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A Weaker One
03:07
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A Weaker One
When you're lost, then found
But you're found on the ground
You can't feel the light
If the sunshine's too bright
So you shield your face
From the human race
You get up on your knees
If it's not too late for please
Don't stop, don't hide
Don't turn inside
Be strong, don't bend
They say there's time
Until the end
You've learned that right
Can also be wrong
Take hold, be brave
You might not be here that long
Will you get back on your knees
Is it too late to say please
You don't want to say when
You just need to change again
Trust the one beside
To show you how it's done
And know that two
Is better than a weaker one
Trust the one beside
To show you how it's done
And know that two is better
Than a weaker one
Two is better than a weaker one
Don't stop, don't hide
Don't turn inside
Be strong, my friend
And don't give up until the end
Trust the one beside
To remember how it's done
You know that two
Is better than a weaker one
Trust the one beside
To show you how it's done
And know that two is better
Than a weaker one
Two is better than a weaker one
Two is better than a weaker one
Two is better than a weaker one
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As I Say I Do
04:07
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As I Say I Do
I walk the streets
Past things I did with you
As I say
I do
And spend my days
Drifting from true
As we say
We do
Colder than snow
And breathless as I go
I must know
I know
Then into spring, and rain
That echoes down the drain
It goes down
It all goes down
You did (believe it)
I won't (believe it)
I can't (believe it)
I don't (believe it)
I don't because it's true
I knew that it was you
I knew it would always be you
Yet here are the things
Laid out by my feet
Things that we
Could do
I know them by heart
I know their every part
Be still
they're still like you
And here I come
My one task left to do
So straight, so true
I must, I know
That now it's time we go
As we say
We do
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3. |
A Thousand Corners
03:14
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4. |
Change for Good
03:29
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Change For Good
I wanted to
Change for good
To do whatever
I could
Rearrange
As anyone would
To change
For good
So I'll try for good
Buy for good
Plan to look you
In the eye for good
And I'll be gone for good
If I go
You'll understand why
If I ever say no
Cause I won't walk, if it's not for good
I won't talk, if it's not for good
I won't cry, if it's not for good
I can't lie, if it's not for good
I won't dream
I won't scheme
I won't steal
I won't deal
I want to make a
Change for good
To say I did
All the things (that) I could
Rearrange my life
As anyone would
If they wanted to make a
Change for good
I won't walk, if it's not for good
I won't talk
I won't cheat
I won't retreat
Won't lay a curse
I won't coerce
I won't believe
And I won't grieve
So I will live my life
Just as I would
If each thing I did
Was done for good
Then as I leave
I can say I stood
For whatever let me
Die for good
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6. |
Reel Me in Gently
03:29
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Reel Me in Gently
I'm high and flying over
The crumbling cliffs off Dover
So reel me in gently
I'm hooked but I'm spent
I used to have some fight
But now I just repent
So save me? Save me, save me
Instead of trying to fix my faults
You just wave the smelling salts
You save me, save me
And again you take this lifeless bait
Pull me up and point me straight
Not once could I reciprocate
But save me?
It's me again
Save me?
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7. |
Was Is
04:15
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Was Is
What it is
Is what it was
Plus where it's been
And that’s because
What we know
Is who we are
We're made from nails
And bones and tar
It is what it is
A bundle of His
That’s the heart
And another part
Whatever parts
Can’t turn and run
Seldom heal
Or work as one
Work to shape
A fonder glow
Of praise and love
From high to low
What it is
Is standard biz
You work to rent
And drink the fizz
Without it this is
Simply that
Rent's unpaid
And the drink goes flat
So wear your job
Like cats wear black
Or the fizz is gone, Lord
And we can't have that
What we have
Is what we know
And all the little things that
you picked up along the way
Will surely slide right off the roof
and melt like snow in early May
If you don't
See the most in
Another noon
Our good deeds are
Washed away to soon
It's all about light
It's all about day and night
We have an imperfect
Almost perfect right
Takes the heat like an ove-glove
Like a flaming arrow shot
From a dove above
I'll hover here
To keep you free
Your guardian angel
Is dressed like me
Believe
Come, float across
This 'gator moat
You on my wings
Safe as a goat
Touch down
On the other side
Where I let you go
Your joy, my ride
I can leave you high ... and dry
Emancipation, deflection
The immaculate reception
Believe, Franco, believe
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8. |
I Kneed You
03:13
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When The Far Shore Disappears
The river flows and brings no word
No stay for things that haunt me
I don't know who or how I wronged
Or why these crows still want me
I sleep on the side of a river wide
To wash away my tears
And I know each day is over
When that far shore disappears
Watch the clouds
The clouds they pile and crash
Gone to grey and coal black
As I paint their faces with ash
The trees do crack and testify
Like a murder of chattering crows
Whatever it is they think I've done
It's better if nobody knows
O Lord, how to get me
From here to the other side
It's cold and I'm so lonely
Nobody will comp me a ride
Dark night in the silver camp
I turn my face to the moon
If all was fine on the other side
Then why do I sing this tune?
