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Bird On A Wire
03:25
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Bird On A Wire
Some days i tried to lay it down
One more trip til the sun comes round
Too tired to move too tired to quit
Like a lonesome dove
Heavy on the wind
Oh my love
Oohhhh yeeaahhh
Oh my love
Let it go
Moved for miles across the waste
Underneath it all i could feel you fade
Still holdin’ your hand
Don’t fall my love
Too scared to sink
Too weak to hold you up
Oh my love
Oohhhh yeeaahhh
Oh my love
Let it go
(bridge)
You could open me up'n take a look inside
I’m just a homeless heart
chained to the night
In my dreams i set the world on fire
Then hang from the moon like a bird on a wire
Oh my love
Oohhhh yeeaahhh
Oh my love
Let it go
Oh my love
Oohhhh yeeaahhh
Oh my love
Let it go
I could breathe you in like the breath of a choir
I’m still hangin’ from the moon like a bird on a wire
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2. |
How Lonely
02:57
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All the way gone
You gave me the moon
Hold me If You Want
Only one more round, and I’m down
With you
With you
If I never felt it, never fell in love
If I, never felt it, when we fell in love
So alive, when I felt it, we fell in love
So alive, when I felt it, we fell in love
Oh how lonely I am
Hold me in the fire
Burning up
It’s heaven wearing skin
With you
With you
If I never felt it, never fell in love
If I, never felt it, when we fell in love
So alive, when I felt it, I fell in love
So alive, when I felt it, I fell in love
With you
With you
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3. |
Dirty Frame
02:53
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Dirty Frame
I wanted to please God and my mother
I prayed my shoulders would grow wings
My long brown hair tangled in a curtain
While my mind learned to dream of safer things
Chorus1:
The years were tender and now they're tough
My arms are heavy, legs gone numb
My hair isn't brown now, it's turned to gold
I'm flying up higher
Closer to home
(Falsetto)
I wonder what would have happened
If I'd learned how to fly back then
A cosmic flame In a dirty frame
A symphony in teenage skin
Chorus 2:
The years were tender and now they're tough
My arms are heavy, legs gone numb
My hair isn't brown now, it's turned to gold
I'm flying up higher Closer to home
I called my daughter. She held my hand
white like sugar On burning sand
started singing through crooked teeth
Found our fire On shaky knees
Come on daughter Hold my hand
Flames get higher burning sand
Mirror’s broken and they can’t see
My body is grown now My heart doesn't know
The flames' getting higher She's a phoenix of gold
The years were tender and now they're tough
My arms are heavy, legs gone numb
My hair isn't brown now, it's turned to gold
I'm flying up higher Closer to home
called my daughter She held my hand
white like sugar On burning sand
started singing through crooked teeth
Found our fire On shaky knees
Come on daughter Hold my hand
Flames get higher burning sand
Mirror’s broken and they can’t see
We found our rhythm on shakey knees
The years were tender and now they're tough
My arms are heavy, legs gone numb
My hair isn't brown now, it's turned to gold
I'm flying up higher Closer to home
My body is grown now My heart doesn't know
The flames' getting higher She's a phoenix of gold
I called my daughter She held my hand
white like sugar On burning sand
started singing through crooked teeth
Found our fire On shaky knees
Come on daughter Hold my hand
Flames get higher burning sand
Mirror’s broken and they can’t see
We found our rhythm on shakey knees
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4. |
The Way Down
02:53
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I love my love's light
I left it alone
Who are you?
Banging on the door
Don't turn around
Hold me now, alone, by my belittled light
Put it out put it down
All the way down
I don't want to fight or win
I ain't nothin'
But I'm feelin' cool
Are you feelin' cool?
I ain't nothin'
But I'm feelin' cool
Are you feelin' cool?
I lost another fight
I left it alone
Who am I?
Leave it by the door
Don't turn around
Hold me now, alone, by my belittled light
Put it out put it down
All the way down
I don't want to fight or win
I ain't nothin'
But I'm feelin' cool
Are you feelin' cool?
I ain't nothin'
But I'm feelin' cool
Are you feelin' cool?
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5. |
Fallin' Angel
02:12
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Fallin’ angel, where’ll you make your bed?
