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Coyotes
04:11
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Can coyotes smell blood in the air
Like a shark in water?
Cut my foot on a sharp stillwater stone
As minnows headed for lower ground
(Paint the water red)
We are in-between
Where the buzz of summer grinds against the crack of a leaf
Somewhere under and stops
Remembering a bird's nest
Abandoned and turned red
By Autumn's crisp and watery breath
Made me shiver and apologize
To my summer
Already packed and leaving
And I will miss her
A monarch, Queen of the Credit
Landed on my foot and basked in it's warmth unti
Red and pregnant
Headed south for the Winter
A blue breeze breathed and I shivered
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Johnny's Radio
02:53
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Driving through a mirage
In a car that I don't own
Said, "This Cadillac living is coming to an end."
You whistled to a song from 1951 about a train and a prison
And I wondered if we'd get home
Driving through the rain
Driving on my own in a truck I still don't own
But at least I decide where to go
And I play what I want
And I sing what I know
From the radio I still don't own
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Lily
05:18
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Black soft out and I'm hushed up
Feeling my way across cracks in the plaster
You figure I'm somewhere between
A rusty nail that lost its memory
And the hole-punched sky
Thinking of you cold and pressed
Up against a woodchip floor
Under crescent songs and alibis
It's hard to know what feels right anymore
We were fireflies drunk off the nighttime
Swimming through dim lit skies
Like wishing hitchhikers, thumbs held up,
Catching shooting star headlights
I was a ghost waiting above
Manatee scars and broken sand seashells
In another summer rain and lightning is catching your face
But I'll never tell
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North
02:37
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Let's head towards the North
And travel in the dark
We'll toss away the maps and make up
Our own path
We'll press on after sundown
Leave scratches in tree trunks
Keep matching your footprints with mine
And I'll cover them back up
We could jump off the dock
Or the tire swing we hung
I can hide inside the fog
'Til you're ready to carry on
We'll pack up our warm clothes
Tie knots around our ankles
381 to Nowhere
We'll see how it goes
We could jump off the dock
Or the tire swing we hung
I can hide inside the fog
'Til you're ready to carry on
I don't know where we're going
But I don't really like knowing
Headed down a road we thought would never stop
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Wild Wind (Tata)
03:43
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Wild wind barges in
Knocks down trees we lived in
Brings your hands to your knees, falling down
But we get up again, find your strength from within
Vines crawling up the floor break the sound
And now Mimi wears your watch
Ticking time though time has stopped
It is beating right there, resting on her arm
And the rocking horse rocks on
The TV hums along
I fall asleep to a weather lullaby
But you know when you're alone
That place that you call home
You go back to the place where you belong
Hey old man, hey old friend
You know I'll see you once again
But for now, could you make that garden grow?
Now I hear you in the halls
Whistling to some old song
You were always working on some new design
Now I hear you and I know
Every whistle whispered slow
You are here in my hands and in my soul
So I sing, yeah I rejoice
Can you hear us making noise?
We are here with you still, can you tell?
Are we there, with you too?
Do you sing to us, too?
That whistle in the wind makes me smile
It always made me smile
But you know when you're alone
That place that you call home
You go back to the place where you belong
Hey old man, hey old friend
You know I'll see you once again
But for now, could you make that garden grow?
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Whiskeyjacks Toronto, Ontario
We were so far back in the woods, they had to pipe in sunlight.
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