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Changing of the Guard
05:23
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I made a promise to a stranger
To be a perfect kind of slave
Before the century’s dead,
you’ll get it back, is what she said,
Because you gave it all away
Do you know how much I love my mother
And I wear my father’s father’s hat
It fill my head with softness,
I am the keeper of this
Safe haven that I always have
There is a passage to a perfect place
There is a changing of the guard but I keep the same face
There is a changing of the guard but you misunderstood
I will not beg you, it does me no good
You see I’m learning how to listen
To different frequencies of sound
Sometimes they’re high up in the mountains
Sometimes they’re way down underground
You know the present holds the picture
It comes full circle like a wave
I saw this written in the scriptures
I saw this written in your face
There is a passage to a perfect place
There is a changing of the guard but I keep the same face
There is a changing of the guard but you misunderstood
I will not beg you, it does me no good
You know I’m always changing colours
Sometimes yellow often blue
But I’m grateful for the journey
Because it brought me round to you
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2. |
Cafe
04:14
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If you wear your hair up in this shape around your neck
I’ll wait outside until my memory won’t forget
I am too eager and too easily upset
Because the bed beneath stopped moving while I slept
You made it very clear, no business being here
I filled the picture up, I filled my empty cup
I’ve run out of ways to walk across the evening route
Sometimes on Sundays I get dressed up in a suit
For no good reason but the moment in the day
When I can walk across the road by your café
We take a walk sometime, see flowers, drink some wine
And if there’s something sweet, could make the heart beat
I’ve run out of days to walk across the evening route
Sometimes on Sundays I get dressed up in a suit
For no good reason but the breaking in the day
When I can walk across the road by your café
Sometimes in the evening when I’m here working here alone
I still look up to see if you are coming home
In face I am not sure just who you really are
The moon’s a tease all sympathies go to the stars
Who waits and never hold, and it gets very cold
She always comes, and leaves, I know the sun agrees
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3. |
Teddy's Song
04:04
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My sweet mind I don’t think it’s worth all of this conversation
You belong in this ancient place
These are just thoughts, heavy on you
These are just thoughts, but if you want the truth
I feel a strong sense that we know when to put up a hand
I feel a strong sense that we know when we went to the top of the land
My sweet mind I don’t think it’s worth all of this frustration
You belong in this ancient space
These are just thoughts, heavy on you
These are just thoughts, but if you want the truth
These are just thoughts, and if you’re feeling lost
I’m never far, I’m where you are
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4. |
Vitruvian Man
04:10
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I learned to dance because you filled me with wine
Each time we meet we seem to have a nice time
I tried to move like a Vitruvian man
Except they’re perfect and they move like nobody can
This is a good thing if you can keep the thing strong
I make my mistakes, this is why I belong
I learned to move like those Vitruvian men
The imperfect kind that stumble and then lean on a friend
When I come back in from the cold
When I have been bought and I have been sold
When I come back in from the cold
When I have been lost, when I should be home
I took a walk today and spoke with a man
Who asked me to meditate and see a higher plan
I got caught up and drank alone by the park
I think I long for something close to heal this hole in my heart
I know its late but I’m not tired
Please put some more wood on the fire
I refuse regret for when I’m old
When I come back in from the cold
I took a walk today and spoke with a painting on the wall
He stepped out of the frame and then we went along the hall
And in the garden we got down on our knees
He poured some honey down my throat and he said Go and be free
This is a good thing if you can keep the thing strong
I make my mistakes, this is why I belong
I learned to move like those Vitruvian men
The imperfect kind that stumble and then lean on a friend
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5. |
For Bringing us Home
03:31
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Oh my love, out on the plains
If we should meet again
Remember what we said, as you lay down your head
Oh my love, out on the waves
If thunder is making your little boat shake
I'll make peaceful the waves of the sea
Lay down to sleep
Oh my love, oh my love, oh my love, Oh my
Oh my love, out on the plains
In the dawn we'll meet again
And I'll wake with the break of the day
Yes I'll wait where you lay
Oh my love, beneath your feet
The clay is made for shaping
The day is complete
And the peacefulness comes dropping slow
On the flowers and on the snow
Oh my love, oh my love, oh my love, Oh my
Oh my love, the sky is a-glow
We meet where the peace comes dropping so slow
And the currach we built in the snow
Is for bringing us home
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6. |
Fly like a Bird
03:20
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I won’t say another word
