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Growing at the Edges
05:11
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If time is a river
and pain is a teacher
then let’s jump in together
in that cold, cold water
If the path’s just a sliver
through the pine and the cedar
then let’s walk it together
in that cold cold weather
When the light of the moon
casts its silvery gaze
how the shadow recedes
but what’s left in the space?
Growing at the edges
Something new
When our hopes like the embers
if these winds could fan them
Could we remember
how it feels to dream again?
through the snow and the bluster
of that dark dark winter’s night
When the light of the moon
casts it silvery gaze
how the shadow recedes
but what’s left in the space?
beyond what we know
there is a place
are you ready to go?
past the path that was laid
Growing at the edges
Peeking from a seed
Where there was a wasteland
Something new
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2. |
Remembering a Dream
01:58
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3. |
Beginner's Heart
04:33
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there’s a song my heart would sing
but lately I’ve been only half listening
and the vivid shades
turn to muted gray
I try to remember how
to see what’s hidden underneath
to know there’s beauty in the incomplete
because the path we’re on
when the night grows long
can seem to have no end
though my heart can ache
when its wide awake
I still want to hear it’s song
And if your love could move through me
would it’s chaos make a symphony
that could rouse from sleep
what I could not reach
when the light just can’t get in
and though my heart can ache
when its wide awake
I still want to hear it’s song
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4. |
Prefiguring
00:50
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5. |
Untying a Knot
04:12
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into the depths
swimming where pitch black water blurs
where does it start and I begin?
fixed to a sun
scared at the thought of leaving it
where all that remains is what I choose to be
so I’m parting with a hollow version
what I thought I knew
that it’s not just about how we grow
but what we can undo
tangled in knots
peeling at layers holding in
words stuck in time, living in me
to live what i’m not
reflecting a twisted logic’s hold
I want to know how it feels to be free
and I’m parting with a hollow version
what I thought I knew
and I’m grateful for the ways that i’ve been shown
what I can undo
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6. |
Season of Flame
05:23
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it was a season of flame
burning through bone dry land
though we didn’t want to believe
it just took a spark to see
so we drove under red, hot skies
and we watched with our blood shot eyes
but through them a clarity
the end of what used to be
and out of the ruin we dream
of worlds that we can’t yet see
of monuments to the cruel
ripped from their pedestal
some wished to go back
while they wait for rain
but we know we can’t ever go
back to where we came
so we dug out a garden
where the singed concrete cracked
because the soil was fertile
to replace what we’ve lacked
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7. |
Wasteland Companions
05:33
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Hold on
a vision of the rising sun
perched up on your shoulder
like you’re carrying a boulder
Up the hill
for a panoramic view
but it was no longer familiar
from the fires of the old year
We hold out
and race against the setting sun
as the pathway grows much darker
but the stars will point us home where
I love how you
will dance around the entire room
to a song that only you hear
as it turns into a new year
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I’m tending the seeds
that were gifted to me
in a chance encounter
with an old friend at the park
I’m holding it close
a feeling I’ve known
its like an atlas
that’s finally led me home
In little ways the season changes
and I know it does the same in me
but this time I’ve no fear of running
from all that it might ask of me
I thought of picking the weeds
that had sprouted between
a row of flowers
when I wasn’t looking there
but they do what they can
in a hostile land
I can’t help but
admire all their thorns
In little ways the landscape changes
and I know it does the same in me
but this time I’ve no need for hiding
the parts I don’t want you to see
The love we receive
imperfect and brief
it is dappled
like sunlight through a leaf
but growing in me
is a garden unseen
in the morning light
we are gleaming
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10. |
Signal to Bloom
03:59
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