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American Sunglasses
04:26
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You’re looking good, you’re feeling fine
The sun’s shining and you’ve got time.
New shades, a hot umbrella too
All the world is looking at you
You’re in charge, you’re in control
The world’s a dice and you’re ready to roll
You’re relaxing from your busy life
Work hard, play hard, isn’t that right?
The ocean’s warm and the sky is blue
No need to think about anything but you.
Spread yourself out on the ground
Stretch out and take a look around
You’re good at filling your days
To push the truth (grief?) away
You’ve got lots of time
You’ve got lots of time
Heading out on your first class jet
Across the world are you having fun yet?
You bought your sweet suit at the mall
Get out your wallet cuz the cost ain’t small
You’re looking good, strutting your stuff
Don’t think too much ‘bout when the sea gets rough
White sands, Four star hotels
Don’t leave the gates cuz it might smell
Keep your nose in that book
It’s safer there than outside taking a look
It’s getting hotter, the sun is shining bright
Are you sure you’re still feeling alright?
You’re good at filling your days
To push the truth (grief?) away
Do you still have time?
Do you still have time?
Out on the beach, feet in the sand
No need to think about the history of this land
The waves are crashing up on the shore
Why haven’t you considered sea level rise before?
Keep those glasses pulled over your eyes
The sun is hotter in a world full of lies
You’re good at filling your days
To push the truth away
You’re running out of time
Running out of time
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Meat Birds
05:08
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The city sprawls out, and it never ends
The roads stretch for miles and never bend
The speeding cars will kill you on your bike
And I’m riding around thinking of someone that I like
You and me we both gotta be free
And here i’m the most free i may ever be
in new orleans, we’ll be coming your way
it doesn’t bring me solace on a day like today
meat birds for sale
in margaritaville
Now if I’m honest and don’t say anything untrue
This place isn’t the same without you
I wish i had of said goodbye that day
My emotions must have got in the way
meat birds for sale
in margaritaville
parking lot, florida
train wreck, USA
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Opposite Skies
03:38
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My heart is filled with sadness
For those who came and moved on
Did they pack their hearts in their bags
Or did they leave them behind in empty rooms?
Venturing out across the seas
Shores lined with ghosts among the treas
The sunlight is written on my face
I got doubts that I can't erase
In the grim light of day everything seems dead
Or maybe we're too alive
And the night wind blows through my dream head
And I wait for morning to arrive
Remember the night
With the sunset and the moonrise
At the same time
On opposite sides
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In The Night
03:17
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In the night I had a dream
After all was lost a scream
Confusion in a new bed
Help me overcome and come out clean
Seattle’s too sanitized
From the mountaintop to the waterside
Raise my voice I’m ready to travel
A million miles (with you)
I don’t believe that you don’t care
About the people around you
Lay it down the weight you bear
And all the demons that hound you
Your memory is like a dream
Beyond my wildest hope
The days have now come to an end
A normal life I cannot cope
We left behind us a long trail
Of thoughts and dreams and rising seas
And vague desires for the future
Are not plans but prophecies
Now it’s ending the bliss of summer
That stretched about nine months long
Lit the fire, moved my fingers
Renewed my strength to sing this song
How many cars have driven over
This little patch of concrete land
Many times I was tricked
By a world that tied my hand
I saw you in a guitar chop
A broken verse, a little drums
A punchy bass to fill your cup
The false silence of speaker hums
Broken open like last year
When summer turned to fall
What I carry going forward
Fits in my hands oh so small
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Nanaimo Guitar
01:36
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Lost Spring
04:29
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Took a walk this morning
Along the train tracks
So many bird songs
Took a walk this morning
Along the train tracks
So many bird songs
Frogs stop croaking when we arrive
And the red-winged blackbird
Knows nothing of our pain
You step with anxiety
Not knowing what the day will bring
Did you get healed?
