1. |
Heron
03:51
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Heron
I got my eye on you today
I am cooling down into the folds
Of this autumn bold
Fresh and bright and startlingly cold
Heron
I’ll keep my eye on you today
Watch you soar into the morn
Newly born and evolving into the day
I hear the change and feel the fall
We know this thrill comes calling
And we hear in stillness a winter waiting in the wings
Lonely bird, what secrets were you told?
Show me
Fell my illusion of control
Heron
I’ll keep my eye on you today
You are sleek and stronger in shorter days
Soon gone, you’re moving on
Sense the change and feel the fall
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2. |
Riverside
04:40
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I wanna lay down my sword and shield
Down by the riverside
Will it help me to save my home?
Should I pack up my house and gear, and find a place to hide?
Should I flee the fight alone?
Do I pick out some favoured team?
How would I choose a side,
With open arms or a fine-toothed comb?
I don't wanna study war no more.
Don't wanna study, plan, observe,
Don't wanna hatch a plot to kill or die.
I wanna lay down my heavy load
Down by the riverside
I wanna see a world I know.
Should I pack up my things and leave, or find a place to hide?
This world is not my own.
Should I pick out some favoured team,
Do I select my tribe
With open arms or a fine-toothed comb?
I don't wanna study war no more.
Don't wanna study, plan, observe,
Don't wanna hatch a plot to kill or die.
Oh, feel like my future has been robbed
Oh, been feeling frightened and despondent every day
Oh yeah
Oh, can we still unify in time,
Or is this a parting of the minds to swear in violent demise?
Don't wanna study, plan, observe
Don't wanna hatch a plot to...
Oh, please tell us how to reconcile
The way we knew the parent of this revolution and this crime?
War no more
I wanna lay down my sword and shield
Down by the riverside
I wanna lay down my sword and shield
By the riverside
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3. |
Undertow
03:11
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I'd been meaning to fly for a while,
Twelve years or so
Here, I'd a measure to go
They'd held my head down, and I'd helped,
I'd learned the ways
Dragging me into the undertow
Feel the waves ebb and flow
Within and without
And I end where it starts
I'm in the heart of the sea, and it's me
A portrait in green and blue
And it's so good, spreading these wings
In its silent expanse, the voices fade.
Swim, Mami Wata, sing to your daughter
Spin me a new understanding of your spirit world
Show me a beauty I'd never known
Play, Mami Water, dance with your daughter
Entice me below, in undertow,
Then let me go
Dive, dive in the sea, dive in dreams
Pool your fantasies
Breathe in the crests and the lows
Greet the waves, meet the tides,
Embrace the surge
Drift downstream
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4. |
America
03:14
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"Let us be lovers, we'll marry our fortunes together
I've got some real estate here in my bag"
So we bought a pack of cigarettes and Mrs. Wagner pies
And walked off to look for America
"Kathy", I said as we boarded a Greyhound in Pittsburgh
"Michigan seems like a dream to me now"
It took me four days to hitchhike from Saginaw
I've gone to look for America
Laughing on the bus
Playing games with the faces
She said the man in the gabardine suit was a spy
I said "Be careful, his bowtie is really a camera."
"Toss me a cigarette, I think there's one in my raincoat"
"We smoked the last one an hour ago"
So I looked at the scenery, she read her magazine
And the moon rose over an open field
"Kathy, I'm lost", I said, though I knew she was sleeping
I'm empty and aching and I don't know why
Counting the cars on the New Jersey Turnpike
They've all come to look for America
I've come to look for America
I've come to look for America
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5. |
El Día
03:09
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I stood out on the porch
And gave a nod to the dusk,
Noted a gleam it paid in return.
Together we welcomed dark,
Held the last, met the first
Midnight anew
Daybreak
I rose to meet this one,
Shake its hand as it guides us around the sun.
And here we go again,
Always this path that’s never the same
A cyclical
Game of revolution,
Witness our evolution in real time.
Impermanence reigns on this permanent fixture.
We hurtle through the void
I’m still paranoid.
Hold me, let’s go!
Oh, what a chance, the gift of this dance
Oh, another turn to work it all
Out here in the expanse, I’m
Everybody else, as are you, my love.
So let us drink in the romance of
Odds that have let us share in this moment
Right now, some-sacred-how.
Goodbye to the end,
And then again, that’s a start.
A time to arrive, and yet a time to depart.
So may we greet this close, open to all the dawn may hold.
Set to let the light in.
Oh, what a song,
So brief and so long
Oh, inviolable art,
The gift of this start.
Oh, I’m overcome.
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6. |
Riverside
04:40
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I wanna lay down my sword and shield
Down by the riverside
Will it help me to save my home?
Should I pack up my house and gear, and find a place to hide?
Should I flee the fight alone?
Do I pick out some favoured team?
How would I choose a side,
With open arms or a fine-toothed comb?
I don't wanna study war no more.
Don't wanna study, plan, observe,
Don't wanna hatch a plot to kill or die.
I wanna lay down my heavy load
Down by the riverside
I wanna see a world I know.
Should I pack up my things and leave, or find a place to hide?
This world is not my own.
Should I pick out some favoured team,
Do I select my tribe
With open arms or a fine-toothed comb?
I don't wanna study war no more.
Don't wanna study, plan, observe,
Don't wanna hatch a plot to kill or die.
Oh, feel like my future has been robbed
Oh, been feeling frightened and despondent every day
Oh yeah
Oh, can we still unify in time,
Or is this a parting of the minds to swear in violent demise?
Don't wanna study, plan, observe
Don't wanna hatch a plot to...
Oh, please tell us how to reconcile
The way we knew the parent of this revolution and this crime?
War no more
I wanna lay down my sword and shield
Down by the riverside
I wanna lay down my sword and shield
By the riverside
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7. |
Heron
03:51
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Heron
I got my eye on you today
I am cooling down into the folds
Of this autumn bold
Fresh and bright and startlingly cold
Heron
I’ll keep my eye on you today
Watch you soar into the morn
Newly born and evolving into the day
I hear the change and feel the fall
We know this thrill comes calling
And we hear in stillness a winter waiting in the wings
Lonely bird, what secrets were you told?
Show me
Fell my illusion of control
Heron
I’ll keep my eye on you today
You are sleek and stronger in shorter days
Soon gone, you’re moving on
Sense the change and feel the fall
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Tweed Auckland, New Zealand
Tweed is an alternative folk trio with a distinctive style of catchy melodies, poly-rhythms, and tight-knit, complex vocal harmonies.
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