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At First Sight
05:15
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At first sight, the only line into your heart was over-tangled in a knot, an endless, complicated snake. That first night, I didn't dream of you at all, but in my lonely bed, my heart had come awake. At first light, I went about my daily ways, but something different in the maze --the smell of cheese. CH: You would be the one for me. So I tried to look for happiness around, and as my hopes went up and down, my heart said, "she has not been found." And you tried to find a love worth fighting for. You travelled bravely shore-to-shore, and yet your heart said, "something more." (CH) And in my old age, I hope I'll be a happy grandpa walking by the sea. All my life, I've been a failure and a fool, but then I took a chance or two and turned the corner into you. So, my wife, although it took a little time, I wouldn't change this knotted line which --once unraveled-- made you mine.
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Shadows Fall
06:09
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There are some things I will never talk about, but that bottle's gonna break and let 'em out. Feeling hopeless, overwhelmed and overboard --know I oughta, but decline to seek the Lord. CH: With a sudden shift of light, the shadows fall, like the inky flood of night consuming all. There are reasons I believe, but cannot prove. Heavy troubles that no lever ever moves. Feeling lonely though surrounded by my friends --know it oughta, but the pain just never ends. (CH) There are some things I could never live without --trusted beacons when I'm dark and gripped by doubt. Feeling humble, tempest-tossed, and homeward-bound. Though my purpose briefly lost, my soul was found.
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It Can't Rain Every Day
05:16
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Hey, hey, it's time to gather 'round, time to hear the tale of a sad and lonely boy who dreamed of love, a tale begun in secret long ago --a damsel knew him well and spun her sad heart on a copper wire through endless rain. Hey, hey, these are things that damsels do, but he lit the hidden fires that burned himself and warmed no one. A quest was made for Fall, when leaves and lives are changed and hearts are broken, every single one. CH:It can't rain every day, sometimes clouds must go away. Goodbye storm, goodbye rain, it's a new day. Hey, hey, it's time to take a shot, time to speculate and take the risks at once you dream and fear. The only things worth having have a price, you know, but sometimes you make back what you paid and more. Hey, hey, the price he paid was high, weighed in blood and gold the worth of what he sought could make him well. You pack your bags, you drive your car through dusty towns on wheels of fire. You go to her, you mend your heart, do what you have to do. CH. I lost my faith in finding love then it found me when I just stood still. Hey, hey, the love we found was good, easy, deep and true, and better than we dreamed that love could be. We traded rings, we traded vows, we made a family name. We found our dream, we found our hearts, did what we had to do.
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Mad About You
06:16
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She was crazy when I met her, just as crazy as today And I knew that I would need her, but I couldn't make me say that if my heart could find no other, I'd be happiest that way. But then I saw the way she wants your eyes to stray. And I feel that I must tell you even though you don't deserve her. CH: She's mad about you. Something crazy in her eyes just says he's mad about you. And there's nothing I can do if she's mad about you I was up to my old no-no's when I told her not to love you, for I was all too cautious not to tell her how I felt true. And you still just perceived her as a carnival balloon: possession pretty soon is ugly and is taking too much room. Even though you don't respect her or enjoy her as I do. CH. Bridge: Mistakes of mine, you are too soft, the ruthless win this game. Vicious, cunning, hearts of steel attract and cut and maim. And that which may be tender can't compete, which is a shame. For love is built on cloudy things that paralyze the brain. CH
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Dead Man's Blues
06:13
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I've got the waking man's fever, the dead man's blues, I'm bundled in a blanket with only you to think of, and I know you think it too. I've got the wisdom of children that guides my head, I think about logic, but blush instead to turn you from your titan and his bed. CH:But I will retain your heart when it's over. You and your rattletrap cargo are overdue, you're hunting through the islands for something new to chew on, and you know I taste it too. You say the thunder doesn't scare you when you're alone, you only wanted weakness to draw someone beside you. Now this weakness is your own. CH. Something quite disturbing when you turn yourself upon your past. Still, I am invited, though there is no promise this will last. I've got the waking man's fever, the dead man's blues, I'm tripping on my coffin in these new shoes, do you hear that? Because the titan hears it too.
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Catnip
04:55
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It could be that Cupid is a fairy tale, like Martians or bottomless coffeepots. And I can remember when I came into town as the clumsiest clown you had seen. Maybe it's the first time, maybe it's the last time, but baby, the moment is ripe. CH: I'm your catnip. I'm an itching spell, and once you get me, gotta scratch me. It could be that romance is a dying art, and that broken hearts are the rule. But I can remember how we suffered apart and made do with the cards that we drew. Maybe it's the moonlight, maybe it just feels right, but baby, this arrow's for you. (CH) Baby loves to purr, baby loves to purr, baby likes the itch.
