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Both
03:44
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smaller than a drop of rain / smaller than a seed / smaller than a word without a sound / bigger than an open sky breathing on the sea / big as my heart beating out loud / both / I am just an animal, an impulsive thing / burning up my turn upon the earth / navigate the size of my meandering / here upon the ground in the dirt / where I can only see the forest from the trees / I can only stand beneath their branches / and listen to the leaves whispering to me / don’t you know that all the ends are loose ones / both / there is not a loophole baby there is not a string / this is not a practice run / I was just a fool to think that I could come clean / everybody comes with what they’ve done / And I can only see the forest from the trees / I can only stand beneath their branches / and listen to the leaves whispering to me / don’t you know that all the ends are loose ones / both are happening
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Records
03:49
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waking with the rhythm and the chemicals in bloom / the bodies of the water and the phases of the moon / there are so many ways for the day to arrange when it breaks on you and me / so open up the windows you can put a record on / wrap your arms around me / wrap your mouth around a song / there are so many ways for the sounds that we make / and I take the sound with me / everyone around this table occupying / I know that we’re living / I know that we’re dying / every moment a new one is arriving / it’s rolling over me just like a pen upon a page / a dog out in the grass it’s like a light upon the stage / there are so many ways for your love to behave / for your hands to be laid / for the bed that we make / for the chances we take / for the light to arrange, for a light that we make / it’s a life that we make you and me / everyone around this table occupying / I know that we’re living / I know that we’re dying / I know that we’re living
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Spring Clean
03:01
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oh the fog is rolling in / not to cool or to darken / not for any old thing it’s just breathing / oh the fog is rolling in / I spent the afternoon / moving half empty jars round the room / all this water to drink / all this friction in the spring / I spent the afternoon / but life is long / life is long / but it’s going by just like a song / this path is an open field / with an echo behind the wheel / bouncing off of the sides / ricochet in my mind / this path is an open field / life is long / life is long / but it’s going by just like song
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Tantrum
04:25
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oh my darlin’ / let’s go walking in the trees / you and me / give me your tantrums / put them in my hands I still believe / I believe / oh I still see you I still see / oh I still see you I still see / oh my darlin’ / sun will come and set the water free / you will see / holes for swimming / not for filling / you are complete / oh I still see you I still see / oh I still see you I still see / and I know you want roots / and I know you want wings / but you sank like a stone and you fell like a tree / and the bridge that you came in on / always breaks at its weakest rung / but you’re right back where you belong / here next to me / oh my darlin’
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Country
04:15
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maybe when it’s all said and done / I find the only thing I want / is a place in the country / maybe when it’s all done and said / belly stove and a feather bed / in my place in the country / don’t you want to find a place to stay with me / don’t you want to find a way to stay / we’ll have a porch for sleeping on / when all the cooler nights are gone / and the dogs come out to greet me / and in the kitchen light comes through / for all the growing up we’ll do / if you come here to meet me / don’t you want to find a place for sinking in / don’t you want to sit and watch the rain begin / cause I’m getting tired of the speed of things these days / and I want to take my time and not give it all away / my distance from the fire’s what I’ve earned / and I think that a slow burn is what will be keep me warm / we can fill it with instruments / the legacy of time we spent / all the places in this country / desert varnish on the stars / love songs and passing cars / all the places in this country / don’t you want to find a place to stay with me / don’t you want to find a way
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Caney Fork Overlook
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in the back of the van lies a gold hearted man / he is sleeping like a log / at the caney fork overlook on the later side of august / we are five thousand feet and six hundred more / and the range of light is an ocean / we are sitting on the shore / and I’m thinking about the quality of the metal in my chest / shining copper in its common / shining silver at its best / but I feel the alchemy / we are liquid at the core / here at five thousand feet / and six hundred more / and the range of light is an ocean / we are pushing off the shore / to the sound of summer ending / the sound of summer ending
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Gather And Grow
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harvest moon / I’m a fool / I’ve got so much growing to do / growing to do / I did not tend / my garden / now the winter’s coming in / it’s coming in / do you think I have time to pull up the weeds / to clean out the bed for the winter seeds / I’ll stay up all night in the silver light and / gather and grow and survive / harvest moon / in your view / I can see the shadow in me / the shadow in me / do you think I have time to pull up the weeds / to clean out the beds for the winter seeds / I’ll stay up all night in the silver light and / gather and grow and survive / and survive / harvest moon / I’m a fool
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Survivors
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someday the desert will return / to the bottom of the ocean / old survivors of rotation / old survivors of reunion / they don’t use straight lines / all our dust and our vibration / making up the constellation / old survivors of rotation / old survivors of reunion / I try to make straight lines / I try to map the time / I try / but the moon doesn’t use the door / the moon doesn’t know what that’s for / it just pours / someday everything returns / someday everything returns
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Box
04:09
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thinking on this life you made / I’ve been looking through it lately / at pictures of me / red clay dirt and sticky hands / the day I fell to understand gravity is a real thing / and I know I scared you half to death / diving has its consequences / everything is learned it’s true / but not if no one teaches you / love is an action / love is a verb / and mama I’m just out here looking for a way / to give it back and also make it stay / cause mama there is a man out here / making gravity disappear and I can’t see the bottom but I’m diving in / just like the child that I was back then / thinking on this life you made
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Pacific
04:27
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pacific is bigger / than I ever knew / until I got in her / and the water it moved / yeah it moved me / and if I was frightened / out there on the shore / well I had good reasons / but I don’t anymore / yeah it moved me / there’s nowhere to go where the earth doesn’t quake / it moved me
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late the morning when I rise / I have never seen the water so high / how it’s coming up the wall / coming up the wall / and the splashing in my chest / is an ancient current / and I am trying to connect / trying to connect to it / and the bells of alarm can be a song / ringing out until the dawn / until all at once they’re gone / and how do they know / when to come back and when to go / and how a bird will be a bird / and how a bird will make a bird / how the bells of alarm / sound like a song / ringing out until the dawn / until all at once they’re gone / pendulum how do I trust / something swinging with such distance / and now the storms are getting strong / the storms are getting stronger
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Kelly McFarling California
Kelly McFarling is an Atlanta born, Bay Area based singer, songwriter. Her songs capture a palette forged of Georgia clay and California gold.
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