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Where Are You?
03:45
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Tried to text on my new watch this morning
I wonder why we did away with keys and buttons
Held it up and I tapped out this warning
but I couldn’t tell if anybody got it
Handyman in the next room was talking
Made me nervous so I thought I’d go out walking
Feels good to get outside of the apartment
Drown the noise with my own private soundtrack
On the street everyone looks so busy
Better check in and see if anybody misses me
Where are you?
Tried to talk to my new watch this evening
Lovely voice but her words were unfeeling
My watch seems to know everybody
She fills me in on the news of our home team
We recorded the birds near the airport
Spread a picnic out on the tarmac for us
Where are you?
She lights up when she sees my face now
Listens more than anyone I know
I’m no longer scared of the echo
Every nervous thought is soon swallowed
Where are you?
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2. |
2082
05:56
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I’m writing a song for you
2082
I’m thinking about you
Thinking I’m looking forward to when you get here
Forward to when you live here
I can love you like I can’t love me
You’re so far away in the future
Living so far away in the future
Can you hear me?
Will you hear me?
Maybe just maybe
My music will last on past when I’m gone away
Maybe, baby
Don’t forget to laugh
Even though it might be hot where you are
We might have burned it up
Might have melted the sky
But the stars would be closer
You could wear a bodysuit
To keep out the ultraviolet rays
Everything’s a carcinogen
Everything’s a carcinogen darling but
I can love you like I can’t love me
You’re so far away in the future
Living so far away in the future
Can you feel me?
Will you feel me?
Maybe just maybe
The trees that we planted will have lasted
And maybe, baby
You’ll be climbing and laughing
Please laugh
Even though your food is a ghost of the past
We bred the flavor out in favor of shelf life and size
They say you eat with your eyes
You could carry a vial of salt
Salt is a flavor enhancer
but it's not a re-substancer
It can’t resurrect romance but darling
I can love you like I can’t love me
You’re so far away in the future
Living so far away in the future
Do you remember when we used to
Go outside for something to do
In 1992
Kids smoking after school
Joker bending the rules
There was a war going on in the neighborhood
Boys against girls in the neighborhood
I can love you like I can’t love me
You’re so far away from the future
Living so far away from the future
I can love you like I can’t love me
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3. |
Try to Try
04:05
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You try to know me
I want to know me
Design my life so
There’s time sometimes
To try, to pry, to cry
I want to know you
You try to show
You try words like half truths
The truth is it’s no use
But try, but try, please try, we’ll try to try
Quiet as you are I wonder what you see
No one else has ever been this close to me
You’re the only expert that there is on me
But you don’t know what to say
I thought I knew you
This you is a new you
The years reform us
Stellar revolution
Hold tight, we’ll try
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4. |
Not My Kind of World
02:21
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Lord have mercy
Christ have mercy
On me
I think I’m ok
I just need to play more games
Save me a place
I think I’m ok
I’m just still on the way
Save me a place
I can’t say why I keep crying
It’s not my kind of world
I seem to have misplaced my silence
It’s not my kind of world
I forget to ask good questions
It’s not my kind of world
I regret what can not be undone
It’s not my kind of world
Lord have mercy
Christ have mercy
Show me my place
Show me my place
Please show my my place
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5. |
Strange Love
03:03
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The moment I saw you
I knew I’d never be the same
Blinded by the light
Of love at first sight
Afraid that I might lose my mind to the dove
Carried through the night on a current of invisible love
Don’t leave
Don’t leave me behind
Can’t spend the rest of my life
On this rock spinning without you
Don’t leave
Don’t leave me behind
You’ve marked me with your light
How can I go on without you?
The first time you touched me
Like a tsunami to my brain
Blinded by the light
of your story melting with mine
Transmission so pure I am finally found
Language is the shell of a man buried deep in the ground
Don’t leave
Don’t leave me behind
Can’t spend the rest of my life
On this rock spinning without you
Don’t leave
Don’t leave me behind
You’ve marked me with your light
How can I go on without you?
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6. |
This Part
02:42
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I’m not who I’d hoped to be
When we got to this part
Oh me, oh my, I hope we make it
Days are dizzy
Spin so fast I hardly see you
Even though I live to see you, darling
I still see the ruby behind every moment
Every leaf a little secret
Listen
I can’t say I want this thing I want
'cause I don’t know it’s face
I know you
and I want you
Will we still explore
Beyond our patch of eden
even though our eden is delicious?
Do I have your loyalty
even if I can’t be the me I want to give you daily?
Will we drift apart,
losing each other in the dishes?
Find our niches,
token kisses
Hold on tight
Because tonight we’ll gamble in our bed
Our fate has never been our business
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7. |
Take Me In
04:08
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Take me in
Sun is pawing at my heart again
Open wide and let the honey in
My body softens in its gaze
Through the night
I could barely hold onto the light
Blindly groping for a gentle sign
That there’d be another day
Keep me close to you
All I need is love
Though I can be cool
I respond to love
Hold it all together
Hold it all together for me
Take me in
The matted garden’s waking up again
Tidal wave of mercy rushing in
I’d forgotten how to sing
Every year
Winter stays so long I start to fear
cold as death the snow will never clear
But joy of joys, it couldn’t stay
Keep me close to you
All I need is love
I’ve lost touch with truth
But let me learn with love
I respond to love
Hold it all together
Hold it all together for me
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8. |
Jenny Lake
04:20
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Two coves east of Pomegranate Cave
On the banks of Jenny Lake
There’s a moment I can’t shake
Wear it round my neck 'til it breaks
All my life I rushed to this part
Can’t slow the damned thing down once it starts
I’ll grow up but I don’t want to
Take me back to Jenny Lake with you
For the first time in a while
I recognized myself in your smile
Looking up at the endless sky
Sun gleaming in your tiger eye
Losing sleep in the silver predawn
One more night bird singing his song
Pull the reins as hard as I can
Take me back to Jenny Lake with you
I remember slower days
Humid air of Pomegranate Cave
Tennis courts in the gentle rain
Anything to help me stay
We’ll step on into tomorrow
Brace ourselves for the common unknown
Count the gold and carry on, oh
Take me back to Jenny Lake with you
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9. |
Mystery Hymn
03:45
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There’s a mystery
And it holds me
Even holds tight when I let go
It surrounds me and confounds me
There’s nowhere it isn’t so
From the far-flung interstellar
To the secret of things that grow
Vast in every direction
High or deep as you want to go
Hallelujah, hallelujah
This old mystery won’t let me go
Let me spend my whole life living
Eyes wide open to the show
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10. |
New Day
04:41
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At day's end
I hope to find a friend
When my days end
I'll need a friend
I need a friend
Who can tell me when I've been gone too long
Who can reset the clocks when the power comes back on
Who'll keep me grounded and say so when they let me down
Who will share the load
Oh, turn out the light
The darkness is kind
Make way for a new day
Please, let it begin
Sleep is your friend
Soon we'll greet the new day
At world's end
I hope to have a friend
When the world ends
I'll need a friend
I'm signaling
I need a friend
Who will help me laugh in the heavy times
Who will nod to the window when I'm lost in my mind
Who'll sing a song when the old ship is going down
Who will walk the road
Oh, turn out the light
The darkness is kind
Make way for a new day
Please, let it begin
Sleep is your friend
Soon we'll greet the new day
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Lowland Hum Charlottesville, Virginia
For over twelve years Lowland Hum has been a landing strip for your lesser-loved emotions. You can go listen to all of that
if you like; eight albums, several EPs, et cetera.
They aren't slowing down. Except metaphysically.
Lauren and Daniel Goans are into DIY. They make their own music and art.
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