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Roots
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ROOTS
Be careful where you plant your feet:
you’ll grow roots you don’t even see.
One day, you’re gonna wake up and find
you’ve settled down.
Be careful where you sleep and dream:
it’s gonna frame all that you see.
One day, you’re gonna wake up and find
you’re stuck in this town.
When you finally open up your eyes…
Will you love what you’ve found?
Will you love the ground you stand on?
Will you love what you’ve found
when you wake up laying in that bed you made?
Be careful, love, you’re on the edge
of traveling through life half-dead.
One day, you’re gonna ask how you ever got here.
Be careful of offers you get,
don’t eat the Lotus Flower yet.
One day, you’re gonna ask how you’ve missed twenty years.
When you finally open up your eyes…
Will you love what you’ve found?
Will you love the ground you stand on?
Will you love what you’ve found
when you wake up laying in that bed you made?
Be careful where you plant your feet:
you’ll grow roots you don’t even see.
One day, you’re gonna wake up and find
you’ve settled down.
Be careful where you plant your feet (Will you love what you see?)
You’ll grow roots you don’t even see (Will you love what you see?)
Will you love what you see?
Will you love what you see?
Written by Halie Loren & Eric Alan
© 2017 Jammin’ Salmon Music (ASCAP), Tranquil Grace Music (BMI)
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HOW TO DISMANTLE A LIFE
Counting the years, counting the tears
I’ve spent waiting on another you to finally bloom before me.
I don’t know why I didn’t try wondering if we just didn’t fit
instead of shrinking myself oh so small —
too many feelings in my heart to hold them all.
You saw the mess, but never saw the art…
I was too much for you from the start.
How to dismantle a life:
Just take the first step out the door and keep going.
All those unbearable nights
are all that I need for my heart to gladly
show me the way, yay, yay, yay,
show me the way out.
Everyone guessed, everyone tested us in subtle ways of saying
“hey, you clearly made a mistake”.
You’ll never change, I’ll never change, let’s agree that neither of us should.
We’re pretty good… for someone else.
Aren’t we glad we didn’t make a baby, and that all we had
was the silverware, the gravy boat, the sheets?
There’s nothing much we care to keep.
How to dismantle a life:
Just take the first step out the door and keep going.
All those unbearable nights
are all that I need for my heart to gladly show me
the way, show me the way out.
Show me the way.
I knew that day would come when I’d jump without any doubt.
How to dismantle a life:
Just take the first step out the door and keep going
out of a house made of lies,
‘cause after the winds of truth start a-blowin’
all the pieces start to fly,
the walls tumble down all around on their own and
suddenly you see the sky,
the light that you need for your heart to gladly
show you the way, yay, yay, yay,
show you the way, yay, yay, yay,
show you the way, yay, yay, yay,
show you the way out.
Written by Halie Loren
© 2017 Jammin’ Salmon Music (ASCAP)
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Wild Birds
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WILD BIRDS
In a world before maps, holding breadcrumbs of courage,
we ran into the day —
trying to catch wild birds with our tiny bare hands
and an open-door cage.
Like many adventurers, I soon discovered that fate
wasn’t always a friend.
Under swaying trees, gravity conjured the scar on my knee
and a lesson remembered:
That the wild birds belong to no one.
And the child learned Nature will humble us all in the end.
We sat on that stone by the ocean for years without fear,
without thinking at all.
We cried at the news that it became a burial ground
when the sea came to call.
That night, the seagulls were glowing like angels sent down
to comfort our souls —
with the moon and two new burning bright stars aglow on the waves
eternally rolling.
And the wild birds belong to no one.
And the tide turns forever, finding us all in the end.
Are we the only ones who don’t understand
we’re but shadows upon an eternal land?
Weaving through miles of darkness and canyons,
in need of just getting lost…
to find us a place we could patch up our hearts
where no one would tally the cost.
Down by a crystalline river, a broken-winged dove
sat alone on the bank…
We kept watch until nightfall, but knew it was out of our hands —
some things we can’t make right.
And the wild birds belong to no one.
And the wild birds, they live the language of Letting Go.
The wild birds belong to no one.
Oh, the wild birds can show us everything we need to know.
Written by Halie Loren
© 2017 Jammin’ Salmon Music (ASCAP)
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Paper Man
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Paper Man
Well, me of all people should understand
nothing you say’s ever personal.
You think yourself an “untamable” man.
What you really are is impossible to rely on.
