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Up In The Air
03:34
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I'm feeling so up in the air
I'm up in the air
I took the long way & sang my own song way too long
& it's a short view to settle in where you belong
You can't sing for your supper when nobody's buying
& everyone's lonely & everyone's crying
The grasshopper starves in the winter when the cupboard is bare
But I'm feeling so up in the air
Does anyone hear?
Does anyone care?
I'm up in the air
& what I do next
& what I do now
Is not here & not there
I hadn't started to feel heavy-hearted 'til now
& what I've got to show for the things that I know has run out
I'm not worried 'bout dying before I have lived
But I want to give all that I've got to give
A man who can sing what he thinks is exceedingly rare
But I'm feeling so up in the air
Does anyone hear?
Does anyone care?
I'm up in the air
& what I do next
& what I do now
Is not here & not there
I didn't plan to stay home
I didn't plan for my plans to be gone
I'll wait & I'll see
What a month on my own does to me
But as long as I'm singin', I'll still be content
Maybe I'll wonder where the money all went
I'll soar on a new set of wings if you'll loan me a pair
'Cause I'm feeling so up in the air
Does anyone hear?
Does anyone care?
I'm up in the air
& what I do next
& what I do now
Is not here & not there
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The Comforting Lies
02:52
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You think science is on your side
You think logic is at your back
& the fools who don't subscribe
Should be stretched out on the rack
But seperate the meaning from the midst of the repeating
You may find yourself surprised
In your eyes, you realize the big surprise
The comforting lies
What is loved is never right
What is right is never done
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3. |
Livingstone
04:29
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It's been a while, so I thought I would drop you a line
I miss you, so I thought I'd play something you'd like
I'm not doing as well as I'd planned
& of anyone, I thought you'd be the one to understand
Livingstone
She's still with me, yeah we get along fine
But she's not with me right now
I never wanted our paths to converge
But I've got to go on & make it somehow
Just like on the day we set off alone
On this journey you left me to finish out all on my own
Livingstone
I see you in photographs & when I close my eyes
I know you can hear me, I know you'd want to sympathize
People are listening, but don't hear a word that I say
It's hard to blame them, I know that I'd feel the same way
No one knows me like I knew you
You always could keep me from giving up
In that way you used to do
Livingstone
It wasn't fair; what was taken was never returned
& I'm left to remember a lesson that I never learned
Our day in the sun never will come
But I won't forget you, Livingstone
It's been a while, so I thought I would drop you a line
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4. |
December Bride
03:12
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Life is not a race
Love is not a song
You can spend your whole life writing words
& sing them wrong
But you are like a dream
I had when I was young
& if it took a year of trying
I'll tell you how you bring me home
December bride, sweet as cider
December bride, sweeter than wine
I'm sorry for the time it took to bring this love to life
But I will always love you, my December bride
I thought I was alone
I thought it was too late
Turned out the fear I'd failed
Was just my own mistakes
You wake me in the day
You hold me in the night
You're patient when I'm not
& tell me everything's all right
December bride, sweet as cider
December bride, sweeter than wine
I'm sorry for the time it took to bring this love to life
But I will always love you, my December bride
Sometimes it takes a lot of time to do the right things right
But I will always love you, my December bride
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Quicksilver
05:20
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I'm here, but I don't want to be
Your face is clear and then so hard to see
You're warm, but cold
As quicksilver
I'll give all that you require
You are all that I desire
What you are to me
Is changing every day
Like quicksilver
Is it too much to ask or to little to give?
I'd do it myself to learn to forgive
I'm holding you now
But letting you go
My quicksilver
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6. |
Don't Drink & Dial
04:21
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Sittin' on a bed with a bottle in my hand
& a guitar playin' songs that I don't know
Heard you got another man & I would wish you all the best
But I'm happier to pretend that I don't know
So what's so great about moving on?
I ain't never been a quitter
& I thought you might like to know
& hey, I just had a thought
Maybe we could get together
Could you tell me your answer please...wait
Baby, I don't want to know
Lyin' on the floor with the bottle on my head
& a notebook full of words I didn't say
I bet you're pretty glad, yeah, I bet you're doin' fine
& I bet that you won't call me back today
So what's so great about letting go?
I ain't never been an expert
But I thought you might like to know
& hey, hey, hey, I'm not okay
Think I'll have a nervous breakdown
Anything to lighten up a dull afternoon
Baby, I don't want to know
Guess you could call me dedicated
You can call me what you will
I see the truth here pretty plainly
I'm just a drunkard with a phone
Couldn't leave you well enough alone
Sorry to bother
Now where's that bottle?
