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Any Sign At All
02:43
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Tell me what went wrong
Do you want me not to hear you when you cry?
Did you listen when he spoke?
Am I the question mark you hoped for? No?
Sorry
I’ll go away
Don’t come home early today
The bastard wasn’t cool
Did he play you like a harbor to a fool?
Though your stomach wasn’t in it
As he played you to your limits
As if having them’s what mode you feel secure
You claim not to want me, are you sure?
Any sign at all, I’ll dream it you’ll live it
Any sign at all and I’ll give it I’ll give it
Any sign at all, if it’s a sign of trouble
I won’t stand in your way when it comes your turn to stumble
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Down Like Me
03:29
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At last I understand the consequences of my love
But how could there be a heaven when they kicked you out
Cuz you kicked out your chair from above?
Everybody loves to stick with a winner
But you showed me the line between victory and dying
Couldn't get much thinner 'cuz you
You found out how to get down
Down like me
When my self-pity became less than full time work
I meditated on the methods and the means
And whether or not it would hurt
Then I got the call they found you swinging out over the earth
So over me you win again
In finishes, forms, in finals and in firsts
You finally had to get down
Down like me
"By the time you read this I will no longer be here"
I had to read these words to all your family, friends
Everybody you never held dear
We'll keep an empty place at dinner forever
And I'll maintain and empty chair so you can set in
And we'll never grow old together
You showed 'em how to get down
Down like
Down like
Down like
Down like
Down like
Down like
Me
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Find Yourself Alone
03:56
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Drink up and pay and it's time to move on
This place is dying and they've turned the lights on
Nobody wants to hear the ravings of a bad drunk
They're afraid he'll speak their minds and say
That you'll find yourself alone
No matter who lives in your home
You better find yourself alone
My life's a car wreck on the side of the road
Say nothing but you can't turn away
Not a pleasant subject, so I don't blame you for turning away
It's the least you could do anyway
’Til you find yourself alone
No matter who lives in your home
You better find yourself alone
'Cause it doesn't matter--who you are
No it doesn't matter--what you make
Stand on your own or say goodbye
Goodbye
I watch myself laying on the floor
If there's pain here I can't feel it no more
If you're beautiful, if you're young
If your talents exceed your faults
Here's a reason to be selfish
‘Cause you'll find yourself alone
No matter who lives in your home
You better find yourself alone
You find yourself alone
No matter who lives in your home
You better find yourself alone
You find yourself alone
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Sparrow
03:33
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Despite what you have heard
You cannot cage this bird
The sparrow on the wing
Longs to hear you sing
Once you have opened your heart to its church
You find that the sparrow won't come to its perch
Tears in conceit
Narrow as your caged beliefs
If you must assume the rose may never bloom
Is creation such a fact?
Can it be taken back?
Once you have opened your heart to its church
You find that your heart won't come home to its perch
Years to complete
The arrow winds in two wounds deep
Once for those who put a size on love
Once for those who only look above for sideways eights
Once you have opened your heart to its church
You find that your heart has come home to its perch
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Reveal Love
05:06
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There's so much pain
Pain behind us, pain beside us, pain through us
Pain to make us or erase our sense of trust
Pain to bring us close or to undo us
I wanted you
In truth I want you still
But you're so far away
Unless I play the rules by which you want to play
But then I feel you push me back
As if it's challenge that you lack
I say lover reveal love, never conceal love
I want you still
Lover be careful before you lose me
I won't be still
You're so alone
Do you deserve it? I know you think so
Do you know what's real?
Are you afraid what something real could make you feel?
Yeah
You stayed with him
On the losing side, you never gave in
But he's so far away
And if he didn't help you then, he won't today
And you're afraid to make the leap
But I only play my heart for keeps
I say lover reveal love, never conceal love
I want you still
Lover be careful before you lose me
I won't be still
I want you still
Or I could wait for you to come
To the realization
And say lover reveal love, never conceal love--I want you still
Lover be careful before you lose me—well I won't be still
‘Cause I want you still--I want you still
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Here's to the Future
03:40
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Here’s to the future my friends
Hope I can see you there
We’ll have a drink together somewhere, somewhere
Here’s to the future darlings
Whatever may come to pass
I send you with my good graces and that’s a fact
What have you got to lose?