Until this one has been heard
I won’t make another sound until I’ve found a way
To fly like a bird
To fly like a bird
No wondering of why like a bird
No tears in my eyes due to hurt
No, no tears at all
I will ask where they all learned
Ask if I may join
Ask if I may coin with them the phrase I heard
To fly like a bird
And I’ll come in through the window
Sit at the piano
Sit with who’s been playing little songs to soothe the heart
And then I’ll open up my chest
Painted red of breast
They’d be accurate in thinking I am someone sent to say a way
To fly like a bird
No wondering of why like a bird
No tears in my eyes due to hurt
No, no tears at all
And the final thing that I’ll do
Is a gift for only you
It’s a key that’s holding the ticking of the clock’s determined passing
And then this day I will learn
There is no need to return
There’s need only to continue on the way
And fly like a bird
No wondering of why like a bird
No tears in my eyes due to hurt
No, no tears at all
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7. |
Sweet Day
04:15
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Sweet day here's to living
All is forgiven, I was just giving this a little time
I'm not a speaker but I did find these words
And if they should move you they are yours not mine
I will be honest
I'm sometimes on this kind of train that has no track
I bought a ticket but I did not keep it
I am not going straight but I'm not going back
Sweet day here's to thinking
Here's to drinking, here's to going around and around again
No! I made my peace now, where are my feet now
I am not going straight but I am moving
When I take a minute to see the limit
I think I get kind of scared
It is a strange one, this arrangement of being self-aware
Sweet day here's to living
All is forgiving, you were just giving this a little ending
They come in stages, different ages need different kinds of women
And different kinds of men
I am not a speaker but I have a message
From a precious kind of friend
There is a mountain, there is a fountain
There is a why behind the when
My hands are freezing, my face is beaten
But I'm still running with this faith
I'm not going straight
I am always late
I've been listening to this ho'oponopono
Sweet day here's to living
All is forgiven, I was just giving this a little push
Sometimes you tease and sometimes you please
And sometimes you ease this into
Such a sense of hope, now how should I cope
With this kind of twist, this kind of tale
My hands are freezing but I am not beaten
And I am not broken but I'm sometimes frail
I am not a speaker but I did find these words
And if they should move you they are yours to take
I'm not going straight
It's my way to pray
I am listening to this ho'oponopono
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8. |
Oh Man
03:53
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Take a good look at this face, I think it's changing
Take a good look at this place, I think I'm leaving
I don't know I don't know I don't know I don't know
I once did but this was such a long time ago
Take a good look at this floor, it's covered in letters
That he wrote down when he swore that he would not forget her
I don't know where the time went no I don't know
I don't know where the mind went no I don't know
Oh man Oh man Oh man
Tell me what to do
Don't you walk away from me
When I'm trying to speak with you
Oh man Oh man Oh man
Tell me where to go
I know that I should not ask
But I do because I really do not know
Take a good look at this life
Because it should not be ending
Take a good look at all these days alone
That I seem to be spending
I don't know what you're hiding but I think that you do
I don't know what's inside but I think it's the truth
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9. |
Sunshine
04:32
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You call me and say look at the sunrise
So I get up and see the breaking sky
Oh my, you changed my life
Oh my, you light up, my natural light
So we move and we move and we taste the first fruit
And it’s sweet and it keeps on coming back to you
I am responding to your long lost invitation
It says meet me at the station
Everybody forgot to stay free, not you, not me
Everybody forgot to see the sea, not you, not me
Everybody forgot to see the stream, not you, not me
You are a living dream, you set the best scene
Up the street they are building a home
People I greet they show me a sweet way
Of responding to your long lost invitation
I’m safe when we meet, and we sleep, and we keep on
Returning to each other
Everybody forgot to stay free, not you, not me
Everybody forgot to see the sea, not you, not me
Everybody forgot to see the stream, not you, not me
You are a living dream, you set the best scene
The sunlight is good today
Kiss my hat and kiss my face
You kiss my face too
I love you
Every soul got a natural glow
If you let this flow
To keep on loving
To keep on living
Keep on loving
To keep on living
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10. |
Songbirds
05:03
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My body turned into a frame, framed her beauty and her soul
As the light came in the window, a singing songbird spoke
Said to me a way to say a message to a dove
As the light came in the window I turned and saw my love
Her body turned into a frame, framed the glistening of the sea
As the light lit up the water, the light lit up the trees
Beneath our feet the winter sand, the winter sky above
As we leaned into each other, we leaned into our love
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