Highways
by Bruno Merz
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Highways
04:33
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You're pushing the hair
from a face I remember
and it's been a while
since I've seen your eyes
They're telling the tales
that you hide behind them
spilling the tears
that you've held inside
I'll tell you the things
that I love about you
While you're fighting your head
wondering how did you get this way
I steady your gaze
with a hand as soft as mountains
the car in the drive
ready to leave here forever.
We'll follow the road 'til we reach the ocean
ooh ooh
Believing it all in this beautiful moment
ooh ooh
Ooh girl
there's time for all of this
we'll find it now
There's nothing at all to fear darling
Nothing at all to fear
You sang at the wind
as we followed highways
What clouded your eyes
has cleared away
It's always been there
It's just hard to find it
With the sound of the world
getting in the way.
We'll follow the road 'til we reach the ocean
ooh ooh
Believing it all in this beautiful moment
ooh ooh
Ooh girl
there's time for all of this
we'll find it now
There's nothing at all to fear darling
Nothing at all to fear
See my baby they're all gone
See my angel every one
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Emmeline
04:10
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When I think of love and autumn
It's your face I see, my Emmeline
What could have been the reason
I left our unspoken love behind
You'd place your hands upon my weary head and I'd rest, I'd rest
You'd place your cheek against my anxious face and I'd rest, I'd rest
How fast did all the years go
I never meant to stay away so long
Those simpler time forgotten 'til I close my eyes
And see Emmeline
You'd place your hands upon my weary head and I'd rest, I'd rest
You'd place your cheek against my anxious face and I'd rest, I'd rest
I got the call on Wednesday and that evening took the next flight home
There you lay in the stillness, and I cried big tears
For Emmeline
I placed my hands upon your weary head and you rest, you rest
I place my cheek against your peaceful face and you rest, you rest
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Lay Everything Down
03:41
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There was a moment
Where you felt everything dissolve
Wish you could hold it
Wish you had understood it more
And laid everything down
Kept open the door
And laid everything down
And here in the silence
Where you've followed every thought
To find no solution
And where you're found falling
To the floor
You lay everything down
All that's been before
You lay everything down
Oh and surrender
This moment is all, moment is all you need
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Two Hearts Break
03:12
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Deep in the hills, on your dad's Kawasaki
I had to hold on so tight.
We were so young, the lights had me blind
and always leaving.
So this is how two hearts break
and I don't want this on my hands.
Wanna stay that kid beside you
jumping from the waterfall.
The telephone lines they're swoopin' like swallows
far from your echoing cry.
You'll never know all that you've done
and how it made me.
So this is how two hearts break
and I don't want this on my hands.
Wanna stay that kid beside you
jumping from the waterfall.
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On the Shore
04:28
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Do you remember when we were tender,
That even strangers said how beautiful we were together.
On the shore.
Do you remember by the sea,
When you told me how you wanted to be
Always together,
On the shore.
Ooh ooh ooh.
We’d driven for days then singing our songs,
Didn’t seem to matter that our money was gone,
‘Cos we were together,
On the shore.
And as those white waves came hissing ashore,
I told you stories of the days before we were together.
Ooh ooh ooh.
And when you smiled then it was just for me.
Your heart alone for me to see.
And all you whispered will always be
within my tears beside the sea.
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Crossing Borders
05:00
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Soldier
Crossing borders like they told ya
But you've be walking far too long
Underneath your emptied gun
Oooh.
Your mother
she's talking about you with your sister
They picture you when you were young
Playing soldiers in the sun
Oooh.
And how the years have flown by
And how your tears don't seem to dry
Silent falling snow
Tell me all you know
Waitress.
So distracted by a promise.
From the man with smiling eyes
And the bills that pile high
Oooh.
Your lover, he's forgotten how to love ya
he spends his time in front of screens
Never asking where you've been.
And how the years have flown by.
And how your tears don't seem to dry
This silent falling snow
Tell me all you know
About peace
About love
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Beautiful Always
03:46
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Your gentle hands they cover me
And I feel sleep come finally
But I don't want to sleep tonight
I want to stay here forever like this
In your arms
And how I'm longing for the sea
To feel the waves wash over me
And like the shining sea, light finds you
It all becomes calm here with your head on my heart
And in your sleep I heard you say
You say I love you in a tender way
All I could do was lie and gaze
Upon that pretty sleeping face
Beautiful always, beautiful always
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Southern Rain
03:36
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Southern rain came today
southern rain came to carry me away
Feel it all wash away
Feel it all wash clean, clean away
Rain down on this barren land
I'm so burned out I can't even stand
And it fills me up
It won't ever stop
And this land that I loved
Collapsed around me like dams in a flood
Sweep me up, sweep me fast
Carry me far from from it all
Show me new lands
It rains down on these sunburnt hands
I'm so thirsty I can't even stand
And it fills me up
It won't ever stop
Southern rain come today
Wash away, clean away
Rain fill these rivers
Rain fill these rivers
Come and fill them up
With overflowing love.
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Set of Wings
03:11
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If only I could write a song
that held you in the notes
Or find a brush that's soft enough
To paint the kindness in your face
'Cos I had a heavy load
Had a heavy load that I had carried far
And you had a set of wings
Had a set of wings
So I could fly beside you
And the spring that finally came
Coaxing naked trees to flame
There you came and stood so near
And I took the splinter from your hand
'Cos I had a heavy load
Had a heavy load that I had carried far
And you had a set of wings
Had a set of wings
So I could fly beside you
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Into the Air
04:10
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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 your arms, I'm still alone
I lift my eyes to these foreign hills
I think that's where I gotta go
When I return like I promise to
I'll be reborn and marry you
We'll do it all and start anew
Oh I'll float into the air
I'll float into the air
Where I see it all so clearly from high
Been falling too long
Oh we'll float into the air
we'll float into the air
Where we'll feel it all completely subside
Been falling too long
It 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 into the air
I'll float into the air
Where I see it all so clearly from high
Been falling too long
Oh we'll float into the air
we'll float into the air
Where we'll feel it all completely subside
Been falling too long
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Passing
03:24
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Through these silent trees
The sun slipped on it's way
And as the cool silk shadows reached over
I saw my whole life passing before me
Time was a river
Flowing faster
So come and sit by me
I wanna tell you while this lasts
That I've loved you every day
That I'll love you every day
And even when we're gone
These afternoons go on
From our bones the grasses whisper
This song to future lovers that pass here
Time was a river
Flowing faster
So come and sit by me
I wanna tell you while this lasts
That I've loved you every day
That I'll love you every day
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To Gold
03:31
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Through my window
Footsteps I know
But they sound different
From years ago
And as you whistle
Your symphonies
And planted willows
through scars and weeds
Ooh I hear them call my father
My father's name
And rest those rough hands
from all they've done
I hope I thanked you
Was a good son
And all who hear me
The stems of old
That reach through ages
You turned to gold
Ooh I hear them call my father
My father's name
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This Time
03:18
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When I saw the sun shine through clouds
Then I knew my worries don't mean anything
Don't mean anything
No they don't mean anything
So forget about them now
And I saw my days like a breath
Don't wanna look back and long for the things
To long for the things
Don't wanna long for the things
That I could've done right now
Oooh Oooh
And I saw my name on a grave
Then I knew this time here is all that I have
It is all that I have
This time is all that I have
For loving you right now
Oooh Oooh
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released October 25, 2014
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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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