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New Moon in the Morning
03:11
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You drift out of bed
With feathers in your head
Don't you know our love for you is burning?
Turn your eyes up to the sky
Be sad, but don't say goodbye
Who sees the new moon rise in the morning?
Though everything you see
Seems like mystery
Just let it be, girl
Though everything you think
Falls from your mouth and sinks,
you can let it go, girl
The shadow won't be long
Cause the sun keeps moving on
And somewhere in the universe, we'll find some space
Go walk downtown
Or lie barefoot on the ground
Everything looks different in another place
If we can't go exploring
The new moon in the morning
We can let it be, girl
If we can't keep a perfect day
From going astray
We can let it go, girl
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2. |
Blue Egg Blues
02:41
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One spring I loved a robin's nest
I watched two birds build it with sticks and feathers
Each morning, I'd watch their gutter home
From over a bowl of Cheerios
Three perfect blue eggs in a perfect brown bed
I waited for you to hatch
Three fluffy balls softly crying and growing
Did you see me through the glass?
I knew that someday, you'd have to go
Leave me with National Public Radio
I already had enough holes
In my bowl, in my bowl, in my bowl
Chorus:
Spots of milk on my nose
Spots of milk on my toes
I will have the strongest bones
Spots of milk on my nose
Spots of milk on my toes
God bless this bowl of Cheerios
I watched you get stronger and ready to fly
You got wings, I got down
I got low, you got high
I stayed stuck in the kitchen chair
I'll never have feathers, I only grow hair
Birds will grow, birds will go
I sit here and eat Cheerios
Mothers flush dead fish down toilet bowls
Bread grows mold, songs get sold
The sewer is swimming with goldfish bones
Bread grows mold, songs get sold
I sit here and eat Cheerios
Cheerio, Cheerio, Cheerio
Chorus
Which little robin's the one that I love
When you're one of so many pecking in the mud
You won't recognize me or love me back
When you're searching for worms in the sidewalk cracks
Chorus
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3. |
Summer Storm
03:16
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Summer Storm
Keeps me inside when the weather's warm
The city's quiet, the birds hide away
To wait it out for a sunny day
Chorus
And I know
The sky won't always be so low, no
Oh the heat
Down from the sky up from the street
And in between we sweat the hours away
Dreaming of cooler autumn days
Chorus
Purple sky
The clouds roll over, so do I
This heavy heat, no one can hold it up
We stay inside with windows shut
Chorus
If I run into the rain
And drink a cupful
Will it cool
The heat that won't stop keeping me up till morning?
Will I be the only one out in the summer storm?
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4. |
Fall
02:11
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It's fall, the leaves are falling
It's fall, I still haven't heard my calling
I look around, and I see
Lots of things, but none of them have to do with me
Sometimes I think I feel blue,
Just cause it's something to do
While piles of work arise,
I just sit here and fantasize
It's October, so I put on
All of my scarves, but last week's chill is gone
And I'm the only one
Bundled up tight, sweating in the sun
And all of my thoughts scatter wide
Not knowing what to do, I bide my time
Sit in the grass eating ice cream
And waiting for something to happen to me
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5. |
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Chorus
Don't you dare try
Oh, you best believe that I
Won't let you take her heart
Break her heart
Tear her heart apart
I'm gonna see to it myself
That you don't get nobody else
I'm gonna write the girl a letter
Just to tell her how you did me wrong
Now that you and I are through
The sun is bright, the sky is blue
I see I never had to spend those nights
With tears in my eyes
Sweet girl, I know that he seems charming
But right now, things are still fresh and new
You best go and find somebody,
Who's gonna love you true
Beware! Cause this one
He won't be good to you!
Little boy, I know your game
Oh, it's an easy one to play
You don't have any rules,
And you always thing you're winning
She's not your little buttercup
So if you try to pick her up
You'll see this lady's smarter than your tricks
I've seen you walking around town with her
And she looks sweet, real sweet
Just about as sweet as I used to be
Chorus
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6. |
Whalesong
02:32
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I can see the waves crash
Into a thousand pieces in your eyes
And I see the waves crash
Into a thousand pieces across the sky
Oh baby, please stay close to me
Don't drift away into the night
I can see the waves crash
Into a thousand pieces, I won't shut my eyes
And I'd feel my heart
Break into a thousand pieces if you left my side
Oh darling, please stay close to me
Don't drift away into the night
Oh darling, please stay close to me
Don't drift away into the night
I can see the waves crash
Into a thousand pieces in your eyes
And I see the waves crash
Into a thousand pieces across the sky
Oh baby, please stay close to me
Don't drift away into the night
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7. |
A Thousand Miles Away
04:17
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Is it cold out on the open seas?
