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Begin Again
03:39
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Wake, brace for the break
Face the new day, begin again
I tried, watched you come alive
In the back of my mind and I wanted in
Do you want me here?
I could disappear
Love, don’t hurry love
It’s never enough, no need to rush
Then out, I’m running my mouth
It was never in doubt until it was
Do you want me here?
I could disappear
Outside your apartment fumbling for the keys
You couldn’t wait to get inside
I turned to watch the sun sink back behind the trees
I’m sorry, I was terrified.
Hope
Clings like smoke
To the walls of my home
A counter-weight
Then light
Test my sight
It’ll all be alright
There’s no one to blame
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2. |
One Year
03:28
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It feels like I've been here before
Perched outside the fire door
Sharing smoke and swearing I knew better
Back inside to down a rail
Check for damage, test the scale
Weigh out every word and every letter
I’m not trying to be heavy
I’m just a little unsteady on my feet
You know you chose the worst of times
To turn and hide your face from mine
It's winter now, it came on without warning
Turn the clocks an hour back
Moved your hands to feed the slack
I miss you every night and every morning
I don’t mean to be heavy
I’m just a little unsteady on my feet
I don’t mean to be needy
But it never comes easily
Ring the bells and burn the map
You turned to water in my hands
Loose my grip, it slips right through my fingers
Been thinking bout the early days
The conjuring, the cabaret
How we were followed round by hallowed singers
I haven’t heard their song now for some time
Wound it up and watched it all unwind
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3. |
St. Maria
05:24
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Roses bloom in mid-November
First time that I remember
Pink flamingos, bright against the grey
Church bells ringing, Saint Maria
Penance sounds like children singing
tolling out for all the time of day
Everything’s a signal fire, a prophecy, a drunken choir,
A holy kiss, a banner in the sky
God’s left hand in highest heaven
Last night I counted seven
constellations spelling out your name
Morning comes, the second station
A cardinal, a confirmation
Breaking loose, polishing our aim
Then every sign’s a funeral pyre, false prophets singing in the choir
A holy rift, a single silhouette
Let’s go back to the beginning, I can’t wait another minute,
Been wondering what I’m missing yet
I have followed flaming arrows
Fought to find the straight and narrow
Wound up in the wilderness each time
The first to fail, first to falter
Pouring water on the altar
Burn it up, I need another sign
You’ll appear in ancient fire, a prophecy, a new desire,
A Holy Ghost, a pattern in a cup
Take me back to the beginning, I can’t wait another minute
Late December, snow is piling up
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4. |
Hamer Bay
04:58
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Drawn out on the rocks around Lake Joseph
Feeling how it did when it began
The morning waves are washing up old magnets
The traveling birds are coming home again
Do you feel it too
The way I do
Stumbling tongue I'm wondering what you’re reading
Wanting just to hear your thoughts out loud
I tried my best to say what I was meaning
But all the words, they fall out of my mouth
I am hopeful
I am open still
It won’t do us any good to dwell here
Kicking tires and picking through the past
If I wanted to I could swim the swell here
For as long as I want it to last
I still love you
I’m still working through
How nothing stays the same
Wading in the waves
Washing off your name
Watch it float away
Time, it only moves in one direction
Soon the circle flattens to a line
Clear the cache, lay down your own reflection
Feed the slack, feel the slow unwind.
Do you feel it too
The way I do?
How nothing stays the same
Wading in the waves
Washing off your name
Watch it float away
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5. |
Black Cat
03:13
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There’s a black cat stretched out in the sunlight
There’s a Thomson hanging on the wall
This second floor apartment is the right height
The wind can blow and I won’t move at all
It’s the first time that I woke up feeling certain
This could be the last time that I fall
So say a prayer and throw open the curtains
Watch the black cat chase its shadow down the hall
I saw you in a dream
Pools of blue and green
Scrolling through some pictures from the summer
In every one you’re lying on a beach
Happiness can sneak up out of nowhere
You wake to find the past is finally out of reach
Can you hear the sound
It’s simple to me now
Make a list of everything I’m missing
Then take that list and wash it in the rain
Every circle has a new beginning
It comes and goes and comes and goes and goes and comes again
But it’s nothing like before
Sprawled out on your floor
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6. |
Magnolia
03:27
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7. |
Nina
03:47
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Now that you’re leaving back west where the breathing
Is easier, healing grows gold with the grain
The sky is wide open, the widening hope is that
Everything broken will soon be remade
You’re a long way from home here
And I wish that you could’ve stayed
But if long drives in straight lines
Are all that’s keeping you safe
We’ll meet out on the snowy plains
It won’t come easy, I’ve been there believe me
I’ve bought every lie and then sold it again
But know we forgive you, know that it holds true
There’s nothing you could do to drive us away
You’re a long way from home here
And I wish that you could’ve stayed
But if long drives in straight lines
Are all that’s keeping you safe
Then we’ll meet out on the snowy plains
It was sure good to see you, to know what you’ve been through
To hear that you’re holding your head up again.
If ever you need me, you know where to find me,
We still keep the spare key where it's always been.
You’re a long way from home here
And I wish that you could’ve stayed
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8. |
Tracks
03:43
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First of July, crying at the fireworks
High enough to feel the earth moving under your feet
Watched most of my life playing back in the night
The screen of the northern sky rewinds right back to the start
Return to the scene circling the cul-de-sac
Where you first brought me back in a baptismal gown
Look over the fence, someone else lives there now
They tore the playground down, painted both the doors
Time is a line
A flawed design
A string of choices made
Cover your tracks
You can’t go back
The way you came
When I was a child, those wild summer days
Kicking curbs on the way to your side of town
Sleeping out back under the northern lights
You said you thought the sky was on fire, and headed back inside
Just down the street, cutting a flooded sheet
The home team is down by three with one left to play
Up in the stands blowing on both my hands
Cheering as my old man gets tossed from the game
Time is a line
A flawed design
A string of choices made
Cover your tracks
You can’t go back
The way you came
Trying to take flight I bought my first motorbike
Ran every yellow light to find that feeling back
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9. |
50
03:30
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An empty room
The sun is leaving soon
Watch the shadows crawling through the curtain to the hall
Light moves
And I’ll be moving too
Empty closet, clothes in boxes, holes in every wall
You can’t stay
It’s too late now anyway
Some stranger is waiting at my door
It’s okay
Things change
Can’t shake the feeling I’ve been here before
A pair of saints
Are peeling back the paint
Changing shapes and shaking on the promises we made
Time rewinds
In intersecting lines
Tracing ink and overthinking what it meant to me
You can’t stay
It’s too late now anyway
Some stranger is waiting at my door
It’s okay
Things change
Can’t shake the feeling I’ve been here before
Quiet now
There’s no one else around
The silence makes the sound of half a mountain coming down
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Timid, the Brave Hamilton, Ontario
Timid, the Brave writes simple indie-folk songs with a strong lyrical focus.
His third full-length album, "Vuja De" is available now.
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