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More Songs About Birds & Trees

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1.
Louise Taylor - The Sun Went Silent 02:52
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The sun went silent today Closed doors and sealed lips Collar up looking like rain Working at the base of the monument Trying to read some sense into it Hands up flashlight blinded While I wait The sun went silent today Dark clouds flying Unfurled and frayed Run my fate up the flagpole Handcuffed to the ground in the cold Hammer on the gavel What’s my name? The sun went silent today freedom woke in darkness lost and afraid The moon walks Capitol Hill Outside the fence in a long black veil weeping on judgement day The sun went silent today Handcuffed and violent what’s my name? The sun went silent The sun went silent Today
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Tim Robinson - Followed By Wild Things 03:10
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The snowmelt is commencing Earnestly today Witch hazel graced with songbirds Red buds bless the gray The road that you return on Is the one you drive away And I don’t know where you get to And I don’t know what to say You come back through the darkness You come back on borrowed wings You come back from where you’ve been to Followed by wild things The rain will wash the salt down The streams will overflow The deer gonna shed their antlers Southern wind will blow May those shoes that trace the ridgeline Be the shoes left by the door And I won’t ask you any questions I just don’t care to anymore You come back through the darkness You come back on borrowed wings You come back from where you’ve been to Followed by wild things Meanwhile, in winter loam, crocuses unwind Bring back all you’re stubborn heart keeps begging you to find Meanwhile, the porch roof’s loose and lonely melting sound Is married to the silence of what’s stirring underground It’s four miles down the mountain It’s ten mile into town Between heaven and Big Indian Beyond the perfect sound Of a bobcat’s bleeding hunger Of worlds best left alone I don’t know where you get to Just let it lead you home You come back through the darkness You come back on borrowed wings You come back from where you’ve been to Followed by wild things
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Byron Isaacs - Almost Gone 04:21
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The smoke alarm was blinking all night long I never closed my eyes How can it be? This snuck up on me I thought that I was ready for the change But it feels so strange Along the way, all 6,000 days We knew this had to come Our work is through, there's our Little Boo Boxing up a life that's just begun So keen to run Almost gone, It's all flashing before me There's still so much I need to say But the words don't come today All I can see is the past playing on repeat But the future's in your eyes Here we are loading up the car Trying not to rain on your big day Bombs away Almost gone, your arm out the window A victory song in the air You've been ready so long I'm getting there
4.
Bob Hillman - Freedom's Just Another Word 03:09
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Yesterday, an educator educated me A self-directed scholar of the Constitution, he Understood the founders almost telepathically They, of course, demanded liberty Freedom’s just another word for We will take a stand Anti-inconvenience Greater good be damned No one from the government can tell us what to do We are not afraid of their apocalyptic flu But may be, on the other hand, afraid of being told That we’ve become irrelevant and old Freedom’s just another word for Angry men demand Preferential treatment Greater good be damned Mainly, what we talk about throughout the commonwealth Is how we lived before we went to war with public health Even in the face of unambiguous research We will get together in a church Freedom’s just another word for I don’t understand Jesus’s religion Greater good be damned Lately, “we the people” are a god-forsaken mess Genuine Americans refuse to acquiesce Rather, we repudiate opposing points of view And I rejoice in terrorizing you Freedom’s just another word for Here’s a helping hand Even if it hits you Greater good be damned
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Rachel Garlin - Some Weights Are Hard To Bear 02:22
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She’s scattered in her sadness lately She moves a box of matches daily The lemon tree is turning lazy Some weights are hard to bear She keeps a jar of glycerin out back Chops the wood and kindling, hands chapped Whispers into daylight, I’m cracked Some weights are hard to bear She washes all the linens Hangs them up in rows Tries to shake the image of when The garden sundial froze   It couldn’t be a year now, too long It was just a summer day gone wrong The musket is a long gun, so long Some weights are hard to bear She’s scattered in her sadness lately She moves a box of ashes daily The lemon fire is burning hazy Some weights are hard to bear
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David Hamburger - The Heirs of Shangri-La 03:34
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The heirs of Shangri-La Will not be checking in tonight The train was late, and on the platform all their bags lie scattered In the moonlight Somewhere between the station and the hotel gate They lost their way, so if you’re staying up it’s sure to be A long and lonely wait The heirs of Shangri-La Will not be gazing out to sea From the crumbling marble folly where the poppy gardens Used to be Somewhere between the summer and the falling leaves They must have had a change of heart, and this is all we’re ever Likely to receive The heirs of Shangri-La Are just an echo on the breeze That whispers through the tangled branches of the last remaining Olive trees Somewhere between the morning of the world and now They left their footprints in the sand for us to follow but we’ve Never quite learned how
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Django Haskins - X-Ray Vision Heart 03:49
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Started as a compliment Ended as a curse Useless as a bobby pin In the bottom of your purse My good intentions fall apart Before your x-ray vision heart All the wild ovations Of my younger days Standing invitations Piles of purple praise Echo in canyons faint and far apart Because of your x-ray vision heart It can’t be easy to see so clearly But somehow you love me anyway Living in a glass house A transparent metaphor Boy you gotta keep your laundry off the floor Turning a home into a breathing work of art Thanks to your x-ray vision heart
