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Wave of Emotion
03:33
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Open my eye and what do I see
I melt with the sky, I’m part of the trees
Falling in love with the air that I breathe,
grow in the dirt a heart I will beat
The sound of the her voice unfolds in my dreams
I’m careful to touch and yet stay asleep
Around the fire, recounted stories
The waters of time flow into the sea
A wave of emotion, out on the planet
A wave of emotion
Open my door and what do I see
A fracturing town, blood on the street
Out in the cold and not up to speed
I know it’s my home when I start to leave
A wave of emotion, out on the planet
A wave of emotion, a wave of emotion
Shadows and light dance around
Ecstasy builds and tears me down
The love and the fear make a sound
I wait for that voice to call me out
A wave of emotion out on the planet.
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Family Anthem
04:23
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We’re good people, we try to live good
Never needful, trust in our words
How to say this and not be selfish
We don’t owe what we inherit
Earned our paycheques and took vacations
The days we hated paved our way in
Will our children know what work meant
Back in our day we will lament
Mother, open up your heart
Father, open up your heart
How to say this and not be selfish
We don’t owe what we inherit
Mother, open up your heart
Father, open up your heart
Hold you til we fall apart
Forced to mend a broken heart
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3. |
The Harvest
02:55
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Time brought us here, leaves us behind
Pull us faster than what we’d asked for
The well has run dry, the bird won’t fly
Truth will shed the cloak it’s wearing
Nature’s path will lead us home
Or drag us down beneath the stone
Will I be here or over there
Will the harvest even care
If I go will we find out
Which path to choose, which to carve out
If I stay will we still know
Truth in time will let us go
Time brought us here and leaves us behind
Nature’s path will lead us home
Or drag us down beneath the stone
Will I be here or over there
Will the harvest even care
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Church
05:28
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Time is rough, we’re leaves in the maelstrom of the breeze
and towers falls like forests will grow
Down below the wreckage, fossils of a past age
Deeds now undone, many souls now are none
The sea like the sky, mountains will rise
I don’t buy the idea that we’re the sole life in our galaxy
All came before, and all will go on
The sea like the sky, mountains will rise
The land under ice, fires in the night
Who’ll be around to explore in a million years?
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Island Hopping
04:51
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The holes in my heart are seeping like the cracks in my hull
Never lost when I’m dreaming, the ship awakes to my call
Morning float me to the reef, tides get swept out to the sea
Days in the blinding light, afloat on the molten blue
Wait for the storm to rise
Nights come without a sound, stars in my open palms
Held for the one I love
Walls of foam stretch before me, bar the way to my home
Move the ocean to know me, as below so above
Headwinds force me to believe fate is waiting in the deep
Days in the blinding light, afloat on the molten blue
Wait for the storm to rise
Nights come without a sound, stars in my open palms
Held for the one I love
Take my heart and play throughout my memories
Pound and blow my ship without a name
Spit me out or swallow me profoundly
A million words and nothing left to say
Island Hopping
I awoke to see all your beaches leaving
Morning float me to the reef, tides get swept out to the sea
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6. |
In the White Whale
03:56
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Autumn splashed and we’re decaying on the grass
It’s not the first and I doubt will be the last
How do you find the words I wish to god I never heard
Through cracked lips unstoppable heart swells out to say
Rising up just to fall back down again
Babe, how can feel that nothing’s there
How can feel that nothing’s there
The wheels spin round and carry the big thoughts in my head
The love and fear of what I will find when I come back
Did you stay and how will I know if what I have I can let grow
I am here, wishing that you were here with me
Never sure if it’s who I want you to be
Babe, how can feel that nothing’s there
How can feel that nothing’s there
Born to be free with nowhere to go
Long to real but fake it for now
I bought into hope more than you know
The house of our dreams was built up to be torn down
Babe, how can feel that nothing’s there
How can feel that nothing’s there
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7. |
Words Unsaid
03:59
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I can’t give you what you want to hear
Nothing in my heart but sadness
And when I try to look at all those years
I only long for the words unsaid
Still the wind finds the clouds and blows away
You don’t have to look for comfort here
You could trust the stars in the sky
You could try to not be down on me
They say smile and it could be true
Still the tide it flows in and washes out
Still the wind finds the clouds and blows away all the rain
Still the tide it flows in and washes out all your pain
You know that everything given time could be alright
All of your future friends smile and wave you hi!
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8. |
The Picture You Hold
03:52
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Years I am chasing my name and echoes of where I belong
Restless wherever I stay, here now soon I’ll be gone
I’ll ask you do one thing for me, strong though I don’t think you are
Open my neck ear to ear and I’ll be born again
You never can get what you need but always enjoy what you want
The vices you constantly feed, it all goes to the heart
And what do you have now for me, the answer I’ve craved for so long
How can the truth set you free when a lie can do no wrong
The picture you hold, the time is long gone, death in a visual form
The picture you hold is a memory hole, a ghost that will never come out
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9. |
I'm Over It
03:25
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Ready to move the road, fold in on itself
The shows, the tone, speaking on behalf
Asleep in the garden buttered bread
Difficult only in the head
What’s with the phone, the house, how you get around
Promise of peace and love, tethered to the ground
Sick with the candy in your hand
Nothing to try and comprehend
Always the pang of what to do and where to be
And whatever end result and how it relates to me
I’m over it.
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10. |
We're a Symphony
06:14
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In the city I live there’s a police department and they know about us
No loud music may happen, they take it so personally
(shut it down, seriously, what time is it, you can hear it like blocks away from here,
we’re getting calls from all over, did it sound good when knocking?)
Close watch where people gather, a note hangs in the air
All around from every basement a quiet chorus begins
Free me so that I may live again
Leave me so that I may breathe again
(let us play!, let us play!)
Forced to play by the rules, and the game is always money man
Something’s got to give in, so we have to keep on pushing it
Free me so that I may live again
Leave me so that I may breathe again
We’re a symphony.
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The Wind Whistles Vancouver, British Columbia
Indie-folk duo/band that blend whimsical folk with floaty alternative rock, and champion DIY culture and (re)connection to nature.
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