1. |
Do You Ever Feel Like
04:22
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All alone among the fire, I saw a path to run along
I waited there so we could carry on
I was underneath the tree
I could pretend that canopy was anything, I needed it
Either way, there was hell to pay if I ever lost my cool
I put all my hope in your sinking boat
What a hopeful thing to do
Do you ever feel like everyone's playing without you?
I've got my own conditions, I couldn't tear a radio apart
I thought to try, I couldn't even start
It's not just child's play that had to go and make the man I am to day
I still break stuff. I still create
I need to find where you won't remind me of the tree I played beneath
If I see it now but I'm not allowed
Do you have to tell me more?
Do you ever feel like everyone's playing without you?
I assumed you needed air
You must have thought that I was there
I assumed that I was all alone
You might have guessed that I was fine
I assumed that you would care
You bragged about all the fun you had without me
You've got a tender spot around your secrecy
You've every right, you've every right
Just like me, underneath the canopy
Do you ever feel like everyone's playing without you?
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2. |
Hold Down
03:58
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Like the rye in my gut or a bunny in the bathtub
With an injury too rough
When my worst ideas are my favorite thoughts
Like lightning to my fears
Then I'm fired up. Another trip around the graveyeard
Because nothing every dies
Hard as I try
I haven't seen you ages, so you don't know how the cage is
I gotta hold down
Listen these are my most valuable problems
I couldn't kick 'em if I tried
They want to take my life, my most valuable problems
And I'm meeting you tonight
You bring me alive with your idea of
Who I really am
You come down from high on my idea of
Who you really are
So I hold down
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3. |
Normal Problems
04:22
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What we do, it could be undone
I struck a bell then made it unrung
You'll follow the rules
I'll follow the rules or follow the cues
And they say you can't unring it too
Normal problems are not less profound
I heard a song, you only heard a sound
Whatever you mean, it's not what you mean
Called what you will
But no substitution could ever fool me
A turn inward
Let's go, I heard no one will be around our wheel
Where we are up and down
I'll sit in a chair, you'll put arms around me
Your cheek to my cheek, see really no one cares
No world in a shock, my ship in a storm
A storm in a ship
Same water below, same water within
We are a wheel, we cycle and turn
We are a tree, we smolder and burn
I can't control, I can't control
The impulse to behave
Day after day, place after place
A turn inward
Let's go, I heard no one will be around our wheel
Where we are up and down
And these humid prophecies are only estimates
I'll accept your receipts, it's fine
Your wheel comes 'round
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4. |
Won't Wonder Why
03:55
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Tossing matches from your desk, let the flames lick the little ones
And the house collapse, now there's no one to ask
And I said how it would go, there was blood, panic, hospitals
Still you think no one dare to talk to you up there
But I'm not a mouse I don't scurry, I sign my messages clearly
And that's how you know that it's me
Everyday we wrote the books, it's not as easy as it looks!
Chapters and verses for undoing curses
And you can't tell up from down with paranoia all around
You won't see the flood until you're in the mud
I'm not a mouse I don't scurry, I sign my messages clearly
And that's how you know that it's me
Let the hammer hit the bell...
The fear that took you far, it follows where you are
That's how you know that it's me
When it all comes crashing down, 'cuz it will all come crashing down
You'll squint, you'll sigh, but you won't wonder why
That's how you know that it's me
I'm not a mouse I don't scurry, I sign my messages clearly
I sign them all Michael Murray
Yeah that's how you know that it's me
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This is not the way that this song goes
This is not the way that this song goes
Lots of people wonder, ain't nobody knows
This is not the way that this song goes
Here we built a pathway to our hearts
So this can't be the place we fall apart
When I am rebuilding I'm singing like a lark
This is not a way to break my heart
If you want a life you'll have to live
Trust me either way you're gonna give
Listen I can't be without you, can't believe I ever did
If you want a life you'll have to live
This is not the way that this song goes
This is not the way that this song goes
Lots of people wonder, ain't nobody knows
This is not the way that this song goes
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6. |
Milkweed
02:28
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When it's summer, summer in the city
Follow me down side streets
Where the weeds threaten to take over
Crack in the sidewalk, you are just like milkweed
You are in your season
Breaking through foundations in the ground
Flower or weed, who could say?
I couldn't tear you away
Someone stole you, I have my suspicions
Stole you from my soil
But I couldn't choose your way to grow
You wanted danger, and you wanted safety
You grew up like a lever
Hanging out over the road
Flower or weed, who could know?
Just wish I told you to go
Would you listen? Would you be returning?
Cooling down from burning?
Milkweed growing roots without a sound
You might be poison. You might be the only
Nourishment I'd ever see
Before my turn to join you underground
Flower or week, who could tell?
