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Crutch
03:23
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Let me fall down again
It's better than holding me up
If the rain comes down hard again
I won't need my crutch
I'm the death and the birth of the morning
There's a longing in the sky
Without a crutch to complete me
I'm starting to rise
I've got a condition
A vision for more
Leave what I always had
For what was never before
I'm the death and the birth of the morning
There's a longing in the sky
Without a crutch to complete me
I'm starting to rise
Meaning is nothing
Without the right words
I just want the feeling to return
Let me fall down again
It's better than holding me up
If the rain comes down hard again
I won't need my crutch
I'm the death and the birth of the morning
There's a longing in the sky
Without a crutch to complete me
I'm starting to rise
I'm starting to rise
I'm starting to rise
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2. |
Violet Blue
03:24
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It took you by surprise
When you couldn't decide
To come out from the other side
I think of you now, even after so long
Without having seen you again
Violet blue
But lighter still
You sit with the breeze
If it be your will
But in a way
You just couldn't hide
Now the world is new
Violet blue
I'll pretend that I'm god
And give you a song
Always from my heart
I'll try to respond
And kindly move on
Cause it seems like
I never belong
Violet blue
But lighter still
You sit with the breeze
If it be your will
But in a way
You just couldn't hide
Now your world is new
Violet blue
As slow as it goes
I'm stuck in repose
Just thinking about you
Violet rose
My window it plays
The old days
Like a movie of what I can't change
I think of you now
Even after so long
Without having seen you again
Violet blue
But lighter still
You sit with the breeze
If it be your will
But in a way, you just couldn't hide
Now your world is new
Violet blue
Now your world is new
Violet blue
Now your world is new
Violet blue
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3. |
Know Your Place
03:52
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No one knows why I'm waiting
With burnt-out magic in my eyes
So it goes, the nervous glances
Just looking for the light
Just looking for the light
Trouble can find you
On your surest of days
Reach up inside you
Like a selfish maze
The blue skies above you
Can get lost in the haze
When you've falling from your grace
Know your place
Know your place
So the night climbs right in you
Takes a seat in your empty room
And the light won't come near you
Just goes away too soon
Just runs away too soon
Trouble can find you
On your surest of days
Reach up inside you
Like a selfish maze
The blue skies above you
Can get lost in the haze
When you've falling from your grace
Know your place
Know your place
Know your place
Know your place
Know your place
No one knows why I'm waiting
With burnt-out magic in my eyes
So it goes, the nervous glancesJust looking for the light
Just looking for the light
Just looking for the light
Just looking for the light
Just looking for the light
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4. |
The Ease
03:21
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Try hard to be what you want me to be
Separate the anger from the ease
From the ease
Looking for big reasons of disease
Hide your murder of simple things
Simple things
If once is not enough
And twice is worth more than this
The trees they lift
The trees they lift their branches for
The breeze
For the breeze
So it's my fate, I accentuate, being who I really am, Truly am
Try hard to be what you want me to be
Separate the anger from the ease
From the ease
If once is not enough
And twice is worth more than this
The trees they lift
The trees they lift their branches for
The breeze
For the breeze
For the breeze
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5. |
Silence
04:42
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I'm finding my place between time and space
I'm going deeper and leaning into the sea
Where the question begs the answer
And silence is all it can be
The pleasure of a body without longing
I'm not hoping for some old memory
It's the knowing that opens the wisdom
Silence is all that is free
Now mirrors, they make a great doorway
Into the vast world that lives far beyond me
But the question still begs the answer
My body is all it can be
And my body is all it can be
And my body is all
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6. |
Skylark
04:31
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Lost in the dark
The shadow arc of the skylark
Searching for a place to be
The night is stained from the rain
There's nothing else to see
In the big empty
If you go, you'll never know
It'll be too hard to find you
The trees they let you climb their leaves
And give a place to hide you
They give a place to hide you
They give a place to hide you
Lost in the dark
The shadow arc of the skylark
Searching for a place to be
Free
If you go, you'll never know
It'll be too hard to find you
The trees they let you climb their leaves
And give a place to hide you
They give a place to hide you
They give a place to hide you
They give a place
They give a place
They give a place
They give a place
They give a place
To hide you
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7. |
Contain
03:10
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Winter is gone and I'm moving on
Spring comes in with the wind
You know I'll get through
To get back to you
And we'll be together again
Take this reason
Take your time
The more we contain
The less we can hide
The less we can hide
I was trying too hard
To seize the day
So many had passed me by
The thing about wanting the easy way
Is getting lost in the center of the eye
Take this reason
Take your time
The more we contain
The less we can hide
The less we can hide
Take this reason
Take your time
The more we contain
The less we can hide
The less we can hide
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8. |
Lovers
02:58
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So we walk, down the street
Silent and staring, straight ahead
And our wishes are incomplete
We've given it all we can give
Let's be the lovers we wanna be
The past is suddenly free
Let's find our love and pull it back
Let's be the lovers we need to be
Moving together, our bodies speak
Looking for answers, looking for peace
Seeing your beauty, first every time
What we've found is contained in rhyme
Let's be the lovers we wanna be
The past is suddenly free
Let's find our love and pull it back
Let's be the lovers we need to be
Finally the lovers we wanna be
The past is suddenly free
We found our love and pulled it back
Became the lovers we want to be
So we walk, down the street
Silent and staring, straight ahead
And our wishes are incomplete
We've given it all we can give
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9. |
Everything New
02:00
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I've been thinking about circles and daisies
True love and maybe you
Colored by numbers in sunlight
Moments of blue
When you break your own body
Put it back again
And you see the night lightning
Makes everything new,
Everything new
Everything new
I once saw the rolling hills in Californ-i-a,
Still had the green morning tucked in the
Neat folds of May
When you break your own body
Put it back again
And you see the night lightning
Makes everything new,
Everything new
Everything new
I've been thinking about circles and daisies
True love and maybe you
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10. |
Any Time You Run
05:35
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Anytime you run
You might as well stay
The morning, it opens up the day
Don't betray your world
With the things that you say
You'll find out again
You never can win
The way things have been going
Haven't been on your side
There isn't a fine line beyond learning this time
Your breaking gets louder
In your head as it burns
Brighter this morning
Before you it turns
Better dust off the notion
You'll never find hope
Since you count all your worries
You can't learn to cope
Just carry your burden
To the highest plateau
Let it fall softly
To the valley below
This body you've been given
Is the one you have to take
What else has been living
With your little mistakes
You wanted to know
Why the sky was so blue
You should have been loving
A clean morning dew
Whatever change comes
Won't be the last yet
It takes time to wonder
It takes years to get
Is it a beginning
Or is it the end
There's no way of knowing
So let's not pretend
Let's not pretend
Let's not pretend
Let's not pretend
Let's not pretend
Let's not pretend
Let's not pretend
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James Day Leavitt Portland, Maine
James Day Leavitt is a writer, musician and occasional painter. He was born and raised in Maine. He spent most of his 20's in Oakland, California, where he played bass in Three Years Down and Witticus, two East Bay punk bands. He returned to Maine in 1999 and currently resides in Portland with his wife Katie and their two daughters, Audrey and Ida. ... more
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