Where I Start

 

One happy day

does not a happy man make

One fine night ain't enough

One bright midnight moon

Won't put me in my tomb

Even when the going gets rough

 

The sight of a single bird

Don't mean she can be heard

But her song is sung all the same

A flower in the vase

Don't mean spring is here to stay

For love is springtime's game

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Two hearts in tune

Will always howl at the moon

Together and apart

Wind sun and rain

Will find me once again

Ending where I start

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Silence Hides

 

Slowly rising the blooming tide's in

The birds are flying my way

But I am tired and I feel torn apart

Like a flower on the highway

 

The wind is howlin' lets not a sound in

Through my window I see

Shadows frozen the feeling flows in

Like a bottle on a black sea

 

Where does silence hide

There I can sing what's on my mind

 

In the morning I feel warm

And I awake with a smile

But by the time the moon shines 

I've been down for a long while

 

And even if I could never find

A place for my soul

I'd keep walking 'til I found it

And I wouldn't feel so low

 

Where does silence hide

There I can sing what's on my mind

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Somebody's let down somebody's crying

Somebody's knocking on my door

Somebody's getting down somebody's moanin'

And I can't take it no more

 

Where does silence hide

There I can sing what's on my mind

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Found Out

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So you found out you love your best friend

The years have made the way easy to wend

Isn't love a funny little thing

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Does it feel like you're giving something up

You get back what you give some call that luck

Isn't luck a funny little thing

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So you found out you love your best friend

Known it for so long but can't say when

Isn't love a funny little thing

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House Of Stone

 

When I was born

The stones taught me to speak

Now my words are strong

And they're buried deep

 

Let me be the stone

In the river beneath me

So I can speak strong

But with edges gone

 

And oh, my heart is my home

And oh, I built a house of stone

 

If I was a bird

And the world was my tree

I'd sing for spring

Make the leaves green as can be

 

Oh to be the bird

To fly and sing

And carry the news

Of the blooming spring

 

And oh, my heart is my home

And oh, I built a house of stone

It's where good thoughts bloom

My friends visit under the moon

 

My thoughts are heavy as stone

But they fly like birds

So I'll sing for spring

And gently speak my words

 

I have made my home

Beside the river

Beneath the tree

In my house of stone

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Long Time Blossom Soul

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Long time blossom soul

You're beautiful like the rising sun

Soft just like a red red rose

It has begun

 

Long time blossom soul

The wind and sun are in your eyes

High like birds in flight when you fly

Up to the sky

 

It's been a long time

But now I'm with you again

And it seems as though we both know

That this will never end

 

It's been a long time,

Long time blossom soul

 

Long time blossom soul

Sing for me and I'll sing for you

I think you know what a sound we have found

I know that it's true

 

It's been a long time

But now I'm with you again

And it seems as though we both know

That this will never end

 

It's been a long time,

Long time blossom soul

 

Long time blossom soul

You're beautiful like the rising sun

Soft just like a red red rose

It has begun, it has begun

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Shades of Evening

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I've suffered enough to know your game

Sat down blue frown and round we go

Where do we go

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And by and by into the sky the birds fly

Today's the day we turn away knowing why

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Breathe love said she with sun in her eyes

The truth lies 

So I threw down my sword and I cried

I'm alive

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And as we go we say hello to the moonlight

Tonight we say goodbye instead of goodnight

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So in love with the lost shades of evening

Shake my world put nothing in my stead

So much for the love of the lover

Who disbelieved in all things done and said

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I closed my eyes when I could see for me

But somehow my bow mid-stage is for you

What did you go?