So what's so great about me & you?
Maybe it's just the whiskey talkin'
But I thought you'd still like to know
& hey, one more for the road
From my bed into the closet
Where I'll pass out & pretend
That I don't know
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7. |
Grey Today
02:39
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I'm feeling a little bit grey today
Subdued, reserved, depressing
& just a little bit depressed
All the ins & outs of grey are what I feel
I'm feeling a little bit grey today
Just a little bit grey today
I feel grey
Not anything dramatic as a melencholy thrill of gothic black
Or bittersweet & sexy like a howling blue
Just grey today
I'm feeling grey today
It could be the weather
Which is also grey
Or my recent complicated troubles in love
Grey as well
I blame lack of direction
But these are really just guesses
Lacking in substance & thought
Barely educated
Not remotely educational
Or enlightened
Or corporeal
Or whatever
Grey
I'm feeling a little bit grey today
'til I think about tomorrow with you
Until then
I'll be a grey shape in a grey sky
Colored grey
& casting a grey shadow
On the grey, grey ground
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I'm being pulled by a horse called time
But he does not know my plans
When I'm standing on certainty
I feel he does not understand
Of everything you touch
Surely everything can't turn to gold & now
I think I've said too much
Of everything I've said today
Here we go again
Here we go again
We never want our lives to change
Here we go again
Here we go again
Wanting everything to stay the same
I'm following a boat called life
But I cannot see the course
& the hand that holds the wheel
Is guided by uncertain force
& everything you know
Falls apart as time descends & you
Try to pick it up
Glue together fraying ends
Here we go again
Here we go again
We never want our lives to change
Here we go again
Here we go again
Wanting everything to stay the same
Though I've tried to change my views
They still remain the same
Though I've tried to change my life
I still play this game with it
Here I go again
Here I go again
I never want my life to change
Here I go again
Here I go again
Wanting everything to stay the same
I'm being pulled by a horse called time...
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9. |
Jury
04:15
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I didn't get my say
I didn't even get to say a thing
A verdict was pronounced
& suffer my defense
A negligible negligence to anyone but me
& you won't see my side
'Cause you are my jury
You've decided & then given up on me
You are my jury
So lock me up & throw away the key
& my plea
Now you walk away
You walk into a lonely, uninhabitable space
I walk away as well
Discarding any hope of ever getting through to you
A decision underdue
'Cause you are my jury
You've decided & then given up on me
You are my jury
So lock me up & throw away the key
& my plea
Let's have no regrets & no judgements
No regrets & no judgements
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10. |
Break Your Heart
06:05
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To grow is to change
As ebb is to flow
One thing stays the same
One of us will go
I am just like you
A ghost in a machine
Temporary certainties
Dancing on moonbeams
The space between my love & me is the hardest part
Our shared discrepencies will break your heart
I push into your space
You pull me after you
What matters is replaced
Life begins anew
We bend in different ways
Sleep in different times
Sending all our days
Into the great divine
The end's beginning seems to stop & start
New woundings to old dreams will break your heart
Time has lead us here
You will always be my friend
One of us will leave
But I'll see you again
The act of drawing close
Pushes you away
The foolish dreamer tries
To reach for yesterday
I'll dry the tears you cry when we're apart
I'll stay with you & try to break your heart
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11. |
Swingin' & Swayin'
03:41
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(instrumental)
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12. |
Offering
03:54
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These things take time
I'll be honest
When you worry about me when I'm gone
These things take trust
Just be patient
I'm smart enough to know what I've got
Perfection
When I see you
& when I don't
When you speak
I dream
& it's you
& I know
What I've got to lose
I know what I've got to lose
I'm a loser if I lose sight
Of what I've got to lose
You are what I've got to lose
& there's no way I'm leaving you tonight
Or ever
Can I recall any woman
Who made me feel quite the same way?
No I cannot quite recall them
Can't even remember their names
When I see you
You are the only woman I've loved
When I don't
The same is true
Because I know
What I've got to lose
I know what I've got to lose
I'm a loser if I lose sight
Of what I've got to lose
You are what I've got to lose
& there's no way I'm leaving you tonight
Or ever
Forever together
& never to sever
This clever endeavor of love
My love
My only love
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Dale Wicks Grand Rapids, Michigan
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