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Indian plum, by waves
When I know the way I’ll go
The way you go
The way of birds, their song -
It lifts me up when I am done
In bright colors
I watch for hours
count the time that’s passing
And even the shafts of light as they’re changing
They catch the way that our eyes are roving
Some untethering thread that is pulling me
Two daughters now, they’re growing
they count the time, like no other does
Oh, oh oh
Gulls cry
My heart yearns and wants to run
To the sky and to the ocean waves as they change
Blue to white and roads that I know not yet
They catch the way that our eyes are roving
Some untethering thread that is pulling me
Indian plum, by waves
When I know the way I’ll go
Oh, oh oh
And the summer’s green will come around again
And the summer’s green will come around again,
turning. Around again, turning …
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America
03:43
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I held my tongue
then let it slip like a dress
white off the shoulders
til I was bare
til I was raw
Red like strawberries
embroidered on the hem
I tried it softly, offered with prayer
But it doesn't sway, with you I always have to play the game
Deep in green Virginia
I thought about you
I bathed in the river alone
pearls of rain fell on the backs
of crickets as they lay
Dark shadows fell on the hills
they bound me in ribbons black
If I'm afraid it's only because
I long to see and be seen
I have cried in the Bear Lake
and more time alone won't change
the ways I've given up and given in
All I have to time to see
Emerald glow
take me home ...
Joyfully, joyfully
Driving across America
I wouldn't say what I felt at all
things were sweeter then
I can't recognize it now
Joyfully, joyfully ...
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Circles
03:17
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I am falling in circles
circles that travel in shapes of light
Solar rays that catch my sight
I was restless but now
I have found the space inside the moment
It's like you say that time is always now
Circles that cross over
moving like cool shade + shadow
In another place they might see
how they are reflecting off each other
Each other, each other...
If we aligned for a moment
I will let it pass in front of me
feeling my heart let the feeling linger
let the moment fill me and love me
let it's sweetness fill me
and love me
Circles that cross over
moving like cool shade + shadow
Lovers that never come to pass
Circles that are passing through a lens
I can be careful but why?
Why to be so hesitant and faithless
Why to wait for love that's all consuming
I am falling in circles
circles that travel in shapes of light
Solar rays that catch my sight
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Fallen
04:08
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Even if I have fallen
I love you less
I love you less
Empty visions
in a blank pool
Green waters
I went down alone
laid my clothes on a willow branch
alone and sank
Even if I have fallen
I love you less
I love you less
I followed the moon
or it followed me
light on the blue
water so far from here
Even if I have fallen
I love you less
I love you less
The way you made me
Beg and cry like it was up to me
You know my ways now
I turn back shyly +
I want to believe
All it takes is a little love
I'm easy to please and
to make it up to
I walk in pines
and I can barely breathe
but I am better off
Better off...
Even if I have fallen
I love you less
I love you less
What can I fight with
but with what I don't deserve
quiet nights I can work out a way to blame you
But out in the field, I am free and I just want to
let you loose
Out in the stars
I am sane and I just
want to let it show
Even if I have fallen
I love you less
I love you less
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Ghost
04:03
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You might say I deserve it
You might say I deserve it
You might say I deserve it
Over me the clouds roll in
from the sea to the windows edge
white painted cotton
blowing out the flame
of the light
You might say I deserve it
You might say I deserve it
You might say I deserve it
I walk to the kitchen
then back again
I'm like a ghost
moving between
the rooms
You might say I deserve it
You might say I deserve it
You might say I deserve it
Waves calm me
blackbirds call to me
from over the marsh
Golden grass grows
over the hills and I see
some days I can't go there
some days I can't go there
my eyes hold a longing for diamonds and blue waves
You might say I deserve it
You might say I deserve it
You might say I deserve it
some days I can't go there
some days I can't go there
some days I can't go there
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Green Fields
03:22
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I am clear in green fields
where streams roll into flowers
give me buttercups shining
Shining in the window
where you're talking
with your back up to the glow
If you trace a circle around
you hear the sound
even on something
so still as crystal glass
Chamomile and irises
I feel the spaces to feel free
The wind blows in and out on me
I try to trace it like I try to trace you
I watch you away as you turn
and go inside -
where you choose
the lamp as your light
if I'm barely speaking it's just
that I feel more - than words
I am clear in green fields
where streams roll into flowers
give me buttercups shining
Shining as they're waiting for the presence
of some blues eyes
or sky
Come over to me
come over to me
come over to me
come over to me
come over to me
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Holly
03:16
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Open your eyes
we stand in silence
beneath the holly tree
Berries bright
red as jewels
Open your eyes
give them over
from your years alone
empty rooms where we sit
From the corner
of my eyes -
blue skies
Leaves fall
from the old tree
a month ago it was gold
I stood there waiting
winter, winter turning
winter, winter turning
winter, winter turning
How I can change
you state your ways
like a poem from God
like there's no other way
Open your eyes
we stand in silence
beneath the holly trees
Berries bright
red as jewels
red as jewels
red as jewels
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Lindsay Clark Portland, Oregon
Lindsay Clark is a multi-instrumentalist, lover of nature, magic, myth and sound - she grew up in the Sierra Nevadas and now calls the Pacific Northwest home.
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