1. |
Snow Song
03:26
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Snow song
Snow is descending
Branching out
Fill the world
with a cover of silence
from moist to crystal
A shiny endless glow.
The hour is getting late
The world is getting full.
Will you be there?
With me
in this snow.
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2. |
Stretching the tendons
03:51
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Stretching the tendons
Stretching the tendons
Stretching the tendons
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3. |
Station Call
04:23
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Station call
5-1-2021
Gonna listen to the radio
All night long
Keep me connected
To the world
With some talk
and a little song.
Though what I hear does worry me
Everyone fears an enemy
But I listen to the soft voices
On the late night show
Station Call
I'm gonna search you
through the static
Going to move through the frequencies
A beacon of sameness
a little human connectivity.
Going to scan the void
Along every curve and line
Got to be ready and able
to receive any hint of a sign
Station Call
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4. |
Apologies
03:32
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Apologies
The pleasure would be hers
that’s what she was hinting at,
on that fateful night,
in the bar, at the harbour.
My leg was hurting bad,
must ’ve had a drink or two
When she put the gun
on the table
I ran the odds against my luck
Hoping I’d be able
to confess
All I can say now
All I can do now
Is to offer you my apologies
I remember the man at the bar
He was looking kinda strange at me
When the girl had disappeared
the gun also vanished into thin air
My head was hurting bad
must ’ve had something to drink
But I don’t know what it was
I weighed the odds and tried my luck
Guessing I could get out of there
High crimes and misdemeanour
Conspiracies, whatever you believe
She went away in the night
To the sea, to be never seen again
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5. |
The end is a beginning
03:35
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The end is a beginning
Superheated by the sun
you ventured out on the street.
Got suckered into
another tourist trap,
hell yeah!
I heard you started taking pills
and went on the road with the gypsies.
I understand life
became a bit too predictable.
hey, hey.
The end is a beginning
Slide into the C-suite
with your corporate executive connections:
Can you smell the forest
after the rain?
Oh please.
On a day like this,
We can always imagine
being on a road,
to the Next Unknown.
Who needs Jet Travel
When you got feet?
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6. |
Ghost of Tom
01:50
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Ghost of Tom
Have you seen the ghost of Tom?
Long white robe and no skin on.
Wo oh oh oh oh wo oh oh oh oh,
Wouldn't it be chilly with no skin on?
Have you heard the bluebird sing?
Far and wide it was lingering.
Wo oh oh oh oh wo oh oh oh oh,
Wouldn't it be fine to hear the bluebird sing?
Have you felt the summer rain?
Falling on your skin again.
Wo oh oh oh oh wo oh oh oh oh,
Wouldn't it be cool to feel the summer rain.
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7. |
Forest radar
03:35
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Saw a forest radar
rise above the trees
Guide a bit of data
into 360 degrees
I see you got your Doppler
and laser detection too
3D algorithm
to put your sapflow sensor through
Seeking validation
Is it really true?
What you are proposing
to the fuzzy peer-review
I'm on the Tiger Road
again
I heard a siren sounding
under the canopy
It came as no surprise
what else could it be
I have heard the stories
of a forest wide & wild
Wandering knights & ladies
in the days we lived as a child
Sensors are awaiting
recording all our moves.
Everywhere we go,
No matter what path we choose.
What if we stay under cover,
Cloak & dagger too:
No radar that can pinpoint
the branch to which we flew
I'm on the Tiger Road
again
1-9-2020
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8. |
Spreads
03:26
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Spreads
Well here it is
A new day
Gotta step up to the game
We need a clean sweep
You got to call
Your own shots
But don't shoot
Yourself in the foot
aim for the target
but don't become one.
A moonshot pitch
To cure my itch
A road not taken
leading to regret.
Taking care
of the spreads
Where's my number
to get into the code?
Where's the wave
that will float my boat?
Here you go On your way
Cut and dry Deal & play The Spreads
Grab your bag
don't forget your keyes
Stationary
rough it to the edges, yeah!
Raise a glass
Not your fist
There must be a way
to even out the stitches.
Plain spoken & clear eyed
in the after-scape...
Holding on
To a useless wish.
Refrain sung.
but the fade out never seems to end.
The train is gone
and the station is just round the bend.
