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Waking Up
03:43
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Waking Up
(Jon Nolan)
Tell me you’re wasted
Beat up and broken
You’re down in the valley
You’re busted wide open
You’re feeling a feeling
Not so sure of the meaning
Figure what to believe in
You can’t see that you’re grieving
Waking up it feels like — falling down
Waking up it feels like — falling down
Pick up the pieces
The wind is still blowing
It’s hard to move when you’re frozen
It’s hard to know what you’re knowing
You need a connection
To slow down the fear some
Another sensation
A new invitation
Waking up it feels like — falling down
Waking up it feels like — falling down
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2. |
Big Horizon
03:43
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Big Horizon
(Kate Redgate & Jon Nolan)
So tired of making ends
Meet up it don't make sense
I'm always looking over my shoulder
So tired of being broke down
Waiting for my turn to come ‘round
This roulette wheel ain't got my number
Out here on the edge of town
Gotta be some kind of ground…
That I can make up
I need a big horizon…
Coming at me through the windshield
See that road a’rising…
To meet me where my heart is easy
No more broke down affairs
Like a train ain’t going nowhere
So tired of standing in the station
So much for bottom lines
Grey skies are on my mind, but
I can’t keep all those blue skies waiting
Out here on the edge of town
Gotta be some kind of ground...
That I can make up
I need a big horizon…
Coming at me through the windshield
See that road a’rising…
To meet me where my heart is easy
It rained so hard I nearly drowned ain't nothing gonna hold me down
I’ve got a big horizon…
Coming at me through the windshield
See that road a’rising…
To meet me where my heart is easy
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3. |
Climb In The River
04:54
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Climb In The River
(C. Murphy)
We’d go down to the river when summer would come,
Root beer black where the rapids run
And if I’d float on my back where the current was strong, I was fine
But if I decided that I could swim
Like the pickerel darts or the dark eel stings
I’d crash on the rocks, and my head would ring and I’d cry
Climb in the river over the stones
The current will carry us safely I know
Change is coming, come on let’s go
It’s a new day, let go
I remember the time in confession I lied,
It was no big deal, it was just my pride
But to avoid the shame I minimized the truth
And in that room, it was just us three:
The old gray priest, and God, and me
And two of us knew, if not all three, the real truth
Climb in the river over the stones
The current will carry us safely I know
Change is coming, come on let’s go
It’s a new day, let go
And so, you see I share the blame
And you watch me stumble through the changes
But in your eyes the future is clear to me
I walk out into a world unmasked
And I find these stones still in our paths
So, climb on in and on our backs let’s float downstream
Climb in the river over the stones
The current will carry us safely I know
Change is coming, come on let’s go
It’s a new day, let go
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4. |
No Time To Lose
02:58
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Well I woke up early but it still felt late
All I want to do is tell the world to wait
Sink full of dishes and mouths to feed
Work these days has got me on my knees
All I wanna do is get next to you
Now there’s too much to do and no time to lose
Well, once I was a kid and I wanted to roam
Found my mom and dad and I asked for a loan
Now I’ve seen a lot of places but I want you to know
I still haven’t sent that money home
Those were the days I had something to prove
Now there’s too much to do and no time to lose
Now I’m thinking about things that you and I did
Filled up our house with all these kids
Let’s jump in the car I don’t care who drives
Pull onto the shoulder and go for a ride
All I wanna do is get next to you
Now there’s too much to do and no time to lose
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5. |
Look Whatcha Done
03:56
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Look Whatcha Done
(Jon Nolan)
Had my fill of bad faith
Tasted too much ill will
That cold feeling ‘round my heart
I’ve had my fill
Truth stays in the past
Lies follow you around
It’s all sand in the gears
It’s just slowing us down
So down to the truth now
You can’t hear what I say
You see ghosts in the mirror
And I wish it weren’t that way
All of your anger
You ain’t hiding it that well
It’s just the strength of your sickness
It’s a sticky spell
Look whatcha done to the family
See the harm your words cause —--all the hurt that cascades
They wash out the bridges and drown out the union we’d made
Look whatcha done to the family
You’ve loosened all the ties that bind
For all of your bluster, not one word you muster is kind
Not one word is kind
There’s a chasm between us
I ain’t saying that I’m dressed in white
But you’re holding the trigger
In the fading twilight
You’ve been shoveling bad intentions
Like coal into a furnace
Don’t you dare be surprised when it comes back to burn us
Look whatcha done to the family
See the harm your words cause —--all the hurt that cascades
They wash out the bridges and drown out the union we’d made
Look whatcha done to the family
You’ve loosened all the ties that bind
For all of your bluster, not one word you muster is kind
Not one word is kind
Not one word is kind
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6. |
Old Soldier
04:35
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Old Soldier
(C. Murphy)
On a bed you float in a jungle in the dark
On the Mekong Delta underneath the stars
