1. |
Blown Apart
03:08
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When you're blown apart
There are no words of wisdom for you
Everything just makes such a hollow sound
I had a spaceship
But I misplaced it
So now I'm down here on the pavement
Looking for clues to
Something I used to know so well
Everything I know
Right out the window
Starting all over that's how life goes
Heaven forsake us
The secrets that fate just will not tell
Fate just will not tell
When you're blown apart
There are no words of wisdom for you
Everything just makes such a hollow sound
You throw a fit, swear you'll quit
Then you start again tomorrow
Mercy takes her time
But she usually comes around
I hit a dead end
Nothing to defend
DIdn't work though I could pretend
That I'd been cheated
Somehow mistreated by a friend
It seems so hollow
No one to follow
And the mistakes are hard to swallow
But no matter how fed up
I just have to get up once again
Get up once again
When you're blown apart
There are no words of wisdom for you
Everything just makes such a hollow sound
You throw a fit, swear you'll quit
Then you start again tomorrow
Mercy takes her time
But she usually comes around
I could say I really didn't try
That I didn't give my all
Oh but that would be a lie
And either way I have to take the fall
When you're blown apart
There are no words of wisdom for you
Everything just makes such a hollow, a hollow, hollow sound
You throw a fit, swear you'll quit
Then you start again tomorrow
Mercy takes her time
But she usually comes around
You start again tomorrow
Mercy takes her time
But she usually comes around
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2. |
World of Tin
03:39
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There is a single voice
That can open all my doors
There is a voice and it is yours
Of all the words that fly around
You only choose a few
Because you know how few of them ring true
You are silver
In a world of tin
It's no wonder
That you don't fit in
I have learned that just one step
On a path you choose yourself
Can teach you what you cannot learn
From any book on any shelf
It's lonely giving up some things
To reach for something higher
And there is loneliness in everyone that I admire
You are silver
In a world of tin
It's no wonder
That you don't fit in
(repeat)
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3. |
The Fool
03:25
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You dress me in rags
Then you tell me that I'm beautiful
You court me like a jester juggling my nerves
Leading me over these bumps and these curves
You stand me up half the time
Leave me waiting at the entrance to the show
Doing acrobatics that you don't ask for
Trying to make a deal with the guy at the door
And it's not fair but then
You come and touch this fool
You turn my tears and blood back into jewels
And you know justice is nothing compared to you
Travelers pass through
Idiot-savants and just idiots
Cicadas and moonbeams
They leave cases of kerchiefs and trinkets and sighs
And I try them on hoping you'll love my disguise
And then sometimes
I can't even pick you out
Among the bums and the junkies and the ghosts of Baudelaire
And the vagabond voices that catch in my hair
And it's not fair but then
You come and touch this fool
You turn my tears and blood back into jewels
And you know justice is nothing compared to you
Fools don't always know where they're going
And so they get to go everywhere
Follow a fool and you can go too
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4. |
Raining Inside
03:56
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You climb aboard the plane
With no way to explain
Why you had to have a ticket for this flight
The businessmen are drunk
The kids are eating junk
But you couldn't stand to stay for one more night
You wait to hear the captain clear
The runway here of any fear
But the waiting seems just like a dream
Where you cannot scream
You can close the door, you can run and hide
From the rain and thunder in the world outside
You can close the door, you can run and hide
But it won't help you when it's raining inside
Now you're flying high
But it's cold up here in the clouds of December
You're thinking all that you should know
All the crucial video
Is in the moments you can't remember
A bigger pill's a sweeter thrill
But there is still this little chill
And so you sigh and close your eyes
And you realize
You can close the door, you can run and hide
From the rain and thunder in the world outside
You can close the door, you can run and hide
But it won't help you when it's raining inside
And the water coming down
Will finally quench a secret thirst
Though I know it seems sometimes
Like it is gonna' drown you first
You can close the door, you can run and hide
From the rain and thunder in the world outside
You can close the door, you can run and hide
But it won't help you when it's raining inside
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5. |
Ten Lives
02:47
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You're asking for me
To land on my feet
I'll try to remember to come back as a cat
Or maybe if I
Came back as a dog
I'd still be loyal
When you treat me like that
The next time around
I can spring from the ground
Dig in deep to give you shelter
And you could carve your name in me
I'll try to remember to come back as a tree
It would take me ten lives
Ten lives to make you happy
The sun's going down
You're losing your light
If only I could be a firefly
Or maybe a tall
Ladder to climb
If I came back as that
You could reach to the sky
Behind every door
There's something more
And none of them are swinging open
But you'd get in if only you had me
If only I could be your skeleton key
It would take me ten lives
Ten lives to make you happy
A well of second chances
A big bouquet of answers
An ocean ebbing, flowing just to wash you clean
It would take me ten lives
Ten lives to make you happy
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6. |
Naivety and Innocence
04:03
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Once I dreamt of a kid soldier
Proud to guard the cold stone walls
Of an old fort long-abandonned
Obsolete and harboring nothing at all
But I was wide awake
Where did that thought come from?
