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Setting Sail
04:24
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Oh I’m setting sail again
The seas are high the winds are strong
Don’t know how long I’ll be gone
Or if I will be back again
I guess that I was wrong
I need to see the open sky
It’s not like I didn’t try
I know when it don’t feel right (and it don’t feel right)
Oh, but my heart is calm tonight
and the moon is burning bright
Tell me what is there left to lose
and what is it we're chasing here
It’s a phantom fish I fear
And some things aren’t worth the fight
(aren’t worth the fight)
Oh, but my heart is calm tonight
and the moon is burning bright
There is a river running through my bones
Straight toward the open sea
I wasn’t meant to live on either shore
That’s not the place for me
so I’m setting sail again
the seas are high the winds are strong
going back where I belong
where nothing’s fixed or tight too tight
Oh, but my heart is calm tonight
and the moon is burning bright
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To The Sea
05:39
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Father father father I am coming home
Open up the gates please let me in.
Everybody needs a way to start again,
Yeah I’ve been on a road not always kind.
Yes it’s been a long hard climb.
Father father father lay your hand in mine.
Sometimes all we carry holds us down.
But letting go is hard somehow.
So let me be like the leaves on the trees,
They come back in the spring gold to green
Or let me be like the stream full of rain
It comes back eventually to the sea.
It comes back eventually to the sea.
Tell me will we ever reach the promised land.
There’s nothing we can do to change the past.
Will we ever get to say we’re free at last?
Yeah, don’t you know the war’s over and done?
But I think more lost than won.
So let me be like the leaves on the trees,
They come back in the spring gold to green
Or let me be like the stream full of rain
It comes back eventually to the sea.
It comes back eventually to the sea.
Father father father I am coming home.
Yeah everybody needs some place to lean
You and me both it seems.
So let me be like the leaves on the trees,
They come back in the spring gold to green
Or let me be like the stream full of rain
It comes back eventually to the sea.
Oh I have found my way back to you,
Please find your way back to me.
I have found my way back to you,
Please find your way back to me.
Cause father father father, I am home.
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Colored Birds
05:19
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I haven’t seen you for some time
Have you been hiding? Have I been blind? For some time
We were flying but then I fell
Through the branches, no farewell Then I fell
In the morning, in dreams untold
The heart is heavy and the light is cold, in dreams untold, the light is cold
Show me some thing that won’t change, won’t fade away
Is it a fair price to pay for how we’re made?
Oh it’s the strangest parade
when I was little nothing was hard
running barefoot across the yard it wasn’t hard
mother mother, where did you go
when I was little I didn’t know that you would go, where did you go?
Show me some thing that won’t change, won’t fade away
Is it a fair price to pay? for how we’re made
Oh it’s the strangest parade
Oh it’s the strangest parade
Oh oh oh oh oh oh oh
I wish the birds would start coming back
Crimson, golden, purple and black
will they come back, will they come back oh…
Show me some thing that won’t change, won’t fade away
Is it a fair price to pay? for how we’re made
Look at the flags that we wave, what we display
Hear how the trumpets they play, through wind and rain
Oh it’s the strangest parade
Oh it’s the strangest parade…
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Last Round
03:20
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I’ve been thinking of you again
I’ve been falling apart
I guess maybe the Earth must break
To shake you from my heart.
And sometimes there is a war to wage
and sometimes we should just run
there are things that you bury deep
they will come back to block out the sun
yeah, they’ll come back and block out the sun
la de de da come on call the last round
la de de da de de dee
la de de daw let’s go burn this place down
la de de da de de dee
I’ve been hoping the bible’s right
Bring on the flood and bring flame
I don’t care if the walls should fall
In the end none of this will remain
In the end none of this will remain
la de de da come on pour the last round
la de de da de de dee
la de de da I’m gonna this place down
la de de da de de dee
cause I’ve been thinking of you again
I’ve been a fool for so long
But don’t be so proud and don’t be so pleased
In the end all of this will be gone
In the end all of this will be gone
la de de da you know it’s the last round
la de de da de de dee
la de de da I’m gonna burn this place down
la de de da de de dee
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Cardboard Boat
05:44
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I’m on a cardboard boat
And the water is high
When you’re on your own
Feels like there’s nowhere to hide
I’m on a cardboard boat
Tonight
Been looking back again
feels like I’ve lost everything
I know I’m older now
Feels like the tide’s rushing in
Been looking back again tonight
So Please leave the light on
So I can find my way back to you
Leave the light on, for me.
It’s like a carnival
after the weather has changed
Even the carousel
Don’t want to turn in this rain
I’m at a carnival Tonight
So please leave the light on
So I can find my way back to you
Leave the light on, for me.
Or let a ladder down
So I can climb my way back to you
Let a ladder down For me.