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Passing Through
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The spectre of young love is laughing at me. The horse that you hide in looks happy and free. And though it's been years, I still trip in these shoes --I can't tie the laces, my heart is an avenue. CH: Passing through You're just passing through. The phantom of Pamela lewdly amused. Every day's loser day --I live to lose. Oh, I can drive nails through the tops of your feet. You're looking ahead, and I know you're not with me, just.... (CH) I know you don't love me, there's no need to hide it. A shoe with no partner, I'm roadside detritus from.... (CH) The banshees are howling, they mean it today. They bite me and pound me to scare me away. With your flip agenda, you think you're so clever. You're leaving on Wednesday to haunt me forever with....
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Thin
06:37
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There is a pattern to each ending, there is a way that things decay. I sense the crumbling foundation and long for hopeful, better days. For when it's coming, it is coming --we all must face the curtain call. But as I contemplate the ending, I wish the story weren't so small. CH: These walls are thin, and rain gets in. These winter nights can chill me to the bone. The frost and wind are on my skin, still something keeps this broken house my home. From day to day, you cope in pieces --construct a life upon delay. But with each temporary measure, you lose your heart and lose your way. For when it's ending, there's no mending, and what is torn, no longer whole. Without a shield, my heart is rending. A broken man, I am a fool. (CH) I caught a red-eye to Ohio and found a place where I could stay. A little warmth beyond the coldness, a place my memories could stray.
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Tell Me
05:40
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Should've learned my lesson not to fall in love with angels 'cause they've got wings and always fly so far away. Tongue-tied and all choked-up, you just cannot persuade them: there's nothing in this world to make an angel stay. CH: Tell me anything -- just say so and I'll leave you alone. Everyone else has someone to hold, someone to laugh with --or so I'm told. But not me: I have polite refusals on the telephone. Here I am all alone, just me and my guitar. We've seen some pretty rough times: this is just one more. CH. I know you like the sad songs with the chords that pull your heart. I wrote you one last sad song since we'll always be apart. I should've known that someday I'd make a brand new start, but no one could've told me that it would be so hard. I can try all I want, I can cry for a day, but nothing will work because angels don't stay. CH.
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Down
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Nothing in the glove box, nothing in the tank. Nothing on the interstate, nothing in the bank. All I have is nothing, all I had was just a lie. When a man's reduced to nothing, what is left but for to die. CH: You ain't been around, and I'm down. Nothing stopping nobody, nothing on the line. Nothing fixed the broken house, nothing worked in time. All I built was nothing, all I had was just a dream. Though I sacrificed and risked it all, nothing's what it seems. (CH) Nothing to the eulogy, no one in the grave. Nothing carried in the hearts, nothing left to say. All I was was nothing, all I thought was misperceived. Dispersed to dust and hollowness. Nothing, that is me.
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Forget the Sorrow
03:51
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CH: Forget the sorrow and the sting. Lift each burden, everything, and find within yourself the way --make a footprint every day. Oh, I suffer, hurt and grieve, try and cry and wish to leave. Love a heart that once loved me; stay for hope of what might be. And in the blue, the endless blue, a single ray of light shines through, a single thought that must be true, a knowledge of what I must do. (CH). Oh, I wonder, smart and all, how quickly or how far I'll fall if I should say a word of doubt which cannot go back in, once out. And in the red, the fervent red, a single voice speaks in my head. Although my heart seems better dead, I take a simple step instead. (CH). Bridge: One step, two step, three step, four. First a little, then some more. First a road until a door. First an ocean, now a shore. (solo) And in the blue, the endless blue, a single ray of light shines through, a single thought that must be true, a knowledge of what I must do.
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Million Valentines
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Oh, I could be stupid, but she could be dumber still. Leave cookies for Cupid and maybe the bastard will go pick up some roses for someone who doesn't feel I'm the lesser of a million valentines. Unpack my charm from the mothballs, please. Leave the windows up for the birds and bees. If they don't come, I still could use that breeze. They say that people die from lonely heart disease. I need inspiration. I need an original line. I've got to be patient, but I'm running out of time. I want to enchant her, dispelling that dreadful sigh, "you're the lesser of a million valentines." I rode my heart to the county line with the sheriff's mob just a mile behind. I put too much stock in this face of mine. Now, in deadwood, I'm an outlaw valentine. So roll out the whiskey --I'll be on the windowsill. I'll bet she won't miss me, but maybe her sister will. So if I look misty, it's only 'cause now I feel I'm the lesser of a million valentines.
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Archaeology
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Did you love me in the Stone Age? Did you have a choice at all, having only the fire and each other? Now I've got my shovel, yeah, I really want to know: did you emasculate the sabre-toothed tiger or did he set you free? Did you need my heart in Giza? Was I just another slave, counting only to carry your water? Why'd you wrap me like a package and include me in your grave? Was the tiny one your death and our daughter, or was she of the king? Chorus: Digging up the past, wearing down the stones, looking for clues in these bones. Did I tie you to a table? Did I bleed you for the rain? Did I think that you were not a virgin? Did I weep over you beating heart, a captive in my hands? Did I long to undo, as a surgeon, the damage I had done? I was wrong. Chorus. Did you love me back in High School, where we never did the deed? Did you feel that your chest was half empty? Although some dust has settled, my heart still can feel the need to be pressed to the glow of your body and never let you go. Chorus.
