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Blew To Me
04:08
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Clouds are real
The sun is high
Rain is true
Water falls
I can see
Through your eyes
Fields are gray
The sky is white
It blew to me
The sky through the trees
Leaning through
The rolling wind
Reeling down
With soaring wings
It blew to me
The thunder in the trees
The muscles in my legs are threatening to leap
The hollow bones in my arms
Are lightening to wings
Clouds are real
The sun is high
Rain is true
Water falls
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2. |
I Walked Out
03:46
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I walked out on you
Closed the door behind me
Cries faded to sighs
This much is true…
All said and done
You were the one
To chose to be
Always free
Summer sun and autumn bring
Winter snow and springtime rain
None can change what I must face alone
I walked out
I walked out
I came back for you
Tried your door and cried out loud
Spied a shift in the window shade
The wind blows…
All said and done
We were the two
To choose to be
Always free
Summer sun and autumn bring
Winter snow and springtime rain
I can't change; I can't take it back
I walked out
I walked out
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3. |
Post Post Modern Man
02:43
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I figured it out – up is down
What once was old is young again now
I’m a physical man in a spiritual world
A modern man in a post-modern world
I’m a post-post modernist man
In a post-post-post-modernist world
I’m a post-post-post-modernist man
In a post-post-post-post-modernist world
That is one heck of a gain
One whale of an oil stain
Here comes that cola train!
Over and over... and over again
A mechanical man in an electrical world
I’m a space age man in a digital world
A windblown man in a static world
I’m a solar-powered man in a nuclear world
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4. |
Candy Ass
03:39
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I was born between falling stars
Our bothers, preachers and bootleggers sons
Oh, it hurt when they fell
I was so small I hardly knew
They came to do good and did well
My father, he liked his things
Mother loved to sing
Brother mastered his art
Sister knew how to party
Everyone's happy in Spring
It never rains
No, it never rains on my birthday
The sun always shines
It never rains
All through the years
Oh so many tears
Love come and gone
Hoping for better days
Sometimes there's even parades
It never rains
No, it never rains on my birthday
The sun always shines
It never rains
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6. |
I'll Hold You Up
03:26
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Brand New Piercing
02:12
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Guys Like Girls
02:25
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Stay
04:59
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So True, So What
01:51
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When I think of all the things you said to me
None of them are lies, you vow
I don’t believe you
So true, so what
I don’t need your words
Here come the wise all garbled up in roses
Ruling all the fools, you bow
It’s your only world
So true, so what
I don’t heed your words
For all those things you did to me, you still think
You were being kind, somehow
Now I forgive you
So true, so what
Read between the lines
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11. |
We
02:13
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You're not me
He's not she and
We're not you and
I'm not we
She's not he
You're not she and
He's not you
I'm not she's and you're not me
We're not you nor can I be
But both we are we
You're not me and he's not she
All of us are we
She's not he
You're not she and
You're not me; he's not she
All of us are we
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12. |
Every Day Is Today
04:29
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Tires screech as we turn
Round the bend
Wind blows cold
Glass is blurred, crashes heard
All we see
Rain falls
CHORUS:
Every day is today
I don’t know what to say
Tomorrow is another day
I’ll know when
Tomorrow is today
However then
I won’t have much to say about today
Forest fire
California noon
Wind blows more
With every moon
Grass is burned, seasons turn
All we see
Rain fails
CHORUS
Another Day
All we need
You and me
Wind, blow home
Lasting thirst, clouds return
All we see
Rainfall
CHORUS
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13. |
Half Assed
01:34
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Woulda Coulda Shoulda
02:41
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As Is
02:13
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Warm as to cold
Is
Cool as to hot
Dark as to warm
Is
Bright as to dim
Play as to win
Is
Try so to do
As
Is was to as
Is
Shall was to will
Eyes as to hide
Is
See as to shade
Deep as to wide
Is
Wise is to dive
Play as to win
Is
Try so to do
As
Is was to as
Is
Shall was to will
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16. |
Yeah Oh Yeah
03:18
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17. |
Green And Blue And White
02:52
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Green and blue and white
Colors of summertime
Sun through the vine
Leaves clouds between
It glows
Crickets bees and butterflies
Click and buzz in silent rhyme
Keeping time
It flows
The air is clear, the wind reborn
The sun is warm, it's all right here
Yellow black and blue
Color of the sky at night
Moon through the vines
Leaves stars between
It glows
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18. |
So Long
01:22
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I met a girl and we travelled the world
The letters that we wrote formed the words in the notes
That we sent to our friends in the Northern Michigans
It came and it went; the time it was spent
So long gone, so long gone
Skin is tender
So long gone, so long gone
On a bender now
We met a man and he sold us a plan
With a little patch of dirt, and some smiles and some We could live and elate, but she wouldn’t cultivate.
Seeds that were sown, crops that we’d grown
So long gone, so long gone
Soil is fallow
So long gone, so long gone
Chase the sparrow’s path
Not good or bad, just the time that we had
I reckon that it stung
But the change it had brung
Well it’s good
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