If all was fine on the other side
Then how do I know this tune?
When it's time to cross this river wide
If my limbs just shudder and seize
Lord slip me over to that other shore
To rest in the shade of the mayhaw tree
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10. |
Dangers of Travel
02:15
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The Dangers of Travel
Just one more thing
Before I never let you go
There's a problem with your passport
You old so and so
Revoked, expired
Officially declined
There'll be no flying today
So unhand your things, unwind
Unpack, come back
I'll cancel the car
There's much to discuss
So stay right there where you are
Stay right there where you are
And one more thing
Before I never let you go
I've got a present for you
So pull on this bow
You'll find a pamphlet inside
About the dangers of travel
See, I can't let you go
I unravel
The light is pretty now
But soon it will fade
So put the bags down
Please put the bags down
Your dinner's been made
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11. |
Last One Here
04:11
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Last One Here
Summer heat stalled
On our town each night
So we'd head for the hills
Out of mind, out of sight
I couldn't see the map
When the dome light died
So we just drove til we got tired
And slept by the roadside
A life so small
So local, so slow
One light on a dark road
Inside all we tried to know
But we didn't know
What we didn't know
That we had decades of travel to go
Decades of travel to go
A call from a payphone
A letter in the mail
Small moments were all we'd get
The big ones wouldn't happen yet
Time was an open road
A minute was a year
Until the day I turned around
And was the last one here
I was the last one here
Now looking back
I see it much better
It was a puzzle where each piece
Fit so well together
The little things
Were everything
The carpark
The dare
How we slept
In the backseat
Where I laid my head
In your hair
I laid my head in your hair
We were late
It was dark
We put miles on a car
That never wanted to start
Couldn't see the map
When the dome light died
So we just drove til we got tired
And slept in a pool of moonlight
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12. |
Burn the Boat
05:34
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Burn the Boat
I can't leave again, it's wrong
My hands are torn from hanging on
I hate it when we go away
Can't we, one time, just stay?
I want to feel the seasons pass
Tend some ratty little patch of grass
Ride the heat and snow and ice
I want to see the same things twice
But you sail us past another shore
When I can't do this anymore
We never stop, we never drop
An anchor on the ocean floor
So let's burn the boat baby, let's burn it now
Wrap it in flames from stern to bow
Sparks can shower my glowing face
If we don't have to leave this place
And still we go around and 'round
Leaving more places than we've found
I can't see new as new this way
I guess I'm blind to change today
Please let's
Burn the boat, let's burn it now
Wrap it in flames from stern to bow
Turn from the fire and walk away
To put down tender roots today
I get so tired of your moving games
Each dream I have goes up in flames
To see the same patch of sky today
The craft is sunk and now I stay
I burned the boat, it's burning now
C'mon let's break champagne on her flaming bow
Then turn from the fire and walk away
I'll put down my own roots this way
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13. |
Needs Must
01:28
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14. |
The Almighty Inbox
04:47
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The Almighty Inbox
Glow fonder
Out from in
Make light pass
Through glass and skin
Glow harder
Unpack your strength
Show you care
By wavelength
Glow fonder
Reach wide
Touch the ones
With less to hide
Glow longer
Stay up late
Warm the group
Outside the gate
The amber light
That sparks
Across vacuum tubes
And parks
Can be contained....
Wrap it up
In paper kites
To float out
Over fields at night
Don't spend your gifts
On sunny days
You'll need reserve
With kids to raise
Preserve the glow
And keep it bright
Provide them
With a guiding light
They need you now
You know I'm right
That way they might choose
Their home tonight
Preserve the glow
And keep it bright
And they might choose
Your home tonight
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The Henrys Toronto, Ontario
Toronto Star:
"Old instruments, new sounds’ is the way Rooke describes what The Henrys do -
they extract from a resonator guitar and other plucked acoustic instruments the harmonics, overtones and oblique noises behind the rustic notes to create landscapes that are astonishingly romantic, frightening, sexual, spiritual - and quite beautiful. Brave new music."
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