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Juggernaut (Intro)
05:19
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I don't wanna feel this way anymore
Take me to the river of healing, oh Lord
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A New World
04:07
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Had a rare day off
on a day in May
so we took the old car
and drove it faraway
We stopped out where
the trees stand quiet
and walked and talked
of how the world conspires.
To take our time away from this
working such long hours just to live
Don't wanna live like they do
I wanna build a new world for you.
And as the sun went down
over cedar tops
and you scratched our names
in the cooling rocks
you lay back on
the side of me
and sighed and said
“this is all I need”
and I felt all our years
like they were just today
and I pulled you close
knowing there's a way
don't wanna live like they do
I wanna build a new world for you.
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Whangamata
05:13
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Beach days are forever
afternoons that had no end
burning sand and the secret hand
at the pier
White sand on your brown wrist
our toes in the spinifex
a towel around the shell I found
in the caves
Where are the healers
The years only steal us
Barefoot dreamers
you didn't know what you had
And you run and you run
Try to follow the sun
Barefoot dreamers
you gave it all you had
When your energy wanes
Know that we are the same
A game of go home stay home
we hid out under the bed
the taste of salt and coconut
on your lips
Where are the healers
The years only steal us
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Seventeen
03:49
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When I was just a kid
I couldn't sleep
What had I done wrong
for my mind to keep
accusing me of mysteries
Waiting for the day
So I'd softly step
to my mother's room
and beside her bed
confess to the gloom
and while she slept
her hand on my back
welcome sounds of day
Where did I go, where did I go?
Sometimes there's things we're not meant to know
A joy in the clouds
another new day
floating me far away, far away
When I was seventeen
I couldn't speak
just fumbled words
and blushing cheeks
In darkened trees
you rescued me
and met me where I lay
Maybe I needed this
'cause I'm stronger in the end
Maybe it's all a test
'cause I found you in the end
Where did I go, where did I go?
Sometimes there's things we're not meant to know
A joy in the clouds
another new day
floating me far away, far away
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Bird Lake
03:35
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I've been coming here every year at the same the silver hills are turning green
Needed a place to stay all of those years ago and you were so welcoming
But then one day you were gone
This never was where you belonged
I wish I'd known it
When you asked it
Out on Bird Lake
Your skin electric
All of the chances I lost by laughing and joking around
But we're older now
I find myself thinking of you when the smokey winter air is closing in
Wondering who your brown eyes may beholding and whether they love that grin
But I was a fool and afraid
Holding that sweater that you gave
I wish I'd known it
When you asked it
Out on Bird Lake
Your skin electric
All of the chances I lost by laughing and joking around
But we're older now
I wish I'd known it
When you asked it
Out on Bird Lake
Your skin electric
All of the chances I lost by laughing and joking around
But we're older now
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Blue Rose
04:29
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On a crumbling road
I left the Blue Rose Apartments
and I've been up all night
oh restless spirit ride
There I meet her face
there I meet the keeper
of the sacred place
hidden out on the plain
We're riding out to the ever after
though there may be trouble all around
leave this unrest all far behind
truth be our lantern through the night
California
a purple light surrounds her
and on the streets they walk
assuming all that they see
Artificial light
flickers in every window
'til they see her face
masked in mystery
We're riding out to the ever after
though there may be trouble all around
leave this unrest all far behind
truth be our lantern through the night
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When the Road is Long
03:23
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I closed the store,
threw my keys through the door
and I wrote a note telling them
that I won't be back
Left turn home
or turn right for the unknown
An easy choice when your walls loom,
make you feel so alone
So what do you give when you've given it all,
when the breeze brings a sense, a sense of the ancients
What do you take when the road is long
And you don't know where you're headed
My brittle city bones
have soaked up days of rain.
I'm feeling you somehow near,
near me again.
I'm sure I saw you underneath the stars.
without words you told me all, all would be okay
To keep on loving, take time for rest.
Life should be light, and we'll be together again someday
Something will give when you've given it all
And the breeze brings a sense, a sense of the ancients
There's nothing to take when the road is long
Just look out for the signs that you will be given.
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Eleven Mile Creek
04:59
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Carry me through this water
Cause I'm on my way down.
Every road left behind me
Lines of earth lead me now.
They're not giving up,
Trying to trace my steps,
With a bounty so high.
Should I hang me up
For the world I left
I'll just live till I die.
There's a peace every morning
When the blood light stains the peaks
Red and gold fill my vessel
and I'm back home at the creek.
But the sun comes up
And a distant cap
Scatters birds in the sky.
And it all floods back
Lies and traitor's cups
Not afraid now to die
Carry me through this water
Cause I'm on my way down.
Every road left behind me
Lines of earth lead me now.
When they finally gained
In the ember night
And my left shoulder torn.
Heard my mother's voice,
As the crows flew high,
Sing 'wild rover no more'.
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A Billion Trillion Stars
04:02
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This living soul
They say it lasts forever
But I can't lift my head today.
Forgiving yourself
Somehow I never learned it
Still longing for that accolade.
And I'm weary, weary in the morning.
When did that begin? When did that begin?
There was a time when everything shimmered
With the light of a billion, trillion stars.
Lift up your hands and feel it all over
The light of a billion, trillion stars.
