1. |
Open Mind
07:38
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With an open mind, you close the door
With an open mind, you close the door
We all have a dream so big
That pulls you in deep like the wind
Ain't it funny when the truth comes out
the moment is gone but the feeling lives on in your heart
Then with your open mind, you close the door
With your open mind, you close the door
It's like everything around us fades
Slowly the past leaves no trace
There’s no pilot to steer us to earth
But our historic greed and not a thing to concede that we've learned
With our open minds
We close the door
With our open minds
We close the door
When I turn to the love that we share
Feel a glow hovering there
I know that I can make this work
It's like something you plant and it grows and then it returns
With your open mind
You close the door
With your open mind
You close the door
I thought I saw the ghost of you
Could just make it out in the blue
But like everything else it went down
Is this how it feels when we sit by the edge and reach out
With our open minds
We close the door
With our open minds
We close the door
Maybe time is just the way you breathe
In like the sound of the sea
The trees growing out of the rain
Up to the sky in the blink of the eye of the hurricane
And with an open mind
You close the door
With an open mind
You close the door
And now I'm sitting with nothing to do
I can't relax till it's through
There's a part of me that can't understand
Why you retract from my hand it's alright it's alright
With my open mind
I close the door
With my open mind
I close the door...
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2. |
Remember the Song
04:31
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It started one night in a smokey old bar
I was dancing on tables my eyes like the stars
I was going to no where until you arrived
And the next thing I knew I had been hypnotized
We wandered the streets like lost little kids
Which is just what we were when it comes down to it
And when the sun woke us up tho the curtains were drawn
I played Jackson Browne and I remember the song
Oh won't you stay just a little bit longer
Won't you stay, say you will
Say you will
Now it's a Friday night and the time has flown by
I'm sitting on a table seeing myself in your eyes
And the mornings gonna come and the night's gonna fall
And the stars in the sky are watching over us all
Oh won't you stay just a little bit longer
Please please stay, say you will
Well it started one night
The time has flown by
I'm sitting on a table
Until you arrive
I have been
Hypnotized
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3. |
Something Beautiful
05:53
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Well I don't want to go downtown
I might never get back up again
I feel like I might come undone
I feel like I might see the end
You see there’s been this rumour
That you and I are on the downs
So I’m looking for the secret life you live
If only you were around
So throw my things in a pickup truck, drive these blues away,
cause we could be something beautiful
Oh I'm not telling you what I want, I'm telling you what I need,
Cause we could be something beautiful
All my days are coming apart
Since you left me in the dark
It's a different sort of misery
And it’s as far as the eye can see
You got this reputation
Now all is on the line
Try to get up in the morning and go to work
Pretending that I’m fine
So throw my things in a pickup truck, drive these blues away,
cause we could be something beautiful
Oh I'm not telling you what I want, I'm telling you what I need,
Cause we could be something beautiful
Well you don't have to be a genius
To know something is wrong
We don't have to be heroes all the time
But we can aim to be strong
We don’t have to agree on everything
But we can compromise
We don’t have to stand with the masses
We won’t know unless we try
So throw your things in my pickup truck, I'll drive your blues away,
cause we could be something beautiful
Oh I'm not telling you what I want, I'm telling you what I need,
Cause we could be something beautiful
No no no no
No no no no
No no no no
Yeah
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4. |
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Everything everything everything everything goes
Everything everything everything everything goes
everything goes I don’t know when
if we can try to hold on till then
everything goes I don’t know when
Suddenly suddenly suddenly change
Suddenly suddenly suddenly change
suddenly change, world upside down
Hold on to me and turn me around
Hold on to me and turn me around
Love is the real thing love is the real deal
Love is the real thing love is the real deal
Love is the thing that no one can stop
Avalanche love is the thing that we’ve got
Love is the thing that no one can stop
We don’t even understand
We don’t even understand
How we make this work
Everything everything everything everything goes
Everything everything everything everything goes
everything goes I don’t know when
if we can try to hold on till then
everything goes I don’t know when
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5. |
I Don't Recognize Myself
05:38
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Baby won’t you leave the light on for me
I will come stumbling home and I might need to see
I’m such a fool don’t know what I would do
If you were gone I couldn’t find my shoes
I don’t recognize myself in me at all
Somewhere up ahead I see a light come on
See you from the window looking down to the lawn
I’m so lucky to have found you
But this isn’t what it was you agreed to
I don’t recognize myself in me tonight
Wake up in the morning late is on time for me
You’re off early it’s a race to see you leave
Dream of jumping out the window
Catching you before you turn the keys to go
I don’t recognize myself in me sometimes
If you had it over would you still be mine
I need to know because I’m losing track of time
I’m so lucky to have found you
But this isn’t what it was you agreed to
Please help me recognize myself in me tonight
I have to cross this river or down I go
I could build a bridge but it will take time I know
Or I could swim into the current’s wrath
Muster up the courage to break its grasp
Or I won’t recognize myself in me anymore
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6. |
What I Came For
05:02
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You can strike me out and
Cast me down
You can always wear a big ol' frown
I will always be one to hear this voice
There will be no other choice
This is what I came for
This is what I’m here for
This is what I came for
This is what I’m here for
I know love
I know it can terrify
Love can look you up and in the eye
And it's a curious thing I know
To be scared of love
And curious things are what
We're dreaming of
This is what I came for
This is what I’m here for
This is what I came for
This is what I’m here for
Like a nomad I don't need a home
I got you and it's wherever I go
We got these secrets
Nearly every day
You are my lover
Just go easy on me
And if we don't stop the time
Who will?
Cause your heart is a heart like mine
Be still
This is what I came for
This is what I’m here for
This is what I came for
This is what I’m here for
This is what I came for
This is what I’m here for
This is what I came for
This is what I’m here for
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7. |
Open Mind (electric)
02:06
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With your open mind
You close the door
With your open mind
You close the door...
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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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