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Evening Star
05:10
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Home in the rivers light
canyon walls to hold me
buckeyes and poppies
needle grass and baby stars
I’ve been running from myself
like the wind I am chasing me
trying to find a love that’s gonna stay with me
I’m chasing my own shadow
Red bud and lupine flower
Bruised purple like
the sky changes
over an evening star
Oh oh, oh oh oh
I am changing more and more
I am changing more and more
Hold me to the rivers light
wash me clear so I can see myself right
there’s no such as darkness, you know
I’m a brand new morning, begun
I am changing more and more
I am changing more and more
The sky is changing,
over an evening star
Struck pennies on the water
or were they earthen copper stones
flung to make my wishes come back to me
a glint of light reflected
on the tree line
Oh oh, oh oh oh
Ooh, ooh ooh ooh
I am changing more and more
The sky changes over an evening star
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Diamonds
04:14
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If I could love you would it mean the same to you as me
You paint a pretty picture with the words you say you bring
me everything - diamonds and their shadows make me
think of leaving other things behind
Sometimes the light is so bright I don’t know how to see clearly
If I could leave you would it mean the same to you as me
But something keeps on pulling me like rainbows fall
to shelter on the earth - colors that are spinning
me down into a circle I have found
Sometimes the light is so bright I don’t know how to see clearly
Sometimes the light is so bright I don’t know how to see clearly
I know I have to let it go even though I’ve seen you there
The things you must have seen, the pain you carry you
Cannot bury in me - it will stay until you wake up
It will drip down all the colors
like rain …
You say it should be easy to remain with me as long as I’m with - oohs
The tenderness of being, the yellow branches as they bloom
Sometimes the light is so bright I don’t know how to see clearly
Sometimes the light is so bright I don’t know how to see clearly
I was seeing double I was seeing it for all I wanted to
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Let yourself be loved, in a better way
How I’m pulled toward darker things
The chance that things will get better
Pink camellias in the grass
How they bloom, against the clouds in the afternoon
Why can’t they leave my mind alone?
You know peace should be mine, alone
Oh love should leave a clearer tone
Apples that are cold and clear
I bite in, face my fear
Sweet flesh
red skin
The chance that you’ll turn it all around
We’re like a wheel going down
Helicopter seeds
spinning around
You know peace should be mine, alone
and love should leave a clearer tone
Oh why am I free for any use
and why you want to take me from being
free —
I’m caught behind a glass
and I can’t speak
Let yourself be loved, in a better way
How I’m pulled toward darker things
The chance that things will get better
in the grass dew pools like a pearl
sky is crying trying to find a higher
grace
So love can leave a clearer way
You know peace should be mine, alone
Oh love should leave a clearer tone
let yourself be loved in a better way
how i’m pulled toward darker things
The chance that things will get better
the chance that things will get better
Oh, love should leave a clearer way
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Stars in my eyes I can see them in the night
Blue behind the tall waving grass
I want roses in the sky above
And lemons on the lemon tree
White, bloom for me
The tides roll in and out
Laughter gathers me like heaven in the yard
I just want roses in the sky above
And lemons from the lemon tree
White, bloom for me
Your lover just down the hill
She’ll be home soon -
Walking up the hill with the olive trees
Light dapples down onto the tea leaves
Why now, why still?
I just want Roses in the sky above
And lemons from the lemon tree
White, bloom for me
Looking for the pieces to a holy dream
something sacred or barely touched
Just once… give it to me now
Why in my deep, drifting mind -
why can’t I just close my eyes
to the things I dream
to the things I see
to the things I am
I want roses in the sky above
And lemons on the lemon tree
White, bloom for me
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If Colors
03:55
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If colors could be different
If your words could be more true
If I had the power to shape it all
If our lives
could line up better than before
Light and shadow, rolling onto the shore
Where I dreamt of
things I had never
things I’m afraid to hope for
I had never been one to run
instead I’m frozen, I want to run
and I want to stay
I want to give you the light
I want to hold you until it’s right
things I had never
things I’m afraid to hope for
If colors could be different
If your words could be more true
If I had the power to shape it all
I want to see you through
I want to be held up in light
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6. |
In the Morning
04:34
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In the morning
in the morning
I know it means more to me
than it does to you,
and what it does
to me
Yellow bright as diamonds
In the sunlight outside the door
Burning blazing beauty on the sky
I know it means more to me
than it does to you, and what it does
to me
In the morning
in the morning
Holy melodies
bathing me in light
Where I want to be is with you
and a running stream
like two holy beings
I know it means more to me
than it does to you,
and what it does
to me
In the morning
In the morning
I follow the signs
some vision of mine
How it leaves me blind
Stranded and alone in time
One gentle touch
Isn’t that enough
I am bound to you
like a melody to a song
and when I sing I’m free
And I lend it to you so you can feel to
In the morning
in the morning
I know it means more to me
than it does to you,
and what it does
to me
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Nothing I Can Give
04:51
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There is nothing I can give
that I don’t already have
there is nothing I can sing
that I haven’t already sung
When the buttercups shine like gold
beneath the chaparral oaks
bathed in sun like a newborn child
gold falling off my skin..