Whichever paths you choose
Keep in mind that the fates are kind if you let them be so
And I know you will
Here’s to the future brothers
Raise your cups in the air
Here’s to the future sisters and all the unlikely pairs
What have you got to lose? Whichever paths you choose
Keep in mind that the fates are kind if you let them be so
And I tell you no lies
Here’s to the future my friends
And all that it holds in store
I hope that each day from now on holds more
Holds more
Holds more
Holds more
Holds more
Holds more
Holds more
Holds more
Holds more
Holds more
Holds more
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Airscape
05:29
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And in the element of light
The sun reflected from the waves
Inshore it spangles
The child of air is borne upon the wind that blows across the sea
And in the element of summer
The cliffs suspended in the heat
The air in columns
The tiny figures of the world are walking
Underneath your feet
And underneath your hair
Where angels wander
I'll wander too
Where angels wander
Over you
And in the element of darkness
The starlight shimmers on the spray
And falls towards you
Your perfect lover's never there
And if she was, she wouldn't be
And neither would you
Save your illusions
For someone else
Save your illusions
For yourself
And in the element of laughter
The quick explosion and the slow
Release of heat
The tide recedes upon the bones of something beautiful and drowned
In coral and in jade
Where angels hover
I'll hover too
Where angels hover
Over you
Over you
Over you
Element
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8. |
Don't Break The Silence
04:41
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She's not for sale
She's deliberately not yours
What you can’t own you break with violence
She can't be counted
She's a wave and an ocean
Don't break the silence
Don't break the silence
Let her hold your face
Like the summer's sun rays
She burns so bright into the night winds
But the winds don't ask her
Of what she's made
Don't break the silence
Don't break the silence
'Cause what she didn't tell you
Is that you broke her like
The roots break the sidewalks
So don't make plans for her
It doesn't work
To map her like an ancient catacomb
She's free to roam
And you're free not to stop her
Just let her mind gaze
On a frozen mystery
She'll fill you in when she finds it
She's got her own pain
Don't make her give it up
'Cause what she didn't tell you
Is that you broke her like
The roots break the sidewalk
So don't make plans for her
It doesn't work
To map her like an ancient catacomb
She's free to roam
And you're free not to stop her
She's not for sale
She's eternally not yours
Respect the woman and her science
Just feast your eyes
On her cold sunrise
Don't break the silence
Don't break the silence
Don't break the silence
Don't break the silence
Don't break the silence
Don't break the silence
Don't break the silence
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Ask Me No Questions
04:39
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Ask me no questions
Tell me no lies if you don't mind
And come with me
There where the sun files
There where the skies are bluer still
Is where we'll be
Take nothing with you
I'll give you everything I can
Have no fear
For if you stumble
Or should you fall along the way
I'll be right here
Close your eyes my love
Close your eyes
Gently
Come
And in the morning
Don't tell a soul of what you saw
It's just for you
Keep it a secret
Make me a promise that you will
I'll make one too
Close your eyes my love
Close your eyes
Gently, slowly
Come
Ask me no questions
Tell me no lies if you don't mind
And come with with me
There where the sun flies
There where the skies are bluer still
Is where we'll be
Is where we'll be
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Kids Don't Follow
03:17
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You Drew
03:06
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Take the baby's cane away and hide his little braces
Left to his devices he still wants that rocky road
Feed him all your fables and your periodic tables
Fabulous, a fatalist is what he wants to be
But you drew the poison from me
Picked me off the bayonet tree
Pulled me like a tooth that kept your nights from finding sleep
Move into a bungalow and disconnect the phone line
Hello, grace, it's been awhile
Your footsteps can go unnoticed
That's not to say that you weren't missed
But I guess you weren't invited
I never lacked for company
It's for care that I was wanting
But you drew the poison from me
Picked me off the bayonet tree
Pulled me like a snaggled little loose tooth
It's these late admissions that are driving me from sleep
I admit that I admire admiration's name
But if you come back to my senses I won't try to reason with you
Knowledge gained is knowledge used, it never works out different
But you drew the poison from me
Picked me off the bayonet tree
Pulled me like a snaggled little loose tooth
And you drew the poison from me
Picked me off the bayonet tree
Pulled me like a snaggled little loose
Tooth
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Cassandra for the sunrise century
Taking the moon in her bed like a lover
Letting him leave her
Taking no others
Watching the tides as they fill up her eyes
She says she's not upset
She says that loneliness is worse than regret
We have to wonder
What she meant
When she told us
Any love is good enough
We have to wonder
What she meant
When she told us
Any love is good enough
The sun comes to her on the windowsill
She meets him there, he says
“Come ride on my flaming hands
By tomorrow we'll be painting the horizons
With the gold streaks of a good goodbye
What would the Moon suspect?
He only sees the clouds that slither by his head”
We have to wonder
What she meant
When she told us
Any love is good enough
We have to wonder
What she meant
When she told us
Any love is good enough
“Could heaven keep the light on so I can keep my eye on you?
You and only you
And follow you as far as I can go”
There's a break in the trees the Moon is shining through
She rolls down the window and says ‘”Is it you? Is it you?”
Gravity turned him
Comets had burned him, too
She splashes the river to move his reflection
She says ”Could heaven keep the light on
So God can keep his eye on you?
You and only you
And follow you as far as you can go”
We have to wonder
What she meant
When she told us
Any love is good enough
We have to wonder
What she meant
When she told us
Any love is good enough
We have to wonder
What she meant
When she told us
Any love is good enough
We have to wonder
What she meant
When she told us
Any love is good enough
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Known Diamond
05:29
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Hearing the phone ring
Another angel lost its wings
Better to save it
For when you really need something
“Is heaven abandoned?”
