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Raven
03:28
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Raven fly on a river
Rapids raging in her chest
See her body flying over
With a song of wild unrest
River roll down a mountain
Wash your face in the sea
Tell the sirens I’m a comin’
I’m a comin’ and they’ll see
Siren sing us a love song
Something old that’ll put us at ease
All these bones and all their tremblin’
All these bones and what they keep
Raven cry on a river
River roll to the sea
Siren sing me a lullaby
Lay my tremblin’ bones to sleep
Raven cry
River roll
Tell the sirens I’m a comin’
I’m a comin’ and they’ll see
I’m a comin’ and they’ll see
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2. |
Shadows of a Man
03:06
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I stood below the Lincoln
Lily white in a marble seat
He stood a trifle tall and so
They took him off his feet
The war has not been won he said
"The dyings just begun" he said
"The dying of our will to crawl
Up the ranks of men"
The shadows of a man will keep you guessing
The shadows of a man can take their toll
The shadows of a man can break your back then take your hand
But the shadows of your own can take you whole
I stood in a sea of stone-etched names
Some I recognized and others blurred into the same
Like the colors of a flag when all the red's run in the ground
A meadow bed of fallen men
Their shadows standing round
Standing in the shadows
Walking through their dust
Wading in the echoes
The shadows of a man can take their toll
But the shadows of your own can take you whole
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3. |
Tumwater
05:12
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That was just another thing that I lost in the fire
It settled in the ash and nail and a curl of barbed wire
And I haven't found the gold yet
Refined like I've been told yet
Here she is, a fires plunder, looking out a blackened glass
Spring is pouring out her tender but I've not the nerve to ask
See I haven't found the gold yet
Refined like I've been told yet
Ashes on ashes
Ten miles wide
Ashes on ashes
Ten miles deep
And I haven't found the gold yet
Refined like I've been told yet
I thought that I'd do better than this
I thought that I'd be better than this
I thought that I'd fare better than this
I fought and I lost and I cried
Ashes on ashes
Ten miles wide
Ashes on ashes
Ten miles deep
And I haven't found the gold yet
Refined like I've been told yet
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4. |
Tides Are For Sirens
05:00
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Which heartbeat is yours and which one is mine?
Am I the water, the mist, or the sky?
Your sorrow’s heavy here mingled with mine
And its lighter that way
Which voice is yours and which on is mine
Our songs by the sea, a blend of red wine
Tides are for sirens, for singing in time and
I’ll echo yours and you echo mine
And its lighter that way
It’s lighter that way
You take me in and I
I don’t know what to say
So I’ll hum here beside you now
And we’ll sing of the day
It’s lighter that way
I’ll echo yours and you echo mine
I’ll echo yours and you echo mine
I’ll echo yours and you echo mine
I’ll echo yours
Whose breath on the glass is blurring that light?
Long as we’re breathin’ we’ll do wrong and do right
I don’t wanna die but I don't wanna fight
So tell me your story and I’ll tell you mine
And its lighter that way
It’s lighter that way
You take me in and I
I don’t know what to say
So I’ll hum here beside you now
And we’ll sing of the day
It’s lighter that way
I’ll echo yours and you echo mine
I’ll echo yours and you echo mine
I’ll echo yours and you echo mine
I’ll echo yours
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5. |
Morning Star
04:13
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She walked along the seam of a roof
Arms stretched out to side and I wondered why
What a morning she said
Fog lay like lashes on a the quiet rye
to a wild eye
Don't fall
Don't fall
Please don't fall
Where the wild things close their yellow eyes
A boy a sailor becomes a king
Tows this heart near
On foreign seas here
But I'm losing line
Sure as the time
Don't fall
Don't fall
Please don't fall
Morning star rise up to meet me
Like a diamond in the dark
"Love like this" he said
"Love like ours fills the poets pages
paints those cavern walls"
Don't fall
Don't fall
Please don't fall
I walked along the seam of a roof
Arms stretched out to side
Like a dragon fly
If I fall
If I fall
If I fall
Hang my picture on the wall
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Days of Nights
05:15
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I don't remember much
But I still feel that floor
Cold on my face and alone as before
A swarm in my head of voices unkind
Some of them his and none of them mine
He said don't fight it
He said its too late
He said I'm just like the others
As he gave me away
To that red light
Where my days are made of nights and he said
"Won't nobody love you like this"
Touch the scar on my skin
Where the ink used to live
Said that I'm his for the take or the give
I took up the lies
All at once over time
Some of them his
And none of them mine
Would you take this
Would you take this cup from me
Touch the scar on my skin
Said I'm just like the others
Oh that red light
Not going back to that red light
I belong to me
I will walk through the fire into a new day
Oh I will walk through the fire into a new day
Would you take this
Would you take this cup from me
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7. |
Fireflies
04:04
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here come the fireflies
with their staccato lights
their tiny headlamps blinking
in silence through the tall grass
here come the fireflies
with their staccato lights
like constellations cut loose
cut loose from the night sky
here come the fireflies
with their staccato lights
see how desire transforms us
the plainest of us
here come the fireflies
with their staccato lights
flashes of insight that flare
for a moment
for a moment
for a moment
then flicker out
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Beth Whitney Leavenworth, Washington
About Beth Whitney....Husband/wife duo craft original wild folk from their homestead in the mountains of the Pacific Northwest. Their latest project, poised for release in the spring of 2017, takes the human heart through the darkly wooded wilderness into dappled high mountain meadows and back again. ... more
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