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Shelter In Place
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Time alone is longer than it used to be
Days go by like unfamiliar memories
When you’re trapped inside
Settled in a life that isn’t yours—it sure isn’t mine
Sheltering in a common ceremony
Safe from harm that trickles through the streets
While cemeteries speak your language
Though the accent is unclear, the voice is drawing near
Hide inside, protect me from the waters
Rising all around tonight, deny
there’s nothing coming after
you and I don’t matter now
Will you promise me you’ll stay right where you are?
Just stay right where you are
Just stay right where you are
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A Woman in Trouble
04:03
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There’s flowers in your hair
silver, gold and grey
They're floating down the river in the California haze
You’re echoing from room to room
Your limbs will twist and dance to the sound of some fine tune
Lift me up high so I can breathe
The laughter is faint, but the pain is real
There’s light behind the door still glowing red and white
You’re tucked inside the orbit of a slowly dying sun
The future tense will only break your heart
A miracle of machine and coiled chrome
Lift me up high so I can breathe
There’s death in the air, and blood in my teeth
When the flood lights open, and the picture begins
All the glowing faces will turn their eyes to you
Will you dissolve into the evening, carried off again
Will you speak your last devotion, and fade into the wind
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Almost Blue
03:52
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When I lie beneath your moon
Your tender light shades and soothes
And it turns my ideas into glass
And I shatter myself falling for you
Almost blue...
When I wish upon your star
The darkness in between your arms
It molds and renews-me in the black
And I cling to your grace wherever you are
Almost blue...
And all those lonely nights I spent with you
I was broken, I was cold, I was cruel, screaming,
“Take me, hold me, heal me, show me how
I can get from where I am to where you are"
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Moon-Colored Sun
04:08
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Shimmering in silence, your ancient waters sleep
Like reflections in a mirror, coming close but never nearer
This cold blue air that floats at your feet
It pierces through me as I chase you down
But you drift on by heavy as the rain
You disappear just as I call your name
My moon-colored sun, darker than a winter’s day
Soon comes the dawn to break you from this fever
And shatter the belief that your holy light
was ever meant to fade
Floating through the hours, you breathe but cannot speak
Like a memory still receding, pulling close and then retreating
This cold blue air that floats at your feet
It pierces through me as I chase you down
But you disappear like the tide inside the waves
And you drift away just as I call your name
My moon-colored sun, darker than a winter’s day
Soon comes the dawn, you’re living in a fever
A broken unbeliever in spite of what
your sacred light still sparks in me
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