The words that you could never write
They called me to send me
Wondering where you are tonight
Like a known diamond, they say you got the light, girl
So take the right to find the fire that fits
Your faded heart
The shadow of diamonds, it kept you from my sight, girl
Don't walk away, just say you'll stay engaged in who you are
What you rejected when the harbor lights went out
When all is uncertain, you can soothe yourself with doubt
You look to the mirror and ask if they make fables there
You know that you're moving fast when your surface is bare
Like a known diamond, they say you got the light, girl
So take the right to find the fire that fits
Your faded heart
The rumor of diamonds can set the dogs to fight, girl
So hear these words of mine that say your shine is genuine
Locked away, to keep the thieves from finding out
Remember the sunlight when out in the world you'd walk?
You'd drift like a smoke ring in the shadows of New York
Then you see her picture, and wonder if you ever left
You can
Throw dirt on a memory, but you could never say it's dead
You can
Throw dirt on a memory, but you could never say it's dead
Like a known diamond, they say you got the light, girl
So take the right to find the fire that fits your faded heart
The illusion of diamonds, it kept you from my sight, girl
Don't walk away, just say you'll stay engaged in who you are
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Cyclone Graves
03:58
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You can't run away
You were born it's all the same game
Tear off the roof of your life
And start your searching again
You came on the day the clouds went away
To their cyclone graves
Where they stay, as sure as I say, that
I hope you never go blind
I hope that you're more than just kind
Oh, to yourself
You talk to the wind
And you hope that it will listen in
(And) blow you back where you can begin
To resemble your weakest sin
(But) you came on the day the winds blew away
To their cyclone graves
Where they stay, as sure as I say, that
I hope you never go blind
I hope that you're more than just kind
Better find it, never fight it, never regret your heart
Your love makes you less than useless, oh to yourself
There's something about the way you hide
The strength to engage an alibi
Under the scrutiny of love
What will it take to raise you above yourself?
Divine or profane?
Drink the wine or linger in the rain?
Maybe you don't have to choose
And fortune's smiling on everyone
And I think it's smiling on you
You came on the day the clouds blew away
To their cyclone graves
Where they stay, as sure as I say, that
I hope you never go blind
I hope that you're more than just kind
Better find it, never fight it, never regret your heart
Your love makes you less than useless
Love makes you humble
Pulls you forward
Never fight it, never fight it, never regret your heart
Your love makes you less than useless
Oh to yourself
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Death of a City
04:31
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Did Ray really survive
The death of a city that once was alive?
Still wears bespoke suits
He feels fireproof
Maybe religion still offers him proof
And he walks right through you and I now
Silently make his usual rounds
Oh, you're over and done with now
You've broken my heart in
But that's not important - a minor misfortune
Now you're over and done with now
The death of a city
And nobody really cared
Back streets
Somebody weeps
Closed circuit cameras are making the sweep
And they look down on grass turning brown
‘Cause nothing is able to live in this town
So you go out, late, and look for the stars
All you see is orange on the clouds
Oh, you're over and done with now
You've broken my heart in
But that's not important - a minor misfortune
Now you're over and done with now
The death of a city
And nobody really cares
Are we able to see what somebody was dreaming in steel and stone?
Streets laid workers were paid and the skyline was something everyone owned
And you know sometimes that's all you get to
No you're not going now not when we're still enough to hear our own sounds
Like when we breathe through each other's mouths
The broken out window gives view to the south
Now was it just a trick of the light
Or did I see movement attracting my sight?
Or is it somebody waiting for word
To pull the curtain down?
But oh, you're over and done with now
You've broken my heart in
But that's not important - a minor misfortune
Now you're over and done with now
The death of a city
And nobody really cared
Oh, you're over and done with now
You've broken my heart in
But that's not important - a minor misfortune
Oh you're over and done with now
The death of a city
And nobody really cared
But don't cry - don't cry
'Cause it's over and done with
Over and done with now
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Never My Love
03:40
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You ask me if there'll come a time
When I will grow tired of you
Never, my love
Never, my love
You wonder if this heart of mine
Will lose its desire for you
Never, my love
Never, my love
What makes you think love will end?
When you know that my whole life depends
On you (on you)
Never, my love
Never, my love
You say you fear I'll change my mind
And I won't require you, well
Never, my love
Never, my love
How can you think love will end
When I've asked you to spend your whole life
With me? (with me)
With me (with me)
With me
With me
Never, my love
(Never, my love)
Never, my love
Never, my love
Never, my love
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Ken Stringfellow Seattle, Washington
A fixture on the music landscape, indie and otherwise, since the debut of his band The Posies in 1988, Ken Stringfellow has over thirty-five years of experience as a performer, composer, producer, arranger, programmer and more. In addition to his eight albums with the Posies and four solo albums, Ken spent a decade touring and recording with R.E.M and 17 years with Memphis cult band Big Star. ... more
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