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Ashes
05:00
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At rivers edge the trail ahead in darkest early morning.
A winter breeze will stir the trees in early spring I'm watching.
There's fire in the earth and sky and ashes at your feet.
The forest sleeps to keep undone the doves have found us.
Are we sleeping or are we dead, are we awake or telling lies again.
I am waiting in the trees and river bed, until you learn to love again.
Whisper to me stories of a better time show what it used to mean to be alive.
We're killing time and borrowed innocence will never be the same.
Is it angels singing or is it her voice from through the trees.
From ashes bring me flames from fire give me life again.
Are we sleeping or are we dead, are we awake or telling lies again.
I am waiting in the trees and river bed, until you learn to love again.
So come along and bring me back home won't you show me what I've been missing.
Before I drown I look into the sky and through the water I can see your shining eyes.
And when I leave this empty vessel spread my ashes through the leaves.
And then I will let you see...
hold my hand and count to three, breathe in my words they will set you free.
Your my first kiss and my first time, on angles wings I fly so high...
are we sleeping or are we dead, are we awake or telling lies again.
I am waiting in the trees and river bed, until you learn to love again.
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2. |
Ghosts (Live)
05:25
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So heres to goodbye Iʼll hold onto the words you spoke waiting for time to take me by the throat. Smoke rings around my teeth suffocates whats beneath bury the thought of me bury me when Iʼm free. Looking through pages of these lovesick renditions of the imperfect thoughts of hopeless poetry escaping me.
Watching the stars grow old and telling the stories untold if i asked you not to go would you stay with me. Whats one last dance between two ghosts entranced by the glow burning from each others eyes. Leave our regrets to die left in the ash we left behind leaving my heart deep within your chest leaving me empty yet again.
The girl who stole the night. Captivate my world with your eyes. Follow those old yellow lines. Back to my heart. Dying to be by your side. Just to have your hand in mine. Weʼre together one last time. To set the world on fire.
Creep up inside my ribs crawl between heart and lung sketching the songs unsung still taste you on my tongue. I will speak without you voice in me stars jam my arteries from the nights you spent with me. Theres a lonely flame between my fingers while pain begs me to throw it to the earth but then what have we learned?
The girl who stole the night. Captivate my world with your eyes. Follow those old yellow lines. Back to my heart. Dying to be by your side. Just to have your hand in mine. Weʼre together one last time. To set the world on fire.
Show me whats real. Teach me what to feel. So heres to goodbye.
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Prayers
05:25
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Hey there friend could you tell me again what you meant when you said prayers would save me, hey there friend could you tell me again what itʼs worth if nobody loves me, if you have faith our prayers will be answered, at least I can say I believe in you.
I always thought that you were so gorgeous a lovely girl with a lovely heart, I always thought the world was in yours hands and maybe my hand could be too, then it slips away in the smoke and confusion there are bigger things than me and you.
Could a prayer stop them from killing, If I beg will the guns all fall still, could our prayers rebuild this planet, if we beg could all life exist as one?
Hey my friends the elk and beaver hey my brothers the wolf and bear, hey my friends trapped on the farms and murder is murder and thats not fair, here I thought that life was so precious but itʼs for power and money that my species cares.
I aways thought youʼd be the one whoʼd save me from myself but can we not save them before itʼs too late, I will always love you like you love the trees and creatures we came from, if I just believe will there be, answer to live by to change these dark times or a curse thats destroys our lives?
Could a prayer really save me, if was sincere, could a prayer penetrate, all the lies and the fear, that is felt by a weakening system and planet weʼve lost for all future years?
Could a prayer stop them from killing, If I beg will the guns all fall still, could our prayers rebuild this planet, if we beg could all life exist as one?
and could I have you, and could we be one?
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4. |
Past Poets
04:28
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I climb these old steps but itʼs not the same the child inside has grown and left me here to stay, well better men have come and better men have died using every breath they had to keep our hopes alive, not uniform they wore nor on a white horse did they ride no gun did they carry twas a guitar by their side, well better hands have graced these frets by which I play and better voices rang in the hearts of yesterday, but I stand before you and with every chord I play I carry that message weʼll find peace one day.
Iʼve seen every picture so faded and worn of a world that lay helpless to ravages of war, it seemed so outdated and distant to me like the poets before me who first planted these seeds, I asked of my mother why history repeats why after such horrors are we back over seas, she tells me weʼre fighting so we can be free but how free are the families being shot in the streets.
