1. |
About To Break
04:20
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1/ About to Break [AL/KW]
It’s a feeling of chasing the wind
Or it’s a moment to begin
A moment to shed yet another skin
Sometimes it’s easier to imagine death
Than the life that you end up with
All the give that you take and the take that you give
Hey, turn it up as you turn it on
Cuz you can’t forget your favorite song
With the burning and the ache
Coming up as you’re coming down
Cuz your feet are marching to the sound
Of a silence about to break
Well they call it a shot in the dark
But there’s a throughline to the arc
And a strangeness that becomes the way
And the green things growing through the wall
Of the graveyard of our mistakes
All the years ago once called today
Hey, turn it up as you turn it on
Cuz you can’t forget your favorite song
With the burning and the ache
Coming up as you’re coming down
Cuz your feet are marching to the sound
Of a silence about to break
Hey, and I wait for the midnight train
Got a ticket to go back again
To the burning and the ache
And the moon glowing down the track
And I know that there’s no holding back
Just a levee about to break
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2. |
I Know Who Won the War
02:55
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2/ I Know Who Won the War [KW]
I come from out of town
But, baby, I’ve been around
You say there’s love to show me
Honey, you will never know me
I know who won
I know who won the war
I know who won the war
Make way for a real charmer
Try and strip my suit of armor
Wide eyes of infatuation
In heart and soul there is no relation
I know who won
I know who won the war
I know who won the war
Tied to a stake or on the wheel
I think you know exactly how I feel
They all do their best to win me
A pale fire’s burning deep within me
What seems like deep affection
Is secretly only misdirection
I know who won
I know who won the war
I know who won the war
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3. |
Keep it Together
04:57
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3/ Keep it Together [ES]
I don’t know how I’m gonna make it
through the day
And if I make it through today,
will tomorrow be ok?
I got these bad dreams following me
every day and night
I’m losing the battle, never asked for a fight
If you’re bringing me bad news,
don’t come a-knocking at my door
Don’t you bring me no bad news no more
The moon’s out of orbit,
and the sun is untethered
Down here on the ground,
everything’s sliding around
I pray gravity’s holdin’ me down
I’m just trying to keep it together
I got half a mind to stand up
and walk right out of here
The other half is paralyzed
with avarice and fear
I got the world trying to boil my soul
down to zeros and ones
Caught between the bottom line
and the barrel of a gun
Don’t come selling me another way to sleepwalk through another day
No more no more no more
no more no more
I’m going to the other side
where I cannot be quantified
No more no more no more
no more no more
And I know it could be worse,
but it could be a hell of a lot better
Maybe this is what I deserve,
for falling behind the curve,
hanging onto my last nerve
I’m just trying to keep it together
A mountain of sand a million miles high
Every million years that little bird comes by
Some things baby we’re not meant to understand
There’s nothing more that i can say,
just listen what the man say, he say:
Ooh la la la la la la la la
Dance dance dance the night away
Everybody everybody everybody everybody’s waitin’
for a change in the weather
Like a ship out in the rain,
tugging at my anchor chains,
nothing lost and nothing gained
I’m just trying to keep it together
If I had my way,
If I had my way,
If I had my way,
I would tear
this old building down
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4. |
1986
03:02
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4/ 1986 [TJ]
Jesus walked on water
My love she followed him
When I tried that righteous side
I took one step and I fell in
Come on now you young rounders
Bastard kids of poetry
Drive out of town
You watch those lights going down
Thought if you’d leave, you’d be free
Have a drink, son
Everybody drinks some
To lose what’s in your mind
In this hot sun, this California hot sun
There ain’t damn treasures to find
There’s just meanness in this bottle of apple wine
Come on now friends and lovers
Children of Reagan’s morning blues
Grab that crown and a selfish frown
Ain’t no redemption in these shoes
Have a drink, son
Everybody drinks some
To lose what’s in your mind
In this hot sun, this California hot sun
There ain’t damn treasures to find
There’s just meanness in this bottle of apple wine
They say Jesus walked on water
My love, she walked there too
When I tried that righteous side
Lord, man, there ain’t no use
Have a drink, son
Everybody drinks some
To lose what’s in your mind
In this hot sun, this California hot sun
There ain’t damn treasures to find
There’s just meanness in this bottle of apple wine
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5. |
Gravity
03:13
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5/ Gravity [AL]
Take me to the place that I love
Hit the wide open and fly past
the county line
And let me see the face of your love
Burn through the dark ancient clouds and just lay me down
Tomorrow come to me
We’ll drink the flowers of yes(terday)
Show me all the marks of your love
Point out the ones I can’t see
with my naked eye
And tell me all the names to call love