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And as you go

The seasons blow you through the sky

The shades of evening fading as you fly

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What Holds The Bone

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Into the silence inward ride

I feel the moon pulling on the tide

The movement of the feeling in my veins

Roots awake in a summer rain

 

Breathe this light into my spine

As its flowing

My muscles hold the flames, the coals

Brightly glowing

 

The dam broke down and the river came round

As I pressed my hands into the ground

Gonna build myself a little riverboat

And I’m gonna sail her if she’ll float

 

What holds the bone, a home

What holds the bone

 

Yonder coming is a bright new sun

Gonna help some grow gonna burn some

Some are gonna go spinning into the rain

We all can teach and we all can sing

 

Breathe this sun into my mind as its shining

My muscles hold the waves the rivers

Always winding

 

Went back ten thousand years

Same two hands for to heal

Keep close this feeling I breathe

To be woven I must weave

 

What holds the bone, a home

What holds the bone

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My Backyard

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Jane, Jane standing in the rain

Your dog got loose and the bank's in flames

Rain, rain I'm so sorry Jane

I can't talk smooth

 

To the cops when you knocked

On my door four in the morning

Gunpoint back of my head

I'm sorry I ever offered you by bed

 

Jane, Jane you said you'd take the next train

Instead you went looking for cocaine

And the rain sang sirens to your name

Just one place

 

For you to go, should have known

Should have bought you a ticket home

But you smiled at me when I said

I'm sorry I ever offered you my bed

 

Sunrise I don't mind you fire

As long as I can see the moon

But I'm locked in this cold room

Because of you

 

Jane, Jane standing in the rain

Your dog got loose and the bank's in flames

Rain, rain I'm so sorry Jane

I can't talk smooth

 

The fire died at half past five

By which time my wrists were tied

And the sky awoke from dreams of smoke

But the flowers in my backyard all bloomed

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Heart Of The Matter

 

If you intend to write

You must open the book

Out of sight

Roving eyes must look

 

Strangers when they see you

And their welcome isn't strange

The danger of sharing

And staring change

 

Just look at me now

In love with ideas above the clouds

Just look at me now

 

If one is to wonder in

Caverns so deep

They mustn't plunder in

Thoughtless sleep

 

Walking down the road

With my heart in my hand

Waiting for someone

Who can understand

 

Who can look at me now

In love with ideas above the clouds

Just look at me now

 

We go down to the heart of the matter

Down to a part of the One

Left me a path to follow

Right back towards the sun

 

Just look at me now

In love with ideas above the clouds

Just look at me now

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She Caught a Feather

 

I watched a feather fall

And I caught it in my hand

The wheat fields waved the wind blue

I just had to put out my hand

 

Sometimes luck finds me

Face down beside the fire

Sometimes luck finds me

Facing the sun a silhouette

 

The mare in the meadow

The brown grass beneath the snow

Spring is a wild thing

Summer falls from a bird's wing

 

Sometimes luck finds me

Wondering in the right place

Sometimes luck finds the one

Thing you needed

 

But soon I will settle down

Singing songs for the girl in the crown

Cause she caught a feather too

 

The shadow of a bird is all she saw

Cutting through the wind the feather falls

Still she doesn't fully understand

The moment she put out her hand

 

It was sometimes luck is like

Water finds the easiest path to you

Sometimes like is the

Grace of a feather falling for you

 

Soon she will settle down

Sowing seeds in the ground

Cause she caught a feather too

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Do You Hear It

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Do you hear it, do you hear the howlin' breeze?

I can feel it blowing like the wind on the seas

 

Are you glad to wake up

And watch sunlight fall

On the wasted fields of your home

How bad is bad enough

When the road ain't even rough

But your conscience won't leave you alone

Alone

 

Well I've been told when I grow old

I'll change my foolish mind

Well I suppose there's room for change

But I just don't know what kind

What kind

 

Don't let them tell you, don't let them say

That your love is wrong, it keeps me hanging

Keeps me hanging like a sad sad song

A sad song

 

Do you live to be free are you free to live

To live your life as you please

What's it take to give when you've got the most

What puts your heart at ease

 

Do you hear it, do you hear the howlin' breeze?

I can feel it blowing like the wind on the seas

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