1. |
I Took A Risk
04:22
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Left home today
Now I'm in an unfamiliar place
Not sure what I'm looking for
Or where I'll come to be
But I fought this off
For far too long
Couldn't stand to stay here
For another day
I took a risk
It was for the best… I think
Got a way of losing my way
Inside my head I'm losing conviction
Always end up spinning
Til nothing's clear anymore
All a blur anymore
Now I'm standing on
The edge of it
But what 'it' is I can't quite grip
In a world unknown
Will I free-fall or fly?
Is this my childhood dream
Come to life?
Me, alone on land,
I'm in a sea of sand
I'm stuck here standing still
And I'm nothing but a name
Got a way of losing my way
Inside my head. I'm losing conviction
Always end up spinning
Til nothing's clear anymore
All a blur anymore
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2. |
Inside My Mind
03:42
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Inside my mind
It is buzzing
Just a
Sort of constant drone
Enough to keep my head
From focusing
On anything but you
But even that as a topic
Does not
Quiet the noise
Because it
Goes nowhere, it goes nowhere
And it’s a waste of my time
It’s a waste of my mind
It’s a waste of this line
Inside my world
I am walking
All along the edges hoping that I’ll
Run into you by
Chance without trying
So I won’t have to show that
It matters to me
When it’s been all of twenty
Days since we last spoke
But my world is too small
I don’t
See you at all
And I wish I didn’t have to
Give up the dream
I wish I didn’t have to
Hide what I mean
When I say that
I wish that the timing had been..
can't seem to
I wish I
could keep
the noise down
that I could
keep my thoughts
from running wild
from drowning out
the
quiet
quiet
I want to hear nothing
hear the music
of nothing
I wish that the timing had been..
Been…
Been…
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3. |
Without You
04:40
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I wanna grow greener and brighter
I wanna be better, go further together
When I see the lightness in your eyes
I can see futures where this love never dies
But I’ve seen those eyes turn grey
I’ve seen that lifeless gaze
When you’re not okay
Without you I wither, without you I fade
Without you I’m half dead in the land of the living
Without you I spiral, without you I spin
Without you I just might cave in
Cuz baby if you’re a dying sun, then I’m a dying planet
In your system
When I see the light leaving your eyes
Matter of time till I lose sight of the why’s
But don’t call it dysfunction (commitment)
Maybe our own ecosystem or co-orbit
If you fall, I will falter
If you want, I will be there
Isn’t that a pair?
Without you I wither, without you I fade
Without you I’m half dead in the land of the living
Without you I spiral, without you I spin
Without you I just might cave in
Without you I wither, without you I fade
Without you I’m half dead in the land of the living
Without you I spiral, without you I spin
Without you I just might cave in
Cuz baby if you’re a dying sun, then I’m a dying planet
In your system
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4. |
No Proof
04:28
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When I tell you to 'hang in there' there's less behind that phrase
Than there ever used to be before
I've been running low on answers for a long time
I can learn to live with questions
But the questions pile up
It's getting heavy on my shrugging shoulders
I don't have any proof
But I need it to be something that I know
When you tell me this can't go on forever
Well I couldn't agree more
You're afraid of the end, I don't blame you, but this ain't then
We can make a list of absolutes
You can point to evidence
And while you wait for a verdict, I'll claim a victory
I don't have any proof
But you'll take nothing less than factual nonsense
When we've been at this same-old-same discussion
For the 100th time this year
I get dizzy from the cyclical motion
Aren't you restless with the pattern?
Aren't you tired of hanging on
To a lifelong supposed biblical notion?
I don't have any proof
But then neither do you, so let's get on with it
No proof that it will be okay
No proof that it will get better
No proof that you even love me
No proof anyone is up there
No proof that we'll stay together
No proof that you will be happier
No proof that the worst is over
No proof that the worst will happen
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5. |
What We Leave Behind
04:11
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I heard you're doing battle again
In a war that should be long over
They say the rain falls on everyone
But always harder on a few
And I guess that that means you
You know that you have got the strength
You hear it all the time
I'm just the last in that long line
There's nothing I can do to undo this
There's nothing I can offer to ease it
If everything they say is the truth, then love
Is what we leave behind at the end
So I'm sending you love
I seem to get the blow by blow
I see the punch, then your blood starts to flow
It spills into puddles that spell out words and ask for explanation
Why your blood and why not mine?
Why is this happening again?
Life is short for anyone and framed with so much suffering
There's nothing I can do to undo this
There's nothing I can offer to ease it
If everything they say is the truth, then love
Is what we leave behind at the end
So I'm sending you love
There's nothing I can do to undo this
There's nothing I can offer to ease it
If everything they say is the truth, then love
Is what we leave behind at the end
So I'm sending you love
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6. |
Best I Can Believe
04:09
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Pink flashes in a darkening sky
Hot summer electric night
Means more light than I am used to
These short nights wear me down
Longer days keep me wound up
Wondering where you got to
The cold sting of no goodbye
An exit with no reason why
How many times do I need to say I love you?
