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Breathing Under Water
03:25
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Hypnotized by the sudden rain on the lake
Dreaming of what's underneath.
Gray skies there were forty days and forty nights of water
With no relief.
Waves were meant to roll.
But I know, I know
By evening the water will flow.
I don't want to go there.
I don't want to be there
See there.
Moving like a hurricane and breathing underwater
Digging hands
We were searching for drier land
A place to put roots in the earth.
But I believed I was seeing things I shouldn't see
In trees that the lightning had burned.
Seeds were meant to grow.
But I know, I know
I'm starting to lose control.
I don't want to go there.
I don't want to be there
See there.
Moving like a hurricane and breathing underwater.
I saw you.
I saw you.
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Sliding Door
03:55
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Heaven knows that I love you.
But you don't and that's how I have hurt you.
All at once what can disconnect
Are all of these things we never thought to protect.
Doesn't seem that I ever know when your gone.
I'm always waiting for you to come home.
Now I see I was wrong watching a sliding door.
On one side you're in love with me
On the other all that I can see
Is another body where I want to be.
But I'm in here waiting.
Heaven now that I'll try to
Heaven knows that I'll likely deny you.
All at once what can disappear
All of of these things and all of these years.
Doesn't seem that I ever know when your gone.
I'm always waiting for you to come home.
Now I see I was wrong watching a sliding door.
On one side you're in love with me.
On the other all that I can see
Is another body where I want to be.
But I'm in here waiting.
Slow to breath, quick to tire.
Never thought about today.
Better wait for something more.
Here's the trip, there's the wire.
There's a step that I could take.
Better wait for something more.
Doesn't seem that I ever know when your gone.
I'm always waiting for you to come home.
Now I see I was wrong watching a sliding door.
On one side you're in love with me.
On the other all that I can see
Is another body where I want to be.
But I'm in here waiting.
Back and forth and back and forth and back and forth again.
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Afterglow
03:42
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That night in Amherst long ago
You told me things I shouldn't know.
And there you were
Your lips your hands
Your hands your hips
Your slow commands.
And I wanted you.
But not that way.
So what do you want from me?
Standing against the wall.
Everything in it's place.
Ready to break and go down slow.
Telling me people change.
Telling me feelings change.
But tell me.
Will you feel the same in the afterglow?
Then January came to soon
and took with it the sun and moon.
Yours was the secret that I kept
But I'm the one who never slept.
And I wanted you to feel safe.
But not that way.
So what do you want from me?
Standing against the wall.
Everything in it's place.
Ready to break and go down slow.
Telling me people change.
Telling me feelings change.
But tell me.
Will you feel the same in the afterglow?
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Tiger
02:19
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5. |
Den Of Thieves
03:22
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Who can I love?
Who can I be?
I live in a den
A den of thieves.
Who wants to spend
Some time with me?
Here in this den
This den of thieves.
Paint me a house.
Paint me a tree.
Paint me outside
This den of thieves.
Who can I tell
That I can't breath?
Who can I trust
In the den of thieves?
Nothings changed at all
Nothings changed at all.
I try not to move.
I try not to breath.
I try not too cry
in this den of thieves.
For if I do
What will appear?
Something is close.
Something I fear.
Nothings changed at all.
Nothings changed at all.
Just turn around
Just leave me be.
I've made all the beds
In this den of thieves.
Before it's too dark
Please make it home.
There's more like me
So don't go alone.
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6. |
Long Black Car
03:36
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It's only us down here.
Wait for the light under the door to disappear.
I heard it on the radio last night.
And I don't need you telling me what to say.
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Stronger
04:52
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There's a hurricane that's coming.
A hollow howling I hear.
Don't know who I think I'm fooling.
Winds been blowing hard all year.
When there's something in the distance.
When it's just outside of view.
When I feel that I'll be mastered.
That's when I turn to you.
And it's only made me stronger.
So wake me in the morning.
Wake me when it's time to go.
Wake me in the morning
And love will lead us home.
On occasion I've been weakened.
On occasion I've been strong.
And on occasion I've been silent.
On those occasions I've been wrong.
But you've always searched for goodness.
and you've alway found the truth.
And because of you I suddenly
Have learned to find it too.
And it's only made me stronger.
You have carried me in darkness
Over mountainous terrain.
You have carried me in silence
Ever since you called my name.
And it's only made me stronger.
So wake me in the morning.
Wake me when it's time to go.
Wake me in the morning
And love will lead us home.
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Boarding Trains
05:41
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There are hearts and there are bones
And shifting sheltered homes
That sink by inches to the sea.
Caught a glimpse of who I am
In passing ships tonight
And silent looks you gave to me.
An ocean wide and unafraid
To carry us away
Who think in heavy double doors.
A disappear without a trace
To lie somewhere beneath
The patterns of our marble floors.
I watched the water pull me back in.
Passion like a picture framed
Seen but never reached
For when your close it don't look the same.
Flooded fast as seasons change
And harvest fields are breeched
As rising water tops it banks.
I watched the water pull me back in.
I wonder if you'll understand
At least that would give one of us
An idea of what's in store.
But who am I to lift a word
When I've never lifted a hand
for things I thought worth fighting for?
So I sit and gather change
And weight it in my hand
As silver faces stare at me.
Across the tracks where other stand
Boarding trains for place
That they hope will set them free.
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Silvergirl Chicago, Illinois
Songwriter Steve O'Connell and producer, multi- instrumentalist Joshua Wentz weave folk pop dreamscapes as Silvergirl.
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