Will you stretch across the horizon with the sun to hold you hand?
Alone
Broken lover, where’d you leave your heart?
Is it black, under cover, filled with cracks and holes and scars?
You’re alone, alone
Fallin’ Angel, where will you sleep?
Will you steal a cloud for your pillow with your back against the sea?
You’re alone, alone, alone
You’re alone
mmmmmm
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6. |
New York
02:44
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I touched the rain I was heading nowhere
Your whiskered cheek and the morning window frost
Scaffolded art
I left my coat in the hotel closet
(My) heart down there in a broken locket
That I always wore
You could beat my heart
If you wanted to
Do you want me too?
You could beat my heart
If you wanted to
Do you want me too?
It was wild and white (a cloud of violence)
salted rain, and my new boots, so cold on the ground
But you--you couldn't help but light it up
(Your) mahogany eyes and the streets of New York
You could beat my heart
If you wanted to
Do you want me too?
You could beat my heart
If you wanted to
Do you want me too?
I was running all night (you didn't notice)
Trains up high while you slept with your head in my chest
We danced and dreamed never knowing
Didn't miss a beat didn't care for nothin' more
Baby you're a work of art
You could beat my heart
If you wanted to
Do you want me too?
You could beat my heart
If you wanted to
Do you want me too?
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7. |
Ghost In The Garden
02:45
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Oh I'll shed my skin
Like a ghost in the garden
Eden on the wind
Oh I'll leave my bones
I'm a dead man walking
Phantom on the run
And I had to give you up
I had to give you up
And I had to give you up
I had to give you up
Oh (you were) chasing wind
With scarlet matter
All lacey on your hands
Oh I took my shot
Left your heart in your teeth
Death watchin' in the walls
And I had to give you up
I had to give you up
And I had to give you up
I had to give you up
You held your demon
Yeah, you loved her smell
My last arrow killed her
A soft, black, velvet sound
And I...
I had to give you up
And I had to give you up
I had to give you up
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8. |
Shade
02:37
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Oh the river's frozen over
My heart stings like a fire now
Hands cold and under cover
You chased the fox again down
Coward taking away
The honest line of lovin' ways
Stranger changing your face
Left the truth behind ya throwin' shade
And we're crashing down
You didn't think twice
Told me pretty lies
Yeah you fooled your own heart into thinking you're right
Leaving me low
In fire and cold
Scared to find your demons on that nightmare road
Oh snow is falling softly
Hushing over footsteps in the field
You found your shiny lover
And you're falling under water now
Brother coming away
From what our mother said to always hold
Friend I wish you could stay
I'm standing still with fire in my veins
We came crashing down
Oh, with a hush to the ground
You didn't think twice
Told me pretty lies
Yeah you fooled your own heart into thinking you're right
Leaving me low
In fire and cold
Scared to find your demons on that lonesome road
Bridge:
You win some you lose some
When you keep running your mouth
Yeah you win some you lose some
You didn't think twice
Told me pretty lies
Yeah you fooled your own heart into thinking you're right
Leaving me low
In fire and cold (space)
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9. |
Oxygen
02:53
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V1
Oh hollow breath
I hate to see you go
Are we brave enough
to face what we're unsure of?
Pre 1
Hanging on
Against the undertow and I'm slippin'
Scraping ground
my shoulder bruised
My mouth is full of sand
V2
Whose side are you on?
My wings were made to soar
Cut the silence 'cross the night
Freefall from the chord
Pre 2
Oxygen
Scrapes against my forehead, eyes shut
Whole again
Carried on, a wave assaults my wounds
The stars are
Ancient babies ever new
Alive
Chorus
And the waves break
And the night comes
And the day light
We won't run from
And the waves break
And the night comes
And the day light
We won't run from
And when I woke up I was alive
And when we broke up I couldn't hide
And when I woke up I was alive
And when we broke up I couldn't hide
I'm alive
Alive
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Van Plating Lakeland, Florida
Critically acclaimed indie americana artist and multi-instrumentalist Van Plating has a rugged vulnerability uniquely hers ─ fermented in the orange groves and hot verdant summers of the sunshine state.
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