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Heaven Help The Day
03:21
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I have never met my father
They say he left us for another
Her name was Wanda, her name was prison, her name was free
And my name’s lonely, My name’s orphan My name’s please
If you see me walking I look at faces
I wonder if your blood’s in me
You’re just a stranger, a fellow walking down the street
And if you see me, smile gently keep going
Heaven Help the Day you ran from home
Cause I don’t know if I want you home
If I want you back who left me all alone
Yah I don’t know if I want you home
Heaven help the day you come
I’d make you worry, I’d make you want me,
I’d make you sit at home, wonderin’ where I’d gone
Uh huh
I’d make you love me, I’d make you love me then I’d leave you all alone
Heaven help the day you come back home
Copyright Jessica Peters Malmberg 2009
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Once I had a mockingbird
He left town without a word
Left me singing all alone
Through the window, wait for him
He sang
I loved it when he sang
I loved it when he sang
And I
I sang his unsaid name
I sang and then he sang
Once I had a mockingbird
On my back and in the tree
IN the tree and in my ear
In my ear he sang to me he sang
He sang
I loved it when he sang
I loved it when he sang
And
He sang my unsaid name
He sang until I sang
My love my love my love my love
Did you come here just to go away?
Heard my song, he heard this bird
He came back without a word
Sang to me this mockingbird
From the tallest branch this bird
Sits where he can see the world
From the south without a word
Proud and gentle shameless bird
I loved it when he sang
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I'll Return as Waterbird
02:51
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Baby I’ve been feeling so gone
Lyin in a field for so long
Under wings and buzzin things
If I listen good I’ll live long
Harvest ball you’ll be free of me
Of the darkest spark of evenin'
I’ll return as water bird
Greatness fill the river of my blood
I will take you darling
Deep into the evening
I will take you darling
Deep into the night
They’ll say whatever has happened
Some will tell and some won't listen
We saw silver sail glisten
O’er the sea, she’s gone to find her (love)
Where has she gone, where has she flown
Lightness lifting hollow bone
Feathers holding wind to a home
That was there long before she was born
I will take you darling
Deep into the evening
I will take you darling
Deep into the night
Come my little darling
Deep under my warm wing
I will take you darling deep into the night
The truth comes out
I’m light as air without you
The truth comes out
I often think about you
Baby I’ve been feeling so gone
Lying in a field for so long
Under wings and buzzing things
Listen’ to their every day song
After long I learned their ancient
Tellings and I took their secret
I fly over where we summered
And from my high heart I send my love
My love
My love
Oh my love
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Sleep It Off/Lie DOwn
03:37
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Try to make me unsad
Just try makin me glad
It’s the day’s to declare
And it’s what I must wear
It goes on lightly
Like a summer colored dress
Blue sky clouds, pretty with my tears
Breeze does pick it up and make it sail
Graceful float ‘nough to make me lie down
And sleep it off
Lie down and watch the drift
Lie down and sleep with it
Lie down
Bring the golden dreams
They hover out side my reach
Blue shadow and cool stream
I lie in the shade of a tree
I wear it lightly
Like a summer colored dress
Blue sky clouds, heavy with my tears
Breeze can pick it up and make it sail
Graceful float
Enough to make my lie down
And cry it out
Lie down and sleep it off
Lie down and watch it float
Lie down
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Syracuse Next 6 Exits
02:53
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Truck drivers bend in my mirror
Square noses curve like the road
By purple fields and farms
Green from the rain doesn't stop
It will be spring
six weeks ago
Water is rising level to the road
Geese flying over us
Going back home
Slow mothers carrying loads
Blue cabs, gray clouds hanging low
It's quiet out here on the farmlands
Quietest part of the run
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San Rafael
04:05
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Coming over the hill to San Rafael on the 101
The sky is purple against red brake lights
Watching the stars appearing over the dark outline of the hills
Slowing down in front of flashing signs
Oh Cars
Cars are drifting, cars lining up
miles, miles and miles
Oh , I don’t belong here all caught up inside
Listening to the night
