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Give You Everything
02:19
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Palm Sunday I kissed your ear
Didn’t whisper sweet nothings
Couldn’t find a single word
Thoughts I was juggling
I had no idea
All I was promising
Only you on my mind
for the next three mornings
I’ll give you everything
It’s all I got left
Nothing but everything
to the one I love best
Small apartment, we barely fit
Two people, too many things
Had to lay down the past
Had to be forgiving
We found … our space
No longer fumbling
We found … a place
For every little thing
I’ll give you everything
And nothing less
Nothing but everything
to the one I love best
We named our own constellations in the night sky (together)
We can have everything, we can have forever
If we quiet our doubts and pull the right lever
Everything ventured
I’ll give you everything
And nothing less
I’ll give everything
to the one I love best
I’ll give you everything
And nothing less
I’ll give everything
to the one I love best
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2. |
If You Knew Me
02:32
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You think you know me
But I can't reveal
The howling winds my heart conceals
The tides that rise, I float on top
Will it ever, ever stop?
You think you know me
Why can’t you see
This grey cloud it smothers me
The wind that knocks, it knocks me down
The storm surge I must not drown
I won’t turn away If you can stand
The shrieking sounds Inside my head
I won’t turn away This time
If there’s a chance that you’ll be mine
If you knew me Would you believe
Would you take The journey with me
You say I glow With happiness
Can you feel the stone In my chest
If you knew me (If you knew me)
If you knew me (If you knew me)
If you knew me, would you stay
I promise I won’t turn away
If you knew me, would you stay
I promise I won’t turn away
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3. |
Violet Cusp
02:50
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Graduation day, I get you to smile
Though you never blush, and it takes a while
Mouth like a sailor with the sweetest grin
A pretty girl with pretty thick skin
Violet cusp of twilight
Early June, backyard barbeque
Before too long, I’m next to you
Without trying, we gravitate
End up talking till it starts getting late
Violet cusp of twilight
On the cusp of violet July
Maxfield Parrish hues paint the sky
In a flash I turn to you
Amazed to see, you see it too
Violet cusp of twilight
Summer’s edge, irreversible slide
Brilliant weather, walks on the riverside
Something beginning, wild and strange
A seismic shift that goes unnamed
Violet cusp of twilight
Seeing life in a new light
Violet cusp of July
Seeing us in a new light
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4. |
Ship that Sailed
02:57
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I turn on the TV, there you are
Confident and certain
Like a general adding another star
A prodigy bow after the curtain
I don’t know if you still come home
To visit your old town
You were outta here like a cigarette boat
While the rest of us were settling down
I dreamed about a ship that sailed
And left me on the shore
One day the waves it left behind
Will rock my dreams no more
Do you remember fishing boats
And smells of lakeshore summer
And doctor’s notes and a town afraid
That it was going under?
I dreamed about a ship that sailed
And left me on the shore
One day the waves it left behind
Will rock my dreams no more
I dreamed about a ship that sailed
And left me on the shore
One day the waves it left behind
Will rock my dreams no more
Will rock my dreams no more
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5. |
Rattle of the Rails
03:35
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I’m pulling this train
Through the dust
The engine and transmission
Have gone to rust
Your burdens make
You whine and moan
But this weight fills
My vacant bones
And the rattle of the rails is the only hymn
That still gets under my skin
That Sisyphus
Got nothing on me
I’ll roll this stock
Until I’m free
Grease the rails
With oil and honey
I do this for love
Not for money
And the rattle of the rails is the only hymn
That still gets under my skin
Asked the desert
For a vision
In the distance
Water glistened
Can’t quench my thirst
At any station
The journey is
My destination
And the rattle of the rails is the only hymn
That still gets under my skin
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6. |
See You Again
04:09
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Remembering our misspent youth
How we painted that town chartreuse
With our friends all doing the same
Hearts and neighborhoods burning flame
We went our ways as people do, lives and jobs and revenue
No goodbyes and no amends
We knew we’d see each other again
I still have those old mixtapes
They’re just about to disintegrate
We dug the Meters in that old Chevy
Parked way up high on the levee
Pounding rhythm two by two, nights and years and me and you
We had nothing but time to spend
Every week we’d do it again
We let the bon temps rouler
We rolled your brother’s Chevrolet
And oh, there was hell to pay
I wish you didn’t live so far away
Grown up now and working hard, we got full dance cards
If there was time I’d jump the fence
And I would go to see you again
One day I got unstuck
I bought that ticket and called you up
We gonna roll down Royal Street
Catch up on stories and skip the sleep
Crazy and I still rendezvous, you’re the one I want to tell it to
Look at us now, grey old friends
It will be good to see you again
It will be good to see you again
Slow down, cher, don’t move too fast, step with me into the past
It will be good to see you again
Dancing to the zydeco, Clifton Chenier from long ago
It’s so damn good to see you again
Where y’at, where ya been, let’s go for another spin
It’s so damn good to see you again
We sat by that river slow and wide
Talking through our deep divide
Caught Rebirth Brass at the Maple Leaf
Missing old friends who came to grief
At the Union Terminal we stayed too late
To plot, scheme and calculate
How long until the very last train
How long till I can see you again?
How long till I can see you again, how long, how long till I can see you again ….
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