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Coming Untrue
02:59
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I could expect to see a utopia in my lifetime
However;
We won’t be out here forever
So let’s go
Just live out the summer with me
We will float down the river
Have a laugh that we once feared the stream
Just live the summer with me.
Hmm, Hmm…
Those boys in the backyard, those boys in the front yard
Those hits you take too hard
Just marks on the scorecard to you —
They are all with us too.
Separation no longer a truth
That was only for clarity’s sake
Explanations half-baked in our youth
Finally coming untrue!
We are waiting for indigo
For a courage that’s more than skin-deep
But it keeps us from living
And we’re falling apart in our sleep
And those ways are to useless
To keep
Just live the summer with me.
Just live the summer with me.
Just live the summer with me, mm…
Just live the summer with me.
We are never not lost in this dream
Yeah, we were merrily, madly, and callously cut from the stream
Shake your fists at the summer, and spit in the water,
And teeter and totter and know it gets hotter and just —
Just live the summer with me.
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2. |
Off to China
02:19
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My baby’s off to China
By way of me and Washington, D.C.
The other kid is hustlin
He’s gone again to make his destiny
She’s married in the fall and then
The next four years, a phone call’s all we’ll have
An ocean and a continent between me
And her asking about Dad...
Ba ba ba,
ba da doo ba ba ba
ba da doo ba ba ba
Meet me in Italy
Meet me in Italy
The space we hold between us
Full of people and their leaders splitting seams
But in the distance I’m imagining
It’s peaceful as a teacup shedding heat.
Meet me in Italy
Meet me in Italy!
In Italy
In Italy
In Italy
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3. |
Sally Song
03:28
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Little Miss Muffet sat on her tuffet sinking her words at bay
Sun’s settin like the hole in the pit of her stomach
And she’s hoping if she just doesn’t stay
It’ll all go away
She’s willing that way.
Oh, run, Sally, run, Sally run, Sally run, all the way home
Oh, "Little Miss Trouble" ran from the rubble wishin no one ever had met.
That old wild goose don’t have no excuse
The things she’s done, she’s coming to find hard to forget
And she can’t live with that yet.
Run, Sally, run, Sally run, Sally run, all the way home
Run Sally run, Sally run, Sally run, if that’s how you say no
Sometimes you gotta run until you
Become who this’ll turn you into
And nothing else can change until you do
So when your monsters chase you away, well
Know there’s a life comes after mistakes, hell,
I wouldn’t tell you if I didn’t know myself
So, run, Sally run, Sally run, Sally run, all the way home
Oh… run Sally run, Sally run, Sally run, if that’s how you say no
Run, Sally run, Sally run,
Sally run, all the way home
Oh, Run Sally run, Sally run,
Sally run, if that’s how you say no
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Sometimes you gotta run so that you
Become who this’ll turn you into
And nothing else can change until you do
So when your monsters chase you away, well
Know there’s a life comes after mistakes, hell,
I wouldn’t tell you if I didn’t know myself
So, run Sally run, Sally run, Sally run, all the way home.
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4. |
Red Rover
02:55
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Red rover, red rover, won’t you come on over
And see if you can get through
And if you break the line and you’re still having a good time
Then we can see what we can do.
hmm…
Red rover, red rover, won’t you come on over
And see if you can break through
And if you break the chain and it just don’t feel the same
Then I can see what I can do.
(Instrumental)
Red rover, red rover, won’t you come on over
And see if you can get through
And if you break the chain and start losing your name
Then I will tend to you.
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5. |
Outside the Bar Song
02:59
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Tell your delicate heart to get gone with the stars
It’s not about you and I, and you know that.
Still there’s something you want me to say
But I don’t have a way
To explain what I feel.
And I hear you clicking your heels
So you don’t get to know how I feel.
Who says that I’ve gotta say
Oh everything you want me to say, don’t you know that
We’re a part of this crowd
So we’re gonna leave proud at the end of the night.
Well I won’t lie and you won’t steal,
So I can’t really tell you how I feel.
Later on you’d only be angry, now
Later on you’d only be sad.
Later on you know there’s gonna be other best nights you ever had
And by then
No fool like me should be ringing in your head.
So go on and smile and stomp your feet
Keep on trying to make me weak
But my lips are sealed and they taste
Bittersweet and that ain’t nothing you need
But If I read the signs, and look one last time
They all reveal:
You already know how I feel.
So tell your delicate heart to get gone with the stars
It’s not about you and I.
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6. |
Tireswing
03:19
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Look at the ground
Spin, sing
Sit in the dark,
Round, ring
Take on the dusk:
Don’t think
Hold it back by
A string.
Hmm…
hmm…
Look at the ground (Look at the ground…)
Spin, sing
Sit in the round (Sit in the round…)
tireswing
Take on the dusk (Take on the dusk)
Don’t think
Hold it all by
A string.
Come out and see
Come out and see
Come out and see
Hmm….
Hmm….
Hmm….
Hmm….
[interlude]
Lantern shed light on me
Grand me one inquiry
Pretend you’re where I can see
Hmm….
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7. |
Wind and the Road
03:04
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Wind at your heels, snow on the highway
Pretty soon we’ll be travelin sideways
And ain’t it the way, the only way we go now
And the wind and the road are shoveling us downtown
We would be home, hemming and heaving
And untainted by the worries of leaving
If it weren’t for the call of the great unknown
But so we go and we’re hoping the wind knows the road.
Maybe it’s my hopeless devotion
Or maybe it’s my head’s in the ocean
That keeps things this way
Or maybe we just can’t know
Cause a few months from now, everything changes
On account of our whims, and the forces of nature
And then I’ll be the farthest I’ve ever been
Wondering when I’ll feel like I’m home again
I know that it’s all, “Choose your own adventure”
Even if this isn’t the storm of the century oh but I
Wish it was all that clear
But I’d never go if I could see it all from here
Wind at your back, snow on the highway
You know how it feels, travelin sideways
And I bet we’ve been doing it all this time
But we only know when we
Weather the wind and the road
Only grow when we
Weather the wind and the road
Only home when we
Weather the wind and the road.
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Jackie Macri Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Philly artist, music therapist, human fraggle :)
Songs looking after what falls between the cracks in the floorboards while we're busy growing up.
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