1. |
Wonder Of It All
04:15
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V1
How we grow! Not a one of us knows why
There we go! Yet we never reach the sky
Limbs extend and our bodies stretch beneath
Reaching up for a thing we cannot see
Arms and legs they will tangle if too close
Roots connect underneath whatever shows
CH
Let me see
The wonder of it all
Let me feel
My heartwood burst and call
Let me breathe
Till the air is all but gone
Let me see
The wonder of it all
V2
Men will come just to cut down what we have
Break our trunks and they'll take what they can grab
Then we'll fall with a loud resounding crash
Soon become all the dirt that gave us back
Now we give to the ones grown after us
So we live in a wondrous sort of way
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2. |
Dancing On Magic
03:40
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V1
Well she two-steps into the room
And everyone labels her a fool
But I am gonna be there soon
Well she’s got a presence about her
That makes her seem over there and around you
And I just want to be with her
Yeah I just want to be with her
CH
She’s dancing on magic
Dancing on you
She's slipping on backwards
Sliding on through
she might be right
She might be on to something
She’s dancing on magic
Dancing on you now
V2
Well you better check your heartbeat
To keep her smile and rhythm alive
Cause I just want to move my feet
Yeah I just want to move my feet
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3. |
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V1
Who put me on this rocket
Blasting out to space
Breaking through the atmosphere?
Now see my chest exploding
Like the fire below and
I can’t take it anymore
Cause...
CH
I don’t wanna go to space right now
But I am quickly lifting off the ground
V2
Where can I find a spacesuit?
Cause I think mine is broken
The oxygen is seeping out
Earth slowly loses focus
And the stars become just floaters
Space Camp never was my thing
And...
OUT
I am floating through the great unknown
and I see it doesn’t matter which way’s home
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4. |
Tu Es Pardonné
03:29
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V1
Pardon my dust
I just got off the road
Back from Avignon
I’d brush it off
But lord knows if I do
We would cough it up
Get in our lungs
Then become one with us
Mixing in our blood
With every cut
We would see we’re all made
Of the same old stuff
REFRAIN
You grab my shoulders
Pull me in closer
Hear you say
“Tu es pardonné”
V2
Sorry I’m here
I know I haven’t called
For a half a year
Sorry my note
Did not show, truth be told
I didn’t get around to it
Each time I sat
With a pen and a pad
I would hear your voice
Beckoning me
So I thought why waste time
With just the thought of you
REFRAIN 2
You pour the water
Love like a cauter
Open your doorways
Forgive like a Sunday
Hear you say
“Tu es pardonné”
V3/out
Pardon my dust
I just got off the road
Like a vagabond
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5. |
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V1
You were born, I gave you air
When you die I’ll run you bare
In between, I’ll be everything you need
And everything that’s unfair
PRE
Gust and squall
Move it all
CH
I’m the breeze that moves your hair
I’m the wind that blew through battles
When I dance without a care
The greatest cities rattle
Come on
And sway with me
V2
I make use of your dust
Give it life, it’s only just
Take it o’er the sea, drop it on the trees
Filch and vest, I call it love
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6. |
Not Gone
03:28
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V1
I still remember the days
Dinners and video games
Basketball under the sun
Back when the family was one
You'd beg to go to my shop and we'd work with some wood
Building the memories we didn't want but that stood
CHORUS
I'm not gone
You just call
You know I'll be there when you want
I'm not gone
V2
Create create oh create
Boy, cause that's how I was made
Keep me alive in your songs
Symphonies drifting along
If you don't know what to say then just ring out a chord
I can show up anywhere if you've ears to afford
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7. |
Even Stars
03:08
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V1
Just the other day I met a little boy who said
“Mister, you okay? Take your hands up off your face“
I looked him in the eye, told him they're holding me upright
Sometimes it can feel like life goes at the speed of light
Even stars burn out
V2
I said “Boy, you gotta learn energy comes from the burn
Healing only heals after one too many hurts
And soon you’re gonna break, soon you’re gonna regret the day
The day you showed up here, the day your light first appeared
Even stars burn out"
V3
He didn’t walk away, he stood and looked me up and down
He said “Mister, you are wrong, you only see a star when it’s gone
So you might as well uncover your face and breathe
Focus on the now, don’t look for what you cannot see
Even stars burn bright”
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8. |
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V1
The lonely boy and his fiction
On the pages of his soul
Only does what he’s fixin’ to
He knows we he will know
Living in two worlds at once
Of a reader and the tale
Nobody pays attention
To the pen within his hand
REFRAIN
In a story all his own
V2
As he writes upon pages
How the pen begins to swirl
Emulating his conscience
The story does unfurl
The look inside his eyes right then
Any mother would be scared
Taken over by fullness
Yet the emptiness is there
REFRAIN
In a story all his own
V3
Words start to come slowly
And the story starts to fade
Characters are not happy
And the plot, a twisty haze
Then he says “My God what have I
done? I’ve lost the point!
I am just a drunk architect
Of a building built for coins
REFRAIN 2
In a story all my own”
OUT
Then he closes the notebook
And puts away the pen
When he lifts up his head to look
He knows this is the end
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9. |
How It Will Feel
02:20
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Oh when you see the end
Time takes you by the hand
Says “no you’re not finished yet
Soon what will be will be
But you’ve got much more to see
At least that’s how it will feel"
How it will feel
To be at the
End of feeling
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10. |
Looking
03:15
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V1
Good times last and then they’re gone
All my life, that’s how it goes
Wishing for home
Good folks come and good folks go
Everyone caught in the flow
Flowing home
CH
Looking
Looking for home
V2
Songs will hold and then they’ll break
Just to let a new one take
Take you home
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