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Beatrice
05:13
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He might have been a wanderer without a care
Never knowing whether he was here or there
But he just can't bring himself to cut his ties
With the girl with the smile and the earth-brown eyes
The first time he saw her she seemed so sublime
He said life might be bearable if she were mine
I'd have rings on her fingers, bells on her toes
So the music would follow wherever she goes
Met on the mountain in the August heat
No place to hide, no place to retreat
And every word she spoke was a shooting star
A setting sun, a shot of rum, a call to war.
If life is a dream can a broken heart
Shake the sleep from its eyes and make a brand new start
Or is it better to surrender to the printed text
Read on hoping blindly for whatever happens next?
The seasons are changing as the sun ordains
And the summer's gone and memory alone remains
But he just can't bring himself to cut his ties
With the girl with the smile and the earth-brown eyes.
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2. |
The Huckleberry Song
03:34
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I've caught the madness
Now I belong to this
I've found the place where a man is mostly free
I've got the sickness
And now I can't resist
Going up where the competition is only bears and bees
Up on the mountainside, that's where my worries die
Up where the shade meets sky, and I've got one thing on my mind.
There's treasure on the ground
I see it all around
There's acres of bounteous beauty that's fresh and pure and clean
Up where the tough ones go
Oregon and Idaho
On that road of discovery that only few have seen
Sometimes the rain will come
And try to drive you home
But when the going gets tough the tough get wet
The sickness keeps me warm
Evaporates that storm and
Incinerates the troubles I've been trying to forget
[Eistus' reel / St. Cecelia's reel]
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3. |
Heavy the Heart
04:09
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Heavy the heart within me lies
Heavy the heart within me
Great my toil and many my tears
And heavy the heart within me
O for the silence which echoes death
For to descend upon me
O for the Savior's healing Breath
To mend the rend within me.
You may think that I have fallen to lie
But still my breath is drawn
And from the ashes I will rise
Up into an infant dawn
Heavy you lie with no wings to fly
Deep have you fled and fallen
And yet lie still
The sun has long since run away
And heavy the heart within me
O for a sun both bright and pure
To grace this land with dawn light
O for the grace of the evening star
To end the life of long night
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Kolbe
05:04
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You looked at him with your sunken eyes
Too damn hungry for despair or surprise
Still you cried aloud as they harshly barked your name
Drops of rain on a rusting wire
Not a heartbeat not a sigh of desire
Too much anguish, too much fear for shame
I'm not where I wanted to be,
Somebody had another plan for me.
What was I supposed to do?
For my kind it was nothing new
To trade my place for a man of lesser worth
Did you see him did you see his expression
As he gaped and he made his final inspection
Of a man not broken not guarded for his birth?
So here I lie like a broken stone
If I can help it, sure I won't die alone
You sent me down here, don't discard me now
You raise me up now you lay me down
Grace my head with your crimson crown
The glory's mine and I only wonder how.
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5. |
Sit on a Wall
03:13
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Socrates was wise cause he's humble
Watching the bumblebees bumble
Dreaming up questions that nobody's answered
In over two millennia.
Suzie's homemade lemonade shakers
Crooked politicians and bankers
Sit on a wall, sit on a wall
Come watch America prosper.
People say we used to work harder
A dollar would get you much farther
The man's got his hands on everyone's land
And he thinks that he's that much smarter.
Californian tourists with cameras
Tanning salons and cabanas
Mountains and trees that nobody sees
From Oregon to Montana.
Crowds of people amassing
Watching the summer days passing
The end of the day seems so far away
Till that sunset comes flashing.
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Elorah
04:39
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Elorah, now I know
That I'll never get that feeling back
If I could write just one more song
That would let me briefly through that door.
A new life like an open book
The cover hurts me now I don't look
And now it pains me to stay this way
And it pains me to say your name
Elorah, good times go
So fast with you beside the willow grove
If I could forget those words sublime
Well I know I'd come back one more time.
I ran with you through adventures strange
Then abruptly you flipped the final page
And now it pains me to stay this way
And it pains me to say your name
Elorah, now I know
That I'll never get that feeling back
It's in your nature to reappear
That memory keeps me waiting here.
Elorah, now I know
That I'll never get that feeling back
And now it pains me to stay this way
And it makes me wish to see you again
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Prayer to the Lethe
03:03
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Embrace me River Lethe
Compass me round
That all sensation may you only tell
Dull hearing, unmake sight, touch, taste and smell
And perish my pride for I cannot care
What refuge it removes
If not for her sake
For His whom she loves
Let memory of past delight and awe
Flow swift unfettered from this wearied mind
Then bear me up to breathe
To trouble blind
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8. |
Jack and Maura
03:12
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Jack's not the kind of guy
To let his folks sit idly by
Or let their minds roam to the sky.
And Maura's not the kind of dame
To let her mind stray from the game
She just tries to keep her life the same.
Is it just another world?
Is it just another job?
Jack meets Maura at the bar
Another week in the jar
I doubt there'll be that many more.
Jack is sick, Maura's old
This cautious tale has been retold
Ever since mankind broke the mold.
Is it just another world?
Is it just another life?
A silent grave where Jack's bones lie
Maura finds it hard to cry
She just turns; doesn't say goodbye.
She thinks its just another world
Thinks Jack was just another guy.
Is it just another world?
Is it just another day?
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The Idahobos Coeur D'Alene, Idaho
The Idahobos are the Sovereign Nation of North Idaho's premier provider of original folk rock. Established 2014
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