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Niagara
03:33
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I can't believe what you told me
And how you're holding my hand
That in our dwindling family I'm the only man
I guess I thought he was happy
I thought he liked it at home
But he didn't really laugh and he was usually stoned
He's got his barrel, he's ready for the waterfall
I hope he knows what he's doing
He could sing when he wanted to
He'd take the room in his hands
He had a lady and a van, and a weakness for sand
He used to dream about the ocean
About taking to the sea
We lost our daddy in a schooner, he was just turning three
He's got his barrel, he's ready for the waterfall
He brought his clothes to the goodwill where he bought them from
He never once looked back
One time I drove up to the falls
I looked right over
It felt so lonely
Maybe I felt like you
I was never ready for the waterfall
Never had much of a plan
I thought someday I'll drive from Niagara
Content to take my chances
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2. |
Bread & Water
04:11
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I’ll go the station
But I won’t go inside this time
I’ll walk to the post box
Where I’ll find nothing inside
It’s a small voice, it’s a lifeline
But it sounds strange right now
It’s bread and it’s water - I know I could spring myself
Where did you go?
Where did you go?
I couldn’t go in there
I know how it would have played
We’d see for a moment
The truth of it all displayed
It’s a small voice, it’s a life line
But it sounds strange right now
It’s bread and it’s water - I know I could spring myself
Where did you go?
Where did you go?
And aside from my daydreams,
There’s nothing left of you
Where did you go?
Where did you go?
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I don't want to say goodbye
I don't want to say goodbye
I don't want to say goodbye
To the face that’s all I know
To the face that’s all I know
To the face that’s all I know
I thought we had so far to go
I thought we had so far to go
I thought we had so much longer
So much longer left to go
I thought we could write and write our song
That we could write it all day long
We could make it just as long…
Just as long… I was wrong
So patient all the time
So much patience was a crime
Without patience there’d be trouble
But we’d have beaten the decline
Nobody had to know
We’re not two people in a show
Once they say that they know
Doctors never let you go
I spent all my time alone
I thought what makes a place a home
was more than people, more than song
I was wrong, I was wrong…
We can write our own last page
Before your light begins to fade
We can write it,
We’ll make it say
what we wish that we had said
I don’t want to say goodbye
Please don’t make me
I can’t do it without crying.
I will write my own last page
When your light has gone away
I will write it
I’ll make it say what I wish that I had said
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4. |
Ghosts in the Night
04:16
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One piece to the puzzle was all that it took
The crash to the floor made everyone look
Ten minutes before it still felt like home
Now all that’s left is hurt and alone
Hey yeah.
Can you keep a secret like a ghost in the night
I’m out of my game and crippled with fright
My life is in shambles and it’s racing along
A baby would sing us an alien song
Hey yeah
How can you say goodbye if you never did see
Would baby have eyes that look just like me
Curled up in a crib - asleep in the day
A future of love is now slipping away
What once was a secret is now a ghost in the night
Now never will cry or be held so tight
I thought I could face this I thought I could stay
My hold on the future is now slipping away
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5. |
Stick Figures
03:10
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Here we go, let's watch the life we made
In a stick figure flip book we'll draw the mistakes
Without all the friends and the love songs
The lies that we made
And then plain as my nose we can watch it go by
The path of two figures who knew they could fly
We dance to the edge and look up at the sky
If you like I can stop
If you want me to I can lie
If only I saw us as just a cartoon
If I could fix this with 80 balloons
Wrapped tight around my wrist
Your arms around my neck
We could fly
One day this all will be fine
You'll see the picture less clearly with each passing week
Our memories will lie to us
And then we'll be free from this time
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Sugar
03:10
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Like a humming bird to a feeder on a porch
I’m carrying a torch for you Sugar
Out on my bicycle I might’ve rode right by you
I might’ve could said hii to you Sugar
And I walk a fine line
I have waited a long time for this sight
I’m falling in love
It’s like the fourth of July
I made another she looks just like you
She even talks just like you Honey
And when I talk, at times she laughs just like you
She even lives right by you Honey
And we both know it
Even if I don’t show it
Like I should
We’re falling in love
it’s like the fourth of July
Pretty clear in my mind
I walk this fine line
Between never and the right time
For the moment that we’d know
We’re falling in love
Maybe in time I’ll show you the sky
I won’t hide from the light
On the fourth of July
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Every Passing Winter
02:17
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About a half a winter was all we had with him
He came into our lives as sudden as the wind
He was instantly familiar
Just like our dad without the scars
We fought for his attention, though we didn't have to
He drove us in his Mustang down the hill to the parade
From up there on his shoulders
I could just make out the lake
Where he taught us how to fish
By drilling holes into the ice
And how to wait forever, and watch the night sky
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8. |
Everything You Know
04:26
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When everything you know has changed
What once was home, it now feels strange
The faces, like the roar of trucks,
They run me off the road
If all the pieces still remained
There’d be a reason for the pain
Of crawling on the ground to look
But there’s no point at all
We danced and told the rains to come
Our feet were halfway in the sun
You waited ’til my back was turned
And then I heard the sound
Now I’m the king of apathy
There’s barely any life in me
It’s more than I can say of you
I thought we had a deal
When everything you need is here
A hero sits you in a chair
Just close your eyes and see the face
You’ll never see again
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Shade Tree
06:12
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When you were lost and I’d found where you’d gone
It was clear that a change had come
You were young and so fragile to the touch
No one could see what’d gone
I had the eyes of a stranger
I crossed the oil stained floorboards that stretched out to you
When i was young this tree was just a shrub
It’s shade now is a comfort to me
From there to here - it’s about half of a mile
It was half a day’s crawl for you
i was lost and alone - just like you
Such a crime to destroy something so new
You had barely begun to blossom that fall
Why you wouldn’t tell was a mystery to us all
I failed to keep the darkness from you eyes
i hopped a train bound for hell as long as i could ride
When i was young I learned to tie up a noose
This is my final gift
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Philip Krohnengold Los Angeles, California
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