1. |
Push, Push, Shove
01:40
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What good are words when nobody seems to listen?
Maybe it was me having trouble tuning in
After all you might be right
It’s just that you’re so damn good at turning on that light
I’m ready to cut the cord next time you want to fight
Push, push, shove
Push, push, shove
Push, push, shove
Push, push, shove
Maybe it’s my fault, I should have toned it down
After all I was quite a sight
It’s just that you’re not that guy denying your emotions
They say don’t you ever cry and give your heart to no one
Push, push, shove
Push, push, shove
Push, push, shove
Push, push, shove
What good are words when nobody seems to listen?
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2. |
Sleep Fright
01:32
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Was it you at the window?
I can see your face as clear
As if you rang and ran away
So we go without touching these days
Thats how we go these days
Late at night I get outside
Leave all the inside in
Let all my insides out
And let my outsides in
Let the outsides in
Was it you at the skyline
With your wings wide as wind
See you sing and sail away
So we go with no embraces these days
That’s how it goes
Early light I get outside
Leave all my sleep fright fights
Let all my night dreams out
And let the day beam in
Let the day beams in
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3. |
Photograph Wall
01:47
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Come dance with me
How many times can I dream it
You feel as near as the ants rushing by
The hot ground beneath their little feet
How they bite and disappear
Come ride with me
The simple life, can you see it?
On a hand shadow dragon gliding by
The fire fancies the flame you breathe
How you kiss and disappear
They say life’s so slow here
So if you move do it quick cause
Love’s alone here
Life’s so slow here
So if you move do it quick cause
Love’s alone here
Life’s so slow here
So if you lose it will stick
Like a pin in the photograph wall of your heart
oh God
Come lie with me
Or tell the truth if you mean it
You’ve been a snake on the shoreline sliding by
That bottomless green aching sea
Now dive down and disappear
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4. |
Warmer Conditions
01:39
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I went walking through the old part of town
Past the place we used to live
Past the market on Main west of the highway
Funny how the walls still stand long after we fell
I was like our house, holding steadfast
No matter the season of you
No matter I need warmer conditions
Call me a quitter, it’s not the worst thing you’ve said
Call me a quitter, it’s not the worst thing I’ve been
I could have died on our porch swing
Mocking birds commanding my soul
But with a bang of the shutters I was kicking you out
Call me tomorrow, maybe I’ve made up my mind
Call me tomorrow, maybe
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5. |
Blow Out the Meters
01:36
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Hey are you around?
Do you wanna go downtown?
Park by the station, wait for the whistle
That midnight missle
When you hear it just kiss me
Tell me you missed me
I’ll believe, I’ll act surprised like I didn’t plan this
Yeah it all happened by chance
Some day I won’t have to try so hard
Some day you’ll fold me like a sun-faded flag
Waving twenty-five years in the same front yard
Hey are you awake?
Do you wanna get together?
Pull up the faders, blow out the meters
I never needed to hear it to listen
Cause you’ve only been spinin’ that song since
The first time you asked me to dance
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6. |
A Bug's Got Me
01:20
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I’ve got the bug or the bug’s got me
Once bitten forever shy
I try to hide and cover up the raw spots
But I’m the one they find every day
Hold down the sun but the sun comes up
Stings mix in my coffee cup
You’ve got to get your skin shined up
(to stick a long shot)
Or you’ll die on the vine, so they say
Maybe the birds will find me soon
In the stillness of an afternoon
I’ll learn to sing as sweet and loud
They’ll spread me round your yard and fly away
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7. |
Reason For Speaking
01:09
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It’s the way you look when you’re thinking
That’s when it hits me we might be the same
That’s when it hits me this might have a name
Don’t say a word as I we drive home
I could say what’s the reason for speaking
To someone who gets me in silence the way
Someone who listens remembers your name
Come to be heard and go alone
I just laugh when I feel my heart breaking
Making fun of the mystery, reinventing history
So I won’t have to hurt now that you’re gone
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8. |
Less Than I've Given
01:37
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Is it foolish to want things to stay the same
Just for a while, just long enough
To take breath and smell the air
Belonging to my longing?
