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feeling is first
03:15
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since feeling is first
who pays any attention
to the syntax of things
will never wholly kiss you;
wholly to be a fool
while Spring is in the world
my blood approves,
and kisses are a better fate
than wisdom
lady i swear by all flowers. Don’t cry
– the best gesture of my brain is less than
your eyelids’ flutter which says
we are for each other; then
laugh, leaning back in my arms
for life’s not a paragraph
And death i think is no parenthesis
~e. e. cummings
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2. |
california
02:51
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Living alone,
You carelessly call that home.
Your heart soared burning to exile -
You call it home
Well, baby, I'm listening -
I know what you're missing
When freedom isn't feeling so free.
Oh my darling, I'll be there when winter grows cold.
Drifting out to sea
Would never satisfy me,
Satisfy me.
But I did not replace you -
My shores will embrace you
If ever you desire it to be.
Oh my darling, I'll be there when winter grows old.
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3. |
let me pretend
04:43
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Please don't wake me - just let me sleep
Everything's better in my dreams
Where the skis are always blue
And I'm lying in the grass with you
And you're smiling at me
The way you used to do
Please don't wake me - just let me pretend
Let me pretend this isn't the end
And that you still feel the way
That you did on that first day
And we've still got something more
Left to share than the rent
From here in my bed
I can still pretend
That you're still in love with me
Still in love with me
Please don't wake me - I can't bear these days
Watching your love drifting away
Now the skies are always gray
And the sun won't shine his face
And every time I look at you
You're looking away
Please don't wake me - just let me sleep
I don't want to lose my dream
I don't want to wake and see
You packing up and leaving me
Leaving me
Nothing but dreams
Your love started slipping away a long time ago
And where the heart leads
You know a body must follow
So please don't wake me when you depart
I'm scared my body might follow my heart
Ten thousand leagues under sorrow
When from here in this bed
I can pretend instead
That you're still in love with me
So let me dream
Just let me dream
Go on and leave me
To my dreams.
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4. |
want it now
02:15
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Today I pull the stitches with my teeth
I want it now, I want it now
I'll break away before this gets too deep
I want it now, I want it now
I want it now, I want it now
And I won't make time for this anymore
And I won't make time for this anymore
I won't waste time, I wont waste time
Today I sort the ashes from the blood
I won't back down, I won't back down
I'll rise again, no matter if I should
I won't back down, I won't back down
'Cause I want it now, I want it now.
Fell right into a haze
But I won't go there again [I won't go there again]
Spent a spell in a daze
But I won't go back again, I won't go back again
I won't go back again
Today's a day like never was before
I'll take it down, I'll take it down
'Cause I want it now, I want it now
I want it now
I want it now
I want it now
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5. |
be my vagabond
03:57
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What's the problem being lazy?
I don't even want to know.
What's the point of being crazy,
All your possessions lined up in a row?
I'm just giving you a head's up
We're gonna sit tight, don't get up, no.
Be my vagabond
I'll be your vagabond, too
Be my vagabond
I'll be your vagabond, too
I know it's not your style...
I found the passage to your ramparts
And filled it up with snow
I stashed away our shoes and SIM cards
They're buried safe down below
What's the problem being lazy?
It may be wrong but it don't faze me, no.
Be my vagabond
I'll be your vagabond, too
Be my vagabond
I'll be your vagabond, too
I know it's not your style...
Just try it out for a while
I'm just giving you a head's up
We're gonna sit tight, don't get up, no.
Be my vagabond
I'll be your vagabond, too
Be my vagabond
I'll be your vagabond, too
I know it's not your style...
Just try it out for a while...
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6. |
beggars and kings
03:53
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Lyrics are adapted from the poem
"Beggars and Kings" written by W. S. Merwin
Lyrics will be added here when publishing rights are granted.
Meanwhile you can view them at www.poemhunter.com
Better yet, purchase W. S. Merwin's beautiful book
"Migrations" published by Copper Canyon Press
"Beggars and Kings" is printed on page 196.
But please visit all the pages
and fall in love with Merwin's resonant poetry.
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7. |
red river
03:01
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Red river, red river,
Slow flow heat is silence
No will is still as a river
Still. Will heat move
Only through the mocking-bird
Heard once? Still hills
Wait. Gates wait. Purple trees,
White trees, wait, wait,
Delay, decay. Living, living,
Never moving. Ever moving
Iron thoughts came with me
And go with me:
Red river, river, river.
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8. |
lost cause
03:21
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Your sorry eyes cut through the bone
They make it hard to leave you alone
Leave you here wearing your wounds
Waving your guns at somebody new
Baby you're lost
Baby you're lost
Baby you're a lost cause
There's too many people you used to know
They see you coming they see you go
They know your secrets and you know theirs
This town is crazy, nobody cares
Baby you're lost
Baby you're lost
Baby you're a lost cause
I'm tired of fighting
I'm tired of fighting
Fighting for a lost cause
There's a place where you are going
You ain't never been before
No one left to watch your back now
No one standing at your door
That's what you thought love was for
Baby you're lost
Baby you're lost
Baby you're a lost cause
I'm tired of fighting
I'm tired of fighting
Fighting for a lost cause
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9. |
double drowning
05:12
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Ice forms on the cracks
In the old breakwall
The waves below us crash
And beckon our fall
Take me down to the water's edge
It's cold and the tide is high
I want to walk that ledge
You left her
and your ship boards tomorrow
Now I left him
And I'm too numb for sorrow
Take me down to the water's edge
It's cold and the tide is high
I want to walk that ledge
Chase a swig of rye
With a splash of the sea
Scatter the ashes of our pasts
And fall with me
I want to fall with you down so deep
Sink into you as you sink into me
Revive each other from these lives we've left
Breath to breath
Breath to breath
Breath to breath
Breath to breath
Take me down to the water's edge
It's cold and the tide is high
Stars are frozen in the sky
But the moon is full tonight
I want to walk that ledge
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