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Three Miles Wide
03:19
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Three Miles Wide
Deep from dust covered days
Few of many passing by
Pictures came with morning light
Scattered stories in reply
An autumn long ago
On a lake three miles wide
Oak leaves sleeping on the ground
Pasta growing with the pines
And a bird sings proudly
A band of gypsies comes to mind
In a flash a gateway
On a lake three miles wide
The timer tells a stranger tale
Smoothing thoughts the portrait hides
Pastels run in pale shadows
With the winter in the skies
We looked out 'cross the water
On a lake three miles wide
Can you hear the starlight whispers
A lake loon's haunting cry
As the fisher steals the moonlight
To a space so still alive
Now by chance take solace
On a lake three miles wide
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2. |
Sometimes It Feels Right
03:38
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Sometimes It Feels Right
In the hum of the night
There's a reason to begin
A shadow passing, a wispy sight
Some old friends are dropping in
You're not sleeping
A restless fist gone white
They're speaking low, and they know
Sometimes it feels right
In a room across the hallway
Ideas fly with the clock
A state of grace, a second chance
Close at hand the another thought
Running full circle
Cashing out, the stage door tight
If a song's a horn of plenty
Sometimes it feels right
How it ends is asking you
To start again if you could
Silver grey without a care
Smiling back some say they would
There's no hurry
In longing bandstand flights
Nothing to do, but today
Sometimes it feels right
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3. |
Flat Standing Rooms
03:58
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Flat Standing Rooms
Thirsty spots on the floor
A turning lock, a closing door
Echoing a taste of loss
On blank stairs in flat standing rooms
The cadence flows reflecting course
Foreign courts ride a rocking horse
Bending rules on broken bets
On blank stairs in flat standing rooms
In a space I share with you
You're not there as I step through
Out of time my voice is found
Waking up is looking down
Searching for that lasting bliss
Resting in a place that's missed
The deepest holes 'round happiness
On blank stairs in flat standing rooms
Up or down and passing by
Hope is how you touch the sky
In flat standing rooms
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4. |
Wonders Light
01:53
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Wonders Light
As the clouds roll by
Birds speak and leaves fly
Knocking on the sky
Once in wonders light
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5. |
White Wall
04:15
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White Wall
In this room, it might snow some
I'll watch it fall with the rising sun
It's hard to see in the swirling dust
Beyond a sigh, I'll never know
On our white wall the winter moon
Casting me in shades of blue
On our white wall the silent light
Sweeping by again
Wrapped in sheets of frozen air
A curtain fell, but I can't see where
My dull day steers through the cares
And where they go, I'll never know
On our white wall the winter moon
Casting me in shades of blue
On our white wall the silent light
Sweeping by again
Driving far
There is no rush
Over footsteps back home
You couldn't stay
I couldn't go
In this room, it's snowing some
Behind the clouds, a shadow sun
Where it sets is said and done
Beyond a sigh I know
On our white wall a winter moon
Casting me in shades of blue
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6. |
Turn Away
02:58
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Turn Away
Pills and candy postcard store
Nothing new there anymore
How those Sunday memories soar
Right on by me through the door
And turned away not anywhere at all (2x)
Between the nickels and the dimes
The cash girl talked to kill the time
Half smiling, dreaming angel crimes
Outside traffic sounded so sublime
And turned away not anywhere at all (2x)
She found an edge, I drew a line
On years of streets I can't define
Leaving two wishes close behind
To go her way, I went mine
And turned away not anywhere at all (2x)
In the distance there's a clue
And I imagine she's just like you
Maybe one day waiting there too
To turn away anywhere at all
Turn away, turn away
Turn away, turn away
Turn away anywhere at all
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7. |
Not One Waltz
02:20
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Not One Waltz
Not one thought
I haven't thought a lot
Or a role I haven't played
On a stage of a kind
With nothing left to say
Not one sight
Lights up your eyes
Or a smile fleeting by
I'm not there anymore
Under glassy skies
Summers far and winters spent
Stretching 'cross the miles
Nowhere close to rest a while
In the seasons that we dreamt
Not one note,
But the song you wrote
In every day I know
Is no less now that we're
Waiting there to go
Not one waltz
In single steps
Dancing on beyond
Smooth through the cedar trees
Till the music's gone
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8. |
Only Halfway
03:21
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Only Halfway
The parade has passed
Well wishers last
Under festoons and pretty lights
Soothsayers mourn
Looking on small faces worn
Across a course ready laid
The sweepers sweep
Lotus flowers blowing in the streets
Knowing it's only halfway
The last hour, a summer shower
Getting caught in the rain
Despite it all I thought I saw
The clouds begin to break
Like wooden ships
On winds that shift
Down the eye of a lens
It's a long long way
To tomorrows today
Raise the anchor on a chain
Take with you an ocean view
Driftwood at your feet
Despite it all you might recall
The moment incomplete
The captain speaks
Of treasures deep
Hoisting sails high
Knowing it's only halfway...
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9. |
Rhyming Down The Line
04:10
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Rhyming Down The Line
Sat me down by the water side
Not a cloud in the sky
With a sense of what I miss
On a breeze the rigging chimed
Rhyming down the line
The weekend guests have left for home
I feel the weight of a stone
Deep inside rising slow
The emptiness they left behind
Rhyming down the line
Rhyming down the line
There's something old in this day new
Little fishes in a stream
We're tourists in a foreign land
From a place we've never been
I want to claw right through a wall
To reach a spirit I recall
Waiting at the gates of dawn
As the waters rush along
Rhyming down the line
With a chill beneath my coat
Idling I close my eyes
Up above in treetops high
To the stars I have climbed
Reminding me now that I'm
Rhyming down the line
Rhyming down the line...
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10. |
Evening Room
03:15
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