1. |
Goodbye Birdie
02:44
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Goodbye Birdie
This wind is cold, the snow will soon be coming
As you see the season change
you know you cannot stay
Bye bye birdie
Time to fly away
Goodbye Birdie
Sing your melody from the top of the trees
As your song begins to fade
Another starts to play
Bye bye birdie
You can fly away
Goodbye Birdie
The evening sun will always fall to the sea
In the morning you’ll awake
Everything will be the same
Bye bye birdie
Time to fly away
Goodnight Birdie
Close your eyes, forget about your worries
‘Cause like a nest is not a cage
True love is not afraid
Bye bye birdie
Won’t you fly away?
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2. |
Far More
03:26
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Cold in the morning
warns me that the winter's drawing near,
and the empty spaces in my pockets
warn me that I'm in for one hard year.
I ain't paying taxes
'cause I don't even make enough to file,
and though I may complain from time to time, I'm feeling fine
because you seem to think I'm worth your while.
I ain't got nothin'
but they got nothin' on me just the same,
because the empty space between your arms
is far more than I'd ever hoped to claim.
Warm was the evening
that I first saw your sweet and lovely face,
and the smile that thawed me out of all my debt and all my doubt
and left a burning ember in their place.
I ain't got nothin'
but they got nothin' on me just the same,
because the empty space between your arms
is far more than I'd ever hoped to claim.
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3. |
Blue
03:08
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Blue
I didn’t want to say I missed you
But since the clouds went away
I’ve been gray
Blue
Won’t you tell me that it’s true
When you say all I need is in you
Blue
I can’t be no yellow
I can’t be no green
I can’t relate to a shade that I don’t see
Blue
My eyes are dry
It’s time to cry
Do what you do to me
Blue
I can’t ever be trusted
Alone in my head
May my eyes be adjusted
‘Cause all I see is red
Blue,
I’ve been told that it takes two
But I can’t mix any other hue
With you, my Blue
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4. |
Another Shore
03:32
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When I was young
Running for the morning light
Time wasn’t burning
Now the sun’s come and gone
My river is moving on
The hour is turning
These days slip away
With every wave
That grabs at the sand
There is land below the ocean
Reaching toward another shore
And the motion of the water
Will carry us there for sure
Lost in it all
Caught among the misery
Life has to offer
Feeling like an unknown
Just another lonely soul
Sailing these waters
Nobody’s alone
We’re bound in a row
All born to be sand
There is land below the Ocean
Reaching toward another shore
And the motion of the water
Will carry us there for sure
Our lives slip away
With every wave
That grabs at the sand
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5. |
A Silver Line of Peace
03:21
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I’ve been waiting on the world
To shine down
A silver line of peace
A strand that I could climb
And leave behind
This restless body
But every time I look around
I never think to see
Into my own mind, my own heart
For some kind of sanctity
If I don’t love (who’s gonna love you?)
If I can’t stay calm (best expect the storm)
If I don’t say what’s really on my mind
I’d be a fool to let the world do most the talking all the time
People often say that the city
Is full of life
With it’s wide angle lens
It’s easy to get caught up in its light
But if I’m still long enough
A great unraveling
Calling out from the emptiness
No, I never had to leave
If I don’t love (who’s gonna love you?)
If I can’t stay calm (best expect the storm)
If I don’t say what’s really on my mind
I’d be a fool to let the world do most the talking all the time
I know her voice was made
To help this world shine
Those old choices were made
To keep her life in line
But if they do no good
How good can they really be?
I find that if I listen
All the answers come to me
If I learn to love
If I can stay calm
If I can say what’s really on my mind
Won’t need the world to do the talking any of the time
I don’t need the world to do the talking any of the time
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6. |
Siren Song
01:02
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Thought I found my love
waving like the sea.
She sang a siren song,
so out of key.
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7. |
Can't Express
04:26
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Told my tongue to be sharp, told my mouth to be clean
Told me how to believe in the things that I've seen
Told me all of the words I should say
made the wind and the water to blow me away
but my ship won't sail beyond these simple machines
Had a reason to live, had a reason to stay
Had a reason to give but I gave it away
I'll atone in the course of a minute
if I can believe in the way that you spin it
but bless the breath that's saved is all I can say
Go to sleep, close your eyes
Don't believe the lies
Can't express emptiness
from which love may rise
Built a tower for you and I loved it so well
hanging off of the edge 'til I finally fell
All I could think as my body did fly
was about all the things that I left in the sky
When I hit the ground it rang just like a bell
Go to sleep, close your eyes
don't believe the lies
Can't express emptiness
from which love may rise
See me lifting you up
while you're draggin me down, down, down, down
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8. |
Ain't No Use
03:13
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My darling, my love
The night has grown thick
Thick with desire and temptation
And in my mind
Your memory does live
Constantly luring me to the sea
But I can’t ever get to you
And if I get to you, you’ll only bring me down
Your infectious touch
numbs me like a drug
And there ain’t no use in keeping this around
I’ve thought many times
‘bout what I might say
If we should ever part
That look in your eye
Has lead me astray
There’s nothing real that I ever did see
But I can’t ever get to you
And if I get to you, you’ll only bring me down
Don’t fool yourself into
Believing that this is love
And there ain’t no use in keeping this around
But I can’t ever get to you
And if I get to you, you’ll only bring me down
I’ve held you near and you whispered in my ear
That there ain’t no use in keeping this around
There ain’t no use in keeping you around
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9. |
Sun Shine Down My Way
03:24
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10. |
For Lysie
02:31
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Listen hard to the words that I say
'cause someday I won't be around
Little darling, don't fly away
but don't keep your feet on the ground
There are people I've known
so stuck to the ground that they're stone
heavy and cold
Held in place by the weight of their fears
in the counting of years
they can only grow old
So listen hard to the words that I say
'cause someday I won't be around
Little darling, don't fly away
but don't keep your feet on the ground
I've seen people I love
go off flying too close to the sun
and downward they come
Blown away by a hunger so deep
A mind that's asleep
needs no reason to run
So listen hard to the words that I say
'cause someday I won't be around
Little darling, don't fly away
but don't keep your feet on the ground
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