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Ocean Harp Intro
00:31
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OooooooOoOooOOOOh, OoooooooOoohhhhh...
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Before I open up my eyes I slide my hand
Across the empty space I have beside me in my bed
But your absence is a thing that I can’t hold
And then I know that I’m alone
Oh I know that I’m alone
Then your face comes uninvited to my head
To torture me with images of things I wish I had
Your memory won’t leave me alone
But these words are all I hold
And I wake up on my own
Do you wake up on your own
Because I can’t let you go
And I wake up on my own
Because I can’t let you go
When you wake up do I float into your mind
Are the memories that you have of me the ones that make you smile
Do you lie upon the place I used to lie to stroke your hair
And know I’m gone
Do you wake up on your own
Do you wake up on your own
Because I can’t let you go
And I wake up on my own
Because I can’t let you go
I can’t let you go
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I want to see the freckles on your face from when the summer sun melts itself into you
I want to see you as a drunken disgrace, I want to know every character in your retinue
I want to take you to the house where I lived, I want to show you the fields that I grew up in
I want to take you to the farm by the sea, I want to show you off to all my family
Oh, I want to know every single little piece of you
I want to know what you’re like when you’re low, when your feet have been cut out from under you
I want to hate you want to scream in despair, I want to feel every feeling that can be felt for you
I want to fall asleep beside you at night, I want to wake up to the sight of your greeny-blue eyes
I want to love you for as long as I may
Until the landslide of time or
The thousands of miles or
The heavenly divide sweeps our love away
Oh, I want to love every single little piece of you
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Your Body
02:47
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When you told me your name
It drilled a hole in my head
Now there’s nowhere to run
I can’t drown my sorrows
Because it follows me, even to the bottom of the bottle
Through that hole in my head
Your face crawled in and made a nest
Now your name and your face
Are both permanent things
I can’t get rid of them I’ve tried everything
Oh, tell me where are you now
Because I can’t get rid of your memory
But your memory can’t warm my bed like your body
Oh, tell me where are you now
Because I can’t get rid of your memory
But your memory can’t warm my bed like your body
Like your body once did
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Birds
02:58
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I was watching birds today, screeching at each other from a foot away
Then they both took to the sky, flying off together like they’d put everything behind them
It made me think about all the ways that I could improve my life
So I throw my grudges down, spread my wings and lift my feet off this burdened ground
And I feel so light
Gliding
And I won’t come down for nothing
No I won’t come down
Because I know that it’s a waste of time
Building fortresses and weapons in my mind
And I know that what I’m doing is right
I’m leaving all my fears and worries behind
I flap my wings and fly
I just flap my wings and fly
My eyes see right to the ground but the wind in my ears is the only sound
The view is different here, the hurdles I hurdled have disappeared
If you fly this high, above the clouds the sun will always shine
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I Wish
03:28
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I wish that everything I touched would become not gold but better off
I wish I sang like Antony, I wish my voice could heal the grieving
I wish that I believed in souls, I wish I believed in the gods
I wish I had a better half but on my own I am a whole
I wish I had love for somebody
But my heart has grown cold
I wish that I was not so thin, I wish my bones were as thick as the mountains
I wish that purely on a whim I could kick my heels and be swimming in the ocean
I wish that I lived on the coast, watching waves break with my dog
I wish that I could plant a seed into my heart and watch it grow
I wish I had love for somebody
But my heart has grown cold
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Marquis & The Vanguard Wellington, New Zealand
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