Call my name and I won’t come, it’s too late now
Never thought I’d see the day
When I could walk free
Give me green or give me
Bleak winter, everything turned blue and gray
All my words like frail edges, they slip right from my throat
down to the earth…
Call my name and I won’t come, it’s too late now
Never thought I’d see the day
When I could walk free
There is nothing I can give
that I don’t already have
there is nothing I can say
that I haven’t already known
there is nothing I can love
that has not loved me so
A ring of German silver found
in the white market in fall
slipped so easy like a ship out to sea
onto one finger
Call my name and I won’t come, it’s too late now
Never thought I’d see the day
When I could walk free
There is nothing I can love
that I haven’t already loved
there is nothing I can love
that has not loved me so
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Indigo Dye
04:14
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Biding my time now
When I watch through the window where you’ve gone
Ironing your clothes with her
How do you live that way
Fresh pressed white sheets
Hung to dry on the line
How do you live
Indigo dye,
sun shining through the blue
and I left the room, when I left you
Nobody knows the truth
that’s what ties me to you
I long to feel a little more
I long for you to feel remorse
How do you live
Indigo dye,
Sun shining through the blue
And I left the room, when I left you
Everything fades away, like lace on a hem
all those sayings etched in my blood
my eyes have seen the stones
thrown like a dance and
I am catching them
Like rainbows, like loaves thrown to me
Like diamonds and gold
at my feet
Indigo dye,
Sun shining through the blue
And I left the room, when I left you
Oh I left the room
When I left you
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Tropical Birds
03:26
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If you knew
how I sleep in your house
turning with the morning
Bells sound
like some bird calling
loud as a wave that carries me
Down the hill
I can see for miles
Things I’ve seen before
Shadows + light, cast over buildings and vines, mmm
Moonflowers, moonflowers and telephone lines
If you knew -
what the light does
How day can take away
Visions I’ve seen carried on by
When you come back, no illusions
Cast against the white broken sky
blanched from summer on black dusty hill
Moonflowers, moonflowers and telephone lines
Magnolias and avocado trees
flowing down toward the city lights
and your shadow coming up that hill
Tropical birds -
or that’s how they sound to me
some piercing kind of beauty
some other life that I could live with you
or just a sign of the strife I’ve felt all this time
How day can take away
some things never meet
then never to break away
Moonflowers, moonflowers and telephone lines
Magnolias and avocado trees
flowing down toward the city lights
your shadow coming up that hill
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I Lay
03:51
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I lay
there in white
You could have been kind but were cruel, the limit of you
You cannot throw water on a stone
You cannot draw color from someone
Blind, blind, blind
I lay
there in white
It could have been easy
but I was a fool and I couldn’t see
You cannot pull color from a stone
You cannot draw water from somewhere
Dry, dry, dry
I learned
that I was nothing but time
that I could wait, Our love
like Indian Paintbrush,
red from the sun and the rain so sweet
That was you on better days,
your loving ways
Cruel words
hinge on the sweet
a line that’s pulling on me, stretching time
you made me bare and free as a thorn catching
Sky, sky, sky
I lay
there in white
Trying to forget, trying to forgive
You cannot draw water from a stone
you cannot pull color from someone
blind, blind, blind
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11. |
Waves
03:38
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Like a shadow you move,
like waves that are always blue,
and time held me close in my place
I could carry on like that
the clouds are falling like mirrors
they meet the water and it meets
my eyes again
A sharp tongue and no will to care
Can hardly last past the morning
You were an island white
and the horizon would fade-
the mast a flag put down over me -
and I was giving
Like a shadow you move,
like waves that are always blue,
and time held me close in my place
Underneath the cherry blossoms
pink is flooding me above
a baby’s tongue or the sun
setting over a cloud
Painted by children
and washed away
The lies you told could stretch on for miles
Like trumpet vines and cockle shells and
White terns falling
Like a shadow you move,
like waves that are always blue,
and time held me close in my place
Your whispers behind the veil
No prayers from the wings that fall
Like snow -
And if you hear me cry at night
it’s just that I have seen light
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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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