1. |
Flower Seeds
02:49
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They'll know you when they see you
your dearest ones are always
right here
don't worry
Of course there's joy in comfort
but you're riding the edge of the fire
just fine
don't worry
Someday we'll all be flower seeds
I'm sorry if I ever called you crazy
or was it you saying it to me?
You always look at the clouds
I always look at the ground
it's between
without a sound
and I'll meet you out on the patio
we'll talk just like
it was years ago
a face I know
Someday we'll all be flower seeds
I'm sorry if I ever called you crazy
you know you're dear to me
Little sacred heart
I'll hold you in my arms
I'll hold you in my arms
my little sacred heart
There must be something we do right
you find your way through the forest
just fine
nearly every time
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2. |
K'un / The Receptive
03:33
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It's always harder in the winter
to keep your head above water
we'll never get this land back the way that it was
and I've always been a dull and facile daughter
Crows are cheap, you find them everywhere
I said I would abide it so I will
things we should have grown out of by now
I was too grateful, too grateful
it turned away
Now I've got all this love
for all the bright and difficult suns (sons)
of this planet
keeping alive this planet
I heard someone singing someone singing
I said I would abide so I did
things we should have grown out of by now
it was too raw, too unbroken, and it burned away
I'll stand here and listen at the doorway
I said I would abide it as long as it takes
and maybe could have held my breath for longer
but still grateful, too damn grateful, too burned away
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3. |
After the Crash
04:11
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Bruised eye, I remember you
walking under clouds
gray, and barely over the trees
Knowing what was coming
no words worth saying
bare, and unmoving
It puts itself together, it pulls itself apart
It puts itself together, it pulls itself apart
A room with walls again
the world's lost the shape
I'd only barely learned it could take
After the crash
but before the bills came due
I still would walk sometimes with you
It puts itself together, it pulls itself apart
It puts itself together, it pulls itself apart
We grew up from the ground with our movements all tied
to the spheres in the sky by wire
and we dance for a while down the length of the style
with our anthers dusting the wind
oh, what little hope
oh, how modest in depth and scope
balanced here, on this tightrope
We'll find that field again, maybe sometime soon
I'm thinking May or June
we'll lay on our backs,
watch the formless sky
turn in, fold, and ply
It puts itself together, it pulls itself apart
It puts itself together, it pulls itself apart
It puts itself together, it pulls itself apart
It puts itself together, it pulls itself apart
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4. |
Bridge at Arles
02:31
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Forgive me, love
I couldn't have done
better
at the time
with what was mine
Tell me now
is this the action of the plow
that rips the earth to set the seed
for the grain to reach the sheaves
And the thing
you gave to me
I dropped it off the bridge
accidentally
And the thought of it
under the water
I screamed like a phantom
nearly went in after
What's done is done
hard as stone
won't be undersold
can't be overthrown
So forgive me, love
if the warmth of your touch
wasn't enough
nothing was
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5. |
No Heaven
03:04
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They just finished the mowing
I expect you'll be coming for me soon
hear the wind in the trees at night and I know it's you
There's no heaven I know of
there isn't even a turnout lane
what I thought I was serving was love
But it never was to bring them comfort
never was to keep them safe
just open-handed begging at the gate
I, your scholar, waiting on your word
though perhaps you've turned and I'll remain
unlearned
How the stars have shattered
leaving no boon
I guess I wrote it too soon
What of the themes of work and harvest
and of getting what you need when you need it
maybe i'm still sick
I still feel it
Oh I ain't got no use for your red rocking chair
ain't got no baby now
Oh I ain't got no use for your red rocking chair
ain't got no baby now
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6. |
Be Willing to Go
01:12
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Gave the wrong answers
for all the education, I'm still here
still here
But be willing
to go
where called
that's all
Yes, be willing
to go
where called
that's all
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7. |
Pour les Pèlerins
03:43
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It is, no matter what
no matter what you do
nothing can separate
my love from you
Don't strain to sort it out
make the message true
it's been a hard enough
few years for you
Hold the hands
of those you find dear
it wasn't ever born and
doesn't disappear
And all the trains you boarded
all the lines you've thrown
innocent in all this longing
wanting to be shown
It is, no matter what
no matter what you do
paid a cent to light a candle
Notre-Dame de Chartres Cathedral
The lines are in their places
trains bringing you home
broken heart now sanctified
worn down to the bone
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Little spider crawling on the floor
will it ever be like it was before
heading sure
It's so raw it breaks the skin
all the time we waited to begin
get permission
But it's heading up the wire
this anarchist desire I'm drowning in
I'll help you check out of the hospital
back to the walls that know you best of all
hear your footfall
'Cause i too have been marooned on shores
where what I'd planned is not what they had in store
what are you in for
This body is a maze
ten hundred thousand days
to find the core
This body is a maze
ten hundred thousand days
to find the core
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9. |
It Don't Have a Name
03:33
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Woke up tied up
waiting for someone more free with their words to come
and take what I don't hide well enough
and dig it up
It don't have a name
in fact it has less of a name than it used to
But one thing you don't have to be
is ever afraid of me
'Cause it's dark enough as it is here
dark enough as it is here
Maybe it's not what I think
but it's like we're riding around with the lights off
it changes so suddenly
you're spinning around
then you're flipped upside down
You're a treasure, a treasure, a treasure
you're an angel, a satvic, a kite
your accidents kick at the embers
scatter and stir up the heat and the light
and God knows how cold it can be here
God knows how cold it can be here
Let's go down to the river
spend the autumn in the forest
where we'll sigh and cast off
in chorus
we know the signs and the markers
and can follow them in darkness
while the river and the willows
pull their hearts into the earth
Old brothers call me
but they're not the sun, and I'm not the sea
the water floating on the air
we didn't put it there
Sand or blacktop
the overpass is over-wrought
they'll take what we don't learn well enough
and bring it up
they'll take what we don't learn well enough
and bring it up
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10. |
Along Rivers
02:55
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Your home is bones
along rivers and roads
you drove it with
your eyes closed
The wall that held
the water back
with freeze and thaw
began to crack
And here I'm finding one more place it's not
Where the mirror on the water of the skies
belies a depth it can never achieve
perhaps without intent to deceive
But maybe never knowing it's true shores
boasting, over-filled, and over sides it pours
It's sublime how it lined it up
to help me break the stones apart
silent as the moonlight
and laid down from the start
They said you'd bury me
along with the others
you'd bury me
along with the others
Your home is bones
along rivers and roads
you drove it with your eyes closed
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11. |
Lia-bird
01:39
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You act like it's the enemy
there is no enemy
you push away at everything
there's no need there's no need there's no need there's no need
You act like it's the enemy
there is no enemy
unfasten all your fastenings
and see and see and see and see
What will come to you
the Lia-bird
what will come to you
the kindred
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