Have I mistaken what was demanded
Were they asking less than I’ve given?
What’s the point of all of it
If we’re only halfway living?
Its been so long here in this place
So many hours staring at my own face
Until now, you’re finally here
To save me with your singing
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9. |
Robin's Egg
00:59
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So it’s time to go
And I’m feeling like a robin’s egg
Blue as morning sky and runny inside
I might crack
So it’s our last night
Someone help me up the stairs
I might fall with the weight of all this love
It must have been Christmas
When I looked in your eyes
That’s all I came for after so long apart
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10. |
Faith, Hope, Charity
00:57
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Some nights hope sits in on the front stairs
Gone binging again crushing cans
Drunk dialing a friend for a buy-in
Ditching class on the cash-out
You’ll know her the next time around
Like when faith would sell her mood rings
Downtown in the rain off her hands
Red’s love and black for desire
Pledge allegiance to passion
Right after the boots on the ground
Charity, charity
What would we do without charity?
Wouldn’t it finally be fair?
Then could it finally be fair
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11. |
Where's the Boat?
00:59
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Disconnected from place, from face
Which way is up which way is down?
Everyone wants to stay inside, wants to hide
No one around, no one downtown
Can I ask you when does it end?
Is this as good as it will get?
Should I be thankful not to be dead
Instead of holding every breath
Can I ask you when will we know
If this as good as we can do
Why this hatred for the unheard?
Instead of hugging at the hearth
Interrupted mid-stride by tide
Which way is love, which way is life?
Everyone treads to stay afloat, where’s the boat?
No one around, they’ve all run aground
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12. |
Every Golden Dream
01:26
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California’s on fire again this year
First the drought and then the flame
What’s in a name?
Only every golden dream
California here I come
California my home
Heed the warning shot fired into our air
First the heat and now this fog
What’s that, the sun?
Redder than our golden gate
San Francisco I left my heart
When I was young they talked of a time
When we’d run thin on years to plan
Well we’re here, we’ve met the dust
We have to listen to the land
Place our feet on the ground
Do some goodness with our hands
Do some good
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Rain in Reykjavik
01:04
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I wake up from my dream of you
Hungry and little bit sad
Missing the rain in Reykjavik
The airport and the dark afternoons
Lights on the highway the quiet ride
Someplace past to someone new
Love songs in a lyric book
All the while next to you
I fall asleep to words you sent
Cold light of my phone in hand
What’s the use in writing back if nothing’s new?
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14. |
Pretty Words
01:12
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4 a.m. marquee then the airport
I didn’t have time to say goodbye
Only look back over my shoulder
You were looking back too
The buzz of the people, lights on stage
Spent all my time waiting on a call
Turns out it’s all I’m good for
So what the hell do I do now?
Maybe go stand on the dirty sidewalk
In the alley where we last talked
I just might hear you whisper
Some pretty words I know
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15. |
Silent Melody
01:46
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She has music in her footsteps
He can hear as she walks by
He is quiet in that loud way
She learns his melody
He picks a note from an orange tree
She slices it in harmonies
He catches songs like little fish
She sharpens her own spear
She loses to the stars every night
He hides his face from the morning sun
She lets her hair flow in the wind
He swims further out to open sea
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16. |
Secrets Need the Ground
02:13
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Somewhere across the blue I lost myself to you
Now I return home
No more flying high
Out back I left my dreams to die beneath the trees
How secrets need the ground
No more crying nights
Is it better than before?
Or is it better not to know?
Is it better to have loved than to never love at all?
