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Thing With Feathers
02:48
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Well they don't give you much to hold onto / You look for the sun, it's behind you / You wonder how they're gonna find you, out at sea / Cause we sailed through Gibraltar together / Through lashing of wind and of weather / And we hoped somehow it would just get better / If hope is a thing with feathers, fly to me / Now cesium came and it leaked out / From Daiichi Basin, it's here now / And no one is free of the fear now, in our sleep / So I pray to the God and the Father / But I wonder if they'll really bother / We had many chances to make it better / If hope is a thing with feathers, fly to me / Fly to me, I've been waiting for so long / Fly to me, come and give me your best song / And do what you do to make it better / Now some things are important to get right / And some things you can leave by the curbside / And some people will fade like the daylight, easily / Cause you can't stop a train or a snowplow / And I can't change the person you are now / You can't change the past, the time, or the weather / But if you've loved, then you've already made things better / If hope is a thing with feathers, fly to me / If hope is a thing with feathers, fly to me
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Gospel Truth
03:03
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Everybody got pain aching in their heart / They got pain aching in their heart / Don't hold back, cry out loud / Share it with a neighbor when you feel low down / The truth shall set you free / Set you free, set you free / Glory Hallelujah, you'll be free / Everybody got fear troubling their heart / They got fear troubling their heart / Don't hold back, whisper in my ear / Share it with a neighbor watch it disappear / The truth shall set you free / Set you free, set you free / Glory Hallelujah, you'll be free / Everybody got joy shining in their heart / They got joy shining in their heart / Don't hold back, smile real wide / Share it with a neighbor all the light inside / The truth shall set you free / Set you free, set you free / Glory Hallelujah, you'll be free / Everybody got love warming up their heart / They got love warming up their heart / Don't hold back, reach out a hand / Share it with a neighbor help them understand / The truth shall set you free / Set you free, set you free / Glory Hallelujah, you'll be free / Everybody got change jangling in their heart / They got change jangling in their heart / Don't hold back, throw your two cents in / Share it with a neighbor and you both gonna win / The truth shall set you free / Set you free, set you free / Glory Hallelujah, you'll be free
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What Is Gold
03:44
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The clock is ticking loud / On the mantle / Right next to the photograph / Of us at the altar / Twenty years ago / You would never know / You'd never guess / I don't let it show / I've been a mess / Twenty years went by / Down the ridge it goes / And disappears in shades of blue and rose / Oh, and if this day is gone forever / Please just say, what is gold will stay / You were never wrong / You killed with kindness / Silent and strong with only / Peripheral blindness / Twenty years with you / Down the ridge it goes / And disappears in shades of blue and rose / Oh, and if this world is gone forever / Please just say, what is gold will stay / So maybe in a day / Or maybe sooner / You won't know my face / As it grows truer / Down the ridge it goes / And disappears in shades of blue and rose / Oh, and if my world must change forever / Please just say, what is gold will stay
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Faith & Fumes
04:15
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I'm just a line through a square / On the wall hanging there / Counting favors, counting pennies, counting prayers / It's all my mama taught me how to do / You gotta get by on faith & fumes / I make a living it's been said / From living in the red / 'Til I'm famous, 'til i'm sober, 'til i'm dead / It’s the price you pay for loving what you do / Sometimes you get by on faith & fumes / Faith & fumes / When you got nothing / You got nothing to lose / They say you can't go through life with the gas light on, girl / But I swear if I hold out a little longer / That big old ship gonna sail my way / And I'll sleep soundly in this bed I've made / When the van is parked, the bills are paid / And ancient history are the days / Of hands at ten and two with both eyes closed / Always praying for a downhill to coast / I know i said I'd call today / But please believe me when I say / That I can taste your tears three thousand miles away / This picture on the nightstand just won't do / Someday I swear I'm gonna make it up to you / 'Til then, we'll get by on faith & fumes / I'm just a line through a square / On the wall hanging there / Counting favors, counting pennies, counting prayers
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River On Your Right
03:51
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This is how it’s always been / Sun comes up, the day begins / People come and then they go / I’ve been around long enough to know / That if you have a single seed / That’s enough, that’s all you need / And if you’re lost in the night / Keep the river on your right / I've been wrangled, I've been wronged / I’ve been strangled til I’m gone / And some nights, you know I pray / That I won’t live another day / But if you give a dog a bone / That’s enough to make it home / And if you’re lost in the night / Keep the river on your right / I don’t know but I suspect / What you give is what you get / I don’t know but I believe / What you get is what you need / So if you have a single dime / Well we’re only buying time / And if you’re lonely in the night / Keep the river on your right / If you’ve fallen down a well / Ain’t no one can hear you yell / Ain’t no one can hear you call / Well the river hears it all / Baby come and be my friend / Just the way that we began / Baby come sit next to me / Cause you’re the one thing I believe / So if you have a single seed / Give it love, that’s all it need / And if you’re lost in the night / Keep the river on your right / If you have a single seed / Give it love, that’s all it need / And if you’re lonely in the night / Keep the river on your right
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Mouths of Babes Sebastopol, California
With more than a dozen albums and over a thousand shows between them, Ty Greenstein and Ingrid Elizabeth of Mouths of Babes are no strangers to the indie folk music scene. For years, their bands Girlyman and Coyote Grace captivated thousands of loyal fans as they criss-crossed the country. Now, as Mouths of Babes, they've distilled the very best of their previous groups into a new folk power duo. ... more
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