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1.
Silver Lining 04:07
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I don't believe in independence And loneliness is not transcendence It'll fall apart if we're not together I fall apart Can I hold your hand while the world is ending? The places we've imbued with meaning Are cracking, breaking, dying screaming Will it be enough to slow the bleeding? Can we be enough? We're already up against the ceiling There's pain in the land There's doom in the air There's love, somewhere, there's love I don't believe in perfect timing No sign on high that's clear and shining I could spend my life just waiting I could waste my life So let's try to make a silver lining Let's try to make a silver lining
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My Mother's Home 02:13
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Gonna walk on down, find my mother's home Gonna walk on down, find my mother's home I tried to run away, but now my time has come She stopped living here in 1955 She stopped living here in 1955 If she kept living here, I wouldn't be alive Well there's a picture frame and a man I've never seen He's got eyes like fire full of strange desire and he's holding a magazine Well there's a sound that's so familiar to me I hear wedding bells and wishing wells and a million silent dreams There's a disconnect between my past and me There's a great big hole between my past and me You keep your eyes to the ground, there's so much you don't see
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Colonial Me 03:13
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Here's a song that I stole from folks I don't know I stole it before I was born I've sung my whole life with a voice that's not mine But I claimed it and thought it was fine I take and I take I don't know how to give anymore I take and I take That's no way to live anymore Here's a house that I took on land that's not mine I had no hand in its building I park in the driveway, and give a bank money And sleep better than I should I spend my life on the backs of slaves And Natives and prisoners and children I closed my eyes and thought I was better than that I close my eyes and know I'm better than that
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Molecule 03:16
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At the bottom of the ocean Saw a swirling shape that said to me Come closer, oh, my child There are truths inside my eyes Just let go of all your time and float freely At the corner of the road Saw a root that cracked the sidewalk It led straight into the earth Generations of dirt Gave their life and i forgot their worth I am a molecule I am a particle I am part of something I am a molecule I am an integral I'm the sum of something In the middle of the night Didn't recognize who'd come to me They said my name is not your name You and I are not the same And you're right, you are to blame, Now please remember me
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Mesa 03:09
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I lost my mind, on the road, by the mesa Branches of time overlaid, different numbers Don't know the names of the plants in the backyard Can't feel the pulse of the earth in my marrow I've lost my mind, unreclaimed, unexamined There's no more time, grab your love, hold it closely
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Pangaea 03:11
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I'm on Pangaea biding my time behind the fault line And under my feet the Earth carries me Who will stay with me come that day the earth drifts away And who would I be alone at sea One day I'll live next door I see you, you see me, we talk and we smile, we linger a while We laugh and we breathe, nowhere to be One day I'll live next door To everyone, everyone I know I'm drifting through the centuries, drifting far away, Away from everyone I've met, and all that we have made
7.
Too Many Bikes 03:00
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Well there's too many bikes on the Minuteman Trail And the cars ain't movin on 495 The red line's gone off the tracks and the green line's too slow It sure ain't any way to be alive Well there's too much time to sit and think And not enough time to get out and do I ain't got the money to be where I wanna be So I'll just sit in traffic and think of you This place is eating me alive Nowhere to turn and nowhere to hide Feels like I'm dying from the inside out, oh my Well the ocean is rising and the food won't grow And that same old exhaust is rising up through the air The winter's gonna bury us beneath the ice and snow And when it all melts, there's gonna be no one there
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Stopped By Portsmouth 02:35
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New town, no friends, we already wanna get away No money, no destination Took a day, drove through Portsmouth, on our way to a beach in Maine Over the river, could almost see the ocean Oh we'll be comin back again On the way back home, stopped by Portsmouth, spent too much money on drinks A walk after dinner, nothing fancy Ooh It's starting to feel like home
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Imaginary World 02:24
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Floating through my imaginary world Let the feelings drift away Let reality flow under me In my imaginary world I wanna live in my imaginary world Just ignore all the pain Pretend this place means nothing at all Just an imaginary world No sense of place Just empty space Just me, all alone No consequence No inheritance Gotta get out of my imaginary world Reckon with what came before Reckon with whatever's yet to come No more imaginary world
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All The Hope I Used To Feel 03:23
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Dipped my toes in the pond scum Felt the life crawling on them Disconnected from the history in me Fell into a depression Staring off into nothing Every fiber in my body trying to move Where is all the hope I used to feel Filled my palms up with fresh dirt Scraped my arms with the effort Well aware that this is all just make believe What remains for the future Is it more than small scraps of comfort Spinning wheels and pushing walls that never move

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released July 5, 2021

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making music after the kid goes to sleep. learning by doing.

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