Was a medicine ball I took in stride
Another somersault
Another summer without us
And I couldn’t begin to make it tight
To put out the fire
Now we walked a wire
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12. |
meanwhile
05:42
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Meanwhile
When she comes to me
She comes with everything
When she calls my name
She knows just who I am
When I break the chain
You hold the ends for me
When I turn away
You ask for faith in us
An innocent mind you are
And all in do time we walk
Takes away-takes away
What are we to do in the meanwhile
The golden age is gone
Wrapped up in tinfoil
On a misty morn
You are my vision
In that certain way
She comes with everything
When she pulls away
Blown into pieces
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