When the blood flowed strong
Fate was revealed
Our plans ruined and then gone
I can hold you all night
We’ve left nothing behind
And we’ve packed so light
This cannot change your mind
Je garde les mémoires de nous deux
Les tiens près à mon coeur
Pour chaque mort qui nous creux
Il y a un naissance qui donne bonheur
Je ne sauras jamais la fin
Toujours caché de mon regard
Même si j’écris mon destin
Mon histoire gouttera de l’hazard
Le matin j’ouvre mes yeux
Des vagues de tristesse m’inondent
Rèves je ne comprends rien d’eux
Dans les moments ou ils effondrent
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Rivers of Smoke
03:05
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And the smoke flowed like love
In the rivers of sky above
When it cleared the air was like water
I drank it into my lungs
And the sun was pink in the sky
And you and I
All around us towers of glass
Rise up from the drought-bitten grass
And the two of us we miss you all
This has changed our lives
And I’ve never felt more alive
They dig the ground and pave the loam
This place was somebody’s home
They distrust the sound
Of the joy we found
Gonna fly home from the west
With stars in our eyes
And love in our chests
And the two of us we miss you all
This has changed our lives
And we’ve never felt more alive
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Les ténèbres
03:37
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I’ve been walking through these mountain fields
When we left behind our shoeless friend from sept-îles
Rainbow lichen crunching beneath our feet
We met up with him later in the week
Another friend took the trip hitch-hiking alone
A jar of peanut-butter and a blanket on his own
I’ll never forget a place like that
Head north for so long you can’t imagine turning back
I sing a song of a troubled land that echoes in my dreams
We’ve left but my memory’s filled with the taste of New Orleans
A place where the pipelines criss and cross
Where tankers ply the seas
The place where the Mississippi flows so strong
High above the trees
I’ll never forget a place like that
Head south for so long you can’t imagine turning back
Le trésor d’un grand lit pour nous deux
Ou je peux laisser mes idées paresseux
Aux paysages boisés le sommeil n’est pas brisé
Les ténèbres si cruelles et bruyant qui nous ensorcellent
Parfois il n’est qu’un nuage en voyage
Et je ne vais jamais oublier un place comme ça
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Vilify
03:08
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They vilify you
We’ve been lied to
We’ve come apart
Things have just scratched the surface
We’ve been dispossessed
Like all the rest
In the fire everything’s on sale
In its last moments before combustion
In the embers that smolder in the soaring flames
And the languid rumours rest close to our chest
We’ve lived all along in a viper’s nest
They vilify you
We’ve been lied to
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Little One
03:01
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I have yet to meet you little one
I feel you move but I can't see you
But one day soon
One day one day soon
I'll hold your little hand
I have yet to hold you little one
Hold you up against my skin
But one day soon
One day one day soon
I'll get to hold you
I already love you little one
Feel your presence in my life
And one day soon
One day one day soon
My love I'll show you
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The Far Shore
06:08
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You can see the far shore from here
You can see the far shore from here
Most days it’s cloudy but when it gets clear
You can see the far shore from here
I owe my life and my love to you
I owe my life and my love to you
Some things can get old but this always feels new
I owe my life and my love to you
I spent a day crying my tears
I spent one whole day crying my tears
For the strength of our friendship after all these years
I spent a day crying my tears
And there’s no way to know what will come
Yeah there’s no way to know what will come
I left a long time ago the place that I’m from
And there was no way to know what will come
I ain’t got nothing but time on my hands
And you
Can all my needs be met with a song?
Can all my needs be met with a song?
Every once in a while when the evening stretches long
All my needs are only met with a song
And my heart has been wallowing in doubt
Yeah my heart has been wallowing in doubt
One look from you and I know how to climb out
Of the place I’ve been wallowing in doubt
I ain’t got nothing but time on my hands
And you
And I’m gonna love you ‘til I lose my mind
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David Parker Kingston, Ontario
Musician / Music Listener.
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