Are you still listening?
Cause I’m still talking to you
Cause when the curtains drawn
Tell me what else should I do?
I’m on a cardboard boat tonight
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Wishing Well
04:42
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Hole in My Heart
04:32
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Well, lookout, cause if there’s a rise
There’ll soon be a fall
Yeah, here comes the crash
One day we break at the seams
Into pieces and shards
They scatter like ashes
Oh man, I’m falling apart and I don’t know what to do
I’ve got a hole in my heart
It’s big as the blue…
Oh well, winter was rough
And the spring brought no rain
Barely a bloom/ barely got warm
Sure every comeback is hard
There’s rocks on the path
Or then there’s a storm
Ah it knocks you down, breaks you in part yeah the devil knows it’s true. Yeah, you know that it, too.
I’ve got a hole in my heart….
I know all of the time
The sun’s coming up
Somewhere round some bend
But it’s been going down hard
Over the hills
Over my head
It’s been so dark for so long
Hard to find my way through
Let it shine through.
Cause I’ve got a hole in my heart
It’s big as the blue
I’ve got a hole in my heart
I keep stumbling into.
I’ve got a hole in my heart, it’s bigger than you.
I’ve got a hole in my heart.
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Brighter Day
05:10
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By the time the fruit was tasted the fall was long in the cards
By the time the earth was shaking we all were rattled hard.
My oh my it’s been like this for too long. It’s why we pray.
That there is a brighter day.
Can you see it coming close, my love.
Wait, please don’t run away
tell me what is it we’re so scared of
Cause I have tried to look for God in the cracks before the sky.
And in the eyes the lost and lonely attract. It’s why we pray
That there is a brighter day.
Can you see it coming now, my love.
Wait, please don’t run away
what is it that we are so scared of
Bridge: Wo oh oh…oh oh, oh oh…
Lord, you know the hardest gift was a heart that’s never whole.
And so we search the farthest reaches and parts. It’s why we pray. It’s why we pray. It’s why I pray.
That there is a brighter day.
I can see it coming now, it’s love.
Look there’s a brighter day
don’t you see it coming now it’s love
I can see it coming now, my love.
I can see it coming now it’s love.
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Dinosaurs and Sages
03:50
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I’ve been looking so long
Wasn’t sure for what
I’ve been wondering what’s wrong
always wrong side up
see me on the corner
see me in the road
Feeling like a foreigner
Who cannot crack the code
Oh to go back to the start
But Then I saw a part of you
That no one else could see
And I saw the heart of you
And all that you could be
And I know you can go anytime you want to
But I hope you will stay
here’s one for the ages
some say all along
from dinosaurs to sages
no one seems to stay too long
How I tried to go back to the start
Until I saw a part of you
That no one else could see
And I saw the heart of you
And all that you could be
And I know you can go anytime you want to
But I hope you will stay
Strange how things can change you
strange what will remain
one day you’re in Plainview
now my whole life has changed
oh, it’s a brand new start
now that you see a part of me
that no one else can see
and you see the heart of me
and all that I can be
Well, I know you can go anytime you want to
But I hope you will stay
And you know I can go, anytime I want to
But so you know I'll stay
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Broken Crown
05:05
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Sweeping all the leaves up off the step,
you found a ribbon,
and tied it in your hair.
It was just like the ones you used to wear
when you were younger
and turned all you touched to jewels.
I think that’s the same thing you still do.
Yes, I think that’s exactly what you do.
But all these pieces of a broken crown are all around.
Wo oh, I won’t let you go
so high to so low.
Lately I’ve been noticing the light
in the morning,
my body next to you.
I wish that you could see it like I do,
how you move me,
turn me on and on.
But the road’s as hard as it is long.
The road’s as hard as it is long,
with all these pieces of a broken crown all around.
Wo oh, I won’t let you go
so high to so low.
Look at all that washed up on the shore,
from all the shipwrecks
sea glass like sapphire,
the golden driftwood.
But now all the fog is gone.
My love for you goes on and on.
Kind of like the breeze blows,
kind of like the tide pulled by the moon.
Come on girl, sing me that old tune.
Yeah, come on girl sing me that old tune.
Let’s leave these pieces of a broken crown on the ground.
Wo oh, I won’t let you go
so high to so low.
So high to so low.
So high to so low.
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David Berkeley Santa Fe, New Mexico
The San Francisco Chronicle calls Santa Fe-based songwriter and author David Berkeley a “musical poet,” and the New York Times praises his “lustrous, melancholy voice with shades of Tim Buckley and Nick Drake.” He was a guest on This American Life, and has released 7 studio albums and 2 books. He is also half of the wildly creative Trans-Atlantic costumed duo Son of Town Hall. ... more
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