We sit still, impatient Night is coming,
We’re all going home
Hands on the wheel with our radios
To the west hills go to bed
They’re calling me where I belong
If the traffic stops I’ll float above, alone, above
Oh, cars
Cars are rivers cars lining up
miles miles and miles
Oh I I am lifted into the sky slipped into some old light
Up up over lights and droning motors
Over dew and honey grass and sleeping deer
Over rollers, hills with backs like dinosaurs
Floating over time a thousand years ago
Sailing Sailing quickly
I will soon be in the ocean air
Sleeping mountain where my heart is heard
Let me down on slanting sides
The breeze my breath, the grass my hair
I will fall asleep to waves and waves… in my ears
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Big Heart
03:56
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8. |
Dark Woods
01:34
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none
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You Are This Perfect
03:11
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My baby boy
Driftin on the world I
Think of you as I
Fall into landmines
Baby boy
I think of your soft hair
I'm floating through morning
To touch on the fields
You are this perfect
The morning sun shines on the dew
Of the flowers
It's just a mornin
It's just a sunrise
If it is my last one
I would have you close to me.
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Miramar
02:27
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They took the blue from the roof
And the beds from the rooms
Put an ad in the news for sale
From the highway I drive
You can see through them right
Through the rooms to the sea, you see the sea
Oh my, it’s a shame, farewell
Dismantling the old hotel
Oh the years of the sand
Behind my ears and in the bed
Sister song, sing it loud, farewell
Well they just couldn’t kill
See a place has a will
And the villa never was built
Flowers grew tall and filled
Wells of stairs, cracks in pools
It was beautiful old as the hills
Oh my, it’s a change, farewell
The vines have taken the hotel
Wrapping up and around
It’s going home it’s going down
To the heart that’s underground, farewell
Green is marching, green is taking over
Oh my, it’s a change, farewell
The vines have taken the hotel
Flowers orange, golden crowns
It’s going home it’s coming round
To the heart that’s underground, farewell
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Boy Who Was Caught
03:42
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To the boy who was caught
Crashed the car and gave up
I saw your face
As you fell to your knees
I don't know what you did
I saw them look for something
I don't know what you did
I saw them in the grass
I don't know what you did
I cried for miles after
I don't know what you did
Just like your mama will
To the boy who gave up
In the Oregon Sun
To the red shining lights
And the dogs waiting by
I don't care what you did
I saw them pointing their guns
I don't care what you did
I saw your arms raised high
I don't care what you did
I cried for miles after
I don't care what you did
Just like your mama will
To the child who was trapped
Guns at your back
It's not your last
Chance
Why'd you do what you did
You've fallen hard upon the pavement
Why'd you do what you did
The sun is shining kind upon you
Why'd you do what you did
Let it go, take it off, take it off here,
Why'd you do what you did
Spread it out on the ground it feels good
To give up
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12. |
Last Day of February
01:21
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instrumental
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13. |
We Must Have Been Birds
03:16
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We must’ve been birds
We must’ve flown
And carried no weight
Our shoulders lifted by the air below
We must have had feathers
And woken and spoken together
And leaned in to each other
To feel the warmth that gathers under the down
And I
You’re mine
You’re mine
You’re mine
We must have made nests
We must have made sense
Things are going so well
We must have made sense
This love is floating so well
Love’s in your arms
arms
You must have sung
I heard your song
And crafted and gathered and praised the tree
Where we would raise our young
And we
We died,
lived by
each other
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Petracovich Santa Rosa, California
Dreamy folk pop that is lyrical, poetic and full. Jessica of Petracovich plays the piano, with some banjo and bells and lots of clicky sounds and shakery things. She hikes hills, raises kids and loves to sing in bars. Petracovich has toured nationally and performed on KCRW's Morning Becomes Eclectic. ... more
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