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Gibson Moon
03:25
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The nighttime owls they seem to stare
As you tiptoe down the creaking stairs
‘Cause they know what’s up
You smile at the world’s most deafening door
The screen door mimics a fighter jet’s roar
But you take off
The thrill is alive
No suffer, no sighs
As your naked feet pound on the pavement below
You gaze at the moon
And sing her a tune
She smiles at you as if she wants to say
Hello, good night
You’ve made it this far
I’ll shine brightly for you
So you make it through
As long as I’ve got the moon
I’ll always see
I’ll always dream
You’ve done it, you’ve made it, you’ve crossed the tide
Now the past is behind you, you’ll be alright
Give it all you’ve got
You never meant to stay out all night
But the laughs and the good vibes they took you ‘til dawn
So you missed the sun
The thrill is alive
No suffer, no sighs
As your naked feet pound on the pavement below
You gaze at the moon
And sing her a tune
She smiles at you as if she wants to say
Hello, good night
You’ve made it this far
I’ll shine brightly for you
So you make it through
As long as I’ve got the moon
I’ll always see
I’ll always dream
And I wonder
How many stars it would take to fill this canvas
Wonder
Would they really be enough to cover up this darkness
As long as I’ve got the moon
I’ll always see
I’ll always dream
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2. |
Beautiful Words
05:10
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You be my Robert Frost
And you my Emily Dickinson
I won’t let them shut you out
And I won’t let them shut you in
Where do we begin
You think in six and seven and eight and I abide in ten
If we get this right
Then we won’t have to stop for death by fire or by ice
Beautiful words
You write beautiful words
You’re like beautiful words to me
Beautiful words
You breathe beautiful words
You mean beautiful words to me
I’ll be Burns
And I’ll be Browning
Counting all the ways
It can wait ‘til the morning
How do I love thee
Better than I love my home, more than poetry
What have we become
Our best laid plans are prey to chance between a finger and a thumb
Beautiful words
You write beautiful words
You’re like beautiful words to me
Beautiful words
You breathe beautiful words
You mean beautiful words to me
I can’t begin to count the times
I’ve lost at life to win at rhymes
We spend hours and days in a technical haze
And we still don’t write what we want to say
‘Cause the essence of you and the essence of me
Is its own strong kind of poetry
The perfection we seek is a crippling myth
And the truth of the matter distills down to this
Your knuckles turn white as they strangle the pen
Chasing a muse who deserts you and then
Back in your flesh and your blood again
The promise of paper seems fickle
It fades into bitterness
Darling these halcyon days
Are too precious to waste on newspaper praise
Love doesn’t give a damn about art
Love sees you sharing a heart full of
Beautiful words
You write beautiful words
You’re like beautiful words to me
Beautiful words
You breathe beautiful words
You mean beautiful words to me
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3. |
New England
04:16
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I’m going out East to visit some friends
Who I haven’t seen in God knows when
We’re all running short on our time to pretend
And I won’t get this chance again
All of these roads I have taken before
They end in a cliff or they end at a door
And it won’t be easy to leave you alone
But when the storms fall in New England
I’ll be on my way home
In the depths of the winter when my heart nearly froze
I got to thinking about the homes that we chose
And the fault is all ours that we’re sealed by the snows
So I’m riding this wind while it blows
All of these roads I have taken before
They end in a cliff or they end at a door
And it won’t be easy to leave you alone
But when the storms fall in New England
I’ll be on my way home
These windows, these windows, I can’t keep ‘em clean
They haven’t been rolled up since I turned sixteen
And the wind hears me shouting God save the queen
And I hope to God that God knows what I mean
All of these roads I have taken before
They end in a cliff or they end at a door
And it won’t be easy to leave you alone
But when the storms fall in New England
I’ll be on my way home
When the storms fall in New England
I’ll be on my way
When the storms fall in New England
I’ll be on my way home
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4. |
Not the One
03:28
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The days come and go when we’re together
And I know you’re waiting strong when we’re worlds apart
Now every time, now every time you go, I start to wonder
If we’ll be strong enough
But with your head on my shoulder I’m not looking over mine
And when you’re away I do it all the time
Like something’s about to change
Like I wake up alone one day and the dream that you loved me is gone
And I’m not the one
I’m not the one
I’m not the one
I’m not the one
The days have all gone when love lasted
Sixty-seven years past the war when it started
In my grandmother’s, in my grandfather’s time, he punched holes through the wall
But they were strong enough to hold, they were strong enough
And with your head on my shoulder I’m not looking over mine
And when you’re away, I do it all the time
Like something’s about to change
Like I wake up alone one day and the dream that you loved me is gone
And I’m not the one
I’m not the one
I’m not the one
I’m not the one
I’m not the one
I’m not the one
I’m not the one
I’m not the one
With your head on my shoulder I’m not looking over mine
And when you’re away, I do it all the time
Like something’s about to change
Like I wake up alone one day and the dream that you loved me is gone
And I’m not the one
I’m not the one
I’m not the one
I’m not the one
I’m not the one
I’m not the one
I’m not the one
I’m not the one
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5. |
Snow in Summer
03:38
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Welcome to the nonsense song
Follow breadcrumbs to candy
And learn how not to trust, the fire’s just a warming light
Leading you to bust your head open
On all the rules and facts, what are these careful tracks we’ve laid
Ever think that being a human demands a little bit too much
Maybe it’s all nonsense, who’s to say they’re not all lying
The ones who’ll tell you anything to make you believe in love
What do they know
Little do they know
