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When the sleepy blossom begins
Like she's bringin new days dawn
Leaking on the mountain shoulder
Comes to roll away the fog
There's a chirpin bustle brewin
Calling out into the morning
But the weary weight so softly lays
And keeps dreamin
When the melody so sweetly steals
Your mind and starts to stray
And wraps a heart in lovin arms
Like it's always been that way
There's a peaceful inclination
Though it might not last too long
Each solemn word, a soul has heard
And it keeps a love believing
When the silent space grows deeper still
And the darkness doubles down
And the strangers face don't seem to paint in
Nothin but a frown
Oh sorrow like a blanket falls
But no comfort there to find
Those tears are blind, it's only time
The one thing you'll keep needing
When the heaving wind and canopy dance
in the shadows of the pines
And the gentle warmth that brought you close
Seems a dream that won't unwind
Ain't no sadder soul than one who knows
There'll be no change of heart
Maybe lesson learned
But when a love has turned
Don't you mourn the fleeting seasons
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One More Someday
06:03
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Trouble making hopes’ll creep
Into your heart while mind’s asleep
Stirring up the flicker…., just to fall again
Between your tired fingers
White knuckled, unforgiven,
Burning slow like winter
Oh you’re sun-lit but still cold in the end
Half moon hangs big and low
She drinks me up with her whispering glow
Carry on in closer, into the shadows hand
You were right about the dark
A growing stillness for my part
I’m all fooled and vacant bark
Only echo and reflection in the end
You can tell my dreams
I’ll be leaving soon
Just give me one more ‘someday’
I’ll be leaving soon
Turn on sunset like a curtain blow
A tucked in, shut lid, starlight show
Nothing but the weight ... can make you understand
You can’t bring the morning closer
And fewer hours hold your head up
Buddy you just got to remember
To kiss those loving lips and hold her while you can
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Happiness On Hold
04:17
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Oh brother what you doin?
Acting young and full of hope
You’re revealing all your feeling
Like you never had it broke
Don’t you know? the world is trouble
Livin’s pain, you ain’t been told?
You gotta put away your part each day
A little happiness on hold
Aw babe, you got the right idea
Holding hands with misery
Don’t go letting your heart get carried away
With all this joy you found to feel
The big screen dream, the true love scene
Is a lie that you’ve been sold
You gotta stomp that down when you come around
With you happiness on hold
There’s no shortage to the substitutes
Come on and pull the wool down hard
You’re soul ain’t nothin special kid,
Everyone’s a still-born star
So tie your ankle to the anchor
Until your love for life lays cold
And you’re standing there with your empty hands
And your happiness on hold
You’re gonna see some pretty things
That will lead you to believe
There’s a crack of hope in a coat of pain
The old moth to a lamplight scheme
But trust me when I tell you folks
It’s only panning or fools gold
Leave it settle deep and lay your head to sleep
Next to your happiness on hold
Now try to find you some reflection
There’s some things you outta face
Ain’t nobody ever laid to rest
Was content to end the race
Now if it’s hung from your potential
At least you know which card to fold
Buried ‘neath the clay, with your stone engraved
A little happiness on hold
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4. |
Fools Reprise
04:17
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Can’t go shaking this feeling
Days on my back staring at the ceiling
Crushed under all of my dreaming
That ain’t come to pass
Maybe I’ll pack up and move on
But the fever just comes right along
I’ve poured plenty of beers our on it
But the fire, she just won’t quit
I’m losing all my days quickly
The weeks turn to years before me
Friends have been doing their leaving
And I can’t help but cry
How can it be that the same thing
That keeps my heart beating will kill me
I’m a dusty old bucket left empty
And I’m begging for rain
If there’s anyone looking down here
Could you put in a good word for me?
Tell me I’ve been mistaken
And that I’m not so alone
I’m tired, I think I might sleep now
Tomorrow I’ll keep on somehow
Fooling myself it’ll all work out
And maybe it will….
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Nothin But Nothin
04:56
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One dream at a time
Something’s gotta be left behind
Life ain’t nothin but nothin going right
One dream at a time
Look out lonely soul
Don’t you stay stalled too long
Pretty soon you’ll forget just how it’s done
Used to hold the light inside you
Locked away so tight
Now it’s just your shadow
That kept you holding up the night
One dream at a time
Just take what you need to stay alive
Life ain’t nothin but nothin going right
One dream at a time
It’s easy to have faith
When you’re the dawn
Around noon it gets to being
A little harder won
Are you chasing down an answer
That isn’t left to find
What’s the point to your drinking
If a body ain’t been dry
One dream at a time
All your love that bends, and breaks, and binds
Life ain’t nothin but nothin going right
One dream at a time
One dream at a time
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Matthew Colin Castlemaine, Australia
Matthew Colin brings with him the values of histories great ramblers, 'a song and a friend for every mile behind'. It'll only take listening to one or two lines and you will find a writer of considered craft, carrying values nested in a time of country folk music where all that mattered was the song itself. ... more
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