1. |
Run the Years Down
02:49
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Looking out one evening
Through the window at the sky
The rain had fallen early
On a cold November night
The tide was coming in
Behind a silhouette of trees
And I was caught in dark uncertainty
When I think about you now
I try to look away
I don‘t understand a word
I wander through a maze
And fear has burned itself a path
Right up to my door
But I don‘t want to answer anymore
And your longing lies over land
We're making these other plans
And life beats its rhythm true
And weaves a way through you
Back to where my silence falls
A whisper on my breath
Between the deeper thoughts
I hear a harmony caress
The moment as it climbs
To reach a point beyond my dreams
Then I am hit by cold reality
Beauty flickered on the water
Waves were gathering
We are joining to be one
And the hearts are rolling in
To see the dawn of something new
We’re waiting for a change
And many run their years down like a game
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2. |
Signs That Are Right
02:50
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I’m heading out toward the golden sun
I’ll leave much behind
Try to piece together all I can
I’ll accept what I find
I was never one to give up easily
Onward I go
I’m looking for signs that are right
While my fear dissolves
Well I will have another fall
And many will follow me close behind
I’ll gather up what I have learned
And look around for where I am to turn
I’m sitting in the same familiar room
The one I’ve always known
Just an empty space to think away
Reflect upon the day
I’m walking over all the broken ground
But I only want to hide
From the trouble growing down below
And right across our globe
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3. |
Island Song
03:30
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Throwing out these old books and letters
They’ve collected years‘ worth of dust
I’ve nothing to carry, I’ve nothing to keep
Me down when I run
I’ll unwrap the dream of a morning
When I don’t long so impatiently
After a taste of the unknown highway
That lies within me
Are we now ready to come back
And make it right again
Between us and all our ideas
We’ve been trying to defend
Fields littered with metal towers
And cut through the middle by roads
Sunlight breaking through clouds in the distance
And the planes are flying low
Behind your heart I found an island
And no one was welcome for long
I made my way over on a thin connection
And forgot which way I was going
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4. |
Turning Away Again
02:40
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Woke up to autumn knocking with the dawn
Abandoning the night
And all the leaves are falling
With the wind they glide
The road can never find its way
If you don’t take it with a friend
And we’re rolling out of the city
Tomorrow won’t be planned
And the year won’t take me when it goes
I’m turning away again
And toward that long distant goal
I’ll try never to pretend
Daylight found me lying in the yard
With a dome of blue above
I was walking through a memory
But could it be enough
To heal what I must carry on my own
Could be the greatest weight
And along the way I’ll gather
What I need to pay
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5. |
A Different Way
03:04
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We broke up our plans
To find a different way
We’d meet up again
But everything had changed
Now I don’t remember
How it all fell
I was only dreaming
I know you couldn’t tell
What have you been doing
With all of your time
Would you like to move
Or fall back behind
The moonlight in my eyes
A fire burning down
Carried by the wind
The cold I’m breathing out
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6. |
Only What There Is
03:45
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Now is only what there is left to keep it real
Learning how to make it through the night clear
The wind is cold and creeping through my clothes
And I've been walking on a dark trail alone
Waking up with heavy thoughts holding me down
Wanting nothing more than you and to be around
The sea is where I‘d like to give, give it all back
And it can take all that I feel and all that I have
I only wonder when my time will break apart and fall
And I could walk along the road until I've heard it all
And I will live above the place that‘s kept me confused
Looking down upon a life and a time that I knew
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7. |
Borders
02:44
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One day I hope to go
So far beyond the borders
That have kept me here
And my thoughts are bearing down
And my hope is weakening
Too fast for me to hold
And I can’t find a reason
I’m feeling so alone
It’s not right to be a stranger in your home
As I’m losing the years
The call is getting stronger
The call is getting strong
Forget everything
There’s nothing much that
I have worth remembering
And I clearly understand
That I’ve seen the faces
Of those I won’t see again
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8. |
Float Away
02:23
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Deer on the field
A morning of light
I could just float away now
Where could I go
I want to be here
With you alone in the night
And I‘m walking back over
In the same old time
And it's taking me further
Away down the line
Run from the noise
Beating my mind
Ocean please calm what you can
I hover my hope
Above the pink cloud
Where there is colour I‘ll go
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9. |
Looking for More
02:57
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I will wait here on my
Own and be what I’ll be
But it's too early in the morning
To hear the winter breathe
And I’ll go back looking for more
I don’t think I can find
A way to feel I belong
I’m only going in circles
Knowing that it's wrong
And I'll go back looking for more
I never thought I’d want to
Go out in the rain
But there's no wind blowing
To keep me here again
And I'll go back looking for more
And when I hold the key to
Open up the light
If I call will you come by
And make it all right
And I’ll go back looking for more
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10. |
The Ending of Our Time
03:40
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A coat worn down thin and your hair like falling rain
And all my thoughts are blowing
Down an alleyway and up into the mountains
Drawn in by a call
Creeping up a hill the dawn igniting every home
Underneath the cloudy light
People crawl along and they’re defeated
I’m running down the road
We’ll go laughing surrounded by the water
Looking up at the ending of our time
High above a cloud the cold silver line
Cracked the earth bound view, and all
Steady minds are wrapped up in a winter
And kneeling down before the fire
Pale and bare the northern land covered in grey
When the sun has disappeared under the wave
The hours long and lonely
Like a wreck under the sea
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