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Ocean
05:07
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When I went away
I felt a blooming
Inside my ribs
An ocean moving
The salt was there
In every breath
Through every hour
That I had slept
But all alone
In an empty room
I watched the lightning
Under the silvery moon
Each skinny line
Jagged but right
The sky is split
All through the night
In the breeze
Breath is big
I see a lion
I am aligned
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Hammer
04:08
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Find me a hammer
I am ready to swing
Find me a nail
I want to hear that metal sing
Let it sing, let it sing, let it sing
Find me a knife
I want to carve my name
In the handle of the hammer
So sharpen up the blade
Oh the blade, oh the blade
Find me an oak
I will chop it down
Slice it into boards
Build a house up from the ground
From the ground
Write me a letter
Leave it at the door
Tell me something
You never have before
Though the outside is all broken
I will make for you a room
Lay you down a pallet
And hope you come back soon
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Television
03:02
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Last night I had a dream, you were stranded on the water
And I was not the one who could retrieve you
I was trying to be some hybrid of my father
And the heroes that I've known from the TV
Will you sit right here on the bench while you are dripping
Every molecule that grabbed you in the lake
Will I whisper softly or just gently disappear
I'll try to be the sponge though slowly I am slipping
Yes I am the one who will try to hold you tightly
Even though I haven't found a place to land
I will try to be mighty in my faded skin
Though my bones can almost breathe the air
If I was the shark and you were sitting with me now
What would you do?
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Fog
03:46
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I still don't think
It was a waste of time
But to find you gone
Feels like the right thing
And I used to see you
As a golden god
But I figured out the truth
Yeah, it wasn't so hard
Everyone was talking
I finally heard through the fog
I might have even travelled
Through the shadows of my mind
And laid inside a darkness
For awhile
But clarity soon
Replaced the emptiness
And darkness gave in
Like it sometimes will
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Son
02:21
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Are you troubled my son?
Are you troubled my son?
Are you troubled my son?
Winter is cold when it comes
Winter is cold when it comes
Winter is cold when it comes
Do you see the end of the road?
Do you see the end of the road?
I've seen the end of the road before, my son
Keep your lantern burning low
Keep your lantern burning low
Even when the moon grows full, my son
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Clearing
03:17
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Meet me tonight in the clearing
I will be there all alone
Hear the old owl speaking
Light whisper from the moon
Meet me tonight in the clearing
It is my favorite place to be
Cast spirits out, I don't need
Shed them away like leaves
Meet me tonight in the clearing
I won't see you on the other side
Bird sings a melody that wanders
You will sing a melody that dies
Meet me tonight in the clearing
Branches have all fenced you in
When my hair begins to raise on my arm
I'll cast you out, never let you win
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Neighbors
03:13
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Well you've come, to look at your neighbors
A quiet bunch, who don't leave home
Sitting, in your bedroom
Rocking the chair to pieces, moving on
I see a few ghosts, when you are smiling
When you are sad, they cannot move
Breathing, in a four leaf clover
Spitting out a hollow tomb
All wrapped up, in a blanket
Say are you warm, are you warm tonight?
I am whispering, breathing
Cradled by that shiny pale moonlight
Fill me up you won't exist
Get me out of this old twist
My bones hurt I need to move
Your wind blows my breath is through
All wrapped up, in a blanket
Say are you warm, are you warm tonight?
I am whispering, breathing
Fighting off that devils appetite
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Kingdom
05:18
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Singing on the sacred harp
Led me through the cold and, dark
What am I, a godless child
I know no shining kingdom
Yet I keep chasing, the golden land
The clearing sky, and the angel band
Though my lantern lights, my ribcage bright
I am a man, I'll turn to sand
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Sam Moss Staunton, Virginia
"Marvelous, resonating, magnetic stillness." - Boston Globe
I also carve spoons
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