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quicksand
03:00
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What will I do with the voice I’ve been given
What will I do with the life I’ve been living
What will I do when my turn comes
Cower away or empty my lungs
I will sing from the top of the hill
I will sing like our wedding bells
I will sing till the war is done
I will sing for everyone
Call me a liar, call me a cheat
Call me a sinner for the man that I be
Call me the mirror, for shining through
Call me the quicksand for burying you
*** I will sing ***
Send my love out to the sea
What the bottle slowly carry me
If the waves fall hard tonight
I pray I did something with my life
*** I will sing ***
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water's rising
03:43
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Oh my Lord, Water’s rising
Am I drowning, or baptizing
Either way, I’ll be reborn, when I wake
Speaking tongues and holding onto snake
Either way, my days are numbered
Cause waters rising, waters rising
Hello river, Mississippi
You’ve been carving, working daily
But am I bold enough to think
That I will leave a larger wake
Either way, my days are numbers
The waters rising, waters rising
The waters rising, the waters rising,
The waters rising, rising on me
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hope
05:15
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Hope is buried deep, somewhere underground
Sleeping through the winter, sheltered from the sounds
Waiting for a springtime, brought by longer days
And a sun that will not sleep
And a return from hades
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When the river breaks down, and the robin’s returned
Look to the forest floor, the one that once was burned
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Oh my heart has been hoping all winter
Oh my heart has been waiting for the spring
Oh my eyes will look upon the sunshine
And we will find brighter days
Now look all around you, oh what flowers you’ve become
Drowning out the hatred, enough is enough
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long goes the apple tree
03:28
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Sometimes I feel my heart is moving slow
I pray it keeps on beating
I’m sitting here with fish and loaves
And no miracles worth making
Long goes the daylight
Long goes the sun
Long goes everything I thought that we had one
Long goes the sun
With every passing hour I see danger hang
Ahead on the horizon
Follow me to the shelter we seek
Named for the horse we are riding
Long goes the apple tree
That stood once in our yard
It came down with the wind last night
When the world was blowing hard
Long goes the apple tree
When will the rain become soft and sweet
The way you taste in the morning
The thunder in your heart rescues me
Like a storm without warning
Long goes the morning
Warm in our home
Coffee just doesn’t taste the same
When I drink it alone
Long goes the mornings
We’ve been walking hallways with doorways closed
Somewhere a window’s open
I fold my hands for everyone laid close
And for all those left unspoken
When will we rise up
When will I see
Everything fell with that old apple tree
And now we can grow again
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cry
03:14
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All of my leaving all of your grieving
Everybody has to change
I’m blind as a witness who never saw it coming
And everybody wants to blame
And I’m in the back with the windows down
Screaming at the moon in the sky
Oh my God, Take me home
Everybody needs to cry
So stay with me, Darling please
Give me a hand to hold
Stop the car, put it in park
We don’t even have to go
And all of those questions, all of those lies
Don’t worry honey I’m your alibi
I’m the shade to your tree
Everybody needs to cry
For a moment, she was holding
Everything I was
And in the moonlight, on the roadside
The tears did come
And the flowers grow
Everybody needs to cry
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what am i to do
04:36
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What am I, what am I, what am I, what am I to do?
I ran to the arms of loneliness
But woke up in the cold blue
I will seek out solitude
Its what they tell you to do
But all I really need, all I really need, all I really need
Is to be warm with you
There are days when the sickness Is as thick as all we consume
There are seasons that challenge us like ravenous racoons
Just to wade through the marsh of your heart in this refuge
Finding was to start is the hardest part of finding you
But if you’re gonna take my heart
Be careful with the fragile parts
Its been left along far too long
Bury it in the softer snow
So you can watch the garden grow
As I unpack all that’s gone wrong…
What am I, what am I, what am I, what am I to do?
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every other way
04:28
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All of our days are spent walking together
Chasing the moon and the sun
Holding hands I can dream you a river
And paddle till the day is done
Oh love, love, I can’t believe it
I will follow you home like a dog
And all the rust never will beat it
Cause iron lives in our blood
(Everyday) I will tell you I love you
But Everyday it comes out wrong
So I will show you in every other way
And today I will write you a song
Oh walk with me, take me home
She said to the boy in the snow
Up the stairs, her long brown hair
There’s not a door I don’t know
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All the days, dancing away
Not running to but from
Now everywhere, lost in your stare
Who needs words when you’re in love
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best i can tell
04:17
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Ask me a question child
Ask me a question child
I will try to answer the best I can
Oh sparrow, down by the water
Oh sparrow down by the water
Why do you fly so low?
Oh loneliness, like the winter
Oh loneliness like the winter
Why do you cover me up and block out the sun
Oh to carry on would be
Oh to carry on would be
Well it’s just one way to go
Best I can tell, the only reason we are hear
Is to care for one another
Care for one another
Please care for one another
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truly blue (b side)
03:35
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David Nash La Crosse, Wisconsin
Based in the Driftless Area of Wisconsin and Minnesota. Kinda folk. Kinda Americana. Kinda singer-songwriter. Author of the novel “The Man in the Pines.”
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