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Shepherd Dog
04:55
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out here the clothesline stretching
with all the hand-me-downs
and the fall wind is fetching
the full moon back around
i comb the hills for something
tangled up inside of them
up one and down the other
always loping back again
up one back down again
but still i haven't found
why i'm running away
only to be loping back again
my longing twists and billows
like smoke escaping from a fire
i hunt the shore for willows
and keep away from metal wire
i chase you to the lakeside
i lose my hat for you
later when i ask for freedom
you say "there's nothing left to do"
summer went too fast for me
but everything must pass i'll be
your shepherd dog
and roll around in the grass with you
i see the morning coming
with flowers in her hands for us
fresh from the long lost meadow
where i carried you across
and the sun is playing your hair
just like a violin
my eyes are blinded by
the light you're living in
really what i'm trying to say is
i am amazed
how thinking about you
leaves me blinking for days
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2. |
Kalina
02:19
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kalina i saw you
gathering all your things
on your way to the old world
and the folkways that you love
i've seen ya in the way
a record skips and hums
racing toward the last song
but only starting out
then getting there all at once
i've seen ya in the light
of a dying ember glow
hanging on the bowline
and your eyes were far away
i've seen ya turn around
to look into the mirror
i've seen ya twist impossibly
with one foot on the bed
and the other foot out the door
oh kalina
la la la
i've seen you wave goodbye
i've seen ya in the night
lit up by the moon
thinking about all the times
that you have been let down
i've seen ya most of all
crying in the park
your hair down in the morning
and then we said goodbye
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3. |
Now I'm the One
03:52
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i dunno what i should do with your letters
i really believed we could make it
my plan was to watch you undressing forever
but now i'm the one who is naked
i heard you calling or was it the highway
to tell me tomorrow is changing
if i could get back there then i would just fly away
but now i'm the one who is caged in
now i'm the one who
seems now and then i'm mixed up with st peter
by those people whose love i'm abusing
and i used to laugh at the senseless paint eaters
but now i'm the one who is losing
lost in my dreaming i think that you're next to me
but all of my dreams are belated
and this is the bed where you used to have sex with me
but now i'm the one who's been traded
the windows are frosted the floorboards are aching
the struggle for breath all around me
the waves beat my heart even as it is breaking
and now i'm the one who is drowning
"how can i ever begin to recover"
i cried in my moment of suffering
and i never thought i could bear a new lover
but now i'm the one who's in love again
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4. |
Summer of Yr Dreams
03:19
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hanging out in the attic
i'm not getting any better at it
but i can still play the drumset
and throw four-to-the-floor
and i won't play the harmonica
if you don't play the melodica
we can never get far enough
away away away from
are you ready for the summer
of yr dreams yeah?
this chord will be gone tomorrow
because it's everyone's to borrow
but you can still be the star of
my big autumn breakdown
so clap your hands like you wanted to
and the silence won't bother you
but a song won't father you
and your mother is already gone
"i know folks who can get us pot"
said a friend who never said a lot
"sally forth and forget me not"
said somebody else
"if we tear down babylon
remember, we were only having fun"
said the girl with no towel on
as she climbed out of a car
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