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Paper Plane
03:29
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Paper Plane:
Your baby was born out in the rain
We talked in only whispers when remembering
You sat and smiled and felt his gaze
The distant love unfolding was a blank white page
And as it floated along the hallway
And through the door and down the driveway
You told me hearts are just like paper planes
You painted a lot and I was a fan
Of the grey-gowned beauty, flute held in her hands
I wanted to learn and I said it out loud
But the practice only trapped you on your own dark cloud
And as it floated over everything
The family parted and I couldn't stay
You threw your heart so hard it flew away
I picture we're walking and whistling by
And a gentle line of questions standing at your side
When I found my love and went off to school
You lent me your truck and I listened to you
As you floated along the hallway
And through the door and into the next frame
I started folding up my paper plane
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Flowers
03:20
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Flowers:
Drove to city hall with my arms all wrapped in sun
Sweat stains on my sleeves and my heartbeat like a drum
I parked a block away by the market in the shade
To feel myself go walking up to live out love's offered trade
We never spent too much, found a dress for twenty bucks
White leather thrift store boots on that your mother said she loved
There was colour in your face, fished with your father yesterday
You stood and we greeted, and I could not look away
We were kids when you first saw me
I had so much left to learn
You call me out when I start falling
Light me up and watch me burn
Fresh and dry were done our crying
Our ribbon’s tied and lets keep tying
The flowers from the banks in bloom
Our mothers' mothers in the ballroom
I swear it's true, I wont stop trying
No hesitation, no denying
Tired bodies, limbs entwined
We'll get fucked up and we'll be fine
My friend
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Blanket:
A second heart arrived in you
In the wake of our natural arrangement
The news set off the fire alarm
With a strange hum but my worrying erased it
The day will come I'll take you in my arms
When new eyes meet sun
We'll pray with our blue blanket on you
Oh you'll live to see another one
The ghost in my heart's driving you
On the way home, I'm trying not to face it
I let your fingers grip my thumb
Read the names on your little plastic bracelet
The day will come I'll take you in my arms
When new eyes meet sun
We'll pray with our blue blanket on you
Oh you'll live to see another one
Blood red-coloured light in you
When you wake up will lift your heavy eyelids
And make you feel alive and new
Whatever may come, it will follow you until the end
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Aaron & Rae
04:08
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Aaron & Rae:
Aaron got me high, it was like that every time
He had a way with words, they would echo in my mind
I met his older sister Rae before the mill shut down
Before I knew their father was the richest man in town
We'd stay up all night if we made it up past two
We shared the sky those mornings, there was nothing else to do
Rae'd be up alone, playing bass or on the phone
Or listening to bands that only she would know
I told all the boys in the caf before school
that Rae took me home so they'd think I was cool
And Aaron overheard me while walking on by
His eyes turned toward me but he just kept quiet
I was up one morning with Aaron sleeping in
Rae came home excited and she asked if I would listen
Her band had made a demo and she played it just for me
It sounded like the ending of a movie or a dream
And I told all the boys in the caf before school
that Rae took me home so they'd think I was cool
When the bell rang she stayed back and pulled me aside
and my lie got so real, as I walked home I cried
The next time I came over, Rae was at the curb
I said, “I feel like shit” and she said, “that's what you deserve”
I looked down at the driveway and she stared at the street
And asked, "is this the kind of man you're going to grow up to be?"
