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Unfinished Things
03:27
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underneath
the landscape's dark
and overgrown parts
I'm trying to find
an open mind
or another road
but I'm moving too slow
and I don't wanna wait
I don't wanna wait
it's easy to write
an honest line
with a subject in mind
but this pursuit
is an open-ended truth
and being off course
isn't fun anymore
and I don't wanna wait
I don't wanna wait
I don't wanna wait
incomplete
or unfinished things
are haunting me
through wedding rings
and I'm asleep
in the pilot seat
and I'm still dreaming
that I'll land this thing
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2. |
Hey Neighbour
04:21
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I remember walking the lane
between my house and yours
where in August I caught you
doing the same
and in winter, finding your gift
of firewood at my door
with a note on it saying
"hope work's going okay"
and "hey neighbour,
you don't have to explain
you don't have to explain"
in a way I was waiting around
painting over the walls
and I wanted to fill that space
with the weather you'd made
and I remember the well
going dry over time
and the summer you left
when the smoke wouldn't clear
and hey neighbour,
you don't have to explain
you don't have to explain
and hey neighbour
hey neighbour?
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Silence
04:04
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in a way
I can get so uncertain
can't decide
what to write for the latest version
but when we met at the reception
of a friend we had in common
"it's about time" you tell me
"I don't have patience for ceremony"
you conduct
I'll be the tune you convey
I want you
to just tell me what to say
sweep the plains and the body
absolute in your ability
the arrow arc'd in it's curve
towards us twisting in the earth
quiet now
like it hasn't been in a while
trying to keep
the kind of silence I don't mind keeping around
you're the zen imperfection
accepting of all that will happen
you finesse the loving language
as you flood the dying canyons
darkness darkness darkness
waiting at the end of this
but for now, a quest
for the right kind of silence
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4. |
Free All Day
03:49
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you can change the weather
go wherever
and navigate disaster
and I just moved here
and you say you know just the place
and I think I know what you mean
even in the city
were we really
waiting for the option
to be so old-fashioned?
and you say "too late" that I should know this
but I think I know what you mean
everybody's leaving
are we leaving?
or making up the distance
when I get so insistent?
and you say you know just the place
and I think I know what you mean
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5. |
Departures
02:27
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Small House
03:02
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up 'til then
I'd just an occupant
but not out of the woods
I gathered what I could
went looking for
where every wind a wave
a painting in a cave
of you and me
and there is no kind of beast
like the one I want to be
for you these days
uh huh
what a perfect art
that pours from your brush
can the frame measure up?
or is it cut too rough?
or uneven?
no one wants the dam to flood
or the woods to burn
no one wants the fence to rust
or the paint to run
off the map
somewhere in the past
and we're right outside that house
or something just as close
and wondering
how every wind a wave
the painting in the cave
could account for this
and the smoke that never burned
the stone already turned
and where was I?
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7. |
August Writes
03:24
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august writes
and carries a knife
while we're on vacation
or I imagine
listening for
a knock on the door
or the way the sheets crease
underneath us
to dispense with vaguaries
or the unknown quantities
I've no advice
or aspects to try
but "don't form a knot
in your favorite thought"
what a view
I'm feeling renewed
while at the train station
trying to be patient
and handing over our tickets
on the off chance you hear this
because my triangle is bermuda
and my good luck; buddha
I'm staring out the window
at a bird with a broken wing
and I'm not doing anything
I'm not doing anything
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8. |
Music is Sweet
03:57
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music is sweet
but it's good for your teeth
it's easy to write
if you're so inclined
and music is grief
in a closing scene
saying "get well soon"
to an empty room
what a simply joy
to be so easily destroyed
I'm in the pines
and I'm trying to find
something to grow
or an animal bone
a sign of the times
or the opposite kind
or the perfect spot
to untie our knot
what a simple bliss
to have a love like this
to have a love like this
to have a love like this
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