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Ribbon
02:07
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jesse's brotherly love
everywhere i go
we were in idaho
wore a demin dress
to stare at the sailboats
and at all the flowers wondering
if i'd be there again
in a dream i had
i watched the ribbon
being torn to shreds
the one thing i carried
running in the wind
no longer whole it was
some kind of vision
or just a funny thought
like today my first thought
waking up was that
my dad had curly hair too
in his coast guard photos
he is fine without me
and he's warm in his home
like you're fine without me
cut loose and fluttering
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2. |
Cut Flowers
03:28
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cut flowers bend
in the wind
i dont wanna live
like im already dead
call you boyfriend
in Connecticut
i don't wanna live
like im already dead
keep his warm scarf
wrapped around your head
i dont wanna live
like im already dead
see the grey gull
float over the bay
i dont wanna live like im already dead
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3. |
All The Words
01:59
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two years isn't so long
i know all the words to this one
it feels just like sand
ground up in the palm of my hand
throw it in the waves
just makes us depraved
leave me in the sun
i know all the words to this one
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Cave
02:28
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above ground in the wet cave
i spied the thing i would save
the love we kept so secret
though someone else may see it
through character's fine kerning
i stumble through your yearning
you speak in words so lightly
they rearrange me nightly
recite your chart from memory
a friendship we are mending
i'm sorry for the dense fog
i'll see you where the cave stops
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5. |
Lamb & Dove
01:53
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on the corner of lamb and dove
i saw something float
through the air, it was you
it was my love in a ribbon
now i know that it's true
bundled up and tucked in
love for you alive and well
as long as i am living
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6. |
Brave
02:17
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I try so hard to be brave
I climb the tree
and all I got
was this scrape on my leg
cowardly I watch you swimming
I am nothing
just a piece of seaweed
in the blue and green
butterflying, easygoing
use our shirts to make a curtain
close our eyes and scream
"shouldn't it be possible
to leave the body
is it wrong to even try?"
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7. |
Climb Your Tree
01:49
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I call for God to answer
up inside his lonely tree
there are no stupid questions
only stupid people see
there are no stupid people only
stupid parents there are no
stupid parents children need an answer
need an answer
hey stupid climb your tree
you fall and skin your knee
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8. |
Truck
03:22
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i see the truck in the driveway
the tires all worn out
my daddy said "let's go on the highway
let's get out of town"
and so we did, we drove so fast
i felt powerful, i thought it might last
in a dream that i had, the feeling remained
but when i was awake, it just wasn't the same
i see the photo of the wall
it's all faded now
my mother said "here give that one to me
i should just take it down"
and so she did, put it in a box
i felt powerless, my stomach in knots
in a dream that i had, i knew just what to say
when i am awake though its never the same
i look just like you but you'll never see me
my hair's getting long––i'm growing it out
sand in your hand, i've made my escape now
was never a young boy, but i'll be a man
i see the truck in the driveway
the tires all worn out
my daddy said "let's go on the highway
let's get out of town"
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Ribbon II
02:03
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i may have lost the one thing
i was devoted to holding
but now perhaps the memory
will be enough to carry me
when the ribbon is torn to shreds
and its pieces have all landed
if you wanna see the new world
you must enter it empty handed
you must enter it
empty handed
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ribbon Boston, Massachusetts
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