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5. |
Left Open
00:46
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6. |
There's A Door
02:38
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There's A Door:
My body hides the signs of you
The way it ducks a wave entirely and slides right through
Tired fists and open palms, smoke to mend the songs
And I don't know where this all belongs
In the water there is truth
From it everybody came, and that's where we all end up too
So every dawn of every year you swim out past the pier
Until you can just barely hear
Turn the blinds up and tell myself that I can see you too
But our minds won't tell us what we really need to do
So I'm writing down the words that I can’t say
That I'm stronger but farther from you each and every day
The broken circles in your heart
Linking together as you sit there writing in the dark
Pictures from the bedside drawer thrown across the floor
But in the darkness there's a door
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7. |
Sisters Talking
03:44
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Sisters Talking:
Sun painted stone blocks, long porch glasses turning
Walking to your house and the leaves were burning
Leaves were burning
You signed me up for mornings out tacking up horses
Laps under cold barn lights, steaming breaths and courses
Wrapped in Scotland
Sisters talking
Every time I closed my eyes clouds would fill my mind when I said goodbye
I still hear the sound of you reading to the room that adored you too
You helped your sister's family enter the country
Up from the south they drove six states on Sunday
States on Sunday
States on Sunday
Swapping the plates at dawn just south of the border
You packed the kids in your car and snuck them over
Snuck them over
Snuck them over
You must have loved the paintings of the Glasgow four
Your memories together all around
Tell me Margaret, Frances, will you walk again
In heaven fall down laughing on the ground
On the ground
On the ground
On the ground
Walking in the winter light clouds did fill the night St. Frances died
I still hear the sound of you singing me a tune in a sun-lit room
Every time I close my eyes clouds they fill my mind when I say goodbye
I still hear the sound of you reading to the room that adored you
On the ground
Wrapped in Scotland
Sisters talking
Sisters talking
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8. |
It's You
03:45
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It's You:
Watch me drop down from the top of
My hopelessness parade
The broken cup that you swept up
Was everything
Still don't feel my heart beat pounding
Your lips don't feel the same
Empty body left me coming
Back again
To you in your love
Just you is enough
The sun is rising up for us
I remember the first summer
You drove me down to Maine
On the drive one hand outside
And one on me
The wind that night, the moon igniting
You dove into the lake
Swimming out and back you showed me
Everything
It's you when you love
Just you is enough
The sun is rising up
For you when you love
Just you is enough
The sun's still rising up for us
When I get back on the train
I'll lay my head to rest
Let my mind stop subdividing
All this mess
What I wanted all along is
To hear you say my name
One last time to get me smiling
Without shame
It's you when you love
Just you is enough
The sun is rising up for us
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9. |
In The Fall
03:37
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In The Fall:
You come down in the fall, you said it straight to me
When there's endless dark to sleep with, there are endless books to read
When you come down in the morning and stare down at the screen
There are endless faces smiling up but you can't stand to be seen
When we ran out from the office to sound off the alarm
You didn't move a muscle you were thinking of the farms
The kids with suntanned faces, their mothers' solid frames
You held all of their babies back before they had their names
Will you come, will you come down, will you come down in the fall?
Will you call me, will you call back, will you call me back at all?
Will you come, will you come down, will you come down in the fall?
Will you call me, will you come back, will you call me back at all?
You went down to the basement and waited there for me
Got your boots and jacket on and stood there with the keys
You saw our fathers' portraits from the navy on the wall
And as you stood you wondered, would we make it through the fall
When you come, when you come down, when you come down in the fall
Will you call me, will you call back, will you call me back at all?
When you come, when you come down, when you come down in the fall
Will you call me, will you call back, will you call me back at all?
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10. |
Breakfast With Me
03:17
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Breakfast With Me:
When the wind blows in the window
In the dark it pries the door
Every morning something gentle
Drifts across from the hall
Like a strand of paper dolls
Asking for an arm to hold
We're passing gifts of attention
We'll forget to find the time
If every bowl's assigned a number
Every day, there's one gone
While I'm waiting to be drawn
As I walk out and across the lawn
With every tender moment passing by
We're terrified of falling through, we're running off the ice
Just try to take a moment to arrive
For everything you wanted maybe you don't have the right
So hold on
Questions trade imaginations
All your stories come alive
When we listen and give affection
Your minds kiss the sun
Another day has begun
Now don't you get up ‘till you're done
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11. |
Walk To The Bus
01:49
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12. |
Soften
03:23
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Soften:
Leading to the bed on the carpet
A trail of lights through the darkest night
Now they're showing me the way to the screen
Where I learned how to love like a gainful machine
To the sound of a bird with no thoughts and no words
Just like the end of a song that goes on too long
And I turn to see the look on your face
Unplugged on a drug, I can't remember your name
Hold me close, I've forgotten
Let me go, help me soften
Now I've seen all there is to see
And I often wonder "how hard can it be?"
To stop relying on that simple release
The kind of satisfaction that can put me at peace
When I look down at the sprawl of my life
From a mountain of memories unsold, and obliged
I stumble to my knees and I crawl
Just like a bag of old bones I won't remember at all
Hold me close, I've forgotten
Let me go, help me soften
Hold me close, I've forgotten
Let me go, help me soften
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Rob Dickson Whitehorse, Yukon
A song-writer and song-singer living in Yukon. Plays guitar, sings to get the melody to match.
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