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Resonance
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It's nice of you to notice but we don't
Correct your calculations but we won't
We step one two and turn
We step five six and turn
You'll learn – observe, you'll learn
With gazes locked, with faces all alight
We know our resonance and road aright
You may call us friends or lovers
But do not claim you discovered us
We've – we've been right here all night
And if we're not what you first thought
If we're lighter, if we're lively, if we're lovely
It's for us and no one else
Let the horoscopes be humbled,
Let the charts be all redrawn
We name ourselves
Reprint the books, reissue all the maps
Try drafting them in pencil next perhaps
How lucky you could find
More space inside your mind
Heaven's bigger than you figure every time
Unwind
Our dance is so much older than your admiration of it.
Aligned
Define dissect divine us, it's fine.
It's fine
We don't have to rise above it, we are.
Feel how far.
And if we're not what you first thought
If we're lighter, if we're lively, if we're lovely
It's for us and no one else
Let the horoscopes be humbled,
Let the charts be all redrawn
We name ourselves
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Good Night Moon
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Good night moon, I'm with you
Whatcha say
You and me, what say we
Both call it a day
From screens and skies
a-rest my eyes
so brilliant, so bright -- all right
But now turn out the lights
Now turn out the lights
Now turn out the lights
So I can see my starry ceiling
But now turn out the lights
Now turn out the lights
Now turn out the lights
So I can fold up every feeling
Good night sky, you know I
Spend daytime where I'm not
Measuring steps between
What we need and what I've got
I wanna notice every cloud
I wanna jump in every wave
I wanna sing every song, but maybe this one's okay
I'll give it all to tomorrow --
I gave it all to today --
So brilliant, so bright, but all right
Now turn out the lights.......
There there worry
There there fear
You're off off duty
And we're here here here here here
Now turn out the lights
Now turn out the lights
Now turn out the lights
So I can see my starry ceiling
But now turn out the lights
Now turn out the lights
Now turn out the lights
So I can fold up every feeling
Good night moon, I'm with you
Roll awhile with me
Let me learn your one tune
Reflect and let it be
Reflect and let it be
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Why do we build the wall
My children, my children
Why do we build the wall?
...Why do we build the wall? We build the wall to keep us free
That’s why we build the wall, we build the wall to keep us free
How does the wall keep us free
My children, my children
How does the wall keep us free?
...How does the wall keep us free? The wall keeps out the enemy
And we build the wall to keep us free
That’s why we build the wall, we build the wall to keep us free
Who do we call the enemy
My children, my children
Who do we call the enemy?
...Who do we call the enemy? The enemy is poverty
The wall keeps out the enemy, and we build the wall to keep us free
That’s why we build the wall, we build the wall to keep us free
Because we have and they have not
My children, my children
Because they want what we have got?
...Because we have & they have not, because they want what we have got
The enemy is poverty, and the wall keeps out the enemy,
and we build the wall to keep us free
That’s why we build the wall, we build the wall to keep us free
What do we have that they should want
My children, my children
What do we have that they should want?
...What do we have that they should want? We have a wall to work upon We have work and they have none,
and our work is never done, my children, my children,
and the war is never won
The enemy is poverty, and the wall keeps out the enemy,
and we build the wall to keep us free
That’s why we build the wall, we build the wall to keep us free
We build the wall to keep us free
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The Piemaker
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Nobody understood (nobody could) all the precautions and the prayers,
rules and restrictions, all the bother to behave
But some are so exceptional, so rare -- one in ten million --
even daring to step out into the street is beyond brave
It's not what you've lost, it's what you've saved
And it's not what it's cost, it's what you've braved
The word they use is "gifted" but it chafes when the gift just takes away
your freedom and your friends, the recklessness of play
But unlike any other, you were blessed, so you use it for the best
a taste of beauty the world never expected
It's not what you've lost, it's what you've claimed
And you've earned every step of your way
You look and don't touch
You look and don't touch
You do not ask much, no
You look and don't touch
You look and don't touch
'Cause looks can kiss and looks can cut so deep
It took training, it took time, and it took tests -- & a few hard accidents --
to learn the limits you'd live with all your days
But routine became your solace, expertise -- comfort lives in recipes;
you craft a masterpiece, guessing how it tastes
You look and don't touch
You look and don't touch
You do not ask much, no
You look and don't touch
You look and don't touch
'Cause words can kiss and words can cut so deep
Heart of hearts, you are here and that's enough
You know your own way to love
You know your own way to love
Heart of hearts, you are here with me tonight
And if I hold you in my eyes --
'Cause looks can kiss and looks can cut you
You look and don't touch, you look and don't touch
'Cause words can kiss and words can cut you
You look and don't touch, look and don't
It's not what you've lost, it's what you've saved
And it's not what it's cost, it's what you've braved
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Time Traveler (She/Her)
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Trail Song
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For every furred and feathered thing
For hoof and hook and claw and wing
The only truth is traveling
The only truth is traveling
Arrival is illusion oh, the trail the trail is home
Arrival is illusion oh, the journey it is home
For every path and pack and pair
For haw and howl and fey and fair
The landmarks are the storyline,
The chapters alder, birch and pine
To live is motion, stride and steer
To live is motion, stride and steer
Arrival is illusion oh, the trail the trail is home
Arrival is illusion oh, the journey it is home
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If you want your next vacation to be out of this world
Aim a little higher when you plan it
Take a small step for romance, a giant leap for love
Our lunar pleasure cruises are enchanted
Come on and take your sweetie to the stars
Relaxing from the moment you embark
The sea of tranquility will wash your cares away
And the kids can bounce around the lunar playground all day
Why not throw off the weight of the world
And seek perspective on your problems from afar?