Farmer, soldier, sailor man
Everybody spreads the plan 2x
The plan of peace and love
From Johnny in the universe above
The best is yet to come
everything will start to hum
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9. |
North Star
04:34
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Northstar
I take my pills and swallow them whole
Remember to stand tall
Don't fear for that pitch dark night
Before you know you'll see the morning light
rising again
Lost in the hills, sent away
she couldn't keep me another day
Fell in the trap of that subtle nudge
before you know it you 'll think as such
suffer again
These are the days
I need a new north star
Look my way
I'll won't be very far
Pretty face is telling me lies
I could tell by a move of your eyes
Spring is gone and summer passed
How could I know this thing wouldn't last
mistaken again
take this pill and sink back again,
Energizing for a whole new plan
I guess you're watching from the skies above
You'd tell me there is more than enough
to go round again
I know I'd try, given a chance
To take a turn to up and beyond
The lowest point was hard to predict
I'll take the blame
If I knew it would stick
Give me something not to make me
sick again
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10. |
Soothing Rain
03:22
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Summersun is slowly rising
Across that fateful August sky
Sparrows & starlings flutter
and make a sound that seems to flash.
Remember Blind Pete from Regent
Just a whisper and you'll be there
In the days of travelling
I was waiting
For the soothing rain
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11. |
Noisefield
02:55
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Noisefield
Interfering waves
My radio's receiving naught
Through this solar storm.
I know
We've go to weather this one out
Sometime it's hard
Sometimes it's hard
Some time it's ... hard
To focus on what needs to be done.
Stuck in a noisefield
Interchanging disarranging
Plots are twisting all the time
Pundits on the channels framing
Whatever the company is willing to pay.
Stuck in the noisefield
Genes and memes,
Caught in maelstrom.
Time to act is in short supply:
We can only build this raft together
To get us out of this noisefield.
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12. |
Prepperland
04:54
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Prepperland
Ronnie is selling
High-end fall out shelters.
Liberals taking control,
The Union's falling apart.
Everyone's hiding in their hole
Powergrid failing.
I'm looking through the keyhole,
to what's happening in Prepperland.
I counted on your sanity
but I admit I don't understand
How this got so out of hand.
All of the pharmacies
got robbed in the night.
And all of this civilization
That we held so dear,
is bound to disappear:
Here come the robots ...
chorus
Ronnie is praying
that his kids will be okay,
Fires are raging
in the forests along the way.
Refugees waiting in line
to take that jump,
from the cliff.
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13. |
Waiting for the rain
03:52
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For Dan Lockhart, musical brother
Waiting for the rain,
waiting for the moist to come.
See what clouds can bring
to this dry dust in the sun.
What now
Can be
done
Watch the garden grow,
you can see it
when you take your time.
Just to ease your mind,
try to see what you can find.
Keen to see my friends
to chill & talk & think ahead.
Now what
can be
done.
I seek a friendly voice
soothing presence
to feel at home.
Waiting for the rain
I can almost smell it
in the air.
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14. |
Able
02:37
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Skip a boat when you're able
Jump a brook, if you can
It's in the eye of the beholder
and never goes as planned.
I really want to be able,
Lord, I'm ready when you say so
Let me tell you from what I know
That all sins can be forgiven
Just get on with the show
That is the dream in which we're living.
Parse a test when you're able
Steer a wheel if you can
and it doesn't matter
If you're a woman or a man
I really want to be able,
Lord, I'm ready when you say so
Hope I will keep my smarts and logic
when tested from head to toe
Well listen mister you better get ready
and be able when your number is called
War is a darn dirty business
someone's gotta do that devil's work.
Listen sister the world is turning
Got to be able to turn along
there's light at the end of this pitch dark tunnel
just keep repeating this old song.
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15. |
Back in the room
03:26
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You're back in the room
ready & able
to join in the zoom
You're back in the room
Don't you say the future
is gone and all is gloom.
You're back in the room
your ghost has been summoned
to a lonely tune.
We're back on track
That we left
When we marched
behind that doomsday flag.
Turn on the radio
there's a friendly voice
to keep me company.
Spare me your anger,
I'd need an angel
to set things straight.
Going back to base
in this day & age
have to get a bit of cooling
to slip out of this cage.
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