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New Moon in the Morning

by The Bearcubes

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1.
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
2.
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
3.
Summer Storm 03:16
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?
4.
Fall 02:11
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
5.
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
6.
Whalesong 02:32
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
7.
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
8.
Houseboat 03:47
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
9.
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
10.
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
11.
Too Long 02:25
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
12.
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
13.
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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released May 30, 2010

The Bearcubes:
Saul Alpert-Abrahms
Claire Chenette
Katherine Dohan
David B. Greenberg
Alex Kramer

Produced and Engineered by Claire Chenette and Katherine Dohan. All songs by Claire Chenette and Katherine Dohan, except "Bless my Dreams" by Saul Alpert-Abrahms. String, wind, and brass arrangements by Claire Chenette.

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