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Young
03:59
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ten years from now
you’ll be so far away
I will laugh at the distance
but still I’ll wish you’d stayed
and I was only a girl
living in the hopes for a bigger world
but the seasons change
so we can grow
you tell me down by the water’s edge
I would see the girl I thought I’d met
when she was young
and not afraid to love
and that her laugh was a song she'd sung
to let her braided hair come undone
and that the waves
whispered her name
and twenty years ago
I was the ground’s distant hope
a question yet unanswered
a page of the unknown
and children’s dreams live on streets
filled with light and paved with gold
but they always learn to change
as we grow
you tell me down by the water’s edge
I would see the girl I thought I’d met
when she was young
and not afraid to love
and that her laugh was a song she'd sung
to let her braided hair come undone
and that the waves
whispered her name
we are only young once
a bitter face and broken love
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2. |
Man in the Moon
03:22
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have you ever
looked down to see
the light you shine upon us?
where would we
be without you
oh, man in the moon
you light the way for us to find
the trails that lead before us
as we clamber and crawl
towards the false center
you get us through the night
and pull our oceans
in to tides
but still, always content
to be known as
the lesser light
you light the way for us to find
the trails that lead before us
as we clamber and crawl
towards the false center
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3. |
Empty
03:12
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I was a book on your shelf
I was part of yourself
you couldn’t find the will to sell
you were somebody else
you were silence I felt
in a cold winter’s hell
I was a lie that you told
to feel less alone
I was a name you did not know
I was a poem that you wrote
with the same hands that hold
the words you broke
and I found myself empty all I had once believed
and you let me hold on for so long to something
you knew was not there
you were rules for a game
you never told me to play
they say that people change
but you saw on my face
all the trust that we had made
slowly slip away
and I found myself empty all I had once believed
and you let me hold on for so long to something
you knew was not there
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4. |
The Well
03:24
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the children follow you down
to the broken well
where the water runs deep
and they can see themselves
currents morph lines
into faces they can recognize
and the eyes in the well
belong to no one else
a stone thrown
could break the spell
but hands are at their sides
silent and still
only those with broken homes
can find the well
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5. |
The Wolves
02:58
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you broke into my house
and made me out to be
a wolf in child’s clothes
bearing down on lovers’ homes
so break me down and write
all of the poems you left at your bedside tonight
‘cause I am mother’s coal
in a fool’s hat, inside her home
I left her and ran for help
but there was no one else
and I was 16 deep in a pool of her blood
when you gave me a box sewn shut
so take me back to the woods
so I can live where I once came from
where honor will fight to its death
and secrets will bleed themselves red
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6. |
Had to Hold
04:27
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I’ll visit you when the air turns crisp
right before the snow comes down
when all our town is silent, waiting for the sound
of someone once far now near
the quiet cold, the still wind, alone
I will sing songs you know
of simple times and letters we once wrote
of everything you once had to hold
I’ll think of the time that was taken away
hands in my pockets, I have nothing left to say
but am I holding on to something that was never intended for me
still, I refuse to believe in those meant not to be
the quiet cold, the still wind, alone
I will sing songs you know
of simple times and letters we once wrote
of everything you once had to hold
I’ll visit you when the air turns crisp
right before the snow comes down
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7. |
Down Low
02:34
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down low
you have my mother’s eyes you know
I wrote you a letter
left it in the pocket of your coat
but it’s been months since it snowed
so I will have gone before you know
turns out I’m better off alone
don’t write
you were a beggar with a coin
and time was disguised
as if it were nickel and dime
so I could never change your mind
listen to the wind
feel my voice inside your hand
holding on to what we thought we meant
and saving what we left unsaid
but soon we will forget
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downtown
where the city lights live
his name is forgotten
in downtown
and sometimes
it is not the right time
to be found
to know yourself
so when i have a song i’ll sing it
but time is short and words are fleeting
so i move amongst the homes i made for myself
and you have
waltzed as a loamless man
on red carpet sidewalks
and an old park bench
so don’t
cling to your poems
just pull hard and fast and then
let them go
so when i have a song i’ll sing it
but time is short and words are fleeting
so i move amongst the homes i made for myself
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11. |
Winter
02:34
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12. |
Salt Lake
03:57
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you were a young boy
when they gave you your name
now that you’re older
it’s just a mistake
I have been dreaming
of your mother’s place
right off the highway
and the great salt lake
so tell me I’m young
oh I’m older too
I’ve always been chasing
the man in the moon
you had your last chance
to name me true
I’ll keep on dancing
it’s all I can do
it seems like these days
I don’t know my own face
the eyes in the mirror
they look to the side while I’m staring straight
and I hear him calling
for the ghost of my youth
for days afterward, I think that I’m her
can’t put on my shoes
so tell me he’s wrong
and I will forgive you
for the night I spent pointing
you never looked at the moon
so I just won’t ask them
to see him too
if I give away nothing
there’s nothing to lose
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13. |
Utah
03:49
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temple grounds
were a serious place
I left you all alone
needed time to think
but I know that I am the one for you
tomorrow
and I think you know
that you’re always on my mind
but I let you go
didn’t I think I would but
I’ve been dreaming on my own
and I’m thinking I’ll go
you’ll forget my name and
I’ll know that I’m alone
mountain drives
give us time to wait
thought I knew you then
too young to make mistakes
but I know that I need to go on without you
tomorrow
and I think you’ve known
that I need to be on my own
here’s our dreaming-of
but I leave you honest
‘cause I’m sinking on the road
but I’ll tell you
what I left you for was
a dream I couldn’t have known
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