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Baby
04:12
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Can't wait for you to see this place
Maybe you can feel the water on your mother's skin
Maybe you can hear your father's voice
Or the barking dog when the boat comes in
I can see you building castles in the sand
Build them up high like only you can
Build them to the heavens where your auntie stands
Build them with imagination and your bare hands
You'll be mesmerized by the swaying tree tops
The wind that blows so hard across the lake
The fire burning brightly in the wood stove
The love we all have for you to take
Your mind will surely drift just like a cedarstrip
Adrift on spirits calling out your name
Down comes the danger and up go the flames
Changing forever but always the same
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Behind The Rain Clouds
04:12
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On a scale of 1 to 10 I am a 9
Nine for all the times I made you cry
Try to see the stillness in your eyes
Behind the rain clouds are blue skies
A friend of mine was sitting on a dream
Inside a window well it seems
I saw it in his eyes at seventeen
Hiding there but wanting to be seen
Hope is like a sign along the way
Giving you direction to your day
Sometimes they don't mean just what they say
Throw you like a stone into the lake
Hope...
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Great Depth Of Water
06:11
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Great depth of water
Black under blue skies
Ripples from the wind blow
Like children's distant cries
Boy leans on the fencepost
Linking to forever more
A father's eyes are broken
He's been here before
I tried so hard to hold it
But the flood came on so hard
The wall of water grabbed me
And made me a floating guard
Your childhood still moves me
As I grow old with time
And you remain the young one
Holding stars inside my mind
I called you when I came out
On the steps down in queens park
Our conversation lingers
And the feelings left a mark
I don't know where you are now
I don't know where you'll be
I know from where you came
And the day you walked with me
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Oh yeah she's a lot like you but I wouldn't kiss her
Oh yeah she's a lot like you but I wouldn't miss her
Like the way I'm missing you
And the things we like to do together
Oh yeah she's a lot like you but I wouldn't kiss her
Oh yeah she's a lot like you but I wouldn't miss her
Cause you're the only girl
With whom I want to see the world
To be places I've never been
To see places I've never seen
Oh yeah
Oh yeah she's a lot like you but I wouldn't kiss her
Oh yeah she's a lot like you but I wouldn't miss her
Like the way I'm missing you
And the things we like to do together
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5. |
Pang For You
06:38
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Watched a movie the other day
About real things that were blown away
Went up to bed and made love to you
Where the walls were on fire and the ceiling too
You can block it out so easy these days
Just plug in your ears and it will all be erased
Will all these devices merge into one
So we'll never look up for the setting sun
In the movie the scenes were the same
The people were different and the dust fell like rain
We talked of the world like it just got reviewed
And there was nothing that anyone of us could do
Once in a while I'll get this pang for you
I'll tremble inside like it's something new
And the night falls softly on the chosen few
And black emerges from the deepest blue
Right now in some dark back alley of man
A kid feels his way through a garbage can
And in jungles so deep that you can't see the land
A civilization is just running to stand
You can block it out so easy these days
Just plug in your ears and it will all be erased
Centuries decades and years went and came
And we never looked up to see the change
Once in a while I'll get this pang for you
I'll tremble inside like it's something new
And the night falls softly on the chosen few
And black emerges from the deepest blue
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6. |
Patchwork
05:54
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It's a habit
It's a patchwork
It's sporadic
It's a love I have
Lonely river boats
Some will stay afloat
Some will call this home
Some will stink like stones
Baby you've got a spring in your step these days
And I can't find a pick me up but I'm trying
Oh I'm trying
It's a habit...
Had a dream last night
I was young maybe just five
I was swinging from a rope
All the people gave me hope
Baby you've got a spring in your step these daysAnd I can't find a pick me up but I'm trying
Oh I'm trying
It's a habit...
There was grampa and his stache
And all the colours seems to match
And my sisters on the ground
No longer are around
Baby you've got a spring in your step these daysAnd I can't find a pick me up but I'm trying
Oh I'm trying
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7. |
Silver Angel
10:56
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Silver angel - wish I had you - flying in the night
Take my insides - turn them out - that don't make it right
I like your spirit when I'm failing you
They can't count you out you know you put in the long long hours
Ain't nothing like your spirit when I'm failing you
Wish I could help you out but I'm under you
All these stories - will they come true - and what happens if they do
It's like hell now - when you're away - and that's my point of view
I like your spirit when I'm failing you
They can't count you out you know you put in the long long hours
Ain't nothing like your spirit when I'm failing you
Wish I could help you out but I'm under you
You asked what I wanted
But I just couldn't describe it
And that's my everyday now
That's my everyday now
When will it stop no one knows
How high will it rise? How low will it go?
When no one knows when will it stop
You train your whole life and never reach the mountaintop
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Sunrise
04:05
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Do you ever spend the night in the rain?
The sky falling down brings it all back again
You can taste it
It's everlasting
You can waste it
You don't know what you're missing
Do you ever spend the day in a dream?
Caught between two lives on the balance beam
You don't know it
But you are my sunrise
Come up slowly
Rising in my burning eyes
You know these rocks were made from the sand
And the confusion inside I don't understand
We are lonely
We thought we had it all
Here's the number
You gotta give it a call
This is the loneliest day I've found
This is the loneliest day I've found
You can taste it
It's everlasting...
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9. |
Tawantinsuyu's Daughter
06:47
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500 years ago down in Peru
I met a gorgeous woman there with stones in her shoes
She said she'd always wanted to be
A runner in the Andes
I thought she was crazy but she proved me wrong
She went up and down the mountain
With a message for the emperor she served
Still I can't get over her and all the things she did
She took me to the plaza when I was just a kid
We rode on llama back
Up the mountain path
I wish I had asked if she would marry me
She went up and down the mountain
With a message for the emperor she served
She died in 1500 before the Spaniards came
She was only 20 and I don't recall her name
They say that when the stones are thrown
Someone dies inside
I remember hiding
When they took her body down
She went up and down the mountain
With a message for the emperor she served
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Geoff Burgess Ottawa, Ontario
Geoff Burgess is a singer-songwriter in Ottawa, Ontario, who writes songs about love, loss, time, and the natural world.
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