Maybe the profits of the past had something, if we could make it last we could learn to be loving, when you pull out those records from when you where young, listen to the words to which you used to sing along, they sang not of hatred but of taking the hand, of your brothers beside you and your fellow man. Tell me do you understand?
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5. |
A Song For Best Friends
04:15
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Sit crossed legged in rain with squinted eyes to blacker skies then what Iʼve seen in years, the embers fade into the black of my jacket I guess the waves couldnʼt hack it so theyʼre breaking on these rocks, and when I ask her to find me lord knows she didnʼt deny me as she used the winds to call my name, whoʼs voice did echo in these stormy skies I bet sheʼs beautiful I bet sheʼs here to free my mind. I bet sheʼs here to free my mind.
I took some time and looked around I saw the lights shine from the town I used to live in when I was a child, I stared right at the very place where me and Will we used to chase away reality every chance we had, he wondered under cloudy skies much like the ones I watch tonight why the reflections of the lights all point our way, what ever happened to the third this bay must have wondered when it heard only two voices calling out at night. And what about those lights?
If I break will you fix me or leave me to rust, if I fall will you catch me or forfeit my trust, If I broke every promise that I ever made do you think youʼd still love me at the end of the day.
Well brother Iʼm not perfect and Iʼm sure she was worth it and weʼre both out to prove it everyday. All these thoughts we excluded from the rest are so fluent between the chest and the backpack that no one forgets, every car is intruding itʼs these things weʼre removing on two wheels two things but plus ourselves.
If I break will you fix me or leave me to rust, if I fall will you catch me or forfeit my trust, If I broke every promise that I ever made do you think youʼd still love me at the end of the day.
Well I bet you would.
If I break will you fix me or leave me to rust, if I fall will you catch me or forfeit my trust, If I broke every promise that I ever made do you think youʼd still love me at the end of the day.
Well I bet you would.
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6. |
Smile
04:18
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Autumn never filled my heart the way it could with you right there to take my breath away with your smile and the way you moved the shadows with such grace may your spirit burst from every page I write after all itʼs you on my mind tonight, tonight.
The mould they used for you was new and never used again donʼt pretend it means any less because I said it best with nothing left it would be great to know that I had you to send my pulse through the roof every time youʼd kiss me like you do, like you do.
I found these words between the amber leaves and the wind that carries them to me, the rest I saw within your eyes and on my heart where you left your hand print behind.
Woven are we under the stars, I canʼt turn back now weʼve gotten this far, no body else knows where we are, I wanted you to know just how you stole my heart.
Weʼll stop beneath the bright moonlight, fingers crossed together and holding tight, braced strong against the winds of night, Iʼm gonna tell her how I feel tonight.
Time moved so quickly I never had the chance to describe the way you lit a fire deep inside, the way that you set fire to my life.
Weʼll stop beneath the bright moonlight, fingers crossed together and holding tight, braced strong against the winds of night, Iʼm gonna tell her how I feel tonight.
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7. |
Power Lines
05:29
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Cast your light, colours burst across the darkness in my life, holding tight, the roots around my heart become entwined, strengthening the wonder growing deep inside.
Works of art, take my hand Iʼll take you to the stars, your apart, a canvas once forgotten in the dark, now echoing with passion from an ever growing spark.
I remembered those eyes, but I was taken away by your smile, your charm and beauty are one of a kind, and while your wonderful ways drive me wild, girl I still canʼt believe that your mine, you put power back in these lines.
Lost inside, awakening is falling deep into the dream that we canʼt hide, freezing time, your kiss forgets the world it leaves behind, in this place where physics stand to be denied.
As if we met, repeating disbelief and yet so willing to accept, I never guessed, a winters night could melt the ice inside my chest, whether by fate or chance we live without regret.
I remembered those eyes, but I was taken away by your smile, your charm and beauty are one of a kind, and while wonderful ways drive me wild, girl I still canʼt canʼt believe that your mine, you put power back back in these lines.
Victoria
I remembered those eyes, but I was taken away by your smile, your charm and beauty are one of a kind, and while wonderful ways drive me wild, girl I still canʼt canʼt believe that your mine, you put power back back in these lines.
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David Stone Barrie, Ontario
Singer/songwriter and musician based in Ontario, Canada.
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