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Awake to a glorious sky
These bandages make me want to die
Although I am old and although I'm afraid,
I'm alive in my skin. Oh it's grown so thin, it's barely there.
Asleep all day, I'm wasting away
Touch glass, turn away.. it's another day
I know where I was born
and I know where I will die
At the end of the hall my children call "when will you heal for real? when will you come out to play?"
Come out to play
the Queen is town
Lean up your crutch
Life wants your light
Kick out your devil
Call in your clown
and come out to play
There's grass on my knees
there's blood in my mouth
I'm scarring up, I'm molting out.
If Life wants me to be, surely Time will set me free
and the end of the hall won't seem so far
maybe I'll awake and rise, maybe I'll go outside
Go out and play
the Queen is in Town
Lean up my crutch
Life wants my light
Kick out my devil
Call in my clown
and come out to play
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l'Hibou
03:36
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I've been following you for weeks now
as you ride towards the golden sun.
I drop a feather down now and then
in the hope that you'll pick them up.
All the dark of all the nights
can't pull me from this Love...
J'aimerais ĂȘtre un hibou
Ă la fenĂȘtre de mon amour
I see you down in the meadow
riding on a proud Caribou.
The trail is covered in brambles,
let me be your eyes I'll guide you.
All the dark of all the nights
can't pull me from this Love...
J'aimerais ĂȘtre un hibou
Ă la fenĂȘtre de mon amour
It's dark, I cannot see you but oh how I can feel your heart as it beats against the forest floor
J'aimerais ĂȘtre un hibou
Ă la fenĂȘtre de mon amour
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3. |
Papa
05:20
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Keep on pourin papa
you've got a long ways to go
from nowhere to somewhere
in the biting cold
The wine it keeps you warm
but the wine makes you slow
Keep on pourin papa
you've got a long ways to go
There's water on the wheel
The creek is running high
Daddy your luck is like a lady
Don't leave her in the night
Keep on pourin papa
you've got a long ways to go
from nowhere to somewhere
in the biting cold
The wine it keeps you warm
but the wine makes you slow
Keep on pourin papa
you've got a long ways to go
There's a tremor in the mountain
a shimmer in your sluice
Daddy your dream is tremblin
3 feet underground
don't let the landslide loose
Keep on pourin papa
you've got a long ways to go
from nowhere to somewhere
in the biting cold
The wine it keeps you warm
but the wine makes you slow
Keep on pourin papa
you've got a long ways to go
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4. |
Daffodils (Keep it easy)
06:57
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Here I lay on your couch
listening to your records play.
I've been running for so long,
I'd like to stay.
He killed the bees right in front of me
and hung the bloody washing on the line.
Oh, leave me ghost!
I'll walk alone
Taste the salt out where lay your bones.
I once was lost but now I'm found
belly up out in the sound.
I had sold all my gold, not 1 ounce did I still hold.
Lord give me my alchemy, make light this leaden weight in me.
Gonna keep it easy this time around
I'm gonna keep my ghosts planted int he ground
Aint's gonna listen when my mind spins around
Gonna keep it easy this time around
Earthquake deep in the belly of the beast
out of the chasm, Daffodils.
Tie this broken uncertainty to feathers
and loose them on the wind.
He lured the jay, then stole its nest
and then he laughed at his cleverness,
while the jay was left to wander homeless.
He killed the bees right in front of me
and hung the bloody washing on the line.
Oh, leave me ghost!
I'll walk alone
Taste the blood out where tide is low.
I once was lost but now I'm found
belly up out in the sound.
I had sold all my gold, not 1 ounce did I still hold.
Lord give me my alchemy, make light this leaden weight in me.
Gonna keep it easy this time around
I'm gonna keep my ghosts planted int he ground
Aint's gonna listen when my mind spins around
Gonna keep it easy this time around
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5. |
Blue Nightingale
04:00
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See http://manamaddy.bandcamp.com/track/blue-nightingale
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Well the streets are about to burst
Take me away from here
The sky couldn't get much worse
I've lost all control, I fear
No inflection in this text, every day into the next, a story with no plot, What's the point? I forgot.
Take my away from here.
All I need is good food in my belly
and dirt on my feet from a path that leads to a stream
There ain't no such thing as asking for too much
and Simple is all I need
The people around here don't care
what's all this mess about?
They don't smile, they don't even stare
our time is running out.
Pretty sure I ain't afraid
but I'm surrounded by it every day
It's become the norm, a perpetual storm
Take me away from here
All I need is a lover who is happy
and a good book to read
the shade of an oak tree
There ain't no such thing as asking for too much
and Simple is all I need
The birds on my block have gone
tweet tweet tweet tweedle-dee-dee
My cellular telephone is always on -
it goes Ring ring ring ring-a-ling
Always something new to do
some great thing I cannot miss
but my mind's bent out of shape
and my body's a mess
Take me away from here
Cuz all I need is good food in my belly
and dirt on my feet from a path that leads to a stream
There ain't no such thing as asking for too much
and Simple is all I need
Give me a lover who is happy
and a good book to read
the shade of an oak tree
There ain't no such thing as asking for too much
and Simple is all I need
Simple is all I need!
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How can I know you dear?
Yur whispers are sweet
but I can't draw you near
with this wild, wild heart
Come to me my sweet child
feel my waves
slow your pace
hold your hand to your heart and know
But I can I know it's real,
when time won't stand still?
It keeps runnin round in my head, my weary head...
will it ever stop before I'm dead?
It keeps running away with my wild, wild heart.
When, child, will you let go?
Be carried away, with the river flowin
she wants to carry you down
down where love is real
down where love is all
How can I know you dear?
Yur whispers are sweet
but I can't draw you near
with this wild, wild heart
You are the golden sun
and all is well
all is Love
all is Love
all is Love
hold your hand to your heart, and know.
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Madeline Tasquin Oakland, California
Lullaby rock for Love-worshippers
Based in Oakland CA, born & raised in Quesnel
BC.
We are a mighty wave.
đ Fiercely yours, Maddy
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