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(Run-Wild) Roses
03:37
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from my window can’t understand the view
map & compass lit up by the new moon
what I haven’t done this whole time is touch the sea
I’ll make a point of it even just my feet
let your heart be broken if you can’t make it stop
to the run-wild roses I sing what I withhold
take off sunglasses to reveal another pair
& yet I find I see more clearly in sea air
reminds me of what I was thinking at the time
words I could write before our lives capsize
let your heart be broken if you can’t make it stop
to the run-wild roses I sing what I withhold
to be at sea within myself and the last one to leave the beach today
writing on the sea to find what’s hiding within the folds of a wave
looking at the water & I wonder just how far out I could go
counting all the losses – and keep going ‘til there won’t be any more
let your heart be broken if you can’t make it stop
to the run-wild roses I sing what I withhold
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Night to Go On
02:46
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some things work out
and some things don't
after the end, when the fire's died down, we'll be the ones singing songs
in the dark
because we're not that tired
you'd like the night to go on and on
you'd like the night to go on
where are we now?
the streets got lost
after the end, when the end came and went, what's left of what's going on?
it's all gone
but we're still not tired
you'd like the night to go on and on
you'd like the night to go on
go on, go on, go on
and on, and on, and on
you'd like the night to go on and on
you'd like the night to go on, my love
you'd like the night to go on
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Knives Out for Cake
03:13
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Knives Out for Cake
spare a thought for unpaid taxes
so sweet to put the thumbtacks back in
push cake into a sullen face 'til it collapses
you’ll never forget the taste
metallic pink and blue paste
the days will pass with reams of tape
you’ll never forget the taste
never forget the taste
knives out for cake & few friends
don’t miss a trick or cut to lend
turn on a show to watch until it doesn’t end
you’ll never forget the taste
metallic pink and purple paste
the days will pass erase the tapes
you’ll never forget the taste
never forget the taste
you’ll never forget the taste
metallic pink and blue paste
your days blessed with erased tapes
you’ll never forget the taste
never forget the taste
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document song
signing my other name
I’ll write when I get work
flowers in the van
lain across the seat
folded in my hands
washed up on the beach
witness to the sea
falling from a cloud
drowning in itself
through morning window screen
suspended like a mote
upon the balance beam
I document my walk
this amplifier sounds
like it’s rolling down the stairs
the wood is splintering
& crushing orchid parts
I can’t be recognized
in the park I hide
with tangled shopping carts
down in the ravine
I’ll climb the ladder out
although when I look up
what’s waiting at the top
is something I can’t see
cool water cover me
document song
singing my one true name
in sunlight unredeemed
all colours run to one
become obscurity
it’s immolation
five minutes of relief
from the song of the dial tone
an underwater drone
a call I can’t receive
the paper ocean folds
no one asks ‘cause no one knows
don’t know & they don’t care
rock ‘n’ roll’s too tired to stand
the curtain’s rustling
the paint leaks from the can
the smell is on the air
& finds me unprepared
when the hiss of tape arrives
the crickets harmonize
the wind is to tall grass
as sleep is to me
the lightning calls from cloud
to cloud & calls from cloud
to clouds that cannot sing
the summer’s deafening
cool water cover me
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Because I
02:49
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you run before you walk
you sing before you talk
& all along you said you want
to be the one to drive
I know you understand
why you have to hold my hand
yet still you go all on your own
down by the riverside
“because I”
can I sing you a song?
can my words help make you strong?
and though you’re on your way to grown
will you let me be your guide?
& now it’s music time
take the rhythm, make it rhyme
I’ll follow where you lead because
you are your own guy
“because I”
now your heart is blasting off just like a rocket into yonder blue
you’re fine & free & truly running wild & flying high
“because I”
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Holding Out My Hands
03:56
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holding out my hands to you
you take them in your hands & say come on, let's dance
what's your story, what's your story, what's your story, I can't tell
you hold the ocean to your ear & hear it there in a seashell
the chickadees are calling & you're calling back a small clear song
running up the mountain, flying down the mountain, wings so strong
we're spinning round & round
holding out my hands to you
you take them in your hands & say come on, let's dance
you're naming every flower, naming every flower names so true
the polka dots are dotty, yeah the polka dots are just for you
lining up the colours every pretty colour in a row
drawing all your pictures, drawing all your pictures won't you show
the sun is going down
holding out my hands to you
you take them in your hands & say come on, let's dance
the sun is coming up
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Blue into Every Blue
03:41
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Come hell or high water the new thing is coming
the tide always returns
seas birds gamble smashing their shells on the shore rocks scatter
all the pieces that matter
I’m finding new ways of living
Finding new ways of living without a home
Crash this mountain right into the ocean
finding new ways of turning this looking glass around
Here remains the weight of her body
too heavy to carry - they finally let her go
Today the sea is a looking glass mirror
touch the bottom... tomorrow a rabbit hole
Blue into every blue into every blue into every blue
Blue into every blue into blue
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Rain in the Desert
02:30
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Mountain Alone
04:37
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go up the mountain alone
a sad clown’s face turns inside out
rain washes makeup away
a weeping devil with clouds
a child’s cough I hear in the night
interrupts my dream
gifts from the mountain alone
a song I forgot walking home
a love that is incomplete
under the white and pink
blossoms that fall at my feet
on an unlovely street
the prisoners out in the yard
put on a play for their guards
the light’s on the faces but now
the makeup is made out of rain
the weeping devil becomes
a child once again
and I feel myself slipping
I have to sleep now or else
I might never again
if this is the last time
and it just might be
let’s make it sweet
whatever happens now
whatever is happening
I promise you
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Rose Violet
04:24
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I'm searching for the spark
how slowly now my eyes adjust
to velvet theatre dark
I feel my way, but I don't trust
I'll swim to shore
as soon as I
can see the way
to the shoreline
Rose Violet
does anybody notice when a star in the sky
blinks out?
from the bottom of my lungs
you hear me singing underwater
how low was that sung
the voice it sounded like a daughter
I'll swim to shore
as soon as I
can see the way
to the shoreline
Rose Violet
does anybody notice when a star in the sky
blinks out?
yes I do
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Jeremy Stewart Vancouver, British Columbia
Jeremy Stewart once dropped a piano off a building.
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