How to turn wine into water, to catch the light
Tomorrow come to me
We’ll drink the flowers of yes(terday)
And the sound of my breath
as it comes to me
And the shape of my heart
as it beats for you
And my mind letting go
I am shivering
All I ever I wanted from love
To steal the sensation of flight
back from gravity
Tomorrow come to me
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6. |
Stranger
03:56
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6/ Stranger [ES]
I feel so out of place
Feel just like I’m driftin’ in space
It’s written all over my face
I feel so out of place
What makes most people feel happy don’t make no sense to me
What makes most people feel happy don’t make no sense
Oh I wanna go home
Wanna go back home tonight
This is no place I can stay
Won’t you help me find my way
Oh I wanna go home
Wanna go back home tonight
Feel like a stranger
Stranger in a strange land
Feel like a stranger
When I walk out my front door
Now there is no question
We’ve been going in the wrong direction
Let poetry be our protection
Cause I don’t feel no connection
To this pack of wild dogs
This swarm of angry bees
This mean old world
gonna bring you to your knees
Feel like a stranger
Stranger in a strange land
Feel like a stranger
When I walk out my front door
Oh I wanna go home
Wanna go back home tonight
Back to someplace I belong
Won’t have to sing no lonesome song
Oh I wanna go home
Wanna go back home tonight
Won’t you take these idle hands and put me in the angel band
There’s not much around here
I would miss
Won’t you take this strange desire and let me stand up with the choir
I know I was meant to be
more than this
Oh I wanna go home
Wanna go back home tonight
Won’t you open up the door
I can’t stay out here no more
Oh I wanna go home
Wanna go back home tonight
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7. |
Homesick Man
05:21
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7/ Homesick Man [KW]
Homesick man won’t you
tell us your heart
How the lights flicker out
in the settling dark
Won’t you show us how empty you be
All the longing you feel
and the hills that you see
Oh -- Oh -- Oh -- Oh
Hear it echo your name
Oh -- Oh -- Oh -- Oh
We all feel the same
Heart-sick girl
go and gather your dimes
All your nickels are dull
and your copper don’t shine
Won’t you carry us off to a place
Caresses come free
in a wicked embrace
Oh -- Oh -- Oh -- Oh
Hear it echo your name
Oh -- Oh -- Oh -- Oh
We all feel the same
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8. |
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8/ “Hope” is the thing with feathers
[Emily Dickinson, arr. ES]
“Hope” is the thing with feathers -
That perches in the soul -
And sings the tune without the words -
And never stops - at all -
And sweetest - in the Gale - is heard -
And sore must be the storm -
That could abash the little Bird
That kept so many warm -
I’ve heard it in the chillest land -
And on the strangest Sea -
Yet - never - in Extremity,
It asked a crumb - of me.
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9. |
Time for Me
05:35
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9/ Time for Me [ES]
I could cool off your days
I could heat up your nights
Light up your minutes and darken the hours
I got nothing but time, so many nights
I’m here, I’m alone and I’m free
All I want you to do Is be wanting me too
And clear a little time for me
I could walk through your weeks
We could stretch out for months
Burn through the seconds
and sing through the years
I’m thinking of you and
all the sweet sweet moments that could be
If you just open up and empty your cup
And clear a little time for me
It’s a long time comin’, it’s a long time gone
We don’t even have time for it all to go wrong
The last grain of sand, the last ray of sun
Slips through the glass,
fall behind the horizon
Inside every second
we could surely find infinity
The future is now, I’ll show you how
If you just clear a little time,
clear a little time
But I’m waitin still, guess I’ll wait until
You clear a little time, clear a little time
All this time apart is breaking my heart
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10. |
Shooting Star
03:23
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10/ Shooting Star [Bob Dylan]
Seen a shooting star tonight
And I thought of you
You were trying to break into another world
A world I never knew
I always kind of wondered
If you ever made it through
Seen a shooting star tonight
And I thought of you
Seen a shooting star tonight
And I thought of me
If I was still the same
If I ever became what you wanted me to be
Did I miss the mark or over-step the line
That only you could see?
Seen a shooting star tonight
And I thought of me
Listen to the engine, listen to the bell
As the last fire truck from hell
Goes rolling by, all good people are praying
It’s the last temptation
The last account
The last time you might hear
the sermon on the mount
The last radio is playing
Seen a shooting star tonight
Slip away
Tomorrow will be another day
Guess it’s too late to say the things to you
That you needed to hear me say
Seen a shooting star tonight
Slip away
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The Waxwings Portland, Oregon
The Waxwings is a band of friends from Portland, OR. We take our diverse musical influences (classical, rock, folk, what have you) and channel them through acoustic instruments to unearth themes of love, loss and the pursuit of soul-searching redemption. ... more
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