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Winterlight
03:43
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They're clearer to you in the morning; all the reasons to run. Swirling around like ghosts, they make you pick up and want to leave. Maybe you're just insane. You don't know. You can't say.
Listening in to the gradual light, you'll know all about your pain. You will break it down. You will be made strong. You will made clean, like winterlight.
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You and I; I was looking for something. Didn't have a name for it; couldn't let it in.
It must have hurt you as you learned that I didn't know what love is. At the bottom of my soul, just call me a reporter. You know I need the record, and I'll finally let it in. I know now.
You were right, I didn't have a good reason that I was afraid of your company and love.
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Away Away
03:22
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You've heard it all today. What you didn't give, they just took away, and told you you're nothing but useless. You know what it's like to hurt. You felt it inflicted and now you've touched the burn. You're scared it's all nothing but useless.
But you'll prove wrong the fates. You'll be in motion when the grid locks. And all the gods and every saint have nothing on the miracles you'll achieve. When you rise to meet the waves, no, they won't take you away.
You'll make it out today. All the hurt inside just falls away, and your worry that you're young and useless.
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Up In Flames
03:31
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No one talks. They're feeling crazy. Not a word, not a single thing. I'll be off the hook in the undercurrent. On my knees, I'm gonna sing.
Up in flames in the undercurrent; nothing but space there inside, where the lies all used to be. Up in flames in the undercurrent; here at the edge of night where the fire is running free as the world goes up in flames; we've got a lot left to burn.
The cracks don't show. We don't want down yet. Don't look at the pain when you're pushing it out.
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Gods and Saints
01:41
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All the gods and saints turn their eyes and look away from the pieces and parts and the lay down and die you repeat in your mind, like a child in fear because it's so high up with no way down to the solid ground, except to fall.
No, you don't want to fall. You want something in the way; the scope of mercy and powerful saints. There are so many here with nothing and no one.
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Catching Rain
04:40
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Sometimes you pledge your love. Sometimes there's none to give. People always promise always and forever and we never learn.
I'm a gutter for a flower; true love for an unbeliever. You know there's no one like you, guessing if it's love or pain. It's like catching rain.
Somehow you stole the day. In some ways, the feeling's true. You took the beauty from the sky and you shook me like the thunder, no wonder you made me
My body and my soul are quietly reminding me they won't live long without you. I almost called to find you. I drove into the valley; passed into that recurrent dream to see if I could catch the rain.
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Lightning
04:03
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We've been off the call for a while. I just can't put my phone down yet. All my love is somewhere on the other end. Your smile lights up the dark.
It shines on me like lightning. You break open my heart like lightning.
My anxious heart; my casual reaction in the light of day and the darkest night. Come on, come on, split-second white light. Smile on me again.
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Constellations
03:25
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You know it's alright now. Come on out of hiding. I'll put my hand on your heart and tell you that it's beating.
You know I'm going to love you until the stars are all done shining and we're pouring out our hearts, standing in the failing light, and the constellations change; they begin to lose their shapes, and everything about yourself that you loved begins to fade.
When you look up at the sky and you point out at the stars, maybe there's one to bring you hope. It better not be far.
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All the stores and lights behind me, I'll drive onto the road, put more force into my pedal, signal and feel I am finally going. Going to my freedom. Going someplace warm.
Come on, let's hit the road. Come on, let's go. The earth and sky gonna last forever. And so will you, and so will I.
He'll take his time with the dreams inside us; waits for them to talk. They want to tell the truth, that the love they have is all for you, God.
"Ashes to ashes, dust to dust," is what they say.
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Bonus (Winterlight)
03:54
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Madonna
03:51
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Remember the blue where I spoke with you to your mothers and fathers? I’m dead in my tracks and I’m head over heels, with a heart attack lasting for years and for years. I know you think I can’t set you free and open up your heart to hear it sing.
But if I had your right here, if I had you right here; if you’d respond to my love, babe; you’d be my Madonna, babe.
I’m tired of this and I’m ready to move and I think if you were ready you would tell me to. When apologies are parading by, and there’s nothing you can do about it but cry, come to me. Don’t take it from anyone that you’re not incredible. You are incredible.
You remember the blue? You’re the comfort, the clouds, the image, the night.
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The Fur Trade
Singer/songwriter from Janesville, WI
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