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Baby Blue
03:54
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I was born in June
The sky was baby blue
I remember the weight of the day
With nothing to compare it to
Your grey-green eyes were dry and bright
They went out one by one like a string of lights
I wish you were here
You’d make it better
You had barely the breath
to breath when you sung to me
Born not by blood but by soil
Your beauty has hung on me
No one knows where we go when the clock strikes the hour I hope they take me home like some stolen wild flower
I know you’ll be there
Well you better
At the table
did you dine
did you sign away the rights
If I laugh it’s to keep from crying
But were you able
I know you cared
but were you there when I saw that cloud in the skylight Did you once become aware?
But you’re not here
So I write this letter
I was born in June
The sky was baby blue
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Like a Bird
02:42
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You sing like a bird
I sat beneath the oak tree and heard Birds sing
So desperately
God’s like a skylark
You can hear him sing but never ever see him God’s like a skylark
You’ll never see him wingin’ it
Last night you were cruel
I was cruel
Then we fell off our stool
You sing like a bird
I sat beneath the oak tree and heard Birds sing
But I could not see
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Lie
02:55
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What can I do when all I done wrong Is believe a lie
A falsehood I thought I could rely
You’re too young
When you get older you’ll know
Or maybe you won’t
Some folks just can’t be told
But you got my number
You could give me a call
You know I’d always listen
A little too closely is all
I don’t know what made us act like such fools With nothing
With nothing
With nothing to lose
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A Flower From Behind
02:58
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Doing things I’m not supposed to do Feeling things I don’t want to
He’s unwell and I want you
Or anything to give way
In the shadow of the world again
Lost in some silent reckoning
Too-ra-loo-ra-loo-ra-li
In daylight savings time
Money’s not an issue here
I spend my time out on the pier
When it gets cold I’ll have a beer
When did I retire?
My life’s a tangle of vine and thorn
I grabbed the wrong bull by the horns The matador seems so forlorn
As often it is these days
Telling the way we’re concerned with trifling The corkscrew turns as the barrels rifling Driven into the softer flesh
Torn out of its home
You could be alone in your thoughts right now As if you knew the meaning of words somehow Peace be with your troubled mind
You know nothing except from behind A flower but from behind
A flower from behind
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Honeybee
05:31
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I was there when you begun
I loved you like the rise of the sun
Now I’ve seen it set on me
Out of all the songs that were sung
Did I tell you my favorite one Was the one we wrote all along
I don’t wanna move on
Without you
I wanna be wrong
About you
But can you prove it?
A mote of sunlight
We take to the darkest pool
So we can find our way around
In the dark we took our shape
But it’s only form that can break
Love without form is the only way
I tried to show you the way
Like a dancing honeybee
I failed at the very end of the day
I want you to cry until you do
Then I just wanna hold you
Like I never got to
I don’t wanna move on
Without you
I wanna be wrong
About you
I don’t wanna move on
Without you
I hope I’m wrong
About you
But can you prove it?
Or else I’ll lose it
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