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This Marvelous Grief
01:46
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2. |
Untouched and Burning
05:16
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He gives it up the fight is gone
quiet at rest now
there is no movement at all
inside his chest now
He is the seed that grows new men
the breath the motion in all of us
You have crafted us
We all reach for you.
But we don't know how to speak your name
Help us to love ourselves
There is a moment that we find we become
what we have always known that we could be
look it's a secret revealed on the other side,
a language forgotten that we all will remember somehow
we run from want and we want to live
hiding from beauty inside ourselves
but there is a secret inside our chests
untouched and burning
you have put this here
so that we reach for you
But we don't know how to speak your name
help us to love ourselves.
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3. |
10,000 Beautiful Angels
05:18
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well Amanda let go around Valentines day
she wandered around with some drugs in her veins
I picked her when she had no where else she could stay
but this worlds such a beautiful place
We all hold onto books that we read in our youth
we accidentally invent our own versions of truth
and I love the way the sunlight is dancing off you
and this worlds such a beautiful place
I love the record you picked out
I love the words that you sang out loud
I love the texture of soft sounds
loved it when your voice came down
and when I opened the window
I saw that I was alone
and the beautiful day shown
1000 blossoming halos
So I wrestle some memories back down to the ground
now there room to expand in the absence of sound
How can you frown with your friends all around
while this worlds such a beautiful place
so I let that bird fly in my room for a while
cuz she sang me a tune and it gave me smile
some songs you can't hear on your radio dial
well this worlds such a beautiful place
Look the leaves are tuning gold
they say one day the world will grow cold
but our song is eternal
today can't be bought and today can't be sold
I dance with my own shadow
so content be unknown
I rip my heart out on my own
10000 beautiful angles
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4. |
In A Heartbeat
04:30
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Can you try to recall the sound
the way my whisper sounded then
and how you reached for it
can you recall the feeling when we danced in step
we never said a word
how can I tell you now
all that I want to say
no you never see me
But if you were to ask me to,
you know I would
In a heartbeat
Your smile came bright and it woke me up
the winter hovered outside the house
I want to touch your mouth
but I never did it
when the house was cold
I didn't want to go
I cooked dinner and made the bed
and then you shook your head
and you never said it
but if you were to ask me to
you know I would
In a Heartbeat
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5. |
1979
06:09
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You would make your living
on the stilts of yellow pine
in the daylight drinking
summer 1979
was it summer loving?
2 kids with twinkles in their eyes
did you believe in magic?
soon you'd hear your babies cry
You told us of a light in your room
could you feel us breathing inside you
cuz we were breathing inside you
the 80s rushed you forward
with kids to occupy your time
on yates avenue
dust and dirt whiskey and wine
mother had a dream and
it changed the course our life would take
she was bussing tables
counting change that she would make
Hold on to those photographs
you and your sister laugh
smile as your looking back
Pink Floyd and Paul McCartney
Billy joel and Queen
They mix with memories
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6. |
Grand Canyon
04:03
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Just a bit of betrayal
but mostly misunderstanding
and So the War comes upon us
and we both leave empty handed
its been a thousand years now
since I kissed those lips
cuz things tend to break down
so we put up our fists
Theres a Grand Canyon
Inside my chest now
How do you say you're sorry
with bodies lying on the beach now
you trade me in for a feeling
and it is hard to believe how
I'm just bundle of wounds girl
and so I cut you back
and all the space that was love
has now turned to black
We try to pretend we never wanted what we did but we did babe
it seems there's more incentive now to leave than we had to stay so
all of my love and hate get so mixed up since you went away
look homeward angel please teach us how to say that it's okay
OKAY
Theres a Grand Canyon
Inside my chest now
Goodbye Companion
it's laid to rest now
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7. |
Penny Queen
04:35
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theres a thousand singers in my brain I'm running from
a million words all disarrayed and loose ends undone
but when I was young I had ambition clean and pure
but I don't think that way no more
thank God our mothers well she take us in when our monies spent
I must have left my rose rims in some circus tent on accident
and when I was young I had ambition clean and pure
I don't think that way no more
were stretched between // a penny and a queen,
a future and a dream // yeah you are a lover and a thief
I am my pleasure and my grief // and when will it end
My apologies I wrote a happy song for you to sing along
but when the tune came out it sounded wrong
and all the while I was reaching in your purse
you were humming to my verse
We're partly beasts part Adam and part Eve
the grace and pain continues on to weave so gracefully
and when we grow young we'll see the treasure in the cost
we'll give thanks for what we've lost
You see we're walking on a string
this tug of war we are in between
is it the tension in this thing that makes it sing
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8. |
Babylon
05:27
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she is a dollar bill,
she's cheap but she's dressed to kill
she'll dance with you brother if you have the will.
Her voice on the radio
a tune everybody knows
she's undercover and wearing no clothes
oh babylon you are a jewel,
always shiny and new
Oh babylon you are so cruel still we pursue
We're chasing you down
Can you hear the siren song?
I'm tempted to sing along,
to join in the choir like there's nothing wrong
you've got her scent on you,
can you smell her on me too?
she is seductive, she knows how to woo
oh babylon you are a jewel,
always shiny and new
Oh babylon you are so cruel still we pursue
We're chasing you down
she's in every neon light
no question of wrong or right
Judas will kiss you he don't come to fight…
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9. |
Set Sail
04:18
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I move from the drivers seat,
and the vehicle keeps moving
You take over take over for me,
why am I not okay with me?
