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Osprey
05:46
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Osprey
Walking over last Saturday
Saw an osprey in the sky
Don’t know what he’s even doing there
Or why he cries
How many fish did you catch today
How’s your wife
And the young ones in the nest
You’re doing it right
All the waters rushing down the mountain
Heading for the falls
Making it so much easier for us all
Laying down ripples on your back
Naked and laughing in the rapids
Fast asleep down at the round out
The tide moving towards your ride
Saw a flickering through the window
The empress upside down inside
Pay attention to what you saw
There in the dawning light
Clean your workspace, fix up the lair
It’s time to take flight
All the waters rushing down the mountain
Heading for the pond
Making it that much easier for us all
Laying down ripples on my back
Naked in the laughing rapids
All I ever wanted all I ever need
Is just to feel your life
And to share it with the world
Even the ones that bite
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Kyll Time
04:44
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Kyll Time
What said you to the vibe on the ocean
What said you to the vibe on the hill
Eternity quietly rushing
And you ain’t got time for the kill
Your mom moved to Costa Rica
Your dads gotta a new young wife
It’s five years you’ve been upstate
Still something ain’t quite right
Whatcha did you truck, what you trying to truck?
Whatcha did you truck, what you trying to truck?
Whatcha did you air, whatcha did you err?
Whatcha did you breathe, what’s it gonna be?
Your busier now than ever
And the days all strobe by
Pain tilts you towards appreciation
And you still have your carving knives
The times before the career called
With the grain, the edge of the eye
Dig and turn in relief cut and supplicate
We laughed and looked up towards the divide
Whatcha did you truck, what you trying to truck?
Whatcha did you truck, what you trying to truck?
Whatcha did you air, whatcha did you err?
Whatcha did you breathe, what’s it gonna be?
All night running away from it
Crashed out out the moon
She stood still as a stone while the sun kissed the open wound
Night fell called the car and off she went
Trust yourself not to tell
Raven, wolverine, and woman
Masks that made the mind
Amplify and trace exclusivity
Customs once shared far and wide
What you cannot believe
You will not see intertwined
Brought you back through the eastern door
Now I’m chewing on the inside of a thigh
Whatcha did you truck, what are you trying to truck?
Whatcha did you truck, what are you trying to truck?
Whatcha did you air, whatcha did you err?
Whatcha did you breathe, what’s it gonna be?
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Starlight Lanes
05:30
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Starlight Lanes
You gave up the fight
Before I could meet you there
And make it right
You didn’t have to be alone
They planted six thousand trees
In this neighborhood zone
The concrete now feels comfortable in the heat
And there are players here
And there are people who have given up the game
And there are pretenders and there’s Starlight Lanes
We were bowling on a summer night
Way out in the country, looked like 1979
The place held shadows you could keep
coyote skins on the wall
Staring without mercy, at all of the deceit in it all
They got rowdy in the bar room
I could smell the blood that had been shed
Be the one who needs forgiving
At Starlight Lanes
You can’t expect to sleep
With another mans wife
And not get killed with a bowie knife
If you don’t raise them right
There’s nothing you can keep
Strife rhymes with traumatizing
Some people will take love over comfort
Some people will take pain over love
Blame will get you nowhere
You can’t put the blood back in the dove
At Starlight Lanes
Let me get you home safely
I said through the noise
You said to leave you there
You don’t need that choice
There can be a perfect end to every beginning
I’ll see what I can find down at Winn Dixie
There is danger in hatreds’ greedy eyes
You can make the sad compromise
At Starlight Lanes
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4. |
On The Way
03:56
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On The Way
Did you hear what she said
Did you here what she said
Did you hear what she said to you?
On the way to falling
On the way to bliss
On the way to falling into this
Take a look at the leaves flying in the sky
Take look at her standing by
Hold onto that feeling though harrowing
Hold onto that knowing of your ancestry
The thunder brings it from the west
Brings the water that renews the chest
What kind of love is gathering?
springing upwards, servicing
A wild loving for the heat
A wild loving that’s for keeps
I saw you looking across the street
Saw you looking seeing me
Since I’m leaving anyway
I’m calling out to you
Don’t, don’t you forget me
Remember what I’ve said to you
Sometimes you won’t believe it
But you’ve got to push on through
Feel the strength in the dragons feet
Puzzling at the geometry
The leather’s black the wings beat
Got you covered it’s my treat
Where you going?
Where you been?
Where you going?
Where you been?
Did you hear what she said
Did you here what she said
Did you hear what she said to you?
