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Stowaway
02:40
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STOWAWAY
You’ve placed a thousand pennies on those rust-reddened tracks
Just to hide the flattened copper in your pockets
You watch the caboose fade to dark horizon
Bound for places so far from your own
Cause that black sky has the answers
Spreading over miles and miles of buildings, faces, cars, and railroad tracks
Old smoke stack and pilot tear the air
Across acres of desert sage
Cities rise and glow beyond flat mesas
And in your mind you too are moving fast
Well you know those wheels can snap your limbs like hallow bird bones
But that doesn’t dim the promise of flight
Still you stay earthbound, flapping against this dry town
While the vagabond rolls unseen through the night
Cause that black sky had the answers
Back when trains held more than freight and stowaways could ride out the stars
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2. |
Favor Of My Daughter
02:32
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FAVOR OF MY DAUGHTER
There’s no promise of a future in my last view
Still I know someday you’ll lift what I must set down
When my darkness falls
Remember sunlight
And look for me towards something beautiful
For you will be my eyes
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Haley
02:15
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HALEY
Haley can you hear me?
I’ve lost you in the snow
Your long coat, so pretty
Your yellow paws are cold
I shoveled powder to you
You jumped and snapped and glowed
Then ran away from me
My dog, your bones are old
But you’re too soft to be so still
Beside the porch, the icicles
Fur frozen, nose frozen, eyes closed and...
Your bed beneath the table
Rawhide in my hand
The porch, sagging steeply
My shovel, buried low
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Song You Won't Hear
02:31
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SONG YOU WON'T HEAR
Lie awake in bed next to sobs and tears
As mother waits for father at the front door
I can hear your keys open locks and years
You started this family, left it torn
Well our father-son blood ties
I would give them up
If I had a choice
Brother and sister try to make you a dad
But we know we're just pictures in your wallet
As for you and I, our deepest bonds are dead
So go on with your life, I don't need your regret
Well our father-son blood ties
I would give them up
If I had a choice
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5. |
Right Hand
03:57
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RIGHT HAND
Lend me your ears and I’ll fill them
With all the years gone by
Take our right hands and align them
Talk through the end of the night
As we lie down in this grass field
The sprinklers around send us home
Take our right hands and align them
It’s better with you than alone
Streets are calling for morning
There’s no ounce of sleep in our eyes
Take our right hands and align them
I’ll walk with you for miles
I’ll search you inside
Search you inside
Search you inside
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6. |
Summer Peak
02:47
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SUMMER PEAK
Dirty boots in the mudroom
Climb summer peaks in his mountain home
From Wheeler to Crystal and Morrison
And his children went away
But with his bike and skis he stays
And the big house is lonely only some
Though he has seen sorrow
He can still find joy
Like a season that knows its time to change
So he practices trombone
On winter nights after clearing snow
From the driveways of neighbors and old friends
Fire burns the fallen pine
The warmth takes him to a different time
When a family chopped kindling at day’s end
Though he’s spread her ashes
Beauty he can see
Like a season that knows its time to turn
Though he has seen sorrow
He can still find joy
Like a season that knows its time to change
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Snow Line
04:15
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SNOW LINE
Swallow falls in the first snow
Too late for south, too small, too light for storm
The mountain flank is muffled white
Over creatures buried safe and deep
To know peace like this cloud covered sleep
Feathered wings grow cold
Beating breast grows still
Accepts, as truly wild things will
The tender violence of winter death
Lets the ghosts out of frozen rivers
We don’t wait for spring here
We don’t wait for spring
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8. |
For Sure
04:06
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FOR SURE
Well this morning
I read the news and it made me
Feel small and untrue and I wonder
Here on my hill, like a fool
So I walked out
Under the sun and I saw the
Fox and the wren and the cougar
Watched me where I couldn’t see
Is there one thing I know for sure?
No God, nowhere to hide anymore
Well my family
Is mostly okay and we work but
Also we play so we’re lucky
Even if only to breathe
But it’s cold and
I am alone with my boots, here
Buried in snow and I wonder
Can I just go under the ice?
Skin blue, unscrew the world from my eyes
There is nothing I know for sure
For sure
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9. |
Boy
04:32
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BOY
Hey old friend, they called me in the middle of the night
Your parents, panicked, crying, saying look at New York Times
They beat you and dragged you through city streets—tied you on the ground
Police baton above your head—your fist raised higher, proud
Boy, we’re on your side
We’ve seen worse—will we see better?
Boy they might break your stride
But we’ll get up all bruised and violet
Boy they’re taking names
They won’t get yours—they won’t get mine
Hey old friend, I heard your back there in Zuccotti Park
Camping, dancing, canvassing—our generations mark
Now, I’ll never see a more beautiful site, than that human chain
Hands and elbows, arms and legs, beneath the city’s towering frame
Boy, we’re on your side
We’ve seen worse—will we see better?
Boy they might break your stride
But we’ll get up all bruised and violet
Boy they’re taking names
They won’t get yours—they won’t get mine
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