Your heart will be lighter, the earth will look brighter
Come on and take your sweetie to the stars
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Tired-eyed people everywhere,
and these ones here I know
Pinballin' around my ten-horse town,
pilin' barstools high with coats
Where'd you plan to land tonight, and what'll we get to eat?
There's a band in town, there's a birthday party
There's a pallet fire on the beach
Oh, I dreamed I'd live in a small enough town
I could walk by all the bar windows
and find the ones I love
and join 'em if I want
I dreamed I'd live in a small enough world
I could roll up any time of night
to a candle lit for me
and a kettle on for tea
Prob'ly it's the best we'll get to live like this
with the ones who'll let us down and lift us
Maybe no one's truly good,
and we never were, but we still think we could be
The circle shifts a tiny bit
to make room for my tired feet to fit
on this crooked floor we've all tripped over
we know the steps by heart
We're not all right, but we're all here
and I saved a spot for you my dear
So tell me all about it,
we'll take a draught of doubt and down it
We're not all right, but we're all in
so I'll talk you through that thing again
til we say goodnight at the corner clock and walk
I dreamed I'd live in a small enough town
I could walk by all the bar windows
and find the ones I love
and join 'em if I want
I dreamed I'd live in a small enough world
I could roll up any time of night
to a candle lit for me
and a kettle on for tea
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So here we land
Scraps of Christmas in our hands,
Shards of what we celebrated once as girls and boys
Trying to reanimate them like our lifeless childhood toys
But we've grown up.
Families all torn asunder,
Irony has cornered wonder,
Caution hobbles joy
We block our weary ears as the old carols turn to noise.
But some songs I'll keep.
I like the tunes.
I like the smell of pine and cloves
I love the food...
So if you make a Christmas card,
Put some glitter on it, dammit,
Put some glitter on it, make it sparkle, make it shine
And if you bake a batch of cookies,
Put some sprinkles on it, dammit,
We'll worry in the new year; this is celebration time
With your natal or your chosen family
Turn your phone off, eat a lot, festoon a dying tree
We can't have Christmas past, we can't have Christmas like the movies
But we can play some games and talk awhile,
Watch the kids go running wild
So bake a cake or pie or yams
And put some sugar on it, dammit
Put some sugar on it, makes the medicine go down
And if you wrap a present, you should
Put some glitter on it, dammit
Out here things are bleak, and we could use some sparkles now
The world is dark.
So screw the rising power bill
And put those cliché colored lights up in the kitchen windowsill
The world is cold.
So make a lot of hot spiced wine
And have some patience with the kids
And be just ten percent more kind
The world, it costs
And we've cut back a thing or two
But if I overspend again, then let me overspend on you
The world's unjust
So tell the story once again
Of how we turned the saints away,
How we made no room at the inn
The world is wrong.
And we are ugly to each other.
Ten thousand thousand trespasses
We visit on our sisters and our brothers
So we take something fragile, something pretty
The angel that we cannot be
And hang it up where everyone can see
(At least until the cat knocks down the tree)
So in the rubble, find your scrap of joy
And put some glitter on it, dammit
Put some glitter on it, dammit,
'Cause somehow we're still here
If at the darkest time of year, the stars have
put some glitter on it, dammit,
Put some glitter on it, dammit
Fight the looming fear
A thousand acts of mass defiance,
Beauty in the face of violence
Making something homely special
When it's all we know to do
And if I can't manage it for me,
I'd sparkle everything for you.
Some songs I'll keep.
I like the tunes
I like the smell of spruce and snow
I love seeing you.
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Bears and Mooses
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Marian Call Alaska
Marian Call has things to say. She sounds a little like Ingrid Michaelson meets They Might Be Giants & Regina Spektor for bourbon & laughs, which sounds improbable, but give it a try. She hails from Alaska and tours North America and Europe, and she lives on Twitter. Her songs are quirky, sharp, surprising confections in every genre full of rich dark carmelized sugar, savor, & spice. ... more
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