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And You Say
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Remember when I kissed you in a tree and we spent hours in the quiet of the blanket of the wool of night from three to four in the morning molesting each other up against the old upright piano? And you say how I never kissed you in a tree Yesterday, I saw your enemy --your secret sworn enemy. She fluttered her big brown pools of manipulation and tried to make me do some little thing as if I wasn't wise. And you say I'm a fool. All alone over mountains over deserts, safely from the river of your eyes --your beautiful eyes, slow and still that swallow me whole and pull me away. All alone in the frost and mist from a nearby park, I watch a restaurant burn from a merry-go-round where I never kissed you or felt the warmth of your heart --or better still told you all my secrets specifically your fault. I watch it burn and smell the chicken. I can't believe I'm this lonely every day. Don't you have something better to do than make me remember you? And you say you love the merry-go-round. Before you, there were others who ran off to be Nebraskans. Nebraskans these, your enemies who want to steal the treasure --the treasure deep inside your heart, the treasure that is twisting and spinning, hooking, grappling in every space I loved you. And you say how I never kissed you in a tree. I just want to see what you are. I think that you and your aliens should return my cheap belongings, except for you can keep the wine and my journal --I don't know me. And you say, "come inside and lie down, Valentine."
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Nudge
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CH: The truth is a nudge would betray me to weakness. It would not take much, and adrift I would be. I sit and I judge the missteps of my neighbors, but would for a nudge, in their shoes would stand me. Animal, vegetable, mineral, man. Lost without magic I do what I can. Faced with temptation, my weakness draws in, making excuses before I begin. (CH) Gluttonous, envious, lustful and sly. As so I slip so I also should lie. Thin the cocoon of my circumstance safe; sooner than soon it's too suddenly late. (CH) Bridge: One by one, my friends have fallen; I believe myself immune. Pride misplaced will not protect me --every day the fight renews.
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Let My Light In
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She said she'd leave if she could, ive up and get out for good. At times, I wish that she would. Today is not that day. I'm trying to keep it afloat, she's trying to paint me the goat. Baby, just bail out the boat. Today is not that day. First kiss meant forever, these days, yeah whatever. She's the force, and I'm the lever. Door is closing; now or never. CH: I'm sick of darkness and tired of fighting. I need some sunshine, let's let some light in. You used to love me, so don't stop trying. We need some sunshine, just let my light in. It's been a miserable stretch, I've been a wreck and a wretch. We can't get out of the ditch. Today is not that day. We burnt the cart, shot the horse, we've wandered so far from course. Dismissed, disabled, divorced. Today is not that day. There's more hearts than two, here. Don't know what to do, dear. Each day brings a new fear. Will you, won't you, what would you dear? (CH) Will you, won't you, what would you do? You want the one thing, this is the one thing that could fix everything. We weren't so far at the start, just lately drifted apart. You're still the light in my heart. Today could be that day. This fight lasts forever, can't we enjoy the weather. What's the darker danger? Truce now, you can hate me later.
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She's the One
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Somewhere in her heart a magnet that I cannot see. Still, when I get close, I feel it like she's wanting me. This is it, I know the falling and the gravity. Every risk deserves its moment, every wish is free. CH: She's my baby, she's my baby, she's the one, she's the one. All this, all this air between us is so said and gone. Every drop of love's spent lustre pools and lingers on. Even as I chase your long and lithe and blushing tones, i can feel that Spring is coming to my Winter bones. CH. Anyway she goes, she wounds me, and she loves me not. I will never know the faces of the roads forgot. I must now devote my passions to a magic ship, sailing through the cracks and clockworks, my mistakes unripped.
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As I Am
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As I am, I don't make sense. Seven years' of blisters on my heart. I ought to let you go. I ought to let us grow apart. As I am, a simple thought propels me on a journey through your blood. Don't you know by now? Don't you know that you're in love? If your eyes were out, would you want me as I am? Chorus: Kiss me, oh kiss me --I've loved you all this time. As I am, I bite my tongue, count to eight, and slowly drive away. I have to make a game, I have to make a frame to say. As I am I know you well --tell you truthful jokes and somber lies. Somewhere in the veil of lingering and lost goodbyes. If the truth were out, would you want me as I am? Chorus. My muse, my love, my angel ocean blue, you are the very beating of my heart. As I am, I wish I knew words to make you stop on any dime. Instead I'll have to say, I haven't gone away with time. And you ought to know I love you as you are. Chorus. And you ought to know I love you as you are.
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Cody Weathers Portland, Oregon
Multi-instrumental scat-singing acoustic-rock fool-for-hire. Card-carrying nerd since 1989. Not afraid of hyphens. Super
powers include: [deleted for reasons of national security].
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Hard rock sensibilities fused with acoustic upbringing and jazz acumen operating in a truly independent consonant harmonic system.
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