Only lips of red
Skin white as snow
I’ll piece together you into some memory I can use
Before love fades and leaves me hollow
To make me strong enough to follow tragedy like this
And know not all of life is made of sorrow
We cry until we crawl, we crawl until we hurt
And as we walk, they bring us down just voices trying to be heard
Don’t you know they’re all pretend, all part of a nonsense song
But you I wanted real even if you were only snow in summer
Snow in summer
Let it snow in summer, and last through December
As across the world I go, I’ll still be remembering when we were first there together
And I wish you’d met me first, and I wish you’d made it last
And I’ll never be satisfied until I’m gone into my grave
Where I’ll be reaching on and on to touch those living still beyond
My small existence, make me huge, make me greater than I am
Let it snow in summer, and last through December
As across the world I go, I’ll still be remembering when we were first there together
And I wish you’d met me first, and I wish you’d made it last
And I’ll never be satisfied until I’m gone into my grave
Where I’ll be reaching on and on to touch those living still beyond
My small existence, make me huge, make me greater than I am
Because I’ll always remember all of you
But I’d best be sure I’ll be remembered
Perhaps if we don’t sleep
We won’t wake until tomorrow
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6. |
Stolen Land
04:58
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A long time ago the asphalt rain
Fell on these fields and flooded the plains
Left one big river to chart the terrain
And deep in the earth a spirit cries
For someone still living to recognize
How soft the fanfare when a nation dies
Gone are the five and dimes
Gone are the grifters, rosemary and thyme
Gone are the workers, but their pyramids
Still stand
On stolen land
Stolen land
They say you’re wicked and I believe
‘Cause I’ve seen you laugh when you might have grieved
Under the weight of your destiny
And all Iowa boys and Nebraska girls
Feel the smoke and the noise of their shrinking worlds
You face the future with cracked lips curled
Gone are the five and dimes
Gone are the grifters, rosemary and thyme
Gone are the workers, but their pyramids
Still stand
On stolen land
Stolen land
Don’t need no one to show you the way
Don’t need no one to show you the way
Don’t need no one to show you the way
Don’t need no one
No one
Gone are the five and dimes
Gone are the grifters, rosemary and thyme
Gone are the workers, but their pyramids
Still stand
Gone are the five and dimes
Gone are the grifters, rosemary and thyme
Gone are the workers, but their pyramids
Still stand
On stolen land
Stolen land
Stolen land
Stolen land
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7. |
On the Vine
02:48
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Staring into the dark backwards
And I know it cannot be contained
Tomorrow’s coming on like a tempest
Another day of pounding rain
Pooling up in circles on my brain
All this time
My better love’s been dying on the vine
And when I think of it
It kills me yeah it cuts me to the quick
Spent a long old time on the highway
When it was most important to be home
Scrambling for destinations
That I never would have picked if I’d just known
Just because you’re gone don’t mean you're grown
All this time
My better love’s been dying on the vine
And when I think of it
It kills me yeah it cuts me to the quick
All this time
My better love’s been dying on the vine
And when I think of it
It kills me yeah it cuts me to the quick
Oh be quick with your cautious steps
And slow with your falling in love
No one can be trusted as long as you don’t trust no one
Pain ain’t nothing to be ashamed of
And words are not enough
All this time
My better love’s been dying on the vine
And when I think of it
It kills me yeah it cuts me to the quick
All this time
Trying to complete a perfect rhyme
When you and I
Wordlessly complete more than I’d ever hoped to find
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8. |
Carsick
03:58
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I’ve been carsick for a while now
And I don’t go for the pills
I want the world to be still
We’ve been drifting, counting miles now
Your hands soft on the wheel
While I grip the windowsill
I need a break
Or I’ll be gone, long gone by the time you hear this song
And when the car breaks down you won’t know what went wrong
I’ll be gone, long gone and if you find the road that I’m on
You can drive it all you want for all I care, ‘cause I’ll be gone, long gone
All these exits pass the window
You saw it too late
You’d rather wait
But I’m sick of reading, daydreaming
The world is beautiful now
I won’t let it burn down
Or I’ll be gone, long gone by the time you hear this song
And when the car breaks down you won’t know what went wrong
I’ll be gone, long gone and if you find the road that I’m on
You can drive it all you want for all I care, ‘cause I’ll be gone, long gone
Bend my thumb way back when the cold wind blows
And the stars give way to rain
I see clear enough from below and above
All the ways to break away
Always
I’ll be gone, long gone from the shadows into the sun
And when you see me leaving, you’ll be grieving just for one
Gone, long gone, that’s how you’ll write me into your songs
But nothing tastes the same without your name upon my tongue
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9. |
Celebration Song
03:56
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Who could tell
That from bitter fault
We’d grow so well
From last summer’s salt
Doesn’t matter what came before
The scars won’t hurt us anymore
Won’t recall soon anyhow
‘Cause we’re stronger now
When the leaves fall
On this autumn town
No winter wind
Will blow us down
Doesn’t matter what came before
The scars won’t hurt us anymore
Won’t recall soon anyhow
‘Cause we’re stronger now
Sweet lies can open our hearts to sin
To never be true to friends
Yet let us be on our way
I’d rather be cold and dead
Than dwelling on what’s been said
When a better path lies ahead
When the leaves fall
On this autumn town
No winter wind
Will blow us down
Doesn’t matter what came before
The scars won’t hurt us anymore
Won’t recall soon anyhow
‘Cause we’re stronger now
Oh, I do
Oh, I do now
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Honey Cellar Chicago, Illinois
Honey Cellar is a folk rock band featuring strong harmonies, an eclectic mix of Irish-inspired violin and mandolin, and all original songs.
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