Is it cold enough to forget all of your reasons to leave?
I'll keep the fire roaring in the hearth
So it stays warm enough to feel at home
Though my heart is a thousand miles away
Keep your eye on the Northern Star
If you're lost, know my love is wherever you are
And soon, you'll see me swimming in the high tide
I'm leaving soon, there's no use waiting one more night
To pull my heart out from the waves
Oh sweep me back, December breeze
Oh blow me up, till I'm left alone about the trees
I'll find a way to climb back down
Walk all the way home, I'll be sleeping safe and sound
Before any souls awake
I'll have nothing to claim or to confess
And after all, I've learned I know less
Let my dreams be sweet this night
May I open my eyes to see the morning light
And I'll be on my way
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8. |
Houseboat
03:47
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I've been working on my houseboat
Nailing up the parts that leak
Come sail with me on my houseboat
All the way down the Mississippi
We'll sail through porcelain bathtubs
Be pulled down tornado drains
We'll float slowly through the gutters
A little faster when it rains
Chorus
Slowly, slowly we'll keep drifting
Drifting slowly on this boat
She can take us anywhere
But we'll always be at home
Put my feet in the water
Cool the hot coals in my shoes
My house never stops
My house always moves
The grass is always greener
On land, you have to choose
But when you live on water,
Everything is blue
We'll go to Louisiana
We'll float through a sandbox moat
We'll go all the way to Russia
We'll just leave if we get too cold
The moon, she smiles on us
Softly pulling us around
We'll always be looking up
Cause there isn't any ground
Chorus
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9. |
Songs That We Sing
02:56
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Wrap me up in a fur coat
Pull me out in the rain
And don't let me come back
Till it's summer again
I'll beg you to come with me
And tell me a joke
Every hour to warm up
The laugh in my throat
Chorus
And the songs that we sing
Will sound better in our hometown
And the songs that we sing
Will sound better on frozen ground
I never much liked the winter
But I've been through enough,
To know our bodies will thaw out
By the time April shows up
And then we'll look around us
And try to create
A tune to remind us
Of the cold and the rain
Chorus
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10. |
Bless My Dreams
02:19
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If you wanna bless my dreams
You'd better sing softly
Cause I wake easily
Oh, I wake easily
And if you wanna dance through my head
You'd better tread cautiously
Cause I keep soft things there
Could you do what god can do
For the saint or the sinner
Who sits at his pew?
Staring wide-eyed at the altar
Hoping for food or for shelter
From the pain of his daily encounters
Could you do it for me?
If you wanna bless my dreams
You'd better sing softly
Cause I wake easily
Oh, I wake easily
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11. |
Too Long
02:25
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It's too long till I'm gonna see my baby
I think of him, and I feel like I'm going crazy
No money for a plane
And I don't have a car
Don't know how to hop a train
My baby's just too far
Winter's harsh, nobody to keep me warm
Trudging all alone out in the snow storm
It's easier when I'm sleeping
Easier when I'm not thinking
I'll just meet him when I'm dreaming
Pile of feathers in the morning
Pots and pans, they pile up in the kitchen
I cook for two with no one to do the dishes
My fingers stained from letters
And my ears sore from the phone
Holding him would be much better
Oh, baby, please come home
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12. |
Faster If We Fall
02:04
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Oh, rest your eyes
Lay down your head
Oh, let the soft of my cheek
Be your bed
Oh, I know what your smile shows
Oh, come with me
To a place so small
Oh, we'll get there
Faster if we fall
Oh, I know what your smile shows
Oh, I'll follow wherever it goes
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13. |
The Last Slice of Pie
03:19
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Chorus
I'd give you the last slice of pie
If the world were ending
And you know, I'd rather not say goodbye
Though the night is ending
I want to say, as you walk away
That I love you so, did you know?
Don't want to do something wrong
Or come on too strong,
But my head's a smiling blur
I pick up a book, I can't read
Just looking at the words
Chorus
I want to say, as you walk away
That I love you so, did you know?
Chorus
The other day, I heard someone say
That you love me too
Is it true?
And I can't complain in the pouring rain
When you're walking next to me
So we miss the bus?
It won't bother us
No!
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