1. |
It Takes Time
03:02
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It Takes Time
It’s not what you say that makes me mad
I still keep you close to me
but I won’t carry your harsh words
I know the dark can also set me free
The dark is different now
it’s part of me too
there’s something to it
if I find it’s hard to talk to you
that’s hard to do
I can hear the horses running
I can hear them when I sleep
I’m still turning from the answers
I already hold inside of me
Love is different now
it’s part of me too
there’s something to it
if I find it’s hard to talk to you
that’s hard to do
Is it too much to believe
things will work out fine
It seems I’ve gone nowhere but I know
I’m allowed to take my time
it takes time
it takes time
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2. |
She Belongs
02:19
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She Belongs
She belongs to you
Oh she belongs
Like hunger when it strikes
Or clocks all in a row
Oh how they wake
Someone makes the bed
Sheets are tangled up
Like thoughts inside your head
Through her eyes you roam
In and you go free
You go free
She belongs between
There's somewhere she’s not seen
Like cards on a table
Turned upside down
And when you draw
It’s unpredictable
She knows what you want
But she won’t give it all
Through her eyes you roam
In and you go free
You go free.
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3. |
Night Drags On
03:28
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Night Drags On
I’d like to wake up
In a brand new place
Where sun fills the room
No clouds anyplace
Where we don’t talk
Same way anymore
Things are alright
So we can be sure
What’s yours is what’s mine
I'm yours and that's what we become in time
And the pieces that don't mix
Leave them alone
And watch them fly
When the angels speak
They tell me I’m broke
Their wings do creak
Their eyes fill with smoke
But their wings carry me
I’m lulled by the sound
I’m splashing their dust
All over town
What’s yours is what’s mine
I'm yours and that's what we become in time
And the pieces that don't mix
Leave them alone
And watch them fly
Ribbons of branches
Flash in the dark
The night drags on
Night drags on
Ribbons so black
As a hundred black swans
The night drags on
Night drags on
Night drags on
Night drags on
Night drags on
Night drags on
Night drags on.
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4. |
Dear Darkness
03:23
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Dear Darkness
Darkness your black coat is here
wet with rain and only you dear
would leave your things in a desperate pile
it’s just like you not to come home for a while
to leave the trouble to mark the skin
to tease everyone, then hide
wherever you are running to
it won’t be alright
no matter how far you run tonight
how far you run tonight
Darkness I’ve seen your black wings
beat like moths in the heat of spring
Darkness I’m wrapped in your lace
there’s no way out of this place
unless I grow my wings from gills
and not trust you to feed me still
there’s a light and it’s on all night
whether or not I am made of light
or I am full of night
Darkness your black coat is here and it’s wet with rain
And only you would leave your things in a desperate pile
It’s just like you not to come home for a while.
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5. |
All These Things
03:49
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All these things
When you called
When we spoke
What you said
Echoes in my head
When the day
Never ends
Just parades
It stretches and bends
The sun hangs heavy in the sky
Isn’t that what you told me
That all that junk I carry
Still gets made into all these things
When the birds
Fill the roof
When they whirl
Two by two
When you’re well
When you feel like hell
You can call
I won't tell
The sky knows the truth, 'cause it’s wild
Isn't that what you told me
That all that junk I carry
Still gets made into all these things
The sun hangs heavy in the sky
Isn’t that what you told me
That all that junk I carry
The sky knows the truth, 'cause it’s wild
Isn't that what you told me
That for all that junk, I'm lucky
That is still gets made into all these, all these things.
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6. |
Storms
02:59
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Storms
I’ve got two burnt coals for eyes
The bedroom door is shut
What’s left to say to you
I got my dress torn up
In the thorns where I never should've worn this one
Never should've thought there was no danger
In changing for anyone
Maybe I’ve just lost my mind
or have I just made a scene
Dear, I know I’m out of line
but nothing is what it seems
In the storms where I never should've worn this one
Never should've thought there was no danger
In changing for anyone
In the storms where I never should've worn this one
I never should've thought that love was some kind of holy
that reaches in and pulls out anyone
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7. |
Let Light Through
03:08
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Let Light Through
Want you to know
I need peace
I’ll close my eyes
And breath deep
What has come
Here to remind me
Dreams are mad
And they will find me
What I have is what I have
I won’t turn my back
No I’m gonna cut right through
Each shadow and let light to come through
City sky, sapphire glow
All your eyes, light the roads
You slip behind, then right by me
Are you breathing to revive me?
What I have, is what I have
I won’t turn my back
No I’m gonna cut right through
Each shadow and let light to come through
and go on
and go on
If I choose to go down a different path
Then forgive me, it might just give me, what I ask
to let go of what’s past
Not what I have
I won’t turn my back
No I’m gonna cut right through
Each shadow and let light to come through
and go on
and go on
and go on
and go on.
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8. |
Chapters
03:19
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Chapters
I read a chapter from a book
Before you came home
And as I put it down
I heard you move across the floor
It was always you, always you
And your footsteps along the creaking boards
It creaks anywhere you walk
Anywhere in this home
It’s like a moaning kitten
That only likes to be alone
Is it practical though to move about like you’re unknown
Sometimes you wish you could, you wish you could
Send me on a flight
Send me to Florida
Where I could feel my own weight in the sand
Where I could soften the rough edges
That you can’t
I wish you could
I wish you could
After I had a baby I wanted to pretend
Very little had changed
But everybody said then again
Around the bend, slow down, so then
I dragged myself to the piano in a robe
And I asked myself what new things did I think I needed to know
I felt like a kid
Just like my kid
Send me on a flight
High over water
With some directions
For mothers and daughters
Now I see you asking questions of yourself, which is fine
Try not to hurt anyone, don’t put yourself on the line
You deserve someone who takes care of you some of the time
I wish you good, I wish you good.
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