You land in fair weather then you fly on —
not ‘cause you wanna be free,
but ‘cause you don’t want me to see
You’re a Paper Man, flying high as you can,
always just out of reach from Reality’s hand.
Can’t bear the weight — no, not a paper man.
Can’t bear the weight, no…
You talk the talk just ‘cause you like the sound
of heavier things that you never did.
Your honey eyes have a glimmer of doubt:
The truth isn’t quite how you render it in the mirror…
you turn on the steam so nobody sees you clearer.
You’re so afraid to dig in,
‘cause what if there’s nothing ‘neath the skin
of a Paper Man, moving fast as you can.
You Hear but don’t Listen, Know but don’t Understand.
Can’t bear the weight — no, not a paper man.
Can’t bear the weight, oh, no, not a paper man.
I’m so glad you stopped by, Teacher in deep disguise.
You’ve shown me exactly who I don’t wanna be.
Paper Man, never know where you’ll land.
Your every promise just words in the sand.
Can’t bear no weight — no, not you, not you,
not a Paper Man, moving fast as you can.
You Hear but don’t Listen, Know but don’t Understand.
Can’t bear the weight — no, not a, not a, not a Paper Man.
You’re a Paper Man, flying high as you can,
always just out of reach from Reality’s hand.
Can’t bear the weight — no, not a Paper Man.
Written by Halie Loren
© 2017 Jammin’ Salmon Music (ASCAP)
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I Can't Land
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I CAN'T LAND
Gonna write another song —
I’ll feel better before long —
‘cause you know that loneliness needs a melody.
Another city, another rain.
From up here it looks the same.
Everywhere I go, I fly alone, ‘cause nobody…
nobody takes the place of you,
what your love can do
to bring me back down to earth where I belong.
And I just can’t seem to land
without you , without you, without you,
I can’t find my way down from the sky
without your light
Whatever wonders I may see,
there’s a place I’d rather be —
‘cause you know that loneliness takes the center stage.
And when the silence closes in,
the music fades into the wind,
every part of me aches for you from a world away…
a world away from your warm embrace,
the morning glow on your face
that brings me back from the dark nights of this soul.
And I just can’t seem to land
without you - without you - without you,
I can’t find my way down from the sky
without your light.
There is no one,
no one but you who shines up my life better than the sun.
And I just can’t seem to land
without you, without you, without you,
I can’t find my way down from the sky
without you, without you, without you, without you,
I can’t find my way down from the sky,
down from the sky,
without your light.
Written by Halie Loren
© 2017 Jammin’ Salmon Music (ASCAP)
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Well-Loved Woman
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Have you ever seen a well-loved woman?
Have you ever seen a soul set free?
Have you ever seen somebody been to heaven and back?
Well, if you haven’t, take a look at me.
Waves, they whisper before they crash in a primal roar.
With his gaze, my mister brought me breathless to his shore.
And I hear music rushing through my fingertips,
and I feel the mystic dancing in my swaying hips.
Have you ever seen a well-loved woman?
Have you ever seen a soul set free?
Have you ever seen somebody been to heaven and back?
Well, if you haven’t, take a look at me.
Copper wires woven through my lovesick veins.
Electric fire shocks me - oh! - when he says my name.
And I hear the angels singing in jubilation,
I feel the radiant joy of this sweet salvation.
Have you ever seen a well-loved woman?
Have you ever seen a soul set free?
Have you ever seen somebody been to heaven and back?
Well, if you haven’t, take a look at me.
Take a look at me and you’ll see - you’ll see - you’ll see.
A well-loved woman can stop the world in its tracks:
she runs, she flies, she death-defies,
she’s a damn-fine acrobat. (yeah, you know it)
She’s got superhero powers — one seed becomes a thousand flowers.
Have you ever seen a well-loved woman?
Ever seen a soul set free?
Have you ever seen somebody been to heaven and back?
Well, if you haven’t, take a look at me.
Have you ever seen a well-loved woman?
Have you ever seen a soul set free?
Have you ever seen somebody been to heaven and back?
Well, if you haven’t, take a look at me.
Have you ever seen a well-loved woman?
Have you ever seen a soul set free?
Have you ever seen somebody been to heaven and back?
Well, if you haven’t, take a look at me.
Written by Halie Loren
© 2017 Jammin’ Salmon Music (ASCAP)
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Painter's Song
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PAINTER'S SONG
I think too much, and I’m losing touch with the scene I paint.