Somewhere along the path I laughed myself to death
There’s nothing left to say
Just joke and slap my thigh
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17. |
I-10 Flat Line
02:23
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I-10 East to the flat line in the sand
How your storms blow it and blur it
I stay to my side but I feel like I’m falling
It’s all in my head, it’s all in the wind
I-10 West with a live round in my hand
And my blood’s burning beneath it
Might be too late to hide out much longer
It’s all in my heart, it’s all in the wind
Here the weather wanders east
Until Santa Ana has her say
Comes a magic breeze our way
She sends your music on her clouds
I-10 East to the flat line in the sand
How my rains mark it and move it
But you stay to your side like an army in stalemate
It’s all in my head, it’s all in the wind
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18. |
Sun Warming
02:14
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Can you feel the ocean welling up in tide
Crashing to the shoreline with the moon inside
We can hide our footprints, lie low in the grass
Hush a whisper inside til the tiger’s passed
Sun warming cold morning
Sun warming cold morning
Can you hear the river, water never lies
Flowing where its wanted when the earth decides
We can raise our voices, climb a mountain road
Look down on our choices like we could have known
Sun warming cold morning
Sun warming cold morning
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The Turning Wheel
02:05
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Hold winter’s hand
Walk lightly through an icy land
What do you see?
Sunlight and white upon the trees
What do you feel?
Pulse of a people trying to heal
From a deep ache
Lonely heartbreak
Foolish mistakes
Reconciliation coming so late
And yet still we grow
We kiss the snow
Finally we understand the cold
What does it say?
No need to seek beyond today
What does it know?
All things must die before they bloom
There will be spring
That’s a sure thing
The turning wheel will bring
A song we’re finally strong enough to sing
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20. |
Waterfall of Lies
02:18
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It’s time to pay attention
Collect the reasons and arrange them in a line
Follow the logic like a highway full of neon road signs
You want to ask the questions
Predict the future like they read it on your hand
But it’s not a test where every answer comes exactly as planned
Help me hold on to it
Help me hold the line
Help me stop the madness and this waterfall of lies
It’s time to use your judgement
Connect the benefits and factors in your mind
Then ask around and see if everybody’s paid a fair price
It wasn’t always like this
We could cooperate and make a better land
It’s not as scary as it sounds lot love your fellow man
Help me hold on to it
Help me hold the line
Help me stop the madness and this waterfall of lies
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21. |
So Long Now
03:12
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All I want these days is a pair of arms around me
And all I want these nights is a pair of eyes upon me
Somebody nearby to tell me it’s all right
It’s been so long, so long now
When things fall apart you need a gentle heart
All I see these days is anger all around me
And all I feel these nights is loneliness upon me
Where are the bright lights, laughter and late nights?
It’s been so long, so long now
I wonder where you are - should I hit or fold my cards?
All I want these days are your open arms around me
Like water in the night when you wake and find you’re thirsty
In our moment life was high, now the years go crawling by
It’s been so long, so long now
When I see your face again it won’t matter where we’ve been
So long, so long now
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22. |
Water Waits To Pray
01:41
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Wake me up
I’ve been dreaming long enough
There’s nothing left to lose
I’m ready for the truth
Waste your breath
Some birds sing half as much
And never tell a lie
You can’t deceive the sky
And it’s fallen so often
I’m upside down
Giving up
Not the same as giving in
Dip your fingers in the tray
Where water waits to pray
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23. |
Opposite Directions
01:26
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Something about you makes me understand
Everything that made me mad
Wasn’t actually that bad
The way you listen and then
Say things to make me laugh
Where did you learn to love like that?
Now I don’t want to go
But you let me say goodbye
Wait until the highway sign before I start to cry
Look back in my mirror at your tail lights
Turn signals opposite directions
Where’d you learn to leave like that?
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24. |
No Dice
02:29
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You say someday I’ll come in handy
But I know how that goes
You get what you need and leave
I’m not gonna stick around to see
I’m down to find out just how deep the sea can be
All right, I’ll bite
Just not on the same old line
You better not fish around here
I’m smart but my heart keeps trying to hustle me
No ace, no dice
Penny payouts is not where you’ll find me
I’m not gonna ante up to play
I’m not gonna ante up today
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25. |
Trio
02:00
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Beth Goodfellow Los Angeles, California
Drummer/Percussionist/Vocalist Beth Goodfellow lives in Los Angeles, CA..
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