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Hope Dunbar - Tempest 03:16
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Tempest, she’s a funny one She’s hellbent on destruction Tempest won’t always announce her plans to pass through. Tempest won’t let you forget her She’ll make damn-sure there’s proof that you met her Busted screens, broken glass and downed trees in the backyard will do Tempest, it seems, won’t ever be really over you. She’s lightning and thunder, she’ll have you running for cover unsure of what she’s got planned She’s less into taking and more about breaking off roots and foundations that stand. Tempest, it seems, like to believe you won’t weather the crash. Tempest, you think that you know her So you watch from the porch as she comes closer And blots out the blue sky and rattles the cross on the wall Tempest, it seems, only ever finds relief when rain starts to fall. She’s lightning and thunder, she’ll have you running for cover unsure of what she’s got planned She’s less into taking and more about breaking off roots and foundations that stand. Tempest, it seems, like to believe you won’t weather the crash. Tempest, it seems, can’t give up the dream that you’ll want her back.
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Brian Joseph - Letters From Paris, 1918 04:39
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Sunset like a bruise A quiet walk avoiding the news Water mirrors sky Clouds float by Clouds float by Meet me on the span A place without a need to plan Open-ended sky Clouds float by Clouds float by Startled by a greeting Reunited with the flock How long were we apart Ooh… Clouds float by Clouds float by and by
10.
Libby Kirkpatrick - Through the Rubble 03:48
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Through the fall, rain and snow, we were headed for spring And when the trees were all fuzzy as the freeze  wore off, we realized the blow - We’re not high on love but rather  some electric fuzz of life  keeps us buzzing through the night and the sunlight brings us back And when the myth doesn't fit through the door the lock is engaged: we got no breadth anymore Realize: the wall’d grown thickened with vine And coffee and wine aren't enough Are we high on love or rather that electric fuzz of life Higher and higher climbs a trouble and strife “husband and wife” no longer  grows stronger~ And now this song of longing is  Breaking its belonging from my open door, through the broken lock of my heart We have the boy who brings us so much joy And his gifts flow in like a tide  Oh yes he grows to be taller than you  and -he goes into a cave, too Oh the broken door of my mythic fort Heaves and buckles to the ground And still the walls coming crumbling down And rubbles fill the fields  tho rainbows and the peels 
of laughter above looking down they laugh with love ~No one extends a hand to lift us up  And yet we rise Wahoooooe, whahooooee Yeah, we rise Rise through the rubble through an open door, past the broken-lock open-heart
11.
Jim Allen - For Maggie 03:40
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I’ve cried for Maggie all night, but I can’t feel a thing I turn over and turn out the light when I hear the bells ring My head’s worn a hole in the wall, it’s the least I could do But my heart’s grown too hollow to truly be swallowed in blue Even the arms of the earth appear weary and wan But with or without weeping, the reaping will go on and on I mumble a prayer and I cover a window in black Sometimes being gone means that you’ll never be coming back I’ve cried for Maggie all night, but it’s not like I mind My eyes needed something to do and it beats going blind If her picture falls off of the wall from the thunderstorm’s force It just means the sky’s been plugged in to the wrong power source Now the night and day meet to the second-line beat of my bones As they drum out the difference between lonely and being alone I can drown in a crowd and still feel like I’m on my own I can call her all night but no one’s gonna pick up the phone I’ve cried for Maggie all night, but I can’t feel a thing I turn over and turn out the light when I hear the bells ring
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Christopher Smith - Toby the Wonder Dog 02:50
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Toby is a wonder dog / Smarter than the others You learn to use your noggin’ / When a sheepdog is your mother Nancy is his owner / A clever girl and bright Takes Toby to the pub / Where he tells fortunes every night Toby speaks no English / And very seldom barks His fortune telling method / Is a most peculiar art If you have a burning question / That you’re dying to find out You buy the dog two beers / A pint of ale, a pint of stout Toby, Toby, Yes or No Tell us what the future holds When Toby answers “Yes” / He very briskly wags his tail Then puts his paw upon the bar / To indicate the ale But if the answer’s “No” / beyond a shadow of a doubt His little tail droops / While pointing sadly to the stout Toby, Toby, Yes or No Tell us what the future holds Toby Toby, whatcha think? Perhaps you need another drink Will Joseph ever marry? / It’s anybody’s guess! A great hurrah erupts / As Toby quickly answers YES Will Nancy ever kiss me? / Asks Patrick with a grin Two paws on the bar / Ah that means NO and NO again Toby, Toby, Yes or No Tell us what the future holds If the answer isn’t clear Then buy the dog another beer It’s question after question / Until they all run out Then Nancy drinks the ale / while Toby slobbers down the stout Yes, Toby is a drinking dog / Drunker than the others You learn to wet your whistle / When a sheepdog is your mother
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Wendy Beckerman - Clouds Float By 03:00
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Sunset like a bruise A quiet walk avoiding the news Water mirrors sky Clouds float by Clouds float by Meet me on the span A place without a need to plan Open-ended sky Clouds float by Clouds float by Startled by a greeting Reunited with the flock How long were we apart Ooh… Clouds float by Clouds float by and by

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released April 5, 2021

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