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The Calculating Boy
02:52
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He was the calculating boy
He had very little joy from any toy that wasn’t numbers
He added figures in his head long ago and now he’s dead
That’s what they said; eternal slumber
And will you be there when it counts?
It’s adding up in large amounts
You never know just when I’ll pounce, you’ll see
A calculating boy
She was a scrawny little weed
Full of of dandelion seed, what she needed was to scatter
She had a way of running wild
Ever since she was a child she often smiled, mind over matter
And when the young girls start to twitch
And everyone begins to itch
That’s when they hang you as a witch, just ask
A calculating boy
If you looked right into the mirror
Would I suddenly appear, would all you fear turn into fiction
I never was afraid of ghosts
but the thing that worries most is how the post becomes addiction
A snake from Gloucester to Land’s End
Will slither faster than your friend
And who’s that coming round the bend? They’ll see
The calculating boy
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Changeling
02:35
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You’re a gray-headed cousin of a hooded crow
I’m a May-feted mother of the woods you know
Wellspring
Primeval everything
Like the sun already burning at the break of dawn
Like a salmon returning to the place of spawn
In dreams
Oceans to streams
You’re a strange thing
I’m a changeling!
--
I was born in the center of an epic flood
As I struggled to the surface through the rain and mud
I cried
On the turning tide
I was laid in a bed of abalone shell
And the waves did rock me in a gentle swell
It’s fine
I’m a water sign
I’m a strange thing
You’re a changeling!
When the world is overwhelming and the water’s wide
Gonna dig a secret tunnel, crawl inside to hide
And wait
Hope it’s not too late
And it’s hard to bridge the gap between the how and the why
But you never make a difference if you never try
So there
It’s alright to care
We are strange things
We are changelings!
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The Accepted Time
03:17
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The path
down Eagle Hill
Like a river, like a winding tributary to the sea
And the the sea’s the town
on a busy morning
or a quiet afternoon
I hold your hand and hope you’ll understand I need to
Feel your fingers wrapped around mine, please
Yes, I know, that life means letting go but I will
Hold on just a little longer
Our feet
upon the leaves
That have fallen over night while we were sleeping and the sign
We stop to read
In the churchyard
right beside the open gate
Make the time for trees you long to climb and make me
take the time to be there with you, please
Count the bells, we pass by Mt. Carmel and look up
Find the North Star and Orion
Walk
alongside me
If I hurry, tell me ‘wait,’ to go more slowly
Now
is the accepted time
And a walk home
can be a world its own.
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The Lilac Line
02:42
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I woke up to a space in the ceiling in the shape of a circle that lets the sunlight in
I spoke up to let you know how I was feeling, I wouldn't let you go to work ill or let the gunfight win
You said I know that we'll be fine riding the Lilac Line
I know that there's still good deep in the Dersingham wood
Little Apple, I could live forever in you
I woke up to the scent of eucalyptus or the sound of ukuleles, lost in the Dreamtime again
And someday I'll say exactly what I'm thinking, make you spit out the tea you're drinking, and then it's tea time again
I said I know that we'll be fine riding the Lilac Line
I know that there's still good deep in the Dersingham wood
Lolly Leopard, I could live forever with you
Snowdrop, bluebell
Grow up, do well
If I could freeze this moment like an insect in the amber
fossilize the way your eyes light up, your voice's timbre
Well...
Little Apple, I could live forever in you
Lolly Leopard, I could live forever with you
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Loma Alta
03:59
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Lay me under the bay leaves and redwoods again
There used to be a train
I’m a hundred years in vain
Lay me under the bay leaves and redwoods again
There used to be a train
(Landsdale, Yolanda)
I’m a hundred years in vain
(Landsdale, Yolanda)
I want to wander down Fox Hollow Trail again
Above the water tower
In the golden hour
I want to wander down Fox Hollow Trail again
Past the water tower
(Loma Alta)
In the golden Hour
(Loma Alta)
Lead me past the pavilion and deer park again
All along the brook
Berries and a book
Lead me past the pavillion and deer park again
(Arequipa)
All along the brook
(Cascade Canyon)
blackberries and a book
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Sisters of the Pollen
02:43
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Sisters of the pollen, calling calling
Sisters of the pollen, calling
Sisters of the queen cup, golden mean cup
Sisters of the queen cup calling
Hum hum hum
The moments come and then they fly
Hum hum swarm
The sun so warm, so bright the sky
Sisters of the nectar, don’t reject her
Sisters of the nectar, humming
Sisters of the honey have begun the
Sisters of the honey drumming
Hum hum hum
Vibrating from inside the hive
Hum hum hum
It must be something so alive, they call us
Sisters of the pollen, calling calling
Sisters of the pollen, calling
Sisters of the queen cup, golden mean cup
Sisters of the queen cup calling
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Wren in the Rain
03:32
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Summer men with autumn names
Say spring will cure what winter maims
It’s what the decomposed remains suggest
An autumn man with summer’s face
Will come to take his father’s place
And there but for the god of grace I guess
Goes a wren in the rain, a wren in the rain
Again and again like a wren in the rain
You build your home inside a fish
Close your eyes and make a wish
Imagine all the visions you will see
You take a stick, you take a twig
And hope will bloom from every sprig
Maybe someday you’ll take the whole tree
Like a wren in the rain, a wren in the rain
Again and again like a wren in the rain
No one’s alone the way we’re alone
No one’s afraid the way we’re afraid
You sense the spring is coming soon
You chart the phases of the moon
You send up your weather balloon and pray
They say this winter can’t last long
Reverberating like a gong
You’ve fluffed up all your feathers wrong today
Like a wren in the rain, a wren in the rain
Again and again like a wren in the rain
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Goodguy Sun
04:09
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Skylarks of Britain
04:08
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Rosie Abbott had a rabbit in the library
Cosy habits, books, oh yeah, but also songs lovely
And, oh, how we loved to sing ‘em, traveled all the way to Bingham
Just for lovely Rosie’s rabbit in the library
Lorna Morris sang the chorus in the grocery
Cooking for us, tea she’d pour us, get our toast for free
And, oh, anyone who heard would travel all the way to Birdwood
Just for lovely Lorna’s chorus in the grocery
All you skylarks of Britain, high marks are written for you
All you bright druid daughters, write fluid waters anew
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Lord Richard
03:55
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A cleansing breeze from across the sky
And a golden wind will purify
And will we sink or will we fly?
Roses around Lord Richard
The tribe has spoken and voted me
The one most likely to hug a tree
Gotta take that title seriously
Roses around Lord Richard
A captive heart in a wild born
Needs a place to start and space to mourn
A blooming flower, a hidden thorn
Roses around Lord Richard
We can keep our secrets or confess
Let the pieces rot or coalesce
But we need someone to sweep up our mess
Roses around Lord Richard
With our aching bones or our feelings hurt
With a steady drone or a sharp alert
Hope to come out clean from a bed of dirt
Roses around Lord Richard
Roses around Lord Richard
Carrion
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