1. |
Through
03:24
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THROUGH
There’s a thread that runs through
Now and then, I and you
Sometimes, in a flash
We see how it weaves between
All that we’ve tried to be
And all that we do
There’s a will that runs through
How time unfolds, how life moves
Sometimes, in a flash
We see that we must release
Our grasp let this force unseen
Carry us through
What do I know, what do I know?
When we’re lost and alone we are prone
To believe almost anything
What do I know, what do I know?
It may be ‘til we need to believe
We can’t really see anything.
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2. |
What Do You Do
03:08
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What Do You Do?
What do you do when everything you need
Is not enough?
What do you do when you can’t just be at peace
Though you think you should?
Do you drop with shame
To your knees and pray
Repent like it’s a sin
Or does within discomfort’s whisper
Lie wisdom?
What do you do when everything you need
Is not enough?
What do you do when the plans you make succeed
And your soul just shrugs?
Do you turn away
Cling to maps made yesterday
By who you’ve been
Or flirt with that still, small voice
From within?
Most days
I’m living somewhere
Between mask and face
Half awake…..I hesitate…..
What do you do when everything you need
Is not enough?
What do you do when you can’t just be at peace
Though you think you should
…and you know you could…but would that be good?
Is this an itch that should be scratched or just withstood?
Though you think you should … and you know you could
But would that be good? Is this a bait and hook?
Is this an itch that should be scratched or just withstood?
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3. |
Waiting
04:28
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WAITING
Some say life is a roller-coaster ride, but they leave out all the standing in line
With no end in sight and the nagging feeling that there might be
Better ways to spend our earthly time
But where to this vague inkling leads eludes me and provokes me
A mosquito in a dark room as I try to fall asleep
Goading me to try to find the answer to a question ill-defined
By a restless mind
I’m waiting – oooh I’m waiting
For replies to letters that I never send
Waiting – oooh I’m waiting
Waiting to be found or born again
Some say life is a nasty brutish fight and the best that we can do is just survive
No magic in the sky making everything alright
No dream from which to wake and spring to life
Is the place I stand a summit reached or sly seductress lulling me to sleep
A done to-do list life, a brief and hollow peace
It feels I’m caught in a tension taut
Between reaching heart and cautious thought
With a looming, ticking clock
I’m waiting – oooh I’m waiting
For replies to letters that I never send
Waiting – oooh I’m waiting
Waiting to be found or born again
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5. |
Fall Together
04:16
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FALL TOGETHER
So tired of leavings
Always somebody walking away
Or watching my train pull off
In September, middle of the day
So tired of love
With a bad sense of timing
Love with a bad sense of humour
But somehow it all falls together
When it seems to fall apart
And although I'm dirty tired
The sleep just won't start
So tired of secrets told too late
Long after the best-before date
So tired of words
Words that never come
Words that complicate
Words that come out wrong
Words that draw blood from me
But somehow it all falls together
When it seems to fall apart
And although I'm dirty tired
The sleep just won't start
So tired of thinking
Intelligence seems to be
The ability to create problems of nothing
These days
So tired of time
Slipping away
Or screaming from tomorrow
Can't hear the music today
But somehow it all falls together
When it seems to fall apart
And although I'm dirty tired
The sleep just won't start
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6. |
Stalemate
04:05
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STALEMATE
I know I can always depend on you
To always depend on me
I’m growing weary of living alone
At the end of this one way street
On the day we were married you looked in my eyes and said
Your love don’t keep score, it is patient and kind
When you wanted my beauty, you offered the world
So please deliver to the woman
What you promised the girl
We need a new coat of paint
All of our colours are fading
From the wind and the rain
Of this lonely stalemate
Withheld love is a prison with no lessons to teach
Seeing only the crime, not the reasons beneath
How long will we linger in this fermenting pain
As our hopes of revival are slipping away?
We need a new coat of paint
All of our colours are fading
From the wind and the rain
Of this lonely stalemate
We need a new coat of paint
All of our colours are fading
Is it time, should we break
This lonely stalemate?
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7. |
Spring Thaw
03:13
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SPRING THAW
As the snow melts away
Revealing the decay
Of words and deeds gone unforgiven
Early spring’s mud and grey
As we ache for brighter days
With tired hope wounded but living
Darling, there are seasons to our love
The wheel still spins so please have faith my love
When we reach the deep lush days
Of summer’s warm embrace
We need not cling as they’re receding
For just like winters, summers fade
Deep love and rich lives shift and change
And then we grow through these concedings
For darling, there are seasons to our love
No need to fear, our roots run deep my love
For darling, there are seasons to our love
When the harsh winds blow, what we’ve built will hold my love
As the leaves fall away
In the crisp chill of autumn days
Feels like both ending and beginning
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8. |
End of Summer
03:47
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END OF SUMMER
Every year when end of summer rolls around
I’m reminded of a darkness all around
That we tell ourselves as long as we don’t stray
From the good path it will never come our way
You said “Y’know sometimes there’s things you just gotta do”
Even though it tears the heart right out of you
Though you knew just what you had before it was gone
It’s cold comfort on this new road you must walk
Every year when end of summer rolls around
I’m reminded how they lined the streets of this town
For our sad parade in solidarity
Such a human act of beautiful futility
You said “Nothing good can come of this to me”
No gathered, lowered heads could disagree
Though we saw the very depths of what we can be
We also saw the heights that love can reach
We don’t now how we carry on.
Though we don’t know how…..we carry on
We don’t know how….but we carry on
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9. |
Suspension
02:34
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Daniel Raymond Oshawa, Ontario
Daniel Raymond is a singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist based in Oshawa, Ontario, Canada.
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