I set sail on everything else but the sea
conversation into the mountain
you insisted that I'm okay,
we spoke about how we were raised
filled with "should of's" and razor blades
I set sail on everything else but the sea
we rode with them up to the look out.
and we laughed at what we were doing there
We are never the people that we think we are
you are not the person that you think you are
I set sail on everything else but the sea
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10. |
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I paint you in portraits // I pin you in time
on black and white footage when you were so shy
and the camera was shaking // the photo was blurred
the memory altered was it really her
and I moved from the city // yeah I darkened my door
I ripped out the carpet I slept on the floor
and I fenced in the back yard // where my dog had his fun
I pulled off the hinges and I made a new one
I sold the dress you wore back to the consignment store
I forgot what you bought it for but you never loved nothing more
You dads steady preaching // and he fights his good fight
but he's selling a Jesus that no one will buy
and he tells me I'm making // a fool out of me
with all of my singing well darlin we'll see
that just might be
oh but people are shuffling // in and out of our lives
yes our life like party // and some people bring boos // some people bring knives
And I found all your pictures // with dates on the back
they had your inscription with holes from the tacks // they were all tattered and torn
I sold the dress you wore back to the consignment store
I forgot what you bought it for but you never loved nothing more
And the fabric grew paper thin at the knees and the elbows when
you just would not talk it off till the chimes from my coo coo clock
some wounds just wont heal
NO
some folk just can't feel
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11. |
A New Language
05:38
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Radio fly out my mouth
I gotta get out of this // Yeah I gotta get out of this
I want to get raptured somehow
but I gotta get out of this // Yeah I gotta get out of this
Templeton I've read all your books
I gotta get out of this // Yeah I gotta get out of this
Carefully remove all these hooks
I gotta get out of this // Yeah I gotta get out of this
And move out to Denver // till I miss the south
Oh cicada rhythm // my name in your mouth
I'll climb up a mountain // just to watch the sky burn
and I'll let all these tears change // into lessons learned
I'll stop hiding monsters up under my bed // babe, I've been so destructive
with these words that I've said // so I'll learn a new language
and I'll sing a new song // something so happy we forget all thats wrong
flowers only grow where it rains
I gotta get out of this // Yeah I gotta get out of this
Until love only remains
I gotta get out of this // Yeah I gotta get out of this
Like the color of courage // like falling in love
like the smell of your perfume // when a wink was enough
like a well written poem // like a talk with your friend
or a sermon that melts you // girl HIs love never ends
like those memories you cherish // or going back to your town
or how the spring always // makes it's way back around
like a beautiful story // like a tune that you know
oh something so gorgeous // you let all of it show!
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12. |
The Center of Georgia
04:08
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You and your sister
Taking a picture
Nothing is purer
nothing is purer
South of the city
where it gets dirty
she lives with her sisters and her brothers too
Write in your journal
South of the city
the flowers unfettered
and you are so pretty
Where bridges are wooden,
and where horses reside
where people are purer much purer than I
You are my sister
tell me a story
but I am not ready,
I think I'm ready
the lakes here are crafted
they are crafted by men,
the center of georgia
the healing begins,
the feeling begins again.
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13. |
Unanswered Questions
04:10
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turn it over momma,
don't you remember the warmth of the fire
grandmas blankets you pinned up
in all the doorways to keep heat inside
back when I was your baby
all the things that get stuck in our head,
is it the smell of gardenias?
that poppa bought you as you laid in your bed
Oh it's all the things we remember
oh it's all the things we forget
it's all of the unanswered questions
Hid in the way that you love me
it's the color of curtains,
it's the smile that I put on your face.
it's the songs you would sing to
all the ways I invaded your space
when your hair was so tangled
mom would force you to put in a comb
we would pick at each other
but you're so elegant now that you're grown
Oh it's all the things we remember
oh it's all the things we forget
it's all of the unanswered questions
Hid in the way that you love me
it's the drive to kentucky
it's the smell of the car we would take
it's the scars on your fingers
and all the changes you made for our sake
Oh it's all the things we remember
oh it's all the things we forget
it's all of the unanswered questions
Hid in the way that you love me
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14. |
20 Winters
06:04
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oh my brother
if the sea should
rise against you
do not fear no
not the darkness
nor your sorrow
take your courage
underneath
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oh my brother
since you've been gone,
mother's garden,
has stopped growing
father's age has
started showing
since you set out
on the sea
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oh my brother
hold the memory
20 summers
you were with me
Still I'm counting
20 winters
have now passed
you're at sea
20 winters
you're at sea
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oh my brother
do the answers
to our questions
hide abroad
oh my brother
bring them back here
bring the language
of our God
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oh my brother
when you come home
all our kin will
celebrate you
yet if you will to
go on searching
we will tarry
as you're gone
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Besides Daniel Atlanta, Georgia
Danny Brewer ( AKA Besides Daniel ) has found an audience with his unique blend of poetic lyricism, evocative vocals, and cathartic honesty. Think "Lenard Cohen or Iron & Wine meets Ry X " … For fans of The Tallest Man on Earth, Bon Iver, Gregory Alan Isakov, Conor Oberst, Sufjan Stevens, or Ray Lamontagne. ... more
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