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Seeds of Wants
03:35
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Off on my way soon
To other lands, the fields of fruit
I’ll only be gone
For a while to where I found the sooner sun
In the gardens I’ll toil the ground alone
By the ocean’s breeze
Back in the mountains
The seeds of wants, my dirty hands
Dug further into the madness
Pining for her spirit to erase my sadness
Strawberries, nothingness at rot
But in this moment all I want
Then on the island
Where ocean fell and earth begins
Give yourself some room to breathe
With Swedish friends and only sand beneath your feet
Goodbye to material and snow
I’ve all I need
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2. |
Ain Salah
04:16
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Love is a miracle
Is a miracle
Shame like you couldn’t know
In the feelings of ruin
Oh my world was on fire
From my ragged wooded room
And I’ve still not forgotten
Your other-favored doom
Life is a miracle
Is a miracle
Shame like you wouldn’t know
In the feelings so cruel
So I brought the firing fighter
From the moments gone away
Still keep it in the shadows
In case I cannot stay
Where is your Ain Salah
All you’re looking for
Desert bloom
Where is your Shambhala
All your golden sun
Fated fruit
Found in you
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3. |
Keep Dancing
04:35
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When I was just four
I made friends with the girl next door
Played in her backyard
Thought I’d marry her someday
Funny thought to entertain
Then she moved away
We did too in 2004
We crossed the river
The family was divided
Me and my sister
The back and forth, so frightened
Oh no
Finances were tight
Backyard football, Friday nights
I would care too much
I got so afraid
Clouds up there, tornado days
Where’s the Lord this year
Coming back so loud and clear
I saw the planes and
I thought the bombs were dropping
They saw my face and
Decided I was nothing
Oh no
Then in 2012
Just before the end dispelled
Our grandfather passed
Raised the flag in time
Stars and stripes, half-mast, in flight
Saw him in your dream
Said keep dancing, just for me
It’s so hard to keep on dancing
Things keep changing, time keeps passing
Fearing all the types of loss
Feeling all this weight and cost
Crossing through the sea of midpoints
Infinite and flowing faster
We all keep on dancing forward now
We all keep on dancing
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4. |
The True Feeling
04:17
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Wait for the day
That’s never coming back again
Keep seeing you in my dreams
The things you said
Drove up to the Basin with you that May
Sat with you among the trees that day
At night we danced the light away in tune
Moved along
But why’d you deceive
And why wouldn’t you leave
Oh why wouldn’t you leave
Oh the moment was fleeting
And then I conceded I didn’t want you but I loved the feeling
The sensual madness
Your threats and the sadness of you leaving
Oh ho, I couldn’t stop the weeping
But then came another
Her green eyes, her smile
Her basement barcade lips, her wonder
Then the winter in Osaka
The lights and the vodka
I walked away in shame with my coat from the locker
Oh ho, I missed you but just for the scheming
Oh I wish it was love, the true feeling
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5. |
Chimborazo
04:01
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I was lost in every moment
Reservations in displacement
I was leaving, stuck in movement
Contemplation of destruction
But I
Saw the light of it
Saw the world a bit
I’ve seen it all
And I
Can’t apologize
For the mountains climbed
Anymore
Anymore
I was loving every second
Motorbiking east of planet
Invitation of a new land
But invocation into fate’s hand
Sealed
The whole world shut
The panic ate our guts
Invisible
But I
Will find my way again
It’s not the final plan
Out beyond
Out beyond
I’m not scared
To keep climbing
Chimborazo
I’ll see you when I can
I’m not scared
To keep climbing
Chimborazo
I’ll see you when I can
Oh I
Will see you when I can
On Chimborazo then
Someday soon
I know
I’ll see you when I can
On Chimborazo then
Someday soon
Someday soon
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6. |
January 10th
04:40
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From Dallas rose
A little one
The tenth day
Of that year
The shoebox sound
When we drove around
Had made it
So real
Oh my best friend
You always did
Your own thing
Your own thing
Your mahogany box
The photos of
Your sweet face
So true
As you fell down
The leaves fell all
Around you
One last time
Your breathing stopped
The morning before
She came back
Back home
In ‘21
The first year’s come
Without you
Without you
The permanence
Of death can’t best
The memory
Of you
I was so glad
That I came back
To see you
When I did
The three plus months
Of wanderlust
Sudden end
Uncertain
Oh everything
It happens for
A reason
A reason
The eight months spent
With you my friend
Will always
Be proof
I know you’re up there
I know you’re up there
I know you’re up there
I know you’re up there
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7. |
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Everyone tells you
That you’re alright
They can’t see the many things behind the brain, behind the mask
That I’ve conveyed
That I’ve conveyed
I’ve not seen anyone
For quite some time
Middle of the darkest room
Becomes reality for you
The focal point
The focal point
Now I hear the rumble
From my windowsill
Calling out to everything
In forest and the golden dream
The sound of flowing water
The sound of flowing water
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8. |
Kalaw
05:48
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Last year
In the west of Shan
A sickness fell upon me before the trek began
In the cabin
Just tea and bread
My world across the world, at home in Kalaw then
All beauty ends
Behold, the doom
Asleep in standard breath
Awoke the wounds
True sacrifice, bloodshed
Why, why?
Must the young, for freedom, die
You’re dying for your land
The bombs come scorching, blood comes pouring through her hands
Wishing for a better world
The hearts keeping breaking over and over, at the hands of them
Behold, the doom
Asleep in standard breath
Awoke the wounds
True sacrifice, bloodshed
Why, why?
Must the young sacrifice their lives
I can see this I can see this happening to us
Nations screeching nations screeching please come save us
It's happening
It's happening to us
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9. |
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Oh I want to write a love song
But I want to make it true
And I want to see you dance now
Everybody loves you
And the saying about lifetimes
And the lasting of it all
I just want it to last all time
Till the world it goes
Till the world it goes
Your eyes
I’m helpless now
Your smile
I’m breathless now
Oh I want to piece together
Till the day we’ll soon be done
Do you want to take a dance then
When I finally see you
When I finally see you
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10. |
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I am a new-day American
I reach for the stars and burn my hands
I am a new-day American
Digging strawberry ditches in scorched lands
I hope I can’t ever afford nice things
So I’ll never be who you’ve been
I’ll break my back for a half home
My sweat and tears roll for the dollars I hold
Hope I die without a dime to my name
Buskin’ out in the streets, no care for fame
Hope I die by a woman I love
Some sweet natured girl sent from God on above
Till then I hope I learn to live a little more
Instead of staring at a screen, every moment a chore
Hope I learn to love myself a little more
In my old hoodies and the dirty shoes I wore
In the box of dusty photos I can’t un-see
In the younger evangelical scared me
And I hope I learn to give a little more
Something greater than the self as the only reward
I don’t need a single material thing
Just give me love, grace, and somewhere to be
Hope I die without a dime to my name
Buskin’ out in the streets, no care for fame
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