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Blue Skies
03:15
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Dreaming up blue skies again
You've been counting up all of the things you can spend
The shirt on your back, a notepad and a pen
Dreaming up blue skies again
Dreaming up blue skies again
When the moment has gone and the memory's thin
Your thoughts scribbled down in illegible pen
Dreaming up blue skies again
Oooooooohhh, you imagine it
Oooooooohhh, try to capture it
You try and, you try it again
Oooooooohhh, dreaming up blue skies again (again and again)
Dreaming up blue skies again
It's been seventeen years in a busy-ness spin
But your heart doesn't care if there's dust on the pen
Dreaming up blue skies again
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Halflight
05:29
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In the half-light lies a hidden truth
You learn what makes the shadows in the dark
You find new words, you find new friends
You find the things you never could before
You search the shadows further in
The darkness always leaves you wanting more
Once you see with half-light eyes
You wonder how you ever saw before
You never felt such power before
Hey! We're only seeing in the half-light!
Hey! We're only seeing in the half-light!
What makes you certain that we're not half blind?
Hey! We're only seeing in the half-light!
The half-light lies you must beware
It only shows the shadows of the truth
It masquerades as righteousness
Till you believe that nobody is good
Friend or foe? The answers blur
What once was love the half-light turned to hurt
Makes us fear, makes us blind
Makes us into shells of who we were
You never felt so lonesome before
When love is fear and fear is love
Best intentions aren't enough
Let the light in
Let me see who you really are
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Fear and Love
03:18
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My Dear,
I fear we're lost
and we're not what we once were
All head, no heart
we're biting and sharp, full of answers
And we turn inside
where we dim the lights
We stay out of sight
But we're lost
Frozen, indecision
In fear of what might happen
Fear and love why can't I tell you apart?
The power's out
Feel the darkness
Frozen, indecision
In fear of what might happen
Chosen, this inaction
Keep our heart in the ice bin
Fear and love why can't I tell?
Fear and love why can't I tell you?
Fear and love why can't I tell you apart
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All I Want Is Home
04:05
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I'm listening
I'm putting my ears to the ground
I'm keeping my eyes peeled
Gonna stand watch until the dawn
Is there something out there for a weary soul
waiting for a moment's rest to come?
Is there someone out there listening to me?
Is there anyone there at all?
Hello!? Hello!?
Is there anyone there?
All I hear is my echo
Hello!? Hello!?
Is there anyone there? Is there anyone there?
What am I supposed to do
when the night gets cold and long?
What am I supposed to think
when I'm left out here all alone?
Where am I supposed to go
when all I want to go is home?
All I want is to go home
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Make me a channel of your peace
Where there is hatred let me bring your love
Where there is injury, your pardon Lord
Where this is doubt, true faith in you
Make me a channel of your peace
Where there's despair in life let me bring hope
Where there is darkness, only light
And where there's sadness, ever joy
O Spirit grant that I may never seek
So much to be consoled as to console
To be understood, as to understand
To be loved, as to love with all my soul
Make me a channel of your peace
It is pardoning that we are pardoned
In giving of ourselves that we receive
In dying that we're born to eternal life
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When Will My Day Come
03:26
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Wait and wait and wait and you wait for it
Try to be patient you wait and you wait for it
Day after day after day after waiting
When will my day come?
Saving and saving and saving up for it
Dreaming of some day you wait and you wait for it
Months after month after month after saving
When will my day come?
When will, when will
My day, my day
When will my day come?
When will, when will
My day, my day come?
Pray and pray and pray and you pray for it
Asking for strength to stay true and you pray for it
Year after year after year after praying
I hope that the answer comes
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Don't let the fear capture your heart
Cause when you do it's the start
Of what tears us apart
I'm feeling lost like I've been carried away
And the home that I know is on fire
I walk these streets and all the signs are the same
But there's a darkness creeping over this town
I can't put my finger on it
But it's here and it's pressing on me
Something is wearing us all down
Can't put my finger on it
But it's here and it's pressing on me
Fear like an invisible cloud
Don't let the fear capture your heart
Cause when you do it's the start
Of what tears us apart
The sun it rises then it's over the sea
Then the darkness sets in for the night
I know it feels like it's been eternity
And I agree it's been the darkest of nights
I can't put my finger on it
But I think I caught a glimpse of something
A faint glimpse of distant light
I can't put my finger on it
But I think I caught a glimpse of something
Taking hold of the night sky
Hold onto the light
It ain't here yet, but the morning is nigh
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8. |
A Better Love
04:34
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To choose a road is to choose a destination
Hop on the train before the train departs the station
And if we lose ourselves in the pressures of the crowd?
And if the ones we love aren't able to make it down?
I place my bet
I double down on a better love
To set the eyes upon the lines of the horizon
To have the dream before the means, and fight the fear
And if the wonders of the world should fill your cup?
And if the bastards and the brutes beat you up?
I place my bet
I double down on a better love
I slowly open up my eyes
To see a vista once in view
Become a blurry outer memory
And I am free
To speak of what I cannot know
And know of what I cannot speak
It’s but a sense inside of me
I place my bet
I double down on a better love
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You had a curious look
Waiting there in the line
Staring off into space
Fixed on a distant line
Inhaled and held my breath
I’m a stranger in this fold
You had a curious look
And it shook me to the bone
Stuck in a maze
Forgetting my face
If this is the bottom then why am I still falling away?
I don’t know which way to turn
Where is it safe to learn?
My heart is stuck in my head
I want it back in my chest
My heart is stuck in my head
Return my heart to my chest
Stuck in a maze
Forgetting my face
If this is the bottom then why am I still falling away?
I don’t know the way
I’m leaving today
Return my heart to my chest
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May your wounds find their mending
May Love's hands apply the balm
May your hurt meet it's ending
Spirit rest renew your soul
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