Come over the river, into the light of...
The light of a billion, trillion stars.
Burning words
Like a 9am warm whiskey
When there's nothing else within my reach.
And I'm seeing past
These yellow blinds that cage me
Beyond the roofs it's blue today
But I'm weary, weary in the morning,
When did that begin? When did that begin?
There was a time when everything shimmered
With the light of a billion, trillion stars.
Lift up your hands and feel it all over
The light of a billion, trillion stars.
Come over the river, into the light of...
The light of a billion, trillion stars.
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At My Window
03:49
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At my window watching the sun go
Hoping the stars know it's time to shine
Daydreams aloft on dark wings
Soft as the sun streams at day's decline
Living is sighing
Dying says nothing at all
Babe and I lying here
Watching the evening fall
Well, time flows through brave beginnings
She leaves her endings beneath our feet
Walking lightly upon our faces
Leaves gentle traces upon our sleep
Living is dancing
Dying does nothing at all
Babe and I lying here
Watching the evening fall
Three dimes, hard luck, and good times
Bad rhymes and fine lines, ain't much to say
Feel fine, feel low and lazy
Feel grey and hazy, feel far away
Living ain't lying
Dying ain't flying so high
Babe and I wandering
Watching the day go by
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Surround me now my angel love
What's happening here? I wanna know.
I feel so low although I try
To give my all
put on a show
But in you arms
I'm still alone
And I lift my eyes to these foreign hills
I think that's where
I gotta go
When I return like a promise to
I'll be reborn and marry you
We'll do it all
and start anew
Oh I'll float in
I'll float into the air
Where I see it all so clearly from high
Been falling too long
Oh we'll float in
we'll float into the air
Where we'll feel it all completely subside
Been falling too long
Feels so good to run my love
To see the sky
for the first time
You don't know what you've done my love
Without you
I wouldn't try
It's through you
that I found life
Oh I'll float in
I'll float into the air
Where I see it all so clearly from high
Been falling too long
Oh we'll float in
we'll float into the air
Where we'll feel it all completely subside
Been falling too long
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A Fable
03:59
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When I'm lying in the dark
My mind going over crazy
And in the silence just one sound
The hush and scatter of the rainfall.
A lullaby drifting me out
Like the water across the window
And then the walls they fall apart,
Reveal a place where no more words flow
Do you remember it?
Do you remember it?
Did I leave the hall light on
Or is this another glowing
Around this feeling I recall
A love that is all knowing
Do you remember it?
Do you remember it?
So when I'm lying in the dark
Will you send me a reminder
of the place where I come from
Where the brightness is not blinding.
As my pillow fills with light
I see the widening of the table
And I long to feel your eyes
Recording life like it's a fable.
Do you remember it?
Do you remember it?
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Your Way Back
05:40
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How do you make your way back
on this winding beaten track
The Whiteman's Valley pine trees
growing old still whisper out your name
And you've been only beautiful
to the ones who really know
and though you never feel it
that won't change the perfect light you're in
So let love love love love love love fill you now
Open up these arms
Falling on you now
Unconditional
Like a new rain
You won't be the same
Mother you've been suffering
wish I'd had the key to do something
I remember how you held the Shining Cuckoo
that hit the window pane
You showed me how he drew the knees
I learned to love the way you see
and how you drove me out that evening
buying books just you and me
And let love love love love love love fill you now
Open up these arms
Falling on you now
Unconditional
Like a new rain
You won't be the same
With all of your sisters
and all of your brothers
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Surround me now my angel love
What's happening here? I wanna know.
I feel so low although I try
To give my all
put on a show
But in you arms
I'm still alone
And I lift my eyes to these foreign hills
I think that's where
I gotta go
When I return like a promise to
I'll be reborn and marry you
We'll do it all
and start anew
Oh I'll float in
I'll float into the air
Where I see it all so clearly from high
Been falling too long
Oh we'll float in
we'll float into the air
Where we'll feel it all completely subside
Been falling too long
Feels so good to run my love
To see the sky
for the first time
You don't know what you've done my love
Without you
I wouldn't try
It's through you
that I found life
Oh I'll float in
I'll float into the air
Where I see it all so clearly from high
Been falling too long
Oh we'll float in
we'll float into the air
Where we'll feel it all completely subside
Been falling too long
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This living soul
They say it lasts forever
But I can't lift my head today.
Forgiving yourself
Somehow I never learned it
Still longing for that accolade.
And I'm weary, weary in the morning.
When did that begin? When did that begin?
There was a time when everything shimmered
With the light of a billion, trillion stars.
Lift up your hands and feel it all over
The light of a billion, trillion stars.
Come over the river, into the light of...
The light of a billion, trillion stars.
Burning words
Like a 9am warm whiskey
When there's nothing else within my reach.
And I'm seeing past
These yellow blinds that cage me
Beyond the roofs it's blue today
But I'm weary, weary in the morning,
When did that begin? When did that begin?
There was a time when everything shimmered
With the light of a billion, trillion stars.
Lift up your hands and feel it all over
The light of a billion, trillion stars.
Come over the river, into the light of...
The light of a billion, trillion stars.
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Bruno Merz Peterborough, Ontario
Journey folk from the Cloudlands.
New Zealand born singer-songwriter.
Based in Canada.
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