How many lines must I write before you know it’s true?
Did you really think I wouldn’t mind?
That’s the best I can believe
About you
I stare straight out into the wild
This light show has me beguiled
Each colourful flash brings me back to you
The sharp pang of knowing life
Moves on whether or not I’m by your side
How many times do I need to say I love you?
How many lines must I write before you know it’s true?
Did you really think I wouldn’t mind?
That’s the best I can believe
About you
So many years spent on this
They can’t mean nothing
I don’t know what I did but please just say
That I’m forgiven
It’s the best thing I could hear from you
How many times do I need to say I love you?
How many lines must I write before you know it’s true?
Did you think I wouldn’t mind? Come on, wouldn’t you?
But that’s the best I can believe
About you
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7. |
Fight Your Dark
03:22
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You know that you weren’t in my plans here
I never saw it working
But lately I’ve been up nights
Wondering how you are and how you’ll be
Staring at my ceiling
Thinking of the things you said to me
You say that you’re all on your own here
You’ve got no one to hold you
Your words are breaking up
My stone heart
I guess I won’t be leaving you alone
To fight your dark
I’d been bitter for a long time
I’d been indifferent for a long while
You said some things that hurt me
And I never thought I’d see you at my door
Now you’re crying on my couch
Asking what it’s all been for
You say that you’re all on your own here
You’ve got no one to hold you
Your words are breaking up
My stone heart
I guess I won’t be leaving you alone
To fight your dark
Every time you show up
You send me reeling
Tables turned, now I learn
You know the feeling
It’s a beginning
You say that you’re all on your own here
You’ve got no one to hold you
Your words are breaking up
My stone heart
I guess I won’t be leaving you alone
To fight your dark
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8. |
Traveller's Grace
04:33
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Take the space that you need
Take all the time, I'll stand aside
And make room for you to breathe
You're one I have known all of my life
That's something to hold onto
I've looked down the path
But not round the bend
That you plan to tread
'Cuz life's a mystery not mathematical
No one can know
How it will all end up
Flashes of fear
I push away, try to have faith
That you'll still be the same
Ok, maybe changed
But still the same heart I've known and loved
Always
Eight years on the road
Wandering round the desert of doubt
Have made your visions tangible
But all through the good, or the darkest of nights
You move through life with Grace
Flashes of fear
You push away, try to have strength
So you'll make it okay
So that you'll find a way back to the place that you call home
One day
Home
Home
I knew that you'd come home one day
I only had to wait
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Nighttime fell hours ago
Black jagged landscape against a sapphire glow
I’m sitting still but somehow moving
Through tunnelled darkness towards moonlight
I guess that means I lost a bet
I owe someone somewhere an un-payable debt
I guess the night has many faces
And some of them must put me through my paces
I’m staring into faces that I don’t know
C’mon look me in the eyes; I need to feel somebody’s soul
I can see you keep your secrets hidden underneath that hat
Won’t you tell me everything about that?
Let’s share another drink to pass the time
I’ll share my whiskey like you shared your wine
Rye smoothes over rougher edges
Of Rocky Mountains and conversations
I measure the weight by rhythm
Hold horizontally for so long
I make it equal by the sound
Stop the pour before you hear this note’s gone
I’m staring into faces that I don’t know
C’mon, look me in the eyes; I need to feel somebody’s soul
I can see you keep your secrets hidden underneath that hat
Won’t you tell me everything about that?
You’re standing on your own two feet
Pretending that you can’t
But if we’re gonna waste the night away
That’s the worst thing to pretend
Pretend you know me well
And that we’ve always been good friends
Just pretend until the night has ended
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10. |
Beauty In The Blue
03:53
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Oh, my bright home
plunged into the night
Bowing beneath
The weight of winter’s plight
In the frigid air a feeling hangs
Of the tension between joy and pain
Oh, my night sky
Flashing green and blue
Giving me glimpses of a world I thought I knew
There are unfamiliar shadows here
Underneath a sky I wish was clear
I never thought I’d wanna see the trees cry
But what’s a few shed tears to a surrender?
I never thought I’d meet you on this side
But darkness has a way of helping us find
A little light
Oh, my blue friend
Warm up here tonight
With the knowledge
That I am on your side
Oh, my night love
Hold me till I’m bright
With the warmth that
You give to me right
Oh, my bright home
Beauty In The Blue
Wait awhile yet
We will make it through
Through the hardship here
We’ll hold on tight
Till the morning comes
And sheds its light
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