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Equinox
03:44
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Touched alike by dark and light
Now I feel it all
There the winter turns to spring
Here the summer turns to fall
Flowers at my feet
Fire in my head
Old sun, lend me strength
To go where I am led
Through the woods, unto the heart
Of autumn I belong
See the days retreat again
Watch the shadows growing long
Goldwork barely begun
Spiraling to the ground
Old trees, help me to be
Graceful in falling down
Lay my head against the loam
The way a lover might
Silver moss and petrichor
Fill my lungs with second sight
Old earth, riverbed scars
Run where the wisdom lives
Show me how I should hold
All that the rain may give
Turn my eyes and face the night
That comes to settle in
Though the moon has changed her face
Though the stars have moved again
Still I know this sky
Well as the sky knows me
Old soul, rest for a while
Lost in the memory
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2. |
I Was a Mermaid
02:42
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Maybe I was a mermaid
In my life before you
Maybe I just forgot how to swim
How it felt to be wild, what it meant to be free
And the love that I made with the sea
To be one with the water
To breathe deep of the blue
To be borne on the current, and then
To be held to the only heart I've ever known
And I felt every beat as my own
I am finished with sailors
Singing songs that they don't understand
For although I tried
I just wasn't made for the land
Maybe I was a mermaid
Taken out of the deep
But tonight I return to the ocean
And my true love will rock me to sleep
For I once was a mermaid
So I will be again
I will be again
I will be again
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3. |
Gutter Rose
03:06
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For that sweetness that I sought
I went off looking where I ought not
I got myself into a bind so many times
But I don't learn fast
So I kept seeking in the night
I thought if I could get it right
Somebody good might say
Stay
At long last
And maybe there could be a place
Where someone's looking at his own pace
Who walks the line and keeps a weather eye
Decent and dutiful
For my fairy tale I chose
How in the gutter grows a rose
But there is light enough
To show
That she is beautiful
I know I've read too many books
I know that's not the way the world looks
And anyway, I am too scarred to wish too hard
For something too pure
Though I'm not looking anymore
If it came knocking at my door
I just might let it in
But it would wait
Till I was sure
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4. |
Beautiful Boy
05:15
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Is there a doorway somewhere
Waits for an innocent hand
Opens
Onto an innocent land
Point on a lesser compass
Leads to a greater sea
Still, safe
Deep as a world can be
Love, be gentle
See me true
All that matters
I will give to you
Smile on a sun-shy morning
Blush from a soft white rose
Warm, close
Yours is the place I chose
Speak in a voice like honey
Touch but the heart you hold
Spin these hours into days of gold
Love, be gentle
See me true
All that matters
I will give to you
Prisms of light and color
Stardust that sings in the clay
Some things
Only the distance can say
Sharing an unmapped language
There is no word for “more”
All we need is behind this door
Love, be gentle
See me true
All that matters
I will give to you
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5. |
I Would
04:12
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You were always quiet, and I always liked that
You saw more than you said
When you spoke up, there was always reason
And those thoughts inside your head
Bloomed inside my chest
And tightened up my throat
Larks in exaltation beat against my ribcage
I could not sing a note
But if I had the chance right now
I’d take you to my room, kiss you like I should
I don’t often feel the need to feel that part of me
But with you I would
And I always wondered if you ever wondered
You never said a word
But when you got close, I could feel a thrumming
Like your heart was full of birds
Crowded wings and dawn songs
Asking for release
And I’d surrender skyward, fallen in their clutches
If I could bring you peace
If I had the chance right now
I’d take you to my room, kiss you like I should
I don’t often feel the need to feel that part of me
But with you I would
If I had the chance right now
I’d take you to my room, kiss you like I should
I don’t often feel the need to feel that part of me
But with you I would
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6. |
The Price
03:26
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There is nothing bought so dear
As that which gives itself away
Though you may pay tomorrow
Or you may pay today
When the rosebuds that you gather
Ask the oldest sacrifice
You will offer up your lifeblood
Without ever thinking twice
For all you love there is a price
For all you love there is a price
It is nowhere written
What is found and what is lost
For every risk there is a reason
For everything there is a cost
And there are no tears more bitter
When they fall for sweeter days
Or the hope that love worth crying for
May wait along the way
When the rosebuds that you gather
Ask the oldest sacrifice
You will offer up your lifeblood
Without ever thinking twice
And I have bought and paid for
All that I am certain of:
For every love there is the loss
For every loss there is the love
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7. |
Ohio is for Lovers
03:00
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How green was your garden?
I never will know
I stood by the gate once
But you were not home
Now it's covered in ivy
And littered with stones
For three years and forever
No lilies have grown
How sweet were your kisses?
I wish I could say
You left one in the cup
At my table one day
But I can't bear to taste it
So there it will stay
It's three years and forever
Since you went away
How clear was your laughter?
Oh, that I could tell
As bright as a blue jay
It rang in the dell
And it rings in my ears
Though I know very well
Three years and forever's
The last time it fell
How old is this valley?
I might ask the hills
Long lifetimes of tears
But they've not had their fill
As I lie in the grass
I think they never will
Three years and forever
They're holding you still
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