On the way to falling
On the way to bliss
On the way to falling into this
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5. |
Happy
03:43
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Happy
I was happy when I found you
I was happy when I found you
Now theres not a lot to do
All these dreams are gonna come true
Theres a storm about to blow through
And the rivers gonna flood too
Gonna swim across the chute
Through standing waves and roots
The ripening of the hard fruit
The mole and the smoked root
You calmed the horse to trust you
Now you’ve got four legs to move
There’s a place we like to go to
You showed me when I met you
It reminds us we’ve got work to do
A responsibility to
Stepping backwards into an early grave
Then fast forward till I’m in your arms again
Take off your makeup pull down the shades
It’s always better when you wait
I was happy when I found you
I was happy when I found you
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6. |
More Every Day
04:07
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More Everyday
I love you more everyday I’m telling you
There’s no need for me to not be true
The ocean’s your daughter
Gonna jump right in the water
Feel all these problems disappear
Slowed my heart to a camoed wavelength near
Gliding over the reef with a handmade spear
Gonna bring some home tonight
Friends and lovers eyes so bright
The fire never drifts too far from here
Survivors of our age we’re kicking ass
On the backstreets and in the grass
They presented the groomed and tame
We made our own separate way
Drying in the sun above the plains
When that sun goes down the colors match the ground
A great expanse opens up the hatch
Calling us we’re coming down
W’re going up, we’re coming round
Tapped into a morphic resonance
I love you more everyday I’m telling you
Theres no need for me to not be true
The ocean is your daughter
Gonna jump right in the water
Feel all these problems disappear
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7. |
Standing Rock
03:38
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Standing Rock
We got to get off of it
Let us get off of it
We want to get off of it
Let us get off of it
When will it end?
Start divesting
Generations of genocide
Still on a horse we ride
You’re pulling out the oil
Then you put it back in
Into to the air we breath
Into the sacred water
Militarized police
Sent to remove my people
For a pipeline that will leak
You’re destruction is not cheap
We’re on our way to Standing Rock
Show the man we’ve had enough
Same desert tan armored trucks
It’s you who are the terrorists
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8. |
Boy Awakening
06:17
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Boy Awakening
Who was that boy awakening?
What was that golden dream
And the gifts that he woke upon
The joy bursts through the seams
Time can make you older
Time can make you lean
We’re all of the water
It’s a holy place it seems
It’s a long way to daylight
It’s the shortest line of fire
It’s a long way to daylight
It’s the shortest line of fire
And the eve she comes dressing the pilgrims' for their homes’
and the gardens they are falling down over the phone
In the door she wandered
With legs long and strong
The mists’ lonely daughter staring me down
And once I was a little boy
Sailed upon the sea
Didn’t have any anchor but the wind cared for me
That’s my momma and that’s my dream
We’re all a part of this golden mean
It’s a long way to daylight
It’s the shortest line of fire
It’s a long way to daylight
It’s the shortest line of fire
And the eve she comes dressing the pilgrims for their homes’
and the gardens they are falling down over the phone
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Timbuktu
05:45
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Timbuktu
All the way to Timbuktu
I was thinking about you
And the flames we leapt over
The creek ran the birds hollered
Our eyes were so much wider
And the fire crackled up your spine
The moose called out from the North
Stampeding towards your door
On the loose with a truce you better let him in
The quartz quarry sounding bright
In the middle of the night
Baskets full of corn and watermelon
All the way to the palace
Banging on your front door
Moving northward through the galaxy
You gave it all for the cause
I took some for me and I took some for you
And it felt like we were being worked through
Guided by the flex of a smile
You were leaning on a round table
Unwrapped well hung cable
You husked the corn and took a bite
That night they abandoned the casino
Not enough revenue
The next day it all went down
The whole condo blew as she sang
Glass flying horizontally
The halls were long they couldn’t run away
Scrubbing rocks in the desert wind
You lose your will you lose the game
Sit out and sour
Or pool your darkness down into town
The skies will be more clear and luminous
I heard some banging in the trees
I saw the unlucky ones on their knees
A man in a pinstriped suit seemed to be conducting
They thought we’d be inside
But I knew the way to hide
Back behind the falls and into the caves
We stayed three days until they were gone
Nestled close you kept me warm
Sewed me up and kissed the wounds
I felt come completely new
I know you felt that way too
In our packs were the rescued heirlooms
All the way to your palace
Banging on your front door
Moving northward through the galaxy
Gave it all for the cause
Have you forgiven him his sins
Have you let him back in
Back into mercifully pasture
To the place of giving tree
I remember you and you remember me
Oh I remember Bobby Jean
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Matthew O'Neill Phoenicia, New York
"Matthew O’Neill follows his vision here...a sort of mystic shaman sketching out his dreams and hopes for the earth he loves in the language he knows best: music.” - The Daily Vault
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