It couldn't have been me in there
I'm the one they counted on
There is a time
For naivety and innocence
To go the way of all that is devoured by experience
You've known so much about me
For such a long time
Now your secret is out
And I'm so far behind
Sometimes the things I really want
They take so long it seems
Finally to catch up
With all the things I think I need
There is a time
For naivety and innocence
To go the way of all that is devoured by experience
Youth caresses its wisdom
Like a child it's first cigarette
Like fire to the branches
Of a dead tree - or did you forget?
Until experience
The morning after tiptoes through
A ballerina dancing scherzo
On white cake in lead shoes
There is a time
For naivety and innocence
To go the way of all that is devoured by experience
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7. |
Wishing Well
03:14
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Because you'll do it anyway
That is why it's silly to explain
But if you want to have your say
I will try to listen with a straight face
I know all about your wishing well
And you know I always wish you well...
You dream in color babe
There’s a price to pay
And you wouldn't have it any other way
Fly your aeroplane at night
Take it high
Really just as sane
As staying down here all the time
While your eyes
Are tugging at the night sky
Everybody has a space to fill
You just fill up ‘til you spill
You dream in color babe
There's a price to pay
And you wouldn't have it any other way
It's okay... to get your way once in a while
You know better
That now is better than never
I know all about your wishing well
And you know I always wish you well
You dream in color babe
You dream in color babe
You dream in color babe
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8. |
Fall So Far
03:03
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City lights
Just outside
A call that you’ll
Ignore tonight
You’re waking from
A broken dream
And now nothing
Is what it seems
You fall so far
Take it so hard
And you wish you had the answers
But falling down
Is how you’ll find them
Not by floating on a cloud
A chapter fades
Then one begins
The roller coaster
Never ends
You see a door
You walk on through
Can’t help yourself
And why should you?
You fall so far
Take it so hard
And you wish you had the answers
But falling down
Is how you’ll find them
Not by floating on a cloud
It’s gonna’ be a long night
But I know that you’ll be alright
And I’ll see you on the flip side
You fall so far
Take it so hard
And you wish you had the answers
But falling down
Is how you’ll find them
Not by floating on a cloud
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9. |
Leaves on Water
04:06
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As the wind bows the magnolias down to the ground
And away from the moon
I sit by my window wondering
How much further your love for me can bend
Or will it finally break apart
And I thought it was only me
So full of questions
Til I noticed all my friends right beside me
In the dark
Some days weigh like leaves on water
Some days you fly right on down the track
Some days weigh like leaves on water
Some like bricks on a baby’s back
As I sit inside this box of skin and thoughts
Unadorned, unwrapped, unlined
I’m trying to find the fine line
Between venturing where I must
And treating you unkind
Just how much of what we touch
Can do somebody harm?
Some days weigh like leaves on water
Some days you fly right on down the track
Some days weigh like leaves on water
Some like bricks on a baby’s back
Now I look to the future
Like a child to Christmas day
Like a pregnant woman to her womb
Like a worker to a quitting time bell
Glad that nothing lasts forever
You ride these moments
Hang on for dear life
Bring someone along if you dare
Some days weigh like leaves on water
Some days you fly right on down the track
Some days weigh like leaves on water
Some like bricks on a baby’s back
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10. |
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The moon is a zillion miles away
And I can get there in no time flat
Faster than you can say ‘did I hurt your feelings?’
I’ve spent most of my time there
The moon has always saved my life
But the distance could kill me now
So I’m coming down from the moon
Coming down from the moon
Coming down from the moon
‘Cause I need to be with you
I’m tearing my dress on the crescent
Stepping off the edge
So accustomed to being up here
That coming home feels like leaving instead
And I’m mad that I learned this trip so well
But when it seemed there was no room for me
No place to go but up
Thank heaven for the moon
So I’m coming down from the moon
Coming down from the moon
Coming down from the moon
‘Cause I need to be with you
All those dreams of flying
So many dreams of flying
All those dreams of flying
Free from the world but stuck in space
So I’m coming down from the moon
Coming down from the moon
Coming down from the moon
And it's good to be with you
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11. |
A Bar or Two
02:26
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I’ve been drinking
Solemnly thinking
Desperately singing
And forever wringing my hands
Of the ghosts of your hands
Memories pour in
Caving the floor in
And the truth that I’m courting
Is leaving me sorting through
Thoughts that I wish weren’t mine
Silly me
Thinking I could forget you
In a bar or two
I hate this interior
And the jukebox is wearier
But I’m ditching the storm here
In a few pints of warm beer
And talking to myself out loud
Silly me
Thinking I could forget you
In a bar or two
Silly me
Thinking I could forget you
In a bar or two
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Jenifer Freebairn California
I am an L.A. songwriter now roaming the wide open spaces of the Sonoma Coast.
Music is magic
you make out of thin air; out of every moment up until now, out of desire, misheard words, triumphs and missteps. Music is my ride and I hope you enjoy these songs I've written along the way.
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