While boys with guns aim at your heart
And you think about your brothers in that Tudor home in Mahwah
Old soldier, here but always gone
Old soldier still off at the war
Old soldier, here but always gone
Old soldier, come home
In a bunkhouse you sit with your Bible and smoke
While the air grows thick with troops, curses, and jokes
You want to share a story but you only share a note
About the language school and the motor pool in that shelter in Seattle
Old soldier, here but always gone
Old soldier still off at the war
Old soldier, here but always gone
Old soldier, come home
You shielded me, I know
From a war that was raging inside my home
If I could… if I could lift that heavy pack
And I’d take off that burden, you could finally come back
Well, you asked me to meet but you never told me why
And I watched your hands shake and you ordered in Thai
And that story that you started you swallowed up inside
And your face looked down and your eyes grew round in that restaurant in Boston
Old soldier, here but always gone
Old soldier still off at the war
Old soldier, here but always gone
Old soldier, come home
Come home
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7. |
As Much Love
04:27
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As Much Love
(Jon Nolan)
She stood in the snow
With fire on her feet
Head in the clouds
But couldn’t find sleep
Got the praise that she wanted
All the sweetest of words
But you can only accept as much love as you think you deserve
Yes you can only accept as much love as you think you deserve
His hands worked the riches
He always felt poor
Turned to the light
But found darkness once more
So he tried in vain
To hoard all the joy that he wants to preserve
But you can only accept as much love as you think you deserve
Yes you can only accept as much love as you think you deserve
Peer in the window
Warmth and cheer
While you’re cursing yourself
That you’re standing out here
All the while, what you wanted
Well it up and passed
While you were pressing your face
On a cold pane of glass
Love it is patient
So the preacher said
But you may find that people act unkind instead
Grace it don’t feel like resentful restraint
I don’t know what that is
But I know what it aint
All those wires get twisted
Til you get up the nerve
But you can only accept as much love as you think you deserve…
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What It Looks Like In Heaven
(C. Murphy)
Sometimes I fear my heart is gonna burst
And I’ll watch the world fade
But most times I fear that you’re gonna go first
Then what would I do? It’s selfish, but true
I want to know what it looks like in Heaven
I’ll pick up my harp, and glide beyond the moon
I want to know what goes on in Heaven
But I don’t want to get there too soon
With all of life’s additions
And with the subtraction of time
Sometimes I fear division
But our love always multiplies
I want to know what it looks like in Heaven
I’ll pick up my harp, and glide beyond the moon
I want to know what goes on in Heaven
But I don’t want to get there too soon
Well, it’s a half-hour before sunrise
And I hear your foot on the stairs
Though I’ve watched this scene a thousand times
It still fills my soul more than you’ll ever know
I want to know what it looks like in Heaven
I’ll pick up my harp, and glide beyond the moon
I want to know what goes on in Heaven
But I don’t want to get there too soon
No, I don’t want to get there too soon
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9. |
This Fire Won’t Burn
03:58
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This Fire Won’t Burn
(Jon Nolan)
This fire won’t burn
This old heart won’t learn
And I can’t get this engine to turn
This fire won’t burn
Sleep gives no rest
Broken dreams
And used up wishes
Multiply like loaves and fishes
Sleep gives no rest
I need a win so bad
I can barely remember
When my prayers didn't feel cold
When I had something to hold
Something….something
And I can't feel the sunlight
Food don't fill or have no taste
Patience died and left me haste
And I can't feel the sunlight
I can’t feel the sunlight
I can’t feel the sunlight anymore
This fire won’t burn
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Take Me With You When You Go
(C. Murphy)
Off the hallways of my mind there’s a narrow little room
And a diary that shows how I struggled in my youth
To be still within my home, with its taxiderms and prints
And its fraying Persian rugs, Butcher’s Wax and antique books
On a crumbling plaster wall, there’s an ancient telephone
And across its wires I’d say, “Take me with you when you go.”
“Down any road you know, take me with you when you go.”
On the accordion of time plays an endless melody
And on its notes we dance, and in its rhythms we are free
Though the years seem stretched to break, the bellows tightly squeeze
And these figures from my past are standing almost next to me
And as we start to crash into a future we can’t know,
I can hear them gently whisper, “Take me with you when you go.”
“Down any road you know, take me with you when you go.”
In the caverns of depression where anxiety awaits
And hibernates in darkness, and hungers in its cave
I have seen it shroud the sunlight, I have watched it shame its prey
But even in the greatest darkness, love and friendship still remain.
On the mesa of ambition where we watch our children play
You and I are like the potter, and shape the memories they make
As the arid world before us is cut through with salty tears
Of a worried sad Creator who cries that peace won’t come this year
I don’t know if it’s all ending, and if it’s ending I won’t know,
But if the world around is burning, take me with you when you go.
Down any road you know, take me with you when you go.
You and I may never know, take me with you when you go.
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