It’s my clouded eyes — not a broken sky — that’s bringing on the rain,
running all the colors I love into these
muddy indefinable shades of a faded life.
But you
bring the beauty back to
everything you touch.
Oh, my muse,
you turn my gray to bright blue
when I feel the rush of longing for your brush on my skin.
Too many times I mark the lines as immovable and cruel.
Am I made of stone, a monochrome, a self-important fool?
But running with you wild in the night along the river,
your muddy fingers paint me into a masterpiece.
And you
bring the beauty back to
everything you touch.
Oh, my muse,
you turn my gray to bright blue
when I feel the rush of longing for your brush on my skin.
Tell me, can we find it again?
Dust off the empty canvas within,
rip it off of the frame
and stretch it across the sky:
Make a new day, a new day, a new day.
You
bring the beauty back to
everything you touch.
Oh, my muse,
you turn my gray to bright blue
when I feel, when I feel you bring the beauty back to
everything you touch,
Oh, my muse...
Written by Halie Loren
© 2017 Jammin’ Salmon Music (ASCAP)
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August Moon
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AUGUST MOON
Unraveling a late summer’s day
while the froggies sing a melody to make us sway
and drift us far away —
oh, I wish that I could stay in a forever adventure with you.
With Poseidon’s house lapping at our feet
and the moon’s hanging out low enough that we can see
the glow of you and me
reflected on the glassy sea,
the weeds woven in our hair —
A shining halo of the love we share.
Oh… I never felt more real
Oh… as I do when I steal away with you.
Our story is the truth I cling to.
Running serpentine down hidden paths,
and I’m marveling at all the ways you make me laugh.
It’s like the early photographs:
it seems novel and kinda brash
Believing that a moment can be frozen in time.
Oh… I never felt more real
Oh… as I do when I steal away with you.
Our story is the truth I cling to.
We know what life can do:
wring all the magic out of you if you let it.
And so we fill our cups
with all the wonder we can drink up
from the mystic, glorious world.
Oh… I never felt more real
Oh… as I do when I steal away with you.
Our story is the truth I cling to.
Oh… I never felt more real
Oh… as I do when I steal away with you.
Our story is the truth I cling to...
... under an August moon.
Written by Halie Loren
© 2017 Jammin’ Salmon Music (ASCAP)
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NOAH
Never saw it coming ’til the rain became and endless storm —
an ending born.
When the waters rose, you climbed to higher ground to watch for signs
of grand designs to save us.
It’s time to find a way to float the river now.
Our fate was always in the current anyhow. (no, don’t you cry)
Oh, Noah… you know
we’re just stowaways
on a ship the size of the world.
Pulled out all the photographs and all the things we can’t replace —
just in case.
Leave behind the trappings of a story that we came to trust.
We have to cut the anchor to
every plan we made… has been unmade for us.
How small it all appears under the water rushing us away.
Oh, Noah… you know
we’re just stowaways
on a ship the size of the world.
We are temporary lights
shining in the deep wild sky:
Holding everything and nothing
but the glow we emanate.
Oh, Noah… you know
we’re just stowaways
on a ship the size of the world.
Written by Halie Loren
© 2017 Jammin’ Salmon Music (ASCAP)
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Wisdom
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WISDOM
The world doesn’t owe you anything —
it’s a miracle that you made it here at all.
And there’s no shame in suffering —
the spirit soars only when it learns to fall with grace.
It takes more out of you to push away than embrace…
What Is is gonna be what is
until it’s not.
And you’ll miss so much in wishing that this
wasn’t what you got.
Wisdom — you speak so softly,
it took me such a long time to hear your
rhythm beating inside me…
guide my feet so I can dance without fear.
You’ll carry the weight of all you’ve done —
it’ll bury you until you learn to lay it down.
You can’t please yourself and everyone else.
Your song of joy lives just beyond the noise of your mind.
And the more you lose, the more you really find…
What Is is gonna be what is
until it’s not.
Don’t miss the unusual guises of bliss
wandering through the days you got.
Wisdom — you speak so softly,
it took me such a long time to hear your
rhythm beating inside me…
guide my feet so I can dance without fear.
The world doesn’t owe you anything —
it’s a miracle that you made it here at all.
And there’s no shame in suffering —
the spirit soars only when it learns to fall with grace… with grace.
Written by Halie Loren
© 2017 Jammin’ Salmon Music (ASCAP)
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11. |
A Mi Manera
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