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The Naming of Things
03:36
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Lyrics:
Verse 1
I beseech you my dear can you make me into wine?
Steam all my wrinkles, with your water, heat, and time?
Doctor’s can’t explain it, point a digit try to name it,
what is true
Verse 2
There are so many words but none I can find
When I’m thinking of you trying to justly describe
Poets they have pondered, I did the math but still wonder,
about you
Chorus
All springs are in you
through the fall, past winter’s lapse to the summer days
All springs are in you
through the fall, past winter’s lapse to the summer days
Verse 3
THE Letters laid out as stones, with spaces in between
Like that place before you wake, after you have dreamed
Can I be your instrument, carving cliffs as a torrent, I’ll ballyhoo
Refrain
From Itasca out the Delta veins, You are the font and the aim
From Itasca out the Delta veins, we palindromes, Your voice arranged
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2. |
Love Nest
03:33
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VERSE 1
This water is rising, it’s reached well past my dirty ankles, it’s up to my knees
the love nest is nestled so very high up in the tallest of trees
I fall if I will, drown if I won’t, Oooh, somebody please
The love nest is so very warm and inviting
CHORUS
bring me back…back to your love nest
set me down…swiftly, gently, into your love nest
chorus 3 = “do it quickly”
VERSE 2
a fire is creeping, in the tall grass no one is tending, kissed by the flames
on my neck, they don’t even bother toask my name
REFRAIN: If everybody is selling, who among is going to save x2
VERSE 3
Rustled from my slumber, by a monster, or was it thunder, I’m climbing in
To your love nest, where there’s always room for the have-not has beens
VERY END:
There came no reprieve from the pope, no governor’s pardon
But Your mercies lifted me high, I’m your honey darlin
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3. |
The Vessel
03:22
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Lyrics:
Outside brews a storm, winds are wailing
Yet its safe and warm where we’re laying
The only thing I hear is the sound of your sigh
Breathed from linens, soft and white
If I was a sailor I would have drowned years ago
But I am only the vessel sailing where your beauty flows
This handsome hotel, it will do the trick
As the craftsmen they tell, its formed of tender brick
I’ll be the Johnny to your June, a couple of fools on the run
What’s left to say that can’t be sung
If I was a sailor I would have drowned years ago
But I am only the vessel sailing where your beauty flows
floor meets our feet, in rhythm we are residing
Four quarters per beat, two hearts colliding
Rugged arms clutch you tight as a dog to a bone
Cherish like a precious stone
If I was a sailor I would have drowned years ago
But I am only the vessel sailing where your beauty flows
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4. |
My Lemons
04:00
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Verse 1 & 2
It aches enough to mention
I was feeling fine but the fine is slowly fading
No one comes around, I keep a gaze out the window
Take my medicine, keep pressing on
Up the steps into the thickened mud
Run, walk or crawl, not a good time to give up
Gonna to search undergrowth, reveal/unearth/harrow a reason
Gonna eat my lemons, holler to heaven
Chorus
it’s quiet now, for crying out loud
but I won’t let the heaviness take control
pressing on me, so I may taste and see
the fruit of promise, the root of my extol
Verse 3 & 4
Stand perched, the ground seems really far away
Step off the ledge try to befriend gravity
Been pinioned long enough, and if I hit the ground
Dust off my feathers, climb up again
It rains like the oceans got turned upside down
Been acting like that crazy Pagliacci clown
Going to keep my head, pointed towards the curling sun
eat my lemons, sing out like Evan
Chorus
it’s quiet now, for crying out loud
but I won’t let the heaviness take control
pressing on me, so I may taste and see
the fruit of promise, the root of my extol
KEEP PRESSING ON…
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5. |
Somewhere in Savana
04:11
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Somewhere in Savanna
VERSE 1&2
Wait for the sun to rise
Then we’ll race across the western sky
I don’t know what we’ll find there
But I can almost taste the salt in the air
I think it best we leave today
Tomorrow is too long to wait
never are we far from home
in temples made of flesh and bone
YOur HOrizon draws us nigh
as if our hips been magnetized
Bridge
Windows rolled down and music turned up
Wring out melodies to awaken the dawn
we ditched our cares somewhere(s) in Savanna
And it’s so good having you along
It’s so good having you along
Better is one day than a thousand elsewhere
It’s so good having you along
VERSE 3&4
So many parking lots
So many ticketing cops
Not enough love to spread
Only friction hot and blistering
The pavement pounds at a quicker pace
Check to see boots are tightly laced
Have to drop off this heavy load
Even though all our things have been sold
This one-way road has reached its end
right where our free/hiway begins
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Smiley Kaul Saint Paul, Minnesota
Ancient, winsome, harrowing delight! Fashioned by the giants of song such as Hank Williams, Johnny Cash, Woody Guthrie, Bob Dylan and Leonard Cohen, Smiley sees himself as more psalmist than songwriter, more carnival barker than balladeer, writing "new psalms for that old-time gospel." Musically, Smiley is heavily influenced by punk rock, hip hop, ambient music and the hymns of yesteryear. ... more
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