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Coyote (single remix)
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So cold says the coyote as the willow whips the crow. So quick, thick, and easy just to let these arrows go. I try not to break you, says the coyote to the snow. It's hot-fought and rotten, but it's the only food I know. Chorus: Seeking my anguish, this dog loves a tree. Fill me with warmth, and I'll feed you with me. I know I travel to die at your knee. Take me from cold, and I'll feed you with me. So fierce is the fire that the willow might explode. So cold is the coyote, he forgets the ashen crow. She whispers and touches with her passion underglow. The canopy collapses, and the coyote smokes his bones. Chorus. So cold, screams the coyote, and his hide it heals too slow. So scabbed-up and skinless, I'm a skeleton, I know. I pause just to die here --let my inside-out unfold. Silent seeds turn to saplings, sprouting willows feed and grow. Chorus. Feed me with fire and I'll feed you with me.
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My heart beats with overjoy. My love is endless, everything is you. You and you. Love forever, permanent and true. Money has no meaning now. My only treasure, only diamonds you. You and you. Wealth forever, permanent and true. CH: This is pure love. This is perfect love. All my pride grown uncorrupted, my wish is for the happiness of you. You and you. Joy forever, permanent and true. (Guitar) (CH) (Inst BR) Flesh and sinews all as one, we fuse together, all myself is you. You and you. Blood forever, permanent and true.
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I'm going to hollow out this heart in case I need it. I'm going to keep it over here inside this jar. And you can read it any way you want to read it, but you don't treat it right or feed it when it starves, so I might fill it up with someone else's charms. I'm going to put away this hope before it gets me. If I can't break it, then I'll keep it out of sight. But if you find it, you can dust it off and let me take one more look at it in your familiar light --pull back the curtain and illuminate the night. CH: It's a cold kind of love, love, love, puts a chill in the air, air, air. I'm a ghost in my walking skin, playing dead in the endless years. I suffer, bound in blue, but I won't let go of you. We're writing checks our future can't deliver on credit that no bank would guarantee. A decade on the vine and then I wither, yet I persist in search of what we used to be. And you can howl and growl, but still you don't scare me. (CH) This inferno spares no idle consternation. This is a lesson we can ill afford to learn, so don't you chitter-chat and promise reparations. Best break the glass or else this place is gonna burn, and what we lose will haunt forever how we yearn.
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Faith (single remix)
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Screwed up and lost my way. Too late to fix it. Can't stand the things I said. I failed the mission. I wish you knew my heart, and how I bleed your blood. I know the pain is real; I see the damage done. CH: Keep your faith. I will change. 'Round you I'm revolving, ever I'm evolving. I am bound to your ground. I cannot betray you, stumble though I may. Messed up and hurt myself, just more scar tissue. Misread the signs again, missed the real issue. I try the best I can. I fail and try again. I know your trust is frail, a thin, divisive veil. (CH) I am forever and eternal, though fading I must always be. Woke up another day with strength and vision, enewed, resolved to stay --resolved to listen. You are the best of me, though I have flawed you, too. I have so much to do to leave my love in you.
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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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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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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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Down (single remix)
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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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Thin (single remix)
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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 (single remix)
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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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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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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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I might have made a meal of you, I might have gone too far. I came to put your head on glass, I came to shoot a star. CH: Another salve, another cure, another curse to solve. The snow falls down in torrents now, and I've got wings to carve. No more tilting in me, for my courage lost the horse. These mills, in fact, did break me -- truer giants safe and warm. I see you safe to save me, if I kiss you will you wake me? I see you whisper maybe if I kiss you, angel save me. CH. This blanket spreads all white of frost, and all the rainbow's colors lost. I drink you though my tongue is rust, and all the rainbow's colors dust. I see you safe to save me, if I kiss you will you wake me? I see you whisper maybe if I kiss you, angel save me.
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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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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].
DESCRIBE THAT NOISE:
Hard rock sensibilities fused with acoustic upbringing and jazz acumen operating in a truly independent consonant harmonic system.
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