I guess you lost me as well
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7. |
Indifferent Languages
03:23
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When she speaks it's all indifferent languages
Has the fire been contained?
She touched my elbow as she passed me in the crowd
No indifference remained
Fool me once, come fool me twice, wait, who's counting?
When it all adds up just the same
When I wanted you my heart was fidgeting
It is settled down again
Just be silent now
A message delivered by the sound
Of fan blades spiraling and the air rushing around
Every word you speak: indifferent languages
Pouring water on the fire
Then a river of words - who could care about?
Come and make of me a liar
I remember when you told me wild things
Like a whisper in the choir
Of all the places never seen and never been
I walk by and imagine
You could be silent now
You could be anything, you might even disappear
You used to lead out onto the ledge
Now you're a droplet in the sound
When you don't respond: indifferent languages
I can't stand to wait around...
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8. |
Maybe So...
03:30
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Count the miles inbetween, you are nothing like me
That's why I want you closer by
You call me honest, say I'm a good man
Even said I was handsome, isn't that kind?
You saw stones in the falling rain so I stayed inside with you
But what you really wanted me for, well if you're not sure I thought I knew
Maybe so...
Maybe it's over
I'll lace my shoes up either way
Out ahead of the sun I'll outrun second thoughts
But if you wanna make a play for my heart you'll need to get a running start
I'll built it all so I keep us apart, you'll need to get a running start
And become an athlete if you're gonna catch up with me
If you've seen me lately I've got the rose in my cheeks
I've got the light in my eyes, don't you see?
That I'm a slingshot, I'm a rubber band, I'm the volume off the shelf
Never the open book, I'm the one with the heart on the jacket
Wear your scarf the stars tonight are amplified and cold
In your button coat and running shoes we can go
Maybe so...
Maybe it's over
Why don't we run a race we know
It starts back to back - ready, set, go
If you're gonna make a play for my heart you need to get a running start
I built it all so I could keep us apart, you'll need to get a running start
And become an athlete if you're gonna keep up with me
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9. |
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01:50
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We start back to back, like a duel but I'm not wheeling
I've only got two choices: make a living, make a killing
If you slip over the edge I might catch a body or a feeling
When a hard rain falls, go get beneath a ceiling
You wouldn't listen to a shot across the bow
I know you can repair it, but I'm not telling how
Notifications, sacred texts, like the holy fire's in you now
You want me hooked on some false gods, you know that's something I can't allow
Too damn close, you're gonna have to back up from me
There's not a cure out there to make me warm up to you
Not a bottle, not a question, not power, not suggestion
I proofread your statement, I have a few corrections
The whole calendar was canceled
Then the last straw turned on to be an anvil
Knocked the whole thing off my back
Knocked the whole burden from my shoulders
You rode in on a glacier turning mountains into molehills
And I'm relaxed. that was the weight
A deep breath I blew away
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10. |
View from the Floor
05:17
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He sits on the edge of the bed
To bring life to the dead, they can't wait for it
This is the place where we start
I've got a break in my heart
This is the sun it will rise
These are the trees, it's a deep forest
Sometimes the love is the pain
Tell me about that again
You've got a feel for it now
As much as this life will allow
No, you're not going too far
I'll love you wherever you are
No, you're not going too far
He has a view low to the floor
I join him to see how the sun will set
As your team races out to the caves
Where lovers were lost there for days
Tell me they all come back safe
I'm on the edge of the scene to know what comes next
There'll be a party that night
I'm sure the whole town will arrive
Tell me it's so
You've got a feel for it now
As much as this life will allow
No, you're not going too far
I'll find you wherever you are
No, you're not going too far
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11. |
Vermont
04:07
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From the edge of my sill, to the top of our hill, and all along, you and me and him and her and all of our friends
An apple with each when I'm just within reach, and all around you and me and him and her and all of our friends
When you come home, come down the hill
You can travel (you can go) straight to the heart of things (I won't abandon you)
I feed the fire (you feed the fire), warmer still (and warmer still)
While you move about the floor like a wave upon the shore
The way you come and go and return
From the edge of the pack, from the small of your back, and all around you and me and him and her and all of our friends
My child is yours, your child is mine, and we are with you and me and him and her and all of our friends
Oh I, I just met the backside of your hand
And you, you just turn it up but never land
And when, when we had protection all around
I heard your whisperin' but now you speak aloud
That's how I met the backside of your hand
And you, you just turn it up but never land
An apple with each, when they're just within reach, until we've got you and me and him and her all of our friends
From the edge of my sill, to the top of our hill, and all along you and me and him and her and all of our friends
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Michael Murray Somerville, Massachusetts
Michael Murray is a musician and songwriter from Somerville, Massachusetts.
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